A SONG IN THE NIGHT, Yesterday's sunshine Was so bright! Yesterday's burdens Were so light! Yesterday's hand-clasps Were so sweet! Yesterday's hours Were so fleet! Well.a-day! Yesterday drops her rose Petal by petal, and softly goes Back to the bosom of Go's repose. ~lsracl Jordan, in Youth's Companion, ETE A... BRIER ROSE. HE Weeping Wil. low telegraph office Up before it, like Hg I bbous, lay faced prairie, i i p sai04 the railroad tracks, converging my s- teriously until dis. tance blended them into one. Back of it flared the wide main street, with stores and cottages i: mingled, which marks the prairie town. Beyond inclosed M by a white picket fence, straggled the deso- | late graveyard. The only thing ature supplied wa an abundance o walk to cross Neig houses stood Nobody crowded, even in the graveyard. plenty here was It was i was T talpo } op $ - tial 1s} The telegraph operator, satiated with landscape, leaned back, str self ) yawned coll prodig Jat lin 8 ( hair, which cre vexed rem He tos mark over his shoulder, * what you are [ Dave the door, view silence. T said cheerfully: “A telegrapl yearoin took his can ana b take No, was anticipati 0 Rose is feller shuffle. like '" sald a towered young giant, above Dave, who stood his “I'm lame and no account said Dave; * 8 woman torr it half & man ain’ to see nented.” “Who hunder—"" b threatener jen Miles laid a bh A Arm “Hold on, Jim,” he there's Davi Comstock, con the smashed up No. 7." “Not {ler that got the baby!" “The same.” *‘Sho, stranger!” Jim, “You're welcome to interfere. Give us yer hand, We wouldn't hurt her fer pothin'. Dless Brier Rose can take care of better n most men.” The dogs were all held pow, and the girl put her tired arms down, looked curiously at the man, brave story she know by heart, as she beard him defend hes, To be sure, she had been defended be foro; there was hardly a man who would not have risked his life to save bers, but they teased her uomercifully when they got the chance. terference was on a pew line, She did not quite understand it, but it appealed to ber at once, When Dave went back to the station to tell Joe, the latter roared with de- light. “Just like her! Exzattly like her!” be cried, slapping his leg so fnhumaanly that his lame friend winced for him, “Who is Brier Rose!” he repeated, in avswer to Dave's question. “You don't know much if you don’t know old Bryan's doughter, She's the bist known girl from Horseshoe Gap to Powder Urik. Old Bryan's been engineer on the road ever sinco the track was laid, All eyes sho (was then, as sho Is now. What wasn't eyes was temper. Same pow, savin’ that now she bosses the boys in addition to old Bryan. Ble can run th hurt savin tha nallified wut moe said my stars! berself level | and | indiscriminately | disconsolate | which Dave's in- | an engine with the best of ‘em. taught her all the tricks, and he thinks the sun rises and sets for just her.” “Strange she would defend a gopher, when she's so hard on the boys,” ob served Dave, “That's just it. That's Brier Rose! She's got more tame pets; she's friend. lier with every beast in Weepin’ Willer than with any of the boys. She ain't even got a head fur anybody but old Bryan; you notice I make no mention of heart concernin' Brier Rose; I don't keer to talk of what she ain't got—and just now she's specially bewitched about him. After keepin’ straight for forty years he's taken to drink, The girl knows he'll lose his job if the company gets wind of it, and she watches him like a hawk." “What's Bryan's Run” “Horseshoe to Powder Crik. knows every inch of track and siding. { And I wish you could see her handle the She knows all Bryan does, and She i critter. ishe's a heap sight quicker c vle’iatin' than the old man. It's wuth while to see her oil and clean the over it spry as a kithen.” said machine, goes “She's handsome,” Dave, sim. ply. “Humph! observe 1 Joe, hard ain't got Aud Handsome is as handsome | does,” grampily, ‘She is cold as ice and rock. my hat ACT wiminin., as n belief t she #1 ot juite a | haps, because of what y has | things, even the melanch grew rose colored to Dave's sunny eyes. ly town its unfailing Wi his hopefully intmer at Re 1s if fascinated : ’ yet had said nothing. lence they v ‘hat does Le he shamed temples an pitifully now pate { we i Dave” a | cried the « had expecte on her y. He craned the street On » flew ck's blu is ead run, the grieved look eyos Kept pra 0 } neck 3 i around, un yr not he That night Joe fidgeted sie to decide whether shou occurrence Dave's genial smile He sat Arms neak to Dave about the opelulness were gone, {ace buried in his folded ¢ coughed coisily and said nothing Dave looked down at his poor maimed , do you know that little from the wreck had br Brier Rosel I remember the baby niled when I held it out to the foot was caught I've never seen Briar we smile at me that Way. If 1 had Do you baby | rn eye men. know my and | sldn't move. R saved her perhaps she would, nk so, J At home, Rose was thinking of the story of Dave's bravery in the wrecked train, of the lives he had saved, lefonse of her, And to-day in return she had mocked him. Ave, if the look he gave her spoke { truly, she had cut Lim the heart, | Tears—tears in tho eyes of of hus to Bhe | whose | The position of telegraph operator | Red Valley was given to Dave Comstock, The afternoon freight, heavily loaded, | had just pulled clumsily out of the Weeplog Willow station, with Dave on the rear platform of the way car, The 44, having come down on the rear of the freight as second engine, now | stood on the siding, waiting to go back { to Horseshoe for the midnight express, Old Bryan was up In a crowd of meu in front of the postoffice. Brier Rose | watched him snxiowsly, As long ss be | kept away from the Owl she felt oany, He knew she was watching him. He also knew that she would not hesitate to come after him if the Owl proved too strong an attraction, Therelore he kept AWAY. She trod fearlessly along the side of the boiler, rubbing the baod rail with » black oil sodden cloth. Bhe touched the engine as if she loved it, Every part ol it shone like the sun, Every walve worked with precision, Every screw was secure. Joo to see her fling a boro fireman. a shovelful of coal into the furnace like | Jryan's | Drier Rose! at | | *he greatest care in the ralsing of His own machine called his attention from the 44. Then Rose heard him ery out, and, springing down, she rushed into the station, “A runaway engine coming this way!” be said hoarsely. ‘‘Spite work of a dis. sharged engineer. Noone on her——going twenty-five miles an hour—a single track Dave's train only going fifteen —the {4 and that ore car on the only siding between here and Red Valley, My God 1” “Where is it?” cried Brier Rose, ¢1t broke away from Horseshoe Gap. Messacze is from Prairie City, It's alre andy passed Prairie City, headed straight for here. It's bound to catch Dave before his train gets to Red Valley.” Rose turned white to her very lips, covered her face her brown | bands, Only for a moment, though. | Then she flung back her head and looked Joe full { { | | | Bho with ince, himi" in the she cried, \WVO } 3 1 her engine and climbed roared Joe in white face ein tr +) Be at the » tn Rose! y turned her value Dave's li pulled the ‘thr extent “Joe will ‘3 : +A n jaaereq, Dave HDeArer can 8 Ltralr in deflance . braced herself for came the coweatel ti ted rear 16 uD prote ned he throttle within » « and erashed the 4 wn train, ALS reelf Dave ) { fer and calling pene | Ww he n she the Red Valley stati over her, came he w ' im ADE Was In was bend. name wi her ey ing pe and smiled into his face “Oh, Brier Rose, h it?" he whispered with a shudder. “I did it for you, David-for you," = New York Press, - — An Unshorn Sheep. trembling | She w could you do David L. Hadley, a well-to-do farmer living near Clarksville, Clinton County, Ohlo, is the possessor of a seven.year-old wether that is attracting widespread attention in that and adjoining counties. For years Mr. Halley has exercised i sheep, and as an experiment thought to permit | the wool to grow upon one of his flock until it was absolutely necessary to re. | move it. The sheep selected was a three-quarter blooded Saxony and one-fourth Spanish merino, says the Cincinoati Commercial Gazette. For more than seventy three months this sheep lugged his increasing fleece and now he rewaids his owner with an eighteen inch growth, He cannot lle down on his side and get up again, owing to the heaviness of the wool, but manages to rest in a squatting posture, In speaking