NOTHING TO REGRET, Bhould some great angel say to me to- morrow, “Thou must retread thy pathway from the | start, But God will grant in pity for thy sorrow, Some one dear wish, the nearest to thy heart," This wore my wish beginning Let bo what has been ! the whole, My want, my woe, my errors and my sinning, All, all were needed lessons for my soul,” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “From my Wisdom planned ND now, gentle- men, since we have | finished the busi- ness of electing a trustee, 1t of the district and Chairman of this meeting, to speak of a teacher for this ensuing year, Indeed, it gives me great pleasure to inform our trus- | tees that they will have very little trouble in securing the services of a worthy and woman. The applicant, Miss Amelia Squabbs, came to me a few days ago and asked me to use my interference in her behalf. She probably meant my influence, gentle- men. 1 did not quite gave her to understand might be at rest on tl Squabbs left estimable that her mind subject. graph to be pre district at h her phot this meeting. ty i IMINNDer exirem Just thie woman, much that Mr. Sawye t again no 8 moment, “Don't feel prejudiced, gentlomen, he came to first Her face shows that she has had experience ith boy and I feel confi . : ie to civilize s in this district.” CARURE 8 me deed” issued fr spike, who owned two rild continued Mr. Sawyer, 1 of the interruption 1 has been degenerating for + ars, until he st demoralized the whole i ty. bad n ple ase, Sawyer,” “You y speak , not you Wi that the school lately as it might sancey, " A rustees have not taken as to In the i ki our trustees expect to hire I'm safe t ) BAY You lon't as lives over the : Sg Ame, Daws n What say against her?” child, not older The children wont it a inderstand that they neighbor, but th fuller of spirit than my half inclined to agres then YR his el ruled his b was an invalid, snd Jemima, iest daughter, a girl of twenty, ue as best she could, He sent six children to school, and that left at h Jemima and Robert, a handsome young fellow of twenty-two. *“I# this new teacher the young girl whe goes gallivanting round the coun try on abig black horse?” asked Red dy, the father of another big family. ““Yeu, she rides horseback.” *“She has justreturned from Europe, they'cay, and I doubt not her head is filled with all sort of outlandish knowledge. A common teacher would do just as well “Why now, neighbors, had better give the young lady » chance,” spoke up ex-soldier Brown. “I am glad for my children’s sake that we are to have a refined, college bred and traveled teacher, ger to us all Perhaps she will better than some of yon to think." “Oh, yes, Brown; to bo sure youn have no fear for her! Your children always do get the benefits, 1's a fine thing to be a favorite pupil.” Mr. Brown's face flushed, but he answered quietly “Yous, I'm glad my children are fa vorites They are accustomed to obedience and kindness at home. and 1 believe they are also good in school.” Mr. Sawyer here arose, aad making his way to ths door said : “Gentlemen, the business of the evening ‘s finished. I have helped the school in the past all that I could, Miss Hope wishes my advices I'll give it; but the trustees have assumed the responsibility of hiring her, now they must sappert her. I'm dons, Good night.’ And he passed ont. ““That is just what we mean to do-- upport the teacher, and if every me do are inclined | to expel next month, | teacher,’ { wonder how she will like it?" life's dim | be-| hooves me, as clerk | engage her, but | Miss I think we | She is a stran- | father here will impress it on his [ broomsticks, mouth organs, tin basins, children's minds we won't have so many " remarked Mr, Brown, On the morning when school was to { open the children congregated early. ‘I've brought a present for the new ' said Barbara Hunter, 1 She opened a box she carried, and | we caught a glimpse of a little furry | ereoature, “Won't the dainty Miss Hope yell, | Jarbara. “"T'nint any of these in them { though!” said likely she saw furrin’ parts.” Down the road on a slow canter came a beautiful black horse and his rider, diiss Hope; she was dressed in a close. { fitting dark habit and cap. She stopped at Mr. where to leave her horse, gave Robert the bridle and entered the house reappeared, dressed for school, and walked quickly up