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The Pumpkin.
Oh! greenly and lair in the landa of the tun
The vinos ot the gourd and the rioh melon'
run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottage
enfold,
With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms
all gold.
Like that whioli o'er Niuevah'e prophet once
grew
While he wnitcd to know that hia warning
was true,
And longed tor the 8 to mi oloud, and listened
in rain
For the rush ot the whirlwind and rd Are ol
rain.
On the banks of Xerid the dark Spanish
maiden
Comes up with the fruit of the tangled Tine
bid en ;
And the Creole ol Cuba laughs out to behold
Through orange leaves shining the broad
spheres of gold;
Tot with dearer delight, trom his home in the
North,
dn the fields ol his harvest the Yankee looks
lorth.
Where ciooknecka are coiling and yellow
fruit shines
And the sun of September melts down on his
feu-', vinos.
Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from east
and from west,
From north and from south, come the pilgrim
and guest; t
When the gray-hawed New Englander sees
round his Lonrd
The old broken links ol affection restored;
When the cure-wearied niau seeks his mother
oaoo more,
And he worn niutron smibs k here the girl
smiled before;
Wlmt moisten the lip and wliat brightens the
eye,
What cull buck the al like rich pumpkin
pie?
Uli! liuit loved ot boyhoood! the old days
rei ailing',
When the wood grapes were purpling, and
hiM n liiils were lulling;
When wild, ugly tHces we carved in its skin,
(j luring out throi'gh the daik, with a candle
within;
When we laughed round the corn hesp, with
hoiiris all in tune,
Our chnir a broad pumpkin, onr lantern the
moon, - ' - -Telling
tales of the fairy who traveled like
steam
In a pumpkin shell coach, with two rats for a
team.
Then thanks lor thy present! None sweeter
or better
E'er smoked from an oven or circled a platter.
Fair hands never wrought at pastry more tine,
Brighter eyes never watched o'er its baking
than thine;
And the prayer which my mouth is too lull
to express
Swells my heart that thy shadow may never
grow less;
That the days ol thy lot may be lengthened
below 1
And the lumo ol thy worth like the pumpkin
vine grow;
And thy life be as sweet, and its hurt sunset
sky
Golden tinted and fitir ns thy own pumpkin
pie!
John (i. H'k-UUi.
km T POLLY'S STOftY.
Mary Sanderson, city born and bred,
.was on a visit to her mother's aunt,
Mrs. Polly Perkins.
Ono day she. entered the house, Iter
cheeks all aglow.
"I met Mr. Tracy and his mother out
riding, auntie. What a sweet face she
has, and how fond and proud her son is
tglier!"
Aunt Polly was making pies.
" So he orter he," she said, cutting
deftly the superfluous crust from the
' one she had just covered, the rings of
dough falling over the plump bare arm.
"There ain't many sich mothers; what
she underwent fur him can't he told in
words."
" She inquired after you, Aunt Polly.
She said you were once the best and
only friend she had."
Polly smiled, as she glanced up from
the apples she was slicing.
" It's true as Gospel, child, though
there wouldn't nobody think it to look
at her now. Conrted an' sought &Hcx
as she is now, the time was when eery
heart and door in Barberry Green was
closed ng'm her but your Aunt Polly's.
An' she ain't forgot it, nuther. Grand
as she is, an' high as she might carry
her head if the was a mind tew,
she ain't forgot how I stood by
her through all her troubles. She
give me the black silk gown. I wear
Sundays, an' the lace cap an' kerchief
you was admiriu', an' that easy-chair in
thesqunre room, an' the carpet an' pic
turs. There's scarcely a week passes
but what she sends me suthin'or ruther,
if 'tain't more than Borne fruit or
flow-rs."
"Tell me all about it, auntie," said
Mary, coax nil) ly; "Iknow it must be
interesting. Do, and I'll help you to
make the pies. I can pare ana slice
apples."
