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' « - # , 10@ ' m al ‘L, g - Lannie white moray. Game rown. |_ They Will Probably Be the Next Breed to:| bc - - \Be Béomed. ' ; The Englishbreeder of. the White In- dian. Game -fow! writes to the Massachu- setts Ploughman as follows: ' During the :Aast Tew years we have been perfecting and making a new breed . hitherto | unknown in . White Indian Garie-=sand=which will prove to be 'better and Handsomer than: their dark congifis,. ~'Wo find. them bet- ter layers and better- table.birds, as they | do not show the black pin feathers. when dressed, asietho.case sométimeswith the . dark-colored. \Wabred a good many of- this beautiful variety last season and: propose to breed from 500 to. 1,000 this | season. 'We aro the originators:.of thig| | kept yather short, . oruppér wi by“? ) ‘ b _| three nohes thitck and will notrallow the - \) tail to settledown closely: enough to hold | the rein tightly, or fixing the tail to | hreedohing straps at each side so as prgéut At from getting over the rein may . suffice. * ‘ -strap or stout cone ring of the bit back 0 the body thr hair above & knot tied - tail and back through the bridle. -T Ay as to. bring the nose near to: and tled with a. running. n6086, may be loosened in & on the fore end; of, It if is from. nervous sensitiveness' when touched on the quarters or hind limbs by harness, shafts, whip or hand, | Magner's method of turning in a narrow Leircle \mrgnder the horse dizzy and sub- «missive may be tried, A strong hitching: hemp cord is carried from | b n one side of otgh an opehing made in the on the ' gnd of the. the. other ring Fa . Thismay. be drawn. & of flannel until it is- moment by pulling: =- the | to |. Of so tight- | the tail: which |. Striking Feature Hortlcultural Department. © On'the opening day, according to a cor- respondent of American- Cardehing, the - most attractive sections were Australia's . and Japan's, and probably their hold on | «public attention will not be rivaled by | 'may indoor horticultural: exhibit, Both 'are large, and: eachin its own way is novel, Anstralis has more:strange and than any other see- in place of tying, it | // ‘ may be held in the hand tightly, but| AT ThE world rain. ° s- of the Exhibits In the { paved with, ~ nE-Hlonways oF Becoium. pete With the Battroads. for the possibility. | Belginm, as Consul Fanner of Liege reports, is. divided into '| nine provinces, each having its own bu- reau of roads and bridges, gravel covering stone, 'all, as there is less jolting and noise than .on atone, lesa wear and tear for runnin gear, with a good road still remaining. '| the gravel washes away.\ The stones are uniform and regular in -| quickly laid or taken up. again. - After they are placed earth is put on . | them to:-fll the crevices, and the wholeis ¥ | well rolled, sometinies witha largeroller | drawn. by four horses, If there is no | ef ‘ 'The roads . avoid heaty grades, gre oval and usually 1\ stone, with gravel or with | which is beat of - 1. terrible. sound, and T wanted totell the dear | | old gentleman how sorry I felt for him, but: front in the poultry world; B \ E t I ’ i i Fe y . * KC ¥ E } from him. Infact we had at ss many manage, and besides we did not then know the. good qualities of the Indian: Game. Ro = Mr. Jameson purchased from us a.pen: g { each of Minoreas and Andalusians,and: ' M- when he left onur place hesaid, \I will send you s sampleof our Indian: tigww tact with . and .a trio of. ption | : We never thought he «mega: thought no tore about it unt preéd and intend bringing them to the ¥ ' About seven years ago a. gentleman,} Mr,Jameson, on a visit to England from | Indis.called to view our poultry; eto. He thenspoke of the Indian Game fowl,: but we had then fit idea of having any: * | the whip.