— Ri TIN THE PAUSES OF HER SONG, A singer who lived in a sunny land Poured forth a song so full of cheer, The murmurer, listening, forgot his plaint, The mourner, to shed his tear, Oh, what a happy lot is hers, Said the toiling world as it heard, To pour forth songs as carelessly As joy from the throat of a bird, Alas, I said (for Art is long, I have trodden its weary way, and know), Could you butdream of the struggle and woe That come in the pauses of her song! =Orelia Key Bell, in the Century, “N E D.” ‘Ned! Ned! Where are you, Ned” Ellie Colebridge's tone was one of anxious impatience, as she came into the sitting room of her pretty country house, seeking consolation, advice and assist. ance. The window curtains parted, re. vealing in the deep window-seat a little figure curled up, pouring over an open book. **What is the matter?” inquired Ned, with a sleepy, drawling voice. ¢ Matter?’” said Ellie, ‘‘read that letter. No, you will go to sleep over it. I'll tell you what's in it. The Claxtons are coming this after- noon. *‘I thought they were month" *‘So they were, and here Charley has gone for a week to Boston, and Mag- gie left this morning. She is only the eleventh girl I have had in six weeks.” Ned puckered up a pretty rose-bud of a mouth, drew her brows up over a pair of large, dreamy, brown eyes, and ~it must be recorded, shocking as it is ~-Ned whistled : ‘*“There’ nae luck about the house,” as clearly as a plow-boy. “Oh, Ned, what can I doi?” dolefully, to come next said Ellie, ¢sthere are four people, and how can 1 entertain them and do all the cooking for such a family?” 319 work and “Four Mrs. ‘laxton, their son them,” Ellie amazed. *‘Ithought they were Ch most inti de.” “Very my brother, y Was © various otl Jane at Baltimo | and learning h isekeep- 1 Ned, as a sudden » er. “Oh, Ellie, sod ides have calico dresses [44 where the Dutchman had home! But, Elli snd 1'1 ARCOOr-—-at _ . g me som : r, lend yours, be your Mag ““Edmonia C “I can't you any references from my last place,” persisted Ned, her brown eyes dancing, “but if I don't suit, you can discharge me!" “But, Ned, Harry Claxton is coming, sod Charley said—thought-—-" and Ellie stopped, confused Ned tossed her curiy head in magnifi cent disdain, ““You need not tel said, hy agine! 1 hate a mat I want my not » Interiere bridge. ‘I don't about m : 3 lebridge, bring here me what Charley " she sai $CO h-maker! But, Ellie, Remember you are Mrs. Cole lies poking but Wh Wav. With me, want no ia IRs gir mpany just a "was the re **Where are the calico dresses n my room. It boards at home.” “By the way, tell James to hold has tongue. It is ready, if you are “But, Ned “There, you have no more to say. My name for the next week, by the way, is Jane, ¢ aservant-girl, 1am morally convinced there was a streak of insanity in our fam. lly when I was christened ‘Edmonia.’ Charley made ‘Ned’ of it before | was » year old. There, my dear—go. You will be late.” Very mistrustfully, Mm. Coleridge brought her guests from the station. During her short acquaintance with her husband's sister, Ned had exactly veri. fled Charley's description of her, He had told his wife: “*Ned is the dearest girl in the world, but dreamy and fond of books: knows more sctuslly at nineteen mont is lucky James time going to th You were getting station, than women do at thirty of books, music and | drawing. She will be literary, 1 guess but practical, never.” To this dreamy girl, who confessed to having written poetry, Ellie had, under the pressure of eclircumstances, trusted the household affxirs for four unknown guests, They were to have come nearly | a month later, and Charley was to have been at home, and a paragon a girl eecured somewhere, must be confessed Ellie carried & smiling face over so anxious heart, as she Jed her guost to thelr rooms aud descended to the kitchen, Ned was there, with all her curls twisted foto a demure knot at the back of her shapely little bond ; a blue calico, rather roomy and long (Eilie being the larger of the two), but half hidden under a a great o Apron and a narrow linen collar, transforming her into the peatest of servants. Upon the table stood a pan of biscuit, light as down, brown and tempting; broiled chicken lay upon a great dish near the fire; coffee sent forth aromatic flavors, and a spice of tea therewith, “Be off!" was Ned's slution. You are not to come here for a week 1" light-hearted, Ellie went It rd Charley talk big | are you crazy!" | Ned is rather too remarkable for | of | pitchers and bowls, radishes upon cool green leaves, even glasses of Bowers wero there. She stood admiring, while Ned brought in the chicken and biscuit, the coffee and tes, and demurely rang the bell, “You can