Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 16, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 July 1902 — Page 2
PASTOR AND FARMER'S LAD. One of the parish sent ore morn— A farmer kind and able— A nice fat turkey, raised on corn, . To grace the pastor's table. : The farmer’s lad went with the fowl, And thus addressed the pastor: “Blame me if I ain’t tired! Herels A gobbler from my master.” The pastor said: “Thou should’st not thus Presenti the fowl to me; : Come tale my chair, and for me act, And I-will act for thee.” The preacher’'s chalir reeeived the boy, . The fowl the pastortook, Wert out with it, and then came in With a pleasant smile and i0ok; . And to his young pro tem., he said: “Dear sir, my honored master Presents this turkey, and his best Respects to you, his-pastor.” *Good!” sald the boy. “Your master is A gentleman and scholar! My thanksto him, and for yourself. Here is a half a dollar.” The pastor felt arourd his mouth A most pecullar twitching: . Arnd to the gobbler holding fast, He *‘bolted” for the kitchen. . : He gave the turkey to the cook, And came back in a minute; Then took the youngster's hand and left A half a doilarin it. —Western Teacher.
A Soldier’s Reparation By EDWARD B. CLARK.
T the time when the United States A and the Mexican governments made that temporary treaty which allowed the troops of either to invade the territory of the other when in pursuit «¢Z hostile Indians fleeing ‘across the border, James Tracy was a second lieutenant in the Nineteenth cavalry. It was during the height of the Geronimo trouble, and Tracy, with his troop, dismounted, and after a-soul and body wearying march on the trail of the wily Apache, found himself in the heart of one of the dreariest, most God forsaken mountain countries in the whole range of the southern country. : : The troop was exhausted and practically without water, the men having not a drop to drink save what was in their canteens. They had cut loose from a river in the early morning, expecting to find another when the day was done, but not as much as a rivulet had they found. There was no coffee that night and there wasn’t a light heart in the outfit. Tracy was unhappy. It wasn’t whol1y his suffering condition and that of his men which weighed on him. Just before leaving the Arizona post he had received news that his younger brother, John, had beencommitted to state’s prison_in a far northeastern state. The officer had ‘seen his home only once since his graduation. He had stayed away purposely. His brother had been a trusted bank - employe. Then came suspicion, then convietion and a sentence. John Tracy protested his innocence of the crime ~charged against him, and his family, knowing the lad, believed him, but the circumstantial evidence was overwhelming, and in spite of the efforts of the aged father, who spent his time and his money in the lad's defense, he went toprison. = = | ;
Before the trcop had left Fort Banks with its nose to the hot red trail of Geronimo there had joined as an enlisted man a strapping young fellow who said that he came from St. Louis. His name was Barlow, and he was assigned to the troop of which Tracy was the junior officer, and he went with it on its chase across the border after the Apache chieftain. , Barlow on every occasion possible attached himself to Tracy’s person. Whenever there was a scouting party detached from the main body and put under the second lieutenant’s command Barlow asked that he might be assigned to it to share in the scouting duty. He was a reserved fellow, and apparently of superior education. There was no camp jokes for him. He was grave and taciturn) to a' degree. Tracy had noticed the evident attachment of the man to him, and as he was a capable soldier and willing to dare and do anything he was glad to have him a part of his outfit when on detached and dangerous seryice.
