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About Hemingford herald. (Hemingford, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1895-190? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1898)
y ,,r . r V A MOMENT'S PAUSE. A moment's pause for longing and for dreaming, A moment looking backward on the way; To kiss my hand to long-past turretB gleaming, To stand and think of life yesterday! A little time to dream of sunlit hours Spent where white towers rise against the sky; To tread again that path of too Bweet flowers, To hear again the greeting and good bye! What Is there, say you, in that far-off city Of my past living and past loving left, Wrapped In its golden haze, t6 stir my Pity And call the bitter sigh to tho be reft? The memory of a touch warm, trust ing, clinging, The memory of that touch grown cola as ice? A voice hushed that was pure as wild bird's Blnglng? A love whose bright flame burned In sacrifice? Only a grave? Life of today will teach me Its stream fleets fast for sorrow and regret, Beyond thlB turn Its sweeping wave will reach me, I must go with It, as we all got Yet A moment's pause for longing and for dreaming, A moment's looking backward on the way; .To kiss my hand to long-past turrets gleaming, To 8tnnd and think of life of yester day! L. Marlon Jenkr, In Donahue's. A COUNTRY CRACKElt. According to his ctty schoolmates, Bubber Ramp was a country cracker. And who knows better a child's social and financial standing than Its school fellows? His face was not round and rosy, like other Jolly, sweet-tempered boys, for Bubber was a slender child, with pale face, and lanky, straight hair, streaked In color with the shades of half-pulled molasses candy. He was subject to chills and fevers, which kept him away from school about half the time and gave his teacher an excuse for scolding him whenever there was no one else In particular for her to scold. His father was a section master on the Georgia railroad, and they lived In the "ten mile" shanties, which were built on the side of the railroad and on the edge of a deep cut, through which the wind blew a perfect gale the whole year round. But If by living on the cut Bubber ac quired the chill and fever habit he also gained the knowledge which enabled him to save the lives of some 500 peo ple Sunday school children with the friends and teachers. It was the picnic of Bubber'a Sunday school, but because It fell on his chill day his mother said he could not attend. So he contented himself with walking five miles up the railroad to Belalr, the nearest station where the train would stop, with a huge bunch of flowers for his Sunday school teacher. This teacher, be It known, was one of the people who did not know about Bubber's being a country cracker, but considered him a Jolly, amiable boy. After handing the bouquet through the car window Bubber stood for a while looking wistfully at the train load of happy children. Then some thing occurred which made his school mates forget forever that he was home ly and poor, and this Is how It hap pened. Southward from Brazella the road drops down steadily for five or six miles. There follows the little rise to the top of Habersham hill, and then comes the sharp sag of a mile or more to Belalr and the level valley of the Savannah. John' Johnson, or "'Yucker.'' as he was called for short, ivas the most daring engineer on the Georgia and had the best run on the road until he Joined the strike of the Knights of Labor. After the difficulty was settled and the strikers went back to work, Yucker, for the sake of discipline, was put to hauling way freight between Union Point and Augusta. On this particular day, while his fire man was taking water at the big red tank at Thompson, Yucker went Into the station for orders. He found out that there was nothing for him at Bra zella or Belalr. He had nothing to leave at either station, so he climbed back Into his cab, meaning to go through to Wheeless to meet the up freight. Sometimes he met It at Belalr, but whenever he got the chanace he ran by and trusted to luck that It would be held for him at Wheeless. It was in the early summer, and the green grass and bright flowers made the earth seems like a great garden. Yucker was half out of the window of his cab when his train passed through Brazella. His feet were on the running board, his elbows on his knees, and his chin In his hands. He was absorbed In tho beauty of the landscape plunging past him, so he did not see the agent run out as the rear of the train reached the end ofjthe platform and shout fran tically at him. Yucker had thirty cars behind him, bo be cllmbe'd In from the window and gave the