———————— —n —" - ’ ——————— SUMMER IN INDIA, Dur cattle rasl beneath the yoke thoy bear— The earth is iron and the skies are brass And faint with fervor of the flaming air, Tho languid hours pass, The well is dry beneatlr tha village treo The young wheat withers oro it reach a span, And the belts of blinding s and show cruelly Where oneo the river ran. €ray, brothers, pray, but to no earthly king Lift up your hands above the blighted grain, Look westward-—if they please, the gods shall bring Their merey with the rain, Look westward—bears tho blue no brown cloud bank? Nay, it is written wherefore should we | fly? On our own Lie down, lie down to die! Rudyard Kipling. leld and by our cattle’s flank HOW ROSETTA WAS CURED. ATHER DOUNET out the year among the wines, he had acquired the wine anonion, He went to Revigny, now and then, to put by some money, that he might Jove a good dowry for his daughter, osetta, a pretty lass, blond as the harvest field and as fresh as a May morn. Rosetta had entered her eighteenth | year, an 1 was much sought afte drew some lovers by the hope fng in her a “good match,” otl attracted by her beauty gion. Time lost! Rosetta only lang at her suitors and found mueh to ridi cule in this one and that one. She laughed, besides, for that of reasons with a young girl, that her heart longer her own, country festival she had dances eral waltzes with Paolo Laurient, son of a rich dealer in Ligny. The brown hair, large, dark eves, regular profile and caressing voice had produced upon Rosetta s effacable impression. His ger affable manners contrasted es; with the roughness of the Reviguy. Having receive education he talked with m facility, and Rosetta was uot listening to him. On the evening of this true hter of Eve, having lost her family voluntarily in the crowd, re- tarnéd to Revigny on Paclo's arm. They were at least two hours on the way, walking slowly, and compelled, from time to time, to pause when the wind blew too strongly beneath the great poplars which lined the avenue. Thoy arrived ab the village, which was deserted, and under the studded with stars, exchanged their first kiss, +. Very frequently had met Paolo. eent him aad the mutual i , An this was why Rosetta langhed at t! suitors who came abs For the first months after parture he wrote re Then the letters with intervals of & month. Gradually they became laconic billets, scribbled, mo doubt, in haste, at the corner of a table in a cafe, growing indifference. ceased entirely. her. It was an old story. At first Paolo had refused to take part in the diver- sions of his follow-students, the balls and brewery meetings. Then they teased him and accused him of having left a love in the country. This made him, being fond ALZTY ; but he soon decided to take his part in the play. “Afterall,” he said to himsell, “they have reason to sneer. Why quarrel with pleasure? Leave sadness to the graybeards and profit by the present.” “Bat Rosetta?’ his conscience mur mnured. “Bah!” he thought. “She console herself. Let her go. Per- haps she has already forgotten me, “Lovers oaths are quickly broken,’ says the old proverb, and why should ours rove au exception to the rule?” But Rosetta was not to be consoled. r. She f find ers she o and fascina shed ghed best Was no the festival fan this Rosetta father had licine, yws of of 1A : en his to Paris, to study me lov exchanging v an ily separate i n handsome Paolo's nee his de- ularly to Rosetta CCAMNEe mMOoTe rare, and giving evidence of At last they Paolo had forgotten of ple assure, will Pn the contrary, she suffered terribly | pt this abandonment, sud many times gurned her mournful eyes toward Yaris, Several years weit by. Paolo had known how to divert himself and yet study. After having passed his ex- amination with honor, he wrote to his father for permission to establish him self in Paris. To this, however, Father Laurent could not consent. He desired his son to return im. mediately to Lign/ and establish him- self there, “As for the repugnance } to manifest for your native country,” he wrote, '‘that is the point in question, The workshops of Ligny have made you a geutleman, and you belong to the peop Yon ow a sacred debt to your country, sud as sure as you are » gentieman, this debt, my son, youw |i certainly pay.” “Tha denes taonght Paolo “Pather Laurent will be hard to con- vince, But I must make him yield. Besides, if I return there, I shall see Rosetta, whom, I must confess, 1 have treated basely. I hope she has not started a soandal to mect me at Ligny. But Father Laurent would have spoken of it if she had, 1 shall stay hete.” Paolo’s fears were groundless, Ro- sotta had resigned hordelf to the in. evitable. She darednot aspire now to not le hers wasn vine-dresser, | Working through- | color of i {| Yonder, fleld of azure | You sean i very astonishing thing if the little Rosetta Dounet should become the bride of Doctor Lisurent? There would be laughter for ten leagues about at such a wedding. signed herself without anger, without bitterness, contented, when