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BEFORE WE GREW SO GRAY
Before we grew so gray, you know,
"We used to play together -Up
in the attic when the clouds
"Were black with rainy weather;
And where the sunshine shifted through
The leaves where we were singing,
I ussd to toss you high in air.
Upon the limb a-swinging.
I can recall the tints that came i
Upon your brow so blushing;
Me thinks I feel within to-night
The same old rills a-gushing.
Ah ! e'en the touch of just your hanl
Comes to me like the grasping
Of fle? h and b!oo 1 and love I hell
Securely to me clasping.
Our hearts were gay in by-gone days
"When we both went a-Maying,
Cefore the hand of time had lai 1
Its frost on strands so graying,
'Twas in the sweet, delightful lapse
Of days whose skies were golden
"Whose skies a-tint with youthful dreams
Bespoke the days of olden.
You use! to say you loved me then
Ah! has your heart delayed you!'
You're old and gray, and so am I
Your glances have betrayed you,
You touch my hand, it is the same
I felt when wa together
Flayed hide and seek beneath the cavos
When rainy was the weather.
You lay your head upon my breast
Your iips are sweet tha same, dear, ,
As they were onca in days agono
"When I was wont to claim, dear.
Their ev'ry sip while holding elosa
Your hand when we went Maying;
Dear wife! Iso time can chill our hearts
Though frost our hair is graying.
. S. Keller, in Chicwjo Sun.
THE YOUNG WIFE.
IIV IIKI.EN' KOIIHEST GRAVIfS.
"I am the most miserable girl in the
world !" said Madeline.
Kate OlTutt opened her eyes.
"You, Mad!" she cried, iucredulously.
"You, just married to a handsome young
fellow, the man of your heart you, only
eighteen you, with a face like Hebe!
Oh, come! who do you think is goiu
to believe this nonsense ?''
Madeline sighed.
"I'm only eighteen," said she, "that's
very true. I've the longer to live and
endure all these trials. I'm married to
Christopher Morange ; but he's gone away,
on a six months' voyage to Japan, leav
ing me with my mother-in-law !''
"But I've always heard that she's a
nice old lady, and Chris is the very ap
ple of her eye, so that, of course, she'll
take the teuderest care of his wife."
Madeline shook her curly head.
"I never can get along with Mother
Morange,"' whispered she.
"Madeline!''
"Well, it's true. She's as neat as wax,
and I'm a dreadful little sloven. She
wants me to be a spick-and-span house
keeper, and I hate it all. She's foreever
trying to make me understand what a
great promotion I have attained to in
marrying her sou, and I naturally sup
pose that if I wasn't entirely equal to the
position, Chris never would have raised
me to it. Oh, I can't stand Motherj
Morange!''
"Madeline, you are a goose!''
''But that isn't the worst of it. Kate.l
whispered the pretty young bride, nest
ling close to her lriend. "i've no
money."
"No money, Madeline?"
"Chris told me wheufcver I wanted any
money to go to his mother. Oh, Kate, I
can't do that !"
"It was very thoughtless of your hus
band, Madeline," said Miss Offutt,
gravely.
"So I've sold the ruby ring that wa3
my mother's, and the bracelet with the
opal eye that Grandmother Penrhyer gave
me, and now I've nothing left to sell.
And I'm so tired of Mrs. Morange 's lec
tin es on economy and exhortations on
housekeeping ! I shall say or do some
thing dreadful before long, I am sure.
Only think, she has ordered a whole piece
of linen sheeting, and we're to bein
hemstitching it right away! And I am to
take a course of cooking lessons under her
supervision, and I am to be taught clear
starching and acccuut keeping, and a
French method of darniue stocking that
won't show the mend I, that never could
endure a needle, and can neither knit nor
"Tell her so, dear," advised Kate
Offutt.
"I did tell her so. 'Please don't set
me to work like that,' said I, in despera
tion. 'I shall be perfectly wretchei. I
never could sew, and I hate housekeep
ing.' "
"What did she say?"
"Oh, she made big spectacled eyes at
me and spoke such a speech! 'My dear,'
said she, 'you seem to forget the sacrifice
which my sod, Captain Morange, made
when he married a penniless, insignifi
cant chit like you, instead of Miss Zoe
Gardner with a fortune, who was quite
ready to snap at him. You forget what
you owe him in every way. A wife who
cannot earn money ought to save it.'
And then it was shockingly undigni
fied, I know, but I couldn't help it I
buist out crying and said. 'I wish Miss
Zoe had snapped at him and caught him,
too!' And Mother Morange said I was
a wicked, sinful girl, and she was ju
quite right. But oh, I am so unhappy?
