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LET US BE KIND.
Let us be kind ;
The way is long and lonely,
And human hearts are asking for this blessing
only—
That we be kind.
We cannol know the grief that men may bor-
row,
But love can shine upon the way today, tomor-
row—
Let us be kind.
Let usbe kind ;
This is a wealth that has no measure,
This is of heaven and earth the highest treas-
ure—
Let us be kind.
A tender word, a smile of love in meeting,
A song of hope and victory to those retreating,
A glimpee of God and brotherhood while life is
fleeting—
Let us be kind.
Let us be kind;
Around the world the tears of time are falling,
And for the loved and lost these human hearts
are calling—
Let us be kind,
Te age and youth let gracious words be spoken,
Upon the wheel of pain so many weary lives are
broken,
We live in vain who give no tender token—
Let us ve kind.
Let us be kind ;
The sunset tints will soon be in the west,
Too late the flowers are laid then on the quiet
breast—
Let us be kind.
And when the angel guides have sought and
found us,
Their hands shall link the broken ties of earth
that bound us,
And heaven and home shall brighten ali around
US
Let us be kind.
—[W. Lomax Childress, in Religious Tele-
scope.
SPRING O' THE YEAR.
When Don Pedro Ruiz, owner of five
hundred fat wethers and two hundred
ewes, was a little bowed in the back and a
little frosty abouts she temples, a sickness
#ot abroad among his sheep and took a good
ball of them. The next year 8 bear stam-
peded the flook toward a forty-foos barranca
over which two bundred pitched to de-
struction. After that Don Pedro went
down ie La Lisore sud hired ous as a herd-
er. e superintendent theren ave
him a lamb band, fook-wite,maoroy ~
mostly with twin lambs; and because there
wae old kindoess between him and the
superintendent of La Liebre, and because
be bad by long usage established a right to
muooh good pasture in the neighborhood of
Wild Rose, Don Pedro was allowed to take
the flock out in his own obarge, witha
couple of dogs; and no companion herder
except to ses bim on his way.
Being master of his movements, he was
pend much more time with his
family shan falls to the lot of she hired
herder. This was important, for Don Pedro
bad at that time, besides the Senora Raiz,
who was fas and comfortable, a daughter
grown up a+ tall avd slim as a moonbeam,
Nish Salata eyes ii a mouth as soft and
et as a crumpled pomegranate flower.
She was of marriageable TI
ery fave.
§ was ten flock journeys from La
to the meadow of Wild oy 2 34 Lites
Pinos, where Don Pedro bad bis house, the
ramada of vines, a long, low swo-walled
bat, the fig-tree, the pome-granates, and
She scarlet strings of chilis drying in the
sun. That is, it was ten journeys, taken
leisurelv, when the grass was rank and the
chili-cojote in bloom. It was barely seven
in the fall of the year, with the feed scant
and only one water hole besween she ranch-
house and Wild Rose. Don Pedro would
bring up the flock from the shearing, by
which time the grazing would be in its
Peithe; Jura be oud feed for six weeks
8 sown bh
Witte earth smoke and
Then he svoog out dosaréward to little
green oases canvn floors that ca
the run-off of the quick winter ns
other six weeks, by which time the meadow
of Wild Rose would be grown again. Thus
the old man had the more leisure for ador
ing bis dangbter of the saint's eyes.
He was not so good at shat business,
however, as Ruy Garcia, who had, besides
a perfeot rosary of adoriug nawes for her, a
most remarkably fine voice for singing
them, and a very good guitar, which he
brought out from Tres Pinos twice in toe
week t0 strum in the ramada. He might
bave come oftener but that the old Don
looked so sourly upon him, and the eyes of
Felicita, misty and tender with mausie,
had, so Ruy Garcia, who had expressive
£3 Bias 454 ievew how to use them,
mee n
ey oS y Do spark io them
When mat were at this
came a ager exeraordinary uo Mg
Don Pedro contracted rhenmatism, Then,
since it would have been a blasphemy, as
Heaven bad sens bim a daoghser, to wish
for a son, he thanked God that, being a
daughter, Felicita was such as she was.
