Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
CULTIvATING HIS BENEvoLENcE
Experience of one Mother in Raising
 aPhflanthropfst.


 aPhilanthropist.
 From the New York Tribune.l
 Albert's mother has to count her pen nies carefully, for she is conscientious little housewife, and her husbands salary is far from magnificent. Her ideal virtue is benevolence, however, and she tries to instil it into her boy, both by precept and example. One day an uncle gave Albert his first quarter of dollar to spend on anything he liked. He went out to squan- der it, and in the evening his mother, who had been wondering for hours if the habit she had been trying to cultivate in her lit tie boy had begun to bear fruit yet, said to him:
 Albert, dear, you need not tell me, unless you like, what you did with all that money, but I should like to know, my boy, if you do not mind. Did any part of it go to lessen the sorrows or tighten the burden of some poor person less fortunate than yourself! 1 am almost sure it did. n Albert hung his head minute, and his mothers heart sank, but presently he said in low voice, as if ashamed to tell of his own good conduct: Mother, gave it all to lame and ragged woman, who sits all day long on the sidewalk near our school 1" "Albert, my darling! I knew it, knew it!" exclaimed the delighted mother ''You will grow up to be a great philsn- thropist and all all the world will know that humble little I cultivated the habit of benevolence in your heart when it was tender and young. Won't you, my boy" "Yes, ma" said the dutiful Albert Pennies and nickels came much more plentifully in Albert's path after this than they had ever come before, and most of them found their way to the ragged wo- man who sat on the curb near the school house. Albert seemed to take 8 deep in | terest in the welfare of this woman, and his mother determined after a while to teach Albert another lesson in benevo- lence, that it is the duty of philanthro- pist to find out whether the object of his charity be worthy one. Albert opposed | this idea. He was sure she was poor and | lame and she looked sick. That was l enough. The thought that she might be | drunkard or an impostor seemed to | shock him so that his mother decided to | investigate the woman's case herself. But | she had many calls upon her time, and | several months elapsed before she found | an opportunity to do so.
 She gave Albert five cents, and he de- clared his intention of giving three of | them to the old woman. Then she fol- lowed him to school at @ distance, and as she approached the building she saw lit tie knot of children surrounding some ob- | ject, which she soon found to be ragged woman sitting on the curb with 8 tray of candies and chewing gum in her lap. As she edged her way into the crowd she heard the sweet tones of her dear Albert driving hard bargain with the lame vender, and heard him complain:
 ''Pm the best customer you've got in this school, Skinny Riggs, and if you try to put the prices on me I'll get all the boys to boycott yer; seef'
 mow Your StubbIe Fields. | Correspondence Country Gentleman.l
 have experienced 80 much benefit to my farm from the practice of moving over the stubble fields in August that I write now at the seasonable time, to urge your readers to try it on at least a portion of their fields. It is work that is almost uni versally neglected, as can be proved by inspection of the farms of most localities during the fall or winter. I travelled in seven different states in August, 1880, and the following winter travelled thirt we hundred miles in Ohio, and did not see fifty farms on which the moving machine had been used after harvest, but I saw thousands on which heavy crop of weeds had been allowed to go to seed. I have no doubt that it would pay we'll to cut over the stubble fields if no other benefit was received except preventing the weeds from going to seed, for weeds rob the soil of both fertility and moisture needed by the plants, and, while reducing the yield, add largely to the labor of cultivation of the crops. There are, however, other benefits which are perhaps as great as the killing of the weeds before the seed ripens. One of this is to rid the hay the coming year from weeds and stubble, which viii, if left in, damage its sale. There have been meadows cut in my neighborhood this year on which there was such 8 quantity of weeds and old last years stubbles, that the hay is hardly salable, and if it is sold it will be at reduction in price, which rep resents enough money to pay for cutting twice over.
 An experienced farmer might think that it would be necessary to rake and remove the weeds and stubble after they are cut, or they would be just as troublesome in the hay. I do not find this to be true, for we cut the weeds while they are green and immature, and they wilt and settle down to the earth and decay before Q crop of