1 w»vn tUa hind feel until ths door was
. opened
And then th. little flr tree
bent Its heart and went In asd storxt
In th. corner of th. room, and the
three wild thing» of the forest went
ewvftly from room to room, and cam.
back with things tu bang on th» tree.
And last of alt th. little gray owl fl.w
to th. topmoat biwtu’h and hung th.ro
th. pink wax angel with golden wings
I'h.y ar. good children.' said th.
llttl. whit. owl. as h. fleV down Again
"When th. winter Is sold, they hang
aerapa of meat for or. on the tree» ''
"And they pu: carrots In the path,“
said the rabbit. and cabltage so that
I may not go hungry "
.-Att.l belli nJ the barn they drop
armfuls of sweet. Juicy hay.' said th.
deer, "that I may come tu the night
and feed "
And the little flr tree «aid
"They
ar. good children, amt I would rather
be here than In thr big. big city
And
then It »lUspered. "Hood night,” end
th. wild things «ent a«ay
And tn the morning «hen the chll
dren rams, they cried "Oh. father,
father, look at th. beautiful tree'“
And th. lumbarman cam. In and cried
In astonishment. "Who brought It
her.*" And th. llttl. flr tree whlaper-
ed and sang
A CHRISTMAS LEGEND
made a red ¡«th of light on the snow,
'.he children ame again and when
A soldier In a a^rlet coat.
they saw that tree had been cut do*n
On« winter long ago
they cried
' Where is our own little
Went out and met a pretty maid
, tree*" And the little tre* that lay
In woodlands white with snow;
on the top of th. sled answered loud
• he stood beneath an ancient oak;
!y: "Here I am here I am " but the
Her name was Mistletoe.
children did not understand they rub
Her cheeks and Bps were glowing rod. bed their eye* »Ith their rough r»d
Like poppies In the wheat;
lands and sobbed
Her locks were twined
with
milky
"What's tne matter?" asked their
pearls.
father a* he <-ame tramping through
Her eyes were blue and sweet:
the « ood
He looked and loved, and. kneeling
I
"Oh our little tree, our own little
laid
-His saber at her feet.
Trom lev regions of the Pole
The norther blew all night.
Ari hung the branches of the pine
With tinkling fringes bright.
And made beneath the aged oak
A frosen mound of white.
Hut when the panes are thick with
frost
And nights are bitter chill.
And silence In a crjstal coat.
Has eased the silver rill.
The pair of faithful lovers haunt
The wintry woodland still.
When with the burden of Its years
The oak is trending low'.
The soldier-holly, stiff and straight.
Stands bravely In the snow.
Its slender saber still unsheathed
To guard the mistletoe
•—Minna Irving In the Criterion
JV/
¡¡J The Runaway
Ji Christmas Tree
XI! the little Hr tree« in the for*,
ver. ■ ery mu.-h excited
"Tomorrow »• »bell be cut down,
they cried, "and then «» ahaii be car
rl“d to the big city "
No* none of the little fl- tree«
bn** «hat the city aai ¡ike, but they
murmured end ruatlad a rd whispered
of the wonderful thing, that they
should aee
Hut there »u one Hfle tree that
naked
Do »e all go?'
"Ye«.' aaid the other tree«
'to-
morro* »e «tart on our travel«
Then the little tree aigherl and »aid
~Hut I «a» promised >o the ■ hlldreu
of the lumberman '
"The lumberman is poor,' said a Mg
oak. "and theao are hard times
Thl»
year they muat go without a tree
The next morning, very early, the
ehlldren am» trudging through the
•now and stood under the bran. hes of
the little flr.
"Tbla la our tree," said one of them
proudly
"On t'hrtv.rnae ft will be
lighted with candle», with an angel on
the 'opmoet bough "
"Such a dear little tree,” said an
other; “how we »hall love It"
And the little tree trembled as it
heard them, but the children thought
that It was the wind that »book ft.
