NL TY How Johnnie Brown Paid the Tax: The Browns were rather poor, They lived in their own small house, but you will guess that it was not much of a place when I tell you that the tax on it was just two dollars, Widow Brown lived by washing for her richer neighbors, and supported her two children, Johnnie and Daisy. Last year Johnnie, being past ten years old, and a strong boy, unde rtook to pay the tax himself. | The bill came in November, and was | due about the middle of December. Johnnie had been saving every penny | he could earn, and had already eighty- | seven cents put away in a tiny old pew- ter pitcher on the high shelf of the cap | boar He d. had. moreover, a job on hand that was likely to last long « nough te make up the whole sam. Deacon DeaWitt's old storehouse had been pulled down, and was to be rebuilt on the opposite of the road, and there was a great pile of bricks to be moved over, and Jonnie was moving them in his own lit- | tle wooden cart. Back and forth, back and forth, he | in the mornings before school | urs, and after school was outat night, his wooden wheels r their load, the 3 1 smaller on side went creak, creaking pile of brick 3 . one side of the other, and 8 growing 1 mrger on 3 ¥ and kels and pennies as stead- Hic ngs in each wt work; the at her » and take | ir away wl but for i r and cold- Ar was ut it i couldn't seem to get n was well up. shall I do to ms nute I awake? ' he often said. other as often plied; “You'll never be a man unless you make yourself do the ] ny Johnnie. I'm not going f bed mornings, and yo nly man about the wenJo fists and say, “J will, next fe th id perhaps the would, but after that fell into the | old way again. And the days we steadily, and the money wasn't accumn- i nt by lating fast enough. “J guess you won't maz Te hnnie,” ef 3 to make 1 { Johnnie 3 his mother An choose, but ev the house.” Johunie went rather low spirits. efforts would 3 itn not ost morning I OTs, He waked very « arly next morn bed without a min- and jumped out of ute's delay. He half-dressed before | } Wis he discovered that it was nof daylight that shone in his little window up | under the roof, but the light of the old moon just rising in the east. “1 don't care! Ma says I may get up as early as I choose. and if I get those two dollars ready I've got to get up terrible early. I'm going to work if ‘tis only moonlight,” he said, The clock struck five as he came down into the kitchen and felt for his boots behind the stove. He found cap and mittens and crept softly out, “The old moon doesn’t give a very light,” he muttered between his chattering teeth, “but I gness I can gee to move bricks.” He ran round the De Witt corner with his little eart creaking behind him, and fell to work so vigorously that he was soon warm enough. When the deacon came and counted the tiers of bricks that night, his eves | twinkled as he picked out the nickles | from his purse, and he said, “I guess | you didn't lie abed this morning, | sonny: And Johnnie, langhing, answered, “No, #ir!”" and ran home and dropped his money into the pewter pitcher with a triumphant clink. Six mornings saw Jonnie at work ““tgrrible early” as he had said, and the evening before tax-day he poured out and counted his earnings, and they amounted to two dollars and one cent. The next day he went and paid his tax like a man. He brought the receipt and laid it in his mother’s lap, and he knew, by the glow on her cheek and the light in her eye, that she was pleas- ed and proud, though she only said, “You'll make a man, my Johnnie!” Joy Anvisox, a8 mg Ls— Russian botanists are busily explor- ing the floras or the various divisions of the empire, and the number of floras of separate provinces 1s rapidly Increas- mg. At the same time they are devot- ing closer attention to the delimitation of the various floras of European Rus- sia, their chief efforts being directed toward the establishment of the sepa- rate lines between the flora of the black-earth or steppe region and the flora of the forest region, cf The best condition in life is not to be go rich as to be envied, nor so poor asto be a nuisance to your friends, NOTES, FARM Wuy Hexs Dox" Pay..