TJrtE FARM AND HOUSE. Milkiiur-Time. evening of the 3rd of July with one dollar found his mother making the fire, and usual quantity. The two rows of stall* and eighty-two cents in his righthand his father smelling the coffee she had 'I tell you, Kate, that Lovejoy cow are separated by a longitudinal passage trowsers pocket. Times had been Is worth her weight in gold measured out ready for boiling. ten4 feet wide there is a transverse! Great attention is now being paid by She give6 a good eight quart o' milk, hard, very hard, since the new year began, Mother," said he, "will you lend me passage eight feet wide in thi And isn't yet five year old. and people had looked very sharply the Argentine Republic, South America eighteen cents?" centre, and another longitudinal one inlf? s, after their small change, or it is likely he to the cultivation of wheat along the river I intended to give you ten," she said "I see young White a-comin' now, the rear of each row of stalls, of whichlltV would have had double that amount. Plata. There is every reason to believe He wants her, I know that. "for your Fourth of July. But why do the floor is divided into four 8ections.i3^C ''But," he said to himself, a dollar will Be careful, eirl, you're spilm' it! that in a few years that region will be one you want it so early in the morning?" The sloping platforms of the stalls end rest will buy at An' save some for the cat. thev get tne feast and of the most extensive grain producing localities "Please, mammy," coaxed Harry, slightly inclined gutters, from which"" least a doaen nice fire works." "Make it eighteen, and I'll pay it back in 4he world. Many Italian, "Good evenin', Richard, step right in," the manure paases through convenient He got home from the store that evening "I guess I couldn't, bir, to you soon and may I have a slice of French, Russian and other settlers are now traps into the cellar for storage. The I've just come down""I know it, Dick, too late and too tired to go out for bread and buttter for a poor little girl?' room is lighted by eighteen large doable breaking fresh ground there. You've took a shine to her. the things he wanted, but the next morning I'll tell you all about it by-and-by?" windows, opening at the top and bottom,, Many mechanics have had their patience ho was up before the sun roseand "I caa't make it eighteen," said his "She's kind an' gentle as a lamb, and for the early morning milkings fixed sorely tried when pouring lead the sun rises pretty early during the summer Jest where I go she follers mother I haven't another cent. Take lamps with brilliant reflec.ors are employed. around a wet or damp joint, to find it explode, And though it's cheap, I'll let her go monthsand dressed and out in the the ten if you want it. It's in my pocketbook On the north side there is a She's your'n for thirty dollars. blow out or scatter from the effects street ad the first sunbeams told the easttern in the top bureau drawer, and the small apartment with a few chairs or of steam generated by the heat of the sky morning had come. The streets bread's on the table. Don't bother me "You'll know her clear across the farm, stools, a marble wash-stand, a large mirror, lead. The whole trouble may be stopped were almost deserted, and no fire-crackers By them two milk white stars any moreI'm in a hurry." and an amplitude of towels. Whoever by putting a piece of resin the size of a You needn't dri\e her home at night, or pistols-shots yet broke the silence looks into the mirror is reminded by Harry helped himself, and then he ran But jest le' down the bars. man's thumb into the ladle and allowing But before he had walked a block some an inscription over it, as conspicuous ashis away to where Nellie patiently awaited it to melt before pouring. cannons boomed in the distance, and a "Then, when you've own'd her, say a month own image, that "Handsome is that him, a smile of perfect trust upon her peal of bells nearer by began ringing And learnt her, as it were, handsome does." This little room iscalled lips. From sunflower seeds is expressed a 111 betwhy, what's the matter, Dick?" "Yankee Doodle" very merrily. Whistling, "the parlor," and the readerespecially 'It's all right," said Harry, nutting the palatable, clear and flavorless il, the 'Taint her I wantit's 7ier\" and jingling the coins in his pock the "practical farmer"may bodisposed bread in her hand (an uncommon thick demand tor which in Russia is very great. ets in tune and time with the music of "What'not the girl! well, I'll be