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* I .1 I OlOIOlOIOlOIQIOtOIOIOIQ 11 o J ?* Road to Gi ' o i o t ? * 22y Do rot O * ~ * Aul7tov of-Ccoryic,'' ' O - ^ rojif/v/u'iu ms. 7>u j. n. lippixc o I o i o iol o i ol o I oWoToVom CHAPTER VIII. 11 Continued. ^ "Ye3. lie says I am playing witl your young affections; that I am lead ing you on, to put it vulgarly. H' says I am treating you as the ca treats the mouse. He says I am lik< a lighted car:d!e, and that you an one of the silly moths. He laugh at you for allowing yourself to hi taken in by my wiles, but, all th< same, he likes you, and he doesn' want you to singe your wings." "Good heavens!" The fury in hi; face cheered her up tremendosuly This was al! right. "Of course it's all the most absurc nonsense," Lise pursued lightly, "an< I often tell him so. You love Audre: devotedly?as devotedly as she love: you?while as for me. I simply glor; in your constancy. It's so unusual ii a man, you see. and so fine of yon tc allow yourself to be original. It': the quality I most desire, and that ii why I have always looked up to yoi so in every way." Michael straightened his shoulders and his anser besan slowly to mel away under the warm, affectionati look she gave him then. "You aren't the kind of man to fal In love with a woman who adore her husband," she proceeded adroitly "a woman past her first youth.' (Lise was twenty-two.) "You an too strong and manly and reliabl< for such weak, degenerate nonsense And it's because I want to show Jacl that I'm right when I explain to hin what a fine character you reall; have, that I've been taunting you ii this apparently heartless way. want to go on being proud of m: friend. I want him to take his *lif< in his own hands and model it to hi: own will. You aren't the man to si down and cry for the moon. You'v* only been pretending to do it, be cause you were afraid of being selfisl and plunging Audrey into poverty But now is the time for you to strike and strike boldly." The deluded young man, carrier away by her enthusiasm and touchec by her trusting confidence in his in herent nobility, flushed as he rose and gave her his hand on it with i 1-1 1 .* ? 1 ~ In rvV. letnicab nine luugu. "By George!" said he. "You've made me feel a new man. There's no one like you for putting new heart into a chap. I believe you an right, after all." "I know I am," Lise answered with a little sigh. CHAPTER IX. It was young Osgood who shot the holt from the blue. He had just come down from Oxford, and was not as well versed in the latest gossip as might afterwards be expected o? him "What a fortunate thing it is fo: Micky Kenworthy," he remarked tc Mrs. Cogwheel in a distinctly envious tone. "Some men do fall on theii feet, and no mistake. There's that chap hanging about, waiting for the heavens to fall, as a ripe plum to dror into his mouth, and, by George! il has dropped." "Dr. Cogwheel raised his head with Ill-concealed interest. "A plum?" said he. "Young Kenworthy? How?" "r Irnrxri' 1 wish T dill.' Harry Osgood laughed ruefully "He's just got $n appointment al some place in . the Midlands. The sort of thing a decent, hard-workine man might work and wait for ter years, and then not get/'' Mr. Bromsgrove asked pleasantlj what the new post could possibly be for which young Kenworthy was fitted. "Some kind of a land steward 01 agent, I believe," Osgood said. "Ar assistant, merely to carry out th< orders of the present competent man He's to get five hundred a year foi his job. Just riding round and mak ing remarks on the crops and th< weather when the air is too dami for his chief, who happens to be rheu matic. He won't have to do anj head-work at all. Merely physica exertion of the lightest kind. Mai needn't use his brains from one year's end to another unless he likes it The post's ideal." Audrey's eyes were on the edga o her plate, but she said nothing. "Ah!" Mr. Brorasgrove murmurei softly and sadly. "This is good newi for you, dear child." "That he is going away?" Sh< rais^- her innocent eyes. "Oh, hov can