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"I'm afraid to go near him for feat he'N borrow more money of me." Chicago Record. Heichherlr. Husband Isn't it about time Miei Borrore was returning our call? Wife Yea, but if she does return it it will be more than she doea with the other things she get from us, Detroit Free Press. To Leag a Term. MIf you don't worry you can live tOfl yeara." "One hundred years? Goodness, ii I thought I'd live 100 years I'd worry myself to death right now." Chicago Record-Herald. KrolDlloa Below stairs. "Cook wants a week off." "What for?" "She says she wants to take efanf ing dish lessons, so she can get IB tore stylish place." Puck. BEST FOR THE BOWELS If you havsa't a regular, healthy mmm.it of the dowels eTory day, you're III or will ba. Keep your bowalsorwn.tndbe well, Fores, In tho ihspoof Tie lent phytic or lilll potion, la ilanecroUL Tho smooth est, sulest, most prrfoet way of kecplag tho bowoU clear ana cioan w , CANDY CATHARTIO EAT 'EM LIKE CANDY Ploasaat, Palatable, Fount. Taste Good, no Oeaf, KsTsr Sicken, Weaken, or urlpe is, a, , sna m per bos. Writs for In ss pis, sad booklet oa health. Address argause axatav cobtut, rntrigo saw Teas. KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN tSy THE CHAMBERS OF THE HEART. There are chambers In the human heart, Where we bestow our treasures rare Whore memories sweet and thoughts no dear. Aro hidden from the world's rude stare. And no one knows the wealth we own, All stowed away aud safely hid, Nor how we feast In them alone, And no one tu our banquet bid. And there are craves within the heart A "silent city of the dead." And sometimes In the silent night, Among those graves alone we tread. Alone, for sacred is the spot. And little would the cold world care That here we burled hopes and Joys. And here we knelt In meek dlspalr. And In tho heart are new-born hopes, That fill our lives with sweet, glad dreams. And life Is ever more to us Than to the outside world It seem. How empty life would bo without The treasures we have stowed away. On whlrh to feed our memory On every dark and dreary day! Ella Martin. In Minneapolis Housekeeper. A CHOCORUA EPISODE. RT .Hill AI.IIF.F. 0Xr0CHX'OXHX8XrO N1 EY HAMPSHIRE h.ns of late gained an unenviable notoriety for its numerous abandoned farms. I.ikp many supposed misfortunes it is turning out a blessing; three of 1hc.ee are already apparent. It bus offered surprising bargains to city dwellers in search of summer homes in the most picturesque region of New En gland; then it has benefited the fam ilies who remained on their farms in giving them more opportunities to dis pose of their produce and labor with less competition, and lastly, forests are growing up over these abandoned lands to make pood the devastations of the lumber companies. There is nothing that gives one such a feeling of sadness, mingled with ro mantic interest, as to eome upon the sight of one of these abandoned homes. Sometimes the buildings re main, but in ruins; more often they have been removed or torn down, and there is the uncovered cellar, trees growing in it; the remains of the chimney stack, the well, now covered or filled up with stones. But beyond all other signs of dissolution and aban donment, affecting alike to sentiment and memory, are the forsaken flowers once cultivated in the yarn's and still living on, tn spite of neglect and en croaching grass or wild shrubbery. They bloom perennially, aad some kinds even Increase. These abandoned forms are usually widely separated; but along tee old "North Division road," in Choeerue, directly under the wonderful peak of Mount Chocorua, there are 14 farms, not one of which is now occupied. A few buildings are left and the an cient schoolhouse, in which 30 chil dren lined to cipher out of D aboil 'i arithmetic and Webster's speller. Each of these old farms has its rustic history, pathetic, uneventful or amus ing. From them sprang a small, local poet, one college valedictorian, and several public men with short his tories. The would-be statesman is not allowed to become great In New Hampsire. When that is imminent he moves to noston or Ohio. The present historian has busied himself for several past summers in recovering some of the incidents con nected with these 14 abandoned farms. Thus far he has succeeded in learn ing several worthy of relation; one of these he heard with many details here omitted, from a very aged man, himself having acted a certain part in it. In the little red schoolhouse just spoken of, Lucy Winn, the daughter of a farmer in an adjoining' town, taught school for several seasons. She was only 18 when she began to teaoh, a comely, country maiden, rather better educated than was com mon, but excessively ihy and modest. The blush never left her cheeks dar ing the hours of echo; and when her day of fatiguing and often harassing labor was over it was suc ceeded by an extreme pallor. Her