HEATHER BELL. Por eyes are like the heather on the Norland ! hills a-blow, &nd her curving lip in the snow, In a snood of crimson gleaming La or looks of amber dwell, Aad I'm dreaming, of laughter like a berry Dreaming, Dreaming, Heather-bell, O! my bonnie With | tall light as thistie-down she com- oth ero 1 ken lor smile is like the breaking of lawn in the glen, the moon A myriad iapcies teeming Foed the And I'm flame I cannot quell ; Al eaming, | Dreaming, Dre annie Heather-bell, aming, t eventful Her volee is in the corn its tender tide till the morn like the thrush's piping carcls echoes haunt me thro' thas night- Ob, her dimples shyly beaming, I'hey have charmed me with a And I'm dreaming, | D:ieaming, Dreaming | nnie Heather-ball -Samuel M. in Atlanta Constitution. | re —— | THE MASKED ROBBER. | WOODCOCK, | EW YEAR EVE had again come, and, a usual, a large party of us young people MATILDA A. {A BY As were invited to see the old year out at 4 le’s country it jolly hours maae nospits and the y merry laughter was unwittingly stletoe bough. dancing and ] IArge, « 1d f our tin n, in front piled high sed the remarkable of | by mv aunt, it 1T aS n her own words: and 5 tO rene nearly RIWAYVS New one story wl Year Eve SEens appropriaie to time, ait When die i, a1 father se tou large farm I that joyinl one. y mother after her death my id home, and removed had been born in the city, and until that time had al- wavs lived I keenly felt the 18 not A t \ sixteen, x iV therg. dhsnge tov Thay metropolis to the solitude of the country, but fortunate- ly 1 was fond of reading and was also a great lover of nature. so thai in a measure | was compensated for the had left. 1 little of rid; therefore the most became of far RAW interest to errand words about a PS mi 1 was driving CArTings« who ntisman thrown from his injured. went immediately to his Lake saw the wnaged to get hum to ind, after capturing the ry, both had a of which were driven to ses It would be sev a doctor eonld be him, and he was saffering that Lake did not like y long alone, over lone. 1d be before Rin y father came np, and, ward Lake's story, said that hoald be brought at once to house, and ordered one of the men to two of the horses t the farm wagon. A mattress was then Isid on it and off they started, leaving harness me at home to put things in readiness | | got a pin for my husband to room. with its | mended in L : for the {) njured man, I pretty spare frosh ma and Swiss enrtains, w the one which I selected for him. [It was on the ground-floor, and would therefore be more convenient than any other Onr guest, who gave his name hn Graham, soon arrived and ried earefully to his chamber, and before very long the doctor came Having set the broken limbs, -for one hiv lege and one of his arms were broken, —and applied some cooling wash to the bruises, he left the patient to I It was nhl bo twean 4 f Athi ing ne ns J was of many weeks before he was ve from hit bed, bunt ioctor’s skill and our care. pursing he slowly regained his strength. Remember, my dears, in those days your white headed old sunt was young snd romantic, and a man far lesw fascinating and handsome than John Giabam under such eircum- stances might have turned my willy head. [I confess to yon that my head was wholly turned, my heart entirely given away to this stranger, For weeks | was hands and feet to him. Never a wish was uttered by him that, were it in my power, I did not gratify, Ho was very fond of roses, and early every morning I would gather the m bee he { room, Iwas perfectly delighfpd whe | he one day told me that my Yoelgeoka | wi { put the roses to shame.” It ! him after some choicest from our garden for John’ the first compliment he had ever paid me, | | and for days the thought of itt made | { me absurdly happy. At last I felt that John loved me. 1 { never moved that his eyes did not fol- | low every motion, and how the light came into his eyes when I returned to) short absence! This was my first love, and by it my dull’ | monotonous life seemed changed into | | a Paradise. | John had re- covered and would soon leave us, yet | had not spoken of his love; but after a while the words came. Wo were sitting on the poreh in the moon | light, in the same place from which T | had seen him carried in on that! day when he was hurt My father's consent to our engage: | ment was soon gained, as John's past | life, so far as he could discover, was | The weeks glided by. 3 ne | irreproachable, and his worldly pros. | pects were good. Everything went on | it seemed that in our case love was to I must not for my engagement run a smooth course. get to tell you about ring. It which had been | handed down through several genera. f { WAS one tions te John. He had always worn it on his little finger. It was’ & ser- nent of silver, its head being formed of an enormous ruby and the'tail of Inside the ring written, “Time reveals all things On the day of our agement John took it from his finger and placed it on with these words: “Should aught part us, love, though years’ roll between, the sight of this ring will tect you ) ho) ined to be the dregs I need those months of Graham small diamonds. wns eng mine bring 1 At fall ne to pr Inst my cup of ineds was ‘ mptied not go HOTTY but it was dest mi John OBI to stupetied by! d top bring uld try and ymy father’s Knowle his fits oF fary'ng | ene of my, 1 Johh ont 0 for me to say bad to worse, ! rer, pilex het | it wal thas lo#r ewe I retifnéd the badk to they ‘as a symbal been trae.” After this, my health gra nally gave and our physician adviged ny r to take me to Europe, which he Ll We travelled 1d ol! ; r Eve ment was broken. but John sent it to keep it, “4 me that bad once way Fath : to done A | prayec WAS t At first, to die, but I was young, very young, and nas the time passed by, life again became gyeet to me, Another love came to me. far sweeter and strafiger than that old, wild passion of my girlhood, and in your uncle, my dears, I found the pe riect love of womanhood. I had vears and was the mother evervihing AN use me, been Marri i on when vour y to California to n which he first, I ol of tl ms attract WWercame fault, and rtabl We when « long wi Our new qu there only a year ne even New Year Eve cour unele came home as usual, and after he had f the house a few he ree ing ne--this algo was on n a dispateh which off immedi for two or It he first tim marriage that had separated. and that night I did feel a little nervous. I went to the and looked at my children, sleeping peacefully, and then, taking a book, I read until I was so weary that I went to bed. bes Rk 2 ived his starting minutes, oeanitate | to three days ne ately, be gon was been KINes ont nursery My bedroom was large and bad four windows. Two of them opened on the piazza, snd two on a beautiful green terrace. My dressing table stood be tween the pinzza-windows, and on it was my jewel-casket containing all my diamonds, and several other valuable articles of jewelry. Usually, I kept this locked in an iron but that evening I had taken it out, in order to have and 1 had forgotten to put it back. After I was safely in bed, I remembered my casket, but con- eluded that no harm could possibly come to it in just that one night, and thought I would put it aay in the morning. I do not kncw how long I had been asleep, when I was awakened by hearing » slight noise. Opening my eyes, 1 saw by the light of a dark-lantern the fig- are of a tall man standing by my dressing-table. My first impulse was to seream, and then eame the thought, “If I do that, he will kill mo!” Sud. denly the man tarned, and I conld se that he was masked. Then I shu! my eyes and feignod siee). Stealthily he | walked to the bed where I was lying, | and, bending over, looked at me, for | what seemed, in my agony, to be { hours, | «0, God!" I thought, “if he would |only kill me now!” But nol--he | moved softly from my bed, and again | walked to the dressing-table, I conld | host him take my jewels, one by one, | from the casket, and lay them gently down. At last, the box was emptied, and yet he did not move, but stood as | it bound by 1 spell. I felt rather than | heard that he was ouce more coming sale, | one } husband came A Hi toward me, Certainly this time he would take my life, and I prayed God it might be done quickly; but, no! | mnkt snffer still more. He knelt down aud put his face so elose to mine that I dould feel his hot breath, 1 was like petrified, My, blood seemed frozen igmy veins, and had the cold steel Leen pressed to my throat, I should not have felt a single pang, My whole being seemed held by some terrible ower, At last, he arose from his fees anil, going to one of the win- dows, blew a whistle three times, This 1s all that Iremember. My conscious. ness must have forsaken me, When 1 again opened my eves, the bright lght was streaming through the blinds, At first, I had only a va- gue remembrance of what seemed to me a dreadful nightmare, but graduo- ally the whole scene of the night be- fore cama clearly to my mind and a terror sedzed me. My children were my firgt thought. 