Polly looked rather dubiously at
Mary's white dress.
" If you are goin' tew dew that, dear,
you'd better put on one of my aprons,
so as not tew soil your gown."
Enveloped in one of Polly's gingham
aprons, which nearly hid her from view,
Alary took the pan of apples and a low
seat by the tab at which the former
stood, rolling-pin in hand.
"Now begin, auntu-," she 6aid."at
bo very beginning, mind, when you
i st knew her."
" If I dew that, I'll have tew go back
tew when we was girls, an' used tew go
iew me oeesinci bciiooi togetner."
" Jenny Locke was the darter of Tom
Locke, the blacksmith, a big, brawny
man, with a voice like the growl of a
bear, and an arm like a sledge-hammer.
How he ever come tew have sich a sweet,
pretty girl as Jenny, passes me. She
didn't look a mill like him, nor his wife,
nuther. Folks said that site looked like
Tom's grandmother, who was an edi
cated lady, an' who ran away to marry
his grand'thcr. Hut I never see her.
She lived at Barberry Centre, an' died
when Jenny was a baby.
" Tom had five other children, all girls,
and Jenny was an odd sheep in the flock,
looking like n moss-rosebud among
hollyhocks, or a violet underneath a
hedge. .
" They are all nice girls, enough, full
of fun, an' bound tew have a good time ;
but Jenny was the flower of the family.
There couldn't nobody help loving her
that knowed her. It was as nat'ral for
her tew be gentle an' sweet an' ladylike
as tew breathe.
" An' she was iust as pretty as a pic
tur, with big black eyes, an hair jest
the same color, as soft an' shiny as silk.
used tew like tew watch the color in
her cheeks a coiuin' an' goin' now jest
a delicate pink, an' the next minute as
red as the heart of a June rose.
" An' there was more than me that
used tew love tew watch tl is. But I
hain't come tew that yit.
"Squire Tracy was the richest man in
Barberry Green, an' Jived in the bigeest
an' grandest house, an' he felt his oats,
you may depend. Not that he was
above speakin' tew common folks he
allers spoke tew the poorest on'em but
it whs in a grand, paternifin' sorter way
that didn't exactly suit some people. A
"The old squire wa'n't uone tew
pleasant tew live with, nuthar, not if
half the stories told 'bout him was true.
He had a terrible temper, an' w9 as sot
in his way as a mule. Everybody said
if Mis' Tracy hadn't been one of the
peaceablost creturs alive she never could
have got along ivith him. But as 'twas,
she didn't have no trouble, or, if she
did. nobody heard on't.
"TKayhad one son. Norman Tracy
was liked by everybody in the village,
great iii' small. He was so brave an'
generous, an' had sich pleasant an' win
nin' ways! Both the squire an' Mis'
Tracy sot their life by him, though they
had different ways of showin' it, an'
'twa'n't no wonder, nuther.
" Mis' Tracy hadn't no girls of her
own, an' she tuck a fancy tew Jenny
when she was a leetle bit of a thing.
Sho used tew often have I'er up tew her
tiouse tew spend the day or arternoon,
an' was allers takin' notice on her when
ever they met, though she was so modest
an' retinn' that it didn't seem to set her
up none, as it wouldiost girls.
"Jenny was allers handy with her
noedie, an' tuck nat'rally to all kinds of
fancy work; an' when she was growed
up, Mis' Tracy used tew have her tew
her house weeks to time se win' fur her.
Sometimes she would go home nights
and sometimes she wmldn't, jest as it
happened.
. " Arter a while Norman came home.
He had been tew college. He had growed
an' altered wonderful, but lie had the
same handsome face an' merry, winnin'
ways.
"Norman was allers a great moth er's
boy, an', as Jenny was sewin' fur Mis'
Tracy all the time jest then, him an' her
was nat'rally throwed a good deal tew
g ether.
