| Eleanor added, with a langh i don’t think [ am really unhappy be cause 1 can't afford to go, Mrs. Dale. | I'm not: I'm Just croaking a little. : good music, —espacially | such happiness, foo! | E1ve her a ticket to them, Amy sonkd eolor in her face, she added, “Just now hey are the eight concerts that the Beethoven Society 13 going to give” Mrs. Dale smiled in sympathy, “They are certainly the greatest of luxuries to music lovers” ske agreed “And 0 music teachers who must spend their money for--other things ” "Please It's such 8 belp to any one to hear | to a music | teacher ~-and such a Joy! But I'm i pot unhappy about ft: I'm giad I can do other things. I don't feel a bit like croaking &ny frore since I've seen | you! FEE “You Jear hia” exclaimed Mra ‘Dale, warmly. She knew that most of the other things that Eleanor Jid wers : done for other persons and Jone will. ingly and bravely. she repeated. Eleanor pressed heb hand closely, © 1 must fly to my pext pupil Mrs. Dale, May I come to 8e0 you tomorrow — She | perhaps Jate fn the afternoon? | whispered, ; The quirk tears came ints Anya mother's eves. “Yes, do!” she sail “Good by, my dear” Eleanor sped up the strest to her | {next pupil and ‘Mrs. Dale turnnd to ay | EOLA the florist’ shop and buy the | 3! white roses. “Eleanor =a doar, good child” she | thought, “so brave and nnselfish! it i in & pity she can’t go to those CODCErts. They would give her such help, uni be #0 pleased; she loved Eleanor n | tomorrow were not Amy's rrentiig | | 86d | wern not going to get the flowers for ber Brave | should be able to Jo that for Rleanor. She would let me ” 4 because 1 am Amys mother. 1 won : Crp : ‘She pond. anits mi. A pleasant | POW possibility came into her mind, She turned away from the Borist's | o- shop, In less than an hour she was to | BOIDE home, past the yellowing flelds ] and wun-tighted trees. She had mo | flowers with Ber. but the look in Ber S7e8 was less sad and less lonely for Amy, In the ast few moments of daylight oo he wrote a little note to Eleanor, The , | girl wept ears, bait happy, haitsad. | a5 she read: MY DEAR CHILD: Tomorrow As i you ktow, is Amy's birthday, If Amy | wore here | should give her something y 10 celabrate It. Amy 3 not here but YOu are dear: ‘and you are a Eiri lke { Amy, and her friend. Win yOu pot take the gif for her, and go and laten | to the glorious music that you so love brought you some up to Mrs. Dale and dropped into her | BFS i great mass of goiden rod and . : blue autum Jasies Then she kissed : ol her and danced &way home, So “3 Mrs, Danio gathered the golden rod Land Jisies In her arma. and prvasel | Ber chwek softly against them. The s x Mnd cin so well make helpful to your . | sell and others? hs | BOON, and believe me, Your warm oo tetend, Come to see me AMY SPENCER DALE. Sipped into the note Eleanor found & ticket to the Beethoven society con cons Amy's mother had sent it very happily bar after it hal gone she set | 'mlone in the gathering twilight. wish. ing it she had just ons flowsr to on the next day to Amy's grave, | would have Hked me to do | that she thought, “but still—on her r | Brat irthady-—" hot finish the sentence, for nr at that moment little Marjorie | iw Hama, who lived next door, eame in “ "0 My Dale” she eried. “I've been to the woods with father, ang ve Rowers’ She ran x next morning she took them aad laid 1 Amy died them on Amy's grave. Strangely her heart I's Ir Hhter than it had fait sigee Ble did Bot Know why, but when al Eleanor came. later in the day, und Amy's sake | was sumethiog that made Kissed her again and agsin. and on thanked her with wet pyes for tha : gift, she begsa to know. od | did sho cover Amy's a quick tading Sowers, Never after grave with contly Instead, Rt Christmas. and at Easter : | and 00 Amy's birthday. she did some | lovely kindness for some other girl for Sometimes it was small | sometimes i was large: bat always it the grivel : Bappler and better and consequently | + | more valuable to the world —~Youth's a Compagion. v's mother un- cen: sympathy, dear chilg? was A ont Fhilosapher. A Buttersea workingman was once | possessed of a Biteriously bad ten. pered wile, who did nat seruple. when | | the fit seized her to lay violent hands | Ons fine day hs was observed by a