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IN THE NIGHT.
Aa I eater the shadowy portals of night,
To stray in her solitudes vast,
Tale Memory whispers a vanished delight,
- And summons a shade from the past.
Xjs! my Marguerite plays; the sweet passion and
Skill -, . - .
That we loved spesflt again in her art.
Bow the strains of her violin sound, at her will.
Like the chords of a human heart!
3t is only a dream, such as travelers say
Thirst gives in the lands of the sun;
And the sad, sweet face and the form pass away-.
The music and glory are done!
1 call on my love in grief passionate words.
If only one moment, to stay, ' t'
Hotall that I hear is the twitter of birds .
That wake in the morning gray.
'Where the far distant Alps seem a cloud land of
snow,
Are a lake and a valley so fair,
, And a sculptured stone, with it record of woe,
T tell she is sleeping there.
W. Qow Qregor in Chambers' Journals '
A CALIFORNIA MUSTANG.
The other day a Kern county rancher
. telegraphed to the best horse doctor in
8aa Francisco: - . '
"Take the next train, come out to my
'farm, and do what you can for my mns--fautg."
The doctor went, found an old saddle
horse, long past usefulness, in fact
dying, and returned, wondering what
- made the rancher so anxious about the
Animal.
Others wondered, too, until the story
was one day told to a few friends who
'were visiting at the old ranch house near
the foothills. There is perhaps nothing
in the affair which marks it as different
from many occurrences on the frontier,
- where homes are far apart, and where
life itself may sometimes depend upon a
saddle horse's speed and bottom. But,
told as the rancher told it at his own ta
Ue, it was a story that long clung to the
memory.
"It was more than thirty years ago,"
be said. ' "I was 18 years old, and had
been away from home attending school.
. "When I came back to the ranch in Kern,
feear the foothills, my mother came cry
ing to the door to meet me.
"My little, sister was very ill. She
-was only 6 years old, my pet and de
light, and my mother was a widow. An
elder sister was in Tuolumne teaching
school; my brother, who managed the
ranch, had gone to Stanislaus to buy
sheep, and mother and baby were alone.
It was eight miles to the nearest village
and stage station, from which place 1
had walked, reaching the house at dark.
- I went in and found little Mary uncon
scious; my mother could not tell what
was the matter. , I ran down to the past
ure and called my colt, Major, the best
horse I ever owned. He came at once,
and I saddled him and rode off at a
gallop. x
"It was early, winter, and rain had
made the road heavy; cloudy all day, a
drizzle began before I had been five min
utes in the saddle. I had neither whip
nor spur. " Now and then I spoke to
Major, and he knew there was work be
fore him. Two miles we went without
a pause, the road dead level and so
slippery that I could feel Major slide
.use a tog on a irostea muewauc; duc ne
managed to keep to his feet and resume
his wild pace. He took the bit in his
teeth and ran, snorting with excitement;
for a year he had not been ridden, and
Ida muscles were steel, his. lungs like a
steam engine. I let him walk for a few
. moments, then let him have his head
again and again, until he swept into the
r,, 5 a
village ui o UMUuig auup, .
" 'Not here,' was the answer, as I ham
mered at the poc tor's door. 'Gone ten
a miles into the foothills to the old Bo
mont place.'
"That was east in a direct line, and
three miles south was another village
where perhaps a doctor could be found.
If not it was but a few minutes lost,
-for another road could be taken to Be
snoot's. ' "Again the wild pace under the clouded
sky and cold rain, thoughts of my lonely
mother and little sister urging me to yet
greater haste. The road was hard, with
a thin coating of mud that spattered me
from head to foot, and the wind blew
sharply in my face. I lived over in mem
ory every scene of our lives, every word
said to my sister, every act done in the
jHab urj turuin auuut my uecjt in xnanits
for some simple gift; long days behind
. the plow, with her toddling feet in the
farrow; a child asleep in the summer
grass, a bunch of wild poppies in her
hubby hand, the calico sunbonnet tossed
back from the curly head. Then I re
membered that when I went away moth
er wrote me that every day little Mary
asked: 'Wont brother Tom come home
to-night? I want to see brother Tom.
