AUTUMN'S MIRTH "Tis all a myth that Autumn grieves, Yor, watch the rain amid the leaves; W.th silver fingers dimly seen It makes each leaf po tambourine, And swings and leaps with elfin mirth To kiss the brow of mother earth, Or, laughing "mid the trembling grass, 1t nods a greetin: as you pass. Oh! hear the rain amid tho leaves "Tis all a myth that Autumn grieves! "Tis all a myth that Autumn grieves, For, list the wind among the sh WMVOs; Far sweeter than the breath of May, Or storied scents of old Cathay, It blends the perfumes race and good Of spicy pine and hickory wood, Ani with a voice as gay as rhyme, It prates of riled mint and thyme, Ob! "Tis all a myth that Autumn grieves| scent the wind among the sheaves. "Tis all a myth that Autumn grieves, Behold the wondrous web she weaves; By viewless hands her thread is spun Of evening vapors shyly woo, 3 the grass from side to side ‘lad unseen shuttles glide ghout the night, till on the height, Aurora leads the laggard light, i the wondrous web sh? weaves a myth that Autumn grieves! ~Samuel Minturn Peck, THE { 4 94 ~ il in the ond year of the Republic. the tice hat Delohine ati ) iphine jm | from Maurice “Keep me in sight,” she courage will fail me if [ do OKIE at me 1 you are it 1# heat t together Appear to slone; for have an { these quite instinetiv crea outside the gate, and then en the woman through the The wide rabble red caps, ing, and surging to and following at a distance revding WHY her i pikes and sabres. arowded with a ignoles, and men blocked the oa the different Re volutionary tribunals, lou lly urging summary pro ceedings and a general massacre, acus- ing the ithorities of Jukewsrmnoss and leniency towards the guilty, Newspaper venders came and went, ory- Ing: ‘dere you have the list of the lucky numbers iu the lottery of the holy guiliotinel Buy the treason of Joseph Lefebvre, former physician of the in- | famous Capet. Buy the account of the dreadful conspiracy of the truitor Le febvre to bring about the massacre of. all good patriots,” Delphine made her way through the crowd. She was going upsatirs when she was brought to a stand by a a man dressed in a carmagnole, a self-appointed sentinel, “Where are you going, citi- zen!" “I am goiog, citizen, to attend the trial of Joseph Lefebvre; I ama wit. ness." He made no objection, and she was moving on when a hideous womin, with a baby in her arms, protested, declaring tha aristocrats ought to be kept away from the tribunals, where they only went to corrupt the judges. She, for instance, that woman, would and show her face, and ‘veep and faint away and turn the heads of all those men inside, Such creatures know perfectly well what they were about, and that was the way justice was cheated and traitors escaped who let people die of statvation. But Delphine hurried on to the room where she heard the clerk of court reading the summons or go of Joseph Lefebvre. Protected “y his dress, Despies fol. lowed her unmolested, Butlthe woman's enflamed vindictive hatred, ides « “Marat Wi lost our best friend. | Since he was killed the | raising heads, Down w.th | aristocrats! Death to the « onspirators | railing had | and on all arose of, ries | has gone. DAV aristocrats are the ' N thelr enemies of the Down the fine ladies!” { To the guillotine wish the Death t FOrCOrCsses, | people! y false witnesses! | with the The indictment ug | byre was read, the inte rrogatory was over -the witnesses were to be heard. Every ut ¢f the outside a inst Joseph Lele one coming y the crowd | account of some incident con it was prove y infamous Docto s waiting Turniog came ITOWS 1 curious tree | as wonderful. is grayish te and red berries grow oa the top, i the al 13 nearly round and jagged «i snd it like a nettle an’ nas a ot at the top. The tree emits a very odor, I'his tree when iike a hornet. A A man who ghtly, roll on the aiter being stung, and maddened these tres ., © hae 4 lisagreeable 1 stings “I have \oucne one THM seen i nary i ME 100% ve of mouthed at every tud had to be tang will rush about biting «New Y — . Some Calendar Oddities, The days of the and week are always the same in March and Novem ber, in April and July, and in Septem. and December; that is, if March “gomes in" on a Monday, No vember will do likewwe, the same rale applying to the other months named abo ve. In leap year January is with April and July, in other years it is with October. Feb. pieces from wrk World, mteousiy ! the afl 1 part. month ber | ruary, in leap vear, is with August, | in other years with March and Novem- ber. The last day of Februar y and the fourth day of July always occur on the same day of the week; the same is true of May Day aud Christmas ,— American Farmer, BANKING UF TREES, In raising the level of ground by filling, the question often arises whether trees which are thus covered to a considerable height around the trunk will be killed or not. The Country Gentleman says | that trees which have green and tender | bark may be killed by banking up the earth around them, if the soil is of such a character as to hold water for | some time wherever it is drenched by rains; but older trees, stiff and dry and thick bark, and with the soil them sufficiently dry allow the water to drain away with vhout i | and p porous Lo | not be injured, Trees whi coarse-furrowed bark drainage better thao th bark, GILT The farmer who and the modern pliances makes the private customers | for. fron irom could Mex up an aba identify its mother by t Some sheep are strony and dislikes, and will good deal of cunning to carry Some are voracious just the oppoiste acteristic inciden ricties is often very distinctly These char ncterist ; point eaters, and others The al withh breeds individual char ! and va marked C4 Aare very interesting to the student, and highly important to cultivator of sheep. American Farmer, THE CREAM GATHERER Croan driver, save He must be i ind fidelity; depends the A most coller important man in a ting creamery 1s the the American Creamery. man