\ It fanot necessary, however,: to whirl it till it falls; it needs only to be its quarters, tump, thighs, hocke and ' | or try to at first, but the pole . Fapplied the time: différent varieties as we could | ready to be slackened when necessary, | Most horses in these cireunistances -will | turn rapidly around toward the side to | which tho headarid tailaro turned, and the more rapid the turning, the sooner willthe animal become dizzy, and will fall-on the opposite side if theprocess is { too Jong continued. |. _If the horse declines to turn or turns slowly, it may be made to do it more. | actively by striking the noge gently with made giddy. After a few turns touch | shanks with alight pole. It may kick must be |: , lightly sgain and again, and i: : will soon dismissall th ht of kicking. |. 4 The pole must be repeated ybmflghfi'bs 'contact with all parts of the hind legs inside and out until it no longer fears or ' As the effect of turning to one side is diable to be temporary, it is best to loosen the horse in a few minutes, tle 46 on the other side and let it turn tor'l awhile fn that direction. 'The pole can. now be brought more effectively in con- ‘ the whole of the other hind 'quarter and leg, so that the horse be comes educated to beariit at all points LATANIA BORBONICA OR CHINESE FAN PALM, [tion, and they hare been so well placed | that their merits and peculiarities are {marked at the first glance, while their. variety and beauty sare enhanced by their excellent arrangement, Among the larger plants a number of Macroza:. mia spiralis divide: attention with the. great ferns. This plant strikes the lay- 'man as lookinglike a: cross: between. a | pineapple and apalm. Thenativé name. 'of burrawang-sounds: very muich as the: plant looke-somewhat peculiar, batnot' at all displeasing. ’ egs | the apace given over to Japan. It | \2 C cupied by an old fashioned Japanese gar- | resents it, but takes it as a matter of! den and Includes three sections, First | mmomfif F ip the garden with dwarfed trees, ever- | U 'greens; maples and others, conborted:| sago palms and a_ stone lantern, with- | # out which even a modern Japanese gar- | ° den is incomplete. . The fecond division | Z includes-decorativé and picturesque fea- | tures, while in the third is shown tle | 'Japanese habit 'of blending the useful | us \With the ornamental. - ' > I Let Acrosé 'the way from the Australian | ction, with its. junglelike aspect, Hes .A striking feature of the Trinidad ex- enter: 'away, The draft horses aro, to be sure,yery large:and strong, but it would take $wo- ull the same load on many | . of them to pt I de. A cart filled with beef : for sale and drawn by ~* - {From Good Roads.]. {danger of washing, a gravel road may | take the place:of stone, but if the sides,. which receive the drainage, show symp- | toms of yielding, they are carefully paved, so that washes and gullies cannot begin there. N ._ The roads aro so 'can compete with theraliroads, Wagons | aden with merchandise, for example, | Idego from Brussels, 60 miles and even from Antwerp, 12 miles. . the \Indian fowls\ arrived in: grand: triin, when we. put them out to breed.. They were not pure white, but cream 5 colored or about the color of a pale Game | hen; The cock was, however, nearly ; white. Wo were surprised to find nearly an: all the chicks from ther camo white the K}J®* KBR frst season, and wo seldom now get an |i | | e off colored chick. |_ __ ._- A% During the last five years we Tave p mated them-caréfully and bred them so i as to procure really high -class specimens and have succeeded beautifully, as we | a can now show White Indian Games ' equal to the best Dark Indian Games that iwith - tul, resentful-eyo becomes dued and the tense musel relaxed, the ears, eyelids 'and the genera press 'as manifested lowed to smell and- may be carefully 'without fear or retaliation. 'an ordinary horse is to continuethe n 15to 80 minutes until the watch-| 65 feet hig quiet and sub- | uscles of the face sted in the hurried breathing and perspiration. Butif afterm severe lesson the animal shows only terror or furyis \lesson and w ral expression As better to suspend the: o att some days fora second.. When subdued, the horse;may 'be al- examine harness and harnessed and hitched, | display is thi -citrusfruits, altho 'The rule. a nervous these gi ty for groups of trop and most attractive fruit made 'by California in h nothing astonishes In the specimen of the fan palm ''This same journal is, by the bye, the statement