A Dead PastI $j By MRS. LOVETT CAMERON X CHA'PTEU XXIH. He stood up, facing her, with his back to the fire. Now that she could see htm welt, with the Hgnt of the lamp shining full upon htm, slio could see thnt he was very much altered. Ho was thin, and worn, and aged; his hroad, manlr lignro liad shrunk; his shoulders stooped; tho eyes that used to be bravo and buoyant, now looked weary and lifeless. She was nhocked to seo him so changed. lie laughed shortly and bitterly as he look ed at her. "I have come halt across Europe to ceo you, traveling night and day through nil this frost and snow. 1 havo taken no rest, and scarcely any food for four days, and all you can find to say to me at the end of it Is to revilo me for not keeping out of your way." "What have you come for?" she re peated more gently. "What havo I come for? To see you, Rosamond to still the raging hunger at my heart. Because, when I found out fwherc you were, I could not rest until I saw you ngaln." "ITow did you hear where I was?" she said wonderlngly. "There was a man, a poor fellow from this part of the country ho was con sumptive, I think who met us. I heard It from him at Mentone." Mary's brother! She understood it then. There was a sort of fatality about It. She sat down wearily. "What have you been doing with your eelf, Brian? You look fearfully ill." "I have been ill for months. We started, my cousin", Edgar Itaikes, and I, to go to China, Australia, heaven knows Inhere. We began by a fortnight in the Austrian Tyrol, and there I got laid up with a sort of fever. I have been there ever since till a month ago, when I man aged to get down to tho Biviera. I am getting right now, only a bit weak and pulled down." "And a journey like this across Eu rope, In such weather and in your pres ent state! What madness, Brian! It is enough to kill you!" She looked at him with a kindly pity ing concern. What surprised herself inoro than she could account for was the utter calmness and indifference with which she saw him. Save in the first moment of surprise, her pulses had beat no faster for his presence. His voice liad no power to thrill her. "When trust is gone," she told herself as she looked at him, "then the founda tions of tho building are undermined, and with time and absence the idol it self soon crumbles into powder." Aloud she said to him. with a kindly reproach in her voice: "What folly could induce you to undertake such a journey for nothing, Brian?" "Do you call it nothing, then, that I nm here, that I can see you once more, Iiear your voice, touch your hands?" He knelt down beforo her on the Iiearthrug, and took her hand his own trembled and shook, hers was as cold ns Ice and as perfectly unresponsive. "Rosamond, tell me once again let me liear from your lips that you love me ntlll. Then I will go. I ask for nothiug more. That will be enough for me. Tell rue that, once, and I will leave you." "I cannot tell you that I love you, llrian," she said coldly, wondering, as she spoke, at the fearful evidence of selfishness of which such words, from this man to her whose life he had spoil ed, gave evidence. "You cannot say so! Do you mean that you do not love me, Rosamond? It is Impossible! You cannot have ceased to care for me." She withdrew her hands from his, and reached them up behind her head with a weary action. Her eyes wandered away from his pleading, earnest face that was haggard with passion and misery. For a moment or two she was silent, then very nlowly she said: "The one thing under the sun which is absolutely impossible, Brian, is to re kindle the ashes of a dead fire." He rose from his kneeling attitude at her feet, and stood with his hack to the mantelpiece. Then he drew a long, shiv ering breath. "Ah! Jt Is dead, then," he said, almost In a whisper. "Yes," she answered, still not looking at him. "It is dead. Thank God! thank God!" There was silence between them for the space of four or five minutes abso lute silence, during which the clock tick ed steadily and the fire logs sparkled and crackled, and Brian Desmond faced tho bitterest and crudest moment of his whole life. It was Rosamond who spoke first. "You have