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V" Pi v'-*«'« 4 1jLV _[•» ?Y?W "ssi V'® ••i "t: Wk ti •mm':% J-*!#*. E8£*# J*'* MISUNDERSTOOD. 'There's a bugaboo that unformed minds See peeping at them as their life path winds Among: the foot-hills, ere they gain the height Above the clouds where all is pure and bright. Each soul who climbs has felt the tortur ing fear Caused by the presence, either far or near, Of this uncanny creature. Such is life For all who gain the heights beyond the strife. But, soul, be strong of purpose and of heart Keep to your upward path, and do your part Of the world's work, unmindful of the pain Which oft does bring to men life's greatest gain. For conquered fear doth have a strength behind That you may search for elsewhere and not find. And this which makes you tremble, and grow faint, This thing so grewsome that no words can paint Its evil aspect In the stronger light You'll find a thing to smile at, not to flght. "Tis nothing in Itself, but by our fear We give that power It has to cut or sear These foolish hearts of ours so speed the day When we will banish fear from out our way: And tread with steadfast hearts by faith, or sight, That upward path that leads to truth and right And scared no more, though passing through the wood, By that strange creature called misunder stood. —Adelle E. Burch, in Minneapolis Prog ress. AWAY FROM THE OLD HOME. [COPTBIGHT. 1896.] Such a dear old home it was. Nestling down in afi old-fashioned garden, with an orchard full of old, rough, weather beaten apple trees behind it, while an outer circle of ancient elms leuned reverently over it like faithful guardi ans. The low, red house, with its broad wings, made you think of a mother lird brooding over her well filled nest. But the nestlings were all gone now— had wandered far from the old home which seemed to them shabbier and more cramped every time they came b£ck for a short' time. Only mother clung to it closer and closer as the years went by. When the busy sons and fashionable daughters called it lonely, and the grandchildren wandered all over its queer little nooks and corners, and remarked with open contempt upon the stiff old furniture and the tiny paned windows, the good old lady listened and said nothing, but her heart throbbed with pnin, as -though she heard the maligning of some f"'^ WITH HER CCD GRAY HEAD BOWED dear friend. "They don't know, of course," she thought, excusing them in her own gentle way. "Though to other eyes it may seem poor and old-fash ioned, to me it can never be so, for it is the first and the only home that. I ever had." And, after the sad, tender man ner of the old, who only have a past and an empty present without a luring fu ture here, she fell a-dreaming of by gone days, when her faithful John brought her, a bride, to this dear old home, which seemed so grand and beau tiful then. How could it ever seem lone ly fmd humble to her, when it was so rich in a thousand happy, blessed recol lections? Had not that been John's favorite rose bush? Had not she and John planted that very mountain ash together? And could the rooms ever seem empty and cramped to her when every nook and Corner spoke to her sometimes of the living or of the dead as eloquently as tongues could do? Here is where she used to sit and watch the fire on winter evenings, rock ing the cradle as she knit. This dark spot on the worn floor is where baby Mary had spilled the ink while she sat there writing to the soldier father far away where the battle raged or on the long, dreary march. And here, beside the old-fashioned table, on which still lay the well-thumbed Jj family Bible, she had knelt and prayed for 20 years with John—prayed for her little ones in tear ful grief when he was gone—prayed for them when they, one by one, slipped from her arms out into the cold worlJ, and where she still nightly bent her stiff old knees to pray for them and theirs. Mother only loved the old house bet ter as the years rolled on, but when grim old age had slowly crept upon lier, it was decided in family council that the must make up her mind to come and live with one of them, for it was al together out of the question for her to WN74.