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John Highow live J not 4'tj mils .'r i h -r
Was lare of htarl an t in biS fa.ta
Jle was a f armor ry weil Uj '!o,
A ul ha. a wife tlevoteI. Lift ! an, I t. u
Lut yet one sin lifed Jevi ju ways - r.
She was incHne.l to worry an 1 t fr. t.
'iiout this or that, servdut.- or h;r ' m -u.
But just novy 'bout a ;or M syA : i i.
lu'i rcAinMnj yeir Jul on t:."-; ifTrt-
Tlie grat Imru 1-ft w;ta swt-ist liay'was
pi!eJ.
Tliy yellow pu-npkiii-i 'ut'iti; ft-p1"u'.'er-skifs
Ha l grovvu to mors lhaci t':ir R'"cu.sto:ne 1
Tl.e hoiioy Ij. ha l IjOuntOju swoes ilis
tilied. And rip'uing appUw all tLo orohar.l fitlol.
Iiut in her L.'art thera was no j jy om sou;
The hen. with many sppckl hi I one
wrong.
Th.j varioui iTupi in arJ-iu au 1 ia ilu'A
Hm.I givMi forth a more than enerou- yirl I,
TJie shwp arvl cattle both liad multinlie.1.
Ami in tho lious'i anl bara wero laid n-Mi
A gool suply of all they male or grjw
'r a - ' . . r
io meet men- wants Ihn cumin,; winter
througJi.
Yet shn coiill 9n 1 nu comfort niht or
day,
Tho spwklel hea had laid her as away.
Ani o on day wLsn to hr 'house .there
cams .
An atred friend, wo will not call by name,
And frankly asked how they were prosp'rin
now,
Poor Mrs. Hiihow knit her anxious brow,
And bowing down her discontented heal,
Forgetting all tlm blessings round hef
spread.
Declared that sha was awfully distressed, '
The speckle 1 hen had gone uud hid lier nest.
And so it is too many souls possess
The same great weakness tint cause ! her
distress.
The little ills that life's pathway beset
We magnify, and o'er tliein ftiaie an ! fret.
With eyes downcait an 1 half despondent
tread,
We overlook the blessings' round us spread.
Tis true uliko of women aud of iuoj,
And every life has its old speckled he:i.
Thomas F. Porter.
The Carelessness of Peters.
uy i-t ki: sua nr.
EORGE Peters was
a very, very method
ical person for so
young a man. "When
a letter got into
Peters's.hands it went
through a certain
routine and the an
swer departed from
him to the copying
book aud from the
copying book to the envelope.and the en
velope, letter and all, with enclosures
marked,, went into the letter box with a
regularity that, nothing but the office
clock could emulate, and even that, the
clerks saiil, was not as regular as Peters,
for they claimed it was alwaiys fast in the
morning and mighty slow1 in pointiug to
t o'clock.
It is little wonder, then,, that Peters
stood high in the CLmlideuee of old man
Bi-ntliam. Heatham was Iieatiiim
Brothers & Co. There were no brothers
and no company that was .merely the
liuu name it was all Beutham. Perhaps
there once were brothers aud perhaps
there was once a company, but that is
all aucient hitory. anyhow, aud has
nothing to do s ith this strictly modern
storv. Audit did not interfere with
the fact that old lk'ntuam's name was a
lovely thing to have at the lottom of h
large check.
The clerks never speculated on the
probable o licet of love on Peters, because'
it nevVr occurred to them that sucii a
thing' as Peter; falling in love was4rith
ia the bounds of -possibility. Loy,t)ey
argued, was not an article thatsjJUw-be
docketed and ticketed and referretl back
for further information, aud entered in.
the day book and posted on the debit or
credit rdde of a ledger, so what on earth
could .Peters do with it it he had it?
Manifestly nothing. If thev had known
as much abxit human nature as you or
I, they would have surmised that when
Peter;' Tid fall, it was time to stand from
under.
