BEHIND THE HILI | My boy was young; he could not know {The way earth's wayward currents flow, And so, in early shallows bound, | His mis-manned shallop ran aground. {He grow ashamed of his disgrace, {He could not look me in the face, “For, mother, every man,” said he, *‘Has scorn, and only scorn, for me; I must go forth with alien men And grapple with the world again, I cannot stay and face the truth Among the paople of my youth, Where men are strange and scenes are new Bg There may be work for me to do. And, when I have redeemed the past, I will come back to you at last.” And so watched while my boy, Will, Went down behind the hill, He climbed the hill at early morn Beneath whose shadow he was born, He stood upon its highest place The sunrise shining on his face, He stood there, but too far away For me to see his tears that day; My thoughts, my fears I cannot tell When he waved back his sad farewell, And then passed on, and my boy, Will, Went down behind the hill, Went down the hill; henceforth for me One picture in my memory Crowds every other from its place A boy with sunrise on his face; His sunrise-lighted face I sco— The sunset of all joy to me, For when he turned him from my sight The morning mixed itself with night, Aud darkness came, when my boy, Will, Went down behind the hill, The world is wide, and he has gone Into its vastness, on an I know not what besets his path, What hours of gloom, what days of wrath, What terrors menace him afar, What nights of storm without a star, What mountains loom above his way, What oceans toss him night and day, What fever blasts from desert san Is, What death-cold winds from frozen lan 1s, What shafts of sleet or sun may blight My homeless wanderer in h cht; 1 only know the w And he can roam by "Tis wide, ah But narrower than his nn A joyless heart sin Went dos wid is wid land and mn in avery pa I know he bravely fiz Bat, ah, the hour I watch the hill by day and n It dimly looms before my sight. And fast the twil The night ght shadows fall; is glooming over all: But in my boy a faith is given As saints of old had faith in heaven: I know that he will come again, His praise on all the lips of men, He wijll come back to mo at last With deeds that shall releem the past, Nor desert plain, nor mountain steep, Nor storm nor thunder on the deop, Nor tempest in the East or West, Shall bold him from his m And, though the world dumh, 1 feel, 1 know, ths And 1 am waiting for him And watch the summit Bometimes I think I And wave a wel But "tis a Of sunset—and my ev "Tis but a mist That thicken with the growing years, I watch while there is! And dream that he will And though "tis dark within, wi breast, blind and ther's grows ud uy mad YY the ight to see I will not shame him by a doubt; The all-enfol ar, But he will come~I will not fear— But, ah, tis long since my boy, Will, Went down behind the hill Yankee Blade. it draws n ling nig Sam Walter Foss, in A WESTERN MAN. BY 0H. L. WISLON. T was as clear a case of abduction as you ever heard of; if it be brought before the courts the fellow would be con victed in no time at all We were at the Blue Springs Hotel up in the Adiron. dacks, just a nice crowd of us: old could Hunnistand, his wife and other pice families and some of us men It bad come to be pretty well understood that Charlie Fitzpatrick stood the best chance of carrying off the prize. When I tell you that old Hunnistan was re- ferred to in *‘Bradstreet’s” as “Hunnistan, Ralph —Broker-Aa" and that his daughter was a beauty, you will doubtiess surmise the ideatity of the prize. Bhe was a fine girl, weighed about a hundred and forty, with reddish blond hair, genuine color, and these yel- lowish blond eyes that you don't see every day. Her complexion was mostly pinkish, She stepped off like a Ken- tucky thoroughbred, and had all the spirit cf one, too. For one thing, though, she was too light minded and frivolous—never took things seriously that you sald to her. I would have pro. posed to her myself, only whenever I tried to lead up to it and get her into a properly earnest state of mind, she always guyed me so that I couldn't get it out—it would have fallen flat. She wouldn't give me credit tor being In dead earnest; when I talked about hearts being eaten out under a smiling exterior, she laughed in a very rude and undigni- fied way==not a giggle, but a regular out and out shaky laugh, Charley bad better success with her than I. She