~.~4he paddler. PAUSE AMD THINK, With many friends to love you, Whose hearts are warm and true, Bhould fortune prove a traitor You must not make ado ; And as the clouds are gathering Upon hope's future sea, i And pleasure's fickle spectre Pd Loaves naught of joy with thot J Pause and think! Think of true souls and kindred Loved ones, though far away, Whose tears of warm affection May consecrate the clay That shall be heaped above you When life's short dream is o'er, Of those who'll strive to meet you Upon the other shore Pause and think! And when temptation’s finger Shall beckon you to stray, Or siren-volee of pleasure May lure t« When right and wrong contending y evil way, Joth seeking to control The best and To sav worst within you r wreck your soul Pause and think! hat a step once taken ar ba retraced, y hard to bur nish A — "OLD LANTERN. Ont | te ¥ ming && hain CA HAY a y Lo tinware ‘ n ¥ a A n't | ve stoppin’ for, Jake Martin? 'Tain't Ween You 3 ce WAS in y before." — Pare FY “Got a passenger for yo, srs. tall,” cheerily responded And out from the glittering fes- foons of tin dippers and wash hand basins a young girl sprang lightly, = smile striving desperately with the traces ent } Bathe was tl shine, t tall pear boughs = e the one-s in wi stood Hall, AS ON HOT COVERS, sas | hand held uj om the sun. hy, laimed, *‘‘it's Colton, a it Or be I dreamin “No. Mrs. Hall,” sa:d Kitty, with a little quiver in her lip, ‘‘you sre not dreaming t's really me, % “And it brings you here?” Kitty's blue eyes through a medinm f tears starting suddenly from some hidden spring deep down in her heart. T Kitty ¥ } shone nowhere ““The auc- I've faltered, Jecause— because else to go she tion was this wae sold dreary! couldn't thought moving in might =» the housework ; daughters of her own.’ “La said Mrs. Hall. come Hf , did Well, I ain't very bh, | what I've got, Kitty, you're we to.” “Didn't tell Martin, lly chewing a siraw bec nn enet CRE) “Mrs. Hall, she never went back no « t. It'/]1 be a ro f over your head, anvh and if there's a brand new tin wash basin wanted in Kitty's room, here it is, free gratis,” and he unearthed from its bed of straw a shining new “Aud I only wish I could do more.” “I need a new tin dipper awful | bad,” observed Mrs. Hall “My boarder, he's a great hand to drink fresh, cool water outen the well, and I is there, i who 1s $0 stay w the man ant me to help with ) grown $f w but she hastiw ‘So yon you? it come | Wilo, said Jake hie period, had ye so?” q * up to f on Me ve Ww. is article, declare to goodness I'm ashamed of | my rusty old cup 'thout no handle!” “Wal, I won't be mean, Here's a dipper for ye, too,” said Jake-—'‘not quite the biggest size, but I guess it's large enough. Mind, though, Mrs. Hall, you don't patronize Tim Hawk. ins next time you need a wash-boiler! | Tim, he's a drefful, oily-tongued fel- | ler, but his wash-boilers is jest whited suppulchres—that's what they be. Mornin’, Mrs. Hall! Keep up good courage, Kitty!’ And he climbed to his high seat among the pie-platter) snd pudding basins, and shook the reins ns a signal for the old horse to leave off munch: ing daisies and resume his leisurely pace down the roml Kitty sat down on the doorstep and burst into tears once more. “If you've got a boarder,” said she, “1 surely can't stay |” “La, child, don't fret!” soothed Mrs. Hall, *‘Ho sleeps out in the barn, for coolness sake, and ain't no more trouble’n a kitten.” “Oh, Mrs, Hall, it isn’t » tramp?” I “No ~ ner yet na chuckled the old woman. travelin' photographer— that's he is, bit, and what he says my riz bread What's that basket, Kitty mornin’ comes ‘round. you've got in the cat?” “Oh, no!” Kitty answered, spring- ing up with sudden recollection. *‘It's a fowl, Mrs, Hall—it's Old Lantern, the speckled Dominique hen. They couldn't find her when Eli Wardwell bought in all the others for two dol- lars and a quarter— and some of them real White Spanish, too. 8o, when she came clucking and eawing up from the swamp, the anctioneer said might keep her. Such a gentle old thing! She used to eat out of grand. ma's hand, I may have her here, Mrs. Hall?” “Of course you ean,” good old woman. ‘‘Mine is all Black