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a ml umiet
MINTS F OK FARM&K3
his breath Stanhope murmured. "1 Won
der whether this sort of thing is roman
A Beet llnrvrvter.
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tic enoug » to suit her?”
It bus ticen tbe belief
American
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ri :i;ive Ingenui.;. w»
y ths
Two y
a p ■ ' .»way. and the date . .»lem of ucci !.ar •
<
i .h ha*
of the _
.oual races was Leen one ot tile bl.-se- »
vnsei ot
*«-
fast aj l __ ......
M..n clous tales had
■*f ■
progress in the development >>i the beet
come from abroad regarding the per
Hand und L ie work
Their Work In War and In Peace— How America.
formnnees of the Erin. The British s igar industry
4%
'.oil tn the culture and
had gone fairly wild over her. and their ..- in w
Awaked Them From a Sleep of Centuries—Their Thirst
supreme confidence had had a depress harvest '•» ;l' s crop. Tbe American
It all began at tbe America's cup Ing effect on this side of the water, farmer
his legs and hauls and
For Knowledge—From Barbarism to World Power Status
races In 1803 and ended two years later. where the new defender, the Virginia, Lack as mu ll as possible, l’cet cul
In tbe fall of 1905. To be exact, it be had done nothing to show that she was ture is back breaking. In some locali
MV? *-*«€€€•
ties where sugar factories have been
gan at the very moment tbe winning greatly superior to tlie Columbia.
Stanhope had been readily admitted vsoiblished farmers have refused to
considered, Japan I m loldlers and sailors In the Irrepressible
boat,
swelling
white
from
deck
to
tow
tic most wonderful na conflict between greater Russia and coclies were seut in large numbers to ering truck, swept across tbe line in a to the yacht club, anti his boat, con iiiai>'i„o the taxing labor necessary to
Mauchuria and Siberia to study the lay
structed by tlie famous old designer, grow Leets, and foreigners Lave been
of today.
Fifty-one greater Japan.
of the coumry and the characteristics mist of flying spray and a thousand had been accepted as the defender ot imported for the purpose. If beets
:go, when the shogun
Bteam
whistles
burst
into
gigantic
ap
of their prospective foes. Young men
» orn is grown fac*
tlie cup. Extr.
. . ry pains had been t. .1 l.e gr. ■■
ltry and the Japanese “Honorable Gate,"
went to St. Petersburg and other Rus plause, announcing to a waiting world taken to keep
ilo a
luck for supplies.
were as »■>: iusi.e, barbarous and un-
lines secret. The ■... le»
The word mikado means honorable sian cities to size up the Slavic power
that the cup would stay on this side shipyard where she was built had been l'Iiase v. ■
iers•land the ingenuity
progr.
s the Chinese of today, gate, and through him the Japanese
to labor sav«
guarded day anil night by armed men. of inveii:., n : - i”
the mu. d .-it of civilization knocked huve entered the arena of nations and, and to devise bow best to meet it. for at feast another year.
at the g
of the Land of the Rising for better or for worse, have accepted Every move the nation made was di
It was nt this instant that Miss Vir amt she bail been launched “in petti ing lai m mavì.invi. »■ ! v been keeping
an ear open tor a note of success in
Sun. 'lui
.. d list was that of Un- the gage of battle In a struggle that reded to the one end.
ginia Wentworth, her teeth flashing, coats." which concealed her hull.
It v-••« not until the day before that tlie application of tliN ixcnius to imple-
cle Sam. a
ug» ut was Commodore to them is titanic. The actuating spirit Why the Jap Changed.
her eyes glistening, her cheeks flaming,
set f.
first series of races that one menis for beet cu i« <ire. Nebraska is
Perri, ,,
. ■■■ of the rv » of Lain ot the Japanese has seemed to be an
The closest students of this adaptlv* turned to Frank Stanhope aud cried, of th ■ .-•ti-aiiotml New York newspa the stau* to sound it lil
It, eed-
Erie, lie demanded that the ports of Insatiable appetite for knowledge.
with quick emotion: "Isn't it glorious? pers
people
agree
that
the
Jap
did
not
take
.
■ ! that a
in ti’teed under scare heads that er*8 Gazette. Il is re|
Japan be ».penad t » the trade of the With the eagerness of children they
up western ways because he particu Oh, I could love a man who could carry the Vi: fitia, despite her enormous sail couple of men in Red Willow county,
world, and as his d tnand was backed have gratified the craving.
larly liked them, llefeiw that only by off a prize like that!”
t..... '.. drew only fifteen feet of water; in that state, have devised u beet har
by the tleindcr of n ny cannon it was
To gain an understanding of present taking them up could he hope to make ;
| ; tleable.