friend, who saw him entering a crockery shap lad , en with an armful of cups and sau. upon her patient spouse, Cer]. “Helle, Johnt* he eried. “Selling "», your hte?” “No," responded John “but 1 realy | couldn't t stand the expense any longer. | These hisre ones break into little bits | af once when my wife throws ‘em at: me, and so I'm going to change them = for thisker! "—London Answers, Sa ani Sp IN Se A i The plan of destroying hail clouds by exploding bombs among them “You dear child!” | I wish |. could i | Over winter is not profitable Hivery animal should be so fed as to make a | gain. It 15 a loss of time to feed in winter simply to hold an animal over ; until it can be turned on the pas ture. There is po reason why the farmer should sacrifice the winter months Warn quarters and proper food should make noimals galn and | : | termaker. pay in winter, Fewd Digustthie Foods, It 18 possible 10 give an animal an abundance of food and ya aot sappy ite wants It iq the amount of diges ible matter in foods that fixes thelr | i valine, | cont. ehnrvoal rotten wood ete. the | indications point to a possible lack | of something required which may ba | ihe mineral ddements especially lime. #3 LS x 2 i . ako be improved by the use of liran | termaker 1s incompetent in this direc | | tiun he is sure to have Jos of trouble and ground sare i Shipping Fiants, In taking slips from plants for roast cing many perdons take off the young | i branches from the wides snd bas of | the Erol, for: “in i to expend all je energies In sendng oul new growil from the top nod the | "seraggy” plant Tey faking | aiipe from the very top of the plant, | having wit Sproiite at the bass and br surprised fo find what nice bushy pints you will Bava in a short time. { ternnfume colons, begonias and peinr. ine Long branches of wandering jaw ! nay be put into a bottle of water and wil twine about ir, making a prefty ing and the little branches are stirs. {ing out slong the Stam. ~The Epito- | mist, : A Orchard Grass, Those who have sown orehard gram isfied with it ae the two are fit to put towether than elther of them with fim. sown at the same time, that is. as early | made Ar 18 the shade, and it likes a rich, sandy It starts early In the apring asd grow ground I# strong enough it is nore vail itrops & year. It needs to be sowed early enough. clover, mostly by sweating in the heap. it makes a buy that is much relished by horses Some sow the clover and pounds of white clover seed 15 the fiake a pasture of it come in haturairy. rE Winter Washing of Fruit Trees, The winter season offers the fruit grower his opportunity for wreaking vengeance on the insect snemies whic harmful fnseet antacks, agriculture hus prepared and is cir tof thoughtful attention. ri As 1a well known the ingects hidber- | fiate In the broken bark of the trees and the course of trealment proposed Pia the wanking of the trees with ciuuw tie alkall wash. the use of which bas been found effectual in rémaving the | ‘ rough decaying bark under which the 1 y insects shelter, and at the same time : {in destroying the egua of noxious in. | sects, The directions given for the | | preperation of the wash are: First ds. solve ous pound of commercial vanstic Lsoda in water: then one pound of cruise potash in water. When both addi together: then | 10 gallons. The best time to apply ! is about the middle of February, when ithe eggs are in a more susventibite | state and the trees still safe from in : ur Y london Post, Trained Hutteronen Needed. i A feature requiring more attention jon the part of Lutterpakers is thar "of eleanliness tn thelr creamerios. As this feature is so essential to making butter of the Lest flavor, it would gested nearly 100 years io seem that it would not be necessary | = even mention. it, but the fact that. Feeding asimmis only to keep them | When hogs huve a desire for The feeding of wood ashes or grow 8d | i bans Would no doubt satisfy the dw | sires of the animals. The food should | 0 result Is a youip | glides of the old stalk, and you will | P Roniums are benefited by such pron. | hung behind a picture so that the vines Beroration while the roots ars form- along with clover on land adapted to | HR Erowlh have gaugally boen well #at- shout the same time. or much nearor. oily. They