left your wife, Brian, at Mentone?" He started. "My wife! Good heavens! Surely you know you must have heard!" She looked at him with Interest. "What iB it? I havo heard nothing." "Is It possible that you do not know that my wife left me before I went abroad?" "Your wife left you!" she repeated In a voice of dismay. "Do you mean that you are not living with her that you are separated from her?" "She, at all events, has separated her self from me," he said bitterly. "It seems that no woman can stick to me now. Very likely I deserve It." "But, Brian," she cried eagerly, "I don't understand! Do you mean that she left her home and went away? What made her leave you?" "Her own Idiotic jealousy," he replied irritably. "Some one, I believe, saw us tojether that one evening do you re member Jt, Rosamond?" Could ho ever forget It? Although (he anguish of it was past, tho bare repollection of that day In London was eutllclent to make her shudder. "Yes, yes, go on," she said, hastily. f'l don't know who it was. Either an Interfering young fool, called Sir Roy Grantloy, who Imagined himself to be iu lore with hor, or eJso a mischief-making woman called Talbot, I never can make outl which; but oo of them must have eel us together and told her. She wrote mo a sensational letter and left my house." "But, Brian, surely, surety, that atone could not have led her to such a strong measure." "Oh, she was always jealous about you! She found out she know. I believe that tt was you, and not her, whom I loved." "And tt Is I I who have worked her all this woo and agony!" she moaned. "Oh. what can I do? What can I do?" "Do not distress yourself, Rosamond. Kitten was not like you: she is a mere child, a creature with no depth or power of feeling; she has tho Inconsequence of immaturity, not the heart of a woman. I do not think she has the power to feel much; she la but a baby." "Ah, do not tnink It!" cried Rosamond eagerly. "DO not flatter yourself with such a delusion, Brian. Would a child and baby a mere shallow, heartless creature as you call her have left her home, her comforts you if she had not suffered acutely?" "Ah, you do .not know her, her tittle baby ways, her keen pleasure In trifles, her rapid changes of manner and of feeling." "What has that to do with It?" cried Rosamond, with an impatient wave of her hand. "No, I do not know her, but I think I know her better than you do; that must be a nature that can love In tensely, and to whom lovo Is cither life or death. She might have been childish, but you have mistaken iue.xpcrience for ignorance, and the trustfulness of youth for an evidence of heartlcssncss Brian, find your wife and take her back to your heart and to your love. To her you are all the world to me, thank God, you are nothing!" "Is it, indeed, as you said last night, dead ashes?" he asked, looking wist fully Into her dark eyes and grasping her hand tightly. "Absolutely and entirely," she answer ed with that brisk coldness of voice, that cheerful iciness of expression, which is a more effectual extinguisher of love's hope than a passion of reproaches or n whole volume of angry denial. CHAPTER XXIV. "Where is that girl, Ann?" "She is out In the park, ma'am." "She is always out in the park. It isn't fit for her to be out at nil in such weather, with that cough of hers that never gets any better. Instead of being a comfort to me, she is nothing but a burden and a responsibility. I am sure I don't know what to do about her and there's nobody that I can write to for orders nowadays, with the master and mistress gone abroad, and even Mr. Raikcs as has took himself off the Lord knows where! I think in my old age, that it is hard to be Baddled with a use less child like that." The speaker was Mrs. Succurden; she stood at the hall door shading her eyes from the bright winter sunshine, and looking out over the snow-covered 6lopes that reached away, one below the other, till they sank into the dazzling whiteness of the plains below. She had not look ed long before she espied between the black trunks of the beech groves some quarter of a mile away a small, dark- robed figure that wandered slowly and aimlessly over