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.F, ii ,1. x V. (3 ,.. ( . her mother's gate. he Gave Her Up. Pretty and sweet as the maiden lookâ€" ed. Josiah hai‘. a natural prejudice against lmth her and her mother. They were worldly people and the girl was by no means the wife he would have chosen for his adopted son and nephew. John Parr. moroiized by the perpetual making of fin:: gowns and furbelows for the laâ€" dies of the neighborhood, and Ella B‘lassieâ€"whyâ€"â€" Suddenly his train of ’ thought was voice. "0. Mr. Fry!" she said. “I have watched you all day, thought how tired you must be. You are agmd bit older than I am and I know I get awfully I tired at work and I expect you do, too." The Quaker drew himself up to his full height and. his handsome middle- aged face, with; its fine eyes and gray locks looked grand to Ella. as he re- plied: "Work is good. and, thank God. I have plenty of it. It keeps one from sin." ' "I am afraid I do love the world very much. It is so beautiful and every one Is so kind to me, but I should like to he better. “'on't you teach5 me? Iwil‘l try so hard to learn." Josiah's reply was not very cohercnit. but whatever he said he certainly thought a good deal of Ella. after this and he decided that although she did not belong to the Soaiety of Friendsâ€" r-he looked as sweet and good as any young Quaker maidâ€"she might yet be converted and she had asked him. to teach. her to be good. “And so I will." he sudden , startled himself by ex- claiming as he pondered over the mat- ter in the silence of his chamber that- night.- "She is only a frail sapling now," he said to himself. “but she will learn and will grow and the mightiest oak was once an acorn." From this time Josiah made apoint of seeing Ella Massie frequently and; doing his best to convert her to his ideas and opinions. He found in her a. docile, loving nature, and her pretty ways fairly charmed him. '1he idea. of having her about the house was certainly attractive, and yet rsomehow he Quld not picture her ‘l'ihere as John's wifeâ€"the. girl had fairly twined herself about his heart, and by the time the golden harvest Even a Quaker maid > would have been likely to become do? broken by Ella's gay' and I have- : landscape. and Josiah Fry felt it sud-4 Edenly turn cold. His face blanched. I but he uttemd not a. sound. He mere- ly turn as if to go home. ‘ "Must you gonowl" cried Ella, see- ing and suspecting nothing. "Well. per- haps it's time. It’s getting dark.and Jack will be in from Birchley fair by this time and will want his supper. Be- sides I know you want to make him as happy as you have made me. Good night. and thank’ you so much. Jack and I will never forget your goodness.’ “Good night!‘ said Josiah mechanical- ly. and he made his way across the field to his own home. He staggered somewhat as he walked. and his feet seemed like lead. so that the short dis- tance acress the meadow to the farm «seemed longer than ever before. For ‘that, however, he was not sorry, for i the meeting with his nephew was pain- ful to anticipate. _ Josiah. however, was no coward, so , be put a. brave face on the matter. and entering the parlor, where Jack was < waiting for him to come in for supper, . he exclaimed: ' "\Vell, John. business first and sup~ lper afterward. I want to tell thee 'that I know allâ€"everything. Ella has just told me. and, lad. thou hast my ' blessing. 'She is a good girl and “‘111 . make thee a faithful, loving wife, and thou must marry as soon as possrble." n I l iBEFIES LAWS Ul‘ NATURE. , A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS NOT SLEPT | FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. . Sud Plight of a Philadelphia Mun â€" He Is Able to Work Every Day'â€" Has Been the Victim of-Nrrvous Frustration. For fifteen years \I’illiam Kelly, 9. young machinist employed in the Baldâ€" win, Locomotive \Vorks, has been de- nied nature's commonest blessingâ€"- Sleep. Physicians of with from the dif- {ferent medical centresâ€"men who have 'devoted years to the study of the :human nervous systemâ€"have examined this young man and have agreed in :pronouvncing his affliction the. most exâ€" traordinary case of insomnia on reo- ‘ord. ' : Although somewhat discouraged at ,‘the inability of doctors to give him lwhat he desires most of all in the World ~sound and refreshing slumberâ€"Kelly ihas decided to go for treatment to the [University of Pennsylvania Hospital. :T-he yOuhg man is twenty-six years old, of slight, wiry build, and wtighs about i 125 pounds. He is a skilled riveter. but iwheu not at work employs his time _with books, being a. most assidsuous header. 