The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 17, 1903, Image 3
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FARM-ORCHARD**
Along the bottom lands of the llrazos
and Arkansas rivers the cotton stalks
grow so large that It is almost as much
work to clear the laml for a new crop
as it would be to clear it of hazel
brush.
If 110 man asked or could get credit
and all paid spot cash what a nice old
world this would be to do business in.
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f< UIIV nuvu It nu iu IIUHIU IJ\T lUdll UU
Homo, tho poople'as a whole would be
bettor off.
One of tho best ways to pot rid of
quack grass is to seed the Held down
with clover and give It a pood coat of
fertilizer. The clover -will then prow
so dense and heavy that It will choke
the quack prass out.
Even where corn cannot be successfully
grown barley, peas, millet pround,
clover and blue prass will, with skim
* milk, make lots of pork, a nd^ mighty
good pork, too, and any country where
these things can be produced should
raise hogs.
We have a young friend who pot his
home In shape, furniture anil domestic
equipment all complete, before he pot
married, which Is so much better than
hiking off to some justice or parson to
get married aud then goir* to live with
the old folks.
A good many men in the west in trying
to produce both beef and butter on
their farms do well with neither. The
two interests are always and forever
clashing, and most men will make a
better coral>lnntl?j>i? wltl? tlio at*ur nnd
v 'be bog or the cow aiul tbe bog-.
A great deal of very careful, scientific
I anil thorough work is being done in the
1 strtes or Iowa nnd Illinois In the effort
to improve thq quality of the corn. Al^'O'uh.by
the use of selected and pedltwenty-BYc
onsurta-jwaviJus l-ep'orted
from Illinois.
It is but reiterating a baidheaded
truth to say that any man is a fool to
ship to any commission house which
offers more than tlie going prices for a
product, nnd still men are being bitten
in this manner all the time because
their greed nnd avarice are better developed
than their common sense.
A lady who died recently In the east
left by will to her husband $100 per
month .and her cat and dog $.">0 per
month. From this It would appear
that the deceased lady thought just
twice as much of her husband as she
did of her cat and dog. We know of
cases where it Is just the other way.
The kind of roads a whole lot of people
are clamoring for will cost the taxpayers
not less than $.1,000 per mile.
It has taken 200 years to get this kind
of highways in Europe, nnd the people
there have been further favored
with nn abundance of pauper labor
onH A mllltoMtf 1.-1?
nuu it ujiiiiuij nttioaii/ tu ih"h> IIUIIU
them.
Wo made the discovery this spring,
In connection with n belntcd spell of
winter coming tlio Inst of April, that
the fruit buds of the apple, cherry nnd
plum will endure nt least 11 degrees of
frost, provided it comes before tlio
buds nre open, and go through such
ordeal without injury. Iiad the bloom
been fully opened such freezing would
have destroyed the fruit buds.
A MEASURE OF MERIT.
Union Citizens Should
Weigh Well this Evidence.
Proof of the merit lies in the evidence.
Convincing evidence in Union is not
the testimony of strangers, but the endorsement
of Union people. That's the
kind of proof given hero. The statement
of a Union citizen:.
J. It. Porter, printer, employed on
the Progress, living on South Church
Street, says: "I havo never felt hotter
in my life than I have since I used
Doan's Kidney pills which I procured
at Holmes Pharmacy. I was a great
sufferer from hackacho for a number of
years. My trouble was right rtcross the
small of my back and the pain was
^sometimes so severe that r thought my
4back would break i n't wo. I have plaster'ed
it, and rubbed itpintil it was all raw,
onrl rtrtn maaj hi iuiorj hid ?#? onltn rxf
VMV v? ?j viiw III nj?i IVJ \r k
all I coukldo, nothing seemed to help
mo. I road about Doan's Kidney Tills
and got them. Half a box relieved tnc,
and the use of two boxes entirely cured
me."
