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! True worth Is In being , not r"mlnt :
In doing , ouch day that goes by.
, Sdmc little gool-IOl ! In thc dreaming
Of great things to .10 by and by.
I For whatever men say In lJlInenel'l ! ,
Am spite of the fancies of youth .
, , .I'lIl're's nothing so kin ( ' ly liS kindness ,
Itlnll'IY
i 1 And nothing so royal us tluth
I We get bad our mete aq we measure ;
\\'c can not do wrong und feel right :
Nor cnn we give pain and galll IIlcasul'c.
For justice \'lllgl'S each HUght
_ . . The air for the hint of the sparrow ,
, . The hush for the lohln OJ' wren
nut always thc path that IH narrow
And straight fur the chlldlcn of men.
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'Ye can not make bargains for busses ,
Nor catch thell1 like IIshl'S In nets ,
And sometimes the thing our life misses
- helps more than thc thing which It
gets
_ " For good lIl'th nol In IJUrsuln
Nor gaining of great nor tlf small ;
. But just In the doing-ami doing
t As we would lJe done by , Is all
5" $ Through envy , through malice , through
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lusting
. . Against th" world early and ! late ,
1..0 ' of ' ' ' .
.fot' our courage abating
Our part IH to wOII k and to walt.
And slight Is tile sting of his tronllle
Whm winnings ate less than his
Won th :
For he who Is honest Is nolJl ( ! ,
\\'hate'cl' his : fortunes 01' hh'tl1
-Alice Cary.
Lights and Shadows of War.
The grim visage of War In l\lanchu ,
ria has been turned to the public so
long that people had come to believe
there were to ho no lights to offset a
single shadow in the terrific conflict.
It appears , however , that the grim
fighters on both sides are simply ordinary -
dinary human beings ! , given , like the
sturdy fighters of our civil war , to I
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-w' , frolic and fun even at inopportune
, times. On Jun I , 18G3 , two veteran
armies were In lLne of battle at Stone
' ' . . HiveI' There had been twenty hours
, of the hardest fighting of the war
and each army was watching the other .
or In expectation of a renewal of the
struggle.
The sullen quiet of the waiting lines
was broken by an uproar on the left A
_ score or more of hogs startled by the
cavalry on the flank , scurried along
the Union front. At first a dozen ,
then fifty , and then a hundred men
joined in a chase to capture thcm.
The onslaught turned the hogs
toward the Confederate lInes and the
. _ Unionists pursued ( until they mn over
r the pickets in gray and were warned
good - Inunoredly to keep on their own
, ground. Then the Confederates joined
\ In the chase and turned the hogs
again toward the Union lines. The
men In blue had learned a lesson hy
this time and opened a way for the
frightened hogs to run into the Union
lines , where they were caught and
l\1lled.
Meantime there was much shouting
I and frolicking on hoth sides , the Con-
t federates insisting that the Yankees
should "play fall' and give them an-
t
other chance , and some asking to he
remembered when the "Yanls hutch-
ered. . " The generals In command tool
a serious view of the incident hut
- : - nothing came of it.
The men who frolicked one hour
and fought 1I1cc demons the next were
, of the same race and country and
spoke the same language and had
grown up under the same tradition
of home 1ife. But the other day at
1\1ulcdon hogs ran down the lines as
. - ! ( . they did at Stone River rort ' -one
years ago.
Russians and Japanese-of antag-
onlstlc races speaking different languages -
\ guages , and differing widely as to
home traditions and customs-joined
in the chase , as did the Unionists and
Confederates of Hosccmns' and
Braggs' armies. At the bottom then
She soldiers of Kouropat1in and O 'a-
ma are not very different from other
soldiers.
After the defeat of Rosecrans at
Chickamauga anti I his retirement to
" Chattanooga , Bragg closed In on the
) Union army and t cult his piclwts down
from Missionary Ridge Into the plain
under the very noses 'Jf the Union
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' 1Ielwls. For several lays , there was' + '
constant uproar of ride fire on the
plclwt lIne
'fhen by ttrrangolllent of the pick -
its lhemseh es there was quiet , allli
inter exchange of palters and a swapping \ -
ping of tobacco for coffee , the \'odeUes
on one side taking a friendly Interest
In the comfort and conveniences of
the watchers In the othor. A similar
unto of nifairs has prevailed along
the fortified lines on the Shalhe , with
limitations imposed ( on lie pickets by
IIffol'oncC' in language.
In the Atlanta Cllll1ll1\lgn Gon. Slmeu'-
man was cOllllucUng operations
against an ofllcor who hall been his
friend before the war and for whom
ho entertained the highest resIICct. In
thc l\lull1en campaign Gen. Kouropat-
Idn is matched against .Japanese 0111.
eel'S who less han I two roars ago honored .
ored him as frlenl1.
