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the old rail fence. I*t others in their songs rehearse The beauties they may see, And build a monument in verse; So that it fitting be. But I will raise rnv voice to sing A fact without pretence, , That much despised old-fashioned thing, • The homely old rail fence. What would our dreams of childhood be VV ithout its zigzag path' And there what tloweis we used to sae Before the aftermath! The fields are there; like grass ablaze The fire weed flaunts from thence, But almost gone from out our gaze We find the old rail fence. The rapid march of progress has Erased the landmarks old; It is to day a thing that was, A story that is told The .pruning knife of Time has cut With energy intense, With other childhood relics, out The honored old rail fence. It was the squirrel’s safe retreat: The chipmunk’s chattering oft Made us advance with hurrying feet Where he was perched aloft. There Nature stored her wealth away And oft we carried thence A thousand jewels in a day, Found by the old rail fenca Arbutus, mullein, golden rod, Felt its projecting care, And though with hands full home we trod, We had a world to spare. Life gives, I know, so much to-day The past to recompense. But with sweot memories laid away I keep the old rail fence. — America. “MISSUS,” BY KATE A. BRADLEY. “I say. Missus, d’ye want onythin’ from the store? I’m goin' to town to git th’ mare shod agin the plowin’ temorrer.” “Missus’ - looked scornfully over the washtub at the shifty, uneasy figure in the doorway. “Phemare! She’s gone with only one »hoea good three months, an’ now she must be shod agin the plowin’! But thet’s only an excuse to git with yer low cronies in town, an’ ye inought as well take thet as anuther, fer ye will go, spite of all thet I kin say. Yes,” she snapped as an after-thought, “you kin bring me a yard of eight cent < ottou —unbleached, mind. yow git out, an’ spend the rest o’ yer morntn’ loafin’ round some bar room. ” Mrs. Loud, or. assliu was more generally called by her husband and few scattered tieighbors, “Missus,’’watched him drive slowly off down the road behind the patient mare without taking her arms Irom Le -mis. “Loo . siiiftle screeturl”shemuttered; “nuui.if but a nuisance eon y way. Ain’t no more use than a last year’s bird’s nedt. Whatever I kum to marryhim fefl don’t see ’’ bh • wiped tire suds off either arm with her thumb and forefinger. “ am I ouU !’’ she called, opening the door sharply, “ef you am t back fer yer dim er vou don’t g;t enuy here, that’s all.” “lh i !” she excla und after a few foments of steady rub-rubbing up and uown oer the boa:d, the rhythmic mo tion keeping time to “On .Jordan’s fctormy banks 1 Stand,” which was run ning through her mind “That lazy mot .ai s eleau forgot tite pail o’ water I told i:itn to git half an hour ago. Ef he never kum back twouid be a ’tarnal taarey ’ Sam did not turn lbs head as Missus launched after him her parting threat, but ugged slowly on. musing to him self. •' t Missus ’ud only give a feller a chance! aitin the mare needs shooin’ bad; an' a man’s got to see how things is in town sometimes- though I can’t never make her see it. that way, som;- how. ! “A yard o’ cight-cent cotto ,” he re peated aloud, to fix it more firmly in his unstab e memory. “Alt’ inebbe 1 kin find some little thing to sort o’ pa :’fy her. ef so be’t as how f can git the mare shod a' ore noon. An' I declar’ for't ef I did:. . furgit thet pail o’ water!” A m.m, a stranger to Bain, was walk ing along the road a little way ahead. At this point he stopped and looked in tently up and down the broad, straight big..way, stretching in sight for mites ieither wav. “C id d iy. my man,” he said, as Sam cams up to him; “cau you give me a lift, a- we both seem to be going the same way ?” - * “Beckon I kin, if you ain’t tew hefty,” returned sam, cheerfully, pulling up his horse; “fur a spell, ’sfur’s I go.” The man, from his clothes and man ner evidently a gentleman, climbed to a place beside Sam and listened silently to that worthy’s garrulous conversation. ■ “Thet little red huildin’ on yer lef’, stranger,” he was just saying, “was whar I fust larned ter stick pins in the school mender's cheer, and ter ’’Here the man broke in suddenly'. “Tell me, isn’t that a wagon on the road a mile or two back?” * Thet speck way back by Tim Slo cumk place? It’s a wagin sure ’null, but it’s a good five miles away. You kin see it so plain ka.se thec.’s a hill thar ” “Isn't this branc h road we are just coming to the road to Kiugslow?” the st:anger asked. “r-pect it be," drawled Sam, regard ing him with slow surprise. **jViy man," said his companion, hur riedly, “if you will drive with all your might to Kiugslow, I’ll give you twenty doilars if you get me there in time.” Sam made no reply. “i twenty isn’t enough. T il make it forty,” said the man, watching Sam’- tacc anxiously. “ h, ’tahi’i th • money,” said Sam a last, leisurely, “though I’ll allow ’ti some ;n ett-ement to it man who’s go: a wife to hunt. ’ Taint thet—it’s why you’re m seen a’mazin’ hurry ail of a suddiiit. o, stranger. 