*H1 ^asgii"-3* SW^^^,T ffift*'- ?y 'ffissf ftv^ v^sM 1 it for me?" She was almost frightened Farm and Household, A THANKSGIVING PAOTY. welcome, I feared to enter. To-night so as to be quickly read. An attention hibited at the Chicago Fat Stock as she looked up and met stem, I should have entered at all events to these seeming trifles is not. Show. I have a yearling bull (one white face. but when I saw you with your friends -i*it only desirable, but reputable. v*- year old last March) that weighs "It's your bedtime now, Lucy," interrupted about you, and, later, sitting here with Cnrrent Farm Xotes. Ifc was A neat, comfortable kitchen, If friends send you a letter of introduction ,r 1,200 pounds also a 2-year-old heifer her aunt. "We'll think it clasped hands, I felt sure of a welcome stating that intimate friends though wholly tacking in ornament. that weighs 1,400 pounds. They are In warfare with coarse weeds, and sure that you had forgiven the past over till morning." "And Lucy was of theirs are going to reside near you, thoroughbreds, and only a little heavier The fioor was as white as soap and and felt only pity for your wayward especially with Canada thistles, a glai to retire to the adjoining room, and. asking your kind attentions for than other members of the herd, santl mid witling hands could make it, son. Now I mean to cancel the suffering wondering what she could have said most useful weapon will be found to them, you should answer the letter at and hence I think the claim just that of the past by making the future to make Uncle. Jeiry look soso and was well-matched by the angular be a broad, sharp-edged chisel fitted once, and express your willingness to the Holstein is the comming cowahead happy." dreadful!" to the end of a staff, such as a hoe accede to their wishes. neglect to wooden chairs, which had become almost of all others for milk, butter An hour later Jerry Winters broke "Now, Uncle Jerry, I told you so! handle. This is used to thrust into do this would show you to be an illbred and cheese, and crowding the others ghastly from repeated scrubbings. the silence, which was already becoming Thanksgiving can amount to a great person, and would also be a the ground so as to cut off the weed for beef. Every farmer of neighborhoods Thte brass knobs on the dresser, oppressive. deal sometimes!" and the merry laugh slight which would be deeply .felt-by a few inches under the surface. Burdocks, which have ten or more cows ft JIC "I suppose we must do something and even the pendulum of the loudticking which followed was not less hearty because your friends. golden rods, and all other persistent can afford to buy a pure blood bull or the child will he homesick." it broke through tears of joy. consequeniclkto A old clock shone like burnished calf to use next spring, and make It may seem of little weeds which come up among "Yes," answered his wife. money from the first year. you whether your letter of intro gold, reflecting the beams of firelight the hoed crops after having been "Don't see how I can stop choppin' mner A Victim of the Cigarette." tion is written on the best note paper plowed under are quickly and effectively which brightened the dusky room. a day, with that contract on my you possess or on the poorest or subdued by this means. Wcerishoffer, the dead speculator, liaising- Turkeys. The tea kettle sang merrily, and hands, and Jake and Steve have both whether you call a day or two earlier will live in history as one of the most begged off for Thanksgiving. I wish Since the best methods of raising Atmt Esther passed to and fro, prevp&ring A prominent Western ranchman who or later upon a new comer or whether brilliant and daring of the Wall street there were no such days. I suppose turkeys have received special attention herds a large drove of cattle on the you are in the drawmg-room ready to the evening meal and watching millionaires. Like Gould, he began nothing less than a turkey will satisfy in your late issues, I take the opportunity Larimie Plains and keeps troughs of receive an expected visitor, or walking tforthe return of her husband from life in poverty. He started as an office the child?" of giving to the readers of in your garden, yet upon such salt, replenished once a week, near the boy, developed into a clerk, and finally the wood lot. "No but we can well afford it. Who your valuable columns amethod which little things much may depend. They watering-places of his cattle, says: blossomed out as a speculator. For is going to have our money after we I have found both expedient and lucrative A little girl stood by the western are not immaterial, because your reputation "Salt is my