"Well, I reached the village and found
that the doctor, who lived there, was
sick himself. Nothing to do but to start
for Bemont's. Again the gallop, no
longer on level roads, but through roll
ing hills and under a darkness that was
Egyptian. 'We were descending into a
hollow between high hills. The road
-was narrow, dark, slippery, and the soft
sound of falling rain drowned the noise
of wheels. Through a break in the east
ern clouds' the stars shone out above tho
hill crest. Suddenly, instantly, without
a stroke of warning, there loomed up
before me, dreadful- as De Quincey's
'Vision of Sudden Death,' a vast moving
pile, six mules, a Carson wagoii ore laden
to the brim, a sleepy driver nodding on
Ins seat and tearing into that mass of
wood, iron, stone and animal life was a
tired horse with a heartsick rider.
"Simultaneously the discovery ' came
upon us all. The driver- awoke with a
loud, affrighted cry, the snorting mules
sprang back in a wild group; I heard
whifaetrees and harness snap, and a sud
den flash of lightning lighted up the dark
hollow between the hills to the very feet
of the frightened animals. Of myself I
could do nothing, so narrow was the
space between, so brief the time left for
thought. But the instinct of' the horse
I rode was my salvation. On one side of
the road was a shallow ditch, on the
other a steep wall of rock. ' Major gath
ered himself up and made a leap side
ways, screaming as he sprang, and we
landed safely below, clearing by a few
inches the tangled leaders and the great
wheel of the ore wagon. . Wild with ter
ror still. Major began to run as he bad
not run before. He climbed the bank
again, and resumed his tearing pace
along the roadway, his long mane blown
over my face by the wind of his terrible
flight. ... , '
"That night in the village the team
ster told liis cronies that a ferocious look
ing Mexican highwayman had ridden
down upon him, frightened his mules
and fired several shots as he galloped
past. The sheriff heard the story and
gathered up a posse of pioneers to look
for Joaquin Marietta and his desperate
gang, and for .weeks the miners np in the
hills sent a guard with their ore wagons.
,'I reached Bemont s in safety only to
find that the doctor had returned to the
valley by another road, and was already
far past any chance of being overtaken:
for the condition of my horse now began
to warn me that I must slack the head
long pace. I hired a rancher and sent
him on a fresh horse after the doctor,
while I took the shortest way back across
the wide unfenced cpmitry.
"When I reached home Mary had
been dead an hour. No- human power
could have prolonged her life. She re
vived a little pnce after I had gone and
asked if brother Tom had come home.
"No one except myself ever rode Major
again. 1 found it very hard to bear rue
thoughts of my little sister that came
up when I was riding over the hills with
the mustang, so I turned him loose in the
pasture, and he never had' saddlemark
but once since, though I have had dozens
of men come to me and offer to buy him
at any price. It was a great ride we had
the longest and hardest gallop on rec
ord in this part of the country, and
though I never said much about it, the
horse had his reputation.
"When was he ridden again? It was
about four years afterward when ho
was at his best. There came word from
Caliente that a Merced horse had beaten
every mustang in the San Joaquin val
ley. The boys along the Kern county
cattle ranges for twenty-five miles tried
to beat the Merced mustang, but all
that summer he swept the staSes at ev
ery sheep shearing and rodeo. One day
a dozen of them came for my mustang,
and I lent him for one race, to save the
credit of the county. He dusted them
all, and for months after horsemen came
to see bim and get him on the race
track, bnt I never let him go again. One
time and another I have been called a
great many different kinds of a fool for
letting the best horse in the valley rest
in the pasture." Charles Howard Shenn
in Independent.
College Societies In New York.
