kettle never simmers on the hearth stone any more, have given up the sacred frexide; ¢ kitten never sccpw before the back log on the floor, he spnning wheel has stopped grandma died; Pst, In hi his fancy, sees the “lam. ¥ circle” yet blithely sings the glory of His While toa hile the artist takes his pencil and in rat BY, to forget fireside has given way to steam. : The oiier. and the furnace are in no de ; sublime : The rata hard refudes ts seanoble them : mn rhyme, ~ And the artist never turns With his brash to suth concerns: have spoiled the family circle of “the splendid olden time.” st, the he prescher gr gravely proaches of the resi : Forge that Io fong since it eonsed ree Hhat the people he is preaching Forgetting 1h Where janitors are lords of all they see! TAL, the fireside is only & blind mantel on the wall The logs that used to erackie blare ne more; No more fantastic shadows over old rag carpets fall, : The hearthatione’s but a grating in the floor. The good old ways are ended and the | charm of them has fled, No “fHremide” remaing Lo jure bs Bow: No more, alas! does father have to clam. | ber out of hed To bait the logs while mether tells him hover Little Willie doesn’t hare fo carry billets in at night, . eAviling chop kindling nowadays Stay! bat bat the steam pipe hump ing~"tix no time for fight wr fright We have given ap the old poetic ways. Oh, a fancy sereen is standing as sn orna. ment before The walled and plssterad place that was the fireside of yore The wind ie howling “Wanannt® Bot no flames leap np the five, And the hearibeione’s just a grating in the Sonor —~8. FE. Kiger, in Chicago Recerd Herald, = ney #5 ie minister's Ss ter eames into the litle back meeting room off the main the church, where the members 2 Something wax going on. In through “half open door could be beard n | and an expert in soch | buzz of people, mattore, if Le lind passed by and even Hy looked within, would have known that a chureh fair was in pro- t was, ifiiesd, the annual church «held ur der the auspices bd the sinister’ dsughter Was in charge of proceedings. Her father, away in fils varstion, had called her into his study before his departure and ap peated to her very strongly to “do her | are.” And so she had suddenly an ved her determination to take an e part. much to the surprise of EVETyone, as up to the present time she had been more Interested In playing golf than io spiritual matters, and bad even been called a “regular tomboy” | by ceriain feesicitrant belugs in old fashioned bonnets. “She will make a failure of It™ an. nounced Mrs. Miotby, the official critic ; e minister's family. “That girl balrbrained, and besides. what does know about such matters? Bhe uldn’t be seen in church half the me If common decency didn’t make Af That's #0,” assented Mrs. Dickster. All she cares about are the toen and yutdoor sports, anyhow.” And now when the fair was half over | 1 began to seem ax if these predictions were to be fulfilled. The booths com. biped had taken in barely $30, and to send those poor children away for the r-for the minister's daughter, with a fine scorn of foreign missions, bad insisted that charity should begin me—~aeemed a desperate chance, and at this particolar moment it ed as if nothing short of a miracle tloneer. up. Don't Jet anyone else get it, to the ihoit of your wad—understand? I'll le tiyere in time” The boy, fresh and fair and innocent looking—~as the run of boys in “gilded | bells” are apt to be—was off in a trice, and in ten minutes more had added his individual unit to the circle around the main centre of osculatory interest. It is highly probable that if such a really seandalons proceeding as this auction had been premeditated and ad. vertised beforehand it would Yiave been promptly squashed by the pillars of the church. But the saddentiess of §¢ took the critics off their feet, and 11 was well io band and “going on” be. fore anyone bad tite to take hreath, The misigter % daughter was the sue: A bamboo cane, with a strip of red bunting on it, was her wand of service. Tall and stately and beanti- ful, her eyes flashing with the fun, she stood by the chair and waved her flag “Now, ladies and gentlemen” she cried, “liere Is Miss Kitty Jones. How ‘much am 1 offered for a sweet kisp? What! Only $2? For shame! Do you appreciate what you are getting? Five, did you gay? Now make it six. Six it is. Beven from the gentleman on the right. Seven, seven, seven -— eight, eight-will some one make It nines? That's right. You'll never regret it, Nine, nive. Now ten. That's better | Ten it is. Come, gentlemen, tid vp.” The excitement ran high, Deacon Bradbury Simpkins, forgetting what fate