A SONG OF HAPPY DAYS, Bing a song o' happy days — 8ing it all the time! Roses bloomin' {in the ways Bells that sweetly chime l Right or wrong, Still sing the song For happy singing pays Bing a song o' happy years— Bing it day and night ; Let tho rain shed all the toars— Let the heart ba light! Right or wrong, Still sing that song And keep the harps strings bright! Bing a song o' happy lives— Sing it loud and long! Brothors, sisters, swoothearts, wives, Join the thrilling song! Right or wrong, Still sing that song, Till angels to the chorus throng | --F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. MY NEW FOUND COUSIN, BY ARTHUR JONES, O begin with, no fel- low was ever ‘more fortunate than I in having a host of pretty girl cousins, Aud what's better, 1 am always discover- ing more. Iseldom go anywhere with- out adding a new one to my list. In short, I am no long- er surprised at any- thing in this direction. Last year I was studying at the School of Fine Art, in Paris, adding the finishing touches to my education in art. 1 was thoroughly devoted to my work and took little share in the social affairs of the American colony. The few people I cultivated were of the bohemian world, mostly students at the Fine Arts or the University. The novelty of living in this free, ont- door atmosphere was so absorbing that I missed very little the society of the | drawing-room. Late one afternoon the postman brought me a letter, postmarked Paris and addressed in an interesting f inine hand: de Sevres, No. 163.” ““Who can this be from?" 1 asked myself as I scanned the envelope and address. I tore it open without more ado. “Daisy Tillotson,” I reid, look- ing first at the end. ‘*Who on earth is Daisy Tillotson 7” But here is the letter, copied from the original, which is still in my pos. session : Bovrevanp Havssmaxx, No, 72, Pans, April 17, 1398. Mr. Arthur Jones : I will explain at once who I am, and then you will understand why I write yo1. Your mother is a favorite cousin of mv mother's, and Mamma made me promise when I left Now York to hunt you up~—wb.oh I am doing in the best way I know ol, I sincerely hope you are rue Mr, Jones, Jor I don't know your Grst name, I only Mknew you were studving art in Pars, They gave me your address at the Fine Arts, I shall be here several weeks with my friends, the Paynes, of St Louls, and I hope I may see you soon. Yours sinoersly, Darsy TiLrorsox, “Daisy Tillotson, Daisy Tillotsoa,” I repeated to myself. “1 don't re | bourg. { who | heard of each other bef fem- | “Mr. Arthur Jones, Rue | conversant and in sympathy with these subjects. Bhe was herself a student of the piano, So there was enough to talk about, I looked at my watch. eleven o'clock, I was after How the time had passed! Three hours had slipped away and I hadn't realized it. What better proof that I had found my newly discovered cousin absorbing, It was a new sensation for me-——me, who, with my surfeit of fair cousins, had always been inclined to take the society of women at a discount. “Why, I do believe I am actually a little in love with this girl,” I solilo- quized on the way back to my lodg- ings. “But it will do no harm. She's my cousin.” So interested was I in the subject, however, that at that late hour I sat down upon reaching home and wrote a letter to my mother in New York, telling her all about Daisy Tillotson. She was an aoquisi- tion to the family, I said. I had arranged to take my cousin to the Luxembourg gallery the next day. Then we would go to the opera in the evening. This was my plan. I ealled for her in the morning with a car- ringe. Think of me riding in a car- riage! Why, like a true bohemian, I had always hated anything less ple- beian than a public omnibus or a bi- cycle. Bat then, ‘‘she’s my cousin,” I argued to myself, ‘“‘and I must make her stay in Paris memorable, It's all on her account.” Yes, she certainly did look pretty, that fresh, inspiring April morning. She must have studied to look her best. I took this to myself as a com- pliment. In turn, I had myself given unwonted attention to my toilet and | had spent some little time trying to | decide which cravat I shonld wear. “What a romontic and unconven- | tional situation fate has thrust us into, Miss Tillotson,” I remarked as the carriage rolled off toward the Luxem- “Hers are two young peopls | have never known and scarcely | re, cast sud- | denly