1 sprang quickly from my bed, but fell to the floor in a dead faint, The strain had proved too much for me. For days I heavily } ¢ N ) happily for the first few months, and lay unconscious, only feeling a burn- mg pain 16 nt God's my head; | throngh mercy I was given back to my husband and children--for of any bittle bairns’ dear heads been teuched on that horrible night. The subject of the masked robber was never mentioned until my health was fully restored. : hair had not a One day I was in my boudoir, idly lounging, when my seating himse.f took a small piece of paper fre pocket-book. It looked hike the ! af of book, and was covered with writing in lead pencil He handed 1 to me, #1 think, Little woman, you are > in and, on the sofa by my side, uit his fly-le " BAYNE, strong enough to read this, It | “I have ¢ Wik AS TOLIOWS wine here to-night with, a ng to steal and, murder. While taking the Nn your cas ' 1 ficross a ring. Tl f looked f . £1 Te pL band of robbers if necessary, to jewels (ror CRIne npon § Bo i nevet Bad as 1 goul has never am 8 robber, the ket hin: is hall always keep wal tory walk Tad $ my " iy AIWAY shat y 0H! Fo Wil Ineo Yougmacle tcied 60 it in vain, and ib dw years after Fhaty invited 6 spt ud» ne Felstive®X of my n tid western paft of ‘New I" again heard “of John 1 BO? cousin's safe the churchyar i We strolled in snd out among the graves; stopping now and then to read the quaint inscriptions. A simple gray stone, on which was hang Rk » swall wreath of immortelles, stiracted my notice. I stopped to see what might ht be written it, and then I Oraham. Died 18 walked over to pict iresque O i mig on “i lohn r Day, God rest his if she knew And she liscovered r., and when found John and, and inside, folded of which the cuni i was at its height ‘our uncle and I could have we carefully and to this day old envelope was wit nam woman s o slow hair, earefully 1itsidle 11iding is star, solved the problem, but guarded the secret, he village gossips wonder who “John Graham” conld have been I have never known how he happened to fall into such a state of degradation as to become a robber, but I firmly believe that by after life he made full atonement for his sins. A New Year Eve never passes but thai I think of and you will not won- der that it is so, for it vas a fateful time in his sad life, 1 felt as though it were almost a superngaral ocoinei- dence that it should have been also the time of his death. --Romance, his John Graham, “ CsI Two Bills Alike, Young Henry Miller, ¢f New York, got a bonanza when he was paid off the other day. His wages wore given to him in the shape of hght new $5 bills, He put them in lis pocket, and some time afterward, vhen be took them out to examine them he dis coversd that two of them were ex- actly alike. The numbers of both were the same. This gites them great value from a collector's hoint of view, The bills were printed Wy the Govern: ment and issued by tie Southern National Bank of Newt York. The Government number in each ia R | 476,821. The bank nuhber is 3559, and the consecutive nk number 10,883, When the oxad similarity of the bills was noticed (twas supposed { that one was a counfrieit. Close examination showed it yas not. The | signatures on both bilk wre genuine, Plainly there was ag error. Mr. | Miller says that sevesl banks have | offered him large sum of money for the bills, snd that ‘he Southern | National Bank told bik he could fix | his own price and thy would pur | chase. Ho says he willhold the bills, | - «New Orleans Ploayn@, | | hands | as to make | ful of CRS | stomach | which i i of eut hay and | milk a day. TO ESTIMATE HEIGHT, To estimate the height a colt will grow to: Take a colt at any time be- tween six weeks and one year, put him on a level surface so that he will stand naturally, then measure the distance from the hair of the hoof joint, and for every inch thereof he measures he will be high when matured. If he measures fifteen inches, he will be fifteen hands high; if 15% inches, he will be 15 high, and New York to his kne @ or fraction hands 850 OL. World. HOW TO FERED The best way to feed is to cut MEAL TO A COW, meal to a cow hay and wet it only as much the meal adhere to it, and mix this with it, adding a small hand salt with each feed. The meal is then more completely digested than if it were itself, in which on to the third the ruminstion, the perfect di Five quarts en fal! singh given to Miss to food three by it 18 apt and Ne phase gestion of 8 cow + pounds