1'Iip Silent Battle. Shall I loll you About the buttle Thst was fmmht in the world today. Whre thousands went down like herol To death in the pitiless (niy? Yon may know some of the wounded. And some of the fallen when I toll you this wonderful hnttle Wiw fought in tho hoar's of men, Not with the sound of trumpets. N r lathing of sabers drawn, Tl'it lent a twlllirhtln autumn All day the Naht wtnt on. And over nirnlnst temptation A mother's prnyers were east That Imd come by silent marches From the lulluhylnnd of the past. And over tho field of bnttln Th force of ambition went, I)rtvln before It, likh arrows. The children of sweet eontent. And memories odd and olden (' ime up through the dust of years, And hopes that were glad nnd iroldin Vn met hy n host of fenrs. And the heart grew worn and weary An 1 said : "Oh. can It be Th:it I n-n worth the struggle Vo:i are making today for me?" For the henrt Itself was the trophy And prize of this wavering flgh' ! And tell m , Oh gentle reader, Who c.imos on the field tonight? Buffalo Cwnmarclal. The Professor's Romance. 0:i? evening not many year ago Gorgo Wilson made hia way through one of tho side streets of New Haven, His full name, aa it appeared in the c.itiloone of tho university, was George Ellis Wilson, of Smithville, I'h. He had just eaten supper at the 'V. minions," and, leaving the other fellows, harl hurried down the walk liot ween "tho old briek row" aud tho new dormitories, aeross the busy t root nnd down this little lane till lie came to a dimly lighted, second hand book-store. Here he stopped and looked in the windows. They were filled with old books with sur prisingly low prices pinned ou them and stent engravings of Washington and Jefferson that doubtless had been the pride of some patriotic home, but now looked fly-specked and bedrag gled enough. After pausing at the threshold Ion 3 enough to shake the uow from his cont ho entered. Out from In hind tho stacks of books that filled the rear of the store came a little num. with a long beard, round shoul der and very old and dusty coat that came down below- his knees, "How do, air? A stormy'evening," lio wniil to Wilson, as ho climbed tip on a chair to turn tho gas a little higher. "Very" replied Wilson, and with out more ado began to examine tho books around him. They were stacked op in tho greatest confusion. Book cases were full, drawers were full and great piles in the corners reached almost to the ceiling. Tho air of tho room had the rusty odor peculiar to old books, and tho little old mnu who kept the store seemed to have absorbed some of the musty learning of his shop, such a scholarly stoop did ho have aud so dusty were his clothes. An effort had been made to aort somo of the books, and over several shelves was hung the label"RcligiouH," and over some others "Greek and Latin," while in the ex treme cornor were "Translations." Wilson eyed those last suspiciously, for he had "boned" hia way through preparatory school, and he had made up hia mind not to "horse" through .college. Turning to the Latin books, he looked thorn through till he came to a copy of Horace, somewhat tho worse for wear, but serviceable. Tho littlo old man meanwhile was trying to bring Home order out of a confused heap of magazines piled up on the floor. Wilson glanced over the pngea of the Horace, and, deciding that it would answer his purpose, paid the .old man 35 cents, put the book in his pocket and went out into the street. Going back to his room in "North Mid dle,' he took off his coat and threw it . on chair with the Horace still in the pocket. The next morning he got up . late, and in hia hurry to get to break fast put on the ooat just as he had left it the night before. At chapel, how. . ever, during the long prayers, while . the president was imploring "blessings for the heathen in all lands," under which head Wilson would have little - thought himself included, lie pulled . out the Horace and looked at the fly , leaf. There were two of the initials of the former owner, W, B., and his olass, '55. The last name . had been carefully scratched out. Up in the . corner there was a note, evidently written during some recitation 30 years before: "Can you tutor me an Lour in trig, tomorrow?" By the time that Wilsou had observed this much the prayer was ended and the president was walking down the mid dle aisle, while the seniors, in aooord- . anoe wttb a custom handed down from , long ago, were making , prodigious bows aa he passed and falling in tin ceremoniously behind him. Pocketing the book Wilson returned to his room, and, after a few prelimi naries, began to get ready to study. He put on his alippersand study-coat, pulled out a Latin dictionary and opened it, and then went to the chair on which hia overcoat lay and got his Horace. Then ho put bis feet on the tabic ami was ready for work. The lesson assigned was the first two odea. No one can atudy a book, however, until ho has thumbed it over and over and made himself familiar with it. The first thing Wilson did, therefore, was to glance over tho pages of his Horace and see what aort of a fellow its former ownor was. On the fifth page he saw something that attracted his attention. Written in a man's hand in rather