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AND LOSING, WIN!
Author I'p known.
Here's to the men who lose !
Wlutt though their work be e'er
nobly
planned
And a atehed with zealous rare.
No glorious halo crowns their eirorts grund
Contempt is failure's share.
Here's to Uie men who lose!
If triumph's easy unllc ourstruggles greet.
Courage is eaxy then ;
The king is he who after fierce delist.
Can up and fight again.
Here's to the men w ho lose !
The the ready plaudit of a fawning world
King sweet in victor's ears;
The vanquished banners never are unfurled
For ibeui there sound no cheers.
Here's to the men who lose !
The touctiMone of true worth is not success ;
There is a higher test-
Though fate may darkly frown, onward to
press.
Who, bravely do one's best.
Here's to the men who lose !
It is the vannuished's praises Hint I sing.
And this is the toast 1 chooee:
"A hard-fought failure Is a noble thing;
Here's to the men who loec"
"ATADE IX GERMANY:'
Anthony Alexander wa a woman
hater. He waa also a student of phi
losophyvery comfortably oil". A
bachelor, of course, and at 40 the des
pair of determined motherland dutiful
daughters, who, when he came in their
way he did it as little as possible
scarcely had heart for an attack.
Alexander made up his mind to
learn tierman, because he desired to
read iu the original the works of Kant,
Hegel, etc Iu a weekly pajer he came
on the following advertisement:
"The German tongue taught on a
new and speedy sj'steni. Apply Herr
Schwalb, 3 May street, rimlieo."
"Air SpualpV" said the'short, grimy
maid of the tall, grimy lodging house.
"Fifth floor, first door to the left
Mind your feet when you gets near the
top, the carpet'9 gave."
Alexander climbed to the door indi
cated aud knocked. A sweet treble
voice with a stroug foreign accent
said :
" Come in."
"What a fool man Is!" thought Alex
ander. "The less lie can afTord a fe
male appurtenance the more sure he is
to have one."
He entered. The little room was
neatness itself. A girl iu a brown
dress and black apron stood up to re
ceive him. She had a pretty figure,
rosy cheeks, large blue eyes and an im
mense quantity of fair hair rolled into
a tight ball.
Alexander bowed stiffly and said
that, haviDgseen the advertisement of
a Herr Schwalb
"Yes," said the girl quickly. "He
is my fader, at all. You want to learn
Oirnian, sir?"
Alexander replied in the aflirmative
and ad' led that he hadn't much time
to spare. He would be glad to see
Herr Schwalb at once. He stood like
a tower, one bristling with battlements.
The girl gave him an anxious glance.
"My fader cauuot titcli now," she
said. ' Since de notice appear he has
a complaint. Detroatof my fader is
ill, sir. He must not spick."
Alexander said he was sorry, and,
with a second stiff bow, moved toward
the door.
"But I, Hedwnr Schwalb, I know
de seestein of my fader," said the girl,
with a bright blush. "I can titch. I
havctitched. 1 1 Is a great seestem for
de adults, at all."
She looked imploringly up into the
face of the 6 foot 2 black bearded quad
ragenarian. He shook his head.
"I'm much obliged," he said. "Herr
Schwalb may be better soon. I'll
wait."
Hedwig nearly let him go. Pride
and filial love made a sad to do within
her. As Alexauder got to the door he
heard a choking voice.
"He will not be better soon if I earn
no money to get him what he want.
Will you try, sir? I am not young. I
am 25, at all."
"At all!" This was one of the first
phrases Hedwig had acquired on her
arrival in England, She regarded it
as an idiam of ail work, and brought
it in whenever she wanted to be par
ticularly emphatic
"Look here," she went on. "I shal1
give you two lessons, and if you are
not contented you pay notting not-
ting and I beg your pardon of you;
oder wise, I shall persevere till de troat
of my fader is good. Will you try?"
"I don't doubt your ability," said
Alexander, "but"
The expression of his face enlight
ened Hedwig.
"Is my womanliness an objection?"
she cried.
"Er ah really" stammered Alex
ander, feeling, it must he confessed, a
bit of an ass.
But Hedwig swept on.
"Belief me, you will find no differ
ences. I titch like my fader. I tink
not of ray womanliness. I titch like
he."