She bad been brought op with the sheep,
of course; she bad brought up the dogs her-
sell by hand. If they served Dou Pedro
and the flock willingly, judge how they
ran their feet off as the bidding of this tall,
slim girl who went at the rounding-up as
itit were a new and merry play invented
expressly to give herd dogs an occasion for
being proud of themselves. She would be
out in the blue-ringed dawn before the flock
begun to feed, having covered she swo
or three miles bes
light-footed aod ween them and the house
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leh off gallopity until be had found ber.
Bat be could never win her consent to 80
much ae being seen in her neighborhood
unless Don Pedro was about. He succeed-
ed so far in seeing her that when the rain
came drumming on the broad Igaves of the
mallow, he sent the girl and the old man
| to the house, and be, Ray, Garcia, who de-
spised sheep and thought a whole day out
of the saddle misspent, kept the flock alone.
Which proves that he was a very astute
young man or thas be really loved her.
Don Pedro softened much toward young
Garcia in those days, and the Senora Ruiz
made him toothsome enchilados and chile
relleno.
Bat there were times, and you may be
sare the young man never heard of them,
for Felicita was a modest girl and the pride
of Pedro Ruiz was great, when she slept
with the flock and warded them through
the night. She would lie out there on the
shadeless, turtle-backed hills sweeping
girdlewise aboot Wild Rose, and bed the
flock so as always to poins the star of her
mother's candle in the window of her
bome. Three times when the twilight-fire
was lighted she made is 0 wink with the
flare of burning greasewood, and in the
morning sens up smoke, tall and thin, of
green sage. Then Pedro and his wile
would understand that it was well with
the flock, and bless the saints accordingly.
The girl would pas on her father’s clothes
for the work,—she was fall as tall as he,
though as slender and swayel as a stalk of
mariposa, —and when she strapped on
sn old horse-pistol, bad a very pretty
swagger that made her parents laugh with
a choke in the throat and a ‘‘Santa Maria,
was there evey such a child as ours!”’ No,
never, Ruy Garcia could have told them.
The girl came to no harm; indeed, there
was none she could come to in the open
wilderness. But she got a most glowing
color, and her hair blew every way, like
tendrile of the megarrhiza.
Don Pedro's ailment did not mend with
the winter, and what with medicines, and
the herder’s wage being no more than a
dollar a day, with food and tobacco, it| pens
seemed less than ever expedient to hire
another man in his place. Besides, if the
flock went down to the shearing at La
Liebre without Ruiz, is was doubtful it
ever he got another to tead. It was kind-
pess only that won him tbis—kindness
and a reputation for skill with lambs; for
the number less than a thousand, and
it was cheaper to ran three thousand ina
bunch, with two men to handle them. So
when the haze of spring began to brood
over the land, and Pedro Ruiz had taken
to his bed, it began to be also an anxious
matter how the flock could be brought to
the shearing. It would be two weeks
going, for Ruiz was permitted to keep the
flock at Wild Rose for lambing, the
lambs were tender, and ten days return-
ing. All the way lay through open desert
until the last, when it turned into the pass
between the broad headed oake that kept
the contours of the hills.
Pedro Ruiz and his wife lay awake in
their bed far nto the night discussing
what was to he done about it; but Felioita,
on the hill slope with the flock, had never
bust one opinion. She would go with the
flock herself.
‘“Felicita mia,”’ said ber father, ‘‘you
are the best of daughters, but the thing is
impossible. Even if yon were a boy, im:
possible; is is too bard for you."
“I will go as a boy,” eaid Felicita.
“Who is there to,guess?’’ There was that
in ber father’s eyes when he looked at her
that said it wounld not be hard guessing.