safety-valve as against twenty years this man has been engaged are gone? We may as well make the and if any one can derive some for good breeding may be involved window trying to read by the fastf&dtng distemper. When I keep salt constantly in the heaviest financial battles child happy and have a go~d time benefit by my so doing, I will go on by them. Of course persons before my cattle there never light. Her delicate face, long, of modern times. The capitalists ol once in our lives." my way rejoicing. raise turkeys may bring to you letters of introduction develops a case of blackleg. In the the metropolis recognized his generalship shining curls and dainty apparel, "She might be happy anyhow. It which will command the highest prices with whom you cannot desire an last twenty years I have two or three and looked up to him as a leader. seems a waste to me, I must confess." formed a bright contrast to the plain and insure you prolific success you intimate acquaintance. If so, you of those years neglected to salt, and He was a hard fighter, and was generally "Well, Jerry, we never wasted very must first dispose of that stupid breed should call, but it is not your poitive room. every time I have done so have lost successful. It is passing strange much that way, and it strikes me that which varies in color froi white to obligation to invite them to dinn^or 'What are you looking for in the cattle from blackleg, but have never that such a man, gifted with a superb if we had had more holidays and had black. There is no surer evidence of tea. Yet it is considered an exhibition lost one the years that I have salted. aimaaae, my child? You'll injure your will-power, should have been slain in made the old farm-house more congenial degeneration in any breed or poultry of kindness on your part to do so. It is a simple remedy, and not only the most inglorious of conflicts and to a young, lively spirit we eyes." But do not give the invitation with than instability of color. prevents the distemper, but gentles would have had our son with us in vanquished by the puniest of antagonists. an air of "it must be done, therefore "I nm trying to find when Thanksgivma If possible, I ascertain the retreat and otherwise improves the cattle. A our old age." This Colossus met his fate I do it."Home Journal. is but I can't see any longer." the turkey has taken to deposit her thousand head of cattle will take 10 0 "Esther!" when he tackled the cigarette. A briei ^You will be more apt to find ifc in eggs, and usually remove the eggs to pounds of bait per week. It pays rhe "I know we havn't mentioned him history of the struggle may serve to Cure For Croup. a dry place, and place them in v\ heat for years, Jeremiah, but, for all that, bast of any money that I invest. point a moral and convey a warning. -ha last paper, Lucy but I can tell In membraneous croup slacked lime bran, so as to avoid pressure. I set neither of us has lived a day without WoGrishoffer gradually drifted into the youit is a week from, next Thurs- A bridle to prevent a cow from is good. Pu a piece of lime in a ves- 1 several turkey hens at one time. When thinking of him." habit of inveterate smoking. He day." sucking herself is made as follows: A sel and slack with hot water and let the eggs are hatched and the young "Well, I did my duty by him, if ever smoked fifty cigarettes a day. He head stall is fitted with a buckle and the child inhale the steam. If the I i "Oh, Koody! so soon? We'll have turkeys are sufficiently strong to a father did by his child." kept it up for fifteen years, inhaling strap or a ring on each side a stout child will not bear to be near the leave the nest, I take the several "We did what we thought was for the smoke all the time. Years ago one of those big turkeys and a jolly surcingle is also fitted in vne same lime, keep it in the room until the broods to some adjoining field, either his best good but I fear we made Wcerishoffer saw danger ahead. Hid Jtime, won't we?" whole air is full of steam. The best way. A tough rod of hickory or white wheat or clover, and leave them to be some mistakes." head, heart, stomach and nerves remonstrated, "I am. afraid not. dear what put plan is to put a blanket over the ves oak is fastened on each side of the reared by the turkey hens. This "He was wild as a young colt nothing protested, and begged sel holding the lime, and over the that into your little head?" cow from the belt to the bridle this seems a cruel and neglectful way. could tame him!" The father spoke ii him to change his course. In their child, some grown person holding th makes it impossible for the cow to impatiently and scowled hard, lest his Nevertheless, it