Then they went away, and latar
earn* men with ates and cut down all
the young trees and laid them on a
freat sled to be carried away
And In the evening, when the sun
Hight
long will the prhe ut farm
land« continue to Increase? Just «0
I
long as thr price of farm products con
tlniie to inctiMse. and these prices will
remain him so lung »« labor flndt
steady amt profitable enipluynimt
In
no other country In tlm world H Is
bor nu well rewarded a« here Where
pricer air low. wages are necessarily
low
Tim man who receive« liberal
I
returns fur his work can buy liber
I
ally, ami can pay a fair price. There
seems
I m * no probability that In
I
duntrlal condition« will l»e radically
changed In this country noon
The
1
people generally are too well «aliened
1
with them
G*xxl markets may. there
i
for«. be eipected to continue Ihdefl
|
nltelv
"I ran away from th. for*at
I ran
Farm lands which may t»e relied on
away "
to product satisfactory crops of grain
Hut they could not understand, and and grass 1 are not »elllng too high
ao th.y stared and wondered, and at I And which with pro{»rr managomsnl.
last the lumberman said. "It ta too will produce from t»0 to IPO bushel« of
1st. to carry It noi» to th. city so It MV cent corn |»er acre la well worth
can stay " And at that th. ohlldr.n SI So an acre or more There I» a large
cried. "A Merry Christmas to all'" amount of such land In Kansas and
And the flr tre* whispered happily. "A adjoining states
M.rry Christmas'"
And out In th.
The sure way to Increase ’he value
forewt th. owl and rh. rabbit and the of land la to Increase Its productive
w hit» tailed deer wish»! each other n«*»«
Pnder existing conditions price«
A M.rry Chrialmaa" as
th.y bur
will take care of thetnselvre
rled away through th. ano»
E.enlng days of large surpluses are i»ast
Wisconsin
mand crowds rloee upon the heels of
supply
Mouths are multiplying-faster
Feier «<•> «•*•««<*•
tear's.
than food for them
Kano*« Farmer
The custom of celebrating New
Year • Day
In our own country la
lnSi«ISMal ll<»s l|nw«e«.
largely du. to the Dutch
Old Pater
"Noticing article« from lime to time
Stuyveaant made much of th. day. and nn the
u»ti utlon of individual h-»g
cheery assemblages were h.ld at the houses I wl«h to submit the plan of
governor's home In New Amsterdam
hou«es that we use
write« a rorre
The Dutch method of kissing th» won
spondent of the Breeder a Gniette
*|
. »ti for
a happy new year" was ob make them six feet n<|uare on
<erved and toll taken of all who wer. ground loth doom to tn* hinged •<»
i young and handsome
In fact, during thev will open and clo*e
readily
1 I he *relgn of Peter Stuyveaant
New Twelve foot board« make side and «oof
Amsterdam was the mo*t thoroughly I use good «oft pine flouring as It t«
beklssod country In all Christendom lighter and much easier to move when
and formed a marked contrast to the ue.ev.sarv than heavier lumber
Four
! staid Puritan«, who thought th. ob pieces 2 by 1 inches and all fret long
i svrvauce of this day savored strongly
, of reverence for the god Janus and
r /
X
on the great »led and presently the i who made no note of th.lr first New
Animals of the forest began to creep, , I ear « Day in the new world save to
record. ‘We went to work betlme. * —
creep among the new whit, «tumps
So you are going to the city," said ' New York Evening Post
the »hlte tailed deer, nibbling the
H.lpl ng Santa.