“I am as tall as a boy,” she said mer-
SP ——
their protection in ber prayers, like the
good girl she was.
As the eighteen mile house she had din-
per with teamesters who called her ‘‘bob,”
Te fo ve ana
proepeotor, ng, as! t -
ings of a cigarette. Ruy Garcia had pro-
vided her for thas contingency. So by no
greater hardship than the responsibility of
the lambs involved, and with growing as-
surance of her boy’s disguise, she came to
the ranch-house of La Liebre, among the
oaks. What she should do sbere had heen
The superintendent of La Liebre looked
up from his tally books to see a wondrouns-
ly slim lad, Raphael-eyed, with a face burn-
ed as dusky red as a pomegravate in the
sun, wearing a shepberd’s dress, with two
herd dogs at his knees.
“I am Pedro Ruiz, son of Pedro Ruiz,
whom you know. I have brought my
father’s flock, also a letter.” He took it
forthwith out of his has, showing a lovely
head of rough-cropped, wavy bair. The
letter was a most wordy and moving appeal
to the Senor Seperintendent to have regard
for his past faithinlness and the excellent
condition of the flock, and to return them
in the charge of this, his wost dutiful son ;
and in the meantime to keep the lad as
much as possible under his eye, as he was
somewhat ill furnished for the riot of shear-
ings.
“1 should think so,”’ thought the ruper-
intendent, eying the lad all over.
Pedre blushed the darker, and bung bis
head. A modest lad.
“And you hrougbt the finok from Wild
Rose yoursell ? You are young for the
“If yon will but look,” said the boy.
“They are in good condition. One new
lamb for every ewe, and over two hundred
of those that had twins.” All this being
exactly as the letter bad said, the ruperin-
tendent approved the lad, bad his blankets
spread in the patio, kept him to run be-
tween the ranch-house and the ebearing-
. By this means young Pedro was
able to avoid much that would have been
difficult for a girl so bear; for the shearing
is holiday-time,and wine goes freely about.
Pedro Ruiz bad not been long a hired
herder, and only one cf those who drew in
at La Liehre knew much of his affairs.
That was Jules Girand, as quizzing and
gossipy an old rascal as ever wagged an un-
shaven chin. He came in late from the
Sierra pastures, and was put to help at the
saoking-frame. Here he had a glimpse of
the slender lad who ran at the superin-
tendent’s word.
“A likely lad," eaid old Jules, ‘‘born to
be a breaker of hearts; Pedro Ruiz, is he,”
be said, when he bad asked, and been an-
swered, ‘‘son of Don Pedro? Well, I bave
known the old man these ten years back,
but I bave heard of noson. A daughter he
bad who should have heen about the age of
this one—'’ Giraud broke off to look long
and keenly alter the hoy. In the course
of a day or two he made av opportunity to
ask after Don Pedro's health, ‘‘and the rest
of your brothers and sisters,’’ said Jules.
“I am my Iatber’s only child,” said the
hov, carelessly, and then suddenly blushed
a deep, painful red.
“He, bo!” said old Jules, under his
breath. He kept what he thought to him-
sell, for next day the parting of the flocks
began, aud Jules bad already purposed go
ing ap along the desert at the foot of the
Sierra wall.
Felicita wae beyond everything giad to
he upon the trail again. The bazardous
week of the shearing past, the feed abun-
rily, “and I think I bave a beard com- | dant, spring in the air, under foot, in the
ing,’’ presenting the minute velvet down
of her cheek for inspection. Then she got
down on her knees by his hed and had her
arms around him. After that old Pedro
blessed Gud for she gift of a child and sor-
rendered.
When it hecame necessary to take Roy
Garcia into confidence, he was scandaliz-
“It is too bard for you. It is man’s
work,’ he said.
Felicita tossed ber head.
the man?’
“Felicita!"
The girl relented, seeing tears in his
eyes.
gv know you would do it, Ray; but we
cannot afford to hire you, and cannot take
it ae a gifs.”
