WINNIE'S FORTUNE. FARM, FELD, AND FIRESIDE. meant to be withering sarcasm, after determined to bring my girl up to de* farmer's land was given him he is in and selfish, and, when old enough, 0 the last guest had gone, and she pend on herself and to learn the value debt and complains of hard times and disappointed with the position in stood a moment before the fire "I of money before she had the handling bad luck spends evenings at the grocery life in which they find themselves. The handsome dining-room in the only hope you are satisfied—particularly of her fortune. She has no idea General Farming Information. discussing the tariff on wool and Not long ago I noticed Mayberry mansion was all a glitter with the attention Ernest paid fhe's an heiress—my heiress. Sounds tobacco he has no shelter for hie in a car a pietty little girl, clad. Probably the first swine brought to to that young woman—very unnecessary •with floods of gaslight and the genial like a story out of a book, eh, Mayberry? sheep, but ample storage for "the a coat of silk plush, trimmed with the United States came from Spain attention, indeed." Well, will you shake hands on weed." chinchilla. She had pretty new boots iglow of the fire—for Mr. Joseph Mayfcerry and were brougt by DeSoto in 1553 Mr. Maberry rubbed his hands together it and call it a bargain?" The dwellings and outbuildings of and silk stockings, one or two rings, was a very "queer man," according Nova Scotia and Newfoundland had briskly. and a gold necklet and chain. "A Mr. Mayberry took the little driedup the other farmer are always neatly to his wife's opinion, and this them from England as early at 1553 "Satisfied? Yes, thankful to God I hand almost reverently, his voice painted, fences in good order, each pretty child," I said to the conductor. fancy of his to have nasty, ashy fires Canada received them in 1608 from had it in my power to make them forget hoarse and thick with emotion. "Yes, sir. She is mine. That's her tool stored in its place, the stock all their poverty, if for only one little Prance. all over the splendid mansion before "Wilmington, God will reward you housed, he and his family tidily clothed, mother," he answered, pointing to a hour. Did you see little Jimmie for this. May He, a thousandfold!" common looking woman rather poorly he is out of debt and has a good the weather became cold enough was Here is the amount of seed required Hurd's eyes glisten when Ernest gave dressed in a dingy brown suit made Wilmington winked away a suspicious bank account, although he began with •one of h's "ence^itrie freaks," Mrs. for two rows,—75 feet each: Turnips, him the second triangle of pie? Bless moisture on his eyelashes. of some cheap goods—The Epoch. but little. He attributes his success 11-2 ounce onions, 4 ounces for sets Mayberry called it, with a curl of her the youngster's hearts. They won't "You see it all comes of that dinner, to the persistent care of everything onions, 1 ounce for large bulbs peas, have anything to eat for a week." lip, a toss of the head and a smile, old fellow. You acted like a that comes into his possession. He Keep Young, Married Ladies. 11-2 quart radish, 3 ounces squash, "I was speaking of the young woman charitable Christian gentleman, and says his father had a place for everything almost of contempt, directed at the From the Philadelphia News. 1 1-2 ounce tomato, 1 1-2 ounce who between us we'll make the boy and and required his boys to keep iiaie, hearty, honest-faced old gentleman There is no reason why a married Mr3. Mayberry was icily severe, but green corn, 2gills cucumbers,2 ounces Winnie as happy as they deserve, eh?" everything in place, so they could put who had married her for her lady with grown-up children snould her husband cut it short. lettuce, 1 ounce celery, 1 1-2 ounce their hand on any tool or implement pretty face ten years ago, when he leave off any accessories of dress, such "So you were—pretty little thing as cabbage, 1-2 ounce beets, 2 ounces in the darkest night. Many times And even Mrs. Mayberry admits ever I saw. A ladylike, graceful little when a tool had been carelessly left as lace, ribbon, fec. that are becoming "Was an immensely rich widower, with asparagus, 4 ounces beans, pole, 2 that it was a good thing" that her gkl, with br-artiful eyes enough to excuse out of place his father would in some to her. Keep yourself young as gills beans, bush, 1 1-2 quart beans, his handsome half-grown son for a husband gave that dinner, and when the boy for admiring her." way detect the