of his prize, Mr. Hadley says: ‘My opinion is that a fine wooled sheop will never lose ita wool, if kept in Toy ving condition. I have lot them ran two or three years, and never had one to lose any of its wool. 1 have watched this one very closely, and he has not seemed to suffer from the heat any more than thos: that were sheared, and has never been housed one aight in ils life.” | quantity of | suppile | Cl | The walk from yx. Lary SHEEP LICKING EACH OTHER. Usually when sheep bite their own wool it indicates ing irritation of the and tear ome disturb but this hardly likely to cause sheep to tear each other's wool, and yet it may be, mals havea ers want, skin, is for ani way of knowing what oth- may be due to a want of salt. as the perspiration of the skin of always more less salt, the h N abit to give It if salt if d heretof a dose of one h of the | LIQUID MANURE POR Flowers will b if the plants are re me quid t fa Hes « the t der with gravel, rounding. } previously freed several applic longe stead bara to the mportant, it source that the most mud is tracked in to the house, If dry walks are provided the housewife will each year many hours of hard, disagreeable work in cleaning the kitchen floor. American Agriculturist, they will ! much boards may be used Lhe the most as is from thi be saved PREFPARIEG POR THE FALL SEEDING, After the harvest Is over and men and onl wer teams have rested a few days, the stubble and second erop el ground, intended for seeding early this fall, should be turned over, writes F, Sanderson of Baltimore, Md, the The land must be plowed in time so that the stubble may rot, and also that the soll may become settled and firm be fore seeding. All practical furmers have long since come to the conclusion that the early plowed land kept mellow by the free use of the harrow and roller, but firm underneath, ywlds the most most grain and the best quality, In our limestone districts, notably in the Cumberland Valley, the corn land Is mostly drilled to wheat. The corn ripeos early, some years as early as September Sth, It is cut off by contract at $1.95 to $1.50 per acre, and placed in shook, sixteen corn rows making one row of shocks, and these shocks are securely thed, The corn ground fs thorvaghis harrowed and then rolled, The w drill follows the roller, putting In 14 bushels of wheat and 250 pounds of some | exceptional It is possible that this habit | ier | nor can | cows that spoiled by poor and uewise handing. | be root-pruned, standard fertilizer per ucre. This corn ground wheat will produce from twenty to thirty bushels per acre, and in tome ns ns forty bushels per acre has been produced upon CARES much | fields ranging from thirty to fifty acres in extent, But few of us we obts have limestone tin such en Those of ing land of 14 hould commence us hav and have the furrows turned over, In our sec. or | Ai wiy. lat t ry level Ciay LOA —=level, most all the fryer in « Ail LO piowing Ky piow, using three mules or i 8 LO each plow, The tages Lh } ov HAY ove ne ’ " iE : iesilaers green food or o th are supplied. Is such a large it of poor butter is that the cream i lowed to stand too long before it is considerable mving if the Keeper wou 1 re. makes fat does not might be made member that what make eggs. Old stock of any kiad is unprofitable, Every th young poultry should be selected from what Is raised to take place of the old, The farm fowl should be of od table fowl, good layer, con SOASOD Enon the a good size, a stitutionally strong and well adapted to stand the rough usage of the farm. No cow was ever a good dairy cow that was not bora se, but thousands of were bora so have been A thrifty tree that fails to bear should A trench dug about it, aod filled partly with rabbish, will effect important and profitable changes for the better, Root pruning checks growth and develops fruit buds, It is an wld romedy, but not as often resorted 0 as it should be. As the wheat sod other small grain ripens, their sap dries, cutting off the food supply of the chineh bugs, which thereupon often mi to the juley stalks of the earful « This oan be vent y plowing a stiri and the cern, as the chinch bugs are loth to cross land devoid of vegetation. 18 | dealer's i Rabbit. 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