SILVER AND GOLD, Farewell, my little swoetheart, Now (are you woll and free , 1 olaim from you no promise, You olaim no vows from ma, The reason why ?-—the reason Right well we can uphold I have too much of silver, And you've too much of gold. A puzzle this, to worldiings, Whose love to luere flies, Who think that gold to sliver Should count as mutual prize! 3ut I'm not avaricious, And you're not sordid-souled ; 1 have too much of silver, And you've too mush of gold. Upon our heads the reason Too plainly can be seen ; I am the Winter's bond slave, You are the Summer's queen ; Too few the years you number, Too many I have told ; 1 have too much of silver, ' And you've too much of gold. You have the rose for token, I have dry leaf and rime; I have the sobbing vesper, You, morning bells at ch cnn — BACK FROM THE TOMB. BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT. HE slowly into hotel's great dining hall and took their places, the waiters began to serve them leisurely, to the tardy ones time to arrive and to Save themselves the i bother of back the courses; and the old bathers, the yearly habitues, with whom the season wad far advanced, h a kept a cle nt 4 JIE 0 watch « ’ th chiefly to canvass the wonder who they are, and what they think. sire seems { on Od g for pleasant advent ’ perhaps ! In this elbos slbow life our nnknown neighbe come of param to have taken DORSaSS isintances, irs be yunt importance, Cari alert, active. osity is piqued, sympathy or and the social instinet d That then, n every evening, we waited the appearance of unfamiliar faces There only two, but very peculiar ones, those of man and wo- man—{ather and daughter. They seemed to have stepped from the pages of some weird legend; and yet there was an attraction about them, albeit an unpleasant one, that ma le me them down at o1 he victims some fatality The father was tall, bent. wiih hair white fo s still young countenance, hi is per Carriage 18 ) evening, 88 « cane hi set § Oi a Jittie blanched white, too spare, and in manner and about h son of ths austerity puritan. The dangh tasks of life, ) MOVE 0 things that we Nevertheless the girl the ethereal peanty of It was she, nn loubte ily, for the benefit of the waters They chanced to be place immediately me was I father, BOT ! seemed reach for his jerky twiteh, described zag before it was able to grasp what he was after. Soon the motion disturbed me so much I kept my head turned in order not to see it Jut not before 1 had also observe 1 that the young girl kept her glove she ate Dinner ended, out usual for a turn 1n the groun is bel mging to A sort of park, I might say, stretching clear to the lit tle station Auver Chatel- Guyon, nestling in a gorge at the foot of the high mountain, from which flowed the sparkliug, bubbling springs, hot from the furaace of an ancient voleano. Beyond us there, the domes, small extinet eraters—of which Chatel Guyon is the starting point raised their serrated heads above the long chain; whi'e beyond the domes came two distinet regions, one of them nee dle-like peaks, the other of bold, pre- cipitous motuntains, It was very warm that evening and 1 contented myself with pacing to aud fro under the rustling trees, gazing at the mountains and listening to the strains of the band, pouring from the Casino, situated on a knoll that over. looked the grounds. Presently, 1 perceived the father and daughter coming toward me with slow steps. plessant an apparition who can was anything hand A sort o zig t on I went ne the establishment of ane, continental fashion companions, at once, “Pardon, me, sir,” said he, may I sek if you ean direct us to a | trouble to return the coffin to short walk, easy and pretty if possi- | niche ; ble!" “Certainly,” 1 answered, ley throu flows—n two grest wooded. declivities, rocky guestd filed | the | give | bringing | her left hand while | and 1} fally. offered to lead them myself to the val- | peo h which the swift river eep, narrow cleft between | had and | the still and solitary little dread They accepted, and as we walked we naturally discussed tho virtus of the mineral waters. They had, as 1 surmised, come there on his daugh- ter's account. “She has a strange malady,” said he, ‘the seat of which her physicians cannot determine. She suffers from the most inexplicable nervous symp- toms. Sometimes they declare her ill of a heart disease, sometimes of a liver complaint, again of =a spinal trouble. At present they at- tribute it to the stomach —that great motor and regulator of the body--this protesu disease of a thousand forms, a thousand modes of attack. It is why we are here, I, myself, think it her nerves. In any case, it is very sad.” This reminded me of his own jerk- ing head. “It may be hereditary,” says I; “‘your own nervesare alittle disturbed, are they not?” “Mine?” he answered, tranquilly. “Not at all; I have always possessed the calmest nerves.” as if bethinking himself : “For this,’ tonching his hand, not nerves, but the result of a shock, a terrible shock that I suffered once. Fancy it, sir; this child of mine has been buried