“‘Bat let me go with yon, to make sure
no barm comes to you,” he pleaded.
‘‘Whas harm could come? Wounld you
rob me of my good name?’
“Garcia i« a good name,” said the boy,
stoutly, though he blushed hotly all over
to say is. *‘I wonld give it to you itl
might go with you.”
‘No, no, Ray. You are kind, bot the
hest you can do is to get me some clothes.
I cannot go into La Liebre with my fath-
er’s things. Get me some clothes that will
look as if they belonged to me. I am only
a little smaller than you.”
A very pretty boy she looked when she
was properly dressed for is, hut Ruy Gar-
cia had another shock when he found all
her lovely bair must be cut off. And with
Felicita laughing, Senora Ruiz sneffing,
and old Pedro wiping his eyes in the bed,
he dared not so much as hint at a wish for
one of those thick, wavy looks.
“Why have yon your blankets tied on
your saddle, Ruy?" asked the girl. The
boy kept his eyes on the ground.
“I go on a journey—to Posada. I have
some work there. I shall be gone a month
or six weeks.’'
“By which time,’ taid Felicita, *'I shall
be back from La Liebre. Come and hear
my adventures.”
The boy looked at her very earnestly and
tender-eyed, but with never a word.
A great many unpleasant things might
to Felicita going south with
‘But where is
sheep with demoniac noises, but got none
of the lambs, and the deadly milkweed did
not spring about her I. She saw no
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heart, every day shining as a jewel, whe [I
sang as +he walked in she dust of she flock.
The first day’e travel lay through the shal-
low canon of oaks, the evening wound up
at the edge of the chaparral. Other fires
winked at night in the tender swilight-
baze: bells of the flocks carried far in the
night. Felicita kad no meavs of knowing
that the nearest of the fires was of Jules
Giraud, and slept, a sense of friendly pres-
ence all aboot her, ae mindlessly as her
own sheep.
The next day at the noon halt old Jules
came up with ber. The girl scented danger
at once, became nervous and anxious-eyed.
The horse-pistol was iv the saddle-bag on
the pack-burro that fed forward with the
flock. She had forgotten there was such a
thing as danger in the world. Jules was
complimentary and insinuating aod seoti-
mental. He drew close, growing more as-
sored, and enjoying ber torment. He said
of shepherding that it was a lonely life.
Oue needed a companion now—for the Jove-
ly daye, and the pvigbts. Ah, the wvights
with the stats like fires! The kuuckles of
the girl’s hand grasping the herder’s staff
were stretobed white.
“For tbe trail one needs a companion,
assuredly,’’ #aid Jules, coming vearer ;
“for choice, a lovely maid. aboat your size.
Carse me, but you bave glorions eyes, boy:
they go quite throngh me. Almost they
might be a girl's. Do you koow, if you
were a girl, now, what I would do to yon *
Thie I” He was about to suatoh a kiss.
Felicita strock at him fiercely with her
stafl, and barst into tears—and by the aot
stood confessed a girl. Jules Girand was
rubbing his braised head, the girl’s hands
were at her eyes, therefore neither of them
saw guite what happened. There was a
hurry and scramble of fees, a jet of sofs,
biesing, hot Spanish curses, and something
whirling through the air that knocked old
Jules flat, and stood over him, flashing and
threatening.
**Dog of a herder,’ it said, ‘‘shall I send
you to the devil at once or save you to be
banged ¥’* Jules, though he was half-ston-
ned with astonishment, thought himeelf no
fool. A personable and infuriated young
man springing oat upon you at the mere
snatching of a kies from a girl in
boy’s clothes meant but ove thing to Jules.
He winked feebly as he lay supicely be-
tween Roy 's feet.
“My good fellow, I bad ne idea the girl
was yours. 'T wae no more than a kiss I
wanted.”
Ruy Garcia left him, and went over to
where the girl stood sobbing.
