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OO TO
JERNIGAN
In Deep Disguise.
Down in the mUl town dark end brown,
An old men crept to his cottage door,
Trembling and shaking at erery frown
Ol the low-browed folk as they strode
beloro,
1 l- 1 ’" 11 at tho miser! count your gold,
Diram cl'tho sins eaoh piece has told!"
Hnt he muimured low as their keen taunts
tell—
" Time will tell! time will telll"
Early and late at the factory gate
Ilfs tottering lonn passed slowly through,
With a withered smile like a mocking lato,
To toil and inoil lor his scanty due.
Sneers fell last with little heed;
For tho hands are rougher in word than deed;
But alike to pity and )eer (here loll —
“ limo will toll! Timo wiU tell!"
Children shunned tho little dell
Where the oottago stood, and tho cowboys
oil
Ghostly talos ol tbelr hermit’s cell
Scattered like grain Irom a threshing loft
* For ho was miserly, lonely and old,
And his heart had died from a Hie of cold.
And his mind had wandered with words lha
tell—
1 Timo will toll! Timo will tell!’”
tiolins,
accordeons,
BOWS,
STRINGS,
R08INBOXE9, ETC.
Summer and wintor lound him still
At his wonted post by the striking loom,
Tho hands still guiding with old-time skill
Tho flashing beams through the twilight
giootn;
Old men diod and wore laid away;
Younger came in their place to stay,
And wondered why—bnt the answor fell—
" 1 Imo will tell! Time wUl tell!”
His loom was dumb one shiroring day;
Tho thin, lient Angers had worked thoir
last;
Herd by his hcatd tho old man lay
Clutuhii'ghis wtnllh with hands locked Inti;
While a solemn smile his laoe enwroathod.
Whom tho herald came in tho night and
breathed,
And an echo taint on tho stillness tell—
11 Time wiU tell! Time will tell 1”
Ah ! time did toll. Whore the cottage stood,
In tho old pine grove, by the mountain
brook,
Thut rang through the hollow—there in the
wood
1'nirch.tower rose from the sheltered
nook.
'Twi s a hallowed light shed the miser’s gold;
For this ho had toiled in the days ol old,
And tho deep-toned hell through the' evoning
loll—
‘ Time will tell ! Time will tell!’’
— Ilot loti Trantcript.
"Mr. Chesterfield! Oh, no, Edgar,
please don’t,” interrupted Ida, ner
vously, the pretty color dying out of
her face.
"Why on earth not, dearP” asked
Edgar, Bomewhat impatiently, “You
seem to have taken a strange antipathy
to that man.”
I suppose we all do some
times,” said Idn, evasively.
“Not without reason at any rate,”
replied the baronet, in the same strain.
1 1 should really like you to overcome
i suouict really liko you to overcome
jour prejudice, Ida; although at the
some time I have no wish to invite any
one who is disagreeable to you.”
He spoke coldly, and his tone sent a
chill to her heart.
Oh, was this secret, which she felt it
her duty to conceal even from him, go*
ing to make a breach between herself
and the husband she loved so wellP If
she had only had the courage to tell him
before tbeir marriage, how much better
it would have been; for she felt she
never dnred reveal it now—the conse
quence might prove too serious.
She left the room- and sought her
mother, who had left the nursery and
gono to her own apartment Ida’s
white face startled her: but when the
young wile sat down and told her of her
recent introduction to Mr. Chesterfield,
and of Sir Edgar’s intention to invite
him to the house, the mother s counte
nance also cha ged, and for a moment
she confiesed herself unable to offer any
advice in the matter.
" I cannot leave suddenly, Ida,” she
said, "or make an excuse that Minnie
is ill, as it was only last evening I was
telling Edgar how much she was enjoy
ing herself with her friends in the coun
try, and his suspicions would bo danger
ously aroused. No, the best and wisest
plan is to lot things
and to Itust in the mere;
of Him who was pleas*
again meeting the wife4>f my r nee es
teemed ana valued friend, Henry
Sinclair—your father.” he said, in ac
cents that were slightly tremulous with
an inward motion. " She has told me
how much anxiety my presence beneath
your husband’s roof has given you j but
plan is to lot things take tbeir own course,
rcy and ,
led to sen*
A FAMILY SECRET.
It was a proud and happy day lor Mrs.
