LIFE. AND DEATH Two snowflakes, born of winter's storm, Fell through the air ; Two downy finkes of starlike form, Beyond compare, One rested on the sun-kissed ground, b And, thawing, died; While one, a sheltered fee-drift found, Zand death defied, i Two human souls by God's deeros ! Were sent to earth ; Each with a different destiny Was given birth, One struggled "gainst an evil fate, Nor long survived ; The other, born in a happier state, i Grow strong and thrived. Ah! who ean solve the hidden senso Of God's design? We trust in His omnipotence And love divine, Wot ASE h UF FoRis, but ewan Bubiime, Can oall us blessed ; He longest lives who, in his time, Has lived the best, EE —— ee — HER ENGAGEMENT. BY LULU JUDSON, HALL we not sit down?" he said. “‘I find it rather heavy walking; don’t you?" ““Yes, rather,” re- turned his compan- ion. He took a large silk handkerchief from his pocket and carefully spread it out upon the sand. “Oh, nothing will hurt this dress,” she | gaid, with a amile; “besides, it washes.” “Does it? That's sensible — and it looks 80 delicate, She seated herself : comfortably, while he stretched himself ppon the sand beside her, with an easy lack of conventionality, Her dress was a plain white flannel, un- adorned save for the flaring cuffs and wide collar, which were blue, like her eyes and the Florida sky above them. Her white sailor hat had a blue band about it. The impetuous gulf breezes which blew little tufts of her light air about her face in rather a trying man- ner were powerless to spoil the charm of that sweet girlish countenance. Her companion was a man perhaps ten vears older than herself; not a man of fachion, one would have been quite sure after the first glance; a man of business, perhaps of letters, but not a devotee of society. *“Isn’t this glorious?” he said, push- ing back his hat and drinking in big draughts of the pure sea air. *‘I shall miss 1t all.” Before them stretched what seemed a limitless expanse of water, somewhat turbulent just now, and far out where water and sky seemed to meet, there could be faintly discerned the white sail of a fishing smack. On each side of them glistened the white beach, un- marked by tree or house, for they wore on a narrow island, a small strip of land where the life-saving crew kept their lonely vigils. Back of them and a little to the left, was the station with the lifeboat within, ready and waiting for a summons. A hundred yards or 80 down the beach were the rest of the gay party of pleasure seek- ers, separated into groups-—some walk ing up and down searching for treas- ures the sea had left in its wake, others lolling idly on the sand. “Have you decided to leave to-mor row?’ asked the girl. “I must. Six weeks of idling in Florida, at a busy season of the year, too, is enough for a man with work to do. Don't you think so?" “Well, yes,” she said smiling. *‘I suppose it is. Yet it seems a pity you cannot wait for the rest of us when we return so soon.” *I wish I might,” regretfully. “Are your plans for the summer fully ma- tured as yet?” “We are to go from here to Ashe- ville, I believe,” she said rather wear- ile “than 4s Nownort and én the Wass Ister. Aunt Helen seems to feelit her duty to be forever dragging me from place to place.” “She thinks it a duty yon owe your position in society, no doubt, to do the fashionable thing at tho fashionable time. And you enjoy iv.” Ho made the statement, but glanced up ct her inquiringly. “Oh, yes,’ she replied, ‘I enjoy it. But too much fashion is apt to be wearing, yor: know.” “Yes,” he said, “I fancy it would be.” “Now this,” she continned, with a little comprehensive sweep of her hands, ‘this is different, ly enjoyed our sojourn here.” “So have 1,” he responded heartily. “Your sunt certainly deserves the thanks of the crowd for getting to- | gether such congenial people and pre. wailing upon them to come here in- | stoad of wandering off with the rest of tho northern colony to St. Augustine or Jacksonville. 