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ANRRS A DA S POY TR S DO5 e i THE WOE OF A HUMORIST. For ywars I'd dwelt upon a thought—no matter what it be. 'Twas full of wondrous import—or, that ia, . it was to me. I'd ne‘er confided to a friend the very slightest hint That I had dwelt upon it or had deemed it had much in’t. = And after many years had passed I tried to write it out, . . But found it most elusive, for it put my pen to rout. . T could not do it up in prose or write it down in verse, e And every eflort that I made seemed than the other worse.

‘But one day like a rush the words to give it to the world Came to me, and a sonnet—yes, a sonnet—was unfurled. - Il ran in stately periods, and when I had it done : It seemed of all the sonnets quite the very greatest one. I read the sonnet to my friend—the hest .friend that I had— And as I finished up the lines hisfacelooked mortal sad. : “I truly think,”’said he, and sighed, ‘“my mind has left me quite. I cannot truly see the point of what you’'ve read to-night.”

I read it to my wife, and she, sweet-hearted soul—she said, : #I always like your verses, dear’’—then shook her bonny head—- “ But you can do much better work than this, it seems to me. You waste your genius and your time writing parody.” : ;A last resource, I tried it on my eldest little T boy, N ¢ And he received it with a smile that tokened inner joy. i “It’s bully, daddy dear,” said he, and snuggled to my vest; “But I must say I like your rinkty-dinkty nonsense best.”

I sent it to an editor. ‘“He’l¥understand,” said 1. . A day, a week, and e’en a month brought from him no reply. But finally the answer came. ’'T'was like the serpent’s hiss. : “‘Dear Blank,” said he, “I swear I've tried, but can’t find fun in this.” And so it goes, The worst of woes in all my " mortal span Has been to find myself set down as just a funny man— s To find, when I am serious and try to do my best, : My' friends and family opine I'm much in - need of rest. . ' —Carlyle Smith, in Harper’s Magazine.

DREAMS, BY WALTER L. SAWYER.

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On the other hand, few could see the spool cotton, plug tobacco and jar of peppermints that the window held. . Once in a great while a caller at“ Aunt Tolly's store” delighted in the certhinty that passers-by would not peep in. Gladys did. She had perched upon the home-made counter, and she swung her slim little legs and chattered away with a delightful sense of freedom and daring. It was warm in doors and out, and Aunt Polly’s Jim Ned, who listened, had discarded his jacket. To talk to a boy who wore no coat and who did not wear a neglige shirt, deepened Gladys’ happy consciousness of unconventional bravery. v ~ “Oh, yes, I'll miss it all,” she was saying. “It’ll seem odd not to go down to the beach to bathe every day. Wecan’t bathe—only in tubs—in Boston. I think’ w»it’s ever so much nicer to bathe in the Atlantic ocean, don’t you? Somehow it seems clearer, you know, and besides, you can’t catch fish in a bathtub, can vou? Do you remember that time I caught the mackerel? Ithink mackerel ‘are lovely to catch! They act so—so well-bred. I'd be ashamed to be a sculpin, and have people know L was always hungry. : “I wish there was a,beach in Boston—and a cow like Spotty Nose—and blueberries on bushes—and hayracks—and Aunt Polly to make doughnuts! Don’t you s’pose Aunt Polly would come to Boston and make doughnuts? I'm sure all the girls in my school would buy them for luncheon. P'r'aps mamma would let me take ’em to school in a basket and sell ’em for her. You could row boats, you know; there are boats in the public garden. They row ‘em with their feet. Can yourow with your feet? : The boy shook his head. lle looked puzzled; but he evidently felt it wise to ask no questions. ‘ “Oh, well, you mightlearn,” the little girl went on; “and you can do other

