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Copyright,
PROLOGUE.
A plucky, wide awake, hustling
American boy takes a worn-
out and abandoned farm and
gets busy with his head and his
hands to renew the fertility of
the soil, make a scientific farm-
er of himself and capture prizes
as a member of the Boys’ Corn
club. What he did and how he
did it form the plot of an up to
date romance of real life that
holds the interest from first
chapter to last.
CHAPTER I.
6s OTHER.” said Sam Powell,
“let’s go back to the farm
this year”
“Well, 1 do say!” ex-
claimed Mrs. Powell, smiling. “What
ever put that ootion into your head,
Sam? * I thought we'd had enough of
farming.”
Sam Powell and his mother and a
sister a year younger than Sam lived
on the outskirts of town and made a
scanty living from the séle of butter
and milk afforded by two cows and
eggs and poultry produced on an acre
lot. In addition to this income, the
family also had the rent from a little
farm of twenty acres, which was situ.
ated four miles from town. The
amount of the rent, howéver, was 80
small as to be hardly worth mention
ing. Year after year the land became
poorer, and slothful and ignorant ten-
ants let the weeds take the crops.
Sam was sixteen, nd he and his sister,
Florence, attended the public school
in town. Their father had been dead
four years. Before that time the fam-
ily had lived on the farm Just men-
tioned. But Mr. Powell had been no
more successful than his neighbors or
the tenants. Not that he hadn’t work:
ed hard, for there had been no harder
worker in the community than Ed-
ward Powell. = But something was
lacking. He had been unsuccessful
and the family had suffered many pri-
vations and hardships.
At first the area of the farm had been
160 acres. but as the farmer got deep-
er and deeper in debt he sold it off, a
piece at a tinié, till there were 1éft only
the hbuse and twenty acres. Consid-
ering that there was mo possibility of
making a living on this amount of
ground, Mr. Powell would have sold it
2s had he been able to find a buyer: | war,
0 buyer being at hand, though,
disheartened farmer moved His fainfly
to town left it. months late.
he Was Stficken with and died
Then the st ruggle for a
fell on
Hol ur dy eg Sr, for
Sam and Florence Se large ensugh
to be of much belp to their mother.
80 it was with much surprise that
lived hard now, it is true, but then it
bad been woise. Her own memories
of their days om the farm were any-
thing But pleasant, and she knew that
Sam had not forgotten. Much as she
liked stock and growing things, she
didn’t want to go back to that life
gain.
It wds Satufddy afternoon, and Sam
His eyes
“It's this way, Mother,” #4id S&m.
replying to Mrs. Powell's question and
coinment. “Since I've been going to
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The main thing is in knowing how to
work. We dre just now learning how.
@ome don’t know how yet and won't
try ‘to 1éarn. It wash’t father's fault
that he failed. because no one knew
anything about the new farming then.
But that's why father fdiled, and Fa-
gan is farming just like father did.
He’s got the chance to learn better,
but won't do it Bill Googe won't
work muh. of course. but he'd do a lot
better if he tried the new way.”
“What is this new way? 1 thought
farming was farming.”
“It would take a long time to explain
ft all” said Sam. “but it mostly de
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pends on what kind of soil you have,
how you plow it and how you plant
and cultivate your crops”
“Did you learn all this out of the
book on farming?’ asked Mrs. Powell.
“Well, I’ve learned a good deal from
the book,” Sam explained, ‘but not all
1 know. The government has appoint-
ed an agent for this county, and he is
going to spend part of his time here
next year instructing the farmers and
the boys. I heard him make two talks
downtown. He's anxious for me to go
out on our little place this year. He
says nearly everybody out in that
neighborhood ‘is like Bill Googe and
Miles Fagan. and he wants me to show
them a thing or two. He says he'll
help in every way he can.”
“1 do like the country,” said Mrs.
Powell, “and 1 would like to go back on
the old place. but the land’s worn out,
and I'm afraid we’ll make a failure.”
