LONG AGO. When opal tints and gray invado The erimson of the west When daylight's lingering traces fade, And song birds seek the nest When shadows fall o'er hill And stars in heaven glow We live in mem: and plain, ry once again The days of long ago. And friends of days forever o'c Around us closely stand We feel the kindly grasp 1 Of many a ‘vanished hand;"” Lo ones mor for af were a 1 after the 1 . 3) ] aven't KOE ) Q-0-f The two girls beginning to be really frightened now, dropped their flowers and hurried back among the trees Thay ran this way and that, calling “Hl the time to the lost baby, but no ADs wep came to their calls. The region was wild, the woods reached far over and lit rocky hills and deep ravines, tle Polly was or four years old; al- together oul ble was a pretly ser- 4 run as fast as yo can to the viliage and find some men to come and hunt for my little sister. I'll stay hera and look all Shromghife woods and all over the field while Yon are gone. Don't come without some men!” With us a word Sue started aw in promp »t obedience to ; vil Sue ran on as fast as she coul and Maggie resumed her alm At first she ran h the woods, realized that no good | back vard the Jess search. forth throt presently Calling, she could come of tl nt, The n she sat low: and studied the situatio She had a clear brain, and was fairly in working rder by this time She could reason hings out, and she could form som sort of plan for the work that had to be done. Recalling the time that Sue left her in the woods and went out into the field to gather daisies, she was sure that little P ily had gone into the field also. She remembered hearing the child eall t6 Sue to wait for her, and seeing her run in that direction Polly had not come back, snd Maggie had seen and heard nothing of her or h s a rough the fields about th er the land in that reg “The Cox pany,’ ma le use of it at 2 valuable land was away in another direction, the mines at this side of the i had been worked out aad abandoned so long ago that not many people remembered sanything about them But Maggie thought nothing about mines or anything connected vith mines; she thought only of her lost sister, and of the most likely place in which to look for her 1 he only clue that she could think of at first was the daisies. Polly had gone there to pick daisies, and when she conld not overtake Bue she was likely to go where the daisies grew thickest. Over yonder, by that great clump of weeds and bushes, was a place that looked like a snow drift, it was 80 thickly strewi. Uy the pretty white flowers, Maggie went there, and looked and called and listened Once she thought she heard an an. swer to her calls, but it appeared she his had only disturbed a meadow lark at rest in the clump of bushes. She was about leaving the when she made a little discovery found some plucked daisies lying sonttered in the grass. Somebody had been there then! Was it Sue or was it Polly? Sue had come to meet Maggio from an entirely different di- rection ; if must have been Polly that picked thse scattered flowers, Yes! there ambug the fallen daisies was the crushed Jern that Maggie had given to the baby in the woods, Bae had brought no fern out with her, Polly had been here. But where was she now? Maggio called again, place and only the meadow searched among the high grass, hop- and bushes of the clump. It wasa forbidding place in there; Polly was enterprising but she wonld hardly choose such a placeias that to explore. Sue, fe Sue had { child,” to ealling it the chimney after tramps | ~she | | lark answered her; sho) ing to find the tired child asleep on the ground ; she went close and peered in among the thickly growing weeds More likely she had followed on after Maggie went in the direction come from, calling as she | we nf, he ie She stopped running just in time to | at ot the n te na of th