1 don’t b’lceve I kin s and the rac.u-t. 'I lie h->-s’s only got one sttoe on. an’ 1 p:omi-ed .Missus ter be It tint fe diunt r." Do you se e that spe k bn k there on the re id.” a-ked the man. quietly. ‘‘Well, that is a buggy containing two constables They are after me for —Be er mind what. Mov, my man, if you get me to Kingdow docks in time to catch a boat waiting there for me, be fore those men catch us, I’ll give you fifty dollars. If not ” The alternative was expressed by a drawn revolver, pointed threateningly at Sam’s blanching face. He turned the mare's head into Kings lpw road. The minutes and the miles sped, by in silence, the stranger watch fa'l,’with his lingers closed on the revol ver, Sam silenly considering his chances for escape from the fate he .saw only too plainly hanging over him; that of arrest, atul perhaps imprisonment for helping a felon escape the outstretched arm of jus tice. “And what would Missus say!” Sam groaned. They were close upon Kingslow when he spoke. “i.ook’ee hyar, mister,” he said, “You’ve gone about fur ’null with this ’ere boss an’ wagin.” And he began to draw in the nearly spent horse. There was a short struggle, then a pistol re port, and Sam fell backward into the body of the wagon and lay motionless. Slowly and gradually the conscious ness of earthly things began to return to Sam’s darkened mind. He made an ef fort to turn over and look around him. “Wha—whar be If” he queried weakly. “You’re two weeks out at sea, my hearty, and bound for a six months’ cruise to China, on the trimmest craft that sails the blue,” said a cheery voice beside him. “A friend o’ yourn shipped you,” continued the voice, afterward proving to belong to the kind-hearted second mate, “just after you’d hurt yourself foolin’ with your revolver. He said he’d promised you to, ’cause you had a sick relation or something in China, an’ seeing your name was on the books, an’ he furnishin’ plenty o’ money for your nuss n’, we had to take you along as we’d agreed. Now go to sleep, an’ you’ll he well before you know it.” Sam had plenty of time to think out many knotty problems during the weary weeks that followed. “Mebbe I war a trifle shiftin’ an’ on easy-like for sech a woman as Missus,” he said suddenly aloud one day. “’F ever 1 git back, I’m blamed ’f I don’t start a new count thet’ll please her. But won’t the boys open their eyes when they hear about this!” When the clock struck one on the day Mi-sus watched Sam disappear down the dusty road, she took up her dinner and sat grimly down to her solitary meal. That finished, true to her word, she cleared away the things and went on with her work. Evening came, but brought no signs of the absent sam. When bed-time ar rived she rose, shut up the house and went wrath uliy to bed. She unlocked the door in the morning, smiling to herself as she wondered where Sam had spent the night after finding the house securely fastened against him. “He'll be along in plenty time for breakfast, with another errant ter do in town -shillless ci eetur!’’ she thought. About noon a neighbor drove into the yard behind the old white marc. They had caught her, he said, straying alone over c.ingslow downs, but Sam was no where to be found. The few drops of blood in the bottom of theautgon, how ever, hinted at a grave expiration of his mysterious disappearance, and when, a week later, the unrecognizable body of a man was discovered a short distance from where the horse was found, no room for doubt was left in any id, even in the most reluctant one of Missus herself. From the day that the fact of Sam’s death became evident to her, she with drew wholly from the society and sym pathy of her neighbors, and shut herself up alone with her tiresome and persis tent rellections. That one half wish kept ringing in her aching ears: “Ef he never cum back; ef he never cum back!” And it was wonderful how great the number of things she found herself obliged to do during the day that Sam, she remembered now, had unasscrtiugly done and left ready to her hand. Day after day dragged themselves slowly across the burning blue aud dis appeared in weeks and months. The afternoon sun lay aslant the kitchen floor, where Missus sat knitting sad re grets into her winter’s work. It was easy to see that these months had mellowed and softened her severe nature. She was thinking—as she had thought many times before, with, per haps, a touch more of self-reproach now in the thought. “Ef I hedn’t ha’ ben so lia’sli with him mebbe things would ha’gone better. A man can’t be tied to pots an’ tubs an’ on’ one spot a fut squat’, the way a woman kin, an’ stay satisfied. I spose. Though I never thought on’t thet way then. Ef he could only kum back now, he pi find things different I reckon. An’ he might go to town now an’ then —in reason.” Footsteps were heard crunching their way up the walk to die kitchen door. There was a moment's hestitation, then some one knocked, and as Missus rose uncertainly, filled with vague, undefined expectation, the door was opened wide and a man stood in the doorway. “8am!” was all she said, as she stretched out both trembling hands to ward him. but there was a look of lov ing jov in her foce such a; Sam had never seen before in all the davs of his married li e “Missus,” he stammered, “I—l furgot ter git the water —but I brur.g the eight cent cotton !”