—The ma- jority of farmers still keep only the commonest kind of common fowls, and the queerest thing about it is that many of these same farmers have improved all their other stock, They can see that pure bred or high grade cows, sheep or pigs are more profitable than but when it see al 1108 OLIN, Another reason why your hens don’t cause vou have no decent place to work in. You probably have oven the dog has a comfortable Kennel- pou: in some old shed or building that is not considered fit eise, I have, In my parts of the country, observed that farms where there are very poor poultry houses, or none at all, greatly outnum- too, through an Ohio the furmers are thirty-seven farms that had try Louse Gt had figs d fowls, farms county, where free-handed, 1 not a poul- to be seen, against five that accommodations for then On nearly all the thirty-seven other buildings were good, where the fowls about the poorest apology for a house that | ever saw, there an $800 barn, on another, wliere thers was no poull house at all, there was a dog that probably cost ten i An Ohio breeder told 1 often ridden a whole day © Lom 4 “ie Was more than two or tl houses SHELTER FOR STOCK.— Experience HAS proven nd ave when over are expose r, feed them wt of material, the) own. whereas, if placed in yard heltered place with back forming two sides of winds and sheep weather, the bx their Varn aw as 1 Inay HA ile BARELY wn Or 8 storms, thrive, not eat ady far It is an old 11 wintered well COME Te winter when inarters in QUATLErS in LTASS, vite 5 return of then money tate, they go to 18 | time that thelr iii Come in, In s 351 adie barns Deen un- rs have m, comfortable and outhouses, for their i with a little management very many c ne (£4) provide Vi wses fan wa and houses can 3, poles and straw backs waler drained {rom the any are and other cattle be traced to condition in which Have the ties and sheds carefully hot li 1 water « eotifortabl comiortabie Pe Se Tall sort fever the often i housed, craped me, ntain- writ) ariel With anda ashed Lowe ti Wi $ ¢ ant, PASTURING THE MEADO to save or WH, desire rather to secu feed possible nn ti Nn y allowing the ¥ are in pe stock to tramp meadow 5 frozen a great be dor He damage 00 many sae . important a good crop of acre and with a fair yield, counting a fai { for the land and the cost of cutting ing the meadow may a loss as readily any other So the better plan is to Keep the off from the meadows after If manure is to be applied it hould, if possible, be hauled out, care being taken have it thoroughly rotted and fined, also be evenly spread over the ground, 1 away, Hi stock March, to fresh manure on the meadows, Too MANY husbands seem to forget that their wives need labor-saving im- plements and machinery, that the farm as well as the barn and burdensome drudgery. Here is a case plain enough for any husband to understand: A farmer near Gardner, Me., had allowed his wife to carry laid and a force pump put into use, such thoughtless husbands who will To Preserve E6os.—When the eggs are taken from the nest, if they are brushed entirely over with a solu- tion of gum arabic and laid in a cool place they will keep perfect two years, and chickens have been hatched from eggs so treated at the end of that time, If farmers as soon as they gather the eggs would cover each one with fresh melted mutton suet—just enough to cover the pores of the shell—they would confer a boon upon thousands. Tue liquid manure is mere valuable than the solids, and a liberal use of ab- sorbent material will aid in arresting its loss. 1t should be saved carefully, and a drain at the rear of the stalls should conduct it to some kind of a receptacle from which it may be pumped over the manure heap. 17 is better to allow fat hens to set than to attempt to ent them from incubating. If allowed to stay on the nest until they lose flesh they will lay better than if “broken up” from setting. HOUSEHOLT, BreAp MAKING IN INDIA. —Indian yeast 18 made from the sap of the date- palm. In April, before the flowers ap- pear, a hindoo climbs the naked trunk —for the leaves as in all palms are all borne at the top. The man’s feet are bound together by a rope and about his hips are fastened two pots for the re- ception of the sap. As he climbs he fapper is coming.” ‘I his is for the benefit of the Mohiam- medan women, who might be sitting he has risen above the tops of the walls, A tapper who once fails to give this A European who sees this perform- ance for the first time, not knowing what the man is after, Is very apt to brown and nearly naked