No a WINTER LILACS, A punch of lilacs there by the door, These and no more! Delicate, lily-white, like the new snow Falling below; A friond saw the flowers and brought them to me, As one who should see A rifle, a glove, just dropped and returned While a loving thought burned, Dark all day wax that room of mine Till those flowers divine Into my darkness brought their own light, And back to the sight, Of my spirit the fairest days of June And the brooklet's tune; “Where the garden-door was left open wide, While by my side One sat, who, raising his eyes from the book With the old fond look, Asked if I loved not indeed that page And the words of the sage, And as we spoke the cool blue sky, The robin nigh, The dropping blossoms of locust-trees Humming with bees, The budding garden, the season's calm, Dropt their own balm, All these, my friend, were brought back to me, Like a tide of the sea, When out of winter and into my room Came summer's bloom; The flowers reopened those shining gates Where the soul waits Many and many a day in vain, While in the rain We stand, and, doubting the future, at last Forget the past! So you will believe what a posy may do, When friendsare true, Far the sick at heart in t When nothing allays he wintry days, The restless hunger, the tears that start, The weary smart, But the old, old love and the summer hush, And the lilac bush, -— Annie Fields, in Scribner, THE WRECK OF THE SALLY. | uo I am the captain of the fi -No. 452," my wifi and our baby The n't big enough to stee he n or thros ¢ canal boat HSally- is first mate erew’ to dine on the path, but he can and, their benefit they hear the earns his salt, The cargoes we of | our where ) fairl 18 the mules think start rry are of coal fron the mines, and extend the seaboard, blue in the distance, moored to the dock. Sometimes, in late f that way io salt freeze OVer so we « ) we are then forced to spe or on the edge of the city, for course, live aboard our boat, as we own it. My mate she bas been tole to speed the col also gives her an ins often wate HUZely, as fashionable It 0 go a and attend 1s city women do. first in unity Opera, town, shopping, hear scientic lectures I take much pride in sailing our mule yacht, and many race I've run and won with her by shead of us while r the night Folks think somethiag ways about getting the raging speaking of starboard mule, have had a spank ever they see the | They like t when and the pumps,” sheet,” and **Weigh asucho ridiculous things It makes my The Bally is tres levity, and sometimes I lose toe, but the baby don't after all, what diflerence doc If the of the canal think it is smart to display wrecked in A They take delight in board mule and the tl 0 ask if we deck when the Lie “Low when 4 tiul my patience, mi 0 | 8 ik small boys catching catdsh out their ignorance of seamanship in those * grown up peopie attempt such silly 1 they knew been to storm and prop erly wrecked and that those aboard only saved their standing of is required in such emergencies, the lau be on them and no! on the captain, first mate and crew of a mule yacht, Two years ago we were spending the winter on The Bally moored alongside one of the great coal docks of Jersey City opposite New York Qur small cabin was handsomely deco- rated by my wile and in it we wero as cosy and comfortable as possible, The baby was then about and in his hammock enjoyed life im- mensely. The wure snugly stablcd in the forecas'l alter the coal had beeu taken out and extra planks laid on the floor to prevent their kicking a hloe in the bottom, ard everything looked favorable to all hands leading a sorene and happy existence aboard till spring. But “Man proposes and God dis. poses,” us the sasing is But if had really CAnl. Sally 801 lives by a thorough under what would mules About the middle of January a terrific wind storm set in, blowing great guns from the northwest and every day get ting worse, The cold was intense, the mercury ing to fifteen and twenty degrees be- w Zero, Forty degrees below in the Western Slates was hot along side of it, for the damp, chilling air of the coast eats nght into the vitals and freezes the very mar. row in the bons, Keeping warn was out of the ques. tion. If we could keep alive was enough to be thankful for, The ever increasing and colder grow- fog gales bad raged for & week without ten months old, | a"ull, and the fearfully angry waves in the bay were leaping mountains high and causing destruction and wreck all around, Old sailors who had lived at sea for years said they never saw the ocean any worse, Ships were dragging their an- chors und dashing ashore by dozens and mauy lives were nightly lost in vain efforts to save the vessels, I had stout and extra lines from our fresh water boat to its doek, but inspite of them our frail and unworthy cralt was wrenched and tossed till I began to feel we had no business to risk staying aboard while the storm lasted. My wife wouldn't listen to our leav- ing the only home we had, and vowed if I talked of deserting The Sally again she would head a mutiny to prevent it. So both of us, being only fresh water sail- ors and knowing but little of the force of a salt water storm, settlel down remain aboard in spite of the warnings given us by men on the dock. to It was on stuffing all the crevices of our little cabin made