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11 I (ha United StateH nnd Eng-Lf-m
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condition or runw ih.
noted educator and ono who
knows tho practical condl
tlona of farm life, Bald the
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slogan, "Uack to Farm," had to bo
changed to "Stay ou tho Farm."
During tho laat decado or two, thou
sands upon thousands of young men
left tho faim for whnt they deemed
easy Jobs In tho city. Lots of farm
ers' daughterss nlso loft tho farm
house kitchen. So that to llnd a way
to enforce tho latter slogan, Is cer
tainly a modorn Idoa, and ono which
tnurt bo enforced not by arbitrary
methods, but by ways and means that
will lessen tho drudgory of farm work,
for either husband and wife, son or
daughter.
On many farms It Is sttn custom
ary for the housowlfo to unlit the
wood sho needs In her kitchen stove.
In sucli homes nobody needs to ask
tho question why tho daughter left
for tho city, to work at a loom In a
Bilk mill for $7 or $8 per week. Her
mother's wrinkles and her growly ex
pression can answer this question.
On tho other hand, tho farmer who
cos that his coal bins nro full, his
woodpile nlwnyB replenished, tho
wood cheHt filled every night for tho
noxt day's noccsHltloB, and who pro
vides n gau stovo to Iron tho clothes
In summer days, when the ordinary
wood flro would mako a furnaco out
of tho farnvhouso kitchen, la tho
Identical farmer who can enforce tho
now slogan, "Stny on tho farm," with
out radical methods.
In eastern Pennsylvania, tho sum
mor season always brings nlong a
ecarclty of farm help, nnd hero tho
Queen of tho Household has during
a number of yenrs solved tho dlirtcult
labor questions. A famous woman
lawyer onco snld. that "woman do
mands tho right to work at whatovcr
she plcaBos, and that sho also has tho
right to compcto with tho stronger
aex In all brunches of work; because
she was tho original workor on this
earth, ever since tho human raco
sprung Into existence, and that slnco
this period sho has been able to
mako her own living and that of her
offspring."
Not on this theory alono, but on ac
count of the fact that the wives and
daughters of tho sturdy farm
ers In thin state, love to do
manual work, at periods when tho
kitchen drudgeries allow her to atop
Into tho open air and tnko part In
work that her husband, and her broth
er la nccustomod to do.
With modorn farming methods In
troduced by improved machinery,
women can do a groat many things
on the farm', which might otherwise
prove a burden. In thoso sections It
1b not only tho wife nnd tho farmer's
daughter, and daughters of every
day laborers, who aro glad to go In
tho fields at hay-making and harvest
tlmo, for the wages thoy recetvo dur
ing tho busy porloda. when labor Is
acarce, la nearly on a par with
that paid to tho stronger sex, nnd
even much more than tho factory Bis
ters receive in the cities, besides giv
ing them the opportunity of working
In the open air instead of a poor un
Tentllated factory, receiving besides
the good dinners that aro served by
the farmers In those localities, with
fresh milk and butter, friend chicken
ftod ham, good waffles and pies.
re the manifold duties on the
farm too strenuous? The average
famwlfe, who loves to go In tho
flelA for a change, says she prefers
this vork to that of a chambermaid1
In a large hotel, who works from
five la the morning until ten o'clock
at night; she even would prefer to
walk behind pow handles all day,
rather than scrub waxed floors or
wash dishes all day long in a city
Bianslsm.
However, farm work Is not all so
hard as plowing. Tho self-binder al
lows the farmer's daughter to operate
It around the ten and twenty-acre
fieldswith about as much ease as the
farmer's son would be able to ndo It.
The 'improved hay-rakes and hay
tedders are nowadays easy to operate
and with a little skill they easily
manipulate them.
During corn planting time women
with strong muscles think little of
guiding the handles of a corn planter
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No. 1, Sisters Cultivating the Corn
fieldNo. 2, A Farmer's Daughter
In Charge of the Horse-power No.
