Bay of On;. One dsy of day my lover rum, And anil hmk wars nil nflnins With ninlilnn Mushes, 'nnnth hl oycsi Lore aimwnrlng Invs In sswet replies, , That ilny of nil days! Then days f lav, A little liend Win nmtlml 111 III" era llivtml i Il'iwltiif adorn, wi wonilemil why Such joy wn given lit you ami I, (Hail days of ilnyo! Ere many days ot days, our glrli Wore lover's knot niiionii tlmlr eurl Our lioys hail grown to stBlwart men i Anil wk nlon, worn ones aiinlu. Hail days of ilnyV Kow, day ol ilnys, wn sit lsid Just you ami I - tho nr side, l'lca-nir hI! may then" h always two ' You, ilinir, (or tnn, nmf I, for yon, Em'h ilny of tiny! Wlii'U day of days, a sllmi'si deep, OW tlrwil eyos i loth gimtly creep; "Togntlmr," may tlm i'hll'lrn say, "Kntlisr ami niothnr went nwiiy," ( loll' day of days. - IAIIiv If. Ill-h. In Irank Leslie's. A KITCHEN ROMANCE. Delhi m Hitting in her rocking chair in a corner of tint kitchen, rending aloud to tin1 oilier two Kilt- Muggiu wuh mending a stocking, ami Hridgct whh nialiiii'i n dress out of a ii)i't of riilii'D which Mth. ltiimliil lmit given her. Delhi had found "Sir Charles Giandtaon" in tin course of her clear ing up, ami it iinuxcd the two older girls to hear litr excited intonations mill marvellous pronunciations, in it wotilil have amazed Mr. Hii-hardsou himself. Delia was a nice-looking girl, nuil hIio was intelligent ; her choice of hooks being, as wo have seen, faultless, Tin- other girls with older ml stouter, lint they liml n it outgrown tlirir tusto for romance, innl they listened hruvcly to what they could uu- UlTHtulll. A ilaik shadow it ipfiiri-tl nt 1 1 win dow. Delia stopped rcudiug long enough to say : "It's only Pliil Crowley; never niiiui liim, innl then i tinned. Mr. Crowley hiw tlmt lie wus discovered and entering tin kitchen, took ii chair with a uod of recognition to his three hostesses, while Delia ciit on. "And that will do for to-night," she miid, nt last, putting tlie liook down with tlie consciousness that her imditorH would like to hear inure, but stopping lie Ciiuhc well, because aim pleased, Delia wiih mi untoerrt. You might have expected the viaitor to begin a conversation, hut no. 1'hil Crowley looked ut Delia iu mi ndinir ing way, but uover opened hia month. Maggie aoon went off to bed,' but Delia periiuiuled Hridgct to atay. Ho Bridget imt nt her work, growing sleepier hiiiI sleepier, and there wiih h lauMB for a while. Finally Phil spok,, in nn curliest whisper, leaning forward mi. I I. !.... ..t 11..II.. wui .irwmiifj until III ICllll, "I come up tonight Delhi, Viiuae well, 'cauae I couldn't help it, an' I might as well tell ye all about it. Sure I can't aleep o' nights for thinkiu' of ye, an' I think more of ye than ull the world nn' an' d'vo think ye van ever care a bit for me, Delia?'-' Delia looked quickly round at Bridget, who waa .do.iiijj over her work, mid then auid : "Aw, Phil, man, whtit'a got into ye? I don't wunt to marry uuy one, mi' I'm ure it'a not you that I'd take if I waa to chooae. Sur yt unwt n' been out o your hend when y aaid thiit. Don't try romautlcizin', for you dont under. stand it. You're off? Well, good night to yel" I'hil wan already nt the door, "Good night, Delia," aiiid he. "I wiidi ye a pfcasautet night, an' a better aleep than I'll have, bad lnck to me!',' Then he turned uud went away. Deliu aat dowu again and thought awhile, then, ahu lose. "Come on, Bridget, it'a bed time," aaid bhe nud tho two went up stuira together. Tho next evening Delia aud Phil were to have gone to a dauco given by the Wentniinnter Boat Club. A night camo on, Deliu wondered whether her eaeort would make hia nppenruuee. In tho (J o'clock mail alio received the following lotter; Mias McfiomoLE. I cnu't take you to tho Ball touite, aa I have aumthin elan on Hand. Aa you Woa uot very glad to see mo lust night, mayby you don't enre, I. Ckowl'ev. Delia atudied over thia a good w hile. It took her a long time to inaater the polling, for though her own w as ec centric, it was very different from Phil's. The meaning, too, puzzled her. One thing was certain, it wus not polite. Mias MoOouiglo, indeed t Something else on hand I Well, Mr. Phil should see that she could gut on without him. Bhe knew a girl iu the , next houae, who waa going to bull, and some hour alter receiving Phil's letter sho oalhtd on this friend and ' they