out to be comparatively comfort. able. middle of a big feather bed on the floor and in his warm nest was happily ob- livious to the tempest and arctic tempera- ture outside. and in fact putting on overcoats and wraps wife aad I laid down and tried to our boat was creaking and straining and | tossing on the ro waters, The wind an { after a while wore the rocking of our craft made us | we slumbering baby. of shipwrecks drowning when suddenly I awoke. It seemed as if our boat was pitch arder thal eve ng I knew, er stairs i aoa Ope I away door 1 looked br from the ken loose . t} bed nde dos or the shriexin were drifting bay, and so far, luckily, had aot struck red vessel, yuld see the New g on sn anch Behind nus I « lights of the light dissappearing In Reef. and beyor 100 front haat the nghis or t carried Narr st collide with a ship or strike the were out or wif we ) ald Staten Isla: we pr hably bring dock our frail an SO there, As soon as we struc! real th time after the crash wi at In a moment a must founder and zed too surely then, was be on the Our ready only « to “4 ’ | u Ob ue : J 5 y leap, if wa should dash agai: dence for the rest, The lly had whirled around, and was rushing stern foremost through the thundering billows, and [ hoped when we str Fhichh Wo were no use leap- never could sll of us the icy, wa the boat's side t Mmaxe yur way over slippery two foot wide deck y its other src. Passing 1 thoug missing ! that had come, barely reef, . ing Staten Island-—and the the use we were | fast approa Narrows, , : 3 vortni hat w For a time it looked certain that we | would be swept seaward and surely per jshthen we switched around and went | straight for the island | caloulated | would be | before the wind docks. Five minutes 1 and our fate for life or death sealed, Getting a rope I placed our darling baby, laughing and crowing at the ex- | citement, on its feather bed, rolled the soft bed entirely around it, trusting it | wouldn't smother for awhile, and bound | the precious bundle firmly with the rope. | Takiog it in my arms, bidding my brave | and quiet wife to hold me and follow I gained the stern over the slippery boat's deck. | Thank heaven, we were still stern foremost —=dashing straight on a dock, | One nfore moment of suspense and | horrible dread then with a crash that smashed the boat under us like an ogg. shell, we hit the wharf, At the same instant, befors the wreck could rebound, I flung bed and baby on the dock, seized my dear wife's hand | and leaped for life. We landed safely alongside our chiid then down under the maging waters pluoged our good boat, drowning the nwial cries of the poor mules leit on board, Cutting the ropes to give air to our babe, blows along by the blasts behind us, wo reached land and a house and, soon inside, found shelter and a warm welcome, Wo also found The Sally after the storm was over, raised aod meaded her, and now she is as good as ever for fresh. water sailing, whichahe means to stick to for the balance of her days. And this is why I am provoked when land lubbers try to ridicule her, or her captain, mate and crew, — Chicago Sun. the fifth night of the awful | and almost unprecedented gale and the Eh : , | field will accomplish chilling cold was at its lowest point. By | room and keeping the stove red hot we | Baby was sleeping soundly in the | | same conditions ¥ "| ¥ : «| should remain sleep aud forget how the gale was shriek- | 4 ing in the black night without and how | and trast Provi- | | a] pie L THE FARM AND GARDEN. CORN STALKS FOR HONSES, The value of corn stalks depends on the manner in which they are cured and saved, If cut before they are ripe and dry, and cured in the shade-—-that 1s, in close shocks, well protected from the wenther—they are quite as nutritious as hay, and are perfectly healthful, Horses have been fed wholly upon this kind of fodder for years, and have done well, The stalks are a complete cure as far as | feeding can go, for the disease known as heaves that has been cgused by feeding clover or musty hay,~New York Times. INDIAN CORN OUR BEST FEEDING Notwithstanding all that has been claimed for various fodder crops from time to time, the fact remains that Indian corn will produce the most eattle food per acre of anything that we can grow. The man who combines livestock with general farming is foolish if he does not arrange for a liberal crop If used in connection with a the corn greatest CROP. of this. silo its very good, it furnishes succulent food to mix with other dry fodder and so make the latter | wore palatable, —New York Observer, POPCORN, Popcorn grows well under much the and climate of soil ns : | are required for the field and garden By and by without undressing at all | 1 aay h ae corns, but should be planted apart from | The ears until the and should be thoroughly air-dried and preserved in wanted for use. As bulk i smormously by the popping ne either to prevent intermixing, on the stalks kernels are entirely mature that condition until its oO tl experiment FLE ORCHARD. you er two es 10 the the land fer thirty feet. ugh, utless rich we should pre will t] | ny years before they will and the to keep them from king. Although there is « lifference naturally in the shape trees of different of we should have them at uniform cover the ground, when they an very that point