T H E N EW B ER O O RAPHIC, September 8, 1910
Hie Theories Were All Right, but He
Plunked on Preetioe.
YOUNG
It’s time for you to be preparing
to enter College this Fat.
Remember that
Knowledge Is
Power
Every Young Man and Woman
in this vicinity, should avail
themselves of the privilege
of higher education.
A TTEN D
to this important matter before
it is Too Late.
This Oppor
tunity is provided at your
T e rm in g on paper look* pretty
easy/* observed the (at person with
th e red tie, T u t vhen it cornea to
digging a living oat of the toil
th a t’s an entiraly different m atter.
IVe tried it. 1 know. H ad the
'fa n n in g erase all my life, you knov(
and w ouldn't be satisfied until I put
n y theories te a ta c tic a l te a t '§% r
many years 1 bed managed a big
farm from a com fortable room in a
city flat— th a t is, I had it all down
in black and white ju st how to run
th a t q u arte r aeetion which tome
day 1 intended to own. Why, 1
could raise more hogs from th a t
easy chair of mine in the city than
I knew w hat to do with, and it real
ly seemed e shame to take the
money.
“But when 1 finally shook the
city dust from my shoe« and settled
on my piece of land out in Kansas
things began to assume a different
color. Most of mv rural neighbors
had their soiled assortment of pigs
all right, but none of them—my
neighbors—seemed to be rolling in
wealth at that. You’see, 1 hadn’t
counted on the ups and downs of
the market, and 1 hadn’t figured on
epidemics of bog cholera either.
Pigs are. a delicate sort of critters,
{although you can’t tell it by looking
at them.
"A nother fact I learned: I wai
green—very green—and seemed to
have a cheerful knack of doing ev
erything wrong just when some-
! body was looking. There was one
I old codger in particular who made
me nervous. His name was Brown,
and he constantly hovered about my
'premises, regarding my doings with
, mingled awe and disapproval. He
! had plenty of work on his own farm,
: but he firmly insisted on stepping
over several times a day to keep
| me from making mistakes. But
' when crop time came my counselor
simply had to tear himself away.
II had purchased a sort of combina
tion plow and corn planter; and old
Brown gave me an unwritten vol
ume of instructions before he left.
I was a full fledged farmer a t last.
My sakes, but that plow did fine
work! And every now and then I
would stop and give the blade a
professional scouring with »’-wood
en paddle and then take a long
look at the furrows, which seemdd
to «each miles in the distance. I
was absurdly proud of those fur
rows and felt real tickled when I
saw old Brown stumbling over the
clods to meet me.
" ‘Pretty decent furrows for a
city fellow,’ he cautiously admitted.
And then he asked how 6he was
scouring—meaning the plow, you
know. Next he squatted to the
ground and thrust his hand into the
furrow as if searching for some
thing, and 1 looked on in superior
silence. The old chap couldn’t find
what he wanted in the first row, so
he moved to the next two in suc
cession and went through the same
process. 1 was mystified. Sudden
ly he stood up and crumbled the
fresh earth from his hands. ‘Son
ny,’ he drawled, with a dry smile,
‘you’re a corker. Here you’ve been
plowin’ all mornin’ for nothin’.
Where’s your corn ?’
"The awful truth dawned on me.
I had neglected to fill my seed box.”
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now
Th e Sterna of tho Prickly Poor.
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In most plants, to put it simply,
the leaves are the mouths and stom
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and flattened blades are spread out
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away from all restraint and to climb
over the footlights into the orches-
fra. The widely advertised act came
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hengages a new orchestra leader.
The one at present henrploved ’ere
’as no ’air on top of ’is ’ead, and my
bird takea it for a hegg.”
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