—————— WHEN THE HEART'S IN ITS PRIME | herself, “and no one be any the wiser.” his tour Like wandering minstrel o'er meadow and | Alice, ‘‘Jessamine declared you would | said, as he bowed frigidly and touched | not go, but—"" | moor ; The day and the season are both in fholr | prime, The Striker girls welcomed her joy- | The Sun's on his throne, and the Wind on | ously, “It's so nice to have you,” said “Why shouldn't 1 go?” said Esther. “Don’t I go up every year when they | And youth's at its sweetest and tenderest | are sugaring off?” time. | The buds are in bloom and the birds sing | their best, The trees are in dressed With clustering fruits, for the year’s in its | prime, And youth's at its ripest and tenderost time. leat and the orchard is Too soon shall the clouds cover sunshiny sky, . 13 The volee of the minstrel be hushed to a sigh ; Too soon shall the day and the season de- | cline, And olustering fruit shall be melted to wine, The petals shall fall and the songsters de- part, The foliage fade like the youth of the heart ; For swift runs the current of pitiless time, And always the swiftest when life's in its prime, The birds and the blossoms and appear, With summer's return and the turn of the year, The breezes shall be sweet and the sun be as falr ; Alas ! but the prime of my youth is not there fruit shall Each month of the year has its prime, but in truth There's only the prime in the season of yor Though hearts love again, an all time, There's only one love when the prime, ~Mary Berri Chapman, { ee —— THE MAPLE SUGAR CAMP, BY AMY RANDOLPH. DIAMOND, Jack? A dl! Oh, how bright it is, like aspark of white fire Like a star, dropped down out of the sky! I never saw a dia- mond before; ana to => think that it is mine! Dear Jack, 1 - couldn't possibly p~=== love you any more than I did before, but I do love you, oh, so much!” The little bit of love making took place under the frost bound trees of the Back Orchard, where Esther Elmford was standing, with a white woolen hood wrapped tightly over her enrls and a black-and-scarlet plaid shawl enfolding her, mummy- fashion. She was a tall, rosy-cheeked girl, with a complexion born of moun- tain breezes and eyes that shone with ruddy health—no ideal sylph, but rather a rosy, wholesome, dimpled human girl like Wordsworth's hero apple v 1 ‘i for It, “But you must not wear it every day, Essie, you know," said John Jef. ferson. “Why fell. “You wanted our engagement kept a secret,” you know." i “So I did. Anything bat the ROB sip of the whole combined neighbor- hood!” eried Esther, with a moue of distaste, Well anyhow, I ean put a black velvet ribbon through it and hang it around my neck!" “But you haven't paid yet.” ‘Paid you, vou mercenary fellow!’ “One kiss, Eesio! I don’t often get & chance to claim it, you know.” She poised herself on tiptoe to ac cord the demanded royalty, and then ran, laughing, away toward her home. ““How generous he is! she kept re- peating to herelf. *‘A real diamond!” When she got back to the kitchen of the r« old farmhouse, where Mrs. Elmford was frying crullers in an atmosphere of fragrant blue smoke, that lady cast a discontented glance at her. “Seems to me you've been a long time gettin’ that spotted calf into the barnyard,” said she. “Was I long, mother? But he got clear down the lane, and the orchard ate was open,” equivocated Miss wether, “The Striker gals stopped here for you. They was goin’ up to the Ma. ple Sugar Camp with a lot o' fresh baked bread and pies for Tom and Leonidas, and they waited for you till | they was clear ort o' patience,” added Mre. Elmford, fishing another tin Her countenance for it me my | that Jack Jefferson Jessamine Striker began to giggle. | “Yes,” said she, ‘‘but our Leonidas Las never beer there until this season, and Mr. Jefferson has never been so particular in his attentions to you be- fore." Esther crimsoned to the roots of { her hair. “What ridiculous nonsense!” said she. “‘Oh, is it, thongh ?" retorted Jessa- mine. ‘‘When all the world knows Othells."” Esther walked on, with silent dig- nity. In her secret heart she was be- ginning to regret that she had put her- self out to accompany these silly girls. “Don’t mind Jess, dear,” said good- humored Alice hand through Esther's arm. will giggle at everything—it's her na- ture. Isn't this a charming morning? I heard a blue-bird in the swamp down by the river, and there's