— A PARTING GUEST, Dear world, how shall I say farewell to thee As from thy friendly house I go at last? Let mo not like an unloved wanderer be From thy door cast, No, Ihave been a little while thy guest; Still there are light and music, down thy halls The laughing recognition of a jest Rises and falls, Thou hast with love and bread supplied, And hurried on my hours in joyous flight; But longer with thee now I cannot bide I come to say good-night; my wants But leave not other friends who need thee here— Give me thy hand and I am quickly gone; Thy lamps will light me with their genial cheer Until T meet the dawn, Meredith Nicholson, sn the Century. A MIDNIGHT ASSIGNMENT HEX Sandy Gra. ham, stone mason and bailie, kicked Fergus down Cameron back stair of his home the Lochee Road, of Dundee, and shied of onions clothes line where h, he was an the prettiest romances that ever cast a fragrance over the on a bag and a a unconscious factor in one of the life of a newspaper mau, This was the wise of all Fergus Cameron week clerk one made two during the and one the one, for while the trouble. was the ter | at sy salt pans. in evening repre i the forme bh illustrious rish and mdnezzar! Dat of onions departur : his he stood u deck of an Atlantic tearful i" f the land of blue An American happier under for he would have et) liner, gazing with fast fading shore line « mist and purple youth would h the circumstances, bad Maud Graham with him; so respect has an ! exalted offic heather? ave been HE FOUGHT THE Cameron arrived in New York with a few dollars in his pocket and fewer friends by his side. He spent the first sight in a cheap lodging-house on West treet, and in the morning set out to tnd an old friend of his f The prospects of employment at his own oceu pation were by no means bright, but an acquaintance on the part of the old man with the city editor of a morning paper opened for him the door of the newspa per kingdom. Into the humblest posi tion went Fergus Cameron. Naturally bright, well educated, and with no end of capacity for work, he cheerfully and manfully faced his new duties with a calm determination to turn the battle of life into victory, and be a bigger man than a Scotch bailie. His was the old, old story of success and failure, of fail ure and success, but his application to business aad the excellence of his work carried him into the good graces of his superiors in office. The star that ruled his luckless lot might have fated him much that was disheartening, but its ad. verse influence did not extend to his busi. Bess career, BLART. -— ataer, A wild night ic January, 1888, Snow bad fallen all of two days and nights, and the States were beginning to feel the deadly effscts of the great blizzard: | Fergus Cameron was in the West, plow. ing his way toward a country village, A midnight assignment had fizzled out, his only horse had stumbled into aditch and broken its leg, and his choice lay between death in the snow and a struggle toward the village. Every minute was like an eternity, he seemed to be drag- ging the world at his heels. Mind- weary and body-sore he fought the bitter, blinding blast until overtaxed nature gave up the battle, and he sank | in the snow, Fe awoke from the torpor of saw the world of light again. large stove in hi | cheerful fire shot shafts of Ii soft rugs on the fl rus C oblvion Two weeks later ameron and he Wing Or. what did it mean? He lay there looking drowsily him, and slowly recalled the ] terrible battle mdering to whose h ings were strange; shout incid with the pital was 1 for his salvation. His dream as pleasantly disturbed by the en of r graceful female figure rubbed An Island of the n f 3 Of ul Dead. stin 4 ee M y Grlayma is suppose hat they belong : of the ch were so island tribes n this part of New Oricans numerous vbundant o coast fifty years ago. lili . Giants’ Bones Unearthed. yn tells us that somewhere along in the southern part of this | buried This sup- poss d to have been plac ed in some iso. county, there lies twenty loads of gold.” treasure is lated spot by the early inhabitants of the land-—possibly the A ago some one in meandering about by an 1 la mound builders. over-chff of this ndge, accidentally found a coin, ave which is formed nn which could nly oe distinguished Pp" exciting his curiosity, and knowing of the traditional iT ’ the letters *‘ A. "his further ex dig- m of 1 to our informant as being extremely large. he jaw.