Aud who should Peters fall ia love
with but the verv woman of all others
whom he ought never to have given a
thought to other words, pretty little
Miss Sadie Beutham, if you please. It (
made Peters himself cold when he
thought of it, for he knew he had just
as much chance of getting the moon or
the laureateship as the consent of Old
Man Bentharn. The clerks always said
that it was Miss iSadie who fell in love
with Peters, principally, I suppose, be
cause she should have known better, and
1 think myself tlere ia something to be
said for that view of the matter. Any
AHn OLD SPKCXLED
j hp w she Gams to her father' plm ol
Dusmesa yery often ana apparently very
x unoecesiarily, but the old man was ab
0 ways pleased to see her, no matter how
busy be happened to be. At first she
rarely looked at Peters, but when she
did flash one of those quick glance of
hers at him poor Peters thought he "had
the fever and ague. He understood -the
symptoms later on.
Idou'tknoA- how things come to a
climax; neither do the clerks, for that
matter, although they pretended to. Be
sides they are divide "l in their opinions,
so
I think their collective surmises
amount to but vr7 little. Johnson claiir3
that it was 6oue over the4 elophoae,
while Farnam says she came tothe office
one day, her father wasfet there,
and proposed "to Peters on ttHSpot. One
thing the clerks are unaninfts about,
and that is that Peters, left fr, himself,
would never have had the courage. Still,
too much attention must not be paid to
what the clerks say. What cau they
Know -auout iff Tiiey are ia anotue;
room.
Peters knew that he had no r'mht U
think about that Kirl during business
hours. He was paid to think about the
old man and his ailah., which were not
nearly so interesting. But Peters was
conscientious aud he tried" to do his duty.
Nevertheless, the chauces are that uu
consciously little Miss Sadie occupied
some small portion of his mind that
should hce been given up to the con
cerns of Iieut'uam . Brothers it Co., aud
her presence where she hail not the
slightest business to be threw the rest of
his mental machinery out of gear. :
It is very generally admitted mow that
the sprightly Miss Sadie managed the
whole affair. Xo one who knew Peters
would ever have given him the credit of
proposing an elopement "accuse bin:
of it,'' as Johnson puts it. She claimed
that whilt: she could manage her father
all right enough up to a certain " point,
yet that in'this particular matter sho pre
ferred to negotiate with him after mar
riage rather than before. She had
a
great deal of the old mau's shrewdness
had Sadie. He used to say he would
not like to have her as an opponent on a
wheat deal.
"Well, to come to the awful point where
Peters's methodicaluess nearly upset the
apple cart. Tho elopement was all set
tled, Peters quaking most of the time,
aud he was to write her a letter giving
an account of how arrangements were
progressing. It will hardly.be credited
and yet it is possible enough when you
think what a machiue a methodical man
gets to be that Peters wrote this epistle
to his girl on his desk and put it in the
pile of letters that were to be copied into
the old mau's letter book ! The office
boy picked up the heap' at exactly the
usual hour, took them to the copyiug
press, wet the thin leaves and squeezed
them in; the love letter next to the one
betrinuiu'' :
"Dear Sik Yours of the
M received
and contents noted."
Peters got the corner curled letters)
still damp, and put them all in their right
euvolopes, aud Sadie got hers in due
time, but did nt know enough about
business correspondence to know that
her first love-letter was written in copy
ing iuk aud had been through the pres.
Next lay when old mau Bmtham was
looking over the leaves of the previous
day's letters he sullenly began to
chuckle to himself. Old Bintham had
a very comfortable, good-natured, well-to-do
chuckle that was a p'easure to
hear. Even Peters almost smiled as he
heard it.
Peters!
4 'Yes, sir'
"Have you all the Tetters, Peter3,that (
these are the aus-vers to?'
"Ortaialy, sir."
4 -There is one I want to see, Peters.'
"What is the nam, please?"'
"Petty. I did not know that we dealt
in this line of goods, Peters."
"H. W. Petty, sir."
"I don't know the initials. Here's the
tetter."
Peters was stricken. He was appalled
dumb blind. The wsrds "Darling
Petty" danced before his eyes. He felt
his hair beginning to rise. The book did
notali from his hand simply because he
held it mechanically methodically. Old
Beutham roared, then closed the door so
that the clerks would not hear his mirth.
"That's one oa you, Peters. It' too
good to keep. I must tell that down at
the cfub."'