awalted him at howe, Hid £10 on Susie Perkins, whom Lis good wife Yuu ones designated as “sassy.” Rodd Cas teton, the best golf player in town, was a great help in “bidding up.” and #0 #lso were Jack Clnblerly and Billy Sparks, The ninth and last girl wax none other than the minister's danjthter her self. On the table by ber side lay a collection box, holding over 200, the proceeds of this unoscal trafic. Per haps the consciousness that she hind succeeded, that those poor little “tots” would got thelr outing, was eucugh to swell the receipts for the Dext ¥ make her oblivion of borsslf, minister's danghter stepped to rhere the chalrminn usually ~ There was a sudden hush. looked over her anditors a moment | 8 calm, penetrating gaze. is,” she sald, “we have got to be ar chorus of “O's” and feminine % and protests was her answer. ‘bere is no belp for it,” she contin. ied. “We must raise a lot of money before this night {8 over. Now, my ian is this: We will all stand up and Now, girls, don't Remember, a io a a hand was & Was a panse: +1 tau and then another. : "his None Lady Will Be Kissed at Auction. ‘How Much ; win You Give? 1 would probably be difficult, not to possible, to explain why this startling and sensational news should | #0 rapidly through a whole par- hat such was the case is n 1! act. Young men, {dling away “time at the club, knew it in fifteen nd started in a body for the sone A we we Xe snded of the volunteer fre rtmient. It spread even as far as | Dady’ s gambling establishment, eaused that astute individual to prick up bis ears in an unusual degree for one intived to that sort of stolelsm he rouistte table fosters. And fo as a klssing game going on at he chureh, led hy the minister's daugh- 1 herself. Here was a fine chance to At apy rate, she was calin and bean. tifully collected ax she steppmd on the chair, disdaining the helping band tha: a speitator held ont to her. “Ladies and gentiemen,™ she sald “with your kind permission I will be my own auctioneer, and 1 will spare you the usual compliment. 1 am bore to raise all the money 1 can for the poor children, and 1 am solling a kiss to the highest bidder. How wuch am I offered s “Twenty-five dollars” “The first bid, indies and gen is $25. Who will raske ft thir ty. it is, thirty. thirty thirty five, thir. ty-five. Is thirty-five the Lighest but? The tall, innocent youth new stepped to the front. It is bat festies in the boys from the ciub to say they did not recognize bm, “11 make it forty,” he sald. The auctioneer wis unmoved “I am offered £2." she sald. “Gen. tlemen, bid up, Forty, forty, forty going at {forty — golng, prolong gone, Young man, the kiss is yours at $40." There was a slight pause, a flutter of interest. This nice-looking, gentleman iy appearing boy, with $40 to bid for a single kKiss—who was he? AV any rate, it didn’t matter much, he was only a boy. “What a rellef” whispered one of the committee, “to think ber reputation has been saved by a youag thing like that. Why, it doesn’t mean anything to be kissed by him. An act of provi dence, I verily bolleve Almost as if in reply the boy turned half around, as the figure of Mike Dady slowly forced {ts way through the circle, “1 was bidding for some one else” | sald the boy, holding out the woney. “Yes,” sald Mike, his cool, insolent eyes sweeping the crowd. “He was bidding for me. He was my—what do you call it?-proxy. I'll take the kiss, if you please” A dead sllence—an awfnl panse, For the first time that evening a flush spread over the face of the min. istor's daughter--a flush that made iis way from her firmly rounded throat up over her checks to the line of fair hair on her forehead. She leoked around the crowd almost | appealingiy. Was there no one to help i her in this dilemma? Suddenly her eye tlemen, ty? Thir- cenled fram view-—a short, squat figure of Lo us handing —~and there came to her voice a ring of RO over t the | triumph, | 3 “You shall be paid,” she sald. “The a, money, pleases ning through & windfall gloney curves of fur ovr] over logs that le piled on ench | boundless confusion firip to the woods, while for fioves the rifle ag I do. more sweet kiss, push wn front’ and bid Romans, | lighted on a figure that stood half con- | Bilis Ia the hos Then she 1orned to the ff witness “de provesdin’s” “Come bere, mummy,” she whispered, and drawing her close her, she kissed the Bleck somnniing smack, Then she turned to the gambler, “And here” she sald Take your pay, zine, sir "<Braodur Mags BS pe Nt ds JUMP] NG THE DEER, A Btyle of Hunting That Looks Easy Til} Yon Try It. “Jumping no Jes? ix a Highly sttrar tive phrase, nite apt to moke 5 ting. who bears it for the