also should have the sind i the spring as the ground can be | i Af Its name Indicates no. grows well in the orchard or anywhere foam, deep sod moist. On & eh eolls rapidly, thus it makes a good grass | lor a permanent pas:urs. but when tha | unable for hay, as its rapid growth en- ) abies £ue to get two or often three i thickly, say three bushels when sawn alone. or two tmabeds with 15 pounds | red clover seed per acre when they Bre grown together, as if sown thin it Makes a course straw, that is rather poor Bay, especially if fol ont quite It needs considerable | curing, but if cured as we would cure | orchard gras and add abont Sve above mixture, mix together well, and | after cutting the hay one or two years | This is a yary 2 mil i 3 w LO on Pha 2 pied by a deep furrow system of ir good way. especially if the field is one | Huation, so the water Is ent w ell town. info the ground and the reats | | have no need to come to the surface that the bine Krags and red top will: lating free of charge 3 leaflet Sain ! with this sabject which is deserving ; ol “have been dissolved mix the two well | three-quarters | . pound of agricultural treacle, stir well and add sufficient water to make up to | hive hold occur to Interfors find themselves at ses. There ix noth. ing more difficult to understand than the production of flavor in butter, but In most of otir dairy schodls the prin. ciples of producing it are taveht in auch a way as to plane {t slmost come pletely under the control of the but The buttermaker finds it hard, unless he has studied his work at a school ‘where principles are taught {to mdjust himself to conditions and consequently some of the bad butter which is produced 8 traceable to his lark of information as to the best . method of treatment. We would nat. { urally expect, from the fart that few of our buttermakers are gradustes | of dairy schools, that considerable dit. | fleulty iz experiance] in testing the mit Every well equipped creatiery at this time bas a Babrock milk test, and te operation is ona of the impor #H a buts ! tant fontiires of the factory. Las it is quite common for farmers to | become skeptical about thelr test oven | if it is accurate. We have bad ine Cguiries come to us along this line ask (ing wheres an official test should ba ( obtained, as the patron 4d not think that his factory was giving him a fiir tert, Jt may be sald hbve that the. i dalry commissioner makes such tests Foe ow : and the creamery departments of the | varions experiment stations sre miso. ; willing to make tests of this kigd | This 8 work, However which should | ba acceptably performed by the butter. | | maker, and the fact that thers is so | much trouble over [t simply indicates that more of our bultermakers should be praduates of dairy schools —Wis | tonsin Farmer, Growing Trees to Wiikstand Drouin. it bas long been noticed Bow much better deep rooted trees and growing plants stand a drouth than thoss which are shallow rooted. “The tendency to root in any particular way is largely an inherited characteristic in the va- | rious varieties of trees or plants. but | partly a matter over which man has | some control. There are conditions in which moisture is so frequently sup- plied by rain. or where the water from below comes so near the surface of | the ground that it is impossible kod : Unnecessary fo try to make (he trees Foot denn. There are no fruit trees so far aa | know, and Bit a few Kinds | ¢f nut bearing trees which do well it heir roots extend to it perpetual wa tor strata. Bul on ordinary aii and fpnder nsugl conditions, tries may be Eo pruned and rained thar they will’ wend thelr roots deep down, and the | deeper rooted the trees become the | | healthier the longer lived and the more productive they will average The trees from the sine nursery, on the same Rind of rool, if planted in California, will stand a drouth which would kill [ts fellow planted in New | Jersey, with it ordinary root sys tem This fact leads me to Inquire if hare is not some way hy which trees | gay be induced to root more deeply. The chisel cause of the difference is : that in Californin the soil about the or. : hard trees is kept well cultivated, and | wach wet season the ground is deeply | | plowed, thus all the surfavs roots