engine a bit more steam. Down the sag before Habersham hill the train thundered, gaining momentum every second. The engineer was getting ready for the rise to the top of the hill, and he meant to make the finest plunge down the other side that ever had been made. He meant to leave the agent at Belalr dumb with astonishment and be half way to Wheeless before the opera tor could telegraph to the next station to hold up the freight. At the top of the hill he pulled the throttle out, hooked the lever up to he top of the gauge, and down Habersham hill he roared under a full head of steam. But tho agent at Brazella had not caught the up freight at Wheeless, and when Yucker began to plunge down Habersham hill It was waiting for him at the bottom. That would have been all right, for the way freight had gonts by dozens of times under Just such cir cumstances, but there was the Sunday school excursion running special, and that was why the agent at Brazella had tried so desperately to Btop the heed less engineer. The special waited on tho main line with the up freight on the siding; when the way freight came they were to "saw by." But they had not reckoned how It would come. With the engine leaping and lurching over the rails, the loaded cars rocking and reeling, the train shot down the frightful grade. Tho roar warned the men at tho station of the Impending danger, but Yucker was engrossed In contemplation of the landscape while his fireman sat with his back to the cab. The people at the station were be number with fright. They stared with horror-stricken faces at the oncoming engine as some great demon hurrying to destroy the excursion train with Its load of human freight. Paralyzed with fear they could neither move nor call aloud. In the wholo crowd there was but one who could think and act. He was a slender, pale-faced boy, and he rushed up the track toward the oncoming train. "Git out, git out," his shrill Voice shouted to the men In the cab of the up freight. "Jump and run, Jump and run." He was tugging at a switch key, and they Baw what he meant. So down the men Jumped from the engine, while the boy ran on to the switch. His hands seemed paralyzed, so long did It appear before he forced It open; then he step ped back Just as the way freight rushed by and ran full tilt Into the up freight. There was a tremendous crash. The en gine of the way freight rode over the other and smashed It Into fragments. Then It sat down on Its own cab wtth the forward' truck In the air and one wheel whirling round like a millstone. The following cars piled up In a great cloud of dust. The terrified excursionists scrambled from their own train, rushed over to the wreck, and stood for a time In speech less horror and amazement. Then the freight conductor came up, and search ing among1 the crowd, led out a slen der, pale-faced lad. "To this brave boy," he said, raising his hand to command attention, "you ' owe the preservation of your lives" Here his voice choked. With tears streaming down his face, he finished the sentence by motioning toward tho excursion train. "There; were more than 500 on board," said the Sunday school superintendent. "The majority of them children." ' "Not a life lost," cried one of the I trainmen, running up, "Yucker, his fireman and both brakemen Jumped for their lives after shutting off steam and putting down brakes. They came off without a scratch." "It was a miracle." said the preacher. "It was Bubber Ramp," sold a child- Ish voice. "I seen him when he opened the switch." Then the crowd surrounded the pale- faced lad, pushing and shoving to shake his hand, to touch him or even to get a look at him. What was said or who said It no one could tell, but In the midst of It nil there sounded the shrill whistle of a near-by steam saw-mill. "Ifs"leven o'clock," said Bubber, looking up at the sun. "It's about time for my chill, so I'd better be gettln' home." And he hurried off down the track toward the ten-mile shanties as complacently as though nothing had happened. The following week the Sunday school superintendent accompanied the rail road official when he went to tell Mr. Ramp of his appointment to a better . position on the road. The superintend- ' ent. on behalf of the people on board the excursion train, presented Bubber ' W ,a T V , . riiul ! ', . "". ",-' ; gardlng In awed astonishment the hand- some wheel and timepiece, two things I ij, i. uiuiiu, eaiu uuuuti, l nbove all others he had most longed for, "I never done nothln but turn the switch key. Anybody could've done that. I've been doln It ever since I was goln' on 7 years." Chicago Inter Ocean. ,..!. Walter T. Davis, one