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' When Napoleon was about to crown
himself so I have somewhere read
they submitted to him the royal gene
alogy they had faked up for him. He
crumpled the parchment. and flung it
in the face of the chief herald, or who
ever it was. "My line," said he.
"dates from Moutenotte." And so I
say, my line dates from the campaign
that completed and established my
fame from "Wild Week."
I shall not pause to recite the de
tails of the obscurity from which I
emerged. It would be an interesting,
a romantic story; but it is a familiar
story, also, la this land which Lincoln
. ao nnely.aad so fully described when
he said: "The republic is oppor
tunity." One fact only: I did not take the
aame Blacklock
I was bora Blacklock, and chris
tened Matthew; and my hair's being
very black and growing so that a lock
of it often falls down the middle of
my forehead is a coincidence. The
malicious and insinuating story that
. I used to go under another name
arose, no doubt, from my having been
a bootblack in my early days, and
having let my customers shorten my
name into Matt Black. But, as soon
1 as I graduated from manual labor, I
" resumed my rightful name and have
borne it I think I may say without
, canity in honor to honor.
Wild Week! Its cyclones, rising
' fury on fury to that historic climax
. of chaos, sing their mad song in my
ears again as' I write. But I shall by
no means confine my narrative to
business and finance. Take a cross
section of life anywhere, and you have
.. a, tangled interweaving of the action
and reaction of men upon men, of.
women upon women, of men and
women upon one another. And this
shall be a cross-section out of the very
heart of our life to-day, with its big
and bold energies and passions the
swiftest and intensest life ever lived
by the human race.
To begin:
II.
' IN THOSE DAYS AROSE KINGS.
Imagine yourself back two years
and a half before Wild Week, back
at the time when the kings of finance
had just completed their apparently
final conquest of the industries of the
country, when they were seating
themselves upon thrones encircled by
vast armies of capital ytnd brains,
when all the governments of the na
tion national, state and city were
prostrate under their iron heels.
You may remember that I was a not
Inconspicuous figure then. Of all
their financial agents, I was the best
known, the most trusted by them,.the
most believed in by the people. I
had a magnificent suite of offices in
the building that dominates Wall and
Broad -streets. Boston claimed me
'also, and Chicago; and in Philadel
phia, New Orleans, St. Louis, San
Francisco, In the towns and rural dis
tricts' tributary to the cities, thou
sands spoke of Blacklock as their
trusted adviser in matters of finance.
My enemies and I had them, numer
ous and venomous enough to prove
me a man worth while my enemies
spoke of me as the "biggest bucket
shop gambler in the world."
Gambler I was like all the other
manipulators of the markets. But
"bucket-shop" I never kept. As the
kings of finance were the representa
tives of the great merchants, manu
facturers and investors, so was I the
representative of the masses, of those,
who wished their small savings prop
erly invested. The power of the big
fellows was founded upon wealth and
the brains wealth buys or bullies or
seduces into its service; my power
was founded upon the 'hearts and
homes of the people, upon faith in my
feank honesty.
How had I built up my power? By
recognizing the possibilities of pub
licity, the chance which the broad
cast sowing of newspapers and maga
zines put within the reach of the in
dividual man to impress himself upon
the whole country, upon the whole
civilized world. The kings of finance
relied upon the assiduity and dexter
ity of sundry paid agents, operating
through the stealthy, clumsy, old
fashioned channels for the exercise of
power. I relied only upon myself; I
had to trust to no fallible, perhaps
traitorous, understrappers; through
the megaphone of the press I spoke
directly to the people.
o My enemies charge that I always
have been unscrupulous and dishon
est So? Then how have I lived and
thrived all these years in the glare
and blare of publicity?
It is half-past three o'clock on a
May afternoon; a dismal, dreary rain
Is being whirled through the street
by as nasty a wind as ever blew out
of the east Tou are in the private
office of that "kings of kings," Henry
J. Roebuck, philanthropist, eminent
churchman, leading citizen and in
business as corrupt a creature as
ever used the domino of respectabil
ity. That office is on the twelfth floor
of the Power Trust building and the
Power Trust is Roebuck, and Roebuck
is the Power Trust He is seated at
bis desk and. thinking I do not see
him. is looking at me with an expres
sion of benevolent and melancholy
pity the look with which he always
regarded any one whom the Roebuck
God had commanded Roebuck to de
stroy. He aad his God were in con
stant communication; his God never
aid anything except for his benefit,
be never did anything except pa the
direct counsel or command of his God.