From an adjoining bedroom a door
was pushed open, and a guant, leath
ery face, with frenzied hair and glar
ing spectacles looked through. The
girl nodded cheeringly to this appari
tion, which instantly vanished. The
blue eyes sought Alexander's face
. . . . . t it
again, tsomeunng guiiereu in tueui
which was not allowed to fulL
"Oh, well, I don't niind!" aaid Al
exander hurriedly. (To himself,
"What a lie!") "Will 10 o'clock to
morrow suit you? And," he added,
with gallantry, "I trust Herr Schwalb
will soon be able to take his place."
"I trust," said Hedwig. The rosy
face beamed.
Alexander's face, when he got down
into the street, did nothing of the
kind.
"Beastly nuisancer' he said aloud.
Three weeks passed. Herr Schwalb
seemed nearly well again, but the doc
tor still forbade him to teach. Hed
wig had given Alexander three lea-
sons a week. He was growing strange
ly n. signed to the situation. As long
as the books were open Hedwig was
stern, curt, dry. One seemed to eee
the spectacles of Herr Schwalb on her
ne. When the books were shut, ahe
became a charming girl again, and,
the transformation having taken place,
Alexauder did not, after the CM,
make a point of leaving directly. On
omer
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
the Saturday morning which brought
the tenth lesson, tim9 being up, lied
wiir looked gayly at her pupil, and
said:
"Don't you tink you proceed?"
"I'm astouished at myself," said
Alexander.
Herr Schwalb nodded blandly from
his chair in the corner.
"Ah, I told you my womanliness
was notting,". said Hedwig with a tri
umphant air.
Alexander looked at the sweet, mod
est figure in the shabby brown dress,
at the round face, flushed with the
July heat and with her pedagogic ex
ertious on his behalf.
Her womanliness nothing! Well,
poor little girl!
He asked if she had ever been to
Hamptou court. No? Would she
like to go? I led wig's eyes spoke
Would Herr Schwalb trust Alexander
to take her down on the noonday
coach and bring her back by six in the
evening? Allerdings. Which meant
she might go.
But how long would the fratilein
take to get dressed?
Hedwig laughed, ran across the pas
sage, and in five minutes reap)eared,
having pinned a lace collar on the
brown dress, loosened the tight ball of
shilling hair and mounted a fresh little
hat, like her hat, like her face, one
nest of roses.
Oh, fairy day, happy, happy hours!
The very sight of the great gates and
great trees set Hed wig's heart dancing,
and then the flaming flower beds and
cool alleys and emerald grass and dia
mond fountains made her cry, "Ach,
lieavensly, heavensly!" again aud
again. And Alexander couducted her
through the rooms and courts of the
famous old palace, and Hedwig chat
tered of Cardinal Wolsey as if he had
been her uncle and of Henry VIII. as
if he had been her grandfather, aud
the next thing was to order tea in a
queer little shop parlor looking on the
park, aud while they were at tea a
beau'.iful tame deer with sad eyes came
to the window and asked to be fed.
"Take care," said Alexauder, as
Hedwig leaned forward to touch the
creature's head. He caught her by the
hand and pulled her back.
"Hirsch we call the animal so,"
said Hedwig, standing meekly by his
side. "How do you call him at all?"
"Deer, fraulein," said Alexander.
He had forgotten to let go of her
hand, and he spoke very gently, aud
any ignorant intruder, hearing what
he said, seeing how close the simple,
pretty little Rhine maiden and the
woman hater stood together in the al
cove of the parlor window, might have
fancied But it was time to go home.
Of course Alexauder saw Hedwig
safe to the door of 3 May street.
"I can tank you never," she said
earnestly. "(Jute nachL"
"(.Sute nacht, fraulein; gute nachL"
Turning away, he ran against an ac
quaintance Jones.
Jones surveyed him with a twink
ling eye.
"('hanged your views?"
"Don't understand."
"I thought, according to you, the
best woman that ever breathed was
only to be tolerated. You seemed a
trifle overflowing with toleration just
now. Neat little article! Made in
Germany. Hello, no offense, old chap!
Alexander, no offense, I say."
But Alexander, resisting the tempta
tion to knock Jones, who was a small
man, iuto the gutter, stalked away.
-
And after dinner in bis luxurious
study he sat solitary and thought and
thought.
He thought of the girl to whom he
had given his heart iu early days and
who had deceived him.
He thought of the undisturbed, reg
ular, independent life to which he
was accustomed.
He thought of his 40 years.
And the end of these meditations
was that he went to his writing table
and penned a letter to Hedwig.
He thanked Fraulein Schwalb for
the pains she had taken with him aud
begged to inclose the sum due to her
for the remaining lessons of the course.
