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A RONDEAU. 0 sweet-day dream?that phautasy achieves, 1 would not wake to find ray dream deceives,? ( It seems so real?that with my will at bay ^ I stretch my arms out in a childish way I To grasp the olden hope of morns and eves ( While the smiling flowers, the buds and leaves. In which the rapture of my mood believes Hake glad the summer air like roundelay? I Oh sweet day dream! Ah, strange that dreamland ever mocking cleaves. Unto the pleasures, after-memory grieves, Time, when the sun of life filled youth's rare Bsffc day, 1 When all the future seemed endless May, And Love drew near the light that Fancy ! r- ; , weaves Oh sweet dav dream. ~-v; , - ( ?annie G. Murray, in Boston Sunday Herald. I J DISCONTENTED. |; 'Deal* me," said Letty Wyngard, x?. '1 shall go crazy. Five ^children all i clamoring at once, the preserve kettle 1 ; boiling over, the pickles fermenting, i moths in my Sunday shawl and the 1 dog rnnning away with the soup-bone 1 for dinner." And Letty stood in the middle of the room, holding her head with both < hands, as if she momentarily expected ! it towril np into the air like a balloon. < Letty was very pretty, after an odd < gypsy type, with great dark eyes, a brown, healthy skin,and hair as black as a crow's wing?and, as yet, not V even the five children,and the endless | round of daily cares and duties to < * which, as the wife of a poor, young y carpenter, she was condemned, had i * planted a wrinkle on her velvet- ] smooth forehead. T_T_ TIT ^ ? t ?4- lAnorlvin<r I I jpp* OOQU Wyugltru uuioi ?/ut itiugutu^, i and that, in Mrs. Wyngard's case, 1 ? - proved the one hair that broke the i !. camel's back. She legan to cry. < "Now, Letty, don't be a goose,'* i said he, soothingly. "Why, what do yon know about real trouble?" 1 f-. ; "I don't care," sobbed Letty. "I'm sick of it all. ^I'm tired of patching old clothes, ana hashing old meats, i Sr . and hoarding i ennies.l'mitired of " ggj. "Tour husband and your children," i Ef" gravely interrupted Mr. Wyngard, "Is that it, Letty?" 1 Mrs. Wyngard pouted and was silent She didn't like to own to it, but for the moment she almost felt 1 that she was tired of them. v VI might have married rich," she said, slowly, twisting the baby's bibstrings around and about her finger. "I might have been Howard Lindsley's wife, and he is a very wealthy man they tell me." ipV "It's a pity you didn't," said John, provokingly. I "Yes, it is a pity, "said Letty, stung 1 JA. beyond endurance, as she flounced out of the room. j And then as she sat down to sew a button on Johnny's jacket and braid j little Helen's hair and show Rosie j about the arithmetic sums, and, finally, ||. when the four eldest ones were ] packed off to school, to bathe the ^ baby and rock it to sleep, Letty Wyngard could not help thinking how j much brighter and smoother her path||iway would be if, instead of saying "no" to handsome Howard Lindsley, she >1 had uttered, the other monosyllable, j Not but what she loved John better, , g.% far, than Howard-^but this wearing, grinding succession of petty cares and 1 ? toil was sapping all the life and elas- 1 tioity ont of her, . ??- - t?1--J .f 1 one 1UO&OU UISUOIUIUIIJ uvnu av luv j faded calico dress she wore, patched J and darned in more than one place. ?|: "If I had married Howard Linds- ' she said to herself, "I could have worn silks and jewels every day, with hired servants to wait on me and ^ an elegant carriage to drive ont in f! whenever I pleased. Oh, dear, what i a world of trouble this is!" 1 And as Mrs. Wyngard laid her little 1 rosy-cheeked infant down to sleep, she ] felt as if her lot had fallen in very i thorny places. i Just as she had taken her place once again over the brass kettle in which < she was frying to "do up" same rocky ~ pound pears which a neighbor had i given her, there came a knock at the |||t door. i life.-. "Come in," said Letty, and the X housekeeper from Had field Hall, the ' big mansion on the hill, came mincing ] across the threshold. Lefty dusted off a chair in considerable of a flurry, for Mrs. Ellison was. a grand lady in her way, who wore K black silks and laces and had her bonnets directly from a New York milv. liner every spring and fall. 'Won't you sit down, Mrs. ElliP son?'.'said she, coloring to the roots 1 V of her pretty hair, and secretely hoping that Mrs. Ellison did not observe < the patch on her calico dress. "Thank you, my dear?I am in a i greatdiurry," said Mrs. Ellison, "I 5 have some fine laces and muslins and i Yaiencinnes handkerchiefs here from X my lady at the hall. The laundress \ hasn't come down yet, aud she ain't willing to trust the lady's maid with 'em, and they must be ready by dark ?and so I told her I knew a person in the village that was a master hand at laoes and fluting and snch like, and I denend on von. mv dear, to do 'em g|| up for me." , Letty hesitated an instant. "She'll pay you a dollar at least," | said Mrs. Ellison. "She ain't none of the stingy sort, my lady ain't." A dollar, in Letty Wyngard's eyes, was no inconsiderable sum. A dollar ; \ would buy the new shoes that Bosie Z. r needed so sadly?or