" I had married an' settled down in a
home of my own. But John an' me was
ambitious tew git ahead. We hadn t
paid fur our place, an' so I used tew dew
odd jobs at the house fur Mis' Tracy,
ironin' an' elear-starehin' her muslins.
She was pertie'ler 'bout sich, an' allers
said I suited her tew a T. So I was in
an' out the house consider'ble.
" Mis' Tracy used the room oponin'
out ot her'n, an' which used tew be the
nursery, fur a sewin'-room. Tew my
mind twas the pleasantest one in the
house; the winders was low, lookin'
out -upon the garden, that was full of
flowers an' shrubbery.
"It was warm weather, an' the door
was open intew the hall, an' I used tew
often see Norman in there mornin's,
either talkin', in his pleasant way, or
readin' aloud tew his mother, out of
some book of po'try. He had a beauti
ful voice, an' I liked the sound of it,
tho' I couldn't make no sense on't.
"Jenny allers sot by the winder,
sewin', an' I remember, as if 'twas only
yesterday, how pretty she looked, the
color a-comin' an' goii' in her cheeks,
an' her downcast eyes shinin' through
the long lashes. An' I remember how
he looked at her. an' how eentle his
voice was when lie spoke tew her. An'
I minded that they used tew often be in
the garden an' down by the river tew
gether. "I've often wondered sence what his
mother could bo thinkin' on. But she
seemed tew think that Norman was the
boy that lie was when they used tew
play tewge'her, an' then Jenny was so
still an' quiet, that she didn't have no
suspicions as to what was comin'. '
" I was sorter oneasy myself some
times, when I see how Norman con
tinued tew be allers where Jenny was
an' she seemed no ways averse to it
fur 1 knowed that the squire would
never consent tew his marryin' Tom
Ire ne's darter, an' Mis' Tracy, fond as
she was of Jenny, would never think
her a fit wife fur him.
"I don't know how it came out, but
the squire seed or heard suthin' which
roused his suspicions. I wa'n't there
und I wa'n't sorry, nuther. Them that
was. said that he ript an raved tit tew
take the roof off. Tl e upshot on't was,
that Norman went off tew furrin parts,
an' Jenny was sent home mighty sud
ding. "Sammy was only a few weeks old,
then, an' kept me tew homepooty close,
so I didn't see nothin' of Jenny 'cept
tew meetin', an' then ter pale, sad lace
went right tew my heart. But I thought
it was from grievin' arter Norman, an'
that arter a spell she'd get ovc" it,
" ArUr a. while, some ugly stories got
afloat. I was mad enough when they
was fust told me, for I didn't believe
one word on't. But I made up my mind
that I'd see Jenny, an' have a talk with
her. But morern a week passed, an'
somehow I didn't git started ; suthin' or
ruiher happened every day tew pre
vent. " One cold, stormy cvenin in Decem
berI sha'nt never forgit it the longest
day I live I was sittin' alone by the
fire, a-knittin' husband had gone down
intew the milk-suller for suthin' when
I heard a tap at the door.
" I opened it, an' there stood Jenny,
with nothin' round her but a thin
shawl, an' her face as white as the snow
at her feet.
"'Fur the land's sake!' says I, as I
pulled her in tew the fire, ' what brung
you out such a night as thisP'
" Twice she tried to speak, but her
voice ended in a sob, l rubbin' her hands
all the time, which were iist like ice.
Then she said :
" ' Polly, I haint nowhere to go, an'
no friend but you! lather's turned me
out of doors !"
."Then she fell tew the floor in a dead
faint.
"I hollered tew yer uncle, an' be
twixt us both we got her ontew the bed
in my bedroom. Then I built a rousin'
fire, while he went fur the doctor.
" Jennv was dretful sick all nicbt. an'
will the next day. When the wust was
over, she didn't seem tew rally. It
almost seemed as if she was goin' tew
die from pure weariness and disgust of
liie. Arter tryin' everything elso I
could think on, I put her baby in her
arms as tine a boy as I ever laid eyes
on. She kissed it, an' from that mo
ment began tew git better.