tho crisp, snow-covered grass. "There she is," muttered the house keeper, with a pucker of annoyance on her rorehead. "Poor feckless, half-witted creature, sauntering along as If it was midsummer; with no .more notion of tak ing care of herself than if she was a baby. Tom," she called out to one of the gardeners, who was sweeping the snow in a desultory manner away from the front door, "go and tell Catherine that I want her." She came obedient to the summons, A small, wisp-like figure of a girl in her dark dress, with a face that seemed scarcely human in its absolute transpar ent pallor. "You wanted me, Mrs. Succurden?" "Yes. I want you to come in; it Is not fit for you to be wandering about in the snow like that. Have you washed the best dinner service, as I told you?" "Yes. I have done all the work you set me to do." "Come in then, and go and dust the glass in tho octagon room." Kitten did what she was told. She went Into the octagon room. It wan the room whero Edgar Raikcs used to sit the room which Brian had once used as his own, and where the photograph of Miss Gray stood in its frame with tho closed brass doors, upon the mantelshelf. It was a place that had a strange fascl nation for Kitten. She would stand wholo minutes at a time motionless at the window that looked out over tho now barren trees towards the grey church tower in the hollow. Kitten never went Into the octagon room without dreaming by tho window for a while, nor without a glance inside the closed doors at Rosamond Gray's picture. This self-torture, which kept her love and her pain alive, became a sort of reliirious duty to her. "Was I not right to leave him?" she would say to herself, almost with trl umnh. "since he loved her bo much, and could never, by any effort, havo set me In her place? Are not nil the mistaken of this world made by the women who struggle for a man's love which thero Is no hope of their getting? Better to let It CO." Thero was a glnss-doored cabinet In tho corner of the octagon room, It was filled up to the topmost shelf with specimens of old cut glass. It was part of Kitten's duty to dust the glass anu the shelves, and to rcplaco those yaiun ble objects In order in their places. Kit tun. mounted unon a low pair of steps, was carefully dusting an old goblet of greentsh-hued crystal, which alio Know better than Mrs. Succurden could tell her. was of untold value, being absolute y unique and unreplarouble; she was still dreaming about Brian's youth, about the beautiful girl whom lie liau lovcu Intiir niro. She could hear Mrs, Succurdeu'B voice talkiug volubly, and with a certain agi ft f -WJIN tntton and animation which was unusual to her, and as tho voices drew nearer, she was ablo to distinguish the House keeper a words. "Tl.ln itin- mln r1r.ni- mft T 1)01 YOllf no it ii J mini ui-tii , n pardon ma'am I should have said! ou haven't forgotten tho way I'll bo bound dearlo me, to think of seeing "you hero again after all those years! it uo seem strango Indeed! And to think of your living so near, too only at Dunsterton, and your never having come over to so the old placo before! "Wall T Imva lnn,i n nntr Mnll. 001" II VII, & IIIIIU IT1.VII II I fnlnlr. In enmlnn tn pt vnn. Mrs. SllC 1rnnl,.fll l'llllllrr IIOIIKO". curden," replied a clear, crisp voice, with A jirnctlcnl poultry house "My o a pleasant ring in It, pre-fniitienuy n mlt of four upright piuno iwai.. voice of a lady, as Kitten was instantly lmcks ftuJ t,nds wl,Ici, como to aware, and how great Is the charm of a removed, together with two refined and well-bred voice. "I owo It cl 1Lr Iiru ru"?., 7 ' ,.,,,, g tons to my shame, but to-day. I had a fancy of tho ops. 11 o twe i rem, tilth w to bring my friend. Col. Trefu.