THREE GOLDEN BALLS. By Dorothy Dene. T was such a tlny room, and in such a little house, and up such a narrow court, and hidden so far back, that even the sunlight was a long time in finding it out. A great high factory wall overshadowed , the little house, and this made it all the harder for the sup to get rear It. When he got to it at latd he looked through the window just tinder the roof. What he saw must have pleased him very much, for he canto back after that whenever he could and stayed Just ps long as he could. He and a certain wonderful ivy which grew in a soap box in the window soon became great friends, and the visits of the sunlight' were eagerly watched for by th9 grace ful ivy. Indeed, the sun seemed to have a fondness fop everything In the little room, ft used to wander over to the bed In the corner and touch its snowy white coverlet; then it would shine upon the little stove opposite the win dow. I tnu3t tell you here that I really think the stove was Jealous of the sun light. You see, it had such a polish That it shone itself, and tvhen the sun twao not about the fire in the etovo seemed to burn brighter.' The old-fashioned bureau showed its age more than ever when the sun shone upon it, as old things and old people are apt to do when the sun shines on them. The well-worn deal table was always scoured so white and clean that the sun was very fond of It. The two things that lie loved bc3t of all, though, were the 3weet-fnced old woman who on much In the big rocking-chair and the ivy In the window. Ills last Hi grrittg glance was always at these. t Ho couldn’t quite understand why It was that t.ho old man he saw there on Sunday* and heard talk In such a gen Uof voice to the sweet-faced woman wai never thcro ntjmy other time, until day he saw him, in the early morn lh$, going into a mill at the other end of tne town. The old man was not very fliifck (n his step, and hla shoulders Stopped from bending eo much over the loom. His haly. was' white and hi* hands were, thijv and the sunlight fbuched him very gently ns ho passed through the mill yard gnte. if.Bui [here was much going on In the ptfile room that the sunlight knew fothitig of. The dear old woman, who yrae no foudof the shabby rocking-chair, tyas seldom Idle. She soemd to have an eadlesj number of stockings to knit; hut the;:e always disappeared ae soon Wh finished. Her own Btockings and gomes' (James was the old man with . 0$ gentle voice) needed careful mend injj to 1«;p them whole. Sometimes Ihe mending was done by candlo-llght; but James would shake hla head, and the slocking would ,bo ,1am aside. There was never any work done on Saturday night. That was the’night f V A ' ' ** HI* HEAD BURIED IN HIS HANDS, 'whfn the old woman would sit with herhands resting idly In her lap. while Jaimes would placidly smoke his pipe, and; bet ween the whiffs read to his wife tlfcfnews of the week.' tcy were old. these two. and life gone hard with them, most would say; but their love only deepened as the. years went by, and sorrow served bnt?to bring them closer together, j The days came and went, and gradu ally the old man's step grew slower and slower and Margery's face more wrin kled. The fire tried its best to make things look bright and cheerful about the-little room, but there was not much coal used these days, and It had hard iwork. The Ivy wae the only thing that did not seem to feel that something was wrong. It grew so high that there.was danger of the Bunlight's not being ablo to peep In the window if It kept on. | On Sundays. n6 matter: What, the weather might be, the old couple went ■to fchurch. They were always neatly ‘dressed; but their clothes were begin ning to show signs of constant wear. jTlmes were hard, people said, and ■early mills were working poly on half Itlme;,’ some werd even shutting down ■altogether, winter was 'drawing oil; and the outlook was gloomy, j The sunlight was surprised to find ■the . old man at home one week-day ■rear the ufthe autumn, but as jthe.winter .wore on he grew accus toinpd to seeing him there. * 4tne Monday he met James on the ■street, and saw him enrter a shop In front of which three golden halls were hanging. . He, noticed that Jame3 looked about before going.in; he felt ashamed of being seen. When he came out.be looked very old, and the sun old-wilver chain he always wore with htflUbig silver watch. . ; grange, that parting with such a trIMe should make a man look old. When Saturday night came James jregt again to the ahrj) with the three 0* refills?