On the morning following the night that the troop was practically without water and in a coimtry as devoid of green things, save the forbidding cactus, as is the Staked Plain of Texas, the troop commander told Tracy that he had better make a short reconnoisance, feel out the country for the enemy and above all try to locate water. To attempt a march under that hot Mexican sun with the men, and with any idea of effective-service, was foolhardy. They must first strike water. : 2
~ Tracy told his captain that he would take but one man with him; that they would strike southwest, where it was thought a better prospect of water lay, and that they would return as soon as a find was made. He selected Barlow for his companion, and the two struck out through the blaci(, sunseared country. They went on for three hours. Not a drop of the element of which they were in search. Their tongues were blistered. They drank sparingly of the water in their canteens, pressed on for another hour and then knew that they must return. -
UNSIGHTLY FOREIGNERS. The Unfavorable Comments of Japanese Wiomen Upon the Appearance of American Women. Two American girls were recently visiting a town in Japan not much frequénted by foreigners, and a friend who understood Japanese told them of the comments made on them when they appeared in the street, says the New York Tribune. Said Miss Peach Blossom to Hon: Miss Chrysanthemum: “Oh, do look at those foreign' women! See howi strangely they are dressed. They wear short kimonos, just like the men. How very improper!” T “Yes,” acquiesced the other. “The foreign women have no taste .in dress. In Tokio, where I have been once, no foreign woman's toilet is
Back they started. They followed their own onward trail as well as they could, but at times it was lost, and then circling was necessary to take it ‘up again. At noon they lost it, and could not find it again. There was a great jagged rock rising to the westward which neither recognized. #Lieutenant,” said Barlow, “we’re going wrong. We never came this way. The sun doesn’t sit right. It should bear more to our right. 1 believe that we are going almost directly at right angles to the camp.” They cireled again and again, but no- trace of the trail. Then the conclusion forced itself on Tracy that they were lost. They wandered on until the sun went down beyond the black rocks. Then they each drank sparingly of the precious contents of the canteens, and lay down on the gray desert to sleep. e The sun came up like a red-hot round gshot. Tracy and Barlow ate the last of their single ration, and took one swallow of water apiece. Then on they went again. Twenty-four hours passed. The sun came up once more, and with its coming they staggered forward. The canteens were empty. They looked for the cactus whose leaf yields a juice that helps fight off the demon of thirst. They could not find it. The only vegetation were occasional clumps of stunted prickly pear cactus, the juice of whosea leaves accentuates thirst. : Another 24 hours. The men cheered each other on like the soldiers they were. Tracy began to feel the coming of delirium. Oh, for a draught of water! He looked at Barlow. The man's eyes were burning, but they had a courage in them, and something else in their depths which Tracy never before had seen there. On and on and on. They could not go farther. Suddenly Barlow turned to Tracy and said in & voice that was choked from the clutching of thirst’s hand at his throat. “Lieutenant, I was afraid that we might be tempted to drink this long ago, so I saved it for the last extremity. Lieutenant, I have one good drink of water apiece left in my canteen.” . Barlow shook the canteen, and Tracy heard the plash of the water within. “Drink, Barlow,” said Tracy, “drink. You saved it, and it should be yours. Drink, drink it, I say. It may give you strength to go on. If you get back, boy, and the men strike water, ask them to come after my body.” Tracy was reeling. His brain was awhirl and his whole system on fire. “Lieutenant,” said Barlow, “I had more in my canteen than you had in yours wheén we started. Men in an extremity like this should share and share alike, Tl’ll take my cup and we’ll divide the water.” :
“Is there enough for the'two and to do any good?” asked Tracy. “Yes,” said Barlow, “one good drink for each.” .
“Drink first,” said Tracy. “I'll not touch a drop till my command is served.” s
“All right, sir,” said Barlow. Tracy turned away for a moment. He heard the gurgle of water. Would it never come his turn to drink? Barlow spoke. “Lieutenant, I'm afraid I took more than half. Hereis what’s ettt
He poured the water gurgling from the canteen into the cup. There was a good round drink. “Take it, lieutenant,” said Barlow, “I had more than that.”
