THE MOWER, He went with the sunlight leaping Over the hillside's rim, And his curls were like meadow lilies Under his wide straw brim; His eyes like the chicory blossoms, Blue, with their skyey look, His giad cheeks redder than clover And brown as a sunny brook All day in the upland meadow He swings my heart with his scythe. Ab, slow sweet wind from the hilltop, Hurry thy heavy wing! Bring scent of his ferns and dalsies, And his whetstone's silver ring, And lift the curls on his foreheal With thy flagers coy aad (ree, And whisper 5 low he hears not, Does the cease her To trouble and wate! Dees he startle the bobolineoln From her nest in the dewy meadow lark crooning 1 him pass? Tis only so, with his coming He flutters my heart her nest, Ak, gentle And fain would he not mol and cruel, he stays not, All day in the upland meadow He swings my heart with his scythe, The lilies bow him The long grass shulders and starts, The daisies faint And secrets With his str His forehead trax down belore with their fortunes around their hearts swarveless and quid How little he cares what bi Are 1 day in the upland meadow art oke 80 stealy, and sweet, S80MS sinking under his feet! He swings my h with his scythe, ~The Independent, BE I EE ——— A BAD M AN. that part That is what th shal said to the spec sury Department, seach of Mr. Har scondir | enwittis with Un thorities of | fore, 3 of justice than if he had been careful not to tamy with the paticoce of the resaid, The $0 deputy’s ability to lay | Vries —if the ex-| said agent, sides, me Vries, ab- imsell well as with the State, and way to get into the hands long ong certain ’ | mnds (41 Mr and wi iy region aft might not be there, after all. agent, had YAWN pecial who ’ » wp | h i stretched, turn to his telegr looked alter the in the southeast ¢ ‘He re, Ba take you!” ApdtoU remarked Now Stiles’ll bh there.” When Bt les a depu iy duty of atte it previous, preparatory to hotel, the m am to be sent leaving to re- arshal wrote a . and assigned t> him nding to the three south- east counties, he knew what he about. He bad always been a firm liever in the : *5it takes a thief to cat the same princij i quired a bad man and was be truth of the ol } i.” On I mt IL re idle bad appoint Jones, orn and Antelope be had hesitancy Btiles, whose applicatic was indorsed by many | sot because they get the place, but because he to indorse and a r involved possible, to ha his men ; maxing ment Elkh no Counties, Mr. | for the positior lea ling citizens were keen t Bob asked them to do so indeed, probable, un pleasant consequences, Yes, Bob Stiles wae, undeniably a bad man. Not that he had ever mage him self amendable to the law that anybody knew of-—-but he had a blood-stained obituary list of persons who bad disagreed with him, and a in selecting ) KON him, efusal beautiful disregard for the consequences | aad he | of anything he chose to do; chose to do some very peculiar things, especially when he had over.indulged in Ins favorite intoxicant, which was quite frequently, When Mr. Stiles was not engaged in his official duties, his avoca. tion was that of gambler, and he was not an over.scrupulous one, either; in fact, I am obliged to confess, albeit with much reluctance, that Mr, Stiles enjoyed “skinning » sucker” as well as did any member of the fraternity, It happened, however, that, one sad might-—the very night belcre the day the marshal sent him the telegram concern. ing the misisg bank president Mr, Stiles and a confrere had sat in a game with a supposed *‘sucker” from the mines, who turned out to be very much of a player himself, and that Mr, Stiles and his fricofl rose from the game “busted,” and each owing the house for several stacks of chips, and Mr, Stiles stood on a corner, this bright afternoon, looking very down- hearted and sadly out of his usual’ spirits, when the boy came slong with Lis telegram, thing th au- | was, there- | { from the lorm i saying that | was shaken by a fi for i | do ef | ful, -at least, not “Hm! dark complected — gray eyes.’ Um! C'rect. I'll look after ye t'morruh, Mister d'Vries!" He had been walking as he read, and had reached the postoflice by this time. In handed him an official-looking envelope. He retired to a corner to read it, and the contents made his eyes dance. bueno! Hyar's luck fer ye, Bobby, boy! Five hundred dollars Thanks, Bobby, we don't care ef we do; oh, no, not any!” And as Mr. Robert Stiles walked up the street to his usual “hang-out,” he felt quite cheerful, and whistled as though the five hundred dol. lars were already in his for he knew right where he could find a cer tain Thomas Rudey, ex-moonshiner, urgently wanted for the murder, ’ previously, of a revenue officer Rudey's ol’ possession, several months who had raided Mr, neighboring State. still, in a and UAVLY the Ha Next moraing, | deputy-marshal ro le early, forth. had nade a small hundred ‘borrow, or so, the night belore; hundred doliars and these fac 5 brightuess of the would make Hive some foes to-da ether with the the beauties of na lent breakfast he had him, if morn ex ture and the just eaten, aspired to make anything, that was was only and that offered history ! than usual, and indeed. There at troubled him, fact that no reward was the arrest of de Vries, w had read in the papers. “Th’ the de y himself. Hyar's this b cheerful weerful, very one the nose idee!" sputy-marshal said i cus frien's, igh tone a bank, robs is {r'm orph’ns an r'ward fr ¥4¢ no . ner, noonshi Westin | thicket at toward wed at him appeared ns mpi QUICK gasps wii few minutes’ respit Bob could Was sn hands reste the head crying IZ Way, in §) md shouldered man it the dvi i f i soe ea wih iprehen the br arms abo ag one, ck awful Tom,” came s the on Loe * it had ¢' lad ye this ‘'veb'en a LA ward t' go ' leave I'mg wife to Il alias ye, be. good an good dear?” promise me be our children won't Tom, The man only nodded his The slight form his arms clapsed sobbed and head. fit of coughing that and the de marshal, wet unwonted ‘Poor thing; oh, poor was y hear, wooks were aw lal t puty with ae ‘murmured: " wh tears, | thir J Then the “] know feared o' tinued ¢ Tm, I'm one thing; what'll th’ babies 1 ketch ye an’ put ye in jail! Be keerful, Tom, oh, be keer. f'r their sakes, won't ye! My por babies—tny pore babies!” There came another fit of coughing, terrible than the other, during which Bob Stiles wiped his eyes on his weak volee co ye will, only ~¢f they sh’ more | sleeve, with nervous fingers pulled the | money had won the night before from his pocket, rolled it up and threw it on the floor of the cabin, Then he turned, without another look at the man he had | come to arrest, and hurried to the spot where he had left his horse, sobbing all the way—for Bob Stiles, ga bler, still had a heart, though he had thought it buried in the grave of the wife whose young lie had gone (rom her just as this woman's was going. It was late in the afternoon when the deputy-marshal rode up to the house where Hamilton de Vries, ex-banker, was staying. Mr. de Vries was seated on the front-steps, smoking a cigar, and | looked cool and comfortable, and as much at peace with himself and the world as if he were the honest, upright, Christian gentleman bis friends and ac. quaintances, up to three woes ago, had believed him. He was, as the officer rode up, trying to arrange with himsel( for a trip to Mexico by the shortest pos siblerc 0. Unavordable circumstances, unvecesary to state, had brought him here, and unavoidable circumstances made it desirable for him to AWAY 8 soon as possible, He wa thinkiog bow | | i | response to his inquiry, the clerk | as | man, who sac “Sta | | de rward! { him, | rose, says the Visalia (Cal.) Times, | found at the root, “Tall man—black whiskers— | easily he could have got to Canada, if he | had not been obliged to coms here first, when a voice addressed him: “Ah, Mr. 4° Vries, I see ye've cut off y'r whiskers.” Mr. de Vries sprang to his feet, death, and faced the smiling horse- looking at him point near the corner of the house, around which he had quietly come. Mr. Vries would have drawn his revolver, but it was not so convenient to his hand ns were the weapons of his visitor, so he tried other tactics. “I guess you're mistaken, my friend, My name is White—James White.” “Oh, no, it ain't,” said the