“Well, a failure couldn't burt us
much, mother,” said Sam. ‘It’s all to
gain and nothing to loe. But we won’t
fail. That land is not worn out. If 1
can’t fix it so that it raises twice as
much to the acre as any farm around
there, then we’ll move back to town
and I'll never say another word about
farming.”
“But we have no team,”
Mrs. Powell.
for supplies?”
“T’'ll get Bill Googe to break the land.
1 won’t need a team for anything else.
The old tools father had will do. and
the horse and spring wagon we have
will be all right for what hauling there
is. The pasture will save a lot of feed
for the cows, and 1 think we can fix
it so as to keep our milk and butter
customers. ['ve already seen about
the supplies. Mr. Wilson said that he’d
let me have groceries and seed or any-
thing I have to have on credit.”
“I’m afraid your mind is too change-
able, Sam.” said his mother. “You
know you've been talking of being a
merchant. Have you changed your
mind abeut that?”
“Yes, 1 have. mother. You see, 1
knew what farming in the old way
was like. and | didn’t know there was
other way. | thought it would &i-
ars be lke it has been, and I didn’t
want any more of it in mine. That's
why I thought about being a merchant.
But things have changed. People are
learning a new way to farm, and it's
objected
“and what would we do
“Well, then,” Mrs. Powell agreed at
“we’ll try it one year.”
ar eXcldimed Sam, delighted
“You just watch me get busy. I'm go-
Hig oBt to the farm néxt Saturday.”
The next week was an impatient one
26F Bdm. He told fils tdtcher ana a
few friends about his plans, and the
“That's what they cali book farsning,
Sam.”
etter were much interested. Some
maid that they would like to go to the
esuniry themselves.
“Well, you can come out to See me
when you have time,” Sam told them.
“That won't be like living there, but it
will be a change.”
“I'll be there for one,”
Watson.
«1 for another.” said Andrew White.
“No use for me to tell you, Sam.”
Fred Martin added. “I'll come.”
“Of course.” Sam explained, “it may
be so sometimes that I can’t show you
a good time. [I'll be pretty busy, but
you know you can make free around
exclaimed Joe
“Not on your life!” they all exclaimed
at once and laughed.
“Won't that be fine?’ said Joe Wat-
son, his mouth watering at the thought
«f the berries and the melons.
“Say, though, Sam,” Fred Martin
spoke up suddenly, “you don’t think
we're going to come out there and loaf
around and have a good time while
you are at work, do you?”
“Well, 1 don’t see anything wrong in
id
“Maybe not, but we'll not do that
way, just the same. ‘I'll tell you what
we'll do. Any time that you have
work on hand when we come out
we'll help you out so that you can take
a half day off.”
“That's the idea,” seconded Andrew.
“If we come out Saturday morning,
say, and work till noon you could take
the afternoon off, couldn't you?”
“Well, 1 should think I could,” said
Sam. “But I wouldn't like to have
you work for me for nothing.”
“Oh, don’t worry,” said Joe. “We'll
get paid. We'll take it out in wafer
melons.”
work so well,” sald Sam. “You might
as well go out with me next Saturday.
We're not going to move until next
spring, but 1 must mend the fences
and get the ground in shape.”
“Sure, we’ll go,” they all said
“Where’'ll we find you and what time
shall we start?”
“I'll be at home,” Sam told them.
“Come about 7 o'clock, and we'll drive
out in the spring wagon.’
Before Saturday came round Sam
could not refrain from hunting up his
new friend. the government agent, to
tell him that he was going out on the
little farm for that year at least.
The agent, Mr. Burns, was delighted
at the news.
“Well,” he said. “I'm glad to hear
that. Miles Fagan is, as they say.
from Missouri He must be shown.
It’s just a waste of breath to talk to
him. He won't listen to anything. |
tried to get him to plant just one acre
and cultivate it according to our meth-
ods. But he said he didn’t have time
for any such foolishness He'd been
farming long enough. he said. to know
something about it. \
“I tried to persuade him to allow his
son, Bob. to join the Boys’ Corn club
and plant an acre of corn to be culti
vated under my direction. But he
wouldn't do that either, and, in fact, he
talked rather insultingly to me. Of
course if it was just himself that was
concerned | wouldn't bother any more
with him A man like that doesn’t
deserve 1 1 But we can’t afford to
resent su un 1k from anybody, Sam.
