tliat ad — N————-—————— KISSING THE ROD, 0 heart of mine, we shouldn't Worry so! What we've missed of calm we couldn't Have, you know! What we've met of stormy pain And of sorrow’s driving rain We can better meet again If it blow, ‘We have erred in that dark hour We have known When our tears fell with the shower, All alone— Were not shine and shower blent As the gracious Master meant? Let us temper our content With his own, For, we know, not every morrow Can be sad; Bo, forgetting all the sorrow We have had, Iot us fold away our fears And put by our foolish tears, And through all the coming years Just be glad. ~J. W, Riley, in Indianapolis Journal, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A | MANUSCRIPT. BY CLIFTON ESDAILE. NLIKE stein, my Franken. creator loved the thing she | bad created. Out of innumerable scraps was [ created, and built upon a disused skeleton of some old romance, Nevertheless, I was beloved and tender- ly nurtured. When I say that my fair creator was ambitious for me, you will, I trust, not misunderstand her. She jewels or costly raiment for her offspring ; she but that I live, and appear in print. ince. ohserved . if | craved no beloved might creator, asked sweet odor blooming. noise in a low voi y cre 0 tarted up that [ knew Sister must and I always though I 1 several other Sister went quickly to and “Jack, in broad said, in a why have you come daylight, too! Uncle he finds it out, and I sh to reconcile him to you.” frightens i whisper: i and will storm so if il never be able four years ye climbed mn paw | his he knows my would give it to \ way, Sis, I think a bean stalk would be better for Jack to climb than a and a ac-bush. changed before I come Jack had Bister was evideatly fond of him, gan to feel balf way down chapter, which I have learned sioce from conver sation with other MSS, is not an mon aliment, Buster looked cautiously around, then flushing a little, said, “Jack, I am try. ing to earn fifty dollars for you." Jack gave whistle ment, *‘Poor Sister, why, how can you earn movey!” he asked, looking at the silk-robed figure before “I have written a story.” “You don't say!” and Jack regarded ber with surprise and pride, “Wasn't it bard to dot” Bister came over to the desk and ea- ressed me with her pretty hand, ‘At first it was hard, but not when I really got Oh, then, Jack, I loved n>" It was sunset, and the gay light flashed on the pretty jewels in Sister's rings as she patted me tenderly, “But the trouble is, I must money at once for--"' A was heard in the hall, and, without finishing his sentence, Jack slid out th: window, and Sister hastily took ups book. A mp on the door, Bister went and opened it, still holding the volume, with her forefinger between the leaves, A tall and bandsome old gentleman entered, He bowed with old-school courtesy, saying: “It is such floe weather, I have ordered the carriage. Are you ready to drivel” naughty Jac Kindly Boe again merry face, an Ib feeling about a roguish, s strange, sad my second uncowm- and is named jealousy. a low of astonish. ttset Ittie him. started, have the noise “How pale my white lilacs are there Then, as a slight she in the moonlight!” noise was heard in the hall, whispered, *‘Is that you, Jefferson?" “Yes, miss,” came from a very black old man, who entered and stood upon the threshold, as if awaiting orders, ‘Jefferson, have you saved up fifty dollars?” “Yes, missie, T has dat; an’, fo’ de land’s-sake, missie, Jefferson dun’ no’ what | to done wid dat same fifty dollars.” “Jefferson, will you lend it to me? There is something I want to get, and I don’t want uncle to know, and I will pay you back ever so soon.” “I's jest too pleased, missio, hurried away. Sister came and stood only said, ‘Dear, kind old Jefferson!” Presently he came back, and handed “I thank ye, missie, fur keeping of it for me;"” something to Sister, saying: and he hurried away again. Sister went to the window. she whispered. Then I heard handed the money some one. ‘‘God bless youn, Sister!” “Good-night; be a good boy, Jack.” loud out the window to Then Sister came and knelt down by | | the desk, and her beautiful hair rested on my pages; then splash came two tears, ! | and 80 I was baptized. I was not a nice child; but that, I am convinced, was my own fault, Sis ter, however, thought I was delightful, and though she ought to | opinion was not corroborated by others. | desk in a big office. | but the particular man | was more disagreeable, I me +) } bor other, thirty I awoke one morning to find myself being roughly handled for the first time. A great ugly man was seated by a huge There like the to all sit office, him, same whom | refer am convinced, somewhat in other men ting at great desks any of others. off ti ue than the He tore which I bad paper wrappings ir been swaths reat capacious s my knowled ¥ edu mite ation was « lipped a rubber . and t bled pell-n basket af Le shreds of mj At that time I was the only $ he basket, but i y other manuscri me in the basket. The youth who gathered us up seemed in a hurry, and left me, torn address, till the following morning: then, having more time, I presume, he picked ith mv With my ly, though he laughed | 1 14 1 AY, glancing QOwWn my experience was much the same as re. The printed slip I brought back pe, and I cb- } ny dear crea and I feared she was inted in me, or perhaps