FOLDfcD HANDS. “. S 4Nor tired handa that tollod so hard for me, Jkt real before n« now I see them lvtng. They lollodto bard, and ret we could not eeo That eue was dying. Poor, rough binds that drudged tho live long day. Still busy when tho midnight oil was bura Oft totlfnc on until she saw the gray Of day returning. If I could sit And hold those tired bands. And fee tho warm life blood within them heating. And cote with her neroas the twilight lands, Some whispered word, reposting, I thlnh tonight that I would lovo her so. And I could tell my love to her «o truly, That e'en though tirod, she would not wish toco. And leave mo thns unduly. Poor, tired heart that had so weary grown. That death came nil unheeded o'or it creep 8j» still It Is to sit hero allaloao* t while sho-is sleeping. Dear, patient heart that doomed the heavy care Of drudging household toll its highest duty; That laid soldo Its precious yearnings there Along with beuuty. Dear heart and hands, so pulseloss, still, and cold. (How peacefully and dreamlossly she's sleeping l) The spotless shroud of root about them fold. And leave mo vreoplng —Albert Bigelow Paine In the Home Quest* ali SCARLET FORTUNE. ax U. HERMAN. CHAPTER XI—Continue!*. v’v. But he had so much to tell her. He grew warm upon the subject of his newly recovered faculty, and she listened as if she drank life and hap piness with every word. Ho was so glad to be able to tell her all he re membered, his boyish history, his days at school and afterwards, and he wandered on to his rovings on the prairies. Lucy’s face became paler yot, and a hushed awe trembled on her brow. He told her all that he remembered about their first meeting, and about his encounter with Dick Ashland. ■v. ; (Suddenly, a look of horror crept over his features. He started up, as from £H a fearful dream, and stared at the girl who sat in front of him. “My God!" he exclaimed, “it’s :r come back to mo! It’s como back to roe! It was David Maclano who mur dered Dick Ashland, and who tried S to murder me!” He roso writhing his arms in the air, and with staring eyos, he re treated a step or two, “I can see him as if it were now,1' < ' ho added, in nervous rapidity. “I can see him in tho moonlight. I am lying hore, and Dick Ashland is ly ing there." He pointed with out stretched fingers to two distinct kj,: places on the carpet. “We are both shot—those fiends, the Maclanes, have shot us from the gulch head above. I can see David Maclane . drawing a big knife across Dick Ash land’s throat, and the blood is spurt ing all over him as ho kneels, and I fire at the hound from whero I lie; and ho comes running towards me, ?>;■;> *n adduced to prove who was the actual perpetrator of the Reedon Lodge outrage. I am therefore, justified in believing that it remained one of those mysterious crimes which the London police have been unable to unravel. l’f.nvoi. “Mr. Quonthelm has settled it all, my dear Lucy," said the earl of Cleve to the beautiful young countess, “and we will not touch one copper of these blood-stained millions. A hun dred thousand pounds go to Fred Ashland, and three-hundred thou sand pounds are divided among his throe children. The London chari ties get a million; twentv-thousand pounds go to the Staffordshire hospi tals. and tho rest is distributed amongst charitable institutions in America. Are you contented now, my dear?” he asked. She threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. “Yes. darling, she said, with a tear brimming in her big blue eyo. “I am happy now—as happy as ever I hope to bo in this wicked world.” THE END. Steam Power In Bugsr Mil's. Steam power ia being1 gradually introduced into the sugar mills, but the island of Barbadoes is still well studded with windmills, which pleas ingly diversify the monotonous as pect of the over cultivated country. Indeed with so constant a power as the trade wind, most of the work of this favored land can be performed almost free of oost. If you need water you have only to sink a well and erect a windmill over it. which will keep your reservoir full. The coral rock is so porous that there is no such tning as a river in the whole island. The whole rainfall sinks through the soil to form un derground streams, which discharge their copious floods below the sur face of the sea. A Cure for Hattlesnsko Bite. A cure of rattlesnake bite by the ohicken remedy is reported from Madison county, Georgia, and the in cident has recalled other like cures in that region in times past. The rem edy is to kill a chicken and apply the flesh as quickly as possible to the wound; the poison, it is assumed, is absorbed by the cbicken flesh. The patient in this instance was badly bitten, but suffered little inconven ience and was soon quite well. There is a belief in Georgia that if the snake inflicting the wound is caught and killed and its flesh sim ilarly applied a cure will surely re sult The Book for Hlm> There was a backward student at Balliol who, for failure to pass an examination in Greek, was “sent down.” His mother went to see the master. Dr. Jowett, and explained to him what an excellent lad her son was. “It is a hard experience for him, this disgrace,” said the old lady ; “but he will have the consolation of religion, and there is always one book to which ho can turn. ” Jowett eyed her a moment and then an swered: “Yes, madam, the Greek grammar. Good-morning.”