The college fraternities bind men to
gether for life in ties that are never
broken. I think you will be surprised
to know some of our leading men who
belong to them, and still in their busy
later years take great delight in assisting
to keep up the organizations and the old
spirit. Associations or chapters of gracU
uate members of the fraternities are
maintained in New York city by fifteen
of the orders, and some of the clubs are
in a flourishing condition. Alpha Delta
Phi has a club house near Columbia col
lege, and the Manhattan chapter of this
order keeps up a summer camp at Lake
George, called Camp Manhattan. The
Beta Theta Pi fraternity has a summer
resort at Lake Chautauqua called Woog
lin. The D. K. E. order has the largest
graduate club m the United States in
this city; with a fine clubhouse and an
excellent restaurant.
Several other of the clubs do not own
their houses, but rent quarters. There
are a good many papers devoted to these
associations printed in this city. I know
of The Palm, of Alpha Tau Omega; the
Chi Phi Quarterly, the Delta Kappa
itipsilon Quarterly, and the Delta Upei-
lon Quarterly. The first college fra
ternity flag ever unfurled to the wind
was run up on the top of the Astor House
in 1870 by the boys of the Theta' Delta
Chi. It was black, white and blue, and
since that time nearly all the fraternities
have adopted flags showing their colors.
New York Star.
Whose Face Was it?
A few years ago while a workman at
Pueblo, Colo., was dressing a block of
stone his chisel uncovered a hard con
cretion near the surface of the block.
Presently this concretion,, which was
rounded on the back, dropped from the
cavity in which it rested, disclosing a
perfect model of a human fsce on its
under surface, every outline perfect,
unhurt and unmarked by the tool which
had dislodged it. The imprint in the
block was as perfect as the model on
the concretion, and many plaster casts
were taken from it by archaeologists and
local curiosity seekers. Some of these
casts found their way to the museums
oi the learned societies of Europe, '
where they created much excitement
and were the subject of many debates.
Many scientists were inclined to take it
as a perfect human fossil, but the ma
jority insist upon it being merely an
idol of prehistoric times. The stone in
which" it was found was from eighty
feet below sh surface. St. Louis Re
public.'. , ' -
Man ore from the Woods.
It will hardly pay to haul rotten wood
alone to your fields for manure. The
fertilizing matter in all you could obtain
in that condition would be quite small,
and most likely it would be full of in
sects, of which every farmer has enough
already. Still, a considerable quantity
of good manure can sometimes be gath
ered from a piece of woods that is too
rough for cultivation. ' This is done by
hunting out nooks where leaves and
twigs have been decaying for years until
there are accumulations several inches
deep of decomposed vegetable matter,
doing no good in those particular spots,
but which would add much to the fertil
ity of cultivated fields if it were hauled
out and spread on them.
Emperor William of Germany is a
very rapid speaker, and when he is rat
tling off an address at the rate of 275
syllables a minute the reporters go out
side to see a man and come back when
the storm is over to write out what they
think he mid.
FARM. FIELD, GARDEN.,
TOPICS . OF PRACTICAL INTEREST
TO PROGRESSIVE FARMERS.
Fertilization by Crop Rotation, a Te
- monstratr-fl iu ITield ami Farm A Sys
tem That Gives Alternately s Xltrogoa
- Gathering and Kitro Orawiimirn Crop.
Some authorities, among whom is Pro
fessor Wagner, divide crop growth into
two very distinctly marked classes.
They are the nitrogen gatherers and ni
trogen consumers. Except a small
amount of nitrogen in the soil to start
the growth, the nitrogen gatherers draw
all their supply from the atmosphere. It
Is therefore waste to supply nitrogen to
these crops. The nitrogen consumers
draw no perceptible amonht of nitrogen
from the atmosphere, "but take it all -up
thronarh the soil, and nitrogen must be
applied to the soil or furnished to the
soil by" some other means. It maybe
through the roots and stubble of a pre
vious nitrogen gathering crop, or by the
direct application of nitrates. All crops
require potash aud phosphoric acid, and
in some cases it may be necessary to sup
ply lime. Hence all soils should be fer
tilized with these three ingredients until
they contain so much that any addition
makes no perceptible increase of crop.