that one of the best ical plants comés from The largest a lay is that hibit is tho glant bamboos, \Ewo of gantic fishpoles are each about | et high, and in shipping them they 'tiad to be lsshed to the mast of the ves- sel.. They werecut close to the ground,\ and at that point-are: diameter. about 8 inches in picture reproduced 'from the Journal quoted is shown a fine m of China, authort> , :Quenast and Lessines, years; rivers Ourths and Meuse, ed duration 25 years. Porphyry, © (01,88); to 9.50 have been bred in England. A A flock of 40 of these white fowls look ; gamma on a grass fun, their tall and ately. carriage adding. greatly to their appearance. <u The Hornfly Terror,. ~ A correspondent of The Breeder's Cla- zette writes:. \They worry cattle until they become | | thinand weak and tike special delight ; _ in massing by thousands and thousands ~ all over the entire body of weak and. de- [ fenseless animals, as| theso animals be- 'at first into shafts, or directly to a wagon, encouragement and reward be- ing made with sugar or apples, and a comfident, commanding but kind voice |. and manner being employed. Reveral lessons are usually demanded, »zd It may be pnecdful to drive inharness sim- ply and then in shafts before he can be | trusted in a wagon. Itis all important. that everything be done safely, that & due stage of submission be reached be fore the nnimal be placed where it can by any chance be tempted to repeat its the visitors so much as the remarkable exhibits from Idaho, Oregon and Wash- tion of Florida and New Mexico, are con- ington. One soon Aiscovers, however, tat the fruit displays, with the excep- fined to the middle and. northern states. The most astonishing displays of apples were those from Oregon, Washington and Idaho, New York made the largest display in green or stored apples, so far as number of varieties isconcerned. The. apples from the northwestern states were characterized by very large size, Government three-fou \Provincial Roads-Width of of ditch, three-fourths y come powerless to oppose them.. And in another way they will (or may) cause the death of thousands of stock, It is in EF this way: They éator suck blood about ation is only temporary. vice, as a relapse will only fix the habit more firmly and give it to realize that the control secured by the turning oper- fine coloring and freedom from leaf, The Strawborry Bed. Where the strawberry bed is to stand Communal Roads-Wid.. yard 24 inches. - Theso roads are paved with native the belly of the animals, . scorched appearance of the cuticle, with | ortiind stubby close- it- barned 'off: Those ma bout the siz6 of a nickel . + oras large: asa dollar, but more offen F of the amaller or intermediate sixe, The - F cuticleis next éaten or dissolved away, and a saw, bloody 'sorée results which | E - the fair eaten off ah E 'to the akin, A6 _ the pest contiines to molest.\ | them every time: b ~ Take kerosene, E- found it éffectivg.: | | ._ __ The Highost Priced Horie: The arrival in Américh of the em of Germany himgelf would not Ha atod tho exciteimentin horse bi and racing circles that [- ing stallion who never was beaten. - The |i; $150,000° paid for the horse by Mr. W. 0 . the Cali-! __ fornia ranchiman as owner of tho highest :| ~Orimnogde is r His: fire was Bon | dOr, dat Lily Agnes,. As i year-old. Ormonde had wogxsmmooo on the turf; : _ He is prob iveler on rec- | ord, 'Thres yer ho was bought: fromthe Duke of Westminster by Senor | Joss Bocan of Buenos Ayres for $00,000 ell _.O'Brien marke iends .' priced. horse in the world.. now 10 years. old. then ho ratired to the stud. «ably the greatest Horse: E ord, Thrés years AH and? He pB ol $ \ warreaturded to; [ - preséntowner,\ the only white about him T fivgmmhwmum saddlecovers, TH is, to. 1) high, - 'My, MacDon upon his own C fornia farm for breeding. purposes only <- With-Ormonde arm nine thordaugh prod colts by him <at thet Meved to be in Joal of probably the . only i sides oh fis get. Ce t j f Am posseising SF a citizen at once rich:enough and ritky | ~% T - enough to pay $150,000 for a horse. f\ p ‘,A‘~f.1,;».