—Argo naut How Mexicans Get Cool Water. The Mexicans do not use ice, but nevertheless there is no country where a man can get a glass of cool, sweet water quicker than in Mexico. The water jars are made of porous pottery which allows the water to oozo out through the material of the tanks and the evaporation keeps it always cool. It is not cold like our ice water, but it is all the better on that account, as a man can drink twice as much and never feel in the least injured, no matter how large his draughts. A New York Wayfarer’s Lodge. A new wayfarer's lodge, opened in New York, contains beds for 200, unlimited bathrooms and an impress ive wood yard. An applicant must saw one-sixteenth of a cord of wood for a luncheon, one-eighth of a cord for dinner and lodging, and as soon as the wood is ready he is obliged to take a bath before he can reach his reward. All clothing is put into the fumigating rooms at night. The building is so constructed that the rooms can be daily Hooded with the hose. Trains of 100 Cars. The air brakes on railroads are be ing built with a view to their use on trains of 100 cars. The plant on each train is being built so that it can be used in such a wav as to bring the speed down from eighty to thirty miles per hour within five seconds. I Great power has to be used and j every part of the apparatus has to be I perfect to stand the strain. Electric Light for Bait, Electric light is being used as a bait by fishermen who ply their call ing along the Pacific ooast This Yankee adaptation of electricity brings big hauls. The fish are at tracted by the bright light in the water, and their investigations gen erally end in their being hooked while trying to swallow the glass globules. Swim Lake . The lakes of Switzerland are great settling beds of glacier mud. Every one has a gray river flowing into its upper end, a blue river leaving it at the other. Eleven miles of the head of Lake Geneva have been filled up with the gray glacier grit of the lth one. An Advertiaement. This announcement recently ap peered in a Kirscheva, Bavaria, pa per: “Lost on the 22d of November, my wife Annie. Whoever has found her is begged to keep her. He will be handsomely rewarded. ■tjr.ifi, ’ ' • . ’ .. ‘ " gjugricnltaw. Du °f Llnil on Land. Theo. B. Terry of Ohio hia lately been in Pennsylvania holding insti tutes. In that state lime is more need as a fertilizer than in any other, many farmers who have lime-stone land burning large quantities every year. Of course Mr. Terry heard much about lime in his talks with farmers, and he writes in the “Practical Farmer” about this subject, as discussed by Rev. I. S. t rain of Clearfield and others. When Mr. Frain began using lime he experi mented so as to find out just what quantity be should apply per acre on his farm. He had asked some one who used it, and they said put on 100 bush els; others said 200, and some told him this amount would ruin his land and crops, that he should only put on 40 or 50 bushels. Well, he applied 25 bushels on an acre for wheat, and 50 on aqother acre, 75 on a third, and so on up to 300 bushels. . The 300 bushels proved too much for the wheat, but did not injure the land permanently. He concluded that the best results came where he applied 150 bushels per acre, measured alter it was siacKeu. Now what were the results? Forty bushels of good plump wheat per acre on all the land right through that he experimented on, on the average. His last crop had been seven bushels. He had raised as high as twelve. Next he put in fifty acres of wheat on land where he had applied 150 bushels per acre of lime right through on all of it. Result, 1,735 bushels of wheat that weighed 64 pounds to the measured bushel. Mr. Frain soon paid for his farm and bought another, and he told us that if he had not used some money to buv blooded stock, he could now pay all up for the second farm. He said that now nearly every farmer within three miles of him was burning and spreading lime. He has limestone on his land. It is limestone soil. He does not be lieve in drawing out the lime and put ting it in small piles, as is frequently done with both lime and manure. You get too much where the pile is, and can never afterward spread it as evenly as you could right from the wagon. He spreads with a manure spreader, with a lime hood on, to prevent the wind from blowing it all over. This hood comes down within six inches or so of the ground. The lime is put in a great pile, thousands of bushels of it. Be said he had a large pile that had stood since May. As it slacks on the outside he draws it away and spreads it. Mr. F. says always put it on the surface, as it will work down fast enough, that is, spread it on land after plowing, and not just before plowing, so it will be plowed down. The practice which he particularly ad vised, however, was to put the lime on young clover (same as I do manure). When asked whether he would apply manure in connection with it he re plied, “No, never.” Put