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According to the Presbyterian Jour
nal, "In Mongolia the missionary is j
often asked to perform impossible and I
ridiculous cures. One man asked to
be made fat, another to be made
clever, another wished to be cured of
hunger, another to have his taste for
tobacco or whiskey taken away, while
almost everybody would like to have
his skin made white, like the for
eigner. "
Returns for 18R3 in tho controller's
oflice show to the New York Tribune
that it is a good thing t<> be sherilt* of
New York county. Resides his salary
of $12,01)0 a year, Sheriff* John J.
Gorman received as his share of the
fees collected the neat sum of $52,-
610.00. Added to the $12,000 salary,
Mr. Gorman therefore received the
fortablo remuneration of $01,010.00
for his services last year.
Fog is to most people depressing,
but if it is not too thick it affords
one beauty that is unique. This ap
pears only at night and in places that
are well furnished with arc lights.
These lamps spread a white radiance
through the moisture-laden air abovo
and around them, and, as they sputter
and flicker, the nebuhe seen over Iho
roofs, am! awnings appear liko the re
flection of a great fire, except that the
light is white instead of red and yel
low. When forms are blurred in tlio
mist, and distance is obliterated, this
playing and flashing of pallid lights is
magical and uncanny as well as beau
ful.
What will the Frenchmen, who think
there is no life outside of Paris, say
when they hear that our Embassador
to France is anxious to return to the
United States because he finds life in
the French capital too quiet for him,
asks the San Francisco Chronicle. Air.
Eustis will achieve great distinction if
he succeeds in dispelling the insane
idea of many Americans that Paris is a
particularly desirably place of resi
dence for a person born and bred in
the United States. He will not need
to exert himself greatly to prove that
there are many cities in this country
where life can be enjoyed more ration
ally and pleasantly and with a greater
degree of that excitement which Saroey
oalls the wine of life, than in Paris.
It is curious to calculate how a man
has spent the time of his life and how
largo a portion of it is taken tip with
occupations thnt seem to bo of small
moment,observes the Atlanta Constitu
tion. A man of fifty years of age, for
instance, if lie takes th • pains to esti
mate his time, will find that he lies
slept about 6,000 days; has worked
about 6,500; has walked for 800; has
amused himself for about -1,000; has
spent 1,500 in eating ; bus been sick f>i
About 500 nud so on. A gentleman
who has lived in tho suburbs of lliis
city for thirty years, recently calcu
lated that he had spent in that time
two years on cars; another, who shaves
hynself regularly three times a week,
estimates that since lie was tv; nty he
has spent nine mouths in scraping his
face.
Says the Boston Cultivator: "There
was a reduction of seven per cent, in
tho acreage of winter wheat sown lust
fall in this country. That was din
mainly to the low prices of wheat at
that time, though these prices were
from twelve to fifteen cents a bushel
higher than wheat prices now. What
will naturally lie the result if wheat
continues at present prices until the
time for seeding the spring crop in
tiio great Northwest? At present
prices for wheat, almost any other
grain yields larger return-;. L,ud
which will produce good spring wheat
will surely bring large crops of oais
aud barley, either one of which is
worth more per pound than wheat.
There will also be a large substitution
of corn and potatoes for wheat. These
causes will tend materially t<, reduce
this year's wheat crop, unless there i, i
a very material advance in wbo.it
prices before spring seeding time,"
PATIENCF.
Be patient ! Easy words to speak
While plenty nils the cup ot life,
While health brings roses to the cheek,
An I far removed are care and strife.
Fulling so glibly from the tongu j
Of those I often think of this
Whom suffering has never wrung,
Who scarcely know what patlenco Is.
Be patient! when the sufTerer lies
Prostrate beneath some fell disease,
And longs, through torturing agonies,
Only for one short hour of ease.
Be patient ! when the weary brain
Is racked with thought and anxious care,
Au l troubles in an endless train
Seem almost more than it can bear.
To feel the torture of delay,
The agony of hope deferred ;
To labor still from day to day,
The prize unwon, the prayer unheard.