small characters, as though tho writer would not have it too public, ami on the inner edge of the leaf was the name "Mary." Smil ing to himself, Wilson turned on. Nothing elso noteworthy appeared till he came to what was evidently a very difficult passage on thefUty-flrat page, for the leaf was badly worn and soiled, and written in the same hand as before werethe names "Mollie" and "Maine." "Getting more familiar, evidently," soliloquized Wilson as he turned on. He found no more writing, however, except on occasional repetition of these names, and now aud then the meaning of a word written between the lines. Wilson turned to the first ode and worked steadily over the dictionary for two hours. Then he kicked his slippers across the room, threw the study cont on the bod and pulling on on his shoes and coat started for the recitation-room. The professor was William B. Henderson, but the boys always called him Billie behind hia back and occasionally made a slip, and called him Billy to his face. He w as Very serious, seldom know n to smile, and a regular "grinder." Stories were abundant about some love affair that he ha 1 had while a student at Yale, and of a girl whom ho. had been engaged to who left him for a wealthier man nnd a trip to Eu rope. But stories about college pro fessors are common, and no one pays much attention to them. No one sup posed that Billy Henderson could ever have thought much of anything except Latin. The men were seated in the recitation-room alphahetically, and Wilson had a back a?at. More than once he found cause to bo thankful that his name began with a letter at tho end of the alphabet. Not being called on to recite on this day, he acquitted him self creditably. Every time that Wilson took tip his Horace to atudy his eye caught sight of "Mary" or "Mollie" or "Mame." "I should liko to know who this duffer was, and whether he married Mary," said Wilson one day to John son, hia room-mate. Johnson was husy with a pipo and some drawing instruments aud a largo sheet of paper and did not condescend to reply, and Wilson went on with his study. One day, in looking over the notes in tho back of tho book Wilson made a discovery. Down in the corner of a page in tho same handwriting was "My Mary." "Gad!" exclaimed Wilson, and Johnson turned round to see what was tho matter. His questioning look received no reply, and Wilson put on his coat and went out for a walk. "I'd liko to know who that fellow was and what become of Mary," thought Wilson. "What a nice little plot for a true story, I could make out a wbolo love affair from these names in tho book. Let's see. Some thing like this. Chapter I. Student oomes to New Haven from Western home, is hazed, meets a grotty girl, named Mary something or other ; tries to study Horaoe and finds himself writing 'Mary' in his book. Chapter It. Takes her to Glee Club concert, borrows money for the tickets and gets uncomfortably in debt, becomes ab sent minded and begins to write to Mollie' and 'Mame.' Chapter IIL 1 Scene--A beautiful" parlor . in one of New Haven's best homes ; Mary, beautiful and collected, seated on a sofa. Student, with one hand in coat pocket, standing by grata fire, with one elbow on mantel. He oomprains of his hard luok in Horaoe ; is sure to flunk on exam. Mary con soles him tenderly. Student goes over to sofa, looks into Mary's dark eyes, tells her the trouble is that thia Hor aoe sings of no one but Mary, and that the rest of the fellows and the profes sor don't translate that way, Mary blushes beautifully. ' He takes her hand and they are very happy. Chapter IV. The fellow goea to hia room and. writes 'My Mary' in hia Horaoe and flunks on the exam." In following out this line of thought Wilson had walked half-way to Lake Whitney. Suddenly another Idea had struck him. He turned around and started for his room. On reaching it he took a triennial catalogue and looked through to ace whnt names in the class of '55 had the initials W. B. To hia perplexity he found several names with these initials. "Well, if there isn't Billie Hender son's name t I never thought of it, but I suppose his name is really Wil liam," said Wilson to himself. "He oould never have owned this book, though, for he must have been a regu lar griml" The term was drawing to a close when one day Trof. Hcuderson an nounced to his class that they should bring their own copies of Horace to the class-room on the next day. They would do some reading at sight, he explained, nnd the class would be al lowed to use what notes were to be found in their books, and the edition furnished by the university for class room work had no notes whatever. The next day, therefore, Wilson took hia Horace to class. The passage which was assigned to him was the one which tho former owner had found so difficult and had sought relief for his feelings by writing "Mame" and "Mollie" on the margin of the poge. Wilson, however, buckled in manfully, and when called on translated with some fluency and sat down. The professor looked over the top of his glasses and said rather sternly ; "I do not understand, Mr. Wilson, how you obtain the meanings that you give to somo of the words. " Wilson hesitated a moment and then a happy thought struck