BODY AND sOUL, Here at life's silent shadowy gate, O Soul, my Soul, I lie and wait: Faint in the darkness, blind and dumb, O Boul, my promised comrade, come! The morn breaks gladly in the east; Hush! hark! the signs of solemn feast: The softened footstep on the stair: The happy smile, the chant, the prayer; The dainty robes, the christening -bowl-- "Tis well with Body and with Soul, Why lingerest thou at dawn of life? Seest tot a world with pleasure rife? Hear'st not the song and whir of bird? The joyous leaves to music stirred? Thou too shalt sing and float in light; My Soul, thou shalt be happy —quite, But yet so young, and such unrest? Thou must be glad, my glorious guest, Here is the revel, here is mirth, Here gayest melodies of earth: Measures of joy in fulness spent; My Soul, thou canst but be content, Is this a tear upon my hand? A tear? I do not understand Ripples of laughter, and a moan? Why sit we thus, apart, alone? Lift up thine eyes, O Soul, and sing! Hp comes, our lover, and our king! Feel how each pulse in rapture thrills! Look, at our feet And he—he comes with step divine the red wine spills! y A spirit meet, O Boul, for thine. Body and Soul’ What, dost thou Stay, here are hou Here, honor's hand 1 the full « f know Shalt journey And I, my Sou Wilt ¢ ef My heart gro eights And there are higher Is this a taunt thy What is it, Thou er Give me For this I he! I tra » me braath? il, is death, wall! » Century, THE DOCTOR'S LESSON. aspect, tured to hin him, with COSY | restfu ' ym door or window, 1 deserted threw the as the reins t old the rounds, irritated, was to bh and an no sympathetic no dinner, appar “YE ' This time a voice spoke out o darkness —a tired voice “Do be quiet, John; the baby 1s Just gO " “Cor tl Why isn't light here! And why leep before this time of “‘He has been fretful all day with his teeth, and I have not had a change my dress.” A wailing cry from the nursery sent the voice hurrying thither, and the doc tor, with some words pro ceeded to light the gas and take off his wet overcoat. The house was cold, the parlor had evideatly been arranged by Hibernian baads, an odor of something burning st in from the kitchen. A pleasant reception for a man after a long day's work, He ran up stairs with no gentle foot. step. His wife sat by the nursery fire, her face wore a weary expression, and she had on the same blue gown which she had donned for breakfast. The baby at length slept in her arms. She held | up a warning finger as her husbaod eame blundering in, but already baby's light slumber had been disturbed and the pro- | cess of soothing avd singing had to be repeated for the fifteenth time, It seemed to the young mother as if her patience could hold out no longer. Jt was provoking to have the littie onc | startled from his uneasy dreams again, | 8he knew Dridget would spoil the din. ner. She bad been trying ol day to get down stairs to make the house pleasant | with & magic touch here and there, She | longed to get into a fresh gown and | brush her hair, but there had been no time for her tc do one of these things, Nurse was nway with a sick sister, and babies always demand more from their mothers than from any one else. They are tyracnieal and know and seize every the more ing to sieep. if ¢ it there a isn't the baby night?” yuna chance to inaudible ’ He the anxious, half ignorant young mothers, who are happy, after all, to be their slaves, When at last the dinner bell rang Mrs, Ford laid the baby in bis crib, sound asleep this time, warm and lovely in his ulter repose. She gave a hurried dab at her wavy hair, caught up a fresh hand. kerchief and ran down to join her hus. band, who sat at the table with a decid. edly cross look on his face. He barely tasted the soup, then pushed it away in disgust. “Burned?” asked his wife. “OI course. Can't you smell over the house? ! after Bridget a little?” “Why, John, I have hardly downstairs to-day.” “Where's Hannah?" “She went to her sister's last night.” “Oh yes; I forgot. What'sthis? Cold corned beef! Really. Elinor, have you nothing else to offer?” “Would you like an omelet?’ “Nop.” “What theni” “A beefsteak, if there is one.” Mrs. Ford rose and went to the kitch- en. The girl, of course, had filled 1 the range with fresh coal, +) ’ was noth to be it all been ' Just L 14) ther the best of cold meat, potat wos and fault with the pota- | other opportunity to prove their power over y was tired of and pudding: r always had mince pies ¢ macarroni, butter not the the sald he ‘I think so t 4 his chair i His wife hesit to run around the } } ars upon her husl rush darkness sighbor- aod the BW pt suiieniy reflect ne ing th he de peated in a whis. voice from the » room. ‘‘Nellie, with" ] rirl, who me ye talkin’ t is Dr. Ford, whom you sent for,” the physician approaching the bed, One candle lighted dimly the untidy, comfortiess place, showing a stove and a hair and rough beard ing among the pillows of his bed.’ “Oh, the doctor,” sai staring from man with tumble ly he, with fever eyes under shaggy we. “*How long have you been ili!" asked Dr. Ford, sitting down on a rickety CUair, ““It's n week since I gave up, but I've been feeling bad a long time.’ The doctor placed hi# little ther. mometer under the patient’stougue and waited silently. “J or s sick,” moaned the girl, peer. g i tae shadows, Ihe sufferer seemed to be irritated by petition of these words and made sn impatient gesture, but as he did so glanced pitifully at the slouching figure. “What you most need is good nurs. th e Te ing, the patient! The man's face darkened. The woman hovered aimlessly over the stove, ‘She's my wife,” said the sick man, hoarssly, “I know she ain't quite like folks, But she's peaceable and good, not bold and noisy like other women. I pitied her first off; then 1 got kind o' fond of her. And she" — The girl had crept to the bedside and rtood there with her vacant, troubled face, fumbling with the pillows, “Joe,” she said, much as a mother might speak her baby's name. ‘She can't do nothing for me nor for herself,” whispered the man, as ho clasped one of the fluttering hands in bis. “Poor thing!” murmured the doctor. “I oan earn good wages when I'm well,” went on the invalid, ‘‘and I did the cooking and kept the house tidy tuen. Now everything's golag wrong. She spoils all the victuals, but she don’t mean to.” At this moment something on the stove Why don't you look | | done but make | and a wonderlul curiosity it is. | eller, C ited the section and gives a very inter. | : I about three | row,’ | wife, boiled over with a loud hiss and filled the room with the odor of scorching milk. The girl stared, then moved towards the ruined moss. ‘Oh, dear me,” said the sick man, under his breath. ‘Don’t burn yourself, Nellie,” he called, as if to a child, “It’s scorched, Joe,” she sald the tears overflowing at last, ‘“‘Never mind, my gi, throw it away. We can get plenty more, ¢ tor,” he said in his can't speak rough to her. wife.” You see, doc. “l my hoarse voice, She's The doctor sat with bent head, speech. less. “I'll send you a nurse, my man,” he said, after a pause, ‘What you need is I will again to-mor- And with alow bow to man and now clinging together, hand in the doctor said good care, ’ come hand, went on his way, “Thank you, sir,” man, much moved. The girl only stared and last tear from her lashes. Two capable, kind- hearted woman was instalied as nurse i good-night, and called out the wil later hours n the little home by the river, She brought with her food in forts of Dr. F Though it was late a bright ir window i fire us he 8 Wi I entered His Ihe la VAG -DIOwW 1 hdr ar —— WISE WORDS. fenses wi clod 12 whle bel ligious faith in ief in that oatural laws; super belief of the ural, hensible ivil supernat There which is WI kind without is a cerlain sweet and which is tacitly recognized a 1Ous al pre with some show of medimval defence. Judge. set guard to all around, over too leave grown A - The Great Salt Desert of Asia. Bome séventy odd miles south of Tehe- ran, in Persia, is a large tract of land known as the Great Salt Desert of Asia, A trav- Biddulph, with a party vis- >. E. esting account of what hesaw. The salt tract is a great area, being covered with | | an incrustation of solid { depths, and resembles somowhat a vast elt From the outer edge for miles toward the centre of frozen lake, { the field the salt is found to be soft with ' said the doctor, after examining | | an admixture of earth. Beyond this dis- tance the salt began to assume more the appearance of solid ice, and will sustain the weight of horses, mules, camels, eto, At a distance of about eight miles towards the centre it was necessary to employ the service of a large hammer and an iron tent peg to break off a piece of this phenomenal incrustation to carry away as a souvenir, —Boston Cultivator, Whoso Eats Meat Cannot Sing. One whose business it has been to flad | persons suited for vocalists says he never loses his time looking for a fine voice in a country where fish or meat diet pre. vails, Vocal capacity disappears in families ns they grow rich, because they ent more meat, Those Italians who eat the most fish (those of Naples and Genoa) lave fow fine singers among them. The sweet voices are found in Irish women of the country, and not of the towns, Norway is not a country of singers be. cause they eat too much fish, but Bweden is a country of grain and song. The carnivorous birds croak: graln-eating birds sing.