>‘~ ‘ ~,>'\< * 1 ' in spots on cattle=-on the neek, dewlap, | back of the shoulder biades and. under. ._ th The spots E swhon. first discernible have a dry, $ - One breeder has applied the following : mixture to the pests and findsit knocks f spirits of turpentine, sulphars and crysalic ointment and mix | them swell and rub or sprinkle, it on the ' cower Tused it four weeks ago, and the | f flies have not bothered the cows since,\ E _ Yetanotherfarmor has dprayed upon ; ~hisherds#a strong kerosene. mixture and - réeding - the coming,.of | Ormonde did-Ormonde, thé great rac- est to: Sonth America, Then he id -to Hurope and sold to his being a acrived on the ateatner i mares,, All had dither. America | Whick wi um Khem at: *- Loolts will be the most “lube: element eure Inst: gh, in Lou» | |isiana. - The cattle were left to-run wild: a severe winter came - I w o#r n c Live Stock Points Corn does not ripen well in Oregon, consequently that state is a fine market for pork products. A brood mare that is a fast walker is a treasure on a farm. Not only will the. transmit her quality to her colts, but she will train them by her example. They 11711111an to walk fast to keep up with or. & + year. At one lambing they produce: the other, puro Dorsets for stock pur- poses. | Wt drinking. . . Expert Dr. Voelker has analyz~d fod- : der rape and finds it to be richer in fatty matter than any other green food crop. 4 | Neither sheep nor cattle should be.put | upon rape food altogether : they will eat too much of it, Let thom. up to the full ration gradually. | Fodder rape E - | very dark color, almost black. stook can Berid of feta m mixture lard. ~oughly *N +0 dusting yellow animal's hair, ~ dry out: quite thoroughly: . Of'thifs with aw?tinhiy n 8 'ers of elgor cight inches. The ; \Keep 5g corn from molding, and | corn will impart sweetnoens to the whol Tou will have foed for the winter stoo 'alternate 1 Ho | : for young stock ormilk cat l6. \ dose. every two hours. - |: open. the mouth and drop if., . 90>. ~ Meat 'to: corn Tatt wheat, and kftor that barley, Just as 'leducation 'srer to be: dountry, abnndatocof plain in brea 1MNOD VA | fo the equipment of the rice . The most cattle lost by expo winter were, C un- and got no care, & and the owners of thowe English Dorset ewes sro bred twico a 'Bouthdown. sired Jambs for mutton; at. Never lot a tired, hot borse eat before at first, as- Teaves are smooth andiof &. ° Aman who does it that way says that | lice by rubbing upon | we containing 14 table- carboli¢ acid to a pint of _ bry thoroughly and rub in thor- | the . gypsy moth, ~ Professor .. Ho'kays when a colt begins to | nf o ont gist of Penns look downcast, as thotigh it- were brood- | nis, says the mothoda.used\ thtsfar Ar0 | are employed on Irolinet. ing over a gecrot-grief, exauiine for lice,. | a8 good as any hecould suggest and de- | But you can get vid, of them easily by inséct . powder into the Oat: sweet corn when In inilk, Let 1t 6 | the | A* Linter, the state entomologist of New . ' that will bo eaten up clean and greedily; nor could we. Imagine anything ; Canterbury Belis. An. old Pennsylvania Dutch remedy. for scours for colts is raw eggs, four at a C Break the egs Into a éup, hold tlie animal'sthead up,. \bs & fattener comes: education. makes the:-man so makes the horse. If money is |. made in colt rearing in this . in. iin hosse ner another year American Cultivator ad vises that it be mown down and burned over directly after picking, It doesnot |- destroy the roots of the plants, which, soon start up with renewed vigor, but it \ destroys fungi, weeds and insects and their eggsand seems to give new life to - the whole plantation, Of coursethe ma- terial burned should not be such as to maketoo hot a.fire, but enough to run: lightly over the whole bed. 'Those who intend setting a new bed and are expect- ing to take-runnors that start from the . old beds will do well to apply &a liberal dressing of fertilizer assoon As they have ' finished. picking their berries, Forti- Mizer is bettor than even well-rotted barn imanure, because it is free from weed seed. It will not pay to ttansplant any : plants that haveonce borfe,and when. they have borne two crops it will bebet: ter to root them out and let young plants taketheir place if lack of suitable ground . makes it necessary to continue in 'the same place. 