growing | as others did. lifferent size was A served with Aangu al tor seemed worried, disapp to dislike me One afternoon when I returned from a perezrination longer than handed to my fair creator walked in the sweet-scented green gold light of the garden, accompanied by a tall and handsome young man She sighed, “Again!” as she received me; then I trembled in her fingers, and somehow my string became untied, and I escaped from my wrappings Her companion hastened to pick me handling me with a consideration other man had evinced toward me Then he said to Sister, taking both hands as he placed me Keeping. ‘Sweetheart, if you love me, why in usual, I was where she and uj no her her pretty in gist on this long. this endless delay!” Sister looked down, and a rosy color stole over her face, while her lips quiv ered “I hard to speak of. I have contracted a debt, and, until I ean repay it by my own earnings, | cannot marry it would not be honorable; and no one will publish my story." She was still looking down, sad and embarrassed, so she did not note her companion’s expression, but I thought he was about to rend the pale evening air with a wild peal of laughter, so sparkling were his eyes with mirth and happiness, it 80 Imagine my astonishment on seeing him quite grave when she lifted ber eyes, as he said, sympathetically : “Yes, 1 understand, dear. By.the. way, have you tried the Gushington | Publishing House!" Sister looked into the kind though | severe face. ‘‘Yes, uncle; I should like of all things this sweet evening to take a drive with you." So she put on a pretty wide straw hat, and went away with the old mau, and | felt lonely. The sunset had gone, the pink and blue after glow bad also left, and the | gray came in and tinged everything, until at last the black came and swaliowed up what was left. 1 must have gone to sleep then, for when | awoke a great soft light shone in the window, and Sister was standing belore i, saying, softly: Yes; 1 had but just retorned from thesr commodious serap basket, He seemed very kind. When he loft us, Sister took me to her pretty silk-draped room. She sat by the open window, | and I lay still in her lap, and wondered | | from Title to Finish what I could do to | maka her happy. It was, I think, two days after that a letter lay beside me on Sister's desk. It { wos from the house of Gushington, and contained a check for seventy-five dol. | lars, and a note from the editer stating that by mistake I bad gotten in a pile of rejected MSS. , and been sent to her by his assistant without hie knowledge, Would she kindly overlook this,and per. I was goin’ fur to ask you to keep dat money fo’ me fo' de present;” and the old man in the moon- light, and I saw she was crying, but she “Jack,” voices, and she | know, her | not due to were many | mit his house the honor of printing her work! Then you should have seen her. She was hike a glad June morning in her loveliness, She laughed and cried all at once, When I returned to the editor's desk, he read me over carefully, then he ex: | tracted quite a long letter from a pigeon- hole, and I had an idea it concerned my- self. This surmise was correct, The august presence deigned to per- mit a pleasant smile to play over his | features like a flitting sunbeam as he an- swered the letter sotto-voice: “True, dear friend, we do sometimes print even worse from one cause or another.” Then 1 | was sent to press in the hands of a sad little “devil.” Sister and her husband have always maintained a peculiar fondness for me, but the rest of my readers say, “Strange how this magazine is degenerating!” Do you suppose they refer unkindly to me as I appear in “print.” —Harper's Weekly, About Kid filoves. A town called France, is the place where most kid gloves come from; yet more tourists who pass though the capi- tal of the Isere Department each year not more than ten ever go out of Grenoble, of the twenly thousand or their way to learn something of this great national industry, For it is national, as France holds the chief position in the world mn this line of commerce, and wherever you go you find that the best manufacture, ! a question of taste y, | to excellence of workmanship also, {| There is nothing | glove making; it is all hand labor: skillful operatives are necessary to pro fuce good merchan- But as Frenchmen do not to | leave their homes, it igians, the ad | are sure to | of French gloves are This success is only about th mechanical ere. | fore experienced and | disc like is t 1 is the I : ¥ liar wt Germans and the Italians who go abr i and devote themselves to the 1 | of an inferi of in other cous ir kind DUr DONS L who get { 1ioriabi« K i industry.