a lot of yel- low jonquils in bloom in Anne Rebec- ca's window-box. The snow is thaw- ing in the sunshine, but the walking is good yet, and Leon says the maple- trees have never given a better yield.” Up at the sugar camp, all was life and animation. Blue threads of smoke wound upward to the sky from the chimneys of the two or three board shanties, thatched with atrips of bark and trusses of straw, where the “hands’’ kept house in a gypsy fash The great kettles where the sirup was boiling down to the requisite lid were watched by select de- “‘She nn. uty yutations, lest the fires should slacken IArine INASSCS BC sreh, while others attending to the im- promptn stone chimney in the air, while the carcass of a wild turkey around and around in or the saccl were open was whirling front of the | ingenious rotary tatoes was baking The | Uncle f sight of eruliers made after ripe. Tl two young Strikers extended a hospi- table invitation to their meal, now in process of preparation “Leon shot the turkey yesterday by Lone Lake,” said Tom. “And it'sa prime you bet. Rather nicer than the salt cod-fish we had reckoned on." But Esther | «.. «to say. “I'll just take a look at the sugar kettles,” said “and then hurry back to mother. We're going to have at the the his mother's time-honored re 16 even one, she, the parson’s folks to tes, and there's a secret no a deal to do.” Leonidas Striker the largest kettle called “Big Ben,” and gave monster stick to | waves-of sweetness. Rion iiamaar oi 30 ST BE 0 DE hi { Oh, you'd better stay, § a lot of young folks coming up this afternoon, and Darky Jones is to be here with his fiddle!” “Oh, 1 couldn't, possibly I” said Esther. In truth aad in fact she had not been quite at her ease since Jessa. mine's unlucky allusion to Othello in conjunction with Mr. Jefferson ; and she did not breathe freely again until had reached where her mother was just clearing away the dinner dishes “Has any escorted her to of all, ordioarily sae home, one been here?” said “Who should be here?’ connter questioned Mrs, E ford. “1 don’t expect Elder Morris's folks until four o'clock.” As Esther took off her things in the little chamber upstairs, where the shingled roof sloped down to the eaves, she glanced down at the en- gagement finger, Terror of terrors, the sparkling little ring was gone! -» It was past four o'clock. Mrs Morris was droning away in the sit ting-room about the last missionary box which had been sent out to the Hougara Indian Reservation: Miss Adelgitha Morris was admiring her hostess’s most recent crazy patchwork ; the two little Morrises were playing checkers, and the good elder himself was laying down tomes of theological law to Farmer Elmford ; while Esther, with tear-swollen eyes, was mixing a batch of biscuits for tea in the kitchen. All of a sudden she caught sight of John Jefferson riding past on his gray pony, with averted face. In an instant she caught down the shawl! that hung on the peg back of the | she the vietim of enchantment? What is as jealous as | Striker, slipping her ber the stir the bubbling i this season ! Esther, there's | a smoke-consuming apparatus to loco- “Jack, Jack!" pleaded Essie, hold- ing up her hands, as if every word were a blow, “I need detain you no longer,” he the neck of his horse with his whip- lash, and the next minute he wasgone. Poor Essie dragged herself back to the house, the tears freezing on her cheek and her heart colder still, Was did all this mean? Tea was over at least, but Esther Elmford did not know whether she had eaten hot biscuit or cold, hasty pudding. She had listened, with a vague, unmeaning smile, to Mrs, Mor- ris's prolonged account of little Tommy's last siege of diphtheria and Miss Adelgithe's proposed visit to New York. It was almost as if brain and nerve were benumbed, when Jessa i mine Striker's clear, sweet voice struck across the current of her hopeless apathy and she found herself in a con- fidential corner of the best bedroom upstairs, with Jessamine eagerly har anguing her. “The strangest thing!" erie? Jessa- mine. ‘He found it in the maple- sugar kettle, Alice had made some flannel cakes, and he dipped out a dipperful of the hot sirup for us to eat with it, and Leon came within one of swallowing the ring. ‘Whose it? said he. ‘Why, Essie Elmford's, of course,’ said I. ‘Didn't 1 see the sparkle of it when she took off her mitten to unfasten the