SPRING FEVER, Bpring fever—ain't no cure for it I have it once a year; It takes me in the aity, And it makes we drowsy there, And I nod, And ] nod Like a Georgla fishin’ rod. When it feel "Wore 3 the trout a-pullin on the sod! 1 land him you's ’'bleeged ter. 'Tain’t decent! I'm a sosherble man myself, an’ I " don’t like bein’ tied to a stick The Squire gazed at him vacantly | for a moment, Evidently his thoughts had been far away, and he was bringing them back by a powerful effort. As he straightened himself up to his full height he looked very tall and thin: and there was something pitifully incongruous in his rough, ill know how it comes ver Knew i « when it's here, you! down a stream ; ike a feather files glean Atlanta Co nt — ITY'S MERCY. nstitution, AT CHAR KE H., SWEEI HERE was no pret tier piece of land in I] the country round than that oc the Tin County poor It sloped to north, {oo be and that did such paup work in winter, but qupied by ker arm. the sure, niort of ] and were the and whi 1utry mansion 1 1.41! Ere blue hills mistaken | ther Keeping both purchasers and renters place the select It was off the They and was cheap ap cantiousiy and anxious to owner Was sell accepte i their ext thing was to to This happened to be Sim 1 who had always been ssful farmer, he stingy to become a prosperous one » was not a bad man; but he was poor and covetousand narrow-minded, ; se Moly a questionable | = Lge PT PBRIUPETS, writ ars went by all the indications weré | tuinlied Pratt had been keeper « NOW, rent the paupers the lowest an Ce beecanse Was snd in all maxiinum wors each of the ore able bodied, nly work part of the time, wt work at tt. 3 ble-bo all But, as a lied who w ere it i to manage was the y CO. H es, the t to the beach after Ww ho BOR WO to work and sheds to corn It wr A pauper to and the town physician sometimes expressed his decidedly But a physician's little eight with the practical guardian of yunty's finances. One afternoon several men were at work in the The wind was sharp and cut through their clothing until their teeth chat tered with bitter cold All of them were thinly clad; and at last a little, round-shouldered man began to finger nervousiy at his coat which was | siroady ba ttoned I don’t eall this much charity,” he grumbled, discontentedly, like the town might let us have over- counts sech pesky cold weather, What say, Squire?” The man addressed did not answer. Lifting a heavy forkful of senweek he | gpread it thinly over the ground. As he returned for another load the little man went on, peevishly “Seems like folks might be sosner ble in o place like this. "Tain't much we've got ter live fer, anyway, Jest packed away like oud furnitoor in a garret, an’ good riddance when the undertaker brings bis box. Beems like wo might pick what crumbs we could onten the cobwebs,” The other man did not seem to hear. | Again his forkful of semweod was rend, and he was reaching for more when the little man stepped in front of him, “Can't ye answer aman's question?’ he asked, irritably, ‘You ain't no more deef 'n I be, an’ I'm gittin’ sick an’ tired of it. Here I've been room- in’ with you more’'n two year, an’ you aiv't sonsely ever spoke ter me ‘cept were able into the As Darn stamp out be and shell was nothing unusual fo 1, Qi YIeWs Yyery views had oid lower field of the the Seems fitting garments and his clean-cut, | scholarly face and snow-white hair, “What gravely not hear men," with sa slight much past and so little future that we are apt to go wool gathering.” “‘Spenkin’ fer yourself an’ not me, then,” said Thomas, hastily “My Thomas?" he thinking, We old “have it, Was asked, did is ‘“] and YOu. smile, BO | past ain't a good place ter gather wool, an' I don'tgo to it 'ceptin’ I'm 'bleeged ter. But that sin’t here nor there, 1 didn’t want nothin’, Squire, I'd yon a purnsmbulatin’ od w then only jest ter hear youn spenk, Bo't know not He spread sea several minutes was ‘live and machine silence . upon his fork. Squire, there is When 1 you in more leaned ter think on't, thing I'd to ast ye this place I found here, an' 1 got to eallin ye Bquare cos the rest did, But down 'n the last night they told mq Is it? : “Is what? “That had money an’ things, like rich was a'ready kitchen LWas raly so dreamily high-toned oncet yon Was ‘1 had all I wanted, I believ ‘An’ owned that he All had SCrvAnis an ee acrost horses an’ stable ig havi Ve man snswered sheepishly “Well, take car’ ye don't git agin when it's time fer work." At the door they met Pratt, “Jest the fellers I'm lookin’ fer, he said, briskly back wa Tdo.np- the vhores, an’ Ike don't seem to think they're fit : see t' the horses, he added, they biddin ‘Thomas ain't down on R11 4] to as oi | have ter drive Step lively! dressed hurriedly and ase, 1 davlight led d lark staire 1 an hour of be gittin Isimed, im ht aaviiguas ex