LOVE'S MEETING, Emove, who met me on the way, Kissed life's winter into May, And through hills of icy snow Bright 1 saw the violets blow, While, through clouds of stormy frown, Streamed the splendid sunlight down, And 1 heard not Love's sweet words For the singing of the birds ! Love, who met me on the way, At my feot in violets lay * Naver snow upon a hill Dreamed as cold, as white, as still! And from heavens of bending grace, Streamed the sunlight on his face And 1 heard not Love's sweet words For the singing of the birds! Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Coustitution. DISENCHANTED H. HOLDEN, HE path looked cool and pleasant as it followed the course of the little | in | days | had | stream, which the ancient of its might oleft the towering hills asunder and thundered down the rock like giant water sprite sunlight flickered down the interlacing branches of old its intense npered somewhat by that cool con tact Farther down, the ravine widened and finally lost itself in level farming lands, through which the brook flowed gently, watering the flocks and auge trees, herds of the honest farmer-folk of this | thrifty Dunker settlement. house the style : plain, Ihe farm the two were mostly of same wooden, storied with wide porches ru sir & nning and shaded by locust onts rirl passed down the steps nearest to the and sauntered its shady 1 month of up the path » began to sing but somewhat nasal tone, 1n ul r Israel, brick meet fa rothe in the "n 1rd y ‘ as tmitation of who led the singiz at the minar bymn ing-house ads, the Cross-r fail "And let this fesbls bo 5) And iet it fail and die Rebecca Kins yv'e voice modulated a faint thread of melody. caught a glimpse of a young man high up on the cliff on the opposite side of the creek, moving in and ont to AN she among the bushes. Suddenly she was brought back to earth by a voice almost over her head, calling out ‘‘Hello, Thorudyke, I've finest spacimen of- man, with & tin herbarium strapped to his waist, came tumbling down the rocks at Bebecea's feet. Evidi utly as he turned th stone ight rested had given path, vale and n Thorndyke the boun i, he his eve excitedly, found the + to aceost hh friend, upon which his WAY rocks, el and gave a faint gasp andslowly opened Rebecea dipped her hand kerchief in the water | pallid fa brandy from ifting his drink his lhorndyke poured some and bathed his = pocket flas and riend’s head “Well, how are you now, Damond inquired he. “All right, T guess.’ red Da mond, faintly; then he attempted to rise, “I can’t do it," he added. “Something's the matter with my left ankle and right arm ‘How we are ever to get o ANSW f this I said Thorndyke “You can’t walk a step, and it's a mile down stream where this gorge ends.” i think," said Rebs cea, 1 ean he ip you.” Jest a few steps further on is a path up the rocks ‘most as CRY AS ZO ing up stairs. I am strong, and I can 0 one side of him and you the other,” 14 1} don't see,’ or ¥ she continued, addressing Thorndyke | and indicating the injured her little brown hand. ‘Is there any house Thorndyke., “Yes,” responded Rebecca, ‘Aunt Susy Rinehart lives right at the top of the oliff. She's real handy about sick ness.’ Damond wae in too much pain to be seriously embarrassed by receiving as sistance from this rustic beauty, ns with much difficulty they toiled up the rough stairway, Aunt Susy sarveyed the man with near?’ asked singular looking party, as they emerged from | the gorge, with wide-eyed ment ‘Why! bless your soul! bring him astonish. right in the house,” was her hospitable | greeting. “The doctor's jest making » visit over on the nest farm, We'll get him here right away. An hour later the bustie had smb. sided and Damond was lying, quiet sod comfortable, listening to the con | versation going on between Aunt Susy and Bebeces. “Ieome over to tell you.” said Re bedon, “‘that Sister Rachel Miller's witss and has been an'inted for death, and they want you to eome over, Mother's been there ‘most all day and ¥ jest got home as I started here.” “I reckon I ean go," replied Aunt Susy, "if you'll stay while I'm gone sad kind o’ get things started for sup- per. I've got A quilt goin’ in the settin'-room, and it won't be handy to havo aboui, and I wish you'd come over for n few days and help finish it ap. The doctor says this young man must 4tay here a couple of weeks, and