And still to hope and strive and wait
The due reward of fortune's kiss—
This is to almost conquer fate,
This is to learn what patience is.
Despair not! though the clouds are dark,
And storm and danger veil the sky ;
L't fate and courage guide thy bark,
The storm will pass -. the port is nig a.
Be patient ! and the tide will turn,
Shadows will floe before the sun.
Those are fho hopes that live and burn
To light us till our work Is done.
All the Year Round.
LILLIAN'S LOVER.
IIY HELEN FORREST ORAVES.
/ 1 am!
0 /V / feffl afraid," said I
/Cjiljf (Tlv\ Jessie Mor-
I WmJr S,"U.I'M
have missed
][*pMjsJp| "'kown i,
j £ )T jhe j
'" snow -man
tled land
scape a red glow of sunset yet lingered ; j
while the black pines an I cedars !
quivered in the wind.
"I wish," added Jessie, "tint I !
hud asked that man below which was j
the right turning to take. But 1 was
afraid of him; he looked so cross."
She was a tall, slim slip of a thing,
with blue, wistful eyes, hair of the
real Scotch gold, and red lips, that
trembled partly with cold, partly with
a certain vague terror at tho position
in which she found herself.
In her hand she carried n heavy
bag, for Jessie had no money to pay
omnibus hire, or to engage a sleigh at
the railway station.
"►Suppose, she said to herself,
"this lonely road should lead no
where, except into tho woods? Sup
pose it should conduct mo straight
into a gypsy camp? For it seems
more and more desolate the further I
go. Suppose I should be frozen to ,
death, all alone here, with no helping
hand to sax#me?"
"Take care, child," cried n lon 1, I
clear voice. "Do you want to be run j
over?"
| It was no gypsy, nor vet n black
brown tramp, simply a plump, com- j
fortablo woman, driving herself in a
trim little red cutter. She eyed Jes
j sie curiously through her spectacles.
Jessie returned the gaze with interest.
"Please, madam," said Jessie, "can
you tell me if I nm near Bucknor Hall ?"
"Bless me," said the woman, "don't
you know? Bucknor Hull was burned
i down last night, aud the old lady was
5 suffocated in the smoke. Friends of j
! yours?"
1 Jessie put her bag down in tho .
i snowy road; she trembled violently. '
1 —not exactly friends," she said, j
j "But T was engaged to go there as j
I companion and reader, and—and—
Uli, what shall Ido now?"
j The old lady looked meditatively at j
the lash of her whip.
"Conic from New York?" said she, j
after a pause.
"Yes—from the Wilberforce Protec- I
tive Agency. And I spent all my money i
for the ticket here."
'One or two bright round tears de
tached themselves from the long lashes
and rolled slowly down her cheeks. j
Mrs. Parkliurst, who prided herself!
on her knowledge of physiognomy,
mado up her mind on the spot.
"One thing is very certain," said ' '
she. "Mrs. Bucknor will never rc
. quire a companion and reader now. !
And if you're puzzled what to do next,
you had better jump in and go with
inc."
"Where?" said Jessie.
"Home," said Mrs. Parkhnrst.
Now, Jessie Morton herself was not
a bad judge of the human face divine, 1
and in the indescribable solitude of
this moment, she caught at the wel- '
come idea of shelter nud company.
| She got into the red cutter, drew the
buffalo r<>!> around her shivering form,
and nestled close to Mrs. Parkliurst,
before she ventured to ask, timidly :
"Where ih home?"
Mrs. Park hurst shook the reins. The
pony darted merrily over the smooth
road into the purpling dusk.
"It's the Bassett Military Institute,"
| said she, with a very visible pride, j
"I'm housekeeper there."
"What!"
"Oh, take care!" scolded Mrs. Park- !
hurst. "You should hold on tight
when we turn those sharp curves. You
had very nearly fallen out. Yes, the j
Bassett Institute. And a tine place it
is! I was thinking—if your references
turn out what they should be—we
might make room for you there. We
need a smart young woman in the linen
room. I suppose you can do something
else besides companioning and reading
—eh?"
"Oh, yes 1"
"You'd like a place?"
"I must have one."
