A COLODEN HOUR, A beckoning spirit of gladness seemed afloat, That lightly danced in laughing air before us; The earth was all in tune and you a note Of Nature's happy chorus "T'was like a vernal morn, yet overhead The leafless boughs across the knitting: The ghost or of some forgotten Spring, we said, Winter's world comes flitting. that, astray, mtier chos Or was gone Bavond the alien fre y to tarry? Or but gome bold cutrider of the May, Some April-emissary it Spring herself, » The apparition faded on the air, Capricious and incalcu able Wiit th bare, And fall'n my p! = William Watson, THE RUNAWAY, u too pass, and leave ntom Summer? in the Spectal her so [ast hors } | Ha nan, ul Was Aunt Cars, never t} Charge run RiLg aw ‘ At Boston her a thre It's like he “But I'm peart of my age," she noxiously; I never hed a day's of since | was a gal CGoing all the way alone?” “With Providence, she answered brightly, alert and eager to help herself, but silent and thoughtful as the train took her into strange landscape where the miles where the landscape went so swiftly it seemed like the past years of her life as sha looked back on them, “Thy works are marvelous,” she mur. muted often, sitting with her hands folded, and few idle days had there been fo the world where she bad sat and rested | #0 Jo s kindly cond D ruey for an old lady ugh ticket fon yver A long 1» '" You, said LL Knoss a the day coach the people were kind | lane wore | and sharing their baskets with her and her carpetbag was safe. She like any of the dear old grandmas Eastern homes, or to grizzled and women like the memory of dead mother, as faint and far away as the scent of wild roses in a hillside country bury- She generous, Wie in men our ing ground, tended babies for tired women and talked to the crops or told the , but never a word sh 10 one, children Bible said of her and stories h ands by by kindly wildering yet again, ided through the great be | the lake, and now through { land, Tired by night { uncomfortable seats her brave spint fall a little, As wide, , lone 1 drear, 1 on her sighed often, “It's a dre'ful big world,” she s A 1 bearded old farmer near her; *‘so big I feel e’'enmost lost | fully, ** ' ago Providence sent a star to guid city the be and worn in the dawn gan to plain ly an sight she AY in it, but, ) weross them de serts like to Denver for he had caught Your and W. & telegram | Binir her talk on the W. train but a kindly right one after t straw, it to the It was only a wind might blow {all When sitting there after his message had gone on its way, she leaned and handed him a peppermint drop from a package in her pocket, “You don't look strong, dearie,” said, “*hain’t ye no folks with ye!” “None on earth.” “We're both lone ones,” she smiled; ‘an’ how sad it be there ain't no one to fuss over ye. Aut’ be keerful of the drafts, and keep flannels allus on your | hist: that is good for the luags.” “You are very kind to take an interest in me,” he smiled, “but I am afraid it | Is too late.” Another night of weary slumber in the cramped seats and then the plain began to be dotted with villages, aud soon ap- peared the straggling outskirts of a city, the smoke of milly, the gleam of the he was | over she and seeing she changed cars right; men of farming | a strange | level { | eves ¢ ne aid to | « | res wer " | gon b int | more prod | first hall doz years of the Platte River and a network of iron rails, wight and shining, as the train ran shrieking into the labyrinth of its Jes. tination. “This is Denver,” “and I'll look after " said the lad to her, you as well as I can, “Iwon't be brightly. ‘I've that's a sight of money." Ibe train halted to let the bound express pass; there was no burden,” she nl twenty dollars yet, eastward an air of string luggage excitement in the car, passengers ge ready art, gathering snd wraps, and and the outward bound The snd a big to deg up some watching the new OMmers rows of faces on strange the of tl door the car sl ammed suddenly, warded man with « down the aisle, rht to left, He ager blue looking sharply had left Denver to moet train, iny black figure, hi!" he cried, bi from rig this a fe From a Bevy of Panpers stimable Toes Demo E 4 Fruit Prices in Pluncer Days. San Francisco bushels ot to of 1555 els Applies wet Oregon In bus " a bushel hipments rose to 20,000 this