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you aid to h” W m b“ a has diam!“ gy an'one 18891 They no ulna: .névm M ii I the com? A my bit of lung!â€" malnutnrg- $25 to$35 3°!!! mm finest mic 10:11»?- hut-69mm .VC raler. Lela-mull" sec ‘ IW" we: I. Hawaii oilers' immense possibilities to the gardner. So far as most small fruit: and vegetables ’ are co'ncerned xiwrc is no season. [or they can be planted at any time and are maturing One of our valued agricultural papers say: that boiled milk with a little pep- per la just as good to'r vhlckens as it ls ‘or children. This may be all right for the chickens. but our own experi- vnee in raising children is that the less mpper one 3913 into them the better. Mmt American born kids have too murh pepper. glnger and hot‘stufl in them on general princlples. - We are asked why it is that with 10,- 000,300 acres of rich land subject to homestead entry in the state or Nebras- ka alone the government should be asked to spend millions to promote ir- rigation schemes. The answer is easy. Not an acre of this land in Nebraska is worth a cent for general farming pur- poses without irrigation. When“: man takes a load of hogs to town and then takes on a load of beer and his team runs away with him and breaks his neck while going home, it give. a job to the undertaker. the par- son. the sexton and the judge of the prohate court without any serious loss to the community at large. Boss sold in Chicago Sept. 10.. at 8". the Makes! price paid since-1882.111311- er rather than lower prices {or 11033 are predicted for the winter.’ This condi- tion of things make hog raising the most profitable form of farm produc- tion. Don't aspire to live too long. (of there are lots of old fellows over 90 m the poorhouses of the country. In fact. I! one wants to find a man or 90 and over the pom-house is the best place to hunt (or him The pound of butter. the dozen of eggs and the yound of steak are very new together in the matter of price these days. A man has got to be earn- I-ng over a dollar I. day to get even a smell of them. ' Caz} you draw an athlete, perfecfly proportioned, covering thcse five dots? It ls now too late to cut wmds. for the mischief is done. Still we saw a man at it Sept. 20. and his work looked like a sort of agricultural deathbed re- penance. Cows in the best dalryflistricts of Hex-had bring in their owners about 880 each per year. This is about up to the record ol'the best American dairies. California vineyardsists. who haw.» an established wfne trade with France will find it hard to meet the competition of French wines at a cent a gallon. In the work of growing all the small fruits It Is of just as much importance to Arrange beforehand tor the market lor‘the fruit as it is to grow it. We a note of the fact that shredded corn fodder is just as good for horses .3. it in for other kinds of stock. It has “silty-two per cent of the American homekeepers get along withopt any hired girl and the other 18 per cent will: that they could. no heaven in it. With pork at 87 per hundredweight and beans at $2. 75 per bushel the great national dish is getting out of reach of poor people. Where the writer lives a bushel of potato.- brings as much as a bushe! of pouches. Ind not a peach raised within 200 miles. A good beefsteak costs 60 cents a pound In Paris and god wine a cent a 911011.110 wonder the nation is peter- incout. (Conyflxht, 1901. by' J. S. Trigg.) Rockford, Ia;â€" Correlpondence Solicited. PUZZLE PICTURE. - Don’t Stay Long. They don't stay with us very longâ€".â€" the boys and girls. we meanâ€"just a' 'ew years. first as household pets andI treasures then as Serious responsibili- ties, then for a little while as helperm and companions. and the!) they areg gone like the birds in the autumnal. days. and father and mother once more ! sit down alone and talk of the boys and | ' Bnled Com Fodder. We havertaken not a little trouble to ascertain whether or not a city demand existed or could be created for baled shredded corn fodder. a forage which is conceded to be equal to the best tim- 'othy hay. Correspondence with com- mission men who handle such products "show that it is a new thing about which they know little. One commission man writes that while there in no question about the value of the Iodder. there is a trouble connected with keeping it in a baled condition. it having the tendency to absorb dampness from the atmos- phere. resulting in a productionot mold inside