of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, who was badly wounded ' at Santiago, was lost In Central park I last night. Weakened by wounds and rever, no naa ranen at the foot cf a only increases the embarrassment, stntue, when two society women, Mrs. since you have her to take care of." George Becker and nlec?, saw him from You are an Ingrate, for the woman their carriage. With the help of their 'ob often supports the man aa the man escort and the servants Davis was supports the woman. The man may lifted Into the carriage and was driven bring all the dollars, but the woman to Bellevue hospital. The doctors there generally brings the courage and the said that he was In a serious condl- ! faith In God. tlon. Well, this man of whom I am speak- There was a lawn party given by the I"P looks around, and he finds his fam Wonien's Protective Relief society In ' lly Is left, and he rallies, and the light Central park yesterday afternoon, and comes to his eyes, nnd the Bmlle to his the convalescents from the hospitals face, and the courage to his heart. In were Invited to attend. Davis was al- !two years he Is quite over It. He met lowed to accompany a number of other soldiers from the Marine hospital at Staten Island. Davis has lived at Tampa all his life, and it was an exciting afternoon for himi The strength that he had gained since he had left the horrors of Cuba behind htm began to desert him. Un willing to spoil the amusement ot his comrades, he left the party and lay down tn the shade. When the man In charge of his party looked for him at the close of the entertainment he could not be found. As some of the car riages had already left It was supposed that Davis waa In one of them. FAIR SUMMER, LINGER. fair Summer, linger at my door, And lot me learn your magic lore; Haste not nway. Your breath Is sweet upon the hills, Your music nil the woodland fills, And clear and gay. The bobolink his light song flings Across the meadow, as he swings With airy ease In swinging tree-top, every pauso Filled with the rustic of applause Of leaf and breeze. In love for you, tho oriole At morn pours out his glowing soul In wild, sweet trill; But with nlght'B trnnqutl muslo blent, I hear the tender, sad lament Of whlppoorwlll. O. Summer, surely ho must feel That Into your warm heart will steal A chill of fear. Into your song a minor note, As slow your perfumed garments float, And disappear Adown the year. TALM AGE'S SERMON. Washington, D. C, Aug. This dis course of Dr. Tnlmage Is full of encour agement for those who know not which way to turn because of accumulated misfortunes. Text, I. Samuel, xlv., 4: "There was a shap rock on tho one side, and a sharp rock on tho other side." The cruel army of the Philistines roust be taken and scattered. There Is Just one man, nccompanled by his body guard, to do that thing. Jonathan Is the hero of the scene. I know that David cracked the skull of the giant with a few pebbles well slung, nnd that 300 Gidennltcs scattered 10,000 Amalok Ites by the crash of broken crockery; but here Is a more wonderful conflict. Yonder nre the Philistines on the rocks. Here Is Jonathan with his body guard In the valley. On the one side Is a rock called Bozez; on the other side Is a rock called Seneh. These two were as famous In olden times as In modern times are Plymouth rock and Gibral tar. They were precipitous, unscalable and sharp. Between these two rocks Jonathan must make his ascent. The dqy comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan, on his hands and feet, begins the ascent. With strain nnd slip and bruise, I suppose, but still on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his body guard. Bozez on one side. Seneh on the other. After a sharp tug and push and clinging I see the head of Jonathan above the hole In the moun tain; and there Is a challenge and a fight and a supernatural consternation. These two men, Jonnthan and his body guard, drive back and drive down rocks, which Israel. the Philistines over the nnd open a campaign demolishes the enemies of I suppose that the overhang ing and overshadowing rocks on either side did not balk or dlsheartf" Jona than or his body guard, but only roused and filled them with enthusiasm as they went up. "There was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side." My friends, you have been, or are now, some of you, in this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble he can go through with It. He gathers all his energies, concentrates them on one ' point, and In the strength of God, or by ! hU own natural determination, goes through It. But the man who has trouble to the right of him, and trou- j D,e to lhe left of him, Is to