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.V1h1ne GAZETTE
FATHER LOVE.
Oearth is full of lovely things 1
Which our dear Father-God has made. 1
0f buds and blooms and gleaming wings,
And bursts of light and depths of shade.
‘0, thick across the' purple skies
The wondrous flashing stars are strewn,
And bright with Che—rub children’s ey es
The glowing world is overgrown.
But never, in the woods at noon,
Or underneath the stars at night,
Or in the low sweet valcs-of June,
Or on the 1:101: .'3tain’ .1 upper height—
0, never thrilled my blood so much'
And never leaped my heart so wild,
As when I bowed my head to touch
The sweet lips of my first-born child.
Ah! and I know that evermore
I have held higher talk with Heaven,
In- deeper whispe1s than before
That large new blessedness w '1 s given.
I could not part her precious hair,
Nor look upon her sacred eyes,
And not within my full soul swear
To mark h'er steps in Paradise.
I hear her low voice in the hall, ‘
Her liquid laugh among the flowers; '
And pulse leaps unto pulse, and all
My life goes seeking her for hours.
And when she rises to my knee
And lightly nestles toward my cheek
With love that clings so utterly,
I clasp her, but I can-not speak.
0, mid the tumult of the town,
The care, the canker and the doubt,
And when the flaming sun goes down,
And when the holy stars are out;
In the. great stillness of the night,
And in the front of garish day,
She wraps me like a robe. of light,
And turns to spirit all my clay.
God bless my child! I never knew
Life’s vastness until she was born.
God bless my child! and keep her true
Through all her deeper-Widening mom.
0, reach Thy hand out through the years
And hold her near Thee und'efiled;
And giV' 0 her oil of joy for tears,
And, Father, Father bles 2; my child!
——Ricl1ard Realf, in Congregationalist
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‘ 1M JENKINS is dead. An'etaOV'ideo
J is dying. Jim Jenkins died. in'Ins
dian territory. Aneta 'OV'ideo is dying
in Cuba. '
_ Every day she creeps dOVVn to the
w at’er s edge and drops a knot of cape
jcssamine into the ocean .
If the waves bring the knot of cape
jessamine back to the shore Aneta
Ovideo cries—that‘ means that She will
live another month. If the waves carry
the knot of jessamine out. to the open
sea Aneta Ovideo smiles a pale little-
smile of happiness and peace for that-
means that she will die before the
month is out. .
IIer sweetheart- is- dead; dead and
buried out in the snow in the west, and
she is all alone down in Cuba ;alonc
with the moonlight and the VV' aves, and
she wants to die. .\
She is a Cuban. IIerfathcr w as a rich
merchant ofq can Juan.
”\Vhen. the Americans entered San
Juan Aneta. decorated the squat, square
house with wreaths and with great knots
of cape jessamine. And she and the lit-
tle colored maid stood at the easement,
and clutched each other and cried and
laughed and tried to. sing the strange
marching song which brought. the
Americanos into the city.
The rough 1iders came up the nar-
row streets of San Juan. They VV' ere.
dusty, and their clothes were torn.
The troops caught sight of the knot of
. jessamine, and one of them swung- his.
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great hat and made a: sweeping bow up
at 11.9 window where Ancta and the
liti'f: colored maid were.
A few days after that Aneta visited
sop": friends. There were strangers
V‘s-icing them, Americans. and one of
111cm was a. tall 1111111 dressed in rough
brown clothes.
then he saw 1 1111:1111: ros: e and made
her a sweeping how. He wore a knotoi’
cape jcssamine in his coat.
The trooper’s 1121 me was Jenkins. Jim,
the men in his regiment called him.
“MeesterChenkeen, " Anetasaid, V ('311
are fond of the so sw ect jessamine of. ' _v
country?”
“That’s what,” . said Jim Jenkins.
“Prettiest flowe I ever saw, and they
look just like a beautiful wo'u an to me.’
Aneta blushed and fanned herself.
' c day Trooper Jenkins went to the
Ovidleo house to call.
Aneta’s father thought the troo en
too presumptuous upon sli ht acquaint-
ance. g“
The two men quarreled, and the hot-
tempered Cuban would have killed the
tr00pcr if Aneta had not clutched his
hand before the knilc had time to de-
seend.
After that Ancta 'saw the trooper
often.
