HOLDING THE REINS, L The night was clear, the slaighing good, The cutter seat not wide, Bhe sgpggled close beneath the roby To her fond lover's side. The horse was spirited and jumped With frequent tugs and strains Until she innocently said: “Do let me hold the reins!” IL They're married now, perhaps because She was so helpless then, Bhe loves hima well, and he loves here Well, in the way of men: And yat in all their sweet delight One sad thought makes him wince; Bhe held the reins that winter's night, She's held them ever since. ~Somerville Journal, MRS. DUSENBURY. URLED like a kitten in the depths of Mr. St. Maur's grest easy chair, half Jost among the crimson cushions, sound asleep, and never dreaming * what =a frown was distorting papa’s brows at sight of her. Mr. St. Maur looked the — image of shocked dismay and profound indignation as, coming to the library for a book which | he wanted to show to his friend Dusen- bury, Le found the very young lady for whom they had already waited dinner fully three-quarters of an hour, dozing | comfortably in his study-chair, and not even dressed for dinner yet. It was some moments before he could articulate for amazement, “Upon—my—word, really, upon— | withered old hunks of my-—word,” he managed to say at last, She started up at the sound of his voice, her dimpled checks pink with slumber, her dark fringed eyes bright as newly risen suns, l i in a pretty disorder, “Why, papa, is that y yawning behind rosy-tipped fingers, and lazily dropping her white lids again, as though disinclined to be roused from her nap just ye ‘Miss! and her soft black curls ul” she said, t. it. Maur.” He never called he on very extraordinary occa roused a little at the words. ‘*Are you aware that dinner has been walting f« an he ‘Has it? waited, eyes, Mr face. “is Are you affiance to see yor ““Affianced who!” suddenly sitting uj Maur except | ng, and she r you a full three-quarters of urd very sorry paps,” without opening St. Mau bedient and contumacious girl! Ruby very exclaimed, straight, and utmost pir 4 Dusen bury, the gentlem an I ex- » AWaits you in the par- Reosair at ot tepair at ond your dressing | nd join us io the shor a Lo marry e to Lest possible ur spoke in answerable his sternest, most tones, and left the apartme nt in such a state of indignation that ne forgot the book he came after, and returning for it, found that con | tumacious girl still lingering there. On seeing him, she asked, very coolly: “Papa, who is Mr. Duseabury, any- bow! “Mr. Dusenbury is the man you are to | marry, and that is enough for you. Off with you.” “Presently. I can dress enough for Mr. Dusenbury in ten minutes. It's the same old hunks that disowned his son because he couldn't make just such a | dusty old skeleton of him as he is hum. self. Isn't it, papal” Papa's brows lowered ominously, “Miss St, Maur, I desire you to repair instantly to your dressing room. Do you hear?" “All ae, papa.” She kissed her fingers to him, balance ing herselt archly on the threshold of the door, and still lingering in roguish deflance. “Do you know what color the old parchment bundle in there particulaly abominates?” “You'd be sure to wear it, eh!" Mr. Bt. Maur said, boiling over with wrath, *‘I desire that you sttire yourself with | your usual care. I'll put you on a diet of bread and water, miss; sec if I don't. Dinner has been walting aa hour, [ tell you, and I'm literally in a starving con. dition.” She danced back into the room. “Dear papa, let me bring you a lunch while you're waiting.” He lifted his cane in mock threaten. Ing. “Or with you, witch! Will you got" Bhe laughed, made a great aflectation of dodging the uplifted cane, and van. ished, Ten minutes after, true to her boast, she dashed into the parlor, a gorgeous | enough little beauty to have turned hall 8 dozen such heads as that of the anti. | quated specimen of the genus homo who sat conversing with Mr. St. Maur, and taking monstrous pinches of suull beo- tween the words, That must have been the reason they called her Ruby: she wes such a gorge. ous little creature in herself; all sparkle | and flash, and with an alwost betbaric | fondness for rich and glowing colors, which, however, seemed only the fitting sotting for her peculiar style of beauty, Her dress now was a claret-colored satin, clasped at throat and wrist with orna- ments of white topaz, agd her curls were looped back from bee face with a gold dart set with the saroe stones, Dinner was served ut once, both gentle. men seeming in & famishing condition, and Ruby