snd | The motature : during the growing nmionths is sup- | . rectiets are cut off Dr water, faded the top soil is Rept | tio well cultivate! that thers (2 always Ui dry layer of aurth ef several inches Cin thickness which prevents the rae i Liation of moisture. play auch incalculable havoe with the : fruit trees in the summer months, The ; made in thie est it In possibile to force insects are practically at hix mercy in 3 the dead season. for they cannot Nee [from the deadly poison be may with { safety apply for thelr destruction, and | Prom experiments whlch have heen the roots to go deeper than were na ture lot alone, and always. so far as If the main roots of a young pt, a fresh vary oblique cut be made @ tendency 8 for a single main L sprout to grow, and ia the same direc. : tion with the root from which it start: : It ls evident if this rule holds ; true that g deeper rooted trea can het { ubtained by pruning the a in this manner wue face of the ent turned down plowed and enltivoated. if not as fre ARTY aE ix the ustom in California, at leant once in while 80 as to eit | off the surface feeders, then the tree | will depend wore and pore upon its : it would not be weil to i Ww tio long an interval to elapse | betwen these root pranings for the denn roots removing of a considerable quantity | would be a severs shock to the tree Hutter do it ofien, v to Tertiliers, But on the other ! hind they do not make known a want, ai gpickly. There are always a au i elent number of small roots to take 9 the food or water. | there are none of these uson which | the tree largely depends will be a guar ! 1 antee that vear in and year out the | deep root system is best. The experi ment is well worth trying —Charles BE, { Richasen, | in American Agriculturist. | that affect the flavor of utter. They | learned butterreaking in a me : : chanleal way and go through the proc tess according to rule but if anything | with the working of these general rules they I have ‘investigated, has the experi- | ment been attauled with satisfactory if the owners of orchards care to ex- | resale x | frcise their powers of quelling Iufes parsery treo are prused squire across taticn at the proper time and ln the | 2 number of small rootlets immedinge proper wy then can Iargely diminish | H pot entirely remove the risk of “4 to the root from which they Now if in place of a square tap root or The side roots bould be similarly pruned and the Then if in gddition to the proper initial root pruning the orchard be and the fart that I Mavi gn vast hier Tithe to IHe orion Bests on Their Ability a Engivesrse Ahey Have Excvessdiingly Thrifty Babite The beaver ix another of the ani unl which are fast disappearing bas { fora the barbariat vampluard of civil lization. From a commen and widaly distributed animal, he bas becouse rare and local ang in host parts of the United States he is already but a | faint memory, Kept alive by such | ‘BRmes as Beaver Pails. Beaver Dam snd Beaver Hrook, xiven tn places which be formerly inhabited. His beautiful fur coat was coveted by cman, and scodndizige to the universal law of nature he Hed Buwause it was te the hnmediate interest of 4 more | powerful animal to kill him. Pen haps he has fulfilled his mission: at any rate {ow animpls have lone more toward forming the contour of the wountry. Whirewsd' he bas heen he bas left lasting nmojumenty to lik in. Cdustyy dn the {orn Ie mesdows ponds and waterfalls, and his same will ab Ways he nnsociatail with peaceful, in- Aoliigent labor In appearance, the buiver rominls ne somowiat of a muskrat and Boni ‘what of a weodehnek, thoueh he id larger than either of them, | Be moasuos something over two fv 1, from he tip of bin Bont nose to thie root of his tall. Fis bexty is roughiv toneshgged, being largest in the rear, Aud covered with the rich, shining fur which is at once Bix wealth and hie (oath wartant, This for is of two Kinds, one compes o of long. coarse, | glosny chestnut hair. which is whore, thick, soft and siiky. Tis pose of the antmal is blunt, tie oye small and the wars short an | roundod. The fore fest are short and slendor, but the hing feet are large and web hed to the tos nails | Iattor are the p (Rim through the water. But the most | poeuliar part of a beavers anatomy J2 his ttl. This nppendage is fiat and broad, and its ‘horsontal outlines ds almost a perfect eclipee about a foot long and three ang # half loches § hie. It is about an foe talek and covered | with angular scales. It 1a | used by tha | — Stray on which 10 Carry bifiding mate ral nor as trowel to plaster the (wails of his dwelling, writers would have beaver also nses it AS a signal to hia there in danger in the wind. The beavers chil title to distine us helleve, The to slap the watar Beer, which fs perhaps unsquaiiod by any other fonrdoote creatures. When . 