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A SONG OF
Oh, to come lionip onco more, when the Men and women now they are, standing
dusk is lulling. straight and steady.
To fw; list; nui'.sery ligliled and the Grave heart, guy heart, fit for Hfo s
ihiUIri'n'H tabl spread; emprise;
"Mather, mother, mother '" the eager- Shoulder set to shoulder, how should they
voices oa'ding, he but ready!
"The baby whs ko sluepy that he ImJ The future shines before them with the
to k to bed!" light. of their own eyes.
Oh, lo ronie home onoc more and see the Still each answers to my call; no good ha
8mllins faees. been denied me.
Dark head, britdit head, clustered at the 'My burdens have been fitted to the lit-
jiiine; - tie strength that's mine.
Much the years have taken, when' the' Beauty, pride and peace have walked by
heart its path retraces. day beside me.
Hut until time is not lor mc( that The evening closes gently in, and how
imag'j will . remain. can I repine?
But oh, to see onee more, when the early
dusk is falling.
The nursery windows glowing and the
children's table, spread;
"Mother, mother, mother!" the high
child voices calling,
"He couldn't stay awake for you; he
had to go to bed!"
Scriftner's Magazine.
t THE DANGER OF
By LEONARD
My confession must begin when 1
was four years old and recovering
from swollen glands. As 1 grew well,
my iw.in brother, Gregcire, who was
some minutes younger, was put to
bod with the same complaint.
"What a misfortune," exclaimed our
mother, "that Silvestre is no sooner
convalescent than Gregoire falls ill."
The. duetcr answered: "It astonishes
me that you were not prepared for it,
Madame Lapalme since the children
i are twins, the thing was to be fore-"t-een;
when the eldr throws the mala
H dy off, the younger naturally contracts
it. Among twins it is nearly always
so."
And it always proved to be so with
Gregoire and me. No socner did I
throw off whooping cough than Gre
goire began to whoop, though I was
at heme in Vernon and he was stay
ing with our grandmother In Tours. If
I I had to be taken to a dentist, Gre
goire would soon afterward be how
ling with toothache; as often as I in
dulged in the pleasures of the table,
Gregoire had a bilious attack. The in
fluence I exercised upon him was so
remarkable that once when my bicycle
ran away with me and broke my arms,
our mother consulted three medical
men us to whether Gregoire's bicycle
was bound to run away with him, too.
r-hideed, my brother was distinctly ap-
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preneusfive ui it uiuiacu.
Again at college. I shall not pre
tend that I was a bookworm, or that I
shared Gregoire's ambitions; on the
contrary, the world beyond the walls
looked such a jolly place to me that
the mere sight of a classroom would
sometimes fill me with abhorrence.
But, mon Dieu! if other fellows were
wild occasionally, they accepted the
penalties, and the affair was finished;
on me rested a responsibility my
wildncss was communicated to Gre
goire. Scarcely had I resigned myself
to dull routine again than Gregoire,
the industrious, would find himself
unable to study a page, and would
commit freaks for which he rebuked
me most sternly.
So far as I had any serious aspira
tions at all, I aspired to be a painter,
and, after combating my family's ob
jections, I entered an art school in
Paris. Gregoire, on the other hand,
inclined strongly to law. During, the
next few years we met infrequently,
Imt that, my brother continued to be
affected by any unusual conditions of
fflybody and mind I knew by his let
ters, which seldom failed to contain
expostulations and entreaties. Can
you blame me if I had no 'love for this
correspondent?
My Brother:
The Circumstances of Our Birth.
Your attention is directed to my pre
ceding communications on this sub
ject, I desire to protest against the
revelry from, which you recovered eith
er on the 15th or 16th inst. On the
afternoon of the later date, while en
gaged in a conference of the first mag
nitude, I was seized with an over
whelming desire to dance a quadrille
;.t a public ball. I found it impossible
to concentrate my attention on the
case concerning which I was consulted;-
I could no longer express myself
with lucidity.
Outwardly sedate, reliable, I sat at
desk dizzied by such visions as
pursued St. Anthony to his cell. No
sooner was I free than I fled from Ver-
non, dined in Paris, bought a false
beard, and plunged wildly into the
vortex of a dancing hall. Scoundrel!