alive!” I could find nothing to s dumb with surprise, “Yes,” ho continued, ‘‘buried alive ; but hear the story; it is not long. For some time past Juliette had seems | affected with a disordered action of the | heart, We were finally certain that the trouble was and feared the worst. brought in lifeless dead, fallen dead while walki den. nothing ' ay organie, She had ng in the gar- could be done. She For two days and two nights I watched beside her myself, and wi my own hands place 1he hs | which I followed to the metery and saw placed in the family vault, the One gone. in ce was in the country, in of Lorraine. “It had been 1 } ny wisi a In Prosper, who Juliette in her her last indnece my head, answe sisted. eguld not “ Mousieur is wrong ; this will make him ill Will monsiear allow me, | then, to put him to bed?” | * ‘No, mo,’ I answered. | alone.’ | “He yielded and withdrew. “How many hours passed I do not | know. What a night! What a night! | [t was very cold; “Let me wintry frost ‘{ gave such na wracked under me i ind rang through the empty house I looked at the clock. “It was two in the morning. could be coming at such an hot pulled sharp- “Twice again the bell Id never answer, The servants won rhaps never hear it and made my way to the door WAR IAD i . ‘ *Who there!’ but, ashamed of vakness, nerved myself and drew k the bolts My thr my pulse beat, I threw back the panel bras juely, an { there, in the darkness, saw n shape like a phantom, dressed andle about to den 1E) he w hoart in white “I recoiled, specchloss with anguish, stammeriog: “ ‘Who “A YOI00 Answere 1 : “It is I, father.’ “It was my child, Juliette. ~who are you? “Truly, 1 thought mysel! mad. 1} shuddered, shrinking backward before the spectre as it Ivanced, gosticulat- ing with my haud to ward off the ap- parition. It is that gesture which has never left me. “Again the phantom spoke: « ‘Pather, father! See, I am not dead. Some one came to rob me of my jewels—they cut off my finger | the-~the flowing blood revived me. “And I saw then that she was cov: ered with blood. I fell to my knees panting, sobbing, laughing, all in one. As soon as I regained my senses, but still so bewildered I scarcely eowpre- hended the happiness that had come to me, 1 took her in my arms, carried her to my room snd rang frantically for Prosper to rekindle the fire, bring a warm drink for her and go for the doctor. ‘He ame running, entered, gazed a moment at my danghter in the chair, gave a gasp | “It was he who had opened the | vanlt, who had wounded and robbed | for he could not efface all trace of his “but | deed ; aud he had not even taken the ite sure, besides, of not being oted by me, who trusted him so We are truly very unfortunate le, monsieur."” o was silsnt. Meanwhile the night come on, enveloping in the gloom valley; » seemed to | nuspe sort of mysterious Then, suddenly, “1s | i I was | One day it came ; she was | Physicians came in haste, but | - ’ was | This | provinoee | | trio of fright and hor I bowed to them in that | ror and fell back ead, with which one always salutes his hotel The gentleman halted my child and then abandoned her; fall npon me in the presence of these strange beings-—this corpse came to life and this father with his painful gostures, “Let us retorn,” said I; “‘the night has grown chill.” And, still in silence, we traced our steps back to the hotel, and I shortly afterwards returned to the city. 1 lost all further knowledge of the two peculiar visitors to my favorite sum- mer resort, ca —— SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Artificial ear drums are a success. Insect eggs have the greatest vie tality. | the oldest living vegetation. of phosphorous, or brain food, than | any other fruit, The United States has a lower per centage of blind people than any oth- er country in the world. Microscopists say that the strongest microscopes do not, probably, reveal the lowest stage of animal life, | There are | course of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, It easting was twenty-nine of the | fore it had cooled sufficie \ removed days from the tivo lad Live ginss Lick obj glnss be utly for safe The Electrical Raview says the eleo- trical purifioatic { Mm ois “is a com bacter- AIO plete success, chemically iologically.” | The South Sea Islands is the home lof &« worm which emerges from its | hiding place only one day of a certain change of the moon in October, | The East Indian ship worm will in a few months destroy any vessel by eat- | ing ont thy planks [hey wi that can be sh The onio:x , too, that she | warmed. J. J. Hogan, f Yale Colleg markable iostruomen nical student a re t, called the Kine- simeter, which is used to measure t n 0 he slightest wtion perceptible to test of ton The measure millimeter per second the As one The important discovery has been | made by Doctor Backeland that the | addition of a minute amount of a soln- ble fluorid to yeast will preserve it for | more than rix months. Doubtless other | important applications will be made of | this remarkable property of the solu- ble luorids