together, far away from home | and left to each other without sponsor | or chaperon. It sounds too b to be a reality.” “Yes, I've been thinking of it,” answered, ‘but you know we're cousins, and that's different.” i “After all,” 1 persisted with the her—for I'm a con | irmed tease—‘‘are you perfectly sure | | of that? You never knew me. Jones isa common name. There may be | half a dozen painters in Paris by the | | name of Jones. In fact, I know one | | myself. You picked me out at ran-| | dom. Perhaps I'm not your cousin at {all. Maybe the other Jones is the for- tunate one.” ykish 1 | she | ides of teasing i i “Oh, you're just trying | me,” she responded, “‘and I shan't be | | teased. I know you'd like pretext to | get rid of me, bat it’s quite a privi- lege to have a cousin in Paris who knows everything, and I'm not going to let you go so easily, Mr, Jones. ““ ‘Mr. Jones, indeed,” said I in an injured tone. “If you oall me “Mr, Jones’ I am no cousin of yours. My name is Arthur—to my cousins. And I'm going to eall you Daisy. May I? ‘Miss Tiilotson' is so long, you know.” “I don't know why you shouldn’t,’| she said, a little ecoquettishly, *if| you're my cousin.” to teas: member of any Tillotsons in our family. However, she seems to know. That's the trouble with having so many relations. I suppose I'll have to look her up, or Mother will nevhr forgive me. I'll call at once, to-night —1've nothing special on--and get it off my hands, She's probably one of | those formal creatures, and I shan't have to call a second time.” So I added a few careless touches to my toilet--for my life among the sta- dents had made me affect the extreme | neglige style of dress- walked to the Place Chatelet and took a seat on to; of an Are de Triomphe "bus. | Ah! what a spectacle that is—to sit perched on the top of a great lumber- | ing, careening, three horse "bus and | see the world of Paris, from one end to the other, pass in review before ou! The lights along the Rue de | Rivoli have just been lit. The shops | are closed, but the cafes are bustling with pent-up expectancy, for Paris is just beginning to wake up ‘for the night. But I must not tarry on the way. i Boulevard Haussman, No. very respectable apartment house, Mrs. Payne received me, “Oh, yes, you're Miss Tillotson’s cousin. She's expecting you. I almost feel as if 1 knew you myself, Mr, Jones. I've heard Daisy rave so over your pie- tures.” And she shook hands with me with regular Western cordiality. There was a rustle in the next room. A girl appeared in the doorway, She was dressed in red, a warm i | My eritical eye at once saw that it just suited her. I though then I had never scen a pretiier girl, and eer- tainly I have not changed my mind since, “Daisy, this is your cousin, Mr. Jones,” said Mra. Payne. ‘Now, yon gan have a good visit together.” We got on from the very first. 1 am the easiest fellow in the world to get acquainted with, if you will give me half a chance, though I do close ap like a clam when I come in contact with an unresponsive object, My mother and her mother, it seemed, had been schoolmates togeth- er, though 1 didn't ever remember, ever having heard my mother speak of it. Strange thing, too, that in all my life I had never heard that the Til- lotsons were relations of ours. And et ours is such a large family, it was Lardly to be wondered at, But we didn { have to confine our- polves to talking over family matters, We found common ground enough that was more profitable. I had not been home for a year, and she told me all that had been going on in art and 2, A | to the other. | in excuse for my neglect of study. It was a gala day for me. How I | enjoyed telling her what I knew abont the pictures. And in the evening, | how I enjoyed hearing her talk of the opera—it was “Carmen.” Music was as familiar ground to her as art was to me. And how eften we found thata truth was as applieable to one art as We had b yth been pro- grossing in the same field—art in the abstract —along different but parallel paths; and the comparisons of views re interesting and broadening to us both. Ponder the subject well and you will find that there are numerous | essential analozies that ran through pictorial, musical and literary art. For two weeks I scarcely touched a | brus During that time the doors of | the Fine Arts knew me not. My art | had been temporarily