Sinclair on which her elder daughter
had become Sir Edgar Westbrookc’s
wife. She bad been a widow muny
vea>-8, nnd since her husband’s death life
hud been a Imrd struggle with her; nor
was it the " snow of many winters” that
lay upon her hair, but the touch of a
heavy trouble which had fallen upon
her when Ida nnd her little sister Min
nie played together in white embroid
ered frocks, and never knew then wiiy
their mother so often wept. Ida gained
an inkling of the cause, however, which
grew in detail year by year with her
own growth, until it became the family
skeleton, which she nnd her mother hid
away in the cupboard, determined never
to bring it to light. , ' ,
Ere she had attained her eighteenth
birthday Ida became Sir Edgar West-
brooke’s wife. He had come down to
their little secluded village in the early
summer, and had there made the ac
quaintance of tho widow and her two
pretty daughters. Ida had learned to
love him, though nearly twenty >ears
her senior, and before that summer
passed they were married.
He took her to his luxurious homo
in I/mdon, and they were as happy as
the days were long. .
Sbo knew very little of the world,
reared all her life in a country home,
and wns as pure and guileless as tue in
fant she gave birth to one twelvemonth
later, but the trouble whtch had turned
her’mother’s hair to silver had never
once been mentioned. Indeed, Ida
even ti ambled ftttiie idea of ber hus
band ever discovering it, especially now
that a son had been born to benr his
Xttee months after the birth
of their child, Lady Westbrooke^accom
panied Sir Edgar to a ball, given by
one of his friends, and there she was
introduced to Mr. Chesterfield, who, her
hostess previously informed her, was a
very rich banker. 8ir Edgar vvesi-
brooke stood watching bis wife M the
introduction was made, and wondered
WSSSiS
voungface; he noticed, too,
young , her breath camo in
bun g on his arm, her orea
short, quick gasps, and that
Diirently painfully agitated, He was_a
; she wasap-
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Corse Cbesterfield, the banker. Could
she have ever met him before, and even
if she had, what was the reason of this
“h°. paltry a feellM *»
je, he fell wohgW
aggrieved, he knew not why. He lovea
her so well, and deemed her utterly in
capable of anything hke duplicity
It was during their” drive home that
A J- JERNIGAN.
Kw?half restingupon WsshouMer
"Have you ever met Mr. LDOswi
fiC Shepaused'a' 1 moment, and then an-
8W “No! Edgar; never in my life.
W "7Jothing, dear; only I thought per
haps you Bright have done so, taid her
husband, quietly. , Hn i
She spoke the ruth, In vas sur. , an
. * J vn1S«llTf>r
oodness
as pleased to send us this
great and bitter trial so many years ago.
The qhnnccs are,dear Ida,” (for the young
wi'e was trembling in her mother’s em-
hrnte) !‘that George Clojlertield will
i.evtr u (ugi.ize me. I was but a few
yenrs older than you when he saw me
last; and now my hair is white and—”
" (), dear mother, I was wrong not to
tell Edgar before we were married,” in
terrupted Ida. “Whatever would he
say if he were to learn the truth nowP
I—tho mistress of his home and the
mother of his child? 1 ’
"Hush! hush! compose yourself, my
dear Ida,” said Mrs. Sinclair, south-
iogly. " Go to your husband; do nothing
to excite his suspicion, neither for one
moment conjecture up ev Is that may
never exist Even if this should be
the George Chesterfield whom your
father—”
“ Mother, don’t,” almost shrieked Ida,
" the veiy walls have ears.’
" Butevon if he be, dear,” added Mrs.
Sinclair, "the same George Chester-
field, “surely be would never publish it
abroad to tho world.”
They returned to the dining-room
where Ida had left her husband, nnd
no further allusion was made to the
dinner pary On the followng morning,
however, as Lady Westbrooke sat in
her boudoir alone, with her boy on her
knee, Sir Edgar joined her, and she
then told him that she wus p rfectly
willing to invite any guest that her hus
band might choose to select.
She looked so pretty, so utterly guile
less, ns she sat thore with the morning
sunlight turning her bright brown hair
to go;d,that he oent and kissed her with
even more than usual affection.
“ My little wife shall ask whom she
pleases, and then she will please me,”
ho said, with muoh tenderness. “Only
I don’t like her taking prejudices with
out a reason
you need have had no fear that l am
coward enough to let the innocent suf
fer for the guilty, and disturb the peace
of such perfect bliss as yours and your
noble husband’s. Let u>c add one word
more: my doctor 1ms oi derud mu abroad
—to the south of France; all business
responsibilities devolve upon my
brother; I tako my departure next
week, and there is but little chance of
mv ever treading English soil again.”