—Detroit Free Dress. Flowers in icy Prison. A big bunch of “jacks” and tea ro-es frozen into a cylinder of ice drew the eye of many a Broadway rounder to a sunny window on the upper rialto. Iloses and ice are two good things sel dom seen in immediate conjunction. The symmetrical icc block was about e ghteen by tea in lies and round as a mathematician could have wished. It had evidently be, n in a mold which in .urn had been in a patent refrigerator, aid tue perfe tion oi th process was such that the flowers immersed in the mold full of water hud been frozen solid before they 7 had a chance to wilt. Along the delicate green of the.stems the ice ne clless formed a beautiful fringe, each petal had a waxy immobility, and the hearts of the buds looked as solid as marble. N>c York Work!. When you come right down to the facts in the cas ■. it’s the loose-fitting straw hat that shows which way the wind blows!— De r if . e o. ' ANCIENT ART OE DYEING. AN INDUSTRY PRACTICED SINCE THE DAWN OE CIVILIZATION. How Science Has Revolutionized the Business of Coloring Fabrics —15,000 Chromatic Shades. The art of dyeing has always been a mystery, and the fact that it is less a mystery now than it was in former ages is... due to the fact that the scientific analyst is be oming an important per son, from whom it is almost impiossible to withhold the secret of compounds. It is one of the oldest of arts. 'The Hin dus were skilful in the art, according to the standard of skill recognized in the earlier years of the historic period : and the Jews, who probably learned the mystery from the Hindus, could dye a coat of many colors. But among the Western ana Western Oriental nations the Jews were for a long period the only people in possession of the secret. They practised the art exclusively through the earlier and declining years of the Byzan tine Empire, and from the time of ITiny to the thirteenth century there is no record of dyers who were not Jews. This people had nearly all taken to the art of coloring fabrics, and made it their exclusive calling. A traveler who ven tured to Jerusalem in the year 1100 found only 200 Jews in the ancient capital of .Judea, and they were all en gaged in dyeing wool. This possibly was the cause of the slow progress of the art among all the Western nations. But so long as the art of dyeing re mained a secret it is believed to have been a very expensive art, and that only persons of high rank among the ancients, and during the earlier centuries of the Christian era, could afford to disport themselves in gay colors, or in colors that were then thought gay, but which would now be thought dull and faded. In the earlier years of old Ireland color became even a sign of rank, and its use was regu lated by law. Only the king could wear seven colors, the full number of colors that the rainbow was then supposed to present; and from the king the privilege was graded down to the common people, who may be believed to have appeared in very sober habiliments. This is the age of color; and in noth ing else during the last thirty years has science made such a forcible impression on the usages of domestic life as it has made through its contributions to the re sources of the dyer. The very flowers and fruits, though still beautiful and at tractive on account of their odor and flavor, have lost the transcending supe rority in tints for which they were once noted, and must consent to become only common contributors to an ocean of color, where every wave is a translucent marvel. According to M. Chevreul, the resources of the dyer now cover 15,000 chromatic shades. This sudden advance in the art of dye ing has been due to discoveries in chem istry. Through all the many centuries of history the world knew only of nat ural dyes, aud down to the beginning of the present century, or rather till past the middle of this century, It still busied itself with the discovery of new natural agents. It had found indigo, cochineal, logwood, madder, quercitron bark, su mach, Brazil wood, and other vegetable or wood dyes, and it learned by various means to be more or less successful, by the use of chemicals, in a process technic ally known as mordanting, in making permanent the colors produced by these agents. But it had not learned to distil color from the elements. It could reach only the ]j*uudaries of an emjrire that was not yet quite won. Finally, the chemist Unverdarben discovered aniline, a purely chemical agent, the distillation from coal tar. The discovery opened the way for an industrial revolution, which is perhaps even yet only in the infancy of its movement. This happened in 1820. But the utility of the discovery was not known until many years later. It was not until the year 18.