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things,” she generously added. “Ithink you're ‘'most as clever as papa. I'd ask him to teach you judging; he’sa judge, you know. Would you like that?” The boy was silent for a moment, and when he spoke it was as though deep impulse moved him against Lis will, “No use thinkin’ what I’& like,” he said, bitterly; “I ain’t liablé to get a chance at anything but pickin’ potato bugs 'n’ diggin’ clams!” “You could live in the cave, though,” was the girl's suggestion. She made it in all seriousness, as though he could not dream of surer comfort. Almost while she said it, the thought of her own' deprivation seemed to overpower ber. She slipped from the counter, und, standing before it, hid her face in hep Bakle. o . o]y “Oh, Jim Ned!" she sobbed, “I'e got to go away and leave it. And prob'ly Fil be grown up next year—too grown up to scooch down and elimb in. MamShEh Mo i oo b SO R L LI el b o

the funeral, when we buried Millicent under the big white rock. Yes, and there’d be my sweetest baby, when I'm *way off in Boston!” ’ “You could dig her up,” the boy muttered, doubtfully. ; “I think you're horrid, Jim Ned,” was the child’s indignant answer. In the heat of her wrath her tears dried, and the boy apparently welcomed the change; for when he spoke again it was in his old manner of gruff assurance. - : ; “Your father can buy youmoredolls,” he argued. “’Tisn’t like wanting to get things and not being able.” “IV’S worse.” : “No, taint.” 4Jim Ned! Don’t you know it’s rude to ’spute a lady 2’ “Well, why is it worse?” the boy asked, abashed. “Because,” the little girl said, conclusively. * 1 The boy was unconvinced; but he did not express his thought. Perhaps he felt that words were useless. He took a slate from the shelf, spat upon it, smeared it clean with his hand, wiped the hand on the trousers, and then explored his pockets wuntil he found a bit of pencil. - Gladys watched him while he laboriously traced his name and some unmeaning characters. Evidently his thoughts were on the old subject. When _his sober gray eyes at length encountered Gladys’ inconstant blue, he flashed out suddenly, like one who utters a thought which is in every mind:

“I'm 12 years old, 'n’ I don’t know anything,” he said; ‘‘you’re only seven, but you can go to school ail you want 10l ' . {

“Yes,” the child answered, placidly; “Miss Barker says I have a great many ’complishments—but you do know things, Jim Ned,” she hastened to add. “And going to school isn’t much fun—only on Saturdays, and then there isn’t any. I wouldn’t want to go, if 1 could live here and have the cave to play in.” “Huh! ¥You're a girl!” ' “What would you like to be when you're a man, Jim Ned?” =) he question served the purpose of eflective retort. 'The boy glanced at the querist and looked away, reddening. To cover his confusion, or to gain time, he dropped the slate and then laid it noisily away. That done, it was still difficult to face the child’s clear cyes. He turned his back upon her and, leaning against the counter, stared toward the window.

112 house fronted the "main road, in orthodox fashion, but its most important room was at the back and overlooked the sea. This ‘was considered wunfortunate. No one cared for the picture framed by . the single windoyw.

“Isn’t it beautiful!’ he heard present= ly: “the sky and the water and* the cliffs of Green island. Itmakesme feel rested and-—and good to look at it!” “’Tain’t any use,” was the boy’s indifferent. answer. “They can’t raise anything over there; not even potatoes. Ain't anything there but rocks and field .mice. /

“I don’t know what I want to do,” he went on, as though his utterance had established a habit of speech. = “Somnetimes I think I'd like to run an engine. Then I wish I could build a big building, seven or eight stories. Then ‘% want to go to college and only " just learn things. Trouble is, there ain’t any chance here to see what things are like.” He grew impatient at the difficuity of making his meaning clear,