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The fall rnins liail sot in, and the
mountain town, nestled in u basin that
j on ail sides was fringed by groat hills
! that pushed against the sky, was at its
1 ugliest when Koitli came.
I lie had boon ordered to lids particular
spot by his physician and had boon
fortunate enough to secure the classes
In Kuglish at the big. ugly red brick
j Kelioolhoo.se proudly spoken of as the
; college by the townspeople.
In the llrst ("ays of his coining, tired
: out by the unaccustomed^ restraint of
i the schoolroom and the monotonous
i drip of the rain on the roof, he more
' than once tlung his things together, determined
to risk everything and return
to his chosen work and to his world,
i But his doctor's threat, that vague and
! awful threat of what might befall, held
him.
I And suddenly the Indian summer
had slipped down on the gorgeous
woods and tilled them with poetry and
glamour and languorous joy. It was
! late afternoon, and a woman's voice,
i gentle and roflned, was calling: "Prudence,
come in. 1 need you."
Keith laughed?a not too pleasant
laugh. "So do I," he declared.
V Vllic.l llolliilni'ulv "-ait'i'l 'I""' ? 1
through the open window.
"1 won't," it sulci. "The sun's slipping
behind a far mountain, the woods
lire painted, the valleys are spilling
over with gold mist."
Keith's laugh rang out as it should,
and he went to tlie window to view the
young person. It was a young person,
of course. Hut she was gone?caught
up, maybe, on the curled up edge of the
crimson cloud that was sailing straight
into tlie sunset splendor.
In the gossip that rippled round the
boarding house table that night lie
heard that a widow and her niece who
were to spend the winter in the cottage
next door had arrived. Keith was
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IIE ALMOST HAN UPON TIIF. OWNER OP TUB
DELICIOUS VOICE.
a silent, unsociable fellow, but lils
heart leaped unaccountably at the
careless words.
It was the name, he assured himself,
a name full of dignity and repose, that
attracted him.
That night the name cniue between
him and the letters ho wrote home. It
danced on tlie pages of the compositions
he corrected. Prudence?it was a
delicious name.
"I'll be hanged if I don't believe I'm
bewitched," said Keith Irritably, lie
got up, went to the mantel and took
down a picture.
"You've got a rival." lie had formed
the lonely man's habit of sometimes
speaking to himself. "She's not In the
least like you. Iler name Is Prudence."
For the hundredth time Keith looked
Into tlie smiling eyes ar.d wondered
why a beautiful and cultured girl such
as the picture declared her to be should
take this holdenish way of making a
man's acquaintance. y
Fancy a man returning from a long
day's hunt in the Maine tvoods to llnd
a girl's picture lying, face up, on the
cot iu Ids tent, lie h;ul secured and
secreted it before it was noticed. lie
felt a peculiar reserve about it. There
was something in the pretty, proud
face that helled the act. Across tho
back of tiie photograph the words,
"When I ain near again and you fall
to visit me, I will not leave you my
picture," were written hurriedly.
Keith carried the picture home with
him, framed it prettily and set it on
his bureau, lie took a singular delight
in the study of this face. Sometimes In
the midst of his hair brushing he
would snyv'T!l find you some day, you
beautiful disembodied Impossibility,"
of as he tied his ernvut: "Your eyes are
ser'ous tills morning, Miss Daley Miller.
Ilave I met with your disapproval
in nnv wav? Tliev are beautiful i'v?? I
' 1 tlillik they nrc like gome violets that
grow in n corner of my mother's garden."
In the time Just passed, when life
seemed all rainy days and stupid grammar
classes, Keith fled for refuge after
the day's work to his quiet room, and
there, looking at the picture through
clouds of smoke, lie found himself
twenty again and a lover.
Keith did not meet the girl next
r,
door, although ho caught glimpses of
hur. If ho went out, sh<? oanio In and |
vanished through the doorway; if ho ,
came in. slio fluttered up the village
street. Keith was fairly ashamed of
tlie Interest lie took in lnr movements.