A soil so charged is in a maximum con
dition. A system of rotation should be adopted
that will give alternately a nitrogen
gathering crop and a nitrogen .consum
ing crop, and there will "be very little
demand for the application of nitrates,
as the nitrogen gathering crop will each
time fnriiinh the requisite amount of
nitrogen for the following nitrogen con
Bumrag crop. In this way nature is
made to furnish to the soil the most cost
ly of all fertilizers. Such is the theory.
Now, what crops are nitrogen gathering?
The answer is, all the leguminons plants
as peas, beans, clover, Indins, seradella,
lentils, esparsetta, etc. What crop3 are
nitrogen consuming? Answer: All the
cereals, the grasses, and some, if not all, 'j
of the roots, fruits, etc., including maize
and potatoes, wheat, rye,- oats, barley j
and so on. The proper rotation of these j
two classes of crops, if the soil is well
supplied .with potash, phosphoric acid
and lime, is supposed to secure the maxi
mum crops and the most economical
fertilization both the crops and the
economy to' be enhanced by a careful
and judicious saving and application of j
all available fertilizing material on the I
farm. ' -
. The Four Classes of Combs. -
i H. S. Babcock, writing in The Fan
cier's Review, reduces . the variety of
combs upon our fowls to four classes:
First, the- single comb of the original
progenitor of our domestic fowls and the
type toward which - other combs con
stantly tend to revert. It is upright,
should straight . and normally is ser
rated upon the upper edge. The ten
dency to revert to this type manifests it
self even in old breeds. Second, the rose
comb, which differs from the single in
being broader, flat upon the upper sur
face and usually terminating in a spike
at the rear. The upper surface is gener
ally covered with small points or corru
gations, and is described by the English
fancier as being "full of work." One of
the most peculiar forms of this comb is
that known as the "cup comb," which
is found on the Sicilians. The comb is
round, hollowed out like a cup or saucer,
and the outer edge covered with small
points. .
Third, the pea comb, which is the
triple comb of the Bramah and round
upon Indian games, and bred upon the
.more recent varieties of the Plymouth
Rocks. It has not been inaptly com
pared to three single combs pressed to
gether at the rear and front, with the
middle one the highest. Pea combed
varieties have great reputations as win
ter layers, and this reputation has doubt
less been deserved through the immunity-
from frost which the comb gives.
The fourth is known as the leaf comb.
The true leaf comb would be, of course,
two single combs pressed together at
one edge and opening outwardly, a style
of comb which is rarely seen, but from
which, in all probability, the .combe of the
Polish and Houdan. and even the upright
horns of the La Fleche have been evolved.
The typical leaf comb of our day is
that of the Houdan, two horns more or
less sprigged like the antlers of a deer.
The Root Growth of Cora.
' . It is quite well known that growing
corn is often injured by deep plowing,
but no instance is remembered where
the reasons for it have been better given
than has been done by the Illinois Ex
periment station." The purpose of, the
experiments were to ascertain the num
ber of the roots of corn and their' depth
at the points where 'they are likely to be
disturbed by.. deep cultivation. Nine
plants which averaged 12 inches high
had altogether 94 roots, pr an average of
over 10 apiece. The longest was traced 35
inches when the. plant was 23 inches
high. A plant 4i inches high had a root
13 inches long. Three-fourths of, the
roots would not have been broken by
cultivating 3 inches deep, but all except
one would have been at 4 inches.
Seven -other plants had 97. roots, of
which 78 were, traced, with few excep
tions, their entire length. Rather more
than three-fourths, of the roots would
not have been broken by cultivation 3
inches deep; nearly . two-thirds would
have been at 4 inches. Over one-third
were 4 inches deep at C inches from their
base. . Three went straight down. The
roots (except those at the seed, which
afterwards die) start usually at from one
to two inches from the surface, without
reference to the depth at which the seed
has been planted. In case the seed has
been plantedjleeper than this, the stem
is simply elongated between the first or
seminal whorl, and the second or first
nodal whorL Thus, "unless necessitated
by dryness, nothing is gained by plant
ing corn over three inches deep. Deeper
planting- would, merely require of the
plants extra force and time to reach a
position where the t roots which eventu
ally nourish thexn will grow. .
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