1 like the town. There is something remarkably pleas wink about ite broad, quict streets with their fine old shade trees. Then the harbor is magnificent.” “I like the bay,” she said droamily, her eyes following the movements of some bird of the sea that was eiroli round and round far above them. * like tho bay and the besutiful Navy- Yard, and the old forts with their t silent guna and cannon balls, and their ramparts strown with wild flow. ers. As for this'island, I simply love It seems to stand ao a sentinel et gate of the sea—such a slonder strip of land, but so sieadiast. Only to think! Here before us is the grest few yards behind us, on the other side, lies the beautiful blue bay, in the dis tance the great ships anchored pence fully on its bosom, and stiil further in the background the sweet, peacelnl old tewn. Oh, I like it.” “Evidently,” said her companion. He seemed amused. “Why do you smile?” she asked. “I am thinking how different yon are from what you were described to me." “And how was that?" “Oh, Y had heard of the lovely Miss Loomis, the beauty and belle, and I rather fancied you a young woman whose most serious occupations were dancing and refusing proposals of mar. riage." She Inughed gayly, a sweet, ringing infectious laugh, 1n which he joined. “It must have been quite a relief to find me such a plain, every-day sortof Person. a really nice, sensible girl.” Involuntarily she glanced at him re- sentfully, but he was watching the waves as they splashed and tumbled upon the beach, a little higher overy time, I have real- | gulf, rough and wwianl; while but » “And I pictured you as a veritable { woman-hater, caring for nothing but { your books. Positively, I dreaded to | soa you enter annte's itd at | the hotel. “Why?” asked the young man, | some surprise, | “1 was afraid something oyer.” | They both laughed again at this { sally. | “However, we have got along cap- | itally, have we not?” he said. i “Indeed we have; ever since that { night when you said: ‘Miss Loomis, let us be good friends and comrades.’ ” “That was the night you discovered that ‘with practice I might develop a rather good tenor voice,'" ‘Yes, and the seme night yon offered to put me through a course of reading that ‘would be really improving to my mind.'’ “Our "” i in you would knock friendship,” she went “has been so much plessanter, so much more satisfactory —than-—than" “Well, than the typical seaside af- fair,” he “A flirtation, for on, suggested, instance.” “Exnctly,' i¢ An ere d, all feathery gazing tranquilly Jands that were seurrving along overhead “‘I think that we have proved to circle of friends that there ean be such friend a thing our ship, the ’ to the as piatonic generally eps i contrary notwithstandi “Yo-o8,’ Td pli 1, absently After a little he said; “I shall iniss the good times we had together Without teacher that fine tenor voice of will soon be a thing of the past.” “Don’t say that. You are doing so well, I am quite proud of the way you sing ‘Oh, Promise Me." There is no use trying to sing or do anything else without some one tohelp have ru ny mine and encourage one,” he replied. “Oh, well,” she said, cheerfully; ‘New York is not such a large place, I suppose we shall get back there after a while, dy we have exhausted all the resort® and points of interest inthe country. I am nsually allowed to spend December and January at home,” “You kn “that you will New York wore kind enough to allow me to eall, what pleasure would there be witha dozen other so that a quiet talk would be an impossibility ?" “That is the way you look at it, is she said, quietly. ‘Very well, then, we will have to rest content with the memory of the pleasant have spent together in Florida." He made no reply, and at this june ture the crowd on the beach was seen to be augmented by fifteen or twenty newcomers. Bits of greeting and gay langhter were wafted to the conple on the sand. “Heigho! he said. “I remember now hearing that an- other party would be over on the Jack Tar,” said his companion, “There are the Belmonts and the Smiths and the Mallards- ves, and Charlie Bellew — iY WAN 45 SAAS ASME WONG bil GERY T “Don't know. She stunning, isn't she?” “She hails from New York; I ean tell from the cut of her frock. Why, it looks like-~I belicve—yes, it is w he said, y time for me in You very well” have n Bes les, supposing fellows around 18% is times wi Whom have we here?” is | Nellie Mayfair.’ ‘Not the little widow? it is! and she sees us.” A dainty figure in a gray gown, with the latest thing in hats to mate, ear rying a fluffy parasol, and walking with some difficulty over the sand in small, high-liceled shoes, approached them. Her round, childisk face was flushed with excitement, and her large, brown eyes sparkled with evident delight. By Jove, | onlled while still some distance from { them. { Dora, how glad I am to see you.” ly. | “Have I? 1 wished to, | lighted to be here. | do you do?” shaking hands with the other, Mrs, with the deepest reproach, said ; mother?” “Why, yes, my dear; of course,” ““And yet, you have never in any of your letters so much sas hinted at your engagements. I had to hesr it acci- dentally ~~ from a perfect stranger.” “My dear Nollie,” said the girl, “1 don't kuow what you are talking nbout. Iam not engaged Where conld yon have heard such a thing?’ “Don't try to deceive me, Dors,* said the little widow, shaking her hond mournfully, “I know yon have nlways * | ealled me u baby, but I can see some things, Hear it? I heard it on the vulgar elavated the day before 1 left town. There wis a couple just behind me, I paid no attention to them tili | marriage was an sccepted thing, “Not exactly that,” he replied, “but | | tainly not engaged, Mrs, Mayfield.” ‘‘Now, aren't you surprised?” she “I came last night. Dear, dear “And I youn,” returned Dore, ~rrm- “You have, indeed, surprised us.” I am so de- And how well you { look! And you, Mr. Hampton-—how | lation to twenty-one years after the | i { death of the testator. New York Dis- After rapturously embracing one and | patoh. Mayfair placed a hand on esch of her friend's shoulders, and, regarding her | “Oh, Dora, how could you treat me | following process: #0? When poor, dear Jack and I were engaged, weren't you the first to know? Didn't 1 tell you even before 1 told my the man remarked that the Istest en- | gngement he had heard was that of | Chase Hampton and Miss Dora Loomis, | Ther, of course, I listened just as hard ins I could, | perfectly inseparable ever since yon He said you had been were in Florida, and that your early Bo, you see, Dora, I know.” Then, turning to Hampton, she said | plaintively, ‘‘At least you will not deny | it, Mr. Hampton." After a slight pause, the gentleman fddressed tugged at his mustache rather nervously and said gravely: “Miss Loomis and myself are cor- “You are not?" she eried. “We are merely good friends,” sail Dora, with dignity. “Oh! Iam so sorry” -—distressedly \ wthow could I? Do forgive me, Dora. I was so sure of it." “Never mind," ftly, “Youn made ai, “Oh, but it isn't all, for I told all those people down there, and, of course, they thought that I knew, and, oh, my! there was a perfect crowd at | the station to me off, and I told them, too. Everybody knows it by this time. Oh, Dora, I can never for- give myself—never. What wo da?’ She caught her breath nervously, while her friend looked at her despair- ingly. “*T.ook at these people way!" exclaimed Dora. “They sre coming to congratulate von,” said Mrs, Mayfair, hysterically, “What shall I do? 1 tell suything youn say." “You might head the gested Hampton She gave her : Little dabs with her handkerchief and started off After she had proceed ded | yards she tu remarked SW 11, I d . her friend gen- mistake, that said f FE] " see Can walking this . " will them m off," sug eves two two or thro : i T 3 : ed around sacaeniy ana “Do you mind it » ) it! Mrs. Mayfair might have juliet.” “DD tighe n't abmse Ne meant no harm lie,” Dora replied ; It is the f25i of people who will 45x so and jump at They ean't understand how there could be such a thing as COnCINsIons, as ‘“As 8 platonic friendship?’ “Of course.” “There they come, and we are going to have to explain,” remarked Mr, Hempton. “Explanstions are always #0 trying,” he added “1 should think sa looking around wildly for an escape. There was only 5 strip of beach, the blue sky sbove nm looked down expression in restless gulf and the them. Her ¢ VID PRD I upon her with a strang nis eye =. “lf really 1 | wid, slowly, ~*'] he t would make it much we were engaged,” less swkward."” The girl looked up with a startled glance, and when her eves met his the color slowly suffused her throat and face. “Let it he pleaded. There was no time for a reply, for the erowd almost upon them. Nellie Mayfair was endeavoring nobly to dissnade them from their purpose, but her efforts were in vain. They were old friends, most of them, who had grown still more intimate during their six weeks’ sojourn in the land of orange blossoms “Well, Dora,” said a bright faced girl, pressing forward, *‘Nellie tells us you have stolen a march on us. Is it really true that two are en- go that way, sweetheart,” was You SSeS WAL A MiSanant'S hauss and then Dora responded sweetly : “Yea, it is quite true.” Raising her eyes