We just «ousier that it is because he
doesn't nu tind and let it go. Be
glides, it's .:¢ welfare of the whole
country tha ne looking after. We
Want to dai. .. tier farmers out of the .
boys. VY: ul Bob Fagan to be a
more su:.. ..-. nl farmer than his fa-
ther has ven. and, you see, we can’t
do that +...cort convincing his father
so that he ill let us teach Rob ©
“Now, vonr farm and Kagan’s jo,
don’t they 2”
“Yes, sir,” Sum replied: «there's Jus!
a fence between his tield and ours.’
“Do you know what he is going to
plant next to your fleld?”
h, yés. He always plants corn
there. Hasn't had anything élse there
for five years.”
“The very time exclaimed Mr
Burns. “Now, | wart “you ‘to come
down to the yi next Monday
morning. We dre going to have a
meeting of the Boys’ Corn club then.
and I want you to join. You know,
there is $600 to be given in prizes in
this county. There is- a chance for
you to win about $250 on a contest acre
of corn.”
“That is a whole lot of money,” said
Sam, “and 1 am going to try hard to
win the first prize, though my land is
pretty well run down.” i
“You can fix that all right,” Mr.
Burns assured him. “Of course you
may not get the whole field as well
fertilized as it should be, but you can
get the acre for corn in good condition.
And | want you to lay off that acre
just across the fence from Fagan's.
We'll certainly show him something
this year about growing carn.”
hats the poorest land on the place.”
said
“Bo minch (a vetiar ie. Bitus in
your cfd 1s ‘dite to Bettis 1E8l."
“Oh, no. be can't say that, for his
land is much richer than : ! Mine
‘has been neglected ‘so | I'll sure
‘have to'go to wap on it Foy to
‘make a good showing
“Yes, that's right.
and lowed ded Goth Fick can.
plow ie Janusty. RE have been
plow fie ‘hom How much
land hit¥e you?”
“Twenty acres, bat five of it are tn
‘pasture. [I'm goiag to hire 8 man to
‘plow the fleld. ‘as I have only one
horse.”
“That would be best,” said Mr.
Burns, “but you must keep an account
of all ‘the work done on the contest
acre, for you know it will have to be
figured tn on the cost of the corn.”
“111 do that.” ‘Bam agreed. “In fact,
I'm going to Keep books on everything
—crops and stock too | want to know
when I make or lose.”
“You're oun the right track,” Mr.
Burns replied. “It is just as neces-
sary to keep books on the farm as it
is in any other business. for farming
is a business. Sam. and a good busi
ness, too, if you do it in a business
like way.”
(To Be Continued. )
of Listonburg and a member of Co. J.,
Sixty-first Pennsylvania volunteers.
MRS.JOHN SHILLER.
Mrs. John Shiller, of Johnsburg,
died at her home on March 5. She
had been il for some time but the
death of her husband just one week
previous, hastened her demise. Two
daughters, Anna and Margaret, and
“I didn’t know that you liked to
five sons, Conrad, Solomon, William,
Edward and Norman survive her.
CHARLES OGLE BARNES,
After a six years’ illness from a
: stroke, died Feb. 28 in his 61st year.
He was the son of the late Hamilton
Barnes, of Middlecreek township, who
was in the Stdte Senate. For 40 years
he lived in Casselman as a merchant,
hotel keeper, Justice of the Peace etc.
Hiswife, who was Miss Ella Cupp,
survives with fiye children.
MRS.CLARA GORDON HITCHENS,
~ Wife of Prof. Wm. Hitchins, died in
a Philadelphia hospital last Friday, of
malaria fever. The remains were ship-
ped to Windber and taken to Daley
for interment .Prof. Hitchew has been
principal of schools in Florida and is
well known in this vicinity. The fu-
neral was conducted Tuesday, Rev.
H. S. Replogle of Scalp Level, offici-
ating.
