HCP E, We sailed and sailed upon the desert sea, Where for whole days med t At Must we Beotw weal y be. Ne so snw a dim, vague line arise n the lonely billows and the skios, That grew and grow until it wore the Of cove Then ape wntory and cape; flelds and inl hills t, pron and valleys, rivers, woods and roofs 1 St wples hoods And then 1 thought 1 Harper's Magazine, I — ABBIE COLEMAN'S NEPHEW | BBIE Was strangely des titute of kith or kin. So far as she kuew there was only Ont person in the wi whose veins ran red enough gen- WX uine Coleman blood *. to entitle him to be 0 \ cal ed a relative of vlad AA with of three score and ten fighting ROL an was still and who with his clironie pains that Providence Lk fit to let him die. On the morning when two Miss Coleman th unmerite the sole reason never seen th o 1 swept away her kinf one te | and plashed tea that stoo F SWRLIOWE several ly for had gone, Consol- ing herself at last, however, with the thought that there was only one mors Color . ‘ mim tes inamy nephew, never do f ) Ww A nephew, but I'here is no other man within iity miles of course, the telegram 1s me In some way this young fellow has githered up a scrap of my history, snd the only way I ean get even is to investioate Au hands with a your and never what am [to Abbie Cole uere, so, of ant for me call do? Lave his pedigree way, it will be a com in return rt to shak« att who has for # time supposed himself to be bona-fide relative, 1 sione Ta my | tthe ros bushes mo John, and get ready to drive down to the station and meet him.’ The 10.20 train over the Wabash tond was three minutes ahead of time that day and when Miss CO man, w howas five minutes he bad intended to be, drove up to the unpainted wooden station, the only persons left in sight were the sta- tion master and a middle-aged gentle- man, who seemed to be harassing that crusty official with numerous unwel- come questions about the topography of the country thereabouts and the means of reachiog any desired desti- nation. thin ning, leman's later than “There's Miss Coleman's man now," | enid the station master, looking the doer and throwing the mail sack COLEMAN | across his shoulder, *‘He can tell yon home when only a boy. His father whatever you want to know," he called | back, as he started down the road toward tho village, “and maybe give, { you a lift in the bargain.” | John drew the horses up beside the | platform, where the stranger sat, lean- | ing against the wall ‘of the station, | and eclambered out of the wagon. ‘Are you Mr. Tom Coleman?” he | asked, producing the telegram as he { would a letter introduction and { handing it to the other as an evideuce | of good faith on his part. The man took off his hat, brushed | back his grayish-brown hair and nod- | ded. Then, as if fearing that that | silent acknowledgment of his identity was insufficient yn, he | added : “Yes, I am. Who are 3 “I'm the general manager of Miss Abbie’s place,” ol demonstrati you?" John answered, with a : ut me Are you ready! For answer the gentleman climbed upto the seat the driver, and twenty minutes later he followed John up the path to the hall door; it was as on grave dignified exponent ol an old-school politeness that he met Miss | Abbie on the threshold “My dear aunt, both her hands in his 1 i I “] an ness of the speaker, ‘She se down to meet vou. heart was 1¢ joy of baving some by An himself her lle and her eve o greet ready te on his strong white | th 1 r was thirty- | and let the mi reparation. “There ar know about said to her ¢ ro and I shal A empts at rie torical embelishment I w the far West. When I was less than a old my father My mother lived but a shorf time that I was brought up ring up you conld eall it her people, who had moved to a neighboring town the year before From somebody, | presume it was my father, I had inherited con- siderable independence and ambition, and as 1 old enough 1 commenced to try to make for mysel! a way in the world, How far | have succeeded you ean perhaps be the best and most impartial jadge. It was only within tho last few years that | have entertait 1 any active interest in my father's family One day 1 asked an old woman who had been my | mother's nearest neighbor and closest | friend if she had ever heard either ol my parents say anything abont his life before he eame West, and she told me that just previous to his death he had spoken to my mother of a Judge in St. Louis to whom she could write if she ever found it necessary or expe dient to make any inquiries about his past, There was but little hope that the Judge was living, or if so he could be found, but relying on that slight | bit of information, 1 set at work. Strange to say, he was still well known in 8t. Louis, although he had retired from active life. All he could tell me was that my father had lived in the wouthern part of this State; that he A8 Dorn in Yeur and Ad BOON wns | had been wild and had run away from | | branch i yon, | arrival withot taking time | substance it is, A married again after several years and they had issune—a daughter named Abbie, TI followed up branch after of the Coleman family, but nowhere could I find n woman with such a praenomen., At last [ heard of you and straightway started to see Guided by some strange and perhaps unpardonable impulse I tele- graphed yon the news of my expected to notify formal manner of my existence and discovery of your where- abouts, you in a more So he re | Am, your wayward nephew, ready to atone, so far as it is possible, for my own transgressions and those of my fathers," John had finished his work, and for several minutes after Tom ceased