It seemed so flagrantly unfaithful to
Ids picture, lie grew apologetic and
put tin* pictured eyes In the bottom of
Ids trunk. I
Hut a morning came? a sparkling,
flawless morning?when, turning a corner
suddenly, he almost ran upon the
owner of the delicious voice.
She was walking rapidly, and her
face glanced Into his and beyond him.
She swept past?a glowing, sumptuous
beauty.
Keith put out his hand and steadied
himself against a friendly rail fence,
lie didn't try to understand.
As the days passed he mu'ijpd his
prejudices. And another late afternoon
came when the gentle voice
called: "Prudence, come hi. I need you." ,
Kcitli got the picture out and spoke ,
sternly as if to an Invisible culprit: j
"You've boon a conceited fool. You !
don't understand it- in all probability!
you never will?but she's pure gold."
One morning the girl stopped in
front of him and held out her hand,
saying: =
"I'm not a bit conventional"?
Keith's bounding heart settled into
his shoes, as though he didn't know
I llO fiwt hmlii't oi.hiI nmxlliu
casing It.
"I'm sure you know uiy name. I've
just had a letter from Hob Grahamc, '
uiy cousin, asking inc to make frioutls '
with you," she laughed adorably. "You s
were iti Maine with him, he says. I f
was there for a little while. We wore
roughing it, too, and were not faraway.
I cauie by your camp one day and left '
Boh a picture which he hasn't appro- 1
dated enough to acknowledge. The '
cook showed me his tent." '
"Your eyes are just like some violets
in my mother's garden." Keith
hadn't safd it aloud. He hadn't said.
lunch of anything. His blood surged in !
his veins and sang a piean of triumph. '
He understood, and she was pure gold. '
The girl, pitying his timidity?Bob J
Graliame had said he took no stock in (
girls, but that it would be a charity to 1
brighten him up?talked on. 1
"You must hate being hero. It's hard
to drop out and just give up for awhile, 1
isn't it? I had planned such a full, '
beautiful winter. Funny that both of !
us should have got pneumonia and he
exiled. We must clicer each other. A 1
year isn't long. Bob says you are lonely.
You must come in and let mo cook
you something on the dialing dlsli. I
nusn, i*'nu eating
with himself, "I'll call you Prudence,
and then I'm afraid there '11 he
an awful row." 1
"Why, you do want to come"?they
had reached her gate?"1 see It In your
eyes, you poor, hungry, forlorn man!"
There's a wonderful light that comes
sometimes at evening to the hills. It
creeps from base to crest, changing
from pink to purple, from purple to red,
milii an is nre ami giow ami glory.
Walking in this sunset radiance late
one afternoon Keith stopped at his own
gate, lifted the latch, opened it wide
and said:
"Prudence, eonie In. I need you."
Prudence smiled, the tender, adorable
6mile Keith loved.
SernionH Mmle to Order.
"An English clergyman makes a business
of syndicating sermons," said a
drummer who had Just returned from
London.
"IIow do you mean?" some one asked.
"Why," explained the drummer, "tku
clergyman writes a sermon, and then
he prints about forty or fifty copies of
it, and ho offers to one preacher In
each of forty or fifty towns the exclusive
use in his own town of the proiluct'on.
The price of the sermon to each
man is only 5 shillings, but If fifteen
or twenty men take lt'^t brings in to
the symlicator, you see, aht?ut 100 shillings,
or $2.">. And since the sermons
are so s*t that one can be done in a f
morning that Is pretty good pay. The
symlicator advertises his sermons In a
religious paper. The notice reads:
" 'A clergyman of experience and
niodcrato views wlio distinguished himself
during his univorsity course In di- (
vinity ami English composition will
furnisli original sermons in strict ac- $
cordunce with tile Cliurcli of England
in good print at shillings each. Only
one copy will he given in any diocese. I
A specimen will he seut if wished for. |
Sermons made to order on auy required I
subject 011 reasonable terms.' Philadelphia
Itecord.