'When one has the ground, however, it isa still better plan *to start anow bed in new soil. - | 0 ~ 0 ~ =. | 2. Gypsy Moth, There has been a. mestingrof entomologists of different states upon | the rection of the conntry ififested t ? s H. T. Fer-. nald, state entomologist of Pennsylva- the state |: 'clares that the gypéy moth cannot be xterminated. by parasites, as there will the parniitee, . few parafites. : | always be some to.escape | and few insects will mean Fesaor J. B. Smith, who holdg the same position In: New. Jersey. Professor J. York, has more faith in the cultivation : # the parasite. and placing thent in lo- , ies where the Inxects most abound.: 20 $ M ' - 1. Thg-weed of these old fashioned flowers 'may beragivn. in the carlyspring or late | simmer. It sown this autumn and you . 'cannot whator in a cold frame, treat them - exactly aa you do hollyhocks Or fox- «gloves-oodver them with a few evergreon branches and: sonié dry tree lomvée 6r Tlitter over winter. The white and rose ; 'colored varisties produce fine affects. Roses.For Winter Blooming. i Roses for winter bloos no better care In summer 'than to 'be planted n good. 'kept free from weeds, J 30mm“ and be potted In strong, rish by 644 tuches, 644 by 514 94 B14 inches. Curbstons, 80 by 15 of road. The cost of constructing aroad forfre- heavy traffic is $1.40 per d. This allows 8: cents for bed 12 inches deep, Q cents es, which cost 80 'to 40 cents labor and which are 6} quent and square yar proparing a for the ash ( per cubic yard, 4 cents for $1.81 for tho paving stones, . Ifroughstoneand a layer 0 or pabbles aré stibstitut- y 27 cents, and the to- becomes 874 cents. cost per yard of Toads is 4 cents, which becomes 6 cents nearindustrial districts and from Mr. Roose velt. gives this account of the:annual in- | . by 54 inches.. of broken ston e4, the two cost onl fested by | \Tm this opinion 'he is supported byPro+| j ing 'can have |\ _ ~ m and be | o 0a, . After fromtacome | __\ and 'be out back, tops | by 834 by %4 by T Inches, tal per square yard For maintenance the country 6 to 10 near sugar factories. spection andlrgpgir: inches. employed. 'on inclines drainage 1 of ashes prior to placing .of light traffic-blooks 4% by follown: Porphyry blocks, por i genta: sandstone, per equate y immagine: *7 ? <9 Road Lore _ ~ : Repair should never be delayed. Wetting down For repair, especially well as for construction, effects great economy. - 'The use of tax. on narrow onéé. roll outside the track of: e fore prosperity. Ho 'mese spécios, 'with creamy white, ~\ them through pure neglect C fragant flowers. . sos . 'Bcientific supervision is essential. j r aids. repair by holping the now added material to adhere to the - ly of large arcas, as. eof wide tires should 'be on- couraged either by bounty om such or by | / Ewe Ino: Well Constructed Thut They |. 1 HI. | traveling in some parts of Europé are- {struck with 'the enormous loads drawn | \by horses and. dogs, - whereas a glance at | [the roadway would do much to account has been well said that Americ298.| poo wichout knowing that-something lay | well built that they | one dog will tray- | a dozen miles, returning with the aeg :| be false to such a man? [ - Themorning came. The old general said. Consul Roosevelt gives thes6 details of the character, duration and éost: of the yfi, fromflnarriesgt f f estimated dura- - tion 75 years; sandstone, from. quarrics -at Ecounssines, estimated duration 60 No. 4, from the vicinity of the estimated du- | ration 40 years;limestone, no longer ac- cepted by the city government, estimat- per square yard, 0.50 francs sandstone, per square yard, 8,50 , francs ($1.04 to $1.88); asphalt, 'from Val de Travers, per squaro yard, 17 frances ($3.27); wood on concrete foun- dation, per square yard, 11 france (82.12). The two last named pavements aro high- ty esteemed and much employed on the boulevards. j There aro threo sorts of rofds in Bel- gium, the dimensions of whith are fixed as follows: - Roads-Width of roadway, 5 