of tact, intelligence upon his judgment often success of the business, He must be a neat man, not those animated | patches of groase and filth, but a man who takes pride in keeping his cans bright and his wagon clean, He must have a nose for good cream, be able to tell instantly the presence of taint, and be backed with strict orders to refuse everything **ofl flavor.” Buch a man is | worth good wages and can earn them. | Never trust a boy to gather cream. If | we succeed in getting the cream prop. | erly raised we want it well cared for in transit to the creamery, and not jounced | at breakneck speed over rough roads, Caos are vastly preferable to tanks for | transporting cream. Each ean should | be gradually filled from the ssart, ul. | one of from ben [rs Ar kelly to be though many drivers fill one can at a time, and in hot weather bring three or four cans of half churned cream to be mixed up with the balance 1n the vat. One creamery expert has recommended putting a pound of salt in the bottom of each can when starting out in the morn. ing. After commencing to fill the cans stir the cream until the salt is dissolved -salt is a refrigerine, and cream will Kevp in etter treated, A hot CADS shape if so blanket should be carried in weather aud kept spread over the the heat ther than moisten it often and let TWO-YEAR-OLD EX } { BREEDERS, old ling pullets for Ther two-year | hens are stronger And more | y IY | hens two or gives no profit to its sand and small gravel the pit freczos up -better get it to-day Road dust makes a better dust bath Have you a supply housed not crowd the pigs so that when are fed the weak will be trodden upon by the strong. your and nt pleaty of lard feed rng of you desire moat growth feed other food. It is stated that ina well-bred hog a gain of from ten to eleven pounds can be made from a bushel of corn. Fowls roosting in trees had better be brought down from their hugh position and given a place with those that roost under cover. Do not forget the hens when you are harvesting the cabbage crop. Bury some of the loore headed ones, that you are throwing one side, for their special bene- fit. They will take cure of them, stump snd all, next winter, If you have a goodly stock of fowhs de not make a special effort to feed ail the small potatoes to the hogs. Boiled, mashed and mixed with shorts or oat- meal, they make a most excellent break fast for fowls in winter if fed warm. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Great heat seems to cause melancholia. Flatirons are now city. About one-fourth of tl: sanity are hereditary, heated by electri- cases of in- A German scientist holds that all diamonds come from meteors, A meteorite weiging 500 pounds re cently fell near North Bend, Wis, The temperature of the planet Neptune is estimated zero, At the converge, there ard time, for it is every hour to be 900 de grees below poles, where all meridians [ irl stand- f the day an be no i atl once. i$ the name of the chemical element which has “Masrium"” new een dis. coverad in the bed of an ) tian river, Reviving an old projec company proposes that | nected by telegrag ! f 200 ¢ tervals of Brick made are powder mills, cork now us offer slight resistance and atoms, cc — —— The Story of a Picture yi f Wales, wi to pur $F LE) had placed on 4 f » Princess « pire prohibitory price Prince that as he painted graving, he i but the eC CNETAYInG ROE int t) th chaser auction than £120,000, loo Mr. Graves purchase eral years ago, and monomanic on the subject that Cisive battle. He confined his read exclusively to it, an i be possesse i gular anllection of books that had refer. ence to it,— Boston Transcript - — - Hatching Caterpillars in Pill Boxes, 2 E. B. Boulton, fascinated the Biology Bection of the British Awoclation with the results of his experiments on caters pillers hatching in pill boxes. The pep- per moth was the particular insect which ho experimented on, and his experiments show that if you take an egg of one of these and grow it in a glided pill box you get a golden oaterpiller, Again, if the pill box be black, so is the oater. pillar; while a mixed covironment pro. duced a muddled creature, just as in man the environment of the slum or the palace pretty much determines a person's characteristics, — Scientific American, A Turtle's Sense of Hamor. To suppose that a turtle, as you watch, B crawling over the mud, had any sense of humor ‘n its horny bead seems ab. surd; yet naturalists have recorded their being teen at play, and certainly they can readily be tamed to a remarkable de. gree, Their however, shows out prominently only, in the exhibited when they The huge st apper is a intelligence, de. gree of are in search of food. Lh and suggestive I belie ve, iries surpl cunning lies in wait,” certainly this most phrase turtie | further evidence ol Courier-Journal. ————— s 1,315,600 people Berlin Answered, nu oof Griffith | fu A Correspondent I he fo tory tow CR rnd ago and has two! | Can W Easily, although for long time bef re Hood's Barsaparilla could mot walk step. 1 bad a terri running sore on 1 gr ¥ ti l CEAn taking Rood's Savwaparil fa rs BELL s shou Once used. 1he DR.KILMER'S WAM ¥ R Biliousness, Heads ! wit ros Jal Poor Digestion, Loss of Appetite, At . s are ee » Bite ES At Druggists, 50¢c, Size, £1.00 Size. . . ol ” ‘ ' Kiser & CO. BINGRAN N. ¥. - 41 RR. R. ER. ADWAY’S READY RELIEF, NEVER FAILS TO RELIEVE PAIN. The Cheapest anf Best Medicine for Family Use In the World surpasses a her remedies In the w erful U possesses RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. The ny . 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My wife, after having used Mother's Priend, through the ordeal with little pain, was st in one hour than in a week after the birth of her form~r child, J.J. McGoromox, Beans Sta, Tenn. . of Its terror oft a, ri oe 2 br MR. LT. M. Amen, Cochran, Ga. 1 have the Tat ¢ iA, mn of " Ey Mes Few ale by ol) Draggive,
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