bless'd! to cry out against a parlor in astable slice it was, too, with plenty of butter) Ic is exported from St. Petersburg at the bells, and wishing the stores where There, Kate, don't drop that pan. as an absurd piece of Utopian extravagance. "eat that." about $52 per gross ton, and is said to be You've took me miehty aback, he meant to bay the materials for his It is in reality a dressingroom, By this time there was a number of extensively used, like cotton-seed oil, But then a man's a man. party would open, he sauntered slowly and before milking-time each people in the street, and pistols were after purify ing, for adulterating olive or along until he reached the dog pound "She's your'n, my boy, but one word more man is required to wash his face and being fired and torpedoes and fire-crackers salad oil. A considerable quantity is a place where all 3tray dogs are taken in Kate'b gentle as a dove hands and to brush his hair, set off, and all the bells began ringing. grown in Russia for oil pressing the hot weather and kept a day or two, so She'll foller you the world round, tidiness of person being insisted upon. And Harry looked at the icecream plant being largely cultivated in Keels that their owners may, if they choose, 'We forgot to tell that the floor of the For nothin' else but love. stand, which the ownera jolly-faced old and Podalia, also eastward on the black eeek and reclaim them. If found to be barn is dry and sanded, and that there But never tryto drive the lass woman, who had just arrived with a bag soil lands, the stalks being used for fuel. friendless at tne end of that time, the Her natur's like her ma's. are no odors to offend the daintiest nostrils. and a basket of fruit, cakes and candy I've alius found it worked the best, When we see a mowing machine (as we poor things are put in a large tank prepared The beds of the animals are was preparing for the day, and at an Tojeet le' down the bars did several on our way to a recent agricultural for that purpose and drowned. changed eveiy day, being iormed of early rocket that was going up in the Philip Morse in Scribnerfor Auqust. meeting,) left in the fields, under Harry heard the imprisoned dogs barking dried leaves spread upon the sanded platforms. sky and he thought of the long time he a tree, or some equally exposed situation, and yelping and stopping a moment bad been saving the money, and of the we wonder if the laws of economy A LITTLE BROWN DOG. to listen to them with a pitying look on intended supper, and the fire-works and Over the entrance to the parlor an unerring are changing, or if the cry of hard time's his face- -for, like all kind hearted boys, the tenement-house children oh-ing and clock sedately whispers the is not a vain delusion it would seem as he de.rly loved animalshe saw, sitting ab-ing and then, the door of the pound seconds, and ten minutes before it marks He was a poor little fellow, errand boy though the man who will so leave an important upon the door-step, a very pretty little' being opened, betook Nellie by the hand 5 A. M. and 5 M.the milKing-timeany farm implement exposed to the in the large grocery of Rice, Cloves & girl. She wore a faded calico dress and and marched in. visitors who may be in the barn are sudden and yariable changes of the atmosphere, Co. (I don't mean the brown dog, but a blue checked gingham apron: the* "Is there a little brown dog here?" he excluded the milkmen (maids are an the effect of which is to hasten apron she held gathered up in her hand,, asked. Harry Jacklow), and he earned just two anachronism)enter the dressing-room and its destruction with great rapidity, has as though it held somethiug of value, and precisely as the fingers record tne hour "Named Prince?" said Nellie, her love dollars a week. no right to lift up the cry of hard times. her head and feet were bare. Her large they re-appear, with hands and facesclean making her bold"a dear little dog?" Sixty cents of this went for care fare Exchange. eyes were of a soft brown, and her hair, and hair smooth, and sit down to* "Ha ha!" laughed the man "that's he lived so far from the store that he was of the same color, hung in straggling their task. As each cow is milked, its good. Why, there's fifty brown dogs obliged to ride to and from itand the curls about her face., There wasn't The Cellar. yield is separately weighed and the here, and all of 'em 'dear,' I think. Two rest to his mother, who, with that and another creature, man, woman, or child, Except in cases of direct poisoning quantity recorded