pupils were of all ages, from those learning their letters to young men and women of her own age, and two or three men older, for it uaed to be the custom in country districts for boys and girls to continue in school until almost or quite men and women, especially in the winter term, when there was little else to do. Lucy loved her small A, B, C pupils, and her older ones were fond of her, and one of them, Sylvanus Waldron, was too fond. His attentions were open and bold, and they often an noyed her to desperation, as she was conscious of the increased flush In her face whenever he asked any ques tion or recited a lesson, and she was aware that the whole school observed it. Besides she had a lover, with whom ahe was well pleased, although the decisive word had not yet been spoken. He was called Ensign Ooff. He was six feet two in hla stockings, a stalwart, frank, noble-hearted young man, who carried the flag in the mili tia company to which he belonged, where he got his title of ensign, by which he was always called, and of which he waa rather proud. It was hie habit to spend every ftonday even ing with Lucy, and he seldom saw her at any other time. Usually ahe had recovered her strength and color by the rest of a Saturday afternoon and the Sabbath. But toward the end of the term this became difficult and in frequent. Her relations with Sylvanua Waldron were more and more distress ing to her; he persisted in his atten tiona in and out of school, walked home with her whenever the chance came the elder classes, of which Syl offerefl and joined her oa her way to ' vanua Waldron waa a member. When the schoolhouse in the morning. She It waa hia turn to . recite he began by waa afraid to have an open quarrel telling the ensign In cool, Impudent With hi m or to demand hla dismissal manner that he did not know fcja lea- from school, for the trouble it would bring upon herself and the gossip of the neighborhood. She could bring no direct charge against him save a personal one. It was true that he seldom had his lessons and took a cowardly advantage of his belief that she would not dare to reprove or pun ish him. Lucy comforted herself in the thought that ahe had only a lit tle while longer to endure her situa tion and that she would never again teach that school. The ensign noticed the change in Lucy toward the end of the term. "What has become of your color?" he inquired one evening. "Are you ill? Does anything worry you?" "I can't bear," he said, in a soft tone, "to see you so pale." This brought back a little pink to her face, but she did not answer. "I think," said the ensign, after one of those silences in which con genial souls seem to come nearer than through speech, "I think you have taught public schools long enough long enough, and well, how would you like a small private one, with just a single pupil, a dull boy, but willing to learn and, faith, he thinks he is al ready in love with his teacher? Did you know it, Lucy?" Lucy hung her head and turned her face, now red as a rose, away from the ensipn. "I don't know," at length she mur mured; "I have one such already." "What!" exclaimed the ensign, and straightening himself up as if about to strike somebody. What is it you say? I thought the way was clear between us. Well, good-by, Lucy. I dare say you have found a better man; strange, though, didn t know of it before. Good Tuck to him and you. But I have loved you well and truly, Lucy, and it has done me a world of good. It has made a man of me, and taller by an inch, so my friends say. Now I shall feel small enough. Good-by." He stepped quickly toward the door, but Lucy Interrupted him, took his hands and hid her face on hia shoulder. 'There is none better than you, nor any so dear," she whispered. "You mistake no, it is I that have made a mistake. You know Sylvanus Wal dron, my big, oldest scholar; he is in love with me; follows me like a shadow, and his attentions, to which I have newer given the slightest re sponse, almost kill me. My situation ia most perplexing. I am helpless In school hours, aa I must treat him as I do the others. Oat of school I have been as cold as I felt and yen could wish toward aim. What can I do aad not make a world of trouble for myself aad the neighborhood, for should I apeak of it, complain of it, folks would only laugh or gossip and put me te shame. No, I would rather bear It In alienee, except with yon." The ensign sat down again with Lucy by his side, and thought and thought hew be could punish his Lucy's persecutor. 