STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS, Last night there tolled till late a little spin- ner, From leaf to leaf her silken threads she SWUNE-—- Now, dew-ensilvered in the morning sun- shine, The finished lace is hung. And one who hath been wont to storm and conquer, | And strongest bars to break with dauntless | " : i { from his mother, and mado his way to | Squire Jones's to obtain the consent of | pride, To spare the filmy web across his pathway, Pauses, and turns aside, —Clara W, Bronson, in Youth's Companion. e—— THE FOURTH AT =r HE Jayhawk family wes in a state of intense excitement, which increased as the Fourth of July approached. Nothing hel oe- curred since the birth of Jehial, the only scion of that rural house, that had so stirred the tranquility of the household as had his meek request for the use of the old mare and the buggy, with which to take Phebe Jouges to ‘“the Fourth’ at Ka Bob, Jehial understood the lay of land well enough to know that his startling petition should be put in along with the first seeds of spring, in order to ripen definite decision by the time the tumult of In- dependence Day began to ascend from the Ka Bob public square, which was, to him, the grand the truly metropolitan event Jehial had conceived this daring de sire to distinguish himself while cast 2 at the bac) Phaebe's head during the long prayers that con stituted the bone sinew of the at Zion's the smoke and tre of a8 A Ian men “sheep's eves’ bowed and Chu 4] It must be little courage about wish to celebrate the by so bol confessed that th his first co glorious la stroke of gallant wassimply a wish spring spread 1 fluences about him, across the steaming fie 2 th of plow or drag, his longing grew stronger, and he nursed it into a sturdy resolution jut, stronger wl when face day with sent 2 or leal iron an At last order bration to CCl] thinkin alot take some “Go alone and Why, child, who eve thing? What on “S.e-h! here com the timid Jehial, in his father emerged ooking like storn Justice ANCes, } LLL blueneck voke % I' 1 like to KO hie stamm take 341] stooy d to hook pe ndant arm ir bail of a froth-flecked pail of m When they again ald without looking up from his labor of ablation, resumed the conversation “Yes, ma; I'd like ¢ Pha ¢' the Fourth: but I ain't 1 nothin t pa bout 1t I kinder hate to, some how. Can't vou bave a little talk with him "bout it? “Well, 1 8 pose I ean, mother, “but I'm sure I what he'll think "bout it.’ Accordingly, after Jehial had re tired laid the proposition befor: her husband, Wx ori masey, Mary! What 'n i : That boy abowin' Bquare JoMles's little gal round on a Fourth of July! Why, he's nothin’ but a colt, an’ the whole town would be apokin fan at the little fools, Aun’, what's more, no Jayhawk's got any eall to be mixin’ with the Jones after all the trouble that we had with the old Square over that line fence It's all poppy -cot I'm willin' that Jehial shonld go t' the Fourth, but I don't want any gal business ‘bout it. Why, Mary, jest think of that youngster's takin’ a horse an’ buggy an’ » gal round there where they'd be a shoot in' firecrackers an’ anvils, and p-snap pin’ them little "Faint no place for a horse, let alone frustin’ it with a boy that's got a nl aboard. He'll break his neck an’ the gnl's too!” “But you remember the time when you took me to the Fourth at Busti, and yon weren't any older thanJehial, snd n't had any more experience with horses than he has." This was an argument ad hominem that the father had not counted on He gave it several moments of silent consideration and then took refuge in his Just platitade : HR wer ne, Jehin take nl replied the don't know she AL pesky torpedoes |! KA BOB. - y A - SN “Well, it ain't safe!” The mother of Jehial was quick to seo this sign of weakening, and fol- | lowed up her successful attack, at dis- | oreet intervals, until the matter finally | | came to a head. | After a protracted night session of | the domestic executive committee, it | was determined that Jehial should at- tend the glorious Fourth, with fall power to act. Jehial cheerfully accepted fifty cents the Jones family. As he entered the Squire's gate and passed up the narrow gravel walk be- tween the balsam trees, vainly laboring to formulate his request in graceful words, and commit them to memory before reaching the door, he would have gladly exchanged his task for that of breaking a Canada pair of steers, | plowing s ten-acre field, or teaching a trio of calves to drink. How his