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JOHN: A VILLAGE IDYL.
The sun was setting os be came,
Stout John, across the village green;
Behind the pollards, pools a-flame
Lit up the old familiar scene;
And cattle lowed, and milk-muds sung,
And birds upon the roostiug hung.
Beyond the village street there stands
A cottage wrapped with growing things,
Where creepers cling with loving hands,
And ring-doves plume their dusty wii
And there, right broad of chest and trei .
Comes John, and bolds aloft his head.
But on the garden path he halts—
V/hat cigH: It tM? — *'0>h mate, his eves
Own liku sunflowers after rain?
its finds his wife in some new guise:
Among the roses, spade in hand,
fie secs her comely figure stand.
“ Good wife,” lie says, “ ’tis something n«w
To see you mind the garden patch;
I thought you only liked those flowers
That grow apace beneath our thatch.’
Then she, as every good wife should,
Called him aside from where he stood.
“ Not here," she said, “ for mind you, John,
She is so sharp, is Alice there!
She picks up everything she hears—
She docs, indeed, John—have a care!
But John ’’—and then she blushed and stayed
The coming words, as if afraid.
But John, with one arm round her waist,
Bade her speak on: and so at length
She spoke, now slowly, now in haste—
Albeit, by-and-by came strength
Into her words, while yet hei •'>«ad
Was bowed defore him, as sht suld:
“ John, I have always loved the flowers
That grow beneath the blessed sky,
And 1 was happy once to think
We’d have a garden, you and I.
J thought such lovely tilings should show,
And such sweet roses bud and blow.
“ But, John, when first the garden came*
(Why, Alleo, there, was ten weeks old)
The other gardens all were trim,
But as for me, ray heart was cold—
Toward the garden, John, I mean,
As if my wish had never been.
“ For John, you used to bide from home
A something late those summer days;
I tried to cheer myself a bit,
Saying you must hare manful ways.
But John, when wage-day came round,
But little wages could be found.
“ And one night, John, I heard your step
Come late along the dahlia row—
Next morning when the children looked
For peas that they had learnt to sow,
0, John, your feet had gone awry,
And Judith asked the reason why!
“ I couldn’t tell her—could I, John?
I could but cry as women do,
Only the house seemed less like home;
Only the sky seemed not so blue;
Only I did not care to make
Our gardon n o: for other’s sake.
“ But now, John—somehow God has heard,
And you have heard my heart that spoke;
I think unless that you had heard
Before this time my heart had broke;
But now good times have come for me,
A ud I want roses on our tree.
1 That's why, John, now I care to taice
inain ' _
I think It will bo sweet to make
Some pains here with our gmden plot—
Flowers grow, fruit ripen on tho spot,
For our own children here, may he,
When God has gathered you and me.”
‘ Ay, and for us,” he made reply,
“ In years the good God yet may giro
Tolhappy folks like us. And I,
Sweet wife, will make you caro to live.
So plant tlie garden plot, nor fear
It shall be watered by a tear.”
* * * *
Beyond the village street there stands
A cottage wrapped with glowing things,
Where creepers cling with loving hands
And ring-doves plume their dusty wings;
And there, right broad of chest and tread,
Lives John, and holds aloft his head.
Paper Car- Wheels.
The experiment is about to be made of
using paper for the construction of
wheels for drawing-room cars on one of
the railways of New York state. The
advantages of paper over any other light
material are said by the inventor of the
new wheels to be the following: It is
noiseless; it does not swell or shrink
with the weather; it affords a stay to
the tire and a lattcral support in turning
cures; at the same time it adapts itself
to any trifling inequality of the inner
surface of the inequality of which wood
or iron fail to do; and, finally, it scorns
to be stronger than any other material
—many times stronger than any material
of the same weight—of which a wheel
can possibly he made. In these wheels
the usual steel tire with its “ rail flange”
is used. Upon the axle, as a center, two
heavy cast-iron flanges arc fastened
parallel to each other at right miglc-s
with the axle, and in the plain of the
diameter. The inside one has an eight-
inch radius, the outside one completely
covering the outer disc, and overlapping
the tire one-half an inch. Through the
compressed paper, from flange to flange,
are passed strong bolts of the best iron,
secured by nuts “ screwed home” firmly,
and near enough together to hold tne
paper in its place without unnecessary
cutting away of its fiber or weakening
the flanges.
Babn-yard manure loses half its
strength if allowed to decompose in the
epen air. .
Dull Life In Portugal.
A writer on Portugal lifo says: The
larger of the country towns have streets
fall of gentlemen’s houses, and here veg
etate from year to year families who are
just rich enough to live without working.