1 don't know much about teach ing,' he said at length, "but I believe I could get through a day of it." What do you mean? inquired Lucy. "Why, let me teach your school for a day, and you shall stay at home at home, sick you know. I will take my day to-morrow, Monday, which they aay is the hardest of the week for teachers; children forget over Sunday how to behave themselves and are more fall of mischief." "How will you manage it?" said Lucy, in aome doubt aa to the scheme. "Oh, I will give them some longer lessons and more useful instruction than you ever did," anawered the en sign, laughing, for the idea tickled his fancy immensely. Accordingly a plan was agreed upon between them and some of the details as to the order of recitations ex plained by Lucy. Monday came; Lucy remained at her boarding place, unable to leave her room that whole day, and received a great deal of attention and sympathy from the family. Punctually at nine o'clock the en sign appeared at the school house carrying a good, stout stick, osten sibly aa a cane. To the Infinite as tonishment of the scholars he strode upon the teacher's little platform where his head almost touched the ceiling. He called the school to or der and Informed the wondering aeholara that he was to be their teacher for that day, as Miss Winn was not well and had requested him to take her place, which he felt he could not do; "yet it is not to be a holiday, he added significantly. The younger children looked at each other already awe-stricken; the older ones were puzzled. There was intense silence in the room; the pro verbial pin would have resounded like a solid shot. The scholars got out their books and pretended to study, but could not, they were so excited by the situation. In the bosom of Sylvanua Waldron there waa a doubt and a suspicion. He knew the ensign waa his rival, al though the ensign himaelf had been in ignorance of the fact until revealed by Lucy; but the real meaning of hia appearance in that place produced a strange commotion in hia mind. He could not atudy and did not try, though he kept hie head lowered over his books, occasionally casting a sin ister glance toward the ensign. All went on muoh aa usual until the recitations began. Then the ensign found, just aa he had anticipated and hoped, a general disability to remem ber the lessons. He heard the young- er claases first, prompted and excused them good-naturedly, and sent them to their seata well pleased with them selves aad their new teacher. I hen eon. He had determined before he left hia seat to provoke the ensign if ho could, let come what would. He waa almoat his equal in size, large frame and powerful, and he felt himaelf a match for the ensign in strength. "But why don't you know the les son?" asked the ensign. "I'm not obliged to explain, I sup posc," he replied. "Well, what do you do in such a case when Miss Winn is here? Don't you have to give some excuse?" "No." "Then do you get punished?" "No." "Then she is owing you a lot of whippings, eh? I am here to-day to pay up her debts. As you seem to be her largest creditor and the least likely to get your just dues I will be gin with you. l'lease come forward." "I guess not," replied Sylvanus, sul lenly. "Miss Winn and I can settle our own affairs." At this the ensign, his wrath now surging through his six feet two, took off his coat, sprang up the aisle and, seizing Sylvanus by the collar, with one mighty lift swung him over sll the benches into the little arena between them and the teacher's desk, where he belabored him with his lim ber birch cane until lie cried out for mercy. Sylvanus Waldron graduated the next day, taking his books home with him, together with the diplomas of his last schoolday, in the shape of sundry conspicuous welts and ridgea upon his bnck and shoulders. Cot Half a Shave. One the returning troopships from South Africa the merry English sol diers are given to pranks. None of the men on the ships recently in had shaved on the voyage till nearing Southampton, when there waa a gen eral request for razors. It happened that there was only one to be had, all the others probably being packed away with the heavy luggage in the hold. The owner of the solitary razor consented to lend it round, but on condition that each one should shave half his face only at one turn, tho owner then to have first use. Ho carefully shaved one side of his face and then passed the razor on. In due time the razor come back to Ita owner, who at once trimmed tho other side of his face and tossed tho razor into the sea. How they all groaned. And yet they never laughed more than they did after they got over the first shock. When they land ed every man seemed to have a bad face ache, to Judge from the hand kerchiefs and scarfs which were held up, and there was an immediate rush to the nearest barber shop. Chi cago Becord-Herald. Faaay, the Yankee and the Tertie. In New York a man waa carrying a live turtle along the street, when by came an Irishman, followed by a largo dog. The countryman tried by gen tle words to get the son of the Emer ald isle to put his flnper into tho turtle s mouth, but he was too smart for that. But," said Pat, "I'll put ray dog's tall in, and see what the baste will do." He immediately called up his dog. took hla tail In his hand and stnek it in the turtle's mouth. He