This is past pardon! My sensibilities
revolt, and my prudence shudders.
Who' shall say but that one night
may be recognized? Who can foretell
to what blackmail you may expose
me? I, Maitre Lapalme, forbid your
profligacies, which devolve upon me, I
forbid eto.
Our mother still lived in Vernon,
vhere she contemplated her favorite
s-on's success with the profoundest
pride. Occasionally I spent a few days
with her, sometimes more.
One summer when I visited her 1
met Mademoiselle Leuillet. I know
very well that no description of a
girl ever painted her to anybody yet.
Suffice it that she was beautiful as
avancel, that her voice was like the
Jmlsrlu of the Spheres more than all,
l hut one felt allthe time," "How good
sshe is, bow good, how good!"
TWILIGHT.
BEING A TWIN, t
MERRICK.
Never since I was a boy had I stay
ed in Vernon for so long as now, nev
er had I repented so bitterly as now
the error of my ways. I loved, and
it seemed to me that my attachments
was reciprocated, yet my position for
bade me to go to Monsieur Leuillet
and ask boldly for his daughter's
hand. While I had remained obscure,
artists whose talent was no more re
markable than my own, had raised
themselves from Bohemia into pros
perity. I was an idler, a good-for-nothing.
And then well, I owned to
Berthe that I loved her! I owned
that I loved her and when I left for
Paris we were secretly engaged.
Alon Dieu! Now I worked indeed!
To win this girl for my own, to show
myself worthy of her innocent faith,
supplied me with the most powerful
incentive in life. In the Quarter they
regarded me first with ridicule, then
with wonder, and, finally, with respect.
For my own enthusiasm did not fade.
"He has turned over a new leaf," they
said, "he means to be famous!" It
was understood. No more excursions
for Silvestre, no more junketings and
recklessness! I was another man
my ideal of happiness was now a wife
and home.
For a year I lived this new life. ' I
progressed. Men whose approval was
a cachet began to speak of me as
one with a future. In the Salon a
picture of mine made something of a
stir. How I rejoiced, how grateful
and sanguine I was!
I said that it was hot too soon for
me to speak now; I had proved my
mettle, and, though I foresaw that
her father would ask more before he?
gave his consent. I was, at least,jus
tified in avowing myself. I telegraph
ed to my mother to expect me.
On the way to the station I noticed
the window of a florist; I ran in to
bear off some lilies for Eerthe. The
shop was so full of wonderful flowers
that, once among them, I found some
difficulty in making my choice. Hence,
I missed the train; and, rather than
walk about until the next, returned
to my studio incensed by the delay.
A letter for me had been just de
livered. It told me that on the previ
ous morning Berthe had married my
brother.
I could have welcomed a pistol shot
my world rocked. Berthe lost, false.
Gregoire's wife! I reiterated it, I said
it over and over, I was stricken by it
and yet, I could not realize that ac
tually it had happened.
Oh, I made certain of it later, be
lieve me I was no hero of a feui He
ton, to accept such intelligence with
out proof! I assured myself of her
perfidy, and burnt her love letters one
by cue; tore her photographs into
shreds strove also to tear her image
from my heart.
A year before I should have rushed
to the cafes for forgetfulness, but now,
as the shock subsided, I turned fever
ishly to work. For months I persist
ed, denying myself the smallest re
spite, clinging eo a resolution which
proved vainer daily. Were art to be
mastered by dogged ' endeavor. I
should have conquered; but alas!
though I could compel myself to paint,
I could not compel myself to paint
well. I had fought temptation for
half a year, worked with my teeth
clenched, worked against nature, work
ed while my pulses beat and clamored
for the draughts of dissipation, which
promised a speedier release. I recog
nized that my work had been wasted,
that the struggle had been useless 1
broke down.
I need say little of the months that
followed it would be a record of de
gradations and remorse; alternately, I
fell, and was ashamed. L shuddered
at the horrors I had committed.
One afternoon when I returned to
my rooms, from which I had been
absent since the previous day, I heard
from the concierge that a visitor await
ed me. I climbed the stairs without
anticipation. My thoughts were slug
gish, my limbs leaden, my eyes heavy
and bloodshot. My visitor was Berthe.