on a siate, which is dollars apiece. Do vou want to get one the eight dollars a week she received with the exception of a milk man on the from foul drinking-water, we doubt if passed with the milk to the dairymaidv out?" from the cloak factory where sne worked, next block, in sight, and Harry looked there ever was a case of typhoid tendency who stores the warm, fragrant fluid in "Yes, sir," said Harry "if you'll take supported herself, her childrenHarry, at her with surprise. At last he said, that did not originate in a foul cellar, one shallow pans during winter, and deep a dollar and ninety-two centsall I twelve years of age, Eddie, seven, and with a smile, "i 'thought I got up early, neglected in the fall and spring and even pans surrounded by running water during have." Jennie, twoand Mr. Jacklow. but you must have got up much earlier when diseases have been communicated the summer.- -TP. H. Rideing, in At this moment, a tall, dark, odd-looking than I did." by others, and from a distance, their Harper's Magazine for October. Mr. Jacklow was her husband, and the gentleman came into "he doorway '*l've been here all night," said the fatality and malignity have been largely less said about him the better. I'll and stood just behind the children. child, in a sweet, patient voice. determined by the condition of the air merely state that he could sit in a rocking "Can't do it," said the man, "it's A French Paradise* "Here all night!" repeated Harry, sent through the house from itsfondation chair and smoke and think longsr against the law to take less than two dol- with a long whistle. ''Good gracious! and base, rising in every crack and chink than any man I ever knew. Moncure I). Conway in Cincinnati CommerulaT. lars." what 'd you do that for?" to attack the weakest and most sensitive It requires a little more than twentyfour But besides this two dollars a week, Nellie bejan to sob again, and the tall "Cause I want to go in the very minute a fact which cannot be stated too often hours from London to reach Tours* H8rry, who was a bright-eyed, willing, gentleman came forward. the door opens. My Prince"with a until it has been drilled into the ears in and yet the differences of all kindsmoral, whistling young chap, sometimes got a "Your dog?" he asked Harry. sob"is in there." the most negligent and stupid, and in mental, climaticare vast enoughr two or five cent piece, or, more rarely, a "No, Sir: hers," replied the boy. "Your dosj?'" sked Harry. some way fastened to their brains, if they to make one feel as it he had gone a dime, from his employers' customers "Your sister?" was the next question. have any, and until they cease to call that "Yes. He's the dearest little brown thousand miles southward. The place when, the grocers' wagons being overloaded "No, Sir. I never saw her till this a visitation ot Providence whica is the dog in all the world, and I love hira best where I have the happinesss to be a guest or the customeis in a great hurry, morning. I came out to buy some things result of their own indolence and slovenliness. ot everything 'cept granny, and I love is about a mile out of the citv, and it almost he cairied home their purchase for them. for a Fourth-of-July party, and 1 took a him just the same as her when she scolds, realizes one's dream of Eden. Thebeautiful And it was this money he had been saving walk down this way 'cause the shops and my mamta brought him home one chateau, fronted with terraces* When everything has been picked up ever since the 1st of January, for the wasn't open, and I found her sitting on day just before she went to heaven, ana ornamented with carved stone railings in the cellar and "set to rights," scraped purpose of having a good time on the the door-step, and she'd been sitting there I've had him ever since, and he's the best and urns filled with flowers, looks out upon and scoured, where that is desirable, a next holiday. all night." not cost a dog that ever lived, and never did anything wil1 a garden of several acres whereof every bucketful ot whitewash On Christmas day they had a real nice "All night'.' repeated the gentleman, wrong in his life 'cept once, when square foot has made its contribution to half-dollar, and will sweeten the whole time at his house. His "bess" had given iust as Harry had done, only without the he stole a piece of boiled corned beef the general glory of summer. The trees winter and spring and as it does not him two dollars, and the superintendent whistle. "Tell me all about it." somebody 'd set out in