him. Some thing that he had seen in the notes came to his mind. "I think, Professor," he said, "that my text must differ from yours." "Ah!" said the Professor. "Let me see your text." Wilsou walked np the aislo from tho rear of tho room aud handed his book to the Professor with the assurance that a man has who is sure that he is in the right. The professor took the book nnd glanced over the page. His expression changed in a moment. Old memories seemed to come up and he leaned his head on his hand and looked steadily at the book. Finally he raised bis eyes, and handing the book to Wilson, said: "You are quite right, Mr. Wil son." After tho recitation was over Pro fessor Houderson called Wilsou to his desk. "I should like, Mr. Wilson," he said, "to obtain that copy of Horace from you when you arc through with it, if you have no objections to parting with it. It's an odd edition, you kuow," he added, in explanation, "and I I should liko to havo it to comparo with other texts." Wilson assured him that he could get along without it, nodded good day to the professor as ho went out of tho door, and tho professor auswercd soberly in return. "Well, I'll be blow ed!" exclaimed Wilson, as soon as ho was well awny from the recitation room. ."Who would have thought it?" And he but toned up his cont and hurried to his room to tell tho story to Johnson. Chicago News. Wonderful Texas Mirages. "You don't hnve to go the Desert of Sahara in order to see mirages," said Lee Buchanau to tho corridor man at the Laclede. "In Texas these phe nomena cau bo witnessed in as won derful forms as are ever produced in any part of the w orld. In that portion of the State marked upon the maps of the olden time as a desert where no plant cau grow or breathing thing cau live, but which is now cut up into immense wheat or grazing fields, I have experienced the most life-like and optical delusions of w hich the mind can conceive. For that matter, the entire prairie appears to be a delusion. The air is so rare that no odor is per ceptible, even from carrion. Aa a man rides along he sees before him beautiful groves of niajestio trees, which, when reached, prove to be mesquite bushes three or four feet in height Over the plain are what ap pear to be atakes aix or eight feet high, which in reality are Spanish daggers about a foot in height, the entire plain being called the 'Staked Plain,' from theeffeot produced byfthis plant. The best mirage or cloud pictures are to be aeen about Amnrillo, where beautiful lakes appear to be but a mile or two away, and strangers almost invariably ask if they contain fish. Views of the gulf are occasionally had, and once steamer in distress was aeen and it was learned that steamer had been lost at sea at that time." St. Louis Olobo Democrat ' Aa explosion at the Abercorn col liery in 1878 killed 200 persons, FAU.H AXD GARDES. Cf.ovr.n land onows richer. In every newly-settled country, when the forests are cleared off and the land tins been cultivated a few years, the soil where the worm rail fences stood is alwaya found richer than that where plowing and cropping has been going on. Some farmers, therefore, conclude that this increase of fertility where the fence stood is an invariable rule. But it is not. After clover and occasional manuring comes into tho rotation the cultivated part of the field is often tho richest. We know farmers who have taken np old fences with the idea thnt under them they will find land thnt enn bo cultivated for a few years without tho necessity of constant manuring. But they tisully find if they have been growers of clover thnt the long culti vated parts of the field are the richest. The soil under the fence has not been cxpnnded and contracted by alternate freezing and thawing, and it takes one or two years of cultivation to show what capacity it has for producing hrgo crops. Boston Cultivator. A VINEI.ESS SWEET POTATO. In the cultivation of tho sweet po tato, a point is to keep tho trniling branches from rooting in tho ground if these creeping branches get roots, it is so much taken from the main crop all tho roots are comparatively small and valueless for commercial purposes. For this reason the culti vator of the sweet potato lias to be continually moving among the vines lifting them from the ground by vari ous methods in order to prevent theso branches from sending out other roots. It is now given out thnt in Florida a variety has been raised which takes on tho bushy form without any tendency to run or sprawl over the ground. If this bo so, it ought to be one of tho greatest advnuces mode for mnny years. As a general rule, varieties of the bushy class aro not as productive as those which take on a regular climb ing character. Tho bushy varieties are not nearly as productive as tho taller growing kinds, but the sweet po tato may bo an exception, as the crop is under ground. Medians' Monthly. WOHKF.n beer. They constitute the mass of tho col ony, and ttpou them devolve all tho labors of the hive. They gather tho honey and the pollen, the food for tho young. They nurse and feed the young brood and defend their house against tho invasion of enemies. The care which the workers bestow upon their nurselings is wonderful, and theso manifest