clipped at the end interioe} siderable « of the nesr limbs ean be vaneties distances, unless there were enough of | the very upright growing kinds to make an orchard by themselves, when twen eight feet apart might be far enoug By careful and frequent pruning of small limbs, they can be trained so that the upright growers will cover more ground, and the spreading sorts be made more compact, Some who set trees at the above distances piace plum, peach or quince trees among them at fifteen foot apart, so that there may be three of the small trees to each appie tree. These small trees are expected to make their growth, bear crops for a few years, and Le ready to be cut out when the apple trees require the room. Do not allow the young apple trees to branch too near the ground ; four feet is low enough, even | for those varieties whose branches haven | tendency to grow nearly upright, and five feet is not too high for the Baldwin, not high enough for those, like the Greening, | cracked corn early by sprinkling a little on the floor (about a tablespoontul daily) alter they are a week old, Barrels of fruit, well carted, shouid which are inclined to bend downward, | In these, care should be taken by prun. ing on the under side of the limbs to pre. vent thet from hanging too low down. One advantage of the silo is that | ing, as too rich a soil makes the young wood grow so rank as to be liable to be winter-killed. Also avoid erops which demand too much moisture lest they cause the trees fo suffer. After the young or- chard has become an old orchard in full bearing, clover or grass may be grown, and the land made rich encugh to sus- tain both crops, — Boston Cultivator, BONES, The composition of bone is 8.9 per cent. nitrogen and 22.4 per cent. phos- phoric acid; most of the phosphoric acid being the so-called insoluble acid. Its chemical value is about $35 per ton. { It is more speedily available, if the bones are ground fine, but if you have no mode of grinding them, they are none the less | valuable from being buried whole, The insolnble phosphoric acid is mostly sol- uble after being buried for some time, After a quantity of bones (s 1y a buck. etfuly carry them to the orchard, dig a hole of suitable size and deep enough to bury the bones out { of the reach of hoe or plow, and thea fill up the hole with earth, The largest and thriftiest grape vine in this section has had hes, not be tree or vine, Hod has accumulated, no manure, ¢£- | cept bones and os buried too near the body of the | the small, fibrous roots towards the ends feeders. our successful fruit bones for their orchar 1s, 1 one-half The sat | majority of art an or their The booes should LIS0 | : . | of the large ones are the of Some most growers buy and pay from two per Al cents pound nardists in this old bones go { wasle r soll them #5) to SOY BIXLy cents man market i corn give Wis in wintery 1, and always J 1 very #8 the Chicks oom Never keep them waiting for YOu brooders., break fast. such as 1 . f kind, or food, will be of advantage hicks. is the casein left in the butter that it to sour and spoil. Rem of the casein and pure butter will keep sweet and fresh indefinitely if pro- tected from the air, The cow that the farmer wants is one that will yield him a good profit with ordinary He has no disposition to put acow to bed and tuck her in, or to feed her on gruel, ye 1 au care. Choice beef cattle that are considerably the average quality can always be sold at a very good price a short time before the holidays. But they must be in prime condition, above The man who complains that his cows are unruly can be safely set down as a poor farmer, and very often he is a cruel one, who deserves punishment. Most unruly cows are madeso by hanger, One good and effectual remedy to re. move warts from a cow's teats is to wait | until she is dry, them wash them thor. oughly with a solution of sal ammoniasc and camphor; before she becomes fresh they will have entirely disappeared, be omitted and wheat one day and cracked corn the next may be used. Be- gin to teach chicks to eat wheat and The advantage gained by shading the | be placed on the side and not stood on tree trunk is more imaginary than real, and the less exposure to the wind is not important, or may be overcome by a wind-breaking hedge, while the advan. tages of having the limbs high enough #0 that the horses ean go under them when Blowing or mowing are very real, ns is also that of being able to turn and swine in when desired, to oat the fallen fruit, without having the limbs when losded with fruit where | end, for the jolting of the wagon tends | to settle the fruit and make it loose in {the barrels, The more carefully the fruit is sorted and honestly packed the greater will be the profit. Red clover and orchard grass ripen about the same time, timothy ripeni As clover | everything modern Arabic, | which conducts a home like | house for sell-supportiag ls, has pur. | next year. | given $1000 toward the building, aod | $5000 will come to the corporation {rom | an unsettied estate, When ten days old the rolled oats may | | that even the plastron and girdle are NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Satin has come in again, The Alpine hat is again in style, Velvet mantles are worn this season. Plaid blouse waists are worn by misses, Dragon’s-blood