ring if you want me,” she said, putting the bell upon the tea-tray, and dropping a saucy curteay before vanishing into the kitchen, “and Ellie, we breakfast late.” Thinking it would be too bad to pre- sent Ned yet to her guests, Ellie did not touch the bell, noting that there wns an evident enjoyment of their fare among her guests. She could not altogether enjoy the social evening that followed, though Henry Claxton was as entertain- ing ns Charlie had promised, Laura gen- tle and lovely, and the old people cor- dially pleasant. Everything was charm- ing but the uneasy certainty that Ned was washing dishes, setting breakfast biscuit and cleaning up in the kitchen. Ellie fully intended to get breakfast on the following morning,and never opened her blue eyes till the dressing-bell rang vigorously at eight o'clock. By the time | she was dressed her guests had assem bled in the sitting-room, and there was nothing to do but open the door to the dining-room and usher them in. The dainty table, sparkling in the morning | light, was spread temptingly. New-laid eggs, like golden balls, were fried upon slices of ruby-colored ham; a beelsteak | to tempt an epicure, broiled tender and juicy, flanked the ham and eggs; water- sparkling with dew-drops; potatoes, fried to a crisp brown, aro- | matic coffee, fragrant tea and muffins of | golden tint waited upon good appetites. | Mrs. Claxton could not restrain admiration, “What a treasure you must have in | the kitchen," she cried, “if you did not come down until we did.” | cresses, all i 3 | hor ner “I have not seen her this morning,” was the truthful reply. is a treas- ure «She ‘*Have you had her long?” “Only since yesterday.” “Ah! hope she won't drink. These ] { extra iris are so apt FOO N » i f i h " ng defect like drinking, lady, and wondered what was so in her innocent remark, ato a peal of musical ou know, Mrs. C Ver seen Your treasure Ue we are at breakfa DEVEr SAW such neat rooms: an » 50 perfectly you never thing. ‘ou will see her for Ned had to town and secure a being trained while ! ‘and 1 have the | pleasure, also, of introducing Charley's Edm mia,” to-nigh actually who was Ellie spoke; shall sister, ‘Ah This was from Harry Claxton, who looked up from the newspaper, “I want to meet her so much.” said | Laura; **we heard of her very oftea when | Mr. Coleridge was in Cambridge. ““She is very talented, is Harry asked | “We think s0,"” Ellie answered. | plays on the piano better than any ama “She teur | ever beard, and sin ngs remarkably bolar in the graduated, and she -Writ well She was the Dest you wt merely rhyming thought Harry. “A tall strong-minded female.” po iry, Hines wned, ie the his brown-eyed long suburn curls, a thought » entered a little Was In com 2 blush rose, and soft, full creature, with a low, sweet voice, eyes | plexion | imperies of blue and white muslin, ill of dreamy beauty, re was undeniably a falling off in the culinary department, though Ned wd Ellie slipped away often to supe: otend the performances of “No, 12.” 3% Ned called her; but if the found the table less tempting, Heary Claxton only knew the parlor had gained A LEW COA In their college days, Charley had told him often of the brown.eyed sister jn Baltimore, and some of the graceful det. ters had been given him for perusal. He knew that Edmonia was talented and pretty ; found her beautiful and modest as a violet, The hours beside | her, in the garden, in the parior, on the moonlit poreh, sped by like minutes, aod the party lingered on till Charley came. Then, that he might not be cheated of his wisit, they were coaxed to remain a week longer, and still Harry | never tired of the soft-brown eyes, the | low, sweet voice and the modest, re- | | ined maovner of Edmonia Colebridge, They learned duets together, and they ! would talk, never tiring, of books and | the current topies of the day, till the man found himsell wondering at the rure intellect within the curly head, Charley looked on, well pleased, but upon Mrs. Claxton's fair matronly face | rested a shadow of anxiety. When the visit had extended over three wenks, Laura having left for a previous engage- | ment, bearing Harry's regrets for break. | ing the same, Harry dared his fate, and | won Ned's confession that she gave love | for love. And Mrs, Claxton, in Ellie's room, thus sccounted for the shadow upon her brow, “You see, dear, T am old.fashioned in my notions, sod I believe 1a educat- ing girls for wives and housek as well as for parlor com wm Laura left school, I taught her to cook so that she can either superintend her servants, or if necessity req others he | trained dog. { Maltese cat, and blac ¢, white and gray. ) de velop { said | she noti”! | grindstone. curled