be pitied. Dld either trouble come alone, he might endure It. but two troubles, two dls- asters, two overshadowing misfortunes, ore Boze's and 5neh 0r"' J1'1 him! I "There Is a sharp rock on the one side, . and a snarp rocl on the other side." In this c'lsis of the text Is that man whose fortune and health fall him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants cnpslze In business before they come to forty-five years of age. There Is some collision In commercial circles, nnd they stop payment. It seems as If every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man Is who risks all his own property on the pros pect that some man will tell the truth. When the calamity does come. It Is awful. Thi mnn popfi hnrwn In rioannl,. fl ne te),s , fam We.n naye g0 t0 tne poor houge.. Hfi takeg a ,Jo. lorous vlew ot everything. It seems as if - navor oniilrl rlca Tnf mn ir he never could rise. But a tlme pagse8i am, he saySi Wn not so bndly ott after a. T hav . a.w ..w . w ,UUIU lOVl UV t I11MS I am have my family left." Before the Lord turned Adam out of paradise he gave him Eve, bo that whpn he lost paradise he could stand It. Permit one who has never read but a few novels In all his life, and who has not a sreat deal of romance In his corn- posltion, to say. that if. when a man's fortunes fall, he has a good wlfe-a good Christian wife-he ought not to be despondent. "Oh," you say, "that that one trouble conquered It. It Is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upon God when he has ten thousand dollars In the bank, end fifty thousand dollars In govern ment securities, and a block of stores and three ships. "Well," the man says to himself, "It Is silly for me to pray, 'Give me this day my dally bread,' when my pantry Is full, and the camels from the west are crowded with bread Huffs destined for my storehouses." Oh, my friends, If the combined mis fortunes and disasters of life have ' made you climb up Into the arms of a I tympathetlc and compassionate God, j through all eternity you will bless him that in this world "there waa a thnrp rock on the ono Bide, and a sharp rod: on the other side." Again, that mnn Is In tho crisis of the text who has homo trouble nnd out side persecution at tho samo time. Tho world treats a man well Just i.s lonr as It pays to treat him well. Aa long as It can mnnufneturo success out of his hone nnd brain nnd muioln, It fa vors him. Tho world fntlens tho horsr It wants to drive. But let a man see It hlB duty to cross tho track of th world, then every bush Is full of thorns and tusks thrust nt him. They wilt belittle him. They will cnrleatura him. They will call his generosity solf-og-grnndlzcmcnt nnd his piety innctlmo nlousncss Tho very worst prosecution will sometimes come upon him from those who profess to bo Christians. Now, a certain amount of persecu tion rouses a man's defiance, stirs" his blood for mngnlflccnt battle, and makes him fifty times more n man than ho would have been without tho per Becutlon. So It was with tho great re former when he said: "I will not ho put down; I will be heard." And so It was with Millard, the preacher, In the timo of Louis XI. When Louis XI. sent word to him that utiles he stopped preaching In that style ho would throw him Into the river, he replied: "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he will reach It by fast horses." So sometimes men have awakened to And on one side of them the rock of persecution, nnd on the other side of them the rock of domestic Infelicity. What shall such a one do? Do aa Jon athan did climb. Get upon tho heights of God's consolation, from which you may look down In triumph upon out side persecution and homo trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenced by the magistrates, and having his name written on tho board fences of London In doggerel, at that very time his wife waa making him ns miserable as she could acting as though she wero possessed by tho devil, ns I suppose Bho was; never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that he wrote In his dlnry these words: "I did not forsake her; I have not dismissed her; I will not recall her." Again, that woman stands In the crisis of the text who hns bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood at the same time. Without mentioning names, I speak from observation. Ah, It Is a hard thing for a woman to mako an honest Hvlrg, even when her heart Is not troubled, and she has a fair cheek, and the magnetism of nn exquisite presence. But now the husbnnd, or the father, Is dead. Tho expenses of tho obsequies have absorbed all that wns left In the savings bank; and, wan and wasted with weeping and watch