TT" 4MV ygj&a ^*i k' ?& ^Vs, 33255HISH tome one to help me if he could have^afforded DANDELION GOLD. FARM MANAGEMENT. self by, no matter what might happen, Abner had been out of Work a week ground for planting trees in the summer, it but it took every cent we I thought of it and the thought made' and wa,s getting pretty discouraged and. to set out their trees late in could rake and scrape to get along and me sick and faint. And my husband Like bright gold dollars in the grass and down-hearted, when he heard the fall By delaying the work til] The dandelions lie, as long as I was well and strong it Ranting Trees So as to Secure my good, patient, loving husband that the new stone mill up* at spring ordinary farming operations And if they would like dollars "pass," would have been foolishness to think had gone over that perilous road with the Largest Amount of the was in want of redwood bolts, and that will be likely to interfere with it By I know What, I would buy. of such a thing.. my cruel words ringing in his ears I there was a chance for men in the tsnBest Fuel. placing mulch on the ground the rootg At first I'd work with all my mighty So I worked and fussed along until could bear it no longer. Timid as I woods, that were not afraid of hard will he protected from the frost nr To gather up the gold, fall came. I had managed to live was, I would rather face the darkness work and a wet skin. So up in the And stuff my pockets 311st as tight through the summer, but I fairly More Attention Should Be Paid to Provid- outside than my own thoughts and Cheap Food for Hogs. woods he went, and I only saw him As ever they would hold I dreaded the rainy reason, for I had ,%eaP Iod ft' Kgs in Summer, fears sitting there in the house. Throwing four times that winter. The average western hog is hall, Then I would find Dame Nature's store^ mPS heard that it was sometimes so bad on a shawl over my head I took Abner's In the early spring he came down in (She has the deaiest things), starved during the first half of its existi the road, a (cliff road it was, and bad Boldly knock at the very front door, ^4S pistol in my hand and started out. company with an idea. A man three *&& ence and stuffed during the remaining 1 And ask for butteiflies' wings: enough at any time,) what with the Htr$ Katsing Trees for FueL It was very dark, but the rain had not miles above Bowlder had acres of fine half. An entire litter of pigs are al-J^ tnud and the overflows of the mountain "Then I should want some fine gray gloves, begun as yet, although the air was timber which he was willing to sell on Farmers who pay out the least money Made out of spider's silk, lowed to suckle their dam as long as ~*H8 streams and the slides,, from the heavy with moisture. Trembling but stumpage, and there was a good demand for supplies are ordinarily the ones who And feathery cloak of breasts of doves, mountains, that there were weeks at a she giyes any milk. The supply grad- W resolute I hurried aoross the road and for timber from the mills around. succeed the best Prosperity largely As soft and white as milk! ft time that no team could get along on it stepped up on the narrow board down* ually diminishes as the creatures in- W Abner's idea was to take his money depends on keeping down the running 2Por shoes I'd buy some lily leaves, and there we would be penned up away which my husband had gone. I, whose crease size and require more food, out of the bank, buy what he could of With snail-shell buttons bright, expenses of a farm. The farmer who from everybody after the rains had set unsteady nerves and giddy head made an outfit, and hire the rest, and go-up And, made of threads the thistle weaves, It generally happens that the stronger fc has little to buy does not have occasion in, foi no one knew how long. The me grow faint and dizzy on the slightest Some stockings snowy-white. amongst the redwoods, drive or push away the weaker ones,' 3* thought of that made me crosser than to sell much in order to supply himself provocation, was going to do what I didn't like the notion at all, fori But, most of all, I long to buy and that they remain of diminished W ever, and if Abner had not had the many strong men shrunk from"walk The new moon for a boat, A, with the comforts of life. Farmers who ky, hated to leave home and the pleasant size all their lives.i.After pigs are That I each night far down the sky patience of Jo he would have been the flume." Just before odr house my little town. But I was ashamed to say live in a portion of the country that is $ Among the stars might float. K% weaned the larger ones Iseek to monopolize fairly outdone with me. As it was he path lay close to the ground, but I anything of that kind before mother, sparsely settled generally buy and sell the feeding-trough, and are fre- '"& -Oh I round and round the earth "I'd range, kept his temper and held his tongue. knew, only too well, how soon the uneven who had come clear across the country to a great