lid of the bas- ket that held Uncle Peter's crullers? And it mnst have slipped off her finger,’ said he, ‘when she went to stir the sugar in the kettle.” So he hung for safekeeping it 1s’ f or two ol 18 it on his watch-chain until we came home, and here Esther murmured a word thanks “I was very careless,” said she, But even after Jessamine was gone, she sat staring at the pretty trinket which had so ne arly Desn boiled down Sugar, What was ns What was the use any 3 into m th of it now? thing?” “Esther! Esther! ealled up the narr “Here's Mr, Jefferson f 4) ! father sirway. spead her WwW WO den [44 wants to things like {a dream knew standing, with her troubled these another, How strangely all ned to succeed f the dull lapses 0 She not h but she Jack's arm around her, eyes looking up into his “My own darling,” he spered, “can you ever forgive me for being such M brute? 1 have just seen that Striker fellow. He's not such a bad lot, after all, and everything is ex- plained. Sweetheart, say that you forgive ! I never shall forgive yw, wns 3 wil me mys + Ha "And all the horrid nightmare feel ing was over, and the engagement was longer, and poor little Esther Elmford was happy again. “But I don't think, ' said she, ‘that I shall ever want to taste maple sugar again. Not just yet, at all events!” New York Ledger. w ——— — fal and satisfactory trial was made of motives snd doubtless suitable for all other steam engines. A number of practical and scientific guests made the trip between Vienna and Znaim, a distance of about sixty-two miles, be hind an absolutely smokeless locomo- tive. Open cars were used and even at a speed of over forty five miles 1 hour, nothing but clear water steam was emitted, and no smoke, sparks or cinders, and even the guests riding on the locomotive, found at the end of the journey that their coats, linen and hands were as clean as when they started. This apparatus is an auto- matie device, attached to the outside of the boiler, which supplies the fire with just enough air to consume the smoke and gas. Over the fire a steam veil whirls aud mixes the air and gas, and this burned gas is forced against the boiler and every particle of heat is utilized, It is claimed that a sav- ing of from ten to twenty-five per leent, is effected in heat-giving ma- terial. This device has been in con- stant use for over two years and has been found entirely satisfactory. The invention is astonishingly simple in construction and operation and soon saves ita cost. A special advantage of the apparatus is that it can be readily attached to any locomotive or station | ary boiler without the slightest alter- ation of the general system used in | either. — Atlanta Constitution. amsmciniiminemttli—— Has a Peculiar Malady, The fourteen year old son of a man named Emery, at Buffalo, Ind., is af [flected with a peculiar malady, Al- | though apparently otherwise possessed per | i | and getting cast should wear a halter | cleaned, this fouls the water and gives ’ 1 ¢ other stones across the ends RALTER POR HORSES THAT ROLL, | two ther i inte , | of these, snd &« man hole eighteen A horse that is addicted to rolling | inches square will be left. It is now | ready for plastering. Use portland tween the ears, Snap a rope or strap cement, one part of Semont to Ywe of a : , a a ine. ele ving the sides a in this so he cannot lay his head down | fine, clean sand, gi LE Ce over. the flat, and thus tied there will be no! good leyer clear up to ) © ’ o . avio nl. leader from the roof having been in- Sasha trouble. —American Agricul oo Tig a urist. with a ring fastened to the top be serted in or near the top. drain from some convenient point of discharge, snd lay the oveflow pipe by begining at the bottom of the cistern, passing it out near the top. It may | be made of common round two-inch drain tile, having thst part which is in the cistern well covered with ce- ment. When all is complete place a erib of plank over the man-hole, through vhich it may be entered by means of a small ladder; then cover | with earth, rounding it well up. If a pump is used the suction pipe | should be furnished with a strainer, | and should reach to within a foot of the bottom of sistern. Where a cis- {tern can De built directly under the | kitchen it is very convenient to con- The New York experiment station |, ..