"1 wouldn't if I were yoa, sir," said
Peters, slow'.v recovering his senses as he
saw the old man had no suspicion how
the land lay.
the square thing. But If all men in the
world, Peters you. "VTiydo you elope?
Why not marry her respectably at the
church or at home. YouTl regret going
off like that all your life.
"Miss she that is prefers it that
way, sir."
"Ob, romantic, is she? I wouldn't do
it, Peters."
"There are other reasons.!'
"Father or mother agaia9t, as usual,
I suppose. Well, you refer them t$sne,
Peters. I'll speak a gooJ word forou.
But what am I to do white you are
away?"
44I I thought perh ips perhaps
Johnson would cake my place."
"All right. I can put up with John
son for a week, maybe, but think of me
and get back as soon a she'll let you."
If old Mr. Bentharn did not mention it
at the club he did at home.
"You remember Peters, Sadie. No!
no I that was Johnson. Peters is ia my
room, you know. No, t&e red heaaea
man is Farnam. He's in the other room.
Peters has the desk in the corner. Staid
est fellow on the street:. Ever so much
older than I am -in iSiinner of course.
The list man in the city you would sus
pect of being in love. Well, he wrote,:
and so Mr. Benthiim told the story, f
Sadie kissed him somewhat hysterically
when he promised to say a good word
for Peters and said he was very kind
hearted.
"Besides, papa, you ought to have a
partner in the business. There is no Co.,
you know."
"Bless me. Child, what has Peters'a
wedding to do with the company? He is
taking the partner, not me. I can't take
Peters into partnership merely because'he
chooses to get married
"Oh, I thought that wa9Ncustomary,';
said Sadie.
There was no elopement after all. The
clerks say that it was the conscientious
Peters that persuaded Sadie out of it.
But as the old man found he had to give
way, it came to nhe saua thing.
"Sadie," the old mars said, "I thick
I'll change the name oF the firm. I'll
retire and it will be after this 'Bentharn,
Husband & Co.' "Detroit Free Press.
Colossal American rertunes.
Nowhere in the world arc individual
fortunes so great as in America. There
are nine Americaus whose possessions are
reckoned at from $50,000,000 to $150,-
000,000. There are probably one thous
and Americans who aie worth $1,000,-
000 or more.
The largest personal fortune in any
foreign country belongs to the Duke of
Westminster, a British, peer. It consists
of entailed estates, and, he therefore has
only a life interest in it. It is estimated
at $GO,000,000. The accumulated wealth
of the Rothschilds is enormous but no
one member of this famous family ol
money-getters is considered worth over
$40,000,000. The Rothschild family
wealth, however, is undoubtedly the
ireatcst in the universe. The fortuue of
Baron de Ilirsch, the philanthropist,
does not exceed $25,000,000.
Monarchs, idespite the splendor in
which they live, do not figure in the
comparison of riches with untitled
American citizens. The incomes of many
of them are heavy but they are derive I
from the civil lists. In other words their
subjects contribute the money which they
avishly spend. Queen Qictoria is per
haps the richest crowned head. Slt
may be worth $15,000,000 but not more.
The stories of her vast hoardings are un
true. The Emperior of Austria is next
I to the Queen of England in wealth. Most
of the other European rulers, are figura
atively speaking,beggars. Xae Emperor
of Germany has nothing. The Cxar o:
Russia is poor in his owi. name, unless
by reason of his being an absolute auto
crat he may be considered to own the
land he governs. The Pope is without
personal possessions. All in the Vatican
belongs to the church.
Money is more easily made in America
than elsewhere because the opportunitie:
are more numerous and more favorable.
Fortunes of $1,000,000 attract no more
attention nowadays than those of $100,
000 did two decades ao. Fortunes are
likely to increase as fast if not faster in
the future than they have in the pait.-
Atlanta Constitution.
It Hurts Only Occasionally.
Suflerer "Do you pull teeth without
pain?"
,,Dr. Estier "Well, not always. I
sprained my wrist last time I pulled a
tooth as4 it hur: ss jet "occwioaallj.".
FARM ANO. HOUSE HOLD.