- Tracy seized the cup and drained it. Oh, the joy of it. New life went surging through him. His eyes cleared. He looked at Barlow. There was no new life in the man’s eyes. Hislip was drooping. < ~ “Barlow,” said Tracy, almost fiercely, “you deceived me. Youneverdrank a drop.” ' Something like a smile came into Barlow’s face. :
“Forgive me, lieutenant,” he said, “put there was only enough for one,” and then he staggered and fell forward. Tracy caught him in his arms, and, weak though he was, managed to support the burden. :
“Lieutenant,” whispered Barlow, “xo on. You are strong enough and may reach the camp. 1f you do just come back and bury me here.” Then the man drew his officer’shead close to him and whisperedsomething. Barlow almost let fall his burden. “yes, it’s true, I was the guilty one and your brother was innocent and a sacrifice. Take this,” and he drew a paper from his blouse and put it in Tracy’s hand. “Forgive me, lieutenant,” he said, and as he spoke his empty canteen swung from his side and struck against Tracy’s knee.
“Torgive yvou? Yes, Barlow,” he said. - e
The enlisted man looked up, smiled, and then there was but one living soul in the desert. :
Tracy let his burden gently to the earth, and then he pressed on, for now there was an added life in his veins and an added interest in living=-He reached the top of the ridge and looked down. The camp was below him. Not the old camp, but the old troop and a new camp and by the bank of a stream.
Refreshed with food, sleep and the yet more precious water, Tracy recovered. The paper which Barlow had given him contained proof of his brother’s innocence. Tracy led a squad back to the point where he had left Barlow. They found his body. There was peace in the man’s face. He was given a soldier’s burial, and on the little wilderness grave Lieut. Tracy planted a-cross and a little, fluttering flag.— Chicago Record-Herald. i
complete without a stuffed bird on her head. If she has not enough money to buy a whole stuffed bird, she buys a head, the wings or some feathers. They are very strange, the foreign women.” “But;” exclaimed the first, “did you notice the terrible size of the noses of these two foreign women? Are the noses of all the foreign women as large as these?” “Yes, they are as large. But they are ‘proud of their large noses. The foreign women do not consider a large nose a disfigurement.” “How very strange! And, see—their eyes are as round as the full moon‘” ‘, i “Yes, as round as the full moon. They stare at you without any. expression or feeling.” _ - “And their walk! Do look at their walk! So ungainly—just like great, big birds!” :
AN ISSUE BEING FORCED.
Republicans Attempt to Divert Public Attention from Matters Injurious to Themselves,
The republicans are in a mess. They are unable to agree among themselves on the most important legislation. The exposure of the looting of the Cuban treasury to aid the sugar trust, the bribing of Gomez and the cruelties in the Philippines have put them on the defensive.
With. admirable audaciousness they attempt to divert public opinion from their own sins of omission and commission by charging the democrats with attacking the army. The president sets the pace by making a stump speech at Arlington, and the great trust-controlled daily newspapers take up the refrain. The little organs edited by the postmasters give tongue in unison.
This effort to put the democrats in the attitude of assailing the army will prove abortive; the common soldier is all right, and most of the officers from Gen. Miles down. They obey orders; that is the duty of the soldier. :
The democrats do protest, and will forever protest against the issuing and carrying out of orders to make “a h()\':']ing wilderness” of any terri: tory under the American flag. They protest that to “kill all over ten,” to kill prisoners, to torture by water cure or ether Spanish method, is'not war, it is vandalism; it is not American, it is barbarous. If not ordered by the highest authority it would never have been perpetuated by American soldiers, except perhaps in isolated caces. ;
The democrats believe in keeping the military authority subordinate to the civil power. No republic can exist that does not do so. The democrats intend to investigate these cruelties when they have the power, and punish the guilty, however high
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in command. They will investigate the expense accounts, both at home, in the Philippines and in Cuba. The transport service and the purchase of supplies will be investigated. They will find out who received the large sums that have been raised by extreme taxation, and if the money was squandered on high living in Cuba and elsewhere. Who was “fixed” to stay out of politics, and who was aided to stay in. What secret intrigue set free the Hanna pets, Rathbone and Neely? Why Buan Camino was ordered by the administration to come to this country to testify, when the request of the democrats for other witnesses was refused. A page might be filled with other details’ that will be investigated, and from the amount of evidence that has been forced to the surface, there is a vast amount behind. To do this the democrats must elect a majority of the next house of representatives,and this they will do, if the people agree with them that the curtain should be raised and the truth known.