"Her folks didn't none on 'em come
nigh her, an' husband an' me both said
she could have a home with us as long
as she was a mind tew stay. , . .
"Sich a commotion as it made in Bar
berry Green I never see yit! The folks
in the village made all sorts of errands
to come in, so's tew see ' Jenny Locke's
child.'
" A body would ha' thought that she'd
sunk tew the floor with shame, tew
meet all them pryin', curious eyes ; she
Wiis allers sich a sensitive thing, color
ing tew the ears if a man looked at her
harder than common. But she didn't
seem tew mind it one speck, but sot like
a marble statoo, an' almost as white,
holdin' her baby in her arms as if 'twas
the most nat'ral thing in the world tew
have it there.
" Of course they was all cur'us tew
know who's 'twas, though none on 'em
durst ask her outright, she had sich a
cold, proud way with her. But they
didn't none on 'em get no satisfaction,
with all their hints an' spyin'. Even
tew me, Jenny never mentioned its
father's name.
"As soon as Jenny got strong enough
she went to work sewin' ag'iu. She
was so handy in makin' and nxin' over
that she found plenty tew do.
" Mis' Tracy took her son's absence
very hard ; her health was verv poor, so I
heerd. As fur the squire, folks said he
was more ca'tankerous an' harder to get
along with than ever. I didn't see
neither on 'em tew speak tew.
" Mis' Tracy never spoke to Jenny but
once. It was the summer arter Norman
went off. Jenny an' me sot on the
porch sewin' when I see her comin'
down the street.
"She sorter hesitated when she
reached the gate and then opened it and
walked in.
" I was settin' a little back of Jenny.
I looked at her, but there was not a bit
ot change in her face 'cept' that it might
be a leetle paler than common.
" Georgie, the baby, was playin' at
her feet, the very pictur' of what Nor
man was at the same age, as I heerd
Mis' Tracy say arter ward.
" Mis' Tracy looked at the child and
then at its mother, layin' a roll of bills
on Jenny's knee.
"A proud, almost angry, look came
into Jenny's eyes. She handed 'em
back, say in':
" ' 1 can't accept charity from you."
"Miss Tracy made a motion tew go
on, and then stopped, sayin':
" If my son has wronged you, Jenny,
it is not charity."
" ' Your son Ins not wronged me,
madame.'
"Miss Tracy passed on, though I
minded that she kept her eyes on the
child so long as it was in sight.
"Not long arterward Squire Tracy
dropped down ir the street in a fit of
apperplexv, and died afore mornin.'
" Mis' Tracy had the body put in the
tomb, telegraphin' fur Norman tew come
home immejetly.
" I sha'n't never forget the day he
come. Jenny was at the winder when
he rode by. She never said a word, but
I took notice that her checks was as red
as the June roses that was growin' out
side. "Not more'n ten minutes arter, a
neighbor rushes in, sayin' that he'd been
throwed from the kerriage ontew a heap
of stuns, an' taken up fur dead.
"Snatchin' up her child, Jenny ran
out inter the street, an' I follered. She
made a straight bee-line fur the squire's,
where a great crowd had collected up
the steps, through the hall, up-slairs
tew where the dyin man lay.
" As she bent over him, he opened his
03, an' smiled as he saw her.
"'Jenny my wife! my child!
Mother, for my sake, be kind to them!'
" These were the last words that Nor
mtn Tracy ever spoke.
" When Jenny saw he was gone, she
gave a sharp cry an' fell tew tin floor.
An' when they loosened her dress, tew
try tew bring her tew. they found her
marriage certificate, close to her heart,
where she allers kept it.
"The lather an son was buried on
the same day, an' a sadder house an'
funeral I never went tew,
"Howsumever, Jenny was righted at
last, an' them made ashamed who had
looked down on her, an' who now re
pented of their harsh judgment.