Jest now-nw God is commanding him
us destroy me, bis confidential agent
la shaping many a vast industrial en
terprise aad la Induciag the public to
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buy by the million its bonds and
stocks.
I invited the angry frown of the
Roebuck .God by saying: "And I
bought la the Manasauale mines on
my own account"
"On your own account!? said Roe
back. Then be hastily effaced his in
voluntary air of the engineer startled
by sight of an unexpected red light
"Yeqj," replied L as calm as if I were
not realizing the tremendous signifi
cance 'of what I had announced. "I
look to you to let me participate oa
equal terms."
That is, I had decided that the time
had come for me to take my. place
among the kings of finance. I had
decided to promote myself from agent
to principal, from prime minister to
king I must, myself, promote myself,
for in. this world all promotion that
is solid comes from within. And la
furtherance of my object I had bought
this group of mines, control of which
was vital to the Roebuck-Langdon-Melville
combine for a monopoly of
the coal of the country.
"Bid not Mr. Langdon commission
you to buy them for him and his
friends?" Inquired Roebuck, in that
slow, placid tone which yet, for the
attentive ear, had a note in it like the
scream of a jaguar that comes home
and finds its cubs gone.
"But I couldn't get them for him,"
I explained. "The owners wouldn't
sell until I engaged that the National
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Coal and Railway company was not to
have them."
"Oh, I see," said Roebuck, sinking
back relieved. "We must get Browne
to draw up some sort of perpetual,
irrevocable power of attorney to us
for you to sign."
"But I won't sign it," said I.
Roebuck took up a' sheet of paper
and began to fold it upon itself with
great care to get the edges' straight
He had grasped my meaning; he was
deliberating.
"For four years now," I went on,
"you people have been promising to
take me in as a principal in some one
of your deals to give me recognition
by making me president or chairman
of an executive or finance committee.
I am an impatient man, Mr. Roebuck.
Life is short and I have much to do.
So I have bought the Manasquale
mines and I shall hold them."
Roebuck continued to fold the paper
upon itself until he had reduced it to
a short thick strip. This he slowly
twisted between his cruel fingers un
til it was in two pieces. He dropped
them, one at a time, into the waste
basket then smiled benevolently at
me. "You are right" be said. "You
shall have what you want Yon have
seemed such a mere boy to me that,
in spite of your giving again and
again proof of what you. are, I have
been putting you off. I will talk the
matter over with Langdon and Mel
ville. Rest assured, my boy, that you
will be satisfied." He got up, put bis
arm affectionately round my shoul
ders. "We all like you. ,1 have a feel
ing toward you as if you were, my own
son. I am getting old, and I like to
see young men about me,- growing up
to assume the responsibilities of the
Lord's work whenever Hs shall call
me to my reward."
It will seem Incredible that a man
of my shrewdness and experience
could be taken in by such slimy stuff
at that I who knew Roebuck as only
a few insiders knew him, I who had
seen him at work, as devoid of heart
as any empty spider in an empty web.
Yet I was taken ia to the extent that
I thought be really purposed to recog
nise my services, to yield to the ealy
persuasioa that could affect
force. I fancied" he was
about 'to sat me where.I could be of
the highest usefulness to
associates, as well as to
It was with tears hi my eyeathat
I shook hands with him, thanking alii
emotionally. It was with a high chin
aad .a proud heart .-that I went back
to my omces. There wasn't a doubt
la my mind that Iwas about to get
my deserts, was about to enter the
charmed circle of "high finance.'
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CAME A WOMAN.
In my suite la the Textile building,
just oft the big, mala room with its
blackboards aad tickers, I had a small
office In which I spent a good deal of
time during stock exchange hours. It
was there that 8am EUersly found
me the next day but oae after my
talk with Roebuck.'
"I want yon to sell that Steel Com
mon, Matt," said he.
"It'll go several points higher." said
L "Better let me hold it and use my
judgment oa selling."
"I need money right away."
his answer.
"That's ail right," said L "Let
give you aa order for what you need."
"Thank you, thank you," -said he.
so promptly that I knew I had done
what be had been hoping for, probably
counting, on.'