up like a kitten in the winter. seat, her eyes seeming to be looking miles away, and her hands lying idly be- fore her. You know dear, she writes, too, and literary women are so often im- practicable. To be sure, Harry will have money enough to give her comfort, avd he has a gpod start in his profession, But still, dear, I could wish his wife had some knowledge of housewifery ways, and was not so dreamy.” Ellie smiled, and said: “Do you remember our invisible girl, Mrs, Claxton-—the one who was here when you first came?” “Yes, my dear. I have often won- dered why you sent her away. you have now does not compare to her. I never ate such biscuit. Why did she leave?! Did she drink, after all?” ‘She did not leave. Sheonly changed her name to Edmonia Colebridge.,” “My dear!” cried the astonished old lady, ‘‘you are joking!" ‘I was never more serious in my life," said Elle, and gave a detailed sccount of her perplexities and Ned's devotion. “‘3he did everything,” ns to leuve me time to And she is the You ever saw, Ellie said, *‘so entertain you, smartest needlewoman To be sure, she hates it, and likes books, music and writing bet. ter, but her Aunt Jane insisted upon her learning all the domestic acc omplish- nents; and she smd: ‘If I had to doit, was determine ur it well.'"” | | I was determined to learn to do ft well.'” | more nourishment and “Well, well, who would dream she hid so much energy under that sleepy manner. You have lifted the only care from my mind, my dear. | can gratulate Harry with my whole heart." —Anna Sheilds, in the Ledger. con. now —————————————— He Hunts With Cats. Charles Walcott, a known busi- ness of Indianapolis and a splendid rifle shot, has twd cats which retrieve small game better than the best One is a tiger striped, half the other is a eat of Mr. Walcott alse has a thoroughly trained retriever, and the cats and dog well gentlemen are inseparable com panions. Whenever Mr pearance with his rifle the cats set up and when Walcott makes series of yowls, the rifle © If the bird | wes in its fall, like the they wil t risks in reaching the limbs to which it clings. Mr. Walcott is very { up the tree, and nd of hocsehold The first named cat came to him and by name she is The mother cat was accidentally taught to retrieve. While Mr. Walcot was in feeble health and confined to his premises he amused himself by shooting sparrows, which were given to Strange to eat. In this way she came to follow him whenever she saw the gun, She will follow a wounded bird from tree to tree, and from house to house, for blocks away, and she seldom fails in retrieving 4 et i a, a stranger, that known. The other cat is one of her progeny, and be caught the retrieving contagion rom her. Both are hunters, Mr. Walcott is firmly of the belief that are properly trained they will better retrievers than the floest York Journal, excellent if cats mae dogs, New p——— i ———— What lisa Farm Without a Boy? “] agree with Charles Du lley Warner that a farm without a boy would rapidly ne to grief,” said Peter J. Millsdon at » Lindell, “Just stop and consider or a moment what a boy on a fasm is required to do, It is understood, 1a the first place, that he is to do all the errands, to go to the store, to the postoffice and to carry all sorts of messages. If he had as many legs as the centipede it is my private opinion that every one of them would be thoroughly tired out by night. He is the one who spreads the grass when the men cut it, Le stows it away in the barn, rides the horse to cultivate the corn up and down the hot, weary rows, he picks up the potatres when they are ! dug, he is the one who totes all the wood and water and tires his back out split. ting kindling. No matter where be is, in the house or out of it, there is always work for him to do. Before he goes to school in the winter he shovels the paths, and in the summer turns the Yet the farm boy has a happy life in spite of all, and he is the stuff that great men are made of, If it were not for the fresh young blood of the country I am afraid the city would run to seed.” St, Lowis Star- Sayings. Hawaiian Superstitions, “Superstition takes on some very peculiar forms in Hawail,” said T. E. Martine, of Honolulu, at the Palmer House. ‘‘For instance, some of the natives believe that if they cross the | thereshold of the royal palace with the left foot first a train of bad luck will | them in some way-—either in| folow health or business. And a great furor | was raised among the natives when the | United States warship Charleston steamed | into the harbor at Honolulu, The average Hawaiian would as soon welcome the sight of an ocean of hot lava pour . ing over the country from Mauna Loa 84 to seo a foreign warship