flannel for the baby's winter sacks?or half a hunmgZ''dred other necessaries which Letty could think of. "Fes," said she, "I'll do it. My preserves will soon be finished. Lay the bundle ou the table please. So the new family have arrived at the hall at last?" Mrs. Ellison nodded assent. She had lived housekeeper with the Hadfields of Hadfield Hall for 20 years, and was sorry enough when the old place went into other hands. But a situation was a situation, so she had stayed on. "Yes," says she. "Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lindsley." Letty gave such a start that the preserve kettle had nearly tipped over into the fire. - "Lindsloy!" cried she, with a little, hysterical laugh. "What a funny name!" "Handsome, stylish people, with more money, to all appearances, thau they know what to do with," went on Mrs. Ellison. "I just wish you could see her dresses and jewels! Stephanie, j the French maid, showed me, when j she was unpacking 'em, and it's as : fr good as a play!" q Letty said nothing, but stirred j busily away at -her preserves, while j the oid housekeeper maundered on ; about the wealth and graudeur of the near possessors of Hadfield Hall. And all this might have been hers! "When shall I aend for the laces?" ESSSiSg* Mrs. Ellison finally asked, when she I rose to depart. I'll take them home myself, about lusk," said Letty, inwardly resolving to get for herself a glimpse into the paradise which so nearlvhad been her jwn. And so,at twilight, with the daintily ironed and fluted laces in her basket, she walked up to Hadfield Hall. How stately it looked with its broad colonnaded facade, all glitteriDg with lights, its grand conservatory at the back, where palm-leaves aud bananas brushed the gla<s top, and its terraced grounds! Oh, if she had only said "yes" to Howard Lindsley 11 years wo! O ' Within, everything was in keeping. Axmiuister carpets, iike banks'of moss covered the tioor?marble statues in velvet-lined niches?lights glowed softly, and tables, loaded with rare ornaments, stood around. "Hush!" saidLetty, as Mrs. Ellison with some pride, poiuted out tho various beauties of the place. "What i3 that noise, like a woman crying? In the uext room. I think." Mrs. Ellison's face clouded over. "It's Mrs. Lindfay, poor dear," said she. "The master's a brute. He's been drinking too much?Mademoiselle Stephnuie says he always drinks too much?and he struck her! Struct her, and called her a whimpering fool before all of us servants. I never saw a man strike a woman before, and I declare it made me sick aU OAer. But Stephanie says it's a common thing enough. Oh, my dear, she's wretched in spite of all her money." "Has she no children?" Leity softly asked. "She had two,but she lost 'cm both. Mademoiselle Stephanie says she often cries and wishes she w:is dead, too. And I don't wonder much, with such a husband as she's got. Hush! there he comes now." And shrinking behind a carved group of Italian marble statuary, the tiro women watched Howard Lindsley 3talk g'oomily by, with red, iuHamed eyes, sullen, down-looking face and 3hntflrug, unsteady footstep. Silently Letty Wyngard went home, thanking God in her heart that she was a poor man's wife. "Have yon heard of the accident?" asked old Peter Styles, who was standing out at his gate, as she hurried by in the deepening dusk. "No; what accident? What has happened?" "That there house as your husband was workin' in has tumbled in! All a heap|of ruins! Something wrong about the foundation, they say, and " "Oh, myGotl!" wildly interrupted Letty, clasping her hands. "Was he hurt? My husband?" "Well,"hesitated old Styles, "the* e was two men killed and one had his arm broke. But " Letty waited to hear no more. Swift as an arrow out of a bow she sped homeward, a horrible dread winging her footsteps with al.niost iucredible speed. Ch! if John should ! be killed?John, her faithful, loyal husband, whom she had recked so lightly of?whom that very day she ] bad allowed to leave her without the good-bye kiss. If her children should be fatherless?if "Jofin! Joiinr* sue waiieu, as sue pushed open the door, and went, breathless, into the kitchen. "Well, little woman, what is it?" And ohl thanks to au all merciful Heaven ? John Wjngard himself turned hla bright, living face toward lier from the hearthside, where he was sitting, with a child on either knee. "I know what is in your dumb, questioning eves, Letty. I am not hurt, thank God. I had just gone to the hardware store for another barrel of nails when the building fell. No, Letty, you're not rid of me quite so jesily." Letty threw herself, sobbing, into his arms. "Ah, John, John, love mo. Hold me closer to your heart, Johu. I've been repining and selfish. I've never been half good enough for you; but, please God, I'll be a better woman, ind a more faithful wife from this night henceforward." And then she told him the history of her day's adventures. "It's natural enough, little wife," said John, kindly, stroking her hair. "But for all that I'm glad you've realized money isn't always happiness." And a more contented couple than John Wyngard and his wife Letty never sat by cheery fireside upon that bleak winter evening. Letty profited by her lesson. PEARLS Of THOUGHT. Tain hope to make people happy by politics I?Carlyle. The good man's life is like the spark that is brightest at the close. When interest is at variance with, conscience, auy pretence that seeins to reconcile them satisfies the hollowhearted. Idleness is a craven's goal. No man of worth wants to be free from work. Without work life is not worth the living. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it; toil is the law. To let a man know that you recognize and rejoice in some good quality of his, is to bless him with a new heart and stimulus. Courtesy h the passport to success. We double the power of our life when we add to its gifts unfailing courtesy. The world always begrudges room to a boor. The habit of blaming others when things go wrong is an insidious and dangerous one. Far more is it to the purpose to inquire within whether the fault, or much of it, may not lie at home. Beneficence should never be exercised at raudom, nor upon irrational impulse, but should be the outcome and expression of a disposition trained and nourished in the atmosphere of human friendship. The Forests of Cuba. Perhaps most of us associate all tropical forests with terrible wild beasts and reptiles. In childhood's days we had picture books illustratiug the anaconda reaching down from a tree to circle around a man and squeeze him. There were the jaguar and the dead hunter, the tiger carrying off a woman on his shoulder, the lion springing on the bull, etc. In Cuba things are different. A returned prospector, one of a rich sydnicate, that is buying all the laud it can find for sale in the "Pearl of the Antilles," says that wild beasts are practically unknown there. There is a wild animal, about the uze of our black squirrel, called the "hutia," which is choice eating. Peer have come over from Florida, aud abound in some parts of the island. Only four species of snakes are found, and all are harmless. One may sleep uncovered in the forests without fear of molestation by beast, reptile or insect.? New York Press. Blind Persons and Dreams. Everybody dreams more or less, bnt have you ever reflected upon the fact1 that people who are born blind have only "hearing" dreams? In other words, tffcTr mental eye sees nothing; they only hear sounds. This interesting point came up before i scientific society the other day, and it was found that of 200 blind persons who had been questioned on the sub Ject those who had been b.rn without sight and those who had become blind before their fifth year never saw things or 'tees in their dreams, while j all those whose eyesight was destroyed after the seventh year had as vivid dream visions as seeing people. Blind per/-lis, it may be observed, dream just as frequently as do normal people.?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. . England'* Armored Train*. The magnificent armored trains used by England in her war with the Boers will transport her troops. protect biidges and tele| graphic o nmiunlcatlons in about the same way that Ilostetter's Mcmacii Bitters drives dyspepsia lrum the human stomach and then mounts guard that it does not return. 'Ihe Bitters has won in every case of Indigestion, biliousness, liver and kidney trouble for the past Guy years. It Is Invaluable at all times. Too Severe a Strain. "Rhvtut tells me lie has gone out of politics entirely ?"* "That's true. Politically speaking, ho was on 'he lence, and when the hee ers began pulling a leg on each side it was more than he could stand."?Chicago News. Vitality low. debl'ltuted crexbansted cured by Dr. Kline's luvigo-ating Tonic. Frxk $1 tilal bottle for 2 week*' treatment. Dr. Kline, | !.d.,9?l Arch St. Phllndelpha. Founded 1S7L A Slight Misunderstanding. SI e?I suppo-e \ou were presented at court while in Lond??n? Ho?Yes. twic; but I was acquitted both t:m? s.?Chicago News 4 4Proof of the Padding Is in the Eating It is not <what <we say, but <what Hood's Sarsaparilla does, that tells the story. Thousands of people give the proof by telling of remarkable cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla of Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Dyspepsia. Catarrh, Rheumatism, and all j other blood diseases and debility. COSMOPOLITAN MANILA. The People on Its Streets Are of Every Nation, with Chinese Predominating. Robert Godkin, just from Manila recently said: "/.side from its purely physical aspects Manila is unlike any other place I have ever been iu. The people on the streets are of every nation, but with Chinese predominating. There are large nmnlters of pure blooded Chinese there, and the halfcastes, Chinese and native of tue island, are innumerable. Aguinaldo himself is one, and the almond eye shows everywhere. The Tagal race is no longer generally of the pure blood. The Chinese-Tagalog crossbreed is called a mestizo, while a Spanish-Tagalog half-caste is called a Filipino. These latter are inordinately proud of their Spanish ancestry, hold themselves aloof, and constitute the aristocracy of Manila. Japanese, Malays and representatives of other Eastern races are frequently met, while Caucasians