is the surest, easiest "Why, auntie, you told me when I agony they cried out against the fiendish child so as to regulate the steam, a reach the teats while it does not interfere face might show the love and longing and most profitable sisay to rear turkeys. cigarette, and denounced it. Colossus Jfir&t cam& that those turkeys were for let the steam pass off over 1 he mou in his heart. with her feeding. grinned sardonically. When he Thanksgiving. I've thought of it ever Repeat the slacking until the mfe, "He was lull of life, and fiery, too got ready he would down the cigarette, ^j iW since. My hens make money for me out oi brane softens or is coughed up. $n Care of Bedrooms. and, instead of guiding him gently in and not before. Slowly but surely the wheat stubble. No machine can is coughed up, repeat the treatment traces which could not gall, we bound It is scarcely necessary, nowadays, "Oh, yes, I did tell you so, Lucy,but the coils of smoke twined around their be made to cut so carefully that all in three hours for about two hours him, as it were, so tightly that he says the Boston Record, to warn victim, tightening their grip each day. I mea that we raised them to sell as the membrane is likely to form grain will be saved. The hens find broke the fetters and disappeared. one against heavy furniture in bedrooms. The man's heart turned into a big for Thanksgiving. We have not kept again in that time. If it only softens, We wanted him to be old and steady, this waste grain far easier than a man Householders have come to sponge saturated with nicotine. Still he &a,j since we were first married continue until the child coughs off all and his young spirit could not be subdued. can. It will pay to get enough wire understand the sanitary importance the smoker continued the fight. He your uncle doesn't care for such the mucous. My child was so bad I see it all now. There were fencing to make a portable coop and of perfect cleanliness in a sleeping room, would lie down when too feeble to that the doctors gave no hope but no companions for him, no 'jolly things. I missed it sadly at first, for move it about from one place to another. and that this cannot be secured with stand and smoke, whi'e his heartbeat times,' as Lucy says, and nothing told me to try lime. I began at 5 In this way the whole field furniture that may not be moved easily at the rate of 120 a minute. He said: -we always kept the holidays when I about the old farm worth staying p. m. and never stopped until 10 a. m. can be fed over. The hens will pick and often. But people in the average 'I have a German stomach, an Americanhead was a girl at home, but I've got used for." next day and then did it three times up their own living, and the manure home are slower to learn to do I amequal to anything." At to ifc now, after all these years." No answer but a smotherei groan. a day and all night for a week. It last he became alarmed. To his horror a^vay with wooden hangings and woolen will more than pay for the trouble. "I don't think I could," ventured "There, Jerry, I ain't blaming you was a work but my child is alive and and amazement he found that he carpets in bedrooms. Blankets Cor. Rural New-Yorker. Ihe child, looking solemnly through more than I do myself. We were wrong well to-day. He was very weak being could not give up the cigarette. He the year round excepted, there is no fehe twilight at the turkeys, com for t&biy and the boy was wrong, too. If we then SICK with congestive measles. tried time and again. He went to a need of any woolen, dust-lodging fibre settled for the night on the bare only knew where to find him we might A Poor Farmer. famous medical man and said: ''You in a chamber. Curtains and cushions limbs of the old apple tree. "Well, make it all right before we die. I warrant "As there is nothing for met do at Satisfied. shall have $50,000 in gold if you will are much more easily caied for when don't shed any tears yet, Lucy if you he has longed to return, but home I will got town ana see what emancipate me from the cigarette." made ot cottons.and for eight months People who live in that placid world -can get IJocle Jerry to consent, I'll do nride and fear have kept him back, is going on," says the poor farmer. The physician worked hard, but it was in the year straw matting is the best which is without information and my part. Better not speak of it til) lie can't know how we long for him, No other ever uses such language. It no go. The big, strong man, thegiant covering for a bedroom floor. Even in without ideas are, certainly, as haAy, after supper," she added in a whisper, for he never knew how much we loved is a poor farmer, indeed, who