A LITTLE A little eot in a little spot, With a little heaven hath 8 A little way from that A song to sing, and a word to A little winter-a little May, And a heart content, content! nt it each day; ny; A little wife, and a little life In love and duty spent A song and sigh as the years g A grave, perhaps, where the violet But a heaven on earth high In life aud death conter Stant Atlanta ( Frank 1 in rr — 0D SWANLEE'S DAUGHTER WO men were rid- ing tired horses down an ill-defined trail through North Carolina woods. The one was a New Yorker keen, alert, dark hairad aud chronically one day behind his shaving. with His companion, who rode with difficulty his rough-gaited Kentucky mare, was obtrusively British. Everything, from his deer-stalker cap to his ye llow pig- skin gaiters, with their buttons down the shin, betrayed him for a recent importation from the islands beyond the They were not friends, scarcely acquaintances; they had fore- gathered some few miles back at eross- roads, finding that they were heading the had Sea, and, same direction, jogged along in company. For the past hour the multitude of trails hid bothered them much, and there had been a good deal of toss up in their choice, and at last neither had apy further ide to offer about the route, and there was no question that they satisfactorily + b ms : The ol the BEY 11 ia (5) were lost. last blu« was ning after nigl “Can't pay that I have. “Then, sir, wrt you've an experience in trees 1it you on the '.. 4 at Co- till the lumbn “What, these green shrubs? “Corn, sir dian corn,’ you eall it "way back in the old country, And here's a house.” They wheeled round the edge ofthe corn patch, their horses picking a way cautiously over the outshooting roots of the timber, and pulled up before a small frame dwelling. As though their arrival had been expected, the rough door swugg open and a man epped out apd dhced them. He was “ avily heexd ad stood quite four iuches above the fathom in his Boots, and in the hol low of his left arm he carried a weapon, single barreled and hammer- loss He point it. “Gentle men,’ he about the latest. repeating shotgun The first o hat slipe a hand toward the ket of his pants will get a hole let into Lim that a yoke of steers could through. If you want to stay, you've got to fight it ont.” He of the yellow gaiters laughed. “What quaint people you Ameri cans are!” he said. “Why you should threaten war in this nnexpected fash- ion, I can't imagine!’ *‘Ho! you're a Britisher? *‘English—quite Eaglish.” “And your coinpanion, irn't he an excise-man, either?” The Englishman shrugged his shoul- ders, and the New Yorker answered for himself, “8, T. Vanrennan, real agent, Irving place, New York Stick to my own trade, Colone 1, shouldn't know what a blockade was if I were shown one.’ For a moment the old man seemed inclined to resent this last remark, but only for a moment. Then Southern hospitality asserted iteelf. “Well, gentlemen,” he said, can I serve you?” ‘ ‘““‘By putting the Asheville, “I could not do it. Asheville's good thirty miles beyond this, and the trail’s far too bad for strangers to fol- jow in the dark. You must bunk with me, gentlemen, this night.” [here wns a little more talk, and then the horses were led round to a barn at the back, unsaddled, rubbed down roughiy, and presented with six cornu cobs apiece ; after which the two adjourned to the cabin, supped off heavy corn bread and strong flavored bacon. After the meal the Yankee, pleading tiredness, retired to the far room and slept. The Briton, who was traveling in the mountains to pick up charseter, was glad enough to sit np with his host end talk beside the smelly kerosene lamp over granulated tobacoo and corn cob pipes. Their conversation was on the whole desultory. Only twice was it inter. rapted. make themselves heard on the hard, red ground outside, and then, after a pause, a silver half-dollar rolled in under the door, The old man pocket ed the coin, lifted the lateh, and, reaching a band out into the darkness, brought in a quart bottle, which he proceeded to fill from a keg thnt walted through the hut a strong smell of smoky spirit. Afterward he thrust out the bottle into the night, and the heavy footsteps recommenced and died out in diminnendo. On the first occasion, the old man commented to his guest: ‘Say, sir, you're what they eall in the mountains » tenderfoot, but, from the ince of rou’ ll—Gre fal Rawnsley's sly drive ' estate City and still “how nus on road for | honor me witha longer visit, | forest. | shuddered and bent down { {ol you, you seem straight. Please re member you've seen nothing.” “I'm under the tie of bread salt,” said the Englishman, needn't fear me,” and about the game in