are also occasionally to be seen, though in fewer numbers. Of course, when I was there, the American soldV?r, in brown uniform and campaign hat, was all over the shop, guards on every street and groups of them at every corner. "The Escolta, the principal business street, of an afternoon is a lively and interesting place, with groups of soldiers, Chinese coolies, and linen or duck clad officers parsing to and fro. There used to be one old Filipino, who drove every day alone, who was really wonderful in his grandeur. Seated alone, in the center of the seat of his victoria, he was always clad in a long frock coat, and wore a high hat, which must have been one of the first ever made. It was said to be the only one in, or that ever had been in Manila, and the old chap was inordinately proud of it "In the middle of the day the natives and acclimatized Caucasians go in for the siesta, and for two or three hours business is almost wholly suspended, but with our people It was different. Unused to the ways of the place, they have not as yet shaken off the habits of a lifetime, and pay no attention to the heat of the day. As a consequence the streets are lively now at all hours, whereas formerly there was a space of time in the middle of the day when they were comparatively deserted." Dyeing Is as simple as washing when yon uee Putnam FaPzlxss Dies. Sold by all druggists. The Disappointed One. A severe and elderly woman passed by with one ??f her kind. We cauirht only this tra?ment: "It seems to me some persons are born just to get the first reading of new books at the Athenaeum."?Boston Journal. State of Ohio. Citt of Toledo. Lucas County. f ' Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior n.artner of the firm of F. J. cheney & Co., doiDg business In the City or Toieao, County and State aforesaid, and thatsaid Arm will Day i he sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in ray ?) piesenre, this 6th day of December, < sea l> A. D. 1886. A. W. glea80n. ('?y?'\ Sotary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and actsdirectly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Chenet & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggi*ts, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. After six years' suffering I was cured by I'lso's Cure.?Mary Thomson. Ohio Ave., Alleghany, Pa., March 19,1894. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrnp for children teething, softens '.he gums, reduces Inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. With Hoe and Gun. The Transvaal Boer behind the hoe Perhaps maybe a trifle slow; Put he's a sight to make men run? 'J hat Transvaal Boer behind a gun. ?Indianapolis Journal. Dr. Brail's COUCH SYRUP Cures Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick. r.<:.c results. KefusC substitutes. Dr. Bull j Pills cure Biliousness. Trial, 20 for sc. ? DnYkYnc? *15? < M winivkvaDDhf A Ijirfcal POTATO Crowrri ia Amrrlra \ f Prices Sl.CO ft up. Enttnaonii ?tock?of Gratti, w \ florrr and F?rm Sredt. krnJ thin notice awl \ ~3E?CLOVERj F JOHX A. SAUCER SEED CO.. LA ( KOS8K, WIS. A. C. f CARTERS1NK Has the endorsement of the ^ U. S. Government and all the Leading Railroads. CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. a Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good- Use g la time. Sold by druggists. -fj M FARM AND GANDENj Care and Feed for Hor*e?. The stomach of horses and mules | should not be overloaded. They | should not be fed immediately before ! starting on a long journey, and moldy corn should always be avoided. Feed three times a day each from a separate manger. The amount needed by I each animal can only be determined ; by observation. Corn and oats mixed | with plenty of good hay and fodder I with an occasional bran mash will keep the animals in good condition. Warm Shelter for Ifo~?. In protecting fattening hogs from the cold of winter, it is lest to depend rather upon warm sheds and windbreaks than on the amount of bedding too much exposure will make neces 3ary. When chilled by exposure,hogs I will invariably pile up, and with large heavy hogs this will prove disastrous to some of the herd where auy numbers are kept together. Too much bedding will only aild to the danger. Last winter a neighbor, on one bitterly cold night, lost more hogs than would have paid for help to have made a varm and sheltered place for the swine to sleep iu. A hay shed three feet high at the back and four and a half feet high in front, faciug the south, would have cost him nothing for material, as it was lying about h;s place nunsed. and if he himself could not have found time to construct the shed, he could have hired the work done for less than the cost of one hog. It is looking at such things as these in time that mark the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful farmer.?Orange Judd Farmer. Charcoal a# a Fertilizer. There is scarcely any fertilizing element iu charcoal itself, excepting the small amount of potash that it contains. Even this is not so available as it would be if the charcoal were completely burned and reduced to asb. But the dark color of charcoal enables it to absorb the