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I OlQIOlOIOlOtOIOIOIOIOIQ I o I g .y 2 thi ! Road to Grt o o ,, ? * j^y jJovoinci O ~ * Aul7ior of "Ccorjic,'' "Tit Z. * C * _ o\ r j. j:. litpixcotj / Vi ~w~-- i .. i.. i. ?... |-?OT c foTOTcYcno i o i "6Tb i c i bio i die chapter i::. 12 f Continued. j. Torment:lla would have liked to i take Miss Green into her confidence, ! s hut she felt somehow that it wouldn't ! i do at all. There was something about j r the way Greenie had been brought up 1 I that prevented her from seeing thirds j a in a true light. There was a Middle r Victorian atmosphere about her which n thwarted her judgment in rome curi- r ous v ay. She was compelled reluc- i tantlv to admit that Greenie was bet- s tor- le-Tt in tho r'art An,-? T thinlr sl'p I (i was wise. i r It was a week before she saw John Edward again, and she met him tear- E ins boldly up the drive to call on Miss t Green with a message from Tormen- v tilla's mother. d "She won't anprove of you for, t comincr," said Tormentilla quietly. | "You'd better not say you've seen . 1 me. She regards you as an unprin- , I cipled scoundrel." I s "So I am. One cf the worst," he ' s admitted with obvious satisfaction. "Is it a real message from mother, n or are you pretending?" j b 'Pretending." he confessed with a j smile. "Sandy, I wanted to talk over ( p our;plans. I waited an hour the day " before yesterday and never got a glimpse of you. Something had to be h done." : li "You know you oughtn't to come." He looked injured. h "You don't want my help in the . h Gretna Green scheme any longer, | then?" e "I?we can't settle anything yet. There's nothing to say," she cried " recklessly, as she looked up and met a his delighted gaze. "I shall only see you once or twice Derore you ueiong i v. to Dolly." j t< He groaned. ' o "It's unspeakable, Sandy, that you j should be exiled in this trumpery lit- j r tie country town?shut out of all the ; u fun. You ought to have co end of a time. Girls seem to, as a rule." n "Plain girls?" she inquired meek- j A ly. j a "Plain!" He colored hotly. "You're | r.ot plain. You're better than pretty, a with your jolly brown hair, and clear j eyes, and the sporting way you take " things." j ii She grinned at him; her own par- a ticular, wide, infectious grin. ! r< "Don't try to pay me compliments," | she said. "You can't. I never had tl more than one good point. I'm a good sport. You always said I was a sport, and I've given up whining now | " for good. I'm going to be a sports- a man and set my teeth, and go through : ti everything. Ypu see, one can be a fi sportsman in everything else but | a one's silly feelings, and then get v "bowled over before one knows it. b There wasn't anything in my previous w ovn.niAnnn -r. V. ! V, 1 . w, ,) w./. + ? V ? ? 1 , CAiiCiicuic n uxtu iicipcu uivr iu ucai iv ?what?what happened last year." He ^id something which she didn't g "hear, and it occurred to her that she ti was hardly behaving in a considerate li manner to him in thus raking up o these painful memories. ' 1< "Greenie says," she remarked j cheerfully, "that life isn't one throw , y of the dice for me, and she's very S * wise, though it isn't exactly the way a one would expect her to put it. So 11 I have given up crying for the mocin, c and I am determined to enjoy my life, : p in spite of fate." i h He looked hurt. Indeed, she had li express <i her resolve a? frankly be-j p fore him as if he had been a callous ! y stranger. You can be too frank b sometimes, he admitted to himself. o "I'm doing my best," said Tormen- b tilla cheerfully, "to look upon you . ti in the light of a brother-in-law. I h am carefully dwelling upon your? J c your worst qualities, and especially ( g your ludicrous qualities. I am try?- e ing to remember every occasion on | which you have looked ridiculous, and I ti you would be surprised to know what' t a lot there are. It's an enormous , v help, because you can't feel senti- d mental about a person for long, if a you persistently study the comic side ' g of his character, can you?" she asked j earnestly. j p "I suppose not," he replied short- v ly. He was not pleased. "I didn't h know I was such a spectacle for e mirth." j 1 "Ob, but you aren't!" she cried in dismay. "Don't you see that it's all! h lor my good that I'm trying to be- t d lieve U5a,t you are? But there was S the time Ladylove threw you into the j h duck pond in Caltter Meadow, and i t the way you wear your straw hats on n one side, and the kind of ties you a used to wear be To re Dolly took you in h l>onrl t'nci r1rr>nrifn1 nhoolrc vnn v\ lise'l lo wear, and?" I n "You aren't very kind to me to- e day, Sandy." His lone of reproach j ? cat her like a knife. Ho turned ; 5 away, and threw