THE DEATH STROKE, *Twas the sunny Byrian sea Off the coast of Tripoli And the ironclads of England were at play; While their mimic thunder rent With its roar the firmament, ! As they tacked and they maneuvered in the A bay For our navy is the pride Of that sea without a tide, And our home fs on the deep amid the 4 spray. Bomething terribly amiss In a moment! That or this, Man or mechanism? Well, I do not know ; On the gallant flagship eame, Quick as stroke of lightning flame Or the glant rush of tempest, such a blow That, her harness rent, she bowed ; And a mighty iron shroud, With her Admiral and crew she sank | below! Do you deom they should havedlied On a flerce and reddened tide, In the fury and the glory of the fight? With the ensign shot to rags, And with striking of the flags Of the foemen on the left and right ; With brave rescue from the wreck, And wild cheering on the deck, That Britannia had not parted with her | might? on the | Be such glory what it may, Yet I venture still to say That these shall not lose thelr guerdon or their fame, Though they died without a blow : Well, the Highest-—died He so ; And our land shall shrine their memory and their name : For the man who, In the host, Is death stricken at his post, “It is finished” may triumphantly exclaim ! There is grief tor me and you, But for Tyron and his crew Happy future as was honor ia the past ; Though the Admiral no more May hear wind or water roar, Though his sailors cannot battle blast, For, the Pilot of all seas, He will weleome souls like And shall guide them to at last! with the Laven-land 1 Atheneum, rn — A MAN WITH A BABY FACE | Silence ensued, GY WILLIAM A. MCLEAN. ~IMMY ELLIS is 2.” indeed a funny boy,” laughed Julia Costeilo to s friend. “They say he | is head over heels in love with you — follows you, 1s to be found some- where near yon most of his time, They tell me you have completely be witched the boy,” rejoined the friend. *“I must eonfess he seems to act ve ry foolishly, No matter what I do or€ay, or ignore him, I can't scare him AWAY. I have never done the slightest thing to encourage him,” Julia soberly re plied. “What's the matter with then, that he hangs around much?” the friend asked. “I don't know,” Julia slowly said, and added in a wistful manne r, “1 wonder whether Jimmy will ever be a man—will ever look like a man.” ‘‘He'sa pretty boy, anyhow," laughed the friend. “Pretty as a baby,” said Julia, ing in the laugh. The subject of this conversation was not a boy, but & man of thirty years. A man of full stature, yet with the ex- pressionless face of a baby. It was round and full. The skin was of & soft pink color, with & tinge of darker color in the cheeks, The were large and of a light blue, and opened in an innocent surprise when their owner was spoken to, He had a little chubby nose and a small mouth. There were | no lines or shadows on his face He was a pretty man; so pretty that his face was repulsive to man and to womankind, There was nothing about the face to conntereet the se ems ingly expressionless vacuity there Strangers continually asked, “Who is the man with the baby face?” The reply was always ‘Jimmy Ellis.” The man James Ellis was swallowed up in the boy Jimmy. Another characteristic heightened the effects of his boyishness. His voice was pitched an octave higher than is usual in men. He spoke in a light, chattering tone that wont off into a | screech, He talked and laughed like | & Woman, All his male nesociates aa he became older grew away from him, deriding the man with a baby face and 8 woman's voice, Womankind seemed ever to be making sport of him, James Elis was extremely sensitive in respect to these characteristics. He was conscious of the fun and sport others were having at his expense, In | consequence ho gave humanity a wide berth, While bo did #0, he hated | that big baby face of his. It made | life miserable to him. It angered him | 8t times to hear his own voice. He bad in vain tried to coax a growth of | whiskers to hide the face. A tuft of | yellow hair here and there was all that | made ite appearance. In despair ho | had given up any further attempts in this direction. Notwithstanding these ontward | signe, James Ellis was a man of rue, honest, and honorable instinets and an piretions. He delighted in the pleasuros of n robust mashood. He was an all roand athlete. There was not a better horseback-rider in the town fu which he lived. His mother had died when the bos ¥ yon Bo join eves ho wus a child, His father diod when | he reackod his majority, leaving him a home in the Pennsylvania town of B and two farms lying near the village, An sant bad boon installed