anchor in the harbor, The natives believe a The one | | rule. ! ’ | whole coru grains, the corn Is ground, | mixed with water and fed. THE FARM AND GARDEN. NATURE'S METHODS. Notwithstanding all that is said about caring for poultry and feeding them in yards, they can never bo cared for as | nature provides for her wild birds. Compare chicks that have had only fair care and their liberty with those under the best treatment, but yarded, and free birds will be found more thrifty and beautiful every time. In the unlimited range a varicty of grasses, insects and grit are obtainable which man's inge- nuity cannot provide; also, that other essential to ali growing and restless ami- mals, exercise apd room for it.—New Orleans Times Democrat, FOOD YOR YOUNG CHICKS. Fowls have strong digestive organs | and do not need their food ground. Young chicks are no exception to this Because they are too little to eat More than likely the gizzard, having nothing to | grind, losses its power, just like any other unused organ does. The moist. ened, mushy mess stays in the crop until it ferments, while a feed of small particles of grain-—cracked wheat is best of all—would be ground up and keep the chick in thrifty condition. Cracked wheat is better for chickens than brand or wheat middlings. It has it gives the giz- zard something to do, — Boston tor. CULTIVATION PAYS. Mr. J. K. Reeve, writing in the Farm. er's Home, has ssking whether it pays to go length of extensive cultivation. it really pay better to give fair Does not the cost of excessive cultivation and fertilizing the ra put this question to head sys: ‘Some one Won't just good, cultivation? eat up profits recently gardener at Mr Jay Gould's county seat y there needless to say cxXpenm r produce ti fruit and veget WAS AD exam 100 has ¥ | one instan {a sheep raiser with his bee keeping bees whit It is pretiy well known to bee-keep- ers that bees not only do not injure the plants or fruit which they visit in gath- ering honey, but the bees are almost in fertility of the flowers. engaged in fruit 1d regard the presence of sheep p dispensanle to the Many be culture Ate ¥ # ' e¢neflt to fruit, rather than a J of our rhit most engite bee keepers is ver withdraw erly. 2 BLACK CURRANT In ind be currant previ us this operation It must always in mind fruits best on summer ; it is therefore best a free growth by cutting wood after it has borne for seasons, and training your branches in its place, that the biack wood the to encourage out the old two or three bx of up To secure this end it is not advisable to grow black currants oa short stems, as is often done with red currants, as they are all the better if they throw up strong young shoots from the roots occasionally, In pruning young plauts raised from cuttings they should be cut back until five or six good strong shoots are obtained to form a tree. These should then be left full length, and any small shoots cut back to one bud, After this all shoots that cross others may be cut out yearly, and the weakest shoots out close so as to obtain a nice even shaped tree, with an open center like a tercup. All branches that droop down | lower than eighteen inchas from the ground should be cut off, as fruit that gets splashed with dirt is of no use in the market, and only fit for wine mak. ing. All old wood that is becoming weak should be cut out, and if a planta. tation begins to fail from old age it may be cut down to the ground and given a heavy dressing of manure, One year's crop will thus be quite lost and part of another, but the fruit will be much larger afterwards on the young shoots which spring up abundantly from the old roots. After pruning is over the ground between black currants should | always be forked over, putting manure | on first if the ground ks poor,—Jowrnal | of Horticuiture, SMUT OF GRAIN, to German publications, old, of Borllo, sad Pro. Culliva- | been | to the full | | made by growing smut spores artificially i in nutrient solutions and, it is smd, up- sets the theory that smuts can live and grow only on plants known to be ine fested by them, Dr. Brefeld found that the form of the fungus so grown corresponded with the fungi found in fresh dung. This explains why fields spread with fresh dung were specially liable to attacks of smut. The spread of the smut was greatly increased by spreading the fresh dung on the earth. Thisinfluence of the dung was lost with age. Old rotted manure was not injurious. The inference drawn is that fresh dung should now be nsed on grain fields, The above, shouid it be ‘found true on American flelds, would constitute a good reason why manure should be left in { and spread as soon as made, as is now the | practice of many farmers. It