ONCE IN A WHILE. Once In a whilo the sun shlneH out Anil the aching skies are a perfect bluej Once In a whilo 'mid clouds of doubt Faith's fairest stars come peeping through: Our paths lead down by tho meadows fair, \V>ere the sweetest blossoms nod *ud smile. And we lay aside our cross of care, Once in a while. Once in a whilo wit-hin our own We feel th», hand of a steadfast f.iend: Once i'- e while we feel the tone Of luve, with tho heart's own voice to blend; Aaid thb ilenrest of all our dreams come "ri'.e. And on life's way is B«(?olden smile, Each ti.irsting flower is kissed with dew Once in u while. Once in a while in the desert sand We find a spot of tin* fairest green: Once in a while from where we stand The hills of Paradise are seen. And a perfect joy in our hearts we hold, A joy that the world cannot defile; We trade earth's dross for the purest gold, Once in a while. —D. It. Summers. ' Found at Last. J There is a dreary little shop in a dirty little street. In the shop win dow a curious medley of things, old and new, worthless and valuable. Into this shop one dull November afternoon Duncan Collis found his way. He had several times picked up curious trifles there, and now, in a corner of the window was a small black frame that he fancied might be suitable for a print he had lately bought. As a matter of course, the wizened old man behind the counter asked twice as much as the frame was worth, though he knew his customer by sight, and respected him. After some protestations an offer •was accepted. "Oh, I'll take it with me," he continued, experience having taught him that such purchases are safer in one's own keeping. Duncan noticed the old man change color, and, glancing around to dis cover the reason for such a marvel, he found that an elderly woman had en tered the shop. "Then it's sold," she murmured under her breath, as she looked at the money lying on the counter. "Was the frame yours V" Duncan asked, with a disregard for the eti quette of buyer and seller. "Yes; at least, it belonged to a—a friend. But there was a picture in it." "I shouldn't call it a picture," in terrupted Stooks. And he was not al together pleased when his customer Raid: "Well,whatever it was, I should like to see it." From a drawer was taken a small oil painting—the portrait of a fair haired girl, with a bunch of white lilies in her hand. "It isn't much, and it wants a gilt frame." "No, it isn't much," repeated Dun can, and he smiled. For once Stooks was mistaken. Duncan Collis had painted that picture, and an apprecia tive public had taught him the value of his own work. Duncan bought the picture from the old dealer put it back in its frame •and then left the place. Three doors oft' was a draper's, where a stand of cheap mackintoshes screened him from observation; and lie stood there until the woman ap peared, her lips compressed, a red spot on either cheek. Stooks had evi dently driven n hard bargain. "I'm afraid you did not get a great deal," said Duncan, as she reached the door. "Only $1.75. And I took the fram'e there yesterday. He didn't have much trouble." "Now I want you to tell me where yen got the picture." "I can't do that, sir." "Why not?" "People don't like their affairs talked about when " "Taey are in difficulties. That I understand perfectly. But when it's a question of refusing help—substan tial help—don't you think it niakts a difference? Look here," —and he opened a locket ho wore on his watch chain —"you know the face?" "Yes; it is Miss Marsh, sure enough." As he had suspected, the girl he was seeking had put aside her own ' name,together with many other things that had belonged to her past. "Then tell ine where to find her. There isn't a truer friend in the world than I would be is she would let me." And Duncan's tone and manner car ried i onviction. "Well, she's in need of a friend now,and she'll be more in need of one soon. Her brother's dying, though she won't see it; and when lie's gone Bhe'll have 110 one belonging to her. Of course, she won't have to work so Lard." "Do you mean to say she keeps iiim?" "She's done that for a year and iuore." "Good heavens, woman, can't you understand that you're torturing me?" And possibly she did understand, for she turned and walked on quickly, till they reached the door of a house in a neighboring street. Here she paused. "It's on the third floor. Will you ■wait?" To Duncan it seemed as if they wore an hour mounting those stairs, and when at last they came to the third floor and a door of the back room was opened, a mist seemed to dim his eyes. "Duncan," said an unsteady voice— and with an effort he recovered him self— "Duncan, you here?" "Yes; but I ought to have been here long ago. AVhy didn't you send tor me?" Rupert Warren turned his head on the pillow and looked fixedly at the wall. "Eldfc would not hear of it. She wanted to keep my secret. As if secrets matter when one's dying." "Oh, don't be downhearted, old man! Perhaps, if you tell me all about it " "I fancied you might be looking for us and prayed you would come in time, but I hadn't the strength to write. Do you know why we left Lansale?" "No." "I—borrowed some money belong ing to the firm, and it was found out. Elsa paid half, and they promised not to prosecute. Then we came up to London, took another name, and she wrote to you to break off the engage ment. Since