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' . ! J OK THE OLD FARM Putting Up the Grist Was Job for Rainy Day. Father Went to Mill, But the Miller Has Experienced a Change and the Ancient Methods Have Become Obsolete. Happv Is the miller that lives by the mill: The wheel turns round of Its own free ' will. The miller may still be happy, but he is a different miller from the one; celebrated in song and story. He is, now a great manufacturer, who buys j . his grain in car lots, searching the; whole country by wire for his supply j and contracting for millions of bush- \ els season ahead of time. His mill' is no longer the picturesque structure sitting beside the brool. His tower-* ing factory has its own side tracks, its vast grain bins and elevators, its gigantic power house, its acres of floor space crowded with rumbling machinery and whirring belts. His customers are wholesalers and jobbers in distant cities, and he has no direct touch with the millions who will eventually buy the flour and' make their daily bread. It was not always so. a writer in the | Detroit Tribune states. In the good f old days back on the farm, putting k up a grist was a Job for the day when j Jupiter Pluviws planned a rest for the ; BV boys and the hired man. "Get the fanning mill out of the i I^HRgranary," says dad at breakfast time, j raining today, and we might as j ^ll put upr a grist." ^^^Hj^^would be lots pleasanter to lie on ! H^HHkiay up under the roof of the big I and listen to the patter of the j ^H^Kops and watch the swallows with their wives or politics un in the cunola. It! I Be lots better to have a game ^Bwlth the big post at the foot j ^Bdder for goal, and a merry ^Hand down among the mows ! ^Bg under the manger where life on the good nature ! munching hay above you. | of_things you could | ^^^Hdo on a rainy day better H up a grist. ^^R;rist must be put up. You broom and sweep the barn j^Wclean as it was once when ^Hthe party and the bovs and ^Be from all over the ndghborHn the fiddlers sat up on the Bx. the hired man and dad carry le old red fanning mill and set 1 pn on the barn floor and put on lopper and the crank, and set ; ight sieves In the right grooves, j then the hired man takes the Bank and "blows 'er np hard." just to Set the dust cmt of the mill, and dad lakes the bier barn pail and goes into the bin and brinps out a pailful of wheat and pours it into the hopper, i Then the song of the fanning mill begins. Ruppy-buppy: ruppy-buppy, ! ruppy-buppy. ruppv-buppy. Did you 1 ever hear it? If you did. you won't forget it in a thousand years. It is this noise that gauges the speed of the mill and shows when you are : turning steadily. And steadily you | must turn or the wheat will clog on the sieves, and the sticks and straws j and little gravel stones, which do not ! make good bread, will go over with the wheat into the grist. So the strong arm of the hired man keeps the mill singing ruppy-buppy, ruppybuppy, hour after hour, if the grist is a big one, and father dips and carries. and boys who would rather he playing I-spv, shovel up the cleaned whrat'into hags. Then it ft ops raining, after awhile, but. as it is still too wet to cultivate, father goes to mill. The hired man puts in the baas and hitches un tlfn tenoi while i thcr .">?> j,, }j;p house to s.'ick lit) and put <r a j;:pi r collar and his second 1 suit. Tie n he mounts the I''"! and drives aciiv Arrived : ( the n:i"! f;j:!i? r upends the buna arid t?*w them ovi-r "per: the miller's hand truck. or pour-* them into the cut ld< ho: ; cr if flu- r, ]] nf. fords such a oonvooi'sno. T! < he puts the team under the mill slier] < r drives il down to the blacksmith's to have a couple of shoes set. and the miller starts the endless succession of little buckets thnt dip the wheat out of one hopper into another and carry it to be cleaned and winnowed and scoured and crushed and sifted and bolted and bacaed. Then father receives It back with the bran hut minus the miller's toll. This is as it used to he. but soon there will be no more goin? to mill In the country. The farmer will sell his wheat to the hip miller In the city ; and will buy his little sack of flour , from his sroeer, just as do the dwell- j ers in town. Subscribe to The Chronicle J found way to see paris i Englishman Quickly Got on to Scheme Which Enabled Him to "Do" the City Thoroughly. There is a very pood friend of mine, whom I now call the New Innocent , Abroad, says a writer in the London Times. Though he has lived the greater portion of