of fed d for fi ten or quarts of It 8 not desirable to try to feed a cow for miik and fat both, as rted to AY de Cronse ed butter me cows will shrink fed dry food to i rn ; men] will ma cow giving twelve he food is ther apt to be dive fat only, and the milk ms specially ft i 14) ; thay urn the Aare able In a butter cow i futtanad, | LBs 1 tL wt desired i ng pis Times the hoth ! mi {| pongd any duger tifhe: sasons are t fre HOTRED THe Work 8f selec i.anfl cold wbrly segfsvsbould 1 It takes o mpke the beads and fill right il. The fan MAKING, $m 111 4 Ions progre KIVE 00 shart for us to wait re Iarmers nasil spring bel By the time th BOWING « wing inches high mn Lhe AavYe frames to open ground s month more, In this way raising two good Crops in One sen we or | son on one piece of ground = made {| GREY, 5 The early plants are also the ones that bring the thos most aised 10 the frame 5 to the | money, and s always bring warmer than the rox. Farmers’ direct: Water-cress swer to u ives Lh Owing ns ving watler-cress i running stream and a The roots should hx spring of the year in ., where the water eight inches deep established rapidly increase, are well will nd, natural process of seod-sow ing and spreading of the roots, they will cover the surface of the When planted the rows by their SOON stream { should be planted with the course of i | i ! i | | an inch and a half or two deep. the stream and about eighteen inches apart. The plants should always be eut, not broken off, as breaking them off is injurious to the plants, After they have been ent off two or three times they will begin to stock out or thicken out, and then the oftener they aro ont the better. When raised from seeds they should be sown on the mar gin of the stream, and when of suitable size transplanted into it, where it is most suitable time for sowing is in the montis of April, May and June. There | are said to be three varieties of water | CTOss | which is considered 40 be the easiest to | | enltivate ; brown-leaved, | namely : the green-leaved, the small | which is thought to be the hardiest, and the large brown-leaved, which is said to be the best for deep water, FRUITS, Now it is time to apply manure to blackberries, currants, raspberries and other small fruits tered brordeast at the roots of thee plants, whieh should run over consid erable territory. Autumn and winter are the most favorable SMALL and snows of winter ean distribute the fertility through every portion of the | soit much more cheaply and effectively than man ean with the best of tools for the purpose. With the so-called hardy varietion of fruits winter pro tootion, ever. in quite northern lati. tudes, does not ap very general, and yet, without bt, this is the true plan, If enltivators conld but see how their crops are oftentimes dimioished { DY BOEVELD | now The | | in managing poultry. | and buttermilk you can apare. It should be seat: | | ation for the poultry house, | and gravelly soils are also to be pre- seasons for | spreading the manure, since the rains | with the layers, as an egy-prodnoing an - winters, even when plants are not killed ontright by the changes temperature, protection more regularly be given, Itisqnites simple thing to cover the roots of plants several inches deep with leaves or hay just after the ground has begun to freeze, and thus prevent the alter- nate freezing and thawing which prove In addition, raspberry bent ———————— of would sO nmjurions, vines should be ered partially at least harm the canes to tent. and Cov Winter winds siderable ex down ® CO Opportunity 1s offered to establish | plantations until the freezes and puts an end to such opera- tions. In transplanting remove fully one-half the canes and set out well mellowed soil ; cover with deep mulch and protect the entire plants a well as possible. If spring work will not be too pressing the piant may be secured | roadi- | be next better now and “heeled in” to ness for setting in spring. for -Prairie i BeaAsON Really spring § transplanting than Farmer, ’ full. GREEN FEED AND IF that 4 len green 37 forg kind of t take the roots the 1 Ay be , and mixed with bran to a plentif most yeide red More f Of ventilation is the to be o> fie althy. the want ventilation than from any other cause. Keeping fowls have perishe d for ground | in | Signs of Eighteen Nine 1y«lour. The f Fi | makes a fal saving: YA green Christmas and bring forth yard” gray Is often verified, it further says, that the year will much sicknoss, ind aches f ioints join wherein pains ' rheumatic