This remark was unwise unlc M
i
the pi per deduced the alleged vester which w”I ptw
granted ’I". • MS- Mppi. one of Per conditions in Japan it is necessary to
ry’s ships, v. s til ■ first steamship the consider the fact that nine-tenths ot his country a great nation, and be was Wentworth wished to invite what fol fact that if tliA wind reached a velocity Its operation requires one tnan and
Japanese had ent »11. but almost ini the rulers of the empire and a great determined to be a world power, the lowed, for no one had ever accused of even t'..i ive miles an hour the Amer four horses, and thus equipped it Is
said that it w!l! dig. top
' load three
mediately tl.ey be_. u the formation of majority of even the professors in the leader of the orient. Thus he gave up Stanhope of being backward where wo lean boat would inevitably capsize.
The fl'-st two races went off splendid acres of beets a day. A v agon accom
a steam na ry . and within seven years colleges are from the old fighting class customs he loved for those he loathed. men were concerned. Besides, he was
This was not a matter of sentiment,
ly for tl. Americans, the Virginia com panies the i lacl.ine to receive the beets.
after Perry’s visit they navigated a at the samurai.
but of cold blooded calculation, for un very much in love with Miss Went ing in a ; aid live miles ahead of her It is said that this harvester does tlie
■teamer < f ;'i ir own construction
worth.
So
he
instantly
turned,
bent
derneatli all bis apparent gayety and
rival it: spite of the fact that the latter' work formerly performed by fourteen
across the Pacific, The value of steam The Samurai.
lightness the Jap has a scientific mind, over the girl so that no one else might also showed phenomenal speed. By the, men and four lior. » s and I it It can
navigation w” I mt one of many things
These descendants of men who for lie is more of a utilitarian than a
hear and whispered. "Will you love me mornin - of tbe third race the yachting !>e put on the market at :-1’25. Much
the Ja
learned from the hundreds of years knew no other trade
forei i < t'
< h'ug oy- iuiled. than fighting, who were trained in the sentimentalist. He saw that intellect if I carry it oil, Virginia?” Whereupon world had settled down to the convie interest will attend lue itsuua of this
h .1 become the dominant factor in Miss Wentworth, with a suddenly tion that Mr. Burke had discovered ....ilei:■••n. in actual
The nation 1 id
for thousands of sternest discipline and who gained all
progress, and as he desired progress heightened color, turned quickly aside some now nrlnefnlo of hull building.
years. »>-. ■
:: boom the strength and virtue that come from
he entered the intellectual field. To
of Perry’< :.•••■
rew the sho- hardship, are men of the same fiber keep pace with western civilization he and made a remark to a girl compan- ‘ The I ill: of tlie t ¡rd race seemeil so
The Trained Farmer.
I
absolutely certain that Stanhope Invited
gun
• ”, ’”’’or in and characteristics of their ancestors.
:
great deal more than a
Ion.
must
adopt
western
ideas
and
wear
fact inst ail ■ . ;i na
y. Its think- The first commandment of the samurai western clothes. So he seut bls boys
But the question once asked lvid to Miss Wentworth and her cliai>eron to clatter of <'adee; It is a question ot
.< i
be
on
board
during
it.
It
was
not
in
Ing tit-vi b
t fe verish In was. "Thou slialt not live under the to tl.e schools over the ocean, and ho be answered sooner or later. The time
training and aptitude. Nobody would
tensity to .»
line of mod- same heaven nor tread the same earth put on breeches—that is. in public. when it must be came the next after accordance with racing customs to have! expect a gang of farm laborers to go
any one besides the officers and crew 1 into a vacant cutlery shop und turn
ern tine
•••!»”rv they as the enemy of thy lord.” In ancient As soon as he returned to his home
have m-ul ■ 11
is
a’>ire a first days "the lord” referred to was some tlie breeches were thrown aside, and in noon in the disjointed intervals avail aboard at such a time, but the superior-| out good knives and tableware. Yet
able
between
the
departure
of
one
ity of the Virginia was so evident that | tlie mediauic who Las done nothing
class wi ’' '
petty feudal chief. Today the same a kimono he squatted at ease on the
spirit of loyalty is given to the mikado. floor, as his ancestors had done for guest who had dropped in on Miss It seemed impossible for harm to result.; but grind aud finish knives ail Lis life
A Great Ruler.