his life in the West end of London, circumsfances have always ; eonspired to prevent him crossing the channel. He cannot speak a word of French. ^ and last week he spent three days in Paris. ?! When he came back I went to Eee him. \ "I think I have seen everything there is to he seen in the streets of Paris," ho ' said when I met him, "because I dis- , covered the ideal way of seeing a 1 strange city. s "Whenever I wanted to go anywhere I signaled a taxi cab and showed the f driver the address I wanted. Now, all these French cab drivers are men with wonderful Intuitions. They knew at rnce that I really v anted to see Paris m all its beauty. So they took charge v of me, ntfd whenever I wanted to fO from ere office to another they drove me all round the city. "Often .after the first day I knew ;i that the plaee I wanted to call at was not more than a few hundred vard9 I away from the hotel. Still the cab drivers determined that I should improve my knowledge of Paris. j, * "Tho proper way to pursue this method of sightseeing is to drive for s half an hour in silence. Then you stop the cab with violent signals, pro- s duce your written address ^gain and flourish it in the driver's face. *' "He smiles politely and generally < treats you as though you are a naughty child. Meanwhile, a srtall crowd ocllects composed ef polite Individuals ill anxious to proffer you their serv- li ices. "They direct you to different places of public interest, and after an ex- , change of courtesies you start on another jcy ride for half an hour or so." jj REAL CAUSE FOR ANXIETY " il Old Gentleman's Exceedingly Neat Rejoinder to Tactless Remark Made by Nephew. There is an old gentleman in Phil- / adelphia approaching the ninety mark who still finds much zest in life, and, j having retained all his faculties, he feels that a,few of the physical dis- a abilities of age are of small account. His nephew is a man of small tact, ' a fact which has always aroused the ire of the old man. A few weeks before the old gentle- , man's eighty-ninth birthday this nephew, v.ho had been overweighted with busir.es cares for years, started on a trip to Europe that was to consume a year. "I have come to say gocd-by," an-1 ncunccd the nephew to the old man. "I am starling abroad to be gone a year?perhaps longer. I thought I might never?well,# you understand? I wanted to bo sure to see you onco more." r Whereupon tho eld man loaned for- a ward, fixing his nephew with his bead- ii like eyes. ' o "Hill," he said impressively, "do you a mean to tell me the doctor doesn't 1 think you'll live to got back?1' t t How the Rain Ecres Holes. When rain falls it doos not actually soak into the earth, but bores its way (1 in. forming tiny tubes, says the Uoho- * both Sunday Herald. These tubes are so email that it would be imposrtb'e to insert hair in one of them with- c out bursting its walls. Sometimes the t: tubes are bored down to a depth of four or live feet. When tho surface j dries tho water evaporates from the ! v tubes, just as it would from a pipe. If tho tube- is twisted it takes longer s for ill-" water to evaporate. j t If one takes a rako and stirs tho j ground after each rain ho breaks the ; tops ( ! tie tubes and the water will ' < stum' in <!;< ni r months. In tins way i tin fanra is of the West, on semi-arid ' lards. More the rain tails ore year ; r.:h c a crop of win at every other y there lair.;; sukichnt water in two years, but : :ot enough- in one, to raise a crap. j | How tc Win an Author. j "There's no greater fallacy." said an author at tin- New York Authors' club, "than the popular one to the effect that writers don't like you to talk to them about their work. "Mark Twain exploded this fallacy well when he said that there were three ways of pleasing an author: First, to tell him that you have read one of his books; second, to tell him 1 you have read all his books, and. third, ; to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. The j first way wins his respect, the second wins his friendship, and the third wins I his lev*." | } Stever 1. Fqu.