I give this incident to show what;
our relations were. He was a young
fellow of good family, to whom I had
taken a liking. Hewas a lazy dog,
and as out of place la business as a
cat in. a choir. I had beea keeping
him going for four years at that' time,
by giving him tips oa stocks aad pro
tecting him against loss. This purely
out of, good -nature aad liking; for-1
hadn't the remotest Idea he could ever
be of use to me beyond helping to
liven things up at a dinner or late
supper, or down In the country, or on
the yacht In factrhis principal use
to me was that he knew how to "beat
the box" well enough to shake fairly
good music out of it and I am so
fond, of music that I can fill in with
my Imagination when' the performer
isn't too bad.
They have charged that I deliberate
ly ruined him. Ruined! ' The first
time I gave him a tip and that was
the second or third time I ever
him he burst into tears and said:
"You've saved my life, Blacklock. I'll
never tell you how much this windfall
means to me now." Nor did I with
deep and dark design keep him- along
on the ragged edge. He kept himself
there. How could I build up such a
man with his hundred ways of wast
ing money, including throwing it
away on his own opinions of stocks
for he would gamble on his own ac
count in the bucket-shops, though I
had shown him that the Wall street
game is played always .with marked
cards, and that the only hope of win
ning is to get the confidence of the
card-markers, unless you. are big
enough to become a card-marker your
self. As soon as he got the money from
my teller that day, he was rushing
away. I followed him to the door
that part of 'my suite opened out on
the sidewalk, for the convenience of
my crowds of customers. "I'm just
going to lunch." said I. "Come with
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Grave Problem for Wife.
What to Do When .Husband Seems to
Have Transferred ''Love.- - -
There are"twd stock answers given
by wives when they are asked the
crucial question: "What would you
do if your husband seemed inclined to
fall in love with another woman?"
One answer is: "I wouldn't do any
thing; I'd let.him'gp!" and the other:
"I'd flirt with some one myself' Fur
ther than this the imagination does
not seem to go.
The first answer, translated, means:
"If my husband-could fall-so far from
my Ideal of him he. wouldn't be my
husband any more: I would feel only
mdiVerence and' contempt for him."
'The other answer to of a" dUfereat
caliber: "If he sees that he is in dan
ger of losing me he may regaia ats
Interest in me.,. What another man
admires he' may admire, too, aad, tad
that- he .loves me best, after aU. At
any. rate, he, win find that he cannot
neglect me with impunity."
Both answers are, of course, super
He looked
little one hen
m brougham at the cars,
"Sony bat I east;
my sister with
dowa ia bar trap;"
"That's all .right.'! said v I;
her along. Wellrfo to the Savarin."
Aad i locked his arm la mine aad
started toward the brougham.
. He was turning all klads of colors,
aad was acting in a way that pcxxled
me then. Despite all my years ia
New York I was ignorant of the elab
orate social distinctions that had
grown up la its -fifth avenue quarter.
I knew, of course, that there was a
fashionable society and that some of
the most conspicuous of those la it
seemed unable to get used to the idea
of being rich and were la a state of
great agitation over their own Im
portance. Important they might be,
but not to me. I knew nothing of
their careful gradations of saobblsm
the people to know socially, the
people to know In a business way, the
people to know in ways religions zzd
philanthropic, the people to know for
the fun to be got out of them, the
people to pride oneself oa act know
ing at all; the nervousness, the hys
teria about preserving these disgust
ing gradations. All this, I say, was
an undreamed-of mystey to me, who
gave and took liking in the sensible,
self-respecting American fashion. So
I didn't understand why Sam, as I
almost' dragged him along was stam
mering: "Thank you but I she
roe met is, we reaiiy must get up
town." By this time I was where I could
look Into the brougham. A glance
I can see much at a glance, as caa
any man who spends every day of
every year In an all-day fight for his
purse and his life, with the blows com
ing from all sides. I can see much
at a glance; I often have .seen much;
I never saw more than just then. In
stantly, I made up my mind that the
Ellerslys would lunch' with me.
"You've got to eat somewhere," said
I, in a tone that put an end to his at
tempts to .manufacture excuses. TO
be delighted to have you. .Don't make
up any more yarns." Jt l
He slowly opened , this.' door. "Anita,"
said he, "Mr. Blackloclu'; He's invited
us to lunch. . r ! .