Ida’s heart was too full for words, nnd
she silently suffered George Chesterfield
to take her hand and carry it to his lips,
unconscious that her husband saw all
irom the staircase.
It was late when the last of the guests
took their departure; nnd then Ida, all
unsuspicious, sought her husband in his
library.
. He stood there turning over a few let
ters, but he put them down as his wife
entered, apd turned his face toward hor.
“Ida, I wish to speak to you—come
in and shut the door ”
The tone of his words fell like ice npon
her heart, and she saw that, after all,
the truth was to be told.
8tl mtly she obeyed him.
"What were you saying to Mr. Ches
terfield in the ante-room to-night?”
The silence that followed was awful,
and then she came forwarr, with a faint
cry, but he put out his arm to keep ber
back.
“ Pray remain where you are,” he
said; "we can talk perfectly well at
this distance.”
He gazed at her for a moment os she
stood dumb before him, in her superb
dinner-dress, w : th the diamonds that
his mother had worn shining on her
neck and arms, and her lovely face, pale
nnd quivering now, above them.
"I wish for an answer to my ques
tion,” he said, again, " ond we will not
leave tLis room until 1 have had ('ne."
The diamonds upheaved nnd fell—
then she spoke, not excitedly, but
clearly, slowly, and distinctly:
"The time has come, then, Edgar,
winn I must tell you that which I fear
you will reproach me for not bnving
told you before our marriage,” she
began. "I know it was very wrong oi
me, now, but I did not think so seri>
ously of it then; and it has always been
a secret between my mother and mysolf.
I don't think even Minnie knows all
the truth. It is about my father—lie
was a partner in Gtorge Chesterfield’s
bank; nnd, shortly after I was born, ho
lost a large sum of money in specula
tions. He used to gamble, too; but
alas I my mother, who loved him only
too well, never knew it until it was all
too late. He was often out half the
night, but lie told her that It was his
business which kept him: and she, in
fur innocence, be’ievfd what he said.
One day—1 teem to have a faint recol
lection of it—ho was arrested on the
charge of robbing Georgo Chesterfield's
bank of fitteen thousand pounds. He
The Trade lu Nats;
It wonld surprise many people not
engaged in trade to know what a va
riety of commodities that appear value
less are important articles of commerce.
To the average boy or girl there is
scarcely anything of so little worth -
rxo< pt to afford a day’s sport—as nuts,
and yet hundreds of thousands of dol
lars aro annually invested in them.
During the recent j cars the trade in
foreign nnd domesiiqnuts has developed
wonderfully. NcwTfork city has be
come the most important center of the
trade, the extent ot which indicates that
people have either secured patent
stomachs, or that indigestion has lost its
terrors. Wholesale dealers in nuts can
now as certainly count on a profitable
trade In the winter season, as can the
candy makers at Christmas times - and
all the boys and girls know how certain
that is.
Africa used to supply us with peanuts,
sending them by snip loads, out our
Southern Slates have so successfully
cultivated this popular nut that we are
now independent. The States that fur
nish the bulk of the supply are Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee. During
the present season the crop of Virginia
was 1,100,000bushels; ofTcnnesee 630,-
000 bushels, and of North Carolina.
120.000 bushels
The not most popular after the peanut
The Texi
wus found guilty, transported, and died
tde.”
i penal servitu*
Again there wo9 a brief silence, which
Ida colored guiltily, and longed, as he
yir ""
iswojisii-i’i mtii,i, points.
> ,A tf ie fur/ ini,, ,'^ Vrr and instead of crowding
$ Mil , ffl •!. I ‘. ' e ''; r •'titer it a',, 4, and 6 ins. :
: A. j , ary To vT 0n V* uiiltr apart, Ays more ROOM
V*/ . fttoo derive more nourishment from the soiL
&10 Mr rail produoe bctlor developed
,1.1 n. „ heads. Semi for Illustrated Pampnlef
■iLTmUoimi.i,. J.A.JOHES,WILMINGTON, tSL
mui, mr
he had measured
awe lcugth of row againH forty-
H. CLAYTON,
■” i....
