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0 happy family rflmion. Ms enmenant to!. Ms: “no the member! of the hen mung hone pretty on tho subject. the! "ml-lull and count- baton Ducal: Ransom 119-“ m happened M In stand. rout mums champagne of In. «mm nnd his .to he. ("at .day was over and had tnckd the robes and In. Ransom lnr . 11* and he had taktn mu ma hwy ups, be when: "Shannen worked out t {tall the way I Ind r‘s arm about but. r had been restored and had prcsrc-od to the coflee. ton and autumnal! nary cm- - much at ma manna. but any right now that I've made fly roman": were of old . and I cart I“ “Y" "'0 sage In 3 ha! m but ’a on": humans in th‘! "9 nor... .who' 1‘" no a mm to m “that lb I've [out 8'9 800d years up' this an feeling tmrd want to than! you {or the urn treated her when 150'! 00.10". C A noon and n you‘re round this neigh- Mhflvm come out 7’ (It Runs: City woman may. Then Go ‘wet nurse id km. and the doctor and “I he found. Eight men on to lop! for thevgoats A , in the old nanny was i Mi nurse bmgh from [whim broke her 1 . The m it w. time to start all wu- retnrning home Ila. Louis. the baby, seem- : along a" right. and as m couldn‘t help thinking LI. m av 86 mldn't up- I that had but done for: W III-n! W m: m In the vlcinnyotthe II. m of the ahmbbery It around domain: dam- .m distressed mother from E'nd 5:103:33}! with us. I we: had gt name you that's “out all.“ nam- and machwinx and this speech had sub- nge: Evan. took the floor. was not unit no element 9: in: the cm m up nmmumuxs‘ Id not under of flu m. a cane but. however. the ex- am his the. had undergone- He was mm; In a nervous no one nomad two figures fled in the. W of the m to be hamlet some a. was compiled to buy mmldn W‘mm‘" tom-unmamy,” - CQLLINS ’ The grosbeak is the only bird which we have 9ver;noted as eating potato Na. and he will eat one for sauce while feasting on the early green peas. (Copyrisht. I! you want a good pumpkinpie the pumpkin needs to be boiled doym. A crop of corn seems to be always the best crop with which to follow a crop at nu. . The value of any sort of new bug lily be determinediby finding out what other sort of bus he wants for food. The your 1901 shows up with a very short crop of apples the muntry over, only 23,000,000 barrels ‘agnlnst 48,000â€" “0 bumla a year ago. Wandsâ€"Some new bug ta kill 0!! the box alder bug which has become an unmitigated nuisance wherever box elâ€" dox' trees are grown. _ ' ‘ v VVI- ---' -_ , not: up, according. to the crop report- !“ omcials. about 226,570,000 bushelsâ€"â€" ll Immense lot of corn after all. "you‘want a hapdsome cherry tree. t it on rich ground. but it you want cherries put it 911 the poorest ground -__ “A_; .L:- nut hv well-w yu- .- ._ __ you have. We have {bu'nd this but by uperience. When the house can takes up Elle busiâ€" ness of catching chickens. the’ sooner the is killed the better, for you can never broth her of the habit when once acquired. to lp‘prcplate‘mouey for in the terms arid lands than it pulling snags out. at u) streams.- California wines. hke Chicago dressed beef. are'w‘mning their way it. the mu- kets of Europe. wherealune it was not long since thought good wines could only be produced. Onions are selling at 50 cents; a perk all through d country where it is enure- ly possible-30 raise 300 bushels of then: on one acre of land. There is n cog loose here somewhere. Do not forget that if you want the] can’to catch the rats around the barns,l “dynamics they must, have a daily! ration of raw‘milk. The rats and the‘ milk The new presideni.