the manure on some other time. He said that it would do very well to put lime on sod in the fall, and plow the next spring; The lime would then work down through the soil before plowing, and so would not be turned down when one plowed, but every time he re peated that the best results would come from putting on young clover. Nearly all farmers here agree that it is useless to put lime on bare, run down, poor land. There should be a sod or some vegetable matter plowed down with it. Mr. Davis said he had thrown away hundreds of dollars worth of clover seed, trying to make something out of clover before he be gan liming, Plow under a good sod, spread lime, harrow, sow wheat and clover seed, and then it would grow. He uses only about 40 to 50 bushels per acre of slacked lime. This gives him the desired result. Perhaps it will not last as long as 150 bushels per acre, but he thinks better to put on less and more often, if necessary.—Farmers'Re view. Potato Cultivation. It may, we think, be safely asserted that among the crops grown upon the average western farm the potato is the most haphazard as to results. Some years when fall comes the potato field discloses a rich harvest of plump tub ers. Again there iB glorious promise of a full crop; the “vines” grow rank and green, the stems are thick and healthy, but behold! when the crop is lifted it proves a disappointing assort ment of little undeveloped tubers or scabby potatoes. As a general rule the good potato crop is a result of proper season and newly turned clover sod rather than the farmer's skill or attention; but there seems no good reason why at least a profitable crop of tubers should not be grown every year by every farmer, floods and frosts, of course, excepted. We are aware that this is somewhat hard on the farmer, but we speak from experi ence and know that the assertion is not exaggeration. Let us see what is the method of potato cultivation usually practiced by the farmer that does not make a specialty of the business. With such men the potato is raised for fam ily use only and so—as with the case with the kitchen garden unless “the woman” attends to it—the potatoes are planted after the other crops are got into the land in good season and shape. Very often the potatoes are planted upon the headland of the com field after it has been pretty well compacted by the feet of horses. Then the tubers are planted in hills as far apart as the corn hills and ten chances to one the half of them are either obliterated or retarded by the trampling of horses when turning upon the headland or are left a prey to the festive potato bug. We have seen fair crops of potatoes produced in this way, but more often we have seen much land wasted and but poor returns in crop. This is one common way of rais ing the family supply of potatoes, so that it is little wonder that the statis tics place the averige farm production of potatoes at such a low figure. But there is another common way of grow ing potatoes “down on the form’' and it Is no better to say the least of it We refer to the plan of plowing land in spring and planting the sets in the side of a furrow, then turning a fur row on top. It is expected that the horses will not tramp upon any of the “sets;” it is also expected that they will not kick any of the seed out of place, but the expectations do not pan out well and we find that a most un even crop results. In one part of the row the plants are crowded too much, while in others the plants are too far apart to bo economical. But this is not the only trouble, for we must un derstand that the tuber is burled deep in some places, too shallow in others, and here and there lies with an immense hard clod resting' heavily upon it vet needing to be penetrated before the tender sprouts can see day light. In short it is simply impossible to plant potatoes evenly in this way, nor is ft possible to supply them with the mellow deep bed. of friable loam in which they most delight and succeed. This is, of course,most true of potatoes planted upon spring-plowed sod, but is also more or less true of even spring plowed corn or stubble land. Years ago, when the land was very rich, the potato would succeed fairly well under almost any circumstances, but times and conditions are changed since then, and now potatoes can only be profitably grown where the best possible conditions are furnished. In a few words, it may be stated that the actual necessities required for success ful potato culture are as follows: 1. Pure, hardy, strong seed, suited to the district. 3. Rich, mellow, warm, well drained soil, not newly manured. 3. Abundant moisture, retained by con stant surf ace culture. 4. Careful destruc tion of insect pests. 5. Spraying in districts where disease of the vines has appeared.