He never said anything about- the jes-
saminc again. but he. always wore-one
in his coat to match the knot of them
in Ancta’ s shinin'r black hair. Aneta
could not undeistaud him. He laughed
so much, and he would get her to tin-um
her guitar and sing to him bythe hour,
and he would sit and stare and stare and
stare at her, and never speak for long
horny at a. time.
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‘ One evening he spoke. 1
He told Ancta that he loved her. He
said that he was a rich cattle owner,l
and that he had great ranchesin the far;
heat.
Aneta closed henshining eyes and
smiled, and whén she went in she told
the little colored maid that she was so
happy she was afraid she should die.
As soon as he went home, the trooper
told Aneta, he would be mustered out,
and then he. would send for her, and she
should come to his hacienda and be mist
tress'of a ho-useful of servants and of a
ma ch that was like a little kingdom.
Ancta. liked to hear about the range;
and about the. wildflowers, but. when he
about the money she
said: . ‘ -
“O, si, si, si. I know. Now: sir, tell.
me, if you will, please, about you.
Where were you born? How old do you
really be? Have you a brother or a sis-
ter? No? Were you a good little boy
when you were small? Have you the
' picture of you, yourself, in the long
dress? No? Itis too bad! .Iliketo see
you—all way s—w hen ababy and when
a boy, as all way s. And do y or. love the
music like me? I do! Si.
Everything is good in these days."
But one day the troopers were order-ed
home.
Aneta '5 t1 ooper had to go with the
rest.
Ancta pinned a knot of jcsasamine on
his coat, and made him go into the little
oratory with her and kneel before the
liille altar.
It 1' .t VV hen' the gieai troopship VV as
501111 1111 into the little 01atory
1nd tiifl'ii- on 11.1. 1 knccshalf the pig-.ht
1 st “1 .1111 c 1' 111 01111111 Aneta a
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a kind lciicr. full of: 11l'cctiou.
..,'.::;'llaiiig'111it that made
grow cold. -
'1 to she did VV'lieirlic
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eves locl1li1z1 co '1 steel. with 111111110011
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'\'.'l:cn will V'011l;c free? ’ she wrote.
"lien sh-al-l VV 'c be 111.31'1'icd?” -
The trooper V'1"1.10t1 back a long letter,
full of his fine ranch and his money and
the beautiful home he was preparing
for Aneta.
“I do not care about the ranch,” she
said, “or about. the fine home. I want
to be with you.”
On Christmas day she wrote him that
she would kill herself ifhe did not w rite
to her.
“They are laughing at me here, she
said. “They are telling me that you
were joking with me, that. you never
cared for me. If I do not hear from you
in four weeks' time I shall kill myself.”
Just two weeks ago Aneta Ovideo re—
ceived an answer to her letters. “Jim
Jenki'us is dead. " said. the letter “He
died a. week ago. He spoke your name
with h1sl.stl31c:1th.”
‘I am so glad,” she said. “I am so
glad. Now, I shall see himsoonagain.”
And every day she throws. the knot of
jcssamine into the sea, for the charm
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.must be worked for twice seven days
before she will know surely how long
she will have to live.
Henry Harmon lives out in Indian
territory.
It was he who wrote Aneta. and told
her that her swcclhcart was dead. ,
In till his letter I‘icnry Harmon wrote
just. one sentence of truth, and that was
that-Jim Jenkins was dead. All the rest.
was a lie.
Jim Jenkins was not aranch owner.
He had no home prepared for Ane'ia.
He was a concloy in [he Same Outfit
VVith I-'Ic111V II1111110n. He did not die
w it‘ 11 Anela s name on his lips. He did
not 10V e her. '
He showed her poor lit tlc let'te1 s to the
cowboys on the rune .11 and made fun of
‘ them.
He roared with laughter when he read
{he one in which Aneta told him that
she would kill herself sales 5 she heard
from him.
He died very sndécnlv that very
night, and lei't an unfinished letter to
\ncta.
“I never cared :1 cent. for you,” the let.-
“I've been having fun all the
L11 [1 now I’m getting tired of it.
boys are making a fuss about your
writing so often. and I wish you’d stop.”
IIenry Harmon. cowboy, I X L out tit,
read the letter aloud to the “boys" who
had heard Jim Jenkins read the other
ones aloud.
The “boy 5” did not laugh at the joke
They sat still.