had scarce ly got it In when Mr. Turtle shut down on the poor dog's tail, and off the latter started at railroad speed. pulling the turtle after him at a more rapid rate than ever it had traveled before. The countryman, thinking that hla day's work would be thrown away. If the animal ahould run at that rate, turned with a aavage look upon the Irishman and exclaimed: "Call back your dogl" Paddy put hla handa Into his pork- eta, threw his head to one side, winked, and then answered, with a provoking sang froid: "Call back your fish!" St. Louis Republic The Leetnro Abravtly Rn4e4. An Oxford professor was giving his pupils a lecture on "Scotland and Scots." "These hardy men," he said, "think nothing about swimming across the Tay three times every morning before breakfast." Suddenly a loud burst of laughter came from the center of the hall, and the professor, amazed at the Idea of anyone daring to interrupt him In the middle of hla lecture, angrily ask ed the offender what he meant by such unruly conduct. "I waa just thinking, sir," replied that individual, "that the poor Scotch chapa would find themselves on the wrong side for their clothes when they landed!" London Answer. Afterthoughts. When doctors disagree it must be very trying for them to prepare their bulletins. Our admiration for the skill of some people often causes us to overlook their methods. Before you oan know a man by the company he keepa you muat learn hla company's opinion of him. The habitual atory teller is about the only person who can win commen dation by being short in hia accounts. The difference between our plans and our accomplishments shows that experience ia generally acquired too late to make mueh use of it. Indian apolia Newa. I uflnlahrd Ifasae. An artist relates that one day he waa standing in front of a huge poster which represented a well-known actor In the character of Henry V. Two men strolled by and stopped to look at it. Finally one of the men turned to hla companion with a look of die gnat and asked impertinently: "Henry V. what?" St. Louis Be public. &,' 1 TO It THE ART OF GRAFTING. Cleft Method Deaerlbcd In Detail, To gether with Hints on the Prepar ation of Grafting- Wax. The terms used in grafting are scion, which is the part inserted, and stock, which is the tree grafted upon. Cleft-grafting is probably more gen erally used than any other kind. It ia commonly performed to ehnnge the bearing of apple, plum and various other trees and plants. It may be used on very small branches or stocks, but is best adapted to large branches. The tools used on larger-sized stocks are a sharp knife for cutting the scions, a sharp saw for cutting off the branches or stems, and a grafting-chisel for splitting the stocks and for holding the cleft open while the scions are be- INSERTING THE SCION. ing inserted. On small stocks u sharp knife alone is needed. The work is done as follows: The place selected for the insertion of the scions should be where the grain is straight. The atock is then cut square off and is split through its center to a sufficient depth to allow the scion to be put in place. The cleft should be held open by the wedge-shaped part of the chisel (a large nail will answer the purpose ha a small way) until the scions aro inserted, when the wedge la withdrawn, allowing the stock to spring back.- and hold the scions in place. If the stock does not apring back into place it ahonld be drawn tight agalnat the aclona by a piece of string. The number of scions put into each atock will depend upon its alse, but generally not more than two are inserted, and oa email stocks only one. It ia absolutely necessary for success that the Inner barks of both scion and stock eome together, as shown in Fig. 1. When Inserted the scions should ap pear as shown in Fig, I. The aclona should be wedge-shaped for about one and oae-half inches where they go into the oleft In the stock. They should alao be wedge-shaped croaaways, aa ahowa ia Fig. 1, so aa to bind the inner barks of scion aad atock together. They ahould each have two or three buda above the cleft. The scions must be of wood of te preceding year's growth THE SCION INSERTED. and no older. It is important to use a sharp knife for making the cuts. When the scions are inserted and in place alt the cnt sarfacea ahould be covered with grafting-wax. Clay and cow-dung well kneaded together in equal proportions into a stiff mastic may be used in place of wax, but all thinga considered wax is moat desir able. A good grafting-wax for general use may be made as follows: Resin, four parts by weight; beeswax, two parts; tallow, one part. Malt together and pour into a pail of cold water; then grease the hands and pull the wax un til it ia nearly white, in the same way that molasses-candy is pulled. In ap plying the wax. place it in warm wa ter to soften for use If too hard. Greaae the hands, to prevent it stick ing to them. Grafting la generally