the most tender attach ment for them. The slightest move ment of their nurses toward tho young brood in sufficient to attract tho latter to their food, which they devour vora ciously, and which is unsparingly ad ministered. After tho cells have been sealed up tho workers seem to cenfo from anything like attoniion, although if tho brood comb is meddled with their utmost ire is kiudled. Bees reared in the spring aud early summer are shorter lived than those reared later in tho season. Each worker is armed with a formidable stiug aud when disturbed does not hesitate to use it. The extremity baiug barbed tho bee can rarely withdraw it and in losing its sting it loses its life aud so dies indefcuding its homo und sacred treasures. BPBAINS IN HORSES. No matter how slight a sprain may appear, it should be, carefully treated, and the horso givon a complcto rest. Rest isjust tho thing that most owners are unwilling to allow, unless tho an imal is absolutely broken down aud uuablo to move. A sprain of the ten dons, especially if at all severe, calls for a prolonged period of rest, even after all symptoms of lameness have pussod away. The object treatment in the first stage of a sprain is to keep down or reduce inflammation and prevent exudation or swelling. The shoe should be removed at onoe before the limb has got so swollen and tender as as to make putting ou another a mat ter of difficulty owing to the aoute ag ony handling gives the animal The next thing is a dose of physic, which tends to prevent fever and keep down inflammation acting magically in this and other cases of lameness. The animal should be scoured in a position to discourage'movement, and either hot fermentations or cold astrin gent lotions should be applied contin uously. There is, perhaps, some difference of opinion as to whether oold or beat is beat, but whichever is adopted muBt be kept up continuously, For a reoent injury, without much swelling and congestion, cold is per haps preferable; -drat if there is much pain and swelling, relief is most promptly afforded by hot water, If alight lameness continues or there is thickening or enlargement, it will be better to blister; indeed, it it seldom bad practice to blister after a sprain, as it at least insures a prolonged rest. A case of breakdown mentis months of enforced idleness, generally permanent deformity, unfitness for fssf wort, and in some instances incurable lameness. New York World. PEEbtMXrt roR EtMIS. For tho production of eggs the food should contain an ample supply ul those ingredients thnt make up the egg. An average egg weighs about 1,0111) grains, divided ss follows: shell, 107 ; white, 004 ; yolk, 289. The shell is composed of ninety-seven per cent, carbonate of lime, one per cent. phos pnntc of lime and magnesia and two percent, nllmmeu ; the yolk of fifty four per cent, water, 2H 0 per cent, yellow oil and 17.4 H-r cent, albumen, and the white eighty-five per cent, water, 2.7 per cent, mucus, 0.3 pel cent, salts and twelve per cent, albu men. Therefore, a food containing albuminoids and fn should bo cm ployed. The natural food of the fowl consists of insects, seeds, vegetable matter, etc. Therefore there should be a variety of grains, animal matter in the form of scrape of meat, etc., or pressed scraps, chopped cnbbnge, apples, etc., or, as has been practised, finely cnt and steamed clover hay. There should le a great variety at all times, and Indian meal scalded and well seasoned with peper, or chopped horseradish will le effective. A re cent writer prescribed scalded Indian meal made into a mush, which was cooked an hour or two and then fed hot with horseradish. It was recom mended to cook food of all kinds aud feed hot. This might be well as a stimulant, but comment must be com bined with animal food to produce eggs. A supply of powdered shells or bone should be provided, not only to aid digestion, but furnish egg shell material. A correspondent of the Plymouth Chroniclo mixed hog's lard with the dough which he gave his hens, and asserts that a piece as large as a hickory nut will set a hen to laving immediately after she is broken up from setting, and thnt hy feeding a little occasionally hens may le made to lay all winter. Live Stock Journal. FARM AND GARDES NOTES. Use pure-bred cocks to breed up thb fowls. Hens are safer to set than early pullets. All birdsof the Cochin breed feather very slowly. A clean eggs sells much quicker thau a soiled one. Hen manure is valuable, and should be carefully saved. Buyers are apt to judge of the age of an egg by its appearance. Birds with small combs and plenty of feathers etiduro cold best. A home-made incubator is apt to prove an expensive economy. The Leghorns are the most prolific, but they lay tho smallest eggs. On tho farm the value of a horso de pends upon the loud he will draw. Compelling fowls to roost in a draught is a direct invitation to roup. Givo your breeding mares plenty of food and exercise, but no heavy work. Forty years ago there were practi cally no conch horses in tho United States. Breed for energy and intelligence in tho horse as well as for form und action. Do not keep horses in a field sepa rated from other horses by a barbed wire fence. Tho quantity of