eclipsed. ‘Oh, | well, a fellow doesn’t ran across such a cousin every day,” I urged to myself | 1 was trying to persuade myself that I} was interested in Daisy Tillotson | simply because she was my oonsin. | Bat I knew better. I began to wish | she were not my consin. We were very frank with each other. | There was no reason to be otherwise, One afternoon we ware out at St Cloud —out under the budding horse chestnuts whose shade Napoleon so loved. I had been reading ‘Paul aud Virginia” to her in French, 1 remem- | ber. “You have no right to be my | cousin, Daisy,” I said. “What a per- versity of circumstance. Here you | are the only woman I have ever come across that has forced from me any real affection of the tenderer sort. And you are my cousin.” “But maybe I am not your counkip,"” she responded with a merry twinkle. “You have said often enough that yon are not sure of it. Perhaps I am some adventcress who, counting on your brilliant foture, has set a trap for youn and baited it with this cousin pretext so as not to frighten you away. There's no telling. Aren't you a little suspicions?" And so we kept up the sentimental skirmish. It wonld have been a real courtehip if that cousinly barrier bad not stood between ns. And still I felt that it wes that very cousinly barrier that made me so bold, and her too. Without it, I presume, we should never, under the conditions, have be- come more than casual soquaintanoces, With it we had been almost like brother and sister from the very first, and here at tho end of two weeks it roomed as if we had known each other a lifetime. One evening when I was at Mes, music meantime. She was thoroughly Pines there came a ring at the door, | my m | written { BO cousin ol { thought | tease her about it, | good laugh we had over it all | lotson became | easily enon gh. |is a purely loeal phenome | at the temples at the maid brought a card in to Daisy. It read: ‘Mr. Anthony Jones.” “Do you know him? Is he a rela- tive of yours?” asked Daisy, handing the card to me. “Know him?" said L Know Tony Jones? I ought to. He's an artist, too. He's the ono I spoke of. We've been np into Normandy sketching together more than once. But he's been in Munich since Christ mas, were looking for when you found me, | Ha! ha!” Just then Mr, Jones, the other Mr. Jones, entered. Daisy rose to meet him, “Why, how are you, Mr. Jones?" said he, seeing me; ‘I didn't expect to find you here.” “Norl you," I returned jocosely. “Let me present youn to my cousin, Miss Tillotson,” I went on. “Miss Tillotson—Mr. Jones, Mr. Anthony Jones." “Your cousin ?"’ said he inquiringly. “Why, she's my cousin, too, then. . I | must explain, Miss Tillotson, My | mother is a cousin of your mother’s, I | believe. 8he has written command ing me to eall upon you and make my- self known. Fortunately Arthur, here, has relieved me of the awk: a ness of introducing myself.” “I'm sure I am very glad to see you, Mr. Jones,” she mustered self-com mand enough to say, “I'm afraid 1 have made a terrible blunder, though, unless you are both my cousins,” I came to her rescues and explained the situation to the other Mr, Jones. “Why, it's very theatrical,” said he, laughing ; ‘‘it's very much like a come- dy. But which of os the cousin, and which the impostor. are we both her cousins, selves cousins of the tenth real Or, 18 Fil snd =o our- degrees or { thereabouts, “1 don't see any way to dec the present," said I. “'M I'm afraid, will have to remain certainty until our credentia ifs Lil compared.” Jones, that 18 tae og! ile fello Al AGIIrabie Ww, next day ther ir two { Ihe the name said, There were family that she had ever “Well, well, take! Miss what an amusing I'll go and explain it Tillotson, 1 OAT 1 I. *“It's due to her But it's no n | than a good joke anyway, aud { harm's done told What a “But we're not cousins any longer,” said I, suddenly drawing myself up with make believe dignity. ‘‘So I suppose I must go back to my painting and | leave you to your real cousin, the other Str. Jones. * “You woulddn't do that, Arthar,” she said. *““I found yon, you know, and I claim you by right of discovery. A friend when once found is too valu- able a thing to be thrown away, and I shan't be the to d our friendship, begun though it was purely by chance Tha “Bless you," after all, 801 went and her! 3 one isCiaim E mid “IM that you're not m) in, and I wouldn't change places