the hill “Good morning! | you all,” she said pleasantly, Forty two pairs of eves scanned her Dawson's, she was Vi ry soon she [ am glad to meet closely as she passed into the school We were all there, and only those who have gone through the or- deal can appreciate how this first day was to be to the teacher. At 9 o'clock the bell and we took our seats, Some good in stinet must have guided Miss Hope in making the schedule of names, classes, house. young and so on, for she began with the row in which the best behaved pupils were Next was Barbara's row, inquired the | seated, “What is your name?” yonng teacher " eSome folks call 3? What de " «Barl “Bar “Hunter ‘How ‘Past ten Not till aftern her present, | crayon box on he re class was ealled Miss Hope, wirls can tell ior they “Who live, what ¢ thor a4 i hung up by bright rib 1 with flowers, calendars, r, little oileloth mats for other fhe walls, bons an a thermos the teacher's desk, and sts | he room io easant, Various yked very ting and pl lay Barbars was even more way ward than usual. She would not learn her ms at all. Miss Hope kept her after school It was so he sp ke an w " i $0 Ler me nutes be Ther thing so naturally and that the girl could not 1 She took her own brush and said; $ ira, od ir? While thns engaged talked of the beantiful places and things she had seen, telling her stories and anecdotes, until Barbara forgot her wrath and law zhed outright. Then Mis Hope put her arms around her. “Barbara, let's be friends you want to be?’ she asked. ‘iI don't know I've 80 bad and —and--1 put that mole on your she Don't been desk.” “Yes, I know.” ‘“And you are not angry?" *“No, only anxions about youn, dear.” And thets she talked to the repentant girl in a kind, earnest way she never forgot, and which made Hope's fast adherent. The young teacher knew quite well how she was regarded in the district her Miss | | we had forgotten, and ealling to Bar- very trying | complains again I'll tell him to come rang, | | least a { Miss Hope! Her methods were so practical and new | that they eansed comment, and she herself was so young and pretty and happy that the old fogies in the dis triot shook their heads and sighed. They know something dreadful would { their noise! boxes, anything with which to make a noise, “Mercy onus! What a din! How ean you expect those howling urching ever become quiet, law-abiding citizens or even verge on being good men and women? If you have any control whatever over them, Miss Hope, I beg you will bid them ceaso (A to “Peace Sawyer! And you, Miss Hope, will yon let us see what they will do ne xt, please ?” “Certainly, It lacks to school time, but this calisthenio drill days." We had received several drill lessons, and so well did we acquit ourselves on the present occasion that after fifteen or twenty minutes of gesture, singing and marching, Mr. Bpick exclaimed + “Why, it's as good as a show! I'm sare they obey even your uplifted hand, Miss Hope. 1 wondered what made my boy and o strong lately, and Ido believe there is such a thing half an hour 18 one of our ' rir: as learning how to teach even in them furrin parts. You do please, gentlemen,” “I'm going home, can as you he continued and when any one and see for himself.” We learned very fast that year, any one couldZell that, and so the trustees and parents decided to give us a pie nic asareward either for studying hard or for t having broken o ur heads, as some contended, For w We to Compare wr nroud of t with otl ne alternoon, al picnic, vO IM ere breaking y 1 | The last day of finally arrive How it was no o is it sink, but after in the wat Sr a must have the that colt, lenly were without jerked i man who was holding the r ANY wagon warning, stud from the if, and, dragging away, and before pe, sprang nt a saving hand the h the wded wazon We =a 1 and Wes, alral ) IVE we down inmb, with Or scream, al 0 the little hid ir heads and eried We wore he Ip- fear. Barbara Hunter had taken the reins, but she dared not use them, for at each pall the colt reared and kicked We knew nothing could save us from being thrown into the ra- vine if the horses’ speed was not slack- tl i th less with ened before we rounds ithe sharp, nar. row curve. in the road at rods from the curve? Her dress was torn, and her sweet face and hands all seratched and bleeding, In a few moments she had secured