as house- keeper over the home. | life, { hood, and had always loved her, { loved her because { out her. | with woman James Ellis was a better manager of the farms than his father had been be- fore him, He gave them his constant attention. There was no part of the work on the farm he could not do. Those under him knew what would be expected from them. James Ellis not only knew how to manage the farms better than his father, but knew how to live and enjoy life and that which he made, better, There was not a better library in the town than his; he had collected it him- self. He was a lover of art. Ellis was a talented man. His large hunting-dog heard many a soliloquy that for originality and brightness would have rivaled the mental calibre of by far the greater number of his | » fellow-townsmen. James Ellis's life had been, however, a failure, as ho looked at it—an happy failure--a miserable existence, caused by a baby face and 8 woman's Yolee, His greatest happiness, and at the same time his greatest nubappiness, was his love for Julian Costello. He was not content unless near her. worshiped her. It was the love of a strong man; the only love of a lonely He had known her from child- He he could not con- ceive bow life could be complete with Because he believed that the best gift to man— this woman, could he alone reach the greet blessings of existence home, love, happiness. He was to Julia than “Jimmy.” He felt that, with his baby face and woman's voice, he had failed to awaken the chords of love, to sound the depths of her heart. She liked him, respected him, but he was only ‘Jimmy,"” her boy play- mate, Shortly after the conversation be tween Julia and her friend, James Ellis sueceeded in gaining a long-looked- for opportunity, Taking Julia's hand in his, he said, in his squeaky voice “Julia, darling, I love wou, I love you This love is the swectest, the only thing on earth that makes life worth the living to me. Be mine. Love me—marry me.” Julia could not help seeing the ridic nlous in the in the and mterrupted him several times as he spoke, saving " “Oh, don't, voice, face, Jimmy! Don't Jimmy ! He began again : “Won't yon give me your answer? Can't you love me?" Ob, don't! Oh, don't, Jimmy I" Julia again pleaded. “Can I hope? Tell me something,” James Ellis urged. “I hardly know what to say,” Julia answered, ‘“I have never thought of such a thing as you have spoken of It seoms funny. You seem but the boy I played with yet. I hardly know whether to bid you to hope or not to hope. I might answer better in a month.” *1I'll wait the month,” the man read- ily said. ‘Make it two months.” “Well, let it be two, then ™ “Four months might be better yet.” “Make it, dear, just as you will I am content if only in the end you will be mine.” 50 it was decitled that at the end of ir months she would give her an yes or no, to hissuit, or whether ight hope or whether it was hope This was February June might & the life or it It not le James Ellis to was not hopeful. He was only “Ji nny’ to Julia, Jimmy, the boy the playmate with the pretty face and & woman's voice. Julia wished a man for her husband, representative of manhood and strength. He feared the The time crept on fast: weeks had flown, & month passed There was no change in Julia's feel- ings that he could detect. It was in the latter part of March that, in the dead of night, a fire-alarm was sounded. Men sprang from their beds, jumped into their clothes, It was & country town in which every man and many women were needed to fight the dread flend. It was soon dis- covered that a weather-boarded dwell. ing-house had taken fire at the roof When the crowd reached the house the top of it was wrapped in flames. James Ellis was among the first on the ground, It was thought that every soul had left the house. There wasa terrible sere am In the second story room, by the blaze of the fire, could be seen a woman, The blood froze in the men's faces ns they looked at the awful scone. The y looked at each other, then back ot the woman. Who would make a move to save her? Like a flash James Ellis rushed toward the house, kicked open the door, disappeared, fought his way through the smoke and heat in the second story until he reached the woman. He dashed out a window and Wer KK witne making of one was conten decision. helped her to the ladder that had been raised, As the crowd watched James Ellis | disappeared. Another second snd there was a fall of heavy timber into the house ; a column of sparks went upward. Seconds passed, was making headway rapidly. James Ellis had not appeared. At last anxi- James | un- | He | miserable | | because he had been and was no