Dintng and sleeping; Laughing and weeping, Bighing for some new toy Loving and hating, Wooing and mating, Chasing the phantom, Joy, Losing and winning, Praying and sinning, Seaking a higher life » Hope and repining, Shadow and shining, Care, and worry, and strife, Bumbag and wWastiag, Loltering, basting, Missing the golden mark, Praising and flouting, Trusting and doubting - Taking a leap in the dark, ~-Clarence Henry Pearson. A THE MARSEILLES CLOCKS. HERE is a tradition in Marseilles that on a par- ticular night, many years ago, all the clocks in that city were put forward one which is said to in the following hour-—a tradition have had its origin story: There lived in the vicinity of that city a M. Valette, a gentleman of an- cient family and of considerable for- tune, He had married Marie Dan- ville, daughter of the Mayor of the cidy, and, with their two sons and two daughters, dwelt in a beautiful villa near the city had beer the favorite residence of his ancestors As his children grew induced to h place both he a wived to be mo on of the Valette red by his ter a seat which up, h weaver, ove to Paris, 1 Mme, Valette united to the ed he was whi CON« 1" m Tr n he removal is family was Deen as a father, le Brun, who He Ina le renewed remittances upon ; sul the latter was forced wl oppresaive meas » for his master the nee- The scanty vintage of had made such de- to obey, and Le to the tenantry as Valette had be ted and be- love These circumstances were but little known to Valette, or he wonld evolted from a monrer of life have which wrung from his tenants almost all their hard-earned substance. One night, as he slept in Paris, the form of his fae- overed ular tree, The rover, that M ghost of & the aig ht ugh he had astonished at th of Le Bran, yet h cousidering the whole As & mere illusion, Stories of ghosts he ha H alwayw considered #4 fit only for the nursery, To take such sn errand journey garded as the ¥ ip #0 long a n he kn« ight mention on w 1 be re made n htfal than is daughters 1 are more thong father,” said « 0s ne of h 0 him next morning at breakfast. “I am thinking, my dear,” said M. Valette, “why I have been so long in hesring from Le Brun, I need money sud my demands have not been met Night came again, and about the hour of midnight Le Brun again ap- peared. There was an evident frown his countenance, aud he inquired of Valette why he had delayed in ful- filling request, Valette again promised immediate obedience, and was no longer disturbed by the unwal- come intruder. Morning came again “It must still be a dream,” said he to himself “though a remarkable one, certainly, To-day will probably bring me the expested lotters from Le Brun,” The third night the vision appeared with a terrrible frown on its counten- ance. It reproached Valette for his want of friendship to the man whose blood had been spilt in his cause, and for disregarding the peace of his sonl. his ‘If you will grant me my request,” | said thé phantom, “1 promise to give you twenty-four hours’ warning of the titae of your own death, to arrange your affairs and to make your peace with God.” M. Valette promised in the most golem manner that he would set off pext morning for Marseilles, to exe ente the commission ; and the appari- tion of Le Brun disappeared, Valette rose carly next day, and, al leging to his family thet business of | the most urgent necessity called him immediotely to Marseilles, departed for the seat of Ls kGaentors, after an abscnee of ten yours, There he found that the narration of the murder of Le Bran was but too true. Under the tree that had hien so minutely de. scribed to him he found the mangled remains, which he caused to be de- cently interred in the family vault. In vai, howevez, he made search for the murderers. The same causes which sceasioned the death of the unfortunate Ta Brun lod the tenants to the most of an | means of extravagunoe, “Had 1 imagined,” he exclaimed, “that my unsatisfactory plessures i since have retired from Paris. I shall { return to my estate immediately, that my children may learn to relish its | tranquil pleasures,’ M. Valette no sooner Paris than he communicated his reso- { lution to his wife. Mme Valotts { ing secomplished the principal object { of her residence in Paris—the educa- {tion of her family pleasure to a return, and in little more than a year they found themselves again in the chatean of their an oestors, About eight years after their return from Paris, the family mansion de- manding repairs, they fouad it neces sary to remove for some time to seilles, where they resided in the house of M. Danville, the father of Mme. Valette. Time had effaced the impression of his dream from the mind of Valette, Sitting one night after supper in the midst of his family, a loud and sud- den knocking was heard at the gate; but when the servant went to open it, he found nobody without, After a short interval the same loud knocking was agsin heard, and one of Valette's sons sccompanied the servant to the gate to see who demanded admittance at 80 unreasonable an hour. To their