He much regretted being unable to re
ceive them. He sent his best compli
ments to Herr Schwalb and remained
hers very sincerely, Authony Alexan
der.
He went to Switzerland, intending
to do a mountain or two. But in ridic
ulous defiance of the most elementary
rules of physical geography mountains
proved Hat, So did other things when he
tried them. A blooming face under a
hat with rosea, and old brown dress, a
happy girl's voice followed him every
where.
At last, leaning dismally over a ho
tel balcony one fine evening in Cha
mounix, he heard a German lady be
low say to a friend, "(lute uacht!"
He couldn't stand it any longer.
"Gute nacht." The words called him
back to 3 May street, and he packed
his traps that night, and to 3 May
street he rushed as fast as train, boat,
cab would take him.
The same maid, with apparently the
same dirt on her face, answered the
bell.
"Air Squalp. 'E's dead!"
"Dead?"
"Yes; 'e died. 'E got worse then 'e
died."
"And and the young lady?"
"Left."
"Where's she gone?"
"Don't know."
A sovereign shone in her hand.
"I'm very sorry, sir," she said, star
ing, excited, "but the fraulein never
said a word to nobody. She just paid
and left."
"When?"
"Three weeks last Toosday."
"Do you think she was going to Ger
many?"
"I'm sure, sir, I haven't an idea.
She paid the week and left. She
seemed all of a daze."
Alexander knew what he had done.
He had run away from his one chance
of happiness and now where was
Hedwig.
By night London looked to him like
a couchant beast, stuck over with cruel
eyes a beast that swallowed lives
down and kept the secret. By day the
sunny streets mocked him with par
sing faces, with trim figure that
Bet
ESTABLISHED 1827.
the distance looked like hers, with
glimpses of yellow hair.
Or was she back in the fatherland?
Safe with her friends, with a betrothed
lover perhaps.
If it were so and he could but kuow
of it, he thought he should have the
manhood to thank heaven.
-
He had been returned to town four
days. As he came in late from
weary stretch of walking his valet met
him.
"A person to see you, sir."
"What sort of a person?"
Alexander's nerves were in a queer
state. He turned very pale.
"A woman, sir."
"A lady?"
"I think, sir, she's a nun."
Alexander walked into his study.
Amazed, he saw rise before him a fig
ure in blaek, with flapping sleeves and
flowing skirts.
A calm, good face looked from un
der the white hand and sable veil.
"Is it you," said the nun quietly,
"who have been advertising to dis
cover the address of Hedwig
Schwalb?"
His heart sank.
"Yes, yes."
"Hedwig! A nun!"
She shook her head with a grave air.
"Nuns are not made so quickly.
Our order has a chapel aud infirmary
near Soho. We work there. Two
days ago I found the poor young wom
an lying on the chapel' steps. I am
Sister Frances. She was ill insensi
ble. We took her in. Her name is
on her clothes. We coull not find out
anything about her. She has fever
it is on the brain she doesu't speak
sense. But we see she is a good girl
and has been well cared for innocent,
refined. If you are a relative and
wish to see her, you can come with
me."
"Not a relative," gasjied Alexander.
"An old friend."
The nun bent her head.
"I am sorry to have to say it, but
there is no time to lose if you waul to
see her alive."
Beds narrow beds, white beds, sick
beds in rows. Walls gray walls, si
leut walls, glimmering walls with
pictures. Lights dim lights, kind
lights, holy lights like flowers. An
on a pillow Hedwig's face, with the
roundness and the roses and the splen
did hair gone from it, and Hedwig's
voice, bubbling in German wildly.
"She won't kuow you," said Sister
Frances.
But she did know him. He took
her hand and bent over her, aud she
Ix-gan talking English at once, A
liirht came into the sunken face.
"It is you. I am so pleased to see
you, at all. I was knowing you would
come. What a fine day! What a blue
sky! Happy, happy!" Her gaze won
dered. "And look only the beauti
ful tame deer! Can I give him bread?
No, no! His eyes are too sad! Take
him away! I am tired! Gate uacht!"
Perhaps Sister Frances had had a
love story In her youth.
She turned her back when she saw
how Alexander's tears rained down
aud how he held the poor delirous
little girl in a passionate, yearning
clasp.
Was it the warm tears, the warm
clasp that brought Hedwig back to
life's shores from which she had been
fast drifting? Who can say?
As soon as she was better, Alexan
der asked her very timidly if some day
she shtHild marry him.
Iu a whisper came Hedwig's reply.
"I will at all." Answers.
America One Hundred. Yeari Ago.