cannot who tossed money kings about like winter two or three rugs which may be as she heard her husband's footsteps in the animal sense, as the majority ol him we never told him!" always find somethirg to do at home. babies, lay hopelessly crushed under often shaken out of doors, are enough at the door. mankind,perhaps even happier. Ignorance "Oh, Esther!" Such a one will never find that farming a little ricepaper pigmy. "A remarkable to take off the chill look of the straw. So, with what patience she could with them is the bliss. Nothing "Well, father, I won't say any more. pays. He had rather sit on dry case," the medical men say. And this way of managing has the advantage command, Lucy waited till the supper disturbs these simple souls over All these thoughts have been crowded goods boxes at the store, and "bottom Very but there will be others like it. was cleared away, and they were gathered of cheapness as well as of much. Their sensibilities are dull. down in my heart so long that I chairs" at some hotel or saloon, Atlanta Constitution. around the crackling wood-fire, healthfulness and comfort. Wealth, aspiration, or knowledge are had to speak, and I think it'll do us than remain at home about his business. Aunt Esther with her knitting and nothing to them. Here is an illustration: i good, after all." He is naturally indolent, mentally Cnele Jerry with his paper. She drew nearer and laid her head Lesseps and His Younjr Wife. and physically. Besides, he is Frozon Babies. Lucy was his only sister's (Child. on his shoulder, while tears rolled A gentleman travelling in a sparsely mentally blind.or he would always be "Like Othello, De Lesseps won hia Sh was spending several months There is ore thing that the best ol down her wrinkled cheeks, and thus settled backwoods district came to a able to see something to be done at with him, while her parents traveled present beautiful wife by the narration nurses should not be allowed to do, they sat far into the night. little brown house among the trees at home, no matter what the weather libs the South, hoping to benefit her of his adventures and dangers," writes and that is to stand with a baby at a Tne next day among "the families of the base of a hill. On a lattice-wcM may be and he would also see that ssttotboaf's health. Tw brothers and "Carp" to the Cleveland Leader. "At window when the thermometer is much the neighboring farm-houses, there por^h, covered with morning-glory a|ic loafing and sitting around in the village 'one sister were at college, and were the age of 68 M. De Lesseps was left & below freezing. The cold fairly radiates was but one topic of conversation: cypress vines, sat a white-haired old could never make successful farmer. to spend their Christmas holidays widower, and had a troop of growr from the glass and strikes on the The invitation to spend Thanksgiving man and a little old woman. If there is nothing to do at the .at the farm house. This was the up sons and daughters. In a Paris delicate little lungs or legs when the with Jeremiah Winters. "Have you lived here long?" askec barn, in the corn house, or in the stable, iirsfc time Lucy bad been so long from ian family where M. De Lesseps ofter baby is short-coated. The nurse likes The eventful day came at last. Lucy the gentleman, who had stopped toast he can pretty generally find something lorae, and. occasionally she suffer*ed visited, there was a bevy of five sisters. to indulge her curiosity as to passersby with a dozen boys and girls, made the for a drink of water. to do in the house. Probably from homesickness and now, One day, while speaking of hi' rafters ring wilh their glad shouts. in the street, or to watch and see "Always," was the old man's reply the cellar or the stuff stored in it demands with the fear that the loved holiday Down stairs the best room was filled experience in Palestine, he said that who it i3 that is getting out of a carriage "We was born right in this county ,aiic his attention and there is his was to be slighted, an attack of that with the hum of elderly voices recounting he had undergone great dangers an' at the door, and the next thing a have lived forty year under this ioW.' wife, drudging from daylight until 4iread malady was certainly imminent. "old times," while in the sittingroom difficulties among the Arabs, becaus doctor's carriage has to draw up and "Yes but I suppose you have beer bed time, and perhaps past the time .She felt her courage ebbying away, the young people were eating they could not conceive how a mai the baby is treated for croup or pleurisy. away from home more or less dur'that when she ought to be in bedhe can ..and hopelessly