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it i. irde he id not Kow that
Ir words had another auditor
| “lle for some elit; a
iano old To veal
man She Had married for
money. Robert Harland was not
young, but he was in the prime of mid: |
dle ngs. He war not bostshly hand:
| some, like the was heads Grace had
seen in the barbers show windows,
but be had the appearance nnd mien of
a prints. All women are prone to horn
exception to the ordinary rule
For the first time In her life she was
: falling inn love—and with ber own hus |
A few weeks only had elapsed when
dered it Imperativly necessary that Mr.
or three months,
Poor Grace looked aghast as her hus-
band: mentioned his Intention to her in
h ithe same cool. matter-of-fact way In
which he might bave criticised the
| weather,
“Going to Vienna! she gasped. “Oh,
{ Robert!" :
“My dear child, it is & mere bagatelle
] of a Journey. One doesn't mind travel
| nowadays. 1 shall not be Inter than
Noveniber tn returning.”
“But! may go with you?”
*You, my dear! Don't think of it
- | My travel will necessartly be too rapid,
and my time too much occupied with
business to think of incumbering my-
11 self with a lady companion.”
Grace sald nothing more, but there
| sensation of despair at her heart
He cared no more for the solely
| which bad been dear to bim once.
Oh, what had she done to forfeit the
i fore that Bad once been poured out
friet School as bezel, was |
elated by hor sudden proto.
and not
: bat 1 comity 1 drugre
my seston, and 1
* maid Grace. with n
Vorely golden curls, “You
the mine thing yonrself,
« Mf You bad a chance
Varner hat the doar
ow aml te Site
; ner and more tester
oa this before”
with ssheu-pale i
Hmbs.
lvined that spring
unsnited. Sasha
for my money.”
il, that evening, 1
a opera to night,
so fandiy on her life?
It was a rainy July twilight when the
{with his traveling cap pulled down
over hin eyes, paced up and down the
deck of the steamer Galatea, hoediess
of all the tumult of departure on ap
ocPAN Yoyage,
Through the misty dusk he tried
vainly to catch the ghostly outlines of
the oity spires—the ¢ity. that held his
young wife
“Khe will be happy enough without
te,” he said to himself, bitterly. “Khe
‘has her mother and sister with her.
{ Bhie bade me adieu without n tear, and
It miny be that my continoed absence
‘wiil tench her to think lesa coldly of
ras Dear little Grace, sweet spriug
hides, my prayers may reach you
If my love cannot”
And Robert Harland went below. To
his bfinite surprise the stateroom that
he Bad engaged for his own use was
Ba
nat empty. A lady ent there, with
vetted face and deaasing Bead. Robert
Harvinml pauses] in sarprise«the figure
vealed the blge, «tarry eves and pals
chveks of firace Lerani!
“0h, Hebert, pardon me!” she sobbed,
throwing herself into his arms “but |
coulit not let you go alone. 1 love you,
Rabert: | cannot live without yon.
When 1 thought of your being alone,
perlinps HEL fo a stapes amd, 1 thought
[ shouhl lose my senses, Dear bus.
band, rell pre that you are pot augry
with me™ And she burst into a flood
of fears,
“ALY own Grace--my wifey Inve!
Clase, close to sity heart forever more!
And that was all be sald.
Grace Harden Lad married tar
the secret of Jove New York Weekly,
ASS EM LAN
unen Victoria Was Unnerved.