"Then," said Mrs. Parkliurst, "we'll
think of it. Fourteen professors and
one hundred and ten boys—that's a
family to take care of, isn't it? For
the colonel's wife is an invalid, and \
don't trouble herself about the house- !
keeping. T and my widowed daughter |
run the whole establishment, audi
there are nine of us sit dowu to din
ner iu the housekeeper's room. There!"
as they drove in between two massive
stone gate-posts, into an avenue of
rustling tamaracks. "Do you see that
pretty young lady gathering holly
berries? It's the colonel's daughter,
Miss Lillian Bassett."
"You've come back, liftvo yu#
Turkey?" cried a sweet, girlish young
voice. "Did you bring my chocolate
caramels?"
"The candy store was shut up, Miss
Lilly."
"Oh, how perfectly shameful!"
And a cluster of glaring red ber
ries, aided by u not unskillful hand,
hustled through the air, and hit the
housekeeper exactly on her nose. But,
instead of evincing offense, Mrs. Park
liurst only laughed.
"Isn't klic pretty?" said she, "and
such a mad-cup. Well—perhaps mar
riage will sober her dowu."
"Is she to be married soon?" asked
Jessie.
"We don't quite know," said Mrs.
Parkliurst. "But one of the young
professors admires her very much,
and we think she don't quite dislike
him."
Jessie looked wistfully back to
where Lillian Rassett's scnrlefc mantle
lighted up the snowy terrace. Why
I were some girls so happy, while others
1 toiled ceaselessly on in life's shad
own? Why was life such a problem?
( For awhile, however, the wheels ro
[ vol ved smoothly. Jessie's references,
| forwarded from the Wilberforce Pro
, I t-octirc Agency, proved all that could
I he desired, and she was engaged to
j take char go of the linen-room.
I During an outbreak of scarlet fever
she found herself particularly efficient
, ms a nurse, and Mrs. Parkliurst soon
' began to wonder how it was that she
i had ever got along without her.
j "Married, Lilly! Really married!
And to that handsome young pro
fessor of mathematics!'* cried Adelu
i Maurice, Lillian's ex-schoolmate.
| "Well, J never expected to see you
| caged! And he's quite 11 self -mado
man, they tell me."
I "I tell dour Lillian," said Miss Bella
: Bassett, the sharp-nosed maiden sister
! of the genial colonel, "that she should
! not make too sure of anything in this
1 world. The captain is very hkud
some, and all that sort of thing, but
—Pm afraid lie's inclined to be a
j flirt."
j "Nonsense!" cric.l Lillian, coloring
wrathfully.
i "Oh, but indeed, T'vo met him
twice at the shrubberies, walking with
that pretty yellow-haired girl that
takes care of the linen-room," per
: siste 1 Miss Bella.
j "What!" exclaimed Miss Maurice,
j "One oi the servants?'
| "Now, Aunt Bella, why Can't you
, hold your tongue," Hushed out Lillian,
j "when you know very well that old
Parkliurst says she is a reduced lady?"
I "Reduced Indies have no business
wnu lering about the laurel hedges
I with handsome young engaged men, " i
viciously retorted Miss Bassett. "And
1 really think my brother ought to
inquire into it. There she goes,
flouncing out of the room. Well, I'm
really afraid, Adelu, that our Lillian's
temper isn't altogether perfect."
"I don't think mine would be,"
said A del a Maurice, "if I were bad
gered like that."
j "It is a dreadful trial, isn't it, to
1 see your lover drifliug off into nn
. other woman's snares?" said Miss Bella,
wilfully misunderstanding things.
( While Lillian, running up stairs,
j paused to catch her breath at one of
j the big mullionod windows on the
staircase.
j "Mow I should like to cram a big
I lmth sponge into Aunt Bella's con
j sorious old mouth!" said she. "Onlv
j to think of—"
| Suddenly she paused. Down on the
I lower pine walk, where the west winds I
I had swe it the path dry of snow, Cap
tain Moreton was pacing up and down
with the gold-haired young girl at his
side.
