THE LITTLE FARMHOUSE.
Back in the little farmhouse, on the quiet
countryside!
And I think of a. bygone summer, when I
was a. happy bride.
I worked in the little kitchen: you tilled the ..
fertile land!
For the rainy days a-coming, we toiledland
saved and planned. '
Back in the little farmhouse! And memory
brings to View '
A cozy room, scant furnished, anda table
spread for two.
Back in the little farmhouse, haunted with
mem'ries sweet.
I see familiar faces, and: list for the tread of
feet.
‘ Back in the little farmhouse, dingy, and
old, and brown,
(Not like the newer dwelling, up in the
nearest town).
Ten years have gone, my dearest, and we
come again to-day, '
‘I'o tread familiar footpaths, in the morning
cool and gray.
Back at the little farmhouse. we seem 'to
have younger grown; +
The yards are the same, my dearest, and)
the grass is newly mown; ~
The stock in the river pasture at the same
fence ébrner stop, .
And the corn is a-waving calmly, but oh,
'tis another crop!
Back from the little farmhouse we turn
with a weary sigh,
And we brush away the tears,'dear, but we
do not mention why. . '
Back in the little farmhouse, time sped on
so fleet,
Our love grows firmer, dearest, that we
keep this mem’ry sweet.
—Flora Hazelton Bailey, in Minneapolis
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~ ‘ ATH is a beautiful little place on
that famous river made. dear to the
hearts of all‘the'world, because on its
banks Shakespeare was born. It is
in a fertile valley, surrounded by tow-
ering hills whose verdant sides make a
restful picture for wearled eyes.
“Sixty or 70 years ago it was a fa-
vorite resort for health and pleasure-
seekers, who found there something
that they were not seeking. It was
the scene of a. series of the most mys-
terious robberies that baffled the keen-
est sleuth-hounds of the detective
forces." "
Just as I entered the parlor I heard
my English friend relating the above
to his little companion, who was lis-
tening to his words just as I have often
pictured Desdemona listening to the
recitals of the love-mad Moor.
I knew that the big, fine—looking
Englishman was deeply in love with
out little brown American wren, and
that he could have wished me in Hal-
ifax rather than have a company of
three.
“That sounds like a possible ro-
mance,” I ‘said-to myself as I pricked
'Up my ears like. a war horse at the
first sound of the bugle’s call; and I
sat demurely down and took out pencil
and paper.
The little brownpwren was sitting
with her hands clasped around her-
knees, and her pretty, dark head
poised to one side. She turned her
sweet head slightly toward me and
smiled a cordial welcome.
Not so her handsome Englishman!
He frownedat me until his scowl was
like a thundercloud. 1
“Oh, you needn’t look at me like
that, Dr. Gilbert,” I said saucily, mak-
ing a little moue at him, and thrusting
my chin defiantly outward. “I am here
to stay until I hear the end of that fish
story.” ~ -
“Go away,” he said with mock anger.
“If you say that to me again,” ]
cried threateningly, “I’ll sit right down.
at the piano and play ‘There’ll Be a
Hot Time. in the Old Town To—nght.’ ”5
I knew how the doctor hated that
song, and by this means I always used
to cow him into submission. We were
stopping at a boarding house in the
mountains of Tennessee, and we had
all become like one large family and
said what we liked to each other in
our playful way.
As I utter: :1 my fearful threat the
doctor drop; 3d his hands helplessly at
his sides, (1 : cw down the corners of his
mouth ans" made himself look the very
picture c: fear and submission.
“I’ve 1*.vc-r turned my back to the
enemy": guns,” he said in a s-erio-comic
tone, ‘ .111 I always quail before the
fire of .1 woman's eyes.”
“Wril. if you will proceed with the
rorr. mce I will turn the fire of my eyes
on ‘i'Irennief’ I said playfully, “while
I 1 line it down, skeleton—like. Then I
xvii! weave. it into a story.
"And now ‘perceed with the prece-
1' .-uce,‘ ” I added dictatorily.
But he didn’t proceed. He only sat
and looked at Wrennie as if he would _
like to “drink her into the waste places
of his soul.” .