the bale. He adds that this class of fodder can be more economically consumed on the farm. releasing the hay product of the farm for sale in the. cities, But this fact in no manner he- littlcs the value 0! this product. i There is one avenue always open to any industrious and economical young Elan wh‘érehy he may get a start in life. ’ that is to hire out as a farm hand. ask. How can a fellow ever get a in this way? Well, let's see. A farm hand can today command 8275 per annum, his board and wash~ ing. He can save of this amount 8225 each year it s will. Five.years so spent wil give im capital enough so that he would he safe enough in buying’ a piece of land and starting business on his own hook While he is doing this, however, he wants to let liverymen. nice girls and dude clothes strictly. alone and put in his spare time reading and fitting himself to fill a larger place. The potato growers on the irrigated ‘lands of Colorado are in clover this yearâ€"big crops and unheard of prices. These potatoes are. to our taste, lute- rlor to the Murphy raised in Minnesota and Wisconsin. but they are large. smooth and god sellers. The best Irish potato ls produced on some newly cleared tlmher tract of the north coun- try, where lt is hard work to raise an ear of corn. In other words the fur: ther north the potato is grown so as to fully mature the better it is. Creeceua the world’ s trotting cham- pion. hurt his leg when :1 lit and was ordered killed by his own , but he es- ‘caped death. recovered, and from an ornery, most unpromising animal as a yearling has developefi into king of the turf. This leads us to remark, that there ‘are lots of boys like this horseâ€" mischievous, ornory little rascals who seem as though they ought to be killed on general principles who later on pan out into. splendid men. 'A good. crop of potatoes, say of the late varietiesâ€"Burbank or Rural New Yorkerâ€"could have been raised in this year or general drouth end potato failâ€" ure had such a crop been given contin- uousâ€"that is, 'weeklyâ€"surface cultiva- tion all through the dry season. It is strange. but none the less true. that the common belief is that the more the ground is stirred in a dry time the fast- or it wi‘. 3"y out. when the exact re- verse or this is true. I There is not half the show for bugs tunder a limited monarchy that there is under a republic; for instance. the Col- orado pomto bug had the run of this Country without any ofllclal interfer- ence. Not long since a few of these pests were discovered in England, and everybody turned out to kill them while a $50 penalty was imposed on any person knowingly harbOring then). That's the way to light bugs ltd! seasons of the year. Strawberries are available at 111 times. Raspberries bear for six months. Tomatoee bear (or years and grow into small trees. plants of the lima bean and ‘cucumbex bear for over a 3‘ ar. The islands have a mean temperat re 0! between 70 and 80, with a very small margin of var-in- [ion from these figures the year r'ound. Four crops of potatoés may be produced on the same field in one year. How to Get a Start. Grafting the Plum. \ We have. two inquiries as to how best It(' propagate desirable varieties of 'fp‘nzos. one from a friend who has a :Igimtiy valued variety of the native or 'jA‘nv-rican plum. Hp wishes to know lit Fm plants the pits or this plum -w"lv:her he will get the same variety. ;Nv. he will not. It is probable M gscme of the seedling tree so product] i" ll produce fruit something or the sty w of the mother tree. but there ls no Ece minty that they will, the pollen at ;a hundred other types of plums per- jha1>> having had a hand in fertliizing ithw- plum pits. The surestand in tact; 3th: only way to propagate any varicy.‘ got pfuln is to graft or bud thermal“; ;trv ,9; with clone or butkvtsken from the; im( Her tree. Another reader would; glilw to know how to effect a harmoni-{ on: union of the graft of the Ear ‘1‘ pllzms upon native stocks. This s idiiflk-ult thing to do. not but what the «gran P will grow all right.,hlt the general lha‘ri? of growth of the European plum is so much greater than that ol‘ the ,pa‘ive types that the.top of the tree ignvrved almost always outgrown the 1trunk.We have several such trees. and ‘in order to try and preserve a proper balance between trunk and top we keep UN top well cut back and in May or June slit the trunk through the bark from top to botom in two or three planes with a sharp knife. We think that; all trees so grafted are short lived at, West. l t The Alberta. Country. 