LI heat | and a young | | T ain't sorry. I've got tired runnin lin a rut. The same old things over nod over again, I thought 1'd change [it a little this mornin’ and get my own i breakfast first, hut, law! old Brindle bawled so I jest gave up.” “By Jove!” fumed Fred Damond, two weoks after his accident, *‘I sup- sprawlad out at that pretty girl's feet, tw say nothing of clattering those rocks like a tin daoming to grief.” peddler's cart look ridiculous, I solemnly ASSLT YOu. There was a dab of mud on the end of your nose and your coat was split down the back. Aad now let me tell you-—1I'll be hanged if I don't think you're shamming a good deal for an | excuse to stay here and play your old tricks! Why can’t you let that girl alone? Do you think I didn't see you pose I looked like a fool lying there | down | ‘“Yes," roplied Thorndyke, “vou did | PU | its neenstomed place in his pocket, fell out in full view, “Now or never,” thought he, anil | then, bracing himself, he said, TH) answer to Rebeorn's inquiring glande, “‘this is the lady I have promised to marry.” Rebecen smothered a gasp. A late | wild rose, the last one, hang a little | way up the bank and she turned Away, | reaching upward to pluck it. It gave her a moment in which to recover her- self. Her womanly pride came to the rescue, and she rose to the oceaston, { As she turned again she said, calmly, | “And I am to marry brother Israel's { son.” This was a new phase of the matter, | If any one else wanted this sweet wild | lower, Damond wanted it more than | ever, and he felt an overwhelming re- | sentment toward “brother Israel's son.” He took the rose from her cold {and trembling hand with a hand as | the other day, when you had her put | cold and unsteady, aud folding it it an ot wv » | | some withered, worthless specimens in | & press, get your head so close to hers that your Hyperion curls actually touched her cheek? and you kept put- ting your big hand close to hers to | help, as yon ealled it.” | “Well, what's a fellow to do? I'm { all banged up,” complained Damond, | “and I've got to amuse myself some way. What lovely red lips she has,” continuined he, brightening, “‘and how can they speak such atrocious | English?” ‘I've got to leave here,” said Thorn dyke, gloomily, as he folded up & let ter. “If I had as much money as yon have I'd stay here and watch you, and see after that poor little moth. You'd | better get away from | just quick can; if you stay mu longer I'll write to your mother, if 18 on the other side of the pond. Any how, I'll give Julia Deven a hint, an n 8st ail as were AH a8 you 1cl } it and nD she'll come flying her your nonsense,” I'he | Damond had ne days len week |! ood excuse lingering ; his ankle was well he often fi the sling he I he deel for LOT and srt it + 18 Sine mt watching Reb self with her evenings nh porch or moonlight, while he world she had love somewhat n to that he had to | many another maiden On Sundays he punctually made his appearance at | the meeting-house and gazed at the rows of mild-faced women in their immaculate lawn caps and neck erchiefs, Many remonstrating letters from Thorandyke, and sazious from his mother, proposing to sa | home if he were not soon able to tarn to the city, and Miss Deven, his fiancee, assailed him with tender, sym- pathetic missives, and even suggested coming to him with a chaperon and the family physician of the trike 1 l & ERY never All ang of sung songs, ont be sure, sweet, Tire 1 he great magician, Love, Lad cast his spell over Rebecea. She hant When sh the breathed i air roused her onsider ally she saw situation practic no nding, and the with hb ony WAS IUATTIRE: er lover, and this letter written hy bro ad almost forgotten Damond ] He come to an end ther lsrael’s son, offeri: f heart, r to : knew that all tl How C cipitate the it he thought One day came from Miss Deven, pro he should join her, friends, at the Springs, Ow erisin? came i than a posing that with a party ol rit« mng-piace not far away, or if not able to do so, Julia and her mother would spend a few weeks at the near est hotel in order to be munch as ossible inv water he were Al hin with as Home hours later Aunt Susy ed to relieve her mind ‘1 want to know,’ queried she, you're triflin’ with that girl! She's as good as you are, to say the least, and her father owns two of the finest farms