I think nearly a minute must have
passed while we looked speechlessly
in each other's face her's convulsed
by entreaty, mine dark with hate.
"Forgive me," she gasped, "I have
come to beseech your forgiveness! Can
you not forget the wrong I did you?"
"Do I look as if I had forgotten?"
"I was inconstant, cruel, I cannot, ex
cuse myself. But, Oh, Silvestre, in the
name of the love you once bore me,
have pity on us! Reform, abjure your
evil courses! Do not, I implore you,
condemn my husband to this abyss of
depravity; do not wreck my married
life!"
Now I understood what had pro
cured me the honor of a visit from
this woman, and I triumphed devil
ishly that I was the elder twin.
"Madame," I answered, "I think that
I owe you no explanations, but I shall
say this: the evil courses that you
deplore were adopted, not vindictively,
but in the effort to numb the agony
that you had made me suffer. You
but reap as you have sown."
"Reform!" she sobbed. She sank on
her knees before me. "Silvestre, in
mercy to us, reform!"
"I shall never reform," I said in
flexibly. "I will grow more abandon
ed day by day my past faults shall
shine as merits compared with the
atrocities that are to come. False
girl, monster of selfishness, you are
dragging me to the gutter, and your
only grief is that he must share my
shame! You have made me bad, and
you must bear the consequences you
cannot now make me good to save
your husband!"
Humbled and despairing, she left
me. At this stage I began deliberate
ly to contemplate revenge. . But not
the one that I had threatened. . Oh,
no! I bethought myself of a ven
geance more complete than that! She
should be tortured with the torture
that she had dealt to me I would
make him adore another woman with
all his heart and brain!
It was difficult, for first I must adore
and tire, of another woman myself
as the passion in me faded, his would
be born. I swore, however, that I
would compass it. " For some weeks
now I worked again, to provide my
self with money. I bought new clothes
and made myself presentable. When
my appearance accorded better with
my plan, I paraded Paris, seeking the
woman to adore.
You may think Paris is full of ador
able women? Well, so contrary is hu
man nature, that never had I felt such
indifference toward the sex as during
that tedious quest; never had a pair of
brilliant eyes or a well turned neck,
appealed to me so little:
How true it is that only the unfore
seen comes to pass! There was a
model, one Therese, whose fortune was
her back, and who had long borea me
by an evident tenderness. One day
this Therese, usually so -constrained in
my presence, appeared in high spirits
and mentioned that she was going to
be married.
The change in her demeanor inter
ested me A little piqued I invited
her to dine with me, but she refused.
Before' I parted from her I made an
appointment for her to sit to me the
next morning.
"So you are going to be married,
Therese?" I said, as I prepared the
palette.
"In truth," she answered, gaily.
"No regrets?" I asked.
"What regrets could I have?" she
returned. "He is a very pretty boy,
and well-to-do, believe me!"
"And I am not a pretty boy, nor
well-to-do, hein?"
"Oh," she laughed, "you do not care
for me!"
"Is it so?" I said. "What would you
say if I told you that I did care?"
"I chouldv say that you tell me too
late, monsieur," she replied, with a
shrug. "Are you ready for me to
pose?" And this changed woman turn
ed her peerless back on me without
a scruple.
A little mortified, I attended strictlj
to business for the rest of the morii-
ing. But I found myself on the fol
lowing day waiting for her with im
patience. I remarked that Therese's hands
were very well shaped, and indeed
happiness had brought a certain
charm to her face.
"Do you know, Therese, that I am
sorry that you are going to marry?" I
exclaimed.
."Oh, get out!" she laughed, push
ing me away. "It is no good your talk
ing nonsense to me now, don't flatter
yourself!"
Reybaud, the sculptor, happened to
come in at the moment. "Oho," he
shouted, "what changes are to be seen!
The nose of our brave Sylvestre is
out of joint now we are affianced,
hein?"
She joined in the laughter against
me, and I picked up my brush again
in a vile humor.
Well, as I have said, she was not
the kind of woman I had contemplat
ed, but these things arrange them
selves I became seriously enamored
cf her. And, recognizing that Fate
worked with her own instruments, I
did not struggle. For months I was
at Therese's heels; I was the sport of
her whims, and her slights, sometimes
even of her insults.