' “Wrennie, will you kindly command
that slave of yours to finish his recital
' for my benefit? Here am I at the very
verge of despair fer material to make
the pot boil, and this wretched old
brain of mine won‘t, budge an inch.
It’s like Jamie’s old donkey; when it
gets tired it won’t ‘go’ for love or
money." ,
“ lesume your story, doctor," she
said. sweetly. And the big mm imme~
diately obeyed. Love is a wonderful
mystery. '
"Well—but where was I at?" the doc-
tor laughingly questioned, while he
looked askance at Wrennie to see how,
she would take his slang. _
“Oh, yes! Now 1 remember. I was
saying that 60 or 70 years ago Bath was
the scene of a series of mysterious rob-
beries. ’4
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“Every day some man or woman '
would find himself or herself relieved‘
of a valuable watch, or brooch. or brace-
let, or money, and not the slightest
clew could be found to the robbery.‘
The most noted detectives were con-'
tinually baffled, and the mystery grew '
deeper and darker. ‘ 4 1
“Finally a. young man presented him-'
self. to the head of the detective forces?
and ofiered his services to ferret out'
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the seemingly fathomless mystery..'.l‘h'e
awkward: But he had 'a head like
Napoleon Bonaparte’s, and the head
the. young man he might try his hand.
At that time the best English farmers
dressed like the caricatures of John
'Bull; and Fielding. the new detective,
conceived the idea of acting the role
of' a well-to-do farmer, with pockets
the town red.’ There was one. draw-
back to his clever scheme; for Fielding
was tall and thin, while the typical
J ohn Bull was just the opposite. How‘
ever, with the aid of a pillow or two
and various ,other paraphernalia he
soon had. himself rigged ‘to the queen’s
taste’—big stomach, loose pockets with
flap unbuttoned and hanging open;
rattling his money with his left hand
while he walked along gaping up at
the houses, and whistling a tune that
savored strongly of rusticity.
“Strolling leisurely along, and pre-
tending to be very ‘green’ and to have
eyes for nothing but the houses and
signs, he was on the qui vive for sus-
picious looking characters.
“Suddenly he felt a slight tremor
near his right-[hand pocket», which was
flaring temptingly open.
“The tremor was so very slight that-
only the most sensitive nerves could
have detected it. He pretend-ed not to
notice anything and continued to
lounge along unceremoniously and in—
difierently, never quivering even the
muscle of an eyelid, until he knew the
hand was well in—t-hren he clapped his
own over it, whipped out a revolver,
shoved it into the face of his captive,
and said sternly: ‘Surrender, my man;
I’ve got you now.’
“But. his ‘man’ had no
yielding so readily. He gave one
quick, sudden jer‘g in the desperate
hope of freeing his imprisoned hand.
But the jerk was instantly followed by
asharp scream of pain, as he felt what
seemed to him like barbed arrows
piercing the tender flesh of his white
hand that was soft and dainty as a
woman’s.
“The ingenious detective had sewed
a number of fish hooks in his pocket
with the points arranged in such a. way
that the hand would be firmly hooked
in attempting to withdraw it.”
“Oh—I said it was a. fish story,” I
cried, jeeringly.
“A fish hook story, my dear madam,”
he replied, with'assumed dignity. “But-
if you interrupt me again I shall not-
finish the story and then you can’t.
write it, and then you’ll have no pot
.boiler.”
“I’ll send it unfinished and call it
~‘The Second Mystery of Edwin Drood,’
'or ‘The Mystery of the Second Edwin
Drood.’ ”
“Well, it is of no use to threaten a
woman—at. least a woman like you—so
I’ll finish the story just to spite you.
“The robber proved to be a descend—
ant of one of Europe’s titled families.
notion of
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He was one of those men whom the
talented English poet painted in his
lines: .
“ ‘W’ith smooth dissimulation
grace
A devil’s purpose with an angel's face.‘
“He had been mingling with the best.
element at Bath.