^4" 7 Vr ^vv^r.r'v'\ify f-r-j ciM ",'• -.twnwetPMMCTrgwwiiiwnmiiWHiMaa^JwiHnFg.ia m•• iiiiiwHwiiiihiuMiLMgiAiP.t'ii.uiifc'rMiaywitMawfewaMiiiiTwurmgwwimtfaMB ri ••*•••. trs:.» remain in that gloomy old house alone. So, one sad day, overpowered by the sons and daughters who meant to be kind, mother went softly to and fro over the old house, taking leave of it all, and the last farewell was the visit to the mounds under the drooping elms where John slept and the first born lit tle son lay. Then, with a feeling that the world can never quite understand, she was driven away to the fine city res idence—they don't call them homes now—where" Alfred and his wife, who, for all her kindness, rather overpow ered mother with her fine ways, had given her a stately room, and, what was the most dreadful, she was sup posed to keep it there alone by herself. Yes, they meant to be kind to her, but the city ways and style gave the old lady the feeling that she was in an asy lum, and, in spite of all the grandeur, mother's wrinkled cheeks lost their soft pink like that of a half wilted rose, and she began to grow feeble and worn, though everyone was so busy that it was passed unnoticed. She was pining for the old home, though she felt that it would seem ungrateful to say so, and then, somehow, to pray in the mag nificent church, where she sat in a vel vet-cushioned pew, did not seem to give her the help she prayed for, for God, as it seemed to her, was not as close as when she used to pray at home kneeling by that old table. If she could only go back and tell her friend all about it just once kneeling where John used to come and join her. -This feeling grew and grew, though, as there was no one to tell it to, she shut it up in her own lonely old heart. One summer morning she was miss ing, and she could not be found, though they searched everywhere they could think she would be likely to wander, but in vain, she was gone. Then Al fred recollected all at once that he had rather neglected his mother of late. His wife forgot her cultured calmness and joined in the search, weeping bit terly. Henry left his desk for once and set the telegraph wires to work, and confusion and grief reigned su preme, while the sons and daughters found their thoughts running back again to childhood and mother as they had not done for years. Hours passed, and no news came from the missing, then their fears and grief grew greater and stronger. Mother was gone. Perhaps she had gone home. The thought was sudden, and, too impatient to wait for trains not due for hours yet, they set off across the country in their carriages. As they drew near the old home they found news of the lost one She had passed only about an hour be- ON THE FAMILY BIBLE. fore, plodding wearily along the fa miliar road, and with lightened hearts they hurried on. When they came to the leaning old gate, through the wet grass they could see a solitary pathway trodden by one who had first visited the low mound with the tiny one beside it, and from there on to the house. So, with tearful eyes, and not ashamed of their tears, either, the party tip-toed like children up the low rickety steps, through the hall aud paused reverently at the door, with remorseful hearts that longed to tell the gentle old mother, as they were wont to do over some child ish disobedience, that they "were sorry, mother." The stillness of the house grew op pressive while they stood uncertain, and,though they listened, there were no faint footfalls as of one going about after the fashion of one just getting home. They softly pushed open the door of the old family sitting-room, and there, with her old gray head bowed on the family Bible, and a smile of joy and peace on her dear dead face, knelt mother, who had pone home to find rest and content with John, already there. As the Curtain Rose. She—Don't you think something ought to be done toward uplifting the stage? He—Yes or perhaps something like the- lowering of the bonnets would serve the same purpose.—Up-to-Date. Politically Fat. "So you and my daughter have con cluded to get engaged, have you said the happy parent, as he shook his pros pective sori-in-law by the hand. "Yes," said the airy young politician, "me and Mary have concluded to fuse." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. —The amaryllis is named in honor of the nymph whose story is told by Vir gil in one of his shorter poems. •VJ' AGRICULTURAL HINTS. LOTS OF MONEY WASTED. Which, If Properly Expended, Would Build Pin* Country Road*. The problem we have to solve in Penn sylvania is to endeavor to utilize the money and natural material at hand to the best advantage on our countrty roads. There is money enough expend ed in this state year by year which, if judiciously and practically used, in the course of a very few years would "pike? all the principal thoroughfares in the state outside of the cities and boroughs. From the best obtainable statistics we find that for the year ended May 31,1895, the road tax levied in the several coun ties of Pennsylvania, outside the cities and boroughs, was $3,622,708.76. This, of course, does not include Philadel phia county. The total mileage of pub lic roads in the same territory is 80,000 miles. From the