about here, and Becky's the { child.” “Trifling !" dening, *“‘I | mean.” “I'm going out to milk,’ snapped Aunt Susy, “and you ean jest study over it while I'm gone.” Damond resisted an almost over powering impulse to pay his usual evening visit to Rebecea ; he resolutely set about packing up his belongings, | and for fear his courage would fail he | { sent a telogram to Miss Deven stating | that he wonld meet her at the Springs. ! Poor Rebecen sat the p&veh | alone, watehing and waiting for her recreant lover, Sometimes as the shadows shifted she thought she saw | | him emerge from the ravine, and her heart would give a glad bound. Never was the witchery of the moonlight so | strong, never was the music of the evening breeze so sweet, Rebeees sat | | until the moon went down snd the clouds gathered over the stars. The | song of the night wind changed to al wail that found echo in her heart, and | (Ly and by the storm burst in all its | ‘ary. With sinking heart she gave | him up and went eadly to her room. {| Damond promised himself one more {stroll through the ravine with Re. beeon, Certainly he must bid her | good-bye ; even Aunt Susy could not | object to that, “I am going away this afternoon,” | said Damond, as be and Bobeces were taking their last walk together. Rebocon gave a little start at this unexpected announcement and dropped the bonnet that she was swinging by “the strings. As Damond stoo to | pick it np the picture of Miss Deven, ar + ! nly exclaimed Damon, red don’t know what you on | friends would ridicule { would be only a target for the small ! teen rabbits envelope put it in his pocket next his heart. He stood silent a few mo- ments, How unlike those beautiful eyes were to Julin's small, piercing, black orbs, that wealth of rippling vel- low hair to Julia scanty frizzed locks. In & moment of delirium he thought to break his engagement with Julia and take this fair girl to be his wife, and then the absurdity of it all appeared. | How out of place she would look in How his him, while she his mother's drawing-room ! wits of his set! her from a false position, and persanding himself that he loved her too well to bring her into an uncongenial atmosphere, he put the mad dream aside. He took her hand, ,'" he faltered—snd then he to hesrt “Oh, I could not help loving vou, but 1 never Forgive me, oh, not he tO marry He conld not protect the annoyances of “Good-bye folded RTI my dariing he r close his meant to tell vou so. iD Speaging T HTave market fol ‘ CATTYIing a large basket He paused at a stand of country produce. There were re of g butter, baskets of SNOWY egues, jars of limpid and r p poultry. something familiar in lowed by a servant ls olden honey, we of plump dressed There was the face of ¢ and in the of her voice as he inquired the of her and it was bef memory established the connection. It Rebeces, grown stout and commonplace. She had a comfortable double chin, and the once glorious eyes looked out ower ruddy masses of flesh. Her hair had grown coarser and darker sud the rip- ples had almost yielded to the com pul rigorous A «haired, | shonldered the attending Dunker sound price ’ | nce: i Woman, mmodities, ong ne was : HL slgint { pasion 03 1 cheerful. lm road stand and oo DIAN RsuIs addressed her affectionately Damond fille while i his basket chases Memory was Time, the er, had done his work well re busy with the past great ft : IRIRIOn iS Reb OA 8 ry disturbed Clearly, her con- longer oppressed with wianl mem ions, and chanted dave, Damond turned away. -- Worthington's Magazine A Rabbit-Hunti and Warden of New Castle, is just now with a difficult problem, as to whether it is hisduty to arrest Will- iam CC. Robinson, the confectioner. Mr. Robinson has a large cat, which came directly from Madagasear Island. Like the eats there it has no tail, and when it runs it resembles a rabbit. Its owner is a hunter, and the eat, named Arcus, renders valuable assistance in catching rabbits. The cat can crawl into almost any crevice or burrow that will hold a rabbit It then drives them out, and in the race that follows is always a winner One day this winter the cat was sue. cessful in estching no less than nine Game Warden Parmer in trying to find a law that will pre. veul Robinson using the cat for hunt ing purposes, as thero is a law against ferveta, A man named Brown, in Plaingrove