that time I've learned very little. Nothing for a year." "And what has Elsa done?" "Typewriting. It hasn't provided us with mauy luxuries. It isn't a cheerful story." "No!" assented Duncan, and it cost him an effort to limit his answer to that monosyllable. "I suppose you don't think any the worse of Elsa?" "I think as I have always thought —that Elsa's love is a gift beyond the merits of any man on earth." "Thauk you. It is pleasant to be so remembered!" And a soft hand was laid on his shoulder. Could it possibly be Elsa—his Elsa? This girl in the shabby frock and rusty black hat! This girl with the thin hands, haggurd face and tired eyes! "Have you forgotten me all this time?" he asked at length. "I never forget my friends." "We were something more than— friends." "It was to save you pain." "Pain!" And he laughed a little bitterly. "Child, did you suppose there was any pain in this world like that of knowing you were in hiding without"— nnd he glanced around the bare room—"without necessaries? Do you believe anything could hurt me as it hurts me to recall what you were, and see what you are?" "I have told her that a hundred times. She should have left me to myself." "Hush,dear!" And Elsa stooped to kiss her brother's cheek. "Are you tired?" "Not more so than usual. Elsa,you didn't let Mrs. Walsh sell the pic ture?" A crimson flush colored the girl's pale face. "You don't want to look at pictures when I'm here." "No, I suppose not," he answered, divining the meaning of her words. "Duncan!" And there was a glad ring in his voice as he saw the little painting replaced in its frame and hung on a nail opposite his bed, though he was too far on his way to ward the shadowy beyond to feel sur prised that it had been brought back. —Forget-Me-Not. A TREE CROWINC UPSIDE DOWN. Old Apple Tree With I.imhn in the Ground and ltootM in the Air. John Meiuer's distillery in Milwau kee has not been in operation for nine years. It is an old landmark, and is surrounded with the interest that every old building in Milwaukee awak ens in the historian. The grounds about it are covered with grand old trees and rustic benches, and form a little by-way nook whose existence one would not suspect from the road outside the fence at the south. But the object of greatest interest in this unique place is an old apple tree that was planted 28 years ago, with its limbs in the ground and its roots in the air, and which still lives to bear fruit and sprout branches whore roots should be and roots where twigs and leaves should be, a curiosity to be holders. Mr. Meiners wns induced to make the trial through an old German le gend. When Mr. Meiners planted his 25 apple trees they showed 110 signs of life for a long time. Finally the one still remaining showed a leaf,softened by summer rains and expanded by the sun, and with a great deal of care it was nursed to a sturdy life. It grew very slowly, and has not grown more than two feet in height since it was planted. It is now about four feet high, with a trunk 15 inches in diam eter. The roots had a tendeucy to droop, and it was found necessary to prop them up with a trellis. Instead of growing vertically, they have ex tended horizontally in long, slender arms. There are about 20 of these, radiating in all directions. Each year, as they grew longer, additional props were put underneath, and they have extended along the trellis flat, straight as a ceiling, with little slender shoots running at right angles and intertwin ing with one another so closely that tlipy afford some protection from the rain to one who may stand under neath. The topis circular in form,and about 50 feet in diameter. The tree has born fruit for about 20 years. The fruit is of good quality, but the vari ety is not known by Mrs. Adolpli Meyer, daughter of Mr. Meiners, who now occupies the old homestead with her husband and family.—Meehau's Monthly. Fifty-three Fay I>ay» in 1898. It may be interesting to note that in 18!>8 there will be fifty-three Saturdays, as the year both begins and ends on Saturday. Those who are concerned with the payment of weekly incomes on that day may view the fact with diil'erent feelings. To recipients the circumstance may be of no conse queuce, as they really receive nothing more, but in the case of large firms employing a vast amount of labor tifty-three pay days instead of fifty two may not be without importance when accounts for the whole year coma to lie made up.—London News. THE* , Qjpli^f£ EN Shrunken Wheat Tor Poultry. There is probably 110 better nor cheaper food for fowls than shrunken wheat. It is bettor for them than the plump grain, as it contains all the gluten and mineral nutriment that the plump grain does, the difference be ing that the latter has more starch which poultry has no use for except to make fat. Shrunken wheat free from weed seeds ought to be the main feed for laying hens. It makes con densed nutriment almost equal to the fresh bone which should be used as its supplement, and which serve not only as food, but to help digest what ever else besides itself is in the fowl's gizzard. Variation in Kiiftilage. It is too commonly supposed that ensilage made from fodder corn must be uniform in its nutritive value. This is by no means the fact. The ensilage put up the last few years is much better than that which was made at first, when a large