There was not a public library in the
United States.
Almost all the furniture was import
ed from England.
An old copper mine in Connecticut
was used as a prison .
There was only one hat factory and
that made cocked hats.
Crockery plates were objected to be
cause they dulled the knives.
Virginia contained a fifth of the
whole population of the country.
A man who jeered at the preacher or
criticised the sermon was fined.
A gentleman bowing to a lady al
ways scraped his foot on the ground.
Two stage coaches bore all the travel
between New York and Boston.
A day laborer considered himself
well paid with two shillings a day.
Every gentleman wore a queue and
powdered his hair.
The whipping-post and pillory were
still standing in Bostou and New York,
liecf, pork, salt fish, potatoes and
hominy were the staple diet all the
year around.
Buttous were scarce and expensive,
and the trousers were fastened with
pegs or laces.
A new arrival in a jail was set upon
by his fellow-prisonera and robbed of
e Venning he had.
When a man had enough tea he
placed his spoon across his cup to indi
cate that he wanted no more.
Leather breeches, a checked shirt, a
red flannel jacket and a cocked hat
formed the dress of an artisan.
The church collection was taken in
a bag at the end of a pole, with a bell
attached to arouse sleepy contributors.
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IRMAS' BETROTHAL
In one of the turret rooms of Iteitzen-
berg castle a young girl arrayed In a
simple dress and white apron sat tew
ing industriously. At the sound of
footsteps she paused iu her work; at the
sight of a hussar officer in uniform she
reddened with vexation. Yet there
was nothing in Albrecht vou Beitzen
berg's appearance to annoy her; on the
contrary, he was young, very good
looking, tall and of dignified bearing.
"Will you allow me to come in?" he
asked, standing on the threshold.
The girl took up her work again
"You can come In if you wish," she
said, indifferently.
He walked across the room. "I have
a proposal to make to you, Baroness
Irma. Will you give me your atten
tion for a little while?"
She looked at him indignantly. She
had a sweet, oval face and deep gray
eyes.
"I prefer not to listen to you, Count
Albrecht"
"I thought that you would say so!"
(There was something like a ring of
triumph in his voice.) "B'Jt, indeed,
my preosal is very harmless. L-t us
come to an understanding."
There was an uncertainty, distrust in
her eyes.
"Yes," continued the young officer,
"I kuow j'ou have every reason to be
offended. You have every reason to
be offended. You have been most un
fairly treated."
"I have been invited to this house
under false pretenses. I came here be
cause I thought that the visit would
give pleasure to Frau von Wolde, who
fills, or is supposed to fill, the place of
my mother. I am sorry to tq-eak dis
respectfully of your cousiu, but"
"Not at all. You are perfectly right,
aud my relative, Frau von Wolde, is iu
the plot and has been from the begin
ning. I know all abjut it now. My
old uncle has just enlightened me. I,
as the heir of BeitzenUTg castle you
will excuse my mentioning my name
first have received orders to otter my
hand and my debts in marriageto Bar
oness Irma vou Buchow, who, on at
taining her majority, will become pos
sessed so large a fortune that she could
free the B-itzenberg state with a stroke
of her peu. Now, hear me out: this lady
was to have been kept in ignorance of
the plau, but that her friend aud chap
eron could not resist the temptation of
giving her a hint as to how matters
stand after she had become the guest of
the castle. Is this so?"'
"Yes." She stood by his side now,
and the sunlight just touched the coils
of her auburn hair. "I have been de
ceived; cruelly deceived."
"Uuder the circumstances, nothing
remains for me but to give you the op
portunity of expressing your opiuion
as to this tyrannous funily compact
even more decidedly than you have
done already. Baroness Irma of
Buchow, will you consent to give me
your hand in marriage?"
"Count Albrecht of Iteitzenberg, I
thank you for the honor, w Inch you
have shown me, I will not"
They stood facing each other, and as
Irma looked at her strange wooer she
saw a fai'it smile iu his eyes. Her own
anger was beginuiug to evaporate; he
really was behaving well, considering
that the Beitzenbergs were reuowned
for their hasty tempers.
"You admit," she said, after a pause,
"that I have been awkwardly placed."
"I admit that you have beeii inhos
pitably, alomiuably treated! I blush
tothiukthata member of our family
could have dreamed of such a scheme.
In order to show you ho penitent I
am, now that I have received my dis
missal, I will immediately leave
this house and rid you of my presence."
"If you do that, Count Albrecht, I
shall be worse oil than ever. You don't
know your cousin, Frou von Wolde.