_ ,ot five bu«£X k . "1.WMltton,Del.,and Farmer
Hn su r . PoiDt «* tha n t wi\ n h .‘n r<; /r oro w, ‘eat, where I drilled
n ' •to’vinx r„: - l fa ^ l r h thc style. I gave them a fair
his mind>as relieve tlo nery0U3 nox t
But Ida was a -. , ,,
consequence of its fatigue, s
que
th The matter was never ag^in referred
to until Mrs. Sinolwrcamo oin^visrU
exceedingly g^odf^w, and-”
JOSmiA CLATTON, Mt. riiuul. Del.
tnod there by her side, playing with
Iris hoy, to make a fulj conlession of
everything, and trust to his love and
direction for thc rest. As hu turned to
leave ter, the words were on her lips,
“Edgnr, como back; I have something
to tell you,” And then she looked at her
babe, nnd her courage failed her—her
torgue was mute, and Sir Edgar lelt
her.
How miserable she felt all through
that day! Ah! and many more in suc
cession ; and how muny tears she shed
in secret! Her mother had advised her
to invite Mr. Chesterfield to dinner, in
accordance with her husband’s wishes,
and Ida had done so, though her fingers
bad trembled as she penned the words,
and sho lived in continued dread of
what the consequences of it all might
be. She began to feel that it was tm-
pos ible to go on like this much longer;
that, come what may, she must tell her
husband. ....
Tho evening of the dinner-party ar
rived, and, although Ida had been nerv
ous and hysterical all through the day,
she stood by her proud husband s side
in thc drawing-room, calmly doing the
honors of the hostess. Her mother sat
on an ottoman near her, looking pale
and lovely, with her hands placidly
folded, and the lights from a candel
abra, throwing its faint glimmer upon
the silver tresses of her hair.
"Mr- Che?'Tfield!”
Lady Westbrooke went forward to
meet him, and uttered the words of in
troduction to her mother with lips tbat
never faltered. The consciousness that
this night would surely determine
everything, either one way or theothcr,
made ber feel wonderfully brave.
She saw her mother’s cheek turn to
the hue of death, and the blood rush
like a torrent to George Chesterfield s
face. Tlie recognition was mutual,
without the shadow of a doubt; and
Ida, with a sickening feeling possessing
her went back lo ber husband’s side,
fearful as to what might happen next.
Later on, atmost toward the end of the
evening, she heard tier mother convers-
inc with him in a small ante-room
which adjoined the drawing-room on
the top of the staircase.
She was sitting a little way apart
from the others. Her husband was not
with them—she believed that he was in
the card-room below-—when Mrs. Sin
clair came toward her, and stooping
down, whispered that Mr. Chesterfield
wished to speak to her alone.
For a moment she hesitated—-what if
Sir Edgar should return and find her
in tho nnte-room with the man for
whom she bad apparently shown suoh
^*“Do go—he won’t detain you a min
ute ” whispered Mrs. Sinclair,hurriedly.
"You will be back before any one has
time to miss you.” .
And Ida went, her heart beating
W The gas burned low in that little room
where George CheBterfield stood erect
and immovable, and evidently awaiting
the appearance of his fair young hostess.
He smiled as she came in, and his looks
was broken soon by a wild and bitter
cry from Ida.
" Oh, Edgar, I know I was never fit to
be your wile—1, the daughter of a con
vict,” she burst forth. “But I loved you
so well, and feared that I should lose
you i( you knew what I was. And still
more unworthy am I now to be the
mother of your child. Oh, Edgar, my
husband, say so-tell me you can never
love me any more, and I will go away
as quietly as possible—away with my
mother!'*
8h ‘ sank down up-n tho floor In the
agony of her great grief, and ran ber
jeweled lingers through the loosening
tresses of her hair.. The next moment
and she was lifted tenderly and gently
to her feet, and gathered to her hus
band’s breast.
"Is this all, my poor, foolish little
Ida ? ” he said, u oothingly, and kissing
her bedewed brow. “ To think that the
fault ol another could ever lessen my
,ove for you. Your father is dead -
lieaven rest his soul—and the skeleton
of his crime shall never rise up between
me and my wife. This, then, has caused
your fear ot George Chesterfield. My
darling, how much uneasiness you might
have spared yourself il you had only told
me all this before! ”
" And you won’t love me any tho less,
Edgar ?” sho asxed, timidly seeking his
face.
“ Any the less ?” ho repeated, with a
smile. " More, if that can be possible;
for it has convinced me to the uttermost
of what a precious wife I have got. No,
darling, set your mind at rest on that
sooro, at once and for all. And your
father’s crime shall remain buried with
him. Wo won’t let that be a skeleton
in our cupboard, Ida, will wc ? What
do you sav, dear ?”