culprit without asking long as possible, and if your husband ^Liima, 1 1- pint. aot undesirable encumbrance. she expects to see Mrs. Ernest Mayberry "The boy. You seem to have forgotten questions, and then when night set in likes to see you wear delicate, pretty an honored guest at her board your son is 23—old enough to Mr. William Richardson, of Lancaster, he would ask for that tool and send They were sitting around the handsome colors in your home dresses and you she candidly feels that she owes every fall love and marry even a poor, has been successful in growing the guilty one to get it. Once this look young in them select such colors. table, discussing their 7 o'clock atom of her splendor and luxury to unknown girl you were quixotic man was called out of bed in a stormy alfalfa for fodder. He has for several Maroon, garnet and ecru are colors the voilet-eyed, charming girl who dinner, with the solemn butler and enough to invite to your table." night and required to go half a mile years cut his first crop on the 6th suitable to any age, while pink, although wears her own honors with such sweet his subordinate in silent, obsequious "Twenty-three' So he is. And if into the woods to get an axe he had of June, and gets three good crops grace.—New York Evening World. it is not a street color, is he wants to marry a beggar, and she thoughtlessly left there. "Such constant attention—these three Mayberrys, from the same ground each year. Cattle quite suitable for tea gowns and ribbons, is a good virtuous girl—why not?" drilling," he says, "made a man father, son and the haughty, welldressed are very fond of it. Horses do An Amusing Reception Incident. especially as it is usually quite of me."—Galen Wilson in N. Y. Tribune. A little gasp of horror and dismay well on it. Hogs like it as well as lady who was wearing a decided an assistance to a pale complexion. was the only answer ot which Mrs. they do clover. It is very nourishing. While a youthful mode of dress in itself frown of displeasure on her face Mayberry was capable. It will not winter kill. Its roots have There are frequent scenes with office, will not make a middle-aged woman —a frown she had barely power to restrain been followed ten feet into the earth, For the Cook seekers and claimants of various look younger, a well-preserved from degenerating into a verbal "Grandpa!" and in the longest drouths it finds kinds at the white house afternoon receptions, woman can cheat time out of many SYRUP FOR BUCKWHEAT CAKES.—Add expression of anger while the servants "Winnie's voice was so low that Mr. moisture and in the coldest winters it and the performances are years. two and one half pints of cold water Wilmington only just heard it, and were in waiting, and which, as escapes the frost. often as ludicrous as the performers to five pounds of common white sugar. when he looked he saw the girl's crimson the door finally closed on them leaving are persistent. One of the best known Keeping Baby Quiet. Set this in a kettle at the back of the cheeks and her lovely" drooping In view of the probable high price the little party alone over the wine characters of this kind is a woman face. stove where the sugar will melt slowly. of seed potatoes next spring, "The From the Savannah News. who has a pension claim, and she is and nuts, burst forth impetuously: "Yes, Winnie. You want to tell me When it is melted, bring the syrup N. E. Farmer" advises culling the A lady in Pensacola, temporarily something?" on hand at every reception, and "I declare, Mr. Mayberry, it is too small ones very closely for planting forward and let it come to a boil. As deprived of the services of a nurse, ha3 She went up behind him and leaned haunts the president with a perseverance a practice which proves very profitable soon as it boils, skim it and set it foad! I have gone over the list of invitations adopted a novel mode or keeping baby her hot cheek caressingly against his, that must be agonizing. Yesterday in his personal experience. "A where it will cool. you have made, and to out of mischief and in content at her sweet, low voice whispering her afternoon she was present as sound potato the size ot a shagbark the same time. Placing all of his think there is not one— no not one— answer: BAKED EGGS.