“All the women. with their usual en—
! thusiasm and lack of prudence—where
a handsome, dashing, fascinating man
is- concerned—had received him into
their most exclusive circles with smiles
of welcome. .
“And he had been robbing them even
while whispering, pretty nothings into
their listening ears.
“He was tried, proven to be one of
the world’s most. notorious robbers,
convicted and sentenced. The capture
created a sensation, the like of which.
Bath has never since known.
“Fielding’s name blazed into sudden
fame and he was ever afterward em-
ployed on all the most-difficult cases—-
one of which was the capture of a
notorious female forger, who had set.
all Bath wild with her beauty and her_
voice.”—N. 0. Times-Democrat.
skilled to
Felicity and a Pig.
There is an oft-told story ofa rustic
who when asked to explain the mean-
ing of “felicity” (a word which had
been freely used in a sermon to which
he had been a supposed listener), re-
1plied that he “believed ’twere some
' part of the innards of a pig," a writer
says. I have. often wondered what
process of mind could have suggested
so incongruous a reply, and I think I
have the clew.‘ The poor man thus
challenged for a definition simply be-
thought himself of “flick,” the commorf
Somerset term for the inner fat of a
pig—Notes and Queries. . ‘
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Cost of Burning a. Heretic.
In the course of an. article sketching
the histories of some early English ec-
clesiastics. a writer tells what it cost
t r a be t' . T ' . 1
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from the municipal records of Canter.
bury, dated 1535. and are as followa:
For the expense of bringing a heretic
, . from Lon on ................. 1 ......... 145 8d
For-1% loads of wood to burn him ..... 29 M
For gunpowder .................. ld'
Astake and staple ...... ................. 3d
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PROVIDING DARK NESTS.
How Two That .\Vill Answer Every
Requirement Can Be Built
Within a Shoebox.
To prevent hens from egg-eating it
is well to have the nest as dark as possi—
ble, but the making of a practical nest
that shall be fairly dark within is not
an easy matter, as those know who
have essayed to build them. The out
shows two nests that can be construct-
ed Within a shoebox that will be as dark
within as is necessary, and that can be
reached very easily, The shoebox is
placed upon its side, the other side be-
ing hinged for a top. Two small gro—
cery boxes are fitted within, as shown.
In the cut the top, one side and end are
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shown removed so that the arrange-
ment of theintcrlor can be plainly
seen. If the shoebox can be mailed
against the wall of a henhouse having
a walk at one side, the eggs can be
gathered. from the walk by cutting a
round opening through the back of the
nest, the openings being covered with
slides. ,
It is to be remembered, however,
that there is something to be done to
stop egg-eating besides providing dark
nests. The habit is usually acquired by
the hens becoming fat and laying soft-
shelled eggs. These. easily break in the-
nest. The hens get a taste and the mis—
chief is done. Make the hens work for
a living. Feed whole grain and feed it
'in litter, where they ’Will have to
scratch for it. Keep the fat oif the
birds and they will lay better and the
eggs will be. hard shelled. Feeding soft
.food to hens in winter is one of the
most potent causes of overfatness. It
is too quickly assimilated, and when
incentive to
scratch. Feed sparingly all day and
make the birds scratch forth they
get. Then at night give all they will
'eat. They thus get enough in each-24
hours, but have to work all day long
——and this is nature's plan—N. Y. Trib-
une.
THE AMERICAN H‘EN.
sue _Plays a. Most Import-ant Part in
the Agricultural Economy of
Our Country.
P. H. Sprague, a Chicago poultry
dealer, read a paper before the farm-
crs’ institute at Princeton,.Ill., in which
he stated that the production of chick-
ens in the Unified States last year
reached 3,350,000,000 and eggs 13,000,—
000,000. The tot-ah value of chickens
and eggs produced was $290,000,000. A1c-
cepting these figures as approximately
correct, we must conclude- that the
hen plays an important part in. our
American life. But we will better un-
derstand the relative importance of that
part when we come to make some com-
parisons. '~
The value of. our tobacco crop has
rarely been as much as $43,000,000. The
value of our potato crop is less than
$80,000,000 on the. average. The value
of our barley. crop is not often as much
as $30,000.000. An1 oat crop worth $200,-
000,000 is unusual. Our annual output
of pig iron has rarely exceeded. $130.-
000,000 in value. Coal, by far the most
valuable of our mineral products, gives
a total annual output of some $200,—
000,000.