best obtainable infor mation, confirmed by personal observa tion over a large section of the state, I THIS IS WHAT SOME FARMEUS CALL A ROAD. am satisfied that at least one-quarter of all the roads are not worked every year. This I believe to be a low estimate. This estimate leaves 60,000 miles of road ac tnally worked during the year, or an average expenditure of $60 per mile. Now, if the provisions of the Flynn bill, passed by the last legislature, to gether with some contemplated amend ments, were enforced, we would have a network of good roads extending all over the state at small additional ex pense, which would be a great boon to the traveling public and in time add thousands of dollars to the corporate wealth for every hundred expended. The plan contemplated is to have the roads of the state divided into three divisions, namely: State, county and township roads. All roads leading to and from one county into another, con necting county with county, I would classify as state roads, to be maintained by state appropriations. The second class should consist of the principal thoroughfares of the county leading to said state roads or arteries of commerce. These roads to be maintained by a spe cial county tax under the direction of the county commissioners, according to the Flynn bill. I would also have the state appropriation above men tioned placed at the disposal of the county commissioners, to be expended according to the conditions of the above bill. Said appropriation to be allotted to the county in proportion to the amount the county itself raised for good road improvement. The third class would consist of the Bmaller roads or feeders to the county roads, which would be maintained by the regular township tax, under the di rection of the supervisors, but upon a more scientific basis than is conducted in some parts at present.—A. B. Dun ning, in Good Roads. USING THE SEPARATOR. Bow to Get a Good Grain and the Most Satisfactory Revolts. In running a separator do not have the milk needlessly warm. Mr. Wege ner, instructor in bu^tgr making at, Cornell university, teaches that 80 de grees is better than a higher tempera ture. He believes that probably the most important point in running a sep arator is the thickness of the cream, and 6ays: "Adjust your separator so that your cream will be as thick as you can churn. By this I mean as thick as can be and yet fall from end to end of a revolving churn and not stick to the sides when churning. Such bream will generally contain 35 to 45 per cent, of fat. I consider this a very important point. Cream containing 40 per cent, of fat will churn more quickly and leave less fat in the buttermilk at 55 degrees than will cream containing 18 to 20 per cent, at 60 degrees. The secret of quick churning at the very low temperature —52 to 55 degrees, which we know to be the best—is to have your cream very rich. This is an advantage you can not secure from cold settings, it being difficult to obtain cream of this class with much over 18 to 20 per cent, of fat. The second point of great importance is to cool the cream at once to a low temperature—at least 55 degrees—and hold it there for a few hours before warming it up to ripen. Whenever in summer time we are troubled with cream that coagulates before it gets much acid, or with different churnings, which some of us have, I feci sure that chilling the cream directly from the sep arator will help greatly. We shall get better grain, better flavor and more sat isfactory results in every way. 1 be lieve that this matter of careless hand ling of cream after it is separated is the rock upon which many butter-makers split. Roman Road Construction. The Roman roads were built on the Telford plan, with a substratum of heavy blocks of the stone most abun dant in the neighborhood, covered with a layer of smaller stones or gravel. They were highest in the middle, with a trench on each side to carry off the water, and no trees or shrubs were al lowed to grow within 10 paces on either hand. The population of the districls through which these highways passed were required to keep them in order and to cut down weeds and shrubbery within the proscribed distance. Bad milk will make bad butter, no niaLter how it is handled. TURNING MONEY OVER. A Pew of the MJatmke* Mad* by Mny| Dairy Parmer*. A farmer who has quite a cream trade was heard to say that it was only "turn ing money over." And while his re-J ceipts from the sale of cream were conj siderable, yet there was a great-deal of truth in his remark. It should not have been so, for the price paid him was a good one, and there was no railroad freight or commission bill to pay out of the sales. It is not a pleasant task to criticise