more The fire | could for him, that it was for him now to grow in strength. It was not until that time that James fully realized that a great change had taken place, “Jimmy” with the baby face was a thing of the past. There was an ugly chin and one on the cheek, There were red patches where he had been burned. He was no longer pretty. He was ugly, yet not repulsively so--— the fever had also voice, men, It was four months since that day in February that he decided to venture out. He waited until it was dusk. gone | Julia. He was ushered into the parlor, where a half-light burned. In a mo- | firo—and to congratulate him on his recovery. She rushed np to him, and taking his outstretched claimed ; “Oh, Jim—" she looked in his face, then starmmer- ing, continued: ‘‘Beg—pardon— Mr, Ellis—""m so glad to see you!" stopping, Ths man was surprised into formal- | ity. “Mr. Ellis!” addressed him thus before, it mean? As the evening passed they talked of the events of the past months. #poke in that low, tender, pleasing, manly voice, Julia listened enraptured, There were chords in her being that were touched, and responded as they had never done before. There was something in her being that went out to the man-—the sacred hero. At last. in low, passionate tones he pleaded “Julia, darling, I have come for the | answer promised, thet can make life the sweetest thing on earth to me. I have now to know whether I dare hope for happiness. I'm diasfig- ured now-—ugly, but I love you you, if possible, more than I ever have. Can you love me?” As he held her in his arms, Julia, tenderly caressing the scars with the tips of her fingers, whispered : “These don’t disfigure you, dear You are not ugly to me.” Frank Les- lie's Weekly. Julin had never What did Come lore I — — Imitation American Physicians, American medical missionaries are now very popular in Chine. They are everywhere welcome, more esy ecially because they offer medical advice and medicine gratis, prefaced with re- ligious exercises The Chinese ap pear to appreciate this kind of practi- cal religion. In a recent letter to the Missionary Herald, Doctor Chapin tells of his missionary successes in the vicinity of Pang Chuang, and NATH “On this trip I learned for the first time that there are in this part of Chins a number of ‘counterfeit’ for cigners, 1 wan my self taken to be one of that class because of an sbility to make myself understood in Chinese It seems that one or more ¢ uterpris- ng celestials have gone to the work of dispensing medicines after the man: ner of the American physician ally two or three men go together One of these dresses in fore igh Cos tume and talks a gibberish which is not understood by the natives, and so passes for a foreign imitation of Amgrican physicians, ail medicine is given away, but, unlike that fraternity, the bogus re presenta. tive of America is quite willing to re sive contributions of grain to feed the animal which helps convey him from village to village In consequence gTaln pours in upon him by the quan- tity. This is disposed of by a confed- erate at the nearest far, and then Ab Sin departs for ‘fresh fields and pase tures new.’ ” ne —— The Great Game of the Chinese, Weichi is the greatest game of the Chinese, especially with the literary class, and is ranked by them superior to chess. Like chess, this game is of # general military and mathematics! character, but is on a much more ex- tended scale, the board containing 261 places and employing nearly 200 men ou aside. All of the men, however, | have the same value and powers. The object is to command as many places on the board ss possible. This may be done by inclosing empty spaces, or surrounding the enemy's men. close caleulation is always essential in order thet a loss in one region may be met by gains in another, thus employ- ing skillful stragey when the contest ants are evenly matched. The game has come down from great antiquity, Us 1 IRnguRge being first mentioned in Chinese writing | about 625 B, C. It was in all proba. bility introduced by the Babylonian | netronomers, who were at that time in- | structors Herald. mi ——— An Educated Snake, ly, » farmer living two miles south of | Sharpsburg, was observed to stop and | bellow regularly at a large tree in the | lane, while the cattle were being driven from the field. Bome boys watched | her one day and observed a large black | snake approsch and milk the cow, ous watchers crept into the house and | Driving her home they told Philip eame upon the body of Ellis lying at the bottom of tho stairs, He had been | knocked down by the falling timber. The fire had not resched the place | where he was