HARRY DEWITT PETERSON,
Harry DeWitt Peterson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel S. Peterson, of Wind
ber, died of tubercular affection at
‘the family home Saturday, aged 21
yrs. The remains were taken to Pleas-
antville for interment. This is the sec-
ond son to die in the past year, his
| brother, Jeremiah, having Jbassed
.away March 16, 1914. The deceased
! was a member of the 1915 H. S. grad-
uatig class.
MRS. ELIZABETH WILT.
Mrs. Josiah Wilt, of Kimmelton,
died Friday evening at her home of
the infirmities of age. She was 82 yrs.
old. Mrs. Wilt was Elizabeth Mostoll-
ar, daughter of Henry Mostollar, and
was born near Friedens. She is sur-
vived by her husband and five sons—
‘Robert of Kimmelton, Daniel of Chi-
cago,John T. of Listie, Alexander, at
| home, and the Rev. M. L. Wilt, of
Kast Freedom—and one daughter,
Julia, wife of S. P. Clemans, of Kim-
melton.
MRS.EPHRAIM BERKEY
Died at her home in Scalp Level
March 11 at the age of 67 years, this
being /being the third death in her
f % in the last few months two
brothers “being the others to succumb
Henry Hostetler, of Richland town-
‘ship, who died three weeks ago and
‘Isaac Hostetler, of Conemaugh town-
ship, who died about a month ago.
Surviving are her husband and ‘three
‘children—MTrs. Idella Paul of Scalp
‘Level, Samuel, South Fork, and Eliza-
‘beth, at home. Interment in the Ber-
key cemetery.
DAVID 8S. SNYDER,
Died at the Hotel Belmont, Somer-
set, Wednesday, aged 31 years. He had
‘been ill for several years with tubercu
losis and lived at Belmont Hotel, con-
ducted by his father-in-law, Chas.
Hentz. Mr. Snyder was a pharmacist
and until recently conductéd a drug
store in Scalp Level. He was a Son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Snyder.
His widow and one son, Van, survive
together with two sisters-Mrs. Cur-
tis O. Kooser, of Somerset, and Mrs.
Frank B. Black of Meyersdale funer-
al services were held Friday at 1 p.m.
at the hotel after which the body was
taken to Berlin for interment. The ser-
vices were incharge of Rev. A. S. Sny-
der, of Scalp Level. :
NELSON GERHARD,
Aged 66 years, died at his residence
in Somerset, recently, following a
brief illness of heart trouble. He be-
cape ill and died before medical as-
sistance could be secured. Mr. Ger-
hdrd was a son of Jacob and Cather-
ine Brougher Gerhard and removed
to Somerset from Lower Turkeyfoot
township many years ago. He is sur-
viveéd by his widow and five children-
‘J46bb, of Somerset, Freeman, of
Kingwood, John, of Meyersdale, Da-
vid, £ ‘Cairabrodk dnd Francis, of Con.
fluence. Two brothers, J. B. of Somer-
gét dd William, of Kingwood- and
three sisters, Mrs. Mary Snyder of
Rockw66d, Mrs Susan Hechler, of
of Milford township-also survive.
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off the Scilly islands and in the Eng-
lish channel where on Thursday, Fri-
dal and Saturday she succeeded in
sinking four British steamers and one
French steamer and in damaging
threeothers. The German commander
gave the crews of most of the steam-
ers time to leave their vessels and in
some cases towed the ship’s life boats
with th crew to passing steamers by
which they were brought to port.
Nearly 6,000,000 men—French, Bel-
gian, British, German, Austrian and
Russian—is the toll of the war in kill-
ed, wounded and prisoners up to Feb.
15. Details of these stupendous losses
staggered the French army commis-
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sides Jan. 31 were estimated by mili-
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slightly more than half wére Germans
and Austrians. It is the rigorous poli-
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Parents of thé war victims are fioti-
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An “dnti-treating” bill Which pro-
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paid for themr or to permit a person
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the premises was introduced into the
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the exception of the adult wife, sis-
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son paying for liquors. The penalty
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$500 or ninety days in jail or both
Mr. Barnett algo introduced two bills
amending the license law so that sign-
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