“Are you hurt, Felicita ?”’ he faltered,
not so much as to touch her. Jules
sat up and Oniele vov
“Go 4 man,” he leered.
“She "11 nos you with ber staff, 1° | sol
warrans.”’
“It you say another word, I shail crack
your head open,”’ said Ray, stoatly. “I
blessing as he got upon
himself to his own flock, but the y
people did not bear him.
curred & miracle. Felioita Srembled;
shook of her trembling passed to Ruy Gar-
Young | spring
cia; bis head swam. What shining of the
saint's eyes, whats glow along the burnt
endor of her cheek assured bim, what
singling of the softs young paims thas clung
together, I know nos. Quiveriog lip stray-
ed te lip. Ab, a miracle !
Felioita spoke first, withdrawing with
gentle dignity.
*‘Ruy, you bave done wrongly.”
“Wha, to knock over old Jules ?”’ said
Felicita's eyes swam
will shank you better when I am bome;
bus in following me yon did wrong. Is
might have got me much mistaken.’
“Did you think I would bave let yon go
alone ? es, what does it matter, if we
are going to be married ?*’ It was impossi-
ble for Felicita to be more rosy and dewy-
eyed than she wae, but she held him off
gravely.
“For that there is the more reason no-
body should breathe upon my name.” It
is the surpassing miracle of love that it
rises superior to loving. Roy Garcia was
made to see that ro long as the girl wander-
ed abroad in boy’s guise he must drop back
into the silent, the uorewarded guardian
of the trail; and adoring her as beizg no
lower than the saints save perbaps in the
Sater of being kissable, content so bave
$ 80.
They went up, then, a week’s journey
toward Wild Rose. By day they sighted
each other moving dimly in the miss of
. By twilight their fires signaled in
the dusk. By night, lying miles apart on
the sentient earth, they thrilled to each
other under the starry spaces. Gilias and
lapins ran purple under foot; miles of burnt
gold of poppies spread about the knees of
the mountain. The new-shorn flock went
whitely in the midst of rank pasture; bloom
of the sky-blue larkspurs muffled the bells.
They passed the eighteen mile house, pass-
ed Red Batte, swung ont to avoid the
gulches about Coyote Holes, sorambled up
the gorge of Black Rook, sighted the lazy,
low-baoked bills ahous Wild Rose. Day
by day the horse of Ruy Garcia, obeying
the heart of his master rather than the
rein, edged toward the flock of Pedro Ruiz.
The last day but one the two solemn yonng
things went voiceless within bail. The
last day saw them draw together at the
meadow of Wild Rose.
There was an excellent excuse of a banch
of surpassing lillies which Ray Garcia woald
give to Felicita. Soch flowers bloom on
the desert in wes years only. Felioita took
them gravely, with drooped eyes. Ray
Garoia walked with his bridle on hie arm,
They broke through the thicket of wild
almonds, droning with bees and heavy with
perfume. There was a foot-deep gully here
that Felicita must be helped over. She had
been ten flock journeys to La Liebre and
back, but Ruy Garcia must needs give her
bis band over the gully.
Tuey wens on thus, band in band, votil
they sighted the roof under the fig-tree.
“Confess,” said Ruy Garcia, ‘‘that you
are glad I came.”
“For the sake of what happened to Jules
Giraud, yes,” said Felicita.
“For nothing else ?"’
‘What else ?’
“This.” Ruy Garcia’s horse started as
if is bad heard an order to move on.
*“Tell me," said Ruy, with bis arm around
ber—*‘in all that two weeks going, did yoo
not feel me near youn, not once ?"’
‘‘Bester than tbhat—I knew is.”’
“Kpew it? Bat how ?”
“I guessed it io the Deginniog, when I
saw your blankete tied behind the saddle,
and the woman at the eighteen mile house
told me you had passed that day. Besides,
knew—you would not love me—"'
*‘Oh, adorable ove ! Felicita mic !’’ said
Ruy Gareia.