1 REPOSE, BUT NOT SLEEP. “I am perfectly willing," he said, “to | THE FARM. mmmeA‘x‘ um LIEA’IS FOR FAMILY USE. Meat should be salted as soon; as it is thoroughly cool after being dressed. If a number of hogs are butch- ered at one time, it will be well tohave a separate barrel each for seizing the hams, shoulders and sides. The shoulâ€" ders and hams. after having been dry salted for three days, says a writer, should be removed from the barrel, all the salt taken out, and repacked as closely as possible. This may appear to incur a loss. but it does not, for you will be fully repaid in the quality of the meat for any loss of salt. For each hundred pounds of pork take seven pounds of coarse salt, rock salt being preferable, two ounces of salt- peter, and three pounds of brownsu- gar, dissolve all in water enough to cover the meat, by boiling, and when cold enough pour it over the meat. Care should be taken to have the moat thoroughly covered with the brine. The meat is weighted down with a heavy stone. It is small scraps of meat that are permitted to float on the surface, of the brine that causes what is known as rusty meat. Let the hams and shoulders stand six weeks and the sides four for good results. ‘ Longer will not hurt it for keeping, but it may be a little too salt. After the meat has been in the brine for some days the latter will usually turn red, caused by the blood from‘ the meat. This should be racked off and boiled, Skimmed and when cool returned tothe meat again. Meat may be thoroughly smoked in two days, but it is much better to ire lat least two wceks in- the smoking. i In smoking, two things are important: lThe. meat must be hung so far from the fire that it will not be affected in. the least by the beat this is im- portant, for if the meat gets too hot the outside will gebso rank and strong that a. good deal of it will have to be cut off and thrown away; the smoking should be made from wood that is free from bad odor while burning. Any, sound, hard wood will do, lbut hickory l and hard maple are considered best. Bright cobs will make a good, sweet smoke, but will require more atten- tion to keep up a. steady smoke. The best results may be obtained by smok- 1 mg in a. good smoke house, and this lshould be done before flies can have a chance to do damage to the meat, and then one good smoke may be built each day for two weeks, and if the meat is not sufficiently smoked at , this time, it may be continued longer. had come Josiah knew the fact only ‘state ‘on oath that I have not sleptâ€" i The SmOking and the‘ curing “‘11 1‘6 0f too well. At first he chided himself and told Himself he was an old fool. It was ab- l . gthat is to say, as every one else does iâ€"for fifteen years. and that this in- ‘advantage to, it, when it comes to keeping it. 1 have adopted this plan ’of making and curing pork foo many and to think that a beautiful girl of scanniu. results from a nervous uffec~ , years, with an exceptidn or two when 20 would care for an old widower of more than double her age. Still, after all, at even forty and five, a man can love. and love passionately, and, Josiah loved Ella with all the strength of his soul. He would not, of course, wish to steal her away from his nephew 1 but John's had been probably a more sing fancy, and he was sureâ€"was lit? thoughtâ€"yes, he believed he was quite sureâ€"that Ella loved him. One beautiful August evening. after the day’s work was over Josiah Fry and Ella. stood talking in the gloaming at "Ella." he said. "I have come here this evening because 1 have something- ’ Ah. you . importwnt to say to you. _ smile. You guess what it 18, don't ition. 