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<{&/: r b ' # enln K & tit M& \ >0 L I m I it ♦ t ' YQL. VII. The dawn grew ami golden in the east. The dancing tins music ceased; The wocld, the world of men, awoke, *A.nd then the guest who tarried spoka And as ho spoke he took her hand in his (he could not understand!) And held it, tiny, wiil'e, and slim, While she in silence gazed at him. “Soft little tender birdlike thing, May Time or Toil,” he murmured, “bring lino to thee, poor girlish hand!” nceould never uuderstanij!) MRS. J. NEWTON SMITH’S FAMILY TREE. ES. SMITH had i? been a Newton, ( 4 and wished had always that k IHI k she could have retained her l v name after mar¬ riage and done away altogeth¬ er with tho very common cogno¬ - i ?/ ./ the band, men busy of her but years hus¬ in / - which came while she was housekeeper and moth¬ er of four sturdy children, it seemed to make little difference what her name was. In fact, she had all she could do to answer to the name “mother.” But Mr. Smith’s business as a grocer prospered, and after three children were married, leaving only Beatrice, a maiden of fifteen, at home, Mrs. Smith found time to attend to social duties and cultivate the ambi¬ tious of her youth. A new house, with “grounds,” was her first aspiration; and, as her hus¬ band shared this desire, they found themselves established in due time on a trolley line just far enough outside the city to be what the grocer called “unmixed.” Mrs. Smith was a woman of good taste, and used money wisely. Hence a smooth lawn, (lowering shrubs and ! vines soon appeared around the pretty i home, which in had addition sheltered to the the great farmhouse elms j - which had formerly occupied the site, j It was while she was furnishing thatj j and beautifying at her leisure Mrs. Smith received a letter from Bos-: tou asking for frets concerning herself and her father’s family. A certain Miss Agues Newton was the writer, and she informed Mrs. Smith that she was compiling a “Newton book” in which the family—-root, trunk and branches--was to be classified and ar ranged. She had just “discovered” Mrs. Smith, and hence informed her at considerable length of the impor tanco of her work and the extent of the family circle. The names of prominent people that Miss Agnes Newton specified as in the family connectionn opened be fore Mrs. Smith a new world of rela tionsliip. “Why, John, it is perfectly amaz ingi” she began at the tea-table, “I am second cousin to the member of Congress from the first district—the Hon Dillon Newton; and Doctor Stark’s wife, of the Church Herald, is my first cousin; and that rich Herein way of Groldham married my mother’s cousin—-that makes her my second, doesn’t West—well, it? The she mentions Newtons judges that went- and j professors and ministers—I don’t know what all! And, John.” here an impressive finger was lifted, “we’re descended from the same line as (Sir Isaac. Newton. What do you think of that?” “H’m! let’s see. Sir Isaac descended from Eve, and both of ’em had some¬ thing to do with an apple, didn’t they?” A glance from his wife warned Mr. Smith that levity would not he tole¬ rated, and he quickly added, “I don’t cava much for such things, hat if they want my opinion of the Newtons, I know one that I can give an A number one recommend.” “Don’t be foolish John,” she re¬ sponded, somewhat! mollified, “It really means a- great deal to find that one ’belongs to a superior family. Father was careless about correspond¬ ing with his relatives, and they were .scattered all over the country before 1 was old enough to know them. For the sake of the children, I’m very glad some one has'had interest enough to collect the records.” Mrs. Bmith had taken on new dignity since reading her letter, and now sat very erect, handlingher knife and fork with an air which greatly amused her husband. He leaned back and laughed with rare enjoyment. “You’ll do, Judith. I’ll risk you with any of ’em. Too bad there isn’t a Smith tree, but we’d need a regular banian—room for au army, you know. But aren’t you afraid these aristocrats will look down on a grocer’s wife?” “Not if they’re true Newtons,” re sponded his wife, warmly. 