Mr. Graham, the great British eleo an, has invented a *‘loud-speak- ] " ab aratus which hone, RD! 1 materializes the wave de groe ins How Hard Times Make Soldiers It is an interesting fact : t times usually bring enty of ust hard i recruits to the Un 1 St ; iy. A reoruit- now to recrui good « jy men and pl than BOT Le is easier mang m it has yn for years, ' he said, ““there are hun- young fellows who usually earn g yagh wages in factories of New X ther cities in nity, who have been ont ol w luring the past winter When every other resource ms to be many of the an A he mills Newark 1 . youl en and and « irk, this vie TR exhausted tarn to Uncle 8 BOrvice Te A " lows voung fe Sam enlist in hi “It isn't patriotisa yor love of ad that i l ym to put on the blue. It is stern necessity The pay is poor and the task is hard, but they enlist, many of them, rather | than turn to beggary or theft, "'~=New | York Herald. +] me 4) mpeis sa a ——— Strange History ol a Cherry Tree, In the management of a cherry tres the Inte Almeron Higby, of Watson, Lewis County, may be regarded by some people as wiser in lis day and generation than the youthful George Washington. When niae years old he | planted a chorry stone, from which grow a troe that was known by his parents as “the boy's tree.” When it began to bear cherries he picked the | fruit, sold it, and saved the money. | This he continued to do during his | entire life. Last summer, at the age | of fifty nine, his health declined, and the tree also began to decay. Ho out it down, had the trank sawed into boards, and with his own hands made a pretty cherry collin for himself. A The sour gourd trees of Africa are | 100 students taking the | should be loeated The apple contains a larger amount | : | growing pay. I he has the right kind A Dr Klimer # Rwaur-Roor cures all Kidney and Bisdder Pamphlet and Cons Laboratory Bin tronbies, ultation free, rhamton. NK. Tun of piay color in the of / is due to minute fissures in the stone A. M. Priest, Druguist, says: * Hall's Catarrh Cur entisfaction., Cuan anil cure Wasi it, Ind., wat of TERA, gists get plent 8 every one wi ix A Beautiful Souvenir Spoon PLART BEETS AS COW FEED, Bugar beets are worth more to feed to cows for milk and butter than the prices which the sugar-beet factories offer for them for making sugar, it is not necessary that » near a beet-root sugar fectory in order to make beet of cows he can make more money | feeding beets to them than he can sell them for in any other way. The same is true of most of the grain products of the farm. Boston Cultivator, THE PELLICLE OF THE BUTTER GLOBULE, The claim made in a communication from Dr. Hopkins, of Vermont, that he was Oppose d to the alleged existence of any pellicle on the butter globules long 1860, is cheerfully recognized. This opposition has 1¢ as ago ns ny physicians and know of been common amon milk as a those FAYE hoe n Pe rsous n physiologists, who n, while have favored it | based belief #1 take by 1 1.3 . Kimj 16 Cemuisio who who f YOry common mas made inexperienced miero seopists, who red the effects of the refraction of light from glistening ol thus vie , and in this imagined the supposed pellicle, Hoskins cl discovery there 1860, hard w 1 asl > jects, wed WAY Dr. aims that when he made the wher rk hs Change the ment was all fat pork. There of fat, and, at & distribution of WAS 8 £1 ¢ same time, & i The » h } goo lean meat, pigs | were eleven months old when slaugh- tered. The pigs were not in pasture at any time, but were in pens connect- ed with small wards twice each d eight in the morn ing, and at five in the ev y ration to They were fed AY, at wis weigh A great oates testir 1 his Can says, and The and the The soil must Another and eas piece of thick sheet The grain to be t cott fing ox ket andl is ( grain 51 I con Can, th sides out of the ean. Place the block of wood within the ean, allowing it to rest on the bottom The block shou i two inch L) thick, al as the and three fourths as long Pour one to one an i ont of water in the ean Stretch one of the ends of the cloth to dip in the water, The other piece of eloth is used for a cover and is put on in the same way. The seeds to be tested are put between the folds olf cloth. Capillary attraction keeps the cloth damp. Keep clean and fresh l-0il a ’ pieces of { wood an Cut one of the el Wr out as wide ean half inches | water in the germinator and set in a he | fow days ago ho died, and all of his | faneral exponses wore paid from the money that he had saved as the pro ooods of the sale of the cherries, — Mil wankee Wisconsin, ] Oil ol Ege. Extraordinary storios are told of | the healing properties of a new oil | which is easily made from the yolks | of hona' oggn. The egge are first | boiled hard, and the yolksare then re- moved, crashed and placed over a fire, where they are carefully stirred until the substance is on the point of eateh- ing fire, when the oil separates aud the oil may be poured off. One yolk will yield nearly two tesspoonfuls of oil, It isin general use among the colonists of South Rassias as a means of ouring