—Banners’ Review. A Future Wheat Era. The world will probably have swung round its annual circuit of vastness thirty or forty times before the era of which we now speak shall have set in; but the time will come when the peo ple of the United States will be com pelled to import as many millions of bushels of wheat as they now export in order to supply the wants of tneir teeming millions, says Montreal “Trade Bulletin.” At the present ratio of increase in the population of the United States, that country will have stopped exporting wheat within the next thirty or forty years, owing to its augmented food requirements, and the wants of the United Kingdom will likewise have shown a tremendous increase as well aB those of Germany and. probably France within the same period. It would not be at all surpris ing if a great future war arose out of rivalry l etween the great wheat con suming nations, in their anxiety to se cure the great outside wheat resources of Asia, Africa and South . America, and in view of the great food question of the future England would be the veriest madcap to dream of ever relin quishing her hold on Egypt, as that country is her only safe road to India, which is destined to become the great est wheat producing country in the world.' Hindostan as a grower of wheat in the future will be worth more to England than “all the wealth of Ormuz or of Ind” has been to her in the past. Growing Navy Boons. , If you are looking about for a new money crop with which to experiment next year, possibly with the view of growing less wheat and more of some other thing that pays better, let us suggest that you try navy beans. While this is a crop that can be grown with some success even on indifferent land,do not think that you must select the worst field on your farm for it Plow deep, manure heavily, and pul verize thoroughly before putting in the seed. A_ mistake is very often made with this crop through putting it in too soon. Some practice planting at the same time as corn, but this is too early, as it then ripens in very hot weather and is apt to suffer severely from the weevil. They should not be planted until the middle or latter part of June, and this time has the additional advantage of not intruding upon the planting time of the other crops. They should have good culti vation as soon as up. and then con tinuously until the pods begin to form, but not after that, as there is then danger that the soil will discolor the beans. They may be cut with a mower, though some prefer hand pull ing. The harvesting should be done as quickly as possible after the crop is ripe, as exposure to rains will soon de preciate its value. The threshing may be done by machine, or by hand if the crop is small. With the same land and the same cultivation the crop should be nearly as large as the wheat yield would be, and one has but to compare the market reports to see which is the more profitable. Scabby Potatoes. Last spring’ & few Early Rose pota toes were planted in the garden nere, near where potatoes were planted last Tear, and where a quantity of fresh horse manure was applied this year, says J. S. Tibbetts in ‘‘Michigan Farmer.” A small handful of strong, wood ashes was put into each hill be fore the seed was dropped in. There was a good yield of large, smooth potatoes, free from scab. Some forty rods distant Snow Flakes were planted on ground where no potatoes had ever been planted before, nor any very near them. No manure was applied, nor any ashes, and yet the potatoes are ▼ery scabby. The men who dug the potatoes say there were lots of potato bugs in the hills sticking to the pota toes, where no ashes was (or were, which is it?) applied, while none were aeen where the ashes had been applied. Now, whether the bugs are the cause of the scab, as they believe, may be an open .question; but there can be no question as to the value of wood ashes for the potato. Let the potato growers try the ash remedy another year and report results; but be sure to keep the weeds and bugs out. Demahd fob Wheat.—The European wheat demand is still of that negative sort that turned away from this coun try by the offerings of cheaper wheat from other exporting countries. The result is that the present market is of that discouraged sort quite common in February. The discouragements and low prices are companions now as al ways. People are inquiring why thero should be discouragement to investors at these low figures now prevailing. When wheat is below the cost of pro duction it would not seem that the su perabundance should enter so largely into the calculation, but it is now as always, a powerful element in the cal culation. Fears possess the minds of traders. Larger than common stocks in Argentine, offeringsfrom India and Russia with Australia and minor ex porters pressing limited quantities upon the attention of western Europe have created a demoralization that gives way but feebly to the rays of hope that peer indistinctly through the cloud rifts..—Market Record. 'Mr* *• Jt Sw,/ Like Morning Dew Hood •ns M««rt Palpitation - Distress In the •tomaoh-That Tired Feeling. <• lam glad to state that Hood's 8arja“artu* has done me lota of good. I was subjectto oampa In the stomach, Brer complaint, In* gestlan, palpitation ol the heart, and that feed Two years ago I pT„ Hood's parilla a trial. I hare not been without a sun. ply of It from that time. ItreUered me worn darfUly, and now when I feel the least uneasi ness I resort to Hood's Sarsaparilla, and It always gives me immediate relief. 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