3, Women Husking the Corn No.
4, Rolling the 8od No. 5, Woman
Plowing.
all day long, and with equal skill
thoy cultlvato tho corn later on. Pre
paring tho sod with the land rollef
and sitting ou a disk harrow nro all
tasks that of lato years have been
dono by women, since tho country
cousins havo seen fit to go to cities
nnd help city cousins twist cigars in
factories, or work in tho iron mills.
They havo become "tho handy girl
around tho barn," Instead of the for
mer handy man around the house.
They havo been reading agricultural
papers, somo havo attended agricul
tural schools, and quite a fow have
not only studied domestic science- to
bo useful In tho farm-house kitchens;
but thoy havo studied feed rations,
dairy methods nnd soil fortuity, so
that they know better how to feed a
dairy cow corroctly than did their
fathers a decado ago. Thoy nre also
able to onforco tho sanitary methods
in and about tho dairy barn, bo that
meat and milk Inspectors need not
spend extra car faro to Inspect their
farm premises.
Still Bomo of their work is done as
mother and grandmother used to do
It. Small farmers, who do not wish
to go to tho expense of buying all tho
modern machinery, still cut their
grain with tho cradlo, and tho daugh
ters bind tho grain. No corn husk
ing machines have yet been Invented
that husk corn like a human hand
can, bo women aro seen in corn fields
in great numbers. Those farmers
who still cut their grass fields, and
particularly wet meadows, still use
tho forks to spread out the grass to
dry instead of using tedders, and this
work 1b all dono by young girls.
Many farmers still use the horse
power for operating their threshing
machinery, and here tho young wom
en And numerous tasks thoy can do,
such as acting as driver, whipping
and urging 'the horsea around and
around the customary circle In the
horse power shed, feeding the 'sheaves
Into tho threshing machine, handing
them to the fedder and pushing tho
straw from the barn-floor to the sta
bles below.
In this respect co-operation, how
ever, lessens this kind of work. For"
In many sectlona It Is customary to
have eomo farmer mako tho rounds
of all tho farms In tho neighborhood,
with his gasoline engine and grain
separator and cleaner, doing tho work
quickly; but even hero woman takes
her position In helping to till the
sacks, hand the sheaves to the opera
tor and see that all the straw gets
into the mow or the extra straw
shed.
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With all this open air work on tho
farm-, woman is becoming tho real
Queen of the Farm. Tho public
schools begin to teach agriculture,
stato experiment stations send out
bulletins giving to them eaBy meth
oda of study, how to train to become
real handy on tho farm, either as
wife, daughter or helper, bo that wo
havo In Pennsylvania, as well ns
other eastern states, modern women
gardeners, manngera of dairy farms,
owners of poultry farms and apiaries,
besides showing nn equal Interest In
tho method of marketing form prod
ucts, sowing good seed nnd applying
tho proper fertilizer, according to
modorn soil survoys, which toll tho
farmers Just what Is lacking on his
own farm.
Tho modern farmer's wlfo does not
think her household dutlcB a drudg
ery any moro. Her better half has
seen that tho day Is at hand for bet
ter conditions, so he has Installed n
modern heating system In tho farm
house, bath rooms and first-class laun
derlea. Tho kitchen Is remodeled and
equipped In tho best sanitary way
and instead of standing at the old
colonial tablo working butter into tho
old-fashioned forms, she has tho
cream soparntor or tho community
creamery, either to mako tho work
easier, or eliminate it altogether.
Modern methods nnd better schools
in rural districts havo given us tho
"Farmerettes." Thoy are not only
queens tt their husband's farms, but
thoy aro sole ruler over their own
farms. Pennsylvania has a largo num
ber of women farmers, who not only
do renl farm work, but who manage
hundreds of acres of land that tho
same are scientifically tilled nnd
managed on a buslnoss-llko syBtem.