weut together. They were a little lute, so that the boll waa alreuiv begun ; aud oh, shameful there waa Phil dan ly ing around In the happiest way with a little girl with red hair, lie did Hot tako any notice of Delia when ahpcninn into the hall, aud ahe pretended not to look at him. Did in w aa a favorite, mid plenty of young men danced with her, but Phil mm not one of them. Aa to the little girl with the red hair, he danced with her a great many timea. I'.veryone aang her prniVn; eiceept Delia, who waa iiiiiililn to me niiything attractive about her. After the dancing had gone on for aeveral hours, Phil stepped lip mid HHked for a dance, He waa a good dancer, but Delia aaid alio hud a head ache, mid then danced with the next man w ho nk l her. Hhe waa vexed Hint Phil h id not asked her before and she wanted to punish him, Hut Phil would not be punished. He danced and laughed in a very lively way, especially with hia little red-haired friend, Misa Hnllivnn of Dublin, who waa certainly the belle of the evening. Delia went home early with the girl who li'iil coine with her. Hhe waa exhausted mid cross. Hhe went to b-d excited and tired, and one may imagine, without being certain, that Misa Hulli van, of Dublin, played a considerablu part in her ilrenms. Three dava went by in which Delia irnw no morn of Phil. On the morn ing of the fourth she nwoke with n heailiiehe ; but mac early and went to church, as she did every day, coming Inline to do her morning tasks. After breakfint, when Mrs. tlaudol Mils giv ing her orders In Itriilget, Delia hap pened to be downstairs blacking Mr. Handid'a boots. She came into the kitchen ns Mrs. liimlol waa apeakiiig. "So I think we must have n man to llx the furnace. It is too much for you nud Maggie. Do you know of any one whom we loulil have, Bridget? Oh, Delia, don't you know of any one?" Delia reflected. "There'a n person I know," she aaid, "who's an honest, Ntraightforward aort o' man. Ife'a n tittle atupid, but I think he'd do it well, ma'am. Ml tell him, if ye any bo, and he'll be up to-morrer." "But how do you know that he'll come?" inquired Mrs. Baudot. " can only alTord to give him 82 a week." "Oh, he'll come, ma'am," aaid Delia. When her work was done she aat down and wrote as follows: "DifAn Pint, You was kinder im polite in your last, but I thought Ide forgive you juat once, Mrs. llun dol waruta a Man to Fix the feruiaa, '2 dola n week. Do you wiirnt the job? You come up here twice a day. "Cawdiallv vours, DJ-.I.H." Delia always omitted her olinoxons second mime in her curresaoinlcnee. The next day she. received u note from Phil : Draii Duma (if yont excuse the fu tnilyarity) My huHim-aa la now changed from Odd Jobs to (Iroeeries mid pro visions, a)H:i Market Ht. All orders from Mrs. It. promptly attended to. No time for Fernisses. Haw Mias Hul livan of Dublin to-day. She semis love. Never felt ao well iu iny life. Your obt aervt. P. Citouxr.Y. The tears were iu Delia's eyes when alio told Mrs. Uaudol that the ln'.ui whom bhe hud proposed aa u fnniue. fixer would uot come. Hhe waa too uugry to recommend Phil's groceries uud provisions. Aa the twilight of that day came on, Deliu aat at the kitchen window, Hew ing. She was putting on a button for Jack Baudot, while he looked up. This was jnat the time of duy that Phil Crowley used to drop in j but he had not appeared since the night before the ball. "I don't care ; I hope ho won't come," said Delia to herself ; and her eyes, which were not quite dry.ahowed how little she did care. Bridget came iu, nud Jack asked for a piece of gingerbread. "Oh, I wish ye was married!" said Bridget. She did not mean that Jack had arrived ut a suitable age for matri mony, tint only that alio wished him somewhere else. Beforo long sho yielded to hia persuasive powers, mid he departed with hia button securely fastened on and hia gingevbreud iu his hands. Delia looked up from her work, nud out of tho window. She could see dowu a narrow ulJcy to where it joined u larger one, and thus she could, as it were, take an instantaneous photo graph of every ouo who passed uloug the main alley. She heard footsteps ; two figures passed. They were Phil aud Mias Sullivan of Dublin. His arm wus round her waist. Delia did not shriek, as actresses do, when their lovers desert thera. She ouly left tho kitchen aud weut up to her own room. It was more