the dragging rope, which But who was that dozen bara to pull hard on the reins, the horses were brought fo a stop just as Robert Dawson, ou horseback, dashed upon the scene, Miss Hope fainted dead away then, Robert eanght her in his arms and | eallod hor wildly by name ; but she was happen in that school before the year | was done. by snd Fancy a teacher standing watching a boy climb the tallest tree he could find, or turning a | rope for a girl to jump! She had even { been known to approve of foot races, hadid springs and wrestling matches! When the trastecs, having been im. | | portuned again and again, consented | to go with Mr. Sawyer to expostulate, she laughed and queried : “Why, gentlemen, have you for. | gottem your own youth? You did all | thess things yourselves. It is achild’s If | nature, and if my pupils want to | strengthen their muscles in the old | way, I'm going to be on hand, if pos | sible, to help in case of an emergoney, You haven't any ides how much strong- | et some of them are growing. Hee how rosy and creot they are” Bo the road the scholars came, forty-two in number, with flags, | delirium of brain fever, H unconscious still when they took her home. For days she lay tossing in the She recov. ered at last, and soon after that we learned that we were to lose our teacher; for Robert Dawson never rested until she promised to be his i wife. We ware all sorry to lowe Miss Hope, but none more so than Mr, Sawyer, “1 don't care whether she knows how to teach in the old way or not," he said to one of the trustees; “but a girl who could elimb down the moun- tain hand over hand, on the wild grape vines, to save the lives of a lot of chile dren, is fit to be trusted with those children anywhere, I'm afraid we shall never see her like again,” And we never have, in the school room; but Mra. Robert Dawson is a sooisl power in the district, and her former pu are her most devoted friends, Waverly Magazine. I al | balance will be thie 12 | hen will last five years in good profit, | hens taxes the | poultry men, as a crowd of | very apt to become diseased, | are to PROFIT FROM POULTRY. Any good hen will lay 200 egps in a year and bring ont ten chickens, If, from the produce of these is deducted ' # ' Aki Tine rats AFA AFAR 4 iri 18 FL grain, ofit, A young But to keep # flock of more than fifty skill of experi need fowls | withot the most particular oare, —New York limes, CURE FOR ROANING, A new operation for the treatment of roaring has been introduced to the public by a prominent English veteri narian. The prineiplo involved is that, Yosring being originally a disease of the nervous system, the "prope r treat ment would be to put t left rec rent nerve, which had lost its funecti On toa iI motor CRYoOr nerve | CALVES IN INTER (five a calf YOR! a proper sta ! It poorly fed and housed no af ter care will ever up the from the unthrifty habits of body and poor digestion which wrong treatment at that stage is sure to bring on. The housing should be good and warm, without being stuffy and ill ventilated, and above all things chinks and drafts be avoided. A large stall in which about ten ean move around free- ly is best and most convenient every way The best fodder on the farm is none to good for them. A handful of cats make los | or chop at present prices will add to | the foture profit of the calf { should be provided in some form and | water as often as they care to drink Salt lo drive ealves a quarter of a mile on a cold day to a water hole will bring sertain harm and they will go faster ack than forward. The shed or house in which they are kept should face the | sonth and have plenty of light, for {| sunshine is as essential to animal as to plant life, If the enlves are of equal size they shoald be sorted into different lots, and if any show signs of unthriftiness, | they should be separated and have ex- tra care, snd if possible a bit of oil | enke, Oil eake #5 both food und med- | icine, and if ot all within rench every | farmer should Jay in a ton every fall, If an nore of flax is grown at home | and a little of it soaked in hot water for an ailing beast of any kind it will | be found a good investment. Cut when | the seed is green, anthroshod fax will do quite as well, and keep money at home. There is Bothing SO now, perhaps, in this advice, but it is «till worth thinking over, and