-K to arc Inclosed nt the middle end 1 of the look at, tho vicarage gables anu ai inn uousc mm ui wiu nu., .11 i i - ..mi. . ,.. i.. t..i ..iiiiin inn! or one, uenr oiu cnurcn, anu nu we irere m uoor uiiiiiu m - - why, I could not resist the temptation wUlch portion of the houso Is tiRCd for of coming on across the park." . . " "Along the old path, miss ma'am, 1 mrnn! Ah. hnw mnnv n lime I've seen you come springing up tho slope with your light steps! They were well within the room iiy now. The tall lady In her long tur cioan, and the slight figured gentleman a llttlo behind her, looking about hlra with keen, kindly blue eyes, and behind them both, Mrs. Succurden, in her white cap and black silk gown, with her basket of keys In her hand. Kitten, from her vantage ground at the top of the step, could see the group Who invaded her solitude, while they were unaware of her presence. "You have a great deal of glass here, said tho gentleman to Mrs. Succurden. "Ah, you would like to go over the houses, no doubt, sir," replied the house keeper. "I will see if 1 can find the head gardener; he Is generally about at tins Hour. 1L JjkJ t II III 1'IANO IIOX I'OUl.TltV IIOUBi.. the storage of grain. A sloping roof U l.i.llf rt,.r tlw nlltlro structure, IIIM li IMIIIV M'l - the building covered with wiiterjiroor ... .... ,...tl.l lit V oi li.i . r .1 ,,. fi, paper, tliua ctutiUB oui mi She led the way out of the room; the , i,,i,,i.n nr -. . nr frntllillt 111 IIlli wuv Ui iw.iimn gentleman went with her. The latiy in "l , ... " fr, (ilL, the long fur cloak made no effort to fob draftB which might rc'' " " low them. She was left alone, standing joining, iwo wmuu - I .1.. ..!..! I 1.-tt,n c.1 Lira, frultf nf 1 llfi llOUSO iaClllK uy mo nimion niivru wnn num - - often stood with her back to the room, the south, and directly under cat i n ml It nr nvrw rlrfMpil II noil tilt? YCY ...tw1rit n 1m at I nt Urit u i mule, which ia i ... ... - i. ilitnui(tn cnurcn lower. u.ii nfTnril ttie rowis mucii i"vui..i.. Rosamond moved from the window at . ,im mnishlne. Roosts length; then she did exactly what Kit- ' ' ' , d , tUe mM. ten herself had done Hundreds ot limes. ; . . Sh wmir straight to the mantelpiece. n " '-" " and opened the brass doors of the paint- site the windows. ed miniature. Slio took it down from Alllr, window (innlrn. its place and gawd long and earnestly h,m. n Kbolf at the lovely face, bright with youtt. ,,,;"","; ,,,,,,,,, ln fho ,vlmlow and happ mess, that smiled back at tier. , '",, .,, ... . , r i. i:...i.. ,..ir,1nn mnnv varieties UTOU led pro- nne lumen mvii iiihh ic uici"""! , - leaving the doors of the picture wide mlscuotiBly until the clmrncterlBticrt or .... ..... 1 . .1 i . .1 A tit A (! It Iff open. Then Kitten saw ner nice, nuu clleh nre entirely uusuujcu. behind it that other face, that was the ....-i. .,1,1a,, f nhuits in a Bcpurnto same, only not the same. The beautiful ,,i,mlI) niui you will bo surprised to icuiures were iiiiiiiu'rcu, me note tlle difference III tueir npiienr- as lovely, the prou.l pose of the head . , ts lg .iriinroHi .imlaf.i 1'iiti 11 utile Tint? Ill Tllf IIV1I11T . r"""""-: "i"... : . ' u Pvolninon. violets and ferns and nr woman me curves . i..c ... . . ..e .1 1.....-,.. 1 ...... iiiitittfiii nun riiiiLii: liiuiii iihvihuivij " i Ul I ill! llieillll-u " "tur in....,.-.. n- - I 1 1 .1.- 1 1 ,.r ...,,-... mi.i oiw.i Vnn- friiiiii it II tlie rems III Witt sauupjieu, 111111 lue 11111111 "i ni,u,i mi.. p,....., suffering had swept like a storm cloud center of the Hhelf, the tall sword fern i . t. .....I rn.t.lfiuu IiW.il' . . .1.1 11.. ...III. ,1... I..nti il.lfin I'l.ll over me once inim unu h.-uhk-i-i ........ m lu(i mmiuc, nuu uiu uiuimn.i.n But all that Kitten realized at that mo- . . and the beautiful nmldon nient was one thing alone. rlhia was Har fenl jnH, otllor dnlnty varieties Rosamond Earle, whom Brian Desmond ng fnm (1(,g(. of tbo B,elf. Iorp,! ... . ... 'n m, Mid nf the shelf, nt n llttlo The room swam rounu uer, iier wme- - ' .. i..i 1 .i-.,..,i ...m (l!tnnce from the ferns, group the dlf open eyes Kren umu nuu iiu mm - - - , 1 . .. I ........... 1 IjI. .!, fnn.nt vnrintOu of nrlllirOSCS ill BUCll HpeiiKauie "uiu'iuiu uiiKU'n" mwu ....... , crash, and the sharp ring of broken glass manner thnt contrasts In foliage and ltA....l ..tt.1..t full ufintti.ri.il 1.1 ...Ill lii hiKi il 1 1 v nntml Oil IIS lUU llieilllicai hi'1'! r.........