heat that the sun's rays bring to it, so that when spread upon garden land where a warmer soil is desired it may often be an advantage to early vegetables, providing always that the plants where it is spread be covered at night, so that the warmth gained by day may be retained during the hours of darkness. But charcoal may be made directly a fertilizer through its great capacity for absorbing ammo ia after it has beeu placed iu stables where nitrogeuous manures are fermentiug. This ammonia the charcoal will retain, uniting witn wnatever poiasu ia mailable for such use in tbe charcoal,and thus forming a nitrate of potash. Charcoal is the best thiug to place ia the bottoms of small plant pots to give the roots drainage way. Stones are often used for this purpose, but if any fertilizer material sinks down to tbe stoues it would run through and be lost i; the saucer holdi g the pot. Where charcoal is used it would retaiu all the uitrogenous fertility so that roots coming i . contact with the fertilized charcoal could use whatever it contained that they needed. Indian Cultivator*.of the Soil. Those who contend that the Indian is incapable of becoming a good agriculturist take their cue from a few isolated cases. In most cases where failure has been recorded the failure comes from the inability or incapacity of those who are appointed by the government to lead them. Whoever j has had the opportunity of traveling through the country settled by the Clierokees and Choctaws must have seen quite as frequent evidence of agricultural success among those people a3 could be seen among white people anywhere. It is, however, to be suggested that this is chiefly, on account of the country being more favorable to agriculture than localities further north. But we iearn from the Helena Independent that the Crow Indians are rapidly advancing iu industrial agriculture. Crops have been raised iu the Crow region chiefly by irrigation. *" * A' 1 ?* ? ?" 1V.aa.A IndtAno ill 1638 llia-1 leu iucbo jluujuuo have constructed eight large irrigating canals, sufficient to irrigate from two thousand to ton thousand acres each, and are now working on another that is even larger. It is to extend for probably fifty miles. A few white men are employed as skilled artisaus by the Indians; but the work itself is done by them. It is said that they are remarkably thrifty, not spending all their money, but saviug some, which is invested in ruly sensible and business ways.?Meehan's Monthly. Point* About Milking. A good milker can not make a good cow out of a poor one, but a poor milker can and will spoil the best of cows and neutralize the . most judicious feeding. The foundation for a good or poor milker is laid at the very start. In order to succeed, the beginner should have a liking for the business. He must become acquainted with his cows and not only know them by sight but should study their individual characteristics and temperaments in order to know just how to handle them. He should also have some competent person to show him just how to begin. No one could reasonably expect children to become good penmen by giving them a pen, a bottle of ink and some paper, but that is the way a majority learn to milk. They are given a pail, a stool and shown a cow, and left to themselves. A miserable failure is often the result. The cow on which to begin should be a quiet, easy milker, and one that is not giving a large quantity. Under no circumstances should the beginner continue to milk after liis arms or j hands commence to ache. Better have another finish the cow. This will only have to be done a few times. Milk well and milk fast from the very start, but don't milk too much. Al- i ways avoid that jerky motion which is j so common. Also the habit of strip- j ping with thumb and finger. The j practice of wetting the teats is very j bad, as it induces the growth of warts and scabs and is as unnecessary as it is filthy. Deal gently but firmly with the cows,and bear in mind that a good j milker is always a skilled workman.? New England Homestead. The Forest Worm. The development of the forest worm with such astounding rapidity compels us to look into the future with a good j deal of alarm. Are we to have this j pest for several years in succession? f As near as I can find out they have ; appeared in New York but once before i within the memory of anyone now liv- [ Ing?that was iu 1830 or in 1831. At ' that time they remained for only two j jrears. We have no record of the i cause of their disappearance. It is i probable, however, that they were ! met by some counter attack, either of ! the insect or of fungoid character. ! My sons inform me tbat snch enemies of the caterpillar are already at work, while other foes are attacking them in the cocoou state. They were hatched out this year about the first of April ?appearing first on -the plum trees ami apple trees, and rapidly spreading to most of the other shade aud fruit trees. They did not touch the magnolias, tulip tree, Kentucky coffee tree, persimmon, pawpaw, English elm or Norway maple, and in general did not prefer the soft maples of any variety. Among forest trees they objected' to the