into ther's the chimney. The chimneys the likeliest place eh, Reuben? “She conldn’t fall into a chimndy without climbing up to the top of it first, and she hasa't had time for that, And besides, there isn't any chimney | anywhere about here.” “‘Just the shaft o' the ‘enben explained. old mine, “Men fell set fire to timbers in the idle workin's an’ the smoke rose from the shaft days | and nights. Where would the chim- ney be, David? I've lost wy bearin's through all the changes that has come over the place.” The two old men began to compare recollections, and to reeall one landmark after another in the effort to | locate ‘‘the chimney,” and impatient Suo was driven to distraction by their | She started away from | as she conld | The | drawn on the Cape of Good Hope Bank deliberation, them, following as well the direction of Maggie's ery. ory was repeated, louder this time, followed by urgent words, Hae rau eagerly forward, followed | who ulso heard by the two old men, the loud call Without dismal | might have plunged headlong into the pit that yawned almost under her feat, As it was she checked hervelf just in | tiree to keep from falling. on by one of the over the nothing but darkness. m= ing to the edge of the clump. *‘I re- member wow, David, The chimney's on ——— ty — u here, an’ not over yon where you It was a timely warning for Sue. it, in the darkness of the place she had entered, she She held bushes and leaned opening, She could see “It's here,” Reuben declared, eo And though fond, loyal, brave and true save herse It from falling into a great, would have if.” : Sav ba the teins We knOW raga $ hole in the ground. : A second For goodness sake, don't Argue No friends can match the friends wo knew | 100k showed her that the hole was not | any more about the chimney!” Sus And loved long, long 8g0. very deep, but it was quite deep | cried impatiently. ‘What difference enough. At the bottom and all about | does it make? Maggie and Polly are | Though amiling fortune on us shower the sides, were fragments of rough| down in this hole, whether it's the Her gifts with right good will and broke n rock mingled with the | chimney or not. Now, how are we | Though every passing day and hour earth. It was evident that the ground | going to get them out? That's the Be filled with sunshine still | bad caved in tl ire, forming a danger | question.” | Though joys and pleasures deep abound | ous trap for an incantious rambler “*No such haste, Ins,” said old Reu- | Upon the way we go, Magzie trembled to think what must | ben, sole mnly. “It's the chimney, | We sigh and dream o'er joys we found have nappened if poor little Polly had | sure enough, they've fell int ) an’ | In days of long ag failen into it. ther's no way to get ‘em from the bot- | And though we fort X now ti Viry carefully she exami tom o' that but by diggin’, Rescue | Now joys, new ple edges and sides of the hole; parties must be brought from the | And though new hopes like phantoms r ho si ns that even a baby footstep hind | mines, An’then I doubt if we can get As in tne days gone | Listurbed She ground there rece! | to them in time, poor things When e the bh vm of |; 16 made her way ca itiously down Lod ‘Nouns nse, Mr. Jessup | Our tears unbidden flow | the 81 le of the opening, and then she I'he words came with startling foree We love, we hope, we plan and grieve | saw that the hole was deeper han it | and clearness from somewhere in the Again in Long Am | Rocks and earth had choked | chimney, and they seemed not to come | oy i distance above the bottom, | from the bottom of it, The voice was | Sai | but narrow openin 8 here and there | Maggie's, and it was strong and in | | revealed greater de Athi below. It was | good condition. | DOW N THE ( C HIMNE Y, i it a safe place to stay, and Maggie ‘Just bring the ladder from our climbed back to the solid ground