Top-knots, but I guess they'M agree, and she'll pick up her living somehow round the yard. Now come in and have dinner. I've got b'iled pork and dan lelion greens to-day. Mr. Higgs he ain't to hum, an' it's kind of a scrappy dinner, but there's plenty for you an’ me. Set down and eat all ye can. There's some folks | finds fault with dried apple pies, but | I guess this one’s pretty tol'able good. I put plenty o' fennel seed in it " And when Kitty Colton had and drunk of the} better able to her story to Mrs, Hall how the old homestead, with all its ontfittings, had been sold to satisfy ch had some y eaten A the accumulation of bt whi | been rolling up sine | ness, ] n Ry eYyenun “That was 1 “Obed SLilton was real smart fol 1 Mrs. Hall, spread a red-an 1-black table-cover on thotable. Kitty cried & gobd desl the figst night or two of her ourn at the Widow Hall's, but youth and heal are ch rents low,” ol us she #0 : th eerful el yurse he ain't Stilton had ‘ pleasant face, especially Wael he 3 the buttery smiles, and he is handy hon He whitewashed ceiling better'n old could's done it, and the way he fixed the stove-oven can't be beat " “Do you think he “'Bout thirty, I guess " “Oh. he must be forty.” “There's older folks Mra don't thy . att ne, my Jubal Jones is young?” r than forty in Hall “Young nobody has the world,” they nk 8 to 1 old. vo teen arterwards.” YOArs One day, howe after 1e kitchen, gona to the barn crying back to tl “I'll never again!” speak sobbed she hate him-—-I hate hit “Laws sake, chil ter?" cried Mrs “01d Lantern ot her!” “Mr. Higgs! mat- is dead. I saw him Shoot Old Lantern?” «She sat there right on her nest in the haymow, under the big beam where the sunshine comes in. She knew me, for I saw her black eyes sparkle like glass beads, just as they always do when she catches sight of me ; and then—and then-—oh, I never can forgive him 1” wailed Kitty. “Bat I never heerd no gnu go ofl," said Mrs. Hall And at the same moment Mr. Higgs | | sate in, beaming and exualtant. | of guess I did it that time,” said he. | Kitty conld only flash an angry | glance at him, but Mrs, Hall eagerly inquired : “Done what?” “Got a first-rate picture of that old | speckled hen on her nest in the hay, | That's the sort of pictare,” he added, complacently, ‘‘that sells better than all the waterfalls snd picturesque rains going. A baby in a hammock, | a dog asleep on the kitchen floor, | | kitten playing with a ball—that's the | thing that eatchies the publio eye. And I've turned a trump ecard this time." While Old Lantern herself, flying cackling past the window, set her lit- tle mistress’ heart at rost, “I took his camera for a gun,” she confessed to Mrs, Hall. ‘Oh, how foolish I was!" “Shoot your pet Dominique, Mise Colton! Why," eoried Mr. Higgs, “what do you take me for? I wouldn't book-agent,”’ “He's a And he don't mind cold meat n and cookies is jest what his mother used to bake, and he's jest as reg'lar with his five dollars a week as the Tuesday 0 assented the | umble fare, she was | i i : | harm na feather of her old head, not | for a dollar!” And Kitty whispered | that night: “I think he is nice-looking when he smiles and shows those white teeth of hig—don’t yon?” Before the little green pears on the | big treo had assumed the size of vest-buttons, Benjamin Higgs had | asked Kitty Colton to be his wife. “I'm not a rich man,” said he, ‘but [I'm able to keep a wife. And that photograph of Old Lantern nest—it just went off like to Mrs. Hall on wildfire. { The barn interior, you know, and the | | wisps of hay in the sunshine that came | through the cracks, and the big beams | overhead—everybody bought it. I've | tried half a dozen times to repeat the | experiment, but she never would sit still for me.” Kitty bent her head down over | Lantern, who was contentedly pick- {ing corn out of her hand, “The dear old thing!” she. tern!” “Wal, I swan!” said Jake Martin. | “Engaged to that feller! Why I was | a-ealculatin’ to ask her to go pardners with me in the tinware business one 0’ | the se days!” “You're too late,” { Hall, “And Obed Sti from sea, | | protty persisted Jake. | “He's too Inte,” said Mrs. Hall. “Wal, 1 don't so n er Jake, ‘if the pl nan mak ber happy.” whispered said the Widow N he's come hot A0 askin' gnestions Kitty Colt an, lson 16 8 and lively about nel 1 AGC Kee wtograph ‘ 1 1 " I guess he will make her happy said Mrs. Hall. *‘He’ wr buildin’ her a River, and Old t-clnss he nuery. } - HADDY. " her -3at- en . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, # Are overhead yn is at the rate nd ; through ed i nos ond. we A composition for hardening steel, pamed Darol,” has been, tried for two years by such firms ss Krupp, | Mannes, Manns and others in Germany re satisfaction, nd 1s said to ive ent the highways of eat Britain Mri ww rin { t 1th 8 Arg & wid and silver length of of simply doubling the YOAT, By A simple o day and night, an : ne the may be ascertained by the time of the sun's rising, which will the length of the night, and y time of setting will give f the day, for anral disease wil head is practiced. sold th walter, irritat » set up In it FAlLIWAY Cars the next stat: yin has been adopted on the underground railway in L As each station is passed a card the name of the next in a glass trie bell rings to call attention to the change. I'he ! an alloy of aluminum and platinom have at last been Ihe alloy is of a handsome color, not unlike gold alloy with five per cent of silver, and is suitable for protecting steel articles from rast. It contains only a very small proportion of platinum, and, therefore will not be ———— Korean Sports, name ndon. Dearing ro station di i ps into | frame and Aan eis covered i m tit ie attemplis to secure successful, 11 Yellow ax pensive, Curator Stuart Calin, of the Univers ity of Pennsylvania Muosenm, who has | gathered together the finest collection | of games ever made in the world, has | made an interesting discovery in his | | study of Korean sporta. The Chinese games are all marked by a literary character, the game of logomachy, or word-building, which has gained such popularidy in this country, having been played long ago by Korean school children. *‘A number of their games,” | ho declares, ““had their origin from | mystic concepts, Many of the child- ish sports had orginally a serions divinistie or expistory significance, The tag-of-war, for instance, Wis played by the people of villages and districts to ascertain which would be the Inckier, Kites were used nas seapegoats, being released with in- soriptions to the effect that they were carrying away misfortune, Mere toys were not numerous. Some of the games possess a decidedly ethnic char- soter, and their stady promises to fur- nish conclusions of some importance.” «= Philadelphia Record, her | | | | | | | | i { | “Good luck eame here with Lan- | n | milking by any of the ordinary foods | in use, if given | and thus it ie a safer | should earefully test REMEDY FOR ONION MAGGOT. Half a pint of kerosene is well mixed with a pailtul of some dry ma- terial, preferably wood ashes, but sand, sawdust, or even dry soil will do fairly well, and after the plants are well up | and the trouble is athand a sprinkling of this mixture along the rows about | twice a week during the time the fly does its work will be found a sure pre- ventive, —Becientific American, FOOD THAT DRIES THE MILK. A good cow will not be hurt in her in moderation. But there are cows that will rather turn their food 1nto fat than into milk, and such cows may be dried by overfeed- ing such strong food as cornmeal other grain, Bran will ne dry a cow under an or t be apt to y Circumstances, food than meal wo apt to fatter owner of + Are Every for such ¢ when well fed. WE As COWE each one to dis cover her character in this for it is very true that tion of cows d direction, por or their feed such « a large pro o not pay f ing, and of cours ] profitable. More kind for milk Among ws are not cows of this inferior r will be fou sand other bree f, than am and butt orthorn } commoniy or nd thie 1s 4 the gpecial dairy bre hire, the Jersey New York Times, % der bl paista the bloon is favorable let thes d putiing ix AY OF & to handle g part of out the water has Ne Yar on New England MAKING AN ASPARAGUS BRD, Of all the crops for the market gar- den, especially if conveniently situst- | ed to