is, how- | ever, worthy of inquiry, whether danger | | does not arise more from smut-infected | provender consumed than from greenness | { of the manure, { An American authority quotes DBrefeld as saying that in nature the | tality of corn smut may be preserved in. | definitely in the dung of animals that Dr. vi have eaten smutty corn, and it is ready | to form mycelial tubes and enter the corn when the latter is planted in ground fer- | tilized with such manure. According to the botanist of the Nebraska Experiment Station, smut spores may grow in manure and liquids in the barnyard for an indefin. New York World, ite period, FARM AXD GARDEN NOTES. Look out for bee moths. C aaanl boma antant Look ous ior q jeeniess bee colonies. The Pekin farm is the best duck for the Having the veut egy eating. M Wes sirth to weak « When turkeys are need heavy feeding, nest dark will help to pre- excessively fat kept bath give ives riear thems of a good st walketh with allowed to run out every day that the weather will per. mit, they should be well sheltered at night, While geese should be Poundiag up old bones fine and giv. them to the hens to eat is a good materials ing ay of supplying Laas sell at a good the oa through and it is an item to keep the always this time and considerable add to the little skill roquired to value of almost any saddle } You can buy. ne of the principal reasons why women are more successful poultry rais. ers than men is because they are more painstaking and patient. While good windows are necessary for health and comfort, too much glass in one place is often injurious. The best plan is to avoid extremes either way. Ove advantage with poultry on the farm is that it is rarely necessary to con- except in cold, stormy weather, and for this redson it will cost less to raise them. The man who owns and works a good team has more confidence in himself, a better inspiration of life, and efforts to improve the condition of self and family, than does the person not thus equipped. The bog pen should be always liber. ally bedded with straw, not only where the pigs sleep, but the yard outside, where they run. Unless this yard is well bedded much of the liquid manure will be lost, A horse should always be watered in the morning before belng fed, otherwise it might wash more or less of the food just eaten undigested from the stomach. After a fow minutes let the horse eat a little bay aud thea give the grain or meal ration. A mixture of lard and suf is the California remedy for lice on clock. This ointment does not need to bo ap. plied to the entire ammal, but a ring of it two or three inches wide made com. fine the fowls pletely around the neck will have the | desired effect, Galen Wilson says a microscope should | bo as much of a creamery implement as | & thermometer, to study the filth from : | to £82 i H : Hi heaps to rot, instead of being hauled out | A Great Medicine Institution It 1s not often thet Tux Tivos indulges ma pull of any business enterprise, but in this instance we are lnduced to say » few words in reference to the great growth of the Dr, Kilmer Medicine Company at Bing- bamton, N, Y. From a small beginning & dozen years ago the Dr. Kilmer Company have grown to immense proportions already, Having only just completed a large five. story addition to thelr fsctory the rapid growth of thelr business demands still mors room, until another Jarge addition being contemplated tw thelr enormous establishment, In addition to the special practice of Dr. Kilmer himself, ex- tending into several States, his several | proprietory remedies have large sales and enjoy great popularity all over the ooun- try. The justly eslebrated kidney remedy, known througout the land as | Bwaur bas already resched the largest sales of any kidoey remedy in the world And what is more this remedy has | Rogquired its popuiarity snd enormous sales, {| not by great advertising, but mainly through the reputation of the cures which It has wrought. Tow wnislis as 1 is Herits and the cures it made Dave ben | rece by hundreds from every Slate in the Union Where a remedy soon plishes SUCH cures as SwaAaMPr-Root has done in cases i where they even regarded ns hopeless itis a pleasure to refer eh facts in our vfTalo alurday 1 5 now oor, ved Wee wi COILINA He Bossed a King. nn 1 N | 14 PAE, WI i BUG vse Tat § most intrepid o dered the King and parage Hera con——— Where Is Johusonviliet #1 the do as we A Pleasing Sense Of health and strength renewed and of ease and comfort follow the use of Syrup of Figs, harmony with nature to effectual. he sy slem whe and $i Bn oostive or billions, nu Se. bottles by all leading Causes no Nansen. 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