than a week before Phil oaino to call again. Delia had beeu schooling herself to the proper cold, ness ol manner every evening that he did not appear ; aud now, when he really did come, she felt disposed to milt. However, she nerved herself to tho encounter, her little heart, I don't doubt, thumping uncomfortably as sho entered the kitchen. "Oood evening, Delia," said Phil. "(loud evening," said Delia. "1 hope you've rtijoyed the last week mid a half," She stopped and bit her lip. Neither spoke again till Bridget had gone out to sen to the furnace. Then Delia took a little package from her pocket. "I've got some things for you, Phil," she said, her sternness of manner having entirely disappeared. "I thought yo might want 'cm back, now ye don't come here no more." Her eyes began to glisten. "There'a thoae letters ye wrote from Narragniisett last summer when ye was ilrivin' the hack, and here's the bangle and the ear-rings ye gave me last year." Here she trembled for a moment bo fore her Inst effort. "I thought Miss Sullivan of Dublin might like 'em, a poor girl like me's not fit for 'em ; mi' an' f hope you nn' Mias Sullivan will be hippy an' an' " here pool Delia broke down mid began to cry. I'hil came up and took her hand. "Why Delia, child, d'ye care for me a little bit, thin? I hadn't no idea of it." He was goiujf to put his arm round her, but nhe withdrew. "No! Ye tnilan't," she said, looking nt him with gleaming eyea. "Hhe wouldn't like it." "Delhi," says Phil, "jnsf listen to me." TIich he goea up mid whispers in her ear: "Nellie Hullivan'a my half-sister." Poor Delia is perfectly nghnst. "Oh, Phil, Phil," she says, "an I've gone an' shown ye that I don't quite hate ye inter all." ' "Yea, ine little girl," says Phil, "an' I shu'n't forget it now I knows it; but ye can't think the tin-thousaiidth part o' me that I do o' you." Then, with the eloquence which characterizes hia race, he went on : "An' I pray the Almighty (lod an' all the blessed aainta ye may niver suffer like I did for the next twenty-four hours nrter ye sent me owny." "Tw inty-four hours?" said Delia, "Why twinty-four hours artcr that was the night o' the party. Why wasn't ye unhappy thin? Sure, I was cross enough to ye." "Ah, ye sweet thing, don't ye see that that's how I began to think ye might eare"just n bit for me nrter ull?" aaya Phil. "An' now good by, Delia, an' before long I'll hope to see yo Mrs P. Crowley." "Fine groceries an' provisions," says Delia. "Well, Phil, I guess I'd better yes, if it's only to change my name. Huston Budget. The Hatching or Hullerfljr HrooiN. It would be difficult to picture a more elegant or more interesting sight than the hatching of the butterfly broods in the "Insect House" during the past few days of almost summer heat. The glass cases, filled with damp moss mid earth, mid adorned with portions of tree, trunks or plants suited to the habits of the moths, ure peopled by these exquis ite and delicate creatures, ns one after another separates itself from the chrys alis case in which it hits been sleeping all the winter nud, fluttering upward with weak and uncertain movements, exposes ita full beauties to the light. The w ings ot the largest kind, such us the great orange-brown "Atlas" moth, ore as w ide us those of a missel-thrush ; uud the great size of this nnd othe spe cies increases the strange likeness to bird forms which is so marked even in the smaller English hawk-moths. The giant moths of tho tropics, unlike the rest of the insect world, have faces and features not devoid of expression. Some resemble birds, others cats. Some are covered with long, soft plumage like the feathers of the marabout or the plumes of swans. Others are wrapped iu a silky mantle like an Angora kitten, or clothed in ermine and sables. Tho depth and softness of theae downy mantles make the impulse to stroko them suggest itself at once yet, when tho head keeper lifts them from tho branch on which they rest, us u falconer lifts his huwk, tho feeling that they are neither moths nor animuls, tint long winged birds is equally irresistible. Loudon Spectator. Chinese Love a Fish Diet. The waters of China abound in fish, nnd it is estimated by high authority that one-tenth of the people of that empire derive their food from the water. Tho coasts ore crowded with euterprising and industrious flshermen, aud beside the net uud the hook a great number of iugeiiious expedients ure used to capture the fish. Iu the eastern provinces cormorants are truiued iu great 'numbers to cuteh Hah, which they bring to thuir master, who sit iu a boat from which he watches at the same time fifteen or tweuty of the birds. Chicago Herald. 