mows beneath the anow
"Tee." wblapered all the little trees
excitedly
Rut the little flr cried
"I
don't want to go"
IXtHVIlM *1 HIX. Iltil hl
"Why not?" asked th. whitetaiied
are
for
sills
Two piece« 2 by < Inches
Jeer and the llttl» Hr told of tbs chil
and »> feel long are
for ridge «nd
dren
plate
And the deer came c|o»er and for a
If thia plan 1« used It will he found
tong time the two whispered together,
much mor« satisfactory than a plain
and presently a big gray rabbit Joined
A shajied house The door In th« roof
them and a »bit. owl lie« down and
can be opened when the /in shines
added wise ounsel and after a »bile
Sunshine Is the best tonic known for
the deer and the rabbit and th. owl
little pigs, and the door la essential
went away, and the little tree lay very,
when the now need* attention at pig
very »•111 until midnight.
ging time a« a means of entrant* and
Then when all the other tree, slept
ah Is s<kmrtlmes the case, a very hast*
It rolled from the sled Into the snow.
•Ilf
and the wind «ditch blew through the
r \
/ a 4
I
I
torMt asked "What are you trying to
do. little tree-"
And the little tree
»aid. "Help me to stand " So the wind
I blew under it until It was upright on
- Its stem. an<l then the little tree went
hoplty hop hoptr. hop. until came to
a sheltered valley and there It lay
down and went to sleep
It lay there sleeping and waking in
the sunshine until the men <ame and
carrl-d off the sled full of young trews,
but no one noth rd that the little fir
«as gone
And th* night before ''brlwmas th»
wind blew and blew again until the
"atm a Man LirrLE lar.r."
little flr tree stood upright on Its »tern
tree, walled the hildren
"It 1« cut and the little flr went hoplty hop. hop-
down and piled «1th the o’her tree* ity-bop until It <«me to tb» house
where the children lived
that are to be aent to the city "
Then out from the foreet cam» the
"We are too poor to have a tree this
rear." »aid the tired man. sadly, and white tailed deer and the big rabbit,
and th» Ikttla white owl. and th. deer
the children «ent away mourning
And the sun »ent down and the pushed softly agalnirt the door of the
moon came up. and showed the dark cottage and the owl pecked at the
forest and all the little flr trees lying lock and the rabMt hun'died and hit
NEARING THIN ICE
i
•
I
i
< hrlsitiiRi th« 1
Tbroagb.
(’hrlstmis <ati(il«s burn out. decora
rlonn must be thrown aside ear hang»*
of gift« comes to an end
But the««
thing* play only a secondary part In
Christmas
The love which Is it* es
Hence, the ovei flowing good will, the
outspoken kindliness, the unselfishness
and i heerlnesM. n»ed not be limited to
one day tn the year
There Is no rea
son why we should not have them ev
pry day
Why should love not nils
through the circle of the year? A year
full of Christ Is a year which carries
Into every day the best of Christmas
HI«
Hear.
McGorry < carping! v >
Th Im maker*,
av almanacs hov got us bs dhs frosts.
•
Mrs McGorry How d’yes make thot
out*
McGorrv
Make ut nut? Here, now
We hov row Id weather New Years
phwln we don’t nade ut; an’ do dhey
give us aven a brlth av front on dhr
Fourt av July, phwln our tongues are
hangln* out wld dhe heat*
Not so*«
yet cud notice ut. bedad* Judge.
»ear'i
A
VA l«h.
God keep the«, dear, through all the
years.
Through sll th« joys, the sorrows, tear«
Of life Its commonplace«, too,
God keep thee sweet, and. bra vs. and
true
Amid the doubt« and fears that r1ae
In every life— the mysteries.
Things that are hard to »»nderatand.
The movlnga of a mystic hand.
God keep thy reason sound and sure,
Thy mind alert, thy heart still pure.
God keep thee always this I pray
For thee, upon this New Year's lay
— B McM Bell
la
tb«
Barlt
"Wall, hava you bought your wife’s
Christmas present yet?"
"I dunno
She has all our Christ
mas stuff locked up In one of the clos
ets. where I can’t get at It."
If
Meaey
Broaiht
Happlae««.
If money only brought hepplnese,
there would bo little Christmas cheer
In a majority of homes.
war I’her l>«a’< l«ar.