didn’t laugh so much with him, and was more dignified, He is a serious fellow, and she always respected his moods, and asked him questions on his favorite topics, to draw him out and sympathize with him, Charley is five years older than I am. He's been around a lot more, aod seen the world Jo deep, I can tell you. He says society is & hollow and only empty. headed take to it; that for a man of any it's # great bore, and for his part daughter, a few | he's through with it. He used to talk to Miss Hunnistan that way for an hour at a time, and she always agreed with him. She left him abruptly sometimes; Charley smd it was because she didn't care to have him see how he impressed her. He used to confess to her what a dissipated fellow he had been and how he had seen the folly of if, though, and was no longer dazzied by any material pleasure. Well, by the most delicate indirection, Charley bad given Miss Hunnistan to un- derstand that her fortune was the only thing that stood between them; that he was proud-spirited and afraid his motives might be misconstrued, He had got along to where his love should soon mas. ter all his sensitive apprehension, and break forth in spite of the girl’s money. That was the way he bad it mapped out. One evening, along the first of Aug- ust, a lot of us were sitting around waiting to see who came up on the stage. Old Hunnistan had told us that he was expecting a Western man up to see him, almost any day, a real estate agent that he had bought some property of out in 8t. Paul or Salt Lake or around there. When the stage came around the bend, we saw a man sitting up in front and talking very chummy with the driver. Old Huuounistan said: *“That's Grimshaw.” He leaped down with the old man as if he bad long lost brother, or something that, and hurried inside with him with- rest of us. He wasa overgrown, lumbering sort of , and took fright he walked. His loose and flapped all around hands and shcok been 0 out noticing the big, man, Coarse looking fully long steps when | ) } i th Ww Cr | y sitting Grimsh IATC her looking her sq i 1g hands with most vulgar, hear wasn't y way imagina exactly irritating, always heard what voice WAS oud; jou t say that Miss Hunnistan | was glad to kn Then without paying any more atten- tion to he wal around the piazza for a fu chatted toge us, she always I never if she felt a 1 st in him; i show out of him how mn WAS place Well, when + there ) land] ma, 0 i innistan and three if he had k how he had been the like ice, big bundle re " t lown in the m with Haskins, the snd talking lng, his wife, AWAY 55 nown them for years, tell ing ip since five, and had | walked too. He had of ferns and iwim--water gathered a flowers lady Hunanistan as if it I couldn't see why everybody gathered around him so when be talked, with a every other seatence was a bouquet, : } — big laugh at abou You couldn't tell ar Q ight have been thirty-five, or ten years « He bad a smooth, pink complexion, like a girl's, a stubby red nd squinty gray eyes. The positively indece himself well enough, He put away enough to run It was provoking, but we chance to cut him. He a little nod, see wheth. ything abo ALE : t der. mustache way he handled ile Was ut + th but quantity n p! yw bh really bad no barely noticed us, just gave and never looked to er returned it, His man. per was the height of ill-breeding —40 indifferent and independent: but ree, we like | with him, After breakfast Charley and I said: ‘Good morning, Mr. Handshaw !” He stopped and said he wanted a word with us. We walked down the path a way, and he said: “Now, you look here, my name isn't Handshaw or Rumshaw or Harkshaw, but Grimshaw -= G.r-i-m.s-h.a-w; if either of you forgets this any more in future, I'll take you both down to the lake and drop you in where it's deep, with a sinker tied around you.” Then he went back to the hotel, course, his threats were absurd; but, someway, when the beggar looked at you it made you feel uncomfortable and want to move away-—s0 we let his uame alone after that, He took Miss Hunnistan and her father out fishing that morring. After lunch, which he called *“‘dinner” ard ate a great deal of, he was obliged to give up Miss Hunnistan, he had tired her out, We wondered what | he would do then, Instead were, because of « | around where men he down in a ravine at the south end of the hotel, where a lot of children were build The fellow was You could never ominy us