Township, this county, has a big gray squirrel which he has trained to hunt and kill rabbits, but in the case of Arcus no training was necessary. — Pittsburg Dispatch. Military Value of tz Dog. The French were the first to realize the military ability of the dog when fighting against the Kabyles in Tunis and Algerian. Next the Russians fol: lowsd suit in the last Eastern war and then the Austrians, who consider the dog of the greatest use in discovering an amboseade, Tho Duteh employ the animals for The same purpose in Acheen, as a dog will give immediate warning of any foe concealed in the jungle, In Tonkin the French find dogs invaln- able to prevent usurprise from the na tives, for without such warning many solitary sentries and even wall de- tachments have fallen victims to the hidden foe. Even in Switzerland Inrgo dogs are kept at Fort Fondo del Bosco at the Bt, Gothard pass above Ariolo, for the purpose of sccompany- ing sentries to ontlyi The dogs are especially useful for cotnmuni- cation in mountainous regions, as the Pyrenean smugglers have long since ng Cat, Fish Parmer, wrestling Game George which he had repentantly returned to found out. — Detroit Fee Press. { important | i | | CARROT GRUB, An English gardener reports that he | effectually destroyed the earrot grub, after it had become so sbundant as to | cause the tops of carrots to wilt, by watering them with & lignid made by | putting a bushel of “me and a bushel of soot into 100 gallons of water. This was well stirred up and allowed to stand over night, then the next morn ing the clear water wis used freely in | the common rose-nozzled water-pot New York World. WASTE OF GOOD FODDER. An enormous quantity of corn fodder 18 grown each year, but not one-third of its feeding Hundreds of thousands of scres of stalks are allowed to stand in the fields until December or January until the grain then the cattle are turned in the field get what they cin. Usually they find only blades whipped ofl by the wind and blown and and the upper part ruined, and even the beaten t Such feod ns remains i The greater p the ground There is hardly a better or cheaper stock feed than corn fodder, vot ers treat it as though it had Farms value 18 procured f is husked, and to AWAY, stalks bent best husks weather of littie of poor quality it the the portion 80 a8 to be value rt of is rotting on most inary 11 y x Lttileornovalue retruide per acre BOWINDGS made ber 20 f maintaining viel : has:zed - fi son of rotating r 8 compar sta crops with co nt grain cropping for seven vears showed an gain of 5.7 bushe per sere in favor of the Another t obtained that wheat may be harvested at any time from the dough stage to the dead ripe condition, withont appreciably affect ing the weight or ~ Average resu; wan vield of the grain | A comparison of the forms of nitrogen been ‘ { stomach gave evidences | taking food, a8 fertilizers for wheat indicated that sulphate of ammonia is better than nitrate of soda or dried blood, WICE T0 bs VERS was start lithe of thirty miles that instru wortem examinat; revealed the fact that the oats had not lining of the of having been irritation It was Ia previ ac nerve power had been largely exhausted in defen ling the terrible irritation set up by the sharp points of the Had the horse been permitted to stand, or lie for an hour after f wonld have prepared not only a re serve of to snstain himself, but the amount of nourishing material scenmulated would have helped him to endure his exhaustive journey. Time is required for the digestion of food before beginning a long muscular strain. It must also seem clear that when tie =ffort at hard labor ends, time should be given for rest before lider and Driver. The n a high stats i plain that the kh cumulation of H 4 undigested oats down ceding he material REQUISITES FOR A HORSE STABLE A horse stable should have thorough | | drainage first, then a solid, non-al sorbent floor ; next, the stalls should be roomy, and the feeding troughs should be made so that food eannot be wasted. The best floor is one made of cement conerete, of one part of coment, two of sand, and five of coarse gravel, Inid three inches thick, and when well dried and hard, saturated with hot gas tar, vermin proof, and very durable, with sufficient elasticity to prevent injury to the feet of the animals ing one inch to a shallow gutter