An Ilmiext SlrrnU.
Humor makes its nppenranee In queer
places, but one would hardly expect to
find it at the door of a house of correction.
An unfortunate fellow was taken
before a Justice of the peace in Milwaukee,
charged with stealing a quantity
of wood. There was not much of a
defense to offer, but an attorney who
knew him volunteered to say a few
words to the court in his behalf.
The attorney began his talk, and,
warming up to his subject as bo proceeded,
Anally succeeded in making a
good plea for leniency. The Justice, of
course, found the prisoner guilty, but j[
let hint off with a sentence of thirty I
days in the house of correction. When |
nit- cuiuiiiiiuiiMii iia<i oeen mndo out It
wns discovered that there was no constable
present, so the lawyer said to !
the prisoner: I
"John, you know where the house of
correction Is, don't you?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, here's 5 cents and thl3 paper. >
You take a car and go out there an/l
give them this paper, and they'll let
frou In. Will you do it?"
"Sure!"
And the funny part of this story from j
t'.ie Milwaukee Hentlnel Is that John .
lent his word. "
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i -t'! iiuiilftiikt, i rtftiff ^ * -i &
Long Hair
"About a year ago my hair \v- s
coming out very fast, so I bought
a bottle of Aycr's Hair Vigor. It
stopped the falling and made my j
hair grow very rapidly, until now it $
is 45 inches in length."?Mrs. A. B
Boydston, Atchison, Kans. \
! i>ui?l rar^s^aantTM:.. ? mam.1 iwiiwtiw?w1!
There's another hunger
than that of the stomach.
Hair hunger, for instance.
Hungry hairnccds food,
needs hair vigor?Ayer's.
This is why we say that 0
Ayer's Hair Vigor always |
restores color, and makes J
the hair grow long and |
heavy. SI.CO a bottle. All drtifsisls.
If your druggist cannot suH y you, Q
send'us one dollar and wo will oxptcss 3
yoti a bntftie. llo sure and givo tlio na.mo jj
of your i?arc"t exoross oUioo. Address,
C. A YKIt CO., I.ov;eU, Mass. 8
GYPSY RETICENCE.
II Wn* \nt I'roof Iprsl.i.sl I'linrle*
(iodfrr) t.v!a:i<l.
Charles Hodfrey I.- Ian 1. author of
he "Hans Itrdtmanu" ballads, h:ul a
mssion for studying the race of gypsies
aiul at the same time great human
lympatliy with tin in. The fact that
to was the greatest living auiliority on
lie gypsy tongue and customs gave
iim littie pleasure compared with the
lcliglit of being hailed as hrotltor by
rypsy horse traders at English fairs
ind gypsy musicians in ltussia and
\ustrta.
One day in Philadelphia* he met throe
lark men whom he knew to be of an
indent stock, lie was qliite sure that
they could speak a language whleli
contained roots of Sanskrit. lltndoo
ind Persian. Yet they would make no
lisplay of it. They would, like their
race, deny all knowledge of it as well
is the fact of their gypsy blood.
He addressed them in Italian, and
they answered fluently. Lie changed
to obscure tongues of the east, and
igain they replied.
"Have you got through all your languages?"
he inquired at last.
"Yes. signor. all of them."
"Isn't there one left behind wh'.eh
rou have forgotten? Think a minute."
"No. sjgnor; none."
"Snrtiow. you nave ?m. |
(he basket."
Roland looked the man fixedly in the
eye and put a question In Romany.
There was a startled glance from one
to tlie other and then a silence, lie
asked them, again In Romany, "Won't
you talk with a gypsy brother?"
That opened the gates. They shook
his hands In great emotion and tried
to tell him how happy they were in
having met some one who knew them.
?Youth's Companion.
