A——————————— a tin SR — w—————————-. — LOVE'S COMPLETEN E38 Hattie, with “And how well you Just to think it is two months since we parted last,” you again!" cried Miss equal shriliness, are looking! whole Not the low, mysterious murmur, Ringing through the forest deeps, Not the footsteps of the summer Making green the mountain stoeps, Not the sound of childhood's laughter, Nor the poet's silver tone, With the plaudits ringing after, From the palace or the throne, Hold for us the tender Sweetness Of one chord of love's completenoss, ==Caroline Dana Howe, SPEED TH E PLOW, BY COUSIN MAY CARLETON, E— 0 Na sai But come in; I expect you are freez- ing." Mr. Duval, dearest.” was Miss Hattio's somewhat inapposite reply ; and Mr. Duval bowed much more politely 'to sister than he had done to the broth- er, while Kitty gave him her plump white hand with frank carelessnoss and bade him welcome to Ashfield, Then they all followed her into the lighted hall and from thence into the great | family sitting-room, where a real Th country fire of huge henilook logs was livid and omi- | blazed in an immense gulf of a fire- hous and streaked | place and the red and green carpet on with bars of fiery | the floor, and the crimson window cur- red ; the evening tains, and the cushioned rocking- wind wailed chairs, and the home-made sofa, and through the black | the book-case, and the little cottage pine trees, writh-| piano in the corner, all looked de ing like Dryads in lightfully cosy and homelike mn its ruby the death throes; | plow, But delight fulest sight of all, the long, winding | 4 table covered with the whitest of da village road was mask stood in the centre of the deserted, and the laden with that profusion that lonely depot down country folks know how to in a dismal sandy How fragrantly the flat was weird and biscuits smelt! how spectral enough for ! the fruit, ham, golden butter, the but- anything if the tered toast, the apple tarts, the cold ghostly evenin g | chicken and cheese and cake and the light. So the tall sunburnt young fel- amber jellies, sparkling like huge jew low, dressed in gray homespun, Scotch els in the cut glass dishes! eap and tall top boots, walking up and | What a merry meal it was! down with his hands in his coat pock- Kitty and Hattie's tongues did run! ets, thought as he watched the dark- | and how politely and languidly fas ening of the dreary day into still more cinaiing Mr. Duval tried to be! and dreary night and listened to the wild | how John, coming out of his bashful- malancholy moaning of the mysterious ness, began talking to Miss Grant and pine woods. was, after a while, quite astonished at With an unearthly shriek, such as | his own fluency! And when supper only an Indian or locomotive can give, | was over, and she sat down at the pi- the train steamed in and stopped to | ano, what was his surprise and delight det the passengers for Ashfield get ont. | to see her dear little white fingers go Half a dozen countrymen, t old | rattling over the keys to the merry women, a baby, a young lady and gen- tun of “Speed the Plow,” instead of Rleman, and au little white lap-dog the dismal and dreadfully long fan- that was what the car disgorged, and tasias Sister Kitty affected, and of then the bell rang, and it we which he never conld make head nor ing off like a flery meteor back to the tail. Miss Grant was s perfect little eity. The countrymen, theold women darling, and so Kitty had and the baby went away, and only the | said when she Young lady and ge man and lap dog remained, with Mr, J background Young lady threw back veil, closing a pair of particularly brown eyes, hair to match. glossy, a rosy little mo ith, and an in- tensely mxions expression of nance generally, “Dear me! it's wv ry odd! Kitty 1 was coming to-day, assured me her brother or would be in waiting. and I dc ntsee vw to do in this wilderness ” “Perhaps that fellow over there the gray homespun may Know how direct suggested the voung gen tleman, who was a ve ry stylishly Young gentleman, indeed, with a cloak and a mustache, and a pale and inter- esting countenance, illumicated by a pair of large, dark, melancholy eyes “Shall I ask bim?” John Ward, in saw the bright Way 1 becom Bay room, only revel in, hot tea and warm tempting looked and how wo nt steam raptnrously kissed that lady for the thousandth time and to ohn Ward in the her chamber and. returning to the The sitting room, found Brother John dis: | there king th ughtfully into bright the roaring, red fire wavy and ‘And I wish,” eried Kitty, cally, ““oh, how I do wish sha sister I “And so do I, Kitty," John, starting up showed her reconnoitering her alone, lo ecstat Wes my counte- ; said Brother “Good night.” When Mr. Duval took himself off next morning, Miss Grant's sage had been: “Tell mamma and will be home in » fortnight, farthest.” But the fortnight snd she was not at home Christmas came and went, and still Miss Hattie rastioated. It was the oddest thing in the world, Miss Hattio's mamma said ; what could keep the child in the coun try? or what charm was there