AS YEARS SLIP BY, As years slip by, love's tendrils, one By one, that grew as life begun, And, twining, wrapped themselves around The heart's deep center, are unwound And torn aloof ere set of sun, Our days with troubled griefs o'errun, Like sumbeams that seem golden spun, But cast their light ‘mid shadows crowned, As years slip by, We shrink from fallen blows that shun; The cycled shaft of death we shun, Our loved are borne from mortal bound, From whence we catch no voles of sound; We list and wait mid gloamings dim, As years slip by. -M. F. B, Hansen, in Chicago Sun, A THE TRAP IN THE FLOOR. CANFIELD. N 20th of De. cember, 1845, I was traveling through t he southwestern part of Virginia, and, owing to the BY A. G. the snow storm, was be- | lated and forced to pass the night at a | g = little wayside tav. rote from ordinary routes of tr t 1 ern rem avel. | I don’t then a “good-looking on sunny side of nor that I was what I calla traveling srchant, but most folks denominated a pe only a superannuated old man, fit for nothing but to tell tales of pened to him in his younge That was before a network covered the country, and | gents” who coul confessing t was bachelor the f i mercial eled in our goods with us, light, covered w I had a longish stay in Norfolk, laying \ stock, and, when my business there was finished, I started west, intending visit some of inland villages plantations. As I said before, 1 had gc belated and bewildered by and stumbling on this little lor ot entertainment, there {« the determined to put up N h pleased with his valuable wake the best of per : bread, I asked It was room, being attached to the dignified by the single unglazed heavy shutter, dicks and placed in the room and and window securely fastened of fries I was as seen 0 keep I soon feel asleep, fo with driving so far in the vilest r I must bave slept when | every ads ul AWOKe a lows a regain i If member that I had a | my pocket, and 1 reach for my clothes, which I on a chair ' i sd \ ad crawled out to make acqual 1 vitl he inmate. 1 la; over me, and tried ¢ could not, T! grow stronger every not persuade myscl in the some scratching moving thing was deadly still. While I lay myself warm touch face. What could it be? sur Now, | re and what wa With des) grabbed and struck new ues ew the ! leep again; bat | room. noise ; or vainly into going passe d on e. oe my ¢ match binzed, | cast a furtive glance around. What I expected to sec 1 can't say, but tible, The match time, it was necessarily a brief and im perfect survay, and I struck another, and another, but could ses nothing. There was an end of the unpainted washstand, But that was at the cther side of the room, and to save my life I eould not summon courage to get out of bed. 1 am ashamed to | confess it, but an absolutely paralyzing terror had mastered me, 1 literally | could not stir. 1 lay still, with ciosed eyes, trying desperately hard to go to | sleep, but try as hard as I might that | touch roused me again aud again, “What is it?” I asked over and over. I could not be dreaming, I know I was pot sslesp. 1 was broad awnke, and | every nerve in me was twitching and yuivering with excitement, And now, ps I opened my eyes and looked fear. fully at the corners of the room, trying one, something hor lasted so short a tallow candle on when badly soared in the dark a strange thing happened, which 1 don’t suppose anybody will belivve, but it's a4 true as fat L'm living, violence of a sudden | bed, huddled on {| where | had seen, or | places {the events of last night only a vivid to pierce the shadows as poopie will do | The room,as I have said, was intensely dark, but as I looked toward the outside wall, it seemed to me it was not quite so dark there as elsewhere, A faint, lum. inous haze seemed to grow out of the darkness, and as I gazed at it breath- lessly, it gradually took {form and sub. stance, and grew iuto the pale likeness of a human being, with something, but I could not see what, erouching at its feet. I rubbed my eyes hard and stared at these strange appearances until I seemed dimly to perceive that the thing crouching on the floor was the shadowy | presentment of a dog. At the mo- nent I fancied I had made discovery, a long, mournful howl sounded through | room—the most doleful and lugubrious wail I ever heard, a shadowy hand from the human figure eemed to point toa spot on the floor | over which it hovered, Then ap- paritions vanished and all was dark I | this the ness, As will sometiues happen, extremity With a fathom these of fear now gave me courage. desperate determination to ible, I leaped from the my clothes, and, light. mysteries, if poss approached fancied I had After as clos tehed li ing the candle, I seen these strange appearances. 