She will insist upon my remaining
here for three months as was arranged,
she will reproach me for your absence,
she will argue and make me dislike
you more than ever, if"
"If possible?"
His good humor was irresistible; she
burst iuto a merry laugh.
For another half hour the rejected
suitor remained iu conversation with
the heiress, and at the end of that time
they, too, had made a plot Albrecht
was to remain at the castle, he aud the
Baroness Irma were to pretend to be on
amicable terms, and the two conspira
tors (the count and the chaperon ) were
not to learn until the last day of the
visit expired that their hopes had
failed.
"I will endeavor to make your vLdt
as little irksome as possible," explain
ed the heir lleitzenberg; "and we cau
behave as if there were no enmity be
tween us."
"Yes," (and there was still a little
doubt iu her voice and manner. ) "I
think I can trust you."
"Come," he said, gently, "Baroness
Irma, it Is a truce between us signed
and sealed?"
He took her hand in his, and, bend
ing over it, raised her fingers to his
lips.
The master of the castle was the first
to begin hostilities.
One day, toward the end of the three
months' visit, Irma came iuto the draw
ing room to find the whole party await
ing her arrival, aud in an instant she
perceive that something was wrong.
Frau von Wolde had been shedding
tears, the old count's brow was cloud
ed with angtr, and Albrecht Irma
hardly dared look at him, so changed
was his aspect.
It was too clear that the termination
of the pleasant companionship of the
last few weeks was to be war.
"My dear Baroness Irma," said the
count, advancing to meet his young
guest with ceremonious politeness, "I
am exceedingly pleased to see you.
Your visit her hts given nu great
satisfiction. ou honored this house
with your presence, with the full con
sent of your guardian and my esteem
ed cousin, Frau v.n Wolde, I had
hoped, not without grounds, that the
friendship between you and my heir
was gradually ripening iuto a deeper
and more lasting feeling. The alliance
is one which mu-tt give satisfaction to
a'.l interested in our families. Imagius
era
my distress ou hearing to-day from my
nephew that you have refused his pro
posal of marrige,"
Irma looked toward Count Albrecht;
something that she read in his wrath
ful mien made her hesitate as she an
swered: "It is quite true, we are friends, ami
nothing more."
"It cannot be, my dear young lady.
that so young a maiden should have
given away her preference without the
cousent or knowledge of her guardian'
Answer me candidly: Are your affec
tions already engaged?"
The color surged Into Irma's cheeks
and left them pale again. She glanced
at Frau von Wolde. There was no
help for her there.
'This a question which you have no
right to ask, Count Ui'itzenberg, and
which I refuse to answer. I mu-tt beg
you to excuse me."
"Baroness Buchow is right!" burst
in Albrecht "She has suffered enough
at our hands already. She shall not be
thwarted in her will. If she honors
me with her friendship, I accept it
gratefully. Listen to me, my uncle. I
refuse to be a party to your scheme."
The forest spread its wide wings even
as far as the castle garden. Irma lov
ed the green paths and quiet shades,
and here she came with her book the
morning after her interview with the
count, and pretended to read. But,
though she kept her eyes on the pages,
she read there only Count Albrecht's
parting words he accepted her offer of
friendsh'p gratefully! Driven to bay,
as it were, in order to save, that was
what he had said.
During the last three months she had
come to understand something of his
uprightness, his high sense of honor.
He would never marry a woman
though she were a princess to whom
he could not give his love.
"It was my fortune," sighed Irma,
"that made him nearly hate meat
first" Did he hate her now?
She closed her hok and wandered
still farther into the woods, down a
hillside covered with fern and moss, to
ward the stream that ran betweeu high
rocks, chattering and foaming oa its
way.
On the further side of the stream was
a tract of open country, dotted with
clumps of trees and underwood and
bright heather. The stepping stones
were half covered with water to-day;
the current was ruuning fiercer than
its wont She bethought herself of a
rustic bridge a few yards further down
the stream.
The bridge hung high in the air,
supported by rough pine stems; it was
a picturesque but a fragile affair.
Half way across Irma put her hand
on the rail how noisy the stream was!
it snapped off at her touch, one wood
en plank tottered under her feet, anoth
er fell with a sphtsh into the water be
low.
She had plenty of courage; she was
light and active. She knew, moreover,
that she could easily leap that formida
ble lixikiug gap and gain the bank.
She was about to make the attempt.
when she was stopped by a perempto
ry shout:
"Gently, gently! Jump from the
projecting stem; it is safe!"