Ono Pennsylvania woman, with tho
nld of a sister, both being single, con
ducted a sevonty-acro farm for years,
did many of tho outdoor tasks, except
tho heavy work, and conducted a
dairy of thirty cows, even attending
to tho details of selling every quart
of milk In a retail way to the cus
tomers in three neighboring towns.
Another Pennsylvania woman con
ducted a 160-acro farm, which was In
a run-down condition when she ac
quired It, but in a few years her banR
accounts grew so much that a large
real estate owner appointed her man
ager of a series of farms. Another
woman farmer In thts state has so
elevated the dairy end of her farm
work that she is now doing a flourish
ing business selling milk, nicely put
up 1., bottles and stamped "certified
milk," which physicians recommend
especially for the babies.
Then, there are half a dozen wom
en farmers in one Pennsylvania coun
ty who have made a remarkable bug
cobs with growing small fruit; an
other has managed a peach farm, and
still another uses all the milk of ten
cows to make a certain kind of
cheese, which is sold In eastern cities
under tho name of "cup cheese," and
tho demand has been so enormous
that she paved the way to success for
half a dozen other worthy competi
tors who are all making monoy.
The Queen of the Farm today Is a
arid
far moro Independent person than
her city sister, because sho can save
fifty per cent, on most everything hor
city sister has to buy to keep her
healthy in this world, nnd moat of it
bIio haa to buy from Bome sister furm
er, or somebody clso's sister's brother.
Day after day tho words "Queen of
the Farm" becomes more of a reality,
because rural llfo is rapidly changing
for tho better. Tho school aro bet
ter, tho churches havo become a
greater factor In most rural commun
ities and social questions aro dis
cussed at social gatherings at the
farm-houses; paving the way, bo that
thore Is a better understanding of the
rural problem by every woman of
every farming community. Even at
thoso social gatherings somo time Is
devote to the study of scientific sub
jects that have to do for tho better
ment of intenslvo and extensive farm
ing In all Its details.
If rural womon will keep their po
sition of "Queen" thore will be no
use for tho words, "Back to farm,"
among them; but tho daughters will
bo glad to advance tho now slogan:
"Stay on tho farm;" thus keeping
their own sex in tho rural commun
ities. Thla will prove to their own
advantage and to tho advantage of
every' young malo farmer who cannot
help but got a better and more' up-to-date
practical holpmate to conduct
the various agricultural pursuits of
the next generation.
(Copyright, 1913, Shulta Syndicates Tresi.)
Posterity to Obtain Records.
We 'are told that tho Modern His
toric Records association has formed
a novel plan of delivering messages
for Its members to tholr descendants
100 years from now. Two envelopes
of durable Japaneso vellum havo been
Bent to each member, with the request
that geneologlcal memoranda, mes
sages and photographs be Inclosed.
Tho sealed envelopes will be de
posited in loadllned steel chests. One
will be stored with the association's
collections Jn the New York public
library. A copperplate inscription
will direct that the chest be opened in
the year 2013.
The second chest will be put In a
vault near the Cheops pyramid In
Egypt. In this way the Insurance is
taken against possible destructlonby
war or natural causes. The chests
also will contain documents, tablets,
and photographs relating to affairs of
the present year.
Singing of Wires Laid to Tremor.
A new theory of the singing of tele
graph wires has been offered by Pro
fessor Field. No explanation yet given
seems to have been perfectly satisfac
tory, and the suggestion Is now made
that the sounds represent minute
earth vibrations, which are trans
mitted to the wires through the poles.
Theso vibrations depend largely on
varying air pressure. The song of the
wires, therefore, may give good baro
metric signals, a sharp sound Indicat
ing that a chango Is close at hand,
while a low bumming shows that pres
ent conditions may continue a day, or
perhaps two.
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SOLDIER ADMITS WAS SCARED
No Possible Escape From Death at
Kenesaw Mountain by Order, Af
terwards Rescinded.