with the other Mr. Jones if I had for now—"' So it was, you see, that pe Mrs. vy consis the chance, Daisy Til Arthur Jones, if must know, Oftentimes her Tony, ther Mr. Jones, comes to see us, and we have laugh over the whole affair. should happen our way we'd to soe You can find the address Only be sure not t The Path you cousin the another If you be glad you. get the wrong Mr. Jones. finaer, EE ——— The Phenomenon of Gray hair by no means ahows a pre- mature decay of the constitution. It ’1 an i may exist great bod ir The spot where grayness begins 1iffors with the individual As rule » woman's hair begins to change five-and-thirty, but a severe attack of neuralgia will whiten the hair over the part affected in a few weeks, A very severe illness will also diminish the coloring matter, Gray hair 1n most cases is very becom ing, and, when really weil dressed, has a very distinguished appearance pecially if the face and coloring of the complexion be still young. The transi tion stage is very trying, and ne woman likes finding her first gray hair; but, once 1t is completely gray, she may get to delight in the “sammer | snow,” «New York Dispateh, ams — A Telephone in Chureh, Supporters of the telephone system | in Birmingham can now be placed in | communication with Christ Church in | that city, and practioally take part in the service. The telephone wire runs right into the pulpit, and the listen ors at the other end of the system can hear the tolling of the bell, the pray. | ors, the responses, the singing and the sermon. KEven oasusl coughing among the congregation oan be dis tinguished. There are many classes of persons on whom this new depar ture confers a great boon. The sick and bedridden, who have long besn prevented from attending any place of worship, ean now be present, if not in the flesh, in the hearing.-MNew York Telegram. ————— Amazons la the Civil War, Late statistios in odd things in the history of the United States Army show that no less than 150 women dis as men served as soldiers in the y of the Potomao.—New York Mail and Express. Gray Hair, Wy, with ! ly vig a v ' CoN a Perhaps he's the cousin you | | aost of bad tempor in the dairy? | quired, | expensive, and most farmers have old | lumber lying arovnd, or an old shed | be Swemiy: The Hour Fly. The hour fly, originally noticed in Texas nid also in Kansas, has within 8 few years been frequent in Canada, We have noticed it at Brunswick, Me., the past eemson, where it has been very sbundant, collecting in | great numbers on the sides and heads | of enttle, and forming at times dense rings around the | It has also been annoying | horses in CULTURE OF THE GOOSEBEERY, This shrub needs coolness and shade, The bright, hot sun produces mildew, which stunts the growth. are, therefore, best grown in the shel- | ter of some building and in cool, moist soil. Bome native varieties are erately free from this mildew, mod- English climate. —New York Times, A DROUGHT - PROOF CROP, Lucky is the farmer who in this year of droughts has planted some sorghum as a fodder erop. It is much better to resist protracted drought on ae- count oi roots striking deeply into the soil, while corn is shallow rooted, and suffers whenever dry comes, ere much more severe than here, sor- ghum is commonly planted for feed- ing. Its early growth is slow, but so soon as its roots strike down the stalks shoot upward, and two months after planting the sorghum will be larger and yield more tons per acre than will any kind of corn. — Boston Cultivator. HOG CHOLERA. Fi eding hogs green © srnfodder will not produce cholera, as an inquirer in J. H. Bhep- North Dakota Agrienltural That disease is caused germs or in this titoatos, says Pr perd of the College, specific fessor by MICTro-OorganiIsImns which The Are ease small plants, dis Are #t per hat { ac} ir deaths id be inclined rangemont of the dig the cause and not be advisable too diet exclusively, small quantity of dry or with bran and shorts I would not expect serious trouble, BAD TEMPER IN THE DARL. Hass any one ever figured up the if allowed a rough guess at it, I would say that bad temper was the eause of | more loss in the dairy than all other sources of loss put together, A man may have fine cows, a good stable, the best dairy implements and a good market, yet he is losing money all the time simply because he loses his ten per when a cow gets