—Grease a pie pan well usual, and missing her chance or a pig walnut, if planted early in Of oar set among them, uid such a playthings in a large washtub, she "Grandpa, I want to tell you something. with butter, break into it as many as the other visitors passed, she rich soil, will be pretty sure to bring puts the little fellow in with them, Jiorrid lot of people as you have I—Mr. May—we—Ernest has eggs as it will conveniently hold, and rushed wildly after the president a satisfactory crop. For very early and there he plays, unable to get out, aiamed'" asked—he wants me to—oh, grandpa, bake for a moment or twom a hot as he walked down the corridor. potatoes we usually select small, and perfectly happy until he gets Mr. Mayberry sipped his wine contentedly. can't you tell what it is?" oven till the whites are fully set and the whole seed, setting the potatoes with Sh? headed him off, and grasping him sleepy and hungry. Tne father calls He felt her cheek grow hotter yolks done to taste then slip on to a the sprout end up, in a warm, light by the hand remarked: the boy Diogenes. "I told you, didn't I, Marguerite, against his. dish and serve. The eggs may be room, a few weeks before planting, to that it was my intention to give an He reached up his hand and caressed "How do you do, Mr. Cleveland?" A baked single in small stoneware dishes, start the 'terminal' buds. In this •old-fashioned dinner? And by that I the other one. happy New Year." Tricks of Manner. and served in them. way, the seed being placed closely in meant, and mean, to whom it will, in-deed, "Yes, I can tell, dear. Ernest has Then gathering him by the coat collar, Avoid them by all means. Many pans or on shelves, the side buds or because for thankfulness. As to shown his good sense by wanting you before he could make any response, TEA CAKE.—One even cup of white good and kind people, with many excellences making a grand fuss, and seeing for his wrfe. So this is what come of eyes do not start very much and the she leaned over and whispered sugar, one-half cup butter, two e^gs. of character, render themselves around our table only the that dinner, eh, Winnie?" confidentially in his ear, at the same whole seed gives us no more vines Beat these until they ar^ creamy, disagreeable, nay, odious to people to whom a luxurious "And may I tell him you are willing, time forcing into his hand a formidable than cut pieces of large potatoes." then add a good half cup of cold water others, merely from lack of—shall it dinner is an every-day occurrence—I perfectly willing, grandpa? Because I document. and two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls In selecting a place to plant a grapeVine be said?—lack of delicacy, or want of shall not do it. And as to the guests do love him, you know." "They have ordered the payment of baking powder, one teaspoonful remember that the plant needs a •on my list being 'horrid' and 'coinsnon,' observation. They pick their teeth, "And you are sure it isn't his money the claim, Mr. President," she finally lemon beat thoroughly. Bake in a great amount of sunshine—sun hea,t. you are mistaken, my dear. or, worse still, suck them, smack their you are after, eh?" exclaimed aloud. "They have ordered long tin, and cut while warm in 2?one of them have a worse failing It cannot get it on the north side of a lips at table, or make other disagreeable payment, or at least they will if I She did not take umbrage at the squares. than poverry. There is not a 'common,' building, or wood lot, or high hill. Do noises when drinking or taking sharp question. can only get your signature. Oh! do vulvar person among the ten sign it, Mr. Cleveland, and I will be so not set a grapevine close by the sink soup. If they help themselves to any "I am at least sure it is not BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.—The ingredients •names on that paper." my money he is after, grandpa," she grateful to \ou," and in her enthusiasm drain, where it will be surfeited with dish on the table they bring it up beside of this pudding are ten heaped Mr. Mayberry's good old face Hght«d returned, laughing and patting his she fell upon the president's moisture all the season, nor in cold, their own plate, edges touching, tablespoonfuls of Indian meal, three up warmly as lie spoke, and Ernest cheek. broad expanse of shirt front and and perhaps plunge the spoon into dry loam, in regions where the season pints of milk, a cup of molasses, two Mayberry's handsome face reflected "Yes, you are at least sure of that smiled effusively. the heterogeneous mass in the plate, is a little too short, but put it where eggs, a tablespoonful of butter, and a the satisfaction and pride he felt in there, I hear the young man coming The president tried to return the or clean it off with their own