Mo on So iicrst i t loss n.
The eclipse of the moon is full of
jorteiit to the Macedonian Mohammedins.
It indicates bloodshed. It is
net with reports of firearms, and the
imams call from the minarets the
faithful to public prayers in the
mosques. This recalls in a striking
maimer the practices of many savage
md barbaric nations. The great nations
of Asia, such as the Hindoos and
the Chinese, still cling to tlie belief in
the eclipse monster. The latter meet it
villi prayers, like the Turks. Ilut even
11 civilized Europe, both ancient and
modern, one finds numerous proofs of
this superstition. The Romans came to
the succor of the nfilictcd moon by
Hinging firebrands into tlie air, by the
dure of trumnnts niul ilio i-lnnc r?f
jtuzcn pots. The superstition survived
through tlie middle ages into a very
ate period. France, Wales and Ireland
>ITor many instances as lute as the
seventeenth century.
I'nilrr Water.
"What was the trouble?"
"lie couldn't swim."
"What has that to do with Ids fallire?"
"lie got into a company where the
itoek was nil water."?Exchange.
Easy Pill
8 Easy to take and easy to act is
that famous little pill DeWitt's 8
Little Early Risers. .This is due to ft
the fact that they tonic tho liver in- 8
stead of purging it. They never gripe 8
nor sicken, not even the most delicate D
lady, and yet they are so certain in 1
results that no one who uses them is I
disappointed. They cure torpid liver, 8
constipation, biliousness, jaundice, 6
headache, malaria and ward off pneu- |
Lmonia and fevers. 1
PRPPARSD BY 1 1
S. C. DeWITT A CO., CHICAGO I
Don't Forget the Name.
EARLY RISERS
Dr. R. M. Dorsey,
Specialist
n diseases of the EYE and EAR
and
OPTICIAN.
Successor to II. It. Good ell.
Uexauder's Music Ilall, Spsrtanurg,
3. C. 47-lyr.
'II. 1-11
The skr'ke ar.Uy^V^. i^rd was quick
to note the avail ~v of the barbed
wire fence as jus place for hiiu to
impale his victims .. mil.
The paper said that he was a ricti
farmer; hail half a section of good
laml, lots of stock, line home and all
that; that he went to town, filled up
on whisky and then went lioinc and
thrashed his good wife. Now. there is
110 use in cussing the saloon keeper in
such a case as this, but instead this
old duffer should be given thirty days
at hard labor in the county jail in spite
of his standing and money. This would
cure him. It will cure nine out of ten
of such cases.
If the public highways did not border
every man's farm and were confined to
a few loading thoroughfares through a
county it would be easier to got good
work done on such roads. Some men
are so narrow and seltish that if any
money is paid by them for such a purpose
they want it applied on the highway
in front of their lands even if
three teams did not travel the road.
Th* main traveled roads should he first '
put in good shape; then when this is
done the byroads can receive attention.
lie called at tlr* farmer's house,
praised his < rop and his stock and his
children, with the result that ho got
the granger's name signed to an order
for a twenty dollar map or atlas of
some sort. When he came t > deliver
the hook the fanner's wife, a muscular
female, went for the little sandy haired
agent with a ;?>!; r and made him canoe!
the ord -r. Wb'-n the t Id man came
home lo suppm* there was a family
scene which vr * are prevent;* 1 from
properly describing in tlmse notes and
can only say that the o!d man looked ^
tiled when he went to bed.
Oiiturrh of the
When the stomach is < v< needed;
when food is taken into it that fails h>
ligest, it decays and inflames the mucous
membrane, ex p. sing the mo ves
and causes the glued* to Hereto v.u-uu.
nstead of the natural juieos of digest ion.
I'll is is called Catarrh <T the stomach.
For years I suffered with t'atuih "!
the Momaeh, rinsed by imligt stion.