astonishment no one was to be seen there. A third time the knocking was repeated, still londer and louder, and a sudden thought darted across the mind of Valette Valette ck of her hu M ieclared hi A widered the whole as ons he unaccountable illusions the f1alsl HADe, with Danville, ever, ol him toars, 3 Lil f : ¥ ) t strongest minds He declared be the delusion, snd, slthough he could not secount for ream, said that this last vision must be were imagiua $4 son-in-isw must victim some his 4 ner had M. Valetts retired t M ess the apartment than Danville en ored to impr Same opinion Ap oe famil n-law ir at should be ¢ leven; so that the time set by the ghost Volette to over without any event supervening, nly « sh "wa believed by have passed he might be persuaded to give up fancies with which he impressed he was 80 deeply Next day the unhappy Valette made every effort to arrange his had f worldly at his will executed in dae dr] r orm, re gal swived the sacrament, and prepared himself for the awful vent he anticipated. The evening sp pr From » large open window which looked into a beautiful garden. he saw the sun go down, as he believed, for the last time The lamps were now lighted in the hall, and he sat in the midst of family and partook of the last supper which, he believed, he was to eat upon earth. The clocks of Marseilles tolled the eleventh hour “My dearest Marie,” said he to Mme Valette, “I have now only one hour to live. There is but hour be twixt me and eternity.” It approached. There was an usual silence in the company. twelfth hour struck, when, rising he exclaimed : “Heaven have mercy on me! " ached his one un- The up, My tine is come He heard the hour distinetly rung out by all the bells in Marseilles. “The Angeiof Death,” said he, *‘de- Inys his coming. Could all have been a delusion? No, it is impossible |" “The ghost,” said M. Danville, in » tone of irony, “has deceived you, is n lying prophet. safe? unhealthy imagination. | should banish, my friend, s thought which so completely overwhelms you.” “Well,” rejoined Valette, | will be done! I shall retire to my chamber and spend the night in grate- ful prayer for so signal a deliver- ance." | his chamber i name should be affixed. In ing { from his bed-chamber to the librar | he had to eross by the head of a flig | of stairs which led immediately down {40 the wine-celler, At this spot he | heard a faint murmur of voices below, ‘and instantly ran down to the bottom of the stairs to sscertain the cause, No sooner had be descended than an unseen hand stabbed him tothe beast, Ho | Are you not yot | — - The whole thing is the illusion | How the Forget.Me-Not Was Named, You | After having been nearly an hour in | . Valotte retnombered | gay” to pluck for her a tiny blue that he had left nnsigned in his library | Hower which she saw a doonment of importance to his | stream. | family, to which it was necessary his | would have cost so dear, T would long | hav. | -nasented with | Mar- | { should be comfortable and bands over | | the shoulder of garments i “God's | ! i i : : ] : obstinate concealment of the manner | At this moment the clocks in Mar. of it, nnd Valette saw, with horror and | | regret, the misery they had suffered | that he might be furnished with the | seilies struck one’ in the morning, or, as it really was, twelve at night--the exact time predicted by Le Brus. The oeller of M, Danville had been broken into by robbers, who, perceive | no | ing themselves discovered, saw other means of escape than by mur. dering the ill-fated Valeite, by whom they had been surprised. Thess men were unconscious instruments { hand of fate, —Argonaut. retnrned to | nn ——— - Loss or Gain. tha AA EAE ‘h Nun irish has vanished. The and legends are rarely told now; poli- ties and trade absorb all the conversa- tion. The narrative of bygone glories and sorrows, of Bt. Patrick and Brian, of the great O'Neil, and of the Geral. lines, and '08 and the famine, given place to United Ireland, The Nation, and the vulgarities of Mick MeQuade. The crossroads are deserted where formerly in the long summer evenings Erin's Muah of wll dh SEE AAAS the boys and girls gathered to dance | You to the fiddle’s never-tiring musie, may still see the girls milking the | cows in the crofts, morning and night, but you hear no more the plaintive ballad and all-ye to make the dalirimin dha let her milk down easily, To the non-politician as if were to the all-pervading political taint, It appears to him the plan of esmpaign has banished the “good people,” the rise and fall of the butter market put the milking song out of and discontent made the heart too heavy for the heels $0 be hight To the sentimental ob server the signs brighter omen If the people have less of the old Lome it seems this due tune, \ lens are of CAreiess gavyely, they If they are ot 1waere are grown discontented, it i shiftiessness ™ | fs SLeRdier grumbli meshing int, want ms and 1 higher than they the power of with with men snd Ee The Letter «J™ a the letter ''J s 4 Mascot, Appearas great uo ter? : dents I find