quantity rather than quality was what was mainly sought for. All corn ensilage requires that some supplementary food be given with it, for corn is not a well-balanced ration. But some corn ensilage requires more of other food as its supplement. It is possible to ensilage corn when it has reached the earing stage, cutting up the ear with the stalk. This is worth twice or thrice as much for the same bulk as corn fodder sown or drilled too thick ly to allow it to form ears, and cut as soon as it got into tassel. Winter Feeding. In most winter feeding operations the cattle have now been brought gradually to full feed and are receiv ing all that they have the capacity to utilize. Experienced feeders tell us that the feeding hours should be very regular and the troughs always kept clean. That close attention must be given and whenever a little grain is left in the trough the cause must be investigated. Sometimes a little tilth will cause a little bunch of grain to be refused, which must be cleaned out thoroughly and that portion of the trough cleansed. If, however, the refusal results from overfeeding, then the allowance must be diminished at once, for a stalled animal gets "off its feed" and is bound fc> lose flesh for a time, and these little losses so often get away with all the profits. It de mands the closest attention, coupled with good judgment to feed an auimal to its full capacity without letting it have at times more than is good for it. Hundreds of men are doing that very thing this winter, not with one animal, but with a hundred, while others are continually getting their fatlings "out of tune" through care lessness and inattention to details. Where the self-feeder is used, the chief danger lies in getting the stock foundered before it is thoroughly sea soned. An animal turned to the self feeder too soon will founder as quickly as though it were turned to the corn bin and allowed to help itself. An other point at which some feeders miss it, is in attempting to feed with out plenty of pure water. —The Epit omist. Good C'iieefte. Good cheese will stand up square and have an even colored, not mot tled, rind. A cheese with a soft por ous interior will sometimes have this outward appearance, so that the flavor cannot be altogether determined by outside examination. To quote the Prairie Farmer, the moment you be gin to press the rind with your linger tips you cau begiu to judge af the in terior of the cheese. If it yields readily under the pressure of the lin gers, and the rind breaks or does not spring back readily when the pressure is withdrawn, you may conclude that cheese is a soft article, caused by iu sulllcient cooking of the curd, a want of acid, or both. At best it will have an insipid flavor, which, as the cheese becomes older, will become "off." A cheese which feels so hard you cannot pre:n the rind is either sour, salted too heavily, cooked too much, skimmed, or is suffering from a touch of all these complaints combined. There is nothing more satisfactory to a dairy enthusiast than to examine a good cheese. To the touch it will be mellow, yet firm; its rind will be of even hue, elastic and free from puffi ness, and a sample will show firm, close-grained, meaty cheese, buttery and of a nutty flavor. In testing the quality of clieaso many experts do not employ the sense of taste, but simply that of smell. In many cases it is beet to use both taste and smeU, as the taste will often reveal characteris tics of flavor which cannot be detected by the smell.—Dairy World. Tomatoes in Winter. The winter grower of tomatoes finds it difficult to ripen the beautiful fruit of this warmth-loving plant during the cold, dark days of midwinter. If he overfeeds his charges they reward him by a luxurious growth of leaves, but set few fruits, while unless he keeps them vigorous and healthy thev succumb to the artificial conditions of forcing house life. The problem he must solve is to check growth suffi ciently to cause early setting and rip ening of fruit without lessening the vigor necessary for a full crop. Different methods of training and benching used to accomplish this pur pose have been tested at the New York agricultural experiment station and the results are announced in Bulletin No. 125. During two win ters plants were grown upon the benches or were checked in growth by leaving them in the transplanting pots which were plunged in the earth of the benches; and plants under each method of benching were trained upon the single-stem system and upon the three-stem system. A good degree of success attended all the experiments and the bulletin gives the detailed account of the ingredients and methods used in preparing the soil, fertilizers applied, planting and trans planting, pollination of the flowers and general mauagemeut of the house by which the satisfactory growth wa? obtained. The variety Lorillard was used and the results prove that, for this lati tude and this variety at least, the sin gle-stem systom is the best. The fruits on the single-stem plants are heavier and greater in number for equal areas so that the total yield per square feet of bench surface is decid edly larger. It was found also that the amount of fruit ripened during the first six weeks of fruiting is much greater for the single-stem plants: although in many instances the first fruits ripened were upon the tliree r.tem plants.