disadvantage. Nearly all So glad and free and bold, quently successful in doing so. Till Not a cross word would be given me, earth receded and left that narrow, to be with her husband. And as And never a cent I'd ask of change the products of their places, except live no mater how ugly and aggravating I slippery plank amongst the treetops, corn is ready to harvest hogs on most $3 mother thought Abner's idea was a From dandelion gold! stock, command low prices, and for was, (and goodness knows, a cianky or, worse yet, stretching' across Margaret Deland, farms find it difficult to get enough to Mi good one, I packed up and went off some of them there is no market. They Woman can be the ugliest and most yawning gulfs "where the mountain with him. iui eat, and after the corn is put in crib aggravating creature the world,) have generally poor facilities for keeping streams tumbled noisily over sharp Walking the Flume. Mr. Jones, the* owner- of the land, farmers find fault with their hogs because but a sorry look would come into his stones and massive boulders hundreds milk and making butter, and as a had the house already built when we they do not eat enough. The eyes, and he would lay himself out of feet below and there a slip, a misstep, got there. Such a barn-like looking consequence the latter is, poor and sells gain of most hogs in summer is very more than ever to help and please me. and death, and such a deathwas place as it was, made of unplaned and for less than half the price of that small. At the time when milch cows It was always a mystery to me, and certain. So matters went along until one day unpainted redboards set on end, with made in creameries or in large and are giving twenty quarts of milk per 1 is yet, for that matter, how upon, earth the end came to it alla day that cleats nailed over the cracks. There Had Abner slipped or stumbled in such well managed private dairies. They day, colts and sheep are growing rapidly, I ever happened to marry Abner Gregory, changed the whole course of my were three rooms in it, and not a sign a place? That deadening fear made me get but little for poultry and eggs on and young cattle are showing a thoughts of my life, and made, thank or, rather, how upon earth Abner of paint, paper, whitewash or mortar, insensible almost to any other terror, account of the expense of sending them God, a different woman of me. steady gain of six pounds per week,t and it stood the center of a small and. holding *my lantern in front of Cfregory happened to marry me. to a city market. Generally they have "hold-1 It was a lovely day in the fall. The pigs on many farms are barely "clearing" a little back from the road me "that I might see the board and Now if he had married my sister Antiie, no way of disposing of potatoes, garden first light rains had washed all the summer's on the side of a little mountain. There nothing else, I walked steadily onward. ing their own." It is the time when it would have seemed quite natural dust from the trees and bushes, was an open stable and two sheds in Once my dress caught upon a bit' of vegetables, and small fruits if they raise they should rapidly gain in weight and explainable, for she was so much and a faint and tender green was appearing the same clearing, but besides these wood on the side of the flume and more than they need for their own use. like other farm animals. upon the hitherto barren slope like him in her waysso particular and there was not a sign o'f a human being pulled me back, but I did not lose my They must depend on the sale of corn, I the western states farmers put so of the mountain above us. Even I, anywhere in sight. footing. As I stopped to unfasten it, good natured and well-meaning, so small gram, wool, and meat for raising much reliance on corn for feeding hogs% with all my dislike of the redwoods, however, I caught, a sideways glimpse "It's kind of hard looking, just at low to vex, and so quick to forgive money with which to purchase sup that they often neglect to raise other could not but confess that our little of the white road, and saw that it was first, Jennie," says Abner, squeezing and forgetthat they would seem to kinds of food for them. They may? plies. place, and its surroundings, was well far below, but I kept on. Soon the my arm as he helped me down from be just suited to each other, but it was know that an acre in common red or worth looking at under the bright, October top of a tall led wood brushed my feet. the load, "but keep up a good heart, A high price is charged for almost mammoth clover will pioduce ruore-^ the oddest thing in the world that, seeing sunshine. Behind and above us I felt then, that had the moon shone lass, any we'll come out all right some everything a farmer living remote hog food than an acre in corn, and^ us bide by side walking up Pacific the mountain stietched up to the blue out brightly so that I could not help day. There's money the old red from large town has to buy, and the they are