the woods, When the Englishman awoke next morning he found that his traveling companion had already departed. “I didn't press him to stay,” said | the old man, “but I hope you will 1s Colonel Swanlee, have seen mentioned in accounts of the { war, and once I had a fortv-room house here and close on two hundred hands working on a fine estate. The house and the hands are gone, and the estate has run back for the most part into I've been Inckier than some. I haven't sold a rod of ground, I've been spared seeing a filthy ratlroad plowing through my land, and I've some other mercies to be thankful for. Come, sir; you said last night yon were in no hurry toget on. Will von stay awhile and rough it with me?” The invitation was genuine, and be the lifo was fresh and interest. ing to him, and because Old Man Swanlee was loath to let him go, he stayed on til: the weeks grew to over a month, his time. cause There was much to o2cupy Any one with a taste for scenery may gratify it to the fu l in the wooded mountains and valleys of the Alleghany country. he took his horse and ro le rough trails far afield —over the Great Smokies, and looked down on Tennes he roamed through the second growth forest, which had sprung up in tropical luxuriance ove the once cleared land, oe nal shooting a wild turkey or a hawk or a Sometimes along the see, Sometimes CAs flying squirrel, or whipping in two a small but for the most part finding full ecjoyment in admir- rattlesnake, ing this gallery of ture by On pietures wh ul painted, ve, indeed, he visite its weird hiding ¢ : 4 herself bh lery in the over the crude wits jut tha ha stil] ast Southern splen be then { nearly half a century bel living in pas re and at times the Englishman had work to bring himself back to the tr realities. Bnt at last there cams yf the pastoral, and itarrived in barous shape. The place w by the revenue "The visit the woods rr Was away | when th back when the sound hastened f heavy firing came down to him over Heo L the smbesesifraained the hat, per. | haps luckily. too late for interference, but the history of what had occurred out before him in ruddy Three offi was written lettering lay twisted and Y i y that he Avy bi 'H | Farther out « up over a ait sack. Flitt still farther dow saddled horses Ther: Swanlee, Had he rai { The newcomer rashed clearing and into the blockade distiller; was stretched on the floor with blood oozing yand him. The Eng for examina- tion. An ear shredded through bs yne bullet, temple grazed by another, left elbow shattered by a third; none of these were mortal, none conld cause this prostration Ah! there was =» und, in the groin-- ng i yr the woods, cabin, po ys ar taal meant death Under the old man wok “That blasted However, he's got his have the revenue men, at and---Hullo! who are you?” Old Man Swanlee gripped his gun again and started up full of fight “Oh, it's you, sir, is it? pardon, I'm sure,” he wshioned courtes domestic tronble excuse, Those fellows lead into me till I've thrust oft my balance, would assist me on bring the corner my hend Heo rested a minute thoughts, and then went on afresh “Now, Mr. (I've forgotten your name), circumstances compel me to ask you au intense favor. I've had staunch friends, but some were shot in the war and some have died since, and the rest are scattered I know not where. There isn't a soul to whom I ean trust my little girl.” “Your daughter 1s this that you're speaking about?” “That's ro. her before. I don't let her have any truck with the lot down here, and impromta up. 1 detective, I ask your said, bowing y, ‘but this be Mm been a with old-{ little must my have ed hanks, if you that box under ol to collect his On these occasions footsteps | didn't intend fo until the place was ready to receive her as she should be | received --as my mother was received | | when she came upon the estate, | sir, that's what 1've been toiling and slaving for all these years, barely spending a dollar in cash except a few cents an acre for taxes; holding onto the land with a miser’s grip, while the forest stamped the snake fences out sight, brewing a vile spirit for the mountaineers around, No, | wir; I've not sold moonlight whisky ba- | ontso 1 liked it, or hugged my balance at the banks merely to put myself back on the ancestral dunghill, 1've done my crowing. Bat, sir, whon my little girl was born in Richmond dar. and | “You | fell to talking | My name | which you may | he floor again and | | at the burial of one ¢f her | see about it, and I haven't mentioned | Yes, | | | ing the siege, my wife made me prom: | ise before died that, come what might, 1'd see the child mistress of the house we'd been driven from here. My wife was a very prond woman, sir; her