But Lady Westbrooke bad nothing to
say—she was sobbing out her joy and
thankfulness upon her husband’s breapt
is the pecan. The Texas pecan is
pecially in demand. While a few years
ago several barrels ol pecans abundantly
supplied the demand, oar loads and in
voices of one or two hundred barrels aro
now not uncommon.
Of the other nuts tho hickory is among
the mo-t popular. While in many
localities, especially in the Eastern
States, they are becoming scarce, in the
Western States they are sufficiently
plentiful to ship to New York half a
dozen car-loads a week when demanded.
That delicious nut, the oheBtnut, is
becoming scaroer every year, nnd there
is much difficulty in obtaining them
sound in large quantities Their great
populhrity will probably prevent thoir
total disappearance, for they are already
being successfully cultivated, and it is
expected that in a lew years tho culti
vated nut will equal In quality the high-
priced Italian chestnuts.
Black walnuts and butternuts are re-
irarded ns too rich and oily for table use,
but the former is largely wd by con
fectioners. The American hazel nuts
are not an important nrticlo of com
merce, 'he filbert largely taking their
nlnce. Only a few English hazel nuts
find their way to the American market.
It is staled that growers in California
contemplate introducing u number of
varieties of nuts native to Spain and
Italy.
Tho trade in foreign nuts is enormous
Thc demand is Bald to have tripled dur-
FARR, GARDEN AID HOUSEHOLD.
A New York correspondent of ’he Ca
nadian farmer writes > A few years
ago, having a field of sowed corn, of
good heavy growth, 1 made an estimate
cf the green weight of the stalKs grow
ing on an acre by counting and weighing
measured sections of different parts of
the field, and found the amount to be
thirty-six tons to the acre, which, I see,
corresponds with the weight of the best
crops reported by others. As I intended
to plow under part of the field, I esti
mated that the amount of vegatable
matter, counting the stumps and all,
would not be less than forty tons per
acre to use for green manuring, and ns
tills was a heavier growth than I could
expect to get from anything clso tnan
that for the purpose, I was in hopes to
find tbat it would do the land
the most good. To plow un
der sucli a v rop and have it all covered
deep and nicely under ground required
some Dractic^. I did it in tho following
manner: With a long ohain a team was
nicched to the rear of the farm r jller,
and ‘.>s they were driving alongside tho
standing corn the roller was made to
crush tlie corn flat to the ground by a
man holding the tongue and steering it.
In this way it was laid down in a way
ing the past five years. As everybody
id is tho “ old reliable,*’
knows, tho almcn
always has been in demand, and prob
ably always will be. Thc " Eng
lish ’’ walnuts, formerly called Ma
deira walnuts, mninly come from
France nnd Spain, thc English
crop being consumed at home. They
have boon successively raised in the
Slates on the Paoilic const. The Brazil
nuts are a kind of “ linked grease, long
drawn out”-a few of them go a long
way. For cocoanuts tho demand is
steady and so immense that dealers feel
safe in buying them by the hundred
thousand. The process of dessiccating
them has widened their family use, and
they are now a favorite ingredient of
pies, enkes and oandies.
It is prob tblc that with the extension
of railroads the trade in nuts will in
crease, and il is not unlikely that in re
mote regions people now unemployed
will go into tho business of raising nuts
-'or market —CinointuUi Commercial.
Parrots.
Thc parrot is like a much esteemed
and a muoh detested bird. Tho easy
facility with which they learn to speak,
•ind their eccentric doings, endear them
to some people quite as much as their
nosiy clatter makes them a source of
annoyance to others. But it must be
iduiitted that the parrot is one of the
mest interesting and amusing of bipeds
Much has been said and written con
cerning tho singular sayings of this
natural mimio, anil many amusing
scenes have been recorded wheiein the
parrot has been the central figure. 11
is related ol a parrot owned by n Boston
lady, that, when asked to sing, it will
cough and ‘scrape its throat” in af
fectation of a nervous young lady, but,
when urged, he sings:
plo*...... _ _ .