Kate, I want you to do me a great, great
favor. I want you to take me back to
the city with you, and give me a place
la your business."
3Iiss OlTut, the managing editress of
a popular ladies' monthly, looked some
what surprised at this proposal.
"Oh, I can do lots of things," pleaded
Madeline, "so long as it isn't hemstitch
ing and French darning, and so long as
haven't a mother-in-law to stand over
me. I am sure I can leara to read
proofs, and I've often heard you tall
what hard work it was to read manu
script and pass judgment on it. Couldn't
you teach me to do that?"
"You dear little Baby Butterfly!"
said Miss OfTutt, lauhini'. "You
haven't an idea what you aro
talking about. Revise proof, in
deed aril mauuscript! Perhaps you'll
be wanting to write the editorials next!
But don't look so dismayed. .. I'll
manage to find something for you to do.
I know you write a beautiful hand, and
theto are always tne wrappers to direct
until I can get some other work for you."
"Oh, Kate, thank you!" said Madeline,
with a long breath. - "I do so want to
earn something for myself. I feel like a
charity child. Of course Mother Mor
ange won't be pleased, but I don't care
whether she is or not!"
And Madeline's dimpled face grew
hard and set.
"Quite unfeminine," said old Mrs.
Mor.ingc, when the bride announced
her reckless resolve, "I'm sure I don't
know what my sou will think of such an
irraugement. I am suprised that .Miss
Ollutt should lend herself to such mad
folly. For my part, I entirely disap
prove of it !"
But Madeline made up her obstinate
young mind, aid when Kate Offutt left
Cornbury, she went with her to New
York.
"I'm sure, Baby Butterfly," said Kate,
jestingly, "I don't know how you will
ever manage to endure the monotony of
daily work. You that have never done
anything but play all your life."
"It can't be half so hard as listening
to Mother Morange s lectures," said
Madeline.
Fortunately Miss Oftutt occupied u
position in the publishing house which
rendered it oossible for her to make
things very easy and comfortable for the
forlorn voting wife. The hours were
horteaed the pay lengthene I.
Kate contrived to keep near her a good
deal, but nevertheless Madeline did not
seem quite happy.
What are you looking so sober about,
Baby Butterfly?" Kite asked her one
afternoon, after a loag day's work.
"Was I looking sober, Kate?"
"You little fraud, you know that you
were:
"To tell the truth, Kate, I've been
thinking all day long thinking that,
perhaps, Chris would be annoyed at my
leaving his mother's care and protec
tion." "Yes, I thiuk that's extremely likely,"
said Miss Oilutt, leaning back in the big
leather-cushioned chair and bending the
office ruler back and forth. "Bat you
know you were determined to come."
"Yes, and it i3 so nice to spend money
that I have earned myself!" said Made
line, gleefully. "But oh, Kate, there
:omes the office boy with a telegram !
It's for me I know it is! Something
has happened to Chris!"
"Nothing of the sort," said Miss
Offutt, leisurely. "It's your mother-ia-law,
my dear down with typhoid
fever!"
"I must go to her," said Madelia;,
tarting up.
"Is that au absolute necessity?" asked
Miss Ollutt. "There are plenty of
trained nurses to be had."
"Bat I am Chris's wife. Nobody
should take care of Chris's mother but
his wife!" cried Madeline. "Dear Kate,
look at the railroad guides. Find out
how I cau quickest reach C'jrabury."
So Miss OfTutt lost her new assistant,
md young Mrs. Morange went back to
the old stone house which was so indis-
solubly connected iu her mind with
didactic lectures and spectacled glances
of reproof.
Her poor mother-in-law lay there,
burning with fever, and lost in lapses of
delirium, but through it all sho kept
sailing ceaselessly for "Madeline! Made
line!" "I loved her!" she repeated, over and
over again. "I loved her, but somehow
I couldn't make, her know it, and now
she has gone and left us! What will
Christopher say? It was wrong I know
new that it was wrong but I did it for
best. And she has gone and left me !
Madeline! Madeline! Will no one bring
her back?"
But when her son's wife at last reached
aer and sat beside her bed, with a cool
aaud on the fever-throbbing brow, she
became quieter, and from the moment of
the crisis a steady improvement set in.
Madeline went to the big linen press
in the closet one of those first days, to
get some of the lavender-scented towels
which her mother-in-law had worked
witn a big old English "M" in crimson
embroidery silk, when a paper package
fell out from under the folds.
Involuntarily she glanced at it, and
read the label, in her husband's strong,
dark handwriting.
"For Madeline."
"It's money," she said to herself.
"It's bankbills!"
For a moment she looked at it with
blurred eyes aud quivering lips.
"Chris meant this for me," she
thought, "and I never got it."