-bone was large enough to place over the jaw of an ordinary man, and the arm-bone was over two inches longer thaa of men above the medium Not being satisfied with this find, dig. was continued until the second, third and fourth skeleton was unearthed, which equalled in size the first one dis. covered, New Florence (Mo.) Leader, treasures, led him to make ploits, Becuring a pick he began ging and soon unearthed the skelet 2 human body, which was describe size. ging —— i A Contractor's Little Scheme. A local contractor has a peculiar method of keeping tab on a gang of Italian laborers working under him. The men are known ozly by numbers, and to keep track of the doings of each in. dividual is a matter of considerable diffi. culty. They are all apt to sneak off when the foreman's back is turned, and sit down for a rest, The unique plan of the contractor in question is devised to put an end to this lazy practice and the consequent loss of time. In the morning before the gang goes to work each man's number is printed in chalk on Lis trousers, When the men knock off | work in the evening the chalk marks are | inspected, and if any are found to be erased or blurred, the unfortunate [talian | to whose trousers the blurred number | appertains is dooked a day's pay. The | sabe Woke aubiy, we he fen or to orego of alow iol rost rather than lose their pay. = Philadelphia Record. Ns ———— AA FARM AND THE GARDEN. HEAVY HOGA IN BETTER DEMAND. It is the increased foreign demand for pork that causes the call for heavy hogs. | Up to the time that pork from this coun. try was excluded from Germany, France | and Italy, heavy pork always commanded the best prices. Bince the restrictions | have been removed the old conditions | of markets are beginning to return, It | is not likely, however, that the extremely fat, neavy hogs once in demand for their lard will ever be popular again, Cot- | ton-seed oll is now so largely used for | lard that it has permanently reduced its price, Boston Cultivator, A HORSE FOU SERVICE. The inquiry is frequently made what | kind of a horse shall 1 buy for real and | hard service! The horse for real hard service should be from fifteen sixteen hands high, according to kind of service required. He should be of a good d and {0 } Ht joints, short and strong Hi sound feet . and teachable, his prop should h He shot action, iH to extraordinary ex nuns in Care. American Curist, DISHOKRNIRG smoval of the i SCTIOUSs COws horns from & cow has best nless one had experience poultry they 1 gin on a sm and grow to keeping fowls by | welarm, Fuld and Stockman, SUBJECTS FOR FARMERS INSTITUTES, John Hollingworth, President of the Muskota Farmers' Institute, having been requested to prepare a list of subjects suitable for dizcussion at t! the institute during the winter has sub- mitted the following, The list is an ex- cellent 020 and may prove useful to the members of other institutes Dairy ¥chools, are they desirable! 10 meeting of The creamery and cheese factory as a means of manufacturing and marketing farm products, Beef vs. miik, which is the more profit able for the farmer in this locality! Stock snd their products va, crop, which pays better to sell? Serub stock ve. pure breeds, which can we better atford to keep? Sheep, are thoy desirable stock, or otherwise! The pig ani his profits, is he a de. sirable mewber of the [arming commu nity? Poultry, their management and profit. Fruit caiture asa farm adjunct. Bees ns 0 recreation and profit to the larmer. Experimental stations, Root crops, their utility as fodder and how to grow them, Ensilage as fodder and how to make it. The sunflower, its cultivation and use ns food for farm stock, | food without mastication, |to the gizzard where it is prepared for | warm, MR i SSA Tree planting and conservation of standing timber, its agricultural value, Noxious weeds, how to deal with them. Roads and how to make them, their value to the farmers. Statute labor vs. taxes, which is more | economical? Agricultural edueation the rural school, is it desirable? Combines and how to check them, Legislative control of our railways. Money, how to borrow, Corporation vs. individual effort, Farm buildings, their construction cost, efficiency. Drains, their construction in and value, Manure, how best to save and apply. Ashes us a fertilizer, —Ohicago Times, POULTRY CHAT. There is wisdom in keeping a com- fortable, well-sheltered try. ing hens; a cret in obtaining egues fros There 18 a secret in caring for lay- comiortabie coop oll well us be stored it peath to prevet ff three « Heavy manuring means inches thick. seed i688 08 abou used, Good means generally Always havi i y prepared for wet A little extra You can not up to