1% are asked hauot the Albert: (4) 'ntry in the far northwest of the limtish posessiono. This country is a ,1 -~. g War oil. but is gradusly being I‘LL-18 accessible by new lines of rail- mw. While it lies in latitude 50 to 55 ;c‘m=,:rees north, a latitude where ordi- ‘rn ily short hot summers and long, ( I.i .1 winters are the rule it still lie- so i.‘ west that the extremes of cold are gu .itiy tempered by the influence of t . Japan current on the Paciiic coast. v hfch manifests itseii in the form of he "Chinook” winds. The country is \u-‘l watered, has a sufllcient rainfall. pr,»sseses a. fertile soil and is within euw rénch of unlimited suplies of coal timber. We should take it to be I n s: :niiicent country for the raising oi" k. The facts that it is in British t: " itory 'and so very far removed from t]: settled portions of the United 5 n es operate to prevent the rapid set-i tl lent oi the country. 3 1’ l' 1‘11 , Fool Luck. A farmer sent a green hired man out i vith the planter to plant a big iield oi’ gvorn last spring. The farmer supposed ’hat the hired than knew how to oper- : terthe machine. and he did. us it turn- vd out. About ,the time he had the leld planted the farmer went out to ' he iield and discovered that ‘the man I: did set the machine so that all the seed I<orn was planted from four to five lunches deep. Then the farther lifted 0 his voice and cussed the hired men 1:: a. moat eloquent, ngrlcultural wny. Well, at third. of the corn never showed ; )ove ground. and what did had a hard rail to get through and looked very red The crop was cared for how-‘ *ver and then came the drouth. and ‘lie cornfield: with a good stand and‘ mperly planted little by little gave up l8 ghost and became In acreage of :< -ared iodde‘r, while the hired men's " aid with its thin stand and deep rooted turn shoved up green and luxuriant wad will make a crop of 40 bushels per :~ :re Fool luck, was it not? km: Buttered and you. Whether you imd mother shell be Io left depend: my much on how you treated the lit- le folks during the days when they were with you. It in a very non-y Imposition when the only interest chil- iren'have In the old home is the inter- at they may have when‘the probate ourt divides the caste. England's Big Wheat Crop. A noted agricultural writer states :at the cause of the great difference ctween the.average wheat yield of lingland and the United Statesâ€"~30 ‘ishele per acre for England and but > bushels in this countryâ€"is solely ving to the fact that the English heat grower takes more pains in the le'ction of his seed grain. We do not tree with this theory. Climatic con~ zlone are infinitely more favorable to -e production of large wheat crops in island than they are in this country. this country where climatic condi- uns akin to thoee found in England e met there are just as big and even tter crops of wheat raisedâ€"for in- xnce. in Washington. Oregon and rne parts of idaho. We have samples ‘ these Pacific states' wheat hanging our elbow as we write taken from Me which this year have produced um 40 to 50 bushels per acre. in the utter of preparation of the soil for a np of wheat vastly more care is taken 1 work done in England than here. 0 Dakota man- whom we met here ‘5 summer who told us that he had sed he crops‘ ofwheat. in succeseion the same field. and had not plowed -- field one being a fair illustration American slovenly methods of wheat fture. Clover rotation. turnip crop »‘ oh by sheep on the field, summer ‘1owing‘and the handbooks-and cul- ‘ation of the wheat crop in England. 1le with a long ripening period 1 comparative freedom from all in- t pests. have vastly more to do with .: wheat cropsiin England than the d used. 7 By the munlflcence or the cur the Embliument Hulls. in mush, was built in 1897, and since 1898 that of. Tnctzi, with two pavilions, accommo- In this country all the great hoopl- tnle have gone into the good work of the snnltorhnn Intern. by setting aside. beds and wards for the hitherto hope- leu men. In Man they have n snnatorinm for prisoners. The navy department has one for nation. New York ha: It: unntorin. In Austria. Schrotter built the inm- oua u‘mtorium D'Allnnd. .with three hundred beds. Chevalier Von Kuuy has gone among the sick poor consump- tive: and organised little nan-tori: with nothing more pretenniye than lit- tle huts close by their dwellings, but rigidly guarded