lying. | He wos tenderly plaid up, earried | ont of the house and to his home, The | falling timber had struck him in the foe, entting and teering gross washes the whole length, The hot embers of the wood had burned great red blotches along the wonnd, It was only after weeks of sareful nursing by the feithfol sant that nines Ellis was pronounced well. He bad recovered from the wound to fall flan fovee, It was June when the Wnmm, who works on the farm, who got into the tree with a gun and waited for results, When the cows came from the flold this particular cow stopped at the tree and bellowed, when the suske appeared and was shot by Lum, — Autietam Valley (Cal) Record. Roosters vs. Weasel, a wonsel Snssied out of his lair near on ednesday and gobbled ap ane of Mew Joseph Sri iistle chickens. Two bantam roosters were near by and sot un the thiev. Ee Do ay ait pan the ivr. him he had done all he | ST ware pidked out, and he died soon scar on the forehead, another on the | no uglier than many other men, With the woman's It was now like that of other | Then be made his way to the home of | | feel sure that itis of a harmless nature, | and so shies away from it. ment Julia came, coming quickly to | ( see her “Jimmy —the mueh-talked of ‘and admired hero of the night of the band, ex- | startled as | | cream that is slightly sour, As he | | When cream is too sour or is too Warm, | turbed, In | Very | of all the East. Chicago | { turbed. GLABSES POR HORKES, Tt is thonght that the vice of shying, | which spoils 80 many otherwise vala- | able horses, is induced by short-sight- edness, particular object plainly enongh to the use of horses, howeve r, are signed not only to overcome defects of vision but to deceive the vision, and thus make the animal learn to high, New York World, SWEET OR SOUR CREAM. Sweet cream not the best for making butter, as it vields less than The best and most butter is made from Cream that is slightly sour and which is taken from milk set in shallow Pans in 8 room not over sixty degrees or sixty-two de- of temperature for thirty-six hours, then skimmed and ke pt twenty four hours at the same temperature, 18 Frees it will fosm in the churn and give out a large quantity of esrbonie acid Kas This interferes with the making of the butter. It will not do this « therwise, To bring the cream, when thas mto proper condition, sdd cold water to thin it. by which the gas evolved in the churning the foaming is reduced butter separates, This common thing in the in winter, o to cream grannlates randy, snd the butter Ths ly #1 i t dis- CBCap and Then foaming summer, hile the cold, appears to not « Hi id Warn walls wing does rems then i The narket m nere whin special bx OF CAprice, \ met if a ready sale 18 « pected brow: offer thos than na must If requires shell d folly to with The latter may be just as good as the former, but so the fi rmer havi the ones to be furnished ket requires skin or to offer Ay market it Is white shells le OE As are the Or if the mar yellow legs and a ye How poultry, with wh 11 +} Cali they dressed tis unwin ite skin and dark or white legs It is true that people do not eat the shanks of fowls and some of the best table 1 the world kave white, or dark shanks and 8 white skin, but so long.gs the fancy of the buyer demands the yellow color that is the color to supply not afford to spen poultry fowls i ing peopl his 1% rawsing fowls fi not for fun, and must J methods, always remembering there is some good reason for the public taste snd fashion. American Agriculturist i FER TL opt business SUMMER CARE OF BULDNS, Talips and other flowering bulbs may be taken up after the tops have turned yellow and stored in a dry cellar. There they can remain until | Beptember, when beds should be made | ready for them, and they | out to stay until after the next may be set flow. ering season. Many persons put tulips in the ground in the spring. While vigorous bulbs will bloom and make a very pretty show, they are notat their best the first season. They need a longer time to grow their roots than spring planting affords When one has a permanent location, it iss good plan to have a large bed of tulips that may grow undisturbed for vears. One may buy. ordinary assorted bulbs and | plant them out in this way, allowing them to grow and blossom until they reach the stage known to the florist as freaking, stripes and blotches of white. Bome of these tulips become wonderfully beautiful after a time, and may then be marked; and after the flowering season is over, these may be moved from the parent bed and set ina border by themselves, or they may beallowed to go on blooming without being dis- Lilies