certainly aware of the fact** skies in front, the clearing sloped seeing around and beneath me, I could avenue in Santa Cruz one day, he woods, though they ain't cheerful to quantity of most of the goods is poor. that the animals will harvest the clover gently down to the split picket fence no longer have kept upon the dizzy should have taken it into his head to look at. And so we began our housekeeping. Wholesale grocers and the dealers in if they are-given the opportunity. But just outside of which twisted the narrow height. But I would not allow myself various classes of manufactured articles fall in love with me. He didn't lei the the cost of fencing the hog pasture or 4% snake-like road, which, with the to pause, or even to thmk of the danger keep grades of goods for the city How lonesome I was those days 1 grass grow under his feet after that .be- the trouble of cutting the clover prevents flume beside it, ran along the very I was m. Step after step, step after trade, and otherswhich are greatly was kept pretty busy, for Abner had the pigs from having the food fore he was courting me hard and fast, edge of the deep ravine that separated step, and then, once more the white load inferiorfor selling to country merchants. two men to help him, and I had to cook they want. They are accordingly kept and as mother found out that there us trom the mountain beyond, where lay beside me, silent and deserted, Freights are high on all for the lot. 'Twasn't like keeping on a short allowance of food during was nothing outstanding against his pines and redwoods, that seemed to winding around the cliff and losing heavy articles sent long distances into boarders in the East, though, for I had the time it is the most abundant. have forgotten when to stop growing, itself in the sharp curve beyond. Past moral character, and that he was the country. The credit system largely no care of the men excepting at meal corn was not so abundant the western stretched up tall and straight as needles, that curve I knew lay the woi'st part of prevails there, and the times "of steady and industrious, and had a little times. After supper was over they states, and was not so generally a hundred and fifty feet from earth my fearsome journeythe worst ravine payments are uncertain and nregular. nest egg the bank, she didn't say would go out into the yard and smoke relied upon for making pork, it is likely to top, while around their great trunks on all Abner's section. I often looked The country merchant is often accused and tell stories until "they got tired, "No," when he asked her to let us be that hogs would be better supplied dense thickets of the shining-leaved across to the flume trembling, as we of charging axtortionate prices, aud and then they would take their blankets married in the early fall. It was the with food during the growing season. manzanita, elder trees (not "bushes" drove by on the road, and thought how the difference between what he pays and sleep on the straw in one of In England and Germanv, where no queerest thing though, that he should in this country, but large-sized trees), like a bit of spider's web it seemed, or goods and what he sells then for is the sheds, or out on the ground under corn is produced, and in Canada, where and others of which I had never cared have taken a fancy to me for I was thrown across that dreadful chasm. certainly large, "but taking one consideration i the treesjust as the notion took them. but little is raised, hogs gain faster to learn the names, foimed an almost And here, to-night, I was to walk asross just his opposite in every way. It with another, his lot is not How I used to long for mother and during warm weather than they da Impenetrable jungle. It was beautiful, that frail structuie alone. For an instant a happy one." Farmers who live in a wasn't so strange that I should take up Annie in those days when I was sitting, here, for the reason that they are better all of it, and the dampened and lefreshed I faltered, and then, setting my part of the country that is not thickly With him tor although he wasn't exactly sole alone, peeling potatoes or apples, supplied with proper food. They earth and foliage sent up a teeth and thinking the prayer I could peopled can exercise economy to the or doing something of the kind, with handsome, he was strong and grow clover, peas, tares, roots, pota- sweet and grateful odor as the sun t* not speak, I went straight ahead. best advantage by raising all the necessary nothing but the distant chop, chop, of manly looking, with an honest face, a toes, mill-stuffs, and oil-cake. That shone warmly down upon them. This was the last ravine there was to supplies they possibly can on the axes, the sleepy drawl of the biosaws, keeping hogs on small rations during *j pleasant smile and a pair of Scotch blue cross and the rest of the section was their own places. By adopting this Yes, it was beautiful, but there were and occasionally the rattle anS part of the year and