- ■ r—- .. -■ --- - z big fire in the had made old sleigh. Ben sittingroom JIM WAkDbER tugged'it into the OF IDAHO. cheerfully a FORMULAS VALUABLE this the around fireplace, and she’d along bring o’ “Seems kind queer for friendly folks gathered older days,” thought he just few a trunk for His Remarkable Luck and the Story and Insecticides a Prepare a How to visit. she’s going mebby to himself, “but of to Interesting; Telegram Destruction an for the Fungicides opened the the old half-past Joyce spell.” And At quite Concerning man seven Him. stay as and Scabs. a of Insects the children ushered and door and in front blankets tucked the [[VW'HvVILJjyBIU, warm room snug “Jim over,” Wardner of Idaho all people into the. blaze and for that she and formulas hoping himself following he found The young preparing said Christmas just in first from the glory of the tree and westerner town fungicides for the and insecticides would. a Pacific slope, Right “ought them had to be somewhere of face scab, have seldom strange insects, etc., There seen. destruction of seen ever some a was New York view the in city this minute, proudly did Joyce pretty into at which led road and familiar scene, satisfactory very found close that the up been at FAVOR. are IN very GROWING on 011 for 1 heard //□ hemlock-garlanded the he had left for the Ik of day caught the east and’Joyce who have Land, recommended by those Promised room, on highly the *q beauty Bethlehem in pictures, but all prospecting trip, just before I wreaths above the interested faces got of a glimpses over trial: fleeting them given a Have Established Experiments Recent Ef . lay, down from lovely Skagway. Ben’s'old crowning all the towering Wardner is and tree, Uncle moth, '//D\ l them a the codling peering out at destroying For as long When star of Subirrigation ere a the Value IP W'C with the genius ceiling, aglow soft that the be downed, and, besides cannot Two to along. heavily jogged insects curculio and leaf horse or arose canker worm, Houses. Forcing in with stran having That candles, agleam with for him in S e light of dozens of town named become had girls she one of the that infest apple, three kinds various of young *>, glows, effulgence Idaho golden festoons of and another in British Kootenai, the during acquainted with popcorn, oranges snowy preceding mix pound of London subirrigation z /|fl\> ,z subject of in the peach, plum, The etc., » V a joyful While the an- of had he has and bags candies. Joyce made and lost in four fortunes she had spent when half a in paris summer; much purple is still attracting sing: forcing house gels green a or ' tired—at mines, is hard all day and and his bring!” worked starting in gayly tidings she glad and was "We from Heaven farm, now on the week at now until lump continue stirring and experiments of attention, to pail water, every blessed Welcome, tired before the fifth. At least she had been his is morn, least fourth and caught ever slie people them hand gone, her to waved is thoroughly material as of dry be The shows particle made. and cut one arrangement born! Babe When the holy was she looked into he only —but makes fortune when he happens door. window the came now as a them sight of at or experiment incorporated; then dilute with the Maine used station, at plains, ' wondering she the faces and be of His last the happy watching in to venture Shepherds travel, out on eyes one. swiftly does And ev&n news sides for the first Orono, The bottom and gallons of Me. water so 201) spraying. trains. angel herald i the Saw big. that it had paid. but it He felt had nightfall went two before Land, that was Promised wrong. the water-tight by spraying increase of the the second bench made For light dazzling are around As a steamboats the Kootenai, and started Baxter, joys of that Who could tell of all the Joyce that knew on white. of their wings addition of and by the Flashes from everyone coating with Portland of cement, two the amount water the town of Wardner, which glen: : Christmas Eve! How went and to hill; had wonderful astonished o’er Sounding loud Isabel’s niece, up Aunt come spraying is tile of two-inch drain gallons. If third 40 required rows porous are a men!” will good to earth, with boom, “Peace and Jim started win on the each boy when Uncle Ben Somehow to a holidays. a very spend the was of gallons lengthwise, cemented the joints, still another add’ 40 at run employ, Oh, sweet morn! Blessed million. down content loudly read his and handed helped this to of knowledge name easily injured joy! is of The foliage praise in •Christ to water. songs more “There rival the the mysterious town with his hands to girl hearts was a across dissatisfied eager some some therefore the progresses, season as waits Now Saviour the in Heaven river, they Jim’s but had to depend in parcel! How radiantly happy each Christmas dull usual on of the was prospect diluting the of the necessity With its material gates. ever open steamboats for their naturally, stuff, and ' received small girl who pretty valley. fall the some Him before Where the saints application. each subsequent used at under the Wardner circumstances, all! wellknown thing that wonderful tree! And Lord of Ben’s from Uncle Throned in glory. day when next But and falls Apply after the bloom bring let Like the wise had the bulge of Steelton, the men us child forgotten. And then how stopped at and on name cutter horse was no intervals of thereafter. at days ten King; to Fitting presents our other the One day, when town. and they all shouted when Uncle Ben peered Land Promised everything in the gate His which in every the heart, Give eyes. For leaf scab, with orchardists which of coining Jim’s both I the parcels he the path through his glasses at was way, prize! stylish Joyce richest the Ever is pretty, came up have had and much trouble so I his boats the rocks and sunk, went himself! found the for And moment tree followed on door, front the on a to born! have faithfully Christ labored days when destroy, Day of to was so Jim and wasn’t in fix replace yet to how they all exclaimed when Joyce missed who a Ben, Uncle by uni morn! later EVer brightest never the hailed and mildew grapevines, rot grape on them. In him, other words, it busted done, Aunt Isabel’s bundle and laid salvation’s work visit, there did When neighborly was of chance the a a diseases, the and other fungus following the Son, given All and he to of it the best he could, got out power beautiful, soft, fleecy, white shawl into those all seemed at cnee to come has efficient: Dissolve six gloom. proved garden’s the marks Still He which off of Toronto to the to town her shoulders! And then when about delight something of was go lives quiet tomb, new a Bloody and rocky cross pounds of sulphate of in hot copper his stock ! and trade site for town privately invited Uncle Ben, who had raise there a which had been when not And is with interest and a we us in wooden vessel. Slack four water a praise! of of Christmas goods. These, the of $40,- Sweetest to extent i minister from the village, asked for songs in her when Joyce And before. a own of lime another pounds fresh in Standard. —Sydney Dyer, in Chicago vessel he carried Bennett and 000, to Lake ; Christmas listened few remarks, they all invitation given her up had pleasant way and strain all the out coarser material. started it down river Dawson. the to reverently while that old sweet Isabel’s on to-morrow Aunt “to to come up Dilute the lime with 50 to 75 Evidently Jim’s wasn’t luck the of the Babe Bethlehem told of story o’clock,” they' all on water, evening at was seven GREENHOUSE, gallons of and then add the sulphate SUBIRRIGATION IN water for his load of stuff boat and promised was lovely to thought it once more. was of This is for Six-inch flower copper. use on the wrecked and closed ends. only saved enough at and he out suspected And after the candles had burned of them but not even one go, plants in leaf. Copper sulphate solution, cemented intervals of of it bring him if in when, he pots at to $9,000, on are it only down, sputtered and the front And out. Christmas not tree. was gone a which should be only used with the on eight feet, connecting had had luck his would easily $40,000 seven or big who asked deserted in favor of the the people to room was were young plants in early spring before leaves is which been usual bore of the tile, into the have sold for the $400,000 water at kitchen, slighted. Every where all of sorts Not romping gay. one was come. is made by dissolving appear, when needed. The one Dawson profit. That of thing poured sort water must played. Joyce, flushed invited,from grandma down family games were was pound of sulphate of in gallons 25 sides the copper would have knocked but through the of most out porous and twice men, pass longAiressed Isabel wondered if the baby. Aunt to merry, once or of be used in water to this form. Wardner right I tiles into the soil, which is filled into the went and the girls Jean’s Christmas ’em on now, understand, “Ask all, dear, party had said: at were my A combination mixture for both insects something usual he has bench in the got