She looked up. Ou the edge of the
heather covered roek stood Albrecht
Beitzenberg.
She paused uncertain, half inclined
to retrace her steps.
Perceiving her hesitation, he raised
his voice and shouted still louder above
the clamor of the rushing water:
"Can you hear me, Baroness Irma? '
She nodded assent
"Step there to the left Do not look
back."
Involuntarily she obeyed. He held
out his arms. The gu'.f yawned be
tween them. He could be of no help.
"The stem will bear your weight
Do not be in too great a hurry."
"Why does he look so grave?"
thought Irma. "Is he still angry"
"I had better return the way I came.
Count Albrecht Do not trouble ou my
account.
"No; do as I direct you. You see
which Is the best place to stand? Drop
your book it might be in your way
and jump as far as you can. Now!"
One spring, and Irma was safe on
the moss and heather, while the plnk
ou which she had thought to stand,
slipped into the foaming water.
Albrecht held her hand clasped in
his.
"Thank heaven that you are safer'
he cried. "Oil, Irma, my Irma, I
could not stop you! I came just too
late for that I could only look on in
agony! Are you frightened? Are you
hurt?"
"I am not hurt I did not know
that it was dangerous. I did not, in
deed." She saw him turn pale at the thought
of her peril, and the tears which she
had not shed for herself fell fast for his
distress.
"The bridge should have been de
stroyed long ago; It shall be done to
day. I did not dare to join you or to
speak to you until you had passed the
worst If you had leen killed ah! I
cannot bear to think of it I should
never have known another day's hap
piness, and it would have teen my
fault miue! How could I let you
wander about alone when I was long
ing to be with you? My Irma, my best
beloved! Thank Heaven I have you
safe at last Hardly wj hive played at
being friends and enemies long enough!
Look at me and say that you love me!"
When he had mtde her an offer of
marriage three long months ago, she
had been ready with her refusal. Now,
when her whole heart was his, she
could find no words amid her tears ex
cept: "I love you! I love you!"
It was enough for him. "My bride,
my wife!" he said, and held her in his
arms.
The green ferns rustled and whisper
ed, the beeches tossed their boughs in
the sunlight, the red squirrels played
in the oak trees, the whole wood was
full of life and joy at that moment when
the lovers plighted their troth. Wom
an at Home.
When there Is a crack in the stove it
can be mended by mixing ashes and
salt with wafer.
WHOLE NO. 2392.
TRACKISQ A CHILD.
A Bloodhound is Not Always a Fierce
Beast.
Ho many terrible stories of the fero
city of Mood hounds have been told
thai it is refreshing to read a true story
of a chase by a l.l'wxlliound in which
the hunter and the hunted were filial
ly sati-ilied. It is vouched for by
writer in Good Words, who had it
from an eye-witness.
Tiie blixKlhound was enjoying a
stroll with his master on the sands of
Weston-super-Mare, quietly following
the horse his owner roL. Neither
was thinking of a chase. In fact noth
ing seemed further from the character
of the dog than a desire to interfere
with any huma:i being. The group of
pleasure-seekers scattered over the
sands saw nothing unusual in him.
Nor d'd the poor distracted woman
who ran from one group to another
frantically asking for tidings of a lost
chil L -Nobody knew anything of the
missing boy, and when iu her despera
tion she approached the gentleman on
tiie horse, he also shook his head.
But though he knew nothing of her
boy, he was not sure that he could not
help her find him. He alighted from
his horse, aud thrusting his arm
through the bridle, bent over the
houud, putting both hands carelessly
round his head. Then he took from
the woman somethiug that locked like
a child's hat, and held it towards the
d.tg, talking to him the whik The
hound sniffed and whined mournfully,
as if unwilling to leave his master.
Sxu, however, he lifted his head iu
the air, uttered a short, sharp bark or
bay, and began snitliug about the
san Is.
For a minute or two he followed the
scent in a zigzag fashion, and then.
with a long, iou 1 bay, turned off at an
ama.ing pace, ran iu a straight line
acftxis th. au 1 1, croasjj the parade,
an J, baying is he wjnt, turueil dwu
a sile street.
fhat was an exciting chase the field
the streets of a pjpilous watering
placj, and the game a lo-t child. The
loud voice of tiled g could be heard in
the distance, guiding those who fallow
ed.