she met the aston. whed gauze of the little widcw, and smiled, = Now Orleans Times-Demo- erat, I An Extraordinary Will, Mr. Thullesson, =» died at the close of the last century, left estate of the value of $3,000,000, and of this $500,000 was bequeathed to the widow, the testator directing that the rest should accumulate till the / | death of his three sons and all his { grandsons, when the eldest male de- { seesdant should inherit. The | eame indo court in 1856, on the con- | struction to be placed on the phrase | | “eldest male descendant,” when the {oost of deciding the rival claims re- | | duced the property to about its orig {inal value. Thullesson's case gave its | name to the set which limits accumu- i AI Preserving Walnuts, It is said that walnuta can be kept | any length of time if they undergo the They shoul be | put into » barrel arrangement, run by H steam engine, and thoroughly washed, after which they are put into the smudge-house and sulphared. After that they are put into drawers over » regulated temperature and kept for a ovetain time, and when removed oan at ore be sacked and shi to the market, The nut 1s bright and attractive-lovking, the meat thorough. ly seasoned and will not tura rancid, ~=New York World, merchant who | onse | RH PONS le COOL CHURNING IN THE MORNING, the morning. Bet one of the men | i i | | in | { how much better it is to get it out of | the way before the sun gets very high. | Always throw a handful, or more, of | | salt into the churn when the cream bo- | Ie al. | separation of the butter, and the but | termilk will draw off much more free- | ly. Keep the temperature at sixty | degrees, using ice in small lumps to | accomplish the desired result. Neg- lect to do this, will surely spoil the | butter. American Agriculturist, aoeiabe Se A WEE AR ' gina tn orannleta g 4 HANDLING OF COLTS, Wal There are many ways of handling ] . | has only one-fifth as much weter in it Maven of 8% oo so AAT Us VOD methods are good and some are bad, but the one that is most common, and | oolts at weaning time, remove it to some back pasture, where it can run with other stock and be out of sight of its dam. There itis de- prived of its prepared food, expected to thrive on grass, fight flies in the sun snd get water with the other stock at the spring or trough, The result is that the colt goes into winter quarters thin in flesh, stunted in growth, with drooped ears snd a rough coat of hair. It holds its own throngh the winter if extra feed and care given it, but good, thrifty growth is out of the ques tion. — New York World, be GETTING TREES FROM THE wWOODA Laws against obtaining money under false pretences might well be enforeed NJ Fe the year against thos dig in the woods small at this season « who trees and Rr length suitable at its lo the size of oz making a fine tre ne by carefully le ids, not sprigs, at the bran aving Hos are 4 : or only slightly trimmed, or elm l is ent oli on 18s ing some buds flow the ents process, and the make muck growth the first » At the best, a forest tree thus managed is far «inferior to the nursery trees that have Usually, however, the t PAs « ti and the nature push of the wv an out, chances of out OH i Just Ire exhaustive not ASO. This is an buds do ‘she exclaimed” bad the advantages of frequent sult ‘ a i vation, have symmetrical tops and plenty of small roots near the trunk, making transplanting so ss to rapid a matter, — Boston Insure growth FRESH AIR POR HORSES A bright scheme is being executed by a New York horseman, who has & son or two carrying on business in the country. He buys horses at a low figure thet are young sad promising, but are in poor condition, and suffer- ing from heat and harsh treatment on the paved streets. He sends them by boat at small expense to his sons, who use them from a mouth to two or three months on earth roads, give them abundant green food, and not a great deal of grain, and trest them to every | liberty and comfort which the country affords and their suffering natures de- mand. are not left idle. The young men are workers, and find it necessary to work the horses, but this does not seem to interfere in any way with their com- plete restoration. When the horses bave improved sufficiently they are re- turned io the city, snd others taken in their place, the father and sons reaping a handsome profit between the purchase and the selling price, as such horses rested, refreshed and