FROM DAY TO DAY, From day to day. Take no thought for the morrow, Why hope or why remomber, Or {nu the white December Run idly out to borrow The roses of the May? From day to day. This moment is the lover With which to 1ift the mountain, And loosed the prisoned fountain That flows and flows forever, And quenches thirst for aye. From day to day. There Is no wider measure, Bravely as you may will it, Striving you eannot fill it, So, life's imm Is hid Annie L “MER PRIZE ortal treasure jen in the Day. Muszzey, in Youth's Companion, mE — Wo RYGI STORY BY OLS.” JULINA O, T sprin HALL, wns a rapturous t day. I had accomplished my errand with an ease and facility which put me on the best possible terms with myself and all sales- man-kind, and was sauntering home- ward up Eleventh street, My laggir steps were not from languor, but a mere reluctance to and again putting betweet y and indulations of the sea- \ 14 mn The voi rustic jubi under the with langhter static twitt rin star-ligh Wash | rarest joke in the budget “Ah, I rememl you fpaud "th ue er. next I can show it to corner,” nalléd to her to follow. “But the trouble I'm giving ye, mum.” A little touch of alarm shaded her face for an instant, ‘You can’t have been long in Wash ington?’ “Oh, yes! It's go But I don’t step my foc uth, and I don't just git on to h “Your mi daw fen : tie ing 4 I'm that Ww they ight § sn that,” I blood that ligunant pulse of ther: but once a m give he 0 a stir in t , daf , si ¥, she's wild if I almost Like she got hurt. 'h ont of bh leave her.” “How could you get out to-d I t without inward remon strance at my own inquisitiveness, I felt my to | te rare cl mine ‘“You'l she's havin’ thinks I'm I would have if anything music into through hers sweet variations r sight, so ay asked, n¢ in uch infused that echoed infinity of oul nave my tone with such oO “You speak as though she'd had wide experience in wedding days She'll know how to make her daugh- ter's a brilliant one later,” 1 with most reprehensible familiarity The ring in her voice deepened to the dignity of a cathe dral chime as she answered : ‘No, mum. It's kely I shan't never get married myself. I can't leave her while she lives. Larry, he's promised to wait, but something may happen. Yo can't tell.” i should have looked in vain for a blush on her already roay face, but she went on simply with the story of her mother, “It's the 15th of the month and Ann : sald, sleigh-bell Ryan's always at home when they stop | the mill to clean it, SAY With mother, mother's bridesmaid, they AY. She comes in to Some way she always puts mother in mind of that day. The minute Ann Rysn comes in mother gets ont her old wed- din’ dress and puts it on, We stick up the old paper lowers over the mantel and pin sheets over the chairs to make everything look nice for the bride. Bhe kind o' forgets about me then, and while Ann sings ‘The Bride Killarney’ and ‘Ihe Bhamrock fo’ an hour, That's how it is, mum." “Doesn't she get impatient for the guests to come or for the service to be read?” I asked, festling the intense pathos of this dried-up and withered mind clinging so tenaziously to ite one supreme memory, ‘How does it all end?” “Elegantly, always. of She always and I turngfl in upon “H" street and wig \ with a ! She looks like my | Four-Leaved | Glenore' I slip out for | gone by and just falls asleep in her ohair and sleeps till it's almost dark. She's sort o' dazed like, when we give her her supper and get her to bed, 1 next day she's forgotten it all,” At that instant a boy with a tray of flowers in his hand passed us on the other side. low daffodils reached our eyee, “‘Saints be praised!" exclaimed the girl, as she stood stock still with her hands clesped rapturously together; ‘‘Be they merrygools, mum?" “I'm afraid not. Did you want some" I naked, wondering what this pew burst of emotion could nean. “I've wanted for years | years,” she said, and the bells in her | tone were muflied now, and i drop rolled dow n her chook. “They are hard to find, I'm afraid. { Florists do not raise them. Few peo ple want them. You might perhaps { find them in country garden,’ I might as well have suggested her picking a celestial ranths and asphodels, equally out of her reach. ““Mebby ye think I'm daft too,” she said, with a return oi the old sunshine to her face. ‘““Mother's always talk- ing about merrygools. There's some- thing she wants to tell us—Danny and She begins, ‘Listen, il- dren. It wasa great time. I'd picked all tl merrygools’—and there she gets crazed, like, and you can't under stand any more.” “Does she some a tear- some ’ All were me. my 10 $ : | | dark velvet 1 saw SOME We had ven been ridicule mild pt During th lowed 1 wate un- fold leeply incized or palmate lonflots, sad the mernmg of tha | teenth found the little plants tall enough to wave at the touch of the gentle breezes. Early in the after | noon