ents, bruises, eto. 8b. Louis Btar-Hayings. warm place, To prevent smut uso one pound of “bluestone” to four gallons of water, Allow the grain to remain in contact with the liquid for five minutes Never sow seed that is foul with sood of weeds and other grains, The wild oats must be got out of the way A great help in this direction is to de stroy as much of the wild oat seed as possible. Every seed sown brings forth nearly a hundred more, New York World, IMPROVED PEACH ORCHARDS, So i farmer | : | the trees and lessen the excellence of | the fruit. The duration of the trees is lessened, and they perish much sooner than nnder a better treatment. First of all, the superiority of broad- cast endtivation should be appreciated, as compared with only narrow strips or circles of cultivated ground. The roots of both young and old peach trees extend from the foot of the trees to a distance of at least equal to the height of the trees. This we have proved by experiments, showing that the trees, ten and twelve feet high, | ond out roots thirteen feet in length and are increased in growth by manure placed at that distance, It is there- fore of little comparative importance the tree nAnure ere conld be, therefore, but 1 $10 Ol receives or oi f clion to the branche 8 €X ing nearly to the ground There are several low he aded trees reas for such The prun- cutting back is more easily per- vd, much of it being operator stands y thinning, ould The fruit may be There [ { that may not y cultivation, for ns sunual 3 v ng of i which all trees sl receive, 18 wi above COTrn Was droj it was levelled and trodden like hay in a mow. No weights were used. It is now earried in baskets to the cribs and the grain rations are scattered over it. Two quarts of grain fed in that Are KS ZOO fed alone. t 1; hat Mr ther sen the wer ana Way 1 ns three 18 £4 int as 3 Swell 1ntenas say i v A i that Vin water put inte i the drink " carried by Pipe als tar § Woe, pi | stocked w : bil K to iE, Al rge. Cold and rainy days ere pleasantly and profit has an MY Mr. Swott set he wheels s the tires , and has Other invent) inch and a the milk ) Mr. Swett drove Yen neing in business S$1X YEArs ago, himself for s ) OATS, 1 y three trips during that time y-four years ago he bought this 100 acres, pleasantly situated Corner, six miles from The large convenient build- kept in thorough repair.— New England Farmer npc n ings are FARM AXD GARDEN XOTES, Patience is needed calf to drink in teaching the A good blooded colt may be made no better than a scrub by being half starved. After the growth is made the meat hog or the lard hog is a matter of feeding. It onlculated that with every 1200-pound steer there are 349 pounds of waste. Ft. In raising strawberries keep the ground moist and mellow by frequent cultivation, The food of pigs must, to produce pood results, be largely nitrogenous or muscle forming. (itve the chickens plenty of mother, that is, do not give the care of too many | chickens to one hen, Every spring n large number of | peach orchards are planted in differ- ent parts of the country, and nearly all are arranged in the old way of set. ting them in squares or in rows both ways for horse culture, and training them up to a head five feet high on a bare stern at that hight. As many farmers and orchardists are now oar: rying out their plans for spring plant ing, » few practical suggestions may be of use. The tendency of all peach tree is in running up and out hori: gontally futo baro poles and arms, | which gradually reduce the value of Every farmer should remember that pigs eaunot digest properly sour milk or sour feed of any kind. Exocitable horses can generally be quieted by smoothing the bead and rubbing down over the eyes Much of the distemper which pre- wails in spring months might be pre- vented by a little judicious care. Usually the hog with coarse, strait ir will not fatten near so rapidly as the one with fine, soft hair. Will be sent with « Certain Croup Cure o Wow Add ron very Ordered 1 batt af 11» Hoxsle, § shilok's Cure #80ld ona guaran te “1 Cou Bocause of a r Fiood's id Not Walk int > BOP Sarsa~ parilla ures WRI i Hood's Pllis A Queer But Gifted fur- in the skin, These various gifts, co bined with an interesting Boom render the bird one of the most strike in the Zoo; bn is spaces anil 1% the draw- ny f this good 1 Dispatch woketn al and ons sho k by a dream. speak, she relat SAW & Ian frying t ners that she hours she ji KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet. ter than others and enjoy life more, with Joss expenditure, by more promptly adaptivg the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in remedy, Syrup of Figs Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laze ative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millioutate, met with the approval of the medi profession, because it acts on the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance, Bipot hips is for sale by all drug gists in $1 bottles, but it is mane u the California Fig Syrup printed
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