putting in cemm—— o—————— pn —— practice all along, Canadian Agricul turist, STABLE CONVENIENCES, IT Willi save time in feeding and car. ing for the horses during the winter if necessary conveniences are provided, I'he horses can be groomed much more while they will their night's rest much better, can be first brought this f canily, enjoy if they when they are To ao bs nec cleaned into the enveinlly stables, in the best manner good foot tu or washing the feet and CHRATY A supply of old good for nothing else sl CUR Are rags that are ould als on hand, and when the horses come in at night their feet ean bx carefully washed If this soft, it delayed it will be and leg dried iirt 8 and work is done while the is will be much easier until the use rown off 1 and if the closed up, afloe aired in make » in the ud keep free all the trash arn it if you w Clear up and | om ent worn Hogs garden which =» I fattened \ uld not allowed to : In vers or r stomachs uld hing with bearing sppie chards sh broadesst mul manure © Rive n ArNYAr | is alwavs best all as str wid preparati Ek Does Bia IANS by removil nay be chan ged t lnck ques Ital n and in her ry the !? intro ing an Italian queen prince At the close { the honey season ted t laying ery eoiony sh mld Ix sop if IL is queen inspe supplied with =» It is well to remember that the flavor f the butter depends largely on the sweetness and the favor of the food given the cow Tainted milk does not always have a bad odor SOWET gas is the more deadly. An experimental shipraent of oaten hay oats ent when rather green and unthreshed has recently been made {rom Australia to England. If your animals once run down it will cost much trouble to get them thrifty again, and it will also cost | double to make up the lost gain Parent stocks that have must depend upon young queens | alone for their existence, If anything | bappens to them they cannot raise an- other, When yon see » nest of caterpillars destroy them, That ix the time, and tint is what you are there for. Wait ing for some special time doer not count, With the present demund for lean meat, instead of a esroass loaded with fat, it is comparatively easy to keep pigs in condition to market at any time. A little grain with the grass will do it, A man who takes pains to have his fruit of uniform quality throughout gets mora for his wares than he whe tues the Sifferent os ud walls t at an » as he can get for them, | i ball being It is in this respect like | i The more imperceptible it swarmed | Pall Mall Was a Game, wll Mall, thy sirect, derives its Tetie pninge celebrated London nae from sn athe ones very populsr in Eng- land called pall mall It consisted of driven through sn iron ring with a mallet that strikes the bull The game was played in the neighbor- hood of Bt, James Park in the time of Charles 11 on the street running slong called Francisco Chrovicle, HOOD’S Sarsaparilla CURES ¥ wide of this park, later Pall Mall. Man 7 ‘Blood Poisoned ttle ohild res or uty 1 ¢ Hood’s Sarsaparilla foes Decame natural, they slept we a Tet ' od to ge un flesh. They have not had a sick day since. re crobust ana healthy, W« r children’s are Mus, Javes Trower, Sas Hood's Pills act ensliy, vet po Pry “German Syrup” am a farmer at Fd Texas, used Germar i e ITS £1 wvssiull “yee or) “al Ae JURAS, Lolas, 1 “hest and Lungs ugh Syrups me say to any Syrupisthe best 0% MANY wn AE Ely READY RELIEF RES AND § Colds, Sore Throat Stiff Neck Catarrh, Toothache Neuralgia Asthma Bruises Sprains Quicker Than Any Koown Remedy Xo matter vi Ww exer jinenses § RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Will Aferd Instant Ease, ANTEBNALLY A bal Coughs, Hoarseness. Bronchitis, Headache Rheumatism at ‘ ain the Infirm pied CTVOuR mbler « cure Fever and e ) WH s and « . 4 y RADWAY'S PILLS,» , WAY'S READY RELIEF, Finny sold by Druggivin, Je BESIERE TO GET RADWAY'S, ents per Bottle, It is very difficult t o convince children that a medicine 1s “nice to take” —this trouble is not expen- enced in ad- | ministering Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. It is almost as palatable as milk, No preparation so rapidly builds up good esh, strength and nerve force. Mothers the world over rely upon it in all wasting diseases that children are heir to. Unlike the Dutch Process No Alkalies
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