in the rear, from which the liquid mass may flow away into a drain, The feeding trough should have a deep grain box, H grain is fed, or if ont feed is used, the whole trough may be the full length of the width of the stall, A few bars fastened across the top of the feed box will be useful to» prevent the horse from throwing ont the feed, as some will do, If long hay is fed, this shonid ba given in a rack above the feed trough, but on account of the great waste in feeding long hay and wholo grain, the hay should be eut and the grain, finely ground, be mixed with it. in avoids the loss by waste, which is often one-lnlf of the food. It in desirable to have a drain from the stable to a manure pit at a dis tance, where the liquid may be ab. This makes the floor water and | The stalls | | should be six feet wide, the floor slop by the coarse litter, The width of a horse stable should be not less than twelve feet, to afford space to move about in easily, The loose boxes, made nine feet sqnare, are the most desirable for safety and econ- venience, and these may open into a passage five feet wide. A feeding pas sage should be made in front of the stalls, { sorbed FARM FENCES, timber in | some parts of the conntry, and its en- tire absence in others, make the fence The growing scarcity of question a more serious one year by Year. Only in the newly settled heasvy-timbered land do we now ses rails eplit for fences. Wire in form almost universally used this purpose. The woven wire ing which is made in various ROBWETrS ¢ very purpose it is too expensive for Wire and picket fencing well, but it is to be broken by unruly animals, and once rent started it is soon of little use to turn stock Barbed wire, which composed the « fences of the West, many horse 1% cruel, and ruined by being eaught on some for fenc widths # fence, but 8 of general use does very liable " in riginal wire a has been the sharp, kuife-like points making free from the There is a A Wire fence, «i: Hood's® ’ at 1 feria pisiniy €, and rani ir ling ces of any kind braced an they will nid be th stret roug 1 very oh ¥ or SOON sag and get « shape. —New York I'ribuune, ———— FARM AXD GARDEN SOTERA. Strain the milk before the cream be- gins 10 rise, Medium sized now bring the . DOs iargest prices, The milk is largely affected by the | physical condition of the cow, {| It requires about twenty-five pounds lof milk to make a pound of butter. There is a scarcity of beet sugar 1 Eur drovght umber of sheep killed by dogs seed ope owing to the ar is said to exceed 700,000, I Ia , 8 dairy worker and a business make dairying a sucoes must be a as Experienced butter r that nakers washung spoil m wr of he great food wheat, © potatoes i arket for trotters but only at prices consistent wit} There is a goo now, the facts in the case Colts in training, if well eared for, yw better and keep in better health atl iarge ry gr than when running that a horse whose strong enough type will also fix the color with great unif rmaty It is established individuality family is ‘reate a First-class fancy animals, suitable for driving and earriage horses, sound and well broken, are reported scarce and bring good prices. ne Prices ruanuing well into the thou- sands are no longer given for road horses unless the speed and other quali- ties are of an exceptional character. Many trotting horses, owing either to natural defects of temperament, to bad training or to imperfect prepara tion, sre exceedidgly difficult to con trol. The winter is the time to build the intended silo, as it ean be done with less interference in other work, Have the silo ready and complete for a erop of corn next season. A silo soon pays for itself, Sloppy food in continued diet for pigs. Give a change oconsionally. The hogs are very par- tial to whole corn, fod dry, and will eat it from the trough, either shelled or on the sob, Carrant and gooseberry cuttings should be about five or six inches long, and planted two-thirds their length in open ground They will root more quickly if cut a week or two before using and packed in damp moss. It | is well to keep them partially shaded. The Sharpless strawberry has been tested over a large part of the eonn- try and does well in almost every Jo. | cality, but in spite of its excellent | noord it sometimes fails. 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