and wheel ooulter I was able to turn it
under deep and nice. After plowing
(it being abon tho first of September)
the furrows were rolled down, dragged
and sowed to rye, thinking to plow that
under the spring in timo for planting
tho whole field to potatoes, nnd oxpect-
ingtbento seen marked difference in
the crop in favor of tills piece with
these two green crops plowed
under, compared with tho field
having no manure. But in
this I was muoh disappointed, for l have
not to this day seen any difference in
the way of making this better than tho
remainder of the field. After plowing
in a clover crop in the same way, I have,
after a week, found it rotting fast un
der the furrow; but this corn, after
three weeks, seems to be about as green
as when first plowed under; and again,
after six weoks, found it was not rot
ting. so that finally, after plowing uu-
dor the rye tho following spring, I had
to run tho plow very shallow to avoid
tearing up the tough and partlv green
stalks of thc sound corn. By this 1 wns
pretty woll convinced oflts keeping
quu’lties when buried underground or
packed in tlie soil, as is so much re
commended in tho prnctioc of ensilage.
As to tlie value of such corn for feed
ing purposes, I find it worth most to
feed green from the field to cattle and
horses in August und September, when
the pastures are becoming dry and feed
short Then, if any is left, out and
stnnd it into large sacks to remain until
about the time they are wanted to Iced
in tho winter, unless it was out and
stored in a green state as roferred to
above or winter ween food.
In conclusion. 1 wish to state that
although tlie plowing under of sowed
seed seemed rather a failuro in enrich
ing the land, still I have great faith in
green manuring that it will enrich our
land the cheapest of any, and fur the
purpose would use of all clover; but if
that failed, would immediately after
harvest till the stubble and sow it to
rye oi oats to plow under. I find two
great reasons for doing this, for I thus
obtain a good, clean vegetable growth
to plow under, and also by preoccupy
ing thc land with such a crop it is kept
from seeding itself to foul grassos and
weeds, to be a detriment to the land; for
I find the manure is always ready to
soon start somethlug growing there, if
l should fail to. 1 ol so after any hoed
crop sow it again in thc same way when
lb ere ts timo to obtain any reasonable
growth—to oats if only lor a fall growth,
or to ryo if it can remain until some
time into tho next spring
Mulching,
A correspondent of tho Anterican
Cultivator, dwelling on tho importance
of mulching, says: Upon a dry and
rocky hillside, in tho town of Shrews
bury, Mass., stood an orchard. The
*< Gora’s a jolly good follow,
Whloh nobody can dony.”
Robbing a Boa’s Lips.
Tho zoological garden of Antwerp,
Belgium, has been the scene of a very
moving drama. A young naval surgeon,
great amateur of ophidians, entered the
serpent cage in company with their
guardian to attend to an enormous boji
which was suffering from an inflamed
jaw. In order to rub the lips of the
animal with some ointment tho surgeon
took hold of the reptile by the backpart
of the head, but the animal, which is
fifteen feet long and large in proportion,
bog8n to hiss and coiled himself round
the arms, legs and body of bis aggressor.
The guar inn, taking fright at the re
sistance of the serpent and at the threat
ening attitude of the other snakes,
numbering about thirty, ran. leaving
the burgeon in a critical situation. The
b a was beginning to tighten its hold
and to press on the poor man’s chest,
whe" he had the idt a of letting go his
hold of the serpent’s head. Thu animal,
feeling itself free, uncoiled itself ana
took refuge behind the rockwork of the
cage without doing him any injury
The Right Before the Mowing.
All shimmering In tho morning shine
And diamonded with dew,
And qnivering in the soentod wind
That thrills Its green heart throagb;
The littlo field, the smiling Held,
With all Its flowers a-blowlng I
How happy looks tho golden fleld,
Tho day beloro the mowing ! ,
Outspread ’neatli the departing light,
Twilight still void ol stars,
Save whore, low westering, Venus hides
From the red eye of Mars;
How quiet lies the silent field
With all its beauties glowing,
Just stirring—llkenohild asleep,
Tho night beloro the mowing.
Shnrp steel, Inevitable hand,
Out keen, out kind I Our Held
We know lull well must be laid tow
Beloro its wealth it yield;
Ijibor and mirth and plenty blest
Its blameless death bestowing;
And vet we weep, and yet we wfeep.
The night beloro the mowing.
—Dinah Mu/oeh Crate.
HUMOROUS.
Sure to come round—The apple dump
ling.
Cannibals sometimes have their neigh
bors at dinner.
It is feared cold weather has rained
next wintor’s ioe crop.—Oil Derrick.
The greatest masliefs usually turn
out the smallest potatoes.—Philadelphia
Bulk tin.
Bjornsteme Bjornson has written
very pleasantly to a Bjnlenna paper
about Bigrant.—/fatcfcei/e.