The flock, scenting the home pastures,
jaogled on hurriedly, the dogs upon their
heels. The light fell low and struck side-
long through she hills. Listle white gilias,
wusky and sweet, came oot underfoot, and
white stars overhead. The flock bletbered
at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz,
hobbling out to let them in, stood a long
time at the bars wondering what bad be-
come of Felicita.—By Mary Austin, in the
Century Magazine.
——Do you know that you can get the
finest, oranges, hanannas and grape fruit
and pine apples, Sechler & Co.
Treatment of Sweet Potatoes to Prevent
Scab.
The subject of the treatment of seed po-
satoes to prevent soab was brought to the
attention of the Division of Economic Zo-
ology of the Department of Agriculture
of Penneyivania by Mr. R. J. Bels, of
Wellsville, York conuty, Pa., treasurer of
the Welle Whip company. Mr. Bels treat-
ed bis potatoes with bichloride of mercury,
baving dissolved two ounces of corrosive
sublimate in 16 gallons of water. Three
times this quantity of she mixture was
used on 40 bushels of potatoes.
State Zoologist H. A. Surface replied
that he prefers formalin to corrosive subli-
mate for potato scab treatment. This is
because the formalin, or formaldehyde, dis-
solves immediately in water, it being a
liguid itself when in the commercial form,
and it does not corrode any material by
coming in contact with and drying upon it
as the corrosive sublimate might do. After
having killed the disease germs it evapo-
rates and is gone, #0 thai no evil alter el-
fects can come from it. It is quickly and
easily prepared, and ite action upon one’s
hand will not be anywhere nearas serious
as she corrosive sublimate solution.
To prepare the mixture put 30 gallons of
water into a barrel, to which add one pint
of the formalin solution. This about
equals ove-hall ounce to a gallon. This
may appear weak, but it is strong enough
to destroy the scab germs. Pat the
toes in bags and she bage into barrels, and
Jou enough of the foregoing solution of
malin and water into the barrel to
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——Do you know that you can ges the
finest oranges, banannas and grape fruit,
and pine apples, Sechler & Co.
Don’t take pills unless you have to. If
ou do need a laxative medicine, use the
that will not make you a viotim to
Joep babit—Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel-
ete.
~— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Forty Years in Iowa.
[Written especially for the Warcumax. |
CHAPTER X.
Official records made by regular repre-
sentative bodies, are recognized the world
over as authentic and as such, can be de-
pended upon to a greater extent than in-
formation obtained from any other source.
Statistical and all other data collected, ar-
ranged and so published by authority of
the axpayer, belougs to whomsoever may
desire to be s¢ informed. The purpose of
the writer has heen to treat with matters
pertaining to Iowa, but more particularly
with the five or six sounties considered as
belonging to the locality of the capital
city. While not muoh of a traveler, busi-
ness and pleasure made it possible to ena-
ble us to visit and at least look upon each
of our ninety-nine counties, but the time
since leaving Pennsylvania has been spect
largely in the former above proscribed lo-
cality, and definitely of this we write tak-
ing the privilege of referring to and mix-
ing in, sach incidents pertaining to the old
State that gave us birth, as is desirable.
The percentage of illiteracy in the State
of Iowa is given at ove and five tenths per
cent. and there are but few other States
that stand in the way of our being top-
potchers. This exceedingly low rating or
percentage owes its existence to an excel-
lens publio school system, and the credit of
it belongs and should he given to Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, New York and all other east-
ern States, that produced and sens the best
of their youth of fifty years ago to unite
sod formulate into one great whole, from
she best laws their respective States bad in
force, such statutes as by which we are
now governed, and though the ranks of the
Pioneer Lawmakers Association are being
rapidly depleted, shere are yet a goodly
number of these grand old men lef, who
meet here during the sessions of the Legis-
lature, both for their own social diversion
and to recommend for enactment euch laws
as they think would enure to the benefit of
our citizens. They are an organized band
of grand old men, commanding the respeot
of everybody, heing welcomed here in their
biennial gathering in a manner due them ;
and there are Pennsylvanians among them.