back his rug. prepar- < ing to leave her. "Dolly has been ; I flirting all the week," he said bitter- [ * Jy, "with a Serene Highness or some-'s thing who came over here for the! t Rojal Christening. He's fat and t greasy and more unattractive than >' you would believe possible. She 'i can't see anything in him. I think c she must be trying to make me jeal- o ous. She's succeeded, at least, in v making me ridiculous. It's a pity | h yeu weren't there. You might have a increased your collection of amusing | k memories. I've been bothered no end " about settlements and things. Life's t a perfect desert, and I came over here I . for fresh air and comfort. I always J) find comfort when I talk to you, ! Sandy. And now you meet me with b jeers. I'll go away. It's time I went c away." 1 "Oh, don't go away!" Tormentilla cried. "There's heaps more to set- li tie before you go." c Although in the main things were s going so merrily, Tormentilla could nor. be quite satisfied with her sue- f cess until she had done something p >ioioioioioioioip?oioioio E? 1*1 tfna Green ff *o * o i Heakix, cjo v IVisJiitir; Hilt j," Lie. Oi _ ' So COMI'AM'. Ail ric'nix rceiTol. /*&[? r/'KXX 10. cToTb i o i (5ToTo i o 101 o, o or Lise. And it was through gentle ittle Mrs. Flanelle that at last she ound her opportunity. Tormentilla net her one morning in the High treet with her two eldest boys and nvited tbem on the spot to buns and nilk in the nearest confectioner's, t had been a hot and dusty walk, ill the Flanelles accepted witn aiacIty, and as they sat there at their narble-topped table, Lise Standring lassed the window, her head droopng a little to one side, her mouth ulky and bored, her little tip-tilted lat and beautifully arranged veil alnost hiding her eyes from them. "Young Mrs. Standring," Mrs. ^laneile murmured over her cup of ea. Tea at every possible moment fas as necessary to her life in those lays as sentiment. "Poor young hing!" "Why?" Tormentilia asked franky. Every one was vaguely pitying jise in those days, yet no one ever :ave any definite reason except that he had a temper. "Such a hollow, empty life! A nere butterfly existence, without the utterfly's simple pleasures." "It isn't any emptier than most eople's," Tormentilia said quickly. She has heaps of friends." "Friends!" ' Mrs. Flanelle shook er head. "Friends don't fill one's ife." "I suppose you mean that she'd be appier if she had children. She has er husband." Mrs. Flanelle sighed and took an clair. "Now," Tormentilia said to herself, is your chance. Flail out what this wful tragedy is." Mrs. Flanelle was kind, if she a?n't very wise. It did not occur a her that she was talking to a girl f eighteen. "You see," she said, "it was a maria^e of convenience, and that is al'ays such a mistake." "Of courre," said Tormcntilla, uich interested, "but s'.ie adores him. .nv one can see that, and she doesn't ttempt to hide it." Mrs.'Flanelle drew down her veil nd put on her glove. "They were married," she said, because his mother had once been 1 love with her father, and you must dmit that that was an insufficient eason for a life-long tie." "They needn't have done it unless hey liked, I suppose?" Mrs. Flanelle sighed. "Money was involved," she said, in some intricate way. I have not commercial mind, and I will not atr?r>iv.f fn cvnlnin Rut rather than ace the poverty which was the only lternative, they married. And then, without a moment's warning, the low fell. She, young, beautiful, rarm-hearted, and ignorant, fell in )ve with her husband." "I should think t'.:at was rather a ood thing, shouldn't you?" Tormenilla asked thoughtfully. "Do you ike your little boy to mix the cakes n the counter when the girl isn't joking, Mrs. Flanelle?" "Leslie, darling, if you don't stop, ou.shall be slapped when get home, he has a terrible temper, you see, nd she demands so much of him. lis one idea is to be left alone. He nlv asks not to be worried. The arlor-maid has often heard him say e would give anything for a quiet fe. Men are so selfish. He is so lacid and plegmatic and?dormant, ou see. How can he understand or e worthy of the highly strung, nervus delicate creature he has won? A eautiful, tropical, wild bird in rapivity, I compare her to in my inmost eart. A delicate, bright-hued ecotic ondemned to bloom in a cabbagearden." Mrs. Flanclle sighed with xcess of sympathy. "I don't quite see why," Tormenilla said wonderiugly. "I don't think hey would be much happier if he as highly strung and nervous, too, o you? I should think it was rather good thing he was placid and casyoing?" "No. He e-casperates her to the oint of madness. She says she "ould rather live with a turnip in a ay-field, than with a creature so motionless and difficult to rouse, 'he parlor-maid, who is my Janet's earest friend, has frequently heard er make this remark. She often ocs things on purpose to annoy him. lie has a passionate longing to make im feel something. And she is e.