house, that's all yon need,” Maggie | BY JAMES C. PURDY. | “Polly isn't in that t place that'sa | went on. “The timbers and planks -— cl |e fort,” she said to herself ““The | have fallen in and lodged ex rosswise, 80 py AGGIE MILLS came {© \pADY ought to be sued for having | as to make a sort of lat rim down out of the woods | such holes about for | 3 to tumble | here. We're so far down that we ean't with her bands full | climb 1t without help, that's all f the pretty things Neither of us is hurt a bit, Hurry she had gathered with the ladder, please, for wé don't there, » and ran sing- find it pleasant here!” “If the ladder will serve, then we'll vaste no time with ladders ao ran to [his was slow eroal id R meet her, with her ‘ emed to have grow you 11 of «¢ active within the your ference between the birth of their first children and six days between the last children born to family, =—1n dianspolis News, Knew What He Didn't Wan!, Charley went ont to an afternoon party the other day, says the Boston Record. His mother had enjoined on him to be very polite. She went with him, and all the mothers of the other | boys were interested in the success of their sons. The cake was passed to each Charley. “will you have some cake, Char: ley?" “No,” was his short and prompt response, “No what?" “No onke,"” said Charley's mother. replied he, quickly, soma — - The Largest Check Ever Drawn, It is said that the largest check was or July 18, 1880, in settloment of the amalgamation of the Kimberley dia: mond mines. It was for £5,333,650, or about $25,000,000, ~Treton (N. iJ.) Amerioan —————————— - S—— h 4 N—— for large broken rice RICE AS A POULTRY AND STOCK FOOD, Rice is attracting attention ns a food stock and poultry, There is a amount of badly cleaned and which might be very prof. itably thus employed. —New York World. AMERICAN IRISE received th American irises do not seem to have attention from enltiva- tors that they deserve. It is donbtful if there be at this time a complete col lection even of the different species in any one garden, while there are, no doubt, good varieties which have never been enltivated, and probably no even collected for herbarium Again, there are varietios which oniv a local reputation, and which b not been generally distributed I have found a nnmber of varietis f this Ost to Ww ia ilofn t lower me of th ‘ w resent rem Are ¢ rest during our summer aso. — Cray len aud Forest I TH MS Wi tic [ { Tr r )- tural conte porszies a stat Et 4 i e fT t that pro ! v4 t t I at 1 proposes pia “1 i ’ ' - vn bered lown the Lole onc 3 n { '] r - » more and began to toss about the | AD 1 there wa » loosemng ol th there In a few se withered hand that id him For moved enough f the he rescue of the two imperiled cli ing into the passag Ire the two old men were strong ing int ’ : » down in*o this sl agni with the strength of their 5. " " or . « Macoie never ¢ PASSAT ADD ared t lead ri | 18Y § a8 JMR never directs of the pateh of ne what pert there Was in every laisi yment on that rickety platform of RiSIO8, : . ; ollyl Where sre you, Polly?” IT : i a ily, as Mag had said, th oh.» : latform was hot for dowd a a fow Si heard a faint answer, and it | pistiorm : a t for dows) %, 8 fe some alone tat buried was. | Iminutes ol swenben his abe a tlie 1 to come along te burie 1 | " ; i odd ws re : rom the direction of the daisies, WAY Up Ag8iL, AL tehive Aw TIN m the « ny y oe ; That slump of weeds and bushes beside | Polly into the outstretche 1 hands of " ’ % tt. nid . ’ . | | ned ¢ the daisies—that was the possible hid- | W RO Next be leaned far r place of the myst It must be down and eanght the upreaching arm “3 “ Aaa » . : . . : : ry Ao 4 explored at once got safely f Maggie Hi pulied ber up % §0 y i 1 ‘ nd { a. 1t of the hole and at fall speed nber he st {| upon, sad from th 3 immhle 3 o_o foty back along the way