Tae m ther's feet were swift, but she
c raid not kep up with the d g. O i
hd went till he ha 1 run his prey to
ground; then he stopped fawned up-n
the little lad, win was overjoyed to
find so frieu Jly a playmate. When
the mother came up, hunter and hun
ted were the best of frie:il-, s mu'a
so that neither was willing to part
with the other.
The gentleman had more than once
to summon his d'.vj before he w Jul J
consent to leave tie child. As f r the
boy, he eould uot be lei away while
tiie dog remainei, and after ths hounl
ia l dis-ippoarel he was still heard to
muriiur, "I would like that dear dog
gie for my own."
Ta? 3Iik3 Q jai Sam-nsr Hay.
From the middle of Miy until the
10th of Juue is the period for sewing
millet and Hungarian grass. They
may rightly be termed summer hay
crops, as they enable the farmer to se
cure forage when the hay has been de
ficient in yield, and they grow so rap
idly that all the weeds are completely
destroyed. In fact, a piece af land
that has been overrun with weeds can
be cleaned iu a tingle se isou by grow
ing Hungarian grass thereon. Millet
is cut but once, as it grows very tall,
especially the German variety; but
Hungarian gra-ts may l mowed every
five weeks until frost comes. It starts
oft rapidly after each mowing, and as
the successive crojvs are cut any weeds
that have survived the crowdiug of the
grass is also mowed, aud before the
season ends they have not only been
prevented from seeding but extermina
ted. If a crop of Hungarian grass ac
complished nothing m re thai this it
would be lieneticial, but a crop that
grows so rapidly necessarily takes
much from the soil, and for that reas
on the land for millet and Hungarian
grass should be well manured and put
in good condition, though excellent
crops have been secured on sandy soils.
As crops for plowing under they serve
the purpose well and give g d results
i." the laud is then limed.
WHEN TO MOW THE CROPS.
From a bushel to a bushel and a half
of teed is required for an acre, but if a
crop is grown for seed twelve quarts of
seed is sufficient It is better to uso
too much rather than too little seed, as
it is considered a delicacy by birds and
they will get a large share. Prepare
the land well, having the surface fine,
and brush the seed in. It germinates
quickly aud if it gets a good start will
stand a dry season fairly welL Millet
should be allowed to grow until it be
gins to blossom, when it should be cut,
cured like ordinary hay and stored un
der shelter. Uj icr no circumstances
should it be allowed to produce seed If
intended for stock, nor approach too
close to the seeding stage. Just when
It lgins to blossom Is about the correct
period for cutting. If the beads are al
lowed to form seed there is a liability
of injury to stock when it is eaten, aud
it aho then contains too much woody
fibre. The preference shown by horses
and cows for millet hay will largely
depend on the stage of growth at which
it is cut and cured, and, like hay, it
should be cured very carefully, for
upon the curing depends the quality
in the winter season. From the Phila
delphia Kecord.
There is Nothing so Good.
There is nothing just as good as Dr.
King's New Discovery for consump
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and do not permit the dialer to see you
some substitute. He will not claim
there is anything better, but in order
to make more profit he may claim
something else to lie just as good. You
want Dr. King's New Discovery be
cause you know it to be safe and re
liable and guaranteed to do good or
money refunded. For coughs, colds,
consumption and for all affections
of throat, chest and lungs, there is
nothing so good as is Dr. King's New
Discovery. Tri.il bottle free at Sny
der's drug store, Somerset, or at BnuV
Iter's drag store, Berlin.
A PBZTTT STORY.
Of Queen Victoria and a Courteous
American Minister-
The approaching celebration of the
sixtieth anniversary of (jieen Vic
toria's reign naturally turns our
thoughts back to the year of grace
1S37, wheu Her Gracious Majesty was
a fair young girl of eighteen.
Mr. Andrew Stevenson, of Virginia,
had been the American Minister to
Englaud only a few mouths when the
young Princess became the Qoxen.
His contemporaries took great pleasure
In hearing his experience on that oc
casion so fortunate for England and
the world.
Mr. Stevenson was duly presented to
Kin j- William IV. by his predecessor.
As he backed away from the presence
of majesty he observed a small group
standing near the door through which
h must leave the Drawing Room.
Two ladies, evidently a mother and
daughter, attended by several gentle
men, stood apart, neglected by the
crowd. Mr. Stevenson saw that young
girl was looking directly at hiiu, and
bowed c tortuously to her, which sal
utation was returned by the little party,
the two ladies smiling pleasantly.
