Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 January 1908 — Page 7

GEOFFREY DILLINGHAM’S ‘. AWAKENING .-

BY SUSAN HUBBARD MARTIN

(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

November -had set in as usual, with duii gray skies and chilly, penetrating winds. Up, the broad avenue that led to the Dillingham residence the dead leaves whirled and eddied and settled with many a melancholy flutter into their annudl graves, while the tall trees tossed their bare arms about, as if lamenting the loss of these cheery little harbingers of spring and summer.

In the house beyond, however, all was bright and charming with glowing fires and soft, mellow lights. Geoffrey Dillingham and ‘his wife sat in the library, she with a beseeching look in her gentle eyes, he with a slight annovance in his. £

“So you wish me to invite ycur people here for Thanksgiving?” -he queried almost harshly. “I tell you, Elizabeth, it’s impossible.” _ “But why, Geoffrey?” returned his wife, with a little catch in her soft voice, “only think, we've been married seven years, and you've never asked them here once:” a mom®nt’s silence. “And they feel it,” she added, in a faltering tone, “and so do I. After all, they’re my parents, dear.” Geoffrey Dillingham = frowned and turned again to his desk. Scratch went his pen with rapid strokes, then it stopped suddenly, and wheeling around abruptly he faced his wife. “And if they are,” he began, “I feel that I have repaid them in a measure for the loss of you; from poverty I've placed them _in comparative - ease. What mbre do they want?” he demanded, irritably.

~ “But you forget, Geoffrey,” returned his wife, gently. “They love me, too.” o ‘

“Jf you please, Elizabeth,” he said, curtly, “we’ll dismiss the subject. As to Thanksgiving day, I've already invited Wilson and his family to dinner.” Wilson was his law partner. Elizabeth Dillingham smothered a heavy sigh, and rose -to leave the room. .

Truly heredity isn’'t = everything. That anything -so beautiful as Elizabeth Dillingham should emanate from the Traecy family was little short of a miracle. When Geoffrey Dillingham at 38, saw Elizabeth Tracy,-at 18, he loved her. Yes, aristoerat, autocrat, courted and wealthy as he was, something about her: touched a responsive chord in his heart of hearts, heretofore unreached, and he resolved to win her. But her family! He groaned in spirit as he thought of allying the proud name of Dillingham with that of Tracy—but Elizabeth was so beautiful, and as pure as she was lovely.

Ephraim Tracy and his wife were decidedly common people. He was a little man, . pretty well advanced in years, with a kindly, wrinkled face, 2 back somewhat bent, and serene, be nignant eves. In a sort of desultory fashion he managed to keep soul and body together, and that was about all. He could turn his hand at almost anything, however. ' If he was lacking in pride for himself, he had an abundance for his d#ughter Elizabeth, or Lizzie, -as he fondly called her, which affection Elizabeth fully reciprocated. He had

lived always in the same village, consequentiy his two sons, Jim and Andrew, grew up there: - Elizabeth was the youngest of the family. Where she got her beauty, no one could understand. That she possessed it, ‘everyone acknowledged. All the family pinched and saved to clothe and educate her properly, and it was the proudest day of Jim’s and Andrew's lives when they could contribute something toward Lizzie's schooling; and Elizabeth went to school and studied "hard. She meant to be a teacher, she said. But the summer she was 18, she met Geoffrey Dillingham, the leading lawver in Dexter, a thriving manufacturing city a good hundred miles from Elizabeth's home. After a brief, impetuous wooing, théy were married. ' 'When a few weeks afterward Elizabeth began to make happy plans for the promised visit of her parents, her husband, with cruel candor, told her: “My guests must be of my choosing, ‘Elizabeth,” he said, “and I don’t want to hurt you, but I can’t have your parents here.”

He never forgot the expression of the lovely eyes. - It had beéen seven yvears now .since Elizabeth’'s wedding day. Only rarely did she visit home, and evin then, the visits were not shfisfactory. Eliza: beth knew, and they knew.

Geoffrey Dillingham, with all his faults, was not stingy, and generous checks came from his hand to the Tracy family regularly. So the years rnlled on, bending old Ephraim Tracy’s back more and more and silvering the hair of Elizabeth)s mother.