ing, she goes forth a grave, a hearse, a coffin behind her to contend for her existence and the existence of her chit- dren. When I see such a battle nsj mat open, I shudder at the ghastllness of the spectacle. Men sit with em broidered slippers and write heartless essays about women's wages; but that question Is made up of tears and blood, and there Is more blood than tears. Oh, give women free access to all the realms where she can get a' livelihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit! Let men's wages be cut down before hers are cut down. Men have Iron In their bouIs, and can stand It. May God put Into my hand the cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but -a wlndowlcns h'.it fjr shelter for many years, rather than that after I am dead there shall go out from my home Into the pitiless world a woman's arm to fight the Gettysburg, the Aus terlltz. the Waterloo of life for bread! What are such to do? Somehow, let them climb up Into the heights of the glorious promise: "Leave thy father less children; I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust In me." Or get up Into the heights of that other glorious promise: "The lord preserveth the stranger nnd relleveth the widow and the fatherless." Oh, ye sewing women, on starving wagest Oh, yo widows, turned out from the once beau tiful home! Oh, ye female teachers, kept on niggardly stipend! Oh, ye de spalring women, seeking In vain for work, wandering along the docks, and thinking to throw yourselves Into the river last night! Oh, ye women of weak nerves nnd aching sides and short breath and broken heart, you need something more than human sym pathy; you need the sympathy of God. Climb up Into his arms. He knows It all, and he loves you more than father or mother or husband ever could or ever did; and, Instead of sitting down, wringing your hands tn despair, you had better begin to climb. There are heights of consolation for you, though now "there Is a sharp rock on one side, and a sharp rock on the other side." You see from my subject that when a man gets Into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean him self. There Is nothing In religion that leads to meanness or unmanllness. The gospel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did climb to ward God, climb toward heaven, climb Into the Bunshlne of God's favor. To become a Christian Is not to go meanly down; It Is to come gloriously up up Into the communion of saints; up Into the peace that passeth all understand ing; up Into the companionship of an gels. He lives upward; he dies upward. Oh, then, accept the wholesale Invi tation which I make this day to all the people! Come up from between your Invalidism and financial embarrass ments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitution. Come up from between a wasted life and an unlllumlned eternity. TJke Jon nthan, climb up with all your might. Instead of sitting down to wring your hands In the shadow and In the dark nesr "a sharp rock on the one aide, and a sharp rock on the other aide." FARM TACTS. To the Cnttlo Feeders. It has long been a question In my mind why the cnttlo fcedors thoso far mers who feed corn and buy tho thin cattlo to feed have not made an at tempt to effect seme kind of nn or ganization for thejr own protection and mutual Interest, seolng that tho cattlo grazers, the ranchmen have such an organization, tho commission men havo their organization, ns well as tho well known organization of tho packers, In short, we eco that almost every separate branch of the business hns Its own special organization for tho pro tection of Its own special interests, to the effectiveness of which tho experi ence of tho unorganized farmer feed era bear nbundnnt virtues. I am convinced that tho benefits to said feedera of a proper organization arc very grcnt Indeed. I havo con sulted with many feeders and farmers nnd find that they, too, are much Im pressed with tho good results promised by such organization, and they aro em phatically favorable to a general dls cuBslon of this mnttor with a largo number of farmers from all over the Missouri valley the larger the number and tho wider the range of their lo cation tho better tho results and they havo expressed Btrong npproval of tho suggestion that a call for such a meet Ing be Issued. Questions to be Investigated and dis cussed at such a meeting are numer ous. Such as tho kind of cattlo best suited to dry lot, or corn, or grasa feed ing. Preparation for the care and feed ing; but especially pertlent aro such topics aa plans for determining tho prices to be paid for tho cattlo at tho several times of tho year when they are bought planB