performed with greatest certainty just aa growth starta in the spring. The buds on the scion should not have atarted at the time they aro Inserted. Plums generally graft best just before the growth starts. Farm and Fire side. SPRING GARDEN NOTES. A half day in the garden in early spring will bring a bigger income than in the oat field. The first thing needed for a good garden after good soil is good seed. It Is a losing game to use poor or uncertain seed. Havo the garden plat all ready for the plow ao when the soil condition is right no delay is caused because all elae ia not ready. If you have space in your garden but for a little corn it will give bet ter satisfaction if planted in a square than if planted in a single long row. At a farmers' institute in Ken tucky it came out that hotel keep ers give preference to red raspber ries because they do not stain the table linen aa badly as the black. Work pushed early will count for more than six weeks later. Have everything in hand to take advantage of all the good daya aa soon aa tha aoil will work up properly. National BuraL 1 m . 1 - r er y -gas:vv.:ctrvi 'Hi Mm! IT MAKES WOMEN HAPPY. "I had been a sufferer for many tlri from nervousness with all its symptom, and complications writes Mrs! Q v Fisher, of 1861 Lexington Ave., Ntw York N. V. "I was constantly going to sec 1 ph. sician or purchasing medicine My hui. band at last induced me to try Dr. Plervt'i Favorite Prescription. After inking on bottle and following your advice 1 was encouraged that I took five more lottles of ' Favorite Prescription ' I continued tix. ing it and felt that I was improving hrXtt than at first. I am not now cross and irnt able, and I have a good color in my fct have also gained ten pounds : weiggt and one thousand pounds a comfort f, 1 am a new woman once more, and ,lur advice and your 'Favorite Preemption ' jg the cause of it" f He Let It Go at That. "What is the Racramcnt of mar riage?" asked the Sunday school su perintendent of a girl in the juvenile class. "It is a state of punishment into which we enter to prepare for an other and better world," replied tha little miss, who had learned her les son by rote and got things slightly mixed. "That isn't the orthodox answer," said the superintendent, with a deep sigh, "but perhaps, after all, it may be correct." Chicago Daily News. Her Beat Want. A wealthy unmarried lady con cluded to go to California, and visit her relatives along the route in the different states. She had many pe culiarities, and the relatives all wished to please her. One of them wrote to a relative she had just vis ited and asked: "What can I do for her? What doea she like?" The re sponse came: "I hear you have bright, attractive, good-looking cler gyman. Perhaps she'd like him." Leslie's Weekly. This Worldlr Eva. "You say that fellow took an ad vantage of you in a commercial trans action." "Yes, sir," answered the acute per son. "He has accomplished some thing that hasn't been done before in vears. He rnucht me naoninir. I am c , I ' undecided whether to take lepal ac tion against him, or try to purchase a partnership in his business." Wash ington Star. Bitterness. "I saw a blind man the other Jay," aaid the beautiful woman who had become the wife of a tottering old millionaire, "who could count money as rapidly as anybody, merely by feeling it." "Indeed!" replied the young maa who had been enagged to her - "just like Love, wasn't he?" -Chicago Record-Herald. A Hah Passrle. Boston Girl Yes, Clara married s western man a mere automaton of business, nothing more. I don't set how girla brought np in the intel lectual atmosphere of Boston ca marry outside of it. Gotham Qlrl Bless me. I don't set how they manage to marry at all.- K. Y. Weekly. Eaverlsnentlna la Literature. "How do you and Arthur pas the time?" asked her father. "Experimenting in literature," she replied. "Arthur doea the experi menting, you know." "Oh, he doea? Well, what boot doee he favor?" " To Have and to Hold.' "-Chicago Evening Poat. A Growing Habit. She (oa the train) When we were aa our wedding tour, three mosthi ago, you aat by my side duriag the whole journey; but now, the aw meat we are seated, you want rush off to the smoking-car. He Well er the emoking MW grows aa one grows older. ' Weekly. Gets Both. "What is the marriage rate in these parts?" aaked the stranger who waa gathering statistics. "The fer riage rate," responded the nstiM proudly, "ia two dollars for the u cense and a kiaa from the bride. I" sheriff gets both, an I'm the sherifl Philadelphia Record. Linos on a Tawsw A Ten de seelete writer bs was. But he's now to disgrace. TlM Be wrote a rondeau ea aa AtatsaT"" But he rhymed it with "laee." Philadelphia Prtes. DON Sanra TOBACCOS"' Tea can ha eased of say form of tefcaceo ijaUnj new uk saa Tigur wj mm - rtif that makes weak nun strong. Movaf ten pounds ia tea days. Over A OO , Z KJUUtOT CO Caicaan or Mrw York. w 1 mm!hri