" Well, why shouldn't thej ?" said
bravo Lillian, swallowing the rebel
lious lump in her throat. "I sup
pose. lie happened to meet her, and—"
At this precise moment, however,
the couple paused beside a group of
dark spruces. She could distinctly
perceive her lover bend his tall head
to kiss —ves, to kiss the yellow-tressed
lassie. And then they passed on into
the tamarack thickets and were lost to
view.
Lillian stood still, her bright eyes
brimming ovit with tears, a pang
transfixing her heart as if some poi
: soiled arrow weiv buried there.
"And I loved him !" she said, aloud,
j "Ob, how I loved him! Rut this is an
end oi it all. To-night, when becomes '
i to talk to me— to-night there must be i
!an end of ; t al!!"
The young professor wns certainly
a very handsome man, with his brill
iant blue eyes, his brown hair, shot j
with golden gleams, and those straight,
clear-cut features of his; and when he |
came cheerily in that evening, Lil
lian's heart failed within her.
"How can he bear himself so
bravely?" she thought. "Where is
his conscience—his manly truth?"
j "I nm glad, Lilly, to find you alone,"
said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tak
ing her hand in his.
She jerked it away.
"I hate sitting hand-in-hand," said j
she, in answer to his surprised glance.
"It's so -so spoony!"
"Well, just as you like, darling," lie j
acquiesced, seating himself beside her.
"To find you alone, for I wanted to I
talk with you very particularly. I
have a secret to tell you."
44 There may be more secrets than
one in the world," said Lilly, in a low
voice.
"A secret that is not entirely my
own —a secret that may, perhaps,alter
all our existing arrangements—"
"It undoubtedly will," said Lilly,
rising to her feet in her excitement.
| "You need not go on, Captain Moreton.
j I know all, and I give your betrothal
riug back to you !"
"Lilly, I would scarcrly have thought
this of you!" he said, gravely.
"No? For what did you take me,
Am I not a woman, with a wo
man's'spirit? Do you think T can con
tinue to love a man who is false to
me?"
"False to you, Lillian? But I am
not that. Sweet, whether you marry
mo or not, I shall go on loving you
loyally to my life's end !"
"How many girls do you love at
once?" bitterly asked Lillian.
4 'l ? Why do you ask that question ?'
"Because I saw you this very al tor
noon in the pine walk with anothei
woman. I saw your arm around het
waist. J. saw you stoop to kiss her!"
4 'Ob, you saw me, did you? Then
my story is half told already. It is
but a short time, Lilly, since I kuew
it myself."
Bhe stood looking at him with large,
surprised eyes.
How dared he speak so lightly—and
to her?
"Lilly, tlmt sweet young girl whom
Mrs. Parkhurst lias employed in the
linen-room Miss Moreton, she calls
herself is my own sister, and she has
concealed herself from me, fearing
that the knowledge that i-lie was in the
instiiuto in such a capacity would
; prejudice my future unfavorably.
! She was a governess in New York
she wfts coming hero as companion to
I poor old Mrs. Bucknor, who was killed
lin the fire—and Mrs. Parkhurst,
ignorant of any relation between us,
brought her here. And, noble heroine
that she is, she would have gone away
without betraying herself, had 1 not
! chanced to meet her by accident. She
thought I would be mortified, but in
stead I am proud of licr beyond the
power of word" to express.
44 'But Miss Bassett?" said she.
"And tlion 1 told her that this even
ing yen should know all. I have kept
my word. Now I await your verdict.
Have I not reason to triumph in such
a noble sister as this?"
Lillian burst into tears; she hid her
face ou Moret oil's breast.
"Oh, Will," she cried, "wliat a
dreadful goose I have been to doubt
your love! Go and bring her here at
once. Tell her I want to see my dear
new sister. Tell her that, hereafter,
her home must bo with me. There's
plenty of room in the new house for
your sister. But first, Will, kiss mo
and tell me tliut you forgive me,
quite."
And RO the brave young girl, who
had subordinated her wholo life to her
brother's success, was promoted to her
proper place on life's ladder.
"I could have been happy anywhere
had I known that Will's future was
assured," said she.
I And Lillian laughingly told her that
! she could bo as happy in the new col
lege as anywhere else.