November with its short days passed rapidly away, until it lacked but two weeks till Thanksgiving. Elizabeth, in her home, seemfed to grow paler and slighter these short November days. Her husband, coming home one night, found her shiverlng over the library fire. ; “What is it, Elizabeth?” he asked, anxiously. % “I don’t know,” Answered his wife, her teeth chattering, “only I'm so cold, Geoffrey.” : = - So cold. He went up to her and pushed back the lovely hair from the white forehead. - SN S

“You'd better go upstairs, Lizzle,” he said, tenderly. : - "~ They put her to bed shortly after that, but before morning sharp pains set in and a doctor was hurriedly sent for.

As the fever rose she grew lightheaded and babbled on about father, and Andy, too. She thought she was at home again, living again her simpie, humble ltfe, ; “What is ft, doctor?” her husband whispered, a great fear tugging at his heart. : : “Inflammation of the lungs,” the doctor had answered, briefly.

So, in the luxurious room, the struggle began, the life and death angel closing ‘1 combat. Geoffrey Dillingham, in the terrible, trying days that followed, bending over that slight, beloved form, realized for the first time what his sin had been; the misery he must have caused his wife, the pride that had blinded him to'all parental claims. With old Martin Chuzzlewit, he ecould but'exclaim: “Self—self—self.”” And now she would die and leave him.

He walked to the window and looked across the bare and frozen fields. “And ‘they have loved her, too,” he murmured. “Oh, Elizabeth, my wife, only live, and I will make it up a thousand times.” - :

He would send for them mnow, he whispered. Ags if in answer to his thoughts, the kindly physician raised his eyes. o . . “Better telegraph for her parents,” he said. *“She will reach the.crisis before 24 hours, and—she may not pass it.” e -

- Ephraim Tracy was in the back vard divesting Hhis’ plump turkey of

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“Father, father,” she cried, tremblingly, “a dispatch has come from Dexter, and Elizabeth is dangerously sick.” . Jim and Andrew went, too. :

They reached Dexter that night, but she did not know them. All that night Jim and Andrew walked restlessly about, but -Ephraim Tracy sat, a pathetic, bowed figure, by his daughter’s bed. His son-in-law had asked him to his house at last, but alas—for this. But it was the father’s hand that ad‘ministered the needed "nourishment, the father’s hand that smoothed the damp and curling bhair, the father’s hand. that held.the pale and wasted one, and Geoffrey Dillingham, as he watched, too, for the first time in his life saw, in the despised old man, something to revere. : ~ Night passed and it was the day before Thanksgiving. The doctor came, and ‘with his practiced eye detected a change. He looked across to where Elizabeth’s husband stood, gray and haggard, awaiting his verdict. - “Dillingham,” said he, gently, “tomorrow will be Thanksgiving day. Thank God for your mercies,,fo'r your wife will live.”. -

A low sobbing broke in upon them. It was old Ephraim Tracy, down upon his knees, his face hidden in the coverlet. Though the.tears were raining down his face, Geoffrey Dillingham went over to the old man and lifted him as-he would a child.

“Come, father,” he whispered, brokenly, “come.” ;

The afternoon of Thanksgiving day Elizabeth lay on her pillows exhausted, worn, but at peace with all the world. : “And you're all here,” she whispered, happily. “Oh, I've been so sick, but this repays -me ;for it all.” She smiled at them, her old, sweet smile, and then she murmured: “Kiss me, all of you, for I am so—happy.” -They kissed her, as she asked, with full and thahkful hearts, and quietly went away. ;

The room was quiet now, with only her husband beside her. Elizabeth turned her eloquent eyes to his. Those eyes, that he had feared might never know him more tkis side of the gates of pearl. : “You've been good to me in everything but one, Geoffrey; you won’t refuse e now?” she said. He understood, for he bent over her suddenly, and for an instant his cheek lay against her own. ;

‘Runaways. : When you were just a little chap, About as tall as ‘‘so,” % Sometimes your skies grew very dark, And you were full of woe. ; And you were prone to run away " And leave no trace nor track; : But oh, when night came on how glad You were to wander back.

You got out where the wands were dense And everyvthing was strange; You had a nameless dread of what Lay far beyond the range. And so you turned your tearful face To the old chimney stack; And how much more secure you felt When you were going back.

Again, when you were in your teens, " Headstrong, as boys will be, When you and your stern parents falled At scwnething to agree, You packed up in a huff and left, For where, you had no ken, - : Declaring you would ne’er return Beneath their roof again. .