—Musical Millions. of various | T MARKING SHEEP. permanently done fleece grows, Venetian red in through the by taking a wool, The Prussian designate different The use of oil or avoided, as it cannot be remo the wool and is grades or 0 ved A waste Crmines hereby | M. Wh tnes R, 91 size of a half d ru. and vhen raul ¥ When 1 w I rub till lood begins ad it represses the I woul Oe SKID, d not use a + 88 there fectually. preparation of potash where it is not ger of its running dowu wanted, or being spilled the calf; I liquid but once, and came ne Be careful your fing eral thicknesses of paper or cloth arous it. a sudden by movement of never tried the ar puttin get Lhe w rap sev Wd out an eve h stick potash on Pers | | simple process; takes but a few seconds if the cow is properly fastened, and I do not think it is very painful, for the cattle begin to eat as soon as the horns are off, and cows do not shrink in their milk at all, 1 dehorned the first week in June a Holstein that was boss of the herd, and from being kept in a small lot, | horns, opening gates and doors, Since her horns were taken off she has become | a most proper and respectable cow; the smallest Leifer in the herd makes her | walk away from her feed, or drives her where she pleases. The saw is much better, I think, than mppers; the latter is likely to crush ths bone and prevent healing so quickly. The only applica tion we made after sawing was to fill the cavities with wheat flour, and although it was hot weather and fly time, the wounds healed over in a few days. New York Tribune. GROWING CUCUMBERS FOR PICKLES, We do not suppose it would be pro. to undertake to grow cucumbers for pickles. Immense quantities of these pickles are annually consumed, it is true; but it doesn’t require a very large area lo grow an immense lot of cucumbers, Yet for farmers in a locality favorable for the purpose it might be worth while to make the trial, for the crop is a profiia. ble one when properly managed, yield. ing sometimes as high as $75 per acre above all expenses, The conditions most favorable to suc. , Ces iu pickle-growing are wearness LW a Marking sheep may be readily and for a year, while the pinch of the fingers and pulling blue and common lampblack may be used to classes, turpentine is to be | from werican The dehorning of grown cattle is a had become entirely too handy with her | fitable for the great majority of farmers | for large city, or facility disposing of the product in a fresh state to a factory in which vegetables are pickled either in default of these, the nec CHSATY appliances for pic kling on salt or vinegar; or, in the farm, for supplying the home or dis- tant A cue should be in a good apple country, where murkets, imber grower { 4 obtained at abundance of cider could be | small cost for conversion int The 1 pickles is of cultivation very simple. sandy loam is t Il manured and plow: i der to bh the Wi isten the growth 80 requisite tenderness ar 14 . ii the m ' rust K buy r the mii K, ) bring whey from the 8 growing will be ready table or market any time after and scrateaing about i layers are active gen ae move aud st birds 0 roost ut in the morning » raise 1000 pounds than it he form of the most! of flesh in the of poultry does to raise 1000 pounds in Which sells for The agricultural experiment stations and dairy schools ought, in each State, to the and spread of weeds that cause an unpleasant flavor in miik. orm beef? note appearance The wet season makes very “slushy” grass, The cows, the ter will be better Bran is better weather feed, The if some grain is fed. than corn Malta bees noted for the purity and flavor of their | honey. They extract most of it from sulla, or clover, of which there is an ex. tensive crop. Do not feed a lot of cockerels till they become ‘‘old roosters,’ then sell on the general market, It is hard to make them pars as ‘spring chicken" even if the dealer cuts the spurs off. Clover ia valuable in the winter feed. ing of hogs as well as for summer pas. | ture. Stow away a little that is cut are delicious | young aod nicely cured, and feed it to the stock hogs that you carry over, Many horses that are unruly snd have bad dispositions are made so by bad treatment when they are colts. Gentle ness is a first requisite in training and educating the colt for future usefulness. an host pros 16. the stock breeder ways comes in for special po“ animals, Select: Jovy purpose the dairy, beef, mutton or wool, the, horse for the road or the saddie,aud thea stick to ite milk sad the but. | meal for het | are cheap bul rapidly sdvancing In value Beware of Olntments tor Catarrk Contain Mercary, An mercury will surel destroy the sense of pel] and completely de range the who ” YB Lewn when entering It through the mu ous mur faces, Buch articles should neve rb used ex cept on prescriptions from re Putable physi. Clans, as the donage they will 40 is te 6 bn A to Lhe good you can poss ® from them Hull's Catarrh Cure aired by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toled ry, ang is taken internally "its jut 1 “Ha, ord vile That ily deri manufnact 0 Pure nnd Wholesome Quality niends 1o putii h inxalive rem Pd Bet ay B8 po o> DRKILMER'S WA Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. 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