my new friend appesred loo ng tl over, that tiny sprouts month into Her hap- } evel leeper dim ian 4 Ris you s | said, | then never | r p. his chil ing : 1 happened | ] They for grandiather was but el =NG n etl | her on the Uncle Miks in drink and we But y mother whi wis lon't know any more than they came home worse off than ever, | Couldn't get a cont. And now Unele | Mike's ¢ off and we don't know whether he's dead or alive.” The hour of our chat was short and the month that followed was long I'hat flower bed was my clock and my lar Every forcing process known to horticulture was used and the best results followed. A week be- fore the 10th, velvet buds began to unfold, and when the longed for day arrived there were of rich, cheerful looking sending | out their strong, pungent odor upon the hot, sultry air. The sun had scarcely begnn to settle into ite after- noon decline before the supreme mo ment had arrived, and my guest and 1 went down the steps with scissors and | basket. The birds hovered and seemed excited by the metallio click of the steel, and almost burst their tiny throats with song. Perhaps they felt | | in their downy breasts that the young | girl's laughing notes as they melted | upward into the sunny air blended | with their own wordless “Te Deum.” When the basket was filled and the | moment of departure had arrived, she | turned ber laminous face full upon {me and said: “ "Twould be mighty queer if I should ask you another fa- | vor still, when I ought to be down on {my knees a thaokin' the Lord for what He's made ye do for me already.” I implored her to speak out her wish frankly. “If only ye conld come with me and seo the od mother when she gets them.” It was the dearest wish of my heart, though I would not have suggested the intrusion for the world, We proceed. lo far out toward the higher grounds On one 2 caller scores : blossoms, to the north and turned into a little street quite too narrow for vehicles gots tired trying to think of things | to pass each other, { ghostly or nuptial put away all the weddin’ things, and | Up the stairs we climbed, past Ann Ryan's door, and entered, There, sure enongh, sat the perennial bride in the midst of the Array draped furniture, of white: | She was fast asloep | | in her old arm-chair, and was still | Only a gleam of the yel- | | brought ye something, and | erooning the last strains of “Kathleen { O'Moore,” “Mother, darlin’! I've said the girl, { giving the wrinkled brow a kiss, Wake up. " The old creature started np wildly | and gazed about bewildered. “Yes, I do!” she said, with a slow, stern voice. ‘You never believe me, but I do smell merrygools,” *“T do believe ye this time. See here, and here, and here!” and the jubilant maiden handful in her mother’s lap. The | poor dazed creature rubbed her eyes and pressed her head with her hands and sat for a long time in silence, Then she began turning over the | lowers as though secking something nosegay of ARILAK~ | | asked whe finger pulled out nr { down outside | fisted | from Italy. {on the estate of a ath. ro did 1 in my underne “Whe hid it gools. ! “Whe put that 1 under paper? lap the merry n was it, mother, aarlin':” hter, calmly, but with an intensity of eagerness hard to sub- due into such magnificent quietness of manner ‘Before the fight began? Then he hit me. Oh-—h!" Bhe looked around the room in terror of the shadowy memories that came back to her. Her weak mind was strained to its utmost i Suddenly shoe got up and went to the little trunk which usually ntained the wedding dress, and part ing a little slit in the lining with her a yellow paper and the intensity of her CA cr { tension, shouted in w | added the ! as snd 1 musa’ keep 1 she said, at that want ATTY point. bad many and awaitin' wo long,” ing out the tall wit its shadow over us as it had passed up the gate. “We're go- narried in a week. He's the mill now and Danny's but h ‘ me { , figure times ing to be n foreman of n iB 1 he rot a sl with Il live wr him happy Wh, } gets a bh g harsh think she added, lation in ‘em growin’ She thought ‘m afraid,” lowers than white roses and day might be made a sacred tribute to the dead “And maybe its queerer still” sided, in » half whi “but I'n goin’ to trim up the h with ‘em and wear ‘em myself when I'm mar ried.” Washington Pathfinder, she 180 I — hicago Style, The C “Maybe it's a chestnut worked over," remarked the drummer to the hotel clerk, “but I heard a story the other day which illustrates the kind of men some Chicagoans are.’ “Let her go,” said the clerk en- conragingly “One of those rich fellows there,” continued the drummer, “had a close- friend of his with him at his country place, and during the evening the friend dropped a quarter in the grass and immediately went down on his knees to find it, ‘What are you looking for? in. { quired the host, who was talking to another guest some distance off, “I've dropped a quarter in the grass.’ “‘Here, let mo help you with a little light,’ said the Chicago man, and he kindled a 85 bill with a mateh and held it till the friend found his lost quarter.” — Detroit Free Press, Told Then To Help A queer story of anarchism comes Themselves, rich proprietor named Mal, “iving near Milan, came to his house with the harvested grain, They were met by his son, a youth of twenty-three, who made them a speech, telling them that the grain they had sown and cut was theirs by natural right, and bidding them to | take it home and shout “Long live | anarchy!” After some pressure they obeyed, and on the father's return the hot} of the police was required te make them give np the corn again, The son thought fi pradent to leave the country, --Pieavune. tossed handful after | Not long ago the laborers ho A HINT TO FRUIT GROWERS, The lesson for fruit growers to learn is that quality, not quantity, is want- ed. The markets, in their season, are generally glutted with second- class fruit, but the supply of a first- class article never equals the demand. Stand in any good commission honse and watch the sales, first and speedily—the last to go is the poorest stock, which buyers who eannot do better, or who have a cheap trade, must use. As else, there is room at the top. —Ameri- can Agriculturist, RYE FOR GRAZING, It is the general practice to sow rye! broadeast for grazing, but experiments at the Arkansas Sts show that when planted in drills and ent and fed green it affords a very much greater jnantity of { sud injury from cattle trampling t soil in wet weather is avoided, It is best to have the sced in a row drill for two reasons ne vd to spread flat uy 10 Its | and second row drill i by hand, £3 sion vod in a better condition, } iat IAr- He BOLL small : cellent an their decay return a large amount of | "human to the soil. Their use should be supplemented by the employment of some dry material, as loam dust, sifted coal ashes, or land plaster, ex Miing, such so that all the gases and liquid manure t 18 * AS nay be saved, a simple matter lor evi ry farmer to dry absorbents frequently over raj i "ny Gries under the he that 10 3 material and store lay by a at irri WAITING supply of the the earth 8 a small ares, FFL cust is left to MONEY IN APPLES E re prices The failure of the crop and the ply at home caused 'h an active demand for ay ples that the ins begun to re alize the possibilities of profit to be from his orchard from present appearances it l mewhat have sent uj &n farmer |} obtained Indeed, ke as if the apple crop might be made the best un the farm before thi happen the farmer will | through his orchard cut « graft the now there In setting ont the orchard in many cases very little judgment was exercised in the choice of trees. Many of the varitios are almost worthless as market apples. There are too many inferior seedlings, too many summer and early fall varieties, and too many kinds unsuited to the various loeali ties. The early apples, which often predominate, are perishable and al most unmarketable. The fruit which is in demand is the kind that possesses keeping qualities, It will pay every farmer to fad out | the varieties that are most desirable | in the home and foreign markets, and that are suitable to his climate and | soil. He should then go in and im- prove his old orchard, regrafting those trees which have sound, vigorous stock but bear poor fruit, and remov ing those with decayed trunks, He | | shoald also set out an orchard of | | young trees, | But it will not do to stop here Most orchards are half starved. A | erop of apples is taken off, the trees | grow in sige, limbs are removed, and jut CAD AVE and trees of many yet the soil of the orehard is not fed f wo expect large returns we must | supply the necessary food, either by | cultivation jor by the appliestion of | fertilizers, If food is necessary for the produc tion of apples, spraying is requisite for their protection against insects and fungous diseases, which have, un: fortunately, eaused by the production of seed, wiil aid in the greater development of the fruit, on fruit, and a soareity of the best. t. rofit comes from the first-class artic This is only to be obtained The best goes | in everything | i become very common, and thinning, by reducing the strain | sorrow that ! tention jo it. It cannot be too often repeated digested than timothy hay, and i that there is always a surplus of com- | nutritions and | ronsted, however, if left in the fields | by proper thinning and spraying, -— New York World. WINTER CARE OF COWS, To give an idea of what I believe to be not only but also a | humane method of caring for cows in { the winter, says H. 8. Matteson, I will my way, which is this: My stable i is seven feet six incl in the clear; { the stalls are six feet wide, each hav. | Ing two tened with a