But by and by you softened down ; And thought of home and friends, And, rushing back at close of day, You sought to make amends. Ah! Friends are friends, and home & . home; P In palace, cot or shack; And though, sometimes, we run away, ¢ It's good to wander back! = - - - —Joe Cone, in N. Y. Sun _

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Joke as they will about the uncertainty and unreliability of the automobile, the horseless and trackless cars are doing some great stunts these days. The interest and admiration over the recent remarkable Peking to Paris trip has hardly grown cold when there is talk of a New York to Parig‘run, in fact all but the final details of the long, hard trip have been arranged, and it is considered no longer a mere dream but a project which will be undertaken and carried through to a successful conclusion. To be sure it means a sending of the motor cars into the frozem and mountainous regions of Alaska and the crossing into the almost equally unknown northeasterly section of Asia, but who is there dare say that such a trip cannot be accomplished in the face of the former triumphs of man over ‘seemingly insurmountable difficulties? . ‘ From the earliest recollection® of man the efforts of certain members of the human race have tended toward overcoming such obstacles as have presented themselves from time to time. Difficulties that at first sight would appear to be unconquerable seem to lend a special interest to this class of man, and no stone is left unturned in the carrying out of a determination born of a desire to outstrip their fellow-man, no matter what the cost in money, in time, in endurance, in what-not. : ~ And now a test of endurance ‘that but a few years ago would have been called the wild dréam of a Jules Verne, who mapped -out a remarkable trip around the world in 80 days, ‘when in this day only a third of the time is required. Arrangements are being perfected for an automobile race from New York to Paris over land under the auspices of La Matin of Paris, assisted by the New York Times, which promises to show more than anything else that has ever been attempted that this type of travel has reached a stage of perfection that will'amaze the most incredulous. . ‘There have beeu automobile races for short distances: that have brought out marvels of speed. There have been races for long distances that have proved marvels of endurance of men and machinery. There have been men who have crossed . the great _American continent in automobiles, taking in the first instance three months, and in the last 18 days; but the greatest of all feats with the automobile up to this time is. the race of the machines from Peking, China, to Paris last summer, a distance of 6,200 miles through the wildest kind of country, which took two. months to cover. .

It was the success of this race, which was run under the auspices of Le Matin of Paris, which encouraged the effort that is to be made to conquer the awful solitude, the illimitable stretches of dreary and dreadful wildernesses of snow through northern Alaska, across Bering strait, and down through the wildest portion of Siberia, where seldom has the foot

IDIOSYNCRASY OF THE TAILOR.

Jim Explains His Reason for Yelling

Out the Dimensions.

At an up,tow;;rn club the other afternoon a little bunch of men who meet there most every day to chat on the way home discussed the Mauretania, says the New York Times.

They talked her over at some length, and one of them made an assertion about one of her dimensions. Instantly there was a cry of dissent from thé others, and they agreed that he was wrong about it. To prove his assertion, he hunted up the file of a newspaper giving all the dimensions and began to read them off. But instead of reading them in a quiet, ordirary tone, all the men being with a fsw feet of him, he called them off in « raucous voice, as if he were trying .0 make the policeman on the opposite crossing hear him. “What are you doing that for, Jim?” said one of the men. ‘“We aren’t deaf. We can hear you all right.” : Jim looked ashamed and said: “l've beer measured for an over-

of man trodden, nor the vehicle of mankind been seen. ! .

Starting from New York, the machines will make for a prearranged point on the Canadian frontier, and they will find comparatively good roads. Only eight automobiles ever crossed the American continent on their own wheels. Of the seven who tried for the speed record one crossed in 63 days, another in 61, another first crossed in 72 days and twice again in 44 days and 48 days, another in 33 days;, and the last, driven by L. L. Whitman, which left San Francisco August 2, 1906, a little more than 15 days, and Mr. Whitman says it was the toughest nut he ever had to crack during his entire experience. . What then can be expected of the balance of the journey which will continue through the, ‘ Rockies,. up through British Columbia in the Yukon territory of Alaska to Dawson, a distance of 1,300 miles +through a country the greater part of which has never been traversed by wheeled vehicles, but knows only the sleds drawn in small trains by dogs. From Dawson the route will continue over a fairly good government road through to Fairbanks, where it ‘ends, and thence to Cape Prince of Wales, on Bering strait, a distance of 80 miles. If possible, the strait will be crossed on the ice. . ;