first ‘ime. also quite satisfactory to fhe Ir is CHRD ing nature You, may, indesd got a gow] what in this way, and it is gener. ally the only way 16 see the prandest of all sights of the woods deer rune To see the tie Jofty oth worth a him who for what cannot be done with it than for what fn, there Is no sGch targe! slsewhers, But for the tryo who is dying to get that first deer “lumping a deer” gen erally means ont of sight and ont of besring both, ofl to le down after feoding does nat BO to &ivep bat to ruminats snd take life easy. falls nto a doge, bat slmest abways his head Is wall ean for danger. And even If one is in 8 doze Bt mony slip away without your gnrpecting {ix ex ong Hithe of the senses of thie wary anh mig). The man who “wonldn't shoot such An Innocent restore 1 as a deer” should by all ode see of 8 heavy windfall white frm who loves game that ean get away can find bere the attraction of the wande at its imax From "Hunting the Vir ginia Deer, = Outing. Colors Weoos Ride Up Migs Xelile Regan, a POUnE tes hee in charge of a Boek of youngiers at & ifttie red school vase near Croton, re ceived an unexpected visit from Hens dior Depew, on Tuesday, according to the Yeoukers Statespuan. Mr. Depew i® wall ia Te Thi, the was driving from the Croton railroad station to Palioer's Hotel As he passed akong the highway he sgw the school hemse, and looked to see if the Baz was fying. The emblems was waving in the breeze, but Mr. Depew noticed that the Stars and Riaripes were upside down The Senator cliiabed un the Kil to the schon] bouse. The children were at thelr studies. Miss Regan came to the door. “My dear Miss, please ex- fuse fe” said the Benator, 8% be stood smiling, bat in band, “I was pasiing this wag recalling the scenes of my elitldbood days among these beantifol hills nad vallegs of yours, when [ no In my of. ficial position I fee] that 1 have 8 right to inquire about 1070 “1 know Us all wrong” etarmomersd the young teacher, calling Mr. Depew by name, “but 1 comida’ belp It, The balysrds were broken, apd we conkin’t holst §t right side up. ®o, rather than not have 1 wp at all, the boys put it wrong side up” Mr. Depew called Mise Regan a brave American girl, the right spirit. Then speech to the children, telling them of the importance of patriotism and the significance of the Rag. A Development of the pator. An essay on "The Boston News papers” In the Bookman throws some light on the developroent of the taod- ern editorial. The earlier newspapers had no editorials. Attempts to mould public opinion (ook the form of letters signed “Paling” “Jouning” and like Latin names, such, for Instance, as the letiers which make up the Federaliss The writer In the Bookman claims for Boston the honor of originating the present editorial form The Boston Daily Advertiser and Repertory, the first snecesaful Boston dally, was founded in 1813, snd the hext year paseed into the bands of Nathay ¥lale, nephew of the spy of the Hevolution. Haile began to substitote leading art cies written in the office for those for- mierty furnished by the stalwart “Fabius,” “Honestus,” “Nov. Anglos” “Lace” and “Massachtisets estas” The fashion set by the Adver. tier was widely copied, and at length twcame general. Mr. Hale take such pride fn his innovation that when distinguished men like Everent and Welster offered articles for use aos editorial be lusisted on printing them as communications. Only the staf men were allowed to write the regular editorial comment. Turkeys as Star Witnesses, A modern Solomon's judgment, ap- proved by a flock of turkeys, after the decision bad been referred for final adjudication to the latter. has just come from Lower Providence towne ship, The flock of binds in question had strayed from their ows farm hoine, as turkeys will, and had been cooped ap by the distant veighbor on whose fence rails they roosted, A warrant, a trial before a Justice of the Peace and a proposition {rom the real owner to let the birds settle the question for themselves, prevalled. “I'l forfeit the lot If they don’t go home,” proposed the owner. “And so you shall” responded the Justice. “Turn them loose.” The liberated turkeys, as if they appreciated the weight of their new legal responsibility, went in a bee-line to their home roosts; and judgment delphia Record. " was handed fo her. and she put the gure she had seen—the old family colored cook back | ex the ace of spades, who had come to} and puttioe her srros around face a re "Ie my proxy. ling in the back hair of the tenderloot | who slways hag to share hefore woe wer fo Cmca jn 8 great while one | erect and all senses fer miven deal § getting oul | Bediraons dete