had lat she nimbly made her way t TY lv « As 8 ra weard another Without farther heij v Sue had come back and wa Not too soot Younger hands wera calling to her fr the woods needed now for what had to be dons “Here I am! Here! Come quic David Id hand was trembling piti- all of v Cr r out the words | fully, and Reuben’'s weight was heavier at the tor yf her voice, Maggie upon it than it had been. Maggie and plar i f sight into the heart of | Sue eanght the hand of Reuben and i . KE AS , » | is » . pe 1 + al - tranot) AF th 1mp of bushes Sue had heard | | { with ail th strength ry | . wer and ca ra [3 ¢ slowly, and with feet that had lost al ACA : 5s t 14) 5 e AAAI | LM ’ h a the w is. followed by two m Th the fir fiden thiey so 1¢ y tw 1 were Id and decor ft. past had, the RT CA TN to 1 : f tha o : Xn i pH fi but , : ye : oT . . es r Or tow the only ones that Sue had n ab [hey say we're no more i t | 1 thers were all away at | Wor David.” he chuckled, feebly, ) I : | ' $ r work in the 1 A e su lown upon th round to The three new ¢ ra stopped and | rest : ted about the field for Maggi ‘It took but little time to prove IA i , . 2 " fer had led near, but now that ar tnKe Dav re wrked, A a was nowh to | K ) Sa at down be ! walled, but there was no a wer And tl ! sat with them a “Where in t 5 1 ca he hav held their han intl the old m 4 < or at vere at t tott A ag REE : ) | 4} [ w ¥ 4 v | ia | 3 [] 4 | vy » + 4 " -— At tha Ant they A rtled A Remarkable Indiana Family, | arin Mag AJ ATARIN 1 af . sou i farther away t time. and Isaac Martz contributes an arliici sounnaeda riaer Huis me, n } in ow he gives was different from the ciear, ringin to the New Ar hy BL No ¥ ery that they that they had first heard some hist ry Of A reimarsabie fan “That's Mazgie.' : Sue “Lut He and Moses Martz are twin brothers y » dha ’ . 3 . al nd i eighty-three years old [hey were MES Ald s Ua | , A . > A | reas ' Reuben | born May 27, 1812, in Pickaway | on vi i“ a ¢ Jessup remarked nd “For she A County, Ohio [hey married twin .! ] $f SS p q g 3 a Ina ’ Yi 4) \ » vr is nudergr ymnd David, my belief sisters, Levina and [abitha M Al as the two « lers has somehow fell ick, who were born near Conners ille, It 8 Iso on the 27tl into the old mine hereabouts, ville, Ind., in 151 J» » on th 181 wonuth hey were mar ‘But she was right here only a min R {th ma ’ 4 belay ute n Sue urged, in great alarm. | ried on the 27th day of ove mbes, | “How conld she fall into a mine just 1834, and each brother reared a fam in a minute, that way?” ily of twelve children, there being ou 10 4 HAS f . - “Reuben's right.” aid David. | seven boys and five girls in each fam: n ght, i . tnd wr ' ’ : d y ara bt ar days’ di “Ther's pits an’ ther's cave-ins an ily. There were but four day X 3 4 A When the « try wa v iar r nut as 3 t 3 4 co at vails for 1 r | These were deems ’r ports ti than the 1 4 wr, } v ever great the sat t Ww t wall was i 1 13 { SR A a fence forever, the time ha many pisces whero the st © mA i 0 DUISAD CE Its material is all there but the work of relaving 1t and keeping it in repair is greastee than the terest f i I sides, ti wan f A Dar r r we i H a oe for SEDER, nda t r far Yer 2 On most farms th nt the old st walls 1s 1 build ments for barms or « Ar walls, or the underdrains, Good drains can be made from stone alone, or r laving the tile a laver of stone may be pinced above them, coming to within a foot r from the sur so 1 stot will not likely be ever in tl WY « the plow, —Boston C altivato r HARVESTING AND MARKETING GRAPE Picking, packing and arket should be done systematically AT 1088 | KOS OF PACKErs cant 2 be | erate In Western New York a bush tray or box is used almost exclusiy for pick Ie This is ¢ cumbersome and requires both hands in movi i Wi hallow bal! bushel box bas reaq na ed wit Al A 1} rw gal r ir 1200 t 1 ) pounds per without drops