--New York y i i ecorder, A Curious Mutiny. \ nba PoOiGis board » His purg But in ymand he Azores ume apparent that he | » what he was about Accor crew sought their ex-captain ashed h and « steer for the Azores. He to do so unless he was released. set to work again on their got more muddled than and y accepted his Forth. with he put the ship about, and carried them to St. Pierre, where they were promptly selzed, tried sad condemned. The extraordinary feature in all this s the fact that the captain the only man on board having any knowledge of pavigation, and the question arises whether this condition of affairs is com. mon on French ships, or in the mercan. tile marine of any nation. In all well found ships the first mate, at least, is supposed to carry a master’s certifi | cate, — Boston Transcript. m to 8 mast, manded refused he crew account him to own before, all condition, was other The American Sandwich. ““The great American sandwich is now an established National institution,” said Fraok P. Brodie at Hurst's Hotel. “Did | you ever think how the term originated! | A great many people suppose that the popular comestible is in some way con. | nected with the Sandwich Islands, This is a mistake, because the civilize world had sandwiches long before it knew it had any Sandwich Islands, Another | popular faliscy is that the sandwich was invented by the Eoglish Earl of Sand. wich, from whom it took its name. The fact is, the name of the man who foisted the sandwich on the world Is unknown, It was known, however, in the times of | the Roman Empire, aod the soldiers of Claudius Causar included it in their ma tions, As anarticle of food the sand. wich dates from the time to which the memory of man runneth not back. As an instrument of torture and death it made its advent with the first railroad eating house." 8t. Louis Star Sayings, The “"Faclal Angle.” What is called the *“facial angle” was invented by Peter Camper, and first de. scribed by him in a book published in [| 1881, Ts use is in messuring the ele. | vation of the forehead, One line is | drawn from the middle of the ear to the edge of the nostrils, and another thence | to the ridge of the frontal bone, and the | greater the angle the greater un supposed | to be the intelligence of the subject measured. In the inferior races the fa. cial angle is usually between sixty and seventy; with w itis from sev. enty five to oighty-five degrees. —Seu Fraocisco . but | that seems | Writes | seen it in any private ¢ | are broader, | and increases rapidly, | remove most of the young bulbs, as, { allowed to remain about the old plant, THE FARM AND GARDEN. It generally blooms in March or Apnl, and is to the spring decoration of the FROM BLOWING titting room or greenhouse what the Few realize how much is lost by leay. | Vallotta is to the sitting room or green- ing land uncovered in winter. When the | house in fall—one of our best plants. country was new and forests numerous, | When I say that I know of but one firm snow lay evenly spread over flelds that of plant dealers from whom it can be ob- are now wind swept, and all the snow | tained, its rarity wiil piled over the fences in banks. These Ladies’ Home Journal, banks are usually blockaded before the spring by the fine dust produced on the surface by repeated freezing and thawing, which is always the richist part of the oil.— Boston Cultivator, WASTE BOIL. cnoostsa snoxfe ronxeys. The bronze turkeys probably pay as will as any breed of birds, and in start. ing a flock of this breed great needed, Age, size and general symime- try are all to be considered, or the deal. | ers will palm off inferior birds at the | high prices of the perfect The perfect bronze turkeys should have black and glossy plumage, and from seven to ng should between sixteen The cocks of the turn the from winds, The unmistakable care Is DEADEXING TIMBER, A Bouthern farmer writes, in the South, where the land is usually cleared by deadening the practice is convenient, but, more costly in the end than complete clearing at the first. Land is cleared of the small timber ata cost of about &5 per acre, while it least %25 to clear it completely, In general there is | no practice that ones, hose eighteen months of weigh fourteen and pounds, should twenty-five po are generally game ago twenty to marks of bronze costs at scales 1% in common use with. age out some advantage, and this applies to n turkeys as well as poultry. | The legs birds grow f Years oi the deadening of the timber in upon other clearing Where leadeu it 1s an first to otherwise the timber is especially BTOW economy, for burned and destroyed. 1 g fields on which there js | hue. They are also less lively 10 a scarce old, and age the when the timber is have several old y turn toa ligi sud act moody and tame, The color of pretty good guide to their age a of strain, The plumage of 4 young tur- key will sparkle with golden bronze and mistaken, if it of ue a large quantity of standing timber, once of no value, but now worth more than the cost of clearing for the lumber and fire wood in it. Timber will keep sound many for it and a possibility of a future value, it is ad. visable to kill and leave it for future use, | It shines and glitters in the South of the glossy which their feathers The downy close to their b lies, and t is trim and pretty of their plumage 1s years, snd where there is no market purpie hues, which cannot be sun as "he common method in the is to | Came out black color the large in the way of growing crops, and after a 3 feat) leave timber is not feathers whole bird There is an koess and sotce- ‘ esrode-B ange few years to seed the land to grass, and looking. off at Jeisure. TI damage or benefit to the gradually clear it | appearance general qui activity about thes, which is not breed Is no land in any } s in pOOT turkeve timber to in poor turkeys. vay by leaving the stand, — New York Times ORADING Extras, 10Wh st i b and especially her bone the | erly kept the wm another error whi er of r ly worth knowing or dou't de t and the best Ive way mao. free itis access ) & manger or whi IVE A BARE BUT BEAL 1 contains sait, TIFUL PLANT. : in s practical way that yundation of their suc. | » the CT] Teach the Imantophyllum ministum to be ve ry Eben Rexford, 1 is a wiant |. 