the back alley to are so laden with fruit -pears, apricots, need to be done artistically, any boy can of the place where his mother worked And he looked so kind and good that cool, and he wouldn't have done that purple and gelden plnmsthat their put it on, in the rough way that answers, had given her one, and somebody (they Harry did tell him all about it. And "cept he knew how hungry granny and branches must needs be buttressed. in a half holiday, for he will probable had never found out who) had sent them wnen the story was finished, the gentleman me was:* and the tears rolled down her Grapevines festoon every wall as ivy doesin consider it a fine amuseuent, while if he a large turkey, ana the dressmaker down said to the man at the door, "You'd cheeks. England, and the cluster of various* dose not so consider it, a slight reward stairs had put a box of tools in Eddie's better take the money, Lewis. But wait shades in tint are suspended like tassels "Oh! I so sorry' Don't cry," said will stimulate his ardor and accomplish stockingdear me! what am I saying? we'll see it Prince is really here." in lovely tapestry one feels almost: narry. "Here, take my handkerchief all that is necessary.Harper's Baear. she couldn't have done that I meant to And led by their new friend, the children oriental enough to have to compare anoccasional and wipe your eyes say she had given Ned a box of tools, and went in. There were dogs of all cluster to the Pleiades. The "They'll kill him." commenced the Bananas. Jennie a doll, in the name ot Saata Claus kinds there, all shape?, all sizes, all colors gold and silver fishes glitter in their child again, "if I caD't coax them to let and Harry had presented Ids mamma that dogs could beyelping, barking, flower-lringed marble basin where the him out, and I don't want nim to go to Few people who see bananas hanging with a new coffee-pot, and his mamma growling, and moaning. fountain plays. Nearly every tree of heaven that way. I'd rather we'd both go in iruitstores think of them as more than presented him with a woolen comforter Nellie looked eagerly around, and which :n ever heard is growing ha* together and he could run on in front, a tropical luxury. In fact, they are a and a paii ot woolen gloves, and Mr. shouted "Prince!" as loud as she could his garden, and their interlacing branches and then mamma *d say, 'Why, here's staple article of food in some parts of the Jacklow had bought himself a new pipe shout, but could scarcely hear herself, so frame an endless arch over every PrinceNellie must be coming." world: and according to Humboldt an and when Harry saw how happy they all great was the noise. But a little brown pathway. The trees, flowers, and- fruits acre of bananas will produce as much were, he quickly made up his mind to "Are you sure he's in there?" asked dog, whose ears must have .been much which might be harmed during the winterwhich food for a man as twenty acres of give them a party on the very next holiday, Harry. sharper than hers, sprang forward with a it is said visits even TOUIB wheat. It is the ease with which which would be the Fourth of July. "Oh yes. He was playing by our oor cry of delight that seemed to come out yet flourish gloriously in huge boxes, andr bananas are grown that is the yesterday afternoon, 'most night, and I It was the 3d of July when my story of the very top of his little brown head. Mignon might have found here the land* great obstacale to civilization in some wa, poking chips in the stove to make commences, and Harry had kept his resolution "It's Prince! it's Prince!" cried Nellie, where the citron grows. Beneath my the kettle boil, and I heard him calling tropical countries. It is so easy to get a of saving every penny o-tside of clapping her hands in delight and the window are the swelling oranges and" like he was in some trouble, and I run living without work that no effort wili his wages. He had had to pass many a next moment he was in her arms covering lemons, and no end of figs and aloes and out, and two awful men had him in a carr ever be made, and the men become lazy heap ot rosy appleb without glancing at her face with dog kisses. il is but for a little time in the year that and Jimmy O'Neil said they was going and intolerably 9hiftless. Ail that is them, run away from many paanut stands, Harry mafthed out, handing the doorman these need be transferred to the conservatory. to take him to the pound. So 1 run after needed is to stick a cutting into the force himself not to look into the tempting the