alone, to lament silently her vanished dream, her castle of ecards fallen to the earth. She became pale and languid, Her relations sought in vain to discover the cause of the strange malady that { lay so heavily upon her. To all their | questions she said: | *It is nothing-—only a little indis- | | position.” The Dounets, however, consulted { the most celebrated physicians of the region. None of them could discover the cause of the troubla But some good country friend had been behind Paolo and Rosetta at the | time when they made their pledge of t love. Father Dounet was at last in- { formed of their betrothal. It was to him like a flash of light. He now what ailed Rosetta. He | and he could bring the remedy. At dawn he harnessed his mare, at- tached her to his old earriage, and de- parted in the direction of Ligny. knew knew, “If you are not in Ligny in three lays, beware of my anger. Launext.” the telegram that morning. He knew his well to under- him, Evi- was in a impradent to Such was recy ived stern father stand that he must obey dently the old rage, and it would be trifle with him. “On my faith, th one 3 cuonga gentleman ¢ is nothing buat if," he murmured. *'J must return to my country. The next day h in Lign) “‘At last yon re!” exelain Father Laurent not of your men of faculty may | to resign mys was Aare ne upon his arriva own will, the le for some things, bu ician at Lag: lity were s ate which was in A carriage idly borne along horses attached to it. moked a cigar with an air ’ y MH turned abont to look 1t over. Suddenly the carriage turned sl by poj lo had fol- under the starlit It was the road to Revigny. iu the distance, wis to be perceived the village, with the pretty houses rising from the river's bank. At the of it a hundred t« memories awoke : ! ly into an avenue flanked jrees the avenue that Pa lowed with Rosetta sky. sight nder man, and s he had » yr aud the arriage turns irew up before Father Laurent, che 1 1 sand Gescananaq a large room upon the lo burst trom pon An r i | tained with lace, Rosetta lay us ery man U a b here was an indesoril ’ } Ok n ae slumber expression sadness face. Beside her sat her white parents, Father Laurent bed, laying his rough, haired cod to the worn hand advan toil upon the girl's forebead “Rosetta, shil he sai lL. girl trembled, passe brow if to dream, and pe aed, was wi my ¢« elf,’ The over her importnune lim « yes the good face and Father Laurent, worthy man say “[ have come, Rosetia, to give your parents hope. They have consulted several physicians who comprehend nothing of what ails you. 1, there- fore, have taken the liberty to send to Paris for a doctor, a young man of auch good is said, and whom | I guarantee Hie was not able to may then; the words died in but thrusting forward eried : “Come, doctor, take her again eure her!’ Rosetta lifted her azure eyes to the doctor, recognizing him instantly. | “You, Paolo! My Paolo! Is it you? And you have returned to me! Oh, if 1 could only live! Youn will stay pear me? Oh, my Paolo, my delight! { You are a doctor and will save me! In | your eare 1shall be saved!” The poor chill was feverishly hap- py. Bright color showed upon her cliecks. An enchanting smile eame to the trembling lips. In that mo- mont no man who hal lived her could ner, 1 her hand banish some then, as her upified to see whiskers of hear the na gray and to whom more just his throat; his son he roaist “You,” mid Paolo, covering hor hand with kisses, ‘yom shall be saved I am the cans your illness, and I { will bo your cure. Thank Gold J have arrived in time!” ol Sis monthsalterward, Paolo Lanront and Rosetta Dounet were united in marriage at Beviguy. The operatives of Ligny gave a great ovation to the be Paolo’s wife. Would it not ben So she re- | Paolo having all her sails set. sick girl, of your Rosetta; Yon re- { member I promised you I would ac. | complish all!” | "Yas, responded the | dresser, “I recollect, old the vine- old also, worth the oath of a king.'"” { ‘Exactly so, "said Laurant, straight | ening himself, | Extending toward tie young couple | the large hand of an honest man, he repeated : “Exactly so. “The word of a black- | smith is worth the oath of a king.'"- | From the Italian, A Tall Building's Foundations, As new buildings in this city havo | | been growing taller, their foundations | have become proportionately deeper, | and now the care taken in struction of foundations is almost ns great as in the erection of the build. ing itself, A striking instance of this is seen at Broadway and Pine street, where on a plot eighty-five feot square, there is to be erected a twen. ty-story building of the American Surety Company. When completed it will be feet from eurb to roof, | twenty feet higher than the steeple of Trinity Church and a little above the Manhattan Life Building, exclusive of the latter's steel tower. | Work on the foundations on May 1, and will probably be com- pleted early in October, The first thing done to rectangular to fill the area the con- 306 1 Was begun Was sink steel caisson Under