1 do not go to bed, as a. rule, un- ftil between twelve and one o’clock in ‘ the morning. "Until halfâ€"past five in the morning :1 lie very still, in order to give my :muscles a chance .to get thoroughly refite(l.. I close my eyes simply to give ‘the nerves an opportunity of being re- ‘lievctl of the strain of the day, but cv- ~en this does not prevent the Lids from lpuiuing me and being very heavy at times» After morning ablzutions I eat {milearty breakfast, it being to me one -of the best meals of the day, although iI have not a very strong appetite. Then 0 i I go to work. l "All day long I ply the hammer in Ithe rivetixng department, only getting a. few minutes at a time for rest. As you" {you can imagine. I am thoroughly tired l The girl looked down for amoment, and then, though she blushed deeply, shle gazed at him with her lovely blue eyes and said: "Yes. Mr. Fry, I felt sure you would say something soon." Josiah looked radiant. It was strange how Ella's words pleased him,an<l yet they were not like those he should have expected from aQuaker maid. Stillit was delightful to think how she. had understood him, and no one could be more charming or more sweet. "Then thou art not afraid to trust mel’ Thou thinkest I shallsuit thee?" he said gayly. V I "Yes." she answered. “I know 1t. They used to tell me you were cold and hard, but I did not believe it lh-m.and. now I laugh when I think of it. for I have learned to love you." . She accompanied her words wrth _ a. squeeze of his brawny hand. which she then raised to her lips and kissed. Josiah felt. his blood coursing madly through his veins. He was (lelightcd to find himself so beloved. and. though he was distinctly being courted by this young maid it was so sweet to him that his sense of the propricties was in no way shocked. "But. my dear. thou knowcxst I am five and forty and sometimes cross and nabbed.’ “That's nothing." laughed Ella. ".I love old men and feel so proud of you with your beautiful gray hair and your straight. tall figure. You will be a. lovely old man. and I shall be pruuder than ever of you. “Jack wanted to tell you all about it long ago. though he knew you would disapprove of me for his wife. but I begged him to wait. I told him ifyou were all he said-and you are~thnt I was sure Icould make you fond of me. Iloved you slittle already because you weir-Jack's uncle and batllwen so good to him, and if I like people Ican always make them like mes. liltie.’ She! paused and then after nmoment's si- lonoe she went on: 4 "Only yesterday llold Jack he might speak toycu in flu) and now [do be- lieve you n“.in taro guaseod it. for here you are giving all that we want with- out as! even asking it.and Ismso glad. for we could never hive mnrr-ed without your consent!" Darkness seemed to fall over the out when I reach my boarding house {in tho eveningN and am ready to .do ijustice to a hearty meal. The evening I I spend in reading and in playing games 'with the other lodgers." SUFFERED FROM CHILDHOOD. Kelly is a native of Rockford. Ohio. '.\\'hen eleven years old he became a. Evicti'm to nervous prostration, and as a result spent. six months in a hospital ‘nt Clevelamlr. This left him in a very Eweak condition. but he. recovered rap- idly and soon became. strong and heal- thy agaim. Ills parents noticed that his Enerves had become unstrung again, and he complained that he could not sleep. HES condition want from bad to worse. and within a few \v-scks lie-was unable .to sleep at all. This. of course, frightâ€" gened hiun and his fricnds. but he soon became accustomed to his inability to an improvised smoking arrangement was used. I found that this was a quick way to smoke meat, when, for i any reason butchering was delayed, un- ' 1 have em- tll along towards spring. ployed an old cook stove for making a smoke. The old stove was discarded because it smoked too much, and now it can have all the chance to smoke lit wants to, and that, too, unhinderâ€" ed. After the meat is well smoked, tthe hams and shoulders are wrapped l in two thicknesses of heavy brown pa- lper, and sewed up in a small muslin nsnck. These are hung up in a cool, dry place. Just beforefly time a thick whitewash is madeâ€"as thick as can be applied with a brush, and the sacks are given a thorough \vhitewashing, employing care to get all the seams scaled up with tl:e lime. They are now ready for summer, and will witlisiumll almost anything but a torrid temper- ature, and they will even withstand that as well as it is possible to make them. I have never tried. selling cur- ed meats on the market, or to private customers, but .it seems to me that in good market could be built up in I this way. A lot of fine hams could be cured, and sold to influential citizens [of your town, with a request to