No definite plan has as yet been made for crossing the strait, although it is more than probable that the race will be started at such time in the spring as will admit of the machines reaching the strait when it is navigable, and they can be taken to East cape on the Siberian side, a distance of about 50 miles. From East cape there are two tentative routes, both of which would lead on to Irkutsk, a distance of 2,500 miles.© They can skirt the Arctic ocean for a distance of a thousand miles to Olensk, and then run almost due south to Irkutsk, or they can runm down the shore line of ‘Bering sea around Holy Cross bay and the Gulf of Anadir and the Sea of Oktohotsk to Vladivostok, the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway. - From Vladivostok the line of the Trags-Siberian railroad would be foilowed, as being of the least resistance, through Irkutsk to Moscow, a distance of 4,200 miles; thence to Berlin, over the same route as'the Peking-Paris race, a distance of 1,025 miles, and to Paris, 560 miles, making the total for the distance measured in air lines on the atlas 15,195 miles, although by the roundabout ways the machines will have to take in many places the distance traveled will probably reach 18,000 or 20,000 miles. This may look easy to the uninitiated; while there are others who deem the trip utterly impracticable. = While this trip has never been made by a wheeled vehicle it has been made in the opposite direction by intrepid explorers, the last of whom was Barry de Windt, a young engineer who desired to investigate for the Russian government just what the possibility was for constructing an all-rail route from Paris to New York.

coat to-day.” They looked mystified, and one- sug: gested that the answer was probably six bushels or it might be seven. Urged to explain, Jim said:

“Well, explain to me why it is that when a cutter measures you he has an attendant standing about three feet from him and he shouts all his measurements to him just as I found myself reading off those dimensions? Ever notice it? It's always so. He will talk to you in the most ordinary quiet tone, but the minute he wishes to say anything to the man who is taking down the figures and notea about yofr peculiar tastes, he shouts it at the top of his’voice. That explains my yelling to you fellows.”

Gift Boxes of Silver.

In small silver gifts the talcum Nox holder is exceedingly useful. After the powder is used a fresh box may be inserted.—Vogue. :

Sometimes,

Woman gives. to man the key of her heart. Man gives woman a key ring. Sometimes " woman gets the key back to put on it.

A CANINE CEMETERY

WHERE PZT DOGS AND CATS ARE - BURIED IN STATE. i

Poetry and Sculpture Adorn Their - Tombstones—Some Epitaphs Read Like Those of Humans—Many Burials Costly. 3

New York.—ln a picturesque little spot situated on one of the most beauvtiful of the Hartsdale hills lies one of the oddest of cemeteries. The casual visitor here, inspecting the inscriptions on the tombstones, would expect to see records of long forgotten generations, perhaps the history of the village in the lives of its citizens, but instead the stones contained nothing but inscriptions to dogs, with an occasional cat epitaph here and there.

“Fido, asleep,” “Our beloved fox terrier, Flossie,” “Dedicated to the memory.of our pet cat, Smutty.” Such a jumble of inscriptions meet the eyes that the visitor begins to wonder whether the souls of Fido and Smutty now rest peacefully side by side or whether they arise at the witching hour to fight out once more their lifelong battle. In that case even the back fences of Harlem would be preferable to the rural peace of Hartsdale. This cemetery, moreover, contains French dogs and:French inscriptions and German dogs. ‘And just as human tombstones have little angels on them so these dog tombstones have little puppies carved on them playing with toys. Next to one of the graves the owner has erected a big rustic mourner's bench so that he may grieve for his pet .in comfort. The most elaborate grave is that of a bulldog that once belonged to a famtly named Willson. Besides having a pig granite stone at the head, it.has two little bay trees on either side, and &t the foot is a little marble. trough with three little marble canaries drinking out of it. The. canaries would be ‘more easily explained if it were a cat grave, but perhaps this particular bullpup had feline predilections.

For six months after he was buried this dog bad fresh violets .or roses

I AR 3\ % N ; T (KR T A% | §S 'f:’,‘i;ﬂ N | : L. ‘i | 22N : Rs) ) R R Gf |7T Y S L oo - RAR | i WY, SRR :l,';.;:-,. e PR ,:/;:._;; 2 «i” ,; .""‘.l‘. g ’ .'(:‘“.‘.';:‘.:.-“—;‘:. g S oo 3 e e 1A SN /s B O AR ‘{‘-".v“.-}c S RSA SR B o g U B e S S N eLT eRN SR SN i N RS Monument to “Babe.” placed upon hig grave every day, it is chronicled. The burial cost the bulldog’s owner over $5OO. Thé& grave digger of the cemetery also tells of dogs buried in rosewood or mahogany coffins, some with gold handles, and gold, jewel-studded collars around their necks. : “You have no idea,” ‘he will wander on, “how much money some undertakers make on the side in these dog coffins. Often the coffins are lined with plush or velvet and cost large sums of money. ‘ S ;

“And then some people insist on having their .dogs embalmed before they are willing to bury them. Of course the undertakers keep that part of their business very secret, but they do it just the same.”