"And we," said she, "will be a deal
happier!"
Miss Adela Maurice and Jessie were
the bridesmaids.
Aunt Bella put her disappointment
in her pocket, and the wedding came
off at Easter, greatly to Mrs. Park
[ hurst's delight.
"I knew," said that worthy dame,
"that she was something out of tho
common the lirst look I hud in her
face. Physiognomy never yet failed
me!"— Saturday Night.
At Sea on an lee Floe.
Recently the lifeboat society at
Cronstadt received news that toward
the south shore of the Gulf of Finland,
about thirty miles from Cronstadt,
some 200 fishermen and peasants, and
their horses and sleighs, had been
I suddenly carried out to sea 011 a large
I ice floe, which had been detached ap
parently by a recent storm. The ice
cutting boat* at Cronstadt were laid
up for the winter and could not bo
: used. Twenty sailors, however, with
; two officers and assistant surgeons,
| were dispatched over the ice with two
I lifeboats on runners, and a similar
party started to the rescue from
Oren'enbaum, on the other side of tho
mouth of tho Neva. Tho latest tele
grams from Cronstadt state that the
fishermen and others have been found
and all rescued by means of a bridgo
made of poles and planks, which wero
thrown out from tho firm ice. They
had been cut oft* from tho mainland
for at least forty-eight hours, during
the latter part of which provisions
were passed over to them by the in
habitants of the nearest shore. Scien
tific American.
A Dog ol Destiny.
Phoenix, Arizona, has a bobtailed
dog which is destined to make a place
for himself in history. Recently lie
broke up a race between hose teams,
lie acts as chief mourner at all funerals
held in tho city. But now one more
has been added to his accomplishments.
On several occasions recently he has
stopped runaway horses by seizing the
lines in his teeth and holding on till
the animals stopped.—San Frauciscc
Chronicle.
Caerphilly Without Care.
Apropos of the prevailing inability
' of trainmen on our elevated and other
railroads to call out tho names of sta*
! tions with distinctness, a gentleman
who hus lived for several years in
Wales Hays that there is nt least one
station in that country which tho rail*
way guards are bouud to pronounce
carefully. It ia Caerphilly.—New
York Tribune.
MARKING SHEEP.
Tho best ear marks for sheep are the
metal nickel plated loops, upon which
are stamped the owner's name and the
numbers of tho sheep. To distinguish
the ewes from tho other sheep they
may be marked in the right ear, the
others in the left. An easy way to
further distinguish any special sheep
is to put tho marks in perpendicularly
in the ears, the others beiug put in
horizontally. Tho numbers are used
in the record book of those sheep that
are so desired to bo distinguished.—
New York Times.
THE PERFECT FARM HORSE.
Tho perfect farm horse has not
been developed yet, and it is prob
able that there may not bo entire con
currence in the ideal drawn. This
summary of its accomplishments, how
ever, is not beyond attainment. It
must have tho size and strength to
draw a plow with case ; tho stylo and
action necessary to make a trip to
market and back in tho least possible
time; of a docile disposition, but not
to tho detraction of nerve, a most
necessary qualification of a good farm
horse; and, lastly, it must be such a
horse as can successfully meet compe
tition in the sale riug.—Now York
World.
TREE PLANTING.
Mr. N. Ohmor, the well known lior
-1 iculturist of Dayton, Ohio, recently
made tlie following statement with re
gard to tree planting before the stu
louts of the School of Agriculture) of
the Ohio State University:
"I give special attention to plant
ing. I consider this matter of plant
ing a very important one. It is roally
very much neglected. I set my trees a
little deeper in the orchard than they
stand in the nursery. I dig holes for
setting twelve or iifteen niches deep,
and when I come to the cultivation of
my trees I throw the earth toward
them. In preparing the trees for
planting, I cut off all bruised or muti
lated roots, tn the peach tree, I cut
the top also, in order to give the tree
proper shape, otherwise you will have
long branches that will break beneath
the weight of the fruit. If your tree
has good roots, you need have no fear
that the cutting of the to]) will injure
it."