‘from his thorough knowledge 01 the conditions at the semiarid west. may reasonably be ex- pected to cordially favor any muve to reclulm these unproductive lands by Then- is a recognized diflerence in the_ quality of the nieat of a well bred Ind well ,fatted steer o! the standard beet breeds and that of an equally well 'Xatted scrub stwr which file eaters of be»! are \§'iiiing to pay for host as a pulverizer of tougnand re- fractory sous can do better ‘work than any machine which man ever made. For this reason all such soils should be flown! in the'tall of the year, and the tune)- the better. Persons who wish to istock lakes. ponds or streams with food fléh should let the caty tribe wlone, for we have never heard 01 or known a case where mac fish have been introduced that they did not end in disappointment. In a general way we have Just two tests to apply to farm lands north and south. For the no h. Will clover grow? For the south. V‘Will allalfa grow? If not, such lands would have to he onered very cheap'to get us to inrest in them. Tile draining remo'ves any excess 0! moisture in a wet.time n‘om the land and conserves the moisture in the soil in a. dry time. This seems like a para-' doxical statement, yet it is nevertheless The butchering of a pig in a Missouri community on a Sunday. because of the blundering manner in which the job was done yfld the great, noise made by the pig. set in operation the provisions of a Sunday law and resulted in the pig killer‘s arrest. The government can tar better’atrord “,4 1...“.-.(nu. n! , 1n opeguups a my“. .....-â€" m from fifteen'to twenty-11w acres of pas- ture are required for e_ach head of stock. An 'acre of ”Wisconsin or Minnesota. clover or the same amount of Iowa or Missouri blue grass will keep the same animal in better condition: There is an authenticated record of a chestnut tree cut down in‘the state at Ohio in the year 1847 from which were; made 11.000 fence rails, 17,000 shingteshand 27 card: of wwod. There ought to be pretty good collaterais back of a story of this size, especially as it was a chestnut tree. iyslem of irrigation We never knew any craze to subside more quietly and completely than the late Belgian hare craze. The enthusl- ut’s who pu't 8250,1nto 'a pedigreed ,, _I_ L-.. - g“, rum: In Correspondence Solicited. drained. corn crop or the_ statel of Iowa mkrer 7 a‘ balanced ration. operating a stab]: much In Texas a__, .A...\. 1“ nae- brgwipelxim buck hm a you 1901, by J. 8. Trim) Rockford, la. fat" ifrigatiou of 5 than 10 spend of uuuavlgable up with a very have inst two or I0 ago are keeping very qu 3e By the way, was there ever any,,;'.mnd for hue meat at 26 cents I qu d? There seems to be «chance 0*; a portion of the (crests of ’ wood mushy unaware her .\. be supplied with fuel on In: sup 4 Thqwcather prephets are m? being heard (mm as to the sort i wtnter weather in store. Just pay “ atten- tion to their predictions. for t ‘- e is no ‘one who knows anything ut the ‘woather ten days ahead. Jun 3: up everything snug and warm an apt in shipshape for I hard wintqn then. it we should have a mild ona.1there's no harm done. North or lajiiiude 42 It is sate to expect a snug wigéibr as 3 general thing. éifi If we were a young man mag-darting in the stock business.'.elther fall-yin; or beef production, we woul‘fi; rather have $100 invested 'ln one tIatv-orouxh~ bred cow than three scrubsgat $33 each. It would take a little {finger to get started, perhaps. but wlign once started lt would be on the r1 3:: road [0 SUCCESS. l A recent invention which mi fies poa- sible the utilization of the s .duv pro- duced on the treeless piai {got the northwest as a fuel for do 'tic use is attracting some attention. be pro- cess involves the boiling and} giou of the straw and the press? product into suitable shape1 this straw fuel having. it if an equal value with wood; treated. _ 3 ‘ 3 We have mentioned â€"it bfii'ore and will do it againâ€"4t a. am certain stand at clover or alfalfa canted it must be sown without a {dime crop. It a Wet nurse did for the infant in- trusted to her care what t ‘e aocalled nurse crop usually does for time clover crop. she would have nothinz‘ to aho'w