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KlaJkSia srt MY HAPPY HOME. C"min? hr.r in the colli gray twilight, O.er the icntsome way, W ith hear: and b-ain overburdened Ily th worry and care of the day; Tired from the struggle of living. And glad Tor the night to coma, I turn the comer, and there I sea The liyht of tuy happy home. And worry nd care forsake me, And wearin-ss finds its rest; Tft ith quickened foot-teps I hurry on T the pace I Sove the best. Fir I know th it some one is waitinf And ioo.cine out th.-ough the gioonx Iic-wn over the lonesome roadway, And wishing for me to come. Ai-d. has tning on. I remember Ihe days of lonT ao. Ti e tioiden drentu of my youth tim. The tnumiih I was to kiiow, W th ga"ie and fort one to conq uer. And u'i Lfe s blessings to come; B t the on y dream that cv.r came true Is this. Riy own sweet homo. AfMl what were all the oh"rs? tnbiiim ani power, an 1 fatn'j; T e wea::h of the Indies would leave mo pcor, A.".d fume wire an empty name. Without the lovti of my darling wife. ! My batiy and my home. : I an .sk no p-reater happiness j Than to my lot has conto. What matters a day of labor When thereat is sweet at niht! What matt rs how dark the roadway That lea Is to my own home-light? What matters the wide world's favor. That i. ever to me may coiuc W nen my wife and baby are a-aiting And watching to welcome mo home? Christian at Work. TWO BUSHELS OF CORN. How Farmer Brown Succeeded in Performing a Good Deed. Farmer Brown was shelling four bush els of corn on the cob. which, according to the mathematics and tabular weights and measures of old New England davs. would make two bushels of corn for the purpose of the farm bin or the miller. lie was shelling the four bushels of corn bv the use of a common cob in his risrht hand, which cob he used to remove the kernels by pressure. This old-time way ot stiellmj corn Miule the hands hard and horny, and the muscles of the wrist Ptronsr. Woe be to the culprit who filmuld have fallen into the hands of a professional corn-sheller! He might as well have been born 1 with withes of 'lombine. The hoy who f.-lt the withy jrr:is of such a left hand, and the appli eaiion of a butt.r.wt?id rod by such a ricrht hand, was sure to have his niem "y perninncntl y ouiekened, and the les M';i usually proved Hfectal. Such farm ers, from their lordly dialogues with their oxen, had strong voices as well as hands, anil when one of them said "boy" it. meant much. And hoy"' was just the t"l that Farmer J'.rown said while tdi! 'ling corn. ilarry l'rown, the hoy," started. "Hoy" was a word of command from the fj'in'ralissimo of the farm. 'Sir?" -Mrs. Ilrown was silting in the arm chair by the stand, knitting by the tal low candh'. Mr. ''.row a was shelling I'orn because he had nothing else to do. and Mrs. Ilrown was knitting because she had nothing else to do, and Hai ry I'.rown was studying a music book by good old William Hillings, of Stoughton. because lie sang in the choir of Hard Scrabble Church which was a real name, and not one mad up for story telling purposes. Harry had been drawling "do. mi. sol. do." when the word of command came. '"Hoy, seeing we have so much to be thankful for, I'm going to do iust the right thing by my duties Mrs. Ilrown dropped her needles. Vt'hat was going to happen? She was a thrifty, frugal woman was Mr. IJrown going to give aw ay somethingout of their hard earnings and savings? If so. what and to whom? No unworthy person, she honed. "I've been thinking over this bushel of corn I always do a deal of thinking when I am shelling; corn." "What you been thinking about. Eben ? "About the sermon that Elder Leland preached on the text: 'For if ye love them that love vou. what reward have ye: do not even the publicans so?" Now, 1'eter Kugg has not used me just right, and I am going to make him a present of two bushels of corn. And boy you shall carry it over to him to morrow morning on horseback." Mrs. Brown's cap border lifted. She clove at the snuffers, and snuffed the candle with a spiteful dive at tho long black wick. 'Ebenr "Well. Eunice?' ' "Peter Kugg just gets his living by doing nothin', don't he?" "Yes, but he is sick now; and you know the text. There's no merit in do in' just what you want to do, and havin' your own way and will, and lookin' for reward. Elder Leland says " "And Peter Rugg's wife, she goes a-visitin' for a-livin", and eats up every body's plum-cake and apple sass " "Yes, yes. but Peter was shiftless born so, tired like and she had to eat something and he's sick now." "Well, I don't approve no such doin's. I don't believe in enoouragin' idleness. If a man will not work, neither shall be cat! There now, Eben!" "Do, mi, sol, do," sang Harry. "The moraine sun shines from the east. And spreads its glories to the west. Ho was practicing the "Ode on Science," the crowning attainment of all musical efforts in these simple singing-school days. "Well. I do declare. Eben, I hope if you send two bushel of corn, of your shellin". too, to that shiftless Peter Eugg I do hope " "What, Eunice?" "That it will never get there. "Shot Eunice: that ain't the right spcrit when our barns and cribs are full, too. and Peter is the only real poor persen in the town, too, and he's the only one in all the world that hasn't used me quite right, too. ITi have to send it to him, or else be very poor and mean in soul, and carry about with me a feelin that I haven't done my duty. ar.d been grateful for