A bird sang it The sunshine kissed the clover Good-by, and she kissed m on lovelier seemed the sur shine, And sweeter sang t And if the clover My throbbing he bird istened heart it heard, For all day loag, a-reaning ht Mgnt And And win A MODEL EXISTENCE. DEWSFORD her own employed | in fastening but prim, eatured matron--one wh AT €, 8] believed thought sper sph nt Man! 3 ] i with 1 Lizzy Woes . “it really 15 all a mistake, Mrs, Dewsford aifying glass R } i « 4 11 * Q 1 S084 INArTY al all. “Mamma +A woman who poorrieg’’ yent on - i strong-mifided mitron, “eo. alwoman enszlaved, bout He much If I had kpos when I uree I was ither g surine of Gaugi: | r th M ter, and world what a wom unfettered en Elizabeth, shot coming an offering.’ But Lizzy, apparently unapprecia- tive re for her, eried more piteously than ever. “Tears will welt me,” mid Mrs. Dewsford, calmly resuming the encyeiupe regret to b the mother of so degenerate a daugh ter!’ ¢ ot of the great lot in st not 1 lin. *'I only ntured poor Lizzy, after ew minutes of silent grieving. *‘I—I promised Charley to ride out with him this afternoonb” “"y fon must give him up, Elizabeth. On such a subject 1 enn accept no uma!” “Bat 1 promised Mrs, Dewsford gravely rubb end of her, nose, s TOR “A promise isa promise, Elizabeth ; | nor shall I require you to break it.” (Here Lizzy visibly “But I shall accompany you.” (The pretty face became clonded and over- cast once more.) ing?” ‘To the woods beyond the glen, mamma, Charley is going to get some wood sorrel for my herbarinm,' “Nor will the expedition prove un. profitable to me,” said Mrs. Dewsford, gravely, ‘There aro many choice ya- brightened.) | “Where are you go- | lection of ferns is as yot ‘4 passing breath of air, and tliug out stakes for earnations! “Oh, Charley, Charley! 1 miserable!” “Lizzy, what is the matter?” He dropped knife, and all, am itv what ‘“‘the matter” was! the recital was concluded. “Isn't that enough,” she rejoined, piteously. have such a drive all selves, and come home by moonlight, 1d" “Don't fret, cara min, 1t will be right, So she won't consent to marriage, eh?” nice *‘She says most posi wiil not.” : "hat shall we y quietly?” i, Charley, YO never marry without her consent!” “And are two lives to be made [} rable | st because he thinks he aske | pose so, Charley ! Dewsford’'s pretty stake?” gravely head rain. want | i CE wil ’ oflar “Ct aries | “stop a minute! #3t Axpleniam Eber “Is this it, ma'am | erett, making a dive at a tall stalk, that b Mrs, cr i) nd the mance, ‘‘they came Dewsford rheumatic, character of ro- s now and rire gli, 1HKO 8 happened!” eried the prophetic soul ot Mrs. Dewslord, ““It can’t be pos sible that I shall have to stay here all night!” She looked nervously round. It wasa tall, steep el ff whereon she stood, cut off from the woods beyond by the rush and roar of a wide and by no shallow stream on one side, 10 other three it was almost r, rising some twenty feet ap from the road. Mrs. Dews ford began to feel, as she surveyed it, very much like St, Bimon Stylites on his column in the wilderness. “If they shouldn't come,” h La] omeithiong moans while on ¢t perpendic she | thought, laut at the same instant a welcome rambling of wheels Dewsford’s of Mr. tain road, and Mrs strained eyes caught eight Everett's spirit the eurve of the hill, “Well,” she eried, “I never wns more thankful for anything in my | life! I'm tired to death waiting.” “Are you?" said Charles Everott, as he checked the horses in the mid- { dle of the road, “Youo." Why closer?” sharply Dewslford. “Oh, did you want to drive home | with us?" drive Mrs, don't yon demanded i ricties of Adiantnm and Aspleniam to be found in those woods, and my col- incomplete.” And Lizzie went away in great con- sternntion-—not to read reports, nor to study paleontology, but to slip out in the garden where a great Michigan rose carpeted the velvet grass with showers of soft pink petals at every where Charley Everett was busied in whit- | condition. 80 in dis- | may at her woeful countenance, and Lizzy told him to the best of her abil- ““Is that all,”’ he nsked quietly, when | “When we were going to by our- { tion, m though the flavor IMATrLs) seems ancient broke the hushed | | stillness of the seldom traveled moun: 1 the ! 1 grays flashing round | “Why, of course I did. I'd ha' been home long ago if I could got off this place.” “Well, ma'am,” said Charley, in ac- cents of the coolest deliberation, while Lizzy clung, frightened and yet smile ing, to his side, “I shall be very happy to help you off the cliff on one “Condition! Charles Everett!” ex- claimed the astonished and indignant { matron; “what do you mean?” “Simply this, Mrs. Dewsford; I want to marry your danghter. But Lizzy, like a too dutiful child, will not become my wife withont your con- | sent,” “Which she shall never have!” said Mrs. Dewsford, emphatically. “Very well, ma'am! Get Whitey,” and he shook the reins, ‘You're not going to leave me here?” shrieked Mrs, Dewsford, in a up, | panie of trror. “Unless yon comply with my condi- a'am, I most certainly shall.” **And that condition is" “Your consent to my marriage with your danghter.” “Elizabeth!” “Charley won' have a voice in the matter, mamma, at Lizzy, demurs believe in women's all,” said ‘“‘He says he don't rights.’ Mrs, Dewsford gave a hi Mr. Yor ie) iv wit bh low groan. Everett touched his horse slight. Mysterio Over a centn West Bide, spot known as Fort George,’ bu of Harlet Alexand t} ha thirteen Ales rate u 5. — Pittsbur ander Hamilton ymmem or Oni Dispatel sn ———— “lasolent ™ From Paris nesan excellent st the The other day verted the Rue good-sized stream, to the despair of a great lady who was unable to cross the street, A power fal built young Englishman was passing at the time, and, the nt the lady, uncere her in his arms and down in safety on the other He salated wer, bat the lady only thanked him by exclaiming *'in solent !” y lish Morning re a heavy rain storm cor Vivienne into a seeing embarassm L i moniousiy lifted set her side, Wiereapou the young E without too the lady ones m Arms, oar ried her to the pavement where he found her, re-saluted her, and walked off. —~New York Journal, IND, SAVIOR A Word, re in his - ———— A Blind Mathematician, Professor John A. Simpson, of Ra- leigh, N. C., blind from birth, kas mastered mathematics from addition to quaternions’ mentally, has learned aucient and modern lsuguages, and like many other blind people is a good musician, His blindness is withoat | donbt the causes of bis extraordinary | mental development, It is thought that the too great nse of pen and pa. per or of slate anl pencil to relieve the memory has a marked effect in checking mental growth, The indus. trious blind, relieved of thiy check, oiten seromplish what the seeing re- | gard ns miracles. New York World, | the | ean at best be only a matter of g GREEN FOOD FOR FOWLS, Green food is essential to the being of fowls, and every poultry raiser should make due provision for it, If hitherto neglected there is still time to sow rye or crimson clover The latter is to be preferred as the more nutritions, If seeded now it will make good progress and provide a sup- ply of green food late in the fall and early spri New York World, well being TEXT The texture of butter dep on the animal, partly partly upon cream Ww ricl butter, tO muake suet or the ol all dt fie 10 Le w that it is injurious to give a horse a rink of cold water whey he is heated L EXeT Yearsagh, when for racing in prejudig ¥ t minds of grooms is I used THE Iie A larg o FITARLE FEEDIN( per cet, of farmers graz and ogs, and the belief that holds with many is that some future month will bring better prices, which i} WEIGHT. § feed ¥ Uess ing. Would it not be better to ado) t the rule of getting to market as quick: ly as possible, taking the price at which they can besold where the limit of the most profitable ie reached, say 170 to This would eut off anprofl or in other words, stop when it takes too much food to make a pound of gain, and yet ina series ol years give the farmer as good average prices as he will secure by trying to feed to oateh the high price the time. It is a very low price that will not give a good profit on a pig that has been made to do his best up to 175 pounds, while a slight drop in price on a 300-pound hog will lose a man “plenty of money." Will not some farmer of an expori- mental turn test this matter of com. mon belief among farmers, that there is more profit in one-half grain feed ing on clover than there is in full grain ration in connection with clo- ver? Take two lots of hogs of equal quality, weigh hogs and feed used, give treatment indicated above, Don't jump at conclusions by giving one lot one style of treatment one year, and feeding weight 200 pounds feeding, the feeding ta hl RDC 1) a A 182) another lot experime the next. Conduct both nts at the same time, For best summer growth there mnst be an abundance of unlimited quantities of p To secure this the brook t have a gravel bottom. Fresh, quick growing grass; clover or other grasses should be fur- } If foo 1s be sup; i shade, ure water, these are lnckir lied that gr 16t 1 are chemically possible, t be lackin WE BS HOR wel which they attain in ten weeks it dozen ezgs ar for the given as utput of annual « urkKey fuliie felling l BAW for trees a sories of platinum con. Wires white hot by electric currents, A sod watched, made orchard shoul ns it 1 be olosely may begin to fail sad- Barn manure may be applied to old orchards with good results. " \ ens Permanent sod, witaou¥ fe is an injury to the orohari been proved in the experience HeATLY every suo ssful orchardist. Ihe best preventive of black knot on plum trees is spraying with Bor. leanx mixture, The only cure is to ent it off and barn it, sad thea paint the wound with linseed oul. California fruit growers feel enconr. | aged st the sucoess of the yellow scale ! killer introduced two yoars ago. It minute mseot, kuown as the Chaleid fly, whiok destroys the larva of the yellow soale. The Embden, with its white feathers, and the Toulouse, with its in a Bieycles are prohibited, by an or- dinance passed a few days ago, from riding through the streets of Mahanoy City, Penn., faster than six miles an hour. semen ———— Texans has the greatest number of working oxen - 08,254, How's This? ed D r= Jd Foundation F's Sora INENT EE Th se BES Bier Fon TILLY % 2 Al r Twenty x0 Five mall for Bix WANTED mem Bright Boys and Gir! Sell the New York Ledger Every Week. Fay for Little Work. 3 Want am Active Worker Every lace. 4 " tend Our Plan. Ker of ofier of $1,000 in Cash Prizes to Readers $1,000 in Cash Prizes to r will } Ledger § ured on the t oli H 1 ee 81.000 i read earefully Cash \ y Ben 1 AE tN i 5 $1,000 in Cash The Ledger Free. : Hos ‘ r any responsible party { ' fas rt boy o led to ¢ Prizes. wmpels ry week | tra Ledoer in ’ y delivered ng the agent : to fate as agent for 43 tha so al Feel, an r than the Monday afte Liank Tarnished sue, AR i oe of Criiver oo $a | unsold copies, to be EE EEE EEE EE EE EEE EEE EEE EEE gray, are perhaps the best breeds of | goone, {rom twelve to fourteen pounds, while s pair of the Toulouse have now and then reached the enormous weight of sixty pounds, Those nre rather too heavy for market, The former will often dress at | EEE EEE ETE EE Appointed by... be AARNE EARNER ana | Address NEW YORK LEDGER, 182 William Street, New Yor
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