4 scrutiny as the w, I found s SIL vlo meting suspic In the floc had been close | the BAW i, lar re enou ithe enough mw A 8PACK ‘ wdmit the body of a man, an fitted in a atiracting not raised from Locks a means of in. roatural ter pro mbly, many {ore ng discovery, the r had pf rished be me, as [ made this leasi idle expired and 1 wa ctim was a woman. th all my body, and, breathless worror, waited in the for an instant attack. I heard nothing, how. ever, except a stifled moaaing, ] y died away. darkness waich RALALL hall-frozen with ; happened wager, and at all i ya the opened hing on the a hy blankets around me cr 12, and made up my ht that night of he re ie but at last ( ne throush Cracks in sautters, and I devoutly thanked I bad lived to 4 gray streaks o the i f | the vas over and thas yiizatl again, As soon as [ could sce clearly, T got un and cautiously moved my bales, shud- dering in anticipation of flading the hand I had cut off last night. But what was my astonishment to find neither hand nor | candle, nor even a stain of blood on the floor; nothing, actually nothing, to tell of last night's horror. Had it then really been only a dreadful dream? Ah, tho knifel [I eagerly snatched it up. Yes, there was the red witness, | plain enough, still wet, and crimsoning | the blade from point to handle. Yet on | turning agein to the floor there was no stain there, and on close inspection it looked solid plank from end to end, “Well” thought I, *‘of all the queer I ever heard of, this one takes the lead, But for this knife I should bs tempted to believe droam. This, however, is indisputable evidence of what happened, and of one | thing I am very certainthe sooner I got "away from here, the better for my I wiped the knife on the skirt of my coat, and placed it in my bosom, taking very good care to have the handle con. venient for laying hold of, I thea opened the door, not without many in- ward misgivings, and called to the land- lord to bring out my wagon. He soon appeared, sullen and dogged ns ever, but I saw no change in him since last night, He offered me break fast, which I at once refused; not for worlds would I have eaten or drunk in that house, I was ina fever of impa- tience to be off, and after paying his bill low, | the | {| horse, At the same instant, | | trusty weapon, and never took my { mate did not make ber appearance, spot | ) to stand on their hind legs and { other's way Pbenlths® oo. a in the smallest change I had, and with. out any unnecessary display of wealth, I stood by and watched him replace my packages in the wagon, and harness the I did not offer to assist him; I was too much afraid of being taken at a disadvantage, I kept my hand on my eyes His amiable help- and wld give a shrewd guess at off the surly villain, I thought 1 ¢ the re hor health, but jumped in I made no inquiries after my WO, wagon | and drove ail. I'o this day 1 cannot account for my The fellow must have seen that spected him, and must have guessed witness Lo IT) Dis al vhich [ carried with me he made effort to stop me. 1 cai an arrant 10 only sup- coward wit! two vears afterward that road again, and my 1 noranie | look, sad answered n my lift ou that Saved by a Hyma. sit real meeting it greal meeting wud a line of 1 t had been in his mind all ti * ‘Thelter my defenseless hoad With the shadow of Thy wing “The away, and the Union lines were & turbed that night, man in ambush crept « “The other man said he remembered tly —th was think- ing of holy things as walked back rod forth, and the words of the hymn in his head, Hq t aloud unwittiogly as he walked aad ht." the event perfe at he he that bit of vere sang — ——— Queer Pair of Calves, Jothua Patty has a curiosity out a) ! ! on Cane ten miles Bluff (M i twin calves Siamese twins Creek, the is a 1.41 ht le FONAY fl, Wy» It P yplar pair on the of ey are not handsome, but they out of the usual line of bossy From the brisket down hall the teat ttie length of their bodies the calves are one, their entire broasts being united solidly, the two bodies forming one well-rounded In order to travel they will have hitch be in the if they trunk. each will forward, r sideways to As move can balance nicely on their hind legs one might back up while the other moves | forward, The animals are very well matched, are perfectly developed every other way, and are a curiosity which has attracted hundreds of people to the Patty farm to witness. An Odd Fish. A fisherman on Bone Island, a small island off the Virginia coast, made an odd eateh the other day, BSeelog some strange-looking thing far out to sea swimming toward the shore he put out in a boat toward it. It proved to be a large steer, He assisted the animal as well as he could and managed to get it ashore, but more dead than alive. After getting rest snd refreshments, however, the creature eame around all right. Where it came from is not known, but it is supposed to have been washed ofl the deck of some passing vessel, New Of- leans Picayune. PAYING FOR THE MILK'S QUALITY. The Vermont creameries have adopted the system of paying for milk according to quality, or rather, amount of butter fat in it, In June of last year the poor. est dairy received fifty-six cents per hun dred pounds for milk, and the best one eighty-one cents per hundred pounds, In October the cents, nnd pounds, the milk producer to feed well, ar wilk,— American Dairymag. last, at this same brought two best $1.56 per hundred creamery, poorest ninety Does this not show th Keep go fi find 1 produce NITRATE OF Three years’ « of rods by E. Jersey Station ( tomatoes nitrate it causes s result of which fas 3 functions of the i» Ef BOETYOUs movements worm, when the sorbed t injury gkull