How many of King Edwanl's prede
cessors on (he throne, ans wonders,
have made thirty speeches out of Eng
aml In as misny days? asks the Lown
don Chronicle? The activities of the
King, wo sooner home again than be
is pteparing for Dalkeith and Hely
rood, call strangely to mbmd the quieter
gt yenrs which followed the death of his
g pettishily re}
i you wonld
her time to suit
neither criticism |
But Sradusily :
lpping a evening, sit-
to her husband, “have I
up enrelessly from is
Grace? Why, what a
or course, you haven 1
father, nnd lasted ss loug as the Vie
torah era. None of us have been be
fore so used to royal speeches as we
have become of late, and some of us
perhaps remember the nervonsnesy
with whieh Oueen Vicoslt sometivies
ri faced an audience,
Sir William Haroourt has a vivid
Creentiection of ons oceasion ot least
when he had to speak In place of the
i Queen, who sat Hstening to the sleelar
cation she should have made ! srself,
It wax al the opening of tla law
courts, nearly twenty-one year+ ago
A distinguishing audience had go ithered
to bear ber Malesty proclaim th: build
| ing open, and jt was not until almost
the very minute at which the Queen
was due to speak that she called the
{ Hote Secretary to her side and whis-
persed something in his ear. The next
minute Sir Willlam Harcourt stood
ts | forward, and sald he had the Queen's
conmimends to declare the law courts
open. and everybody knew that the
nonarch of a world-wide empire was
tinnerved,
A Literary Monarch.
The most literary monarch in Europe
ig without doubt the ‘young Victor
‘Emmanuel of Italy. He knows Eng
(hsh, French and German equally as
well as his native language, and has
even a reading acquaintance with that
very difficult language, Russian. He
spends at least three hours every day
in biz study busy with current litera-
ture of every Kind, He is gald to pre.
fer the monthly reviews to daily jour.
nals; but, however this may be, it is
quite certain that no monarch ailve
keeps himself more thoroughly posted
“on ull the questions of the day. He has
{more than once astonished English
visitors by his inttuate acquaintance
worship. and our little Grace wan Bo |
a eriais In the banking business ren.
Harland should go to Vienna for two!
was a blur before her eyes, a sickening
banker, wrapped In a heavy ulster, and |
roxe up. and, throwing aside Hs veil, roo
money: but Grace Hayden had learned |
Hightfully,” Cowper speaks of a spot,
One little brownie. bor sat on a wll,
‘wo little browniehore plaved with a ball:
res little brownie boys jumped is the
Four little brownie-boys heard mother call,
ve little howe bore weren't there at |
all. { lizent touch of the artist--in every lina
two birds was strikingly exhibited in
the style of the two nests The Ringe
bird hasn't a particle of imagination,
says the National Magazine not an
fatam of fhe srtistie fn his sand. His
shape, dress anil voice declare it. He
in hardbended steaigitforward and se.
rious, somewhat overbearing, perhaps,
and testy, hut businesslike and refine]
In all his tastes, 1lis nest is himself
aver again: strong, plain, adequate but
like its builder, refined. Contrast the
orfole’s. Romance, posiry and that in.
tleseribable touch the light, ensy. neg.
of if. Why, the thing was actually
woven of new mown hav--as if one
§ should ball lis house of sandalwood
even little wiie-hoys raced up i "tun,
Laven Hitle brownichoys sat in the sum,
Nine fittle brownie boys each ate a bul,
fhe brownieboye found there were
~{hicsgo Record Herald,
WILD THYME,
To one who loves the companionship
of the flowers, an old field In mid.
summer days in replete with special in-
terest. The breaking of the virgin soil
eradicates much of the natTve plant
fife, and when the long tilled ground
has earned a rest and ls at last por
mitted to lie fallow for a while It be.
cumes the home of many a pinut that
has wandered hither from Euornpe,
where perhaps for centuries it has
played a part in popular tradition and |
been sung in poetry.
One of the most Interesting of thess |
Introduced wildiugs is the wild thyme, |
Row sparingly naturalized in the oldest
parts of our Eastern States. It fan
prostrate plant, whose tangled stvns
love to form themseives into cusbiony
mals with us, though in England #t
sometitnes 18 found banging in sliort
praveful enrtalns from jutting criigs
In Iste summer the small purple flow.
ers appear, crowded at the tips of the
branches, but {is deliciously fragrant
leaves make the plant a continulog de
light throughout the open year.
In Ol World superstitions the
niounds of wild thyme wore aceonr ted
favorite haunts of the froltekiug fair
fos, so that it was just as might have
been expected that Puck in “A Mid-
summer Night's Dream” did “buow a
bank whereon the wild thyme” Liew.
