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Childrens Colutod Om the Hirer of IVrwopinir Eye*. Over the River of Drooping Eye* ' Is the won lortul land of Dreams, Where lilies grow as white as snow, And Helds lire green and warm winds blow, And tho tall trees quiver, all In * row— And no one over cries: For It’s a bcuuttfol plnoe for girl* and boys, Where there’s no scolding and lots of noise, And no lost bolls or broken toys— Over tho River of Drooping Eyes In the beautiful land of Dreams. Over the River of Drooping Eyes Is tbs wonderful land of Dreams. There’s boros to blow sad drams to best, And plenty of candy and oalc.es to eat. And no one ever cleans bis feet And no one oyer tries! There’s plenty of greasy places to play, And birds and bees, throng nil day— Oh, wouldn't you like to go and stay Over the Illver of Drooping Byes In the beautiful land of Dreams? —Maurice Crayton In Mew Orleans Times- Democrat. Habit of CkmfulDCN. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of look ing at the dark side. We possess the power, to a great extent, of eo exercis ing the will ee to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happi ness and. improvement rather than their opposites. In this way the habit of happy thoughts nriny be made to spring np like any other habit. And to bring np men or women with a genial nature of this sort, a good temper, and a happy frame of mind, is perhaps of more importance, in many cases, than to perfect them in much knowledge and many accom plishments. The True Character. The time character acts rightly, whether in secret or in the Right of men. That boy was well trained who, when naked why he did not pocket some pears, for nobody was there to see, replied, “Yes, thero wee, I was there to see myself; and Idon’t intend ever to see myself do a dishonest thing." This is a simple but not in appropriate illustration of principle, or conscience, dominating in the character, and exercising a noble pro tectorate over it; not merely a passive influence, an active power regu lating the life. Such a principle goes, on moulding the character hourly and daily, growing with a force that operates every moment. Without this dominating influence,character has no protection, but is liable to fall away before temptation, and evory such temptation succumbed to, every act of mean nose or dishonesty, however slight, onuses self-degradation/. It . matters not whether the act be suc cessful or not,discovered or concealed; the man ia no longer the same, but another person; and he is pursued by a secret uneaeiuess, by self-reproach, or the workings of what we call con science, which is the inevitable doom of the guilty. The Yvtlovrleg and the Hess. Lest August, on the shore of Silver lake, Manitoba, I saw by the margin great numbers of snipe, tattlers, and other wading birds. As I drew near they arose in floeke and flew away, but ns I was gating after a noujy array of flyingyellowlegs, pry eyes fell on e single one that stood ip the grass not more than ten feet from where I stood. It was looking at we fearlessly, and seemed to have bo little idea of flying - ‘ Sway that I got out my sketch-book and mads a sketch of it. As it still stood looking at me, first with one . eye and then with the other,l stepped . up quietly, took it gently in my haM, and put it into my game-bag, intending to make a more finished drawing at home. ' .Whew I reached the bones I set the bird on the floor; • it ran about whistling at times, did hot seem much alarmed,’but it refused all food., Bo the next morning I put it into the yard »o that might feed itself after its own fasloon. • There was a number of hens about, and as * • aeon a* they saw the stranger they were all excitement They gathered together, and with loud cackles came on, with upraised feathers to attack the newcomer. The yellowleg was swift of foot and eluded them onoe or twioe, but the hen-mob, noiser than ever, at length succeeded in surround , ing him. and all dosed in together .’' with evident intention of peeking him •' V*©pieces, but the yellowleg, giving v . Wglence, I thought, of scorn, at the 11 ■\dHHnsy, cackling cowards, spread out Btt greai, glorious wings for the Aval i tfapb since I had seen him, and pour ing out Us lend thrilling whistle, so . jrsu known on the breexy malm's, me failipA away and away in great, over widening circles till bird and chant ~ warn loafiin the far heights of the eky, and the hens w«» left to feel aa foolish and often a* it was possible for kens . .is do. *.