I actually made her an offer of mar
riage, at which she snapped her white L
fingers, with a grimace and the more
she flouted me, the more fascinated 1
grew. In that rapturous hour when
her Insolent eyes softened to senti
ment, when her mocking mouth melt
ed to a kiss, I was in paradise. My
ecstasy was so supreme that I forgot
to, triumph at my approaching ven
geance. So I married Therese; and yesterday
was the twentieth anniversary of our
wedding. Berthe? To speak the truth,
my plot against her was frustrated by
an accident. You see, before I could
communicate my passion to Gregoire
I had to recover from it, and this
insolent Therese I have not recov
ered from it yet.
There are days when she turns her
remarkable back on me now gener
ally when I a"fh idle but, mon Dieu!
the moment's when she turns her lips
are worth working for. Therefore,
Berthe has been all the time quite
happy with the good Gregoire and
since I possess. Therese upon my word
of honor I do not mind! The Bystander.
DAIRY FRAUDS IN ENGLAND.
Pure Butter Said to be Difficult to
Find in London.
The British government has recent
ly issued as a parliamentary paper a
report o.f the select committee appoint
ed to consider the conduct and con
trol of the trade in butter and but
ter substitutes. The report was ar
gued upon unanimously, and makes
suggestions to be embodied in legis
lation. "The London Times" asserts that
genuine dairy butter is a thing past
praying for. Four-fifths of the popula
tion of London, "The Times" asserts,
have never seen it in their lives.
Those who know what it is have
great difficulty in procuring ic and
cannot obtain it in many cases at
any price. What is called genuine
butter in London, "The Times" says, is
blended and reworked butter. Its
tough, tenaciousexture is as different
as possible from that of real dairy
butter, and it is destitute of the sub
tle aroma of the genuine unworked
butter. "The Times" says that .both,
the imported butter and that made at
home are generally blended butter.
The parliamentary committee proposes
that butter factories shall be regis
tered, the registration to be renew
able annually, and that inspectors
shall be empowered to enter all such
premises when they suspect that but
ter is reworked, blended or adulter
ated butter must not be stored
on such premises. With adequate pen
alties proportioned, as the commit
tee proposes, to the magnitude cf the
output, ' some real check would be
placed upon adulteration. Imported
butter is to be met with not less
stringent conditions.
It was shown before the committee
by a firm that was prosecuted for the
sale cf adulterated Danish butter that
it got off with a nominal penalty up
on showing that it had ordered what
is known as "control butter." This
butter is guaranteed by the Danish
government. The committee proposes
that the importer shall be held re
sponsible for the genuineness of the
butter he sells, without any regard
fcr anybody else's warranty. No dif
ficulty is put in the way of those
who manufacture and sell imitations
of butter openly and honestly. Those
who want margarine will be free to
buy it as such. But people who want
butter are expected to get butter, and
not mysterious mixtures. It is thought
probable that the British government
will take favorable action on the re
port. From Government Consular Re
ports.
Romance of a Sweet Pea,
The parent of nearly all the most
beautiful varieties of the American
sweet pea is the Blanche Ferry, which
has a pretty romance connected with
its discoverey.
Some fifty years ago, the comely
daughter of a welLto-do farmer ran
away from home to marry a young
quarryman, and her home thereafter
was always in a cottage, often but a
mere hut, on the very thin soil over
lying the limestone ledges where her
husband worked. When her baby died
she went back to her father's farm to
bury it, and took with her on return
ing to her cottage some seed of a
white sweet pea and seed of the old
Painted Lady pink.
Thereafter, however great her pov
erty, she never failed to grow near
her cottage home some of these sweet
peas, as a reminder of her happy
girlhood and her dead baby. , They
were always grown on thin, poor soil,
often so thin that they could only be
kept alive by constant attention and
watering. As a result of such envi
ronment for many plant generations
the flowers acquired a dwarf growth
and a great abundance of bright col
ors. Some twenty-five years after the
baby died a ssedsman, passing the lit
tle home of the mother, noticed the
beauty of the sweet peas and obtained
a teaspoonful of the seed. This ha
multiplied into thousands of pounds,
and sold as the seed of the Blanchu
Ferry variety, which is now famou?,
throughout the worid for its beauty
and the many beautiful varieties it
has produced. Washington Star.
