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AN AVERAGE MAN, "
A. realistic story
Without any gusli or ftlory,
With no sentimental limelight
Ari'l no firework display,
Rout a poor old ignoramus
Who was never rich of famous.
And who couldn't ignite the river,
And who worked out by the day.
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Was this Eben.v.r Wtlk-r,
With the u-ual share of virtues,
An 1 with vices two or three;
He'd no fatal gift of beauty,
But ail average sense of duty.
Neither very yood nor evil
Just about like you and me.
And he wed an average woman,
Very nice and very human,
Ju-,t about like Ebenezer,
Neither very good nor La V
Oft m harmony they'd warble,
Often they would scold and squabble,
Mut they loved each other dearly.
Anil they couldn't continue mad.
Nvver had enough on Monday
To supply th.' lio.i-e till .Sunday,
Never made enough in April
To support themselves in May;
If they worked hard in November,
Tle-y jnu.:t work hard in Decembar,
And the course broad of to-morrow
Was th hard work of to-day.
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Yet they never made him mayor,
And fdie plu-ko 1 no social honors1,
And his wages still were small.
Then the loud f years grew weighty,
And they die I when they were eighty,
And they put them m the graveyard,
And tiny left the a there. That's all.
A realistic story
Without any gusii or glory
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Represents the hu nan clan;
Ilis the average share of pleasure,
ilis the average lack of leisure,
Ilis the average joy and sorrow
Of the common average man.
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ONE IN A THOUSAND.
A STORY TO!; THE GIRLS.
"Yes, they're all going to be there
Nan, and the tvvo Fargo girls, Jo Wads
worth and oh, we'll just have a glorious
time!" and Louise Alley looked up frora
the trunk she was packing, her dark eyes
shining willi an anticipated joy.
"Well, you certainly deserve some
fun if anyone ever did," rejoined her
friend, .May Stillman, fanning herself
vigorously with a paper novel, "making
a martyr of yourself stewed up here in
town half the summer. Here, let me
help you shut that trunk," and May, who
was by no means a sylph, promptly sat
ou the lid till the hap clicked in the
lock.
Mr. and Mrs. Alley had been spending
June and July abroad, the trip having
been undertaken by the doctor's orders
for Mrs. Alley's health. But it was out
of the question to take Uess, who wa
just live, and if she stayed behind,
Louise must stay, too, and as thr: house
had to be kept open for Freft, who was
in business down town, tho Ihree lived
there for the two months together.
And now the travelers had returned,
and Louise was on the eve of departing
with her brother and M iy Stillm m for a
fortnight's stay in the Adirondacks. TheF
were to leave by the night boat that very
day, and when May left to go home and
finish her o wn picking, Louise turned
to and helped her mother witli hers, for
the rest of the family were going oil at
three to Long Branch.
It was a busy time, but everything was
a labor of love for Louise, for was not
every moment. 2:irr ing her nearer to the
joys that lay before her up in the north
woods, where so mauy of her friends
were already gathered. eagerly expecting
her?
At last the Long Branch party were
got oil and Louise had gone up to her
room to put on her traveling dress. But
just as she took it from the hook the
front doer bell rang.
"Who can that be?" she said to her
self. "I wonder if mother has forgotten
something and sent back for it."
She slipped out into the hall and
leaned ove.- the ball abrade as Delia an
sweml the summon-.
"Does Mrs. Alley live here?"
It was a wuinaa's voice that asked the
question, a high keyed voice that Louise
did uot le'cogniz:'. The;, on Delia's re
plying that it was Mr--. Alley's home, but
that the lady herself wis away, the vis
itor went on :
"Yes, I know, but Miss Louise is in,
isn't she.-- She is the one I waut to
see."
Louise, hearing this, nearly lost hw
balance and went head rirst over the bal
uster. A strange woman inquiring for
her; and at such a time!
blie stopped hurriedly back into her
room and glanced at the clock on the
mantel. It was ten minutes to four.
May was to call for her with the carriage
at five. She must contrive in some way
to get through with her caller within the
next ten minutes. There were so many
"last things" to be done.
But now Delia appeared with the mes-
"Please, miss," she said, "there's an
old lady down stairs who wants to see
you. She didn't send up her name be
cause she says you expected her."
"Expected her?" Louise repeated the
words mechanically. "Vhy,I don't ex
pect anybody but Miss May. You're
sure, Delia, it is not she, up to some of
her tricks?"