• : ’ -U * .--V I was much puzzled by the whale incident, and con only suppose that the bird had in the first instance been slightly stunned by a stray shot from eome sportsmen; whilo it was reviving in the grass I discovered it,the gentle ness of my approach gave it no alarm, and during the night it fnlly recovered its faculties and its power of flight— Our Dumb Animals. Franklin’* Mural Code. The professor was having a few pleasaut and instructive moments with the class outside of the field of the text-l»ook, just ss evory good teacher ought to do if lie does not. He had knocked around In many localities, end had touched upon many subjects, coming book at tat to the homely and plain. "How many of you," he inquired, "ever heard of Benjamin Franklin?" Ail hands went np. "How many of you know that be sleeps in a neglected grave in a ceme tery in the very heart of Philadel phia?” All hands went up. "How many of von know that he was the greatest philosopher America has produced?" All hands went up. "How many of you know the morn) code which he formulated and kept for bis guide to action, handing it down to posterity in clear and succinct form?” No hands went up. "(let ont your pencils, then," said the professor pleasantly, "and write it down in paragraphs as I call it off to yon from memory, for I find it an exoellent/thing to know as one knows a road leading to a good place. It rnnsos follows: " *Tempemnce— Eat not to fullness, drink not to elevation/ " ‘Silence—Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling don vernations/ “ ‘Order—Let all your things have their plows; let each part of your busi ness have its time/ ", ‘Resolution—Resolve to perform what you onght; perform without fail what you resolve.’ " ‘Frugality—Make no expense, but do good, to other* ss your sell; that is, waste nothing. ’. “ ‘lndustry—Lose no time, be al ways employed in something useful; bnt avoid all unnecessary actions. ’ i “ ‘Sincerity—Use no hurtful de ceit; think innooently aud justly, and if yon apeak, speak accordingly." “ ‘Justice—Wrong no. one by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are yonr duty. - ’ " ‘Moderation Avoid extremes; forbear rosenting injuries. " ‘Cleanliness—Suffer no uncleauli ness in body, clothes or habitation/ “ ‘Tranquility—Be not ''disturbed about trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable/ “ ‘Humility—lmitate Jesuit Christ/ "Thero,” said tire professor, "how many of you think that is n good code of morals?” All hands went np. They Shot Bis Pets. George Fytzel, a burglar serving a twenty-year sentence in the New Jer sey state prison at Trenton, sat in his cell recently weeping because his pet rats were killed by the keepers. For yews Burglar Fytzel and bis pet rate had been an attraction to visitors to the prisop. He found the old oookhonse infested with the pests when he was Rent to work there, but aoon he had become complete master of them. He taught them tricks, end called them forth from every crevice and hole by a peculiar whißtie. They would crawl np his trouser legs, march in single file ever his outstretched arms and over his head, and. return to their hiding places under the floor at his word. * Receutly the old cookhouse was de molished, and Head Keeper Moore was convinced that to permit the rats to live meant that thoy would infest the new building, for he knew they would follow Pjteel. Bo he decided they should be shot And the man who loved them was commanded to call them forth for the slaughter. He begged that his especial' favorite* whom he named Kitty, might be spared.. "She is a greet comfort tome,” he pleaded. "Indeed, sir, as much a pet to me as ia your pet dog. Please do not kill her,i even if you Have to kill all the others/* But Kitty and the others were shot at sunrise.