** wondered what had become of the golden balls, but when he came out ha wore the silver chain. Week after week this was repeated, and there never was a Sunday when Jamee did not have his silver watch to wear to church. The sunlight began to wonder why it was that nowadays Margery sat so often idle in the big rocking-chair; indeed, she seldom even rocked now. When her eyes were open they had a far-away look in them, as though her thoughts had wandered back to the days when her little ones were clus tered around her. But the soft, gray eyes were rarely open when the sun light came. Later on he grew to look for her on the little white bed. Once or twice he saw James going tc church alone, and took a good look to see whether he wore the watch chain, i Yes. there It was, but It didn’t teem to j shine quite as much as it used to. Pdor Jawen! When he stood at Mar j*' gery’s bedside, after coming in from church, ho would try to smile, so that the dear Wife, as she lay with her wan face on the pillow, might not know how he was suffering. Then Margery would ask faintly what time it was. ’ and 'James would open the sllvet watch. Then the sunlight would make ‘the dull silver shine so that Margery would smile up at James and say that she was so glad, so glad, that ha couty have It another Sunday. Somot.hlng would rise up in James throat, but he would try to look glad. Margery didn't see his hand shake as he put the watch back In his pocket. But when Monday came 1t was again In the shop with the three golden balls. When Sunday dawned there was no trail figure lying on the little white bed, and James was sitting by the window" with his elbowa on his knees, his head buried in his hands. The sunlight lin gered with him as long as it could, and when at last it had to go away James never missed it. The next day it came again and found James still sitting by the win dow, his head still bowed and burled In his hands. In tho old churchyard, close by the Stay stone wall, are two- new-made graves. Growing over these, as though joining them together with Its loving embrace, Is an Ivy green among whoso leavce the sunlight loves to linger. - In the shop with the three golden balls they wondered for a time what had be come of the stoop-shouldered old man who used to come every Saturday night|, for that old silver watch and chain. Gut they soon forgot all about it. ) V> v J ^ Thrao' Rlewlnff** An old clergyman who formerly lived lu a Now Hampshire town was remark ablo for his eccentric modes of speech. His way of asking a blessing was so peculiar as to sometimes effect the rlBlbles of his guests, although lie ap parently was entirely unconscious 6f this fact. When he stated himself at the breakfast table, and saw spread upon It a meal greatly to bis liking, he said: "Lord, we, thank thee for thla excellent breakfast of which we are to partake.” A more simple meal, but one which he still regarded as compar atively satisfactory, would cause him tb say, "Lord, we thank thee for this good breakfast set before us.” But when the minister’s eye roamed qver^tbm table and say nothin* wtileta wea especially to ‘ his taste, although . the tone lvlft -‘which he uttered his petition was not » lacking In fervor, his sentiments were clearly to be discovered. "Lortl,"' he' invariably said orrthese occasions, “fill our hearts with thankfulness, we beseech thee, for this meal set bofore us; for with thee mil things are possible."—Youth's Com panion; i;=.i ,• c |V.-^ An AH-Arfiun .h ,c , tsstaH «»*■ e- , j, * g , gj. *v « » g £ 0 ,i», g DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. 4* " How Saocaniftil Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Foaltrj. F LATE, fashion ables in this coun try have taken to work in the dairy, say 8 Chicago Chronicle. The fad is not new by any means. Marie An toinette, when tired of court gowns, courtesies t and in trigues, went to her dairy, which has' a place in his tory; What ’"tho beautiful Austrian woman” did was, of course, imi-« tated, and French women pf high degree were goon busy making butter. The Princess of Wales, who had been brought up in the most democratic fashion by the sensible Danish king, found that actually milking the cows »t Sandringham and superintending the out 18 inches high to confine them until mature. Give them fresh water twice each day, also green food such as turnip tops, celery and cabbage or allow them free range morning and evening. There is no doubt that there is profit in goose culture. When Thanksgiving time arrives you can generally dispose of the young goslings at ten cents per pound, and their aver age weight will be about ten pounds. Suppose, for instance, you have twelve "goopelets” at $1 each, the receipts from the sale would be $12 and the cost of feed has been but a trifle. It is safe to say that your profit will have been $10 on the transaction. Of course they cannot always be disposed of at $1 each, but on the other hand the price is often more than a dollar, hence we take it as a basis on which to figure. We doubt if fancy fowls would pay better, con sidering, of course, that we always have a ready market for our geese. By cross ing a China gander on Toulouse geese, largo goslings are obtained, quick to grow', nicely marked with medium length necks, yellow bills and remark ably easy to domesticate. My experi ence has clearly demonstrated that the rearing of geese should be done entirely separate from the rearing of fowls, a:; the old and young of both are naturally inclined to be pugnacious, especially so after the young are about half grown. , We favor hatching by hens, remarks the Fancier’s Review, giving four eggs to each, and after one month the atten tion of biddy is no longer necessary. Late in the