" I needn't tell you that Jenny
now Mrs. Noiman Tracy never left
the house which she i:id the best of all
rights tew be in. Old Mrs. Tracy never
forgot her son's dyin' words. She was
as kind to .Jenny as an own mother
could be, and as for Georgie, her grand
son, she fairly worshiped him, an" does
tw this day.
" The three live very happy together
in the big house on the hill, anr from
which nobody that's sick or in trouble
is ever turned away uncouiforted or
empty-handed. Mary Grace JIalpine.
Color-Blindness
Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, of Boston, Ameri
ca's leading authority on color-blindness,
has been examining the students
of Yale college, to ascertain how many
of tliem suffered from defective vision.
Out of 325 students examined he found
seven to be color-blind. " I find," re
marked Dr. Jeffries to a Union reporter,
"that one male in twenty is color-blind
to a greater or lesser degree. You
wouldn't think it affected some people
to the extent it does. There we young
people who cannot tell red fruit from
green leaves. You may well imagine
they've no business to go out picking
strawberries or cherries. To some color
blind people grass looks red, whileothers
often run into red painted railings taking
them for grass, and to them blood looks
bottle-green in color. I know a case
where a man had a blue uniform and
waistcoat. He wanted a pair of trousers
to match and so went out and bought a
red pair! ' To another victim the color
of cucumber and boiled lobster was the
same. Molasses and blood have the
same colors to many color-blind persons.
I heard of a nrsn who never saw a red
nose red to him always had a blue
color. An English authority tells of a
young man who picked up a red hot
coal and wanted to know what that
funny green thing was, Again, an artist
who had become coJor-b'.ind painted a
red tree in a picture! In another in
stance a man could not distinguish by
gaslight , tho variously colored bottles
in a druggist's window. There is a case
on record of a postoffice clerk whose cash
account was always wrong. He might
have got into serious trouble but thatjit
was accidentlv discovered that he was
color-blind and could not distinguish
the red from the green stamps when
making sales. Andl shouldn't wonder
if many a letter that is sent to the Dead
Letter office because it has on it a two
cent stamp instead of a green three-cent
one, would never have so miscarried but
that a color-blind person unknowingly
applied the wrong stamp."
"And what .causes color-blindness,
doctor P" inquired the reporter.
" It ii a congenital defect, largely
hereditary, although it may be from
disease or injury. When congenital, it
is incurable, but when it results from
diseases oftho eye or brain, it may not
become permanent. A jar or shock as
in a railroad accident may cause a per
son to become temporarily color-blind.
The excessive use of alcohol and tobacco
mav also cause it."
" And what do you hope to accom
plish by our investigations?"
" My object at present is to bring be
fore the community the dangers and
prevalence of color-blindness the
danger to life and property on land and
sea, of this curious visual defect. Do
you know that English railways pay two
millions of dollars a year for killed and
injured passengers?" When I get the
fiublic aroused on this matter, I hope to
lave such legislative action taken as
will prevent the employment by public
corporations of color-blind servants.
Red and green signals at sea, and red
signals by railroads many an accident
is caused by color-blind employees mis
taking these colors. I believe all em
ployees should be tested on this matter.
Already in Massachtxsettes the legislature
has taken hold of tho question, so far as
examining railroad employees is con
cerned. Ihope other States will do the
the same. Moreover, 1 think ray inves
tigations will be of value to private cor
porations, in that they will run no risk
of employing color-blind help, and per
haps I or some one else may yet discover
some cure for this defect. I gain my
livelihood by m practice as a physician,
and pursue my color-blind investigations
out of pure scientific interest."
Dr. Jeff ries said that out of 11,735 men
examined by him, he had found 486 color
blind, and out of 10.605 women exam
ined, only six were color-blind.