"Have you a plan for keeping your
trees in line in planting?"
"1 have always exorcised great care
in setting my trees to huvo them well
arranged. I use a very simple device
of my own. Under proper arrange
ment the orchards look better, and I
think do better, when arranged in
regular order."
POULTRY FOR RUN-DOWN FARMS.
New England bus always used the
raw material of other States and man- i
ufactured goods of all kinds in which I
her people have excelled. With fewer
advantages as an agricultural country, |
yet she excels in yield, in proportion j
to area cultivated, in many crops that j
are grown extensively elsewhere. :
Massachusetts produces more corn per j
acre than any other State, but it pays *
her people better to grow articles that I
bring the highest prices in market. '
So far as pure breeds of poultry are i
concerned, New England leads all other j
sections, and she derives an enormous j
sum from that source alone, while her j
farmers also get the best prices for
dressed carcasses nud eggs.
Ol late years it has been largely ad
vertised that many farms in some sec
tions of Now England no longer pay,
and that their owners have ceased to
take an interest in them, oven going
so far ns to abandon them in cases
that have been noticed. The cause
assigned is that farm products are
grown so cheaply in the West that our
farmers cannot compete with the West
ern farmers. But our farmers can use
(he cheap foods, however, and change
them into more salable products. It
may be mentioned that so far as the
quality of the soil is concerned, poul
try can be made a specialty 011 the
poorest or the best, and tho frozen
stock of the West has never interfered
with prices in the East. Strictly fresh,
uearby eggs and choice carcasses can
not lie brought East, while consumers
will not discard the good for tho in
ferior.—Mirror and Farmer.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
Who doesn't love chrysanthemums?
Vet comparatively few raise them, the
reason usually given beiug that they
are too much trouble. Many others,
u t knowing that they can be raised
from seed, thinking the plants must
be purchased from a florist, do not
raise them on account of the expense.
One nice way to manage them is to
lit a lot of egg-shells into a box, fill
the shells with sandy soil, and in each
one plant a seed, covering them to a
depth equal to about twico the thick
ness of the seed. Care for them as
for any other seed. If planted about
(he last of February they will bo ready
to transplant by t he time all danger of
frost is gone. Transplant each plant
into a five or six inch plot. Sink the
pot 111 the earth in the garden where
they will get tho morning sun, but
will bo partially shaded in the after
noon. Water if necessary, but they
will require little else, 'in August
(hey should be trimmed back to twelve
or fourteen inches in height so that
they will braucli out and thus bear
many flowers.
lu September it is well to begin
giving them manure water two oz
three times a week. Not absolutely
necessary, of course, but it will pay
any one to go to the trouble, for the
blooms will be not only more abundanl
but larger and more brilliant. They
should be removed to the house early
enough in the fall to iusure against
frost, but should bo put in a room
without fire at first. Indeed, the
cooler the plunts are kept after they
onco begin to blossom the longer the
bloom will last, and by a little manage
ment may be kept for Christmas
blooming.
To do this thoy should bo more
shaded than the other plants and not
cut back so early in the season. Then
when brought into the hous3 they
should bo kept as cool as possible not
to freeze.
| Somo persons do not sow the seed
until the season is so far advanced
| that tlicy maybe sown in open ground.
They grow all summer where sown,
but are potted early in the fall, be in 3
trimmed back at that time. They do
not bloom quite so early as where the
seed is sown earlier, and the plants
not disturbed by fall potting, but some
as lino blossoms as I ever saw have
been grown on plants so treated.—
Farm, Field and Fireside.
THE FARMER'S GARDEN.
It is probably true that farm gar
dens, vegetable and fruit gardens, will
bo more generally cultivated this yeai
than ever before, for the reason thai
wo are daily learning more of the re
quiroments of life and discover them
only in a well supplied table, and thai
the latter is found only where the
kitchen gardeu affords the necessary
material. Man is not altogether a meal
eater; indeed we have learned that
with fresh vegetables and fruits from h
properly conducted garden with cream
and butter and oggs ho is much bet
ter off and likely to enjoy bcttei
health than with more meat. IJOSS
meat and pastry, less high living and
a nearer approach to nature's own
health giving products will nour
ish and sustain the auimal economy
with less irritation of the mental and
physical systems, less indigestion and
constipation and a heartier, happiet
tone generally.