hedlure entering to carry off money and 8 tiowad that the fag In front of your: fro rend Was upside dow. and said that she bad | be made a came to | was entered for the plaintiff. —Phila- F all the forest loving races of Europe, none bas sought the woods for the woods’ sabe like unto the English speaking people: Boo has ever afforded the spectacle of an anpual migration to the | wilderness in such magnitude as do the Americans of todar. They zo with the eagerness of honnds joosed from tie leash and, novant with the spirit of adventure. sevens adrentum's sirobes or rewards with the indifference or delight of & knight of 1a Mancha, of thelr adventure: they have sfnbodied It in They Bave beep the first people to (a1 their Hieratore. sddve jotta fiction the life { FATA and civibzed, of the forest, and to portray in cisssirnl seconts che real tile of the woods, the lakes and the plains. Thelr fret novelizt of repotation, Codper, 1aid bis scenes in the forests of the upper Hudson, of (he Susquehanna, and in the Osk Openings of Michigan: Irving descends the Big Horn in a ball at and follows the adventurers sorois the Great Plats and the Rocky Monn. | taire, and through the desolation of Snake River to the Oregon; and Parkman, enlightened by hie tribeship with the Ogalallas. has endued history with the Fpirit of the wilderness, and bas drawn inspiration from its wonds and streams The greatest and best of the Americans, thelr writers, posers, philosophers and statesmen, all have worshiped Great Pan in his groves. Bryast, Lowell Emerson, Agssslr pads annual pilgrimages to the woods: Wabister composed 8 prt of his Bunker HO Monmment oration oa a front streani; death overtook Governor Russell on the hanks of 8 salmon river: and the present President of the United States was called out of the Adirondacks to assume his oes, while President Harrison, fhe moment his duties were done turned his back on the F White House and songht repose in a cabin on the Folton Chain. These sre a few only of the worthies of our and out af the rreat nombwr who have hied ty the woods for rest recreation, observation and inspiration: who, indeed, Bate gone into the woods for the woods’ snke. We can say of the Amerienn formst what Jacques du Fools said of the forest of Arden: Mon of grea: worth resvirted to this forest every day. For the desr that poes | - By Malo: Richard SyTvestor, Superintendent of the Washington (D. C.) Police. |X every walk of life we ert with queer nnd at tines 8 ir np experiences, ut the police bear and sae | terids to guestion humanity of work It seegne strane Baye dean and polite sx facts for Rave gwnl thar would gy § ieee A font banr Aer and & iv HS it I know of a8 5% ear than employes in any other line hat peverth Sallariat investiratio wid suddenly with ntiae bees less iw tne, thal 3 which are repoaried tot mn. Dearing of all the exsitrment and clarm I to a genuine case, fired revolvers at ihe rechueiied to thelr mistake {ler close jaquiry Pe S00 whire it was reported that a burglar knocked at the vainablee. Theres was Yustance of A prominent oficlsl of the Government whe, whiln ex- perivneing the wildest bey bedlpeest, mnngiving that he was atiacked by burgisrz, and the exbagstion wiiiech followed Biz midnight defense was ax great sz if be had acinsily encountered mg randers. This geutleman had seen service (a the Mexican War and througd the {vil War, and bad band-to-band encounters which, however, were attend: ed with hardly more serious results thao the imaginary conflict. The greftest fmpoxition is that which occurs 3 great many times 8 your when persons who cannot or do not want to par their just debts report that they have been robbed of sume of money. They will prearranee to give colar to the trrth of their report, bal are generally found out in the end. A maa has een known fo have reported being held up by footpads In erder to aveld paying out part of bik income to bis wife, and all kinds of losses hare ooctrrad To hase who courted the sympathy of creditors about the rut of the month. The pul fe Shes not believe everyibing they resd and Sear about borg | s and highway robberies, for many of the camer so rpatiind, alter nvesth Bn. ure shown to be withont foundation. Bion thier Jari gall HE world haw never seen more marvellous rraeperity than | that whith we pow estjoy, and this prosperity 8 not ephermeral. We shall have our ops and downs The wave at times will recede, but the tide will zo steadily higher. | This country has never yut been called upon to meet a ftisis In war or a orisis in peace to which It did not eventually prove | equal, and decade by decade its power groves greater and the | likelihood