—New York World. Dolslss |a the South. A southern'nurn says the daisy was nftter known la the south until after the war. Now every part of the south visited by the Union army ia covered with dairies. "Sherman brought them to us/* he Said, "abd the maroh to the sea can be followed in the sum mer time by keeping where the delay grows. The seed seems, to hays been transported .in the hey that was brought along to feed the horses. That is the only explanation that has ever been made of it." .. ■ ?u. A Farmer on Tall Heads. A veteran Michigan farmer, writing to tho Grand Bapida Press, says: "Toll roads do not meet the wants of the farmor; he wants free roads, not toll roads, and wants all whence them to help make them at a cost that will not be burden some on the farmer. Tho toll roads ore too oostly tor the farmer. To get the products of the farm t 6 market he now pays enough taxes in the way of tolls to pay for tho toll roods in five yoara at ajprioa they could bo built for now. Though the tax hi paid indirectly it is paid. Farmers, as a class, arc opposed to monopolies, end yet they grant fran chises to toll road companies which are, on a smalt scale, greater monopo lies than any of the railroad corpora tions of the State. "These toll roads are not only a public nuisance, but tho owners of them are the worst tax dodgers of tho State, railroad corporations not ex cepted. The farmers in many parte of the eonnty cannot get. into the city without being compelled to pay a toll, or else drive a long distance out of .their way. The farmer’s wife cannot get into the city Aith a small basket of eggs, or a few pounds of butter, without paying toll almost as muoh as she receives for what she has to •all. "The farmer is opposed to high rates of interest, end it he wants to borrow money and the lender eharged him fifteen per cent, for the use of it, he would decline the offer with indigna tion, and yet the seme fanner votes franchises to corporations which make him pay, though indirectly, but none the less surely, over twenty-five per oent. on the money used to build toll roods for hie accommodation, if the cost of tho roads was figured at what it would oost to build them at the present time. Tho railroads of the State are required by law to pay taxes on gross receipts, but the toll roads only on not reoripts. The toll-road lobbyist, when et Lansing, beets tho railrosd lobbyist two to one. You truly say that it is Bcmewhat sarpris jug that the farmers, in view of all the foots, arc not more generally in favor of a system that will give better roads.” Ertnofttloa la Bwd-Utklae. -V The Rhodo Island Agricultural College has made a new departure in its work of education that deserve* imitation by other institutions of that ohoraotcr. Its faculty has established a special department for instruction in tho theory and practice of road making. The word curriculum is ety mologically applicable to the pro posed course of instruction, which oovcts two years, and the announce ment of tho details is interesting* The plan is about to be put into op eration after consultation with Gen eral Boy Stone, the road expert of the United States Department o! Agricul ture, and lie advocates are enthusias tic in their predictions that it will bring intelligent industry to boor in improving the highways and byways of the tidy little commonwealth. It is required that graduates from this school shall bs competent to draw specifications and contracts, -to man age all the machinery used In scientific road-bnilding. and to be familiar with every detail of the profession of toad engineering. For instance, candidates must pass an examination which in clude* algebra and geomefary to the extent required for admission to any oollege. The instruction includes English literature, higher geometry, trigonometry, surveying, electrical mechanics, physical geography, min eralogy, geology and steam engineer ing. Bat this Is not all. That there is no "royal road to knowledge” will be sternly impressed upon tho aspirants to the degree of road engineer by a novel requirement For one month esoh spring the student* will be ex pected to work ten hours a day at ac tual road-making, including all the mechanical appliances, from wielding the pick and shovel to running the most elaborate machinery. While other collegians ora training in euah athletics as rowing, running, leaping, baseball and football, thessft sturdy youths of Rhode Island will be bend ing their backs, strengthening their muscles and expanding their lungs in improving and extending those high ways which are the hands of civiliza tion. May their ways be ways of pleasantness and ell their paths be pesos.