a large city, asparagus is one the m« CasY 10 Cuil ul becans: easy to sel | ily depth of Are then nas i i8 ; over the rows. T in the fall or spring. At the the the trenches will partially covered in and during the next year may be cultivated leaving the roots eight or ning surface of the ground Every spring the whole surface shonld red thorough cultivation with the pl and harrow, and be well m Mr. eld, of Michigan, y has had eminent success in grow he 1 his work may #eASOT level, + inches below the Eve yw a ¢ Glarfi ing asparagus, stat stable manure ternate vears, the of thirty-two tons an Horticulturist, P PREVENTION OF POTATO DISEASE, Experiments in the prevention of potato disease were made at the Albert Farm, and at Garryhill, Connty Carlow, Ireland, in 1892 According to the recently published report of the Agricultural Depart ment, the Flounder, a variety ex tremely liable to disease, was select. ed, and the experiments wers mn ie | with a view to ascertain whether the mycelinm of the fungus reached the | tubers through the tissues of the | plant or by means of the spores falling | upon the earth and then washed down Glasnevin, | to the surface of the tubers in the | | soil. | in June beneath the plants with cot. \ ! The ground was covered early | ton wool, earefully placed around the | stems, with the object of filtering out | the spores that might fall upon the gronnd. The disease appeared in July and the leaves of the plants were bad- ly affected. When the potatoos were lifted in October it was found that there were no dissased tubers beneath the cotton wool, but a considerable | amount of disease in the unprotected ground, Hence, it is provisionally in | ferred by those in charge of the ex: periments thet disease spores reach the tubers by passing through the soil, but further experiments are nee ossary before stating definite eonala- sions. If this point be established, the advantage of high moulding, as advoosted by Mr. Jensen, in provid ing a layer of earth of sufficient thiok- ness to filter the rain water as it descends through the earth, and there by arrest the spores before they could reach the tubers, will receive further goof. Tha potato crops in County Pablin are generally more free from | go down? | hens to scratch. | vigorous disease than those grown iu other parts of Ireland. This comparative immunity is attributed to the earlier | free from weeds, and the general sys. tem of changing the sced from which the crop is grown year by year, RAISING CHICKENS IN SUMMER, Does it pay to hatch chicks after | the weather turns warm and the prices This can only be answered by looking over the prices offered | during previous years and estimating the probable cost and loss. One of the obstacles in winter is that there is quite a large loss of due to case of neglect somes of the In summer this difficulty is net with, Then, there must be me and a greater lowed. The because chicks cold, a single entail loss Hes ing entire Again, in winter wre labor bestowed of {food winter cost Oost proportion al- prices in the are the chicks more and are consequently scare and difficult to procure. In summer a good price 18 paid for List roasting out two a half to each ¢ eighteen high ch ICKH, of ab and pounds id at 1 ts a poun 1 as late as October, and enty cents to VEeAr Ks s the usual price i October This means that a f good quali- Ting i » in fifty What the { nd the ¥ ocean chicks after warm weather sets in, which is the very time they are in the best condition for meeting success. It will be worthy of sn experiment this summer to hatch a large number for the market. Corn will make the in or ing hens lay in the winter, ou ‘hen hens are laying they are zing yr produci n the range they have all they de- fined in yards f corn daily legree of they to die from poplexy or overheating the . This is especially the case with » breeds that are in a very fat con- mn. Corn possesses but a very small proportion of mineral sub- stances, and too stimulating as a summer food. If the hens are kept in enclosures it is better to feed them lean meat and ground bone a day, with a plentiful suppl) of chopped grass, especially of clover, rather than grain