KATTENIXG CALVES PROFITABLY. 1
In localities where there is active o.e j
mand for milk calves are little thought 5
of as faetorsl in profit. They are ofteu '
killed as soon as dropped, their hides
sold for a few shillings, and their bodies ;
used as manure. It ejsts more to fatten
them with new milk thau they are worth ;
for butchering after heinr fatten"-!.
Some farmers unfortunate enough to have
a kicking cow make the best of a bad
fjfl&Cain bi giving her to mother all the ;
calves in the dairy. This does very well
if icows are-turned to calve' four or six
weeks apart, but this rarely happens.
Even skim-railk is usually reckoned
worth more for pigs than it is to make j
veal. But we hold that by proper selec
tion of feed calves may be profitably fat
tened until they are five or six months
old. No new milk need be iriven after
the first three days, the mother's milk !
at this time being just what is needed to
put the young animal's digestive appara
tus in good working order. The best
feed is skim-milk with oat meal sifted to
remove the hulls, and heated in a thin,
hot porridge, thus bringing the skim
milk to the proper temperature. On this
cooked food given warm calves will
seldom sour. If thev do then make the
porridge for a day or two of fine wheat
flour instead of the oat meal. After the
calf is a week old add a vSnnll pinch of
flaxseed meal to the porridge. This rnav
be, increased as the calf gets older, al
ways taking care not to give enough to
cause scours. When a calf is thus fat
tened to the age of three or four mouths
do not be bashful about asking a irood
price for it. Butchers will try to get it
for less than it is worth, as at sucli times
the farmer Is apt to be discouraged or
want money badly, thus selling cheaper
than he ought.-
Boston Cultivator.
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POCLTHY JOTTINGS.
Breeding at five dollars a head, Plym- '
outh Rock fowls ought to pay any far
mer. I know of one who gets this price
for his high bred birds. It costs him no
more to rear them than the common
barnyard mongrels.
Many farmers neglect their opportu
nities.. They ought to know that hens
will pay as well a3 their cows, sheep or
hogs. Eggs are always salable at a profit
in summer, the farmer can either sell or
store them for higher prices. In eggs
alone he can be assured a very fair in
come. Poultry, small fruits and bees work
harmoniously together. On a plat of
fifty acres a perfect paradise could exist
under proper management. A better
living, more happiness, peace and con
tentment can be derived from such a
life than is enjoyed by some of the rich
est merchants. X-
Sulphur is often given to fowls in ex
cess as a preventive uf sickues. A
very moderate quautity may be given to
them during the moulting season with
excellent results, if the waathcr is dry.
If wet, sulphur fed to chickens makes
them lame and rheumatic. Actual cases
have been directly traced to it.
Green cornstalk", lettuce and other
garden greens, should be cut up line and
given to fowls confined in yards. When
deprived of it hens lack the red color in
their combs aud the -blood will beeomi
impure. The r'.,suit is a number
of
dead fowls some morning. Green fool
is essential to their health. '
Ducks hatched by incuba'tors are ready
for market ut ti-n to twelve week old.
Wild ducks have become scarce. As the '
tame are nearly the equal of the wild ;
duck iu flavor, the demand is usually ex- !
cellent and prices considerably beyond
those paid for chickens of the same age. j
To obtain the riivor of the wild duck,
feed them with ceU-rj c'aopped up Hue as
part of the fond the w ek before they '
are markfte-i.
The great u".i5c il'.y with many who
start into rearing poultry fo proSt is .
that they want to cirri big prints from
the start.? If ihi-: uocs no: materialize, .
they hectic d:sc rirage 1. Many also ,
start with a lcvgc-r capita!, forgetting
that timi means ex Dense, an 1 a small
amount vaU not suta?e, should unseen
IcUys occur. C ipiu!, g-ii judgment :
and k-t.r:i.i:iAt;i3 t.j succeed, arc the
vicfilia; pi tUaeitioi;.
Mic rci fo.vN are q considered, as
e-g priu?.-rst L.-t f th leghorn.