I lifted my hat, and borwed. ,1 kept,
my eyes straight. upon Jsers.: .And it
gaye; me more pleasure to look .lata
them than Lhad ever before got out
of lookingintb, anybody's. I am pas
sionately oud. of Jtawers, and of chil
dren; and 'her face remiaded jne of
both. Or, rather., it seemed to me. that
what I had -seen, with delight and
longing,. Incomplete in their freshness,
and beauty and, charm, was now ,be
fore me In -tiie fullness, I felt like
saying tohef: ""I have heard of you
often. The children andthe flowers
have told me you rrere coming." Per
haps my eyes dia say it, At any rate,
she looked as straight at me as I at
her, and I noticed that she paled a
little and shrankr-yet continued to
look, as If I. were.compejling her. But
her voice, beautifully clear, and lin
gering in the ears like the resonance
of the violin after 'the bow has swept,
its strings and lifted, was perfectly
self-possessed, as she said to her
brother: "That will be delightful If
you think we have time."
I saw that she, uncertain whether
he wished to accept, was giving him a
chance to take either course. "He
has time-7-nothing but time," said. L
"His engagements are always with
people who want to get something out
of him. And they can wait" I pre
tended to think he was expecting me
to enter the trap; I got In, seated my
self beside her, said to Sam: "I've
saved the little seat for you. Tell
your man to take us to the Equitable
building Nassau street entrance."
I talked a good deal during the first
half of the nearly two hours we were
together partly because both Sam
and his sister seemed under-some sort
of strain, chiefly because I was deter
mined to make a good impression. I
told her about myself, my horses, my
house in the country, my yacht I
tried to show her I wasn't an ignor
amus as to books and ait, even 'if .1
hadn't been to college. She listened,
while Sam sat embarrassed. "You
must bring your sister down 'to visit
me," I said, finally. "I'll see that you
both have the time of your lives.
Make up a party of your friends, Sam,
and come down when shall we say?
Next Sunday? You know you were
coming anyhow. I can change the
rest of the party."
Sam grew as red as if he were go
ing into apoplexy. I thought then he
was afraid I'd blurt out something
about who were in the party I was
proposing to change. I was soon to
know better.
"Thank you. Mr. Blacklock," said
his sister. "But I have an engage
ment next Sunday. I have a great
many engagements just now. With
out looking at my book I couldn't
say when I can go." This easily and
naturally. In her set they certainly
do learn thoroughly that branch of
tact which plain people call lying.
Sam gave her a grateful look, which
he thought I didn't see, and which I
didn't rightly interpret then.
(To be Continued.)
ficial and based on the feeling of the
moment the feeling of "getting
even." But the woman who is in
danger of losing her husband's affec
tions will have many moments not to
be evolved into sentences so clear
cut and self-sufficient If a woman'
does not know that her affection is
killed for a man when she finds him
beginning to be attracted elsewhere,
then, indeed, the situation Is simpli
fied. 'If one no longer loves, every
thing is ended the worst hurt to
over. But in real life the woman who
speaks the most proudly is the one
who finds It most impossible to live
up to that ultimatum of Indifference.
To see the one she loves dally, in all
the intimatedomestic happenings, to
have everything speak of those cords
of married life by which they are
bound together, to know that there
are still times when he to tender aad
she is dear oh, that to not to wish
him to go! He must stay aad lovs
her best, or she will die. Harper!
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TABLE DELICACIES.
SOME NEW AND SOME OLD MO
IPES OF VALUE.
Hale
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fske Aaeetrabis, Celery
Nat ' Sales Five Minute
kdds Vastly to
Flavor ef adding.
Plain Fruit Cake. Cream oae
one-half cups.ot butter witbtwo cups
of sugar, add oae cup' of molasses.
eae cup of milk, four well beaten eggs
and oae level teaspooa of soda dis
solved ia the milk, oae pound of seed
ed ralsJas cat fine, oae level teaspooa
of mixed spice aad five cups of flour.
Bake ia a large loaf la a moderate
read. Mix aad
alft together two cups of cora meal,
two cups of rye meal, aad oae cap
of flour. Mix two-thirds cup of mo
lasses with three cups of milk, add a
pinch of salt sad a slightly rounding
teaspooa of soda. Turn la the dry
ingredients; beat aad sour Into a cor-
ld. Steam three hours.