deputy- marshal, easily. ‘I've got good reasons for callin’ ye d’ Vries, an’ I re hadn't better kick none. I'll have ye, moreover, ride Columbus with me. But Mr. de Vries did not v He called on Jem Whatcor of the which was sOn ye t’ ask rt t' pack up av’ ” house 4 by sports WO WOEeKSs Deliore, ana fter his arrival, | i ther strangers, ed only + Ntiles sear Was riding eput Mr his pris He halted “Marshal, thousand pox Kets, Lightning's Queer Pranks. “Lightning said William C “I was traveling WAYS S00 pranks, Nine HIDOIR, ster f some Jears ago, An rom a thunder storm in Tha farmbr undertook the Kitchen garments, He MAIR VIO use, fire in damp knees blowing the « stov Was there was a terrific clap of y fire shot out He fell imp as a ywapaper. The lightning tore all off with the exception of boot and trousers leg. There was a down th his beard, a and down made by a red-hot he dead as a door His w pie ked up a large crock of milk tl stood on table and dashed it and in less than three minutes up, surveyed himself and mournfully ‘Marier, you oughten to treat s bolt of blu into his face. back wel ne his one clothing streak rough his Lreast one poker, was nail, be sal remarked : me that erway afore strangers,’’--3t, | Louis Globe-Democrat. asm —————— A Potato Imitating Lemons, Mr. W. J. Pogue brought into Visalia this morning a remarkable freak of nature in the shape of a potato vine up- on which were growing potatoes in all stages of development from the size of a marble to one as large ns an average oarly The vine was discovered in Mr. Pogue's lemon grove recently, Whea the vine was pulled up a few*small potatoes wore but on the vine there a hundred. The only explanation Mr, Pogue can offer is that the potato must have thought it to be its duty to produce lemons, as it was sur- roundcd by that fruit, aad that it made an honest effort in that direction. Valuable Mineral in Louisiana. It is said that Edward F. Lemar, » resident of Western Louisiana, hes dis covered on his property an exteasi re de posit of black oxide of maoganese, 1 mineral of muoh use in the arts, and ver valuable. The deposit forms a stratus averaging about eight feet in thicknes and covering an area, according to 1 searches made by Mr. Lemar, of over square mile. Tho stratum of man gan: is covered by about two feet of n m. torial which recent experiments aave i Th an excellent cement, Ne Or must have been pale from # | he | {| Curing and perfect of them do not advocate the use | Jed | ealled the upper cut, five to six inches SWEET CORN, Bweet corn has many uses besides fit. ness as ou table like ns will Animals corn, Bweet corn the and will delicacy, it much better than field men and women be even do useful to feed cows " hen UTHASK begins to fail in the late summer, ual to that Tiss It is al ng to milk | tlening milk and butter duced by thi Chickens make pro June 80 the next young t and do v nado r the $110, ee fr it } v r the demand. } it few reat business than ~New York WHOLE AXD Fr ROOT A study of whole an fog has been begun at the For this purg more Were put up and them failed to grow. whole root method cl advantage that the the is the GRAS d piece ro ALT than 2000 pet, thougt ois NMatior ee } ma Advocates of Alm As graft seedling its go 1s set tae collar of there alone natural p for union tween the trunk of the tree and the and that to put the graft on other part of the root must necessarily make a less perfect and consequently a poorer tree nursery and a less en orchard tree Many of one would naturally be but what is usually tree, that Ce De. any union in the the whole root to ne suppose, long, from the collar down. As reported by Messrs. Burrill and MecCluer, station horticulturists, they have used roots in various forms, roots ten inches long, to roots cut into pieces of different lengths, with cions set two inches above the colar, bn the collar and two ioches below the collar, The conclusions from one year's work are: The whole root bas no advantage over a piece root of the same size. (Size refers to both length and thickness.) Roots with small side branches left on gave better results than roots of the same size with the rootlets