Many'who keep
hens are asking
thminolvao Just about now why their
pullets don’t lay. when ths fact in that
a lot of their young atm k waa hutch
e«| too late, or wan not given proper
fm»«1 and rare during growth
The
sine and general appearance of «1 pul
let dues not always denote the time
when she should commence prtMlu* Ing
eggs
I have seen flocks of pretty
big nice pullets and they would Isv
hardly nn egg all winter
The fl rut
eaaentlal for winter eggs Is the right
kind of stock tn ¡Wodure them Food
will nut supply that want; It may
help some nn<l In nume in«tan*e« it’s
pretty dlfllciilt tu help the mutter very
much b) giving ealta rn»r I ho «train
bps got to be of thr tight sort It limy
prove themselves rtllehle an«( pruflt
able laverà
After hslng hi thè p <ul»
try boniness so long and «cela 16 *<»
many |*r«>plr fUM« and et|»erhnenl and
work In the rffort IO get egga frum
stock that hnd no eggs to lay. no In
vllnatlon to innka rggn or ability to
rommeme lo grt ready to lay, It In
impreased ftll, Ih« stronger upon mv
mlnd that (bere Is a whole lot la thin
ben business Uealde* fard and care -
Island Formar
Neeblsa «f t «arr«<«.
Among ths <x<*upatlana which offe»
profit
and
amusement, and at the
•ame time entirely suited to womeu.
la that of t>ee rala
advent-
Ing
Ila
ages are that little
spars In required
there la no great
and
the
•Bponao
work Is llshl. re
quiring only a Hm
Ited amoupt of tim*
and cam
Mu* b °f
the apparatus re
ijulred may lie mads
at home and where
for
fn< Hille«
are not pre«-
< «»>( s* 1» n* r iir «
ent. the thing« tuay l»e pui*ha«ed with
out any prest outiay of money
Thr re ha ve been man' Improve-
nmnt« lately In the inanner of con
structlng the beehlvea. an<l proha hl v
the moat Interesting I« one which In
made of concrete
A patent ha« beeil
rrcently tNsiied covering the ■*n«inufi<
ture of couerrte berhlvea. but anv
otm with a little ingenuity ma* easily
make thr m and a *rt of mold« on e
having lem made «atisfactorlly, m»v
»•« used indrflnltrly
lndr*flnlteh and sny i»um'»er
of hives made
ina.ir from
frotn It
Anyone ¡»t-
tcmptlng to make a bive of tble ma
terial should a«<|ualnt thetuselvea wlth
the chsractcr <»f <he cement and «houtd
siso be familiar wltb the habite of
bees
UarNlrtK (« l)MirF«M0N.
We have
re|>eatedly
warued the
dairymen that tire oleomargarine law
Is likely «0 I m * amended next winter,
and that the amendments pro|»oee I
will destroy the value of the law * q
far as concerns the protection of dairy
products
Again, we ««k you have
you writtrui your congressman about
It?
I>o you know his views?
Does
h« know what you want him to do In
the matter* I*»*« he know what you
are going to do to him In the cam
palgn next rear If he doesn't give you
a square deni*
This 1« no joke
It
la a serious piu|>o«it.un. and no time
Is to be lost If the oleomargarine law
la to b* preserved in It* present form.
Missouri Dairyman
V alne ef »hr Home MarUet.