sat very still, looking apples and counting the seeds, with could live without a wife. The pret time?" At no time in winter is a window always do something to help her out, into the tire, till all the curling, writh&ng much jest and laughter, sly glances tiest of the sisters innocently asked "Ma has," was ther ply ''"faauook and she will be very grateful for a little flames melted into nebroad sheet a good place for a baby to be held. and blushes. a trip once. She went to see'her sistei 'Of bright mistiness, and thenthere 'Why, then, do you not marr aid, if it is nothing more than peeling Except AVben there is a double sash, In the kitchen a long table was loaded were two big tears on her rosy cheeks. what lives in Sikesville." a mess of potatoes or rocking the again?' 'Because I am too old,' re there is generally a good deal of cold with jjood things, while Aunt Esther Uncle Jerry, who, underneath his "Where is that?" cradle. We have no patience with the plied M. De Lesseps. He then tol air coming through the- openings, and with plenty of help, was completing Isar exterior, -had a really kind heart, "In Pike County, 'bout sixty mile man who can find nothing to do at his young listeners about the rose the panes themselves chill the air in the preparations for dinner. was watching her over nis paper, and from heie. That was a big trip foi home. He is a failure, a miserable Jericho, which, after being dried ant their close vicinity. There is a young Uncle Jerry excitedly went from .saw the tears, the sly, quick brush of ma, that was." failure. He brings suffering to all connected placed in water, again bursts out inti Philadelphia father who so objects to room to room, trying to appear as if itwo little white hands, and a brave "You have been ouu of this county, with him, and everything alive bloom. Soon afterward he obtained have any influences except his own this sort of thing was of common occurrence 'effort to keep back a sob which was I suppose, of course?"'' around him suffers from his neglect. one of these roses and presented it tr and his wife's brought to bear on in h's house. For the first struggling to escape. "Homesick!" "No, sir I never was, and what's The intelligent, competent farmer never the young girl. In a few days she ap the teaching of his children that he time in her life, his wife had asserted Le thought "and no wonder, with two more, I don't reckon I ever shall go goes to town unless he has business peared with the re-blossomed rose ir. has thought of advertising for a deaf her right to entertain her friends, and iu old folks like us," and for a moment out of it. Ma didn't like Pike County there, and when his business is done, her hand, which she gave to the honored and dumb agnostic to take charge of now he fait glad that she had persevered. he wanted to take her in his anas and when she got back che said shem, he goes home and fiuds something to guest, saying at the same time, the nursery. A near-sighted nurse, or He was surprised to find what and. soothe her as her own father had her fill of trav'lin'. An' I've ha do. 'See what a miracle the water has ef one who would have no inducement to pleasant neighbors he had. would but he had so long repressed mine 'fore I started," continued the old fected upon the rose it is the blossoming look out of the window, would be &&1 tender ways, that he could not It was night, and the merry-making man, with a grim laugh. of love in old age.' M. De Les quite a treasure on cold days and itnanifest his sympathy. But -something Preserrlng Esrgs With Salt. was at its height. The walls eehoed "But wouldn't you like to know sep3, believing that his Desdemona must be done. Rising abruptly, save doctors' bills.Phila. Ledger. laughter and song, and from every The prizes so far the past year for something about the great world and A lie took a. pan from the dresser and had a meaning in what she said, qui window hahts gleamed far out into preserved eggs have, whenever they 9 the great cities around you sf&rterf for the cellar, saying, "Esther, the darkness. etly said: If you really think that you have competed, been awarded to "Iknow all I want to 'bout 'em. Wt Letters ef Introduction. $io!d the light for me I want some of From the village depot, five miles dare venture to share the remaining those preserved in salt. The method take the county paper, The Bugle, and them i*U. apples they won't keep away, a traveler was walking over If letters ot introduction are given years of an old man, here is my hand.' follows: Use dry, fine salt place a know all we want to from that. Io i." the lonely road as if eager to join the But for his marriage it is very uncertain layer on