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Grant'G Suggestion Ignored.
According to the ideas of l1urmoll
W. Brown , war secretary of the great
COllll1HtllIler , if Oeu. Grallt's suggestions '
tlons to Lincoln and the secretary of
war in the earlier days of the war
had 'heen adopted , the battle of Chickamauga -
amauga , the second battle of Corinth ,
the siege of Vlclci'hllrg and perhaps
many other" engagements need never
have taken Jllnce.
After the battle of Corinth , Gen.
ln'cl ) ) left Grant in C01l11l1aml of
125,000 t men with which the latter de-
sired to march through the Confederacy -
omcy to some point on thc gulf , Mobile '
bile being his favorite ! . as his would
have destroyed the railroad communications -
cations and perhaps have opened up
the Mississippi rlvCl'
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Gon. Hallccl refused Grant permission -
sian to de this and scattered this
great army In every direction. The
same thing happened after Vicksburg ,
says Private Brown , when Gl'allt's
army ntlluhorcd. HiOOO. Grant again
asked permission to take this large
force through the Confederacy and as
IJCfore the request was rofused.
Everyone , says Brown , knows the
result : now , and after It was all over
Grant was again ordered to Washington .
ton and told to go ahead on his own
plans. The result of his campaign is
history.
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Of Interest to Shiloh Veter : lns.
The Association of the Battle ot !
Shiloh Survivors , which was organized I
' Col. . about two '
at Denver . years ago ,
desires to hear dom all survivors of
that battle with a view to' entertaining -
ing them in DonvOlI during the Na-
tional Encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic next fall. The
officers of the associati IQ n . are : President -
dent , S. K. Hooper , Twontythird Indiana
diana ; first vice president , George II.
Rupee , Thirteenth Iowa ; second vice
president L. D. Powers , Third
Iowa ; secretary and treasurer , S. M.
French , Twelft low ; corresponding
secretary , B. P. Duroll , Twenty-
eighth Illinois ; Executive Committee ,
S. M. French , Twelfth Iowa ; George
11. Rupee , 'J'hlrteent I Iowa ; J. W.
Pl'ttC'o , Flft ' - \'C'ntn Illinois { } ; E. : 1.1.
Hobart , Twenty.eigh'h Illinois ! ; "hns ,
S. Cooper , Eighth l111r.ois.
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Dwarf Tomatoes
Years ago my with and I thought
that lie dwarf tomato was nol as
' ' ' the bushy ,
productive 01' profitable as i
sprawling Idnds. Later experience
has given us several reasons to re
verse our opinion. \Vo do nol now
grow any of the bushy varieties thai
go so much to vine.
Storms of wind and rain will
twist about lie vines and expose the
fruit to sun.sculll and rot from contact .
tact with the soil In the hush hinds ,
where the dwarf varieties are not at
all affected. heavily mlUlUl'ed or excessively -
cessively rich land cannot ho success-
fully cropped to lie large growing
plants , lie tendency being n rank
growth of vine and light setting of
fruit or at least that ripening of
fruit Is prevented by dense foliage
excluding the snD's rays , necessary
10 perfect and mature rilloning. The
Dwarf Champion , 01' others of that
type , mar , on the contrarr , ho planted -
ed in a compost heap without such
troubles.
1 now plant these dwarfs on very
fertile soil and makes a liberal applt-
cutlon of rich fertilizer directly 10 the
hill where plant Is set. Our experience
has been that the richer we had the
soil the stronger and larger the maIn
stal : : grew which is true also of laterals .
erals null ! follago 'rho fruit yield we
laud Is increased In proportion to
the supply of available plant food ; as
well , also , the size , quality and coloring .
Ing of the fruit. Wo set lie plants In
rows 3t to < 1 feet apart and the plants
2 to 27J ! feet In the row. The host cultivation .
tivatlon has always paid well ; horse
tools that loosen the earth deeply
when plants are first set , a heavy hhill-
Ing up when fruit has fully set and
then a dust mulch to destroy weeds
find retain moisture , afterwar
As with all other garden seeds get
the very best stock to ho had , even III
a higher price than the ordh\arl-1 !
' ' hundred fold at liar-
will repay you a
vest time. Plant lie seed in cigar or
other shallow boxes about tine middle
of February and place In southorn.
sunny window In a room constantly
warm. Set them outside in the sun I .
to harden off when weather pormlls.-
Henry E. Randolph , Miami Co" , Ohio
The General Use of Wind Mills
Although there will always necessarIly -
sarIly be more or less hand pumps III
use for various purposes , the age of
pumping the country water supply
hy hand Is passing ; has passed , ati
surely as has the day of Ue cradle
and the scythe In the harvest fields.