Hindoo bears a striking resemblance, i of the trunk with an ax, which he carried up in his mouth, Then he fast- The full pots are taken away and empty ones put in their place twice daily. The tains taste, and con even when fresh, the sgn in t earthen pots for a few days it begins ment, after which it deposits a thick 7 85.9 tak sap has s sweet some alcohol standing in gre: grea two HIea ORANGE CAKE. sugar, half a eupful « of fi the half a cupful grated rind of ther it f flour with two small teaspoons i Bake &1 . and spr i ve eggs and Loge well, ath a DOWHer, hres : companying sweets'’ are 0 newel green marasching Cnerry PIE morello cherries L herries. Line deep pie dishes with good plain paste, thern nearly full of stoned cherries, sprinkle over four large tablespoonfuls of sugar, and with flour; cover with the upper crust, rolled out as thin as possible, trim the edges neatly with a sharp knife. Make a vent in the cen- tre; press the edges tightly together so that the juices of the fruit may not run out while baking. stone the © be heavy. scsi IATTER Propping wit CHERRIES, cups of tlour, three eggs, one-half tea- Beat the eggs, whites milk, then the flour, and beat add the butter salt and baking powder. Drain the cherries, dredge them with flour, stir until pudding mold, Cover, stand Serve with fairy butter Cuenrny TArPioCA.—One and one. Wash the tapi- oca through several waters, then cover with cold water, and soak over night, In the morning, put it on the fire with one pint of boiling water simmer slowly until the tapioca is perfectly clear, Stone the cherries, stir them into the boiling tapioca, sweeten to taste, Take from the fire, turn into the dish in which they are to be served, and stand away to cool. Serve very cold, with sugar and cream. his will serve eight persons, For the effectual protection of woolen goods against moths the use of cedar- wood boxes and closets is insufficient, and it is stated that there is no other means of protection against the rava- ges of the msect but to perfectly inclose the woolens in materials which 1s not attacked by the moth, such as cotton cloth, oolen brushed clean from dust, folded together, and put into cotten bags, which were well tied, have been found perfectly intact when taken out at the change of the season. you this you were called to see the maid sald H“Grorare, 1 morning, and out,” “yes, uncle, I am sorry that I was,” “But you were not, for 1 saw you sit- ting at the window as I came away.” “Yes, that’s just it; the maid does not specify; she only knew I was out, Sometimes 1 am staying out, sometimes walking out, and sometimes looking out. She was stupid not to say which,” AX attorney at law, who wished to show his smartness by quizzing an old farmer, began by asking him if there were many girls in his neighborhood. “Yes, replied the old man; ‘‘there’s a dreadful sight of ‘emn—s0 many that there ain’t half enough respectable hus- bands for ‘em all, and so some of 'em are beginning to take up with lawyers!” The attorney did not follow up the subject, cos Ie—— A Prrcocious Caution, —Uncle— “Bobby, didn’t you hear your mother calling you?”’ Bobby —**Yes'r.” “Well, why don’t you listen to her?’ “Why, ma has heart disease, and she'd be surprised most to death if 1 —— said rid dog?” A Sere Soy, —-“William,' Mrs, Trembiy, hear that hor “lant it awful?” “Is that the same dog awake last night?” “1 think s3. It sounds unlucky not?" “Didn't yon ever hear tha ing of a dog was a sure the familv?? “No. Whose family “The ' said Trembly voloe, he ste that kept us i it it Td ey ¢ iB nik ad U1 aog’s, as ped reached for Lis revolver, scHER who had a grammar note from the HA I'} DATS, erood Doctor. sol will rally. 4 i Every aly + 1 SUArp in J other. There are p to-day who commenced if ris be the case Sone us § 3 » r wil fehi A next The final touch which makes a dish an inspiration, Fraser Axie Lireass, The Frazer Axie Grease is the best and, the cheapest, Don’t your horses to death by the poor axle Try in EE — —— Silence is worth its weight in gold in many crises of human experience. ” -_— Rupture cure guaranteed by Pa. Ease at once, no operation or de- lay from business, attested by thou. sands of eures after others fail, advice free, send for circular. ————————— They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. 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