No wonder the republicans are on the defensive and are endeavoring to switch the thoughts of the peo, ple from their misdoings by claiming that the army is being attacked. They know, however, that it is the orders issued to the army that is the main point, and the officers of the army, for their own honor and reputation and the honor of the United States will welcome the change.
Republican Love for the Flag.
Ambassador Choate and Whitelaw Reid, our special ambassador to the court of St. James, are so English, “don’t you know,” that they have lost track of the number of stars and stripes in the American flag. The press reports from London state: “Much comment, humorous as well as indignant, has been evoked from many Americans here by the fact that the so-called American flags at Brooke house are grossly incorrect in composition. The flag shows ten stripes and 25 stars! Americans are inclined to regard with some amazement the apparent ignorance of Mr. Choate and Mr. Reid as to the proper composition of the emblems of the country they represent. They do not relish the prospect of the United States becoming the target for British witticisms on this score, and a 4 movement is under ray to jog the memories of both ambassadors and Ibring about a correction of the errors.”
——The republican organs are quite exercised about revising the tariff, and the republican leaders in congress have declared that it can only be revised by its friends. But as these republican friends happen also to be the friends of the trusts, who are the chief beneficiaries of protection, the opportunity for the people to obtain relief from that quarter is a slim one. :
THE PRESIDENT DEFEATED.
Chief Executive Is Foiled by the Machinations of Smgar Trust Republicans.
The defeat of the Cuban reciprocity legislation is a great blow to the administration of DPresident Roosevelt. His attempt to coerce congress to do his bidding, which he emphasized in two messages to that body, has been spurned by a large faction of the republican party in the interest of the beet sugar trust. It is now stated that the president will call an extra session of congress if action is not taken at the present one. The members of the beet sugar faction in the house of representatives, joining with -the democrats, have passed the bill reducing the 20 per cent. on Cuban products, with another section addefl which was insisted on by the democrats, repealing the differential duty on refined sugar. The republican members of the senate found themselves in the same dilemma as the members of their party in the house of representatives. They were compelled to take the bill as it came from the house, with the democratic antitrust section, or take the responsibility of no legislation. . The democratic position is unique. The members of that party voted in the house and were ready to vote in the senate for the president's recommendation for reciprocity sith Cuba. But knowing that this 20 per cent. reduction on Cuban products would, in the case of sugar, inure in a great measure to the benefit of the trust, they compel at the same time the repeal of the differential duty, under whiclt the trust is allowed to collect about $6,000,000 additional tax from the American consumer, and if the countervailing duties are added, that sum can be multiplied fourfold. This legislation, if enacted, would probably aid the Cuban planter somewhat and would reduce the price of refined sugar in the
United States by as much, or more, as the sugar trust would gain on the 20 per cent. decrease of duty it would pay on imported raw sugar from Cuba.
~ This double reduction did not suit the sugar trust, nor did it suit its allies, the administration senators.
If President Roosevelt had really wanted to aid the Cubans and strike a blow at one of the great trust monopolies, why did he not recommend the reduction of the tariff on refined sugar equal to the advantage the sugar trust would gain by the 20 per cent reduction on Cuban raw sugar? ' Have'meyer would not, of course, under these circumstances, give a large check to the republican campaign fund, but the consumer of sugar in the United States would be benefitted, even if the collector for the campaign fund had to hunt from other trust quarters the mnecessary cash-to make up the deficiency.
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.
——The ton of coal the trust compels the miners to dig weighs 2,700 pounds; the ton sold to the coal dealers is 2,400 pounds; the ton sold to the consumer is 2,000 pounds, and the latter thinks himself lucky if he gets that much. ‘
——President Roosevelt should cease to cherish the delusion that the breath of life still lingers in the Cuban tariff policy. The foxy old republican senators are merely wondering whether they hadn’t better bury his 1904 candidacy in the same cemetery lot.—Albany Argus.