talk ing they looked out in silence over the rarden of rose bushes and the fruit of { orchards beyond. touch of resentment at the brusque. | “I thank you for your confidence,” she said at length, catching her breath between words, if with sudden emotion. have a mistake. I knew it from the sake I did not A My father and died when quite young, » little brother an relative who been connected people. I k telegram o would find on ne choking some ‘You made wn you, I never 3.1 coni POSSIDIY with 5 our Nave in new ANN Way your it when [hen after you « m0 | hard to set the uatter see, I have been #0 lonely said 1 she nat ‘and you cannot | know what a comfort it was to m an to claim relation- ly fancied | sp with sce was his ————— - Human Antograph Albun : Ar no tr yable, t! tht i pecan ss when he ret sv Re Hr ——————— Cars 'hiladel; Wanted to Steal ol lertook ) flea Steel Rails, A Chicago man un to stea eight ear loads of rails, whieh were stacked up at Grand Island, Nel He chartered the cars and began t load the rails the night, but the station agent soon font mn | what was gv If the man had succeeded in getting the rails from Island he wonld have had an elephant on his hands, for and the game ! ing on, Was up AWAY Grand he never could have found a purchas er, and woull riainly eaught, Sach A Are too easy trace. One hardly believe that Chieago such a fool New Ur leans Pieayune, - ——————— None Sawing, have ¢ thing oan beep hrs Did yon know that stone ean be ent with a saw, and marble, too? The saws look very like the big saws used in steam saw mills, but are heavier Perhaps when yon know that it takes one hour to ent through eight inches of stone you will realize what a bard man in Philadel phia has invented a saw which recently cut through a stone ten fest long and two feet thick iu forty-five minules, #0 that a great gain has been made in stone sawing. ~The Outlook. | a full BUNPLOWERS, if sunflower won fel Ns It enltivation of the Wer ot the probabilities of the near ft agricultnre The merit of this plant as a feeding crop hnve been long appreciated in Canada, she Leads mixed / co other fodder plants the les are gathered as corn, nnd nutritic i le, not or } A also for cattle, ho the ro pre N in american being nn nr, The wle nl are valua while The is m aran wer men I give them ro or buok go to roost contented Farm, Field rk, wheat, o grow tired of \heir w supper 0 wheat, and they over their day's and Fireside ’ work i : This is a vital matier to fruit grow. ers and truckers, whose season's labor and investment may be wiped out by a single destru The more valuable the er the greater the risk of frost, the more effort and ex pense may be safely put into means of protecting against frosts, A famous California orange grove is equipped with a system of iron pipes through which water is conducted to nozzles at frequent intervals, the idea being that the spray will ward off light frosts, Barrels of tar and rabbish io Cilferent parts of the orchard are available for making a smudge of smoke, which is the most practicable di vised In the ense of a such ns visited California two years ago and Florida last winter, or a real hard frost in other sections, neither of these method is of Bmoko is good against all Light frosts, and is easily Sirawy ma nure, lenve EN riabbieh, ote, sh mid be tive frost and means yet fre ele, mneh obtained piled in the lowest places and about | those ol | acceptable and avail, 5, and covered with or ducking (previously pair two coats of linseed oil an be always dry 3 A sene oil handy, When fr tht watch to 5 placed on kes 1n various the field, especially m posed pinces mercury to thirty-five deg yl 4 14 | EOIMe CANS AN threatens, thermon or 2 | 1 i 5 teals Ir and the sinsses the same category and yields her freely to one as to the other As habits socn nature we cannot be too esreful those formed by the future ¢ of the worst is the habit of ' in the milk as scon as the pastures be gin to fall, The the deficiency of nr ment in the ripening grass But the once formed by the heifer will the « through i though the moved by supplying bran or shorts 1n addition, We may flad this expen: but as we eduneate a child to fit for his future career without grudging the cost, must our heifer with a view to future rather than present returns, —C, D, Bell, i New York World — become secon about w (on shrinking reason for thisin th 1 itr Im (R88) ginning ia habit cling to ow sucte nng Years even cause be re sive, hin at] ‘he largest woodenware TKS It the world are loeated in Bay City, | Mich. The present output ever ten! hours is 1800 tubs and 8500 pails, — Of mineral waters, used to medioate | the American interior, thin country bottled and barreled in 1891 18 394. ; 702 gallons, valued at $2,930,250, J w we treat | Chinese Are Good Haters, The Chinese is ood bater, and thousands of years of semi-ecivilizetion | have not taught him to e¢ murderous instincts nor to screen his centempt for the “arbarians for everybody ontside of Hopi le sly by the Jap, he could not for a £ ntrol his tial kingdom, peas e, [| ip +1 y ore one whom he had always regarded ae an insignificant imitator of his own customs, Iustead of sending a Vice- roy to negotiate a settlement he first reut a couple of ta setors to show nutry Wi stern il Pekin was with destruction that John proper personage to quarter rooted animos 18 ineradieab ive by the HIT . yi IANAArIUS ATE ress IU hery at Wha La Ne INABSACT The and Great faess Canvot bo Cy by loos) ap® lication: as they can rear a med fog f sean 13 fir only one w hi r 3 3% « | - Hall's Ca V.J. 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