Their appearance 'vouM indicate great
Uyiag qu-iUlies. The hen's comb Langs
down much m :e thvu soi'- of Vue ben
k-ghoras, making it ap.;nr quite oid
whea approached oa the side to waich
the comb dr3r covering the birds
eye completely. 'fhey are quite
more so than, the white-faced black
Spanish to which they are related.-
American Agriculturist.
FARM ATD OARDKN N0TK5.
Kerosene is a goad cure for scaly legs.
Soak them well.
"Animal odor" is generally duo to the
preseuca of filth.
In plowing in the orcharJ cire should
be taken not to plow too deep or close to
the trees.
A sharp kink in a pig's take i said to;
indicate good health.
Thoroughly clean tho henhouse before
warm wea.her sets in. ' ?
ShaJe aloug the highway is always
pleasant to the traveler.
The Wihcbell is a promising new early
grape of the white variety.
Until clo'Vcr make a good start to
grow rye or wheat makes a good pasture
for the hog.
Allowing the brood sow to become
constipated.?- ofteu causes the loss of a
litter of pigs. 5
The first spraying should be given the
trees as soon as they are fully leaved out
in the spring.
It is a bad pfriicy to Suve time and
trouble by feeding fowls at one time
enough to do them a week. 1
If you find that your cow has a tuber
culous tendency, dispose of her at once.
Her usefulness is of the past.
In testing new varieties, fall planting
is the best, for tue reason that the plants
; will bear neit season to some extent.
Consider the soil aad climata as well
as the market, before branching out too
j extensively in any kind of fruit culture.
In begin uiug, at least, do not attempt
to grow too many varieties of fruit, but
grow those that thrive best in jour lo
cality. It costs but little onore to raise a three-year-old
colt than a steer to tho same
age. If the colt is well bred he pays a
better profit thau the Eteerj if poorly
bred, he pays less.
Stock the farm well but adapt th
stock to the farm. Heavy cattle; hogs
and draught horses aro out ot place on
hilly land; sheep are better.
A good sire is not the only thing re
quired to insure a good colt. Select the
mare just as carefully, and the chances
urc that 'the combination will produce
w hak you want.
HOUSEHOLD HITS.
Chloride of lime is a sure preventative
for rats.
An excellent way to clean old brass ls.
to rub it with a brush saturated with
j' household ammonia.
j A fcv drops of turpentine sprinkled
! where cockroaches congregate will ex-
j terminate them at once. Moths also flee
i
from the odor of it. .
I To remove scorches, boil an onion and
I squeeze out tho juice, put with it soap,
; fuller's earth and vinegar, a very little of
each. Spread the mixture on tho
, scorched place and leave till dry. Rinse
i thoroughly.
To wash lawu or thin musliD, boil two,
i quarts of wheat bran in six quarts of
' watqr for half au hour. s Strain through
: a coarse towel, and mix in the water in
which the muslin is to be washed. Uee
no soap an lino starch. Rinse lightly in
lair . watr. This preparation both
' cleanses and stiffen the lawn..
Eye Measurements.
A good mechanical eye is an almost
essential requisite ia a good mechanic,
says the Manufacturers' Gazette. No one
ciu ever attain distinction as a mechanic
unless he is able to detect ordinary im
perfections at slht, so th it he csn see
if things are out of plum'., out of level,
out of s pur:: and out of pm::r fthape,
and unleis he t.Ai alv d .. -t !iprpor
tionel or ill h 4p'.-1 piiVrru-. This is a
great mechanic: at iir.ratnt, and one
which can be readily attained by any
ordirary person. Of course there are de
fective eves, as there ar-r other defectiva
organ; the-, ftpeetrh, i'jr instance, is
ometiU's defective, b it the eye is sui
crptible of the &ani'? training as any
organ. The muw 'i, t&e voice, the
s?e o! hearing, all rcjuir-i training.
Consider how the artist mul train the
organ of s:ght in or Jer to detect the
sli'hfst i:n:erfec.t:on ia shade, color,
proportion, shape, expression, etc. Not
one blacksmith ia rive ever attains the
art cf hammering square, yet it is very
eeatial in his occupation. It is simply
ua.e he allow hinmlf to get into
care'e habits; a little training and cars
i ii all that is secessary for iuccej.