¢ it with a pump over the kitchen has been experimenting in keeping | 4% The capacity of a citern may eREs. The eggs were all wiped when be approximately ascertained by al- fresh, with a rag saturated with some lowing seen gallons to the enbie foot. antiseptic and packed tightly in salt, | Or. if it is .ound, multiply the diame- bran, ete. Eggs packed during April in feet. and and May with salt, and which had been wipe 1 out with cottonseed « which had been added boric acid, kept with = quality Thos pre STIMULANTS FOR FLOWERS. One of the best stimulants that can be given to pot plants, especially palms and ferns, is soot water, Ties quantity of soot ina cosrse muslin bag, attaching a heavy stone to it, so that it will sink ; let this soak for sev- eral days in a tub of water and then let it stand a day or two until quite clear. One quart of soot to seven gal- lons of water is quite sufficient. It renders the foliage more vivid, as well | as stimulating growth. — Detroit Faee | Press. EXPERIMENTS IN KEEPING RGGS ter by the » ‘erage dej th, the product by five Ihe result will be the Amosrican Agriculturist, and one-half, capacity io gal- loos 1088 f Of from four to five months of nearly third, the those saved being good packed in bran, after the liminary were after four 1s . aurin ont PARAL LXD not t : : or SLOW mMUKILE 18 1D same " ily all ilk rapi I'he Pek r 1 n : bandling, th Eggs pi und April, hich mou " [+4 March wiping with vaseline, to w lie acid had bee: i five months w after four mont to i Fempe box varied little from Fahrenheit, and each once every two days salt after ay pri salicy i ad Le ithont | hs being 1 better ir farm ry y ag : m from which you do di our shipping ference was observed in Rt is of the fertile no difference keeping qualities of egy fowls or from ~Orange Judd Farmer very that the butter : q must come from 4 food and that the holisenble 183 4m better the food the more butter a cow Experience has shown thst best food for rich certain and unfertile thee Was ’ will give t} y N 3 LO ORE corn meal is the a rule to is the one The msn wao makes it | milk his cows in the stable who has the least trouble with them. It takes but sa misute to put them in and turn them out, and this time is well THE MILK TEST In practice it is found that the Bab- cock test must be expanded in applica tion so as to cover five things The apparatus, the acid, the sample the manipulation, the operator These R clude everything pertain ; five things includ p 81 their own way in nesting, sefting and ; ) chine, the test ing to the test as 8 machine, th Bunn " a Aas as an operation, snd the tester. lowa | “RTIRE for their young, but the o spent. 3 Turkeys, asa rule. do best to have i For a small lawn tae best invigor- ator i= a gill of nitrate of sods once a week in a pail of water, applied with & watering pot, over an area of 100 square feet. The grass will quickly respond to such treatment. When go to pasture, a place sould be provided for the lambs in which they can enter and get a lit- tle grain food This helps them ve ry much and will add fully a fourth to their growth during the summer. uated. Asthe invention is not patent ed anyone ean make the apparatus, and the test bottles have been thrown upon the market with no guarantee that they are correct have been condemned for ialerior milk with no evidence against them but the test bottle and no guarantee that the test bottle itself was correct The new makes it imperative that each creameryman and all persons testing milk for others, shall procure of the Dairy Commissioner 8 certified test bottle and the Dairy Commissione is required to furnish one bottle Patrons #8\ng he sheep tt tt [$4 b aw Don't overload young horses It ere is a beavy load to be hauled use the older animals, remembering that tified to be correct, at cost price. fue bone and muscle are not properly esse of controversy, the one who makes | eveloped and until after the the test has the burde n of proof. Hel borse has attained his sixth Year, nust prove his test to be corre of, cannot secure ih in set The head of the gander is somewhat coarser than that of the goose and his This is right. Before this it was a | oY 18 harsher. Thers is no difference one-sided affair. One party did all the | 'n the form or plumage of the two testing; the other was helpless unless | #¢Xe8, an 1, as a rule, the gander is be could prove fraud. Now the per. |distinguished only by his pugnacity. son making the