>8 that the tint known as Perkins’s purple, a pro duct of aniline, followed soon afterward by aniline red or Magenta became known. Then the revolution was fairly inaugurated, and since this latter date the advance has been rapid. All that is most brilliant in color is credited to this new chemical agent. But the body of the art remains un changed. What are technically known as the wood dyes have more substance and permanency than the aniline dyes. Indigo still forms the basis for blue. The scarlet on the coats of the British soldiery, warranted not to run, is mainly produced from cochineal; madder is the basis for crimson red and Turkey red, and yellow is produced by fustic, quercitron bark, or its concentrated ex tract called flavine, and from Avignon or Persian berries. The mordants remain also unchanged. Chief among them is the oxide of tin, called tin spirits by the trade. This fixes the scarlet colors founded upon cochineal; but alum is used as a mordaut for crimson red, and cherry red is produced with a tin mor dant from ammoniacal cochineal. Turkey red is produced from madder on an aluminous basis. Thus ran the formula in the old art of dyeing, and thus it runs still. Aniline is rather a re-enforcement than ah independent agent. Prussian blue, however, is purely a chemical pro duct, and its disco ve.y antedated the discovery of aniiine colors. But after the production of the simple or primary colors comes the production of the infinite variety of tints that go to make up the total used in the industrial arts. In this work the process of the dyer differs from the process of the painter rather in the means of execution than in the principles on which he works. Poes the dyer wish to produce a green fabric? He may mix indigo (blue) with fustic or quercitron bark (yellow), hand ling at the same time the mordants in accordance with the teachings of the best experience, and the result will be the desired color. I >ocs lie want orange ? The dyes that produce yellow and red will give him an orange fibre, and by the same process of combination he may have purple, violet, mauve, gray, drab, black, or any one of M. C fievreul’s 15,000 chro matic tints. But he should be a man with a trained eye, and a person who is color blind will hardly make a dyer. Dyeing is one of our most important industries, employing in New York alone nearly 5050 men, at wages averaging about $lB a week. It is an operation that must be timed to a nicety, as the best results may be lost even at the moment of fruition. Then, again, no ; man can ever become a good dyer, no matter what the length of his training, who is in any way defective in his sense of color. Other material may be made to receive coloring matter in a manner to change its appearance as completely as the appearance of these fabrics is changed. The endolith c process in the treatment of marble furnishes an instance. Marbles subjected to this processareascompletely dyed when it is thought worth while to change the entire substance, as a skein of silk, and made to imitate perfectly the product of any ancient or modern quarry, or to absorb pictures.— New York Sun. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Leonite is the last smokeless explosive, and its inventor describes it as meeting all the requirements. Sicily’s sulphur is estimated at about 30,000,1)00,000 tons, from which the world draws 400,000 tons yearly. A six-ton cab, carrying an ele trie bat tery strong enough to run it forty miles, recently made a satisfactory trip through London. Two substitutes foj the high priced gum arabic—one from flax-seed and the other from starch—are expected to serve all purposes for which the genuine gum is used. The last French rifle, as described, has a ball so small that a soldier can carry 220 rounds, shoots with a new smokeless powder, and its bullet pierces a brick wall eight inches thick at 500 yards. The largest iron casting ever attempted in America was recently made at l.ethle hem, Penn. It was the base for the steel compressor to be used in the gun steel works, and 124 tons of molten metal were used. It will be some weeks before the huge casting will be cool enough to examine. Crooke’s radiometer, a remarkable lit tle instrument in which tiny vanes are rotated by the action of light, is being used by French photographers for timing exposures, an equal number of revolu tions of the vanes corresponding to the proper time, whatever be the degree of brightness