fuss a dozer there's btiull yesterday Wi now nough A tryin’ to mre all right (iit some arin We ean't "ford here for nothin The Squire made no reply. Taking if cold bread he ate them mechanieally, and then opened the door and went out. It was bitterly cold, and he took a handkerchief from his pocket and tied it around his neck When he reached the barn he found a piece of old sacking, and this made to do duty as an overcoat. It did not take him long to yoke the oxen, and presently the heavy wheels ve got shirks yn the place "thout em Y be st you RD board ye a few pleces Was of the wagon were creaking sharply | over the frozen ground. When the sun rose he was well on his way to the beach. Soon after he drove across the low ridge of sand hills which had been washed up by succes- sive storms. But, early as he was, sov- oral teams were ahead of lum. The bert of the seaweed had been thrown into piles, and the men were now load- ing it into their wagon As the wind was offshore there was no fresh sea weed coming in. The Squire took his | fork from the wagon and drove slowly along the beach, picking up stray bunches here and there. Sometimes he stepped into the water and resened masses which were being floated off by the rising tide But i. was slow, hard work. The other teams left and new arrivals took their places, It was long past noon, Back through the sand hills and | neross the pastures to the main road, and then up hill and down until he enme in wight of the town farm. On top of the last hill he paused to let the oxen rest, Near him the road branched, and one of the forks curved away into the woods and wround the lake. Hisold “it! have ter go | Bill | Yours if. ! At last he threw his fork | { upon the load and drove away. | eyes grow wistful. It was the road whith led to the mansion among the | trees, As he stood there he saw a carriage approaching. Driving his team to one side he waited ; but the carriage stopped as it came opposite “Does Squire Burke still live at the | old place?” a man asked. “Noi” he left many years ago, Atthesound of the voice the stranger started and glanced at the old sharply. Then he sprang from the carringe., But he drew nea. he paused and bowed his head, like a man walling sentence, : man iE] “Richard!” The Squire tried to keep | his voice steady ; but it broke as the young man sprang forward and caught him in his arms. After a few moments they stood back and looked at each other. “Where have been all years, Richard?” the old man asked. “What have yon been doing?” you these working wandered an the country for some weeks “In South America After you disowned me 1 b ont and then ghij Je d on board of a vossi | as a com Finally I drifted place where T obtained a good situa- tion After a while I went into busi Then I wrote to the man wh pame I had-—forged and told was al of the ould pay the rest as soon ns He answered that it paid s 1 understood that 1 ked harder determined to repay every mon sailor, nto a or him Hid pRY some Was all After than ever | cent, thought that if I could make von lieve 1 pe rhaps The Bq was not all bad yon mig change your opinion.’ ire raised his hand deprecat- Ingiy d it many cruel un ere where the peupers were said, eagerly “There one thing we must get, | even before we buy the old place.” {i “What is it, father?” “Overconts for all the farm. '"— Independent. HRZe Wan 7 ER —— - Frightened to Death, ticated here are sever waeliantien the gard crawled H I, ALA 3 WAR sul for his nerves and h Frederick I. of Prus fea His day she escaped ; ng her cle wn her hush chair be ghost was belie vod 1, dabbli vd uy dozing in his imagined her to wh a bly appear whenes r of the royal » was throw IN SIX Wed the ar was that of the Ks wi remarkable Duteh 11% (3 ivea in 8 m tman, who eventeenth century One day he full of anatomical sketch some skulls and picture he intended to paint I'he weather was very sultry, and while sketching he fell asleep, He was aroused by bones dancing aronnd him, and the suspended from the ceiling clashed together. In a fit of horror he threw himself out of the window Though he sustained no serions injury, and was informed that a slight earthquake had caused the commotion among the ghostly sur- rcundings, he died of nervous tremer, The Million. Early London Streets, subjects for a \ | | skeletons In the seventeenth and eighteenth | centuries, when a London street was | newly formed, ita name and date were frequently recorded on a tablet built into the wall of a corner house, The houses themselves were also sometimes distingrished by initials, namss or dates, either placed like the street tablets or on a rain pipe or inside the | building. | Some of these relies still survive, | but there is constant danger of their destruction, for every year many old | houses are leveled with the ground, and streets, once important, cease to