The royal wedding in Spain, ushered
in by a storm of rain and celebrated in
the midst of a kingdom laid waste by
flood and famine, has had anything but
happy auspices; but it is singular to
note how many royal matches during
the past century have been similarly
linked with misfortune. The marriage
of the famous Austrian Empress Maria
Theresa, was immediately followed by
a Prussian invasion which drove her
from her capital. The show of fire
works at the wedding of her ill-fated
daughter, Marie Antoinette, ended in a
panic that caused the death of several
thousand persons. Napoleon's wedding
with Maria Louisa ol Austria was
marked by the burning to death of
Princess Pauline of Schwartzenbergand
several other victims of less note. The
Ilussian Grand Duke Nikolas, died
shortly after his letrothal to Princess
Dagmar. His sister's marriage to the
Duke of Edinburgh was followed by the
deatli oftho Czar's aunt, Elena Pavlona,
and Kins Alfonso's first bride survived
her wedding only a few months.
There now live near Dahlonera,
Cherokee county, Georgia, two children
who have no such seemingly necessary
things as veins. They are the step
children of George Cayle, who married
the Widow Montvals. The peculiarity
was inherited not from their mother,
but from their grandmother, who was
also veinless. The slightest scratch
causes a copious flow of blood. There
were three of the children until a few
weeks ago, when one of them bled to
death from an abrasure of the skin. The
surviving children are in perfect health.
Ihis is a very tall story, but the Dahlo
noga Mountain Signal swears to its
truthfulness.
The organ rolled its notes from the growling
diupasou to the gentle flute; and the eongre
gutiou aompauied by deep sepulchral ooughs
lo coughs sourcely audible, because tticy Had
not yet heard ol the wonderful IBoaef ot lr.
Bull's Cough Syrup.
FAUM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
I mA
Kcelpes.
Roast Turkey. Select your turkey
with care; it should be young and ten
der, and not too fat; too "large a fowl is
not always the most desirable, choose a
medium sized one. A dressing can be
preoared in several ways ; some prefer a
dressing made of bread, butter and
oysters, moistened with the liquor from
the oysters, but the true New England
way is to make with chopped bread, a
good jquantity ot salt fat pork moistened
with milk and seasoned with sweet
marjpram. A rich dressing can also be
made with bread crumbs and butter,
moistening slightly with water and
seasoning with salt and pepper. The
fowl should be well stuffed, tying tho
neck tightly and sewing the body with a
strong thread, so that they can be easily
removed when the fowl is dished. In
roasting have it thoroughly done, bake
slowly at first, basting it with butter
and water, and afterwards with the
gravy from the dripping pan. Two
hours is sufficient time unless the fowl
should be large ; watch carefully, hav
ing it a rich Drown when done. Very
much depends on the gravy, which
should be made in the dripping pan
from the juices of the turkey, thickening
with flour.
Pumpkin Pie. One quart stewed
pumpkin pressed through a sieve, nine
eggs, white and yolks beaten separately,
w o quarts milk, one teaspoonful mace,
one of ginger,a little salt.one and one-half
cup of sugar, one cup of good molasses,
beat all well together and bake in crust
without cover.
Cheese Custard A breakfast cup
ful of sliced cheese, the same quantity of
milk, and two eggs; butter a pie dish,
put in the cheese, pour the milk over,
and then stir in the beaten-up eggs;
bake for half an hour. If a smaller
quantity is required, put a teacupful of
cheese and milk and one egg.
SncED Apples. Eight pounds of
apples, pared and quartered ; four
pounds of sugar, one quart of vinegar,
one ounce of thick cinnamon, one-half
ounce of cloves; boil the vinegar, sugar
and spice together; put in the apples
while boiling, and let them remain until
tender (about twenty minutes); then
put the apples in a jor; boil down the
syrup until thick and pour over them.
Sponge Cake. A. L. R., Cochran,
Ind., sends the following: Five eggs,
whites and yolks beaten separately; one
goblet of flour, one goblet of fugar, and
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Mrs. H. C. Klinel gives the following :
Two cups of white sugar; two cups of
sifted flour; one-half cup of water; four
eggs beaten separately; two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder; beat sugar and
yolks oteggs together; thoroughly mix
baking powder in flour, and add whites
of eggs and flour last a little of each
until all is used.
