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,
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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