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us to do it.
DECLARING WAR.
LET'S have a little war of our
own, whilp the powder bums
nnd smoke flies on the fields of
Europe. What's the matter with
a campaign started at once against
the foes 'besieging your farm?
The European war has taught us
the uselessness of depending on sta
tionary fortresses to repel the at
tack of an enemy. Stationary meth
ods will never do in this little war
wc are going to start. We arc going
to get out and be the aggressors,
never giving the enemy an oppor
tunity to be safe within our domain.
This is to be a cruel, a relentless
war, and no flags of truce will bo
observed. It will be a war of blood
and iron, of sweat and work, and
no compromise will .be tolerated.
Who is this war to bo against?
Our foes arc man There is, for
instance, that obnoxious weed that
is seeking "a place in the sun." We
must deny its ambition fulfilment.
There is the cutworm that must be
cut down before its career has be
gun. There is the codling moth
that has designs upon the Fall ap
ples. Spray it. There is the sick
hog that must be brought back to
health ere disease advance upon the
remainder of your swine.
Oh, there is plenty to do don't
forget that. The main thing to
keep in mind is that now is the time
to do it. It must be a war in which
there is no time for parleys, n war
of action, and of results. To the vic
tor belongs prosperity.
TEACHERS AND HIRED MEN.
WHEN a man has more work
than he can do he hires a
man to do some of it for him.
Ho sets aside a certain portion of
that work for the hired man and a
certain portion for himself. But
after he has made this division, docs
ho go on about his own work and
pay no attention to the way in which
the hired man doos his? Not he!
He keeps a close watch on that
man to see that he does his share of
the work in the way in which it
should be done. Especially if the
man's work includes the care of live
stock, the employer keeps in close
touch with the way the work is done.
And why shouldn't he? The live
stock is valuable; the proper care of
it is important.
When our children become old
.enough to need an education we hire
somebody to do that work for us;
we do not have time to do it for our
selves. Now surely those children
arc just as valuable to us as are our
horses, hogs and cattle. And yet
there is not one of us in a hundred,
or probably even in a thousand, who
ever pays the least bit of attention
to how our hired man or hired
woman is doing this vitally import
ant work of educating our children.
There are, in fact, many of us who
do not even know who these hired
helpers are, let alone knowing any
thing about how they are doing their
work.
Consistency, thou art a jewel !
IDLE TEARS.
ONCE upon a time tears were
woman's strongest weapon.
That they are so no longer is a
wonderful tribute to the stronger
personality of both sexes. Since
women arc now the true helpmates
of Men, they no longer attempt to
rule them with the weapons of
weakness. Women with personali
ties don't weep, except alone. In
great grief they cannot cry. Weep
ing in solitude restores the balance
of the soul, but the easy weeper has
never a strong personality.
Idle tears belong to weakness and
sentimentality. Tears that are red
with the sweat of anguish are never
seen and never spoKen of. It re
quires a trained will-power and gen
uine emotion to hold back the tears
that gather in the eyes, a stronger
will-power than that that carries the
soldier through a rain of bullets.
TOO MUCH ROPE.
(Kriltoilnl In Western l-'ninix, Spoknnc)
TWO bold explorers wore desir
ous of examining a deep can
yon that was impossible of ac
cess by any path they could discov
er. They found that the only way
to gain entrance into that coveted
position was to descend the steep,
rocky walls by a rope.
They were cautious,. The lighter
man was to be lot down, but before
doing so must know that the other
could pull him up. So several times
the larger man let his companion
over the precipice a little way and
pulled him back. Yes, he could draw
him up when tlie explorations were
finished.
But alas! When the time came
the man at the top could not lift his
companion ! They had not reckoned
on the weight or 800 feet of rope!
He could just raise the man without
the additional burden of many
pounds of rope.
Many a farmer gets into just such
a predicament as that. lie can easily
carry on a farm that involves 1G0
acres. Thinking another section
would increase the income two-fold
he buys, only to find that he hns as
sumed a greater burden than he can
bear. The increased fencing, the
need of more help, more machinery,
the mortgage and all, is just a little
"too much rope" and he can't make
it go.