of Its meeting sucevssfully any crisis becomes even mare assured. We are optimists. We spurns the teaching ha v mirhty young nation ‘still In the flush of {ts youth and yet already with the of a glant which stands on 3 continent and grasps an ocran with itaet of despair and Matrust. We 2 2 Hingat had, Sucveed? Of course we shall stores. How can suecess fall to come to 2 race of masterful anergy and resolute character, which has a continent for (he awe of its domain, and which feels within ta veins the thrill that copies to generous souls when thelr strength stirs in them asd they know that the {ature Is theirs No great destiny ever yet came to a nation whose people were lagzards or faint beartéd. No great destiny ever yet came to 8 people walking with thelr eyis on the ground and thelr faces shrouded In gloom. No great destiny ever yet came to a people who feared the future, who feared fallure ore thas they Doped for snceess, With soch as thess we have no pars We know there are dangers abead, as we koow there are evils to fight and ovireome, but we feel to the full thar pulse of the prosperity which we snjoy Btoat of heart we see across the dangery the great future that Hes bewand ant we réjolow 2a a gland refreshed, as & strong man gird for the race; and! we go down lato the arena whers the nations strive for mastery, oof hesris | hed with the wi nkind. 3 3 v3” oys Suc By John Gilmer Speed. COUNTRY boy's lack of opportunity iz his best cquipment for the serious straggles of life. This sounds psradexioal, bat it is true. It is just as true as the opposite proposition, that the greatest hindrances a city boy has to countemi with are the op portanities which beset him when young and porsue him until he Degins the real business of lfe—a business which each ind vidual must carry on for himself. For the eity boy everything is made as easy as possible. Even pleasum becomes to him at old story before he is out of his teens. Brought up in the feverish rash of a place where great things ave happening day by day, he sees the workd with a oynle’s eyes and despises the small things which, ke the bricks in a Louse, go to the upbuilding of characters and careers. He billeves in using large markers in the game of fe; for pennies and small units of value be has Hite taste and scant regard, The conditions surrounding the country boy are as diferent as possible. There j3 a deal of regular work thar every country boy must de, and this regularity of employment, mestly oat of deers, inctdeates industrious habits, while it contributes to a phrsieal development which in after years is just as valuable as any athletic training that oan be had. He cannot ran os fast, perhaps, as these trained by a system; be may nod be able w jump so high vr so far, or excel In any of the sports upon which we bestow so mdel time amd from which we get so much of pleasure, hut bis develepuisnt enables higy i hackle down fo the hard work in which hours are consumed and from w very Vitle or so immediate pleasure is extracted. tH ne Hie that of the cart horse, bur the fart horse 13 to be preferred where @ fog and steady pull is required. The th harsughbived race horse bas a fine Bight FC speed and centers with delightful Hight ness and grace along the park bridle | paths, but the heavy work is the work tut in demand, and for that we want tur drafr animals every time. Enthusiasm {4 the spur to endeavor, and at the sare tims 12 is fhe savor of The country boy whose ambition has taken him to town comes filled with eu busiasme, Even the little things are novelties to him, and 13 he secomplisbes ths and that he fedls that he is doing something pot only interssting but valuable, His simple tastes have not been spoiled by a multiplicity of gratis: cations, and so be iz glad of everything good that comes his way. At thirty, i? Lie leads un clean life, he has more of the boy in him than his city cousin has left at fifteen. He does what is before him Decause it is his duly. while the other is too ap! cynically to question the value of dolug anything and ask, “What is Be use?” Biel Bagh His sirengibh may be some Ha Nor have the Amerieans stayed st the mers enjorment | more that i persons | he | robbers, they | rrove in his sleep. jorsped out of Hod and fought the | an abiding faith in the growing strength, the growing foture of the | faith that to us and to our children and our ~hildren's ob dren | it shall be given to make this Republic the greatest of all the peoples of | SRG NE A The best mulch for a strawberry bed is fine Borse manure. Early spring it should be raked off the rows sod workad in close to the plants, naiby «ait hay or any cess materinlin