yards 20. inches; width of sidewalk, Z yards 8, inches; width of ditch, ' way, 5 yards 20 inches; width of sidewalks, 2 yards £7 \inches; width yards 18 inches; width of sidewalk and ditch, 1 ein and sandstone of following dimefisfons: Sevan inches, by #4 inches, by H4 by T by cheseach side 'From 25.to 50 consecutive yards out of every 4,000 0r 5,000 yards of pavement. ato taken up* and replaced by new material On roads de- voted to heavy traffic paving storica T by 014 are employed, as also on aver- aging:less than three-fourths of an inch per yard, On inolincs averaging more tlian three- | fourths of andnch per yard storie 044 by 54-or 'I heavy oblong stones 494 by 016 by.: Slig by T ara od. Where the soil is very firm sand- stone blocks ? by 04 Inches sre proforred, . which, with- heavy oblong stones, are also used | according to declivity. Batisfactory 4s. produced by depositing & deep bed pavement.. «On roads |. , 434 inches are used. |. of thé level, while 44 by 84 and 6J§ by Binchés Contract for keeping roads in ropair is by I. C publio bid and is awarded to lowest bidder for | . ~a term of three years, the average 'cost of re- gur- to roadways 5 yards 20 inghes wide as | |_ quare yard, 6 (-* a, 5 cents. -Naw York Bun. should not track; the hind wheels should | for maintenafice tends to | 'follow one or the, other, E4 | we to THE GENERAL | | Oné could notlook into the old general's. bidden in his heart which he would not., care to tell,. Hehad a habit of exclaiming \Heigh ho!\ then sighing, then breaking: ° out into a whistle as if this seeming nmérri- ment would conceal thathis thoughts were. far away and sad. - 'The old general came oncea year on a: visit to us. I often asked my father what} made his old friend look so sad. |© \His heart is broken, my dear; he has had sorrow,\ « I To me,a 'little girl, these words Lad sj ' father told me I must not mention sucha. . subject, - ~- Oneday he took meon his knee and look: ing into my eyeseaid; \Little Ma-ree, you ; look likesomebody I loved long ago, When - ; you get older, I. am going to give Fyousome- ' thing she used to. werr-sometaing very beautiful.\ I and. I impatiently wondered, how long 1 must wait For its fulfillment. I was near 18 when I paid my first vidit: 'to the old general's beautiful home. He: 'was not well and wrote for father and me to:come. Wearrived late in theevening, :and I feltsad from the moment I eritered - 'the beautiful house-it seemed so lonely. 'Something was lacking. Nobody there to love the dear old general, and what is any home without a woman's love? Nowonder 'he looked so sad, with ouly servants and memories to 'keep him company. As we sat in the library after supper talk- | over to me and placing bis hand on: my \head said; + | bed early, and -tomorrow morning you shall {receive the most beautiful. present you have- | ever had.\ | thinking of the gift and the loneliness of the bighouse. What could it.be? And I| | was to receive something beautiful because: I resembled some one the old general bad \® | Toved! Was this somebody the cause of the . general's broken heart? Could any woman | he bad not slept well, and I felt so sorry for wz | him I kissed hini on his:forehead. Father 1 had told mel must caress 'his old friend - just as L- did when I was a little girl. * he said, holding my hand lov- ingly, \after breakfast, when your father goes to call on his friends, we must have a and read it to your friends when I am gone.\\ of the drs bi most beautiful jewels I ever saw, i symbolized. 'Weresuch gents to be aninef dear old general, but eould not. command | 'and Ldid not till my hair was white and | | hers. I loved-she did not, 'She was al- | 'so guiltless I could not keep my old heart - This promise excited my childish heart, | Ing of our journey, the old. generalswalked |- \Maree I think it is time for you to- have what I promised you long ago, but: .you-are tired tonight, so you must go-to- Hearing this, I was too excited to sleep, | Bittle talk. - When I give you what I prom- ised you so long ago, I want to tell yon the story of my life. You may write it down | Isat down with the old general beside his handsome