chain around the neck ; the manger is eight- a sensible give 8 COWS fn and ean mn | een inches wide on the bottom | be cleansed fro an alley in | front of the cows by stepp in be- | tween them ; the ls front the south, ! Are abundance of easily ing and on that side of win- {| dows so that there is an light ught in wi enongh so that nter one ce whether 'i..1 mooniignt an s without a the cows are all :n In the stable I have a well with “dneh pn th with om 10 aks le 1 never al- to mng rm if they on will Are fal all f4 * ever let out to be kept in for cept Each cow always has IDAS MAYS al a tim« the 10 place in the stableas long as she remains on the farm, and always knows enough to take her place, which does away with any trouble at time of putting in n the way of hooking and } l BAY S88 the stable i Hing of & Now as to whether yuts them in, my methods are I will give my 34 ' Wao } 4% R83 E ng term of years had to eall a vet FARM Prec 1 the Exes pe In he fowls out AXD GARDEN XOTES. ind of fowls you like severest weather let I eXerous Wheat, i’ i i peas, rice and y 3s p ns t be at its best unless What fowl or ani ge 1 0D in clean quarters, mal can? Better late than never, earth for dust-bath purposes before it freezes up Get np some If beginning in the poultry business be sure you get healthy stock or eges from healthy stock Give the ducks an airy coop even if it is low, and give them an ocoasional fresh bed of Tempt the appetite of the fowls youn have shut for fattening (live them a variety ; vegetables, grease, coru. clean straw, Plaster or slaked lime sprinkled on the poultry-house floor when cleaned will help in cleanliness and healthful. TORK, A little chopped fresh meat or a lit- tle oil meal mixed in the morning | food will help through the moulting SORARON. Where rats are plenty a rat proof hen-house is a necessity. To make one sink twelve-inch boards their full depth around it, and see that no trash accumulates near or is piled against it. If you are crowding ‘poultry at fat. toning time clean out the troughs each time after they have eaten. Feed three timos a day if you wish but do not keep food before them all the while. If you have an idea that the poultry business will run itself you are mis | taken and if you go into it with that istaken idea you will find to yom you should have paid at m Well-eured corn fodder ismore fully palatable, It » to be exposed to rains, winds aad frosts during the winter, | on ol | nothing in the world that will stop pais or arrest the Connecting Metal to Earthenware, | The portion of the earthenware with which eonnection is to be made being unglazed, or the glaze having | been removed, it fs costed with plum- | bago, and placed in an electrolytic bath, whereby a firm metallic coating |is obtained. The lead pipe is then | soldered to this costing by a plnmber’s “wiped” joint. Jy this means are avoided the imperfect joints made with india rubber putty. — Scientific sleeves, washers or American I The perfume of flowers is more clearly perceived, just before or just after rain, because the air, being then laden with moisture, better the essential oils that constitute the perfumes COLYEYSR —— Never Too Late or Too Soon. There is mors kc from pt from to-day till to-n done on the instant th s heen a wi vi use ! wourred, It is never too inte 1o use ’ When Nature raccess in Lite b 1 afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac The ws soni’s Eye.water, Drageists sell at 28 w per bottle Pure Blood Cives Perfect Health-Hood's Sar saparilla Makes Pure Blood. rROres w ‘ yelem BOPOR Asier, Al, Pon pe as C1 Hood's*=#C “Maod's Pills are the best. 3 oon 0 ures — w—— a—— y E F RKadway's Ready Relief bb safe, reliable and effectual beans of the stimulating action which exerts over the nerves and vital powers of the body, adding tone to th pe and inelting to renew of J mcreased vigor the slumbering vitality of the phys oal strocture, and through this healthful stimulation end inoreased action the CAUSE of the Pain & driven away, and a natural condition restored. It f= thus that the Ready Nelle! so admirably adapted for the Cure of Pain. and without the risk of injury which fs sure to result from the ase of many of the so-calied paln remedies of the day It is Highly Important that Every Family Keep a Supply of ADWAY'S READY RELIEF Always In the hous» occasions of Its ase will prove beneficin pain or sleknoss There progress of disease as quick a the STOPS PAIN 50 ote. » bottle, Bold by druggists HADWAY & Cn, New York, ALTER BAKER & CO. The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HICH CRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES On thie Continent, have received pady Relief, W from Lhe great Industrial and Food EXPOSITIONS In Europs and America. HATE SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE a
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