to keep the gay city girl so long? If it was his distant corns Tr, August, but December only brown eves turn his And all her numerous admir- and nscious ers began to echo the exe of his gray | and ¢o turn their thoukhts to an investigating boots, t t of his pock trip to Ashfield themselves Ah! had ets and blushed, ‘‘celestial. r sy red,” wi what good times Hat under favor of the Resist. tie was h ving ghing over the ing a delirious desire k the o ith Kitty and Brother John, owner of the stylish cloak and mourn out skating every « vening « fully dark ey y there and ti lake, and going to quilting frolies and he advanced and ton hed his hat w Surprise parties, and doing eve rything an awkward grace of his own, to Ii free and independent brown-eyed young lady for onee in her life quite forgetful of “Beg your pardon the existance of the terrible Indy, Mrs. Miss Grant?” Grundy ; and finding out, too, what a “Yes, sir; and you are poet brother John was and how bean. “Jobn Ward, Kitty's br ther ; tifully he could read aloud stormy the gig's right out he re, waiting, evenings, while she and Kitty embroid- this your luggage?” ered, and how he knew Latin and lots He was lifting a huge trunk and! of things nobody would ever suspect ! buger bandbox, still red to the roots Ah! it waa all delightful and the only of his hair, when a little hand, daintily pity was it could not last forever, But kidded, was held out, and the pretty | New Year was at hand and there was face was looking up st him with the a peremptory letter from mamma com- prettiest smile in the world manding an instant return home for “I am very glad to see you, Mr. | the grand reception of that day. It Ward. TI have heard so much of you | was the evening before her departure from Kitty that I don't feel as if we A stormy December evening, with Ware strangers at all.” rain and sleet lashing the windows and “Yon are very good to remember | the gale sobbing snd sureing wildly me!” John stammered, dropping the | around the old fara house. But in the lavender glove as if it burned him. sitting-room, where thy hemlock 10K “Will you get into the gig? it's cold | roared and blazed, flooding every cor- bere.” | ner with rosy light ; where the crimson “Certainly ; but first lot me mak. curtains were drawn, everything was ou acquainted with Mr. Duval— My, delightfully warm and cozy and Hattie Ward, Mr. Duval” | sat alone at the iano, the open letter Mr. Duval lifted his excessively be- lying on it, her peas straying over eoming cap an inch from his ebon the keys and one bright drop after locks and replaced it Sgnin, staring at | another falling unheeded on the pol- John all the while as if he were & live | ished ivory. Presently the dour opened, kangaroo; and Joht seized the trunk | some one cameo in and stood beside her, a8 if it were a work box and carried it | but Hastie never looked up. in his strong arms to the gig. Mr. “Where's Kitty?’ asked brother Duval followed with the young lady, ' John. the lap dog and the bandbox, and took Hattie had to cough to cloar her his seat quite as a matter of course be- | throat before she could answer. i side her while John drove through the “Up stairs helping Beity to strap | lonely road whistling “Speed the | my trank 1” Plow,” and trying to appear very ‘You are much at esse and quite unconscious of then 7" the animated conversation going on! Yes" very faintly, behind him. Now and then little Miss | “Won't you play for me onee more Grant woald lean over and sak him a | before yon go?” question, but John's answers were not | The restless fingers were still for an elaborate sud talk all on one side soon | instant, then “Speed the Plow" rang ly through the room. Prothon John looked down at the lit- white hands, still once more with. out venturing a glance at the downonst face, “Ha I told and she inst mes re going folks 1 st the passed all the to ns, Row | fan y! ty fy 11 MN EK! » . painfully ec immation and womespun ORI S4 vk his han is m they only kn darkne 44 aie] Bil 0 knoe mntry w and i the oR i wh else she the ked h is your name and Is going away to-morrow, | | gn ¢ had been silently whistling for | upward of a quarter of an hour, when | tle they drove through » wooden gate, up | an avenue of oringe hemlooks and stopped before a tall, old-fashione® farm house, whose windows were all | tune; but plows are extremely vulgar ablaze with illumination, | things in reality don't you think so,” At the sonnd of the wheels, the hall “No P door was thrown open and “Are you mot face, framed in golden hair, | back ko the and smiling and rosy, peeped out. One | there?" Slaton wos sufficient, and with a shrill! X, afiswar, shriek of delight, Mim Kitty | “You must have found it very dull, was clasped in the arms of Miss Hat- | I win afraid, inthis quiet country place tie. for the past month 7 “Mx own dens, darling Hattie! Oh, 1 Kk K N, {Duval ming for 1 'm #0 glad you've come!” oried itty, | “Mr. Duval is oo ou, fu shrill ta of joy. ’ 1 the Plow’ is a very protty glad you are going city and your gay life “Yes, doesn’t it seem like an