horses has never been so great nor the quality so poor as at present. By breeding the mares in the fall, they can be made to perform the farm work without injury. To keep the horse in perfect condi tion, regular feeding of the proper quantity of feed is essential. It does not pay to sell a horse in poor condition, nor does it pay to keep a horse in that condition. Liberal feeding, good shelter and occasional handling will mature the well-bred horse into usefulness. Don't blanket your mares in the stable and strip them when running the yard, exposed to high winds. With the general farmer an opiuion is prevalent that the purchase of new blood for the improvement of his poultry is money thrown away. He oan hardly made a better investment. The dairyman who permits his corn fodder to get partly ripe or frost bit ten before he outa it np is the same men who never gets to do his haying until the grass is mature. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. An electric motor runs a gatling gun. A new storage-battery street-rail way line has been inaugurated lu Paris, running from the Bastille. The only aource of the great lakes is the rain that falls within their basin, which averages 40 inches per year, Tokio, Japan, has followed the ex ample of Bangkok, the capital of Siom, nnd constructed an electric rail road. Locnl telegrams are now being transmitted through pneumatic tubes in most of the principal cities of Great Britain. (Menu coke is by many considered better than chsreoul for heating flue steel to forge or hardeu, because it makes a more even fire. To make 1,0110 feet of illuminating gas, eight pounds of roal, costing two cents, and four gallons of naptha, costing twelve cents, are required. A vegetarian paper is printed in Berlin on paper described as "purely vegetarian" of a light green color, the dye med being derived from plauts. There are eighty-six fish hatcheries in North America, sixty-six of them in the United States. Last year they produced more than one billion young fish. Iu Berlin medical paper Dr. Laz arus describes a case of cholera con tracted iu a hospital by an assistant physician who was making experiment with the Imeilli. He recovered. Professor Bell, the inventor of the) telephone, haa been grappling with irrinl locomotion in Nova Scotia, aud, like all other experimenters in that science, he is very hopeful of success. John Chapman, M. D., of Paris, claims to have been remarkably suc cessful in the treatment of cholera by applications of oold or heat along the spinal regions cold being applied during any of the different degrees of collapse, and heat when necessary to lessen the force of reaction. It is maintained very stoutly by ex pert electricians that the storage bat tery is, after all a success for commer cial work ; that the new processes for manufacturing them have chcapeued their cost, and that iu train lighting they are especially efficient aud eco nomical. It is estimated that $85 per horse power is tho annual cost of the accumulator. At the congress of hygiene in Lon don, and at the diocesan conference in the same city it was urged that early marriages are so great an evil that some sort of reform iu the marriage laws is necessary. Investigation showed thnt tho healthy children are those of mothers between 20 and 30, and of fathers between 80 and 40. Where either husband or wife is un der 20 the offspring proved generally weakly. "While the principle of seeing by electricity at a distance," says Prof fessor A. Graham Bell, "is the same as that applied iu the telephone, yet it will be very much more difficult to construct such an apparatus, owing to the immensely greater rapidity with which the vibrations of light take pluce when compared with the vibra tions of sound. It is merely a ques tion, however, of finding a diaphragm which will be sufficiently sensitive to receive these vibrations and produce the corresponding vibratious." He Fooleil the Birds. A person riding through the moun tains nnd lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada at this time of the year cannot help but notice the trees and dead fence posts that have been filled with acorns, the work of woodpeckers and bluejays. The former makes holes and the latter filled them with acorns, providing a w inter store. A man living near Coulterville haa the reputation of being very mean, and the neighbors tell and vouch for the following story on him : He took a thin board and punotured it with holes, this being nailed on the back aide of his granary. The bluejay was not long in looating the holes and at once started to fill them with acorns. When an acorn would be put in one of the holes it would fall inside of the building, The industrious birds, de termined to fill the holes, kept carry ing acorns until' the granary was full. Then the man ao mean as to cheat the birds had enough on whioh to fatten all his hogs, while the birds had none. -Merced (Cal.) Sun. True to His Id als. "You find it impossible to get work, don't you?" said the sympathetic lady of the bouse, "I'm not huntin' fur work, ma'am," said the man on the back porch stiffly, "I ain't no common tramp. I'm, huntin' fur leisure."
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