family claimed descent from Poean- hontas. I sent the child to a convent in Paris, and there she’s remained | ever since. But she's finished her od- neation, and she's coming home right ¥ he | now --coming home to her inheritance. Yes, sir, the estate will be hers in an hour or so’s time, and with it a mat- | ter of 850,000, Now, sir, will you give a dying man a hand?" ““I will do anything that lies within my power." “Then find out my daughter,” came the astonishing reply, ‘and marry her.” Horror struck, the Englishman started to his feet, Did not this man realize that he was a murderer, stil red handed? “My God!” said Old Man Swanlee, you are not going to refuse me?” He stretched out a bony hand and caught at the other's gaiter. *‘Heav- man, think what you are saying. Think what this means to me!” head Ons, [he other turned away hi in de spar ““It is not much 1 am asking. She's beautiful. I had her photograph sent + only the other day. She's highly 'a rich, want in she's well born ; she 1 & young 10 Engl ! y, “Iam not free. I meta girl in Paris a while back, and erossed with her here in the boat from Havre Before we landed in New York she had promised to become my wife, 1 never could marry any one else. [ —gr—in short, I love her.” Ihe old man's ki tled with one an ishman, les erately, “I sgh what 1 at Inst, mld Jil Le Ail another, he 1 ned mes Miria: lrooped the Eaglishmaen, was Lh« Ihe old man's voi “Yeon, that w impatiently ; ‘out what ves," said gure uaio ol I — - a Ten.Inch Well, eighteen-months-old Daby in chi event A ten-inel reached a depth of being near the hou ne went out he first and was impaled upon 1 well had just nty-nine feet, the little investigate, all 1a foot | yf ) alone Somehow managed f the en inery, a part of w boring mach tel frant as yet in the well I'h mother was a and immediately Id conld not be y the irs m mouned and some eighty of them wi to work digging a great square near the well, This being completed to a depth on a level with the child, tunnel was made fr the hole to the well and the child rescued after being in its perilous condition twe three hours. Its plaintive cries, ‘‘Mamma | mamma, take ont! heartrending., The child will ————— Curious Tyranny, were all neigab mm nity were recover. oome me trifle | A newspaper printed at Lubeck, Germany, gives a curious instance of police tyranny in the neighboring town of Dassow. A poor laboring woman named Dorothea Bruhn, whose husband had for many years been bed: ridden, went to the pastor of the town with a request that he wouid officiate children, The pastor merely said that he would failed to appear at the grave at the appointed hour. In default of other religions services the | mourning mother recited over the grave a single verse of a hymn ex | pressing her faith in the child's welfare in the other world, For doing this sho was reported by a zealous police: man as having violated an ordinance forbidding any lay person to make a discourse nt an interment. The Police Justice found her guilty and she was fined the sum of a little less than 81, with the alternative on non-payment of a day's imprisonment. - I — Kalmucks Are Dying, —— In Actrakhan, Russia, the Kalmuoke are dying out. They are afllioted by some mysterious mental disease thal is filling the asylums and hospitale, and the mortality is so great tnat there will probably soon be not one of the race left in the district. and will furnish pol points to this row again : HOW TO MARKET BEETS, New clean, market even beets for should be sound and sized larg: and we ry siall ones should be kept for home use—and carefully tied in bunches of five. The tops should be kent on, as untrimmed beets look and sell better than the trimmed, and many people use the tops as spinnach, for which they are a fair substitute, — New York World SUCKERS ON Tae practice of pn ers from growing corn than it nsed t sucker ent while young is not anything as feed, and if left its ] gather carbon from the it valuable, common air und mal The origin of the sucker iry to the original plant. If this occurs early enough the suck will more less ears. TI Also help the ears on th main drought oce sucker 1s always later in ¢ I len after the blo yi the main stem has dried up Boston Cultivator, IS A 101 have or to fill when a HARDS, agricultural contemj ITALY A IATL an and all { marked gr could read at ntion everyth it the Bed and one of the ghings which 1mpressed him strongly as the to kd bens at work if you want eggs the boy had charg f 1 of chicks Le, nft-repeated injnnetion barnyard v had We had plenty even through boy has since rigged one corner of been « uery the barn and keeps hay, chaff and 1 hi hens hustling about in clover up to the knees