presiding in such a manner as to call forth most epproving glevces ~ from her proud and gratif Wd papa. As for papas dear frend, Mr. Dusea- | me he | i but | yesterday, [or | mirati | utterance, ! sounded wonderfully like his own name { slipping an arm under the little curl. | eyes in profound astonishment, he Kissed | them shat again, murmuring: | kisses, but she couldn { know i ! much mouey, and I'm all the girl he's | got, aud I don’t know how you can have | the sudacity to tell me that, under the | he { estly, as [ have. | what you sald In your sleep just now.” i made a movement to withdraw his arm, | mock, said, ball sasucily, hall in earnest: | You see, Hunt, you were so long in com. { you ate making fun of me.” bury, he divided his attentions between the dinner and Miss St. Maur, and was evidently as much bewitched as it was possible for him to be. ‘Capital, capital | matters couldn't have gone off better, after all,” Mr. Bt. Maur murmured to himself, after his friend had gone, walking the parlors and rubbing his hands together in great glee. ‘“‘Dusenbury’'s a gone case, that's evi- dent. Ruby, my dear, you behaved like an angel.” “Idd I, papat” that young lady re plied, demurely, glancing at him from under her jetty lashes, while the least bit of a smile twitched threateningly at the dimpled corners of her rosy mouth, “I'm glad to see you haven't got any school-girlish notions in your head, Ruby. I was not without fear that you intended to be perverse in this matter, It's a splendid match, child, splendid. Dusenbury’s very rich-—most thriving firm, really, in the city—and we're think- ing, child, of consolidating our two houses—*S8t. Maur, Dusenbury & Co." do a magnificent business then, perfectly magnificent. 1 was afraid Dusenbury would bolt from the scheme. But he won't now, if this matter goes on as it's begun. Why, Ruby, you'll the proudest woman alive when you're Mrs, Dusenbury.” ‘I dare say I shall, papa; but what's become of the old cormorant’s sont” *‘Mr. Dusenbury’s scn was a bad fel- low, I'm afraid, and he's well rid of him." “I don't believe he was bad a bit, His father just wanted to make a bim like himself, and because he couldn't do it he disowned him,” Ruby exclaimed, with irate em- phasis and a rosy pout. *‘I know thing: If I ever get the power Hunt | Dusenbury’s father shall do him justice.” Mr. Maur stared in a speechless astonishment from which he did not re after Ruby had given him her 3 and swept be now, one St. cover till good-night kis like an indig- » queen from the r a strange child she is ig h muttered the »Oom. really, ol. was a yew hat arious little body. was | ing herself away among | and dreaming sometimes She 00 uxt very fond of oa curl silken cushions Was waking upied Ww iD Asleep among ' asl eer aie Ps iV taikatly wasn't yurmured, m ¢ mj isn't papa’s mone and why he ca: I spi w as! OAL 's way to tell ved me short order, very “Mr. Dusenbury,” announced the ser- at at the door; and, not t Ruby sat still, and pretend i. Dusenbury, he must seeming +t ¢ very sound asieep inde were Mr. t the fountain th sine | this gent than twenty-five, and he | more have been carried hima of Apoll de As the docr closed behind him : own Se If with the handsome grace he ad. | parlor, not see- he came be. | ad. | vanced slowly ing the sleeping side her, and pausing a before so charming a picture. an admirably counterfeited the jetty lashes untrembiingly prone velvetry cheeks, breath coming at regular through the rosebud mouth, ten in rapt It was slumber the intervals It wasn't tha the up na i . | much wonder that Mr. Hunt Dusenbury | canght his breath, and murmured ; “I wish I dare The slightly, lips of the and he fair sleeper moved bending to catch a faint heard something that with a caressingly expressive prefix Mr. Hunt Dusenbury rather doubted the evidence of his own but he acted quite as though he didn't, for, r cara, dressed head, he drew it to his shoulder, and when Ruby opened her wide, bright “Oh, Ruby, Ruby, my darling, I love * youl” She flushed his ! resist the temp 80 she said, like a rose under + tantalizing Le By papa has got ever and ever so circumstances,” Hunt looked perplexed a minute, hut the mischievous sparkle of them caught Ruby's roguish eyos, and sealed agaie with his lips, “(Confess now,” ke whispered, laugh. ing; *‘be good, Ruby, and own up hon If you don't, I'll tell “Oh, I wasn't asleep, Hunt, I only pretended to be.” “Youedid?” Huat looked horrified ineredality, and and put the little head back upon the cushion, muttering something