\remely attractive, you see, to young len. I should think she could he ttractive to anybody if she liked: ut she doesn't always like. And hen she dees, it almost always anoys her husband?ye', somehow, not r.ough. She can't make him jealus. 1 feel sure she would stop quite atisf.ed if she had once made him horoughly iealous. She has been rying to make him jealous of young renworthy, and as usual has only j - -a : TIa urceeueu 1:1 iuiiiu.Mii^ mm. uu liinks it such a pity that she should rifle with the affections of any nice outh, but only because he doesn't ike to see them blighted. Curiously nough, he has a much higher opinion f men than v.omen, and lie is deoted even to his brother, although e naturally deplores his extraordinry opinions." "I see," said Tormentilla slowly; Mr. Standring doesn't know, then, hat that young man only went to see -ise because she let him rave about mdrey to her?" "He thinks that that is only a lind. lie thinks she is playing a at-and-mouse game with the youth, have it on excellent authority." Tormentilla wondered if the parnr-maid's unsupported testimony ould be classified thus, but she didn't ay so. "1 should like to be sure of my acts," she said slowly. "I always reter to be sure of my facts. Yea think, then, that Mr. Standring is annoyed with Lise because young Kenworthy is so often calling at their house and having long talks with her? You think he doesn't believe that young Kenworthy goes to taik about Audrey, and his own miserable, blighted state of mind?" "Oh, ro! He .leers at. if. Leslie, my own. when did you fall info that dust? It has been a most delightful rest. Such a thoujrhtfrl act. and we must ro home with the mail cart laden?quite laden with parcels. Hoy j will have to walk, and that mear.s j carrying him. though how one can manage bcth!" i "Do you think, then, (hat Mrs. Standring looks so unhappy because her husband disapproves of this?" ! "Ah, you see, she only lives for his approval. And yet she tries to anr.oy i him?to make him feel. But he never will. I wish some friend would advise her to give up trying to make him. Really. I think things might be smoother so." j "It does look like it," said the girl i slowly. She did her errands in the town, plnnged deep in thought ; and before she had finished them she htd j come to a firm resolution. Here was a way for her to do something for Lise. Something to make her han : pier, and even perhaps in the end to further the great scheme. She would go and see Mr. Jack Standring in hi? j office at the works, and carefully and diplomatically carry out the new idea. The works, a great square of red brick buildings built round a quadrangle, lay a mile out of the town, j and he was sure to be in at this hour 'of the morning. But when she heard that he was disengaged, that he would ! see her, she felt, very nervous; uncertain of the order of her campaign; I and almost wished she hadn't come, j He looked very large and smiling and self-'possessed as she found herself in the round-backed, wooden chair i opposite him. and the air of surprised expectancy with which he ' awaited her business made her plunge ' into the subject at once. He had considerately opened the conversation j at once with a polite remark on the heat. ! "I've come to ask your advice," j said she hastily. This was the diplomatic opening she had arranged bei forehand, but she could noi: keep up | the deceit, and rushed on with the j truth. . "At least, it isn't exactly that., and | we didn't mean to tell you till all was over, DUt as taints turn uul, ,*v.w tainly ought to know at once, and that's why I've come." He looked a little bewildered. "You understand, of course." said she, "that I am sneaking in the strictest confidence." Jack laughed. "You mustn't swear me to secrecy till I see where I am," said he nleas' antly. "It isn't fair. You may be an | agent of the Camorra, or the Mafia, or something equally exciting and impossible to a well brought up English citizen. What is it that I am never to reveal?" Tormentilla, studying his pleasant face and k'.ndly eyes, came to the conclusion that he was to be trusted. "You know, I suppose," said she, plunging into the matter, "that for a long time there has been a deep? a deep mutual attachment between Audrey Cogwheel and young Mr. Kenworthy?" Jack looked surprised and grew more attentive. "I have heard of such an attachment," he admitted. "Why, certaini ly." I "You heard that Dr. Cogwheel, ; rolling in riches though he is, has | forbidden any engagement on purejy mercenary grounds?" "Aren't