to present manner. having much fun she. ’em, the house is big enough hold I to as as Baxter pi SN’T Joyce and fungi is made by putting Y’orkers better method, which fully to New than Another anything proves anyhow it’ll do good and Presently Belinda, important to and us guess, girl the oddest london purple I paris in barrel you is he struck. effective under trial, the or green a to ever as cover neighborly.” the crowd and be For smiling snow-white above her up apron, 1/1 ?” with Bordeaux mixture. ex- The bark ever saw “His ‘black cat’ farm of the the cemented bench with bottom of two was one widely-scattered truth that the passed napkins, and plates and Joyce II was A Vcva claimed to louse yields following: to the One things that him reputation for broken inches of and pots gave a their or more families not all noted for at helped her the delicious cake and were serve i v. ~~~ __ chum her pound of dissolved one in wealth. This farm island with bricks, which then covered common soap was on an a are “neighborliness.” All had into sandwiches and the coffee. tea and grown pour ( morning. gallon of hot water; add gallons raised, in Puget sound, where he two burlap. The soil is then putin place, one according habit, stay-at-home when they What royal time it and how good or a a was. “What now?” Bessie, smiling asked of kerosene and churn, with his representations to to admitted the of and water to stratum an a it all generally the village. jovial the old how vivacious went at and to was were, men her fancy work. force if have by stirring journalist, such, numbers -over vast eastern potsherds the soil becomes dry. pump you one, or as the old ladies! Aunt Isabel and “ex-cept Vova, “Why, nothing,” replied until the kerosene black that their furs brought and of soapsuds cats yield of Where radishes the busier A household than Uncle Ben’s Uncle Ben plainly happy, and are grown, so were she's it her head that taken into thoroughly it mixed. If him fabulous Of the work marketable are is about revenue. course, roots 15 cent, a per Christmas with that spend has been to done right fabric of the fancy, but the the queer, story emulsion will The germination of seeds is a greater. was in the old-fashioned of hers have aunt Wardner’s the where, and told of thick up the about but larger number of appearance every was very same, a here in where instead of country town and the oil black farm of the features will remain cat incorporated off” plants “damp under surface cream, one was young there’s going be much fun. She to with of the least. the and coast at Dilute so water. the of small and watering, and number —on paper soap is the oddest girl I knew. Fancy with “Another is told of him at 30 gallons story to 75 of ever is also water a diseased much greater. roots .spending week in that dull, poky when using. time when he between fortunes Any of the mixtures a will injured millipedes, was The number of by roots neighbors place, where the live half and wanted New York for get destructive to to the if a to a thousand-legged is prove pests very or worms, old couple mile and with that apart grubstake. He Vancouver, and, applied at properly. They should be was under sub-irrigation, but greater not applied company! and their 'hired girl for left he couldn’t swim, nothing with force with was gain as enough reduce the seriously. to net a pump a spray But there’s accounting for he him but by the land, nozzle. no to so likely of go on Subirrigation is to prove things, Joyce is lovely in Pacific railroad. most struck the Canadian tastes. advantage in growing such great crops FOR THE ORCHARD. stylish and' always pleasant, and pretty and his the He stated agent to so case where, leaf is aggravated lettuce, rot as Shaughnessy, but sometimes when she takes telegraph Mr. asked him to by with soil. —Rural New damp contact How Build to Pruning Boat such freaks it almost for makes a the general agent at queer me passenger Yorker. Hauling; Away Limbs and believe it for effect. Twigg she does And Montreal, the effect that Mr. Wardner to to GROWING CRANBERRIES. Cut from Trees. she’ll Christmas think miss the Vancouver, and unless he party at was Jean’s! she’s for he would have I know invited, transportation to got at The pruning-boat is handy, homemade a so.” Profitable Jean told walk. The obliging sent the No Other Crop Brings Quite agent as message me necessity I noticed in Washington a The girls drifted off from the Equal two asked: ‘Shall I issue the Results with and an orchard. It is used for hauling •subject transportation? of Joyce into talk of