But she put it back agaiu without a
word, and resu;u.4 her trader task of
nursing.
"Madeline!"
Four or live weeks had dragged
themselves slowly by. Mrs. Morange
was up and dressed and sitting in the
pale October sunshine, while a cluster of
tuberoses in a vase beside her shed a
spicy fragrance through the room.
"Yes, mother!" softly uttered the
youuger man.
"I like to hear you call me 'mother,
Madeline. You never used to."
"I never felt it before, mother!"
"You've been very good to me, child,"
said the old womau, wistfully. 'I
should have been dead and in my grave
if it hadn't been for your good nursing.
There was love iu your touch. I felt it
all the time. It kept drawing me back
from the grave."
Madeline took the wrinkled old hand
into hers. "Mother," said she, "let's
forget the past. Let us begin anew!"
"But I haven't told you all .Madeline,"
faltered Mrs. Morange. "When Chris
went away he left me a lot of money for
your use. 1 I never gave it to you.
I wanted to teach you to be economi
cal." "I know it, mother,"' said Madeline.
"I found the roll of bills one day while
I was looking out some linen for you."
"Aud you never said anything about
it?"
"No, mother."
"And you will keep my secret J"
"Yes, mother."
"Kiss me, Madeline," said the old
lady, with a quivering lip. "Fcrgive
me, and be very sure that such a thing
shall not happen again. I understand
you now, and I comprehend what a mis
take I have made."
At that instant a shadow darkened the
colorless sunshino, and looking up Made
line saw her young husband standing tip
on the threshold smiling on the group.
In an instant she was in his arms.
"And so Baby Butterfly is trauscea
dently happy after all," 6aid Miss Olutt,
at her desk in New York, as she read, a
many paged letter. "Well, I always
knew things would come right at last.
Saturday Niyht.
An Effect et srmkcless PtwJer.
Judging by the observation of an
English officer who atteadel th ,- late
French military maneuvers, th-j use o
smokeless powder is likely to have a pe
culiar effect on the morale of soldiers in
battle. He savs that a'gaiii and aaiu hi
found himself in a position wa .'ro he
could hear vollev after volley, field g ins.
too, c-ometimes oeing nred, so i:ir a
sound could indicate, within SJJ yards,
and yet after gazing intently for minute-
lie tried in vain to discover the where
j.bouts of the firers. Oae moment th
sound would seem to be quite close, but.
a puff of wind would cause it to appear
to come from miles off. If the men wh-
fire are at all hidden, and are stationary.
it would seem almost inm sibl- to di
cover them at, say, SO'J yards. C'j'u i-Journal.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
LEi WEAKNESS IN CIIICKKX.
Leg weakness and vertigo are both
usually caused by high feeding with
gram alone. Young chickens especially
should have some animal food with their
grain, and if they are not allowed to run
out where thev can iret it in the form of
insects aud worms, they should be fed
some chopped lcau meat at least
once a dav. In feedimr rrain
no one kind should be fed
alone, for fowls need a mixture, like
corn, rye, wheat, millet and rice. Chauge
the food of the chickens, or mix several
kinds together, and to those that are
pick give two or three grains daily of
ammonia-citrate of iron dissolved in their
drinking water. But do not neglect to
give some animal food. Get beef or
beeves' hearts or livers and cook, then
chop up line and throw it out to your
chickens. A small quantity, say a haif
ounce, to each chicken daily will be suf
ficient. New York Sun.
A PIT FOn WINTEIl STORAGE.
A pit which i3 accessible in all kinds
of winter weather is a very valuable ad
junct to the kitchen garden, for, as a
general rule, the vegetables keep much
better and retain their flavor more per
fectly when stored outdoor; than when
kept in a cellar. Last fall, writes a cor
respondent, I made a small pit as follows-
A well-drained corner of the gar
den was selected and the pit dug four by
eight by four feet in depth. This was
lined with 1-inch chestnut boards nailed
to locast corner-posts. The roof was
made of heavy oak boards, having u
pitch sufficient to shed the mol-hiro as it
came through the soil. A manhole
eighteen inches square by twenty inches
high was made iu the lower corner at
one end of the loof. The earth that had
been dug out was thrown upon the roof,
forming a good-size 1 frost-proof mound.
A movable wire screen of half-inch mesh
was fitted into the mauhole to keep out
mice, rats, etc. A water-tight trap-door
closed the entrance. A short ladder id
used in getting in and out. Iu this pit
I have kept cabbage, turnips, iu;ets, pj
tatoes, celery, apples, etc., in the most
excellent condition. The trap-door was
propped open for ventilation nearly the
whole winter. Nothing wa-J frosted or
injured by the cold. As this pit is sim
ple aud of easy construction, there is no
reason why every garden should not have
one. Poituhtr (hirtlenhij.