yon rather hard on the docI tor?" he asked, with a surprised ; smile, "you can't ecpect an adoring j parent to cast his only child to the i wolves in that way. You can't found a happy marriage on the assumption that what's not enough for one is bound to be enough for two, now, can you?" For the first time it struck Tormen, tilla that this really could be called an argument. Weak, perhaps, but still an argument. "That isn't the way to look at it!" she cried quickly. "When his daugh| ter's whole life's happiness was at stake, he ought to have helped the j young man to get a situation, or to have generously provided enough for their modest wants, himself?" Jack shook his head. To be Continued. One Story and a Jump. t~ ??'timicn waa nnfp fhft I IHC UIU 11WUMW ?? ???%,** ' ? ~ ? ? , home of Samuel Arnold, the friend of I Wilkes Eooth, the assassinator of I Abraham Lincoln, is no more. It was the popular belief that the Lincoln j conspiracy was formed in this house, as it was the borne of Samuel Arnold. The house was supposed to be about 100 years old. It was of quaint architectural design and was one j story and a "jump." The first floor (contained six rooms and the "jump"' j two. It was probably built by George j Arnold, father of Samuel Arnold. Mr. Trair.or bought it about twenty years i ago from Mrs. Orlan Jackson, of | Washington. D. C. Several times he I started to raze the old building, but j refrained on account of its supposed i historical value.?Baltimore Sun. Answering It. A Boston woman once asked Lowell to write in her autograph album, j and the jscet, complying, wrote the | line, "What is so rare as a day in ] jnneY" mailing re mis wuiuau s I house a few days later. Lowell idly turned the pages of the album till he came to his own autograph. Be| r.eath it was written in a childish scrawn: "A Chinaman with whiskers."?Washington Star. i Rose leaves are imported free of j duty when brought in in a crude state, the value of the imports of ' 1908 being only $105, in 1907 $2137 and in 190C $5879. The value of j rose leaves imported in the decade ; ending with 1908 amounted to over j $20,000. | An effort made in Russia to form , a gigantic steel corporation, on the , lines of the one existing in this coua ' try, has failed. HAS HURT COUNTRY BAD EFFECT OF ROOSEVELT'S WESTERN SPEECHES. j Fact That the President Seems Satisfied to Regard Himself as a Proxy Has Disturbed Credit and Confidence. Mr. Roosevelt apparently wants another panic; but does Mr. Taft want one? This is a question that the president will soon have to answer. Mr. Roosevelt's western speeches hava been more dangerous to credit and confidence than to the constitution. Even his attacks upon the Supreme court cannot weaken the legal powers of that great tribunal. But credit and confidence have already begun to suffer. The Roosevelt speeches have sent a shiver of apprehension through the world of commerce and industry, not merely be cause the former president is preaching Socialism, Populism and demagogy, but because of the general opinion that he is again a candidate for president and that Mr. Taft is contented with (he role of proxy. If Mr. Taft had made it plain that he regarded himself as president of the United States Sn his own right, that he was no mere stopgap for anybody, there would be little cause for anxiety, no matter what Mr. Roosevelt might say or do. But Mr. Taft has encouraged the belief that he looked upon himself as a proxy and that he considered Mr. Roosevelt his political superior. The meekness and humility that the president has shown since the Rough Rider's return have deepened this Impression. The fear that he has displayed of wounding the the Roosevelt vanity or of crossing the Roosevelt will is properly construed as evidence of abdication. Nowhere is there a strong popular belief that the president would fight to save his prestige cr that he would resent any political insult that Mr. Roosevelt might offer to him. Indeed, the common opinion is thai if Mr. Roosevelt decides to take the Republican national convention away from Mr. Taft in 1912 the president either will not resist or that I he will wait until the battle is lost. In consequence, all these wild populistic and socialistic sclieme3 and policies that Mr. Roosevelt has presented on his \yestern tour are regarded as probable issues in the next presidential campaign. Commerce and industry are confronting another reign of terror such as brought on the panic of 1907, which threw 2,000,000 men out of work and cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars. They believe themselves threatened with another period of government by demagogy and denunciation, all because Mr. Taft has been a proxy. Mr. Taft is doing nothing