butternut and the walnut, but ate the maples, white elm, oak hud basswood, taking the ash as soon as it leaved out?later than the rest. Among the fruit trees it did not choose the pear or the cherry. It stopped its work of defoliation about the twentieth of June, although many cocoons were spun earlier than this. Tlia moths emercred from the cocoons about July 1. The work of the niotli lasts from two to three weeks. The eggs appear to be identical with the tent caterpillar, but they are glued ou all sorts of tree3. I have eveu fount} them wrapped around currants on the currant bushes. The tent caterpillar confines himself to the apple and wild cherry, with an occa ional nest on a pear, plum or peach tree, but the forest worm eggs must be sought for everywhere, even upon the flower shrubs. The problem what to do has no more definite answer, than fight, fight, fight, and kill, kil', ki 1 at every stnge of the existence of the pest. My lawns and orchards are proof that where the worm is at its worst we can conquer. We met them with torch, with arsenical spraying,with kerosene emu sion, and where the worms we e gathered, as they were,iu vast masses, we crushed them with gloves saturated iu keroso e. We have ou'y to remember that while kerosene is death to them it is also death to trees if carelessly applied.?E. P. P., in New York Tribune. Clnarlnfi: an<l Fencing In "UMnt?r. During the next few months there will lea considerable length of time which can be devoted to clearing and fencing. Thickets aud hedge rows of b iers surrouuding fields that are beginning to encroach npoD the cultivated lands should bo cut back. We o.tentiincs see small five or tea acre fields divided by a strip of two or three acres of second growth pirn. Those little orchards of pines could be easily cleared and the small fields thrown together, making a large one. Time, a most important item, would Le saved by bringing all the work possible in one field. The sunshine wonld have a better opportunity to reach and furnish the growing crops with its life promoting rays, while the evil influences of shade from surrounding trees and their constant drain upon the soil would be dispensed with. There is never a day, even in bad weather,when the farmers cannot find some useful employment for all the labor on his premises. There is not a farm, little or big, which does not at every season of the year find use for a good, well fenced pasture. Keeping the cow,calf and horse enclosed within a lot and no pasture in which to let them graze is an expensive luxury^ Oftentimes the trouble about providing water in sufficient quantities each day becomes a hardship on certain members of the household, and the work is but poorly done. It is rare that one sees cattle confined in these close lots looking well; generally they present a rough coat; are poor and have saddened faces. Every man has an abundance of spare time from field work during the year, especially the winter portion, in which to cut, split rails and build a nice pasture,through which a stream of good water should run. It is always prefej able to have two pastures, one located on bottoms where grasses can be found growing during winter and the other on higher lands if desired, to utilize the summer grasses. Every pasture should be occasionally plowed and harrowed if possible, and such grasses and clovers sown as will give best returns for the labor expended, through the cattle and stock for which they are intended to feed. There is too little attention paid to our pastnres. Oftentimes when the pasture looks green and inviting, the grasses are deficient in nutrition and the stock do not fatten and thrive near as well if better grasses were used. There is no finer grass for permanent spring and summer pasture than Bermuda, and no grass which can be more easily sodded. For upland or bottoms nothiug is superior, and it is the most nutritious of all grasses grown in the United States. Let us have more and better pasturage. It will mean more and better cattle. It will give to each farmer a larger profit on his business and more satisfaction and pleasure in the conduct of his affairs.?Atlanta Journal. African River*. It is a distinguishing feature of most African rivers that they cogtain no water for at least eight months of the year. It is true that water can almost always be found in a river bed by digging for it, but in outward appearance a river is usually a broad belt of sand lying between high and precipitous banks. Many aud many a coach has been upset in one of these drifts, as they are called. The descent is always steep, frequently so steep that the brakes cannot hold the coaches. They start going down at a crawl, and then the coach gathers way and goes on with a rush, the mules are driven into a heap anyhow, and one wonders that they do not get their legs broken; but they usually land all right, while the coach, practically unmanageable, goes down like a sort of toboggan, jumping from stone to stone, and swaying like a ship in a sudden squall, and may or may not 1..