all my blessin's. Eunice. I'm goin' to do it, anyhow." -Well, all that I've got to say is that I do hope the gi-.st will never get there." "Now, boy, you may go to singin'-school." f Harry slipped away with the parallel-ofH-tirr. of an "American Vocalist" under 1 . ai. TLe singing school made great progress on the "Ode on Science" that night, and Harry had descended into those def p and cavernous regions of Holemn lass foundations with the ambi tion of a ba..i profuTido. The moon was hanging over the dark shoulders of Greylock. and the lights glimmering on Stafford Hill, as he re turned, it was a crisp night, with a gleam of frost crystals everywhere in the bare harvest fields, the blue gentian pastures and alluvial cranberry mead : cws. He continued to sing he could : not help it; the pi-ce haunted him." ; Nothing at all so wonderful as the ac complishment of that piece by the sing ; ing-sehool had ever lie fore come into his experience. The words, too, were mag ical to him like a new world. So, in j the new creations of the jsoet and com Ioser, he jogged along, singing, until he ; came to the graveyard where Captain : Joa'j Stafford and the heroes of Hr-n-i nington lie buried, and then he oontin- tied to 7(Af, the same tune. A boy at that time did not know what might hap pen when he was passing a graveyard! The next morning Harry received the same peremptory summons to atten tion "Hoy!" Now, this was not intend ed in this strange case to be reproachful toward Harry, but to let prudential Eu nice understand that in this case of cas uistry his mind was made up. "Hoy, bring that old roan horse, and I will put on his back the two bushels of corn." Eunice heard the order, and she knew that the laconic word was meant for her ears. She said nothing but went on grinding coffee, pounding locker, mixing Johnnycake, straining milk, boiling potatoes.breakingeggs, "settin " the table, "shooing" the hens from the doorstep, feeding the dog, and "scat ting" the cat, and all those varied and multiple of duties that fall to the ex perience of a thrifty farmer's wife for the sake of being supported. The sun rose red over the valley and intervales. The blue jays seemed to blow about screaming, and the crows cawed in the walnut trees. The con- H'iidiili-s had ceased to sing, hut there was a chipper of squirrels everywhere. One could hear the old mill-wheel turn ing in the distance two miles away. The trees on I arK banc, tlie scone or the Mason farms, were blazing like an army with crimson oriflammes. and fat tur keys were gobbling around every farm house for miles. This was tlie farm re gion of the famous Cheshire cheese, one of which, weighing more than 1,'JiiO lbs., had been presented to President .Jeffer son, Elder Leland acting as envoy for the merry farmers, and preaching all t he way to Washington and back while exe cuting the famous commission. After breakfast. Harry brought the sorrel horse to the door, and Eben. whoso benevolent heart had prompted him to a duty inspire of itself, put on his back the two bushels of corn, so as to form a kind of a saddle, one bushel one side, and the other on the other. "Take the corn to tho mill." said Eben; "have it ground, then take the meal to Peter Kugg. and be sure to t' ll him that sent it." Harry was no idiot boy like that in Wordsworth's tale of Hettie Foy, but this morning his wits went wool-galher-ing. The Ode on Science ::nd his mu sical triumphs of the night before had quite turned his bead, and be started off singing: "The morning Min sh.m s from the as:, And Sv-e:iils its glories to the west.' This was literally true. The morning was bright and the air exhilarating, and the mountains in all the over-floods of glory most inspiring. After singing the Ode on Science. Harry essayed "Majes ty," and he made the woods ring with: "On cherub and on cherubim Full royally he rode. And on the wings of miphty winds Came flying all abroad " He made even the chipmunks run, and tho grave jays stop to listen. He was a happy boy, a very happy boy. It was a long way from the red house and barn of Eben Hrown's farm to the great wooden mill-wheel on the Housatonic, but Harry did not urge the roan horse, who had no disposition to be urged. Why should one travel fast when every thing is bright and beauti ful? Elien had tied the bag tightly the night before, after he had reduced the four bushels of corn to two. He picked up every kernel of corn that he had chanced to scatter over the floor, and put it into the bag. Now, in the house there were mice sly mice. And when all the family were in the otner worm oi areams on tne night before, one or two of these mice had explored the kitchen, and, finding not so much as a single kernel of corn, after all the vigorou sshelling, had each gnawed a little hole, one in either end of the bag, and had made a dainty meal, and slipped away, leaving the two little holes. The motion of the Borrel borse, as he walked mathematically along, be gan to slip out the corn through either end of the ba, slowly at first, but very freely at last, unperceived by Harry, whose mind was on wings in the far-off musical sky. As he went on singing and whistling, and sifting the corn unperceived, a strange annoyance befell the felicitous knight of the two bushels of corn. The hens ran after hinv from the farm houses, the great flocks of turkeys gob bling, the waddling geese quacking. He passed the great dairy farms under the cool shadow of Greylock and the