knives, its roots will be warm all summer. A teaspoonlui of salt. Scald the milk, bis father's views. himself. Shall I go Winnie?" smile, but it was a sickly effort, and a proceeding most exasperating to dry knoll may be better than a mudhole, pour it over the meal, add the butter Mrs. Mayberry flushed, but said It was the "young man himself," as he glanced gloomily at the document persons of fastidious natures. though good land is best for the and salt, and when cool the egg nothing. Ernest Mayberry, with a shadow of now in his possession, he only grape as well as for other fruits, provided beaten and ginger if you wish. Others clean their ears, pare their She knew from experience that, deep trouble and distress on his face said- "1 will do what lean." The it is not too cold or too wet. I Fill the bag, which should nails, hawk and clear their throat, as he came straight up to Winnie and few lingering visitors who witnessed kind and indulgent as her husband Successful grape growing requires a be of stout cotton, buttered forgetting that in the privacy of their was, there were times when he sufter•ed took her hand, then turned to the old the scene, were visibly amused, and the good deal of pruning and thinning of the own rooms they should attend to all and floured, two-thirds full. Tie it gentleman. president, with a weary air, departed. no appeal from his decision. And fruit.—New England Farmer. such matters ot personal cleanliness. tight and suspend it in boiling water this was one of those times. "Until an hour ago I thought this from the centre of the cover of the "We will have dinner oi'dered for 12 would be the proudest, happiest hour Jay Gould's First Sweetheart. Senator Palmer of Michigan does Bn Search af Hidden Treasure. •o'clock, as it used to be when I was a of my life, sir, for I should have asked pot. Let it boil eight or ten hours, not allow a cross word to be used upon An article in the Chicago Tribune feoy. We will have roast turkey with you to give me Winnie for my wife. the longer the better. I his stock farm and he tells his New York Sun: The treasure of cranberry sauce, and mashed potatoes Instead, I must be content to only tell gives an account of Jay Gould, and men in working the horses that they which the party is in search is undoubtedly DOUGHNUTS—One egg, one cup sugar, and turnips, boiled onions and you how dearly I love her, and how describes the way in which the great should give them water to drink that supposed to be contained two teaspoonfuls melted lard, onehalf «elery, and all on the table at" once. patiently and hard I will work for her millionaire went a-wooing when he whenever they want a drink themselves. in the wreck of the Phantom, For dessert, pie, cheese and cider, and cup thick milk, same of sweet to give her the home which she deserves—because, was a poor young man. It says: Jay Palmer has his stock so trained which was sunk about twenty-five not bins more. Marguerite, shall I Mr. Wilmington, this milk, three teaspoonfuls of cream of Gould's first sweetheart now keeps a miles off Belize many years ago while that the colts will come up and ^v« the order to Lorton, or will you morning the house of Mayberry & tartar, one and one-halt teaspooufuls boarding-house at Plattsburgh, N. Y. under the famous buccaneer Morgan. rub their noses against him when he attend to it?" Thruston failed and both families are of soda, mix soft. She is elderly and gray-haired now, comes into the' field, and he says Numerous unsuccessful attempts to Mrs. Maybprry twisted her diamond beggars." and is not strikingly handsome, but recover the treasure have Deen made. that the average horse has considerably rings almost roughly. Use of Oatmeal. His handsome face was pale, but his in her day she was blithesome and Customs Inspector Van Bremer more serse than the "Oh, don't ask me to give such an eyes were bright with a determination pretty. She was the daughter of said that he knew of the plans The Scotch use of oatmeal—the national average man. He was led into keeping insane order to him." I have no and braveness nothing could daunt. a country storekeeper. Jay Gould, of the party and had heard trom Percheron horses by his admiration dish with consequent health wish to appear as a laughing stock Winnie smiled back upon him, her after leaving his father's farm, went to them frequently since they left. From of a picture of Rosa Bonheur's, fcefore my servants, Mr. Mayfoerry. and rosy cheeks and beautiful cornchildren, own cheeks paling. work in the store and promptly