of the valley increase rapidly, and may be left for a long time with A cow belonging to John H. Soave. | out being reset. They need o deep, rich soil to do well, and they should be heavily manured if permitted to re- main some years in the same location, Their natural element is a rather moist loeation, where decay is plenty, and on this they seem to flourish best. An sxceptionally fine bed of this flower wes grown on the site of an old wooden building that had guiabied a Sum, The ground was spaded very , BN was black with the decaying wood of the old house. When the plants become very thick, bunches of bulbs may be taken ont to sct the new beds, ken the old bed seems to be losing its vigor, the bulbs may all be taken up and transferred to s now locality. Small bulbs should be set in a bulb nursery, whore all odds and ends, if loft to grow and thor oughly matured, will in time come out as valuable additions to this beautiful family. New York Lodger. LAMBS FOR MUTTON, When a lamb is two weeks old it may 3 The animal cannot see some | Glasses for! de- | Ble P| This means that the plein red tulip, after a time, throws out | be taught to eat a little dry food, by | me sus of the hand, A mixture of {elean, heavy oats, corn and linseed in | equal parts, finely ground together, and slightly salted and sweetened | with sagar, will be taken engerly, and | will help the growth very much. At | the same time it is advisable to nonrish the lambs through the ewe 8, by liberal feeding of grain, of which a mixture of rye and buckwheat coarsely che pped together will be found better than corn, and if anything else is added it thould be bran. This increase the milk in quantity and quality and #0 help the lambs, By and by the lambs will take their meal themselve El if the proper facilities are offered by means of a small pen with cree ps at- tached to it, and mn the fence. These creeps consist of openings in the fence just large enough for the lambs to ereep through; and to prevent tear ing of the wool the sides of the open. ings sre guarded by rollers fitted inte a sliding bar placed in the fence, by which the rollers may be drawn nearer to each other or widened as be nec sears to fit the lambs, food is placed in these ibs soon learn to These hin useful for the feeding of nn which nes d to be {« reed 3.1 : : possibile to make rapid will sot may The pens, and the p through to ts are especially inrket lambs, ns LT Cros 1 get the meal, much as growth and lay on fat The {| of rino intl not the of They are but the plumpest and r their mize, of arly | i the bla k fa ie under them ner, lambs are an Southd largest, fi ut with Cross wn heaviest nll dear who w 10 thes a Lt} Merino, The wever, has thing to do with the fatness and of these lambs, and its « arly gives the appearance of fulluess to the plump little puschaser MOTI tenderness fleocs of roun 4 Are nes Those lamb breeders wh Dorsets for their twin come early, the Southd for lambs 8 the g & Aare m bs LLOCRs keep the lambs which well to use of the will do the rule in England kept especially The re the ewes lamb in the #8 of the Southdown, pure bred; the for and the latter for Dorset, however, 1 sxilitul wa This i where the Dorse for Christmas la of this breed and One 18 a and the other mer for the market, the The the most the shepherd who thin Babe 2%) wires twice VOnr, Ci is floc just have take CAT Yery man Dorset to on The Christn Christmas strawberry, a ho and those breeds r« who do not understand this method of forcing lambs will do well to get lambs later and at less cost, and yet make quite as much profit out of them It is quite possible to average eight to ten dollars for a lamb in March and April, and nin May, and this with the Mer outhdowr Cross Many whether the Ramb good mutton It many years, and there is no resson why it.should not Merino mutton has been objected to on account of an alleged wo ly taste in the flesh. This | is liable to happen with all kinds of mutton, be due to several CAUSES, It is not the taste of the wool at all, but of the sheep. This amumal, allied to the goat, has a some- what strong odor which is quite per ceptible in a close unventilated shes p pen, and is thus thought to be the odor of the wool, but on the conlray | the odor of the wool comes from the sheep. If in dressing the carcass, the | opening and airing of it is de layed and it is cooled too rapidly so as to con- fine the odor, and the gases from the intestines are permitted to penetrate {the meat, this will have the sheepy flavor but it is not the taste of the | wool at all Doubtless the very oily merino may have a stronger natural odor than the -less gressy