of the light. Among the policy holders of a Ger man Life Insurance Company, the deacb rate of medical men in 1887 was 11.5 c per cent, above the total average. This was due to diseases of the respiratory organs, consumption, and infectious dis eases. There was only one case of posl mortem poisoning out of 1052 deaths. The output of the Birmingham (Eng land) pin mills is 30,000,000 a day. Othei factories in that country have a capacity of 17,000,000 pins per day. France turn! out about 20,000,000 a day and Holland and Germany 10,000,000 each. The pic machines cut the wire to pin size, head, point, polish, sort and stick them in thf papers. In a work on meteorology Camille Flammarion declares the atmosphere tc be a huge machine, on which every liv ing thing is dependent. There are in this machine neither wheel work, pistons nor cogs, nevertheless it does the work of several millions of horses, and this work has for its end and effect the pres ervation of life. According to the English Mechanic, a very good way to anneal a small piece ol tool steel is to heat it up in a forge as slowly as possible, and then take two lire-boards and lay the hot steel between them and screw them up in a vise. As the steel is hot it sinks into the pieces ol wood, and is firmly imbedded in an almost air-tight charcoal bed, and when taken out cold will be found to be nice and soft. To repeat this will make it as soft as could be wished. A process has been perfected and patented for drawing upon wood by means of a fine metallic point kept red hot, so that the lines are actually burned iuto the surface. A powerful oxvhy drogen, or rather flame, keeps the point always at a high temperature, and yet the apparatus is so compact that it may be used with the ease and freedom of a pencil. It is furthermore, so adjusted as to produce at will all shades of brown, from the lightest shade to that verging on black. A Historic Fish Pond. There is rather an interesting bit oi history connected with the famous pond at Fontainebleau, near Paris, whi h has just been cleared of all its carp, perch and gudgeon. The pond abounded chiefly in fine carp, and when Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia, had his headquarters in the historic chateau dur ing the occupation of France by the Germans, in 1870, he gave orders that a wholesale fishing expedition should take place. Nets and tackle were accord ingly requisitioned by the troops, but none could be found. The local anglers had either hidden or destroyed their piscatorial paraphernalia, and the “lied Prince” could consequently taste but very few of the carp for which he longed. Now, however, the poird has been cleared, as mud has been accumu lating in it for the space of twenty-five years, a state of affairs which caused a sort of epidemic among the fish in 1887, when the surface of the water was cov ered with hundreds of dead carp. The fish drawn out of the pond in nets have been placed temporarily in the smaller ponds around the chateau. London Telegraph. Foreign Ministers at Washington. Foreign ministers demand the most scrupulous observance of the stereotyped ruies of etiquette, and watch with scru tiny every attention and inattention to them. A failure to seat a member of the corps or his wife in the precise seat be longing to his or her rank at the table, would, probably, destroy the pleasure of the occasion. Not one inch further from the host or hostess than belonged to the country they represent would be toler ated. The placing of the diplomats in line to he presented on occasions of cere mony must be done in strict observance of rank and importance of each. Hence, persons dining or entertaining these dig nitaries must first post themselves accu rately on the status of every kingdom, province and principality, if they expect to give their guests pleasure and to avoid a scene, such as has characterized occa sions where -‘second class South America” has occupied positions a few paces above “first class Europe,” or where little European provinces have been given more conspicuous places than greater kingdoms.— American Magazine. About Cotton. The cotton crop biing somewhat backward this year, plowing may and should be continued longer than usual. As the main object of cultivation during July was to encourage plant growth, or development of weed, so the object is now to promote the growth and maturity of the squares and young bolls. The plants are now, or should be, covered with abundant foliage, and the process of assimilation of the sap and the develop ment of the embryo fruit will go on ra pidly without much perceptible increase in the size of the plants. The same vege tative functions, however, are in full force, being only partially diverted from the formation of leaves and branches to the perfection of the fruit, and the same necessity exists, though in less degree, for keeping the surface soil in an open and