fancy work Later the agent of Labor. Amount received the Limbs and twigs from the cut away Christmas ‘Don’t let Mr. Wardner for and reply: presents costumes gay a fruit-trees convenient place, to of Canadian fruit meeting At recent a approaching walk,’ night Mr. Wardner for the and that a party. same where they burned. The boat is of growing the question are aC. cranberries P. train. Meanwhile in Joyce’s home flying eastward growers pretty on was nothing than sled eight bytwelve of discussed more a and one the Mrs. Baxter holding Arriving- Montreal Wardner to was went at was on avenue feet, with platform of inch testimony leading offered the a and with dark-eyed daughter. Shaughnessy- extend his thanks, growers some her to converse boards receive the prunings. Three the following is digested. to from which “You’re little girl,” she when the G. P. A. him he threw saw up a queer planting The for land cranberries saying, “to prefer spending the his hands. was sanded, and should be worked he SIDE VIEW ‘How did here holidays Aunt Isabel’s when all “ get up at so soon, you up six from three the sand be to to other girls excited about asked. the are so important j inches irrigation deep. The is responded “ the C. P„ of Jean’s It’s be affair, ‘Over nice I party. to course, a —in is essential fact, to Jean’s taken Wardner. cranberry know, because mother has A. land should always growing. The Didn’t “ ‘But how? the agent get counsel with and there to be my me are the frost Before be kept damp. telegram?’ novelties besides the several pretty should be flooded and the patch **- it said: ‘Don’t let Mr. time. dear, “‘Yes, and regular good If I comes were you, co first of May. The berries kept until the didn’t,’ smiled Wardner walk, and I idea of going the I’d give the to so up i thrive well when exposed do not Jim. Promised Land and home.” stay at UNCLE BEN MET JOYCE AT THE TRAIN. winter's frost. If long spell the Scott!’ exclaimed Shaughnessy, to “‘Great But Joyce knew what she wanted, a of weather takes place in dry' left ‘that telegraph operator out presently Mrs. Baxter, with loving summer, and a could be imagined than his not Belinda, and if the guests was was were repeated. One irrigation should be shoulder,.left period. The should have PRUNING BOAT. telegram A little her the to pat a on the day before Christmas. Veryearly one-half happy Joyce they on as as were speaker said: ‘Don’t. Let Wardner walk.’ ” read: herself. with pruning knives and four or men in the morning he and Joyce had happy', indeed. and “I Cherry Bell variety the “Then Wardner Shaughnessy the child intends “I believe to grow’ the surplus limbs from cut gave go up saws driven off into hemlock the woods When it all and all the up was over I realized S3OO for what I the ha, ha, and Shaughnessy- net into the Promised Land regular grew on of the time, and gave trees at two as a rows same brought in triumph and home beautiful had departed for their guests a respective I would like didn’t last dinner and Wardner to Wardner ■Christmas fairy,” she thought, smilingly, one acre year. hich pair them the boat, throw to a a tall, on w shapely and of tree, stout homes in the Promised Land, Uncle else know if there is anything either. walk New York, have to she descended the stairs. “All to one big brush hitched. When of horses is on as it a branch. And Uncle Ben who Ben drew Joyce down his knee. was upon would that would bring and He’s chap, is Jim Wardner, put to those little in her great mysterious bundles acre the branches drawn an heap is made a it of are firmly in block wood and “Little girl,” set he said, “you done well a — will the Sand he’ll be again by and by, if he correct returns. top something.” same consumed. This the fire and see on to room mean it into the big front And it away bore done nobly! The Christmas true room. you all weeds. I have under isn’t.” —N. Y. Sun. 15 But later in the Joyce slipped day acres the orchard of insects now assists in ridding Belinda, “help,” popped the who spirit is in heart, ‘peace and good was your cultivation, all neighbors have and 'her mother’s lady’s that my and disease and the wrap upon panfuls germs, saves of and great Aunt will.’ ” snowy corn, Potpourri. taken the industry, although they si. ndders, brought her hat gloves and up work collecting the prunings after of Isabel who in her red-covered rocking-chair sat And Aunt Isabel smiled at those turkey bones and Crack the across laughed when I started mine. at and with little made her for out her me boat orchard has been trimmed. The go a and it into long festoons an “You’ve strung her. brought the Christmas the from the chicken add left pasty, I recommend the cultivation of shopping. And the she can also be barn-yard used on way revealed for the And it Joyce manure-sled, tree. may feeling as a into heart, child,” she said was necks and backs and chicken my more undesirable profitable cranberries business, her plans. as a and hauling hay and for filled who the bags of lacenet softly. can’t have “I bear to generous portions of the turkey, you go cover experience from the I have had.” “I’ve mind made that there corn-fodder the feeding-yards.— up my to she had made home with candy, at to-morrow.” home day' after three with cold slowly water and stew ■shall be Christmas in the Promised tree Fireside. Joel Shoemaker, in Farm and a raisins and cracked And it nuts. Joyce laughed gleefully. “I’m not was spaghetti Break enough Money Horse Radish. four hours. in or Land this year,” she began. “I Joyce who twined spicy-smelling long, going, auntie,” she said. “I’ve three Horse radish is extensively by half into inch lengths make to grown a cupful. ABOUT GARDEN TRUCK. Aunt Isabel wrote to time and some ago of hemlock to swing from the weeks’ vacation, I’m going and spend ropes to boiling salted market gardeners large cities. It Cook till tender in near fcsked She’s questions. written some ceiling and around the walls. it all with you.” rich, deep, rather moist drain and add the requires then to water, a very ■back that the folks in the Promised stored in boxes barrels and Roots young Belinda or and Aunt Isabel Uncle Ben chuckled himself. retired to to bits, Cut celery into fine soil, and is raised from that is, thin strained broth. sets, Land have Christmas had much better with sand than never covered a the kitchen, while are Joyce with “That’s the talk,” said he. busy “I to make pieces of the trimmings of the enough two tablespoonfuls, was way root, to previous tree and' if I into it I want to left shrivel in dry cellar. when go may to Uncle Ben in the front when trunk a and wondered I that of add this together year’s and with into pieces of room, presently see teaspoonful cut a crop, ■have her big front Uncle and Ben room Novelties the garden what Belinda’s cake-making mebbe wasn’t going to skill if to of finely four six inches length. are minced onion the in The land to to was yours you soup. will about the So I’ve been tree. see the pudding. They be is announced by delicious with We’ll smells from spell, and be. to stay may Cook till the celery onion should be well worked before planting, sauce and tender. a us so you are little buying and making these things, better than the old varieties, but the big and Aunt Isabel sliced the try have sleighrides and candypulls to Season with salt and and which has be done early in spring. no oven, some to pepper know, it to and I’m put you on now in there is pleasure and satisfaction pink ham and sandwiched it in between here in Promised Land the with heated In field culture planted crackers. Good the in up sets serve are after candy finish with.” off to finding the daintily-thin buttered bread. while you’re here and I don’t doubt out. Housekeeping. about three feet and a apart 18 rows Mrs. Baxter looked affectionately at “We’ll have mite ground tea and coffee both, Belinda,” but what we’ll all have good Radish seed will keep in the inches the The planting is in a rows. her daughter. “You’re girl, good Jelly. Apples with a said Aunt time.” —Harriet little place is Isabel, Francene Crocker, in through the winter. If “and the done by simply making hole with pass a a a Take six fine apples, and Joyce,” she said, softly, “and mother’s core pare things around.” And Union Signal. Belinda, prepared out-of-the-way smiling in pointed stick, dropping the that corner some set so them and them in with put proud of you.” And then she opened a saucepan broadly in pleased anticipation and sowed this fall, the plants will of the late it is about three inches below the surface, COMPARISONS NOT MADE. pint of rind of the lemon, her and purchased water, a unusual thing one own purse some which first be growing with the about happen, and to and then pressing it firmly with warm was up and one-half pound of loaf Place choice gifts for Isabel and Uncle Aunt deftly sugar. spread the They will snow-white frosting weather spring. next foot. During the the first prove month two or Ben. the fire and smuggle gently until “You them the stew onto very can the big fruit on cake she had allowed acceptable then. over most the ground has be kept well cultivated to without