A good sized two acres near to the
house should be laid off, thoroughly
plowed, well manured and put in the
finest possible tilth. Then determine
what vegetables you want for spring,
summer, nutum and winter use. Take
a pieco of blank paper, mako a map
showing where tho roads through it
are to be, then where this that and the
other thing is to be planted. Goose
berry, currant and raspberry bushes
may be planted in straight rows only
from end to end, so as not to interfere
with the plow; but they should be, if
possible, nca:: the road and pathways
or along under the fences.
j Deep cultivation, perfect tillage anil
i thorough manuring with stable or
! barn yard manure are the main requi
( nitea to success. Take, then, one of the
great seetl catalogues and select what
seed you want for tho lirst year. If
; you are short of help select fewer vu
( rieties, but have them so as to supply
, a continuous variety from the earliest
i spring till frost comes, and even then
have tt store of such as will keep
| through the winter. The American
farmer should be the best fed man in
the world, princes and kings not ex
cepted ; and he will be if he only lays
himself out to produce for liis own
table lresli fruits and vegetables, fresh
milk, butter, eggs and poultry, and
fresh meat when it may he convenient
ly had. The beautifully gotten up
seed catalogues published by our ad
vertisers for gratuitous distribution
should be in every farmhouse iu the
country and ho freely and fully con
sulted. They not only remind one of
the varieties needed, hut, as a rule,
tell how they are to bo cultivated so
as to insure tho best results. The
making of thegnrden and the planting
thereof may come just when all hand's
and horses are wanted for other work,
but hotter employ oxtra help to make
it than not have a garden at all. It
should bo so planted as to admit of
horse cultivation,—Column's ltural
World.
FARM AND HARDEN NOTES.
It is in working the butter that the
fine art of butter-making comes in.
Eggs from pallets nro not npt to
hatch as well as those from adult
fowls.
In every country school agriculture,
horticulture and dairying should bo
taught.
Poultry powders nro rarely required
j for Hocks that are fed and cared for
properly.
1 he secret in growing large and flue
chickens is to feed often and but little
at a time. .
There is a better market for small
cheeses than for those weighing forty
or fifty pounds.
Propel care and feeding are even
more necessary than breeding for early
maturity of stock.
Little ducks require almost twice as
much food as chicks, but they grow
very rapidly. They should be fed
four times a day aud given all they will
eat.
It is paid that unrendere 1 beef tal
low chopped into very small pieces
aud mixed in the feed for two or three I
days will put a tine gloss on the plum
age of show birds. |
A TALE FROM THE MOUN.
TAINS.
nOW A FARMER'S WIPE WAS BATED
A Remarkable Story o! ■ Woman's Ex
cape From Dentk Told la Iler
Onr.i Word*.
(From the Scranton, Pa. f Republican.)
Nearly five mtlrs north or the town of Ber
wiok, In Columbia County, Pa., right at the
foot of a spur of the North Mountains, Is the
homo of Ainos Cop?, a sturdy young farmer.
A Scranton newspaper man drove from
Berwick to tho G'opo farm in order that the
accuracy of an interesting rumor might be
| determined. -**.
Ho had nearly reached the farm when he
| observed a woman coming towards him from
; the fields near by nn 1 walking somewhat
rapidly. He was not cer:aln that he was on
the right road and, awaiting her coming, In
| quired as to whero Amos Cope lived. Being
> told that the farm house just ahead wns the
: p'ao?, ho said ho had come out to seo Mrs.
I Cope, nnd was fairly startled when she re
! plied, "I am Mrs. Cop?."
I Bho was about thirty years old—her eyoe
flashed with brightness, and her cheeks were
I of that healthful glow that is so common
| among the wives and daughters of farmers.