"Oh no, miss," responded the girl.
"She's a sure enough old person, and she
fieems kind o' feeble. Her bag wa
pretty heavy for the like o' her to be
carrvin'."
"Her bag!" gasped Louise. "Is she
a book agent?"
"No, miss, I think not. She's been
travel in' in from the country, I take it,
an1 looks clean beat out."
"Well, I will go down at once and see
what she wants. The expressman has
come for the trunk, has he Delia?"
"Ye: , miss. '
Louise paused for an instant with her
hand on the door, racking her brain to
try and gain some glimmering as to the
identity of the person awaiting her in
he parlor, some person who had said
hat she wa ( voeeted.
"It's some one who knows the rest of
the family are away too," she mused,
but this fact did not enlighten her in the
least, and finally she went down, still
mystified.
Nor was she any wiser when she en
tered the drawing room and beheld a
little old lady seated on the sofa. The
top of her head could surely come no
higher than Louise's shoulder, her face
was yellowish and wrinkled with age,
and her gown was black and severely
plain.
Louise was certain she had never seen
her before. Her surprise, therefore,
may be imagined when the caller rose
to her feet, and, coming quickly toward
her, reached up ou tiptoe and kissed her
on the forehead.
"I'd have known you anywhere, my
dear," she said, "from your resemblance
to your mother."
'Yes, but but "
And here Louise paused. The old
lady, whose face, when one came to look
at it closely, had a certain sweetness of
expression, seemed so confident that she
was known that the young girl felt as
though it would be almost like striking
her to say that she had not the remotest
idea who she was.
"I looked for you over at the station,"
went on the straager, pulling Louise
down to a seat beside her on the sofa,
and gently smoothing with her wrinkled
fingers the fair ones she still held; "an
I waited some time. Then I thought
somethiu might have kept you, so I in
quired the way an' come over in the
cais by myself. B it I'm mest tuckered
out. Can I go right up to my room?
If I lie down for a spell think I'd feal
better."
Her room! She had come to stay
then. Louise was utterly bewildered.
Matters must be straightened out at once.
I'm very sorry," she began, "but
but I think you must have mistaken the
house. Was it Mrs. Theodore Alley you
came to see?"
The old lady, who had half risen from
her seat, now fell back again with a lit
tle gasp.
"Mistake?" she rep2atel. "There
can't be any, can there, when you're
Louise Alley? Didn't you get my let
ter?" "i beg your pardon," said pjor Lou
ise, beginning to grow very nervous, "
don't kno w who you are."
"Then you didn't get my letter!" ex
claimed the old lady promptly. "P'raps
I ought to have fixed it different, but
I'm Abby Moorhead."
"Oh, mother's Aunt Abby!" ex
claimed Louise, putting her hands out
instinctively. "I I thought you were
out in Dakota."
"So I was; my child, but I gol bads:
this spring and was sick a loag tim2 up
at my brother's, in New Hampshire."
"But how did you know wiiere re
were?" inquired Louise. "We've only
lived here two years."
"That's what I'm going to tell you,"
went on MiiS Moorehe.id. "It ait carue
about so queerly. You seethe r.ii'roai t.
the White Mountains runs througi Cjj
man, and two weeks ago there was an ac
cident, and a passengers came to Tim
othy's for linen to bind up the wounds,
an' if it wasn't Albert Bond."
"Oh, yes," broke in Louise. "He's a
very old friend of mother's."
But at this point the oi l lady's body
swayed to one side, and Louise sprang
up and caught her in her arm3. She was,
as she had expressed it, "clean tuckered
out," and wa3 now on the verge of r
swoon.
Louise reached behind her and pulled
the bell, and presently Delia appeared,
the picture of amazement.
"Here, help rae up to my room with
M133 Moorehead," and Louise, with com
pressed lips, gently put her arm around
the old lady's back.
Between them they got her up the
stairs, where Louise applied restoratives,
and presently she opened her eye3 and
looked about the daintly furnished room
inquiringly.
"Is it all right, my dear?" she said
feebly.
"Yes, Aunt Abby, but you must lit
quite for a while, and try to get some
rest. I will darken the room and come
back soon, and I want to find you
asleep."
"You are very kind, so like your
mother," and the old lady's eyes fol
lowed the fair young girl out of the
room.