D e'.o:s and all medicine* failed t > b: n lil
me until 1 used Kodoi P\>prpsia
Cure.?J. IC. Itbea, Cuppeil, Tex.
*( 1 I by 1'. Puke,
1 i;c grnu 'Cav?! ! 11 It* I'h'Kt i'tinii
Iti it* old fashioned Term the menu
was usually written large on cards of
such imposing dimensions that room
lur one oiliy COURI Ul1 lOUMll ;ll CiU'll
iMul of tliu board. I a (hi? us-. .11.oval
ti ;.- .i'.i m fii'lj-yiJua must have
tnedkeva) dinner was a mil. '~!T mr--1
prises. It was divided inlo ?ourses. as
arc our own dainty meals. lint whvr as
nowadays the'diner has a general idea
that llsh will follow so:.;i and that on
Iroo is succeeded by ivlove. and can
conceive generally the sort of demand
that each course will make upon his
appetite and digestion, there was no
possible nr^nin.it as to what was going
:o happen at an early I-higlisli dinner,
and close study fails to reveal the existence
of any principle of arrangement.
Discrediting: nn Astrologer.
A certain king,, says a tale from the
Persian, asked an astrologer, "IIow
many years of life remain to me?" The
wise man replied, "Ten." The king
became very despondent and betook
himself, as one stricken with a sickness,
to bis bed. I lis vizier, who possessed
great wisdom, sent for the seer
and in the king's presence asked him,
"How many years have you to live?"
lie replied, "Twenty." The vizier ordered
that he should that very hour lie
executed in the king's presence. The
king was satisfied and commended the
sagacity of his minister, and no longer
attached any importance to tlio astrologer's
saying.
Cur^s Eczenn, Itching Humors.
H 'picidby f.*r old, chrome, cases taki
'o iv ic libcd Halm I' gives a healthy
o >d fcupp'.j L-i t! e nIT-cted pints, laals
ill the s-oivs, eruptions roabs, scales;
cops l he aw ful itching aid binning ol
c7. ma, swellings, suppurating, watevy
s i es, e.'c. I >i ugiist-1, ?1. Sample free
u.d prepaid by wiiiii g 15'ood lhiltn Co.,
Vil nda, Ha. IV>cril?i: timiMe and fiee
'0< dical advice sent in sealed h tier.
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?Host on (ilobe.
!Y<?1 Wllllo'n S'.'iiili,
Mnfhor WIIIli- Vrtii miicit utnit ncl'ltirr I
papa questions, l'on't you pec they an
noy lilin?
Willie?No, lua'ain; it ain't my qttestlons
that annoy him.
Mother -Willie!
Willie?No, ma'am; it's the answers
he can't give that make him ntnd.?
Philadelphia Record.
To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Ttromo (Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. E. W. Grove1* frigaatuie on
each box. 35c. 0 ly
KAIIM MOT11KRS l-'IFTY YEARS AGO.
Looking back lifty years, it would
seem that the mother 011 the farm iu
those days must have had a linrd row
to hoe. She usually hud a large lam
ily, and she not only had to make tlio
clothing for the family, but spin the
yarn and weave the eloth out of which
it was made. She had to look after the *
sugar making, the hog killing in the
rare of the meat, the soap making,
had to bake in a brick oven and cook
at an open fireplace, and the good
Lord only knows what she did not
have to do besides. 1 tut it must be remembered
that she belonged to no woman's
club, did not bother with fashion
magazines, put her children to work as
soon as they were weaned, made no
angel's food or frappe and was happily
rid of nearly all the heavy burdens
which women in these days place upon
themselves at the dictate of style and
fashion. She usually lived to a good
old age. a good mother and a splendid
type of womanhood. Today the farm
mother buys her family clothing largely
ready made, she runs a sewing machine,
cooks on a steel rnnge, gets all
the meat from the butchers, makes neither
soap nor sugar and does not have
as many children to euro for, and for
nil that is quite likely to be an invalid
und under the doctor's care at fifty.