4 ( Miss Agnes Newtou writes that loyalty is a peculiar characteristic of the race. She says I will* find that these new relatives are true to the last degree of kinship. Of course I am glad they all appeal' ts> he educated.ftUd wealthy A WOMAN’S HANC Thett she, with one strange, wistful 100k, Brew baek the hand ho idly took, And smiling hid it from his ga/.e, AVhi.le he bowed low, and went his ways. The little hand remained the same Soft birdlike thing, and no toil came To take its tendernoss away. Nor steal its beauty day by day, For in the world its only part Was hut to press a wayward heart That (Ah, little uchod hand so white and sliml) with all her love for him. —it will be such an advantage for Beatrice to know them.” Beatrice was a lively, red-cheeked girl, perfectly satisfied to be a Smith, but she dimpled becomingly in re¬ sponse to her mother’s prophecy. * “I’ll have to practise my music bet¬ ter if I’m going among grand people,” she said, and thou wondered why her father chuckled so absurdly. There was one drop of bitterness in Mrs. Smith’s cup. Ju3t over the boundary wall on the north side of her beautiful home was a little cottage full of children. There were six under twelve years—bright-faced, rollicking boys and girls, ali intensely interested in watching every improvement on the Smith estate. If she was out overseeing the ar¬ rangement of foliage plants in “de¬ signs” on tho lawn, there was sure to be a row of smiling faces visible over the will, the baby being held in posi¬ tion by his oldest sister. If she wen-t out to water the flowers she would be greeted by a cheerful “Hullo! we thought you’d better give’em a drink!” pantry faced the north, and while concocting dainties for her table she would often look up to find several pairs of blue and brown eyes regard mg her steadily. One glance from her was enough to bring smiles to every face, and a joyful “Hullo!” “Now, mother,let megive them some giugersnaps.” Beatrice would s^y, and several times she had had - the pleasure of distributing the fresh, crisp cakes to a keenly appreciative company. But Mrs. Smith frowned upon these friendly overtures: “They’ll be in the garden over everything, Beatrice. How would you like to have them ‘hullo’at you when your young friends are out from the city?” “I wouldn’t mind. Their faces are always clean, and we’re real good friends.” “But they’re already making free with the carriage-drive, and if you pet them they’ll become nuisances.” As the summer advanced, Mrs. J. Newton Smith, as her cards were now engraved, installed a stout Swedish woman in her kitchen and gave a series of afternoon teas, and ladies who drove out to them from the city were charmed with her home and liospi tality. If Sir Isaac discovered the attraction of gravitation, this far-away kinswoman knew how to exercise a social attraction toward which certain eminently respectable aud desirable people gravitated. She even ventured, with a little as sistance from Miss Agnes, the his t-orian, to reveal herself to the great Doctor Stark’s wife, who was sum moving at the nearest resort. When that lady returned her call, perhaps Mrs. Smith was as happy as a woman of moderate ambition can hope to be. Mrs. Stark, in return, was delighted with her new relative, with sunny, un¬ spoiled Beatrice—whose playing was unusually poor that day—and con¬ cluded her visit with an urgent invi¬ tation for the family to come to Phila¬ delphia at the earliest opportunity. “There, John,” Mrs. Smith said to her husband, “you must admit that it pays to have a family true, for I never would have known my cousin, Mrs. Stark, if it had not been for the rec¬ ords. She thinks a great deal of an¬ cestry and heredity.” They were sitting on the broad piazza, at sunset, where Mrs. Bmith usually recounted her trials and triumphs. so,” husband “Yes, I suppose her responded. that happened “The only thing to mar tho afternoon was while we were on the lawn. The north wall was alive with Higginses as soon as we reached the arbor, and actually, John—now don’t laugh!—-they said, ‘Hullo!’ to Mrs. Dr. Stark.” Mr. Smith was already laughing too heartily to check himself at once, and Beatrice hid her rosy face to conceal her merriment. “I’m sure!” ejaculated Mrs. Smith, “what you can see that is laughable or even tolerable in those grinning young ones is a mystery to me- Some¬ thing must be done. Nextycar I mean to have a wall ten feet high between us.” “It's a regular case of—what’s-his name—Mordecai, over again, isn’t it?” said her husband, wiping his eyes. “And how did Mrs Stark express her horror?” After a moment’s hesitation Mrs. Smith responded, adapt “Well, herself I suppose to all she lias had to people, being minister’s . . sorts of a ‘To thine own self be tru9,and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’t not then be false to any man. LINCOLNTON, OA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1800. wife, but I was surprised. Zf2 be smiled baek and said, ‘Hullo!’ I thought I should-” “But you didn’t—you never do, and I think shfe’s a sensible woman. Beally, she’s ’way up the tree in my estimation. I shouldn’t worry about the Higginses. Their father seems a nice sort of man—he works iu the machine shops and we often ride out together. Had a bottle of some kind of tonic for his wife to-night—said she was all worn out this summer.” “I should think she would be,” was the low response. The next day Mrs. Smith received another letter from Miss Agnes New¬ ton, in which she wrote, “I think I have discovered a now relative who must ha living near you. Her maiden name is Higgins; she was Sarah New¬ ton, from Kansas. If I trace her cor¬ rectly she is granddaughter of James, 1, daughter of Henry, 2, and Henry, 2, was your father’s (Orlando, 4) brother. Can you help me at this point?” Smith could No;’ Mrs. -T. Newton not! She was simply overwhelmed. Down went the wall ten feet high, and down went her exultation over the Newtons iu general. “My cousin!” she murmured, “Yes, father bad a brother Henry out West, He used to hear from him about once in five years. That ao counts for the strange resera-— O dear! dear! I’ll never tell John, He would make life a burden; Why should Agues Newton write me all the disagreeable discoveries she makes?” Hiding her letter, she sat down beside the window farthest from the Higgins cottage and wrestled with her chagrin. To yield was inevitable — her conscience made that clear—but how to do so gracefully was the ques t-iou. Like many other problems, this was unexpectedly solved. She heard the back door thrown open suddenly, and as she started lo her feet a wide-eyed, panting child ap peared. Smith,” she gasped, “O Mis’ “mamma won’t speak, an’ she’s all still! Trndie says won’t you please come over?” Mrs. Smith recognized the second Higgins child, seized a. bottle of cam phor, called Beatrice, and hurried af ter her little guide. Four weepiug ! infants met her at the door, while Trundie was applying water to her mother’s white face. “Is she dead?” whispered the lerri I fled child. I “No, no, dear, only in a faint.” I With quick and skilful movements Mrs. Smith. applied restoratives. Very soon the weary eyes unclosed, ; and color came again to lip and cheek. “Why, Mrs. Smith, did they you?” she whispered. “There! there! don’t darlings!” With the first intimation of consciousness children had pressed forward, to reach her. “Don’t you worry!” commanded Mrs. Smith, “Now, children, Bea trice is in the garden, and you can all go over and she will give you some cookies. I’ll stay with your mother.” Four of them tiled out on tiptoes, but Trudie stayed until her mother was in bed. Then she took the baby and followed—a look of grave re sponsibility on her young face. Mrs. Higgins looked wistfully at her neighbor. “I don’t see why gave out so, I’m sure,” she said, i . but my ironing was heavy, and I’ve been so miserable this summer. It seemed as if I was.going to die. and I didn’t care much if I did. Were you ever so wicked? But I’m sorry to trouble you; I’ll soon be up again.” As she smiled Mrs. Smith saw marked resemblance to her own sis¬ ter, Louiso, which Beatrice noticed. All artificial barriers fell at that in stant. aud leaning over the bed, Mrs. Smith almost sobbed, “You’re wicked, and you mustn’t work so hard any more. You don’t trouble me. I’m going to take cave of you, for I’m your own cousin, Judith Newton. I’ve just found it out!” The pale little woman heaved a long, long sigh, lifted her arms, and clasped them around Mrs. Smith’s neck: “Oh, I’ve known it ever since I moved here! You look enough like my lather to be his own daughter, and we knew you married a Smith, I’ve been so hungry to get near you, but I didn’t dare to speak first.” ^ Tho little house was very still, and nobody listened to the low murmur of voices as the women talked on and on. That evening the stout Swedish woman was transferred to the Higgins kitchen, where her broad face flowered into smiles, since she was one of the rare mortals who prefer “a family where there are children.” Mrs. Smith told her story also that evening, and her husband wiped his eyes aud cleared his throat vigorously as she described the finding of Cousin <3 ara j, “I won’t go back on the family tree, John, but I’ve been so wicked and puffed up over it—that’s the trouble!” she confessed. “And here at my very door was Cousin Sarah, just starving fora relative. No wonder she didn’t dare speak—oh, I forgive myself! And those children —there, John, you may laugh! but we must have them over here while she’s sick. Perhaps you could put up swings under the elms. I’m so glad Mies Newton wrote—in time. Cousin Sarah locks eo much like Louise I can’t help loving her.” •Tohi? nodded. He was possessed with a variety of emotions.