Where It Pays to Grow Urapeg.
It is a fact not generally known that
the growth of a vineyard dependi
more on the nature of the cli
mate in spring and fall than
during summer and winter. The
vine thrives best in localities where the
springs are not subject to frosts nor the
autumns to excessively hot weather.
Barton says that the cultivation of the
vine succeeds only in climates wkere the
annual mean temperature is between
fifty and sixty degrees; or the mean
temperature may be even as low as forty
eight degr'es, provided the summer
heat rises to sixty-eight degrees. In the
old world these conditions exist as far
north ns latitude fifty degiees; in the new
world not beyond forty degrees. In
both hemispheres the profitable cul
ture of t he grape ceases within thirty de
grees of tho equator, unless in elevated
situations or on islands where the in
tensity of the heat is moderated by the
atmosphere of the sea.
The first step to be taken in planting a
grapevine is preparing a border for its
roots. This must be perfectly dry, it
not naturally so drained thoroughly
that no stagnant moisture can exist in it.
A loose under-soil is, in fact, requisite
for all varieties of grape. Mr. Elliott,
in the AmcricanWine and Grape Groiver.
says that limestone clays, regarded
as valuable for the grape by many,
are not in his opinion to be prete'Ted. A
certain requisite of lime may be needed,
but it must 1m associated with iron,
salts of soda and other stimulating am
monical material to give healthy growth
to the vino and perfection to Mie fruit.
The authority quoted from further says
that a light clayey, sandy loam, with an
underlay of gravel, the surface being
frequently supplied with bone meal, salt
and gypsum, will, whenever the climate
gives sufficient heat and length of sea
son, be applicable to Edinburgh, Wol
ter, Croton. Delaware, lona, Rebecca,
Allen's Hybrid, Traminer and Lydia
grapes. Tho same may be said to cover
the Southern States, reaching into Cali
fornia. All the named varieites as well
as the Scuppernong succeed in soils with
richness of surface and no underlaying
stagnant waters. What has been said
of these is also true of every class, but
there are varieties, as the Concord, Ca
tawba, Clinton, Salem, Wilder, Barry,
Hartford, Diana, Cynthia, Ives, Martha
and Lcnasqua, that will thrive in
heavier, closer coils provided the border
lor the roots be supplied with the ele
mentn requisite to the nourishment of
the vine and be also free from tho stag
nant water at the base.
The usual mode of preparing a border
for vines in garden culture is to digout
the natural soil to the required depth,
about three feet, and length and width
necessary. This is to be tilled up with
a compost uniting requisite materials.
A southern exposure u generally con
sidered best; an eastern exposure is
generally quite successful. New York
World.
9 I claped her tiny hand in mine; I
vowed to shield her from the wind, and
from the world's cold storms. She set
her beauteous eye on me, and with her
little lips said i "An umbrllt will do
h well."
Coming Come.
How dreary are the crowded streets
With not a soul abroad!
How sunless is the sunny sky!
No Are on hearth, no mirth at board!
How long the nights, how slow the day!
My love's awav! My love's awBy!
How gay the crowded city streets!
How cheerily shines the nun!
Dances the Are, and round the board
From lip to lip the greetings run!
No longer in the dumps I roam
My love's come home! My love's come
home! JVew York Tribune.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
No slouch A high hat.
Germany is now overrun with beg
gars. Girls, Naomi was five hundred and
eighty years old when she was married.
The cook who undertakes to pluck a
turkey must make a clean breast of it.
IHcayune.
A game of euchre between the seasons
Spring passes, summer makes it next,
autumn orders it up and winter runs the
game out.
No farmer will be mad when the cow
kicks over the milk pan. It's when she
kicks square against it and upsets it
tkat he is riled.