Nstu rally.
Do Stylo tins any of your family
gone away for the summer?
Gunbusta Only the cook. Woman's
Home Companion.
SOUTHERN FARM ' I0TES.
TOPICS Of INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN ANQ TRUCK GRCWEtU
Value of a Cow.
In undertaking to place an esti
mate on the value of a cow the exact
amount of milk and butter fat pro
duced should be determined.
Most people when estimating the
value of a cow will be largely in
fluenced by the statements made by
the owner of the number of gallons
of milk she will produce. This in
formation is usuallvery misleading,
as most persons do not take into con
sideration the foanA in mifk, and
again, the party wisning to sell a
cow will sometimes exaggerate as to
her production as well
The milk from a cow, as usually
measured, should not be given any
consideration, but to know the exact
amount of milk a cow gives it should
be weighed with an accurate scale;
foam adds nothing to the weight of
milk. When the milk from a cow is
weighed morning and evening, then
her daily production can be esti
mated, but it is better to know the
weight of milk produced for a num
ber of consecutive milkings and to
take an average of these for deter
mining her daily production.
After determining the amount of
milk produced per day in pounds and
ounces, then one should know the av
erage butter fat contained therein.
This can be determined by taking a
sample from each milking, and from
about five consecutive milkings, put
ting these samples together and de
termining the per cent, of butter fat
In this composite sample. This will"
be an average per cent, of fat for the
time during which the samples were
taken. From the average daily pro
duction of milk and the average per
cent, of fat the average amount of fat
produced daily can be ascertained.
As six pounds of butter fat thus de
termined will make about seven
pounds of butter, the value of the
milk for butter-making purposes can
be determined. As butter fat is the
, foundation of cream, the value of the
milk put into cream can be estimated.
While this method does not give any
idea of the amount of milk and but
ter fat a cow will produce during her
milking period, it does show how
much she is producing in butter or
cream for the time being.
No dairyman should be without
this record of each one of his cows at
any time. It will enable him to know
when a cow is not producing an
amount which justifies her keep, and
she can then be replaced with a bet
ter cow. Where records are kept as
has been suggested at the end of the
milking period the amount of milk
and the amount of butter fat from
each cow can be estimated and her
value for that period pretty closely
determined. Wm. D. Saunders,
Dairyman Virginia Agricultural Ex
periment Station, Blacksburjf,
..jet
The Kerry Crop.
If j'ou live near a city, nothing Is
so profitable as a berry crop. If you
live away from a market, nothing is
nicer for your own table. We cannot
understand how our farmers can do
withect strawberries and raspberries.
The blackberry also deserves consid
eration, everywhere, except where
wild ones are plentiful and near at
hand. It is time to begin to prepare
for your patch of a row or two, or an
acre of two, according to your means.
You ladies who want some pin money
of your own, and have little children
to help, gather them. If you cannot
do this have a little berry patch. We
always think . strawberries the best
fruit that grows, until raspberries
come in, and then we think they are
the best. Both are worthy a place in
every garden in our South. They al
ways help out a supper and round out
a dinner; and we never object to
them for breakfast. No one has ever
been able to reach the maximum
yield of our berry crop of either va
riety. Wonderful yields have been
made. We saw a blackberry bush at
our near neighbor's that yielded ten
quarts and brought him in the hand
some return of $1.00. Putting the
plants at four by six feBt, this would
give us 11S5 plants per acre, and a
revenue of $1185.00 per acre. No
one can say this is an Impassibility,
since one bush has made the propor
tionate yield. This amount of straw
berries has been made. As to rasp
berries we are not so well informed,
but as they sell at double the price of
either of the other berries, we cannot
see why a like return' can not be ob
tained. There is a good living for
the small farmer who will take wife
and children into co-partnership and
get down to business and learn how
to grow the many things our market
now demands. Don't let's, talk cotton
until we know of nothing else; but
let us give our garden crops due con
sideration, and don't forget the berry.
Southern Cultivator.