heart thumped as the soles of his cowhide boots grated on the gravel of the walk, He imagined that it would not seem so hard were it not for the fact that he was hostile ground for a Jayhawk had not set foot upon the Jones premises since the immortal battle of the line fence. But those who ean vividly recall the trepidation with which they preferred their first request for a young lady's company will doubt if any collateral circum stances could materially enhance the terrors of the moment His footfalls upon the front porch sounded, to his own ears, like falling planks, and the raps of his knuckles upon the panel of the front door like heavy artille ry. But the that settled down upon the house and all nature, after his knock, seemed still louder. Could it be that they » respond was she laughing a the shutters before de COATse on calm were not 8 rappings? Or him from behind admitting him? ided which of these PW ing t« backwa thi & YOIO ked it when erable hin called forth y the side side door, please door he went that his sleeper doubtfully i want JT ul . } I id CR You've r evidently recog ry tone and the fragm He rubbed } awak- ened with a sme nuts of an exploded snd his nired “What's up?” “You are, an’ yi n'd better go on to bed,” responded his wife in the convincing tone He evidently shared her opinion, for immediately groped and stumbled adjoining room, without liscovering Jehial in the unlight re CYen and ir SAIN f to An ed 1 ) It seemed to Jehial that hours passed before Phoebe descended the stairs and { the room, and response to Mrs. Jones's questions he had told all that he ever knew and considerable that he only gue assed at, regarding the history of the Jayhawks and their an Heireumstances,”’ enter in tecedents and Phoebe, clad in a simple white dress, hat seemed to him a marvel of ele advanced and gave him her hand, IRNCe, SAYINg “Good evening, Mr. Jayhawk ; will me while I get a light?” She went into the parlor and Lit the center-table lamp—a ponderous affair with an elaborately decorated globe of ground glnss “Walk right in this way, Mr. Jay- hawk,” she called from the parlor in her best parlor voice, It was the first time he had ever heard himself ealled Mr., and it seemed so ridiculously out of shape that the ghost of a grin began to twitch the corners of his mouth Fortunately for Jehiel, Phabe di vined both his timidity snd his inten tions and at once brought matters to a successful issue by asking him if he had seen the announcement for the Fourth and if he purposed to attend “Yes; I was thinkic' I'd like to go if-if-if I might “Certainly ; IT should think yon might just ae well ae not. It wonld be too bad to miss such a Fourth as this is to be, I'm sure,” prompted Phabe “11.1 mean I'd like the pleasure of your company to the Fourth, Miss Jones,” he stammered, recollecting his formula and pronouncing it at a single | breath. as though fearful that it might | YOu excuse | escape him before he could pronounce | it, “Certainly ; with pleasure, Mr, Jay- hawk," replied Miss Jones in the af- focted tone prescribed by the “Ladies’ Guide to Etiquette or the Manual of Good Manners.” Then camo a dead enlm broken only by the echoes of the parental suores whose outer rip ples penetrated to the most distant portion of the house, Finally Johial i grinned at the variations in the nasal serenade and crossed his legs. Phosbe also grinned and shifted ber position, Then they grinned in concert and shifted in concert. Phebe s-heinmed and Jehial n-hemmed. Jehinl remarked that he must be go- ing, and Phwbe remarked that he must not be in a hurry. He took her st her word and allowad another dead to settle. Even the parental failed to start the conversa- tional circulation. The frogs in the deep hole—dignified in common par- lance by the name of Daddy Jones's “music box"—did their best to rasp the silence into spe ech and failed, Then & sercech-owl lit on the well- sweep and fetched a screech that faily lifted the speechless couple from their feet, Jehinl again remarked that he must going. Phaobe did not dispute it, As he passed ont-into the moonlight and heard shut the door be- hind him and struggle with the rebel- lions look it to him that he walking upon thin air instead There was something in the enlm SNOTes be Phoebe seemed WAS of gravel, moonlight that he had never Even the frogs in the ' croaked with a rhythm ane cadence almost Lis that be had never noticed it before, He wonde red at the pangs of doubt and timidity that he had suffered a few nts