Uy way of making him talk, for he
was afraid of tho reminiscing habit
of soldiers ,and It waa nearly impos
sible to get him to speak of hla ex
perience In tho Civil war, the woman
asked him, "Woro yo"u never afraid?"
"Of course, I was afraid."
"That Bounds human, When were
you tho worst Beared If you don't re
Bent the word?"
"Not a bit. It Is a good word to ex
press ono kind of a stato of mind.
Why, it was nt tho battle of Kenesaw
Mountain. Wo had been fighting all
day and driving the other hide beforo
ua. Just nbout dusk wo came to tho
foot of tho mountain and found tho
Confederates had strong fortifications
well up toward tho top of it. Word
was Bent along our lines that at dawn
the next day wo wero to 'scale tho
mountain and take those. fortifications.
As the word was passed from man to
man every face turned white. I never
have seen so sick a looking lot of men.
At dawn we were to march straight up
to certain death, and wo had all night
t- think about it. There would be no
possible escape for any ono of us. 1
know my comrades. There would be
no deserters. Thore would bo only
corpses, and I would be ono of thum.
I don't know If I waa tho whitest man
In the lot, hut I know ho would havo
been hard to pick out. I never havo
been ashamed that I was scared that
night."
"Hut you nro here. How did you es
cape?" "Well, 'somo ono had blundered.'
The order had botu given, but It was
a fool ono, and fortunately Its folly
waa seen bofore we had an American
Dalaklava. Tho order was recalled,
and In its place we re'cclvcd tho sano
order to movo under cover of darkness
to a position whero our work would
havo some value. A man doesn't mind
fighting. All ho wants 1b to know that
ho has, n worthy cause and is not
acting tho fool."
PETERSBURG FORT BLOWN UP
Instance Related of the Efficiency of
the Engineering Service In the
Northern Army.
Blowing up of tho Petersburg fort
waB a desperate attempt to .end the
siege that had been going on for sev
eral weeks and was destined to con
tinue for many months longer. Jn ad
vancing on Lee's army Grant had been
badly defeated at Cold Harbor Juno 12.
18G4, and had also been unsuccessful
In cutting off communication between
Richmond and tho south. A force waa
left to lay siege to the fortified city
of Petersburg while Grant continued
operations in other parts of Virginia.
Tho fort destroyed by tho explosion
was ono of many In tho line of earth
works, that, with tho Appomattox riv
er, surrounded Petersburg. To break
through the defenses In one placo and
establish a strong position would have
brought about a quick end of the
slego and perhaps have hastened by a
llttlo whllo the surrender of Lee's
army. The success of the explosion,
though not taken advantage of, was
an instance of the efficiency of the
engineering service of the northern
army.
Equal for Him.
An American naval officer brought
a Chinese servant named Quong
home with him from the far east.
Ono day the Oriental asked permis
sion to attend a funeral.
"Go ahead, Quong," consented the
officer. Then ho supplemented: "I
suppose you wltl place different kinds
of food on your dead friend's grave,
as they do in your native country?"
"Same as In China," said Quong.
"Now, Quong," continued tho offi
cer, good-naturedly, "when do you
think your friend will como up to eat
what yotf have placed on his grave?"
"Alice samea time that 'Mcllcan
man comes up to smelle flowers you
put on his," retorted Quong In the
same spirit
Her Only Imperfection.
At one time a certain Major Hill
charged Lincoln with making defama
tory remarks regarding 'Mrs. Hill.
Hill was Insulting In his language
to Lincoln, whb never lost his tem
per. When he saw his chance to edge a
word In Lincoln denied emphatically
using the language or anything ltke
that attributed to him.
He entertained, he insisted, a high
regard for Mrs. Hill, and the only
thing he knew to her discredit was
the fact that. she was Major HUT
wife.
How He Wae Don.
An Irishman went to the sutler, an
old skinflint, and asked the price of
a quart of elder.
"Twenty cents," replied the sutler.
"Then give me a quart in pints,"
Bald Pat.
Pat, upon drinking one pint, asked:
"How do we stand?"