éscritoire. He unlocked one wers and took from ita jewel , he handed to me. (Hedid not ' Mut he sighed, and tears stood in his: \I opened the jewel case trem blingly. ore me, on a groundwork of tinted satin, lay a ring and bracelet sparkling with the The ring was a delicate band of gold, with two hearts joined upon the top of it. In each heart was imbedded a superb emerald, sur rounded with diamonds of the rarest qual- ity. ¥13119 bracelet was formed of delicately wrought gold leaves, enameled and studded. | tiny book, richly gilded, giving the history |. of these rare stones and what each one | What 'could I say* TI. tried to thank the my voice. At last he spoke to me; - *Ma-ree, withthis ring and bracelet is | Hinked a sad, sad story, Listen to it, I | the very week she was to become my bride, |: Oh, God! I thought I could not live, but I did. Ithought I could neverlove again, my heart weary of long desolation, whom I married, Mary Grey. It was a | foolish thing on my part, & wicked one on ready pledged. to a young lover, but Tdid | not know it. She-was so fair and Seemed | gomsfluttefingwmfiil met her, and at last ' 1% told her that I loved.her. She knew I was rich and could. make her Tife A glitter» | Ang one, so she gave np her young lover for | 'my gold, though she made me belfeve she | loved me. I onght to have known better, 'with old men. I built this lovely house for Tittle. I feared she was disappointed-that I was too old for her, Onée or twice I found Mary in tears, then I knew some- thing was wrong. - - _ \We had been married abouttwo months when I came home oné night and found my little wife. gone,. Sheléft-@ note telling me not endure my presence another day, She makeno effort to bring. her back. Iloved 'the young thing too well to bresk her heart, and Tallowed 'herto be legally freed - from me. Mary married her young lover 'and is happy, while I-oh, God, my poor, 'Tonely heart!\ ‘ _The old general wept, and 1 wept with him. Then he on: ' 'you have always reminded me of my pure 'and gentle Claire,. Wear them for my : sake, and take this advice from an old man | Deal fairly with whoever asks you to be his wife, * \Ma-reg I have been a soldier-brave, -man is with a wounded, desolate heart. to die without love. Who willkiss my :cold lips when I lay in my coffin, Maree?\ \I dear general, and now too!\\ I sprang to his side and. heldhis dear old with him for a few moments, then glided from the room, still. hearinghis sobs. I at my jewels, thinking of the two who wore them-of heaven when I touched the ring, of false and sordid motives when I gazed upon the bracelet. . '% The old general did not seem well that day, and when night came retired. early. The next morning before I got dressed I heard from my father the wild ery: \My God, he is dead!\ 'the peaceful smile, over his face he must have joined Claire ih heaven.-Exchange. 'No ”789th:- Mamms-My darling, have you been a good girl this summer? with precious stones which must have cost 'a fabulous sum. | Béside the bracelet lay a a best girl. -Life. 'was young when I met and loved Claire |. Travers. - She loved and our |( lives were as happy as our hopes were | | . bright. But:-my sweet girl wastakenaway \Then I met the pretty young creature |.. but love turned my head, as- ofter happens | 'my Mary. She bad 'been in it but afew | days when I noticed that she smiled but | how wretched she was, and that she. could | begged meto pity and forgive her-and to |. \Maree I give you these Jewels because | -a broken hearted one-decéive no man. | they said> atthe hardest battle for any || 'Tis lonely to.live without love; 'tis lonely - weeping face against my cheek. I wept: passed the day in tears and in looking The wounded heart was at rest, and from . Daughter-Yes, indeed, dear, I've been of Vmwfly' 4 ents | Permanent and trustworthy agents - are wanted at Janted! -THE BEST- ' Read this List of ¢ NEW J -year after Get C . to become the of the tatives YORK ubscribers,] | Every Week: - C O1. Al Departmenftféfif‘ _ (Agriculture fully treated. |_ 1, Household page. ' I. Splendid Serial Sto i V. Good Sarnidn. O - VL Best HopMarket F {ports to be fiflmd, o.