to quiet the alarm. Does he want a panic? Is that another of My Policies to which bis administration is pledged? Point Not to Be Forgotten. In the mighty uprising of the people against the oppressions and iniquities of the Payne-Aldrich tariff the question of reducing the wasteful expenditures of successive Republican congresses and administrations is almost forgotten. During the seven years of Roosevelt's administration, when expenditures were annually piled up to exorbitant heights, the very word "economy" was taboo both in the White House and in the halls of congress. Yet how important is an issue which the Republican campaign textbook almost ignores is indicated by the public declaration, of Senator Aidrich that by the application of good business methods the expenditures of national administration could be reduced by the enormous sum of $300,000,000 a year, or more than the total net ordinary cost of government but three decades ago. But in the disposition of the public mind to dispose of one issue at e time, and this the relief from intolerable tariff burdens, the necessity of retrenchment in government expenditures is almost lost from view.?Philadelphia Record. Too Much Ghost Dance. Roosevelt's tour was largely a series of Apache dances and songs of defiance against the bosses of the Republican party in New York. His speeches have been more like ululations than rational discourses, "i am lor nonest politics. I am for clean politics. I am for straight politics," he shouts. "I will crush mobs. I will crush corrupt corporations," he adds. "If they wish a fight I'll giv?; it to them." What means all this? Why should this little man be so hot? Is VicePrcsident Sherman unclean? Is Chairman Woodruff dishonest? Is Mr. Barnes crooked? What corporation is he going to crush? Where is the mob? Who's hunting a fight? Time was when the angry man wa3 a close associate of the accused trio anJ shared the spoils of politics with them. There is no call (o do a ghost dance now.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Is It Worth While? For seven years the man of words held the presidency. The things that he now promises he then failed in. To excuse himself or to delude others, he now holds that if he can have scores of new laws, if he can command the courts, if he can reconstruct society, industry and government, he may be able in another seven or eight years to accomplish something. Is it worth while? In particular, is it worth while when we have before our eyes in New York and in Ohio men who have achieved notable reforms while other men have talked? Roosevelt's Words and Deeds. While I will do my best to get hold of the thief of the opposite party, I will try, if possible, a little harder to pet bold of the thief of my own party. ? Theodore Roosevelt. An excellent sentiment! Has Mr. Roosevelt always acted on it? How about the sugar thieves? At any rate, it is a sentiment that should not be ?fcciusive with Mr. Roosevelt, and we know that in this generation. It is a lung way from being exclusive with him. PROTECTION IDEA RUN MAD incident Shows How the Policy Frequently Is Carried to Idiotic Extremes. Tho general principle of protection is beautiful, but it is the practical outworking of it that commands an admiration too great for adequate expression. As for example: A St. Ixniis man desired to obtain a little West Indian chocolate for household use. He wrote to a friend in the Island of Trinidad, who sent him four pounds by mail, on which he paid duty at the port of St. Louis. The chocolate is worth In Trinidad from 15 to 18 cents a pound. The tariff tax is 50 per cent, ad valorem. This should have made the chocolate cost, .at the most, 27 cents a pound in St. Louis, exclusive of postage. But the appraisers valued the chocolate at 50 cents a pound. This made the duty 25 cents. A 50 per cent, duty was by this rational and beautiful process made to amount to more than the value of the article. The cost of the chocolate to the consumer, to be precise, was 38 per cent, more than twice its purchase price in Trinidad, after it had paid 50 per cent., duty?a la mode. This method Is worth dwelling on. How was the price of 50 cents per pound determined? Well, 18 cents original price, plus nine cents duty, plus eight cents postage makes 35 cents. Then there Is the profit of the retailer, had there been a retailer. True, there wasn't in this case, but why should the government suffer be cause of an omission like that? The aim of a hig* tariff should not be wholly forgotten in this connection. It is to protect American industries. And the American chocolate industry is of equal importance with the Greenland banana trade. HOW "PROTECTED" MEN LIVE Its Beneficiaries Surely Have Reason to