then stuffing them easy walking, not over five feet from eyes that had the kindest expressisn in course they will avoid the constant the dishes to wash, the week's washing crash of a tall redwood tree as it came w.th dry corn produces injurious effects the ground in any place, with houses them that I ever saw eyes before or trouble of going to market, save the to do, and dinner to get, and I had tearing down to the ground, to keep on them is generally admitted. Still, i^fefc', heie and there as one came near the profit made by dealers in buying and flinee. He wouldn't hurt a dog purposely, little time to waste staiing about me. me company. very little is done by most farmers to Creek. selling goods, keep out of debt, and be And then, right in the midst of my Abner wouldn't, but he was no At first, I was nervous and frightened, avoid the evils complained of. Our independent of the trader and the The mist had thickened until my woik, who should drive up but a gentleman and thought every man that"" came milk-sop either, as the boys had found hogs receive very httJe attention during money lender. lantern only showed the board a little and ladythe superintendent dragging along the road meant to murder the summer, chiefly because their out once or twice when they (he being bit beyond my feet I held tight the of one of the mills and his fine-lady No country in the world is better me. One whole half day, I remember, 1 owners are too busily engaged in rais- then new to that section of the coun- flume, bending over to get a firmer wife from the Bay. supplied with fuel than this. We have I spent under the bed with the ing corn to feed to them after the cold try,) had roughed him up a little "to hold, and crept around, and then suddenly,how hard and soft coal, peat, and wood. The The man, he wanted to go out door bolted, because a "bull-puncher" weather sets m. In the meantime the %$ *ee what he was made of," as the cus- my heart leaped and then price of soft coal in most parts of the among the timber with 'Abner, and so from above came along pretty well hogs are getting up a good appetite by sank at the sight! I saw something west is low. Still, the amount the |L torn is amongst them. Taken all together she staid with me, and she tried her loaded with whiskey, and took a notion a rigid course of fasting, and are pre- t' ahead of meblack, crumpled-up heap average prairie farmer pays for this best to be polite and agreeable, but I he was a well-appearing man, to sleep it off close up to our gate, paring to lay on fat and contract the on the board stretching up and into inferior fuel in the course of a year is felt crosser than ever as I looked at her and when the men came home to dinner Abner was, and I was proud of my cholera. the flumeand knew that I had found large. If this is multiplied by the stylish hat and dress, her little bit of there wasn't a mite cooked, not luck in getting him, and mother and The cheapest way to keep hogs durins my husband. years in a .lifetime it often represents a high-heeled boots, her parasol cdvered even the breakfast dishes washed. the summer is to provide pastures Annie and little Tom, they was that sum of money equal to the value of the Was he alive or dead? Alive, thank with lace, and her fur cloak and Jong I got braver alter that, though, for seeded to clover, orchard, and blue fond of him you'd have thought he was farm on which the coal has been consumed. Heaven! though in a dead faint, with kid gloves. It didn't seem right to me they laughed at me so much, (not Abner, grass. The hog by nature is a grazing ^t* horn into the family instead of marryl/f There are few small farms on his poor hands clenched so tightly on that she should be wearing such things, but the others), that I was fairly animal, and will not only sustain life, which $50 worth of soft coal is not the flume-side that they held him thera and I be roasting myself over the stove ing into it when he was twenty-nine ashamed out of it But though I got but gam in weight, if it has an opportunity burned in the course of a year. The in safety still. with a mean old colico dress on, and h* years old. over my fear, I did not get over my to eat suitable forage crops. If coal bill for ten years is $500 and for not a pair of kid gloves to my name. What should I do? The least movement What he saw in me I never could dislike for the place nor the life I was a farmer is not so situated that he can fifty years is $2500. This money I had to be civil to her, of course, but he might make in coming to himwould 4 make out, for I wasn' tall or fair and leading. Mother managed to get up enclose and seed land for pasturing might be saved, and many persons are her chatter about the scenery and all send him down on the cruel pretty like mother and Annie, but was to see me, and she gave me lots of his hogs, he can, at least, fence in a preparing to save it. Experiment has that nearly diove me wild, and I was rocks so far beneath. I put my hand short, and