10 U FARM AJIH NARIIKX. flAflllOWlNO C'OHM. There Is uo danger ill harrowing the young corn if it has made a growth of live or six inches mid has well rooted. The harrow itaed for this purpose la fundi! of light half Inch ateel teeth nnd kills the weeds nnd loosens the soil, thus pushing the crop aliend greatly. A second harrowing may be given before the plants get a foot high. This reduces the after work considerably. Hut there is no need to wait until the plants nppear above ground, ns the rows may be cultivated with a small V-shaped harrow with light steel teeth. Tim teeth ill both cases should slope backward forty-five degrees. New York Times. NKOI.KCT CAI'SI'.M IMHKASH, Nine-tenths of all the diseases which infest the poultry yard are due to neg lect, mid the other tenth to careless ness. A natural condition ia one of health, ntul only when in an interposes unnatural coiiililions does there follow disease. Home of ther,e may be enum erated us follows: Overfeeding, impure water in foul dishes, bad air caused by the iieciiiiinlnt ions under the roosts, drafts of air caused by poor ventila tion, open cracks or broken windows, filthy m rinin, the result of neglect in cleansing the pens, mid weakened con stitutions following indiscriminate in-and-in breeding. New York Ob server. A noon iiouar. NKV.un noon caiik. A good hone is entitled to good tare. When tlie time cornea for a work horse to rest, his surroundings that is, his stable should be so ar ranged as to promote rcstfiilness. On many faniM the opposite ia the ruin nnd, lidded to unrestful stables or Malls, is the hick of proper care, pnr liculartly in the matter of grooming. The In st horse stall is- the box stall. This allows free movement of the horse mid gives him mi opportunity to lie down iu different positions. The doors of the stall should be wide, nnd there iihoulil be plenty of ventilation, so finished ns to be warm mid cool in snmmer. The floor of the stall is a very important consideration. If it is on the ground, the earth should be dug out a foot or two nud this space fill'sl in with stones mid these cov ered w !th sand or gravel. This makes a dry, well-drained floor for the stall. If board floors nre used, they should be built on an incline ao that the urine may run uway nud not make the bed ding dump and wet. Bye straw is the best to use for bedding purposes. New York Independent. A I'llKAC HOUR-MADR HI'flAYEII. I have seen nearly nil the different spraying machines for spraying grapes, writes John Burroughs, from the knapsack sprayer to the large nufo liintic sprayer on wheels made by some Western company. I am best satisfied with one of ray own devising. I took the wheels mid axle of nu old mowing machine, rigged n framework upon it to support n cask lying horizontally, attached heavy hhafts, and thus quickly mid cheaply had a cart juat suited to the purpose. Cpon the cask I placed a forccpump, arranged with two lengths of hose mid two nozzles. The man who drives the horse winks behind the cart mid works the handle of the pump; two men, or boys, on cither side man the hose mid put the spray just where it is wanted. The horse walks slowly, nnd the work is hard for neither man nor beast. I spray both sides of the row, use about 3011 gallons, and take about two days in going over 0000 grape vines. I spray six times, at intervals of ten or fifteen days. Out of thirty-six tons of grapes last season I did not lose fivp pounds by rot. But I shall sprny, rot or no rot. Spraying adds greatly to the health of ttio vines, nnd consequently to the size aud beauty of the fruit. The kunp. sack sprayers, as a rule, fail to produce a flue enough spray; it is a mist we want and not a tine rain. Western Stockman. FLAVOR OF EGOS. The flavor of eggs depends very much on the kind of food given to the pfiultry. When hens are fed largely or almost exclusively on milk, the yolk is lighter iu coh r, the white has a milky look, and the w hole egg is watery and less firm in texture than those laid by grain-fed hens. The taste of the egg is also