This, by the way, 13 the only passage
iu Shakespeare wherein this wild flow.
er Ix mentioned, though English tera:
ture is full of allusions fo it, Thus Sir
Francis Bacon mentions it as one of
several «plants which, trodden pon
and crushed, “perfume the alr most de-
the mere mention of which makes us
long for ths cuntry, “ankle deep in
moss and Howey thyme” Does not
Keats make Erdlymion hold
“a basket full
ot all sweet herbs that searching eye
eontld cull,
Wild thyme and valley lillies
and Wordsworth in & passage that
might have been written of ane of our
owl neglected fields, describes a
mendow where
“bloomed the strawberry of the wilder.
Ness:
The trembling evebright showed her
sapphire blue,
The thyme her purple, like a blush of
even”
In the dayx of classic Greece an)
Rowe, this plant sas one that was
burned ns incense in the temples, fimsd
readers of Virgil's “Georgios” may re-
member his recommending the burning
of fragrant thyme to ward off inipend.
Ing misfortune. The famed bees of
Hybia pastured upon beds of the aro:
matic herb, as witness the post Mar.
tial's “cheese cakes dripping with 11y.
blaean thyme.”
In the traditions of the church. too,
the little plant bas a place—figuring as |
one of three of which the Virgin Mary's
bed was wade.~ Philadelphia Record,
_KINGBIRD D ORIOLE.
with all the serut of the hayfield about
I put my nose near and took a deep,
rious breath, The Lirds had select.
od and cut the grass themselves and
worked it ino while gveen Some of it
1 was still uneared. still soft and sweet
with sap. One side, cxpossd to the
sun through a leaf rift. bal gone a
golden yellow, bat the other shile, deen.
I¥ shaded the day through, was vet
green sl making more slowly under
the leaves, And (his nest waz woven,
not built up lke the Einghileils: it was
bung, not saddled upon the Hmb-sus-
pended from the slenderest of forks =o
that vvery Hills Lresan would rock it
And sa fpossly woven, so deftly, slight
iy tied.
SA
HIEHOOGLYHIS,
hie game Jf Bierogiyphios, which is
really a trick, is played with a conled-
erate, and MH cleverly done x “goodie
cotnpanie” may be duenivesl;
A showman, armed with 8 long
paitited stick, stays in the room and
hig confederate, the guesser, Is hat out
ithe the Company 1hings of a wor,
The guvsaer jx called In amd the shows
min proceeds fo spell out the word on
tie Boor with sundry taps amd strokes
af his stick,
The solution i mmple phoneh. The
tape repaesent the yowels ope tan ford
Ha,” wo taps fol Ye threes for YL
four for “0 and five for “4g.” awd the
giesser nes) pay wo atiention to any
ailier souads fale by the atiok. The
post fa done Ly the shownian's oléver
taiking, Puppowsr, for in since, thas
atnbany gelecie the word “hook” The
Che ik Riven i the selitenoy whieh he
Sanwa ws to eall the gueaser jn.
Fie would say, 9 this vase, “Beller
vata in. and Lhe gussser wil khow 82
§ooste that the Hvar eter of the Lire:
el de tha Gen neve wil Le fhe Tirat
tier of the word fo be gues The
showman gps (our theese With bis
slick and makes a It uf msleadiog
styokes nnd signs; then be ups four
ones more for the ssvonud V0, then ha
says, in oan ofband wav: “Kind of
Baad, {s6't HY or guy ther sentences
troduced by dhe Jetter “R70 He fins
fava aby with nore signs gal siroXowm
fs if fo puzzhe ihe ow «wha of
conrer, bas nires ty secured Be word.