plump as a partridge, with good advice and tried to make me feel large yard and keep it supplied with demonstrated that ten acres of land thankful when they went away and left into the flume. It was empty save for hair as straight and black as an Indian's, more content, but I didn't, and when I food that costs less than corn and is devoted to the production of trees will me to myself again. How cross I was a little water standing at the bottom, snapping black eyes, cheeks as got a big boil on my hand and couldn't better for the animals that eat it. keep a small family supplied with feul that day! That woman's clothes and and my only chance of saving my husbands red as Baldwin apples, and spunky work, I was glad as glad could be, for Hogs will do well on gieen, tender by the annual increase of wood. Of airs and graces just haunted me and I life lay in getting him in there. O Lor', wasn't I spunky in those days'. it gave me a chance to go home grass and clover cut and thrown into course the land is worth something for could think of nothing except the contrast How I did it I do not know. Desperation a regular spitfire, and no mistake. for a week, while Annie went up and their yards. Pea vines, fodder corn, the production of grass and cultivated between us. gave me strenth, and I managed "You'll have to handle Mary Jane kept house for the men. pumpkins, and squashes will also be crops, but the trees, if planted strips some way to lift him, big and unwieldltf Abner, he was looking kind of pale with gloves," says mother, "or you'll readily eaten. Flax seed, if ground or Annie, she just enjoyed it up there. on the north or west sides of farms, as he Was, over the edge and into and fagged out. He had been complaining burn your fingers certain." cooked, forms, a valuable food to be She feel in love with the dogs and the will generally pay tor the land they safety but in doing so one of his feet a little off and on for a day But Abner, he just laughed, in his eaten in connection with green fodder. horses and the cow and the calf, and occupy by affording protection from struck the lantern, and it went tumbling or two, but I thought it was onlsr 'pleasant way, and said he wasn't afraid An occasional feed of corn is good, thought the mountains all around, wind or snow. They will also greatly down into the bank of mist below "notions" for he had not had a sick but very little will be required to keep with the big leuwood tiees on them of me nor my temper, neithei*, and he add to the value of the place by ixnpi ovits and left me in darkness. I could not day since I knew him, and so I didn't thought we'd work in double harness hogs in a growing condition if they are were something wonderful and she appearance^ trust myself on the boaid now. So 1 worrv about him. In the afternoon it firstrate. well supplied with the cheaper articles would take her sewing out and sit down climbed over into the flume and In pioducingthemost and the best clouded up thick and dark and the men 'Twas queer, too* my coming from referred to.Chicago Times* and watch the bolts go swimming down crouched down at Abner's head. He fuel, tiees that naturally grow tall and came from the timber soon after Maine to California to get a husband. the flume, just across the road *on the did not move nor make a sound only have but few side branches should be dinner. It was "sitting in for a long I never thought when I was playing edge of the ravine, as pleasant and mteiested A Farm for the Drinks. the faint beating of his heart showed selected, and they should be planted rain" they said, and they were going dawn on the beach in Cape Elizabeth, as a child. The late Mayor Palmer was very that he was not dead. Lying there in quite closely. By planting them near to hitch up and go down to Boulder to and going to school along with Annie, My boil got well altogether too quick fond of relating to his friends a little the water might even stop that. I together they will giow to trunk and get in a stock of things against the .in the white Academy, that looked so for me for it seemed to me that I anecdote connected with his grandfather's could not afford time or strength to cry not to branches. They will furnish the roads getting blockaded. much like an meeting-house from the could spend the rest of my life walking first experience in' the country. I must work. best of cord-wood, and the trunks will That sounded dreadful to me, and outside, that I should find my match along the dear old beach with the smell His grandfather, who was one of the be easy to split, as they will contain Taking mv shawl I cut it in three when they were gone and I was alone, -over on the Pacific coast. I wa about of the salt water in my nose, and nothing but veiy few knots. Large knots- occur earliest Irish settlers among the gieen long strips with Abner's knife, and tied I sat down and had a good cry. Abner certain in those days that I should to look at but the great heaving at the base of large limbs or