by trepanaing truder. dies, which is and the carcass immature worms are al 1, an ture in the dog, to be voided from to time segments, that filled with egge, and these are picked uj by the sheep. Those und years most sul York Times. Usual Bre ier two old are New ravile, «— LITTLE PLAGUES, fart tt} } a Ir ing Lhd i most It is a singul midable enemies of man are smallest of created things, amon A devastat half i Col » } ing storm extending over tinent, a furious cyclone, an earthqg seem more terrible the work almost microscopic insect; amount of injury done gigantic forces is often of ve account compared with the wrought by one or more of the *infiz little,” but innumerable, hosts that their fatal work unheard and unseen. Consider, for example, what vast mis. chief has been done by the Hessian fy, the clinch bug, army worm, the inKe, ’ § than an yet the sctuai y Of thes by an ry slight ARMA tely “wo the codlin moth and other pests of the field | and orchard. in | And sometimes the wut. most efforts of man are utterly without avail to stay the ravages of these tiny in- vaders, They march scross his fields of waving grain like “san army with ban. pers” and leave a waste behind, tural problems which is presente those insect foes, Fight them how we will they ‘come up smiling” every few seasons to plague the farmer's soul and deplete his pocket. It is calculated that the Colorado beetle has cost the farmers bi this country hundreds of millions of dollars since it began its eastward march, The clinch bug has frequently robbed the Western farmers of $50,000,000 in a single yoar by its destructive work in the wheat and corn fields, The depredations of the wheat weevil have sometimes reached similar proportions, and for a series of gears absolutely prevented the growing It is, | in fact, the most serious of all aghieuts } by / Valle quali ' | of wheat in the fertile Genosee | 80 long famous for the | of its product. The imported | cabbage worm caused of | millions of dollars’ worth of that impor- | tant vegetable in a single ve And so it comes to pas { er's life is one of his creps agent st the y Ly superior wheat the has 1088 ar continual against these little foes. He must be di in fighting { He bread of when they appear on the scene, or have no bread of any sort other year, Nor is it possible for any ons do protect them. Mmunot ie idleness” hel ve farmer to much single handed in battling { the m in 8 Boris CL enemies o i int “come lke 1 1 experiment : i ch YOU Can make a pending brains, on It without stint, - al GNIIRALS are easily, fatten ¢ Aare the most These are the P ais 1 of value, Cause some | } { increases in r cule and better stock are order to earn a satisfactory interes less you Keep up in these particulars you ’ acl #3 tifarn will find that ‘lan don Lt pay. In certain sections alfalfa is the great. est of all fodder plants, uniess it be In- dian corn. We should be its climatic adaptability and methods of havdling it more rapidly than we are, learning One of the best methods of eounteract. ing the ravages of the potato beetle is to give the plants such a vigorous start, by | heavy manuring and good cultivation, | that they can keep ahead of the bugs, { Many farmers delay cutting their hay | until late, believing that early cutting means a loss in amount of crop, But late cut hay always has dry and woody stems, which are largely wasted in feed- ing. If your sheep are rubbing their backs against every convenient tree or post it i evidence that they are troubled with goabmites, Treat them to a dip as soon as possible, Tt will be moat elective if given just after shearing. By feeding craps at home a double profit is secured, one in growing the crop | and one in feeding the stock. The | manure will more than pay for the labor | of feeding, and the stock can be market. lod on the hoo! with no expense for handling aud Lauliog. s that the farm- | warfare to t. Un. | The Amusing “Battle 0 1 the Fearne It is no proof that a man is not a good historian simply because he knows noth- ing of the Battle of the Boards. The event belongs to Kentucky history, and Collins, quoting from the au'ob of Dr. J. J. Polk James Hay particular ory, i fi HIOWS 2 “About still ography in sionel ich ( telling this Scrofula In the Neck. HOOD'S SARSA- PARILLA. stronger.” HOOD'S PILLS daily growing JOHNSON 'S Anodyne Liniment. fe is all et a a moc Often they Germa A few are scvere A. Lee, Jefferson, Col. XY S 31 DRKILMER'S Kidney, Liverand Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, Lambago, pain in joints or back, brick dust in urine, frequent calls, Irritation, Infamation, gravel, uloeration or estarrh of bladder, Disordered Liver, Jmipaired d fon, gout, bilous headnche, EWA MP-ROOT cures kidney Giflion then, Las Grippe, urinary trouble, bright's disse. Impure Blood, Boral aia, maria, pon’! wes knoss or dobiiite, Gnnranter Use pontents of One Bottle, if pe, hate efived, Drageriets will refund to you Lhe price paid, At Druggists, 500, Stee, 81.00 Sine, *Irealide’ Guide to Mealth “Tree Ooneuftation Ore Da. Kituxa & Co, Bivonamrox, NX ¥Y. - we In anh pra sation 4 ANT suse, SEE Tra vent. Buamp & Bafereninn, | WANT 33 Ei sma
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