-. uiunnuilin .11 hi; n-min; ..w,... into a thousand atoms upon the parquet tne other blind, arrange the cyclamen llooring, then a dull, heavy thud, and a l)IoHS01nB nodding daintily above the little dark-robed form Hllpped suddenly follnBC and the great difference down from the top of the steps into a , . . ii... iii. iihiihi1!!. mi,. mi miimtlon coiiconung the aisiioBlttoti of tho BtnblO'inmle nmiuire COtllOB UP US tllO 1)110 UUJJIIlH ID IWBUI IV formldnulo iiroportloiiH. wy i or wi heat way of taking euro of It In to mireiul it on tho llcltift wnero u i...., ini, tim hoII and bo In ronul kU nw ----- ness for tlio crop wlileh Is to bo sown In tho Bprlng. It U 1 to uo sioicu, i.i..i ,,in..n i4 tbo nit with cement Hot- turn, which will hold tho Huuld esoro- incut. If this cannot Do uouc, i"e store It under a aliod, plaolng it In liiycrii mid let tho hogH root It over. If even tlila Is not feiiHiuio, urau " 1.. nit.. not very high and cover with any old, rough tioanla-alnioHt any thing that will keop out uiu which causea tho Ihiuiu iioruu.. leach away. An excellent plan is to cimoso u ,. .i,. fiw. nnll 1h of n clay nil- 1I11IW n iinv - - .. ture, and dig a trench all around the mince whero tho pllu Is to no, aim . this way save soiilo of the Ihiuld, which may lio scooped up and poured bnck on the pile. Uho tho pile as a receiver for tho slop from tho house, and see that It Is forked over Boverui times during tho winter. Tho main thing, however, Is to see that It Is pro tected from tho elements as muuii an possible. Nnl for Knrm Anlnml". xr.t fiinnoni ftillv realize the In portanco of salt to the farm anlmalH, but they too often forgot to supply It at the proper time and In proper uuan titles. Possibly sheep should bo han dled a llttlo moro cautiously than oth- i.r animals In this respect, and small (luantltles doled, out to them dally. The other farm animals can siueiy nu tr.iUti.ii with n umu of sail in tno manger, to which they may havo free access. Kvcn the swine win no imi- ..,r t n liinin nf rock salt Is nut In the corner of tho trough, although It Is usua HI or ,.ii lug the mash each day nut in smati ,.iinntHIPH IllSt allOtlt US tllUClI US till! housewife would use In seasoning a mixed dish for the homo table. Don X forget, however, that salt creates tjilrst, and that animals treeiy suueu must be given clean, rresn wiucr. between the careless and artistic nr rangomontH will be at once apparent. (nod Kctice (Jnlp Where the farm Is divided Into a mLWLUUY W TIT ij..-tepiicn crowned KB ir40Dentli nf r wavarre. ' inr.2 ChnrlM V. rn!r,i .t Hon. UK . . 1' , AMeW -urui 0itD(iL ir02 Rattle of Ilr,.,., . prisoner. ' lflW-Miil.oniet III., Saltan f died of the dague. JUO The Maylluw.tr hn&ti 3021 Tlx. UnRluh Cmtnom freedom of (1Im..i.,. ifinu Jo in ('iitiiin iu.. ui.... . 1007 Many Scotch CoumtBt executed. 1CS8 King .TamcR II. of Eniliii tn li'rmiH. mi . . " uicaicii. orner i ,,w..ri", 1--- 1 n.vin;u. isually the better plan, with them, to 1710 Klrnt luc if nkm (tatt. enson tlie slop given them with more Hhed by )m Ilroole7 . i...,u ....if 'l'lilu Is also tho bettor irjr. nu. .1 vn.. ... .. ' 11 11 Dim.. - - ivu iu .uuan entered tt m . ,..1.1.... ....It in fai!u I1U. I I I . ' HIIIl Or IlirillSlliliri num. " iwiii", .i.i-i IIIVIllllTK. . . 1. .. a I. Control the lloran. A Seattle Inventor has devised a driving hit which places the horse un dor the complete control of tho driver, and. If universally used, there would bo no more rim away liorscB. This driving bit con tains the ordinary Jointed mouth piece, with rein rlngn attached, the rings and mouth piece being pivot al together to a nm vino hit. curved Biiallle bar. - -..w I fcl'J, liOKton OcMtrojctl by firt 1775 IirltUli Pnrliarnent orderel mllnti nf nit A Mit..K ... ......... v (iiciiLau 177(3 Waslilngtoii crested the Dt!t 1777 Gen. Wanhlngtoa morel troops to Valley Forje. J782 United States frblt captured by Hrltinh. 178.1 Clen. Wanhltipton dtliierel coiiiiniysion to uiurreii oils. 1701 Bank of I'nttf.1 RiiIm ed discounting In rhiliidpH I7. Henry Clinton died. 170ft Kreneh Nurrpmlrr fort Ki tho Itliine to the Anitiiim. 