red is a popular eolor, Bpangles are the novelty of the season, Great use is made of outlining gimps. Conts are becoming longer day by day. The small girl is now wearing the large hat. Mink furs. is one of the ultra-fashionable The lace overdress is fashionable this season, Belgium's Queen is a clever sleight. of -hand performer, Bottle-green and turquois-blue are | used in combination, The metal trimmings so much in vogue | | last year will be sparingly used. Women's clubs, mainiy of a social character, are numerous in London, Eng- land. The high, flaring collar is worn on the losg-necked sisters y 4 by hood. Velvet ribbon is used a great deal and the butterfly straight. Mm, V bows are high, is President, Jeweled brocades in which threads of | ious metals are woven are Po; ground, fi of t right drives toe samo made to sub. adorame it, r oh + rad bok ty » Wilras ups 3 A cau velvet, which | Persian lamb, a M:elbo , read a paper n, which is a ladies’ mt “woman is the equal t every sphere of life.” irne (Australia) journa be the Austra Sal 0 prove t of man in almos fore club, has ordered d be Pp anted he statue of Heine, to be erected yf Austria i shou! The Empress that 50,000 ros on her property at C on A rock over two thousand feet above the level of the infected the nd locks has nt that i \ blossoming golden curls, At this rate the resses of Italian song and story will soon mer, ext ever children s heads raven t be a misn Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York City, is said to be the thiest woman in the United States, a fortune of million dollars. of Maryland, comes next, with an estat worth twenty million dellars, weal with forty The most popular Turkish poetess in a Russian lady. Her same is Olga Lo. vedoba, but she is known by her pseu douym, *‘Hulaere,” to the Turks, who | delight to recite poems. Beside her original productions she makes transia- tions from the Russian poets into the The San Francisco (Cal.) Girls’ Union, boarding chased property and expects to build Mrs. Senator Hearst has 80 great is the rage for fur on dresses made of fur to match the foot-trimming. Headings of narrow fancy gimps, shir. rings and borders of veads are used above the edge of fur. The high Marie Antoinatte collars on evening dresses are bordered with opera fur, The famous trousseau shops of Paris, France, are tiny places devoted to a sin. gle sort of garment. In one nothing but handkerchiels are suid, in another pothing but nightgowns. Some of the smallest European shops accomodate but one customer at a time, and in many it is almost impossible to display goods to advantage, | the Chevali | pre stiff and | DPUIAr | must | Miss Elizabeth Garrott, | The Shoe Violin. A Paris newspaper recently announced the sale of one of the most curious vio Jins in the It formerly belonged to Paganini, the great violinist, and at first sight merely presents the appear. ance of a misshapen wooden shoe. Its history is curious, and not without in. terest, During the wiater world. of 1838 Paganini was living in Rue de la Victoria. One day un large box was brought there by the Normandy ovening which he found wrapped carefull paper, 8 Wooden stating that much of the violinist, diligence, on inner boxes, and, folds of tissue and a letter, writer, having heard of the begged, as a proof of his de- that Paganini would play in public on the oddly constructed instrument inclosed, At first Paganini felt this to be an im pertinent satire, and mentioned the facts, with some sl emper, to his friend, Baride, The latter the si violin maker, whe th h . viol sweet two y in the shoe the wonderful genius votion to music, took converted it a remarkably toned ins and Paganini weed] He, He not only upor it some of South Paris, Mo., is | Cashier of the bank in which her husband | TheFailure Rheumatism The Way to Cure Brief, but Important Ty. Hood's Sarsaparilla at & 5 DONALD KENNEDY Of Roxbury, Mass., says Kenn ly's Medical very cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep- Seated Ulcers ot 40 ye ’ standing, Inward Tumors, Dis» every disease of Thunder Humor, that Price, £1.50. has taken sold ie United lates Cancer oy every Druggist in and Canada. ELY'S eaTARRH CREAM BALM Cleanses the Nasal Passages, Allays Palin and InBammation. Heals the Sores, Restores the senses of Taste and Smell, TRY THE CURE. HAYFE particle Is applied Into ow Price 4 ahie ents at Druggiets or by & “Augus Flower” “1 inherit some tendency to Dys- pepsia from my mother. [I suffered two years in this way ; consulted a number of doctors. They did me no good. I then used your August Flower and it was just two days when I felt great relief. I soon ot so that I could sleep and eat, and felt that I was ee That was three years ago, and I am still first. class. I am never without a bottle, and if I feel constipated the least particle a dose or two of August Flower does the work. The beauty of the medicine is, that {os can stop the use of it without any e..octs on the system, Constipation While I was sick I felt everything it seemed to me a man could feel, I was of all men most miserable. Ican say, in conclusion, that I believe August Flower will cure anyohe of ind , if taken LiteorMiserywith J 20 fontaine St. Indianaralic Ind." @ Relieved In Two Days.
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