when fall comes but a littl- starved. skinny piece at humanity, wt be a nice, tnt‘baby. ' Ull Apple orchards in Nebr: down with “(alts show g tum, vigor and productivg party] with apple trees on soil and under the same l4 tlous simply cultivated and The , altau fertilizers. sul shades and coals the earth trees. Where alfalfa will ckwer comvs the nearest tc same good work. of kernels hlll. how be when unpatlent 1 en stalks per cent. When an average of th of corn is dropped in vac many barrf'n stalks wlll th 1. husklng time comes? Wel anQ-stlgator counted the. m in much :1 field and found stung, which ~vzmultl "tern . lndlcate thatan average of three st. 1 s of corn in a hill ls too many by on bird. We have long belleved that our is usually planted too thick to obtain ,_ e best re- sults and propose to curryl‘] ut a dare- tnl test the coming saw u tujnee l! two in a lull are not near; ylxht than w A very sensible and ammo ~cal meth- od of fish distribution is he i used by the slate fish commisslun glow". and also by the United Slates tinx cummis- sioner in supplying the riverll‘éanu lukva of lows. Wisconsin and Min .3011; will: young fish. The buyout! o ,the Miss- issippi ‘river form ideal 'f'spawning grounds. lur. bass, pike an ,} nappies, and as the waters recwle in dsummc-r these yuung fish are left- 96: rely pru~ ‘teujted from their natural el; mics. flu.- ilar'ger fish. -In the fall th'.e bayous ’ ‘ H '3 ........... I two in a three. u:- BU: nu... are vIelned an dthe yuung secured by the million. They are n trans~ ported in specially construe 1 fish cam. tn‘any point on the lines railway. ’l‘hp supply from this sou jl: prac- tically inexhaustible. ‘ a kernels hlll. how - be when a ‘patlent 1m stalks per cent. n seeded arkable a com- he same 1 condi- -pt clean. Ma .and (mud the. ot grow oing the inning ’zitornh {we aceta- golthe or 1189, claimed: when so . 7...._v ,, F931;; would be 15ml! removed or parents threo you'- old und over, the provokh}; gauge of hog cholen cpl- , 4__I_. _A__ ___‘_. There is n territory embraced in the central parts '0! the lute: of Karma md Nebraska :3 lane in area as one zood state for which mum is to be- come the modern redeemer. converting lands of uncertain prodl'lctlveness into the gnrden spot of the continent. For that region and for the people who “'10 A 7A4 A..- ____..._.. there. are but one text and one sermon which needs pranchlnl. and that in thnt alfalfaâ€"the one. plant which deites the drought and hot Windy-does its own‘ irrigating by making every root. a. subterranean puxnp. which nlwavs gives to the not] more than it token. We do not often (eel like advising u to lo- cntla and lend lnveotmentn. but will 'll‘)‘ that it we were in search 0! a lowtion’ today we would look up these sunlarld cheap lnn'ls in the states men- tioned, where alfalfa wlll grow, for the cheapest milk. beet nut! 90th in Ameri- ‘03 can be there produced. . . Eighty Acres lake $800. 1 The average arose return from on eighty acre farm in the central west will not vary very tar from 810 per" acre. take one year with another, out- side or what may be consumed in the living or the family of the farm pro-‘ ducts. Of course there should be a much greater return than this: but. as a matter of (act. there in not. Now it is entirely possible to make this 8800 oil forty acres instead of eighty. and as farm land creeps up toward a value of $100 per acre. the how to do this becomes a subject of prime importance: in a general way we may say that a radical change in existing methods will ; be involvedâ€"better cultivation of crops, lbetter seed, better grades of all farm stock; intelligent rotation of crops, more clover. more poultry and better care for it. while the aiio will have a place. and {ertllizera will be used intead or being wanted. an is now so often done. -"i‘he bane oi’ agriculture all ~through the west