The showmsn gist we quldk and
clever fn placing his donsonatita 8 the
beginning of spley sentences, ther
wins the humor of the rheg 1s Jost—
Now Yark Workh
—————
FROGS EWALLOW SPARDOWR,
“Im you know that out in one of the
Rintes of the Middle West ote of my |
Pooks was taken oul of the school bee
calise Itoeontainnl a statement that a
frog which 1 watched enught and swals
owed a sparrow?” asked a weiten
“The probabil)
for un hoor or wore, sod 1 was then
decided that no frog eould choke down
a sparrow, snd the book was with
drawn, They did uot happen to Know
that frogs sometimes grow to g length
of sixteen inches, Theirs is a pun in
the upper part of Connecticut who has
a number of frogs av long as that” he
sald, spreading his hands to indleate
the length, “He often feeds them with
milve and sparrows, and 1 have a phos
tograph showing one of these frogs
just about to take a bird In bis wouth™
New York World,
COYERING BOOKS,
To cover paper bound books take two
pieces of cardboard, a tiny bit larger
than book. Paste fly leaves at front
and back to eardboard, which of course
is outside, Then take a sirip of strong
cotton cloth, paste if down Lack of
hook, have it wide so it wl cover about
one neh of ench pleco of cardboard,
thereby Joining the two pisces together,
Now put a cover of brown paper over
all, pasting securely, amd your decors
ald cover goes over this,
The books may be covered with dees
orated «lik, pigue or dock if you paiat
or embroider, but the shnplest way is
to cover with {issue paper (not crepes,
Paste a pretiy eard on the front and
after cutting title and aathoer's pame
from old cover arrange them pretiily
ou the new one,
rpendleitie Friends,
For those who have a tendency to ap-
pendicitis the list of things which ean
not be eaten with safety is long Nir
Frederick Treves declares that one of
the deadliest sweetineats is preserves] |
ginger, but pineapple, fresh or pre.
served, is almost equally risky, while
oranges, figs, raspberries, in fact, all
| fruits with pips, are alse. yery danger
{ous “ting,
ty of this was debated |
ETI G EGGS,
My metisod in preparing eggs for |
| motherly cid besly, who hadn't seen hor
1 hubby without thoss patriarchal whise
mark in to wns the soiled ones in a
Weak solution of Hme water. | then
stamp and park in enses My ERY
bring from « ~ to five vents mori per
dimen thay oo dinary packed egg aul
I eouldl sell many more than 1 do if 1
had them —Elimbeth W. Barnes, in
Orange Julld Farmer,
SHEEP FOR MARKET.
Feeding sheep for market should be
A separate Imsiness from simply rails |
ing them in the usual manner. ‘They
should receive clover bay and a lib
eral allowance of gronnd grain, ns
well as be sheltered In a large yard
in order not te have them travel over
the fields while fattening. the olijeet
‘being to fatten them quickly sod sell
as soon as they are ready,
VALUE OF MANURE.
Though no correet estimate of the!
¥alue of manore ean be made, yot the
following is an estimate that ix ns
erioredt, on the average. as ean be ar
rived at: The value of marews from
rottonseed meal is ahont $28 per ton:
linseed meal $20. beans, $16; clover
hay, $10; cornmesl, $7; straw, 83. ard
turnips, $1,
penda not only upon the food. bot alc
upon the condition of the snimal that
taken it.
COWS AND PASTURES,
All breeds of eattle or other sock
have heen kept close to certain pointy
nid characteristics in order to render
hormlitary the yerits and peenliatt
ties wonght, and each breol has lieep
res] subject fo oortain conditions hit
fre eipeniial to goccess, If an abun
dames of food ix required for aghnale
6f any particalar breed it must be pap
piled, ax they have heen bred tn that
Hine: hut they compensite therefor, be
canse any anol that ix fred to de
mand heavy rations has ales heen bred
HS a presincer to correspond with ite
ceppstnmption of food,
EXPERIMERTE WITH POULTRY
The Baath Carclion Ration publishes
Eons remddies for pasitry ooo plaints.
among which are the following:
When chickens are from one to twe
weeks old a groat many die from bw
trouble. This éan be eorrected by
taking away drinking water aod giv
ing scalded milk instead
A great many young chickens are
killed Ly Hee.
fix fie part kerosene oll and one
part lard, and grease the heads. If
this is put on when the ehirkens sre
first hatehed it iH Keep lice of
To prevent cholera In summer, put
tenn drops of suipburle sold in one
grilon of water twice a wesh.