the Christian yng the names if the BS 1 Limes taries of State ¢ Thirteen ymimenieed with J. and « nRIne he B L cn E— Round Shoulders Cured, nis Hej an physician has re | : if i0T canes’ vements All except v “severe 1d shonlde re, when LIraces are ometimes 8 necessity 1. Raise ts before vour shoulder high: ex head back ; rward ; tend arms sideways ; throw traighten head ; nu arms fi repeat ten raise arms on tiptoes, backwards ss possible ; ve inower times Stand ercet before rise then throw arms ] sink again on heels and drop arms to side; repeat ten times 3. Raise arms with ell bent shoulder high, bringing palms together in front of face; then, with elbows still bent, swing both arms vigorously backwards as far as possi ble, even with the shoulders, palms looking forward, This shonld be re- peated several times, but as the posi tion somewhat fatiguing rest or change of may be made be- tween the movements is exeroise Another simple movement designed to bring sbout a correct position of the shoulderblades consists of holding a cane or wand in both hands, throw. ing the head back and earrying the stick ‘from above the head back and : down the hips." As the clothing, if too tight or ur. yielding about or over the shoulders, may help to produce round shoulders, | both the under and outside wrist made elastic, New York World. Everybody kpowr the pretty little forget-me-not and likes the flower more perhaps becsuse of its name than ita beauty. How was it so called? The | Germans account for it by quite a | pathetic romance, It seems that once {upon a time a knight and a lady were | walking by the bank of the Danube when the latter asked her ‘gallant owing in the No sooner said than done, but the knight, overbalasncing. fell into the river and owing to the slip. pery nature of the bank sad the wolgt of his cwn armor was carried away by the current. As he threw the flowers asho:e to his lady he eried out with his Inst breath, *“Vergism mein nicht]” iy me not”) And ever since ha Scent Las lided looked upon as the - — in the | have | of | BARLEY POR 6106S, Hitherto, corn hes been looked up- old stories | on as the food Top hogs, but it has of late been discogered that too much of | it, beside injaring the health of the animal, has a tendency to harden the flesh. Recent experiments have proved conclusively the production of pork, and the Can ndian farmers have taken up the idea eagerly, They have shown themselves more progressive than the American, and it looks as if they would soon ex cel in the hog industry. It istime for our farmers to be up and doing. —~New York World. SORGHUM MOLASSES, In making sorghum molasses the juice should be run into three vats of sufficient capacity to ke op at least two hours ahead of the boiling As each vat is filled stir in unslacked lime un gl! litmus paper dipped in the juice will color will not change in I'he lime neutralize the and more impurities to rise with the scum After the lime juice has settled hours draw ink down. When acid CALLS fortwo defactor and boil drawing the tap should be two incl the bottom of the to sediment to settle After use the vat should be thoroughly Ihe boilir i FRPIGLY As 8 above tanx allow the cleansed ted on and the m a was thi isl wero sino leepest planting the plants on thes Arg rorous as the others ANG Vig Hat with an eariler incroases its 1 ng water the surface fluence has been & depth of three to four feet 3} The ration of moist more rapid fre re in from bel nd this in : ure m rolled than from un- eva] led ground, unless the surface s then the Irving effect of wel. al | i the yery reverse trae, a has ir nf und t ur feet §) Obs extend 1% of 1 rvat barley i f ons and ‘ cnscs of i nis more rapid and rolled than on nnrol Ihe vield of rolling. -~American inati i lete ground creased mer, OBIE Was In by Far BOW TO MILE. It is to be feared that generally i little attention i both to housing of the eattle and to proper feeding and treatment, Thomas Smith, Canadian in structor, in the course of a demons tration on butter-making. To milk » cow “clean” has always been the am bition of the milker, and when the end was attained he was perfectly satisfied But to milk a cow in a cleanly way, although of equal importance, did not, in a large percentage of oases, come within the scope of his consideration. I have, for example, again and again. poen good dairy cows quite spoiled through bad and careless milking, and have been quite astonished to learn how few milkers comparatively there are who understand snything about the cow's udder or milk vessel Al word or two on this point may not be out of place. The udder of the cow is divided into two chambers by an impervious mem- brane, This dividing substance rans | in the same direction as the backbone | and the milk from one chamber cannot pass inte the other. For this reason it is advisable that the milker should | operate, say, on the front and hind | teats on the side next to him, and, | having emptied one chamber of the | cow's vessel, should thon proceed with the other. This is not, however, the | general