mutton breeds, so-called, but if it is well dressed the flesh is just as sweet flavored. —American Agriculturist, i! LAB ES) | ® Nv | ino S are asking uillet merino yields does, and has for she p breeders and may FARM AND GARDEN XOTRS The growing of celery is on the in. crease. Wood ashes is one of the best fortil {zers for berries. Frequent disinfection of the pigpens will prevent disease. If the pigs scour when suckling, change the sow's diet. Feed the swine a varied ration if you would avoid disease, The general allowance on good pas- ture is ten hogs to the acre, In bee keeping, as in other branches, the more one knows the better, CGiroen clover is an excellent muloh for berries and is easily applied. A cow will eat about ten tons of en- silage in the course of the year. To raise good crops of frait it is necessary to manure the orchard, Improvement in breed moans better returns for the amount of feed con. sumed, It is just as im t to know how Jo Jick, pack soll frais as it is to | of the | threshing, | motor, Electricity on the Farm, — An interesting exam of electricity’ as applied to farm work is now in it a Beoteh farm, Ths whole usual farm machin ry, rus sowing, corn threshing and are here driven by The electricity i” by water power, the which drives the dynamo being about 1000 vards from the farm. The ctrio current is conve! Td wires to the hous of which a These supply the lighting and m« the machinery whole of the mansion of y 1 i 1 | by electric light, and an electric operation the like, an electrio generated turbine wheel battery electric ive storage 1s lus 1% provided for pumping the wat. domestic purposes, — New Yor _ rn — Pure and Whelesame Quality Commend $s 10 1 public appr ' Hquid jaxative ren Pieasant to the tasie o the kidney, | tem effectually, comfort of is the heat ar We Cure Rupture, No matter of x # for free treatise fost ru als Ho lensworth & a., Dweg Price $l. by ma $1.15 Rev. H. P * Two bottles HY i “ now long Carson, of Ha ittls Hateh's Universal ( cure for Croug AR Impaired digestion Pills. Beechasn -0 A If afflicted son's Eye-waler use 1 taneiintZ with sore eyes Drug ate years wit rheumatism =n: dyspepsia, “¥ Rev, W R. Prrwm Richt ' 3 ve, HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA CURES. Hood sx Pills cur nt wo : wrth 2 5 box — “German Syrup Just a bad cold, and a hacking cough. We all suffer that way some- times. How to get rid of them is the study. Listen—'‘Iam a Ranch. man and Stock Raiser. My life is rough and exposed. I meet all weathers in the Colorado me ains, I sometimes take colds. Often they are severe. I have used Ge Syrup five years for these. A few doses will cure them at any stage. he last one I bad was sic pred in 24 hours. Itis infallible.” James A. Lee, Jefferson, Col Q . — HEED = WARNING Which nature is constantly giving in the shape of boils, pimples, eruptions, uloers, etc #how that the blood is contam nated, and some AssisTance must be piven to relieve the trouble, we Is the remedy to foros out these poke Co St J BE son, and cuable you to GET WELL. “1 have had for years 3 humor in my blood, which made me dread to shave as small boils or implies would be oui, thus cansing the shay ingto A RTOAL annoyance. After taking three bx Athen § < o my face is all clear and smooth as it oro should be-ay petite splendid sleep weil, and feel like running a foot all from the use o; Cuas, Heat B88 iN, 73 Laurel st, Phila, Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed free SWIFT SPECIFIC OO. Atlanta, Ga. DR. KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME. GRAVEL! GRAVEL! GRAVEL! LARGE AS A GOOSE EGG. Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. YT. Gentlemen: I was under the care of diferent physicians for pearly two years; tried every doctor in our town continued to suffer and decline until I was a physical wreck, The most Joarned physic. fans made examinations and pronounced my case one of Gravel or Stone in the Bladder, and said that I would never be any better until it was removed by a surgical operation. Oh! 1 thought what next? Every one felt sad: 1 myself, Fave up, as an operation seemed to us all certain death, 1 shall never forget how time. iy the good news of your sSwamp-noor reached me. 1 send you by this same mail a sample of the stone or gravel that was dise solved and expelled by the use of your SWAMP-ROOT. It must have been as large asa good sized goose egg. 1 am feelings well today as I ever did. 1 kept right on using SWAMP-ROOT, and It saved my life. If any one doubts my statement I will furnish proof.” Lasonxs Dowenswrra, Trp ha bi These
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