When a New York young man pops
the question he now says; "Let’s con
solidate.”— Boston Transcript.
A well-dressed buckwheat cake wears
a flap-jack-ket, cut by us dally, with
•yrap trimmings.—Boston Qlobe.
A Boston paper charges certain actors
" fulminating trlto fatuities.” No
with
arrests were made.—Alta California.
It is sad but true that a man who
once becomes deaf seldom enjoys a
happy hear after.—fyraiute Standard.
The man who conn s about solely to
kill .ime should c inline himself strictly
to his own timo.— New Orleans Pic
ayune.
Tho most afflicted part of a house is
tho window. It is always full of panes;
and who lias not scon moro than one
window blind ?
A pprson may lmvo his name spelled
Mefistofelos, McphUto or MephiBto-
plieles, and be tlie same old fiend all
tho same.—Picayune.
A cute observor remarks thut "tho
man who stops Ills paper to economize
is like a man who goes barefoot to save
iris shoes.”—Boston a lobe.
“ What,”* asked tho teacher, "was
tho greatest obstacle Washington en
countered in crossing the Delaware?’
And the smart bad boy thought fora
minute and then made answor: “Thc
toil man."—Hawkeyc.
Toaoher—" John, what arc your boots
made of?" Boy-" Of leather/’ "Where
does tho leathor come from?" "From
tvees were old and lind not given a ^ood
He smiled
reassured her. ... .
- Westbrooke, it has caused me
“Lady vvestorooKu, u> uuo vuuocu me ■
mingled feelings of pain and pleasure in | engine.
An Electric Hose.
A new thing in fire apparatus, says the
American Journal of Industry, is the
electric hGse. A wire runs along in the
cotton or rubber part of the hose, con
tinuing the connection as each section is
attached, and over this passes elec
tricity generated by one of the engine’s
fly-wheels. Conneeted with the nozzle
is a little contrivance by which the en
gineer can be told,although Bquares dis
tant from the man who is playing water
on a fire, to “turn her on.” “cut her
off” "stop,” or "go ahead," or any
thing else tbat can be agreed upon, by a
signal which is struck on a gong on the
In the Bowdoin square bird storo there
was a parrot, whioh, every afternoon be
tween three and five o’olock, in imita
tion of the newsboys,cried with wonder
ful accuracy: "Herald, five o’clock, two
cents!” The writer was attracted
recently to a handsome African parrot
fitting upon a perch at this place. He
offered it a peanut, which the parrot
eagerly seized, with the remark: "What
doyousoyP” Agam, another nut was
offered to it, but withheld, when the
bird ejaculated: "Oh, you rascai!’ i
"Wipe off your chin!” "Pull down
your vest!" One day a lady was aboil
to leave the store, when a parrot in
quired: "Want to go to the depotP’
Thelinquiry was so natural in tone that
the lady turned aboutand answered one
qf tlie attendants, who she supposed
aaked the question. Thc most va uable
parrot is the African, with ashen-gray
body, black bill, white face and scarlet
tail. Their cost varies from ten to one
hundred dollars or upward, according to
thoir powers of speaking. There are
many varieties of the green parrot, some
remarkable for their beautful plumage,
and others for their capabilities of learn
ing and retaining words, sentences and
songn, and the Cuban parrot is more
often found caged than any other of tho
green varieties. The double yellow
head, the half yellow head and ’he
white fronted parrots are much admired
for beauty and “conversational powers, - ’
and the Amazon parrot, which speaks
Spanish well, is valuable on account of
its rarity. Green parrots are usually
about half the price of the gray. The
Australian paroquet is the name given
to a species of small parrots. It is a
very eccentric bird, can be taught many
amusing tricks, and sells at from ten to
fifteen dollors per pair —Boston Herald
Gardening, as well as the art of
making bouquets, is taught in the
schools of Japan, and nowhere in
Europe are there so many flower gar
dens as in that country. All new speoies
and varieties of garden flowers and
trees are sold at high prices, and be
come known throughout the country
with great rapidity. Gardening is car
ried on by ail Glasses.
crop of apples for several years
owner, having a large quantity of hay.
drew it to the field and placed it around
tho trees to the depth of two ve inches,
covering the whole ground occupied by
the trees, omitting every alternate row.
This was done in the month of July.
The next year every treo where the
mulch was applied, was loaded with
large and fair apples, while the trees
hart made a great growth of
wood, and tho leaves had a beauti
ful green and spring-like appear-
since; those without tlie muloh boro no
'fruit. The varieties were the same.