practice, i It is customary to operate on the toats of different chambers simultane. | only, on the gronnd that that method | of procedure preserves the natural | state of the udder, whereas such n | contention is quite contrar, i min fully persusded that dairy | of milking according to this notion the value of barley for | to fuck. | those so method | those riponed in the ~i8 mainly responsible for the mailormation in the much of udder of so many cows, This, of course, is a great evil, as it detracts from the appear- ance of the animals and lowers their money value when offered for sale. CARE OF THE WEANLING'S yruT. A correspondent writes that one of the and yet most neglected feature weanling colt are the feet first winter, The feet are to the fu- ture horse what the foundation is to the If the feet are defective it 18 certainly an abridgment to the use- horse, as utili largely dependent on his ability to get about, and good feet are of the very first importance in the general raske in an exchange portant 8 of the during the Most 1m house fulness of the his y is up of thie horse If the colt's for daring the feet are properly cared Bret winter, i feet ma even only moderately well develop made quite prom should be trimmed often quite free from foreign may induce dis Y Ue matter ase of any kind, the pocks t have vent mats the trimming iil rial ng the firs permitted to the rm that afler His feet are shape, which : to take on the | INGuoes th { the How strange ich pain § to k 88 LO that his breeding 1 for, neg Sh unt the nt: Lrive per care ai ery mm 1 atte : 4 he h FARM AXD GARDER NOTES milker will ruin the The best « AKiIng the rk at Nursing sheep is doing the w wr No fruit is » Om Your « ng end y sweet as that picked 3 wih vine Horses are often unconsciously ill treated by their owners, of wheat and ff the hogs Young sows sh at A mixture wd to finish « corn i» uid not be leant bred un y Are eight months When the pas dry up, too, vided Unskilful blacksmiths are respon sible for a great proportion of the iameness The best farmers abroad keep the land eovered with something the whole season, Sheep produce four erops—mutton, wool, lambs and manure, They also destroy woeds, The greatest improvement made in market stock has been the early maturity gain in When the horses are heated they should be covered with a blanket while left standing. It is said there never was a gray horse that did not have either a gray { dam or a gray sire, To dry horses’ legs after washing, there is nothing better than sawdust well dried and then well rubbed in, Every owner thinks he has the best lorse, but when it comes to buying a | horse hy always rans it dowhi until the purchase » made, The difference between good and pook Gare Lil InABY cases deterinines the difference between profit and loss in the keep of stock. It fa said that a peck of naturally dried peaches given three mes a day during the pench season forms an ex- cellent feed for horses. Some people object bo bagging their grapes on the plea that the flavor of in not quite equal to he California hat women tramps A Missouri girl has a foot fifteen | and a half inches long. Mrs ested Annie Besant just now is inter. in. a profit-sharing laundry. Bret Harte's young deughter has in- herited her fathaor'a 1 There nears Ore Woe men than men in England and Wales, ibavary taston are riy 200 G00 Princess Louise, of England of L , 8 Dow at work upon a bust rd Tenny- sot here fry who have LIL. D Blonde real shades of } Are SCYED Wome received beaut 8 Ii vel 13+ tal GIgIIRIIS Mrs. Fi blondes.” A good stuff for inexpensive is hoy sacking with moire. made thick and { It is to be hoped that American wo- men will not adopt suggestion of Colonel Dodge that they shall ride like the Egyptian women, who use a man's saddle with shortened stirrups; then pitting as far forward on the saddle as possible they throw ther feet to rear and ride solely from balance The Empress A Germany is a victim of graphic craze She 4 the the gusta Victoria of — How's This! flor One Hundred D ase of Catarrh that ons i's Ustarrh ( FF. .Cnexey & ( ersigne o inst 15 years, and believe him morable In all business transact se ‘ally able to carry oul an Je by their firm aUAXx, Wholesale Druggists, Toleda, are Reward for not be cured by Gre per us y obliga & Manvis, 3h Wholesale internaily ar an me Uk sur. wn, Price, The, per bottle. Sold Tod i mon inis free taker . Act. the | by all Droeeist: Pr. Hoxsie's Certain Croap Cure © CEPI Baoxonial, Taocnes for Throat Tron Rev, Henry ther west . a re ’ } bata's <0 of hers howe Mamie Adams She Was Blind | With sercfula In the eyes ~could barely distin. | guish between daylight and darkness, 1 took her to numerous exports and hospitals and gave ap in despair. A friend sdvised me to give Hood's Sarsaparilla and marvelous to relate, it has completely re- sored her sight and given her perfect health.” Clas. A. Anass, St. Albans, Vi, Head's Pills cure sick beads se, billion mem and ali Hvar fis. 35 conte por bog NY NU-q9
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