concert j ess than three years, be taken to order to In cold weather care must gather the egus reguiariy in avoid loss. Keep watch of the price of cow feed and when you can buy it cheap enough lay 1a a supply. If you are not doing very well making and selling butter, think over the idea of establishing a creamery. Where you keep Banked up in a heap by or spread out over your fields? your money! door, ao the stabl One objection to keeping the eges too long for hatching is that old eggs are | apt to hatch out weak chickens, The first step toward increasing the profit from your dairy will be to cull the | herd. Look it over and see if this is not | true, No time should be lost in securing whatever ducks are wanted for breeding. They will laying ea'ly in the year, All domestic poultry swallow their It passes in. begin digesion, The objection to the majority of cel lars for storing fruils is that they are tos Fruits keep better at a low tom. perature, A farmer asks: “What will prevent tomatoes blighting when they have plenty of water!” The best remedy or preventive is to change the place of set: Boiling, paskieing, ot bush feeding, walch pays ting the plants from year to year, | | i | | house for poul- | WORDS. It is sometimes hard to distinguish in- nocence from bluff, Contentment is not kvowing anyone who has anything better than you have, Every man it trouble that his friends are not as indignant as they should be. Nearly any man will spend 8100 worth of time to get thirty cents worth of re feels venge, Men arc like little boys; they all to have a great big rag tied around tle sore. a lit- The man who can win the of being able to lick everybody himself lots of fights reput ation saves There is pend on a man do thing | one thing 3 he wants to Men and women as ever created that Appr ale Marriage s } = nth This was addre yureau official, and the young |} Out of Sorts Descritws a foe Nar perenne of Arepeptio tendency te does nod feel right The Nerves seemed strained Wo thelr ulmost This ¢ rrective In Hood's or caused by change of ¢ imate The stomach § order, the head wm the mind Ia co finda an Sarsapariila, which, by Rs fused and irritatile bent ov regulating and tor nd thon exon} BE POWs soon Cures Indigestion restores harmony to the system, gives strength of mind, nerves and body Pe sure to get Hood s Sarsaparilla which In curative power is I Sheridan's Jon’ition Powders niiar fo Teel! \ Ti you enn’t got It send to ns, Tone ke, Five $1 AD hoi capi ms wi orders # tam, Mase, XYN Ul » i ni A—————— SMALLEST PILL IN THE WORLD | ® ® like | | only as to the number of | the areas calcolated, | of population, of the peopl | rainfall is between thirty g soRaon of Ms oF | Raiptall and Population. The distribution of population relative to mean annual rainfall indicates not only the tendency of people to seck arable lands, but their condition as to general healthfulpess, The average annus! rain- fall in this country is 20.6 inches, but the variations range from zero to perhaps one hundred and Gauging the distributis —- twenty 11] of ve inches. the popula. ADDULI AYEr- tion in accordance with the | age rainfall in different localities, some interesting points are observable, not inhabi | but as to the The greater proportion of the United are 18 in which the annual £1 d fifty Blales living in the reyior 1 inches, Mr. Gannett calculs it three- DONALD KENNEDY, Of Roxbury,Mass. Says: Fe CRAY Medical Discovery td ows—ag ” edie ral Discavery » n ako Niscavsery wy i t ¥ t MOAT LO t Medi Discovery “August Flower” Mr. Lorenz well | ton, Then in a distress For that Horrid Stomach tmuch and after “taking a little more st Flower my “Dyspepsia d " N . \, peared, and that time have never ha » first sign of it, “I can eat anything thout the “least fear of dist I wish all *‘that are afflicted with that terrible *“ disease or the troubles caused by *“it would try August Flower, as I ““ am satisfied there is no medicine Lh oo MN ’ “ I" should send at ones 80 JON Serasrias, 6, T CLR LAP RR, Chienan. TEX CENTRE In stam wr pine for the silokest enrde yom ever shaMed \ 1 won wT] receive Tree By expres ten packs, Feeling. Tess Ins which stalin ania, Indore the fron, barn off The SOsag Bon Brove Polish ts Brilliant, Oder. ron Duratin, and the consumer urs for bo tin or gine package with avery punches, $1008 Invested in Petre to-day will Hikely bring you 1008 fnside of 10 yours. Write to ae for and Srey Ins. CHAS, L. HYDE, Pieere, 8 Dak. i WORLD'S SOUVENIR. «A hoay Aluminum Pocket Cots, Larger Yo
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