in good | flesh are sometimes sold for double | what was paid for them. Here is a feasible oportunity for | farmers who desire cheap work horses and do not wish to winter them. Men who kaov' what horses are can buy to | advantage animals such as have been | | described, from early spring to sum- | mer, work them judiciously until they are in a salable condition, and let them | go for more than enough to compen- | sate for any annoyance they may have | made, and for their board, having their | | labor gratis. Two or three horses can | be returned and sold, and perhaps a | single one brought back to the farm to nse through the winter and sell in the spring. Many horses that are some- what stiffened and Jamed from im- proper using and excessive pounding on the pavements can be completely cured by driving withont shoes for a season. By watching the feet for a week or two after removing the shoes that the edges are kept filed smooth, almost any horse oan be driven most of the year on country roads without that commonly termed a shoe, mn or oh Tribune. THE WOOL MUST BE Fal. Dropping the wool is a frequent trouble wi Sheep. There are many different exp nn for this annoy- ance to the flock meater, but few of these hint at all at the fact that wool uct bo fod, or it cantot grow, and any failnre in its nutrition must result such a weakness that the flecos fails | skin, and thus drops off an if it were On hot days, it is a good plan to | | have the churning ready the first thing | or boys at it before breakfast, and see | | per cent. ; hydrogen, at the same time the worst of all, is to | At the same time the horses | in to keep up its connection with the sevored-—as it really is—at its root. The fleece of a hundred-pound sheep rankes up ten per cent, or more, of the animal's weight, and it consists of a far greater proportion of the most exacting elements of nuirition than the flesh of the sheep does, Flesh has seventy-five per cent, of water in it; wool hos anle Aftean ner flesh has in its dry matter the follow. ing elements, and wool has the quan- tities set opposite to them. Thus the composition of flesh is: Carbon, 51.88 nitrogen, 4.23. sow mL. wa we a warty "rE. 1.070; 15.01; oxygen, 21.87; washes, | Wool Carbon, 49.65 per cent. ; hy- { drogen, 6.98 ; nitrogen, 17.51 { 22.11; nshes, 2.0; sulphur 2.0. ; OXygen, Taking into account that the wool as the flesh, it is easily seen that it re- quires five times as much of the ele- ments of nutrition for each pound weight as the flesh, and thus, if the fleece of a merino weighs fifteen | pounds and the carcass, after shearing, weighs seventy-five pounds, equal quantities of food are required for ths production of each. This is, perhaps, never thought of by any feeder of the flock, for, so far, it seems to have been completely ignored by all writers upon sheep husbandry; and yet the importance of it is peramonunt. The common ignorance of these urgent de- mands of ments is, doubtless, the canse why the shoep suffers so much from the exhans- As the must be supplied after the ani- mal itself, the suffers } tive requirements of the wool Laan flee wool while pes, at least to some and as the wool ATL PP escl cannot exist 18 necessary acco ther cause, it a3 fibre of wh iin place in it, and each weak a fanit in | or other part of the mansgem This weakness in the fibre is ruinou causes it $0 break in the carding or combing, and thus become too short for the spinner, and fit only for felting This defect is known by the woolen manufacturers and buyers “break,” and makes it unsalable, Consequently, the matter of feeding, snd the regularity of it, are special poi ws be regarded by the shepherd. Yet it must not be supposed that the wool only suffers; thé sheep must necessarily suffer, for the damage to the wool is only one of the visible signs of injury to the whole animal In estimating the amount of food necessary for a sheep, all these points are to be taken into account, and the gross weight of the animal is to be in- creased, for estimating the allowanoe of food by the proportion to be added, un account of the extra dry substance To be on the safe side it will be reasonable to add to the live weight of ‘the sheep fally 100 per cent. ; that is, to double the weight, and esti- mate ration accordingly. The normal allowance of three per cent. of dry matter 100 pounds of carcass may thus be doubled, without any fear of overfeeding. -~American