- nr\noi*niOflf. Q f f.V> A U1UVU lljJUl OIUU U^r|/viu4vu? V - vMW bottom. In fact, the passenger who has gathered his ideas of coaching from a trip to Brighton or a drive to Virginia Water, finds that he has a lot to learn about the subject when he gets to South Africa. Still, on the whole, it was wonderful how few accidents did occur,and if one considers that the coaches ran night and day, and that when there was no moon it would sometimes be too dark to see the mules from off the coach, it reflects great credit on the drivers.?The Gentleman's Magazine. Projiaic Modernity. Bomaucb and chivalry are not what tliey were, alas! Once, the hero, having rescued the maiden from the tower, paused in his flight to exclaim: "Hark! The hoof-beats of pursuers!" But now? "Smell! The odor of my father's automobile!" It is terrible, this sordid utilitarianism!?Detroit Journal. It is estimated that Missouri farm?-' ers received over $8,000,000 for their mules in 1898. Tho number shipped from St. Louis was 117*, 603. FOR THE HOUSEWIVES. Design* on Table linen. Tlie dainty housekeeper pays much attention to her table linen. If she can afford it she orders her tablecloths and napkins woven especially for her in some unique,chosen design. Often, however, she contents herself with a conventional pattern in stock when she finds out the expense of the process. Special machinery must be made, and that is no trifle. It must be kept in repair, and that is a necessary consideration. Generally it is a coat-of-arms that she wishes woven into her linen, although patriotic sentiments have been known to demand some original designs in table linen. The Freshening of Lace. "When black lace has lost its freshness, says a woman who looks carefully after the details of her own wardrobe, wash it first in lukewarm water and a little melted soap. Then pi epate a deep h'.ne water, and mix with gum nrabic. The usual proportion is one tablespoonful of gum arabic to a pint of the water. Dip the lace in this mixture, squeeze lightly witn me hands, and then pin the lace out ou a cleau piece of muslin to dry. When nearly dry iron on the wrong side. Another method is to dip the lace in a mixture of milk and water,squeeze well, then iron with a sheet of tissue paper over it. Black veils can be freshened in the same way as black lace. "2*F Mirror in the Ceilinjj. Formerly, when a young woman sat with eyes uplifted aud an expression of spiritual serenity on her countenance while she discussed such important subjects as the composition of sandwiches or the last new cotillon figure, it meant that she was fully alive to the attractions of the upturedeyes pose and that she had found it effective by more or less incessant practice. Now it means that she is aware that carefully inserted in the ceiling of her deu is a mirror which reflects her graceful positions, her dreamy eyes and the expressions visa-vis when he turns to regain his lost self-possessiou. The mirror is now a needed completion to the draperies, the sanctuary lamps, rosaries, Malay creeses, cushions and the innuine able other things of the most charming and popular nook in the house. Clutter Places. Clntter places are an abomiuation to a neat housekeeper. Do not allow .refuse of auy kind to accumulate. Even old tin cans may become the source of mould and decay, and tiius be a menace to health. The danger lies in the fact that they are generally neglected after being opened, and remnants of their contents are left to generate mould and impurities. The best way to dispose of old tin cans is to put them in the ash pail, where they will be purified by the ashes, and can be thrown away with them. If you wish to save these cans to paint for flower pots, wash them out at once and dry them. Old leather and any animal matter like old woolen can be buried with lime and soda, and will soon form valuable fertilizer. There is a place for everything in a well ordered house, and there need be no dangerous clutter places if everything is put 1o use. Take special care of anything which will engender mould. If you have not time to put this to the proper use by burying it, burn it where the odor will not offend the nostrils, and use the ashes for a fertilizer. No place makes a more dangerous clutter place than the cellar. Here mould and impure germs grow very rapidly u the damp, cold air. Physicians believe they have traced cases of diphtheria to apples sto ed in such a cellar and handled by children.?New York Tribune. Kecipe*. Teal Salad?Cut cold roast or boiled veal into dice and for each cupful ol the meat allow one cupful of tiny sliced celery, season with pepper and salt, mix lightly with salad dressing and serve on crisp lettuce leaves. Silver Cake?Cream together thoroughly one-half cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar; add the beaten whites of four eggs and beat again. Then add one half cupful of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Good cake can ba made in the same way by using yolks in place of the , whites. Butter Ealls?Beat a quarter of a of Vmfter to A cream. stir in threa eggs; then add three large tea- J spoonfuls of flour, a saltspoonful of I salt. Have a clear soup boiling gently. Take up the Latter in tiny portions with the tip of a small spoon, drop into soup, and