Rejoice "That They Exist In Its Shadow. Two-thirds of the steelworkers receive a wage not greater than $12 a week; only one-fifth receive more than $15. Let us see what a wage of $12 will do in Pittsburg. Fortunately we are able to draw upon Miss Byington's careful study of the budgets of 90 Homestead families. Thirty-two, of these had less than $12 a week. Their average weekly expenditures were $9.18?or at the rate of $477.36 a year. How do the families fare who spend from $12 to $15 a week? Miss Byington gives us the items for 16 families in this wage group, with an average total expenditure of $13.'32, or a scant $700 a year. These families pay about $10 a month rent, but ten of them live with more than two persons to a room and only five have city water in ?he house. They pay on the average 24 cents per man per day for food, but four of the sixteen spend less than 22 cents. Clothing they buy at the rate of $81.G4 a year. Fifty cents a week for insurance provides only for burial, should death occur. The only item that looks hopeful is the margin of $2.83 for all other expenditures. But the families in this group were not self-indulgent; 20 cents paid the weekly bill for liquor and tobacco, 47 cents : went for medical service, 42 cents for i furnishings and minor household expenses, leaving only $1.23 for car fare, papers, recreation, education and miscellaneous expenditures. It is no wonder that some of these 10 families reported but three cents a week for recreation?Survey. Republican party False to Duty. And this is the consummation aftei years of patient and submissive endurance. The American people were promised relief from the extortions and exactions of monopoly. The party that had promised relief was the party that imposed the burden. It contracted to take off the galling yoke. Its candidate for president confirmed and ratified, repeated and reiterated the promise. It was reverberated from every Republican platform. It was heralded and proclaimed through every revolting Republican state oJ the Mississippi valley and elsewhere. The people credulously confided in the promises and gave the Republican party another lease of power. The Republican party has proved recreant to its trust and false to its. duty. Some Explanation Needed. There has been a gTeat change In the attitude of many of the Republican leaders toward the tariff. We hear little, to take one instance, from Senator Lodge abbut the beauties of the Aldrlch-Payne masterpiece. Yet he hVped make it and, after it was raVe, he pronounced It good. When thP-Veople began to show their teeth Lodge declared that the ultimate consumer was "a myth." But now Republicans of all complexions are talk- . ing about a commission which shall patch up a tariff only a little over a year old, which was supposed to be the sum of all human wisdom. Even those who praise it admit that it will not do as it is. The Man Behind the Grin. As he read the reports of Colonel Roosevelt's triumphal tour through the west several vivid truths must have been impressed upon the fat intellect of William Howard Taft. The first one. no doubt, was that the west has not been deceived by the Aldrich-Taft tariff law. The west knows that law Is all for trusts and nothing for the people. The second great truth that Is now clear to Mr. Taft is that the country at large has not been won by his cor- 1 pulent grin. The famous Taft smile has lost its power iu tuai in. The man behind the grin has been found to be an Aldrich in disguise. But Aldrich Is Brazen. By raising the rubber tariff?in i deed, by not removing or greatly re < ducing it, as his party in effect had < promised?Aldrich poured millions in- ] to the coffers of the sole customer of ] his own raw rubber company. A sen- ? sitive man, caught robbing the people i so wantonly, would resign.?World's j Worlc. *? ' '* * 4 Y**. fFarmers' Educational f n' and Co-Operative I Union of America a i ...... j i , Matteri tf Efpecial Moment to i the Projrewive Agriculturist A pessimist is one who, of two evils, chooses them both. .. Sometimes a half-pint of happlnes? will make a peck of trouble. The peculiarity of a crank Is that ho always thinks It's his turn. Gossips have automobiles beaten a block when It comes to running people down. By the time you have acquired wisdom everybody looks upon you aa an old fool. An optimist is one who would rather believe that everything is all right than know the truth. There are few things in life so comfortable as old friends and old shoes. Do not be in haste to discard either. The man who q|lows things tn go at loose ends is pretty certain ultimately to find his affairs sadly raveled. Co-operative action is by voluntary association. Trusts, broadly speaking, are the results of