its place on the rows ae 3 muleh after thie plants are well grown, so As to pros tect the froit from dirt and alse to shade the soil The Experimental Plot, Select some plot of ground. or part of a fold, for experimental purposes. Fix your plan, and end the yedr with sorie nositive information that you have gleanwd from your year's Jaber. Unless it is well planned at the stars, and Gata fully kept, it ends only In | opinions that are largely guesses, and ittle raore ix known than at frst, Reading in Pratt Tress, i *T am i which I ; young Trait trees. WII you describe to me what heading in reeans sand how it is done? I have a few peach frees and pear tress and miicees hexides 8 | good apple wrehard” The Em or shortening of the season's growth is but partieniarly the pear. Sach shorts i ening can be done on the strong term ral shoots without aWecting the next year's fruifage. The blossom bode are hid on the shle twize 1 have always cut in my pears, as jong ax § cond reach the pew growth with a steplads der. The peach blossoms all wp and down the new wood You will there Tors decrease the froitage by heading in. This will do no harm. because the peach aiways overhears, and the these angh ripening of the buds that are Jefe renders them better able to meet the wintar's cold. The quince bears on pew wood, bat these new shoots come sut of the last year's growth and if Fou cut too far back it may materially reduce your erop. 1 have never ent Gack quince bushes after the fourth or fifth year —E P. Powell in New York Tribune Farmer. : Alls In Setting Trees. CAN The tripod device for setting trees is heard shown (8 the accompanying tustration, and fSnd it mach more ships ™X XOTCRED ; BOARD, ra aR ple and Joss expensive. x ‘begin by se. lecting the orchard site. Then plow the ground, barrow and plank it thee cughiy. Line off Doth ways and set 8 stake where cach tree is to be placed, Take a board five to six feet long, Sve or six inches wide and ove inch thisk. Notch it as shown in the (lustration, nA way between the notches on the ends Place the centre pofch against the | stake where the tres is to he planted, then se: a small stake in cach of the other notches, When ready for planting dig np the contre stake and prepare the hole for the tree. Then in setting the tree pot the notehed board in position with the end notches opposite the two other stakes. Set the free go that the trunk will rest in the middle patel. This will insure an absolutely straight row both nevessary ty describe ft Many, bowsvir, continge to bave | erooked rows simply becaose they ; have pot thought of this plan. ~A BL i Barnes, In Now Enzlasd Homestead handily seems 3 Dor Ponrs Plehed Batore Ripe. There fs scarcely any variety of pesy that i» not better for being picked bee i fore fully ripe and then ripening ul | dor cover. This after-ripening may be retarded or hastened almost at will by the method of storing. If Rept in a cel lar or other room modirately cool 88 about an even tsmperature, they ripen up slowly, while if in a dry aod warm room. and covered with a bistket to exclude the light, they will ripen in 8 few days or a week, according to thelr condition when picked. If desired to keep them several weeks they should he put in cold storage at about thirty. three degrees, and a rather close wate kept om them. at least after the third week, marketing them as soon as fit in found that some of them are beginning to be mellow. Some of the very late varieties niay be Kept through the win. ter in this way. It is of little ose to put pears or any other fruit in cold storage after they have begun to grow mellow, or to pnt in any that have been bruised for cold storage needs special ears. It is often a puzzle to the beginner to knew fust when he should begin to | pick his pears. as the time is so varied with different varieties. Some walt until they find a few ripe or nearly so on the extreme end of the branches, usually on the south side of the tree. But if they walt for that it will be bet ter to market early. A better test is to take the pear and bend the stem backs ward, If it easily separates from the branch it is ripe enough to gather, Dut if the stem breaks before cleaving off & the twig it is not ripe enough ~The Cultivator, 3 In love absence may make the heart ; grow fonder, but the fellow who wants 8 ware thing wil try presents purzied by the directions read about trimming my desirable on Doth the apple and pear, AD right. but I Dave used the notched having the middie noteh exactly half ways The device {x so simple that 8 : While all fruit should Ire handled with care, that intended
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