compininis, soreness o and Hmbs will abound, In the olden times there were few preventives | it Inus has learned a compininte, old In is not 80 now Even Fanta ( w or two many a Christmas & ind a bots fie of Bt. Jacolm Of) § vr amt Yours nave i 4 ronhegies and no vena # without ie Ly 1h How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Rewssd for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Ustarrh Cure, ¥. J. Cnexey & Co., Prope, Toledo, 0, We. the undersigned, have kvown F., 4, Che. ney for the last 15 years, and beileve him per- fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to earvy oul soy oblige tion made by their firm Wiasr & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Olle, Warpiso, Kisvanw & Manvis, Druggists, Toledo, Olio, Ha'l's Catarrh © taken internally, act. ing directly upon I and muons surs faces of the system f er bottles, Sold by all Druggists. Testimonies Wholesale 216 Bus, S Lbs, Onis From One Bus, Seed, This remarkable, almost As reported La Cross North Bam, row Irom one ree hundred YOU wilt LF FP ’ of above coals CRiRIOgu CHANGES Ado There Cok « ADEN WraATHE orig his thus swhr ‘ J ood Boechas O0D’S Sarsaparilla H il supply | in | fowls | i per le Pe Oue of the beghoand simplest plans to | let pure air inte the poultry house is | floor about mix feet long, and to have a hole in the inches wide and several vered over = which ith wire nefiing, is left open In FAEM AND ters farm work Horses differ in intelligence almost n men do Drive the colt the fast-walking horse LES uc nx first time with a After choosing a place for the bes stands do not change it A deve little drive every day lopme nt of voung horses Italians produce a larger number of bees than blacks, and so, indirectly, more hone y To leave the be aA reasonable supply of honey for the winter is better than | attempting to feed them. Mat ng for the best results in vigor snd fertility requires careful study and practical observation. The goose-raising English and Irish counties are with very thick pastures with short grass those Ducks should never be yarded with | other poultry, as they will pollute the water and cause sicknoss, The wolor of the shell is no indiea- tion of the quality of the egg, but simply shows the breed of fowl. Experience counts for a good deal It is on the little details that success depends. Sell from the young stock, and do not sacrifice fowls and turkeys which have proved satisfactory, unless very Ad, (dive the fowls all the skim milk They will return it to you in the form of CRESS Rolling or hilly land is the best situ- Sandy ferred. Cocks should not be kept in the pen diet will fatten them and rain them as breeders. The Dorking is the most popular fowl in England. There are three varietien-~the colored, the silver-gray and the white. The moth miller isa muck to be dreaded cnemy of the bees, but if the stock ia kept strong they will not slow tw deposit ite eggs on the com bh falled aparilia em, gave Hood's Fills wr | “German Syrup I simpi i and Postmaster here ant fore in a position to j tried many Coug ten years past have found nothing equal to Boschee's German Syrup. I have given it to my baby for Croup with the most satisfactory results, Every mother should have it. J. H. Hones, Druggist and Postmaster, Moffat, Texas. We present facts, living facts, of to-day Boschee's German Syrup gives strength to the body. Take no substitute. @ en ——— CURES RISING .. BREAST -.. “MOTHER'S FRIEND” &.5.73vct red child-bearing woman. 1 have mid-wifs for many years, and in each case where “Mother's Friend” had been used it has accomplished wonders and relieved much suffering. It §s the best remedy for of the breast known, and worth the price for alone. Mags. M. M, Brosren, Montgomery, Ala, Sent by express, charres prenaid, on receipt of price, $1.50 per bottle BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Sold by all droggists. ATLANTA, GA WwW. L. DOUGLAS 83 equals custom w ork, Snting to $6, best value for t money the world, Name and stamped on the bottom, pair warranted, Take no publ] tute, See local papers for full description of our lines for ladies and lo or send for 4 Ine y sts ma n Druggist am there- ups but for Jor by mail, Postage free. You tan Ue beewt barwaing of A io a “The Story of My First Watch.” A beautiful Mustrated book, special) ly writ. ton by Am erion’s "mou dietinguin “One dang ters, sent FREE, ng and instroctive. Address NEW YORK STANDARD WATCH CO. 11 John St., New York. ly en
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