fell in communications he had received he who had taken these horses lor her It will be as severe plexion of the "Never mind, Ernest, on my account. impressed love with the rosy-cheeked maiden. was convinced that the party would models. was thus led into the a&train on my enduranee as I am capable I can wait, too." Queen Victoria, and upon returning But the old man had much higher return rich. He stated that one of to be forced to sit at a table study of tne Percheron horse and he Old Mr. ^Wilmington'b eyes were almost ordered that the place at which the party had been views for his daughter than a marriage to England she with such people as the Hurds and says that this hocse is the best breed shut behind-the heavy frowning was Kingston, Jamaica. with a young man his own shop young people of the Royal household the Masons, and that Thvr/a Green in the world for general purposes. forehead, aud a quizzical look was on and her lame brother, and that little would realize. He not only gave young Some time ago it was mentioned be given this diet once a day. Mrs. his shrewd old face as he listened. old Wilmington and his granddaughter, Gould to understand that a marriage in the newspapers that certain "Gone up, eh? Well, that's too bad. Dickie notes this fact and adds a confirmatory Typhoid and Low Water. and"— was out of the question, but dispensed bankers in this city had just received You stay here and tell Winnie I am reminiscence 'and a recipe: Mr. Mayberry interrupted her gently: That typhoid fever should prevail 8,000 Spanish doubloons, coins of a with his services as well. Jay took just as willing she shall be your wife "When I weaned my baby at fourteen after such a protracted late summer century or so ago, and of the value of his rejection philosophically enough, when you want her, as if nothing had months old I fed him three times "Old Mr. Wilmington was a friend drouth as the country experienced $15.93 each. All the information and gave himself up to the work of happened, because I believe you can a day on oatmeal gruel with a little of mine long before he went to India. that the firm would give as to the this year is plainly in the cause and earn bread and butter for both of making aiortune. While he was growing sugar in it. As he grew older I Since he came home with his son's intan effect. Professor John Collett, who coins was that they had come from you, and my Winnie is a contented richer and richer and piling up gave brown bread, vegetables daughter and lived in such ob-scurity—comfortable, seems to have made a special study West Indies. The dates of the coins little girl. I'll hobble up to the office million upon million, his old love was and oatmeal mush. A although plain, and the la^'ge number of them received and see your father he and I were of the effects upon the soil waters of vainly trying to battle with misfortune. more healthy child you never saw. for Winnie earns enough as daily governess indicate that they must have corns boys together a word of sympathy exposure of surface earth to alternate Her father, who had plumed My children have had oatmeal—especially to support them both cheaply from an ancient hoard of some sort. won't come amiss from me." air and moisture, refers to drouths of himself so proudly on the ownership in the fall and winter—for —I regard him as more worthy than If the Maria went from here direct to And off he strode, leaving the lovers 1850, 1852, 1856, and other years nearly five years. Sickness is not of the "general store," failed the husband ever. Ernest, my boy, I shall call upon Belize got up part of the treasure alone, getting over the distance in a when virulent types of zymotic diseases known in our family, and why? Simply whom she took after Jay Gould -Y you to help entertain our guests, and took it to Jamaica for shipment remarkable time, and presenting his desolated the land. The water because oatmeal, brown bread and had gone away brought little to her, and especially at table, for I shall here, and is now on her way back for wrinkled, weather-beaten old face in is vitiated not only by corresponding vegetables took the place ot meat and and eo at the end she endeavors to have no servants about to scare them Mayberry & Thurston's private office, more, the party has enriched itself already organic matter, but poisonous mm" hot rolls, especiahy those of the eke out an income by opening her out of their appetites." to the amount of $127,000. where Mr. Mayberry sat alone with bakery. Myself and husband used to erals which are