blanches, them together. Then, tugging and hills of Vermont, was very poor, and was out putting bolts the flume, jnararv a white-headed boy who used to stietch of blue waters. The love of and are necessary for supporting them. straining with all mv might, I tied it order to sustain himself he worked out &r and when he came in he found me crying bnng me May-flowers the spring, tno sea was born in me, I thmk, aud I Open planting results in producing fiimlv around hira beneath his arms, on the farms and: in the forest cutting still, and the more he tried to comfort and drag me to school on his sled felt very cross and dissatisfied when trees with wide-spreading branches, and the ends I tied aiound myself, and timber. "Once" said Mr. Palmer, me, the more I wouldn't be comforted in the winter, and settle down in the the time came for me go back to the whose trunks are lull of large knots, then, slowly and painfully I began to and his face lit up with interest at the** village near enough to my folks not to hateful redwoods again. But I was and which can only be split with great drag him along the flume. The water recital of his tale, "once my grandfather "It seems as though I can't make be over lonesome while he was off whalingby ashamed of myself when 1 saw the difficulty. Close planting produces in the bottom buoyed him up a little, stopped at the village store, where* you happy no way, Jennie," says he. which he was going to make look on Abner's face when he came tall trees with few spreading branches. and holding by the sides I worked my gathered, as they do now, all the farm-*^ "Luck's against me about that, certain. his fortune. into the k'tchen and found me frying The knots in the trunks will be small, way alongsometimes on foot and all of this" would have It seems like you're just as miserable eisof the country round. Suddenly one.of the potatoes, with my big apron on, as I suppose as most of the limbs will die and sometimes on my kneesinch by inch, as a fish outer water, all the time, and the farmers, springing up, said,*, natural as life. ^happened if father hadn't taken a terrible drop off before they have attained until I saw the road close bes de us and don't get no comfort out er nothm'. that he had a piece of good woodland notion to go to California. And After that I tried to be a little more any considerable size. Ash, knew that the terrible ^ravine, jvas I am afraid, by-and-by, you'll wish the othev side of the river, 'good, &o he did and pretty soon after he peaceable and contented. I loved Abner, maple, and cottonwood trees can be crossed at last. you'd never married me, my girl.'' high land with a heavy growth an' of cent us word, so much did he like the and, indeed, I must have been planted four feet apart each way. There was a house near by and I I wish so now!" I cried too cross about two hondred acies, an' I'll give*'* country, to break up, sell all, and come worse than a Hottentot, if I hadn't, he When large enough to furnish fuel half tried to call for help, but my voice was and ugly to care what I said. And that ar' bit c? land to the feller that '11 to himand we did. I was that good and patient, trying to of them can be cut out and burned. By gone. I thought of the pistol and fired then, for a moment, everything was help me all he could, and make things treat the crowd.' Well," continued* Six months after we got" to him, this process- of thinning room Will be off one shot after another until I saw as still as a church, and then Abner pleasant, and working like a dog, looking father got killed by a blast, and Mr. Palmer, "some how or other obtained foi the remainder to giow in. "fj- lights and heard voices coming toward IN turned without a word and walked after the cutting and sawing and mother, who never could abide the grandfather managed to treat the Tall trees containing but few knots are us, and then quietly gave up and faint slowly and heavily out of the house. gulchmg the timber, and then, the days Might of a mining camp or even a bit of crowd, and the next day set across the easily prepared for fuel, and they are ed dead awavbon Abner's bosom. I knew where he was goingdown that he flumed it, walking the Hume quartz after that, took all she had and river to his newly acquired property,^ serviceable for breaking the force or 4- the flume. He had never gone before tought a little place in Santa Cruz, There, with the wolves for his com the wincL on that dangerous tramp without kissing Abner got ever it all right. It seems dose by the beach, which seemed sort pamons ihe cries of the wild animals, Young trees obtained from a nursery me, and now I longed to run^ after he got a dizzy spell and fell, with just ofkonrforting and like the old home Yes, I loved ADnerT certain,* and the sound of the wiad whisporino/ where the seed was planted in lows are him and tell him I was sorry for my sense enough to grab for the flume, but down in the State of Maine. There, spite of my fretful and repining and much