1803 Loulnlatia tnkea twsieMloi United Ktnte. im Benjamin DltrselL Earl rf coiisflcld, horn Elfrtim 'J'liomas JcfTenoa 11 Pnri of the United States. ipu. iioiiepii niiiiin, ipuuun a mon Urn. lwrn at bbiros. i t 1 . - - 1 11 iwii (BlJit ir.il ii uk uuaivm in The snnlllo bars meet at the center i809jOH(.,,, j0lnion, puMUto under the lower Jaw of tho horse and j Cowiers poem, died. 1.1 1 i.M M.... ilui wiirlfiiiriliii. . . . f.L.i 1. uru uingeu iij ikh, "v .tinny personi pernaea .....I- r ...... ill,, l.nra linlnir rofi'HHed 1 1...-..1.... . 1U1I.. it I huddled mass upon the ground. (To bo contlnueil.) till V Il.ililta jliii ijv 1 t ueri? ini: iiiiin 10 uiiiiii-i miw Tall, slim and bald, Bill Nye was cut number of fields It Is often somewhat iif lif mifiM'n in nmiim nonitlf mill lit! lilintmin (nol 4r itntiu frrt tn nn did amuse, even though his humor was q0 to another, and especially when of a simple and homely kind. The uninials are to be driven from one sec- Denver Times recajis ma repi iu tlon to anowier oc wic rarm. a gate correspondent who Inquired atiout 8Ucjj ns here described Is easily placed Bill's habits of work and life. It was j n section of any division fence, as follows: I whether of wire, rails or boards. Ar- n'l,,. tint i.'imflinr Iu hiipIi tbnt I mimn tlin uritnt nf ntioillnc Kn iih tn cannot exercise in the open nlr I have have Arm corner posts, then make a a pair of dumb-bells at my lodgings, Kate four feet wide; a light post Is set which I use for holding the door open, before the ends of the boards nre cut I also belonir to an athletic club and a f the gate Is erected ns a part of n pair of Indian clubs with red handles, board fence. Two strong strips are t niiii.li nf inv robust health to nailed on the gate portion and three thiH. I strong strap hinges are fastened on I do most of my writing In a sitting posture or In nn autograph album. When I am not engaged In thought I alb employed In recovering from Its effects, I am very genial and pleas ant to be thrown among. I dress expensively, but not so an to attract attention. In the morning I wear morning dress, In tlie evening I wear evening dress, and at night I wear night dress. Getting IHa Money's Worth. "Why doesn't Tightwad buy his stamps at the postoiiicc instead of go ing to that news stand every night?" "Tlie news dealer handles tho base ball extra." "I see. Tightwad buys one every night, eh?" "Oh, no! You see, nhe papers lay on the showcase and while tho clerk Is getting tho stamps Tightwad reads the score." Detroit Tribune. burulnc of a theater it mond, Va. ends of the snnllle bnrs being recessed 1.. rsi.ii, n umiuiiii (dint An overdraw Hi 117. IU II UllllfUIII l...... - - - - ,.--r-. j ..aw..., chock guard., conslBtlntf of n curved 1813 Kort Niagara captured . & ....w. m.t. tut ru 1 D.tl .l. Ill J U UIU VUllllCblO w 1 , An overdraw check bit passes through jglu Bible societies probiMtrt i Blots In the upper end of the check guard. The inventor claims tnnt tne overdraw check, when connected to either a snallle tilt or to a stiff mouth piece bit, is humane In Its action, does not force the Jaws of the horse open to an extent to Interfere with tho prop er breathing, will not pinch tho Bides of tho mouth of the horse, and will not chafe and Irritate tho animal. " I5EI I'KNCK UA'l'K. Compiirliijf Records, "No, indeed," slio said. "I can never be your wife. Why, 1 had half a doz en offers before yours."t "Ilijh!" rejoined the young man In tho case, "That's nothing. I proposed to at least a dozen girls before I met you." No I'irato Crown. "How Itusslu must envy Switzer land !' "Why?" "UecatjHo Switzerland, hasn't any navy." Cleveland Plain Dealer. In Hard I.uck, The Judge Havo you anything to offer tho court beforo sentence is passed on you? Tho I'rlspner-No, your honor; I had $13, hut my lawyer nppoprlatcd it the boards where cut next to the post. Strong hooks and screw-eye serve as fastenings at the other end of the gate. It 'costs but little to arrange several of the handy gates about tho farm, and they will bo found useful. The Il lustration shows the Idea clearly. In dianapolis News. Keep (.noil Ilornca. Wo know a farmer who has not less than $700 Invested In old plug horses, says Chicago Inter Ocean. lUngboneB, spavins, wire cuts, curbs, etc., are con spicuous when you look over his herd. Uo has ten or a dozen