I'EICMANENT OUASS WITHOUT TLOWIXG.
My own long experience, aud that of
mauy of my acquaintances, writes A. B.
Allen, proves that some of the best grass
lands we possess either for pasture or hay
have been obtained on clayey loams with
out plowing. After the forest was cut
off and the ground cleared it was sown
with grass seed early iu spring and theu
simply harrowed and brushed. So mauy
stumps stood on the land and it was so
full of large roots that plowing if
attempted would have been very hard
work, requiring powerful team, extra
strong heavy implements; and even with
these it could only be partially done,
leaving the surface in a very rough state.
On such the seed did not take so well
nor make so good and smooth a sod as
when sowed without plowing. The root
left in tho land proved a double benefit.
Gradually decaying they lightened the
still soil and made it friable, keeping it
more open to rains and dews, at the same
time fertilizing it to a considerable ex
tent by furnishing food to the growing
grass. I know meadows thus formed
which have produced a ton of first-rate
hay on the average per acre each year for
half a century without application of
stable manure or fertilizer of any kind.
The stumps here were also left till so
rotted they could be easily pulled by a
yoke or two of cattle, piled up and thea
burned; these, too, added something to
tbe fertility of the soil. NeJ York
Trilune.
FARM AND GtKDES NOTES.
It is not a gool p'.n to hivj the
poultry house near the barn.
Send layers to roost with their crops
full to carry them over night.
D ) not give layer's soft fee 1 enough to
gorge them or make them lazy.
Oae advantage with the incubator
chicken is that lice are mars easily kept
down.
Buy breeding fowls iu the fall; they
will be in abetter condition to use in the
spring.
It is considers 1 tint youa; fowls
mated bring male aud older fowls
females.
Wheat, oats and bran are good egj
produciug poultry feed to give at thi
season.
All varieties of plaats that do not
stand a test are simply wee Is in th way
of others.
Destroy all weeds aud keep tha ground
clean around your koase and outride
buildings.
Give meat to the fowls iu re g alar sup
ply, warm mess in burning an 1 rg ilar
urply of grit, gravel, etc.
The prize for the best 100-acre farm
or less iu England was won by a farmer
who farms eighty-one acres of grass land,
forty-one acres being in pasture. He
keeps fifty-two cows, aud speut $3000
for extra food for his stock each year.
It does not pay to feed good food to
poor stock. An experienced dairyman
makes use of the remark that he cannot
ailord to feed 20 worth of grain to a
calf worth only fifty cents, and tho ex.
pressioa applies in other directions on the
Tarn.
Farmers should rigidly guard their
hogs against disease by procuring auy
new stock required only after inspecting
the herds from which they desire to se
lect. Never buy from a neighborhood
iu which disease is known to exist or re
cently existed.
An extremely rich soil is not suitable
for the large fruits. The growth of wood
is to: runid and tender. Fortunately
there is no gn'at amount of such soil in
this country, aud when found it is bettei
idapted to wheat, corn or onions than to
pears or apples.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Fish may be scaled easier by first dip
ping them into boiling Tater for a
aiiuute.
Milk which has changed may be
rendered fit for use again by stirring ic
little soda.
A table-spoonful of turpentine boiled
with your white clothes will aid tho
whiteniag process.
One teaspoonful of ammonia to a tea
cupful of water applied with a rag vrill
clean silver or gold jewelry.
Kerosene will soften boots aud slices
that have been hardened by water, and
render them pliable as new.
Wetting the hair thoroughly once or
twice with a solution of salt and water
will keep it from falling out.
Clear boiling water will remove tea
st.iins; pour the water through the stain
and thus pi event it spreading.
Faint stains that are dry and old may
be removed from cotton or woolen goods
with chloroform. First cover the spot
with olive oil or butter.
A teaspoonful of borax put into the
last water in which clothes are rinsed
will whiten them surprisingly. Pound
the borax so it will dissolve easily.
Ciiarcoal is recommended as an ab
sorber of gase3 in the milk room where
foul gases are present. It should be
freshly powdered and kept there con
tinually. A disinfectant which combines cheap
ness with general worth is found in per
manganate of potash. One ounce will
make a bucketful of disinfectant. It is
a crystal, and can be kept in thi3 state
until ready for use.
The y i lii rt pcu-es "u.e uOuTriana
cane suar crop for S'.iO-9l at 130,000
tons' against 12S,000 tons the previous
vear. The total beet-sugar irop of the
"world it estimates at 3,670,000 tons; tbe
total cane crop of the world at 2.320,000
tons.
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