Many a man has become enthusi
astic over some new line of effort
and, unwilling to start in a small
way and gain experience, has dipped
in too deeply. The losses have been
heavy, the outcome of the venture
discouraging. He couldn't pull him
self out of the hole because he had
not reckoned on all the points in
volved. Sometimes x man takes desperate
chances on the board of trade, or in
a bucket shop, or on the regular
market. He thinks the matter over
and sees no reason to fear the ven
ture. But he has not seen the long
coil of ropo that the other fellows
have slipped about him to weight
him down and hold him while they
fleece him.
You may.be strong, you may bo
well fixed, but beware lest you be
come "land poor" or fettered by ob
ligations that you could easily avoid.
THE COST OF THE WAR.
STATISTICIANS are busy guess
ing at the cost of the war in
Europe.
It's all wasted effort, for figures
cannot compass nor the human mind
comprehend the appalling cost of
this civilization-wrecking conflict.
The cost of the War is not measur
able, and even those details of it that
.can be estimated will exceed all esti
mates. The cost of the war involves these
items, some calculable, some incal
culable :
1. The cost of equipment guns,
ships, ammunition, unforms, horses,
forts, etc.
2. The cost of maintenance sub
sistence for men and beasts; pay of
officers and men, etc.
3. The cost to industry through
the withdrawal of men of the high
est productive capacity.
'I. The cost to society in the loss
of social efficiency through the kill
ing and maiming of men.
5. The cost to future generations
in the loss of those fittest to carry
on the species, who are those chosen
for war. The Napoleonic wars, mere
skirmishes compared with this holo
caust, had a marked and shocking
effect on the French race because
war took the fittest and loft the
unfit to breed succeeding genera
tions. (5. The cost in property destroyed
in the process of warfare a cost
measurable by money only in part.
Who shall count the vajue of a
Rhcims cathedral?
7. The cost of human heartbreak,
in the woe of widows and orphans.
S. The cost in brutalizing human
ity, in debasing civilization.
Every item in this listTs a definite
charge upon war, a definite count in
the indictment of civilization against
war and militarism.
WHAT SPREADS HOG CHOLERA
THE responsible causes for the
infection of nearly 3000 herds
of hogs with cholera presents
an Interesting angle of the question,
showing how this serious disease is
spread. These figures have been
kept by the Federal investigators
in their recent studies of the chol
era situation. The largest number
of cases, more than a third, were
carried by men either in exchang
ing labor or in visiting on neighbor
ing farms. Birds are charged with
over 17 per cent of the cases, this
being the next highest figure, fn
lGli per cent of the case3 it was be
lieved that the infection was har
bored on the farm from previous
outbreaks. Dogs carried 9V per
cent of the cases, and 8'j per" cent
were caused by direct exposure to
side hogs of the neighbors. The
bringing in of new stock started
only 3t' per edit of the cases.
Cannot farmers develop some sys-
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"om infection yJr
le most seriou'H
boofSawd"fc
infcctanUtSi?
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this mystery unless he
able mind.
That Uttni-niicnnH)..-.,
er, "Except ye become u i
uimi yc sunn in no wise
Kingdom of IImi a
primarily to the innocence
child. NorisitlltniWi.!
cation to the Heaven to
Iilo. It applies now and ei
us real meaning is lead
Except as we arc u
learn the mennhnr nf HI
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nine cnim, we caninnoiitl
into an understanding of I
obtain mastery over Ilea
sucn Knowledge and such i
teacnauieness that gum
lilo mind" With that am)
that can we cope with lie
wisely minister to its fcrt
starved minus amocf
have produced starved fan
can be no enrichment of
without first emichbfth
We don't see why then
should make such a noise A
attendance at the San
Fair exceeding all pitraml
attendance. Everjbod?
it to exceed all others initt
and, in fact, in every wtf.
"Seattle jitney drivcr'ii
voiced because of six
fwontv-four hours." "ft
ney driver's license reveUJh
of five accidents in i
hours." Portland wiiu.
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determined by its good m
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poker, Nevada is said toMti
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popular state in -
some people.
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and seriously affected -J
to .articulate. Why W
grape juice?
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