“Fellcrs, ” said Aiizona. Ike, the head
of the outfit, “ his air. ”1 no time fer the
truth, let’skecp on a ly in‘. "
So Henry Harmon VV rote ,the lying
letter to Aneta Ovidco. and a poor little,
soft-ey ed girl will die happy for his
pains. —N. Y. Journal.
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Minutes and Seconds.
At least 25 centuries B. C. the Baby-
lonians used a sexagesimal system of
notation, consisting of sari and sossi,
‘ of which we have vestiges when we
' reckon 00 minutes to the hour and 60
_ the talent.
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' Seconds to’ the minute, or 3,000 seconds
——that is, a saros of sossi——tg the hour.
That we count 12 pence to the shilling
and 20 shillings to the pound. 12 inches .
to the foot, 24 hours to the day, 3130 de-
grees of longitude around the equator,
90 degrc‘es of latitude from the equator
to the poles, and 60 miles to a degree,
may also be traced to the same duo-
decimal Babylonian system of numera-
tion, which oliginally reckoned 00
shekels tot-he mina and 60 minas to
All these numbers are fac-
tors or multiples of the saros or 60.
Our measures of time, money, or linear
and angular space, are all derived from
the Greeks, Who obtained them from
the Babylonians, probably through the
I’hoenicians.-—N otes and Queries. '
Immense Power Plant Finished.
The longest power transmission sys-
tem in the world, that which supplies
the city of Los Angeles, 0:11., with elec-
tricity, with power developed at the
head of the Santa Ana river, 80 miles
mm, is completed. The system has
00 cupied several years in building. The 1
Viviies enter .thc fly in underground
_ cond uits.
That 1s good '
‘ below t-hc propei head three or three
spring.
' proper soil and in first-class nurseries
sure that it is located high.
runs between the rows it npt only ad-
PLANTING AND PRUNING.
Some Valuable Hints for Peach Grow-
er's ‘cho Are Comparatively
Inexpericnecd.
J. J. Holland, of Marion, 0., says he
set 100 'peach trees last fall without
trimming, and wants to know when to
trim them, and if limbs should be cut
close to body, and asks for illustration
by out. Yes, cut close, leaving nothing
but a cane 01; stick, as seen in cut.
Peach trees should be trimmed when
set, but in this case he should trim
while yet in" ‘the‘ dormant state.
If they are not. frozen they will put
forth a new top. Suckers or sprouts
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PLANTING PEACH TREES.
(Left) peach tree pruned to single stalk
at setting. Also (right) head forming. A,
A, depth to plant. 13, B, cutting off in-
jured roots.
and one- -half feet high, should be
trimmed off.
Peach trees are not classed as hardy,
and are better in storage houses or
heeled in over winter and set in the
They are only used to trans—
plant the. fi1st season after being bud-
ded.Fi1'1'st-c1ass nurseries do not leave
their peach ‘trees out over winter to be
dug in the spring, butprotect them root
and top, and they are thus better
handled in the early spring. But. what
'are' termed hardy trees, such as the ap~
ple, plum, sweet and sour cherry and
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PRUNING PEACH TREES.
Dotted line and cross marks are sugges-
tions ior pruning a~compact head.
shade t1 ees can be set fall-0r spring with
safety.
Hardy trees are bes t to transplant
when two years. old '\\ hen raised in
they are generallyheaded and. in good
proportion, th rcfore easily trimmed.
The top shoot is often clipped when a
V car or two old in 01'11‘ er to giv e a better
head, as shown‘ 11y eioss malr1 at C and
D,1_'-ig.1. Also under trimmed to make
a. nice bodv.
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and outside the c.1cle,I1‘ig.2. A heavy,
roun: and compact top can be carried
on a short, thick body, then star-t it 1
right. Nature is perfect and imperfect.
“As. the twig is bent so the tree is' in-
clined.” hence the betterment. by the art
of 111.11.111.91. A. in Fig. 1, show depth to
1)l11nt.Il.I3, show root pruning of
bluised roots —S. C. Myers. in Ohio
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ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
I’low “ shallow” in V'our o' 'chard.
D :11 't plant fruit tre es on poor land.
It V\ill not do.
Plant a few shrubs and fruit trees
about your house.
Wood ashes are good for a. lawn, es-
pecially on sandy soil.
If selecting a fruit orchard spot, be
Plan your gardens so that you can
stir them with a cultivator.
Dig up around your trees and mix
into the soil coal or wood ashes.
Heavy land should be well drained
before an orchard is planted on it.