charge must support When a mare refuses to dry or it with evidence and if the evidence is | oaress her offspring a little flour or the milk test he must substantiate the | meal sprinkled upon it will sometimes accuracy of his test. —Orange Judd | attract her kindly to it, but should Farmer. this fail the foal must be dried by rub- bing with soft flannel and induced to take milk, and conviction othe IwWise S—— HOW TO MAKR A SELP-CLEANING CISTERN. Soft water for washing purposes is In raising turkeys this Year remem- a necessity. To meet this necessity | ber that the big ones are no longer in cisterns of various kinds are built, | demand, and can only be sold at a re- but the dust lodging on the roof, to- | duction. Birds ranging from ten to gether with dead leaves, and various fifteen pounds, at five monthe, are the substances whirled about by the wind, | kind wanted. Twelve pounds is a will be carried by the water into the | good weight and a popular size. cistern, Unless it is frequently The meal of whole ears of corn is | quite as digestible as that of the | ground grain if it is finely ground and | scription of a plan for a cistern so ar- fed with cut hay. About six quarts a | ranged as to avoid thisdificalty. ~The day of this meal is sufficient for an or- overflow pipe, instead of simply dinary cow, but that may be increased | ita bad odor. The following is = de- the cistern at the sur- | Manifests its: | ples, bolls and other er | ure the face and | makes the } | anda | one tl become so gentle : i a | Ones sre likely to : Ara tles are correctly calibrated and grad- | skimmer full of erisp brown beauties | buttery door, and maflling it around | of ordinary intelligence, ho hasalways | entering ince of the water in the usual WAY, | as the cow may be found to eat and out of the bubbling mess of fat and landing them in the blue stone jar, afterward to be liberally sprinkled with white sugar, **Oh, mother, can I go?” said Esth. | er, eagerly. ‘I'm sure I sould over- take them in five minutes.” “I've no objection,” said Mrs. Elm. ! ford.‘ And you might take a basket of these ‘ere crulls to your Uncle Peter. He's dreadful partial to fried cakes, and he thinks there are ain't none like them I make arter Mother Elmford's receipt.” i Esther was right. In less than the specified five minutes she had man. aged to overtake Alice and Jessamine Striker, with their baskets of fresh | provisions to the dwellers in Maple Bugar Camp, on Giant Hill, where the | supreme process of “‘sugaring off” wa, | just then in full blast. But in the | two minutes during which she put on | her fur-bordered hood and fleece | lined vittens upstairs, she had sl ly slippea ‘he diamond ring on the first finger of her left hand. “I shall be wearing it,” she said {0 her head and shoulders, darted across | had a mania for snakes and wants to | ! . | digest it usefully, i continues down the 8 " | do say something to comfort me! the snowy back-yard where she could intercept her lover at the curve of the road. “Jack! Jack |" she cried, piteously. “I've lost it! Your ring! Ob, Jack, 1 am sc unhappy. Mr. Jefferson drew up his steed and fore, “Yen,” said he, calmly; *‘7 know you had lost it. 1 know how you lost it. I know to whom you have given is Essie stood dumb before the eruel emphasis of his words, “I was at the Sugar Camp an hour 820," said he. *‘Some one told me you had gone there, and I was going to bring you home. And I saw your ringon Leonidas Striker's watch guard. Wasn't that rather soon to transfer 4 last lover's gift to your old swain? ould it not have been better taste of him to display your pledge a little lags nublioly 7" | eatch and play with them whenever and wherever found. | he was bitten by a viper and, although his life was saved by prompt medieal | attention, ho is Sreguantly seized with | spasms in which he has the exact char | noteristios of a reptile, darting out his | tongue, snapping st people, and worm- | faced Esther with » scornful light in | i0g his shoulders about in imitation | hiv eyes which she had never seen be. | °f ® crawling snake, until three men (Are unable to hold him. —~Chicago | Times, ct ——. ts The World Is Washing Away, i | An interesting oaleulation has ro- | cently been made public through the | French Academy of Sciences, It is to | the effect that taking into considera- | tion the wear and tear on the solid {land by ooean