—New Yovk Tribune. Well Ripriicd Honey. I believe I am beginning to enjoy Extracted honey more than I ever did before. The kind we have now at our house is white mountain sage. It is very thick to start on; but we pour it out into pitchers, and let it stand a month or so in a dry room before using. At the end of that time it be comes so thick that it will hardly pour out; and when the pitcher is inverted, the honey rolls out iu one great stream, and piles up in a dish like a coil of rope. Then comes the fun of cutting oil'the stream. The size of the rope keeps getting mnall«r and smaller, after the pitcher is righted, until the lilument is less than the size of a common hair. This is cut off with a spoon; but the honey in the dish is so thick that, when the dish is inverted, it will take a little time for it to run out. On dipping the spoon into its beqptiful crystalline surface, it will dent clear down to the bottom of the dish before the honey will fold over the spoon. About this time, or when the spoon is sufficiently weil covered, it finds its way to my mouth, but not till the spoon has been twisted over and over to break off the fila ment. The honey is so waxy that it requires almost chewing iu order to get it in condition to swallow, remind ing* one very much of maple syrup boiled down and dropped 011 to snow. Well, this is what I call well ripened honey; and any one who has eaten it, when reduced to the consistency I have described, feels very loath to eat anything else iu the way of extracted houev that is not as thick. If you have any one at your house who does not like honey, set some of the kind I have been describing before him. Ido not claim that mountain sage is the only honey that will taste good when so treated. Any honey, if of good flavor, when allowed to stand in an open vessel in a dry room, will be come thick and waxy if given time enough.—Gleanings in Bee Culture. Farm and Garden Note*. Clean out the feed troughs daily. A quart of feed for twelve hens is a good measurement. Split the carrots in halves and let the hens pick at them at will. The ducks intended for winter and spring layers should not be made too fat. In spite of the work performed by the patriotic American hen,the United States imported one million dozen of eggs last year. Of two shipments of apples of same quality to England last fall, 0110 went in the ordinary way, the other in cold storage. Of the former a consider able per cent, showed wet on arrnal, while the latter were unaffected and sold for more than twice as much as the former. At a recent horticultural meeting in California one speaker claimed to have secured excellent results in killing the peach tree borer with bisulphide of carbon. Placing the drug in the ground around the roots, lie found thirty-eight dead borers in one tree. Some, however, have killed the trees by letting the bisulphide come in con tact with the bark. Care should be taken to not use too much about the roots. Are the young trees protected from the rabbits that are hopping about these nights? One of our exchanges suggests to bank the earth up around the trees, another to smear with some greasy substance. The first obviously cau not be applied when the ground is frozen, besides it is too much work at any time, the latter we think is not the best for the trees, and on the whole wo prefer to wrap with paper or a bit of screen wire. LUCK IN DISGUISE. 111-Guarded Speech Le000. "And I owe it all," he said not long ago to a Cleveland friend, "to the fact that I fired myself out of the old oper ator's room."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. QUAINT AND CURiOUS. In 1897 Ohio furnished almost 37,- 000 tons of grindstones. The common pond frog's natural lifetime is 12 to 15 years. The coinage of a sovereign (about So) costs the English mint 3-4 d (about 1 1-2 cents). There are parts of the Ganges val ley in India where the population averages 1200 to the square mile. The fastest flowing river in the world is the ttutlej, in British India, with a descent of 12,000 feet in 180 miles. Iceland's geysers never shoot theit water higher than 100 feet, while some of our Yellowstone geysers go more than three times as high. The only surviving daughter of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, is living in a small town in California, in nearly destitute circumstances. Hhe is a temperance advocate. France has set up about three hun dred monuments to more or less dis tinguished Frenchmen during the last twenty-five years, and there are now 127 committees collecting money for more. Wales is the richest part of Great Britain in mineral wealth. England produces annually about SlO to each acre, Scotlaud a little less than §lO, the product of Wales amounts to over S2O per acre. A fibrous preparation of steel,made in the same manner as the so-called "mineral wool," by passing an air blast through molten steel, is coming into use for cleansing, polishing, etc., instead of sandpaper. In 1525, the year of the plague, so great was the gloom in England that it has become known as "the still Christmas." "The Christinas of the Great Frost" took place in 1739. The Thames was frozen from bank to bank and barbecues were held upon the ice. The earliest mention of "liveries" made in history is in the reign of King Pepin of France. This king flourished about the year 750 A. I)., and because of his diminutive size Imj had bestowed upon him the rather dis respectful appellation of "Pepin the Short." A chewing apparatus for people who have lost their teeth and do not care to wear false ones has just been in vented by a Frenchman. The food to be chewed is placed between the blades, which are opened and closed three or four times, and the food is thus re duced to a state of pulp. A Plant'* Curioiiß Ilnbit. A curious fact is the tobacco plant's habit of erecting its leaves at sundown and dropping them at sunrise. Of course it is only possible while the plant is immature —while '.'