Celery and Nut Salad. Cut the eel-
ia thin slices crosswise and use
only the tender white stalks. Parboil
the English walnut meats five minutes
aad rub of the thla browa sUas;
break up into small pieces, but do not
chop. Use equal measure of nut
ts and celery sad serve with a
boiled dressleg oa the Inner leaves of
lettuce. For the dressing beat the
yolks of two eggs, add one-half level
teaspooa each of mustard aad salt,
.beating all the time. Add four table
spoons of vlaegar and cook la a dou
ble boiler until it thickens. Take from
the 'fire, add the stilly beaten whites
of two eggs, then cool aad when well
chilled add oae cup of beaten cream.
Sauce for Pudding, To one cup of
boiling water add a level teaspoon of
corn starch mixed with one cup of
sugar. Cook five minutes, add one
half cup of butter and lemon or vanilla
flavoring.
Cottage Pudding. Sift one and one-
half cups of flour with three level tea
spoons of baking powder. Beat two
eggs, add one cup of sugar and beat
again; add oae cup of milk and the
'flour. Bake in a shallow pan and cut
la squares or la a deep pan and cut in
slices or in muffin tins. Serve with a
sauce.
' ' Small Sponge Cake. Sift together
one cup of flour, one cup of sugar and
two level teaspoons of baking powder.
Put In three unbeaten eggs and beat
all five minutes. Stir in one table
spoon of hot water and bake.
Caramel Cake. Beat to a cream
one cup of sugar and one-quarter cup
grated chocolate melted over the tea
kettle, one-half cup flour sifted with
one and one-half level teaspoonfuls
baking powder, and a teaspoonful of
vanilla. Bake in layers. For the
frosting cook together one and one
half cups pulverized sugar, one-half
cup milk, and a piece' of butter the
size of an egg, boil from' Ave to eight
minutes. Take from the-fire and stir
until cold, then add a teaspoonful of
vanilla, beat, and spread between the
layers. If preferred bake In a loaf and
simply frost with the caramel.
Jellied Chicken.
Select for this a fowl rather than a
chicken, as the long cooking will make
it tender. Singe, clean, and cut it up
as for a fricasse, put in a kettle with
one-half of a small onion, stuck with
a clove, and one stalk of celery, cover
with boiling water and simmer until
the meat falls from the bones, adding
one teaspoonful of salt when half
done. Take out the chicken and cook
down the liquor to three-quarters of a
cupful, then strain It and skim off the
fat Lightly butter a mold and deco
rate the bottom and sides with slices
of hard boiled eggs and stoned olives.
Free the meat from the skin, bone and
fat and pack It in the mold, sprinkling
with salt, add the liquor and set aside
to cool.
Curtain Styles.
Lace curtains will be used this fall
but the artistic printed linens and
light-weight materials are going to
be more popular. These fabrics cost
less than lace and harmonize more
with the furnishings, especially in the
small apartment The new printed
linens have cream-colored back
grounds, with bright floral designs in
both large and smal figures. Among
these artistic materials are the print
ed and plain linens, madras and light
weight grass cloths. This style of ma
terial looks particularly well with mis
sion furniture.
Coffee Makes Curtains Ecru Shade.
After washing the net. curtains
carefully In luke warm water, with
pure white or castile soap, .rinse them
in clear, cool water, and, after wring
ing them as dry as is possible, put
through liquid coffee, and carefully at
tach to regulation stretchers and
put out in the sir to dry. Do not
make the mistake of rubbing the net
on a washing board or even between
the hands; instead just pull it up and
down In the water until the dirt is
out Do not starch: The curtains
look better without any stiffening.
Novel Way of Mending.
A good way to mend a round hole in
a silk or woolen dress, and where
otherwise only a patch could remedy
matters, is the following: The frayed
portions around the tear should be
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material 'moistened irith very thin
mucllage, placed under the hole.
heavy weight should then be put upon
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it until dry, when it is only possible
to discover the mended place by care
ful observation.
Keeping Cake from Breaking.
To prevent fresh cakes from break
ing when the cake is taken from the
oven, set the pan on a cloth which
has beea dipped In lukewarm water
aad then wrung out as dry as possible.
After standing on the cloth for five
minutes the cake can easily be taken
from the pan without breaking.
To Clean Horsehair Furniture.
Horsehair furniture can be quickly
cleaned by first beating it and brush
lag aU the dust from it, then wipe off
with a cloth wrung out of hot water,
to which has been added a tablespoon
fal of ammonia to each quart Be sura
to wipe with the grain of the doth.