She had been out gathering raspberries and
! was closing up a day's picking of about forty
j quarts. Iloiug asked concerning her sick
ness and recovery, she stated explicitly and
1 unreservedly that she regarded her present
1 hoalth bettor than it had been in years. "All
of lost year, and part of the previous one,"
she said, "1 just moped about tho hous3 un
able to do anything, in bed perhaps mora
than half tho time, nnd was treated by all the
doctors of tho nearby towns. Bomo of thorn
doctored mo for dyspepsia, others for In
flammation of tho stomach and rheumatism ;
whilo pleurisy of the left side, and even in
flammation of the brain (for there were tlm"8
when I knew not what I was doing)engaged
tho attention of others. They all seomed at
sea but I did everything they directod, but
without aval'.
"Uterine nnd stomach troubles also at
: tended tho goneral breaking down of my
(Strength and body, and Just before last
Christmas I wafc forced to bod front which I
did not arise until during bust March. Then
none of my friends thought I would over get
well. Medicines without stint wore bought
nnd taken, so much so that I finally lost all
hope of life and was ready to resign myself
lo Co l's will. It was then my husband rea-1
of a medicine called Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
Ho got tho pills, and lo please him I began
Iholr use just as the directions said they
should bo taken. Before the first box was
used I could feel a decided change ; my ap
petite was returning; I wns no longer dis
tressed by gases on my stomach ; I could feel
the blood passing through my veins, anil
there was no more cf that terrible pain in
tho region of the heart. My head became
clearer nnd clearer, and before tho second
box was used I was out of bed. lam now
using the sixth box, and am HO much im
proved that I feel that any of the drudgery
on tho farm that is a woman's work I can
now perform. We bought the Pink Pills at
Dr. L. Reagan A Co.'s drug store on Front
St.. in Berwick."
Mrs. Emma Posten. a neighbor ef Mrs.
Cope, and Mrs. Jacob Wise, a lady who lives
on the road loading from Berwick to the
farm, both continued thestory of Mrs. Cope's
sickness. The reporter next visited Amos
Cope where he was working iu the field. He
fully corroborated ovary statement made by
his wife, and seamed most happy that rink
Pills had been tho means of bringing good
health to his suffering wife.
When Berwick was reached the reporter
fouad Dr. L. Jleagan, one of the best known
and most popular practicing phvpicians In
tho place. He is also tho head or the drug
firm of Reagan A Co. lie spoke freely ot
Mrs. Cope's long illness and of her final curt
by Dr. Williams' Pink Pi Is. Mr. J. W. Diet
rick, tho druggist, stated that there wore
many persons in the town now using Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills.
An analysis of Dr. Williams' rink Pillt
Slows that they contain, in a condensed
rm, all tho oleimiita necessary to give now
lifo and richness to tho blood and restore
shattered norvos. Tltey aro au unfailing
spociflo for such diseases as loeomotoi
ataxia, partial paralysis, Ht. Vitus danco,
s jlatic i, neuralgia, rhoun. ilistn, nervous
headache, tho after offoels of la grippe, pal
pitation of tho heart, palo and sallow com
plexious, an 1 all forms of weakness oithei
Iu male or fo nalo. Pink Pills aro sold by all
dealers, or w.ll bo sent post paid on reoolpl
of prleo, (SO cents a box or six boxes foi
#2.50 they aro never sold in bulk or by thi
100 ) by addressing Dr. Williams' Modloiui
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.,or Brockville,
Ontario.
ADOPT twenty-two hundred persona
wore killed during 188'J by tho deadly
car-coupler. Seuttoied as theso un
fortunate beings were over a great ex
tent, of country and tho BO called acci
dents extending over a year of time,
no one gives the matter special atten
tion. "When will this horrible and
useless slaughter cease ?
A postal, a droo ol' ink, a request for a frea
catalogue \W) mailable artit U- - mve 251 ■ 50c.
on 31. u ed\; Nerve ami Benin Treatment, 07c.
Liver Pill* 1.V.; Poroun PHler.<. l.'c.; ilat
Dye. 10c. h. A. llall, Charleston. S. 0.
K^LEDGE^
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who livo bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Svrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in tho form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a j>erfcct lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with tho approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it m perfectly free fiom
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Fip is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
P N ulfi