exist, are merged in other streets, or lose their importance by being re- named. —London Notes and Queries, - cI — N Power ol Foreign Police, The Vienna police have general charge of all newspapers, and keep records of all presses and publiostions, maintain » censor~hip over all theatres and plays, issue livenses for the publi- cation and sale of all books, magazines and periodicals, All plays, dialogues, songs, dances and ontertainments by societies, clubs or individuals must be submisted to the po’ioe and approved yatoro production, New York Jour. men on the | COPPERAS FOR Copperas has been tried in France on grapevines which are suffering from an absence of the proper green color, have been most satisfactory. Early spring is the best time for the experi ment. In making the application the sarface soil above the roots should be removed tos depth of several inches and the copperns water then poured space and the soil afterward New York World, over the Testor: d. BOUR Sour milk is not It may keep the animal will not thrive or growth. The sour milk will curdle in the gestion It makes MILK ALVES, fit fo POR ( wd for a call alive, but it healthy (quicKiy : make a stomach and cause indi- is this of fed 80 IMANY poor Cows stunted in never recover the Skimmed milk, if for y calf, but if shov'd be warmed to eighty or ninety most digestible at way ling a calf that for an animal that has been its early growth will y afterward sweet, 1s rood § Any egres Bas 11 1 that te mp rature required fe growin 1s rR YOURE © I' A young needed than iat, more AKes a better cow wil made a fal thus 1 fv It call animal a month-old a hight gro ind mis Ail i C Hen at Irst, ¢ MAUALIV 1NCTrea | than the 3 more when packed in fie sheep's back s shorn sheep, than can be seen i fOr more former by the buver at a glance, while the Intter must be carefully inspected, one i by one, and lastiy, shorn sheep wiil p more comfortably and be in bet. or condition when reaching market than unshorn. These conditions make all winter feeding most Farm : H me. desirable ECE excluding above the br {i nest | why i Lost f section boxe containing a foundstion starter; fact, have evi the flow shall of fi be no hing ready to eate surplus when the honey wt fall there Professor if the land be n hand wil hin IWors every an elaborate ealenla that it would re florets like r to vield one [has imber les idea ne Fo labor every honey comp the eo variet possi h er may ransack and arih improved be as skillful in planting; he and propagat and hybridize, if the winds are not favoruble and the bee does not visit the in search of pollen or nectar the blossoms will wither and fall and never produce the fruit for which the blos soms lived and grew, and for which the horticulturist had bestowed upon the tree or plant his labor, fore thought and fostering care. Chicago Times. iT) may As oY o | may graft and vet blossoms SOON THE STUDY OF AGRICULTURR, Agriculture the basis of national progress and prosperity. While this fact is widely recognized, yet the study of this most important of all eallings is not placed in the carricnlum of the public schools of the country Generations of chil dren pass through life without ality to distinguish between wheat and barley when they see it growing. is onr to be acquainted with even the rudi ments of agriculture, This is all wrong. The studies of the school room should be arranged to meet this oversight. True, men famous in many ways, whose sole equipment was furnished in the com mon schools of the country, but these have yet to graduate a scholar who was ever aided in his life work as a farmer by the knowledge acquired in them. The introduction of sound text books on agriculture in rural pub. lie schools would remedy this defect of the system under which they are operated, The children of farms have as perfect a right to the tachnioal knowle of their pros ve oall- ing, ns that such knowl of thi The results are reported to | in an iron vessel brass or copper vessels, have become | that at best are but mere accom . ments shall be taught. The rial | toward the latter is very manifest in | many directions in the studies of the { public schools. It is always better to tench a few things that the student { may be fully mequainted with them rather than to overwhelm him with a lot of useless trash that retard him in his life work. culture should For that reason agri- form a prominent future in the studies of rural publie schools, f its future use tten Lf dant becuse ' tothe as Ami OYROO § rage a rican Dairyman UMMER FORAGE CROPS. n extra feed is needed as early there better thar er. The best time for sowing clover A gust, It may readily follow some forag: crop fed off in mids er for fi lover should be twenty produce is nothing than y he early part of July or t sin amin When grown seed | pounds to the to twelve worth at least