the bottom of a keg deep Home's the best place for folks,'cordin' you to present youself or family to the time a share of the fruit had joyous party but when at length he whether the bold projector would to my thinkin'." enough to set the eggs on the large the notice oE mutual acquaintances, -disappeared, Lucy had resained her came in sight of the manv lights, he have undertaken his laborious task "And you think so too, do you?" ends, side by side then cover with send them in an envelope with card x^tod wpk'ifcs, and, with new courage, stopped in amazement. Nearer and asked the traveller of the old lady. at Panama. She is always at his side, salt, thus alternately putting in a exclaimed: "Uncle Jerry, can't we nearer he came, till through the unshaded and address inclosed in it. "La yes," she replied, simply. and has been his chief help and sup layer of eggs and a layer of salt. The iiax-e Thanksgiving this year? I'd like windows he saw the friendly was the happiest woman you ever se It is much better to thus introduce port." salt being dry runs all about the eggs, to scene within. With a glad smile on after I come back from that trip to yourself to their notice than to call in and, if kept in a dry cellar, lowers his face he turned away, and, standing "Nonsense, child. What would it Sikesville, thirty-six year ago. I've person, for by so doing you may avoid their temperature. When the keg is A Celebrated Coral Necklace. to?*7 in the deep shadow of a pine, he amount never wanted to go away irom home an unpleasant position. You are a full, put on the lid tightly. This will watched long and patiently. *Why we'd have a jolly time. We A Roman letter in the Paris Figaro sence. I couldn't be hired to go into perfect stranger to the lady, and although keep eggs for six months, which secures a4wajfe did at home." At last, after a host of thanks and one of them big cities. I'd never get your name is mentioned by has a word about the celebrated coral them for use an entire winter, or '*YMS a big dinner one day and the pleasant "farewells," all was still, out alive." your mutual friend, yet it will take a necklace of the queen of Italy. It is a carries them from a dull to a high -kHo the next." and only three sat in the deserted |'l am quite sure you would enjoy a few seconds for her to read it, while well-known fact that she wears it continually, market. It is tne cheapest and best rooms. "It never made me sicknever in trip where you could see some of the you must stand, hat in hand, waiting method, and the eggs are fresh and as the world." A hush fell over them, and they and even on occasions ol great inventions of modern science, and a reception which may not always be good, for all purposes but hatching. -"But what's the good, anyhow?" looked thoughtfully into the flickering gain some idea of the progress the grand toilette she carries it under a a cordial one. For in these days of "Mastnna thinks it's good and she's fire. Lucy, climbing on her uncle's Country Home. world is making in everything." agents of all kinds, and it this lagging river of sparkling diamonds. The always right. Just last year papa knee, thanked him so prettily for the "Don't care a copper 'bout it,"sajd age, people of respectable appearance 1J necklace has a history: thought we'd better not have a dinner, day's pleasure that he bent andki3sed the old man, decidedly. "Modefh will force themselves into your houses Grade Holsteims for the Dairy. for mamma wasn't strong, and her. Then, holding out his hand to Five years ago the prince of Naples, science, whatever that is, don't bother and insist upon seeing some one of its TFO w**re so disappointedI was, anywayand his wife, he said: her son, heir apparent to the throne J. C. Wade in Holstein-Friesian Register. us none. In my opinion, the world's occupants, solely for the purpose of mam ma put her arm aro und "This little lady has thanked me, of Italy, was strolling through a street trav'lin' 'long a good deal faster 'n it A few months since I visited a dairyman obtaining money for themselves or -sne and said: 'We'll all help and do but we both ought to thank you. It in Venice, when his eye was attracted ort to, anyhow. No, sir me an'ma we in New York who had for years others, and therefore strangers are *the beat we can, for we mustn't miss has been a pleasant day to me." by the necklace in the show-window of get along jest where we are. We've got kept good common cows. Four years looked upon with suspicion at their Iceeping a holiday. When my boys a jewelry shop. The idea at once This was a great deal for this man good neighbors, an we're comfortable ago he bought a fine, purebred Holstein entrance