8 8 DPIant | the farm is the ' little known, | cons in life aud tl vill not fl never ty uee h Ave lection exoept n norses ymfort. needs With comfortable stables will not suffer. But the e able the stable the mor) the horse my own It resembles the Agapanthus very much in foliage, the more « ¥ igh its leaves i and are and hardly MS 1ONgK, perhaps darker in « It its leaves and flowers from a large bulb, In order to m 1 cure strong, blooming plants it is well to his life in the stall 4 i he be likely to breed colts! % blanket when left standing outdoors. sends up io + Why not work the stallion! You want the colts to work, and if the sire spends doing nothing won't laziness into his What is the use in paying twelve to | twenty dollars’ service fee for a colt from making a scrub the first the pot soon becomes full of bulbs, and 4 & result you will get but few flowers The Agapanthus bears its flowers, which are small, on the extremity of a tall stalk, where the Imantophyllum has a stalk more like that of the Vallotta, and its flowers resemble those of that plant almost exactly in shape, bul they are unlike in color, while those of the Im antophyllum are an orange-red. From three to five flowers are borne in each cluster, and each flower lasts several | days. The plant is evergreen in charac ter, and is one of those which can be kept growing the year round, like the Calla, wit.out injury. My plant has never hinted at resting, aad from my . experience with it I should hardly know 430 bushels por acre. i how to go to work to make it rest if 1 An intelligent farmer, milking twenty. wanted to. As it blooms regularly each | One cows, stated that five of these did year, and has fine, large flowers, and | not pay their way, though the average seems 1n most perfect health, 1 do not | production of the whole herd was 225 insist on its taking a rest, but keep it | pounds yearly. At the same time be growing steadily all the time. I cannot | could not see that it would be for his understand why it is not more extensive. | Interest to dispose of the five and milk ly grown. It Is quite as attractive as | Mixleen. man} varieties of the Amuryllis, and | If you keep poultry in peas and yards J) A BR woul horse and then of it by roughing it through wintery Oats must be very igh in your locality if youeannot afford to feed the colt and calves some. In fact, if you have young animals that are worth raising at ail, you cannot afford to go without [feeding oats, Exporimenters on the other side of the Atlantic have fouad that by & cheap method of supplying atmospheric elec tricity to the growing crop, the yield of potatoes ha: been increased (rom 300 to more easily grown. Iodeed, my | throw in all the vegetable and garden gets no more care than a jum, | truck you can spare, reduced to eatable * it to. It size. Raw potatoes, onions, turnips, tops, | ote., chopped fine. All will aid in pro. ducing winter eggs, aad remember meat of some kind is almost a necessity. eh woll a 1 could wi likes a good deal of water at its roots, carrots, cabbage, beets, celery and a rather large pot. Mine grows in a of loam, leafmold and soil com sand, bas good drainage provided. be understood, —= | Machine Made Muse, wp-playing by machinery is one of the latest novelties. The harp is ar- ranged so that the plane of its strings is horizontal, the instrument lying on the table, after the fashion of a zither. Then, ns regards the written music, the notation of the traditional stave has been abandoned, and sheets upon which are imprinted mysterious groups of pum. bers are used in its stead. When one of these sheets is slid into a frame made for the purpose the meaning of the figures is interpreted, Each of them falls under a string of the instrument, and by picking at them in numerical order with a bevelled pen- cil of ivory the oper ator produces a tune, Time and phra indicated by the spacing and alignment of the numbers, nor are the requirements of forgotten, Whe n Judge 1 in are harmony Accowapani nil Gazette ———— All That is Needed, sour puysical needs Le t 1} hat time Every- so that 1 hen in a aistress 11d have sulle: For that Horrid toma Feeling. fit, ut the sh all 1at terrible used by as 1 sfied there is no medicine 04." 4 Should Have It In The House. Dropped on Sugar, Children Love to take Jomwaow's Aw permet for Croup, Colds, Sore Throat, Toned i1tia rampe and Pains. Roe eves all Bammer Oomnplad ete, Cue and Praises lke maggie. Sold everywhere, Price Be by mall; 6 txttios Expres paid, $1 L 8 JOMNSON & 00, Boros, Mass, DRKILMERS vyye dl Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, Tarm bag, pain in Jotnts or back, brick duet in urine, ent omnia, Irritation, in famation, gravel, ulceration or oatarrh of bisdder, Disordered Liver pd , gout, Millous headache, AW Am cures kriney difonitien, (imonse, La Grippe, urinary troutde, bright's Impure Blood, Borofula, malaria, gen’) weakness or debility orm soe | elie gee Lan At Druggists, 500, Size, $1.00 Sine, “laestide ute to Mealth “Pree ConmMtation free Da Knnaeen & Co. isonawrox, XN. Y.
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