>e upper leaves are not more than two-thirds developed—but it is so marked as to make a wide difference in the looks of a field at evening and 12 hours later. And the results are so beneficent as to make it seem the result of reason, for if the dewfall is heavy it all runs down to the stalk, trickles down to the root and thus fortifies it against tho blazing sun; while, if the leaves remaiued in pendulous spread, the moisture would either drop from their points beyond reach or else evaporate iu the morning sun. How Army Elephftnti Are Fed, Elephants in the Indian army are fed twice a day. When meal-time ar rives they are drawn up in line before a row of piles of food. Each animal's breakfast includes ten pounds of raw rice, done up in five two-pound pack ages. The rice is wrapped in leaves, and then tied with grass. At the com mand, "Attention!" each elephant raises his trunk, nnd a package is thrown into its capacious mouth. By this method of feeding not a single grain of rice is wasted. Knocked Ont. It knocks out all calculations of attend ing to business In the right way for a day when wa wake up In the morning sora and stifT. The disappointment lies ingoing to bed all right and waking up all wrong. There Is a short and sure wav out of It. Go to bod after a good rub with" St. Jacobs Oil and you wake up all right; soreness and stiffness all gone. So sure is this that men much exposed in changeful weather keep a bottle of it on the mantel for use at night to make sure of going to work in good fix Last year the figure of Germany's mer chant marine tonnago exceeded a million by 34,000. Salzcr'B Gratua and Clovers Are warranted. They produce! We are the largest growers in America. Lowest prices. Seed Potatoes only $1.50 per barrel. Big farm seed catalogue with clover and grain samples (worth SIO.OO to get a start) sent you by the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., upon receipt of 10c postage. A. c. 1 The money invested in British home railways exceed the national debt by SGOO - 000,000. i:eware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange tne whole svstein when entering It through the mucous surface?, ouch articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you tan possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's ('atarrh ( ure be sure to get the genuine. It is taken internally, and is made iu Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.< 'honey >l Broadway, N. V. Detroit Single Club has compiled list of 70,000 vacant lost. Care A G«ld LA OB* Day. TakVLaxativ# Brorao Qulntn* Tablets. All Drm**i»te refund money if it fails to cure. ,2to. Boston's Merchants' Association dorn^ml? that ilre insurance rates be reduced. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for cUIH teething, softens the gums, reduceslnllnmui. tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, iic.AbottlV Sixty languages are spoken in tile em pi re governed by the Czar of Russia. Chew Star Tobacco—The Best. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. A horse will live twenty-live Jays with out food, merely drinking water. I cannot speak too highly of Piso's Cure fo Consumption. Mrs. FKANK Mo BBS, 215 W.;.:.' St., New York, Oct. 1894. T t is said that a diet of garlic is a won derful aid to tlw complexion. Rain in the Side Could Not Do Hard Work Unti Hood's Sarsaparilla Cured. "1 had a severe pain in my left side an could not do any hard work. My husban. got me a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla an I began taking it and soon I was able to d my work. I was also troubled with scroful sore throat, but Hood's Sarsaparilla ha cured this." MRS. EMMA PEPI'EI:, Nort Hudson, N. V. Remembt HOOd'S B pa 8 r"U is the best—ln fact the One True Blood Purifie Hood's Pills cure sick headache. 25c. Two Potential Mayors. The Lord Mayor of London sides over only a small section about .the centre of London, en ing principally the financial part only 238,000 inhabitants, yet he it rounded by a pomp and state, e to the potentates of some coun'. Mayor Van Wyck, although he sides over 3,787,798 subjects, s: his plain roll-top desk, with no u formed attendant save a policema Tbcre are virtually 50,000 employi under him and he controls a salar patronage of nearly $75,000,000 an nearly $30,000,000 will be expende under him during his four years c office.—Success. The Chinese dress iu white at ft nerals and in black at weddings, an old women always serve as bridef maids. Goto your grocer to-da) |k and get a 15c. package o I Grain-C IR, It takes the place of col Wr fee at \ the cost. Made from pure grains is nourishing and healt JWM Insist that yonr grocer glres you GRAIN J|jx\ Accept no iautatica. rv _