from contact with .the public and full equipped with all the modern appliances. He is saving many lives and stamping out the white plane in many poor__qu_artern. Germany'l example has been followâ€"V ed. England. Scotland. Australia and Canada have also erected some of these institutionsâ€"which we must bear in mind are for the benefit of those who would otherwise not recover; the-9| sanatorla are places wherein the latut' wonders of the healing art are applied, with veryxrent sucoeu. We come now to the sick and suler- l in; who cannot regain their health in their own dwellings. In Germany there are eighty-three public snnatoria open or ready to open for the relief of such ‘ cases. These refuges accommodate twelve thousand patients a year: The state has founded se\ erni sanstorls for. its servantsâ€"the Forests department i the Railway department and the state ' of Hamburg. The commission of the. budget 0! the Reichstag hss decided to! build state ssnntoria under the control; of the minister of the interior. j All these are mere indications of a world-wide movement actually at work creating better conditions for those who are lmprovldent. weakly and help- less In the battle of life. Well backed by "1‘ It!“ and by “I. “lull. wealthy. Madame Hervlen in 1893 at: . ended .' ed at Sedan working garden- tor chi ‘ 0.0“ ., dren. young people and their parents. "MN These gardens occu y more than the "00"! p to Ben space of a hundred city lots around the historic little town, and are a greatl!““l‘f" help to 320 families; composed of 1251 my“ persons. The society aupqllea tools. (am seeds and fertilizers to each family. In a“ e 1894 the Jesuit Father Volpette started ("09 in the working gardens for the poor at' The i St. Etienne. They cover about 42 acres. inn “1‘ and accommodate 410 l'unlllee. com- humus posedot 2460 persons. 01: the ground- "uh“ let. working houses are built. Seven- '3‘ M" teen have been built by the lodgers out 3""‘U of their savings. There are working Courier- gardens also at Bercy. others are being brated started at Fontainebleau and at Vll- Th“ '“ leurbane, near Lyons; on: El: Thanks to. the help '0( government and of private intitative in italy and France. and other countriee. nanntoria hy the seaside have been established (or weekly and ecroiulm children. The” are fourteen in France which accom- modate more than two thousand chil- dren a year. with excellent results. in- spired by the same idea. some eonntricl have started holidayecoioniee, end tem- porary visits to places by the nee or in the mountains. where the ailing poor are much heneflted and many iivea saved. ' rigidly with unhealthl‘ul dwellings; Meenil and his co-hhbren dealt w h the problem of lodging the poor of Paris. The law of November. 30, 1894. clearly defined the powers of the state and of private initlntive in the con» struction of workinx dwelling. end wiped out a great den! of misery among those who hnd been pnvlomly heig- leu. it was no uncommon thins befon‘ that to see one room in Paris occupied‘ by five. six. eight and sometimes twelve persons. . France passed a luv in 1860 dung! in Germany private initiative ha been fairly luccmiul. Belgium bu been one of the most entbuliutic nn- 'tione in inking up the. movement in te- vor of healthful dwellings. The luv passed in 1889 formed committees in each administrative district to build and let sanitary bouneeto workmen. in Denmark building moieties have “our- ished best of all. in 1600 Christinngw. bet the example by erecting house. with gardens for the employee of his house- hold; and the work has been of the national cbnmteristlc ever since. Recognizing that inulubrioue dwell- ings ere Among the most New in the breeding of disease. the - tion'ot diflerent 'countriee he: kept this imlubrity well in view. and he: made lawn ordering the destruction of un- healthy dwellings. ln Englnnd in 1836, legislation intervened In tnvor of uno- cintione for building Iorkmen'e dw inn. This action on the port of government has led to the inten en of benefactors. among whom may be mentioned Mr. Peabody and lie: 0c- tavil Hill. ' Washington Letter: The fiendish cruelty of the good president's taking on. suggests a brief survey‘mg; mental and other cranked-m lent-e in many lands that has of late years been added to the sum of good- ness in a world that in. on she-whole. kindly and growing more an . if the review. nomewhnt loom. will serve to render Itili no i inm- ous the wild muttering: of deed e veil-i amiss of law and orderâ€"pro ‘ of interâ€"human hatredâ€"the “*3? gathering the data from omcigiwo , will be amply repaid. ' Belt-Help for tho Helplqu, Tcnder Care of Children of rum Hope for Hopeless 81c INTEREST O! m ”CH AND POWERFUL I! THE POOR. HEART OF THE WORD? During «2 past summer bomb: '2:- perltronm at: “ml. M a. On term In W e rn W of dt straying ll -cloudu by the m N .arfll- lery comet; tees (“13.1139 experts found that Influx?