went ing a dam, possible, that’ how to take Well, things went on this None of us could get more than Miss Hunnistan. this person wasn't talking to the and *‘in “additions,” or boatir 2, sinply igl- all. tell him. way f weeks. a word at a time with When old man about side property” and irl off walking, tgubdivisions” ne was trotting the g rr swimming, or something. Once when a | came to a piace Ke i Miss Huonistan | | they were poiat four miles for a | and things, and gavs it to old | | ma le some of us went to the point, we » woods that looked i 1 snakes or frog ! Hunnistan up [ wrried her a like as il she ross on one had gone f 1 give oe un ariey ha nit up; weren't much 1 he knew whe and talk as she |} eir heads bent rawkward ar any secret that i suppose he went it it in his pushing, matter-of-fact w iY, without sayin sbout g not to the girls ney, and pretendin th He did seem to be fond o k eyes off All the same, I think he mesmerized her, or something that, if the truth was known. Old Hunnistan said he was a rastler and nad money. I can't see how he ever r & word : never his she was in sight, | got his start, Puck. The Land of the Oalon. t is said that when a ship is approach. ing the Island of Ceylon, delicious per. | flowers i i i ] you can't cut a man when he never takes | | much notice of you, except to look at | you as if you were a deuce of a freak. | Charley said he must be taken down. | All morning he was busy with old Hun- | nistan with maps and deeds. In the | afternoon he joined our crowd as easy | and familiar as could be. Charley and | called him Mr. Harkshaw, but he | wouldn't have it; corrected us right | there. + He said he didn't care for ten- | nis and would like Miss Hunnistan to show him about the place. He said itin | a nervy, confident way that was irri- tating, And the Hunnistan girl was quite willing —said she'd be delighted, | and he walked her off ag if be could have | the earth for the asking. Charley said: “What an ill.bred savage, with as much idea of propriety as an orangou- teng!” He can be awfully cutting at times, We dida’t see him again until evening, when we greeted him as Mr, Rumshaw, He corrected us again, in his blunt, cold. blooded manner; ho was the must uncon. ventional man that way, Miss Hunnis- tan seemed fascinated by the fellow. In the evening they promenaded on the piazza againg he was an awful man to walk, seemed to want to move sll the time, In the morning we found that he had routed Miss Huonistan out at five o'clock, and taken her up the lake in Charley's canoe. He brought her back at eight, and ate his breakfast with the most brutal affability, as if nothing had Most people are a litle stiff but he wasn't plebian, good natured way fumes are wafted to the mariners’ noe. before the shores come into #80 luxuriant is the growth of on the island. Some recent travelers assert that a similar statement is true of the Island of Bermudas; but in the modern instance the fragrance which sis the sailors’ nostrils is not that of delicious flowers, bat of the more bumble, useful and nutritious onion. The Bermuda farmer also raises lilies for the New York Easter market, but his mainstay 1p the onion. The Bermuda onion is the best in the world. One reason for this is that the soll of Bermuda is particularly adapted to the cultivation of the onion. It consists largely of powdered coral, and contains the elements which are most congenial to the onion. Moreover, the situation and climate of the islands are such that they are able to put their early onions into the markets of American olties at a time when they are peculiarly welcome, As » result, Bermuda has become, practically, one great onlon patch, The happiness of the islands may be said to hang upon the onion, When there is a good crop and prices are good, the peo plo are happy; when the crop fails, or prices are low, they are correspondingly depressed, There was a melancholy story to the onion crop of 180%, It was one of the largest crops, if mot the | t crop, ever known in the history of the islands; but wet and stormy weather in February and March had kept the harvest back three weeks, and as a consequence the onions could not be sent to New York, which is almost the only market, until it was so late that they could not be sold at a profit, The Bermuda farmers had, therefore, their millions of owions left on their own trils long sight, me of | or two | JUMPING BHERY. The } : of shee pin always follow- ing then easy to acquire and hard to cure, Even a barbed wire will not teach them cau. tion, perhaps because their wool rather than their skin is caught and torn by the barbs. The safest w ay is not to lead { ation by poor | dow, | make rapid growth if car | remove them to a warm place during | cold warm spell | ! afte Animal Industry of Agriculture 3 1 Chie Io, when hie experiments which | n that city t¢ catment of lus y TELUTrDI PS ORNAMENTAL st progressive t custom to hether poli ¥. WeAre «¢ n question w or n eatures of in i are very apt to follow our neigh- It is generally conceded, however, that there should between properties, and nothing is better suited for this purpose, or, in fact, for any place where a wanted in city or town, thar Catifornia Privet is a favorite with me for hedging, and especially near the ocean where it is more or less difficult, on ae. count of the sandy soil, to establish a hedge. California Privet is nearly or | quite evergreen, its foliage being of a glossy green, the plant a rapid and strong grower and with proper training makes a handsome hedge in a short time. | Usually plants two years old and three to four feet high are best; my method is to plant in double rows, setting the rows and plants about six inches apart. This be some dividing line feneo in | makes a dense hedge in two yours, After | planting cut back to within eight or {| twelve inches of the ground, which will cause the plants to grow more bushy, The privet is not a defensive hedge, | and if one is needed to keep out stock | or other trespassers it should be of Osage | Omnge or Cydonia Japonica (Japan | Quince) both of which bave a thorny growth very unpleasant to come in oun. tact with, The Japan Quince is a flower. ing shrab and is extremely pretty as a hedge if kept neatly trimmed, One| trouble had with hedges is setting the lants too far apart; while they must not set close enough to erowd each other out, the distance apart should be only that needed for proper growth,—The Housewife. TOMATO GROWING, Comparatively few farmers have house or even a 1 | enough #0 grow » of February and placed in they can be put in the open ground. Many think this a difficult task, but they wer makes the jumping habit | are of such easy cuiiiice that almost any { farmer's wife can raise a few plants in | the house. { ply a family can be pan, or even an oid iomato can is large A sufficient number to sup- started in a small a dozen plants, The seed should be put in by the first a south win- and to There they will germinate 1% taken nights, In the first r the second leaves appear t : trangplanted to hey should setting where larver dinba wrger dishes, wm two or three inches apart, grow until time to plant in the ound. This course is preferabl utting the seed iz a larger b Bi 18 ore oasuy peed tr insplantin and strone TIOROR Were : ’ belore i larive fine as woul The rooner now the hens can be in. duced to sit the better the opportunity for profit, both wi and the matured fowls. Meat is needed are confined so that they cannot get inseot food, When they have a good range feeding meat is rare ly necessary, Do not attempt too many poultry breeds at once unless you are prepared to keep them separate; promiscuous cross ing does not pay even on the farm, Much of the farmer's success depends on his wife, She should be his confidant in his business affairs, and her comfort should be a constant consideration, Betore going into duck raising too largely, look after the market for them, a8 in sowe lotalities It Is difficalt to sell thom at a fair price, especiully young ones, Many stock growers are now feeding split corn, by which is meant corn on the ear, split into slivers lengthwise of the cob, thus utilizing the whole corn product of fodder, grain and cob. Co-operative insect warfare is sug. gested by one who believes in the feas:s bility of a community obtaining some man who knows something about insects, who should spray the orchards and look alter insect pests, Young blackberry shoots ought to be summer pruned when about four feet high, to encourage the growth of laters ale, which in tura may be cut brok when about eighteen inches ia length, all of which will produce a stocky bush, “Success With Flowers" sags: “The red spider will not ficusish fa a room whose air is kept properly moist. Mois. ture is his e aversion. 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