It not only exists among the samurai, centuries. Japan is still in the tran Wentworth to get a cup of tea and the I And none did result until after the I is quite likely to talk as if a farm
This mar ous achievement was but permeates all classes.
race was won. As the Virginia glided' were all be needed to become an ex
sition stage between the old and the arrival of another who came far the
largely e tc to tl.e receptive and Imita
smoothly across the line four miles pert farmer. His first attempt to milk
Ask any boy his most cherished am new. but so rapidly 1s she moving same purpose.
tive characti ristl
of tb e Jap inese. bition. and he will answer, “To die for
ahead of her outclassed rival Stan a cow or swing ;i
y.he would show
Stanhope
smiled
down
on
her.
“
You
that
in
another
generation
the
meta
to their tireless industry, to their In the mikado.” With such a spirit who
remember what you said yesterday, hope turned to Miss Wentworth. "Are him a thing or two. not to mention
tellectual acti in and to their un can wonder that the Japs make idea) morphosis will be complete.
you carried away, Virginia?” he ask-1 such a task as laying a drain, budding
don’t you?” he asked.
quenchable thirst for
ed. The girl turned to him, Joy in his
soldiers?
Greeks of the East
Miss Wentworth blushed slightly. triumph flushing in her face, but be-! a fruit tree, tending a sick animal or
Mutsuhlto, the pre- »nr progr ssive and
In all the appellations that have *
even to plow a straight furrow in tlio
“
Oh,
yes.
”
she
said.
“
Wasn
’
t
it
fool
brainy eniperm- 1» » >■ hundred and Unity of Thought
fore she could answer a cry of terror! field. Tbe man who lias picked up a
bee»
given
the
little
people,
such
as
'
ish? I was carried away by the mo arose. Tbe excursion fleet, wild with
twentieth of the imperl. » line—wits
The unity of national thought is
only n year o' 1 when Perry's ships shown nowhere in a more marked de- the “Yankees of the east” and the I ment and thought that I could love the excitement over the unprecedented tri lot of general knowledge about farm
ing by reading books and papers Is
"English of the east,” it is strange I man who defended tbe cup so splen
umph of tbe American, laid broken apt to forget that most of tlie work
didly.”
through the guard lines. The next consists of details that can be learned
“Tbe Englishman has said that ho instant came a grinding crash, and the
will challenge again,” be said slowly. paddle wheel of a gigantic, ferryboat only by experience. The learning is
“I shall build a yacht and defend the went tearing across the yacht, rip possible owing to the neighborly kind
ness of most farmers. Hard study,
cup.”
ping her stern to pieces and pushing good sense and energy will also, as In
"But you are not a yachtsman.”
her beneath tlie water.
other occupations, rapidly make up for
"I shall become one if”—
Tlie suddenness of the calamity add
“But you know how seasick you get ed to its awfulness. One moment tbe lack of early training. But tlie point
Is that nobody should expect to become
when the water Is rough.”
beautiful vessel, with towering masts n farmer all at once. For n beginner
“I’ll get over it If”—
' and bellying canvas, was there, the to buy a large farm with an establish
“I won't promise.”
next only a confusion of broken tim ed business is to merit almost certain
"I don't ask you to do so. But I do bers and struggling mon.
disappointment if capital is limited. -
ask you to be with me when my yacht
As the boat went down like a stone
crosses the line a victor a year or two Stanhope clasped Virginia in Ills arms American Cultivator.
from now, and perhaps—perhaps the nnd sprang overboard, and in a few
The Moiiel Far user Found.
moment may carry you away again.”
moments they were picked up without
“Oh, you foolish boy!” But it was sensible injury to either.
A dairy farmer in Pennsylvania,
with a very tender look in her eyes
Putting Miss Wentworth under care whose wonderful success was described
that Miss Wentworth watched Stan of her friends, Stanhope hurried on In Professor I.. H. Bailey's series of ar
hope as be went from tbe parlor.
board of the United States gunboat ticles In Country Life In America on
An hour later he was closeted with which had quickly dispersed the fleet "How to Make a Living From tbe
Nell Burke, the famous yacht de and taken charge of the wreck. "Cap Land,” has now been approached by
signer.
tain Edward,” he exclaimed hoarsely, the United States department of agri
“You said once that you would do "I am Mr. Stanhope, owner of the Vlr culture, which wishes to make his farm
anything for my father’s son, Mr. ginia. My entire fortune is in that the subject of n bulletin on model
Burke,” be was saying. “Now I’m yacht. She contains over $0,090,(XX* in farming. He objects, however, to mak
going to claim your promise. I've got gold.”