A y §¢ 19 ne il : (Fe are liable {from is nce Pl f mess of grain may be given three times a we ek, but such a meal should be light, ground grain being excellent, Scatter whole grains, bh so as to induce the Mirror and Farmer, wever, FARM AXD GARDEN NOTES One rooster to every ten hens ls about right. A horse that is a small eater does | not generally amount to much. Duck eggs, when hatching, require moisture than do the eggs of ORS { hens, The value of a breed is based upon tho earning power of its representa tives, One great advantage of artifical hatehing is the freedom of vermin on | chicks. Hard-shelled eggs produce the most chicks, Those from soft | shells are apt to be weakly. If strong chicks are desired, see to | it that the eggs are from healthy stock | that has not been overfed Resolve now, if you have not before, to spray your fruit trees next season. | Spraying is the salvation of the fruit | grower. (lalls are quickly healed by apply- ing tannin, keeping saddle on collar away from the gall, meantime by the | ase of pads, Horses whose shoulders and backs are often washed in strong brine are | seldom troubled with sores when plow- | ing and placting. There is more profit in raising goose than chickens, and it is surpris- ing that progressive farmers do not go in for them more. Colts are generally fod too much hay and not enough other things. They should be given more bran, oats, roots, oil rake, linseed meal, ensilage, clover hay and pasture in = feld of | planting of the crop, keeping the land | greon wheat or rye. One Yiew of Higher Edueation, When a girl is making good, wholes some bread, digestible pie and keeping a house h comfortable for her and brothers, it is said she 1 Cure, and and fut! er, mot [iT nissing the “higher education’ necessary to a life, This *“‘higher tion” is one of the mushrooms that the | the osophists that brothers should be conten bread d grow goodr, while womnn's edness grow in brain of pos nliste, Means her father, an ds J pti : canned she sits on bank of a [ things wl And ¥ | ypular 4 the literal siream and reflects upon ¢ that do her harn Very g useful woman avoids wh known as the “‘higl meaning of which is Atchison ishiness Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure Chronic Indigestion Kept me in very poor heaith for five years, I | began to take Hood's Sarsaparilia and my digestion was helped by the first three doses. Hood's Sarsa- narilla iv A— RADWAY’S ILLS, Purely vegetable, mild and ate ause Pore fect Digestion, complete abmorption and heatthfal regularity, For the ours of ail disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Dowels, Kidaers, Bladder, Nervous Diseases LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION, DIZZY FEELINGS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, PERFECT DIGESTION will be acnomplished b taking BRadway's Pilla. By their AN HL BILIOUE properties they aimulste the liver In the secretion of the bile and Mts discharge throne the biliary 1nots hese pills in doses from two four will Juickly regulate the action of the liver and free the pacient from these disorders. One or two of Rade ways Pils, taken dally by those subject to billows pains and worpidity of the liver, will kKeap the rs» tow regular and ssenre healiny Algesiion Y vegols rel Price, 33¢, per Box, Sold by all Druggiste. RADWAY & CO, NEW YORK. A «R mati H HALMSAEEEE Chewing um hhh “Lures and Prevents Haeumatism, indigestion, Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Oatarra and Asthma Usahul in Mainria and Fevers, Uloauseh Uhe Teeth and Promotes the Appetite, Sweetin ihe Breath, Cures the Toteooo Hablt, Lodorsed * uy tne Medios! Pecuity, Sead foe 3 for 8 =» cont kage, Sliver, Stamps or etenl . é oo." WAL, 1 Wont ad wt, New Yor, . A Ta ORTHERN PAGIFIC COE WAT FL, FL. and FREE SSISANMENT L A i Seba nl P. B. GROAT, wigreflon, LF When writing mention ths paper. No, 198, Without Canvassing Seng BL aaything ohe person In wn can mo ke fair u AN PRESS or NG A. M. LES co. Fi gy D, © RNEVS FOR ix a N ¥ ». re hota AMerions ts. Puy Nriderport. Conn, is positively cared by the wee of SCOTT'S ARABIAN PASTE,
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