——The beef trust is laughing in its sleeve at the attempt of Mr. Roosevelt’s attorney general to stop its exactions. A giant trust with a capital of $300,000,000 'is said to be organizing, to include all the packing houses in the country. If Mr. Roosevelt would order criminal proceedings commenced, how quickly he could bring them to fime. .
——Ordering a whole province to be made a howling: wilderness and the killing of all over ten years of age may be the modern system of warfare, but it sounds mightily like the middle ages. It must be remembered that the homes, the wives and the little ones of the Filipino are as dear to his heart as ours are to us, and his devotion to the stars and stripes is not likely to be enhanced by such strenuous achievements.
——An amendment to the Philippine bill prohibiting slavery in the islands was offered by the democrats, but was promptly voted down by the republicans. The author of the amendment was Mr. Patterson, of Tennessee, who stated: “That Gov. Taft before the insular committee testified that the treaty made by Gen. Bates and the sultan of Jolo was still in force. There were today 300,000 slaves ‘in the Jolo group. Children' were sold from their parents. Girls were subject to the desires of their masters.” i
A Gossipy Discussion of the Summer Fashions ‘<
Hints on What to Wear in the Warm Days of July and August. Dainty Materials in Dainty Garments. ;
O THOSE away, happily A away it behooves one to think, in the depth and : peace of the country, food for reflection may be found in the vogue of some new and eminenty dainty little shirts of silk' mousseline, crepe de chine or soft silk, the chief decorative detail whereof is comprised in a yoke of lace, that is either continued in a straight mnarrow line down the center of the front, or in three tapering points, an effect mostly repeated at the back. All manner of lace is requisitioned toward this latest ornamental decree, from the coarse darned filet, to the filmiest Chantilly. A white silk maltese, shaped to form a tapering point down the center, asserted itself the piece de resistance on a white crepe de chine, while a very cobweblike French lace, after amiably shaping a yoke piece, gradually tailed off in sharp “dents” in a round to simulate a bolero, the main fabric of the affair being a lovely pale blue silk lawn. Although, if the truth be told, lace takes a fully equal share in the promotion of these really sweet little shirts. 'And the notion, when one comes to reflect, is most ingenious, since the decree is steadfast that the simple little silhouette shall be maintained. =~ Wherefore is there nothing left but an infinite variety of outline.
Collars, when they are affected at all, are mostly of the pelerine order, that is, if it be so desired, that the sternest dictates of fashion be followed. These pelerines are fitted slightly below the base of the throat, that a suspicion of chemisette may be revealed, which latter is usually privileged to form one with a ¢lose collar band. And I perceive a somewhat happy example occurs in the cause of that simple muslin frock pictured. A spotted white or cream quality muslin is intended, the skirt deftly stitched into three graduated tucks. The bodice is practically a blouse, surmounted by one of the above-mentioned pelerines of coarse cluny lace set on beneath little revers of pastel blue panne, a color relief that finds much tasteful repetition at the waist. While a further and still more effective break is declared in a smart broad plateau formed entirely of geranium leaves, with a handsome cluster of pink bloom placed high at the left side. And the en tout cas is of geranium pink silk hemmed with grass lawn. My best respects invariably attend the woman who dares the boldly contrasting hat. But such boldness asks to be lived up to. There must be throughout an emphatic note of chie, an impression of individudl knowledge, and absolutely no suggestion of a tentative searching after novelty; rather an assured sense of what is right. Here, for example, is a scheme at once charming and sueccessful. Navy blue coat and skirt, pale mauve shirt, and chapeau with
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GERMLESS SCHOOLBOOKS.