age!" | “Let me make you acquainted with | along one day a professor | wonond in command of think Kitty said,” “Oh, Kitty, how nice it is to meet | “Yes!” | “Yoa will be very glad to see him sgnin, will you not?” “Not particularly 1” aT suppose you will forget all about { You are home a week.” { “You know better than that 1” How John's heart went thumping against his side words were on his tongue if he conld only get them off, It might be pro. sumption, it might be folly, but he felt he must say it ¢ tempt. be a mild way of deseribing the tide he felt ebbing and fl face. Even that was Could the self-possed voung lady of the world ever love a man blushed? Kitty's dress was rusthng down the stairs: she would two minutes, and then good-} chance of uttering the magic “Miss Grant John, in desperation. “'Y. & month in the country ; do yo do you think you conld ev. r it all your life?” It is astonishing how can be at these blushing bling, great giant that he was, stool In strong contrast to the extre me eon - posure of the young lady, who enun. ciated with unmistakable distinctness: “Yes, I think I could!" Kitty's step was in the hall ; brother John stopped and grasped one little white hand. “Hattie oh, Hattie! do you think You could stay with me?” “Y.e-s, I think I could!” “Oh, Hattie, I know I Am a great, rough fellow, but I love you with a my heart. Do yon—ean you-—will You love me in return?” “Yos!" said Hattie And just then, as Kitty came in, she hed her hand away and tcok playing "Speed the Plow" as if for s wager “Dear me red Your tru fiery & drawbaek, be ir in words! \ ive trying crises, Johs, "eried Kitty, innocently and hot yon Jo k, John nk's packed, Hattie ; but, my » I don’t know what I'll ds “how yon go ont ery, Kitty; I'll saad Miss Hatt i rely did when the Jun i the great ment and disgn . has staid ever » ———— ol The Great Tannsls of the World, 1803 bee in the a deserve m in the gue of great engines ring fonts of In the table has been specially a 11 On January i, twee: ther sixty tunng were and 1s i ment nd other countries which Louis Republie “Notes for the Curi- 1¢ of these subterrane an located and their total length given in either feet, yards or tiles : wonde I's Are Bildstock 1 Ernest August Germany Georg Garmany loseph 11 Germany "rejus France, .e Gothard Switzerland, .. Dudley Hudderfioid K Modway Thames and Severn Slerra Madras San Carlo Severn ‘ " aiah Woohtestongo ... .. “eesun Mont Censis «os France-Italy..... 40, Chemnits ee oo. Hungary 10} miles * The Sutro Tunnel fe really an immense underground deain at the CO nstock mines, Nevada, The figures of lsagth given above include the side drains or “laterals, ——— She Was a Paragon, ‘Yes, there was one girl who lived right slong with us for twenty-two years,” said the old lady with a remin- scent sigh, “‘and she might have been with the family vet if she had wanted to stay.” “She must have been a jewel,” said one of the eallers. “Yes. We never had any trouble with her about wages or afternoon out or anything of that kind.” “Good sook 7" “Excellent. She could play the piano beautifully, too.” “Did you let her do that?" “Oh, yes. And she read the papers to us and kept the library in order, England England Mexion Mexieo England, Mexioo "hames and | and could Xeep accounts and paint on chins and embroider on silk as nicely | as anybody you ever saw.” “I never beard of the like! How in the world did you happen to let her go? “Well, there came a young man in college ~and said he wanted her, and-—and here's one of her children now, Come, darling, and wit on grandmother's lap." —Chicago Tribune, — III ih A Child’s Presence of Mind, During the Inventions Exhibition 1 happened to be standing next to the the London Fire vinted ont to me that Brigade, and he tired in usi presence of mind was r all these inventions, sod that it was rarely met with at fires, “One of the fow onsen of presence of mind that I have met with. * wild my informani, ‘and the most extraordinar , Was at a big fire in a girls’ school. A number jamped and wure lost, but one little girl of ten took off hor shoes and stook- nga 60 aa to got a firm foothold sud stood on the windowsill till we rescued her," Mall Gazette, us old-fashioned conntry folks before and what a torrent of | ir die in the at- To say he was blushing would | owing in hig | | late in the fall, and vho | we toall | : p Q | winter feeding betters it for a crop ot Hattie I" said brother grain Fens nm have lived | '* Would otherwise, think | in | cool women ! and stammering and trem. | | try. | that in nearly all cases they are | healthier, | and free from lice, | source of | They lay eggs, hatch young fowls, and | yield & good quantity of feathers, and TT —————————— RYE AS A LATE FODOER, Tf short of hay or fodder, sow rye, [t will give abundance of pasturage not covered with Know, If not in con- dition next spring for a Paying crop Ae grain, it may be turned under and help eut the corn. Some claim sh, causes it to stool out more than Be that as it may, it makes good pasturage, Sow some, WASHING OF BUTTER, The