the apples soft, then lift them their knowing thing out tree a to cool. are Sink two-thirds of length barrel its and clean; later the leaves a cover it,” she said. “I and lay glass dish. Boil the about declare, Joyce, on a sugar “It will be nice, that’s bank fact,” in the ground, the she the entire ground, make cultivation then to top, to up a so as I wish and with little melted isinglass do I going the Promised to water was said, a energetically. “It’s and fill with cabbage covering wonderful, useless put on a or unnecessary. Land, too!” strain it make it then and add to set, ain’t it, what jest girl of boards, old The seta-going straw one can or carpet. Keeping Winter Squashes. few drops of cochineal, and it “But can’t, know,” put laughed when a she takes you you notion!” will keep till cabbage the last of winter a My method of keeping few winter aside. When quite cold lay it rocklike in a Joyce; “there’s the Christmas dinner At o’clock the Promised barrel is Land and the accessible anytime. seven at squashes is somewhat different from pieces the apples and be looked after and take to to people among garnish presented themselves heads care For that papa, Uncle at be kept till spring to are that generally recommended, and the dish with pieces of angelica succeeds •of. I’m the only who be Ben’s front door. The one old like pitting method. can shining the best of man, we any well that I will give it for the the whites so and whipped of eggs.—Cincinnati spared. But won’t it be nice ? I’ll write with hospitality, beamed —Up-to-Date his Farming. upon benefit of who wish follow to any may Commercial-Tribune. all it day.” about the next guests and welcomed each you very with one a it. On the approach of winter, before Ladybugs The Promised Land is the given Sent Portugal. hearty handshake. to And name next came Souffle. VaniHit there is danger of freezing, squashes the Not ladybugs Australian many years valley which ago Joyce to with bright word for runs up a narrow a every one dainty dish, but souffle is Vanilla a placed in cupboard sittingroom, in the imported into California are a to were the hills which form of and smile and happy welcome among a spur for a a be it be good it must eaten to as soon as the door being left ajar through make species of scale which war is on the Allegheny mountains. It isolated each a and child. The girls an every young the Take four from oven. the day, eggs, and closed comes nightin cold at then rapidly destroying the very was orange “three miles from looked region, Joyce at in bashful admiration. nowhere,” yolks till they pale and the beat are weather. It will be that the temperature of little the Pacific The seen coast. groves inhabitants How of its pretty she looked in her soft say, as some stiff froth. Add whites the to a onehalf of the is considerably mercenaries did effectively, their work room blue but fruitful and comfortable dress, farms with of Aunt Isabel’s one the yolks stir pint of milk and to higher than is generally recommended, and California has them the to sent now its length geranium blossoms homes scattered along in her hair! are on gradually of fine flour. in ounce often reaching degrees. The Hubbard an 70 aid of Portugal, whose and lemon straggling road orange either side of the They and Uncle Ben and came came whites lightly, flavoring Lastly, stir in the squash has been kept in this have lately suffered from attacks trees way whicn forms its onlj street. overflowed with genial warmth, while vanilla. Pour into all with deep might till May entirely sound, and have a few of the scale insect. From a the When Uncle Ben Joyce at Smythe—Was met Aunt Christmas Isabel, whose rheumatism kept your a buccess? (buttered), bake quick dish in been kept month if a oven longer desirable. two individuals Lisbon a two or sent to years train village he her down in the closely to her chair, smiled somewhat was peacefully minutes of hour, quarter for ten On the approach of or a an millions since of the have ladybugs summer ago, there amazed that to them Brown—l don’t all hasn’t and wife was know; a see upon my never once it should well puffed when be and they lose their fine and up grateful taste, developed, and it is reported that they trunk which he expected thought to of her the bright heard from neighbors yet.—Up carpet To carry was rag under light brown; sift and fit for epicures —Amefi:an sugar over serve. making scale short work of the pest are no longer are he questions he too. But asked all thosesnow-dampenedfe,et. Uncle Date no as —Boston Globe. Cultivator. in Portugal.