r ish and a good packer w pack 1 t 12 Daskets al get tl : ( so they will en up smoo and Jey on to 1 t, but not # ' | iil t uj iit on the cover Pick KTApes at least twenty-four hours before th Ar packed. If picked and pa~ked at they settle » t! basket nu 1 thirds full when it reaches the « sumer, Plan the harvest work so that full loads ean be hauled to the depot each day. If the roads are good, as they should be, 400 or 500 baskets can be as readily drawn as half that number Have the packing house cool and airy, with room and conveniences for the packers to work to the best advantage I you ship to a commission house, don't listen to every drummer that comes along, but select two or three reliable firms and give them your fruit exclusively, The plan of forming all growers into a co-operative union has not proved a success here. A better work harmonionsly to load their own oars and ship or sellin carlots, —Ameri- can Agriculturist, —— TREATMENT OF SHEEP SCAB. The Australian sulphur and lime dip is made as follows: Take of flow: $04 of sulphur 100 pounds, quicklime 150 pounds, water 100 gallons. Mix and stir, while boiling, for ten min- utes, until the mixture assumes =» height red eolor, then add three gal: Jons of water, Hold the sheep in the mixture until the seabs are thorough: ly soaked once. Use the dip at 100 to 110 de- grees, 1u various sections of the United | pounis of sulphur, twenty | | | States the following proportions are | { used | Mexico—Thirty | gaven pounds of | and New tobacco, three pounds concentrated 100 gallous of water. Nevada~ -Sulphur ten water sixty gallons Texas pounds, lime 1 pounds, Californias~-Sulphnr four pounds, lime one pound, water enough to make four gallon Kansas--Sulphor twenty tw lime seven pounds, water 100 ga Sulphur snd lime are pr chenpest 1 , but the pure the stable loi ) phur { best co n i | tment of scab. | ever f of water ther RB be used t rey -five pounds ( A iI BLrom toba stems r ot r inferior parts are 1 I theres id be " 1 ¢ porrsds of flower « » mar This i H i t a temperature of 120 degree i eave ti i on 3Y © while ¥ ver sort of Where t | s PETE A saen Kees ! vast: out of th eves, nostr i 1 of the shed Io insur 8, witl te YS OF two W ¢ $ P IRATE J nn LAS FEL | il Amer Fur IT or ! vy vith ¢ ) Ay be» { ra 8 new and unique industry, and man that hes started it is in hope that a fortune J. W. lowe A end Cisco business for some 1s inn engaging Started a Turti® Ban Joaquin County, Califorh will reward his ingenuity. Dougherty was for years a well- known resident of Lodi, but he has recontly moved to sn place locslly known as Grand Junction, on the of the lin Island. Sargent tract, near Boule There he has started a turtle farm, and intends to push the business, Ban Fran- x. rofitabl : wh un Mr % bis low. the idea of Catching turtles for the market been o men, An Dougherty moved down | corner he conceived in turtie has Ji farming on su large scale. He has purchased incubators to hateh out the turtle-epgs that ar to be found in thet section in large numbers Th stor vis londed a sho ar he pioneer brood hatched by artifimal Lea the hent { the sun w 2 be ri for further experiment) t ( feeding Mr. Dougherty thin is pr cots for mal a { th few CATS Ar might, and 3 confident rh MEO of the mew ven » number of his friends are wit gw wit ] interest, There is little likelihood of am over- product for the der 1 for turtles 8 large and the pr vi ways good an Fra oor Examiner EE To Use the Carth’s Heat, Or ft schemes for future en- grineers to work af, savs an article in { t Liter i t ink- of a shaft 12.0 t 5 000 feet to the eart r the purpose of util ag tl tr heat of the globe It sal 1 it 4 18 | BUY no rus the 1 roved 3 r methods { 4 ¢ ¢ Per ret a t r re of 2 Tees of gre A fl A tv t ttack % $ AL TY te by t tar g ol a key rat % N v ra - I tria w MLE : nothing y ‘ r asuow De ! Ress ' ce — — [a i If the ground gets , rs Bwarxe- Roos the . . nd Bladder troubles. : » t * wit » + i'n “ LS 1 m ti AR : - t ter wer ed I t ) : AY yO » ' s - x ‘ " a . AY W $100 Reward. go-oui t ris i A nj bags I'he road fe pa tl rriRg Wl When veil pase THal-aal. Uw . Lage ! " thal it es La en B thron ee © 1 x i= : , B 1 » CalAl M >» vas Af ’ $1 t (W108 BR Md gellar your hE i 0% Ae by ’ > i Pp ernity TA] r L tra of # ¢ deca i disease, requ 1 i e of 8, Dis reat i La rh ( Pp g directly y 4 , ', 4 5. 