Precautions Taken in Salt Lake City Against Spread of Disease Among Children,
A new ordinance has been adopted in Salt Lake City with the idea of preveuting the disseminating of scarletfever and diphtheria germs among school children, says a recent report from that city. Both diseases have recently been epidemic among the children in the city and the board of health decided that the germs traveled in the school books and other things carried by the pupils. The result has been the passage of an ordinance which is probably more stringent than any other of the kind ever adopted by any municipality. It provides that none of the school books shall be covered with any materialother than paper. In all schools in which there is a free distribution of books such books, after having once been used, must be recovered and thoroughly disinfected by the board of health. 5 ;
A student once having received a book shall keep it as long as that book is necessary for his studies.
this study ephemerality. It Ilends itself to a very plethora of ornamental ends in the shape of selvedge hems, foundations for collars; while hemstitched and tucked, is it privileged to fashion quite the most successful collars for the linen coatee. Spotted again, particularly pin spotted with black, does it create quite charming frocks, tucked and inset with either black or beige lace, the neutral harmony relieved by that insistent emerald green, in the shape of en tout cas, jupon, and wings or foliage in the chapeau. . In proportion as the detail of dress grows more insistent, so are we the more persuaded as to the varying possibilities of neutral tints, to which the very last recruit is “nefle” or medlar. In either voile or souple
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Just what is going to become of all the elaborated dust cloaks prepared for races and the summer festivities, is a story that has yet to be written. Since the bulk of fashionable affection is being obviously bestowed on the simple loose sacque coats of cloth, with roomy bell-shaped sleeves. Here is the prevailing idea pietired in a zinc white cloth as fine and souple as silk, a model that tests for its sole success on bold effective outline. The buttons, only visible when the coat is closed, are gilt of the new convex center set in square mounts. : ELLEN OSMONDE.
It is unlawful for the schools to collect pencils, sponges or other articles used by the students for the purpose of redistributing them to other students. A violation of any provision of the ordinance is punishable by a fine of $25. . No Need of a Barber, A gentleman called at a country manse in Scotland and inquired if the minister was at home. The servant who answered the door replied that he was not at present, and asked the gentleman who she could say had called. “I'm Mr. Barbour,” was the reply; “and you may tell the minister that I will call again.” : “I’ll deliver the message, sir,” said the girl; “but I dinna think you need fash, because the minister aye shaves hissel’.”—London Tit-Bits.
: In Boston, First Boy—l'm sorry you're troubled with insomnia. I suppose, however, if one resolutely thinks of nothing, sleep will come. Second Boy—l've tried that, but I've been forced to the conclusion that nothing is unthinkable.—Brookiyn Life.
ILL-MANNERED COWS. Many Animals Are Made Cross and Unruly by the Men Who Have Care of Them, : Many cows are made cross and unruly by the men who have the care of them. Take almost any nervous, highstrung cow and place her under the care of ill-tempered, impatient men, and the result is not difficult to foresee. It will be only a little while before we will have a kicking cow. And one kicking cow in a herd will do more to destroy the value of the dairy than can be estimated. This loss will not only be with the kicking cow herself, but with all the rest of the herd; for it cannot be disputed that the temper of all will be aroused by the actions of the one which is really unruly, and of her master. Anything that disturbs the quiet of the dairy has a direct effect on the yield -of milk, and its worth in dollars and cents. The kicking cow will kick more value out of the milkpail than we can feed in from the meal barrel.