Th Weep away diseass, Leen eters
| thing tiean where poultry Is kept
Use Hime freely,
BILAGE Ee. ARILY Manip ®
We have tried smothing but sivest
torn glover, after pleking the enrs for
canting. We plant in delle three and
a ball feet apart, cut and bind with
barvester, and earefully pack the Huon |
Ales, putting it lo whole, and wetting
frevly when frosthitten or dry or
Gerri. We do nor constder it worl
thw extra cost to cut it, especially for
tent stock, and ps they do thelr ow
euttii, sod wfterwards raise it again
for wmnstioation, and it proves fo be
thoreaghly dented. IH 5 suflictent
mnsunt of eusilage Is secarsd te be
profitably {ed to an ordinary seh
kept on 8 farm, st least thirty three
per cent of the bay mny be saved for
nH shorlage or for market, and the stork
somea aut in batter conditing Pray
worn {odder will be appreciated, +
doubt, this ssssan. but {t does not coo
pare In any way with good sllsge.
ween 10 well cured, which is Bard ts
do In ok wet sensor Besides, if be in
the way of Tall plowing Por sailing
crops, we shall try Japanese fined
When fain eorces, iF not wes bite, ard
Kn osnmiple of pear] millet ~4. BE. Chad:
Bourne, fo The Cultivator,
WINTEER-FED PIGR
There fs one point in pushing the win.
ter-fed pigs along so that they may ba
told early, even when they Lave to be
cinssod as light weights, though well
fattened at = little Snore or a Nite
less than 200 pounds each, which ix
tint much thought of in the Eastern
Htates, where a farmer keeps but ous
or two hogs, but in some of the West
ern Bites where they fatten them by
the hundred or thousands on a fur
each yoar, they like to get them to mare.
ket before the visit of the assessor in
the spring. as the tax upon a hundred
fat hogs seems quite a sum to those
who {eel that they already bear more
than their fair share of taxation. Thus
it happens that the yearly repert of the |
axangrors 1s not a fair indieation of
the amount of pork likely to be put on
the market. The man who hay only a
few boseding saws, rather thin in Seah
and thos not appraised very high on
May 1 may be able to soll from each
one fram a dozen to twenty far pigs, in
twa Jitters, belore the assossor cotpey
round again, and they will not appeur
In his reporis. Combiplog this with
the fact, vow well established by the
experiment stations, that afer the pig
i large enough to dress 200 pomads
grch pound of gain reculres more food
th wake it than it does before they
reach that weight, and we cannot won.
der that they send light weight pigs
to market in the spring. And nny
are willing to pay better prices for
such pork well fattened than for the
heavier hogs. ~ American Cultivator,
It's all right to broaden your mind
ot alas 4 set suisrgement tet
The vaine of manure de
To get rid of the fica}
Lean, I'D
iasieny, ond he was th
There 1% a well-known old gentleman
Mu Detroit who right, a few days age,
bave been easily distinguished in 8
erawd by the length of the hirsute
adorrment on his chin. His wife is a
kers for more than thirty years, till
one guid day Inst week that will Jong be
regiembered in that particular hone
{ bold and by the remainder of the party
that was spending a few weeks a. the
Bt. Clalr flats,
The old gentleman rather prided him
self on his goed looks, le ix a great
sdmirer of a pretty faces. There were
a number of ladies in the party whe
begun to rally the old man about his
looks. He would be so much hetter
loking, they said, if only he would
shave off theme old whiskers.
One day last week hin wile went op
the river with a friend. The old man
disappeared for & long time. When be
finally reappeared he was a sight for
the gods. His whiskers, in which he
bad taken so much pride, were in the
waste basket, and his chin was 2%
smooth as a laby's It took about
fifteen secoris for everybody in the
house to get next, then such shouts of
laughter arose as never before had
been heard in that cottage.
