YHE CHILDHOOD OF THE HEART, Oh, the rosy days of childhood, How blissiully they sped, When not a charm had vanished, And not a woader fled! The year was full of promise then, The tongue was full of praise-— But [ think the cup is sweeter now Than in the childish days, Oh, Of ignorance and ease! The lightest touch could quicken, And the lgast pleasure please; Yet the upward paths are dearer, With all the thorns they bear, Than a garden of a hundred flowers When Iznorance isthere! Oh, thevweating heart of childhood That little heart of show, That doubt has never entered, Nor sorrow has brought low! Trust me, not all the rapture Its eager life can span Can shadow forth tha perfect That warms the breast ~Dora Read Goodale, in Harper's Weekly. ———I I —— A DOMESTIC RE VOLU TION, UKE neither the laughing world of childhood, love man. of better nor worse than the gen- eral ran of mortals, and Mrs. Sarah Mar pod, his wns, as the world ¢ very fair sample of a woman. Luke Mar pod ‘A a arpo { was a fa wife, RCECS, & rmer's wife: ticated shielded then materially Luke OA/ArTOwW 1 was si farmers time t¢ w Through April, May aad June poured 1 ive the down incessantly, « ity, until at last all hopes loned and the Marpods er their second year of infelicity, who to troubles were tered s t) th began think cause of all his lay in his riage, was rash end day hint the same, and received a retort from his spouse that roused his latent dignity of marital lordship. Words ex changed, and the result of their first pro nounced disagree by Luke's slam the door behind him, «od go ing hastily across the lot after the « That niglit he whipped the dog for let. ting the brindle heifer escape through the bars into the cornfield, had trouble with the same member of the bovine genius at milking time, and rose wrath. fully to his feet niter extricating the cow's hoo! from the milk pail, to swear an unmistakable oath for the first time in his Life. Then he beat the animal and made such a hubbub that Sarah came io hot hatte to remonstrate on his brutality, “Shut up; mind your business, will youl” shouted Luke, as he hurled the milking stool after the cow and chased ber around the yard. The same evening Mra. Marpyd, con. doling over tim loss of milk, gave vent to her indignation at ber other hall's ' carclessness, and the quarrel was reg. mewed with vigor, These first storm clouds in the do- mostic atmosphere soon cleared away, but each had discovered the other's lick of infallibility, aad secordingly, while Luke lost a little of manly pride, Sarah lost also in gentleness of disposition, For more thau a month all went well, but aggravating things will bappeu, o- mar ugh one to were nent ended JWS. MARPOD was | farmer, | pecially during harvest time when reapers and mowers are constantly got- ting out of repair. Luke one day went to cut wheat in a fleld from which every stone and stump bad beon carefully «radicated. The sky was lowering and he wished to finish before a storm. Around and around the field went the horse, faster and faster fell the grain be- fore the sickle. Luke's warming with hope, when suddenly, smash--chunk—chunk went the ma- chine and the horses were jerked vio- lently back upon their haunches. The big cast iron hurled Luke clear across the sickle-bar into the grain. Scrambling to his feet he found that a sad accident had happened. A large stone had been lifted to the surface of the ground and left for removal, He had forgotten all about it, and hence a serious loss of time right in the busy season. It took seversl days to obtain repairs, and in the meantime the rain levelling the wheat tothe great damage. Luke came glo ay, and Sarah could speaking regretfully of the loss and's forgetfulness had incurred. Everything was propitious for a quarrel and the quarrel came. Mutual recriminations became frequent and seldom aid a day pass without unlovable two Marpods The to comments, occasion with blood was SCAY came ground be not help her hus on apace, and causin ‘tween the yegan | BCenes bi igh make to condole | Gossips {OOK lady, un sCQ Marpod respecting the and, ndly, the rash ind of prior to his y have been Mrs. reason. ableness of her spouse og he r take their sympathy Kir grew id | | J to Lad been Futity inge, acts whicl ed Ic mg before s 50 extremel { enough betray all | Luke tht t r had ty. Luke : Sarah 2 both wish vere n before a court, they Ho bbes should draw ssary papers and arbitrate By bide. ween them, 1 that Mr. nee AS this So, ession of they were willing to a a on the seat be irove to town. nts they told stood. Mr. gentieman, with had never been : to shame by a single mean act 1a all was as tender as a child's, tried to remonstrate, Luke and Sarah were faltering HOW matlers benignant lo sad and Mr. Hob HODES, 1» ace Ne ng, white locks that and whos heart