HACK AND MEW, Hiok and How wore the sons of God In the earlier earth than now ; One at His "it hand, one at His loft, i To obey a. Ae taught them how, And Hack was blind, and Hew was dumb, But both had the wild, wild heart : And God's calm will was their burning will, And the gist of their toll was art. | their liking than most of the city | youths with whom, through his kind | offices, they became aequainted. Ho | had so much of what women call! “style,” and he knew how to say nico things, and to suggest new ways of | | killing time, and to occasionally pro- vide plensant surprises that cost money--a faculty which is quite ss rare among city youths, in proportion {to their numbers, as in any country They made the moon and the belted stars, They set the sun to ride ; They loosed the girdle and vell of the sea, The wind and the purple tide, Both flower and beast beneath their hands To beauty and speed outgrow — The furious, fumbling hand of Hack, | And the glorving hand of Hew. Then fire and clay, they fashioned a man, And painted him rosy brown ; And God Himself blew hard in his eyes ; “Let them burn till they smoulder down I And Hack, i “There! sald thought Hew, “We'll rest, for our toil is done." | But ‘‘Nay,” the Master Workman said, | “For your toll is just begun. and “There!” “And ye who served Me of old as God Shall serve Mo anew as man, Till I compass the dream that is in My heart, And perfect the vaster plan.” And still the erafstsman over his oraft, In the vague white light of dawn. With God While the mounting day comes on 's calm will for his burning will, ’ | Yearning, wind-awift, indolent. wild Tolls with those shadowy two The faltering, restless hand of Hack, And the tireless hand of Hew. -Bliss Carman, in Atlantic, EVERY BODY'S GOOD FRIEND BY JOHNSON BURT. HAT was the by which he most frequently ignated, | NAm« was a es knew very well that his visiting card bors thi “Mr Robertes rune.” Hq dress ntane as to business, his desk was in the of ficcof a private banking house near Wall street, and he was supposed to be a silent partner of the bankers them selves, He belonged to two or three clups and spent much time in each of them, which not the men of brisk business manner, such as Mr. Brune ssed ; and strangers, brought into of the clubs by city did not the im, Brune fources ol of becoming of maki tircly at ease had RR WAY { two i f would ins the pr unlike genera and were is way of posse Tos sc or other "or is new but as pay all « wero fai who too pitality were the p class of entertar pay. : i the a ste who have mi wanttospen can b : Ww they received, and , the members of Brune's hos- for they ngers to otaer notice 0 objection, ional elub lou men who never fail ments for which en) groat and lsewhere and city dy families were the most pleasure To all these who fell wins as hearty as if Id fr He did roduce them to members of the ur Hundred,” but he « plained to confidentally, that his own lands wero not of that particular set because they did not care to be in it, and that they were quite as good and refined as most of the people whose names appeared oftenest in the fash ionable news of the daily papers statement which nobody could deny He would take unwearied pains, too, with families who desired to make t} city their home; he would take them to real ostate agents who eonld trusted to deal fairly with them, and be knew the best decorators and up- holsterors, and dealers in furniture sud pictures and bric-a-brac, and he would introdnee newcomers in a man- rer which would make them truly grateful. Ho would also introduee them to Holden & Trust, the bankers with whom he lad his ofMee, taking earo first to assure thom that there was a grosd diffsrence between banks in a groai city ; the bigger institutions were mere machines, while Holdem & Trast wis a concarn modeled after the Eng- lish banks, where the acconnls were fow but large, and where any customer | was made to feel as much at home as | if be were in a friend's prior which, indeed the Ymsiness office of the firm groatly rosemblod in its appointments and quiet, No one ever seomaid 10 find reason to compinin of Brune; hoe never took bis male noqanintances to gambling | kouses or got them drunk, and he | never made love to She young ladies of | their familios that onine to the city, | Indeed, t: his newer sequaintancos | this seemed his only fault; for s num. | ber of young women who had broken | with their original cavaliors, as be- camo damsels who aepired to become sity belles, found Brune much more to bough ay Brune had bes n ind as tends be | to | whe { tion to marry rich i purpose, | re ally a susceptible | child ; 1 wasted her to learn the value village, To be the wife of such a man would be to become a social QUOT — | 80 