Many of the dogs that were prize winners in their livgly days have all their trophies, ribbons, silver mugs and such things buried with ' them. Others have all their old collars, whips and playthings, and one woman actuals ly buried a Bible and rosary with a dog. . ;

“Of course I know it must seem very silly,” she said in explanation, “but it just makes me feel better, so why shouldn’t I do it?” “And do they have real funerals for dogs, with services and so on?” asked the seekeer of information of the digger of graves. :

“Well, no; no real services,” he explained, “though some of them would like to, I guess, by the way they act. “Sometimes they bring the body up from New York in an automobile, sometimes they ship it up as freght and met it at the railway station with carriages. Only family and friends, you know. There are never very many of them. . ]

“But the way those people act when it: comes to covering up the box is—well—just about the limit. And the men are not much better than the women, either., I've got a pretty interesting job, I can tell you. ° “And most of them come up regularly and see to it that I'm keeping the grave in O K condition. And on the day of the dog’s death they usually decorate the grave with flowers. I can tell you I wouldn’t mind being some dogs.” - There are now 450 dogs and about 20 cats buried in the cemetery. Plots cost from $l5 to $25 each, including a zine lined box which is hermetically sealed for shipping. This, however, is only the minimum expense for a dog funeral, and from this point the price goes up far into the hundreds.

Paper Making in Japan.

Paper making in Japan has been very active for the last year or so. New companies have been formed, and old ones enlarged. Most J%panese mills use steam for motive power and nearly all the machinery used is of American make. - :

Noted Actress Will Wisit America. Mille. Arzheffshaia, the noted Russian actress, has decided to come to the United States in January and present a series of modern Russian plays. Later the company will go to. Japan. The actress has a theater of her own in St. Petersburg. :

Woman Sets Up Best Dishes. Hitherto the French president’s cook has alwhys been a man, but M. Fallieres has employed a woman. Visitors say her dishes surpass those of the best chefs. e

SPEAKER OF OKLAHOMA HOL3E.

“Alfalfa Bill” Murray One of [fost Popular Men in New State.

Guthrie, Okla.—William H. Murray, of Tishomingo ' (familiarly known as “Alfalfa Bill”) who was president of the Oklahoma constitutional convention, has been elected speaker:of the first legislature of Oklahoma without contest and by acclamation. The new speaker, who is a native of Texas, was 38 years old on Novewber 21 last. His career in Oklahoma politics is rather unique' from .the standpoint ‘that he has no apparent desgire for political promotion, but is elected to office without making contest. When the constitutional convention adjourned he disregarded the pop-

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As another peculiar illustration of his apparent desire to shirk public office, he withdrew his brother, who was a candidate for office of labor commissioner, ten days before the primaries. However, the brother's name remained on most of the county tickets, and, through the popularity of the president of the convention, he was nominated by 9,000 majority after thus withdrawing. Murray again said that, although the people had voted for his brother, it was not fair, and that he ought to withdraw, which the involuntarv candidate forthwith did.i

Murray, over nis protest, was put on the ticket, in Johnston county, for the legislature, when his home people learned that he would not run for any other position, and he was nominated in a blanket primary over three active and avowed opponents. In the same way he has been nominated for speaker by the democratic house caucus, consisting of 91 members out ‘of 109. He thus will be enabled to draft the statutes of the state as he shaped the constitution. v «The first speaker 1s = latvyer by profession, but retired from ,active practice about five years ago, since which time he has been.a stock raiser on his farm near Tishomingo.

“SOUL HOUSES” FROM EGYPT.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts Receives ; Valuable Egyptian Relics,

~ Boston.—Two ‘“soul houses,” probably more than 6,000 years old, have just been installed in the Egyptian department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. While possessing no importance as art objects, they are .of great historical interest, because they show what were the ordinary houses of the Egyptians in the country at a date prior to 3000 B. C. |

These “soul houses” are made of rough pottery, and were placed upon the graves for the shelter of the soul.