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even to himself, and kicked backward vieiously at the counter. “If I lived in Boston, same’s you do—-" “l guess you'd wish you could come back to Maine and play in the cave and go fishing and have clam bakes,” the child said, wisely. “I shall.” ‘ The boy began an angry answer; but it occurred to him that his companion belonged to an inferior sex, and could not be expected to understand; and he held his peace. After a momentary calculation of expense, he took down a jar, extracted a long stick of pink and white candy, and gave her half. Then he fetched the slate around the counter and invited her to beat him at tit-tat-to. Seated on two soap boxes, they were soon absorbed in the game. Aunt Polly, in the kitchen, sang: “Blow ye the trumpet, blow,” and it passed unkeeded; nor did they rouge to attentive interest when Judge Hastings rapped on the casing and she opened the screen door. f - “This is my little daughter’s last call,” they might have heard him say. “We return to-morrow.” : ' *“’N she wants to stay, as bad as my boy wants to go,” Aunt Polly answered, with a mirthless laugh. “Kind o’ queer, ain’t it?” “Her father was a country boy,” said the judge, smiling gravely; “perhaps she inherits the homesickness that never wholly leaves him. The earth holds us, I think. The smell of the fresh sod lingers in our nostrils; the upland pasture is never so brave in the sunlight as when bricks and mortar hide it. I look forward always to the «day when I can ¢ome back.” “You wouldn’t make my boy believe that,” the woman said, bluntly. *No, I wouldn’t try. He will learn for himself how little happiness depends on place or position. Let him go when the time comes. It's a man’s right to measure himself with men. Very likely he’ll be glad to come. home to you.” ok : ~ The woman shook her head doubtfully. “I notice most of 'em stay,” she said, el : oy - “Perhaps they must,” was the patient answer; “but at least they remember; they begin to value that which lies behind. It's the memory and hope of the otd home that keeps life sound and sweet”—N. Y. Independent. an Egyptian mummy, that of a princess ik b e

e 3 T ‘THE FARMING WORLD. » - REDTOP IS VALUABLE. It Is a Perennial Grass Suited to Our : Northern Climate. ' A perennial grass, growing two or ithree feet high from creeping root - stocks, which interlace so as to make a very firm sod; the culms are upright, or sometimes decumbent at the base, smooth, round, rather slender and clothed with four or five leaves, which | are flat, narrow and roughish, from l three to six inches long,with smooth l sheaths and generally truncate ligules. It is extensively cultivated. Mr. J. G. l Gould says: This is a favorite grass in ' wet, swampy meadows, where its - ! terlacing, thick roots consolidate the sward, making a firm matting which prevents the feet of cattle from poaching. It is generally considered a valu- ' able grass in this country, though by no

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{ | means the best one. Cattle eat hay $ niade from it with a relish, especially | when mixed with other grasses. Asa i pasture grass it is much valued by | dairymen, and in their opinion the but- ! ter would suffer much by its removal. | Mr. Flint says: It is a good permanent | grass, standing our climate as well as | any other, and consequently well suit- | ed to our pastures, in which it should be | fed close; for if allowed to grow up to seed the cattle refuse it; and this seems to show that it is not so much relished by stock as some of the other pasture | grasses.—Prairie Farmer.

| S EXCELLENT STOCK FEED. 1 ‘An Official Bulletin Treating of Sweet Potatoes and Their Uses. | ' The department of agriculture has | issued a bulletiz treating of sweet pol tatoes and their uses. Only in localities favored with transportation facili- * ties and good markets is the sweet po- | tato a sale crop. But as a food for i stock the department thinks it should | be extensively grown in regions adapt- ! ed to it. The roots have béen success- | fully fed to hogs, cattle and horses. | ¥or cattle and horses it is better to | 'slice the roots. Of all classes of stock . hogs can be used to consume sweet i potatoes to the best advantage, since I ‘i—they do their own digging. : | Sweet potato vines are usually left to decay in the field where they are grown. However, they may be used as food for cattle. An analysis of very | succulent sweet potato vines, grown in | Texas, showed them to be practically |/identical in chemical composition with i‘ succulent cow pea vines, of which the | feeding value is well established. : 1 Vines of five varieties were analyzed | at the Georgia station and showed con- | siderable diiferences in- composition. ' It is claimed that the vines of the so- | called vineless variety, which stand up | well, can be-cut with a mowing machine, but to permit of this it will be necessary to cultivate nearly level. The vines are better suited for feeding | green than for curing into hay. In the silo they are said to become slimy. A writer says he weighed a heavy crop of green vines, and found that the i weight was five and one-sixth tons per acre. At the Texas Experiment station the yield of green vines was much greater. : The sweet potato is a valuable crop. ‘ They are worth raising for stock feed alone, but sometimes it happens that ! there is a good local demand at very } remunerative prices; The man who | has a large yield when the general erop . is poor generally gets good pay for his i efforts. I{f prices are unsatisfactory it would pay to try the experiment of feeding to stock. : e ; NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS. ~ Scleet the best stock in the apiary for queen raising. : 1 Crossing@#with fresh stock is just as necessary with bees as with any other { stoci. §