Ing his place the Mecca of brother agri
to defend tbe cup next time. To do
culturists tlie country over unless tlie
“What!”
so I must have a yacht that can de- j
“Her keel Is of solid gold. Y'ou rend government will pay him $20,009 down
feat all other would be defenders and the story in the paper the other day or the same sum In $2,990 annual in
then can defeat the challenger, no mat stating that the Virginia drew only stallments for ills trouble. He began
ter how good It may be. Will you help fifteen feet of water. Well, that was with fifteen acres of ground that would
me?”
true. Gold Is nearly twice ns heavy not support two cows and a horse. Now
“It’s my business to do so,” returned as lead, a golden keel Is only half tlie the same land supplies food for thlrty-
the designer, “and in this case it will size of a leaden one. and its resistance tive cows and two horses, bringing him
be my pleasure as well.”
to the water Is far less. Consequently a large income from the place. It Is
Stanhope drew a long breath. I a boat with such a keel is much faster one of the most remarkable Instance«
“That's good,” he said. “Sparc no than one with the ordinary lead keel. of practical results of model farming
expense—none. I will spend my whole j I liad to win this race, so I sold all in tills country, as Country Life In
fortune if necessary to assure this vic my property and turned It Into gold America points out.
tory.”
to make a keel for the Virginia. Will
The designer’s face grew serious. He I you stay here and protect the wreck
Kurlx Cw»‘nw**.-*s Ea«ll>- Grown.
drew a sheet of paper toward him and until we can get the wrecking appa
Turn a large, grassy soil bouorn up
began to figure. At last he threw ratus?”
ward in a shallow box. Plant in tlie
down the pencil. "Stanhope,” he said,
sod seeds for as many hills of cucum
“I will, sir; I will.”
“if you mean exactly what you say
Three hours later tbe work on the bers as the space will allow, leaving
and If you are rich enough and have
yacht had proceeded far enough to plenty of room to divide it without dis
the nerve to risk it I can assure yon
turbing the roots of the plants. In
of victory as certainly as any human make certain the safety of the gold, about six weeks from time of planting
and Stanhope set off to the home of
event still In the future can be as
Miss Wentworth, where lie found her the hills may be separated by cutting
sured. But It will cost a great deal.”
tbe sod into small squares nnd trnns
none the worse for her cold bath.
"Never mind the cost I have the
planting them into the open ground,
“
I
asked
my
question
at
the
proper
nerve, I believe, and I have the money
time, Virginia,” he said, "but tbe blun previously prepHred by a liberal use of
—that Is, I have anything within rea«
dering of that boat robbed me of my compost.
son.”
Make several small holes in the hot
answer. Did the moment carry you
“Ah! But perhaps you’ll think that
tom of a tin can, sink It in the ground
away?”
this isn’t In reason. Will—and can— 1
close to the transplanted vine and
you risk $7,000,000 on the race with the I Shyly the girl looked up at him. keep filled with water. Following tills
“
No,"
she
said.
"The
moment
didn't
i
certainty of winning unless something
method will insure Inrge cucumbers
but—I think that you did.”
altogether unforeseen should occur?”
nearly as early as and more palatable
"Seven millions! Great Caesar! IIow i
tbnn those shipped from the south.—
Tbe Traveling Story Teller,
can you possibly spend seven mil
J. V. Ronch tn American Agriculturist.
lions ?”
The profession of bakkawati, or story
"I said risk, not spend. And the! teller. Is a calling officially recognized j
Heei st Coat.
risk will be very small. Nearly all of ■ in oriental countries, and the fortuuat
the money will be restored safe ami possessor of the necessary gift Is sure . In some parts of New England tlie
THE MIKADOS FIGHTING MEN AND THE “HUMAN HORSE” OF JAPAN.
sound—less the cost of the yacht crew of a welcome nnd a livelihood wherever old plan of a co-operative beef supply
Is still followed. A number of farmers
and so forth, say half a million. But he goes.
“It Is this man,” says ..n authority agree to furnish a beef animal each In
made their memorable visit, but then gree than in the growth of tbe deter that no one has ever hit upon the tbe seven millions I must have In coin,
were many able men In Japan, an 1 mlnation to fight Russia. Ever slm.i de - gnation that really describes them. or, better still, in bars of solid gold. on oriental customs, "who beyond all turn nt intervals averagitr. ubottt two
Will you risk It?”
others relieves the monotony of eastern i weeks. The meat Is distributed at 5
they pushed the country forward so the Port Arthur incident after the Th» j- i ..... he Greeks of the east They
- to t.