—Youth’s Companion. man-eating lions. They Catch Human Eeings lSccausfi it is Less Trouble. j M'hen lions become man-eaters, these inert and treacherous brutes j take no unnecessary trouble to catch, men, and while human beings are plentiful, none of them undertake per lous enterprises or proceed on %ny haphazard expeditions. They know what to do and where to go in. order that prey may be procured with the least amount of risk or exertion. Such, a lion is well aware of who tills this cornfield or that mealie patch. He has informed himself of how many men accompany the village herds; where any outlying camps are situ¬ ated, and how they are guarded. There is no route by which travelers pro¬ ceed or traffic is carried on, that such animals have not studied with refer j ence to the facilities of attack they | afford and their own bodily powers, j If otherwise good strategic positions present natural difficulties, the lion not only considers how there can bo overcome, but, perhaps, practices liis part beforehand. At all events, ho has been -watched while engaged in exercises that cau only be explained in this way. So puny” a creature as man is, when unprovided with effective implements for offence, stands little chance against such a foe—an assailant hav jug forty times his own strength, backed by marvelous activity and an intense passion for carnage. Under these circumstances savages can only shut themselves up, or assault their enemy in largo masses. On the other hand, those precautions taken py a murderous lion might not seem to comport with that bold and often reckless temper attributed to this species, But such a discrepancy has 1K , rea l existence; it only appears when a judgment is made without tak jug all the facts into consideration, This animal’s intelligence, developed j n man-eaters to its highest- point, to- 1 g.-ther with an organic stealthiness of j nature and proclivity toward unex¬ fully j pasted account attacks for everything and strategems, lion does in i a the way of guarding against failure.” —Dr. Porter, in Outing, V • Ilints For Advertisers. , , ad. should : * "Mie moral of an run | from beginning to end. The merchants who have no aim in j | their advertising get returns only on j( s e bb tide. ; p] a j u WO rds, tersely and correctly s , )0 ] £eu oa twei<*h, printer’s andrnay outlast, the memory “ of the ” art. 1 0 success'll . . genera . an , ' ways plan then-advertising ahead,ami , S!> ’ >ou ’ u0 success e The “place of honor” in a publica ‘ion is held by the best advertisement, \ not necessarily by the m.03t advau tageously placed one. The man who is convinced that ad vertising does not pay is generally ‘ anxious to have extended personal an ; notice every time he leaves town or returns. An advertisement of promise is the one which has tho elements of profit¬ able publicity inwrought in its make¬ up, not the one caught on the hook of the most ready-promising solicitor or publisher.—Profitable Advertising. The Earliest Record of Golf. The earliest representation of authentic golf yet discovered is the | Flemish miniature (1500-1510) re¬ produced in the Illustrated London ■ News of June 9, 1894, and described ( by Mr. Mayhew. The “course” is a j held surrounded by palings. having There only ; are three players, each j is one “addressing” club. One his player ball, has but teed from and his | 1 “stayed” grip and the look of his club j he does not seem to be meditating a full drive. One of the other players j is “holding out.” The attitude of the : latter may he recommended to the i notice of a distinguished golfer and ! author, whose grip of the putter ; seems to get lower aud lower, becorn j j U g more and more deadly as it j descends. Etymological speculation ; j unsafe it is fascinating, but it s fts as )lla y be of significance that the Dutch j word for hole is “put,” from which | one is tempted to derive our word “putt,” which used to be pronounced “poot.”