A cell properly developed and of full size is sure to produce a well developed queen. The life of the bee depends upon the work it does. When it labors its life is shortest. : Drone laying queens are worthless in every respect, for the drones they produce are deficient. A young queen that has defective - wings so that she cannot fly should be destroyed. She will be a drone layer. ~ Bees will destroy an old worn-out ‘queen, but never except when the conditions are favorable for raising a new queen. : - To place honey upon the market in the best possible shape it should be taken from the hives before it is spoiled by the bees. A strong caoony is always proof against robbers. See that all have good laying queens and young broods in the hives. Care in this respect in good season will avoid much loss. Whenever the beekeeper has been so careless as to leave his bees destitute eit}‘er of brood or queen for ten daysor two weeks, you may be pretty sure to find the evidence of fertile workers in the shape of eggs scattered about. A moderate flow of honey during the {all months put the bees in good condition to withstand the winter; brood | rearing is kept up and a good supply of Lees is produced which will be more apt to go through the winter successfully, e ony - To avoid cracks in cakes of wax do not allow the outside to cool rapidly. ‘Put a cloth and board oker the dish ~while cooling, or let it stand in a stove -oven whils the fives dies out-over night. ' Care in this respect will add to the appearance of the wax at least.—St. Louis

DEEP MILKING EWES. ; Suggestions as to the Raising of a Healt.hyf Flock of Sheep. " 1 Now and then you will see among the enumerated good qualities of a particular breed of sheep, that the ewes are deep milkers and good mothers. In looking over the flock of breeding ewes: with lamb at foot, the most casual observer must have noticed that some lambs showed the effects of much better care than others; that certain ewes with twin lambs were doing better byj them than many of théir companicns who had but a single lamb. The ewes may have been of the same age, and the jambs may have been dropped about the same date, and the feed and all othen conditions may have been the same, notwithstanding the above results. What, then, is the cause of this differ ence in the lambs? Much, very mucl{ cf it is due to the fact that the one ewe is the better milker, and as the yielding of milk is a distinctive maternal qual: ity, it must necessarily follow that she is a better mother. While it is a good thing' and a correct practice to teach the lambs to eat grain at the earliest possible moment, the great first start and impetus to growth must come from that most natural of all foods—mill, and for this purpose that of the mother ‘is superior to all others. e

These things being true, says Woal J‘ Markets and Sheep, it would seem the most natural thing to do to improve the milking qualities of the breeding ewes. There are several ways in which this might be done, but for the man who is in possession of the average flock ofsheep theré seems at present no better means at hand than careful selection and development by the feeding of foods especially adapted to the produetion of milk. We know that many men will feel disposed to decry such teaching, and so do many sc-called dairymen, ‘but they are not the ones who are making money out of the business of keeping cows. Some men never pay any aittention to the ewe’s udder even in weaning time, with the result that much sufAfering, and not unfrequently serioulgs loss, follows. | We wish to impress upon the minds of our readers that this is not an idle theory, and that it is perfectly plausible to increase the milking qualities of your ewes as those of your cows, and that while the profits may not be so greatl they are still worthy of grave consideration. If you should have a number of ewes in the flock that yearly produce and rear extra lambs note if they ‘ are not superior milkers, and in such an event save for the breeding flock the female lambs from all such mothers, and we prophesy that in the end the results of such selections will greatly surprise you. L Ll CRATE FOR POTATOES. | Quite an Improvement Over the Stgle Now lq Common Use. ey The cut shows a crate with thggmti all upright, obviating the use of corne supports, since in the case here illustrated the slats lap at the corners and thus mnailed give great stiffness to the whole crate. The use of such crates for gathering potatoes, apples, etc., cannot be too highly commended. A lot of them can be made up—enough at least to make a wagon load—and lq:td after load taken from the field with a single handling of the vegetables or fruit, which saves much in time and