8 colony river or brook, they first of all wake ‘ & dam, which throws ie Water back. flooding the surrounding land and i creating A pond, the site of a future beaver city. Tho dam is winds of mud, small stones, moss grass and the branches of trees | eat down by tha sh rp and power al incisor teeth of the beavers. The branches form the frame work of the (dam, and the mud, grass are Plastersd in between the i sticks, forming & Mroeg watertight structure. Such 8 Jam is somes fof a milo in linuta, exteniing far he yond the original bake of the stream, It Is perhaps ten or twelve fest wile At the bottom, but much narrower at ‘tha wp, us tae sides Slope toward each other. | rs make their lodges or houses, great fest high, anl some of arm from twelve tn twenty feet in olreurafer Enea, : water, and lo front df exch the heave (ers scratch away the med, forming a | . duoper channel that they may sink (the wood Intended for winter food | without danger of ita being frozen in, cout even when the fre ig thick upon the pond. The tops Of the houses are made of branches mutted together and ! plasterad with mud and moss and | fy start near the point of amputation, | Land thelr growth is usually at right The board ot an oe their growth a he when this ix ail frozen together it forma an almom impregnable fortress. Sometimes ag ANY af toy or t waive With a separate bed near the walla, and each sharing tha labarions work which fs necossary to the waifare of every beaver senmunity. When an accident happens to 8 dam ar to ong of the Souses, tha Hele animale are gulek to repaint, realizing ntparent iv the value of “a sited in vege” era usnd to take tdvantage of their thrifty habits to wrk tinir destrie. Lon After breaking down a portion of a dam taey would somadimen hide ‘In silence until the Hite itizend tummad out to repair the damage and then shoot the beautiiul creatures in cald bisa Bot sre traps under the water, and the swimming beavers wanid caught hy the leg The chief food of the Begver eon. sista of the tender ¥ark of young trees, particularly that of birehes and - willows, but he also dats aqiatic roots “and bulbs and in enptivity he has shown a liking for many of the som. mon garden vegetabilos, ere in the Zoological Garden at the Bronx Park. New York, where most of the animals are kept under condi. | tions inst doesn &% 4 rulder to {guide Kim while swimming, Dot as a Sich have been stones. moss and | 8 then ent and fed to the ewes. They rd not permitted to gram an it orl milk, and It hastens the growth of beavers ceoupr a wiele lulge, each | Hunt | Sutin Coleen of batld | tivpsies, also of Moors, Aeing Hows Wi ones owt the pamps and lost ir] At other times they woulg | be In the struggle for | freslom which followed. the Umb was | frequently tors off mad beavers with | one or both of thelr font fees miss. | Ing were of quite common occur rence. | Peep rooted trees do not respond as! { Warld’s Work, Yesterday | paid a Visit to the beav. | as closely retombiing, toss a | | Janes ay ‘though they had been free How ihe Elfin Fel oy Hula wud five in the wills of Maine or Cansda. Young Deavers are usually born in April or May but sometimes ss iste an July Therm are generally fro {wo to five Ii tin ones in a Jitter : abodt a month after birth they bein to follow the mother ia the water, J have nat rot seen very young ers. but 1 am told that they are § with Times, their #Yes open ~Hurtfon HOT HOUSE SPRING LAMB. AR 13 i | Mode of Ratsing - Delicacy That Now ut 81 & Pousd, 3 Spring. inmb is for sale now at | a pound of thereabonts, “We don't sell much of 1.” saldls butcher: “we pay wholesale from She 10 $20 a carcass for it and & o reap welghs from fifteen to twenty y ; That maken the cost to us almost. 