Covering the soil with a muloh Is
valuable in many ways, besides the de
cay of the material placed upon the
ground, of tho added fertility of tho
manure or straw. A certain amount of
moisture must be retained in the soil to
allow the fibrous roots to feed to the
best advantage. If there is more than
the required amount of water, the soil
is too cold for tho best results, and the
air is excluded by the water to an ex
tent that prevents or retards chemical
action. When ammonia escapes from
decaying vegetation or from the soil and
passes into the atmosphere, it does not
chemically unite with other substances,
but simply remains suspended, to be
brought to the earth by the first rain.
Household Hints,
Commence to grate a nutmeg at the
stem end
Put salt in the water in which eggs
are poached.
To remove grease from wall paper lay
several folds of blotting paper on the
snot and hold a hot iron near it until
tho grease is absorbed.
The small white sLgo called pearl is
the best. The large brown kind has an
earthy taste. It should always bo kept
in a covored jar or box.
Salt cod should be kept in a dry place
where the odor will not penetrate to
other parts of the house. The best kind
is that which is called dun, from its pe
culiar color.
It is a simple matter to make hard
soap whioh is not only agreeable to use
but which has the great merit of clean
liness. To seven pounds of tallow use
three pounds of rosin, two pounds of
potash and six gallons of water; boil
for three hours, or better still, for five;
t urn from the kettle into a washtub; let
it stand all night. In tlie morning cut
into bars and lay them on a table or
board in the sun to harden for two or
three days. This quantity will last a
family of four persons a year if used for
ordinary household purposes.
the hide of the ox." “ What animal,
therefore, supplies you with boots am
meat to eat?" " fnibor.”
My father. 1
Joe, my dear,” said a fond wife to
her husband, who f illowed the pisca
tory profession, "do brighten u: a lit
tle, you look so slovenly. Oh, what an
awful rocollecllon it would be for me if
you should be drowned looking sol”
" Look hero, boy, this is a miserable
certificate your tcnclier sends me of your
standing,” said a Galveston parent to
bis >m. "’Tnin’t ny fault. 1 didn’t
have the getting up of it. or it would
have been nil right.”— Galveston News.
Why the Operator Couldn't Climb.
Tho other day John F. Wallaok, the
;onial superintendent ot the Western
Jnion telegraph in this district, related
to a fellow passenger, as they passed
through Lewisville, a bit of experience
connected with that station worth re
cording. It occurred during one of the
night storms so frequent last summer.
The violence of the wind had detached
tho trunk quartruplex wire; used for
New York business, and the testing in
strument located the break at the first
pole west of Lewisville. Mr. Wallaok
called up the operator there, and ordered
that the break be fixed.
“ Can’t go out to-night; storm is too
bad," was the reply.
" Storm or no storm, the thing has to
be fixed.”
“ W ell. I’ve got no ladder.”
“ Go out and olimb the pole.” This
somewhat testily.
" I can’t climb the pole.”
"What’s the reason you can’t?’
Manager’s temper going fast.
“ I’m a woman.”
Mr. Wallack had forgotten, in the
press of business, that Lewisville had a
female operator, but when reminded of
it he gave up the job and hired two
boys to attend to it.—Indianapolis News.
ilaUdnritlng and Character.
You never take a pen in bond but you
are showing something of your own
are showing something oi your own
character. The very style of the hand
writing is an element in the determina
tion of character. The way in whioh
a man dashes off a letter is very much
the way in which a man uses his voice.
There is a modulated ease iu the tones
of th handwriting. Without professing
to be experts, like Messrs. Chabot ana
Netberclift, we can certainly gather a
general idea of character from the hand
writing. A minister was commenting
on a very strong dispatch in the pres>
enceof his sovereign. “The language
is strong,” said the statesman, " but the
writer does not mean it; he is irreso
lute ” “ Whence do you see irresolu
tion?” said the king. “ In his n’s and
g’s, please your majesty.” Only it is to
be said tbat a great deal of humbug is
often talked by people who profess to be
judges of handwriting. I showed a
professor of caligraphy a letter whioh I
had r ooelved. He took a very unfavor
able view ot the baniwriting. It was
the handwriting of a man without learn
ing, without genius, without feeling.
" And now, sir,” l said, “ will you look
at the signature?” The letter was writ
ten by Lord Macaulay.—London Societ i.