rendered soluble house to summer boarders. She has And Mr. Mayberry dismissed the rigid face and keen,troubled eyes,that by the exposure. The safeguard recommended have dyspepsia very badly but since To Harness Niagara Faffs, subject by arising from the table. a wondrous amount of philosophy in f:. nevertheless lighted at the sight of his we have changed our diet—and don't by Professor Collett is the her make-up, and very little envy. old friend. From the Buffalo Commercial. worry—we have peifect health. Let drinking of none but pure water. mmtSkt "Would I like to go? Oh, grandpa, She is bright, good-natured and contented "I'm glad to see you, Willmington. me say here that if you will grind "Yes, the $1 00,000 purse to be presented Clean rainwater is always safe, but if I should! Will we go, do you think'" with what fortune has brought Sit down. The sight of a man who has about three teacups of oatmeal in the to ths first successful inventor not obtainable other water can be The little, wizened old man looked —or ought one to say left?—her. Some not come to reoroach me is a comfort." coftee mill and stir it into about three rendeied generally safe by boiling it of some practical method of utilizing •fondly at her over his steel-rimmed of Jay Gould's relatives spend a few quarts of boiling water, salted, I before use. These drinks are rather the water power of the Niagara river But Mr. Wilmington did not sit weeks at her farmhouse every year, think you will like it better. If soaked vapid to the taste, because in the has all been subscribed, and I am *Se you'd like to accept Mr. Mayieirry's down. but Jay himself never goes there." over night in cold water it is much case of rainwater there are no salts to invitation to dinner, eh, Winnie? glad of it, remarked Mr. James B. He crossed the room to the table at improved and makes more than give it zest, and in the case of boiled You wouldn't be ashamed of Stafford, president of the Business which Mr. Mayberry sat among a where it is cooked when you begin to poor old-fashioned grandfather, eh, spring water the carbonic acid which How to Escape Mortgages. Men's association, to a Commercial hopeless'array of papers. prepare your meals. This can be gives such sprightliness of flavor is among the fine folks of the family? "There's no use wasting words,Mayberry, done only in cool weather, as excessive reporter. Burdette, Kan., Bugle. Remarkably fine folks, I hear, for all mostly driven out by the heat, especially at a time like this. Did you heat will cause it to sour." "Do you think the invention will I can remember when Joe was a boy In answer to the question, "Is a if long continued. This is healthful know your son has asked my Winnie ever be completed successfully?" together with myself. Fine folk. Win.nie, farmer in western Kansas obliged to in the water it is mildly cleansing to marry him?" "Most certainly. See the 'letters I Guard the Tongue. and you think we'd better go?" mortgage his farm?" an old settler to the mucous lining of the food passage. Mr. Mayberry's face lighted a second, have received from California, New Try to speak well of people, even "I would like to go, grandpa. I gives the following, which if pursued A cheap, convenient means of then the gloom returned. York, Chicago and a dozen other •don*t have any recreations—I don't when it is much easier to make some adding it, as seasoning, to pure rainwater by the farmer might finally leave him "If my son had a fortune at his places this morning. Why, we have want many, for I think contended, cutting remark that gives you a reputation would promote the use of the command, as 1 thought he had yescerday in full possession ot his land: "First oyer a bashel of them altogether, honest labot" is the grandest thing in for wit and originality, although get a pension from Uncle Sa then, best of beverages.—N. Y. Tribune. at this time, I would say, 'God soma of them from the best engineers the world, and the best discipline— the very ones who hear these soeed you in your wooing of Winnie after settling down on your land, in the country, and some from fout, somehow, I can't tell why, but 1 can not help feeling uncomfortably Wilmington.' As it is—for the girl's build a sod house (without flour) for cranks of every age and size, I should want to go. I can wear my blacK Two Examples for Boys. suspicious that you will do the same sake I disapprove." your family to live in use no sugar judge. The best engineers, however, cashmere, and you'll be so oroud of For benefit of boy readers I