-ilily fur tin* vol its of tin* Fifth i;if< ?i iiifjiinst in the following | :?rlieulti (;i> ('onirress is wjistitur on tin- ;iver;i fliifli jn'c pnirticiilly useless to the Fifth ion 1-o htiihl ;m<l liiiiinl.iin its postroiid.1 i tiu.li it uses fur etirryinir tin* m;iiIs it w ;14l^S.")7 in tin* Fifth District each vein vitii Mr. Finley's !icl|> litis just passed ; 'his would make $1,500.0(1)) for South Ca eople jirr^laxed that amount lor Kiver prut on the roads of the Fifth District ;irulers. The vuliie of their hi'i'.ls wool (In Tltev ;ire diseriniiii.'ited against in $100,000,000 h;is lieeu spent in buildinp tout It some of it for publie rotuls? (c) The t*;iriners of the Fifth District ct iri\iny: free lolls to the ship owimt.s tit assing through the Canal tmd placisi] hose who use it. This timoimts to milli ich. Morgan &. Co., of New York, tire < hipping eoinpsiiiies tire held in Europe locks or lionds in such ships. "Why tn> ml New England tmd Europe? Yet Mr. wrong from tiny point of view." Mr. ow Wilson tmd voted 1o ttix you to keep is cotton or eolton goods or to import hi aged in foreign eoiiuiierce, tmd they had 'ork tmd Pennsylvania ship their wares j iglon tmd hence get the benefit of free mted against again and by the vote of ] ml stands with President Wilson on this Finally, lie opposes giving away the As lat-e tis February 24, 1011, with Mr. 1 Ozark Power Company) a water right t ncome of $350,000 a year on the investm lid tlie.re are hundreds of other like pr )istriet objecting? r<- <1 Try a new num. Stevenson is mi- imm i were ci could ii GROSS AS TWO STICKS: ' propra: a eons \ By ALUE FORD. ? ' money ! full cri > ? ; i;- | Jo "There!" exclaimed the little stenop- 1 "Jus; uplier, taking her watch from her belt as I cc nd petting it in front of her. "I'm po- ! I could lp to hold my breath till it's live 1 w'10 clock and then I'm going to run! I've ' my sho lways h it above watching the clock, could 1 ut I'm beginning to understand a few sumir.f (lings! licsi'lcs, I've hr.d a horriblo thing t ime today trying to get ready for the 1 'ourtli." v.as'do The bookkeeper slid his ledgers back ; 'ie n the shelf. "Now what's tin* mat- ^ur,lc>d ? - .... . , '\\'i it?" r.e asKeci, wun an exa^tnuea ^ ir of rosisrnaiion. j tp,?pt'-? "Oil, I'm tired to a frazzle end as \ l!n ross j i two rtirV.s!" The little p|-.-:t tenoprai nor. exploded. 'Catch "WiT. dm't tr.ho it nut on mo!" oh- jnsj;;v . etc(1 the bo-ahkveper amiably. "What ^!l(j \ as happened. anyway?" viry t" "Kvcrytliiiis!" ri turned the little "T!i.i tenoarn; hor dramatically. "I've been long! limed into a housoheei r. y aersil util* nuitcas !y man?any thin;; l?it the stenng- keeps npher I thoir-'ht 1 was. the stenog* J(>r j;0 o.pher trying t?? pet thinps shipshape i-'ourtli a preparation for the holiday. Vandc "This morning I had to devote two sugyes olid hours to ?h< -eking up his club for ),-! ii!!s for "Mr. Cray! And my tiles a / r.ile behind, waiting for a clear lain* fnJ to! If those nu n don't hoar my typo* j?he* tijuiig run u* iuv) mum j g;*c (jj, totaling to d:>! Aim! they bother from h .round for an hour to think up some- "liei liing to help me pass the time. Mr. my tra Iray smiled generously when he hand- close t d me his bills, as if he wore giving p.jt tin ne the time of my life by permitting The ne to see how he spends his money? saj(i n< :nd incidentally keep his personal ao- "Am: ounts for liim! j poked "When I finished that Mr. Nicholas ;u< pe , ailed ine in and said his wife had the cal isked him if I wouldn't be so kind as o write out Iter club programs for tlio vh?le of next year! The club wcia He ibout to adjourn until fall and K was ; wp0 p{ laving money by doing its own pro- rough ;rams instead of having them printed, they v, dr. Nicholas beamed on me as if he their ison's Platfo: I>i.strirt v.ho are loyal citizens. They i L's: ire sllU?iHI.I)<>() of dollars a year in Ki District, and lias utterly failed to eoi s. If it would spend jjtfiO.OOl l.0( If) a y ould mean $1,000,000 a year for S^oi or .S'J?).4UI) 111 filf-ll cotiwy 111 im> fi River iiiid Harbor bill providing t"i rolinn or $.'{0,000 for each counly in .s iiiid Harbors and "ret no benefit. :. It would help every man, in the d be doubled. i what is known as the Reclamation S ; dams to irrigate the states of the \\ . as well as other citizens, were disor ring the I*. S. (lag and engaged in tli g the burden of maintaining the eana ens of dollars and was merely a gift t( loininant in this trade we are infornu . There is no voter of the Fifth I) : them then to give money to the mi Finlev voted to do that thing. Woot Finley followed Champ Clark agains up the ri' li, yet when the Fifth Disti s nitrate of soda or Peruvian guano. I to pay toll, while the manufacturers it large quantities coastwise to Califoi tolls if the shipper gets any and the ] Jr. Finley, its Congressman. Mr. Stet issue. ' y great water powers. * ^ ''inley in Congress, they g^ve away t hat the Missouri- Waterway ComBM cut of $2,000,000. Thus the peop^B ojects. Do w.e ever hear of the (? idate. ;;;:cr:".ig an nc.nor upon me that riches "to lever be estimated in letting me ! "Well," i close to his wife's club as to "I know w i few hours writing out the club as the cai ms! Then she'll feel so right- anu wnen vlien spending on charity the ! line for D I've saved for her, when the b!ankety-b dit?well, it belongs elsewhere,, ey can bu soy it myself! nie ?"