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The apple that is to go into cold
storage caa't be placed there too sooa.
High aad dry land Is best for grapes,
and fan Is a good time to pleat them.
"Horse sense" Is as much a virtue
for humane as for the horse himself.
Have yoa figured up yet
whether
the summer boarder oaid?
The peach borer is .known by his
gum! Have you looked him up yet
aad dug him oat?
The mesa man aad the
bog
e a combustion that to
hard to
beat -
Don't forget the old saying:
'Crowd your work; don't let it crowd
yoa."
Grape juice bottled hot will not fer
ment and to one of the finest tonics
and health drinks to be found.
The future of American farming Is
less a question of -more land than of
better Ullage aad fertilizing.
Balsam pillows made now win ex
hale the fresh fragrant breath of the
forest In your home ail winter.
The colt's first year determines his
future. Give him a regular grain ra
tion. Keep him growing.
Good farming is not a matter of
Jiumb rule, but of good judgment
based on correct principles and in
formation as to matters of fact
The gentle sheep like gentle care
takers. Any loud sudden noise is sure
to frighten them and they are slow to
forget
Exercise Is needful for the farm
stock if they are to-be kept healthy.
Idleness and full feed are the stepping
stones for many ills.
It is said that a new method of mak
ing paper out of cotton stalks offers a
Dig opportunity to the southern farm
er of increasing his profits.
A grain growers grain company,
with a capital of $250,000, has been
organised among Canadian farmers,
with headquarters at Winnipeg.
The opening of the Manitoba Agri
cultural college near Winnipeg, on the
Assiniboine river, marks a new era
in agricultural education in western
Canada.
Here is a hint for the housewife.
Coffee grounds, thoroughly dried,
nake excellent filling for pincushions
and will not call the mice or moths as
when filled with bran or wool .
The cheery farmer creates an at:
mosphere on the farm which makes
for better stock and better crops. Hu
man sunshine is a great asset in the
farmer's account
A Virginia hen is making a strong
play for the Championship record, lay
ing an egg every 25 hours, exclusive
of the moulting season. She is expect
ed to cross the 300 mark before the
end of the year.
Probably the largest corn crop ever
grown was produced a few years ago
by Capt Z. J. Drake, of South Caro
lina. He produced 255 bushels on one
acres in. one season.
In building wire fence do not drive
the staples in too far. Leave them
out far enough so there will be play
for the wire and the expansion and
contraction of the wire may be even
all along the line.
Isolate the" animals as soon as they
appear sick If the sickness is of no
consequence no harm is done by the
precaution, but if it prove to be some
contagious disease the health of the
whole herd may be saved.
The two great obstacles to the prog
ress of the good roads movement are,
first, lack of appreciation of the -benefits
of good roads, and second, the nat
ural disinclination of people to be
taxed, which results -in their refusing
to vote for a liberal road tax.
Chickens to be killed for shipment
should be starved 24 hours before kill
ing so that the crop and intestines
will not be clogged with food which
qvUU, decays and spoils the flavor f
the meat
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tag cabbage for the winter. Farm
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There are numerous ways of stor-
Journal declares mat no better way
can be devised than to lay down two
scantlings or rails, two or three feet
apart and between these place the
ears closely together, roots up; after
ward cover them with soil about four
inches deep, but no more. The cover
ing is better deferred until cold
weather.
' As to whether the farm shall be
large or small, Prof. J. W. Sanborn,
formerly president of Utah Agricul
tural college, and now proprietor of a
900-acre farm in New Hampshire, de
clares that agriculture should be gov
arned by the great economic laws of
the age unhampered by tradition,
sentiment, or law, so long as It is con
ducted oa sound ethical aad legal
grounds. "Let the measure of the
be as large as the farm," he
invite sarins, mea of great ersssrissae;
possible a high order ef culture aad
avtag. Msrhiasry. the sjaamsj ef the
times, compels or damsnoa brisith of
actios, far economy of spsrstlse"'
to a grewiag seatlmsat to
wards the federatlomof ml agricultur
al societies la the United Statei
orgaaisatioa. rightly directed.
prove stimulating aad helpraL
When a clever, "crep or sod to
plowed under hi the faH, the
of available plant food to
Fall plowing also helps to get rid
cut worms, grubwerms aad
worms, as they are thrown
the surface where the freesiag kills
It Is iatorestiag to note
lar farming topics are
la
the periodicals aad
Yea
caa scarcely pick ap a paper or mag
azine but yoa win tad some editorial,
or descnoBloa. or descriptive article
oa agricultural subjects. It to bat eae
of the signs of the times.