The much greater percentage of our tax
is for the maintenance and support of the
public schools. It matters not whether it
ie a matter of tax levy or a bond issue, the
people vote largely in the majority for the
measures. The system in all ita detail is
closely guarded by as wise legislation as it
seems possible for men to make ; even
down to a truancy provision which places
an officer in each school district to prevent
such disobedience. We have also a reason-
able compulsory act, that requires all obil-
dren to be in attendance at some place of
learning for a stated period of time each
year. Tbe percentage acoredited to us is
not of much apparency in our native born,
but largely with the foreign citizenship
who bave been deprived of opportunity of
which they would bave otherwise availed
themselves.
As a natural and reasonable result, mo-
rality is not at a low ehh, or very far be-
hind in its pace, and we point to a verifi-
cation of this statement, to the existence of
nivety-eight church buildings in this city
aloue to say nothing of many missions that
are maintained in that portion where such
are usually established while every five
miles all over the country distriots such
buildings are in evidence. We do not pre-
sume to say that a oity of ninety or one
buudred thousand is olear of vice and im-
morality, but we do say that it ie kept
within good check, and persistent viola-
tions prevail only where such characters
are shielded and protected by those oppos-
ed to the enforcement of righteous and
wholesome law. Police court records show
that arrests for drunkenness are made daily
and if often repeated, and at the request of
relatives, these unfortunates are sens to a
State penal institution provided for that | tory
purpose.
Our authorities are on the alert, and es-
pecially lor violations of the liquor laws.
Some ten days ago a westbound overland
train was held for two hoors, employees ar-
rested, a large quantity of liquor counfiscat-
ed, and of course the action to enforce this
law wae denounced by a class.
On April 26th, fifteen saloon men of this
city were arrested and warrants are out for
others ; four were taken at Marshalltown,
four at Boone and eight or ten at Oskaloo-
ea, for selling to Indians. The reservation
at Tama became so demoralized by the
smuggling going on that the U. 8. officers
were called to work and by aeing the edu.
cated young men, dressed in blankets, evi-
dence was obtained with the above result.
The saloon men in Des Moines generally,
are law abiding and conduct their business
striotly in accordance therewith, and are
not in sympathy with those who do not.
Many of these men in the business here
we know well, and shey are gentlemen
and honest, bus their business is somewhat
against them.
The educational facilities in this city and
over the entire State are good. At Indisn-
ola, thirty miles distant, the county seat of
Warren, Simpson Centenary College is lo-
cated. It is well established and is doing
effective work, baving among its Alumni
strong men and women scattered all over
the great west. Morally, this town of four
or five thousand inhabitants is clean—no
saloons, or their milder accessions.
As stated in a former article, there are
colleges in this city that are models of ex-
cellent institutions. The public schools
are second to none, so that the boy or
girl, no difference how short of funds, if
industrious and #0 desires, can alone fully
equip themeelves for any of the professions.
There are young men forging to the front
in thie city, in the legal profession, that
made themselves entirely what they are to-
day.
In the rural districts, bere as in all other
States, through no fault or desire of the an-
thorities they do not afford facilities for a
thorough work in the public schools, as is
possible in our cities and towns, and for
one reason : namely lack of material in suf-
ficient numbers to obtain results for money
that would be provided and expended,
were the pupils in evidence. With coun-
try school houses two to four miles apart,
the older scholais, rent away to the near-
est city institations, the formation of
grades is ous of the question.
Up against this proposition, and with
four reasonably energetio as well as mis.
chievons youngsters, to be given of what is
best for life’s battle, we concluded to give
up farm life and locate where the children
could attend the best of public schools for
pine months of the twelve, and il desira-
ble, the college privileges would be availa-
ble later.