—New York Mail and Express. AM Dsn the Hallway*. In a number of Stats* the railroads have shown, a disposition to help the oausc of better highways by trans porting material for road building at vary law figures. It is now reported 'thsia railway la Indiana ia hauling without charge, Mid dumping at any designated print ahmg its right of way, all the crushed atone needed by the dommiesion ers of Green County. If .one will do it, others certainly will fol low. Deaoon Jonathan Hayes, whD wound the first wire rake ever made, live* in Middleton Springs, yt, at the age of ninety, and is in perfect health, and **4 irilhftsfc atom* • FARM AND GARDEN Tire Bent Colcjy, Good celery—or we I lay say first class celery—cannot be obtained with out an abuudauoe of water, for tho plant is naturally a citizen of swamps. It is always beat, therefore, to set the plant* in shallow ditohea, so that wa ter can be more easily collected; and it ie alio very fond of high living, consequently no well prepared manure is too rich for it. The quality of mar ket celery has fallen off somewhat of late years, chiefly through the culti vators treating it to surface culture. When planted in the latter way there ie not the earns advantage for blanch ing as when set in trenches. It is much easier to let down earth than it is to raise it.—The Silver Knight. Millet Hey Good For Here**. lam surprised to learn of Professor Hioobaugh’s adverse experience with millet as horse feed noted in American Agriculturist of November 28, as mine is just the opposite. I fed three horses millet from October, 1896, till about the last of June, 1897, together with grain ration. I must say I never had my horses do better. In fact they rather lost flesh after feeding timothy hay with the eame amount of grain. lam now feeding the same horses millet ami grain and expect to do *o as long as tho millet lasts, which will ba ell winter at least. I have seen end talked with one man in this county who ha* fed millet longer than I have. He raises more and more of it evory year and feeds it to all kinds of stock. I have cut the millet quite groen, before it is all headed out. — William DougaU, Schenectady County, N. Y., in New England Homestead. The DW Farm, The following beautiful composition is from the pen of Jean G. Wiley, in the National Stockman and Farmer: "What a cherished spot in the memory of vast multitudes is the old farm! Men ivbo have climbed to the topmost round of the greet ladder of fame; men who have achieved by in dustry, self-reliance and perseverance, success in life; many of these look backward o’er tho long years to the happy days of childhood spent on the old farm. "A memory lingers o’er this cherished spot, the loving face of a good mother, the cheerful countenance of a kind father, the bright face* of brothers and aistovs gathered round the old fireside, soften tho heart and bring tears to the eyes of the strong est men. *‘A sweet influence of such a homo is like a flower that never dies, bnt sheds its sweet perfume all through life, and reblosaoms anew in eternity. "It is said that in order to be suc cessful in any pursuit one must first Isom to overcome difficulties. It was on the farm where most statesmen en countered and overcome difficulties. A boy on the old farm has an oppor tunity to learn this important lesson without meeting many of the tempta tions incident to the life of s city boy. As We live in an age of progress, the farm of to-day beam but little resemblance to the farm of fifty year* ago. It now requires on educated man to make a prosperous farmer. "One who has spent his happy childhood on the old farm, received an education and went abroad, plunged into gores and bustle of city life, in after year* revisits the old farm. All tho old familiar spots, as the meadow, orchard and old-fashioned well, with its moss-covered bucket, recall scenes whieh seemed long sinoe forgotten. "Pictured on memory’s wall are the faoes of loved ones, those of father, mother, brother, sister and dearest friend, as [they were in boyhood’s days. They are all gome. Some are dead, others ore toiling or foaming in different parte of the world; and as he sits [and meditates upon tbs past, he longs onoe more to be that free-from care, light-hearted boy, roaming over the meadowß and woodlands of the rid farm, that he onoe was. He now realises, more fully than ever, how Tain are the hopes of life. "The old farm bouse is filled with strangers, and he, feeling wiser and bettor by bis visit to the old farm, returns to the toils and earn of city life/* Fern* and Garden Botes. Tbs goose lays a More or two of egg* in a year. Prom thirty-five to forty duoks and drakea are allowed in a pen. Eleven dossn eggs a year Is the average estimate given as the produc tion of the hen. Ducklings are marketed at five pounds weight, whieh they should at tain in ten weeks. Ths seerot of burgs honey orops is, strong