for eliminating Buch Influences, aside from those of legiti mate supply and demand, na deter mine, In large, port, said prices. Wo constantly bco a largo per cent of those who feed cattlo under exist ing conditions lose their corn entirely; others get for their corn a small price and nothing nt all for their tabor or for tho hay fed; othera lose all their feed, labor and money besides, and this In times when there Is not a sur plus of fat cattle. In my opinion this can be materially changed by consultation and organiza tion ot thoso materially Interested. Wo may bo assured that the organization ot tho men Interested In other branches ot this great business aro not going to work any change In these conditions, when such chnnge would adversely af fect their own material and financial profits. We must help ourselves, sim ply by standing by our own Interests. We find buyers for tho packers, at all tho market centers, every morning wait until they receive orders what to buy and the prlco to pay, and tho farmer or feeder who Is on the market Is en tirely at the mercy of those buyers with their prlco set for them by the packers without regard to what kind of stuff or how much Is upon that par tlcular market. That Is, tho clement of competition Is practically eliminated. In support of this statement, we feed, era find that each buyer In the mar ket offers tho same price na every othir buyer for the same grade or the samo lot of cattle, except possibly the differ ence In their Judgment as to the grade of a certain branoh of cattle. I cannot aee why an advisory board might not bo established at each of the great market centers to prico the feed ers as the packers now price the fat cattle as well aa practically fix the price of these same cattle when they were shipped out aa feeders. If this could not be done with such absolute perfection as the packers accomplish their work. It might hove a most de slrable and appreciable tendency In the right direction. I simply suggest this as one of the plans for bettering our own business conditions, but I have full faith In the intelligence of this class of our busi ness citizens to believe that a large gathering of tho feeders from Nebras ka, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and other tributary territory, would be able to develop a remedy for these existing evils. Thus organized they ought to have some voice as to the prices to be paid for feeders, aa well as some Influence against the more or less arbitrary fix ing of the prices of fat cattle by the packers, and would certainly be a thou sand fold more effective than the feeble efforts and protest of each man acting singly and alone. Without Borne such organized effort the present order of things will continue to exist, and we feeders continue to dump our corn and our labor into the pockets of other people. September 20 la suggested aa the time and Omaha aa the place of such a meet ing, because of the natural drifting to gether there of people from the terri tory mentioned, because of the great Trans-Mlsslsslppi exposition. Will Omaha, or the exposition man agement, furnish a suitable hall or place of meeting and promote the pub licity of this subject? Will the World-Herald, the State Journal and the Omaha Bee favor this movement In the Interests of their large patronage among the farmers, and urge Its publication by all the pa pers In the territory named? I would suggest that each one In terested In this movement send a short letter of endorsement ot the purpose to some one ot the papers publishing this article In order that we may know In good time, whether such a meeting Is feasible. Let no one wait for an other; but you, the reader of this com munication, are the Interested party, so look after your own Interests In this as In other ordinary business affairs. Time your visit to the great exposi tion to Include tho date for suoh meet. Ing, nnd ono of tho largest meetings over convened In Omaha, of business men Intent upon business methods, will bo tho result, nnd ono o).' tho largest Industrial Interests of the west, which has long languished, will bo put upon Its feet, upon a foundation of fairness to all nnd with promise of permanency and prosperity. WM. DAILEY, Peru, Neb. August Onro of Cows. Tho price of butter ta rising, and tho prospects nre that butter will bo higher than usual for several months, because thoro Is a shortogo of milk nnd butter throughout the United States. Tho high price now and tho higher prices likely to follow make It desirable to keep tho flow of milk up to aB high a point ns possible. Another reason for keeping tho cows In good flow dur ing August Is that a drop now