that sounded like, ‘The young couquette!” but Ruby, stealing an arm around his “Don't scold, now, and I'll confess, ing to the point, and--and-somebody else came & wooing Ines night," ‘Somebody elsel” Ruby Inugbed, “1 sha'n’t tell you wha; a rogular old money bags, though, from whose clutches 1 wanted you to rescue me." “Ruby, I wish I ever could tell when Tos otlius Ditsnbin came siuln vary 500n-~ "Money bags, onlied hime and did rg nd for more be witchingly than ever. How entertaining she was and how delighted Papa St. Maw was, And then, in a few days, Moneybags came again, and this time he brought Miss St. Maur the most magnificent present with him-—a set of rubies that made her pretty eyes sparkle with de- lightful vivacity. “These,” ho said, significantly, ¢‘are for the future Mrs, Dusenbury.” “Oh!” Ruby said, innoceatly, ¢I thought they were for ma." “Do you like them?” ¢] never saw anything half so besutl- ful,” “I'd give you them, and a great deal more besides, if you'd promise to be Mrs. Dusenbury.” Ruby played with the sparkling stones, and looked persistently at her slipper at least two minutes. Then, lifting to her aged suitor a pair of eyes, whose radi. ance dazzled him so that he didn't know whether he was in his counting room, snd somebody had thrown a through the window, or a thunder storm had up, playing fitfully around his wrinkled old brick come and the lightning was face, “If I'm going to be sweetly, “it must more than a ruby necklace.” “Anything in the world, sweet girl, to the half of all I possess.” “You are not in earnest, Mr. bury, You gentlemen are a great deal fonder of making promises th ' Ruby heihad # of . bribed,” she said, be with something Dusen. of course not. than you are of keeping said, archly. “Never was so much in earnest in my get me pen and paper aod I'll show an, life: | all right. | enough.” | shook | grumbled something | ter so, and, turning to Hunt, you." Taking him at his word, and tantaliz. ing him with roguishly expressed doubt, Ruby danced away and brought him the req iired articles, He dud not expect to be taken so at his word; but humoring her whim, as he called it, Moneybags drew up, in regular business form, a paper in which he « gated himself to bes Miss Ruby St. Maur the half we possessed the d y sue bestow all | erwo | i flowers in her hat hand confi of Mr. Hunt Really, upon £t. Maur. “You won't | Ruby sad wed arm or he Lhe | to Moneybag } ible aside N Hunt?” Moneybags lo live branch Ruby bout half a wine “Humph,” he you're married 1” “Oh, yes,” Ruby said, placidly, +t’ I'm Mrs. Dusenbury growled, “Il suppose Mouneybags tried to look Platon | grimness, and frowaed till his gray eye- brows bristled. But it wouldat do. The hamor of the thing was too ap- parent, Besides, he was glad of an ex- cuse to welcome back that young hope- {ul of his. So, melting suddenly, Ruby's small hand cordially, about its being bet. “Gilad to you, my boy, and if you'll young sunbeam you've caught sparkle at the head of my table at home, you may sit at the foot of it, and you may study law all the days of your life for aught I care.” Mr. St. Maur could but follow Money- bags’ example, and they all went out tw linner, still waited, as gay » party often see. New York he see let this which As you News, I. A Speaking Walch. It is said a watchmaker of Geneva, Switzerland, named Casimir Livau has just completed a watch which, instead of striking the hours and quarters, an. nounces them by speaking like the phone ograph. The mechanism of the watch is based ov phonographic conditions, the bottom of the case containing a phono. graphic sensitive plate which has re. ceived the impression of the human voice | | shape for days, oftentimes holding water, | | the necessity for drainage of some kind before being inserted in the watch, The disk has forty-eight concentric grooves, of which twelve repeat the hours, twelve those of the quarters, and twelve more those of the hours and second and third quarters, If the hand on the dial shows the time to be 12:15 o'clock, one of the fine needle points of the mechanism crosses the corresponding groove and the disk, which turns simultaneously, calls out the time, just as the phonographic cylinder, The lower lid of the case 1 provided with a tiny mouthpiece, and when the watch is held to the ear the sound is all the more plain.