give , them a trial, and-if they are what they should be, you .will have no trou- ble in supplying them later on with iall the smoked meats they use. A [reputation once established means a large trade in the future. BAPI l) liLL'l‘A'l‘ION. l The high price. of land in the old mediately after the crop is out. It Is not necessary to repiough well- tilled potato or corn land to fit it for crimson clover or rye. A thorough lose of a good spring-tooth barrow" ls sufficient. A failing meadow may be mown ear- ly, immediately ploughed and sown. to buckwheat, Hungarian grass, or bar- ley and peas. “’6 have found that barley and pens are better for late sow- ] mg than oats and peas, since the bar- ley endures the late summer sun bet- ter than oats, and also is not so easily killed by frost. Flat turnips sown in August. on an inverted clover or timothy sod, or on the early-potato ground, will often give an abundant harvest. ' ‘ This system of rapidly turning the soil and keeping it. occupied with vig- orously growing plants. gives the. weeds no chance to gain the ascendâ€" ency, the tillage aids in rendering available the inert plant. food. and it gives opportunity to frequently turn under a. crop for green manure, thus adding to the stores of humus in the soil. If the clovers are freely used, the supply of nitrogen in the soil will to steadily increased. HIRING FARM HELP. It is always best to employ only ef- ficient help on the farm, writes a cor- respondent. A few dollars extra :1 month will be repaid many times over in the course of the year by the dif- ference in the work between a first- class hand and an inefficient one, and it costs as much to board one as the other. A careful man who has judg- rnt and uses it in doing his work, will save his employer :1 great: deal in the use of tools alone in a single season. The careless, inexperienced hand will break and in Euro the imple- ments he uses far more than. a good hand will. It does not take many breakages to come to as much as a man’s wages for a month. There is also great advantage in cm- ploying competent men, if the farmer wishes to leave home occasionally. He can feel that the work will go on in his absence the same as if he were there. If anything gives out his man will know how to repair the breakage. His judgment can be relied on as to how much a team. should do in a day, and he will see that they do it. A man who is kind and careful in hand- llng horses is worth more than one whom the reverse. Very few farmers care to hire a rough-talking, swear- ing man. Good ones can be found who will be chmce in their language. Cer- tainly we may expect that he whom we are to have about the house, who Will eat atpthe same table as his em- ployer’s family, will not be uncouth in table manners. There are very many farm hands who are so disgusting in their table habits as to be repulsive to a refined person. It is 'not at all necessary to hire such. After years of experience in managing a farm re- quiring a .great deal of hired help, 1 find that it is not difficult to obtain desuable help. If inducements by way of. good wages, fair treatment, and not too long days in the field are ac- corded, which any intelligent farmer ls‘ perfectly willing to give to the right person, one will never have any trou- ble in securing the class of help he would like. : , BRA-N FOR POULTRY. Bran is excellent for poultry, and one point in favor of bran is that it contains a much larger proportion of lime than any other. cheap food derived from grain, and as the shells of eggs are composed of lime, it is essential that food. rich in lime be provided. It may be urged that the use of oysterâ€" shells, will provide lime, but it will be found that it. is the lime in the food that is most serviceable, because it is in :1 form. that, can be better!”- gestcd and assimilated than ('arlmiiatc of lime. Clover is also rich in lime, and when a mass of cut clover and bran is given the fmvls they will need no oyster-shells or other mineral mnt~ tcr as a source from which to provide lime for the shells ofreggs. Do not forget that in summer, however, the use of all kinds of foods should he used with judgment. If the hens have a free range, give no food as long as they are laying, but if they begin to fall off lct bran be :1 leading ingredi- ent of the foods allowed. In winter the. bran and clover is ewn more cs- scntiul, as the fowls cannot. tl2en secure Sl?“l‘~ "I‘d “'83 um“ t” “0 "- hfll‘d day's : countries has led to :nueffort to get gum“ f°°d 0" the range‘ work with any one. The only reminder of his trouble wusl the. shooting pain across the eye. Trcut- ment. the young man says, seems to have little or no effect on him. For ach chewing habit. and the uso of cof- fee as a nerve stimulant. both of which cmincut specialists say. are in :i meas- ure. responsible for his inability to sleep. [Judi-r medical instructions, Kelly has abstained from the- use of both cof. fee and tobacco for months at a time. m DI'RABILI'I'Y Ol" IVORY. The durability of ivory is proved by ' the fact that billiard bulls, which for 'the sake of curiosity had been made ‘ of well preserved mammoth ivory un- ldouhtodly many thousands ' old. were played with for several i months by experienced players In Paris l lwilhout it being noticed that. the balls Mam- , moth ivory is. as a role, not as tnugh as fresh ivory. l were not made. of fresh ivory. LYE FOR LEAD PIPES. To clear lead pipes pour a strong solution of concentrated lye down then. This will'cnt grease, etc. Never pour greasy fluid down a pipeâ€" it collects on- the iron and clogs. lthe greatest, possible income from it, twhile in this country the cheap land {and costly labor, result in a tend- ) ishihll expenditure of labor. This tend- tcncy frequently leads to such a scat- ;teriug of effort that very unsatisfac» ftory results are obtained. No doubt llxut if the energy and thought of the farmers of this state were concentratâ€" 'ed on the lost two-thirds of the land inow tilled. and the other third allow- led to go back to woodlandâ€"from which it should never have been taken â€"- much letter results would be se- l on red. l .tt Cornell this idea has been advo- of years rated and practised for a number of; years. Rotate rapidly and keep the soil occupied by living plants, is the watch\~.'orll. The early potato ground l is immediately sown to crimson clover, the late potato ground to rye, which is ploughed under in the spring or kept for u forage crop. Forage rye l8 folâ€" lowed by a crop of Hungarian grass, also cut for forage, and the land sown to oats and peas, which are left to go down on the land for its improvement, Crimson clover may be sown in the .corn at the last working. or rye imo : . , . cncy to try to farm a large area with! many years he has indulged III the ltlll- ' l i COUITA T ION . l The gentlemen of the bar. who not infrequently have to take rebukes from lthe bunch. greatly enjoy :1 rhance to quake 8. lugifimatc retort against the lcourt. The story is told that a certain ijudgo who. during the plea of a rather éprnsy lawyer, could not refrain from gently nodding his brad in sleep. was tmught at this by the lawyer. who look- ied significantly at him. ; Perhaps. said the judge. lestil-y and lprcvarimlingiy. tlw rwxnsel thinks the :murt was asch-p. but he may be assur- ‘wl that the court was merely cogiml- .in . i The lawyer laikml un. Presently the ljudge. again overcmne by his somnolo lency, nodded off and armlscd himself lwith a little sudden snorting snore. , If it please your honor. said the lawy- ger. i will suspend my plea until the iconrtfilmll have ceased to cogitnte and. l ibly l _ _ i You may go on. said the Judge: anl 3110 did not fall asleep again SUPPLY LIMITED. Mrs. Hashlyâ€"Gentlemcn. what part of the turkey do you prefer? Two Boarders. in chorusâ€"The breast. Mrs. finalityâ€"I‘m sorry. gentleman, 'but this is not a Jamie-breasted bird. BETTER THAN sun‘s L163? PRODUCED BY 'EHE VACUUM TUBE AND OSCILLATOZ Artist's nay Sow Point at Night â€"- lights houses to Send Sham Through Deuacsx fogs â€" Ronni-Raine Dlu-ovcry ormkelu. Tesla. Nikola, Tesla, the well~kuown New York electrician, has forged to the front with a discovery that .will certainly prove a gn‘at blessing to humanity. For years Mr. Tesla. has been experi- montiug with vacuum tubes. and an- nounces that he has so far perfected a tube as to be able to photograph ob. jR‘IS at night, with even better effect than is bad in the open sunlight. The tube is of high illuminating power. with I. radiating surface of about 200 square inches. The frequency of the oscillaâ€" tions which were obtained from an lid- ison dircct~currcnt supply current is es- timated to have been about 