is that a man rates his aucceal an a farmer more by the number of acres which he can skin over rather than by the quality of crops which he can pro- duce from an acre of land. duce {rom - What. Two Plus nixed Ion Did. Here is the record made by two brothersâ€"hired men and forelgnersâ€" durlut the past six yearn: They drop- ped down in Amerlci ignorant of the English language and wlthout money. They were healthy. hunky and lndustrl- one and at onée lound places as hired men on western farms, .They worked three years, and saved every cent of their wages possible. And at the end 0! three years they had a. cult capital bo-tween them 0:31.000. They then went up into central and western Min- m-sotu and bought 320 acres of Innd Ul'lwcrn unu- v- v ..... , went up into central and western Min- m-solu and bought 320 acres of lend on easy terms .and hallo-w prlce com- pared wlth‘ltn value today. They hue been favored wlth'good health nnd good crops and today are well fixed. discount- ing the. future payments due on their land and with a well improved {arm and a lot 9! valuable stock A: vlslble assets. These men ‘were not highly ed- ucatedâ€"just common plug hands it ..... D‘Anh‘ “(38 lWâ€"Juat ~vu-u.-_ the mart; This is no! rin‘excepIJontl case at all. Its counterpart may be found in almost any water: commun- } ity. Pets for Children. ; A writer for a prominent ngricultur- ’ ul paper. advises that I“ the younger ‘ childrc-n ot the farm family be given lumlis as pets t We thin! that. this in bud advice. Children should never be given as pets any animal which in thei natural course of things must sooner or later in: taken away. sold and killedi This applies to sheep. to chickens and other poultry. pigs and quite often to‘ cats. A heifer call my be kept as I! net. or volt. but not the others named. Then. it the pet. sheep is of the male sex, it will inside of six Ionths devel- op into the biggest. nuisance hhout the Jarm. for all the boys 1nd every hired man will put in their spare time teach- ‘ ingit how to hunt. and some fine morn- ‘iug in early winter the godly bend of the house will have the underpinning knocked out from under him as he soon} to the barn. and there are thing: uid ‘ which would not look mm In print. The pet lamb in a nuisance. Luv-u u...“ “Why. when a new ted state a tellefi lme ter {it In line. or else expect [or hear the bl: hue drum n poundin' uvj him inter the earth. 'mmse he'll be It dead one for sure. Why. even the harness nuke" have got hit; made fer horses, wh '11 make ‘em turn up the corners uv t “r mouths. 111' when they do that they ferxlt ter bulk. or kick. i or ter do enythlnx clue. Now. I need i terv be putty durn (rurhpy myeelt until 1 read in the papers 'bout what in in- fluence the corners uv I teller'e mouth hue on him Ill' 30"! got ter trylu' uv It. 1111' I mt ter tell yer, .we‘vo at a puny heppy farm home out It our place 'cenee we've all got the led out there. even the hornet. cowu. chickens. m' the dog. he‘s bin 3 tryln av 11, 311' It's 3 epllln' huh 'amse sense he's Mn “ CCORDIN' ter what has bln . (0111' the rounds la the va- pere. I“ e teller he! ter do ter keep awey the blues 111' be good natured all the tlme. ll ter draw the more uv hie mouth up so talhloned." sud Uncle Bill a he puck- ered up hle mouth as thounn an eyelet hole lad been out In etch corner and a Itrlng run up over each at. 7 _-__-_-.nl "What In- curling up the corner: one“: mouth got to do about It." as! the editor: wishing to draw I few id! from him. A "We‘ve All Got It" ' I i drawln' up the corners uv his mouth it. has made him so darn good natured i that he can‘t growl. even at a tramp." . said Uncle Bill. “Do you really think that by curling up the corners of one'a mouth will keep one from having the blues," again asked the editor. ‘ - "UN course it does." replied Uncle 1 Bill." .lest ter show you, the other day i a tramp cum inter our yard au' the dog ! had the corners uv his mouth turned .up an' couldn't even growl. Wall. uv course. that made the tramp feel so good. that he smiled an' up went the corners uv his month. an' when he sak- ed Helen ier a hite'ter eat with a smile on his face. she couldn‘t refuse him 'cause she had the corner or her mouth up too, an’ when he cum down an' tac- kled me, i give him a quarter. Now. yer kin see if the dog had bin cross. in all probability we all uv us would uv hill. but as it was. we was _all uv us happy." ‘ 4.....