thought some pretty young women knowledge came from their day-dreams, But Brune seemed provokingly blind all intimations that there wer hearts at his feet, waiting only to Le picked up; even when rallied on be- ing laughing and saying that he was really too poor to marry and do justice to a wife, This appeared strange to many who saw how freely he spent money un party ; but he able to say truly that a bachelor’s personal expenses were comparatively trifling, while to maintain a home in good style in the city n lot of statement which heads of families, whether new or old, werealways ready whose principally » ho wished to entertain was always cost great money —a { to verify from the depths of personal | experience Brune had with a firm determina or at he was keeping himself faithful to that It cost him terribly, he sometimes told himself, for he was fellow and his heart got a new sear about ones a YOAr ; but he to merely to have her taken from him by matter-of-fact who didn't his daugh- gh The truth that started in life Was, not all, and wasn't going win a girl father, spent by He was inthe m wanted him for a s in-law there was a proper way fi rich man to bring provided th want his money ter's husband ark if any rich man the Moorhart. a handson i far West, had set her heart or ing Mrs. Brune, and, i accustomed to havi: her own hing else, she did not tend to be thwarted in her one great est desire. She had an able sly in her mother, rings and wanted and as =i WAY about evervt in who held the family purse just such a man as ily, her own husband : money Being » nothing sine he had interro ut Brune's busines i * SAY oft those gen ncial stan i ing; tlemen declined 4 more than that Brune banked with them ; int, though not very re, NOVEr Overs ioliars’ nis with then 1 busing there seer : which Moorhart determined '; but the bankers pleads Ldaenos oing into particulars, unless Behind all 1 some waa iness con us their exen ized to do so by their ensto ner From that day Brune's fortund made pected bankers told him of Mrs for a won wae his Moorhart's f strong will and a lot of both for the bliss of fathoming a mys Certainly there could not hing wrong it Brune, or som« +2 } kn v N 5 - 0 oné woul knew him said anvthing buat as he half suspe when an abundant leisure will expend be who of good besides, had he not always been good friend? Mrs. Moorhart tried to make her home more agreeable to him than it had been, while the daughter let her glorious eyes rest upon him from time to time in a manner which man with eyes of his own could fail to un derstand. “Mr. Brane,” said Mrs. Moorhart one evemng, after her daaghter had entertained Brune greatly by telling of dashing horseback rides through the wild country-a sport she longed to again, she said, yet dared not hope for until she could go back again to look over the family property—‘‘Mr. Brune, that property troubles the dead girl more than a lit- tle, and I would like to consult you about it, if you'll allow me. You're everybody's friend, you know." “I am entirely st your service, lear madam.’ “I heartily wish you were,” replied the lady with a sigh. “Much of the Western property which my husband inherited belongs to Adah--she is not here, is she?-<no, 1 thought not. When she eame of age, 1 insisted that my husband should divide the estate, | as well as the personal property, and give hor a share, she being our only im 3 OWhD M8 # veryhb Wy “ even no enjoy my of money, and how to take care of it, instead of growing up » silly, fashion able girl, only to squander the! property of hor husband should she | ever marry. Of course she will inherit all that remains, in the course of time. She managed it with capital ability while we lived West, where she was practically on the ground, but since we have been East it has not yielded as large an income as it should, 13 is very hard to secure good agents there ; all men of ability are restloss until they get into ems for them- solves. 1 would our portion of the estate properly Inoked after, too, a bachelor he would escape by | Miss and we are so desirens of feeling ad ense about it that we would be glad to give a competent person a third of the entire income for his services. 