law cotton, wheat, hay and corn are
the only four products of our country
that exceed in value hens and hens’
eggs, according to the above estimate,
and cotton sometimes follows the lat- .
ter in the order of importance, the crop
having exceeded» $290,000,000 in value
only three times, and the highest hav-
ing been not quite $310,000,000. The
wheat crop has ranged in value from
$213,000.000 to $513,000,000, and. thecorn
crop from about “5440.000001} to $783,-
000,000. The average value of the hay
cmp may be stated at abOut $390,000,-
From this comparison the impor-
tance of. the hen, especially in. our ag-
ricultural economy, will be appreciated.
If Mr. Spraguev stated the value of
the egg product separately the fact. is
not reported. It would beinteres’ting.
to know the value of the egg output.
Probably it exceeds the value of- any
mineral output excepting coal, but not
excepting pig iron. Probably, too, it
exceeds the value of any form. crop
txcept cOrn, wheat, hay, cotton and
oats, and it may even exceed oats~ The
‘hen is by no means to be despised.—
Chicago Chronicle.
Young Grains ls lnjurious.
When young grass, rye or oats is
out before making much growth it- is
watery and contains but little nutri-
tion, too much of suchfood, causing
,the hens to have “scours." Many per-1
sons have been disappointed in confinr
ing their hens on young rye as an ex-
clusive food. It is excellent. as a diet-
ary food, but all very young grass is'
mostly water; It is not best to cut such
for winter use,~and if early cats are
. the
grain is in the milky stage, the nutri-
tive matter, on its way to fillvout the
that when cured, the whole stalk (with
grain) stored in the barn, and out fine
' with a cutter, will make excel] nt food
for the hens in. winter. The oats should
be cut green, just as the seed-heads be-
gin to form.—Fa.rm and Fireside.
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' HAVANA QUIETER.
Elsa: Killed and Many Wounded In
the Clash ‘W‘it‘h Police. ’ ‘
HAVANA, March 21.——Th,e excitement
growing out of the conflictibetween the
' poiice and the populace‘is rapidly slib-
siding; and it is not likely that there
17-1) ac further trouble. Thc‘mob has
been taught a lesson, which will prob-
ably Drove sufficient. Lawbreakers now
fear the police and realize that the lat-
ter will not "tolerate resistance to their
authority. ‘ , _
During the aft‘rays of Saturday and
Sunday three policemen were killed and
about 15 wcutided,'w11ile of the 100131112100
five were killed and between 60 and 70
others wounded, some so seriously that
ghey will probably die. The condition
of Police Captain Jose Estrampes is,
serious, but it is expected that he will
recover.
Sixty arrests have been made, and or-
ders have been issuedto the police not
to hesitate to shoot hereafter should
occasion require it.
Archbishop Chapelle, apostolic dele-
gate to the West Indies, sailed for New
Orleans yesterday in order to be pres-
ent at the Easter services there, but he
will return immediately after 10 Ha-
vana.’ He has already carefully exam-
ined the question of the ownership of
Cuban cemeteries. It appears that since
Jan. 1 a. discussion has been in progress
in many parts of‘ Cuba between‘the
municipalities and the church authori-
ties regarding the ownership, because,
in‘consequence of burial fees and the
rentals for graves, the cemeteries are a
source of profit to the possessor.
The changes which followed Spain’s
withdrawal from Cuba gave an oppor-
tunity for agitating old claims to pos-
session and for formulating new until
the American military authorities took
action and issued the following order:
“Possession of buildings and property
intended to be used for religious pur-
poses will be considered prima facie evi-
dence of title to such property until
ownership is legally established, and
the transfer of cemeteries between
municipalities and the church is prohib-
ited until ownership is legally estab-
lished." .
Since Jan. 1 such transfers have heel
annulled. '
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