advantages of washed and nn. washed butter are being discussed in England. Too much washing is ad- mitted to injure the flavor, but a little water is generally used. The Swedish and Danish butter-makers who supply | the English market get all the buttér. | milk from the butter by repeated pressure, This requires a good desl of work, while washing the butter simplifies the matier greatly, Some of the best English dairy makers never use water. In this country we believe the use of it is universal. ~ Our dairy- men may learn something from the discussion, which may give them some new ideas on the subject. LIGHT SHOES POR YOUNG HORSES, The most careful horse breeders are agreed that the lighter the shoe and the less it is worn the better In are- cent address before an English agri- sultural soci ty, Professor Axe dis- cussed the subject, depreeating the blundering management of the feet of horses. Often fine animals are ruined by being wear their too early and too long Standing in the lin! CRAG by tating ee should not be the horse at al In pl other farm operations a horse walk ten to twe uty miles a day and advances about four feet ata ste [4 each step the horse lifts half a pound extra on its two feet, 667 pounds in every mile. In a day's work of fifteen miles, the horse would lift 9900 pounds extra or nearly five tons. If the forces required to lift this five tor fn could oxy ended the borse is doing, much more accomplished In the light of these facts is it any wonder that when young horses begin to wear shoes they soon become leg weary, have their steps thortened and acquire a slow walking Farm, Field and Fireside. eansed to shoes 3 a 3 stable lameness, an king taking ft le wing ' be in gait? PERIMENTS WITH LAYING HENS Belief in the male bird necessity of keeping a Lens is still In order to settle this point a series of experiments was un dertaken bry the Geneva (N Y.) Sta tion. The trial was made with four pens, two of which comtained cock re els, while the other two we re without any. The result showed that a pen of pullets kept without a male produced eges at about thirty per cent. less cost than an exactly similar pen with a cockerel was ke pt Another pen without a male gave during the first three months about the same proportionate excess of prod- Bet over au exactly similar pen with which a cockerel was kept. After the development of the {i ather-eating habit the egg product diminished, but during eight months the total egg Yield for each pen were very nearly alike, In each of the two pens without male birds some pullets had begun to lay from one to two months earlier then avy in the corresponding pens in which male birds were kept While ‘“‘feather-eating” usually ap- pears after feeding for any length of time an unvaried ration deficient in some constituents, more especially ni. trogenous matter, the habit has devel oped from idleness or some unknown eanse among fowls having a ration which gave satisfactory results with ith w laving which | | are less tag) {than either « during winter ie | | grow very rapidly, | Beese, to sell the | keep the older other similar pens of fowls fed at the same time, KEEPING DUCKS AND GERSE, The advantage of raising docks and geese over turkeys and chickens is, that if they can be given the range of i ————————— lens it - done in an incubator. They € to raise in an brooder urkeys or chickens, and with oad fou Shang Chill De meae to much faster than chickens, so that When three months | old they readily Weigh four or five | pounds apiece, while chickens will average about two, Bog, ducks and Sic require loss Erin and more bulky 1..4 than turkeys op chickens and it oh, and especiily gu, with younger fowls and ol Whe for layin. breeding, After they Jilbg and well matured, the feat. *easonnbly } tar} ’ 8 can he picked regularly several tin, i | the season A full grown gBBTing either the Toulouse or Embden py of will average a pound of feathers dup | ing the season, says a writer in the Husbandman, and that will pay readily for their keep, giving the eggs as in crease for profit, With the Pekin ducks it is a mistake to think that a pond of water is neces sary; they will get along very well with what is needed to drink, and this must always be supplied liberally, and be pure and fresh. But geese need plenty of water. 80 far us possible the better plan is to give them the run of a good pasture, penning up at night This is especially DeCessary with the ducks after they commence laying, or a good portion of the eggs will be lost, as they drop them almost anywhere, and it is only by keeping them penned up at night that they can be ae cured. It is not best to confine them with other fowls: haves se parate apartment and that bedding is supplied so that they can be kept clean and ¢ While they » swim and play in water, it is important to their health to have the place dry where the ¥ rest at night, Orange Judd Farmer. i 15 fis mfortable. ike very FARM AXD GARDEX XOras is more salable than wrseshoes are worth a The objecti tendency to can ly honey is its Bees are fond of salt and are