-0. 1*1 t wh< n I was working as hard! "Nov, w ii'd to pet that finished, so that order." qu pet started all that awful filing, I fiosity. "if ou!d come out and look over monico's f< ulder but Mr. Brown himself! I "Well, I :t-ll thai he thought I was pre- some ham ; a good deal in writing some- have some hat was not business letters, so 1 ?ned to explain what it was I How ing. That pa\e him an idea and | An Am ut back into his oifice and re-j "nothing t presently v. ith his silk gloves, estimated sn't you please, when you have, ing upon 1 ?ini". jiict .catch these thread" sixth seast . r. he iiSnOii. And lie &!tow? d faith to bt iters i: his gloves that were al- lers. They ?:.!ir?Iy pone at the tins!: medicinal them topethe.'!' Why, { liad to Charles elv to crochet new tij?n ti.t ,.i! the pack didn't dare do anything but ray which, whi ariTuh-st work far him. i? ll into 1 it's tne way it's been ail day to be fhhc Mr. Gray asked me to puck his .Hence tin e?f-cn: that drawer win.re he "Had." shirts and colla.s, you know?| hud to go out or' town lor thei flew A:uJ while I was at t!iat Mr. J A now ti I'.'sUor had a bright idea. llet many undo nil that I phone a reservation J>gp-nd u n?ami thru run down and get tnnt suflra rii. well, what's the Use? of London a -C home!" ( Periling h< h::It' arose from her chair. As, i< ps d.ui; 1: 1 so Mr. Drown emerged hastily c,f like per is office. j templnring e," lie s;;?d, 'Tve pot to run for' of coerciot in. Will you shut my dwk an J only by ha he window and sign the letters 1 terrorized, sre?" | house of l< little stenographer nodded and, their estat > word. ' eldest nial I," called the bookkeei>er, as he do net ivil ills head back through the door ' mental an vuri leaving, "don't forget to put I'hiladelph : out and wind the clock." The per Deimonico Meal. I tho Schoo had heard several old miners well fixed, id for many years been living a frontier life discussing what You wijl muld do when they had "made all right, ii Dlles" and could return with to ask thei rm arc now ln?in?r diseriiaiver and Harbor projects nplv willi the HonSlilileal' on the public roads litli Carolina roads and District. This Congress ?r spending ill. tfiis District. Now the Suppose our part was District, especially the lerviee:" 'est. Why not jrive tbe iniinntod against l?.v tho ie coastwise trade when I (?n the people instead of j people who are already ?d and the bonds of the istriot who owns either illionaires of New York Irow Wilson said it was t the request of Woodriet voter wants to ship this tnoves in ships enof w England, New rnwif Oregon and Waslih'ifth District is diseriin,'enson is. opposed to thi.s 0 a j^^fcM^|or?oration ^ ll giye a for the of the the states." said the grizzly old veteran, hat I'll do. I'll go as straight s'll take me to New York, 1 get there I'll make a bee 'elmonlco's and I'll get the lankedest dinner that ir.ony. I don't care if it costs 1 have it." hat do you think ycu would t-rit-d Fred, with some cu' you were to go into Delor a $."0 dinner?" dunno; but I guess I'd have and eggs?yes, I would; I'd ham and eggs!" 1 Carlsbad Cot Name, erican who says he has 0 do between drinks," has that Carlsbad is now enterthe five hundred and fiftyMi?at least, if there is any 1 placed in the old chronicascribe the discovery of the properties of the "Sprudel" IV, in 1-138?or. rather, to of this famous huntsman, lie in hot pursuit of a stag, he boiling caldron and had d out mere dead than alive, j "Carls" and hence the Terror to Englishmen. prror has been added to the >r which mere men labor in ruler the rising tide of mill gism. A wealthy sunrngone has altered her will, diflin r son and making her votetor sole lioir. Other women suasion are said to be conpitnllar notion. As n.means i the plan would bp effective Ivee. Commoner might be but the members of the rds almost universally hold bv entail in favor of the h heir. Their younger sons icrit anything but tempera d other defects, anyhow.? ia Record. eon with a diploma from 1 of Experience is pretty I find that most men are r you only take the trouble n.