but both that the sure old ! lile would be revived and that it would be better to separate kindly; and in this they stood firm; M:. Hobbes, much { troubled, entered upon the business, | Little Flora listened with open-eyed | wonder throughout the discussion. At last she seemed to comprehend, and the tears coming to her eyes, she toddled | to her father, and grasping his coat in her tiny bands, hsped plaiotively: ‘0 I want to stay wiv oo, papa,” and then turning, she ran, and burying her face | in het mother’s lap she sobbed out: +I luv 00 and want to stay wiv 00," Mrs, Marpod's eyes swam with tears, Luke's lips worked coovulsively, aad | Lawyer Hobbes brushed something from | Lis eyes, Raising her head, she laid her face against her mother’s cheek and mur. mured © *[ luy oot bof, I waut to liv wiv 00 bof," The long silence that followed was broken suddenly by Lawyer Hobbes, 80 | off “The little girl is right!” he cried, em- phatically. *‘She ought to live with both. Luke, confound your pate, you've got a good wife to be proud of; and you, Mrs. Marpod, have a husband to be proud of; and by gosh,” cried Mr, Hobbes, becoming red in the face and striking dhe desk a heavy blow with his fist, “I'll have nothing more to do with it. I tied the knot when I was magis- trate, and it looks though you had last confidence in me.” Flora ran to him, and smiling eagerly through her tears, “Yos, yes; I want 'em bol." That settled it, for feet, and taking Barah’s ha mured: “I'll low that it's fault, and if you'll forgive get mad again,” Mrs. Marpod, that it was she who had but Lawyer Hobbes sent them home as lovingly Flora, hands has a slight remo nt mentioned, but rec us were we to tell | trouble was, - Chicago ns cried out: Luke rose to his nd in his mur- been all my me I'll never protested to blame, both and as possibla, young of the tenor of it would not IW Berit on her part, been scol le i who 1s now a nme norance ove just the she does not Hicet, she ern great has News. believe us been the that 80 revoiution. i I RE— A Rac» With a Waterspont, The British Rouse, from Caibarein, off Gloucester, N. des Ler thrilling steamship Amur, Captain dropped anchor on a recent night retold had and outward ap p arances f with southern steamer wre 3 ahi W ben the stream, the aestruce CX| slementa. on of the { ¢ iron were genie theast Saw, Antiquity of the ious kinds of In this m sand anner it 8 the ancl abe of : onse i sent! lapted to the highest polis orphyry, American lapis-lazali Lh vel, I — - Danger in Feather Spring Rifles, entific ies are in great fear that in use in the Army authorit the new magazine British army will death of many soldiers, so lightly that a man, may in the death spasm rifles now be the because it goes after being shot, pull the | trigger and shoot some of his comredes, or that even the moving of the body may discharge the weapon, It 1s therefore ordered that two men shall be detained | from each company to follow the line in ac. tion, and when a man falls to immediately remove the magazine from his rifle and carry it away. The opponents to the use of the uew riflc say that this looks to them to be a very clumsy arrangement sud one Nkely to counterbalance the ra. pidity of firing gained by the use of these feather spring weapons, ~= New York IP’ revs. The Duration of a Dream, Those learned and scientific gentlemen who have gone into the subject declare the longest dreams hardly last a few minutes. The following instance lends support to their views: One evening | Vietor Hugo was dictating letters to his secretary. Overcome by fatigue the great man dropped into a slumber. A few moments afterward be awoke, haunted by a dream, which, ms he thought, extended over several hours, and he blamed his secretary for sitting there waiting for him instead of waken. ing him or else going away, What was hia surprise when the bewildered ge told him that he had ool finshed writing the last sentence Wome to him, cause of the DIVIDIRG THE OLD FARM, It is the rule when a man has put a good deal of work into anything, he is pretty sure to develop an affection for it. The acres an farmer h i toiled to bring to high productiveness are ns the apple of his eye " Gover than family ties, daughters home, 1 When sons and for the come to an times ou! noe of ten gh leaving ne part of t old More not wh ner reserves for hisown in more profit than the d do if cultivated with help of children who have he ped him perl several they attain their maj generally real arm, often than u will give |} whoie th wou ut years belore rity, more than he izes, — Boston Caltivator, FARM }§ A young coup farm that will k They of NOUGH COWS. share dustry paying youn are kept freq The rest with a common cultivator nthe cross r ducing the hand skeos much of the crop The 1 may only a small plot hand