better for setting out than those thiough the pinesthe only voice hel cruel words but it was too late. When his head hit and that stunned him. The with her bit of ground and the boardets trying ways, and I wasn't cranky all found in a forest and which can be had heardhe reared his hnmble cottage^ I ran down to the road a moment later doctor brought him around all right in fchajt she. managed to get, she had the time,"either for sometimes, Sundays, for the trouble of digging them up and And this was the first home that* a, he was striding along the narrow plank a day or two, but I was silly enough got along pretty well. Annie, who the men would go off to have a movmg them. It is comparatively Palmer could call his own in in the distance without one glance behind. to go and have a brain fever and make was five years older than I, helped sociable time getting drunk down to easy to dig up young trees in nursery, country."Bo$Lon Advertiser. 2, Never mind, he would be back a lot of trouble^ ^MSP with the housework, while Tom and I the Creek, and I would put on a pretty as the ground has been under cultivation. j., in an hour at the furthest, and then I When I got well, howWff, I found went to school, and when I got too big dress and friz my hair, and Abner They are likely to be tall and ptig would make things right with him*. that the story was all over the place to go to schobl, I got in with a dressmaker would tell me- how pretty and how straight, and they will bear removal That Awful lee Qnestion.i*iT So I went back to the house and busied and one of the big siill men, he heard and helped her, busy times, and sweet I was, and I would feel proud better than saplings obtained in a forest. The gentleman who contributed myself, and watched the little clock how I hated the the redwoods, and so .helped around*the house when she had and happy and make up my mind that The nursery tree has ordinarily penny for the heathen and a dollar with anxious eyes. The hour passed, he gave Abner (on account of my no work for me." So we weie living, 1 would behave better in future, been transplanted at least once before and still I was aloneanotherit was pay the cost i getting it to him musf "heroism" he called it, as though n. -ouite cosy and pleasant, when Abner and try to be as good to him as he was Lt is offered for sale, and when this is dark now. He had never been so late doing the best I could to save my own have been in the iee business, where if Gregory came along and married me. to me. But washing day would come, the case it has no taproot, while it is before. There must have been a jam husband's life was anything like that!) And quite cosy and pleasant we lived and there would be bread and pies to cost 50 cents a ton for the ice and $9.5f 'A well supplied with small lateral roots. and lots of hard work to dobut surely a splendid chance in his mill, and the all together alter that until the mill make and meat to cook and vegetables to pay the expense of delivering itSt. Forest seedmgs are likely to have long he would have been back by now. "stumpage" business was let out where Abner had been working, shut to fix, and I would get tired and overheated, Louis PosUDupatch. tap-roots, which can not be dug np, The water was shut off from the flume some one else. down and he was thrown out of a job. and cut my fingers* and burn SC3 while their laterals can not be obtained and all was safe until morningwhy W But even if it "wasn't 1 ani sure It was no use looking for work anywhere myself, and feel that I was the worst ^J$|. Just the Reverse. entire, as they spread among the roots did ho not come back? would have felt quite thankful and contented near our place, for the whole used and the most miserable woman She*(witnessing the play of "Te* of larger trees. Forest seecLngs. are ever after in the old place, having I thought of that horrible flume, reaching town, and all the towns around were in the world, and fret and scold and not as likely to thrive after their removal N'ghts in a Barroom")How dreadfully learned how dear mv husband was its slender length across ravines full of men who bad come down from worry around until I wonder now that as nursery-grown seedlings are, awful it is. Don't you think soi to me, and how miserable I should hundreds of feet from the ground, with the mountains to get out of the coming the men folks didn't chuck me into the for the reason that thev experience a Jaok without him, durmg that dreadfu only a twelve-inch wide plank to walk rains, and there were twenty men for flume and get rid of me at once. much greater change. Farmers would JackIt isn't half as bad as ten barrooms night when 1 was walking the flume. on, and only the side of the flume one job,' aud willing to do it at starvation do .well to |elect and. prepare the How I did fret and scold in tnost in a m^k^-^-Washiiigion Critic Florence Allen, in Porlla\4 Transcript eighteen .iucbei high to sted*f one- wages, too. days! Poor Abner would have hired