3 8 pound, “Retail deatars do not like to hasdie much of #it hetauss wo do not Bate much call for it and the whale price being so algh we are able o | make only a few conta a pound ca jt PH By dBance anything happens fo what wi lave oa hand the joax bi | Olle’ carcass ¥nocks the profit off - : eonsldernble vunsizgnmont in length “All sradiig lamb now 4 the marks 1 7 knows 43 hot Bouse lamb. In th : Fears sheep raisers hate | digeovern] 8 monos of forcing the ir P products just sx the vegetable, ful it j and loner growers have discover: how to give us sirawherricyg prac Fererries and eedisocs and her 4 caries in the midet of winle “The season for the a Hond {Inmbs is from about this time wat ‘the last of March. Before their troduction those wae like good food and have the money to nay for i they want were satisfied to wat thel Tian former serve the | {animal fn place of hands, whils the Tors which urge first spring lamb about Faster tm “How to raise hot house iambs first discovered by ralsers in Nel Jersey, They Sad s manounty of | + | market for a while. Then the } BesA wa taken up by sheep in Kentocky, Missour! ani sont Kanuan “Within the last two years | raisers on the eastern end of Lo “Inland have started in, snd [ nde | stand thoy have made monay at But by far the greater amount of : | Iamb thar comes Into the tanrket 1 ; conies from Kentucky. 4% some old | “The ators! mating time of | sae in temperate eolimates is after rompanions when cold weather wets in lambs are then born In January | Pobruary, They are ready for mu | about Bawter or a little before. tion remix on his ability as an eng. | “Rut the Kentucky and Mi i raisers slong In June and Jiy 3 19D thelr Breeding ewes and of bast very {ake possession of | - & body af water, wiomily a gmail cloge | therm north to adchipan xn —— graze. The cold nights there Baer the mating, and the sheep are bro | south about the first of Decem : Shortly after this the lambs are } “The sheep when they are proj south are kept fn hot house The hot houses re usually long rami bull ings with a southern expo having in most cases glass In = shies and mof “This glans permits the ewos the lamba t got a good supply of or lar heat on clear days. They i kept from the only winds, and d { helps fatten thom, Leight feet — an} almost a goarter “Thess buildings must be large. fo i You cannot confine sheep in a smal enclosure or they will get | Did vou ever notice how a flock of { sheep ranible about when they a i grusing? Saeen mut have plenty of room. In the pond thus formed the beaw | | bnterssting way of getting good . domw-shaped structures, six or efght | So in the hot houses *h he Kentucky ravers have also for the awos, Wherover possible the have mmall streams on thelr ph | These streams are banked up so th The doorways sre ander {ie i land fhe water will overflow the grasin “Aftor tha water has covarad the lang for a day or two it is run off Cand then soon after the Young | springs np fresh, green an? tender aad that they may pass friely in and | jour as in pring time This F woulit everest themselves “This mass gives the ewes rich tha lamba. The lnmbs ave most anit. abie for market when they are three tronths old, though soma ralsers sand) them when {asy are a week or two younger. New - York Sun The: Sinth Aranrton Cawton, Ad the frslight shows them in he darkness of the hour that procedes the dawg, they are Hexion, darkeved, slight of figure, They remind you of and in their the blood of the Indians th the Spaniards. Thers is Spanish tilood in thew, too. The flourish with witich he touches his hat, the grace with which hs waves you to a stow] rade of a wow skull the grave hospi tality with which he hands vou the temeup, the politensss with which he TéceiveR yolir rematks about the wenther—everything about Kim when | he in at Lik best has a Spanish sug pestiveness. But still the gauche in fot a Spaniard. The pampa looks out of his eyes is In his voice. his tress, Hig manner. The wilderness speaks br all who Jove it and teaches them things which make them different from other men.~\William Bulfin, in the ASPET redid Hie asa l esi iisieibo aii bie It is calculated that in London alone there are discharg d into the at mosphere daily 15,000 tons ot uncon sumed fuel, } swarthy of com. w