"I owe you a pint," answered the
sutler.
"And I owo you one, so we are
straight."
And Pat walked off with a diaboli
cal grin on hla physiognomy.
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For further panlevlan write to
W. V. BENNETT,
Bee Bulldlnsi Omaha, Neb,
Canadian OoTernment'Afcnta, or
adrtrcM Hitperlnttinilrnt of
Immigration, Ottawa, ctatt.
MIGHT HAVE MADE A MISTAKE
Cindy Claimed Caller Was Her Bro
ther, But She Was Willing to
Take Another Look.
Tho woman loft tho girl arranging
the dinner table "and went to tha
kitchen for something. A great, hulk
ing negro was sitting in the kitchen
rocker. Indignant, tho woman hurried
back.
"Cindy," sho demanded, "what havo
I told you about having your bcn'ux In
tho kitchen?"
"Laws, miss, he ain't no beau! Why,
he's nuflln but my brudder."
Somowhat mollified, tho woman
went back to the kitchen.
"So you aro Cindy's brother?" she
said kindly.
"Law bless yo' no, miss," ho an
swered. "I uln't no 'latlon 'tall to her.
I'so Jes' kecpln' comp'ny wlf hor."
Tho woman sought Cindy' again.
"Cindy," sho asked Bternly, "why did
you tell mo that tho man wiib your
brother? Ho says he's no rotation."
Cindy looked aghast.
"Fo' de Land's sako, miss, did he
say dat? Jes' yo' stay hero a mlnlt
an' lemme go look ag'ln." Chicago
Record-Herald.
Valuable Beetle Now.
Not long ago a Washington scient
ist, an enthusiastic student of natural
history, captured a fine specimen of
beetle. On reaching home he, in a
moment of haste, pinned the beetlo
to n library table with his diamond
scarfpln.
When he returned to the library
from his dinner, he found the captive
had got loose and was flying about
with the diamond pin glistening from
IiIb back.
Man aucTbug made a rush for the
window at the samo instant, says
Harper's Weekly. Tho beetle got
there first and triumphantly sailed
away, barely eluding tho scientist's
hand. Neither bug nor pin has Blnca
been seen.
City Grass Is Different.
A remarkably Interesting fact waa
brought to light by Lord Redesdale be,
fore the advisory commltteo of the
King Edward memorial fund for Lon
don, which was discussing the lay
ing out of Shadwoll market site as a
pleasure garden. It was curious, he
Bald, that grass brought from the
country withered-away In London, on
the -other hand, grass from London
grown seeds flourished. That is a
striking example of what scientists
call adaptation to environment. Lon
Ion Globe.
Wo loam to do by doing. Wo also
learn not to do by doing. - '
"LIKE MAGIC
New Food Makes Wonderful Changes,
When a man haa suffered from dys
pepsia so many years that he can't re
member when he had a natural appe
tite, and then hits on a way out of
trouble he may be excused for saying
"it acts like magic."
When It Is a simple, wholesome
food instead of any one of a large num
ber of bo called remedies In the form
of drugs, he Is more than over likely
to feel as though a sort of miracle haa
been performed.
A Chicago man, in the delight of re
stored digestion, puts It In this way:
"Like magic, fittingly describes tha
manner in which Grape-Nuts relieved
me of poor digestion, coated tongue
and loss of appetite of many years
standing.
"I tried about every medicine that
was recommended to me, without re
lief. Then I tried Grape-Nuts on tha
suggestion of a friend. By tho time
I bad finished the fourth package, my
stomach was all right, and for the past
two months I have been eating with
a relish anything set before me. That
Is something I had been unable to do
previously for years.
"I am stronger than ever and I con
slder the effects of Grape-Nuts on a"
weak stomach as something really
wonderful. It builds up the entire
body as well as the brain and nerves."
Name given by the Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
"There's a reason," and it is ex
plained in the little book, "The Road
to WellvUle," In page.
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