year big and for choice fruit obtaine i, one box selling for &60 prices were fancy fig of Eso The ( and received, pus 1}! alter Ore war for the industry In Oregon) Guard, Spitzenborgs fornisns planted 1860 the shipments of apples from an to dechine, Aople.raising than gold Apple-trees, tabi nining Oregon Euyvoe I — Easy to Become Ambidextrons. A majority of those persons unfortu. nate enough to lose an arm, lose the loft arm it is said, bat once in a while some one loses a right arm. Now then, did you ever think as to your probable digital facility in ease you should lose your right arm to-morrow! In the language of the exhorter, ‘It may bs your turn next?” It is a useless, senseless, harmful habit this neglect of the left arm and its ad. juncts, but we are all of ws too thought. less, too lazy perhaps to correct the habit, It can be corrected however, as I have found after two weeks regular practice. Any man or woman who is in earnest, aad wil practice half an hour at some certain time each day, can learn tn wits a legible hand and with reasonable ra ity with ‘the left haod.— Detroit Press, His difficalty only imne: There is broke¢ no in repairing n n horn, as the ell of it and the rny is Lryat 1088, the h core matter {« rn pst pet nphilets 08 pat entists In « Judge of id it ear testimony to Wrze the gives us the lent results attained by re I'heories useful an : LES Ta experiments, facts are is because news cent but stubborn most, and it our knowledge on many subjects has been advanced by the work done at the agricaltural experi ment stations that we deem the seicntists in charge worthy of such high praise, | Enlightenment in regard to the science of agriculture is certainly much needed, and no one ean maintain that the agri cnltural stations are not doing their ut. most to supply this peed. Indeed, our only fear is that they will go ahead too fast, However easy it may be for them to arrive at satisfactory results by mesos of simple experiment it cannot be ex. pected the average unscientific agricul tutist will arrive at the same results with | unl ease; and it might therefore be | well for the scieatists to pause oconsion- good, need Are what we coretes | ally, in order tha bri Rh n | te the ex | suggestion on } ’ may Lave perme nt the i object science, but tun qricu | COECIURIVELS . 15:1 Ake «¢ cr AY repeated in 1592 us Ar the wad v fight orchards yards this year s and blights 1 1) prepared to Not mor ! { burine vet Coe time do you find a farmer who 1] four led bankr pt, Ieee or per « without som becom Where fails ness They rarely do With fair to gO | in Chicago at 8135 to § . aod good | teams at 8225 wo $23 h, it appe ath} that there is still money to be made in | raising good horsos t-horses selling in There are four ways of handling man. | ure—=piling it against the barn to rot and leach, soatteriag it over the bara yard to | wash, deawing it into the field at once, and composting it as gardeners do, The New York Tribune says: “Get {rid of the fences!” These words should | bo placed at the head of every page of the agricultaral papers until pablo | opinion ws completely stirred to action. One year ago with twenty.five fowls n farmer had five eggs a day, Now, with twenty fowls, he has from twelve | to fourteen. The five missing birds were roosters, which scocouws for the whole story. - Kansas of ¢ A successfi] swine breeder ia about once a week puts fi quart oll and two pounds of sulphur into ¢ barrel of swill, A Pat iI 8 Cs ie in Wales FOOLS Jittle Tibrook Mayor Tillbrook in “the Neck Sarsaparilla Willie Scrofula By Hood's Erysipelas resulis . ; ' = growing stronger 8 a Brew we should lose him - Hood’ 5 sarsapar Ha Le Lh been in the drug years, and for those not bet. who revention - JOT the Se are threatened. Let us send you a book on and Scott's CAREFUL LIVING Emulsion of cod.liver oil, even if you are only a little thin, Free. r & Bows bye " nh wh th Avenue + Emulmon of ct de ' ver "» Cumy or CaTARm Ely's Cream Balm WILL CI R¥ CATARR H PAY Haim nto saon nostr] kl il BROS, 58 Warren 8 A, DR XKILMERS QWAMP Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheanmatism, tam pain in rite Orbach, brick dust in urine, onlls, trritation, in famation, gravel, uleemtion or AAITS of of bisdder, Disordered Liver, FIRE RSOY
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