before when going up that It seemed a new world to him had new led fore. sic box | divine wondered walk. All star liar Cy had risen! Deco with a had gazed) at the long Proc painted “Far they ne i and crude i 40 + sand line 1% apart, can they, Phoelx Jehial as the exclaimed, MATre the hon A had question, riske« { on ewnrd Journey heard the she wisely said not her tail kod continue though she Jehial's Hu h wingly ing--oniy f{ and hurried The f for the and line fene strife thatit had ot due time it et Pe Area, i LT) Jone % ALG farms Wer sonsolidated, nd the ‘ourth of July is celebrated with me striotic sentiment by Phoel Arkansas Frave ler I —— How the Patent Office Was Saved, When, in the War of 1512-—the office a building of y re hay ng 1s « been removed yn two vears before who had taken the eity, trained their guns upon the Patent Office, Dr Thornton, throwing himself directly the Hh, cris d Are yon Englishmen or Goths and Vandals? This is the Patent Office a depository of the ingenuity and in- ventions of the American Nation, in which the whole civilized world is in terested Wonld you destroy it? Then let the charge pass through my body.” And the building was spared Twenty-four years afterward, however, It was destroyed by fire, together with everything in it. And with this eame the beginning of the present building, added to from tite to time, till at last the noble pile stands eo mplete ns it is to«day, holding a model or a drawing of every invention known in the whole world, and having paid something more than two millions of dollars over aud above its own expenses, a sum which represents only a trifle of the great amount it hes added to the wealth of the Nation. — Harper's Young People. eis a ER — The Nile*s Annual Overflow, The Nile has a fall of but six inches to the 1000 miles, The overflow com monces in June every year and con- tinues until August, attaining an ele- vation of from twenty-four to twenty. six feet above low eo math, and flowing through the ‘Valley of Egypt” ins Bg oy bod twelve miles wide, During the last 1000 years there has been but one sndden rise of the Nile, that of 1829, when 80,000 were people drowned. before ans, CONVENIENT FARM TOOLS. Every farmer should own a few car penter's tools, not necessarily an ex- pensive outfit, but at least a common hand saw and possibly a rip saw, a brace and a full set of bits, a one and a two-inch suger, mech smoothing plane, one jack plane, a jointer plane, a good steel square, a drawing knife and a claw hammer. There should be # work bench and a substantial iron vise, With these any farmer can save the cost American Agri- culturist one €eYery Year soft feed 18 given to young chickens, and Ea a | sudden pull that indicated a desire to | A answer to Ji haw k ! wand | the British, | that, too, by those who ot betty : ? 0) eaten by time the gr better than ight to know be readily before that 1 or eracked are wheat will mane t 1 little tail f | His coat is vers wyer been rubbed tho al many that he o strong wher tells ve has witha br at hir ever bel eV } A wh, snd igh you times, uld hand that 1 8B BT . 1, ne das rant day mj first n he CATS fields a: a double blanket him hike a saddle, and aft ean bear the weight f the If, dnd then him 1 refuses to i around on is strapped 3 1 ra while hn idle tro 3 walk after it, and his back holding in the air in the most pita ! if he did not know what to do with his new shoes Tea hing him to back’ is nocomplishe d by hitching a team to the back of the which Mr. Colt is harnessed word “back,” some team from behind and Mr. Colt is “backed” until he learns the of the word. His training is not very pleasant for hima, Bat if Le isa bright, intelligent he will learn all there is to learn within a year after he has got his growth or by the time he is three years old. He will then be very frisky and inclined to be scared at trifles. But if he is shown just what they are, he usually changes his mind and behaves in a sensible way, Train. ing a colt 1s easier than training any 18 Yery unblesome fiir feet up ful way, as wagon At the one starts up the nse horse, other animal, because the horse is nat. | urally the most intelligent of all dumb | animals, New York Ledger. TEACHING A YOUNG CALF TO DRINK. It is an old saying that “one man may lead a horse to water, but twenty eannot make him drink.” The same might be applied with equal force to a calf, substituting milk for water, writes Alexander Wallace, Gentleness is one of the most important requisites on a farm, in