Fhe pathetic part of the incident bap-
pened when hin wife came back. The
old man had forgotten all about his
whiskeriess face. His wife gave one
gasp of astonishment and sank to the
ground overcome. When she came to
she sobbed as if her heart were bro-
ken, amd the old man followed suit.
Yoeked in each other's arms the couple
st on a table, and membery of the
family say that for at least one hour
the tears coursed down their withered
posxilide haste to cultivate a new bunch
of splaach.—~Detroit Tribune
An Egyptian Tale,
Here Is a strange story from Egypt:
Tala All aod Ahmed Hamad carried
on the Lasiness of butchers In partners
ship. Taka Al informed Aluned Hae
toad that a sum of money belonging 10
the partnership, which had been left
with hw, bad been stolen. Ahmed
Hamad did not believe the story and
pecused Tala Al of theft, They de
cided to refer the matter to a fakir
to be tried by» systesu of ordesl. The
two men acearstingly west to the fakir,
He copisd seins passages frou cetintn
religious Looks in his possession spon
& native writing board with European
copying Ink, washed off the writing
with water Into a bowl dipped some
bread ato the water and divided the
bread snd water Between this two
Giapiatanis, telling them that the one
Who was in the wrong wonlil become
very Hi. After eating the broad and
drinking the water the two dispatants
went away, Taba All was shortly sf
ferwani sized with violent pain snd
tedprning 1o the fakir cou’vened that
he bad stolen the money, His condi
tion becante radidly worse, and bee died
afew hours ister. The medical ese
wination disclosed no sgn of pocson
ing.
The Passing of a Pastis,
In the railway earrizze sal & richly
dressed fon lady tenderly holding
mall poate
“Madam sald the guard “1 am
very sorry, but vem caul Lave your
Hog this pan HET en i.
CUE shall hold bl in oy lap sll the
Way,” sho rénliol “mind he will disturb
Tix ope
Phat piskes na difference” said the
rmrc. Ciaers most ride bn the logcege
Pasion Wim al right for you”
“Tye tone my Sor sir” aid the
0 will tran him to no ene” And
th oindiroant road she murehest ©
thi foeenre van mow fad Ray the wg
nnd re f
Abang ily miles further a3 when
th euand eames ah ung 8 pam ale palin)
him "Will rou toil un ir nif dog is all
righ
“1am very sorze.” sald the gunned
palitely, “bur vou 1] ito & ports
raw off with
itor thie last station "London Teles
raph.
A Shat.eved Thewry.
ward WW. Stark spent $45.000 and
fittesn yenrs In trring to prove that
fruit trees will grow in Colacade with
oat drrigation if they are properly
trained to do without water Now
tie wishes very much to obilsin water
Lis theory Is incorrect, and hie ins trying
to save the remainder of his holdings,
Fifteen years ago he obtaiped from
the State a lense on eighty serves of
kamal near Littleton. He held that
certain Kinds of fruit trees would fours
fash without frrization if the soil were
{iroperly stimnpinted with fertilizer. So
fie put n the frees snd distributed the
fertilizer. This fated to work, and
hie put In the trees amd distributed the
orizinal expenditure and 31T.730 whieh
i the value of the improv FEA a |
tha protwcty bows-llenver vol) Res
pellienn,
Nehnehadn Incasar’s Palase,
Letties from the German exploring
party in Mesonctamia state that the
ork of excavating the site of ane sng
Babylon 18 processing post satisfac
tirily. The great zits of Nobuotad-
negzar's palace lias been cleared of
rabbis end its statelr dimensions re-
veated Numerous inseribed lpieks
have also boen found. In ese place
thers were 220 with elusely written
eaneiform Insceiptions. believed ta be
fragments of some public Hbeary.
They are from the vory earest period
of Babylonian history, Six hundred
cises of glaped tiles have been made
bear most elaborate designs, and are
fom the gate of Nebuchadnessars
from a diteh, therely admitting that
oo
$e
f
-
faces. ‘The nged culprit Is making afl i
who bad settied in the neighborhood,
$5
5 Mk
Gt
toady for shipment to Germiny. They .