—Jewelers' Circular. II — A Valuable Vielin. It is seldom that amateur violinists have such » valuable mstrament as G, W. Hope. His violin was made in 1715, o the famous Wenger, a pupil of Nicholas Amati, and for richness of tone it almost equals a genuine Cremona, The following distinguished protession- sls have Piaget on Mr. Hope's violin and praised itt Ole Bull, Ovide Musin, Re. menyi, Herr Johannes Wolff and Maude The bow the amateur uses was your dairy, | taint everything he touches, | decrease the value | product, i an absolute hours and | | conditions, wherever the lay of the land CLEANLINESS IN THE DAIRY. Never permit a filthy person around His slovenly habits will Tainted products are always inferior, no matter | how much care and skill has been exer- | cised in their manufacture, | Or she 5 While he piace you wilfully of your labor and Cleanliness at every stage is dairying. It is sald against th nly people the unl, if greater about the necessity in about ot §ONS, Ameri can Dairyman, A WINNING COMBINATION. Jees, chickens, and small The y ns 8 winning combination. with each other as little ¥ ia possible, al. some the « unless fenced But the chickens can the bees the « do likewise. ’ thoug eat of may fruit, and hickens out, Bees and chickens get the former occu pying + heights, while the latter feed upon the ground, White clover agrees with both. From it . whitest hone yoft be fenced out, amicable, the bees sip the he year, the chickens find in it luction all ted that you can, try this con n and see whether or not it is a profit American Agriculturist NAMING THE J New } ARM, Bays the Rural rm, air wo Common salt is iettructive to in this reason, if for n« animals should always be provided with all their appe nature s ntestinal nd for lomesticated other, tiles may crave. in regions where sit are very likely ) be infested with tapeworms, and their flesh is unfit for human food on this ac count. The green scum recn on the sur face of the water of stagnant pools or ponds is composed of nu aquatic plants, and when these die and decay they emit the strong odor to which you refer. The best way to a poois—if they cannot utilize them for geese or duck ponds, Water fowl will agitate and force air into the water and soon purify it, S Sheep they are deprived of ’ | € iinute sweeten such be drained—-1s to ld | wild or cultivated rice about the border if your pond and Jet water fowl! gather the crop.~New York Sun, FARM DRAINAGE, Where water after rains stands for a long time in the furrows and slight de pressions in the ground, and on lands where the shoes of the farmer, except in periods of drought, are habitually clogged with sticky mud, and the hoofs of animals as they sink into the yielding soil make cavities that maintain their is too clearly indicated to admit of any doubt, will permit, open surface drainage is often resorted to at first, While such drains are useful in some cases in the matter of a permanent im- provement of the soil they amount to but little and are liable to be the cause of impoverishment in the soil itself by carrying off fertilizing matter into the gullies and streams. Where the surplus rain that falls upon the ground can be led off from the surface in the same clear state in which it descended from the clouds, the soil receives no injury from its escape, but it is only under occasional peculiar conditions that this will occur, This is so well understood by most cultivators that other methods have come into use. One, formerly more common that at t, was to throw the wet land into high and wide ridges in the fall and leave it in that condition until spring. When cultivation is about to these ridges are further widened and flattened out, affording a series of rather wide spaces, much fitted for cultivation, but with very undesisable fruits make interlere | For changing such unfavorable | ditches between them, often holding stagnant water throughout the entire scason. While such a practice will not | draw fertility away from the soil, it con- | igus a considerable portion of it to non- | usage and is otherwise object | many respects The only real and practical method of | improving wet farm lands by which their ionable in | condition the better is by the use of underground | drains for which t and it material, Where | placed at proper depths, say’from three to four feet, and these at suitable | apart, varying grestly according to the | mpactness of the soil to be drained, | | | [| with a s ana surface water may contain will strained out within reach of the roots of lescent towards the drains, the upper line sinks below the and the 1} this form drainage is realized by the soil above favoral in and York HAT . I s in its « | I irthermore, of ground water