To live, indeed, as the Portuguese do in
such towns need cost but little. A large
house, with a plot of cabbages, a kale
yard behind it; with whitewashed walls,
floors uncurpeted, a dozen wooden chairs,
one or two aeal tables; no fireplace, not
even a stove, either in sitting or l»cdrnnni;
no curtains to the window.-, no rovers lo
tiie lubies, no pictures on the walls, no
mii iois, no tables pleasantly strewn with
hooks, magazines, newspapers, and ladies’
work; no such tiling visible as a pot of
cut flowers; no rare china, no clocks, no
bronzes—none of the hundred trifles and
curiosities with which in our houses we
show our taste or want of it, but which
cither way give such an individual char
acter and charm to English homes. All
these negatives describe the utterly
dreary habitations of the middle-class
Portuguese. Foroccupations the women
do needlework, gossip, go to mass daily,
and look out of window by the hour.
Except the one short walk to church at
eight o’clock in the morning, a Portu
guese lady hardly ever appears in the
streets. As to the men, they lounge about
among the shops, they smoke innumera
ble paper cigarettes, they take a “siesta”
in tne heat of the day. If there is any
sunshine they stand in groups at the
street corners, with umbrellas over their
heads; in winter they wear a shawl over
their shoulders, folded and put on three-
comerwise, as a French or English wo
man’s shawl is worn—for this is a fashion
in Portugal, and the Spaniards laugh a
good deal at their neighbors on the score
of their being a nation who invert the
due order of things. In these towns
there is never any news, and if two men
are seen in eager discussion of some mat
ter of apparently immense importance,
and if one happens to be near enough to
overhear the subject of conversation, be
sure that one of them is plunged in de
spair or killing with enthusiasm at a rise
or fall of a half-penny in the price of a
pound of tobacco. There are not even
fashions for them to think about; young
men and old men dress alike, but the
vounger men wear exceedingly tight
boots, and when they “ take their walks
abroad” it is obvious that they do so in
considerable discomfort. The young men
however, have one occupation more im
portant even than wearing tight boots—
that of making the very milaest form of
love known among them. The process,
indeed, is carried on in so platonic a man
ner and with so much proper feeling that
I doubt if even the strictest English
governess would find anything to object
to. The young gentlemen pay their ad
dresses by simply standing in front of the
houses occupied by the objects of their
mile the young persons in
jy from the
affections, while the young persons in
question look down approvingly f
upper windows, ana there the
matter
How to Hold Fertility of the Soil,
Gypsum attracts. It is not only a ma
nure in itself, but it attracts the atmos
phere that comes in contact with it,
which is abundant on windy days, but it
catches and holds the fertility of the
ground that in some soils escapes. Lime
will also do this—so will clay. Clay,
dried and powdered, is an cncellent thing
to put on a barn-yard, or to cover a com-
Kist heap with, or work through the heap;
_ienec we use gypsum or liiuj in our sta
bles or privies.’ Gypsum is best; it lias
the most attraction, besides other proper
ties. A little should lie kept by every
farmer for use, even at high cost, as the
benefit is sometimes more lmportai.t ban
the high price. But we waste our manure;
we not only permit its strength to escape,
but we are glad to get it out of the way.
The same recklessness extends to the
land Tt. is well our land lias a good pro
portion of elav to hold its strength. !
We must conserve. The time is not
far distant when we shall be compelled to
do it. Already there are symptoms of
lack in our soil; we do not raise as heavy
crops as we used to—here and there a
field, here and there a farm is less pro
ductive. It is not so much that we need
plaster here in the west to hold the
strength of the soil, as to use it to ab
stract it from the atmosphere, and to
save the ammonia of our barn-yards and
stables. For this let us always keep a
little on hand. Let us save and improve
oar manure and thus save our farina.—
Rural World.
MAny vi
effects of
horses die from the
The best thing to do in a
enects ol colic. The best thing to do in a
case of this kind ia to poor a bottle of John*
son’s Anodyne Liniment into a long-lecked
junk bottle, and add half-pint of molasses and
water, then pour the whole down the hone’s
throat In ten minutes the hone will begin
to eat
Liquid Manure.
Wm. T. Rand gives an interesting ac
count of experiments with liquid manure,
in a recently published report of the com
missioners of agriculture. He leached
soap-suds and house-slops of everv kind
through fresh barn-yard manure, and ap
plied the liquid thus obtained to the soil
in his hot-house, and it increased the tem
perature and improved the growth of his
flowers and plants to such a degree that
it seemed the work of magic.
By adding one bushel of fresh WOOd-
asiies to Urn ot stable manure, and leach-; c ~ . m ait.-.y at home -mhim*-.»>.h
ing Knap-suds, i-i.v, through it. Lc found! -- - ._t>nian.i
the alkali addition had the effect of ma-j Y.WAriT.i tT.. _x«uey n.
luring the woody parts of plants, and di
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During his experiments, in order to
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with a variety of decaying animal and
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