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Too Good to Keep?

Epicure—"“Where in thunder did you get this wine?”’ Fluffer— That wine, sir, has been in my cellar for 25 years.” “It does you credit, sir, to keep it there so ' long.”—Cleveland Leader. e : -

Stationary.

~ “Any movement in real estate in this part of the country?” asked the tourist. 3 ok

~ “No,” answered the old farmef, “not even a landslide.”—Chicago Daily News. - -

AL M RrM By Witllern 01~ S sl B o -~‘§'”’ 5 i Sheep need salt. Keep the box full. . :

Sweet apples ;nake fine feed for the milch cows. i : o

Raise your own work “horses.- It will pay you. ' oot

Remember hogs like salt, also ashes and charcoal. e

A farmer is largely kndown by«the' horse he drives.’ L Ao

Provide comfort for the live stock and save on the feed bill

Roots should be part of the ra.tidn for sheep in the winter. ' |

It is poor economy. to skimp the feed of the young and growing stock.

Cogvs are sensitive creatures and readily respond to kind treatment.

Don't ‘try to save feed with the ewes. The réturns will be seriously affected if their feed is cut too short.

With veal at present prices the calf makes a most profitable milking ma: chine. , £ :

Take pains to save the liquid manure—the most valuable part of the manure. ;

It pays to raise fruits, especially those of the hardy varieties that keep well. - = -

In deciding on the kinds. of fruits you will raise, seleet those varieties which are hardy in your locality. .

Dry soil and cold weather are conditions that are hard on _the orchard trees. 3 : : e ]

" The training of the colt should be begun so early that “breaking-in” will not be necessary. : ’ :

Try corn and cob meal for the horses. Considered by many better than pure corn meal. : ca oy

We are emphatic when we say that no milking should' be done = except through a cheese cloth covering for the milk pdil. . S

Sheep manure keeps best if well mixed with straw or clover hulls. and tramped in the sheep shed. Keep ‘it dry until ready to haul it out. = -

It's not the color of the hog’s hair nor his pedigree which ~counts on market day. The secales .tell the storv as to what he is worth. - .

Sheep ‘cannot defend themselves, and hence the farmer should see that every precaution is taken to shield them from harm. St e

Water not piped to the barn? Did you ever figure out how many °thousand gallons of water you had carried out to the horses? : s

" It is the cow with the ‘big appetite and small udder which makes the farmer believe .that dairying does not paY. i - % : S

No salt is too good for butter-mak-ing. Buy only the best. = Many a godd batch of butter has been spoiled by the quality of the ‘salt used. -.-

Don't scold or kick the cow which is restless because of sore teats. Use .a little vaseline instead and handle the gteats carefully until they have healed.

Try the muslin curtains around the hen roosts this winter. It will add to the comfort of the poultry and they in turn will add to your profit. =

The Babcock tester will pick out the unprofitable cows in your herd: Use it and then get rid of the animals which it puts on the black list. =~ - »

. Mix the poultry droppings with road dust in alternate layers and keep in barrels in' a dry place until needed next season. g 2 -

Corn, turned into honest -pork to feed a hungry people is constructive enterprise. Corn turned into whisky to debauch mankind is destructive. : e

When it comes to a choice between feeding high-priced grain or cutting down production of the cow, we would choose the former every time, and would be dollars ahead in the end,

'~ Many a farmer is blindéd by jealousy because of the success of his neighbor so that he is unable to see why he didn’t succeed and the other fellow did. : : 5

The covered milk pail proves no inconvenience to the milker, and certainly does keep out the dirt and germs m the milk. Why not try theplalg e

Milk twice a day. It is better for the cow and the milk is better. Some farmeérs are tempted during the short production of winter to cut out the morning milking. It is a mistake.

The barn is not complete without stairs to get up in the loft. Use your spare time this winter in putting them ie and doing away with the ladder. T

Cover the manure pile. . i«s value will be more in the spring than it will if you do not. But the best plan is to get the manure out on the land as soon as it is made.

Change the -hog pasture often. Have a small house built on skids s¢ it can be dragged around to a new pasture as desired. If hogs are fed long in one place the grass is killed out.” *

The bull is at best an uncertain quantity. Never .trust him. Keep your eye on him. Never turn your back to him- unless he is securely fastened and always have him understand that you are master.