- cost you a quarter besidts what your wife fed the tramp." world is lookiu' after. is happiness. an‘ all it cost was a quartet an' sum I dog hadn't uv had t ' mouth turned up. that 'erc might uv asked lc-r pie. but as it was he was satisfied. au' so was ovot'." one else. Oh. the algument is all in faVor uv tur‘uin' up the corners ui' ver month Now. there's Helen. it's a doin' he: a power uv good. Why, when I wanted sumthln‘ done she would most always oppoae top in it an' sort or nr- gufy with me. but since she's got ter drawnn‘ up the corners uv. her mouth. patch sewed on, she lever opposes me: she. lost lets me keep on wantin‘. I'm goin‘ ‘sound now all done up with clothe-pins an“ ten-penny nails. but i feel all right ‘hout it so long as I keep the “more uv myliouth curled up." remarked Uncle. Bill. "it certainly muat be a boon to ho- manity. Mill lh' “litter. who was he- mmlng hnif convinced that the Boheme , ._..._.|_- “Yes." suggested the editor. “But it “Wall. what if it did cost a leetlei money. that‘s what the people 'uv this; scraps uv sumihin' ter eut: now if the he corners uv his tramp it‘av diacrent: if i want a button‘orl London Academy: it is no new n gestion that lriahtnen talk hotter “- liah than the English. Dean Switt wry“ to Pope expruaing his m at all” alighting remark of the latter's oolv_ eeraing the lriah: .“The English coir onies. who are three part! to ‘tour. no; iaed than I“! coon». much more civil ties in England. and speak hetnterullhrg iish. and are much better be remembered that the Dean was an: Englishman. and would that everyone to remember it. it is give only a few illus of the survival of old words would.- tions in Ireland. The many-headed multitude who are “agil the gem- ht"uaetheoidprw_ “KI gqutrnedhethreit‘ M The word survives. a! i am of u land where there of books. lreiand keeps it! the glans because the malts are illiterate beyondlnglish comma . The peculiarity of pronunciation whfl most strlhu the‘ tourist is the In“ complete." as “plase' any. haste. compute." as all students of 17th and 18th cantor! pod- ry have noticed. myden. for era-He. wrote: "Neptune. yet doubtful whom he‘ should obey. he trident o! the 1 Pope pronounced “tea" in the aanxe manner as a Tipperarypeaaant doaa. Lne example. referring to ‘31-‘11“.- ana." is well known: here is am: "Soft yielding minds to water gm. away, , . . elemental - - So in Munster the country toll: talk {of the “lay." meaning “lea"--that pret- ‘ ty word which Englishmen have “an: cloned to the. poem. it was the influ- ence of French that made our anemia pronounne "complate" and “mane.” a: ‘ ‘ "Here swells the shelf with Olgilhy the great: ' sThere. stamped with aria. Newastla [ shines complete.“ 3 English with characteristic incon- ‘stanrv has kept the hroad sound is esonnd given to such w ’ habitually pronounced Held to-them both t sea." And sip with nymphs. the tea." and the influence still holds good over here. Listen to Pope agai § "great." __.___.â€"â€"â€"-â€"- LEGAL OATH! I! wont _â€"â€"h A lagiatrata’s Opinion u to What They Are may no Iwaar to. i l i New York Press: “There‘s (hie dit- erence between a woman and a non: When a woman thinks or belie"! a “thing to be so she is ready to swarm it. while a man doesn't swear to a ‘thing unless he sees it and knows it to be true." an“... an! \In l dflml! Mott draw the UNCLE Bi LL I". --v.