But why have kicking cows? What is the use of having such times as are often witnessed in the stable whenever milking time comes round? I remember working for one man when I was a lad who had a cow that was light footed. Before milking her master would put a strap about her leg and haul her away back toward the side of the barn, in which position she was expected to stand during the process of milking. If she became tired and flounced about there was a scene. Shouts of anger, mingled with heavy blows, and a general stirring up of the animals all over the barn, ensued. It was a shame. 1
The incorrigible kicker might as well go to the butcher shop first as last. It would be money in the pocket of her owner, even though she were the best cow in the barn. Then her progeny should also be weeded out, for it is a fact that kicking cows leave their mark on their calves. Sometimes by taking the heifers from such cows and treating them kindly, as all heifers should be treated, one may succeed in training them to stand nicely= As a rule, we do not have patience enough with our heifers when teaching them to be milked. Nocross, impatient man should -ever try to break a heifer or teach a calf to drink. Tt is a waste of temper in the man and a risk of spoiling the cow. The most nervous cow may be controlled by uniformly kind speaking and handling. It pays to do this—pays in odllars and cents, and in the better sense which touches the higher life of the man.—E. L. Vincent, in N. Y. Tribune. ' ~ GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. Nothing But a Proper Understanding of Its Value Is Needed to Make - It Swccessful. ; The movement in this country in the interest of good roads has made some progress within a few years, but it has been largely sentimental. It cannot fairly be called more than a start. The federal government and the states have not yet taken a lively interest in the subject, although a few states have got as far as giving the cause a little financial aid. It is not to be doubted that highway reform lis taking hold of the public, and it may reasonably be predivt?l that the time will come when the bad road will be the execption. Unless, however, there is a greater awakenIng of interest, those now living will not see that day. o Some one who has studied the subject of good roads in rplation to transportation has done a little figuring, with the view of affording an idea of the value of improved highways—the value in dollars and cents. “The price of wheat,” he says, “is increased for localities having properly improved transportation facilities. If it costs a farmer one dollar to haul 100 bushels of wheat a mile over a dirt road, and by macadamizing the road this cost can be reduced to 20 cents a mile, this saves 80 cents. Ten miles saves eight dollars for.loo bushels, or eight cents a bushel—not considering the larger load that can be carried on macadam roads.” Considering the reduction in. the cost of transporting all products of the farm as well as those which the farmer hauls home, it is entirely safe to say that good roads are a splendid investment.
Those who are preaching the gospel of improved highways are engaged in a great work, and their efforts deserve to be as successful as they could wish. Nothing but a proper and general understanding of the value of good roads is necessary to insure the triumph of the movement, and there ought, therefore, to be no cessation of the campaign of education, the beneficiaries whereof should, wherever possible, be induced to pay for an object lesson of improved road. It's a great pity that so good a thing should come so slowly.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader.
A CURE THAT CURES.
Yoalke with Barbs Designed to Break Dairy Cows from Drawing . Their Own Milk,
A bad vice sometimes cropsout in the herd when a cow or two begins to draw its own milk by sucking. To prevent this vice, fasten a frame as portrayed. Four sticks of hard wood, 10 or 12 inches long and 11 inches square, \)‘.7’l\\.— ki - bt g ALNH 7 7 P A / % ik, i [ e // //I/" ‘ = 'MJ" > 7 -__.‘:_2 3 [ K,/T - ~ y 1 iz i \“‘\ > YOKE FOR VICIOUS COWS. are held together by eight round pointed. sticks of tough, hard wood, two feet long and one inch in diameter, passing through the hard wood sticks. These dimensions may be too large for a small neck. Fasten the round sticks in the desired place with scréws threequarters of aninch long. The yoke may then be removed or adjusted to fit a large or small neck.—G. M. Powderly, in Farm and Home. 5 Give the animals plenty of room in the stable in which to lie down, 'if yuts would make them comfortable.