both forms of action. Many have enjoyed the benefits de4-"U ~ i-1 nvcu iiuiu luc wuia. ui lilt; raiuir;*D Union without knowing from whence they came. Organization has become the watchword of the century. The past history of the race is largely a history of individuals. It sometimes seems easier to strike than to lift up; but give us the man who always lends a helping hand,' no matter what it costs. Take your chances with the man who is good to horses, cows and other farm creatures. He will not fall you when the pinch comes. Where the greater part of the corn crop goes to market by way of the hog pen, a substantial increase in the bank account is pretty sure to follow. Now for a breathing spell. The harvest season was long, the weather .capricious and the work strenuous. Take a day off, and do nothing but just rest and putter. Give the human machine a chance to cool its bearings. START OF FREIGHT EXPENSE Cost of Hauling Ton of Farm Products to Market (jver Country Roads Averages 25 Cents. The United States department of agriculture stands ready to prove that the farmer is heavily handicapped by the two million miles of public roads vl LUIS tUUULljr, VJ1 nuicu \JULIJ OCTWu per cent, is improved. It stands ready to show that the cost of hauling a . ton. of farm products to market over country roads is upon the average 25 cents, says Birmingham AgeHerald. On modern improved roads the cost is but eight cents. On "dirt" roads it is 39 cents, and on sandy roads it varies from 33 to 64 cents. These figures are demonstrable, and no farmer will dispute them, for they know full well what the cost for poor roads is to them. Were the cost of the haul to the railroad reduced to 12 cents a ton, as it readily could be by improving the public roads, the saving to the farmers of the country would be just about $250,000,000. "It seems easy," says the Washington Herald, "to write the figures $1,000,000 a day; that "is the amount of loss, or rather that is the loss of gain the farmer would get if he had good roads. He would get $1,000,000 a day. more for his products than he does now. His bad roads imply a loss of about three dollars a year for every man, woman and child in the United States. If we can add that $250,000,000 to the purchasing power of the farmer, it is not likely that we should hear so much about * ? J 1 * ?? *TT ?1?1 J Vvrt nara ulukb , mcic wumu uu uuuuu w be a proportional increase in prosperity and our agricultural assets would be very largely Increased." This estimate does not include the increased value that would accrue from good roads to farm lands. It takes account simply of the freight expense which necessarily begins at the farm. The cost of the haul to the railroad Is regulated by the condition of the public road, and the time is fast coming when the farmer will demand that he shall be considered when money is being poured out like water for railroads, waterways and the like. To Introduce Bokhara Sheep. The department of agriculture is seriously considering the introduction into this country of Bokhara sheep, from which comes the fur called "Persian lamb." All Astrakan fur Is now raised on territory tributary to the Caspian sea. The best fur is taken from the lamb when it Is only four or five days old. The Bokhara sheep also make good mutton. To Kill Bull Thistles. Bull thistles, common in pastures, cannot always be killed by mowing. Cutting tends to prevent maturity of seed. Cutting off the thistles just below the surface of the ground two or three times a year will effectually eradicate them. Working the ground in rotation of grass, grain and corn Is a very sure way of eradicating weeds. Early Cut Alfalfa. Alfalfa cut early produces twice as much beef as late-cut alfalfa. In an experiment at the Utah station, it was 5hown that one ton of early-cut alfalfa produced as much beef as two tons of ate-cut. We believe that similar results would follow from feeding early vs. late-cut clover, though we have no lccurate data to back up this opinion. ? LETTER ON COTTON BA6GIMB ' * -4 Mississippi Man Makes Interesting Argument In Favor of Agreement for Benefit of Farmer#. Now that the season for ginning tocoming, It is time for all parties wh? are Interested In baling cotton* to come to a perfect understanding about cotton bagging for the coming season. 