head, and none of them can bo depended upon for a decent day's work. This man thinks he needs lots of horses with which to do his work, and he bought this assort ment because they wcro cheap, Wo know another farmer with only throe head that cost f.r)00, but they nro good ones, and he can do moro work In a day with them than tho other mnn can with his ten head. The moral! Is, Keep less horses, but hnvc good ones. No Itooin to Ketrent. Mrs. Do Style Did you ever do my fighting at close quarters, Major? Z'TJttolM0' tbereby PromoUn "ore rapid married life has been spent in a tlat BTlinorlor, Vail er Front a. Three causes operate to produco val- lpy frosts, which are: First, tfta nlr, made cold on clear nights, boionies heavier, rolls down tho hillsides' and settles at tho bottom, Second, tho winds do not reach tho valleys, which allows unobstructed radiation of heat. Third, tho richer soil of tho valloys inuuces u inier anu more succuiont rcrdl n if of Hoota In Winter. The countries that lead In quality of llvo stock use roots ns food for the unluialH. Kngland, which gavtf us our . . .i 1.1 1 DCSt lirceus, wuuiu never niivu mum ho but for her lnrge crop of turnips. The ICngHsJi market reports give prices of beets, mangels and turnips ns reg ularly as do our Journals Tor grain and hay. In some sections of this country the root crop Is becoming an Important one, but we rely mostly on corn, which produces not only largely of grain, nut also of fodder; hence It Is cheaper to irrow corn than roots, but bettor re sults would be obtained If roots wero added to the corn, hay and fodder. Labor-saving Implements now cheapen the cost of producing roots, compared with former years, and with tho uso of roots the food Is moro varied, which promotes moro rapid growth of young stock and greater yields from producers. rnckliiHT I'ork, Clean the barrel thoroughly until nil bad odors aro removed, Then cover the bottom with three Inches of salt and pack In a layer of pork, closely lin ing the space and covering the whom layer with Halt thrco Inches docp. round It down solid with on ax and Btart another layer, keeping on In tho same way until the pork is all packed. Cover the whole with one-half bushel of salt and lot It stand a fow days, after which clean cold water should bo added. A Hunt with a Hat stone on top will keep the meat from rising above tho surface, This plan requires moro Halt than commonly used but Is very sure for keeping meat, Blireu on SiiihII iritrni. A Western wrltor says: A small grass farm for sheep should . bo di vided into small fluids of llvo to ton acres each, according to tho bIzo of tho farm and tho number of sboon. Tho land dovotcd to slcep should he fully Btockcu to uso tno pasturo to tha best advantairo. and fornt'o crnnn Bhould ho provided for fall fcodjnff when nnsturo fulls, and tho ahenn nul a little extra feed to put them In gloi condition for wJntet "l Kry. 1820 Wife of (Sen. Andrew J died. iirA rvi iranun iduf of Belgium recojnlieJ br ii... i llltl ' i . inoi K....I..... m..r,l tPtil liUtal loin mirpimi wimi". -r- lanthroplHt, men. 1832 Termination of citil wit ! Ico. 1835 Independence of Ttiu claimed. 1811 AnHanHinntlon of Sir ffi .i...... n. PntinL IMIllK'""" i'l 1842 Texas troops Intade Mei jg-lBBtcatncr Bollowne At tttuliorih nl river. 1818 Asiatic cholera broke wji United State tnP .... Louie Napoleon m ili.nt of French repute 1 I1KIII H! HI " .. . . ii Irom oiiii'c..."'-7.' stroyed by H'e 1852 Annexation of Peja T...11,. 1851-Armed collisions in ete 1800 South t-'nroima Union. . . . ..... .1 llnlimlOU 1801 I'rlnc limiiij ' . afli W mi oil Ol .MOiuai- 1S01 Savaiinnh occupied 1 C man. . . i- ils 1R70 Ti.urs Burreiiucri-u - nintm. . rt..nid mm" ' ui i. th U MaHHaclinseli " . k A All U 1884 Mnckny-nciii"-- the pimm--- . . . ... i ...... mn IjU1u - n W ' ' .1 I jH Itil - . I 1 IIIIIU 1. I tv-i found cuiitr 1 Liaill'll I Hill 111 It I JI1V11 n . ..nl vote again rt...., in III in , dlKHolvedi... noted cvanscii" mil r il ll . ... ricne" Westminster. bte: Unglatid, . led.... Akron, - lOOO-'i'reaty i,Vrion, Ge: Wood nnior OeneMl o saco trni'" A t. -.11 ftltll 11 I '' . ends-. 'H'l'l .