said to make more honey when it is provided, Big h are still oc price 8. rses with style and quality mmanding remunerative A horse with a sore mouth will harder on the bit than sound mouth. pull one with a I the fall is favorable to honey gathering the col ny will store enough to winter on A fast tials of eo ness of action There are said to be four distinet varieties of honey-bees in India They are all different from the honey-bee of this country. walker possesses the essen. rage, energy and nimble. When a sheep 1s to be sold put it id the best possible mutton condition Never think of selling a thin, poor sheep on any sooount Feeding too much soft slushy feed is often a factor in bringing on the gapes in young chickens, as the fer mentation taking place tends to create the germs of the disease. On the farm, as least, the fowls should have a good range, as they will pick up much that would otherw is go to waste, and in this way the cost of feeding be greatly lessened Chicks that give promise of proving standard fowls will thrive much better if the culls are removed and more room in the quarters and a freer range given to those that are to be kept Don't allow the boys to tease the stock ram. A butting ram isa great nuisance as well as a dangerous ani- mal, and the boy that taught him to butt does a mischievous act. | An English farmer timed his horses when plowing, snd found they walked st the rate of nearly 144 miles in eight hours. It requires a eleven miles walk to plow an acre in nine-inch furrows Diarrhma may often be mistaken for | | cholera, as the symptoms at the start are nearly the same. As soon as the | birds are affected they have a down- 8 good pasture with plenty of water, | | they will need less looking after. They are hardy, easily raised and require less expeasive food than other poul- | To this may be added the fect An additional income is their feathers. ean, with good treatment, be made profitable. breeds. Embden ducks cost no more freese and Pekin larger profit, eka, if provided with comfortable quarters where they oan rest at night Are reasonably well fed, will often commence laying the latter part of January or the first of February, and lay vory larly until warm weather seta in, in to lay early in lay fourteen to thess should nearly al- hons, as it is often mother will not be- until late. With ducks best not to attempt to first lo ving of eggs un. i ! Of course with either it is | "toe of the better class of consum - | always best to have the larger, better | *™ | to raise than the | article in the a other kinds, while they return a much | of bees should | | : : : | conditions make more honey, being less subject to disease | cast look, become sleepy, lose strength and have more or less fever. The advantage with the Italian bees over the black is that they sre much easier to handle, being much gentler. They aloo produce a much larger in. crease of boes, and under the same In most localities the use of honey is nothing like so great as it would be if those who keep bees wonld put up the honey in a more attractive form and taxe more pains to bring it to the Fonndation is an indispensable fary, and every keeper ve a good supply of it on hand. With it we can have niece, straight combs, and save the bees con- siderable work, as well as consumption of honey. eR, ou ’ the winter. But it ia necessary to understand the machine and to proper care in order to obtain the results. Now is a and try au nea | He On ms | over Running out of un Rppetite, f eel, arms and han 1008 and ir I wag bos Te Hood’s S§ alpre I finished — {la ep wel I continued mY Mow the . del ptt ux ma x, 2723 % ont Hood's bh S Two bottles of German Syrup cured me of Hemorrhage of the Lungs when other remedies failed, I am a married man and thirty-six years of age, and live with y wife and two little girls at Dus Mo. I have stated this brief ; n so that al inderstand. My case was a bad one, and I shall be glad to tell anyone about it who will write me. Pre IL. Scares X, P. O. Box gs, April 25, 1800, N 1 could ask a more he norable, busi- pess-like statement the Io Ek ey ¢ e aay * YO Ing COVEN ung Wt H Ld Curs Coughs, Hoarseuew, Sot hoopisy Cough and Asthm thes no tiv] has pu d others {170d i cure you wold ty Druggis Bock or Chen us ie od thoy is reed 7 is gusran. fOcs Injector tres Y xt ADWAY'S PILLS, re ave you ’ teed to cure | U. Price vegetable, mild and mis Digestion. ¢ mpaete a'wotption For the re of Jdver, B 5 Purely fect regularity & Madder CL . wels, Kids Diseases LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION, DIZZY FEELINGS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, PERFRCT DIGESTION »u aking Madwavy Piiia Hy Properties they stimalate tie of the bile and is Amoharge durta These Pilie tn Gomes Ty WE tw : GUickly reguiste the a4 i of the Liver sad Palen: from these lisorders me or ten Way's Pilla, taken aally by those subject to bili Prine and 1orpadity of the liver. w Wl keep the tem regular and sec REE Bealiny digestion Price, 25, per Box. 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