means less milk for each succeeding month until tho cows calvo again, no matter how good tho care and feed may bo later on. The cowb will need to havoi tho pasture supplemented by some other1 food. Green millet, sorghum and corn aro good feeds when freshly cut. Give In light feeds at flrat, and gradually Increase tho amount until at the end of ten days the cows may be given all they will cat without waste. Do not wait until tho cows begin to drop Ini their milk yield beforo you begin to feed. Watch tha pasture, and na soon ns the first p.igna of shortnge come, start feeding. Jt Is eaaler and takes, Icbs feed to keep a cow giving a good flow of milk than It does to wait until, the milk yield has dropped and then undcrtako to increase It. If your fields aro not arranged bo that you can give green feed to the! cowb without costing too much In labor, fill tho racks with dry feed. If tho1 cows aro given what alfalfa hay they, will cat, you may bo suro that, bo far aa feed la concerned, the milk yield will be all right. At the collcgo farm wo have fed our cowb alfalfa hay all summer while they havo been on pas ture. We feed In racks In the barn yard, putting In each day about what' tho cowb will cat, bo that the hay is always fresh and palatable. White the grass was rank and watery tho cows ate the hay greedily. As tho grass be came better In quality the cows ate' less alfalfa. Now our pastures aro bo-' ginning to get dry and our cowb are eating moro of tho alfalfa hay thirty cows eating about 100 pounds a day. Corn or Kafllr corn is the best grain to feed with alfalfa hay or green fcedB. We havo had good results with the col lege cowb this summer In feeding a mixture of 400 pounds of corn meal and 100 pounds bran. Each cow has had one and one-half pounds ot this mixture nfter each milking. Aa the pasture dries up we will Increase tho amount of grain fed. It other dry feed than alfalfa hay 1b used to help out tho pastures, such aa prairie or tim othy hays, bran and linseed or cotton seed meals should bo used, and not corn. We would mix 100 pounds of bran and 60 to 76 pounds of linseed or cotton seed meal and feed ono to four pounds of tho mlxtare after each milking, va rying the amount according to the abil ity of the cow to make returns for the feed. Several years ago, the college herd pastures becamo very dry and we lost several cows In midsummer from Impaction of the stomach. Fur-' ther trouble was avoided by feeding' loosening feeds bran and Unseed meal. The cheapest and best feed to tide over the summer drought Is ensilage, and It will pay every Kansas farmer who expects to make dairying a busi ness to have a silo for summer feed ing. The writer has fed ensilage to dairy cows for seven summers and each season emphasizes Its value. Water Is as essential In milk produc tion as feed, and It Is especially neces sary In the hot month of August. It possible, the cows should have free access to water, so that they can drink whenever necessary. Some ot our dai rymen water from ponds. The ponds should be fenced and the water piped Into a trough with a float valve on the end of the pipe, so that the trough will always be full. A good float valve needs little attention, and when used In the way Indicated will keep a full supply of water always ready for the cows. No good dairyman will let his cows stand In a pond from which they drink. When this Is done the water becomes Indescribably filthy and unpal atable and the cows will not drink a sufficient quantity to keep up a good flow of milk. The filth and mud gather on the udder and under side of the cow, drops In to the pall and milk, and Infects the milk with germs producing bad flavor that no skill ot the butter maker can overcome. A dairy cow should never be driven faster than a slow walk, and this Is es pecially Important during the hot months. Fast driving, chasing with a dog and unkind treatment cuts down the flow ot milk and decreases the per cent ot butter fat. The excitement ot shipping our college cowb 100 miles by rail cut down the butter fat of some of them to .9 of 1 per cent Hard driv ing In hot weather will produce a sim ilar effect. Cows need shade, and If there are no trees In the pacture It will often pay to set a few tall posts on the highest ground, put on some poles and cover with old hay, straw or weeds. H. M. C In Kansas Farmer. Several men were talking about how they happened to marry, "I married my wife," said one, after the othera had all had their say, "because she waa different from any woman I ever met" "How was that?" chorused the others. "8he waa the only woman I ever mst who would have .me." and there was a burst of applause. Tlt-BIU