contrary or acts in some way to irritate him. He the begins to swear and yell and act like a general idiot Now, a cow good deal like a woman in one respect You yell at her and she instantly loses her head. Her judgment is all gone and her nerves are on top. Now look out for asquall. Nature never meant no is A that man should abuse the softer sex, | cow, without being | either woman or made to pay for it. Just how the woman gets the better of a man when he acts the fool we all know, do not know, though, just how the cow gets in her fine work under the same circomstances. She revenge in a negative shape by not giving as much milk as she would have given had been better treated. No’ seeing hit loss, the man does not appreciate how itis until h she heavy comes to sum it up at the end of the season when he good naturedly to himself attributes his losses all bad luck when it should beto fool tereper, Home and Farm. SMALL FLOCKS OF POULTRY. Farmers often keep too many hens in one place. Fifty is all that should be kept in one flock as the food will cost loss, and more eggs will be laid in winter than if 100 are kept. The right way to do, where more fifty fowls are to be kept, is to have another in some out-of-the-way place, ! If the housesare two or three hundred not be re The houses need not be yards apart, fences will that ought to be tcrn down, and all this can be worked into the poultry houses. The houses should, at least, five by fifteen feet for fifty fowla. ave the roof firm and tight, and then line the house inside with good, stout building paper. Little oracks in the sides of a house or damp- ness is the cause of sick fowls during the winter season. The front andsonth- side of the house should be seven or eight feet high and have two ordinary pized house windows therein, while the back or north side should be four or five feet high. The reason why the house should be large, light and dry, is because during the cold ox stormy days of winter the fowlsshould be confined therein; and if plenty of litter is kopt on the floor, and small grains are buried under this, the fowls will be kept busy and happy sll day. This means plenty of eggs, and plenty eggs in winter means plenty of money just when mo is most needed. Do The bushes | but | { American-grown berries will probably | + py . | equal the fine ones grown in the cool weather | At the West, where droughts | All men | takes her | to | than | night, but durifftho day, when the hens are confing open the windows | and give plenty air, using wire net- ting to keep thfowls from flying out. It ir ust be remgbered that hens are { dressed just as gavily in the daytime | | as at night, andf kept too warm dur- ling the day thewill feel the cold of [ night more, ar! sickness will be the | | result. The dippings should be kept { by themselves #fl not be allowed to | be seratehed a'over the floor, and { the roosts shoul be all on a level and | not more than ghteen inches or two | feet up from Re floor. The roosts should be thre@r four inches wide, s | two by five-incjoist making an ex- cellent roost.-8mericen Agricultur- | 1st, BREEN POTAES POR COWS, { The Veteringy School of Lyons, France, has beg making some experi- ments in the us of potatoes for feed- ing dairy cows The results are sum- marized as folyws : Dairy cows, when deprived of all other nourisment potatoes (which should we given raw and ent) will consume per day an average of | seven per centof their live weight. Under the inflence of this exclusive regimen there vas an in the mig and a nota loss in live weight; tig result was very clear and rem wrkald Cooked were more readily taken by gy were y othe form of led, mminat ion oS than lucreasa quantity of ke potatoes the p $n given sionue, cat- wihien Me, Jul nl ever Ar POSS is also fiworable to shemoal acts of obaermti 1 witha ration of ed tie half of the total : oa another lot where they wenty-two per cent, it nized that t first or quantity was clearly preferable nd or smaller. From other ments it appeared that raw po {avored the production of milk, while an equal quantity which had cooked fattened and increased | the weight of the animals. Under the inficence of a ration of which cooked potatoes formed the basis, the amount | of sugar in the milk was tound to rise, but the fuovesse did pot continue | when the ration was changed. An soalysis was made weekly during { nearly