lashing, river erosion agd wind and westher, to say nothing of probable voleanie action, the world will, by the end of the Yoar 4,500,000, be completely washed away, and the ocean will roll over the present foun: dations of the great York Telegram. Last Thursday | inner surface and | opens near the bottom. Then, when- ever the cistern fills with water and overflows, the surplus enters the dis charge pipe at the bottom, thus carry- | been deposited. As the substances | that are washed from the roof into the cistern always settle gradually to to overflowing forces them into the discharge pipe and carries them off to the drain, # good nest for disease germa. Where the ground is of firm texture it is not necessary to brick up the sides, hut the coment may be laid directly on the earth. Begin by laying out a cir- intended size of the cistern, Dig this vive down three feet, then dig the un #ix inches smaller on all sides, i vaving a shelf on which to place the covering stones three feet below the surface to be out of the way of the continents, «New | frost. Cover it by laying on © to sides of this shelf two fo flat Prosi eighteen inches apart, lay ing off whatever sediment may have | the bottom, each hard rain that fillsit | Such foul sediment forms | cle about a foot larger across than the | | There is no farm so small but that live stock of some sort could add to | If you | the profit derived from it, can do nothing more, try a single dairy cow as an experiment. Ver |often one cow well kept pays fh | better than a half dozen indifferently fed and cared for. The stockman who feeds a ton of bran to his work horses will, if all Lis manure, solid ana liquid, is saved, have $12.45 worth of fertility in the manure. If the same is fed to grow- ing stock he will have about ninety per cent, of the fertility, and to a (dairy cow more than seventy-five per | cent. All soils contain enormous quanti- ties of plant food, even the most un- productive, and crops require but lit- tle. The reason why some soils are so barren is that the essential oloments, often abundant in them, are not in such form ss to be available. B thorough working of the soul to a Roy depth farmer oan do much to im« prove the condition of things. Dua Maurier, the Punch artist, has been making his stately women sg ineh or two taller recently, because, as he BAYS, they look better that way. Kilmer's Swauyr-Roor cures Kidney and Bladder troubles, shilet and Consultation free, on no Binghamton, N. Y, Dr. all Pam In : / Cua is 10 have a new telegraph line 5009 miles long. Mpoon of Ur, Horsley mall, poste uffalo, N. Y. A Benutitul meuvenir Will hott le Certain paid, 50 cts. every Ordered Hoxule, B he sent with Croup Cure, A dd ress by Hall's Catarrh Cure X . rutnn Tha Is a Constitutional Care, Price 75e, Rpeakers praise { and Tar none minute, Acros, Vocalists, Publ Hale's Honey of Horeh Pike's Toothache Drops Cure slood purifier, to the complexs 5 ots. 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Wie the house, ian ded : AGRI, haven't another like it in I understood from his re. marks that he thought the not be intrinsic However, wish to kn vaine, take it to some pawashop, multiply what they will offer you ¥ RT 4 ty. pearl Froo price. WEE ot x flounecel ont the store in great ’ os wrath. Her daughter followed, almost in tears. — Philadelphia Record. 10 Ys ring w valued s iis w if you w tc ! an on — totham’s Ivy Drapery, Ivy is TAD ils embowering that pore west and northwest of H: a few vering of the i are st 1568 that Years iant, arted all over the { the noblest tulip trees i of Manhattan ho. rece ntl om} letely Will De lawn It uncompleted the front of the old Forty-second street reservoir has been finished by the ivy already, the whole central section of the Fifth avenue side is now thickly cove ered with the . York San draped with the vine th ne of the most striking of lecuration anywheee in the rth noting that the work of last summer on city, 1% w Aq climbing wine. —New a TIN . KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to rsonal enjoyment when rightly used. The many. who live bete ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the n of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Rap 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 lax- ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
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