1 supe pose it would he presumptuous to hope that you could afford to give up your business here for something that | would bring you not more than twenty. | five thousand a vesr—-a sum which we would gladly guarantee you; but if | yon could entertain the idea, I assure you that you could ensily spenda large part of your time in the East.” “My dear Mre. Moorhart,” said | Brune, trying to keep his heart out of | his mouth, ‘I am more flattered by | vour offar than words can tell jut really, I'm afraid you overrste my buginess ability, Were 1 to fail, 1 would feel unspeakably unhappy; 1 would be terribly humilinted Moorhart find it dispense with my services, still, to be found fault with by her, of all women in the world.” “‘I should imagine,’ said Mra. Mo hart, slowly and with a confident | “that ess to make your could with your services, necessary to OF wok, clever enough at busi- ire nse n't YOu Are I n that she position 80 Ree not afford to disp and that I woul dare do so. ' “My dear madam," protested Bru “I beg yon won't think that I co pian to take any advantage in bus of a lady of two ladies, indeed.” “I didn't ne, ld ness suppose anything unfai the reply; : in-—-there I've said more than I intended, I've supposed that you he i ter in high estecm ‘Higher, my de ever had for any othe “You must be le your sex in gencral learned that Adah, 1, war regard wi w hie returns y “I am fidence, my dear madam “May | sk woman stands dex Piy grate {1 whethe INDE NpoL my wut } ight « bh a wife to loo “1 have never kno ness was, bu “It is merely busi : " inoss,” said B ¥ ra: “Upon my h “Insist uj 3 en a that Adah a CWEDR DET had » a brid and a man who i When 1 from the chureh ther didn't fall in te a her daughter's neck : led her son-in-law aside and whispered : “You promised" “Yes, to tell you about my business Well, it's been to be eve ry body's good friend, and be well paid for it, none of them suspect it Holdem & Frust pay me one per cent. on the de posits of introduced to their bank, yours included ; real estats agents, f furne the bride's m« wre she th ugh evervons I've irnitare dealers, grocers, in fact, with whom my friends do business on my merchants ove ry one, introduction pay me a commission on my friends It's a line of trade I never thought of getting into, because I didn't know it existed: but after I'd had some comm issic IS Prose d upon me, I resolved that the business and I were made for each other of any I get here after on your trade I will return to you. Perhaps, now yon know all, you regrot having selected me to manage your daughter's affairs” Mrs. Moorhart gently pon-in-law's ear and said; business conrse, commissions boxed her should | and, worse | “Vm more than ever satisfied that | you're just the man for the place dear Adah will agree with me.” A Week. and ——— Looking Glasses In Coffins, One of the ancient nected with Swedish place a smell looking glass in coffin of an unmarried female, so that when the last trump sounds she might be able to arrange hor tressos. It was customs eon | the practice for Scandinavian maidens to wear their hair flowing loosely, | while the matrons wore it bound about {the head and generally covered with | some form of eap. | ried woman was imagined as awaken | ing at the judgment Henoe the nnmar- with more un- tidy looks than her wedded sisters and more in need of a glass Westminster Review, Contral Park is badly tunneled by moles and New York pi commis wioners have appropriated $2560 to pay for the services of a mole trapper for Sarde months, This man cleared the moles out of the park seven years He buries | wire — in thelr holes, Heo has driven the destructive wnimal ous of Prospect Park snd -Onee | funerals was to | the | HIGH ROOSTH, The roosts should not be high, es pecially if the birds are large and heavy. By observing hons when they go on the roosts at night it will be noticed thet when the roost ie hish i is with difficulty that some of them reach it and secure positions, Before | be continued each year for five years before one can definitely ascertain the real value of a variety, ns many of { those which appear promising st first i i | best varieties, all of the members of the flock get | settled there will be several falls from the perch, due to the general scramble for favorite places, and when leaving the roost in the morning the heavy birds come to the floor with m¢ force than is beneficial, the result be ing leg diffienlties and Chicago Times sometimes ternal injuries, TAINTED MILK, of tainted milk have been classified by Doctor Gerber as follo 1. Poor fodder 2. Poor, dirty walter, for } washing the cans 3. Poor air » 4. Unel 5. Keeping warm and poorly ven N¢ The CRIS we nsed ring th cows, but COWS fr Mui BOYOTAL YOars, niirely that the white bean adestr Aan Ian injured by) ping with oats, and the effect soil 18 to harden 1t nto clods land has been made poor by o ing one of the best ways to rest is to plow in the fall and = of peas with whatever fertiliz got, ground, and they will get much plant food they need from the air Peas nro besides a better grain to seed with clover than isthe oat. We mean, of ce peas broadeast and covering the whole surface the ground, American Caltivator, on such Ww ner at grow re i cr er oan bi for the of the Iw A Peas make more shade ree, sown of