these the men worked, the caissons all the AWRY earth, by littl while sinking by own weight and that of several pig iron on the y of them “On Pike's Peak.” liet of de- the mists of wind, a ator was uttering » struction. The storm rise elope us, there is a rus hail, and we seek of look forth upon the t An inextricably entangled poaks Forests dark and shadows sides, A NDASS of a mu mountains and the plsins Call of sweeps into view, t seem lik mountain VAS vague tan twarfed into the cor ingle block ;: water courses are mere threads of silver laid in graceful curves upon the green velvet mantle of the endless plains. The red granite rocks Yeneath yur feet are starred with tiny flowers, so minute that they are almost micre scopic, yet tinted with the most deli cate and tender colors. The majesty of greatness and the mystery of mi nuteness are here brought face to fac It is in vain that strives to de- scribe the scene. Only those who have beheld it can realize its grand eur and magnificence. —Cassier's Mag AZiDe. one - - cs I — The Yessel is a Rock, Three ship masters lately hava coms into San Francisco with reports of an unknown bark stranded on a reef if toen miles west of the straits of Le Maire, near Cape Horn. Curiously enough, the vessel was reported as A few days ago the British ship Celric the Saxon reached San Francisco, and reported that she had examined the supposed bark at close quarters, sailing within half a mile of it, and the captain says that the reported bark is nothing bat a rock, although its resemblance to a vossel is so striking that when he first saw it he made an entry in his log to the effect that a bark was stranded with all its rigging intact. Even when he approached close to it its resem- blance to a bark was so great that he | his much enn salled the whole ship's erew to look ut it. A strange feature of the cas is that this rock has never been observed by vessels that have been around the Horn scores of times, - New Orleans Pieayune, —— — Remarkable Sheet of Glass, There is to be seen in the National Muasenm at Washington a large sheet |of plate plass, once a window in a | lighthouse on Cape Cod. During a» | belore foremastor’s son and his bride, so fair | severe storm of not above forty-eight {under her long veil, Then Father | Lauzent said to the old Dounets, | pointing to the happy young couple : | “Yon recollect, Dounet, y ou came to the office to speak of the the day | hours’ duration, this became on its | surface so ground from the impact of | grains of sand blown against it as to | be no longer transparent and to need | removal. «--San Francisco Chronicle, proverb, ‘The word of a blacksmith is | hous for a cow weighing betwee: o - 1 11 Dp (B B) * rt TOO MUCH WASHING, Now and then as one looks over the | pages of the dairy paper they will be | from | confronted with the statement some one to the effect that flavor can be washed out of butter, therefore don’t do it; and then the other fellow laughs and says: “Listen to the old fogy.” It is more than possi- ble that there is more than a grain of truth in the matter, and butter can be | washed too much and that mise ean be struck to the of the two parties, Not that it is known that butter fats have no flavor, and what is known as aroma in butter is the result of the de composition of the eascin and sugar; Yegred on" by the albumen, it is seen that with ve ry cold water and exes give washings, that the buttermilk that has the flavor in its ke ping, could be #0 thoroughly removed that the fats would be practically left destitute of associated flavor. As it would be im possible to get out all of the butter milk, the butter would in a short time develop another stock of flavor from the traces of ¢ and would yet remain. nc nmpro- advantage 'y Thin y aseln Riou In usual practice there nt amount of left in the butt Al AS ficie flavoring mn r after two wa a rule does not impair the Jut this flavor m thing in one section, and quite another in a distant ] r. Wh part « {f sot pr LOS OL« a wit with sor ated cotton raw will do Anti 8 « iro ¢ PY 01 COTns y tine to treat them and time, may exis’ } iisticated 3 The smith will get his rasp on | t look out, and sand and quarter cracks Take care that the nail holes are high enough without being too high, at the heels most especially, for this binds the hoofs and causes a horse to Ko like a eat on hot bricks A FON 1, firm clip at the toe is of great service in Keeping the firm, the shoe “fits then we ndon shoe and when n its proper place till worn out — Rochester Post Express. FEEDING THE COWS, There is a great deal being said and written now-a-days about standard ra- tions for cows, and much science brought into requisition to make those rations correctly balanced to ft the physical requirements of the cows Every young farmer who hopes to be- come successful in dairying should study such tables and become aoccus- tomed to the technical terms, so that he will know just what they mean wherever he sees them, farm, whether raised or purchased. | Kpowing this, he should then