4 ’ i Al » suria £1 Eyes tolera subsiitute, r br 4 t r ! foundation of - al A wre : | t Ml Are » L ' 2 tog } aud iE " Ey ww ant I sop t earth n 5 i proprietors Gave s . ral Ts Liat + old 4 1 . > i . i owed Ty | © ALY Ons 3 \ r she for { t of testimonials, A a ‘ F.J. Cnpxgy & Wn } AV ET ieTDS IND tE& 8 gists, To : | r x . a at th 5 A a | P Pent Drag Your Feet . great pleasure fr v | a y Aart f u as - HL Bere eh res, r i ¥ t wi ve oO by ¢ " fs » I AN : taroug : ¥ r ® 3 floctedq t re weak : but Ann I ved at on 1 y - » w * Mi cost, and tl tt expen " the WOO Bs gt A wort » ‘ New York Li 4 vig g ' « f life ——— N I G re ~ : 199 1 r i tu wher PARM AN X XV i a FARR A tA y : ’ Now A ey : H f | wv rr , A iA ih 5 Al ii R | L i AR 1 ex io tar a iv A00W They Care the Cause, the coit i ¢ f f f the “ . rau Solitar fine nt a dar ta ” i Oe wi AR i rs vi H a & ot - pay CRAs rdered See that tl ars fit th Jon #1 8 Rate. - » % » 4 ¢ . © meal R ’ . | © Uise » i cress A MiY d LR r A a ali . wels srger than 1 t A JA0Y . farms . i : Pure and Whelesome Quality AW it cans ¥ iadqd mime , r 1 allfornia { Worms ( tipatio r 4 : ! ' > fe & ’ ! 1 kidneys i re Figs. tls AC It . al ' 3 taste a z pently on h) sare f in AT D¢ t n yt ‘ t oe We ral howels sanse the srs. They are too fat hats why they . . ) lan! v y ‘ ene \ tr L oa and ont iay a m Banh al . ; ait A o } i fr { a ue K yd i § irien ™ ry . the farmer abuse him even at's AP teal " ~ Nu A . | \g r though he 1st now eething, softens the gums, os A lean het ta to sit. while aliays § res w Zc. a bottle » 4 T » . Td fat t nor 1+ “« \ y . ho me hd a Jd Lung A at on generally a lora 1 ble ft « ear ga ng. EB. CADY Don't feed your hens too much in warm | Huntington, | Nov. 12, 1804 weather 11 afflicted with sore eyes ase Dr. lsane Thomp 11 Yam son's Evecwater ruegiste sell at Be per ho It is an excellent plan to treat hy- ’ Ater. Druggists sell at 2c per bottle plan is for several growers who tan | drangeas with liquid manure till the blossoms appear. It should then be dise tinue i, abundance of water be- ng given, If the dry weather affects the lawn, leave the grass a little longer; its shade will do something for the protee- tion of the roots, that otherwise might parch and dry A hog should be kept for every cow on the average farm, provided there | are at loast two acres in the farm for | each hog kept. Piggy needs room, so do cows, horses, sheep and poul- try. One point in favor of sheep is thal | a moderata-sized flock ean be Kept on corn-fodder and help out very many farms with but little cost; sometimes with actasl direct advan: tage to the farm aside from the money return for wool or mutton, | § is short, the feed corn your pasturage | with some fall pasturage, barley, for Immerse the head at least ! instance, or winter rye. Sow these now where the earlier grains have | been taken off aud you will get well paid, Makes the Weak Strong Hood's Sarsaparilla tones and strengthens » digestive organs, creates an appetite, and gives refreshing sleep. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the one True Blood P urifier, the 1 after-di inner or pill and Hood's Pills iio iins FRA ATION When Bo Ade TL 308 and Ex he Agents’ ' Duties, Fr. Ww rina. EY eT 8 good agent fob This coun WE WAN iE ergo ing ( rwensboro Kr. pay. Isprsrsiat Postassive Co,
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