5J I have had a good many years' experience, but always at the merer eC the Jute bagging manufacturers, as well as the mercantile companies, wiu> were the distributers for the Jute factories, and I can truthfully say that when there was a big crop to gin the jute bagging always went up as high, as 11 and 12 % cents, writes Dt NL Hearn of Madison, Miss., in Unloa Advocate. We had to pay their pric* even when the ginning competition was so sharp that the price of jafc? took all the profit, and with thia addition of things existing, It looks U* me as If every glnner would be anxious to unite on cotton bagging; whether they are friendly to tte ^ union or not. Every farmer, whether union" or nonunion, should demand that all bag* ging should be made of cotton. That would consume eight million pound* of cotton for a twelve million bala crop, and there are six or seven factories that have promised to add ntn? pounds to the weight of every bale of cotton that we sell them with cotton bagging on It That would composooi/i fr\y% tVin A4fffironno In if all or nearly all cotton was wtappeft in cotton, the 30-pounds tare would taken off. Away back in the Alliance times tbn jute bagging went so high it waa ?K most prohibited and thousands of $ bales were wrapped in old gunny sacks, oat sacks and osenburg, and it was at this time that Odenheimer came to the farmer's rescue and made -*_ a good cotton bagging which run the price of jute bagging as low as fourand five cents. Just think of the farm- ,vj ers having to wrap four-cent cotton in. fourteen-cent bagging. Now, Mr. Odenheimer is offering to furnish cotton ^5 bagging again, and I for one better* that cotton should be used fpr cotton as well as for corn and oat sackr* Bar doing this we would only be,making ., use of our bad cotton. 1! we do any- . thing to increase the price of cotton and cotton goods, the cotton growent > are the ones who are oeneniea. im wage earner is benefited, and that ha? ;V a price lifting effect; In other worda^, [M increases the capacity to consume aa we increase prices. - > To get back to the subjectiof cotton bagging, I hope that the farmers,. ginners, in fact, everyone who really \ wants to do something to better tte condition of cotton prices, and the - - 'j country generally, Will take up this bagging question and decide it, ami stand by -the decision we mahy r though the heavens fail. I had a per*- j & feet understanding last year and got the bagging for my own customed* and arranged with Mr. Peet of Jack* son to supply those of my community that ginned their cotton at Madtoomi station. I do not think there wa* more than six or seven bales wrapped 1 with cotton in this vicinity. There should be an arrangement made that wouM be binding legally, that carries or fixes a penalty so that ereryoot who signs it would have to stand to the rack, fodder. I see that some as; that the cotton bagging will-not hold. Neither will jute bagging, the way cotton is handled. As an evidence, jvfr go to the compress where cottom ia handled and see the condition of the bales wrapped in jute bagging aatf you will be convinced. / Hitching Horses. A horse should always be tied to a hitching post with a strong strap at rope which there is no possibility aft ^ breaking. If a horse once breaks loose he is apt to acquire the bad habit of breaking at every opportna ' / ity. A neck strap of rope which passes around the neck through the ring in the bit is better than the ordinary strap fastened in the ring, such aa usually comes with bridles. If a haroa has acquired the habit of breaking loose, try this plan and fool him whea he tries it again. A horse should at ways be tied so that he cannot get his head to the ground. He will stand more quietly if compelled to keep hia head up. Eradicate Bull Thisfie. ? ' - vl Bull thistles, common In pasture^ cannot always be killed by mowing; Mowing tends to "prevent maturity of seed. Cutting off the thistles Just be-low the surface of the ground, two or three times a year, will effectually eradicate them. Working the ground in rotation of grass, grain and corn is a very sure way of eradicating weeds. Garden in Orchard. Garden crops may be grown success. fully between the rows of all kinds of young fruit trees. Peas and beana are particularly desirable for this purpose because, being legumes, they enrich the soil and actually aid In the growth of the trees. By a cropping system of this kind the expense of tha orchard may be easily paid until tha into full bearine. Feeding Chickens. Noontime is the best time to feed chickens raw vegetables such as cabbages, beets and turnips. Grain should not be fed oftener than twice a day. Thousands of hens are killed every year by feeding too much wet fooda and mashes. The greater portion ot the feed should be dry. Good Farming in Jersey. So thoroughly has the gospel of good farming been spread throughout New Jersey that the farm products of that state were $52,000,000, as compared to the $26,000,000 eight years ago. The secretary of the state board of agriculture declares that this increase ia due largely to scientific farming as taught by the state institutes at tha agriculture colleges.