—Ha'rpors Weekly. More Wavs Than One. “Either things have changed since I was a girl,” said an elderly womau, “or men and women sew differently. I know I was taught to sew most care¬ fully, and the one thing that was im¬ pressed upon my mind was that I must-take short needlefuls of thread. ; ’Chat was to save time and energy, : and the thread was iu better condition to put into the work when it had not been drawn through so many times, But the other day I happened to see the men sewing at a ladies’ tailor’s where they make the most beautiful gowns, and such needlefuls of thread aud silk as I saw! A big man with a long arm in taking a stitch would pull out his thread as far as he could reach, and that must have been at least a yard. I suppose that man knows how to make gowns, but he wasn’t taught to sew up xu New England in my day. MliCULTCJ *AV: V ’ ' M114t * ‘ POTSS , flow to Secure Humus. Green manuring increases the store of i.limits (partially decayed vegetable matter) in the soil, and humus is neces¬ sary to the best conditions of fertility and productiveness, for it increases the capacity of the soil to retain and conduct water, ft promotes benefi¬ cial chemical changes among the dif¬ ferent soil constituents, changes which result in making originally for inert soil materials available as load plants. A suitable amount of humus con¬ tributes largely to the production of that physical condition of the soil which makes it possible to bring it into good tilth and to maintain it in that condition.-—Professor William P. Brooks, in New England Homestead. Experiments With Grape*. Iu my experiments with grapes, I have adopted a new system of training, or, rather, have utilized a very old Italian method. This is to grow the end of the vine to a stake and then cut¬ back to three or four buds iu tho fall of the first year. Again, iu the. fall of the second year, I cut back to five feet, or perhaps six feet, according to variety. The following spring I rub off all the buds except five or six at the top, and, ever after, I cut back all the canes at the top to three or four buds. This cuffing back every year will soon form a head that will furnish all the canes necessary for all the fruit the vine ought to carry. This method, when well established, gives the vine the appearance of a weeping willow. It has many advantages over other methods, among which are the follow¬ ing: It makes pruning very simple; the fruit is grown where the sap pres¬ sure is the greatest, which occurs at tho top, hence we secure better and larger l'ruit; the fruit is more easily gathered and less subject to damage from wind storms, because the canes which hang down on the windward side form a buffer that protects the other side, and hence more vines can be planted on the same ground. Some growers may think that such training as is outlined above would not l'mnish as much fruit: out, in my expert: ice, it will enable as much fruit to grow as any vine ought to carry if expected to ripen well. Last fall I gathered twenty pounds of grape3 from a four-yeat-old vine. An¬ other advantage of this method of training I might mention is that, in a few years, the main stock will have become so strong that it will support itself, and such vines are much mor* conveniently sprayed.—N. B. White in American Cultivator. The Plan of Double Crops. When one has a large garden it will save much hand labor to have the vegetables in rows, which will admit of working among them with the horse and horse hoe. But there are those who have to be economical of space, aud find the problem to be, how can we grow as many varieties as we want, in quantities sufficient for family us;? Here is opportunity for a little plan¬ ning. \Ye have seen tomato plants set between or in the rows of early peas so that they occupied the ground when the pea vines came off. We have seen lettuce growing between rows of beans, aud removed before the beans are picked. It is a common thing to grow from three to five rows of onions or early beets between two rows of the large late celery, and squashes or pumpkins in the corn or potato field are often productive with¬ out seeming to reduce the yield of the main crop, Tomatoes staked or trained to a trellis require much less room than when allowed to sprawl about, and appear to yield abun¬ dantly if on the south side of a fence or wall. In short, there are many of these methods tried by those who economize land, and some of them claim to save labor by it, for although they must be all werked clean by hand labor, they think it does not cost more than horse labor would if the crops covered as much more ground as they would in rows three feet apart, Where squashes are grown in hills eight feet apart there is much ground to work over for the one crop, and often other crops are grown between the rows. The method of double cropping re¬ quires heavy manuring, but where it is systematically done they required strive to put the manure and labor for two acres under the spread-out plan into one acre, and strive to grow on that one aero as much as others would grow upon two acres. Certainly the second crop does not draw any more fertility from the soil, or rob the first crop of manure or moisture needed for its growth, any more thau the crop of weeds that we too often see in some gardens, while it looks much better and seems to be more profitable. Try this plan in your little garden.