let them simmer 15 minutes before serving. One-half or even one-third this recipe would serve for the soup of five people. Lemon Tapioca?Soak one-third *1 a cupful of tapioca in one half cupful of cold water over night. In the morning add one-half cupful of cold water and the rind of one lemon and boil until clear, then remove the rind, add the juice of the lemon, half a cupful of sugar, a pinch of salt and one cupful of boiling water. Let It boil two minutes, then turn into a wet mold. Serve when cold with sugar and cream. Sweet Spiced Crab Apple?Remove the blows from a peck of large, sound crabapples. Make a syrup of one pint of vinegar, one-half pint of water, five pounds of sugar, one tablesp onful each of whole cinnamon, allspice and cloves, and one-half teacupful of mustard seeds. Put in the apples, a few at a time, skim them out when soft and put into a jar. When all the apples are done, pour the syrup over them. Headlines Extraordinary. A short time ago the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, took for the subject of his sermon tho story of Jephthah,and in the next issne of the Cincinnati Inquirer there appeared a verbatim account of the discourse, but with the following remarkable headings added: "Jephtliah ? The Old Freebooter?At an Early Age He Was Forced to Rough it?He Held Up the End of his String in _ Great Shape?aud Soon Sewed Up the Games of Twenty Cities ?On His Return from Victory Ho Kept a Promise?He Must Sacrifice the First Person Seen in His Door? He Looks?Holy Horrors ?It is His Fair Daughter?But Jeplithah was a Man of fiis Word?And the Beautiful Young Girl Was Slain." Had Her Doubts. "I don't believe professors kuow sc very much," said Mamie. "Why! How can you talk so?" replied Maud. ''Well, I don't see why Mr. Fnlpate should have seemed so surprised and puzzled when I asked him how to say 'rubberneck' iu Greek."?Washington Star. - - - ? w ll^v/ yy/\ ingash<x IhivS?/ \ 3/ /7 JI the b#it \j' {C j\ Soutn. ] II J \ / * lor tH/UltJ 1 gig qq? miir o? wttrt oimct. F Artificial Eyelashes la France. Artificial eyelashes appear to be the latest French novelty. False hair is an ancient institution, and we have long been accustomed to false teeth, and even eyebrows. Henceforth, according to the "Medicine Franchise,"there is no reason why an other wise beautiful face should^e disfigured by red eyelids or ragged eyelashes. The process may appear a little painful, a needle threaded with hair being passed through the lid and the threads cut in the middle with a fine pair of scissors, each end becoming an eyelash. But what will not beauty endure if thereby it may become more beautiful?? London Chronicle. Itching, Burning Eczema. Was troubled with a painful skin ernption, and after all other remedies failed, the father writes: "Send me four more boxes of Tetterine for my little daughter. It does her more good than anything we ever tried. Yours, etc., Jas. S. Porter, Lynchburg, S.C." At druggists 50c. box, or postpaid by J. T. Shuptriue, Savannah, Ga. TRAD1NQ SHIPS CARRY NO CASH. No Wonder the PVacy Business Has Fallen Away to Nothing. A son of the old time yachting captain, Jack White, of Red Bank, picked np a Mexican silver dollar of 1834 on Sandy Hook the other day. Captain Jack* said it reminded him of many a dollar he had seen that had been picked up along the Jersey coast and on Long Island shores. "Mexican silver dollars," he said, "were*the money of the commercial world during all the early part of this century and you could And them whenever there were wrecks. Nowadays pirating would not pay, but In those days every ship had to carry a lot of money every time she went on a voyage. Nowadays a captain doesn't have to have anything but a bit of pocket money, and it is a fact that many a sh*p goes out on a voyage with hardly a dollai on board. If the captain needs anything he can either draw money at any port he enters or else find credit there "It was very different a generation ago. In those days a captain had tc take out with him money enough tc last him for the whole voyage, and something for emergencies besides. He often had big sums aboard, also, thai were used in trading, or that represented a cargo sold. "It was not uncommon in those days for a ship to start out with a full cargo bound for some foreign port, where the captain would have to hunt his own market If the cargo wouldn't sell well there, he had power to go to anj other port to hunt a profitable mar ket Then when he had sold out, he was expected to buy new cargo, eithei for a home port, or perhaps, some otner pan or tne wona. it was nut uu usual for a captain to handle half t dozen cargoes on a long trading voy age, and come home In ballast, witt a big box of silver dollars to help keej his ship up to the wind. Even the lit tie vessels carried a lot of inonej aboard. 4,I guess that dollar was wrecked there lifty years or so ago, and it has been drifting around in the sands evei since."?New York Sun. Keeps My Hair Sop " I hive used your Hiir Vigor for ?ve years and am greatly pleased with it. It certainly restores the original color to gray hair. 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