affected, being inspired and unsatisfactory when boiled or poached, aud less fine for ordiuury cooking pur poses even. There is no use iu saying that tho idea of the quality of eggs being influenced by the Utei of the hens ia a mere whim ; sine hkt well know u fact that the r-ggs of 5wls kept iu the neighlxirhood of th aea, and fed almost entirely on fish taken as they come, embracing the strong and oily as well as the more delicate sorH hnve "nn ancient and flali-like" taste, If not, "smell" ; and eggs coming from those regions sell for less In the market, in sorno instances, than those Ooiuiiig from districts farther Inland. The reason why hens fed on "slops" of milk, etc., nre able to give no bet ter eggs to their owners is because tho "old, old story" is res nted in their ense. You demand the "tide of brick" of your servants, but you give them no straw to make them with. Curd hard ly comes under the head of milk, and there is little danger of having it in large quantities to offer to your fowls. It contains nil the best nnd most nutri tious portions of the milk, without its objectionable, watery qualities. But the true feed for laying fowls is one third or one-quarter Indian corn, gromtl or otherwise, and oats or wheat, together with milk nnd what ever scraps from the house nre obtain able, nnd ns much green vegetable food ss they will ent, nnd with these, com bined mid fed properly, your eggs will be of the true gold nnd silver when the cook's fire hns refined them, nnd prepared them as a relish for your breakfast table.- Poultry World. WlfV ANIMALS NRKK HALT. There is a reason for everything. And let ns ask why it is that salt la so much needed by miiiiuils. Kvery owner of niiimala should inform him self of their manner of nutrition nnd of the milliner in which the vital func tions ure performed, and of the wastes of the system that lire removed. Kvery moment of the life of any aiiininl, nt every motion mid breath, some part of the tissue is worn out and is to be got rid of, us must be the ashes of a furnace. And neccKHiirily thia worn out tissue must equally be replaced. The replacement is by the food, tho waters nre ejected by the excretory orgs us. As every pin t of the tissue contain salt, when the nitrogenous mid car bonaceous elements of the aystem nre used up in the maintenance of heat and muscular force, the refuse nsh, it may be called, is discharged with the surplus water. And more than this, certain secretions lire needed for the use of certain organs, ns the tears for the eyes, the mucus for the protection of the tender membranes, nnd the synovial fluid for the joints mid tendons. These all contain salt. The quantity of salt thus used or ejected from the system must be replaced, nnd it ran only be done by the food. And ns the food of a graminivorous animal does not contain salt enough to supply this constant waste, this is to bo made up in other ways. It is for thesn reasons that a regular supply of salt ia indispensable to any animal's health, and if it is not sup plied the animal cannot help but suffer. Thus it becomes u paramount duty of the owner of farm animals to provide them with a suflicicnt quantity of salt, not now nnd then, by fits uud starts, but as regularly ns the system disposes of it. The instinct of animals lends them to seek n daily supply, and it should be thus given to them. Phy siologists huvn determined that the waste from nn ox is two ounces daily, a horse needs one ounce, a sheep a dram, u pig less when it is fed on milk or able to get animal food, but w hen on pasture or confined in pens these animals must bo supplied ns their needs may be. New York Times. FARM AND OAROP.X VOTES. Drying the roots is killing the plant. There will be another short crop ot pigs this yeur. It is said that the texture of Aus tralian wool is changing. Variety of food gives the best re sults with ull kinds of stock. The prize-taker is aa good as any onion for general field culture. Don't neglect your stock if you ex pect to make money out of thum. Hedge for disappointments and the unexpected, and then yon will tie better prepared for them if they come. Muke your purchases for cash as much as possible, or pay with truck avoid "book uccouuts" or giving "your note." If you cannot get in corn tor fodder, sow millet. If neither is done, cut or plow under the weeds before or while in bloom. Thousands