When they were fairly out of hear
lug Mr. Stevenson's companion inform
ed him that the two ladies were the
Duchess of Kent and the Princess Vic
toria, and that he had corn mi ted a
great blunder in saluting them, since
it was contrary to court etiquette to
acknowledge the heir in the presence
of the sovereign. The gallant Virgin
ian, however, stoutly protested that ni
cast-iron rule could excuse a gentle
man for incivility to a lady.
When the next Drawing Itiom was
held Mr. Stevenson saw with satisfact
ion that the Princess and her party
were all looking away from him, so
that his courtesy need not he tried.
But as he approached them the Duch
ess of Keiit remarked, in an audible
tone, "Victoria, the American Minis
ter." The young Princess turned
quickly with a glance of recognition,
aud ag-iin smilingly acknowledged
Mr. Stevenson's bow.
Not many weeks after this the
youthful Princess became the Queen,
and showed her appreciation of Ameri
can civility by including Mr. Steven
soil's name iu the list of first guests
invited to Windsor Castle. When the
visit took place, Mr. Stevenson found
himself seated near the (j leeu, to
whom he talked as he would have
done to any other pleasant young girL
The courtiers present exchanged glan
ces of horror at seeing him guilty of
such a faux pas. With them, unless
royalty spoke first, silence was pre
served.
The young sovereign regarded Mr.
Stevenson's attentions more favorably
and invited him to ride with her the
next morning. He told with much hu
mor how it tried his mettle to keep up
with the active English horsewoman.
and how, when she leaped her horse
over a five barred gate, he dared not
follow, but rode around some distance
on an easier road, and found himself
completely distanced by the Queen
aud her immediate attendants. ilari
er's Round Table.
Thousands suffer from Catarrh or
cold in head in have never tried the
popular remedy. There is no longer
any excuse, as a 10 cent trial size of
Ely's Cream Balm can be had of your
druggist or we mail it for 10 ctnts.
Full size V) cents.
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A friend advised me to try Ely's
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weeKs 1 believe my seir cureU of ca
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Joseph Stewart, (J4 Grand Avenue,
Brooklyu, N. Y.
Each sow for some time before far
rowing, as well as after, should have a
pen by herself, well covered, dry and
warm. It need not be a large peu, and
should not be high. A pen 5 by 6 feet
Is large enough. Only cut straw should
be used for bedding, so that the sow
will not pile it in great bunches and
smother the pigs under it The warmth
from the sow will keep the small pen
warm enough it the pen is made wind-
proof.
Lock the Door
Before the horse is stolen. Purify, en
rich and vitalize your blood aud build
up your physical system before disease
attacks you and serious sickness comes.
Hood's Sarsaparilla will make you
strong and vigorous and will expel
from your blood all impurities aud
germs of disease. Take Hood's Sarsa
parilla now.
Hood's Pills are the favorite family
cathartic Easy to take, gentle, mild.
2 cents.
A Japanse correspondent of Garden
aud Forest says that the burdock,
which the Japanese call "gobo," is a
valuable food in Japan. The tender
shoots are boiled with beans, the roots
are put in soup and the young leaves
are eaten as greens. The plant has
been cultivated for centuries, and the
annual value of the crop is about $400,
000. American farmers look on the
burdock as a "pesky weed."
On a scale of 100 points the prize but
ter at the Massachusetts Agricultural
Society ranged as follows: Creamery,
97; dairy, 7j. The standard forjudg
ing butterad pled by the Massachusetts
Agricultural Sciety is a very good one
for others to follow: It is this: Flavor,
4"; grain, 23; color, lo; salt, 10; packiug
5. The standard of flavor was that of
June butter.
The egg plant Is not difficult to grow,
and it is one of those vegetables not
often seen on farmers' tables, but which
which, if provided, would help make
an agreeable varioty. The purple egg
plant is most productive and best. The
plant belongs to the same botanical
family as the potato, aud must be pro
tected from attacks of the potato lavra.
The twst way is to watch the plants
closely so long as the potato beetles are
flying, and kill the b eet'es before they
laid their eggs. If any larva hatch a
weak dilution of Paris green will kill
them.
Do not be too gross nor to busy to
care for the things of beauty which
should adorn the farmer's home. The
cultivation of flowers tends to bring
out that which is best and finest in our
natures. Mike tha dxr yard bloom
with beauty in the spring, and have a
thought for the plants for house dtto
ration in the winter.
Her Secret-
"Yes sir, I know one woman who
can keep a secret'"
"My wife and I have been married
for ten years now, and she has never
yet consented to tell m how Is la th
she is always In need of money."
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