seed dri the seed at the same time plantation is made, For the yield the crop needs liberal feeding, either with manure plowed in ‘n the fall, which is the best time, or with fertilizer spring, just before the planting. New York Times, one WE, hoe wise mo by hand when tivated, or by a rops and covers Rig when a larger eat in the CHANGE IN DAIRY METHOD Of late years the whole practice of dairying has changed. It used to be that cows were pastured through the summer, and the butter was packed away for sale late in the fall or in th winter, Then the bugers went around andgbought up the stock made in the summer, The cows were dry by the first snowfall and were merely kept alive through the winter and turned out on the fresh grass in the spring. There are many farmers who got so deep in this old rut that they could not see out of it and notice that they were left behind, and were going on alone, and quite out of sight of their wide awake neighbors. And they are still plodding slong in the same seclusion, But others on the look- out for improvements changed their method and mavagement, and are mak. ing their cows work and make profit overy day in the year that is possible, and for the time they must rest this ix chosen when it costs the least for feed. ing. Thus winter dairying is the basis of the new practice, and by high feed. Ing at this somson and most improved methods, butter is made for sale fresh sometimes it would seem even | wisest | thing a farmer can do is to deed them a | from the dairy, or is packed for sale in | the summer, when the cows rest the least cost, at bet. can Butter may be made | ter and more cheaply in the winter than | in the summer by the use of the modern | apparatus, and it is far easier to keep the milk warm by fire at this season than it is to keep it cold in the summer by | the And thus winter ing will be the rule, and idge to fieht off the lisagreeable of the use of ice, dairy - milk} in i all the weather flies mention f the igno - of the summer I eff REASON, he § ect on | the in the average 3 left for th ndure, — An eX posure heat, will be rant Daryn ierican dairyman pecn ex. and and feed. varieties ltd some eral value ato give th value, to the tage of underiax Professor W experiment that it duce 100 po and £3.03 to sec about the When th cubator. a good plan 5 to separate the from the for a week and then tarn them together, and then begin the a few days, While the farm affords plenty of range grass for the fowls, feed and care are ring the winter, P rits s shown by to pro mas lambs, the game ire kame pigs ol Re. ¢ egus are wanted for the in. hens roosters saving eggs io nd an abundance of yet with this good NOCOSSATY, il the best results are secured. espeg inlly du Overfed hens are liable to disease, and when leg weakness, egg-bound, soft or extra large eggs are laid, or poor batches occur, they may be directly traced to overfeeding of the hens, Some of the winter flowering salvias are very showy. 8. lnvolucrata is one of the best; it bas long spikes of pink flowers, and it lasts in bloom three months, says a correspondent in Garden. ing. On the farm, at least, it is often pos. sible to keep a small flock with very lit. tle expouse, as they will be able to pick up the greater part of their feed, while if a larger number were kept more feed. | ing would be necessary. ‘Ihe main reason why shallow cultiva. | thon succeeds so well with the onion is according to A. A. Crozier, because the roots grow best in a compact soil, and the explanation which attributes the general practice of cultivation to the supjomd shallow rooting habit of the plant is erroneous, gain with | The New York Soe ety Fithical Culture, of which Professor Felix Adler is President, nroposes to a hall for itself to cont B100,000, of which about §100,000 is already obtained, I French influence is practically end in Pars THE GRIP [aft n for build health near vr gone, 1 had ne str tired all time, bad dim roaring the felt Lead ASO Tumal we and severe sinleing pains in my Having | about Hood's # In, 1 oo All ’ 3 ’ 14 ol ' ’ Pr y . *id ‘ Pa § ‘ am oe fromm pains HOOD’S CURES Geo, \ { ; # HOOD'S PILLS rer i ETHE KIND ® THAT CURESH ® - # 3 HELPLESS AND SUFFERING, XT AND WEAK FROMm IEUMATIC TORMENT, DANA’ S. es vesrs at Sy | gre at sufferer vit Hheumatiom, we #1 ¢ i stir uy aren mrt pain rr 50 bed hat pr Singers vie drawn out o Balm affited with & burning aa naution ’ 2» pains v ¢ faint and w cak, i cou wr = DANA'S @ SARSAPARILLA J omach ie WELL, ® FAI RH AX i" r i MA — ¥ ere | he a a JET ne pain in omy groves EGGLESTON whicrve feet FClny ton, the trae, a Co., Belfast, Maine - RADWAY S PILLS, LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION, DIZZY FEELINGS, BILIOUSNESS, TORPID LIVER, DYSPEPSIA. 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