money as he passed. The tall A hundred yards in front of thegarden the cart without putting my hat on, and ground. It will ripen its fruit in twelve windows of ihe candy store", and go gentleman followed with the little girl flows the Loire, whose beauty iscongenial soon it went so fast I couldn't see it, to thirteen months, without further care, by on the other side when he knew himself and her dog and when they were all in with the scene. Amid banks and then I asked every body where the each plant having from seventy-live to near a well known bakery, to do so the street once more, he stooped and patted covered with grapevines as far as the eye pound was. I remembered the name by one hundred and twenty-five bananas but he had done so, ard now his reward Prince on the head, at the same time thinking of a pound of sugar and at last can reach, the crystal river runs over a and when that dies down," after fruiting, was near. tucking Harry's hanfcerchief, which was I got here, and it was shut up, and so I bed of sandno trace of sliuie or mud in new shoots spring up to take its place. The house in which he lived was an hanging half way out, into his jacket btaid here all night and do you think all its neighborhoodand on its side we In regions where no frost ever reaches, old-fashioned one in an up-town street. pocket, and saying, "You'll lose that if they'll open it soon?" pitch our bathing tent each morning, and* bananas are found in all stages of growth, A. quarter of a century ago it had been you're not careful, nly boy." enjoy its sparkling flood beneath overhanging ripening their fruit every day and every a small farm-house, surrounded by meadows, "What are you going to do when they Then he kissed both children and went willows. Yet the sum my friend month in the year. Colonel Whitner, but now it had a large tenement do open it?" asked Harry. into the pound again. And Nellie threw pays per annum for his paradisehouseelegantly near Salt Lake, *Fla., has probably the house on each side, and a whole row of 'Go in and beg the dog man to give her arms around Harry's neck and gave furnished, large enough tor his largest banana plantation in the United brick buildings in front of it. But one Prince back. He's such a little dog they him a good hug, and told him she should numerous family, stables, out-houses, States, containing nearly 10,000 plants splendid old oak tree still stood before won't miss him." love him forever, and made him promise orchards and all, even including a winepressis in bearing. Some of these are large the door"Bully to tack pin-wheels on," But he won't give Prince back unless to come and see her and Prince and they just $500. Fair still wine trees, which do not die after bearing said Haary to himself, and there was any you pay two dollars," said Harry. parted (.white) costs about eight cents the quart in their fruit the majority are of the number of children around to cry ''Oh!" "I haven't any moneynot a cent," "And that's the end of our Fourth-ofJuly redv uAh!'' as the fh -works went off. I any considerable quantity the finest dwarf species, which are renewed every and said the child "but I've brought these," party," said Harry, a short time costs 12 cents the quart. Champagne year. Slips are planted about eight feet have always noticpd that when a boy is rising and holding out her apron, which after, to the Jacklow family, as he finished ranges fron 30 cents the (quart) bottle apart, and rapidly push up leaves disclosing held a tiny china doll, a headless cat of sttting off tire-works, the more ah-ing and his breakfast and his story at the same and 4:2% cents to 60 centsthe highest six or eight small bananas behind the same material, a string of glass brads, oh ing there is, the brighter the fire-works time. price. The villas art connected with the this protection. Some plants will have two pink motto papers, and a round look to that boy. Well, Harry had laid "You're a good boy, and did just city by omnibuses and tramway. The sixteen or twenty leaves and bunches of white shell. "These were all given to out the supper in his mind as follows: right," said all the Jacklow family, with city has a superb opora-house, one of the fruit bending over as it ripens, forming me Christmas," she said "and I've kept Ice cream, a whole quart, twelve cent the exception of Mr. Jacklow, who remarked finest in France a magnificent library,, a most beautiful sight. t_em good, all 'cept the cat, and her sponge cake, five sticks of molassas candy, mildly that "that dollar and and