so far as the treatment of all animals found there Ww concerned. | There are some farm hands who, ap- | parently possessing less sense than t animals themselves, try to accomplish | by brute force what a little persansion | would do far more effectively. Ihave soon this more clearly exemplified in | teaching a oalf to drink than in any. | thing The mehed of & hired man | 1 have in mind was to seize the animal | holding the head of the creature be tween his legs as if ib were in a vise, and with two fingers thrust fur down the ealf’s throat he possibly could get them, and the forefinger and thumb pushed up ite nostrils to their full length, endenvor, by all the brute strength that he posses to f« the animal's head into the milk pail, until the perspiration was ponr down his bronzed cheeks, and in the Any ne ns sed, ree ing ing this nN WAY try to compel creature drink Naturally, resent such treatment. not be 1st ite will. ania The calf into doing snvthing It often to me that if the person adopting such a little in his y . would like to will COeTree d occurred d would pause ® 1 think how he her using her inf FARM AND OG barer the surface wring plum tree the better tree needs but little om The harder and and a be it as, val Whe rever | iT ion Wrap d with o« ar as the Mi. the rmais stock does not hol | 8 HT place should bx rd covered with graft INE WAL Just as well have most of the garden the garden pay two erops from It he Ips to make Plant corn, peas, beans, as well as radishes and lettuce, at intervals for a succession of crops Sprouts which start to grow on the stock below the graft should be always pinched off and be kept in check. bi this is not done the growing grafts Western fruit growers are irrigating their orchards with the sid of the water-wheel. Tt is expected that fruit growing on the dry lands along the | rivers will be revolutionized by the use of the water wheel, A proper s lection of food, prepared | in a proper manner, has much to do with keeping fowls in the pink of econ- dition, stimulating the egg organs to greater activity, and snstaining the strain on the fanction of egg produc tion. Some people like to help chickens ont of the shell when they hateh with difficulty. It is nov safe to do much in this direction ; break the shell enough for the chick to get his head out where he can breathe, and leave the rest to nature, For the planter who looks after his trees and cultivates them carefully » small tree will bear just as early and rove as valuable as the largest. But the trees are to be in sod- land, without enlti n or big trees will stand the best chance it saps the vitality of | not carnivorous, i inenreblie."” ‘ y N The Yegetarian Theory, Vegetarians say it is a popular fal- lacy that meat is needed for strength. One prominent exponent of the faith pays 1t is a fact that the strongest ani- wals in the world sre vegetarian sand It is the ferocity of the lion rather than his strength that makes him formidable is sn match for several lions, and is a vegetarian, The snimals with most speed and endurance-—the horse, the reindeer, the antelope and other Aro vegetarians Dog tralfiers, BAYS the authority, always feed thes An elephant 0niso animals on a strict vegol many hunters do the Chicago Herald. Hood's*=*Cures he CE \ CHE 7 Mr = = oo od Fy Ni fe J “Nity ¢ w Eis OSTES a ' ~~ nN H r L) It will surely help rhenmat ! ‘ even when I eonsidered myself Hexny =, § ' rior N } Hood's Pilis » n ust §THE KIND | ® THAT CURES La Ba BE | daddl . MRE, FRINDA HAMS "ol ue » - x : 1 =A Victory Over Disease '% “Terrible Pain in Head and Stomach ! “My Face was one Mass of Eruptions ! Walked the Foor After Night!” The Dllowin the WONDERFUL over disease GENYLENTES 1 vente Night from Mrs. Hams proves POWER of DANA'S i am 84 roam of age A age hed te Mansies v bh Jel soe Ag ad shape, | ave nd MATISM ton gin ZTE . BLE FAIN IN MY HEAD sth, miso severe pan lan ser witesmmemer bsg Ww Liver Trouble. he after night 1 Jere bes peiled te walk the Boor vonue terrible pain, ad Sos wa nl » war one mass fF cruplleons #1 Tones we 10 be covered almost entirel with sesh, | road pour papers, snd though 1 would try one bottle of DANA'S SARSAPARI LLA hough 1 hed tried wm many @f bheiew without wy help, 1 had bast Tits 1 wl taken ome the | it 2 great deal etter. | hove now hen twa, and do nett Fewd Like the mune ween I sar go 10 Bell ent SLEEP ALL Nem Tae ver rible The ued | hiflie Ww Yours ly YY. MNEs ENTA FLAME rt ty
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