anyone, least of all a farmer^ but sometimes good comes of it, and we venture to point out his mistakes, ho pi ing that we may thereby help some one. In the first place, his trade is only for certain times in the year, and instead of having his cows fresh at that time he turnB a bull loose among his cows and they come in without regard to times or seasons. Then instead of getting a thorough bred bull he raises one from one of hiB cows, sired by any bull that happened to be the nearest to his farm. In times when prices were high some profit might be made in following such plans, or rather lack of plans, but now when prices are so very low these two causes alone are sufficient to change from profit to loss the whole business of dairying. I do not think that the present situation is at all just to the farmer, nor do I believe that affairs will always remain as they are now. I most ardently hope that after the election we will see better times, and every par-i ticle of influence I possess will be used, to further such means as I believe willj bring about the desired end. But nq man may tell when the better times! are coming, and in the meanwhile wo must make our calculations onthe pres ent basis of prices. The only way to do this is to cheapen the cost of our salable product. Just how we are to do this is the moBt im portant question that confronts our farmers, and it is one that must be an swered or we will keep on going from bad to worse. It may be a thorough bred bull will answer the question, or better feeding, or a silo, but just what it may be each one must decide for himself. It seems that sometimes we get into a certain way of doing things and keep on year after year whether we are being paid or not. This way of doing will not avail these times, however unjust it may be that things are as they are.—National Stockman. CHEAP WINDMILL. Can Be Made at Small Expense by Any Ingenious Parmer. A windmill such as is portrayed below can be made by any ingenious farmer at a triffling expense. For an upright to place the windmill on, I use six by six inch elm scantling. Cut a two-inch strip four feet long from the Center and run it down on the cribbing of the well. Two polls, (a, a,) were riveted through upright to cribbing. Two braces (b) of two by four-inch scantling make the upright secure. To upper end of the upright is bolted a piece of old pump piping about two feet long for the sucker rod (c c) to work through as well as for the windmill to turn and face the wind. The crosspiece upon which the windmill works (d) contains a hole just large enough to allow it to turn easily on this pipe. The shaft from the windmill to pitman passes close at one side of the pipe. The tail or vane is put on the opposite side of the crosspiece to the fan and balaoces.it. To prevent C- A CHEAP PUMP. the main vane from holding the fan too straight to the wind in a storm, I placed a smaller vane (e) at the side. Strong winds press against the smaller vane, turning the fan out enough to prevent breaking. The crosspiece is six by six inches. At about one-third of the dis tance from the pipe to pitman is placed a standard (g) for a lever (f) to work on. These parts were made by a blacksmith. My windmill has been in operation over a year and since placing the smaller vane (e) on the side, I have had no trouble with it before then, a storm would break the leaves.—Farm and Home. Butter Firm Without ice. A correspondent of Hoard's Dairy man gives the following method of keepinjPbutter firm without the use of ice: "Take a tight box (10 or 12 inches high, 12 to 14 inches wide and 18 to 24 inches long) that can be got at any grocery store, put a loose shelf about five inches from the bottom on which to place the butter. Set a dish containing water in the bottom of the box and place the butter on the shelf. Take a piece of cloth large enough to well cover the butter and drop over the edge of the shelf into the dish of water. Moisten the cloth, spread it over the butter and let the end drop into the dish of water, and it will take up the water so as to keep the butter cool and hard and free from salt crystals and in fine shape for table use. Toweling crash is the best cloth to use for the purpose. The bo* should have a cover." Better have a few trees and give them good care than many and neglect then* *kj Hour's Tblef We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cbsnet & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially aMe to carry out any obligations made by their Arm. West & Tbcax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Waldiwo, KnrxAK ft Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. 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