into a parlor, and while your -and jiuishavegone out into the world, I struck him to buy it for his mother, to say, and they were silent again, but well off, an' we don't bother ourselves bull and crossed upon his cows. letter is beingread, you must fall -want them have the remembrance of the queen. But the price was far beyond each one happy through making others 'boutnothin'." Last year his two-year old heifers somewhat under this suspicion. Kf chappy childhood and a, pleasant the capacity of his pocket glad. gave double the quantity of milk his Yet if the mutual friend possessed liomt* t* help them over the hard places money, and though destined to be Then the door opened and a stranger common cows did, or, in other words, the righ*- introduce you, the moment Doc Johnson, of Littlefield, IdaluW thy will find. I will make them better King Victor Emmanuel III., he was entered. He was tall and heavily his and your name are comprehended he received 8,000 pounds of milk instead won money of another gam bier know% meaa nd women, I'm sure so order compelled to ask the jeweler for credit. bearded but a mother's eye will know you ought to receive a,cordial of 4,000, which at 1 cent a as French Joe, and a quarrel follow- the lurkey. papa.' I remember it all, The bargain was that the prince her own, and, with a cry which expressed welcome, but if he has been more kind pound at first glance would seem to ed._ Joe, who was a big man, weighing Uncle Jerry, 'cause I thought mamma should buy the necklace, pearl by the yearning of years, "My than wise, and the mistress is worldly 195 pounds, slapped Doc, who is be just double$80 to $40. But see w*s going to cry, her voice trembled pearl, according as he could save boy!" she was tolded in his strong embrace, wise, the reception may not be a very slight. Doc asked him to stop, and .sb and believe I should have cried a moment. Times were hard and feed enough from his' pocket money. On while about them both were warm one. Make a short call at that snysrSt if she hadn't said "turkey.' when Joe didn't stop drew a pistol high, and it cost $3 0 each to keep the leaving the jewelry shop on the first clasped the father's trembling arms. time, and if, being a gentleman, you and shot him dead. This was in Doc's occasion the prince carried away with common cows and $10 each to keep "She ever had many good things to No one knew how long they sat togetherthe are requested to call again soon be gambling house, which was crowded. him five pearls, which he carefully the grade Holsteins, which left a prof-' wmvtttljer," said Uncle Jerry, thinking long separated family sure to to so. After the shooting Doc treated tq guarded. It was two years before he -of their hard, orphaned life. it of four times as much for the Holsteins. once more united. Lucy, with wide Letters of introduction should never crowd, and after drinking walked was able to buy the whole necklace. "Perltaps that is why she wanted open eyes, enjoyed to the utmost He has also sold his threefourths be sealed, but left open to be read the dead man, who lay where he let When the queen afterward learned the tier children to be always happy," the crowning excitement, much grade Holstein calves for $3 0 by the one who presents them, and to secret of the purchase, she made a resolve and said: "Well, Joe. you have beel isurested Aunt Esther. pleased with the tall cousin of whom each, when common calves were be at once opened by the one who to wear this charming exhibition looking for this for the'last five day] "eT she had never heard. ab? said so once,** continued worth only $5 each. Here is another reads. of her son's love on all occasions, I tried to avoid it. May God blel_ liucy, picking apple seeds out of a "Oh, John, why didy ou stay away four-fold profit. I saw a pair of grade They should be written upon the and hence she wears it everyday you and foi-giveyou for taking advantage -core "and I think. Uncle Jerry, it you so long?" ventured the mother. Holstein .steers at the breeding farm it*** best note paper obtainable, and the and gives it a place even when she of me." then gave $100 toward fcad some little boys and girls, you'd "I came back once, five years ago, of P. C. Stevens, Esq., Attica, N. Y., envelope should match it exactly. wears her state jewels on great occasions. the funeral expenses. The Cor feel quite different about it. Bu I'm and saw you and father through the which at 26 months old weighed 3,550 The hand-writing should be made oner's jury exonerated Doc from Sovtr tittle girl this year won't 3MI do window. But, knowing I deserved no pounds. I believe they are to be ex- very legible and the lines wide apart, blame.