Drops of sweat stood on Stanhope’s life. I have seen tbe Arabian bakka , to 8 cents ; p ■■in ! accoi
rapidly during his minority that the Chino-Japanese war it has been the have ti
rme artistic quality. In all
Japan*- sAvsncs
weU under way settled purpose of every subject of tbe the wond there is no more lovely coun forehead. “Mr. Bnrke,” he said. "I wati seated In tbe middle of a large ent, and the owner keeps tlie hide mid
Thus twenty-five farmers,
-when the young emperor became oil mikado to help whip tbe great bear try than tbe Land of the Rising Sun. am reputed to be ricb, and I am. I crowd, with the firelight throwing n j tallow
enough to take the reins of powe.-. As one man the nation went to work nor 1- this so much due to nature as suppose the market value of my prop ruddy glow over bls mobile fe.iiun -. more or les>, can unite to secure fresh
A rowrtitn’iou wrs adopted, an np to preparing for the struggle. The am ; to man. Everywhere tbe scenery has erty Is abotrt ten millions. But In bring out clearly their varying expres meat at coat, escaping tbe exactions of
date western parliament was installed, was Increased and train 1. The naiy been beautified. No spot of ugliness actual ntsli I nm poor. I shall have slon-i as he warms to his tale. Tie the western beef packers.
was enlarged, and tbe gunners w< r< is allowed to remain. True, tbe famed to sell everything to get this gold. To 1 Arabs hate a »aylng that ’«miles an!
and, surrounded by such men as Ma
nn Is Ito and Co~nt inouye. the mlka > drilled. Every ship that went to E i Greek * ulp:nre Las not come yet For sell tn haste may cost me one-third of ' tears are In the same kh’irlg.’ or w.»l
W.lcli Vunr Potato Seed,
t s become one of tbe world’s truiv rope was reo- 'red to tiring back a that th -re is plenty of time. Every my fortune—certainly one-quarter of let. and so uell doc« the real link
Potatoes for seed will bear watching
quantity
of
a
’
i
1
ammunition.
Tl.e
It.
Suppose
I
should
not
be
able
t*
kawatl know bls bu-iness that how this spring. No one will plant badly
great rulers. Ho has adopted the ed
other element Is present, however. Tim
P- ■ tits In t;. fl »Ids. the boys In toe home life is much the same. The re raise seven millions, wl.at then?"
after hour he ear. make his darl frozen tubers, but the d
•national system of the United Star »
;i r Is iron
“
Oh.
$<1009.00(1
or
even
$5,000,0O<
’
■a
h
is.
the
workmen
in
the
shops,
al!
skinned audience «bake with laughter seed that lias been chilled enough to
be has raised, trained and armed a
ligion is strikingly similar. Both are
would do nt a pinch.” returned Mr or «ob in sympathy with the woes of weaken It« vitality. It may sprout
modern army of tkAMAX* men; be has • ■ g n to talk about the tlm<‘ that Ja island empires and both mountainous
built a formidable and efficient navy; pan was to meet Russia. It was only Now. if the parallel is made complete Burke nonchalantly. “Seven million' I some imaginary heroine, or sblver ami well enough to dei-elve the planter nnd
(or years past ue nas been sending tbe about eight or nine rears ago that tbe by the Japs whipping Rus.-oa, as the Is best, bnt a less amount would almost I fee' for their dagger*, ready to spring ' yet not have In It the po«' iflltlcs of a
to their feet to avenge some dastardly good crop. There Is little enough prof
wung men of Japan to seats of learn- Muscovite stole the fruits of the Jap s flpartans and Athenians overcame the certainly do as well."
"How soon do you want the money'' act of cruelty No ’dime novel’ of tin- ! it In the potato at its best. Planting
Bag all over tbe globe: he has ma ’e victory. Never was time better spent boats of tbe Persians, the little people
“Eight or nine months from now will western world could be more thrilling
Japan the champion of tbe open door than these intervening yr:ir» in the win have gained full right «.th*
doubtful seed Is fishing for disappoint
preparation of tbe island empire to proud title of “tbe Greeks It ti.» do."
than la this legendary fiction of the pe< I ment with the most ce t.iln bait. Rt*
M tbs thr east, aad today be la per
“Very well, you shall bars it Nov pies of the far east.”
oonaUy directing tbe movement» of Ms right ths wrong. Spies dressed as •CIMIL"
. ,
ral N«w Yorker.
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