season if females are plenty wo allow the goose to hatch her young and we give each a clutch of ten eggs. This number is sufficient for safety. If too large a number is placed under the goose some are liable to l>e broken. Geese are easily and profitably raised In the South. They are experts in rid ding a cotton field of grass. Now Poultry Houses. It is often more work to fix up a poul try heuse than to build a new one. To attempt to work over one that has no end of projections and cross beams ] is discouraging in the extreme. Cracks here and there admit the air and are difficult to effectually stop. We saw such a house last winter, whore the j owner had attempted to paper up the apertures by, which the wintry blasts ! found access. He had used felt paper, I nailing it on over the joists and leaving ! a dead-air space between the paper and the hoards. This had apparently been all right for a time, till the hens got to flying against it and thus tearing it from the joists. The tacks held on to the wood all right, but the paper was simply pulled over the heads. So we say that new houses are desirable where they can be secured. Matched lumber for building will doubtless pay best in the end, though it may cost more at first. Color of Milk and Rlclines6.—The color of cream does not Indicate the richness of the milk, though it is some times thought to do so. A subscriber of the Farmers’ Review had a number of cows that he determined to test. The milk of tho best cow had a very light color, and previously to testing her he hail not supposed that her milk was richer than that of several other cows. In fact, one of his Jersey cows that had a very rich colored cream had been looked upon as the one giving the rich est mills. Her cream when investi gated was found to bo much less rich than that of the one giving the pale milk. This shows that the eye is not able to determine the real value of milk and fream, but that chemistry, as applied in the Babcock test, is the onlj reliable process. After a.good rain diligently use the hoe in the ilower beds and your plants will grow all the better; but be careful not to hoc out the as yet poorly estab lished plants when trying to remove an obnoxious weed growing alongside. Remove these with the fingers. t . ,t • - • . .i - -«.* * . i a >■ A Bird that Shams Itself. San Francisco Examiner. Tiie lammergever. or bearded vul ture, found throughout the whole mountain chains of the Old World, act ually shaves himself. The expert bar ber who has for his customers crusty millionaires could not ply the keen edged instrument to the stubby beard of his particular patron more deftly than the monarch of the mountain tops prunes his own bristly beard. Uhe head of the vulture is clothed with feathers, and from the sides bf the under mandible proceeds a row of black bristles. From this peculiar pro jection of feathers the bird derives its name. A layer of similar bristles be gins at the eye and covers the nostrils, forming a fleecy mustache. With his strong and sharp claws which act as the razor, he trims his whiskers with great care and dexterity. He does this with great regularity and soon the downy beard and mustache give way to a full growth of bristly feathers. A Balzac Museum. From Gentlewoman At Levallois-Perret, very near Paris, there is a museum formed of souvenirs taken from Halzac's home, destroyed some years ago. It is with great diffi culty one obtains permission to visit this museum: but once there, an arch aeological student finds much of inter est. Among other treasures are su perb carvings, which were once orna ments above doors and window pieces. One of these represents a man holding his head on his right hand; above are engraved in_ stone the words, "Plus Despoir. ” No one knows to whom the collection belongs, nor the reason for so much mystery. That Joyful Feeling With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength and Internal clean liness, which follows the use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old-time medicines and the cheap substitutes sometimes offered but never accepted by the well-informed. The important announcement is made that in the November number of the Atlantic Monthly will appear the first of a series of exceedingly interest ing reminiscences covering the last fifty years of the life of Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgins, under the apt title of “Cheerful Yesterdays.” Col. liigginson's career as a writer, soldier, public servant and man of letters cov ers the last half century, and there is hardly a man or a movement of that time that he has not come into inti mate relations with. These autobio graphical papers, in a cheerful tone, really cover much of the most impor tant history of this long period. We will forfeit if] ,000 if any of our pub lished testimonials are proven to be not genuine. Tub Piso Co., Warren, Pa. The Festive Fly. Flies are despised, but if everyone was us persistent and as hard to dis courage as a fly more people would succeed. When a fly gets after a per son it never knows when to stop. 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