- 113 due usually to the, em. ployment c ftbo small guns or too um. powder. ‘ §A_..______-. . ._‘.‘ .A.-- ., A City. 1n" ' the In)” Middletor' ‘ Survey, \ga Of the :1: Chum 'c. Punched 25 yecn i( (g velopnem § Mn: and E “Weli. «ring me .n fll."., , . l Tm- (":0 river jack mm “on: about tng and 1 half “at cm ’ ‘ :Theoe m gem-nod and and womb-0‘ '13 poun‘j. the- am twig: [than on M curtouty.'l “Mn WINM4 ; finishud .8}! nix, all but the hole-L my :1: salad. gym bread. and cum :1 “a Enqula omhq um. ”m- 1: our of ‘ (favome ngbeg. no he It. ma that‘h‘d‘ I has nova-pain able to get enough. "- I'm um; 911w nice fro: 4 . 52;» Tho -. I} it“ about t" The“ I] ‘ m Scott. want-an [W In all ‘cha In my lockup. But L' drop in find watch yon out" .. .. The t ~onel 0111!!th Mr W atmo- mnm filo pound-occlude. In" oil-I human: gboloun saw. a bowl): Clicker: gmd drunk in bottle. or boot. and Mr-‘Wntter'aon never denied it. “term 3’. be mint to the' other of ma Courtm- mum] and vrote Ma cele- brmd inn-um Goddess" «Mom! tint m. "opied and commented on in! over tb IUnttml States. At ar. :her mm- he (inlet-M a rn'fe" {it the rec. \’ a saloon d! which 150‘ w i regular-11ml). nnd (filled out to At at tho- rec regular pmrle: Dole “1.1m. hungry:- 1er go 6'“:- to Bay: r's" (I ate much meme 9' 33‘ «Er mén)‘ 'ui‘d Imo‘ sown?! «1mg; a . I Beta: 1the end of the dinner :1" the other - b member: were but mung whst \ rs put before thgu. but fit. Wane:- n was eating .3. and often culling :- more. When the din-mm ended in rival editors m: to (hur- oflcel @111”.th ua'ey fiat-bod Kappa @3- Row Mr. Wflufnon “mg. wine; thtex son. 1 This 1} course: was t! life In “an Hut 6 of flu Before there ‘ Music". of the workman end the poor, the ca i 91 sick sod helpless children. snd tn care of the hopeless-the great heart the world has taken on an added 3;:lndiineas government and the rich i: e been prompt to uke hold of the ne science, the new hope and the seii- he 3 theory of philanthropy This is sil .' ided meritâ€"extra going out at their \ wâ€"i’or these schemes are on- tirely hide from the great world of orgsni :d and private benevolence. Sun.- 1’ there must be something wrong .Iith the personality and tem- peram t of the individual who can I is added interest in the toast,“ te es by the great ones of stil try to spread the 5 New S'ork Tunes: Henry Wetter- eon. ti surest Kentucky editor. 1: one of the; pies: enter- unong the white men 07- me United States. Hie enunc- lty in x 3.! respect seen: unlinked-» e fair: temple of his «Immune: mo lncldex; A will sum On .: <5. oecuton he attended the m- HEN} WATTEEION’S ”PETITE in ‘0 ill, 3!. un’ try t3 unreal the gospel ' Inter-human unreal. .- FREDERICK WATSON. “5-: in»; two I gm]. of Chan, 31; law, junct- And If: m. 1’35 “In: ha.- I: the H vents Juli to In; par": the u grout: Denna llnmt; luly. hue ty In for iomen. At Sum. Princess 11 isth- ere hum) 1 1 byt new Ill [1‘ sum A collet lat hll Jub 92. .300. crowns~ .,ttmtionu of these meeting! ' éurlnx. and titer the banquet discussions. but the banquet hing. On this night It VII st of we editor 0! the Repub- oer of Louisville. The “ u M ll)!» course van qunil. and It. I: had two; unother was veal- ? again he wn served twice. W‘iu‘ngy‘p: me.- 3-39 M not "bdm'xzigfi Knit Henry. Al ha}? 939" Ohio rIu-r jack salmon. any have you?" «I . or Paris. Since an France 1 the home of Villain", sad as of. Orneuon (or you: pn- lth the dread tuberculosis. to also .me agricultural cola- James. the Jan Dom". Home f cerium at (”nude lmles mar Nice. Asok- and “edition. .ave recoutly been filing bc-LIlle. Nancy. 0râ€" 3. Anion: “Hume. a. tad In Paris. the Bluny others. Itemâ€"the proper of the wqunnn and the poor. 9: lick and helpless children, care of the homing-tho great is moving to establish others. :9 Netherlnndl and Norway Joved suit. In anoe‘there are W2: In In: JubTTee. WW crowns three “natal-In: the Sweaiih ant-vowed 800.000 crovns for e object. 3nd the state gave the required for the lumut'urs. k In: “My two 1nd the par- f0!“