a feeding the « of rage rate were, and will ten green for age, irth more than timothy for rats ORls s and pe As. sown at the id one half f bushels 01 two of pers Pe r acre, and will afford excel pens the forage for midsummer The lowes While erop that will produce a food material per I iwumber of legumin ops that can be grown with less upon the nd will afford » of much higher nutritive value pound. In Southern New England snd as {ar north ss Central New York, the cow pea can be easily grown on warm, light soils, while the soil | soja bean affords a large smount of | excellent forage and can be grown in nearly all parts of New Engisnd. These crops will afford forage from about the middle of August till the killing frosts Late in September it is sometimes yn the found neces rv £0 us ywen {1 y vi Urrassos 107 Are md re nitro IArger siages affords foul much better food than the full gr rowen wn ETRESOH Fo feed there yet i® DO crop arley and peas first part of or 1% Two in al to { his ere A gust on 184 | ip CAN IX the the follow the sown clover ground may outs and bushels of Peas an 1 one of peas barley make Both of these plants rosts well and make ture : 4 excel wih In cool weather New sland Farmer he peas a light, ri | raspberries should not be given unitivation not forget parsley seed. A small package will yield enough to use al the vear Many are discarding the pole lima, and taking up the bush a specialty Your BE spring, lima bean as y are valmable in the and none should be allowed die from carelessness be ox It is esti mated that one ounce of seed will pro duce about 2500 plants. Sow celery seed early. Beeswax will be darkened if melted It is better to use The best shipping crates for honey are of a single tier, and hold from twelve to twenty-four pounds, Basswood is light, white, and free from gumminess. Nothing so far has been found to equal it for making pound sections, Never wet plants of a poor quality. Poor seed will make a failure, but only for a single year, while poor plants | Inst over many seasons, It | seems necessary to be born on a farm | All fruit plants, including trees, should have a generous supply of fine, light-colored, fibrons roots, in order {to be of a vigorous and healthy growth For the potato crop sulphate is thought to be much better than muri- | ate of potash, for it gives a greater | yield and improves the quality in a higher degree. The encumber shonld not be set in open ground until about the middle of May or until the weather settles, as it is u very tender sunusl. Plant in June or July if you want them for pickles, Do not plant Joistars on hard, A will rly plowed soil, for the ero poor, no matter how thorough the enltivation or how favorable other con- ditions if the soil is not mellowed deep enough. Geronimo and His Braves, George Ganz, an Apache Indian, aged about twenty-one wears, and a» splendid specimen of physical man- hood, returned to the Mescalero res- ervation week from school at Mount Vernon, Alabama, having com- pleted his education, L. Ginn interviewed to the e« Inst Captain John Cauz in relation the Chirieshun mdition of noted men of Ceroimo’s Apaches who spilled so much blood 1 Arizons, New Mexico and JOTH few vears Ganz aged so henrty i Hesn rats Black Mangu f+11 JOLIOWETrSs Bid ————— . The Shortest Twiligh Was : how well and never fond anything it Better get the Oil in time and there will be no season of trouble afterwards, Tue world has laid 83,000,000 toms of fron and steel rails, idney ot an rat ’ AR 1 CHEERY ma s onih that he is the Carsey & { i o- A i firm 'y DOL vtarrh that BUATARRE directly on the sysiem A. OCnexey & ( $F Sold by Droggists wv Savy fire {he TOARSEN es “ bry mss fu ORE Inys pair reathir a ng Hones hills and fever of an acute Use mpm » 1 save life 5% ote shiloh's Care i y 4 ion ag sumption i Is sol ten Best Cough ( IATA % the Hagerstown, Md Nigh Unto Death Sound asaDoliarAfterTaking Five Botties of Hood's. “In the spring of 1988 1 was taken with severs pains in my breast so that | could hardly straighten myself up. 1 could not sleep at night and shortly after 1 was taken with night sweats. J had no appetite and when 1 did eat I Became Deathly Sick, Then large lumps the size of a hon's ogg form. od upon both sides of my neck. 1 opened them and closely followed the doctor's directions, but I grew worse and the halr commenced ‘o fall off my head. Finally, I heard so much talk about Hood's Sarsaparilia 1 decided to take it. 1 continued until 1 took five bottles which core od sae as sound ax a dollar, and from that time until now 1 have not had a sick day and have Hood's Cures not felt the slightest effects of rheamatiom.™ Lu A. Waow, 27 Prospect St. Hagerstown, Md. AAR A NE SAA Sl “Hood's Pills are prompt and efcient, yet enay in sotion. Sold by all druggists, a
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