It Is 111 the line of reason and the
advancement of the times that this
should be so. Why should farmers
burn up the vital energies ot their
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bodies , that can so advantageously he
economized for other manual labor ,
when the wind Is ready to pump \ the
water fOI' stock and hOllies , and at uo
exponse. A good , serviceable wind
mill can bo purchased and put up so
cheaply nowadays that It seems not
so much a matter as to whether or
not farmers can afford to have one , or
more , on their farms , as to whether
or not they cu economically afford to
do without thom. 't'his eapecially
when wo consider that merely as time
savers they will very soon repay their
original costs.
The prairies arc studded with these
musclo-sa vlng water elevators ; guide
posts they are to woli.equlpped and
prosperous farmsteads , and , judging
from appearances , the majority are In
this class. Not only on the plains ,
but from coast to coast over all the
states they are In evidence , menu
ments of a wise economy However.
lie useful work of pumping water fs
not , by any means , the only work
these engines of the wind are made
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to Il0rlorm. Doth east and west you
may find thom sawing wood , grinding ,
feed , churning , running cutting boxes ,
root cutters , washing machines ,
grindstones antI various other light
machinery about the farm. ' } , 'he
writer recalls one farm of moderato
size In Ohio on which were In operation .
tlon nine wind mills , lllilcell to lOst
vantage for provldhll water for nIl
lie buildings anti for the tock In the
yards mill in the pasture nehls Nor
was thin u farm run by wind , either , ;
but by an Intelligence , directing timid
moving along modern , scientific , approved '
proved lines hint made It success -
ful , profitable business proposition.
Not all farms , us Il multer of courlo'O ,
aced nearly so many wind mills , but
every farm needs at least one , and
every farmer who does not have ono
does both hlmsolf and his hired holll
an Injustice.
Encourage the Country Boy.
'Vhon sonic boy breaks a record at
some game or feat of athletics n clieer
lug cry goes up , there Is a WuVlllg or
flags Il flare or trumpets and glowing .
Ing eulogies are Ilronoullced , while the
click of time telegraph carries the gillli
news to the press of the world's end ,
anti It Is printed under great , bold
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headlines. So much for the medal'
bedecked , ducl'sultoll youth of the col-
lege football team , and the held or
sports.
But what of those other boys , those
manly lads with the clear eye , willowy
muscles , hut lilee Iron withal , morals
as clean as the air of u country mornIng -
tug , thought.frofl timid unafraid ; those
hardy , robust , sturdy fellows with the
blue overalls , cotton jumper , cow-hillo
boots , with u slouch hat over Il smil-
ing taco , these , the developing blood
and sinew , the mainstay and guard of
our nation , lie fal'l11ors' sons-what
of them ? These wide , energetic
farmOl's' boys are \ every day doing
something ot notable merit , of worth ,
of vnJuo III every calling \ , something
that ( will multo fOI' the general good
and betterment of the world at large ;
but of them and his work the typists
do not tell , nor the world proclaim his
roward.
With the stamina horn or health ,
110)le ) and happy homo life , anll the der
termination that scorns defeat ho
\'wrls along with no thought of n
higher reward than a clean , whole-
omo : ; and happy lIfo. It Is to just
, such lads as thooo that lie nation Is
indebted for the host , the highest anti
the greatest that site Cllll Ilrotlllly
boast of In her history ; stulesnwn ,
IlhllosophOl's and honest men. 'l'ho re.
ward pf the aggressive country boy
mar ho slow to COIIIO , hut If his life
and training are worked along the
right lines It Is sure amid suhstantlal.
Hogs Together.
Hogs , more than other animals , need
lo he kept In small herds , emi account
or the very contarlolllilless of the
thrz o diseases that go under the COlli-
mon name of hog cholera. If several
hundred hogs are being raised , it will
bo neCOHSal'y to have several separate
houses for lhem. One breeder says
that not more than fifty hogs should (
he kept ) In one house , amid less than
that number would ho sufor. Ecomi
omy In building hllluces many a man
to huddle a large nUlllher of hogs
into ono house , anti then dlReaso
comes along and takes from him ten
limes as much money as ho saved 1.Jy
his economy.
Washing Cream.
The practice of washing cream Is
not a common one , lot It 13 one that
Is not now. Cl'oam that bars lCon sub-
jected to had odors Is sometimes
highly diluted with water , which
washes it out , and lie regathering of
time cream on the surface of time water
leave'.l it much purer than before the
treatment. At a few creameries wo
hear of cream being washed m t with
ldmmlll" , hut as a usual thing the
cl'eamory that Is dellClllllng on gathered .
ered cream does not have enough
sldl11ml11 for this JtlrpOfJe.
Lay plans for the spring work be-
fore the spring cOllies.