POTATO POWT3H AMI LIGHT.
J lie* insigniucani potato Dais mir to
become for (iormany what the corn
plant is to America?n creator of great
national wealth. The tuber thrives remarkably
well in that country, and the
animal production is very large. Heretofore
its uses, aside from its edible
value, have been confined to the production
of starch, glucose sirup, potato
Hour, dextrin and starch sugar. The
two recent inventions of the Welsbacli
burner and the gas engine, strange as
it may seem, have opened up new uses
for the potato in the shape of potato
nleohol, which can he produced In unlimited
quantities to sell at retail at
about 17 cents per gallon. This alcohol
used in a lump with a mantle produces
n wonderfully brilliant light, rivaling
the electric arc light in intensity, while
used in the gas engine it affords a very
cheap motive power. The brightest
minds in th<> empire are engaged in developing
this thing, which bids fair to
make a groat nation independent of
botli coal and petroleum.
ni VFlLEBEES AM) CLOVER SEED.
Y\'e are asked what relation the bumblebee
sustains to the production of
developed. This bee is tho only one of
Ills tribe which has a tongue long
enough to reach into the deep set petals
of the clover bloom after its sweets
' "?iiu i'i>1*1 jijflp the tlower. Xo clover
New Zealand until (ho ?...
introduced into those countries. The
i ui iiii-i iu<i'in.? m niiiui.' as in wuy nus
bee duos pat as n usual thins fertilise
the blossoms on (lie lirst or June crop
of clover, this crop rarely containing
any seed. We think that this 111113* he
explained b.v the fact that but few of
the bees survive the winter, their little
winter store of 1101103' often being destroyed
1)3' vermin, and not until the
new swarms appear are the3"?in snfllcient
number to properly eover\ clover
field.
SOniEit SIGXS.
There had been a snowstorm And
some hard frosts and a lot of discouraging
weather the last of April. True,
the robins were nesting and the grain
fields were greening up and the cows
were out to grass, but the leaf buds
and the fruit bloom were waiting and
waiting for the niercuiy to touch 80
before they would get down to business.
Ma3' 2 wo woke to hear the song
of a red breasted grosbeak and the
aria of a brown thrush in the top of
an elm tree, and then we heard the
shrill eliirp of the martin and the
twitter of a brown wren in the peak
of the wood house and that evening
heard the chir-r-r of a tree toad and
knew that summer was right at hand
and June roses, skeeters, commencement,
picnics and the iceman close at
hand. (
KRAI, RR WARDS.
Tho man who works tho soil, who Is
brought into daily touch with nature,
is always having revealed to him new
mysteries-and new beauties and wonders
tho while ho works, just as tho
student of the Bible or Shakespeare
is constantly rewarded with hidden
treasures of literary beauty. Wo slmcerely
pity tho man who, working tho
soil as a business, can never see anything
but tho dollars in the harvest.
When one wants to know and learn.
Nature is a most kindly teacher. She
speaks a varied language, and none
does she try to teach so patiently and
well as him who lives the nearest to
her heart, ller textbooks ore object
lessons, crop failures her punishments,
abundant harvests her certificates of
graduation.
Wild. COST *50.
With land worth $7."> per acre, corn
worth 35 cents, hay $0 and hired help
worth per month and board, it will
cost about $"><? to produce a thirtymontli-old
steer weighing 1,300 pounds,
and the breed of the animal will determine
whether there will be any profit
in bis production. If be Is a scrub and
brings $1 per hundredweight he will be
raised at a loss; if a high grade Shortborn,
Doddle or Whlteface and brings
$<> there will be a profit. About nil the
1DQQOU nntl upnflfc noOAolof a/1 *** I * U i----*
iinouviUit'U TV 1 ill UW1
production are connected with thla
proposition, niul the worst of it Is that
there are so many iaen who will not
believe it until tliey have tried it.
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