2,000,000 a Second, while the tube was about 1,000 candlepower. Mr. Tesla sat five feel: from the tube, and only five secouils' exposure was made. A half tone eu- graving was made from the photograph. COuld the photograph itself be shown it would startle and delight the whole WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHERS. The utility to which the discovery will be put in this field alone can hardly. be estimated. as the photographer will now no longer have to depend upon fickle sunlight for his operations. The light. produced is of such a. beautiful translucent consistency as enables the camera to take cognizance of even the threads of the horn in the shirt front. Every little delicate line of the face is shown, and in fact the \‘N‘icguted pigments of the eye are suggested by the scrupulous intensity fwhich the light; allows the lens. Mr. Tesla. has another picture show- ing his hand at a distance of four feet from the tube. The exposure was about the same number of seconds, but in this picture the object stands out with re- markable solidity and rotundity. Ev- ery delicate line in the epidermis is plainly visible. The whole result of his experiIm-ents with the light in the sci-1 ence of photography has been settled upon as remarkable. Another point is settled which will awake the world of art with a new impulse. Electrician Tesla has found that colors can be seen in this new light. :How often upon vis- iting a studio an artist will be found workimg like mud lwcausc he has only ‘an hour more of daylirghtl” As soon as it fades he can no longer distinguish between a streak of buff or lemon and a. splotoh or virulent yellow. As a. con- sequence he has to put by his brushes and wait for another day. By this light it will be posisiblc for the artist to pose his model and work all night if he so chooses. In 1895 Mr. ’l‘esla's laboratories were burned down and his valuable experi- ments WERE SADLY INTERRUPTED. He has always been a discoverer of new principles and not the invrnlor of more appliances, and thus it was that the vacuum tube and the oscillator ulfordcd his genius in. means of creating someâ€" thing of a beneficial nature to human- ity. It is not, howevor, only the photo- grapher and the color artist that the d‘ilstxwery will benefit by any means. It will reach millions of others. It will play an important part in criminology, as by the use of this light every line in a man's hand may be photographed so plainly as to enable the authorities to identify it with more accuracy than than could be done with a picture of his face, for the face changes, while the lines in a man's hand remain forever the some. Another and very great use to which the light may be put is that of illgmina ting lighthouses, so that sea» men can see it through the densest fog! and keep OFF THE ROCKS. It is hard to get a light. that will pene~ trate a. fog. The vacuum tube will do all this. and practical experiments in this direction are soon to be made. It will be accompanied by making tubes of much grmtcr runtlle power. Already one has been made in Mr. ’l‘eslu's lab- oratory which is about 1.000 times great- cr in power than the ordinary vacuum tube. The great electrician says that he as yet has no idea. of the extent of light prmluczllilc. and that it may il luminate great cities. ,...... AN EGG-JOKE ROLL] Nil. At a small social putluertng the nth- night smuclxxly Nlul'tml the (egg jok- a-rolliug. Did you ever hear the story of thl hardâ€"boiled egg? he solemnly inquirel of some one across the table. No. was the innmwul answer. . It's hard to hem. said tln- jokcr will much gravity. You t’JIIl'l. help smiling at them things. and aftvr the 'augh died down Slmue‘xwly else sprung this: llid unylmly lmur about the egg it the coffee? " No mill an obliging somebody. 'l'lml sail-vs :t. rmnurkell the funny man. blnndly. 0f mars". tlwre was another laugh and then u. brief Bifcnce. It. looked .1.- if the. 0g“ jokes luv! lmcn exhausted. .llut presently a little woman at out end of the table inquired in a high mgr ratio vol-"e if anybon present Iliad henr‘l the story of ti)» three eggs. 'l‘ha- “mats shook thvér beads. and om man Mid No. The little woman smiled ’l'vxo bud. like said. OI" COURSE [’1' “'AH. .Bl'ttif'flr-l“ Ilmv :lEd that baby port) ymr wife- gul up :le! week turn out l’--.rg:uion~â€"-lt was t. howling success.