Scrape the bark lice from your fruit
trees and .give the trunks a coat 'of
whitewash. . 1 1.
Mix brains VVith your sc ll; cultivate
VV ith judgment; harvest with care; and
market with intelligence.
Do you grow your fruit, reader, or do
you buy it? If you buy it, we will ven-
ture to say that you don’t have much.
Plant sweet corn in the garden for
family use. We always plant Stowcll’s
evergreen. It is late but its yield and
quality are excellent—Western Plow"
man. i
The Etta-1y G-azrdcn Crown.
The early crops are quickly destroyed 1
if neglected. Onions require careful
watching, as'ilie C'L‘l‘ly weeds may get
ahead of them in 48 hours should the
weather be warm for a fe-V w days. which .
doubles the work of the former. The
best time to destroy wccdsis when they
are germinating. Whenever the 110's
'VV'ard \Ir. Lyons asked M1.
mits warmth and Causes the seeds of
weeds to germinate. but kills those that ‘
. are just starting. '
JUDSON W. chus. 1
Prominent Colored Politician
“’hose Autograph Every Man and
Woman Likes to Have. '
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The name of a colored man appears
on evtery piece of paper currencv issued
by the United States government. That.
man is the register of the treasuiy,
Judson W. Ly.ons_ He was born in
1858, in Georgia, Was sent. to school in
Augusta, by his m'other, and after-
ward to the Augusta institute, teach-
ing school 11t-night to obtain meansof
support. In 1878 he was elected :1. dele-
gate to a congressional convention
meeting at Crawfordsville, Ga.. and
JUDSON Ky. LYONS.
(Register of the United State-13 Treasury.)
made a. fiery speech which led to
threats of lynching. Young Lyons .did
not. know of these threats, and was
greatly surprised, says Leslie's ll'cck-
l-y, when he VV'asinV'itc-d by 11011.13.ch-
ander E. Stephens, the cx-V'ice presi-
dent of the confederacy, who lived at
Crawfordsville, to become his guest.
At. three o’clock in the morning Mr.
Stephens’ secretary andvalet accom-
panied Ly ons to the depot and saw him
safely off for Atlanta. Some timeaftei—
Stephens
the reason for his entertainment, and
then learned, for the first time that
his life had been saved by the thought—
fulness of his friend. Mr. Lyons was a
member of the republican national
convention in 1880, and served in the
,internal revenue service of Georgia.
In 1884 he was graduated fr Howard
,universit-y, . at Washington, “and was
admitted to the bar in Augusta. He
was a presidential elector on the re-
publican ticket- in Georgia in 1802, and -
in 1896, as a delegate to the republican
national convention, voted for McKin-
l-ey. In 1898 he was appointed register
of the treasury. He is president. of the
board of trustees of Holmes college, Au-
gusta, and is one of the leading colored
men in the United States.
A PLEASANT PROSPECT.
Astronomers Say the Moon Is Getting
Ready to Fndl Onto the
Earth.
It is not likely to happen just yet.
awhile, but many astronomers are pre-
parel for the fall of. the moon at a dis-
tant date, says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
It is probable that eventually the
moon will be drawn well within the
sphere of attraction of the earth. At
present she is just far enough off to
be kept in tow, so to speak, and to
whirl round and round us as well as.
spin herself.
But when the inevitable time comes.
and she is drawn far into the attraction
radius, she is likely to be pulled right
down and fall onto the earth, for her at--
traction is, of course, much weaker than
ours. She is in more danger of this at
one time than another, and the danger
is increasing gradually but surely. It
may be. 10,000 or 151,000 years yet, but
when she does fall there will certain-1
1v be a terrific bump, and the whole
sy stem ofxthe cal th will be badly jolted.
It is calCulated that, taking the most
dangerous epoch of the year into con-
sideration and her consequent position, '
she is likely to fall on the northeastern
part of Europe,‘and will entirely wipe
Russia and Germany from the map.
Tidal waves and all sorts of horrors
will occur, and the fallen moon will
probably break up. The entire climate
of the world will be altered, and Eng-
land will probably be more or less' 1m—
proved according to the scientists.
The Gnspesi Escaping.
HALIFAX, N. S. April 12.—'1'he Ca-
nadian liner Gaspesi, with the assist-
ance of the sealing steamer Kite, is
making her escape from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence ice. She has been sighted 45
miles northeast of Meat Cove, C. B., and
is now near clear water .
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