A good seed cora rack caa be '
oat ef a two by two-lach pole
which have beea driven oa the
sides ten-penny wire nails
laches apart. Cut the heads
nails off with a cold chisel aad after
husking stick the ears upon these
aails. After all the nails are filled
hang the rack ap to the rafters. If
yoa want to test the cora aumber the
pegs and the racks aad beep a record
of each
A practical demonstratloa of a milk
ing machine was made at the Illinois
state fair, aad attracted large crowds
of dairymen, especially at milking
time, when the two cows were milked
by the compressed ah machines. It
was. stated that a dairy of. 1M cows
was using the machines successfully.
Of course time alone will demonstrate
whether the operation of the machine
win prove detrimental to the cow.
It was a hopeful sign to see the
large proportion of young men nt the
Illinois state agricultural fair at
Springfield this year, and to note the
interest which they took In the ex
hibits. Farming machinery seemed to
hold the greatest fascination for them,
and next the livestock exhibits. Good
machinery and fine stock oa a farm
with a progressive young man be
hind them will make the old farm pay.
and that right handsomely.
The hired help questkm'has beea
solved on many of the small truck
farms about Chicago. During the past
season the electric lines have carried
hundreds of Italian and Polish women
out to these gardens where they work
by the day receiving in most cases
one dollar per day for their services.
On one of the larger farms where 25S
acres are devoted to onion raising 1.
500 women are employed during the
harvesting season. Special trains are
run to bring them out in the morning
and return them to the city at night
We read not long ago of a similar
method of obtaining farm labor ia the
east-only in this case one man employ
ed a large gang of farm laborers and
filled orders for day labor from the
surrounding farmers. The extension
of electric lines through the farming
districts from the towns and cities
may offer a future solution of the la
bor question on the farm, at least to
a limited degree.
- If the report that a scientist con
nected with the agricultural depart
ment has discovered a "one-germ"
beet seed, a great step has been taken
towards solving 'the problem of eco
nomical beet culture in this country.
A beet seed is, in fact, not a seed, bat
a cluster of seeds in a small husk
When sown each germ in the husk
starts a little plant In order that one
plant may develop a beet fit for sugar
making the other plants must be
pulled away. Abroad, where labor Is
cheap, this Is not such costly work,
but over here, since the task must be
performed by hand, the task is very
heavy. This handicap has prevented
the beet sugar industry from growing
very rapidly in this country. A "one
germ" seed can be planted by ma
chinery at proper intervals, no pulling
of superfluous plants will be necessary
and the cultivation of beets may be
engaged in economically and profita
bly. The services which the agricultural
department at Washington is render
ing the country is inestimable, and far
too little realized by even the farm
er himself. The world is being lit
erally ransacked for new plant life
which will be better adapted to spe
cial and peculiar conditions in va
rious parts of the country- When
the long kerneled rice of Louisiana
proved unsatisfactory, owing to its
breaking in milling, a short kerneled
Japanese rice was found. When the
arid region needed an alfalfa which
required less water, it was found in
Turkestan. When the wheat grower
of the northwest was discouraged by
the immense losses through rust the
department introduced the durum
wheat from Russia, and so it has gone
on. Date palms from the Sahara
and the Tigris valley for Arizona, Fin
nish oats and turnips that mature in
Alaska's brief summers, cherries and
peaches from Siberia that ripen far
north of where it formerly was
deemed possible for such fruits, Jap
anese matting rushes for the aban
doned rice fields of the Carolinas, and
the Mexican sisil, or cordage grass,
for Hawaii.
What a change ha3 been wrought in.
the last 30 years by the introduction
and perfection of threshing machinery.
Time was when the average crop took
two or three days to thresh with 15 or
20 men and as many teams to be
housed and fed. My, what strenuous
times those were for the women folks.
Now. the threshing crew come down
the road with their whole outfit oa
train, get busy in short order, thresh
out the grain ten bushels per minute,
running it into the wagons direct while
the straw is stacked automatically,
and the whole job done ia a day, aad
the threshing crew gone, and nary ar '
extra burden put upon the womea
Who sighs for the return ef good eh
times?
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