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also in the great lesséning of bruisies. 'This, in the case of apples, pears, ete., is an item of great importance, for ihe keeping qualities of {fruit depend very iergely on preventing bruises. The crates are made perfectly rectangular, so they can be piled up in a wagon bhox with great ease. The making of such crates as are here figured is a very simple matter. Where a large number are to be made, get the material sawei to the right dimensions at the mill. The proper length even of bottoms and slats can be sawed ofl at the mill, leaving only a bit of nailing together, and the cutting of a place for the hand on either side as shown. = Such crates, with careful use, should last a dozen years.—N. Y. Tribune. ‘ L

Feeding Hogs in Cold Weather. - After cold weather comes the /increased amount of oxygen in the lair which is_breathed expands the lungs and makes the appetite better. In hot weather the air breathed expands very little, if at all, in the lungs, while when the thermometer is near to zero this expansion of the air in the lungs invigorates the system in every way. Stock that gets considerable exercise does not mind this difference so much. The fattening steer or cow will, if alldwéed, take a great deal of exercise and thus keep itself in health. A fattening hog, on the contrary, is always lazy. When not cating he is lying down. For this reason the hog should be fed freely on corn only during very cold weather, when even the lazy animal is obliged to inhale a good deal of oxygen.—Rural World. ; |

Merit Fixes the Price of Horses. Don’t forget that the day for selling pedigrees at high prices Has passed. 1t is merit that determines the price now. Pedigree is still valuable andialways will be, but pedigree withbut merit will be a poor commodity to ta{xke to market. Those who intend to raise the best kind of carriage horses must not expect to get the highest prices «quoted for their products. It is only the very choicest animals that command such figures, and that, too, after they have been specially prepared for the show ring. The demand for such will necessarily be limited, but there will be little danger of overstocking the market with that class of animals, for the demand in that direction is constantly increasing.—Horse Breeder. Flat Nests Are the Best, ¥y ~ Many a hen has been unjustly censured for breaking 'eggs in the nest while setting. Often the nests jare made so deep and with sides so stieep that the eggs roll to the center, and the hen cannot spread out as she shauld for incubation. The eggs are easily broken under sueh eircumstances, finil the hen is blamed for the shortsightedwens of hey Keeper:e - 0 oo Gniadt e e L e

The Fiercest Beast of Prey. The white dawn o’er the sleeping forest rose, v And vsl'oke each beast-and bird tBfeed or - play ] : Teo p_asg. :ﬂ Nature's temple of repose, Their happy, harmless day. : ‘When, crashing onward through the thick- | ‘et’s dun, . And strong with dreadful arts to maim and slay, : | Took man, the hunter, with his dogs and gun, | His devastating way. . | Tl'ear went before him with her visage war, | And each beast owned his dread and ruth- { less sway. i ‘ All Nature’s children fled the face of man, The fiercest beast of prey. —Reginald Gourlay, in Century. e SURPRISED HIS FRIENDS. A Prominent Illinois Man Has a Remarkable Experience. The Story of the Wonderful Change in ’ Mr. Shepherd’s Condition. From the Pantagraph, Bloomington, lil. Mr, A. A. Shepherd,. a prominent and responsible citizen of Lytleville, McLean county;, Illinois, was taken down with rheumatism about five years ago. He suffered with terrible pains in his hips and at times, when he was able to walk, would fall down when taken with the severe pains. He also had very severe pains in the region of his heart and at times thought he surely would die. He tried a number of good physicians. but could get no permanent relief. At times he was down in bed and could not turn himself without help. Was not able to work any to amount to anything for five years or more. But now his neighbors and friends are surprised to see him stout and hearty and able to work. In fact hehas worked all the present season and worked hard and feels well. He hasanumber of men at work in the woods this summer getting out cooper material and he has not only overseen their work but has worked with them all the time. Some time last fall while he was suffering s 0 his wife’s attention was called to a wonderful cure of a case of rheumatism by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and while in Heyworth one day she stepped into the drug store of Mr. ¥. H. Hill and purchased two boxes of the pills. After he commenced taking them the pains left his limbs, all the pains disappeared from his heart and he began to improve at. once. He can cheerfully recommend them to any one aﬁ_i(iicted as he was. Mr. Hill, the druggist, said: ; .