cut away, Hoots five inches long gave better re. sults than roots four inches, two inches | vr ope inch long. Roots five inches long, not trimmed, pave noarly as good results as roots ten inches long. — New York World, PARTURING MEADOWS, Whether or not the quantity of feed secured by pasturing the meadows after its crop of bay has been harvested will | make up for the damage done is, to say | the least, questionable. This is es. ily the case when the summer is | oy and dry, sud the regular pastures from whole | and the furnishing nearly | are cropped down {in consequence quite all of pasturage sre close, A fair the winter, and growth of top in summer pro tects roots in well this 1s his i UIMMmer ns taken aw ay, done pasturing. Some {ood is, i arse, when to run ER down. In some dows have been lisease Lua IY 15 as skes the lessons most im poriand ¢ wheat brs combines t rm, an yaers it easuy all from thie Dees slesing paper Ar rut wax will vintists' interest to b ome, even if he which honey is so he saves the « Those who plant strawberries in yr August can expect a small crop very fine berries next spring. Bat they sh ul cared for during the sum- mer and fall and well manured as winter be well sets in, Clover or grass land newly plowed is not good for strawberries. Tha red. headed grub is abuadaut in such land, and he is no aid to strawberry culture, Wait ti)! the sod is well rooted belore putting out strawberry plants. The French have tound that the Jersey and Devon cattle are less liable to disease than the Durbams, and this may account in part for the fact that there is an apparent increase in the number of these cattle used in Paris dairies, Buckwheat is an excellent food, enabling the cows to produce a superior quality of milk. Being very rich in | nitrogen, many farmers prafer the bran of it to that of wheat, Ths kernel is | known to be more valuable than that of wheal or oats, The intelligent daicyman must study incessantly. Every cow has her peculi. artitios, which must be cont dered, and ndaptatiocs made in food and treatment. | Success in almost everything is won by | attention to details, and this is particu. larly true of dairying. —— At a recentflower festival given for charity, in the grounds of the Villa Borghese, just outside of the walls of | Rome, the women wadegipol ne oma | University w nt wearin . loved caps of wl ong colleges, Tike their | wen teliow-studeats, meadows or eaten down | { It ap { hazards which | rail in | by secured and otherwise Folks Who Live Long. “What occupation tends most to pro- Jong lite?” asked a chief mathematician life “That is a difficult question, he re- plied. *‘I can by refer ring to the oe upntions of persons whose In- indreds 54 | the great Star reporter of for one of Compnnies, the Insurance Only answer it lives are and bave been insured by us, asmuch as they number several hn of thousands they will aflord gor from which to draw conclusio Act commercial basis the subject, ording to this « pears that traveler agents live kind longer than men in any other potwithstanding the attend Next of business, transportation LY them professors, inclu nna aentist vater, 10 tenchers ing music te achers.’ “And after themt" sident. A Mother's Gratitude Too great for tongue to tell, in & TER " My { } years i areadful & o or Consti- Scrofula, ott ‘HOOD’ S SARSA- PARILLA. Then impr \ Tas M ns J tutional id, . A AY Re “ Hood’ . Pills are 1 TUN, ass — Linney JOHNSON'S Anodyne Liniment. nat OThgy of HOINAY £0 IN 1910. " iT Al Koes A CEXIUT3 ae . Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, Lambagen, pain in Jolots or back, brick dust urine, froguent calla, irritation, in Samation, Fraves, vloermtion or ostarrh of bisdder, Disordered Liver, Tmomirnd di ours, MTom. headache, hy AM P00 ores kaduey difficuition, La Grppe, urinary troulve, bright's disoase. Impure Blood, Borofuia, ma.aria, pen’. weakness or debit Gupranton mm somients of Ome Petite, hei nad “fied, Drggiste will refand to yen Le prio AL Drugeiste, SOc, Nine, 81.00 Slee, “lavalide' Guide te Meakth “tres. Crmenttation from bn Rimes & Co. Bivonavron, ~ ¥.
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