Mr. Soule of Illinois, has, it is claimed,
200,000 dozen frogs of all ages on an
acre and a quarter of land, which he is
breeding lor the Chicago and Cincinnati
market.
John Bright declares that if ho was
teacher in a school he would make it " a
very important part of his business" to
impress every boy and girl with the
duty of being kind to aiFanimals.
Be what nature intended you for and
you will succeed, say tho wise men, but
it seems to take about twenty-five or
thirty years of the average man's life
before he finds out what it was nature
intended him for. Des Moines licgisttr.
Professor Sheldon in his new work
on dairy farming, assumes that 350,000,
000 gallons of milk are annualhimade
into cheese in England and 500,)0,000
gallons to butter. The quantity of the
former product made is 126,000 tons and
of the latter 80,285 tons.
The shrinking of the water in Tulare
lake, Cal., has uncovered a prehistoric
settlement, stone buildings, traces ol
canals once bordered with planted trees,
and other evidences of former occupa
tion by an unknown race, are being
clearly defined as the water subsides.
The three greatest natural wondei s oi
tho American continent perhaps w)
may safely say the three grandest on
earth are all comprised within the
United States. They are the Yoseinitc
valley, the region about the headwaters
of the Yellowstone river, and Niagara
Falls.
"Many a handkerchief flirtation on
the street has caused a runaway," says
an exchange, and the Norristown Herald
remarks that "the runaways are often
brought to a sudden stop by an 'alter
and a bridal."
Scientists say that a man whose speci
fic gravity is one hundred pounds on this
globe would, if lie were transported to
Jupiter, weigh twelve hundred pounds.
Imagine the New York fat men's asso
ciation holding a clam bake in Jupiter!
They would bu'st the bottom out of the
pla net. Xorrixtown Herald.
In a sterile tract of country between
Dar-es Salaam and Nysvasswa the ele
phants attached to the Belgian elephant
expedition marched uninterruptedly
without food for forty-two hours and
without water for thirty-live hours,
each aJiinial carrying at the time bur
dens weighing twelve hundred weight.
U.VES OX A l'Ol'lXAR ARTICLE.
Open aud shut,
Open and shut,
K'on trora the rise to the setting of the sun.
Open und shut,
Open and shut,
And never a single bit ot tun.
Open and shut,
Open and (shut,
With never loud suiilus ot joy or tears.
Open and shut,
Open and shut,
Oh, tlii.s is the lile ol a pair ol shears.
Local Advertising.
The virtue of advertisim; is of more
consequence, in a general way, than it is,
often credited with. A too contracted
view is so frequently thrown around its
salutai y influence that those who read a
business card seem to t"-.ink its import is
of but little consequence to any ono be
sides the advertiser. This, however, is
a great mistake, for the community at
large is benefited, according to our own
way of thinking, by every business card
of a town store appearing in tho local
pipers. It needs no very skillful
reasoning to elucidate the proposition,
j for there can be no better method to im
prove a villase, town or city than that
wlmh keeps the bulk ol trade at home.
By so doing the resul.s of industry arc
widely diffused in the expenditures
made, society becomes co operative to a
considerable extent, material improve
ments are encouraged and pride ol place
is fostered. Our live storekeepers are
beginning to understand the yaluo of
advertising, and our residents fail not to
regard them for their enterprise. A
contemporary puts the matter in this
wise: When t" e business men of a town
f.iil to advertise extensively, they di
minish the importance and tiade of a
place, and permit more onteiprising
localities to take tho latter from theni.
Although done for their individual in
terest, advertisers should be looked upon
by citizens of the town where they re
side as in some sense public benefactors,
and they should be encouraged accord
ingly. One merchant who advertises
extensively is worth to his own town
and people more than forty that never
show themselves in paint, and should
ho for this reason alone preferred, as
suming that he is, .of course, h fair busi
nes I man. Wobttrn ( Mans.) Jjurna'.