“I have several customers using the Williams?’ Pink Pills for Pale People for the reHief and cure of rheumatism, among whom is A. A. Shepherd, whose case has been one of unusual interest and Pink Pills have surely performed a wonderful change in his condition. - F. H. HiLy, Druggist.” Dr. Williams’® Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to é;ive new . life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are sold in boxes (neverin loose form, by the dozen or hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or directly by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N, Y. .

“LILLIAN,” he said, severely, to the new woman, ‘did you mail that letter I gave {'ou this morning?” And then she put her hand in the inside pocket of her overcoat, started, got red in the face and almost wished that she had never been emancipated.—Washington Star.

_lrFr You HAVE NoT arranged to take >TILe Century this year, you should do so at once and begin with the November number, the great Anniversary Issue in which Mrs. Humphry Ward’s novel commences. The publishers make a sFecial offer of a year’s subscription to The Century beginning with November and the twelve back| numbers of the past volume for $5.00. All dealers take subscriptions under this offer. E

GrAcliE’s. first experience in eating a peach—‘‘l've eaten it, cloth- and all, mamma. Now, what shall I do with the bone?”? Lo :

When Traveling : Whether on pleasure bent, or business, take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectively on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For salein 50 cents and $L° bottles by all leading druggists. : S e ‘““A PRUDENT man,’”’ says a witty Frenchman, ‘‘is like a pin. Hishead prevents him from going too far.” , : SR TruTH is the handmaid of justice; freedom is its child ; peace its companion: safety walks in its steps; victory follows in its train.—Sydney Smith. : : L o L “ONE views these things,” said Br'er Fox, ‘According as his light is. . . I do not doubt those grapes are sweet, But I fear appendicitis.” , : —Chicago Record. —_—r Hit or Miss.—They say when-Cupid aims his dart At man he never misses, . Yet when he hits a miss’s heart e . 'Tis then he makes the Mrs. —— e . / Lavra—*“And now you must see papa.” Reginald—*l have seen him—or, rather, he has seen me. He told me yesterday that L either had to declare myself or stay out of the house.”—lndianapolis Tribune. < In rlgfoverbs dangers often Turk—eir meaning rather hazy; “The happy man sings at his worlk,” But—drives the others crazy. © —Atlanta Constitution. Sl D i ; Pusric sentiment powerfully restrains men from doing wrong: but, when they have done wrong, sets itself as powerfully against them.—Beecher. TaE proprietor of a Louisville bone faetory announces that persons leaving their bones with him can have them ground at short notice. . : ———— e e WaHATEVER difference may appear in the fortunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless. a certain compensation of good and evil which makes them equal.—Rochefoucauid. SR : ATt the National Gallery. —Fair American (before a celebrated picture of a saint)— Wal, Ireckon I would have had my hair crimped before I had my picture painted.— Judy. b z e B TeEAcHEß—“Tommy, how is the world divided?” Tommy—*Paw says it is divided between the corporations and. the politicians.”—lndianapolis Journal Ir was during a heavy storm, and as the thunder died away the little girl said eal;x,xestly: “I wish God wouldn't grumble Rt ; : ;

Drs. Maybe and Musthbe. You choose the old doctor before the young ome. Why? Because you don’t want to entrust your life in inexperiencedhands, True, the young doctor may be experienced. But the old doctor must be. You take no chances with Dr, Maybe, when Dr. Mustbe is in reach., Same with medicines as with medicine makers —the long-tried remedy has your confidence. You prefer experiehce to experiment—when you are concerned. The new remedy may be good — but let somebody else prove it. The old remedy mmust be good — judged on its record of cures. Just one more reason for choosing AYER’S Sarsaparilla in preference to any other. It has been the standard household sarsaparilia for half a century. Its record inspires confidence —SO years of cures. If others may be good, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla must be. You take no chances when you take AYER’S Sarsaparilla. : g g

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