Financially, the change did not appeal
to us, bot the object sought did, and at
this writing, with five boys and girls and
fairly well equipped intellectually, doing
tor themslves, and another in his eighteenth
year, about ready for High school gradua-
tion, [have no regrets for baviog made the
sacrifice. Whether pronounced as queer
sentimentalism or nos, the parting at a
public sale with dumb brutes, bred and
fostered under interested care, left a pang
of regret, and from the faithful old Ned
horse and Dolly mare, down to the frisky
young colts, the patient cows with their
offspring fast growing into money,are some
of the things of the past that are not pleas-
ant to contemplate.
Two year’s office work at Cartin’s Forge,
supplemented with a course in the Iowa
Business college, bad not been lost or for-
gotten during the years of farm life, so
that remunerative employments in lines of
business has always been at hand, though
some farming by telephone bas since heen
carried on.
Incidentally, it can be said that the pos-
session of some business knowledge by the
man who tills the eoil, does not detract
from hie ability to operate a farm. To
designate him as a ‘‘Hayseed,’’ a ‘‘Rube’’
or ‘‘Granger’’ only acts as a rebound ; to
aleo designate the obap making such ex-
pressions, as a ‘‘shallowpate.”’
A oity bred young man spent bis sum-
mer vacation from echool with his unole on
a stock farm and really wanted to make
himself useful. He was given a bucket of
salt one morning and sent to the shed to
“‘galt’’ a bunch of twenty calves and then
soon alter, to tarn them into the pasture.
At noon is was found necessary to return
them to the shed, to prevent the larger cat-
tle from licking the bair and hide from off
their backs.
8. W. BAKER.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 1st, 1909.
Do Not Spray Blossoms.
The owners of fruit trees who intend
spraying their trees to prevent diseases and
kill the coddling moth larva are advised
by Prof Sarface, of the Division of Eco-
pomic Zoology of the Pennsylvania De-
partments of Agrioultare, not to spray the
blossoms, but to wait until alter the petals
have dropped, or more thau three-fourths
are down. Injary will be caused so the
blossoms if they are sprayed when open,
but the sprayivg sbould not be delayed
after the blossoms have fallen. To secure
the best results the spray must be spplied
within six daye after the blossoms fall,
and a second spraying should be done ten
days or two weeks after the first applica-
tion to prove effectual.
The following are the objections to
spraying trees when in bloom :
1. There is no definite pest for which
the spray is applicable at that time, and
each spraying should be for something del-
inite.
2. The very young fruit is liable to be
injured by the spray liquid falling upon it
at thie time. Spraying when in bloom is a
very sure way of thinning the Iruit crop,
but it is very unscientific and unsatisfao-
3. Spraying blossoms with poison re-
sults in the destruction of bees. Bees are
necessary for fertilization and setting of
the fruis.
4. The delay of only a short éime, or
until jn hier the Blasio : inl giveg 1h
proper time for spraying for the
moth and for plant diseases and does not
result in the destruotion of fruit or bees.
The pr spraying material is the Bor-
deaux Mixture to which an arsenical poi-
son, such as Paris green or arsenate of lead
is added. There are two spraying strengths
tor this liquid, according to the bardiness
of the tree or plant to be sprayed. Spray
the apple, pear, quince and potato with
the strong formula which calle for 3 lbs. of
quick lime in 50 gallons of water, with
one or two Ibe. of arsenate of lead added to
this. If Paris green is used, instead of the
arsenate of lead, } Ib. soould be used $0
esch 50 gallons.
The weak formula calls for one-hall of
the above quantities of bluestone, lime
and arsenate of lead in 50 gallons of water.
This is need on aud plom trees on
account of their tender bark, and on simi-
Peach and plum trees
do not need Sos eptaged i ately aft-
er blossoming, bas and the grapes
should be ed for wormy fruit, mak-
ication after the fruit reaches
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impossible for the bulky animal to retard
the swift attack and retreat of its
opponent.