hunting f their grain, and we ire than any three neighbors coml Farm, Stock and Home, get m IMPROVING PASTURES are just two imp matter-—first, to More Qrass grow, ndly, not to eat it all up-—-that is, leave all the roots of the grass and a little of the top on the ground when you take the stock off the pasture. To accomplish the first point I have never tried any method that pleased me better than sowing buckwheat and seeding at the 1 have to : about eight acres with buckwheat and seeded same with timothy and clover —80 you see I practice my own teach Now there yriant 1] ry i IARC and, sec same. lay (July | ing. My ground was plowed in the | fall and | planting, and by repeated harrowings | was kept mellow and free from weeds, | and | drought, moist, and in good condition | to make seed grow, again in spring after corn is now, in spite of the severe The grass seed sowed at this time of year must be covered to make a suo: cess, 1 sow buckwheat and harrow once, and then sow grass secd and har I have always got a good eateh of grass in this way. If soil is very poor, it would be best to use a little mavare, but it needs only as thin a coat as can be spread on the ground. Bat if soil is moder ately fertile, the thorough tillage of this system will make a success with. out any manure, Some will raise an objection to my choice of grass, aud I would say to guch that I only let any of my pasture | ground that ean be plowed lie in grass two or three years - Cultivator and Country Gentleman. THE The proper rotation of crops is a ARST THRER FIELD ROTATION, necessity, mentions W. M, King, The | sed producing ones should be alter. pated with the nitrogen-gathering ones. Rotation is valuable in aiding in the destruction of noxious weeds, but musi be varied to be eflective, For instauce, two years of more of P1he OI LE anil ) corn or other hoed erops will be found | to be necessary for the destruction ol the wild morning glory or bindwee Insect enemies are also frequently de gtroyed by a rotation that interferes with their natural habite, 18 true which attack erops when repeated too often upon any soil. Where wheat, corn snd hay are the cash crops, and a period of rest from the constant production of corn is re- quired we following three-field sys Item i I I have found to be best adap or general farming in | constant annual il under it war general adoption, This Ives the keeping of sufli- and to convert the cr JPR TRIS 1, CCL pt- of disenses nt of the ors ) nsuins tillable land into size, begin the field No. 1 with ing sow on this one nd eight quarts it nores, Av in the fall ying and repsics canbe made, the ut in order and re- Ms 3 " we Davi yd success withour y honses clean and sweet h earth bonntifully spread under yosts is &# wonderfal help towards latter. of nitrate s cabbage plant, scattering it Try a tablespoonfal each well are shary the ont of its mouth form hang them Do much? the day and put them out in ture at night, the flies bother the Jetter keep them cattle in JUATIErS, Feed the little chicks what they will eat up clean. Do it as often they will do their part—three, five seven times a day, Aas mare } If farmers would keep a brood ft each or two and raise a choice col year there would be more farming for them, money in The shipping of pregnant animale to the stock yards is not profitable, It is unlawful, and the sooner farmers guard against it, the better for their purses. With the good price of and hides it wonld seem good policy for the farmer to buy his harness soon before the inevitable high price leather arrives, bea! of (iive the work horses a run in the pasture at night, It will do them a great deal of good, but you must feed them just the same. If you expect them to work don't take the grain away from them, Brood sows properly managed de- termine the profit in the herd of swine. One-third should be over | thirty months of age, one-third over {twenty months, aud the remainder | over ten months of age to insure fair SUCCORS, Clean the feet ont thoroughly with a foot-hook every day when the horses | come in from work. Then when the | horse is eool put the feet in a pail of water and wash them. It will only | take a few minates and will keep the | feet 1u goud condition. The same | in | Trpure Blood and and ' gl iy ths strength and vigor I ‘ : ood’s Sarsaparilla I ivi fe jo 4 toda #1 for 85 'Hood’s Pills © Carrying Out Huxley's Order, Profes lent stor or Huxley nged to t« oe] One of the best 1 re. member sel afterward think, int ferred to the Associntic | Having bee vi it, AIX: nigt break fast, said to the Now Ww Lnere | set upon A Great Chanee to Learn a Trade ' ’ y » = De You Know lis Canse? 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