RAKING POTATORS FROM RED, To produce a strong, vigorous po- tato with good esting and keeping qualities, we must select for its parents varieties possessing these and by judicious crossing wo may ex- | machinery. This implies a tool house, | qualition ; | pect, to some extent, to fix in the new | variety, some at loast of the qualities wo desire to produce. The seed balls should bo gathered early in the fall, iaid in the sun a few days, and then squeezed out into water, The seeds will soon rise to the top, when they have to be skinned off and placed on paper or cloth to dry, After drying thoroughly in the sun, or a warm, dry room for about forty-eight hours, the soeds are to be ! in paper bags to keep until wanted. Early in the spring they may be sown thinly in rows in a hot-bed, or Inter in the open ground. When two to three weeks old the seedlings have to be pricked cut singly into esrefully pared hills, whi oid ba about feet apaA in rows three foot apart. A small numbered stake has to be put fn each bill, and during the growing season detailed notes shenld be taken concerning the habit, time ing, Race of sachs lant. This record sus i : i i ! i ! : run out entirely, and sometimes those which we were tempted to discard the first few prove our very At digging time select of the largest and best of each kind, placing carefully marked Yenrs may mly n few formed tubers them int each kind by itself, 186 only the largest I. At the end of the has bes i DOXES, in planting for and gKDoeim FREETE n given, prob r more varieties out of a hundred diings will be found that will the labor and mld be borne thing « thing 1 pay given them that uring care gained in se k¢ epang work done, nical genius reasonably ) necessary fitable invest three and oil, and Venet red r painting i implements The amount, or rather number, of tools a farmer should own ean best ba y include four paint er Spani ian determined by his abil iy to use them Money invested in tools that are not used 1s so much dead capital A vise, drill, set of bits and set of augers, set of saws and planes, a sho maker's outfit and harnessmaker’s out fit, such as are advertised, with rivets and copper wire, a supply of nails and bolts, will enable the farmer to do a very considerable amount of work fix ing up and keeping up buildings and brace, not only to keep the tools but to work in, as in this way many little jobs of repairing may be done on rainy days, Nebraska Farmer FARM AXD GARDEN NOTES, (live your stock a variety of food. Skim-milk is excellent food for pigs The stable fly is a bloodthirsty pest As a rule, small enters make small milkers Keep milk as far from the stable we possible, An unproduactive horse is a very ex pensive one, Clean farming is the best preventive of the stalk-borer, The finest looking stallion is not always the best breeder, Barley ia generally considered bet- tor thin wheat for winter pasture, Grass is nature's great remedy for most of the ills to which horsoflesh is heir, In some wsectionn of the country there is a constant demand for good mnles, Few oggs are laid by hens which are too fat, and, therefore, it is to the poultrymaa’s interest to seo that his fowls du not get into that state, 1s ing save that Damascus POSSOBBEY Oldest of Waterworks, A recent work on ssuitary engineers Ja | all probability, the oldest water works in the world. The city tacit is the | most ancient of existing cities, the yion, Nineveh, When Romans slrends xisted, and j {hint the Intter wire Palmyra and Jerusals ", by the Barscens from water works probable taken the the BT) ted Wore the town the Lebanor desert 1o the spite of LET, Darn rom epidem the iy lenky, pr t he wre ne they pas It is Dam aseus wn q | double cana wd drainage satura $100 Reward, 81600. + mo fq) lh r » w ¢ readers of this paper | When Nature A Beautiful Segvenir Spoon v ’ “1 water Nervousness « Rumrill, adacsat _ - i w Hood's*+ Cure » AT A Mua Svs Homuits Hood s Pills act one clently. on 13 ver The Rugged Ghid “outdoor” __{E) BN product. Fresh air and exercise usually pro- duee sound appetite and sound sleep Sickly chil- dren obtain great benefit from Scott's Emulsion of cod-iver oil with Hypo- phosphites, a fat-food rapid of assimilation and almost as palatable as milk. Prepared by Sects § Bowne NY All Sregiins, ; x . — x SRE ADWAY’S PILLS, Caiawe Par -— Purely vegetable, midd and relists | fect Digestion complete sbeorption and hea thi | regularity | Bommach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervop* For the cure of all disorders of the Diseases LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION, DIZZY FEELINGS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, RADWAY & C0. NEW GRR, no ———— sv
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