make | | his own Standard ration, and when- | ever he eannot get the materials for! | making that standard without paying he must look for substi- | too much, tates in kind and quality. The ration, as estimated, ix most conveniently the food for twenty-lonr hundred and one thousand pounds be dono with nnd is a very useful part of the lesson, The real test of merit in this work comes from the actual feeding of the | | COWS, The rations may be most sei- entilimlly correct, and fed in exact proportions, and yet fail to produce or return the first cost, which should not have exceeded from ffiteen to twenty cents a day per cow, The best dairymen elaim to make batter worth fifty cents a pound on a ration not ex- cceding thirteen oonts a day. Dat it will bo seen that whon the ration costs twenly conts, the cow must give at least one pound of butter a day in order to pay her board bill and do much better this, i( any moacy is to be made out of her. he foot™ it will ki ep it ! is | Having done | | thie, he should learn tho cost of dif- ferent oattle foods delivered on his | eight i books ORS | With a cow in good eondition, fat and fresh, and the The individual charae- | teristics of each cow are mot to be studied. One will find big eaters and small eaters, big milkers and small milkers, rich milkers snd those that give thin, poor milk. All the vir- tues, or all the faults are not to be found in any single cow. A general | average must be reached. For this do as little guessing about them ns pos sible. Weigh the milk of ench cow at every milking, and test the butter fat the milk often enough to what her standing is Now comes how much to fe od the vital point of her. Having learned this, the work will not have to be repeated during her life, When a ration is made to suit the standard, then apply it to each cow in turn. Note the cow's and start with a small quantity of feed, daily increasing it up to the full amount that she can be induced to ent up clean. Hold ber at this heavy feed for a few days snd see at what point in the increase of re- turned the greatest profit. If you can ts, then change just begun. in learn weight, feed she et no satisfaclory resu rmine what part to first | eat and makes the balky +] The time to go into business is | when everybody elec is going out, reed for the 1898 and 1809. The dead wood will be cleared away, and good in the ror ree, market 1n wanted, PS Are oF fed it have a hearty stock sparingly during meal given 3 : it to dread the This should yuld be taught to drive uj the bit and yield a quick obedience nevi 80 to is In several comparative trials made the Ontario (Canada) Experiment t were obtained nips in drills twenty and bry ot jon be inches part thinning to eight inches in the rows, Now is the time to be giving special attention to the rams intended for use next fall. Keep them healthy and fat, and if they given a little grain m tin » time they will relish it rare 1 help them. iM and it will Corn grown for forage or ensilage | should be planted sufficient distance to i low a good growth of ears, and the to cut to secure the most | dry matter is when the grains have | glazed, or dented in dent varieties, or when newly ripe. best stage Sunflower seed, it is well known, is a good egg producing food for chick- ens; it 1s also fine food to give the plumage a glossy appearance for ex- hibition purposes. The Russian sun- | lower'is very productive, and may be planted in fence corners or out-of-the- | way places. It is said that peach yellows may be largely if not wholly avoided by the | use of potash-—not the meagre 100 | pounds per acre, but an application of ten times that amount. Proof of this | statement is offered in the fact that peach trees grown on new land are al- ways healthy sad vigorous. A dry cow should be fed well enough to keep her in good conditiow, but not so well as to make her fat It is not to be forgotten that the con- dition of the ealf depends greatly on that of the cow, and that this will suffer befgre the cow does if the food 1s not sumoienl to maintain both in good health Professor Robertson has ascertained | that by churning sweet croam at forty- | six degrees temperature all the butter fat can ba recovered, bat it takes about thirty minutes longer to do the churning. Ripened cream he churns | at from fifty-four to fifty five degrees | {n summer and Afty-cight to sixty de. | grees in winter, At a meeting of the loeal branch of | the South Australisn Bureau of Agri | sulture, a momber stated that he hal | sained and sold fifty pige at a cost of | loss than twelve cents each for feed. | Heo had kept them in an enclosure | where they fed off an early erop of barley and were then fattened on melons, the latter being a profitable food for the purpose | idly increasing demand, ss every box $3,000,900 Tobneco Bill Saved. Cnicano, Beptember §,- Chicago Inter-Ocean’s Illustrated Bupple- ment, describing the great success and merit of No-To-Bac, has made it famous in a day, Mr. H. 1. 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