The Apple A'phis.
My anple trees are badly affectel
with a greenish louse and the trees
are dying. We are . bothered "with
these insects every 'year? and I want
to know what they aw.arid how to
destroy them. J. Ev J., Hartselle,
Ala.
Answer. Durjn&- the spring and
early summer, "one often finds the
leaves and tender twigs of apple coh
ered withjsmall jreen lice or aphides.
These are the Apple Aphi.'They in
jure the trees by sucking the sap
through their, tiny beaks. So far as
we know it, the life history of these
insects 5-. : : follows: The lice hatch,
from eggs in spring as soon as the
leaf buds begin to expand, and in
crease with marvelous rapidity, so
that almost as fast as the leaves de
velop there are colonies of the plant
lice to occupy them. Tney continue
broading on apple until" July5, when
they largely leave the trees, and mi
grate we know not where, but prob
ably to some annual plant that i3 suc
culent in mid-summer. Here, appar
ently, they continue breeding until
autumn, when they return to apple,
and the winged females may be found
establisning colonies of the wingless
egg-laying form upon the leaves. The
males are apparently developed on
the same plant that the winged fe
males are. The small, oval egg3 are
now laid on the twigs and bud3, and
the cycl3 for the year is complete.
Remedies. These lice have vari
ous natural enemies that destroy
them especially the lady-bird bee
tles but it la often necessary to
spray infested trees with kerosene
emulsion, or a strong tobacco decoc
tion to get rid of them. The latter
may be made by soaking refuse to
bacco stems in hot water, and then
draining tho liquid off. The South
ern Fruit Grower.
About Nitrate of Soda,
As you are probably aware, nitrate
of soda supplies only one constituent
of plant-food to the soil and that one
is nitrogen or ammonia. If it is per- .
sistently used on the same land it
will, by stimulating increased growth
cause te supply of phosphoric acid
and potash in the soil to be more" j
heavily drawn upon, than if only,
small or moderate yields were prg-
duced; hence it might be found such?
circumstances that the yields on a
soil thus treated would materially de
cline. It might be found, too, that
under such treatment, unless the
store of vegetable matter of the soil
were kept up, that the mechanical
condition of the soil would probably,
become worse, especially if the soil
were fine grained, and would be . BQ7
ticed by the soil running together
and tending to work hard after each
rain. It is not believed, however,
that nitrate of soda used properly, t
and in reasonable quantities per acre'
would injure land. Neither do we
think it would be at all hefiessaf y&T
materially increase the application
per year, unless the yield be much in
creased. To secure the best resujs
from ttte use of , nitrate of o4t
will usually be" necessary to ue wi,hk
fertilizing materials containing pnos
phoric acid and potash and in some
cases lime. The amount and propor
tion of these constituents will de
pend upon the crop to be grown and
the soil in which it is to be planted.
The normal plant-food supply of a.
soil is being kept up when as much
is added to it In the fertilizer or fer
tilizing material as is removed by
the growing crop and by leaching.
C. B. Williams, North Carolina De
partment of Agriculture, Raleigh.
Mixed and Unmixed Fertilizers.
Farmers should now be planning
for their small grain crop. Will it
be better to buy mixed or unmixed'
fertilizer o.' The syndicate controlling;
commercial fertilizers and the prices
will not sell by the car-load to farm
ers. All has to be bought through
agents. If the farmers should com
bine in an effort to secure goods at
first hands, they could do it. The one?
who wants a few sacks has to buy at.
retail. Let the farmer buy fourteen
per cent, acid phosphate and muriate
r : potash of kainit, and do his own,
mixing. On a good floor, or a hard
place In the lot, a hand with a shovel'
can mix a ton thoroughly in two
rours.
2000 pounds of acid phosphate; '
200 pounds of muriate of potash.
That will give 12.754.50. That:
is a high grade.
If ammonia is desired, make It
this way:
200 0 pounds acid phosate;
200 pounds of muriate of potash;
1000 pounds cottsnseed meal.
That would give a fertilizer an
alyzing 9 3 2H. That U first
class for wheat or oats, and will not
cost more than $2 0 a ton. The
agents would charge about $2 4.
The Greenland whale often lives..
400 jears.