of farmers who have no silo grow few or no roots, when a few acres would prove very profitable. Sow turnips. A Blsftupolutuieut, "Maud," whispered May, "can yo keep secret?" "Yea," returned Maud, eagerly. , "So can I," whispered May. 7ir per' Bazaar, PCARLM or THOUGHT. Cupid Is a bachelor. ' A broken heart shows In the fnco. A rose In the hand isn't always rose. Charity Is a roso that blooms nil tlw yenr. What a man Is, he wns in the begin ning. A man' who will starve in thin conn try deserves to. Time, is prettier In poetry than It Is Iu the thermometer. Heliavior is a mirror In which every one shows, and might see his own linage, Love laughs nt locksmiths, becnuss locksmiths have been in love them selves. When a man has passed his three score nnd ten he thinks less of time nnd more of eternif v. Duty does not corisiit in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, in deed, it is our duty not to suffer. Headers nre of two sorts One goes Csrefully through the book ; the other, carelensly, lets the book go through him. There is not a heart but has its mo ments of longing yearning for some thing better, nobler, lmlier than it knows now. As ceremony is the invention of wise nien to keep fools at a distance, mi good breeding is nn expedient to make fools equal to wise men. How many question nro nsked for want of something to say. Tlie ques tions of intelligent curiosity are few compared to those of politeness. The path of duty lies in w hat ia near, nnd men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is essy, and men seek for it in what is difficult. What we truly and earnestly aspire fo be, that iu some sense we are. The mere nspiratioti, by changing the frame of the mind, for tho moment realizes itself. Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with mole enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing jy,which made the practicer still more in love with the fair net. Moral Training In Jnpati. The moral education of Japanese children is conducted partly at homo and partly in school, and is based largely upon the teachings of J lie his tory of the country. Intrepid valor, zeal, sobriety, directness of speech, extreme courtesy, implicit obedieiico to parents and superiors, and deferen tial reverence an I regard I it old age then.t urn mining th. chi.-f ch:ir.icter istics looked for in boys ; while iiidus try gentleness, faithfulness, nnd cheer ful demeanor are required of girN. Little or no importune" is attached to the religious training of children. Whether the parents' bo Bi d Ihints or Shiiitoists it matters not, for iu any case the children rarely take any part in the religious life of their parent', or elders, and indeed usually grow up in blissful ignorance ns to what it is ull about. True, they may ! occasion ally taken to the temple, and taught to rut) their palms together, clap thrice, and incline their heads toward the shrine, as they toss their offering' of rin through the wooden grating of the huge money till. They may hav some vague tuition that there is some thing meritorious in all this, but nothing more, although every Japanese home has a latticed niche, or kuuii dana, dedicated to the service' of the; household Lares and Peuates, or Daikoku mid Ebisu aa they appear in Japan. These quaint figurea Dai koku with his bug of rice, and Ebisu w ith hia wise smile nud accompanying fish are regarded more as symbols of good lnck than supreme beings, nnd are retained, in many homes ut least, iu the same spirit us we Occidentals would fasten a horseshoe over a door wuy. Popular Soieuee Monthly. An Eatable Shell. Dr. D'Alviguy comes to the front with a very peculiar variety of the English pea family. This nuw pen, which he showed to a Constitution re porter, hus tho appeurunce of a green locust. Dr. D'Alviguy says that he and his family ute a mess of these iea this week, aud that they were delight ed w ith them. The pens were cooked without having beeu shelled, aud as the shell is the largest part of them it doesu't take many of them to muke a dinner. The doctor suys that the flavor of the shell is equal, if not sup erior, to that of the peas. The seed from which he grew hia present crop cost him 5 cents a piece. He has nly eight viuea, but he says that they ara weighted down. Atlanta Conatiitu.-tiou.
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