a perfect market. head's in my pocket, and he can stick it pitcher of lemonade, apple pie, half a ninety-two cents would have kei him in A Stable With a. Parlor. on somehow, and the candies' out of the pound of cheese and some baked potatoes tobacco a long svhile." Following the quarter circle of the mottoesI ate one and gave the other to Mr. Jacklow liked baked potatoes. An Appronriate Hymn. And baby Jennie came and gave her stone roadway we come to the entrance grannyand the man may have them And he meant to get his mother and the big brother a sweet kissin fact, a very of the cow stable, and crossing its portals, every one if he will let poor Princey rest of them out ot the room (send them A student at one of the theological*seminaries sweet kiss, for some of the syrup which go." we are astonished at the extreme cleanliness down to vi it the dress maker, who at the in New England had written she had been eating on her bread and of the interior, though we have seen last moment was to be let into the secret), "I'm afraid he won't take them," said with much care a sermon, and passed it butter went with it and as she toddled enough to make us anticipate much attention set the table himself, and then, when all Harry, shaking his head. to the professor for criticism. After twoweeks away, Harry pulled out his handkerchief to sanitary affairs in a model wai ready, call them up again. Wouldn't "He won't? Oh, dear? what shall I he called on the professor and stated to wipe his mouth. It came out with a farm The air is pure and fresh, the it be fun to look at their faces when they do?" cried the child. "My dear little that he left his manuscript with himand jerk, and four bright new silver half dollars light invades the cornermost rafters, and saw the ice cream, and the sponge cake, dog! my dear, dear little dog!" had called for it, and would be glad came with it, and falling on the floor the horrifying squalor of the ordinary and the molassas candy, and tfye lemonade, of any suggestions from him. It was returned "Don't! don't!" begged Harry, the with a pleasant sound, rolled away toward habitation allowed to the bovine is superseded and the apple pie, and the cheese, and without any criticism or suggestions. tears starting in his own eyes. "You the corners as fast as they could. by an ethical economy so admirable the baked potatoes! It would be almost The student, well-pleased with his shall have Prince. I have a dollar and But they were pounced upon before they that humatarianism reproaches as good as the circus. Harry had been own production, was intent on having the eighty-two cents, and I'll borrow the had rolled a foot. us and pricks our consciences with the there once, and had never forgotten how opinion of his-teacher, and called again ot&er eighteen cents from my mother." "The tall gentleman!" said Harry. contrast between this shelter for brutes delightiul it was. And then after the and referring to the sermon, asked what The little girl's face lit up with joy "Good bless him!" said his mother. and much inferior accommodations for supper was ovei, and they thought the hymns would be appropriate in connection she thrust the toys into his hands. "Take "Three cheers for our side!" shouted man in the tenements of large cities. The entertainment at an end, wouldn't it be with it. The professor replied, them, you good, good boy!" she said, Eddie, and proceeded to give them. stable is 100 teet wide it has stalls for fun again to see their faces when he invited "The most appropriate hymn I can think, "and I'll tell my mamma about you when "I wish I had the morning paper," forty-eight cows the stalls are five feet them down on the front stoop to see of is, *Now Tlay me down to sleep.'" I say my prayers to-night" said Mr. Jacklow. wide the mangers are two feet wide the the pyrotechnic (look in your dictionaries) Harry put them back in her apron. And there was a party, after all, and slanting platforms upon which the ani display! ,4You keep them till I come back," he Bias bands of many-colored, striped besides the family there were three other mals stand are five and a half feet long, 'plaided cloths are used in trimming cos- So Harry had been saving, and saving, said: "I wont be gone but a little while guestsan old woman, a small girl, and and each cow is allowed 900 cubic feet tamesde fatigue and simple hous8 dresa* tnd saving, until he found himself on the md away he ran to his home. Taere he ~ft eg of solid colors. 4 a little brown dog.ffarpere Weekly." of air ^-^aatRfeii&Xd^,.,