And Louise? With lips still com
pressed she hurtiei back into the
library, trying to feel that the struggle
was all over, and that right had tri
umphed. "The girls will be horribly disappoint
ed, I suppose," she thought, "aud May
Here the silver chiming of the tall hall
clock striking the quarter after four
warned her that if she wanted to keep
May from stopping for her she must send
a note at once.
"I'll write to her first. If she come3
here and finds I'm not going, there'll be
a scene, I know," soliloquized Louise, as
she pulled down the handle of the mes
senger call. "But how shall I keep her
from it ?"
Au instant's thought, and theu she
hurried on into the library, seizing paper
and pen, and, not taking time to sit
down, dashed oH the following.
Peak May;
Don't stop for me. Explanations at boat.
ours,
LoriSE.
"There, I hope tint isn't unjustifiable
deception," and svr.bbling oil the ad
dress, Louise scale l the envelop; and
called to Delia to give it to the messes
ger, who had just appeared!
'1 iien sne rang lor another boy and sat
down to write her note of explanation to
Fred. This dispatched, she tiptoed into
her own room, saw that Aunt Abby was
sleeping, aud then went into her mother's
apartments and sat down by the window.
The whole thing had come about so
quickly that she scarcely realized yet
what she had done, and keot thinking
she was wasting precious minutes when
it was now nearly five and her traveling
:lre3.s still hanging on its peg in the
closet.
The sound of carriage wheels suddenly
stopping startled her. Had v May come
after all, and must the battle be fought
all over again?
No, it was at the Dryers opposite.
The girls were going away. There came
the trunks down the stoop, then the
goodbyes in the doorway and the flutter
ings of handkerchief from the carriage
window till it turned into the avenue at
the corner.
A lump rose in Louise's throat.
"It seems hard, almost cruel wheu I
stayed here in New York tKD3e two
months, looking ''
But here she interrupted her own
thoughts resolutely.
"No, the hard and cruel part would
be for me to send that well meaning
soul back, wheu she had come all th'n
distance juU to keep me company. It
isn't her fault that the letter went astray.
All I must do is to keep her from know
ing." f r
An extract from a letter written in Oc
tober by May Stillman to Nan Van
Wager, en :
"I've the greatest piece of uews fo:
you. You remember how Louise Alley
disappointed us all so dreadfully by
staying away from Saranac last summer,
because a great aunt she'd never seen
before came to visit her? Well no, the
great aunt hasn't died and left her a
fortune, or even promised to mention her
in her will, bat she did give Louise a
mine she had taken for a bad debt when
she was out in Dakota. And now some
body ha3 discovered that the Louise
Mine, as they call it, is a regular little
bonanza. Louise wanted to give it back
then, but Miss Moorehouse wouldn't
hear of it. Slie'j found out some way
what Lou gave up when she stayed home
that time, and declares that Louise Alley
is one girl of a thousand. Well, she is,
besides bein a girl with several thou
sands noT." The Ar;joy.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
WOOD ASHES AS A FERTILIZER.
The use of wood ashes as a fertilizer
should be more generally understood.
Hard-wood ashes are much richer in
potash than soft-wood ashes and are rel
atively more valuable. Leached wood
ashes are hardly woith more than the
labor of spreading on the land as a rule,
but on a light sandy soil they have a
tendency to compact, which is au aid to
its physical condition, but it does not
act as a manure, l.'nbleached wood
ashes is almost a special fertilizer for all
fruit crops and only needs the addition
of a little nitrogenous material to make
it complete. They should never be
mixed with such nitrogenous manures as
hen manure and other animal excrements
for they start chemical action in conse
quence, the nitrogen is thrown off in the
form of ammonia and is wasted. Un
bleached ashes form often a cheap source
of potash. Neio Yorlc World.
AiiOrXT uF CHEESI-: IS MILK.
The amount of cheese which can be
made from milk will vary somewhat ac
cording to the breed of cattle, quality of
food, and method of handling the milk.
In other words, it will vary with the
amount of solid matter in the milk.
The old rule for estimating used to be
about nine pounds of milk to one pound
of cheese as it came from the press, and
this would shrink in curing at least ten
per cent., so that ninety pounds of milk
would give ten pounds of cheese at the
press, which would be nine pounds when
lit to send to market, and 8 1 pounds
when old and well ripened. Probably
this is a fair estimate of the average
product when the milk comes up to the
standard of thirteen per cent, solids.