Agriculturist, FARM AND GARDENS NOTES. Avoid the praning of large limbs, BPDOLA Ie pres nis the wool, as it As 5 of the fleaca the The water vessels should be cleaned out daily. Poultry requires good food if eggs ara desired Be careful to provide dry quarters in wet weather, Mauy young trees are killed every year by overbearing, Ducks will suffer from if they have damp quarters, At eleven weeks old a Pekin duck | should weigh at least five pounds, Sunshine should be admitted into | the poultry house whenever possible, | Turkeys consume more food than chickens, but they also bring better | prices. It is to the interesi of the poultry keeper to supply food which will pro- mote laying. Soft shelled eggs, double yolk eggs and other irregularities indicate that the hens are too fat. J Watch the fruit trees, and when any insects appear spray with Paris green or other insecticides, When pruning protect all large wounds with a cost of melted grafting wax or a coat of coarse paint, A Foun ques will begin to deposit eggs ten days from birth, and is ored- ited with laying 3000 egge daily. It is generally conceded that July is tho best time to prane trees, although many prefer doing it at other times. Sort all fruit before offering for sale. More can be obtained for fruit of uniform size than for that whieh ie not graded. Poultry manure is one of the most profitable crops. It should be mixed with other mannre and spread broad. cast through the garden. Hons that are set dering the sume mer skoald have their nests made in cool, quiet place. If there is anyt eatable to be found, the black Brea aud the Leghorns will find it dey. E | and, as usual, hed not a book, | in reply, the fleece for special nutri- {| troubled wit | WusnLen i rheumatism Biblical Law, In the early days of interior Mis. pouri the late Judge E ent cords wood, cleared np his homestead farm, and was employed upon one side of nearly every case that came up, being for some years the only lawyer in the county. He had no books © except leather-covered Bible and an an old old vol {| nme or two of history, similsrly bound, { but had read law a short time in Ken- He was very small appearance, but death s& splendid tucky in his youth, and insignificant became before his in lawye r and nn honor: a Judge. A attoraey from the East settled in the little country town, with his library of about half a dozen new yonug | and handsomely bound inw books, and | on his first CRee he lihiow »e #5 4% YT. Taney wae Appearance 1m a brought most of his wy tices office In a fine, be flowered carpet bag, autifully populsr in that wis engaged against him, lly drew his books from his pretty carpet bag When his adversary earefu | and nid them on the table, E iooked ant inl £1, ered his ready reson the Justice to excuse | moments, He harried stead, half a mils his old leather-bound Bible snd hb tories into a grain sack snd them to court, 1m in laying th table. The ov: 1s noes was the East ra man, b tiff, made his opening argument snd read at length from his text bool E mad is characteristic to Or BO AaWLY, ana broug m introduead J cing for the pl speech fr reverse of that ng by reading law eH | Tee at 1s Just the read at Hi . Prexs STATE or Onto, Crry 1 AS 4 J. CHUSEY 1 1a | F Faarg J {IUNDRED DOL-~ of Catarrh that of HALL Ss Carawng Fuask J. Cuenxy. in my D. 1588, C ULEASON, Notary Public, fnternally and acta 00d and mucous surfaces of re lstaken send for testimonials, fres F.J.Cunesey & Co. roggisis, Tix Tole We Care Rupture, Row jong standing WHILE IN rr THE 3 . tine A was confined to my bed, unable to help mywelf for 22 months Alten ears of misery a com (panion machinist advis od me to take Hood's sarsapariiia, I got » bottle and could gui kly pole a change for the better, After taking | bottles 1 was weil and have not since been h my old compiainie.™ Jas A. 0 Division SL, Baltimore, Md. P "August Flower” My wife suffered with indigestion iad dyspepsia for years. Life be came a burden to her. Physicians failed to give relief. After reading | one of your books, I purchased a bottle of August Flower, It worked like 2 charm. My wife received im- wmediate relief after taking the first aose. She was completely cured— sow weighs 165 pounds, and can eat any‘hing she desires without any delsterious results as was formerly thecase. C. H. Dear, Prop’'r Wash- ington House, Washington, Va. @
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