describe favor for them. To paraphrase "So you haven't a pound over and in your tea or coffee drink all skim say the power can be utilized, and, as me." two farms and their owners familiar above, eh, Mayberry?" Shakespeare, when you take from a milk eat meat only twice a week we all know, greater inventions than "Proud of you, indeed, my child, no to me. The buildings of one are dilapidated, "There will be nothing—less than man his good name, you rob him of sell all your butter and eggs pick up that have happened during the past matter what you wear. Yes, we'll several window panes out nothing. I don't know that I really that which does not enrich you and all the buffalo chip and cornstalks to ten years. Now that the purse has care so much for myself, but Ernestit and their places filled with old hats makes him poor indeed. If you wish all been subscribed I shall call a meeting burn instead of coal take your wife And thus it happened that among is a terrible thing to happen to him 4 and rags fence down, stock only partly to be agreeable and. popular, appear of the subscribers as soon as the and children out infchefieldto work, HTM ten guests that sat down at Josiah at the very beginning of his career. housed, family unkempt, and tools interested in what people are saying holiday rush of busin ess is over, and finally when your chores are Mayberry's hospitable, overflowing Mr. Wilmington smiled gleefully. probably the middle of January, to scattered. I saw on the farm in December learn to listen, not only with ears, done about ten o'clock p. m., retire, board that cold, blue-skied day, Winnie "Good. Neither do I care for myself, organize a permanent association a nearly new spring tooth harrow but with the eyes and repeat nice little only to arise at the dawn of the next Wilmington and the little old but for Winnie, my little Winnie. and determine the specific terni3 and things you may have' heard the in the field where used last at day to go over the same rotine. Let manwas tw©—and two to whom Ernest I tell you what, Mayberry perhaps conditions on which the offer of said world deals out so many knocks that wheat-seeding, a grubbing hoe hanging your clothing be of the cheapest quality, paid more attention than ever his you will wonder if I am crazy but I prize reward shall be published to the no one is hurt by little flatteries. on the fence where left last spring, an and if your wife or daughter ifather asked and expected. Of course agree to settle a quarter of a million world, and to determine the manner? auger all rusty on the woodpile outdoors, should get a new dress see that it it was a grand success—all excepting on Winnie the day she marries your and time of payment of the subscrip-i One of the Signs of the Times. costs not more than five cents a and a hoghsok on the ground the cold hauteur on Mrs. Mayberry's boy. And I'll lend you as much more tions. Each subsciiber of $50 wil'.f yard. If your father gave you a where it was. used a year ago. This aristocratic face, and that was a A spirit of unwholesome rivalry is if it'll be any use. and I'll start the be entitled to one vote at this meet-' failure, because no one took the least watch or a clock at his death hide it farmer leaves all tools where used last. boy for himself, if you say so. Eh?" engenered in children by the absurdly ing. We have met with considerable, notice of it, so much more powerful away so that the assessor won't see I did not believe this possible until a Mr. Mayberrv looked at him in discouragement in trying to booml rich way iu which many parents overdress were the influences of Mr. Mayberry it. Keep your shotgun loaded so as neighbor who borrows of him often speechless bewilderment. this ne enterprise, which, I believtwill and Ernest's courteous, gentlemanly them. They sacrifice their own to be prepared to repel a raid of grasshoppers told me he never asks where a tool is, Wilmington went on: ultimately be the making of attentions. or chintz bugs." We conclude appearance in order to lavish money but looks where he used it last, certain ofJ "I made a fortune out in India, and falo as cne of the leading cities y/j\ "I on'y hope you are satisfied," that the old settler has "bin of finding it there unless stolen meanwhile, its sale and sound in hard cash in on the little ones, and the only result world but now we are favored THIHI Mrs. Josiah said, with what was there." good hands—a couple of millions. I which is often the case. This fair winds and good sailing." is to make the children proud, vain,