four months of (1) the milk of eight cows ration contained about forty-four pounds of potatoes sad (2) of apother lot to which twenty- two pounds had been In the first case there was a decrease of den- sity of the proportion of dry extraet i onseine, and in the second an in- of butter and mineral matters, The practical use of these experiments vn the introduction of the potato into the ration of dairy cattle will be regu- Inted by the fact of milk being | sold off the farm or used for butter or | cheese making. which p hin ; d was fully rec he iarger to the experi tat i pe been whose given Al Crean he FARM AND GARDEX SOTES, Are you mowing around the bushes that you were ago? same twenty years Remember shade trees in too great profusion injure the quality of the | grass, Are you plowing about the same little that yon were twenty years ago? Do not make the horse carry a heavy halter in addition to the bridle when at work on a hot day. ’ AWARlo Time put into farm improvements is a better patrimony than money in the bank for your children, That pasture needs drainage for | either sheap or for cows if health and | best results are to be expected Are you not wasting time that, if applied, would in a few years fit your | farm for all modern machinery? | The demsnd for good riding horses | will inorease in proportion to the im- provement in the horses produced Are you plowing around that same | | rock, that an hour's time would re | noticed | of the of the horus. r at night to It was first on the Maine coast in the summer of 1803, but may have been migrated there a year or two previous, By sprinkling insect powder over the backs of horses and cattle while in the barn, the flies ofl. The creatures are the size base their stalls, have been half n fly, kept about common hors and, like the stable fly, it is provided with a long, slender, hard beak, with which it makes a deep bite, — York In- dependent, “ " ~AOW . —- A Menns Out of the Diflicniry, Any strain or bending of tae back for any length of time leaves it in weakened eon. dition, a is al. by D A means out of the diffleuity ways handy and cheap, Do as was done Mr. Herman Aberdeen, 8 vho says that for several years with a chronie stiteh in the back, sad was up by doctors bottles of Re, «noobs Oll completely cured him, Also Mr, «ohn Lucas, nora, Ind., says, that for sev- ral yours he suffered with pansin the back, and one bottle of 8t, Jacobs Ol cured } There are manifold instances of how right thing in the right way an break your back, Behwavge!, . o3 f¥ er 3 he suffered Liven Two the {iitles are Uraguay, Peru and The emaliest telegraph fa penaod Paraguay, Persia, Dr, all HOF pos by SwamuMr-n and Bladd K K mer's ney Laboratory Bionghamton, N. 3 The pecan trees of Texas yield i §,000,000 pounds of nuts, Cauxey & signed, have Aig pest Conat ituationt BS ots Hot Noons Chilly Nights Of Fall present so many variations of tem- perature ay to tax the strength and make a pathway for disease, 1 ‘'s Barsaparilia will forti’y the system against these langers, by making pure, healthy blood, “Sores 'S Sarsa~- sve parila eame out on my Hmba I tried different medi eines, but none helped me, At iast my moth- er heard of Hood's Sarsaparilia ing part of a bottle the sores | and after a short Mme I cured. 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The most vigorous and heslthy foli- | age of the strawberry plant is not an | indieation of the best fraiting plants, according to Professor Lazenby. unrestrained dogs Cross, be first and dogs last in full liberty. when they need salt the mosi. better plan is to keep the sapply in a convenient piace where they can heip themselves. One advantage with rook salt is that it does not waste to any great extent if left exposed. The owner of a small farm who keops only one or two cows is more inter or should be, in having choice animals than those who own large flocks. One good cow will serve the purpose of two inferior ones, and where face is limited every additional quart of milk or nnd of Bde iy aite an item with the keeping of a tingle animal A writer says that many fail to un- | derstand while yet it is the fact, that | when cows are on good pasturage is | Tae | in the | country prevent the free movement of | the country boys and girls; let those | You enn save money by wearlog the W. L. 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