-â€" -‘. _ V on M- face. she couldn't refuse hill 'cause the hid the corner uv her mouth I up too, In? when he cum down an' tac- -kled In. K [Ive him a quarter. Now, ‘ yer kln see If the dog had bln emu. In I" problbmty we I" uv us would uv bin. but u n was. ye Wu .1“ m! us happy: ‘ . . . ..... “nu; I. druvin' up the corners uv his mouth it w made him so darn good natured that he can‘t growl. even at a trump." said Uncle Bill. "Do you really think that by curling up the corners of one's mouth will keep one from having the blues." again l asked the edltor. ' 1 "UN coura‘e it does." replled Uncle Blll." Jest ter show you. the other day a trump cum Inter our yard 'an' the dog had the corners uv hla mouth turned up an‘ couldn't even growl. Wall. uv course. that made the tramp feel no good. that he amlled an' up went the corners uv his mouth. an' when he ask- ed Helen fer a blte'ter out wlth a amlle I'au-n nu.- . 7 , "I! certainly must be' a boon to hu- manity. all! the minor.- who win he- mmiug half convinced that 111! u-heme (or ’vlrlvingv-away the blues was worth trying. . _ ._ -. I .0,, ,IA III" ("'Wall. ye'r see l lost my wallet an‘ llhenr wlth rhuldn't qul'e git the corners uv mylm, hadn‘t: mouth up right. on Inf-01ml uv It. so hm“ w“ 54 Kent. up ter 1 pollmmgn In' all. 'Mr. ‘m vng n Ofllm. I've lost summln'. nu'ie “Wk-“people Ind ed It me for u mlnlt "1' then spit "But you 'hmugh MI teeth an' aid. 'Ah pun. lion. “n what-0h" ‘lvln' us? Yer an «IQ wronx did u." var. pull vle hell In' let yer-ell all. see.’ "Oh but “full. gee vhlu. what do yer think uv ”Then M that? I Went out tor the mlddle uv thc‘ mum‘s . street. tor look (er my inlet. when n the “1,001 trolley car nun along an' xlve m “to “m" I boost up In the world. an' when I cum warrant. 1 down I In“ hard enough tor make no” “a. In 'poleruoo get myself for beln' :3 I???” u“ ..__ __.A.L _‘ - to: ..,..... "'Cmmm ‘t 1:." repfled Uncle am. "But I nar lost faith In It Int week when I was In the city." “How um: um?" Inquired the edlo :th 'duxn'urolou Ibo. g'éliflolr HND iunouua‘otsortl asked Ideas uv .quoe '08" than tryin' I. l“- ‘5. con-n up, but lull! who I did. '0'- crybody ohm strut VI. 300‘ mu:- ed 'ammqmmemuv thdr nu'umn turned no ‘00-" "They were probably‘ was at your misfortune," vvnlund the ulnar. "1! la a lhouxm thnt. I might II! pused a few 'cum‘ ran-”d among 'QI.‘ I! there'reny one thing {but would mike the corners uv my mouth in. It would be ler see sum dun ploou i hunting at my mixtonm“ And he went down theme! with i terrible twist on his fun-e. mln' to m the ‘corncn' turned up. ‘ Iflshmen [path It W '1' numb ‘1‘thch- New York Press ”M's MI dit- femve M'chl a woman and I Inn: When a woman think: or him a (hill: to be so she in ready to avu‘r. to it. while a man (1028111 We" to a thing unless he wen 11 ad knows I! to be true." 47 In.“ .n...â€". pl.- A Inghtnto's Opinion .- to What They Are Indy to ”on go. w l! Il‘o Thus did Madam“ In“ draw at dividing "not the sexes in the WA slaw court yesterday. It. flat Blierbrook of No. 320 m Euhr SM-onth strait; u «hoe! anchor. In asked him for a warrant not a had II: who had struck one of her pupils on Q! he-r wlth 1 none. She haunted m sh. hadn't mean the boy throw um mm but III so sufe he had date so It m van mdy'to “rear to It. "beau 9901* Ind told hen" ; . n Aâ€"‘A _..- u " nuplghnml II "But yeu‘didn't aw in." urlaimm ur. Mott. “You don't know that thin hey did IL" ‘ "Oh. but I'm sure of it." alu- nld. "Then he an his opinion «oncoming woman's “norm (0 "at. at! ndflc’wl the «boo! cachet to bring her "up" to court Ind have bin "(or out tho warrant. XIII mm M the roar! ”mom with 3 look on her mum nu phlnly that she «43'! up. can It. lo". a to won-I" cream. . TALnns of’uauan. "cue Ile a Boost." MIN 3-» 1L." “chimed fir. don't know that m: my bad In! s on "m ed that «- slur so that