level of the drai: 5, wenefit ol of changed 1 earlier - Ne w { them its general ¢ better fitted World, becoming ly THOD OF KILLING to have a crowd An Age Gage, A Tennessee inventor has patented a gage for determining the age of horses, The device consists of u stee! plate, hav- ing a tapered body portion, one of its longtitudinal edges being marked by lines and figures. By applying the scale to the teeth of a horse, its approximate age is said to be determined, — American Farmer, ——— - An Expert's Opinion, foubtiess notice by relative valu A carefu leaves no dou nl Bak Our numerou readers have discussions the scientists the various baking powders, of the superiority of the Roy hygienists as to evidence ¥ fi is permanently changed for | light fall towards their out. | cts, whatever elements of fertility the | be | noas, | purity, wholesomeness and str a scientific standpoin An that will have YET pert ence with our pra al housek i r given by Marion Harland, the writer tile is the most common | i are | distances | the best far asl bave any « the Mississi IWEer pp than 1d dress a few | why a farmer ot make use of ! two nished boler, legrees C with hot This vat ng table, led on to a bar ersed in the hot This barrel table may be made in various ways, It may of wtened at each end, mins, by strong sta- pliable, and the hog e dress so the | table water the CATCRSS InAY re ’ : fy un consist slats, | and the middie to « ples, so that it may be embraced by out’of the water ! lied, Or one is two short rope han- 1to a pulley block on & Dar As the carcass is dressed it is lifted by a hook at the end of a swivel lever mounted on a post and swung sround to hanging bar, pilsced coavenietly, This bar has sliding ceive the cks which have a hook permamently attached to each so that the carcass is quickly removed from the swivel lever t bar. The upper rounded help the hooks to slide on it. This serves to hang all the pigs on the bar untilthey the fi 14] ’ gambrel » the edge of the bar slide hook on the ! is | and smoothed and greased to | Mrs. Ogden Snyder ‘“1 Owe May Life to Hood's Sarsaparilla™’ Lowe my life. Twelve swellings of the limbs, Caused by a Tumor . freguent hemorrhages, life was neaviy over, M &W oy t 1 kept po | Began to Feel Hungry For the past two yea Hood's: to do 1 ) wwork for fay r a ; Cures : WM jes DEX SxYyDER, MN t v 5. } th Hood's Pills are shat digestion ure heads it and easily turned | hooks, made to re | with Paster, Foamels and Paints which sta banda, injure the iron and burs red The Rising San Stove Polish is Breil Ioge. Drgrable, apd the consumer or glam package with every pu ant ys for no us bow are cooled, 1f four persons are employed, | this work may go on very | they may divide the work between them, | and one pig be scalding and cleaning | while anotaer is being dressed. The en- trals dropped into a wheel. barrow, as taken from the snimal, Where ten or twelve pigs are dressed every year it will pay to have a suitable | building arranged for it. An excellent place may be made in the driveway be. tween a double cornerib, or in a wagon shed or an annex to the barn where the | feeding pen is placed. The building | should have a stationary boiler ia it, and such apparatus as Las been suggested, | and a windlass used to do the lifting, — American Agriculturalist, — PARM AND GARDEN NOTES, The way to spoil a hog is to overfeed him with corn. | Cook the small potatoes and feed them | to the poultry. | Allow at least one fool square to each | fowl on the roosts. The way to spoil a cow is to pound her with the milking stool, T. H. Hoskins says that all the Rus. sian apples do finely in Vermont. Jontentment, rest and plenty of proper food are the best aids in fattening fowls, The way to spoil a driving horse is to cut him with the whip when he doesnot | expeet it, | When itis an item to have the ogi hatch use a rooster that is not too fai or too heavy. A should be they are good work can be done in, down the lice in the house care is taken to w the inside reguincly every woul or six weeks, 1 — quickly, as | Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore Throat. Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantes. $f used by Wives about toex ence the painful ordeal attendant npou Ohi . proves an infallible speci. fe for.and ol tee the tortures of con pot child. Sold by ali a Beuihy x on receipt of price, $1.50 per bottle, charges pre paid. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATianTa Ga TO YOUNC MEN. 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