With cheese, as with butter, it usually
requires more pounds of milk to the
pound of product when the cows are
fresh in milk, or wheu giving a fresh
yield upon good grass feed, than when
they are giving less milk. A very wet
season and rank growing grass also re
duces the per centage of solids in the
milk. Boston Cu It Icator.
WEIOHT AND YIELD OF EGGS.
Geese, four to the pound, twenty per
annum.
Bantams, sixteen to the pound, sixty
per annum.
Houdans, eight to the pound, fifty per
annum.
Guineas, eleven to the pouud, sixty
per annum.
Turkeys, five to the" pound, thirty to
sixty per annum.
Ducks, five to six per pound, thirty to
sixty per annum.
Polish, nine to the pound, 150 per
annum.
Plymouth Hocks, eight to the pound,
100 per annum.
Dark Brahmas, eight to the pound, and
about seventy per annum.
La Fkche, seven to the pound, 130
per annum.
Crevecreurs, seven to the pound, 150
per annum.
Hamburg?, nine to the pound, 15J per
annum.
Game fowls, rune to the pouud, 130
per annum.
Dominiquc:J, nine to the pound, 133
per annum.
Black Spanish, seveu to the pound,
130 per annum.
Leghorns, nine to the pound, ICO to
tiOO per annum.
Black, white and buff Cochins, eight
to the pound, 100 or les3 per annum.
The eggs of the modern, improve I
breeds of fowls have gained one-third in
weight, as compared with egs for.n:riy
had.
Light Biahmas and partridge Coch ns'
eggs, seven to the pound. They lay
eighty to 100 per annum, or even more,
according to the treatment and keeping.
Saucier Journal.
FA KM AND GAKDEX NOTE.
The Japan Snowball is a favorite
wherever introduced.
Six cr more cow3 that turn no profit
arc not as valuable for the dairy as one
that does.
it crops are grown in the orchard a
corresponding amount of manure should
be applied.
Skimming the "last wrung drop" of
fat from the milk inj ues the quality of""
the butter.
The laud is the only permanent pos
session, and that we c:i occupy only a
little while.
Sheep fed for mutton nuke a greater
gain in weight than steers for the amount
of grain fed.
A sheep can b fatt?nel we1 1 in sixty
day; bat it take? tric? that long t
laiten a steer.
Land well cultivated and kept clean
year after year has fewer weeds and is
easier to cultivate.
Every man makes mistake. The dif
ference is that some men !earu by them,
while others do not.
It is a curious fact that the reat wool
exporting countries lie south of the
fifteenth degree of south latitude.
There is no trouble about propagating
shrubs by cuttings providing one has a
cold frame, suitable soil and the right
sort of cuttings.
It is at. the holidays that the large,
heavy turkey sells the best; at other
seasons a me bum-weight will bring the
bet prices per pound.
One ounce of suilphide of potash to
four gallons of water will destroy all mil
dews on plants it they are thoroughly
sprayed with the liquid.
Mauy of the so-called "improvements'
of the day have no more intrinsic valuo
than the change of the cut of your gar
ments in accordance with the dictates of
fashion.
The raspberry-blackberry hybrids
grown ou the lliral New Yorker
grounds, up to the present season, do not
give reason to hope for improved fruit
through such crosses.
After the leaves have dropped in the
autumn is a safe time to transplant al
most any garden plants of the hardy per
ennial kinds. They should be well cut
back a ivw rreeks before moving them.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To remove finger marks from a hard
w ood door use borax.
Hub lamp chimneys in salt before
washing. It will brighten them.
AVttsh the hands in cider viuegir be
fore retiring. It will make them soft
and smooth.
Pine may '02 made to look like some
beautiful wood by giving repeated coati
of hot lin-:ee 1 oil and rubbing hard after
each coat.
An English lady declares that a mustard
plaster on the elbov will cure neuralgia
in tiie fase, and that one on the back of
the neck will cure neuralgia in the
head.
One of the best known drainages for
the pots of house plaut3 is the finely cut
cork in which grapes are packed for ex
portation. It is said to contain moisture
for a long period.
To remove a grease stain from colored
n.atcrial, lay upon it a piece of butcher's
paper and press with a warm iron. In a
moment a grease spot will appear upon
the paper. Put a clean piece over the
grease spot and pioceed as before until
no more grease is brought out on the
paper.
it ns:a na ordered .1 military survey 0:
th'. LVitnea.
Absolutely Pure.
A cream of tartar baking powdr.
Highest of all in leavening itrength..
Latett U. S. Government Food Report.