-In swine feeding, tests have shown that the Tlargest gain from feeding corn meal alone is less than one-half pound per head per day on well-bred swine. Something, is needed besides corn, although this is.very. essential

- The Christmas season is not the only time you should seek to make people happy. If you forgot all about that family in your community "which you might have helped at Christmas time, do it now. It is never too late to do a good deed. - :

* Runty stock is always hard to dispose of, as perhaps you have discovered to your annoyance. Why raise that kind? Care and good feed will turn out good livestock which will sell well and return a larger margin of profit than the poor kind.

-The scrawny horse on the farm either- tells a story of neglect and abuse on the part of the farmer, or one of worthlessness on the part of the horse. If the former, the farmer needs reforming, if the latter, the horse should be disposed of. ,

“No milk producer should sign a contract to sell milk for six months or 2 vear-ahead at fixed prices. ' No grow erof potatoes or cabbages would thin® of pledging himself to accept fixed prices six months ahead of his produce.” That sounds about right to us. What do you think about it? ;

It is a safe guess that dairying does not pay-on the farm where you seg a bunch of ‘cows huddled together in the lee’of the barn-yard, their backs humped up like jack rabbits, and each fighting for a place in the patch of sunlight while chewing the butt ends of cornstalks. ; g

The farmer’s part and responsibility in forestry matters is thus empha‘ sized by the Wisconsin Agriculturist: “Forestry has come to stay, and farmers should take.a deep interest in ‘it, for it means more and better crops and a larger income. Every farm should have its wood lot, well protected and cared for.” . - -

Should the dairy cow be fat or lean? }lt is the commonly accepted taeory that the best dairy cows are always thin. But Kimball’'s Dairy Farmer has this to say on the matter: “A great smany people are telling us that the dairy cow 'should never be fat, ‘but ‘the competent dairyman realizes that the cow that makes the best record is ‘the cow that comes in in fine condi- | tion.” : - 2

The ‘lantern light flickering in -and out of the barn tells the story in many cases of a farmer who has put off the, chores until the darkness has fallen. Besides increasing the possibility of fires by use of the lantern, the farmer makes the work more difficult, for one can always work much faster and better by daylight. Why not plan the ‘work so that all the chores are out of the way by nightfall?.

. Instead of an elevated storage tank many farmers are now using an underground air-pressure tank which cannot freeze in winter nor become unduly warm in summer; which obviates the danger of leakage or wind damage; and in which -the water cannot become foul or ill-tasting, because it is thoroughly aerated by the compressed air. Such a tank may be placed in the cellar, or buried in the ground; it can be filled by means of a pump operated by hand power, wind mill, gasoline, eleétric or hot-air engine; it is simple, durable and satisfactory. . The idea, in brief, is to take an air-tight steel tank “and pump water into it from the bottom until the air which originally filled the tank is compressed, by the rising water, into the upper half of tank. This gives pressure enough to force a stream of water on to the roof of the house.

- .The- importance of care in° buving alfalfa seed is emphasized by government ' experts. who ~have "tested seed bought on. the market and found .im one peund of so-called alfalfa seed 32,420 noxious weed seeds; in another 23,082 and in still another 12,848. Of the: first named pound less than 3% per cent. was alfalfa; less than 29 per cent. was germinable, and among its impurities were 5,490 seeds of dodder—surely the devil’'s own invention. One pound of another lot contained only a fraction over five per cent - that- would grow and of a third lot ‘but slightly over six per cent. The Ohio ‘station bought for testing 15 different samples, a . dollar’'s worth each. A pound from one of these carried 18,144 lambs quarter or ' pigweed seeds, and another 6,420 seeds of crab grass and 3,325 of foxtail. - Seed supposedly costing $7.80 per bushel was, when cleaned, found to have cost actually $12.74 per bushel. The OKlahonmia station, among many samples, tested one having- 60 per cent. pure seed and 40 per-cent. of impurities. Only 65 per cent. was germinable. An other - sample ‘“which at first sight would be classified as good” was - found to contain per pound 453 witch grass seed, I'o plantain seeds, 151 crab grass seeds, 90 wild carrot seeds, 453 foxtail seeds and 155 Russian thistle seed. As the official who made this test says, if 20 pounds of alfalfa seed of this grade were used to sow an acre one would have approximately two .seeds of witch grass and two foxtail seeds for every ten square feet; four seeds of plantain, sever. Russian thistle and six seeds of crab grass for each hundred square feet ‘These would doubtless grow and the mischief they might lead t» nobody