bl v AR T URAL €RI GUB° ~ s O - : PO Auates 7 XL Y . e ee N NN A NGNS HARNESS THE WIND. Ilow the Farm House Can Be Easily Supplied with an Abundance : of Good Water, For many years we have suffered serious inconvenience in obtaining a sufficient supply of water for house use, especially for the last 18 or_ 20 months. For more than 12 months of this time we have carried water for house use a distance of 476 feet and had to tramp up hill 42 feet.. We have a spring of water discharging about one barrel of water every hour winter and summer, wet or dry. This spring is 42 feet lower than the kitchen door and 476 feet distant. Last summer we built a reservoir or tank of stone laid ap in Portland cement, over and around the spring, holding about 14 barrels of 2R WINDMILL O Thoe g A © _ - CISTERN S ! @ : = G TANK _O'SPRING FARM WATER SYSTEM. water. We then laid one-inch galvanized iron pipe (inside measure) 30 inches under ground from spring to kitchen door, and put a galvanized iron tank holding one barrel of water inside kitchen door; put an overflow pipe in tank and carried this pipe under ground 30 inches, half way to barn. Here we built a cistern 'ined up with brick and cemented, holding 59 barrels of water. We carry water under ground from this cistern to barn where we have a galvanized iron tank holding six barrels of water. We have a fall of ten feet from cistern to tank at barn. In tank at barn we have a float valve that regulates the supply of water, keeps the tank full at all times, and absolute1y directs and manages this end of the business without any assistance on our part. We put a force pump in spring and a steel tower 30 feet high, and an eightfoot wheel at kitchen door. The pump is operated with triangle and, when we have a fair wind and want water from the spring we simply raisealeverand set the mill in motion, and the water (as pure as there is on earth) passes through our kitchen at the rate of one barrel every 30 minutes. The outfit and the wind does the work and don’tstop torest. While many of our friends and neighbors are suffering great inconvenience and hardship forcedupon them by the unusual scarcity of water, we feel truly thankful that we have an ‘abundance. Itisagoodthingtohavea good credit at a good bank. The next ‘best thing is. to have a good spring of water on which we can draw at any time. Sam Jones says the poet wasa prophet when he wrote:
“Death rides on every passing breeze Arnd lurks in every flower, Each season has its own disease, Its perils every hour.”
We realize that a passing breeze in many cases brings joy and gladness. ‘A -passing breeze in connection with well-directed ingenuity will force water a distance of 476 feet, elevate it 42 feet and put it in the most desirable place in our dwelling in abundance.—John Pugh, in Ohio Farmer.
TREES FROM NURSERIES.
How to H@é Them So as to Insure Thelr Living When Placed in New Locations,
- It is something of a science to transplant trees that have been received from a distant nursery and have them live. It used to be thought that there must always be a large percentage of loss anyway—even under the best conditions. Both the nurserymen and the planters have now learned that trees of all kinds can be handled in a way to insure their living when placed in their new locations. A well-packed. tree has its roots kept moist by being rolled in damp moss and tied up in bagging. -The old scheme of pulling trees out of the ground, exposing their roots and sending them away without ‘any -protection was the cause of many a tree proving a failure. When these trees arrived at the distant station they were thrown out on the platform and left there exposed fo the heat of the sun and the drying effects of the wind. In the course of time the purchaser drove around and got his consignment, pe:vaps a couple of days after their arrival. By that time their roots were good and dry. He drove home and set out his trees in any old way. Even had he set themin the best possible way it is altogether likely that a good many trees would have perished owing to the drying out of the roots. When a large part of his trees failed to grow of course the nurseryman was to blame-—so the buyer said. He was right to some extent, in that the trees were sent away with roots not properly protected. In sending trees long or short distances the roots and their moisture supply furnish the key to the situation. Proper treatment of the tree from the time it comes out of the nursery row to the time it goes into the place assigned to it in the orchard will insure a good healthy tree. In setting a hundred of these there need be mno failures.— Farmers’ Review. :
The Value of the Silo,
The Farmers’ Review has for many years been urging its readers to pay more attention to the silo. The men that have made money this year in feeding stock have been those that have had an abundance of cheap nutritious feed brought over from last summer. The men with silos have been particularly happy. We have personally talked with stockmen and urged them to build silos, but they do not seem to take kindly to the idea. After 20 years of agitation, there are yet comparatively few stockmen that have taken advantage of this process of saving food. Yet the silo has long since demonstrated its value to the farmer, i