oolonlss and plenty of room for ths bass to store honey. JBaoh frame of somb in a hive should occupy one and a half inches of space, and m spacing the frames it should bo done with axssinem. In 100 parte of the yolk, fifty-two per cent, is water, forty-five percent, is oil and fat, and one per cent, each of albuminoids, coloring and uiucrol matter. Peach trees maybe examined for borer* as late as the weather holds good, and if not yet attended to should not be neglected longer. Do not per mit these grubs to winter, in the trees. If two or more swarms duster to gether, do not hive them time, but bunt ont the queens and divide them, especially if they are first swarms tad large ones. Valuable queens aro thus * saved by so doing. If properly kept and judiciously ap plied to land, poultry manure is worth one-half the oust of the food 4be fowl gets, and yet littlo account is. taken of the droppings when an estimate is made of the profits. A very profitable field of investiga tion for farmers the coming winter will be to loam all they ean about tho insect and other enemies of tho vari ous plants whieh they cultivate and the remedies therefor. Bobbing frequently occurs at tha end of .the honey season, as in swor ji iug colonies frequently become quean less, and sooner or later they will fall a prey to. robber*. If colonics are in proper condition in every respect rob bing seldom occur*. Beeswax is a valuable prodnit, and every pertiole of comb should ba saved and rendered into wex. The price of beeswax has not fatten below twenty five cents per pound for the last twenty years. The solar wax extractor, which can be made very cheaply, should stand in every apiary. In the planting of windbrenks the Nebraska station lias found that the western grower neods protection chief ly on the south and west, ainco it is from that direction that the most damaging wind* come. The eastern grower need* protection on tho west and north for like reasons. If obliged to keep apples and pota toes in the same apartment, store the apples in the cooler and the potatoes in the warmer portion* of the collar. Very many apples ore lost every year by being kept too warm. They are best preserved in a temperature main tained close to the freezing point, Lorg««t Fanulaln la the W«U. The Anaoonda Mining Company has ac&iuired rights to all the water in H carat Gulch and Lake, at Anaconda, Montana, which are fed by tho melt* ing snows that exist there tho entire year. This lake lies np against Mount Haggin, 3900 feet above the level of the street in front of the Montana Hotel. The company will raise the bank about LakeHearat so as to make it a reservoir with a capacity of nearly ■ a billion gallons and giving a deity flow of four uuHian gallons down a slope of 8000 feet into the city. A steel pipe line will carry this water down six mile* to Anaoonfo, where another immense reservoir will be built to receive it' This reservoir - will be 830 feet higher than tho busi ness centre of the city and a quarter of a mile long. Its short line will be irregnlsr, lying against the hills, and it will be a beautiful sheet of water. As a further means of adding to the beauty of the spot, the supply main from Lake Hearst will terminate fn a fountain in the eentreof the reserveir. Only a portion of the enormous pres sure will be used, bnt a solid jet of water over three inches in diameter will be thrown 230 feet vertically in the air, while around the hose of tho fountain will b* a fringe of sprays, consisting of rows of jets rising to varying height* and at different angles. The fountain, when completed, will be, without exception, the largest in the world. . ' j jajpaMm Butb Tress. At ths birth of a Japanese bxby a .tree is planted, whieh must remain j untouched until tho marriage day of the child. When the nuptial hour or-' rivet the tree is out down, and a skilled cabinetmaker transform* the wood into furniture, whieh i* consid ered by the young oouple aa tho most beautiful of all oraameaijsofthohocso, —Msahaa’s Monthly. srerereMrerereMMMMMHMMMreNNsaMßaaareai Vewsref the Wares. A dynamometer invented by au English engineer measures the power of via waves of the ocean. Experi ments mode with the epperata* dor-' ing a atom have ahowp a pnesur* exceeding 7608 pounds par square in oh. ’, , Telephone competition in Wabash, Ind., has reduced the cost of the ear* Tie* to elxty-eix eente per month. T "* . r'M “ t-
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