porous condition. Cultivation should now, as a rule, be limited to one furrow of a wide plow or cultivator, run in each middle. In spite of all efforts to culti vate on a level, the stalks are now stand ing on the comb more or le3s elevated ridge or bed, aud examination will show that this bed is full of the rootlets of the plants. It is not good practice to plunge a plow into the sides of the bed and tear it away to the depth of three or four inches, as will be the case where two furrows are put in. It is best to run but one furrow, right in the middle, having the implement so set or adjusted that it will cut to a uniform depth from side to side of not greater than one inch. Deep plowing must be avoided now if not heretofore. It will be better not to plow the crops any more than to tear and mu tilate the roots at this critical period. No point has been more definitely settled, by scientific experimenters as well as profes sional practical farmers, than that deep plowing in the later stages of the growth of any annual plant, is irretrievably ruin ous. It will inevitably cause the plant to throw off the greater part of its forms and young fruit and to start into vigor ous but belated growth. Taking the average of the middle line of the cotton belt, it may be assumed that all forms or squares that make their first appearance after the middle of August will be too late to mature into perfect bolls before a killing frost occurs; therefore all further increase in the size of the plants and the number of new squares after that date involves a useless waste of energy and should not be encouraged.— Atlanta , Oa., Southern Cultivator. Dog-Wolves. Ensign Howard, of the Navy, gives a new proof of the crossing of wolves and dogs. He says, in his account of Arctic Alaska, that the natives keep all young wolves that they catch and train them as dogs for teams. Dogs and wolves are reared together. The dogs, he says, are more than half wolf, and have the char acteristics of those animals. They are without affection, but obey their master through tear. One dog in each team makes himself master and overseer. If any dog shirks he will punish him. If he cannot get at him while in harness, he will not forget to give him chastisement when released at night. They are capa ble of enormous endurance, like wild vrolves, and can fast anu work a long while. Russia imports annually 860,000,000 pounds of cotton, chiefly from America and Egypt, but it is believed that recent acquisitions of the Czar in Central Asia are excellently adapted for cotton raising. Some has already been grown at Khiva and Bokhara, and an extensive system of irrigation is being created to develop other land for this crop. The Methodist Episcopal Church, during the past twenty-three years, has given more than $3,000,000 to church ex tension and aided over 6,000 churches. Don’t Kill the Old Hens. When hens are shedding feathers they often •top laying and grow fat. Most people consider fat a sign of health. The fattening of moult ing hens, however, as with some people, pro dooes debility rather than health. Many of the worst cases of roup are contracted, while the hens are moulting. The food of moulting hens, if largely vege table is fat-forming,and not lequired for grow ing feathers. Therefore corn-fed hens get very fat. They need more nitrogen and phosphate elements in their food when moulting,which if not supplied they stop laying, because the growing feathers have used all, and left no ni trogenous matter to form eggs. At this season, Wiling old hens and relying on young pullets is a great mistake, where people have a few hens and late pullets. Because, if properly fed, the hens will have their new plumage and lay well all winter; while the pullets unless specially treated may not commence laying until spring, when high prices for eggs have fallen one-half. Again an old hen’s egg will hatch a more vig orous chickens than a pullet’s egg. John It. Jones, Suffleld, Conn., a breeder of prize winning mottled Javas, says: "I find Sheridan's Condition Powder,fed once daily in the food, very valuable for moulting hens. I have used it two years for exhibition birds. It assists in growing new feathers, makes the combs a bright red, and gives a rich gloss to the plumage. It will also make hens lay and the eggs hatch weiL I find when the other egg-foods are used in quantities to torce egg production the eggs do not hatch.” The above is the experience of many people in using Sheridan’s Powder. If fed to young pullets now as directed, they will begin to lay before six months old. Commence at once using Sheridan's Powder. It helps old hens through moulting, and gets the pullets in lay ing trim before the season of high prices. Eggs will sell very high this fall and winter. There fore be ready to set all you can. I. S. Johnson & Co., 22 Cus'.< m House St.. 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