<
l.lsbt f«»r the Narn
Farmers should encourage their
Many nr»» may b* A>olil»<1 whan
horn* town, to build up a k « mh I home
market for their dairy ami i»oultr> rh» abort «Inter <1 DA r»q»ilr» th* u»*
nt a lai>t»rn In th*
products, fruit, vegetables and many
turn
by
having
things that mc II far more profitably at I
wont* wurh rlevlr*
home than they
could In shipping (
»■ h»r* »hoxvn to
them away Here 1« where the French
keep lb* lantarn In
fanners gain their prosperity; they
plac*
Thl« »ff.'.lr
have good home market«, where they
raqulr*« only two
market everything nt high prices di
■tnall pull»/« an-1
rect to
their
«ustomem
In their
n i op»
Th» ropa
thrifty home town» and villages
1« run through th*
Town* can be revived b\ the farm
pull»/«, tb* lantora
era and merchants working together
Attached to one end
to get new Industries, and the home
market soon develops for nil the farm and then pulled up to a convenient
height, the loo** »nd of th* top. >>».
products that make a prosperous com
mnnlty. and as the town grows th* Ina f»*l*n»<1 to a cleat on th* wall.
farms
Increase
In
value
Inland If thl« d*vl<e 1« arrange.! In about
rh* center of th* barn much bolter
Farmer
light »III I* given than If th* Ian-
*««aabei ■«<! rsmpkl««,
lorn wei* carrier! around from plac*
With care In storing, there is very to place
Cor of Earm and Horn*
little difficulty In keeping these, es
l**l*e* for
psclally the former In good condition
Th* hllb t*rrllory of Trl**t*. It la
until spring, and I have kepi some
varieties of the genuine pie pumpkin« ■taie.1. In a coneulur r*port on Hint
until well Into March In just as nice dlatrl.t. 1« covered by pointed atone«
which prevent any
cultivation, ami
condition as thev went Into storage
Helect those that are well matured, Mint’ year« ago the Society Agrarla
and make sure that thev are gathered offereil prix** for tho-e who would
chHiig* th*
liefor« being touched In the least with remove them an.l thu»
Thr work
frost.
Store In a cool, dry place as waat* ground to meadow«
ha« now been going on tor «om* years
1st« aa safety from freezing will per
mlt, then remove to a garret where nnd everv autumn a comml*«lon aac*r-
they will keep cool and dry. hut al tain« the area of the pro|M»«ed redemp
ways safe from frost.
I)o not pile tion and th* rltfllcultle« to be encoun
tered and flxe« III* prlxe to he given.
them, but set them on the floor and
In aprlng It again vl«lt* the Improved
I letter still, separate them «0 that
they do not touch
In this wav. w«|| grourd« and pay« the prlxe« If de-
matured specimens ran be kept almost «erved Thl« rear In the different par
iah*«
alxty «lx
p.-naanl«
Improve*
t will.—Exchange
forty-four acre» and received »1.010
AlfalfM
Soil«.
Alfalfa do*« b*«t
on well drained
aolla, where the water level I» eeveral
feet below the «urine*
It 1« a very
deep-roote.1 plant,
«ending It* root*
down Into «tilmoil which 1« largely un
available to other farm crop»
The«*
rnota will not thrive In a water «oak
ed «oil, and In attempting to grow al
falfa on a wet »oil, or a »oil with th»
water level only a few feet from the
nurfaro. the alfalfa 1« placed In un
natural condition* »nd little can be ai-
pocted nt It. If p<M>Rlble. a field with
a i.ifflclent »lope to effect thorough
■orfare drainage and *ufll< lently oi>»n
to porou* to provide good under drain
age ahn.ild he »elected for alfalfa —
Maryland Experiment Station
aww.hlee I m «he l.atey,
Siinahlne 1« the dairyman'» boa,
frlen I.
When the aun heat* down
hot Ip the «ummer V* are apt to thfnk
It an enemy, but a week of cloud»,
even In July,
caata a gloom
over
everything and make« lurth man and
beaat at-.-ro»» pnrpoeea with the world
Hunahlne 1» required to kill germa and
mler.die« and keep both animal and
human dlepoeltlon« aweet
The Ver
monter* cow barn that muat he hull»
«0 warm and tight lack* aunahlno to
keep the Inmate» tn the l>e«t of health.
All along our country'» northern bor
der, tuhorciiloala la on the Incraogg la
dairy
herd«
Earmer«'
Mall and
Brogio.