Park Lane Ridge; everywhere there fol lowed him great flocks of poultry hens. ducks, geese and turkeys; they grew to be almost an army at last, cackling, quacking, gobbling. But Harry did not stop to investigate the cause of all this gathering of wings and bills behind him. The fowl all seemed happy; so was he; it was a bright and happy morning. Once or twice ne snooa . n i a m-n. C . . . new riocKS 01 mratrja and goonung auu i.., B o waU- . , -ljont jou Ku--k "... .... ,u and then went on. singing. The composite army ot tarta .oi teit him at last, and he came in sight of the j foaming mllT-vv heel that was toeing the; cool waters of the Housatonic near the J grand old orchards of what was once one of the New- Providence farms. New Providence is a vanished village now; its churches and inns used to been Staf ford Hill.but Cheshire village has taken its place. One can not so much as find New lYovidence on tho map. It was settled by the Masons and P.rowns and Coles from Swansea, Mass., and Cov entry, IL I. The colony went to Sack ville. N. li., first, but finding the cli mate too rigorous, followed their pastor. Elder Mason, to the Berkshire Hills and founded Cheshire under the name of New Providence. ; Suddenly Harry ceased singing. Tho horses s back U gan to grow hard. He thought that he would adjust the bag ; and make Lis position easier. He clasp ; ed the bag and what a look of aitrase ' ment must have come into his face! I there was nothing in it, not so much as a single kernel of corn! Harry had heard of witches and. things j bewitched, of people casting an evil eyo, of tho awful trLost story that Eider l.e i land used to tell. He recalled bis ! mother's wish, and wondered if that had ! not bewitched the bag. Had the bag untied? He look to see. No. there was j the string. His heart thumped, and he j felt hot flashes and cold shivers creep j over him. He stopped the horse, ".'rows cawed above him. The mili-w heel turned and turned before him. Why should he go forw ard? He had nothing for the miller and what, oh, what could he say to the miller if he went to the mill with an empty bag! He would retrace his way, and see if that would offer any clue to the appall ing mystery. Hut it offered none. There was not so much as a kernel of corn in the road, and the turkeys and geese and ducks and pullets everywhere seemed contented, with full crops and fat sides. They did not even gobble or quack or cackle. The world all seemed serene and happy. What should he say to his father? And to his mother? And what would the world say now? And Elder Lf land, w ho had been visited by a ghost and had heard voices from the skv? So towards the rod farm-house Harry I. row n turned his horse s head in won der and amazement. He thought of the aw ful Indian tab s and ghost tales of old Swansea, from which the early settlers had come, of w itches ridintr on broom ticks in the air, and "spells" and "evil eyes and all sorts of imaginary mys teries. In this frame of mind he rode up under the hour-glass lm in front of the house, and his father came to the door. "Hid he receive it well, sonny V" asked I-.oen, with a reaming face. "It is gone," said Harry, with a dole ful face. "What gone?" "The grist." "Slio! Where?" Here Eunice's white Lead appeared. She threw lit r apron over it and listened anxiously. "It disappeared." "When:?" "Into the air." "How?" "Spirits." "Hoy!" "There, Eben," said Eunice: "mind what I told you! The universe is agin ye. You couldn't get a grist to Peter Kugg's if you were to go yourself. "I" would be Hying in the face of Provi dence. Tbo powers are agin ye. 1 used to know all about spells and such things in old Swansea." "We'll see we'll see," said Eben. That evening Eben shelled out two more bushels of corn. In the morning he brought out the old roan horse, and put a bag with the corn on his back. He then went to the barn and brought a stiff but ton wood rod which ho had used for various purposes of discipline and cor rection. "Hoy!" "Sir?" "Mount that horse." Harry mounted as before. "Go to mill; I'll follow." The pilgrimage was performed with alacrity and safely. The meal was car ried to poor Peter Rugg, and received with a grateful and penitent heart. Eben returned home happy, but what ever became oi that nrst bag of two bushels of corn was always a wonder to Harry, to Eunice, and their friends. Eben's expectations were realized in regard to Peter Rugg. The good act re stored his better will and heart, and made him a true friend for life. Eben used to tell the story, and say: "Always follow your better will, and do your dutv, though the universe b agin ye. Hezckiah Butterworth, in Christian Union. The Removal of Warts These disfigurements of the hand usu ally are never injurious outgrowths, as they are simply the overgrowths of the papilla? of the skin with a covering of cuticle. The separate papillse can be seen in the seed-wart, as they stand up separately and prominently. It is com monly thought that warts can be pro duced anywhere on the body by inocula tion that is if the blood from one wart should get into a scratch or cut on an other part of the body it would produce warts. In some cases this may be true, and some kinds of warts are certainly contagious. The common, hard, dry wart should be washed with a solution of soda around its base, and glacial acetic acid applied. Chromic acid and nitric acid will also answer the purpose. 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