HOMES NEAR TO NATURE 



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the rocks and the walls. He had a new 

 wall built and he wouldn't let the men 

 knock the moss from the stones. Cost 

 I guess a hundred dollars a rod he was 

 so careful. 



What crop on the farm do you like 

 the best? 



"Hay — hay," he repeated delightedly. 



What next? 



"Potatoes. I've got as high as one 

 hundred dollars an acre for potatoes. 

 But I guess best of all I like to care 

 for oxen. They know you, and they 

 appreciate what you do for them." 



better member of our fraternity by 

 meeting so good a member as you. 



As he laughed and shook my hand 

 cordially, he said, "Perhaps I am. 

 Come up again, come frequently, and 

 I shall know better what I am!" 



The Manner and the Spirit of the Gift. 



DICTATED TO THE EDITOR OF THIS MAGA- 

 ZINE BY ATTORNEY E. L. SCOFIELD OF 

 STAMFORD. 



One morning in December 1892 

 Judge John Clason came to my office 

 and stated that he wished, in some 



"I ENJOY THAT ORCHARD, AND IT BRINGS GOOD RESULTS. 

 One year I gathered eight hundred barrels of apples — made net income of over one thousand dollars." 



Now that is being a lover of nature 

 — to revere the rocks and the hills, to 

 delight in growing things ; faithfully 

 to care for some favorite form of ani- 

 mal life; to find one's greatest pleasure 

 in observing the simple everyday 

 tilings of nature, and to live and do for 

 others that by our conduct the world 

 may be better. You are a genuine 

 naturalist, and (as I gave his hand a 

 squeeze) I said, I am glad to have met 

 you. I have been inspired to be a 



suitable way, to testify to his fellow 

 townsmen his appreciation of the kind 

 treatment and high honors which they 

 had bestowed upon him, but did not 

 know just what use to make of certain 

 property he was about to part with 

 so that the greatest possible public 

 benefit could be secured, and thereup- 

 on sought my advice in the matter. 



I told him that there was nothing 

 that so strongly appealed to me as a 

 public hospital, the necessity for which 