—Ameri can Cultivator. More than 2,000,000 trees have planted along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad iu Dakota to serve a» protection from snowdrifts. ENO. L '! INFLUENCE OF CLOTHES. ffearlns One's Heat When Visiting th# Poor and Sick* Lenten frocks of purple and heli tropo for church-going mission-visit¬ ing and good work generally, are being made for the consistent and conscien¬ tious woman, says the New York Com¬ mercial Advertiser. Simplicity and demureness characterize these gowns as a rule, and the clinging, graceful, soft fabrics, such as nun’s veiling, cashmere and canvas are chosen rather than the more aggressive and worldly cloths or rustling materials. One good soul whose Lenten duties take varied forms has what she calls her “hospital dress.” This she wears to readings and recitals and lectures on Greek art and psychological phenomena, as well as to the wards where the children wait her coming as eagerly as flowers long for the sun. “X don’t believe in the old-time philanthropist in a little gray bonnet and a black shawl,” saya this Lent lily. “I think poor people and ‘shut-ins’ are more observing and more apprecia* tive than people who bustle about In the world, and I know that they love pretty clothes and are pleased to think one puts on her very best to go to sed them. One small girl at the post, grad¬ uate always ‘sizes me up’ with her big blue eyes the minute I enter tire ward Then. when. I sit beside her bed to talk to her, she smiles and strokes mV muff, plays with the charms on m.v chatelaine and tells me how pretty 1 look, how much nicer this bonnet if than the one I wore la3t week and other bits of information that she has probably been cogitating on and stor ing up for days. It makes me wary, l assure you, and if I am not as smart as usual 1 fairly quake before the scrutiny of the blue-eyed one who loves visitors, but, above all, smartly dressed visitors. * “My girls; like their mother, have not much money to spend, so they try to give time aud energy instead. One of them teaches a class of little bar barians how to sew and the other has a kindergarten catechism -lass, The girls are both in their to ns anil r f :*ar neither of them has tho "gift of teach ing, so I discreetly void questions about the progress the children are making in sewing or religion; bn J do know that the little h' Hester street think Pollie' well-dressed of stories, and an- Nell toils who ijjgg asij that the Saturday morning u, the day on which she wore her f for the first time, the attendance class was about one-third again as it had been before. “The observing pupils had neighborhood hoc.- the teacher had Teresa Giovanetti wear the wild around her neck because her hem¬ stitching was well done. Poor Nell had her hands full that morning be¬ tween her efforts to teach the increased number and her anxiety for her precious boa, that was being ‘walked’ around the room, one child holding its head and one its tail, letting the legs claw along the floor. She de¬ cided to make a virtue of necessity and a Lenten sacrifice of the boa. It, became the plaything of the class, but aided Nell’s efforts to maintain order; at the first threat to take, the fox away from them the children became as submissive as a class of cherubs. “Dress is a great thing when peo pie are to he cheered and heartened mentally as well as physically. A ehate laine and a pretty lmt, a fashionable frock and a big muff will sometimes in-, terest and amuse a suffering child ii -» much as a picture book and flatter and please a poor old soul shut away from the poetic and stereotyped bunch of flowers or bundle of tracts.” The Agricultural Depau.i.ent ha? - sent an expert to Morocco to procure s supply of date palm trees of the best varieties to be planted in Arizona un¬ der government supervision, It lia? been found that the date palm will flourish in our arid regions and it i? hoped in ibis way to develop a new Industry for those sections. 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