you?" "That his prospects are so gcod.' "You think he will go, then, ant leave me?" "Only for a time," he answere< playfully. "And then I shall be calle< upon to officiate at a pleasing cere mony. If," he continued gently, "t< some amongst us the ceremony prove heart-breaking, who is to know it." "Don't," said Audrey gently, shall, of course. I wonder if it': true. I wonder if he will accept it.' "Well, that's the queer part of it,' Osgood admitted. "He's most run about it. I was with him when thi offer came. It's from the secretar; of the Duke of Lavendale, and it's ; genuine thing undoubtedly. Bu Kenworthy flung it across the roon when he'd read it, and said he wishei people would mind their own bus; ness. He said?" Osgood stoppei suddenly. "What did he say?" Miss Cottoi asked eagerly. Audrey's eyes were stiil hidden b; her lashes. "He said several things," the youn; man replied hastily. "I left him ii a most extraordinary frame of mind I can tell you. But I think he wil accept it. He seemed to regard it a a grim duty. Five hundred a yea and nothing to do but smack fa cattle on the back, and pot at rabbits Tlut.vl H'iiti irlea." I i . DIOIOlOIOIOlOIOIOtOIOIOIOlO fe< ? ??ev wl THE S2 se I? hii vetna Green || S ' ~~ ?o al1 ilea 7) c a kin, th 'The Wishing JJ??!?7,r, Etc. ^ i|o ke 07Tro.Vr.lM* AU rights reserved. Al ?<>' ? ? ?|2 Br SlcflOiOlCflOIOIOlOJOIOlOIOiO kc I ro: "Now, if he'd actually been looking ; ?j, for work"?Mrs. Flanelle carried on ' ag ^ the conversation in wondering tones ( j-gj ?"he might never have found it. ' an How like life tbis is!" | ar t "It's just like the young man who ( Qr e starved in a garret," said Miss Cot-; co g ton vaguely. "He lived on crusts j se] s and drank water rather than degrade | m. e himself by doing something quite pay- j stc a ing and dull, and sold every rag and \ ^i( t bone he had. Then in despair he | an starved, and starved, and starved s until?" jo, "Yes?" said Lise kindly. lo-, "Until at last, in an agony of mind, ja, I . he swallowed his better feelings and hi< j | wrote the required pot-boiler. After wc y that, of course, his fortune was made. s Life is so bitter, isn't it? Buf the th< Y cases are quite dissimilar, for I'm I , sure Mr. Kenworthy has never done ! {n, j anything of the kind.'* s "Darling, -wasn't I reading some- -pb 3 thing aloud to you about the Duke }nj j of La^ndale the other day?" Mrs. tjc Cogwheel turned to Audrey thought- jni fully. "What could it have been?" jje I Audrey smiled back at her with to ? bright affection. "Oh, yes, dearest. In the Queen. cjj I He's engaged, you know, to Lady ^a s Doreen Greenrose. She's the third jn( daughter of our Lord Malinder, of course. It's a most romantic engagee ment. They've loved each other from m( 3 the very cradle, and all the things are af, being made in Paris, except the Irish tjjj { lace, and she's having that made in jf i Ireland simply because the Duke has j-jj, Y estates there. It's so sweet of her, i isn't it, to think of the poor laceI makers with their cushions at the f cottage-dcor?" She turned to Mrs. fe? 3 Hay with her pretty smile. "I said s to mother at the time, didn't I, dar- g^, t ling^?'Dearest,' I said, 'only a really wo ; I noble nature would have thought of . that at such a time!' Father asked wo i in his sceptical way, 'Where else -De could it come from?" but mother thought as I did. She did really." I "i wonaer way uiej noci re, ] J to Malinder," Miss Gee said bitterly. ke' 1 "I think they ought to, if it's only to wa . open things and show themselves. ati But they only come to shcot, and ^ i then none of the ladies are with j.*n them, and men, however exalted in jja > rank, are never much to look at." ru, 3 "The other day," remarked Mrs. tj1( r Hay, "I heard Miss Green say that ^ ; she had met Lady Alexandra, the youngest one. She liked her, she j ?r cirj said. <?g "At a bazaar, no doubt," Miss Gee _e] suggested. "These great ladies are ?0I civil to almost any ope when it's for an , a good object. Martyrs to the cause, anj , | they consider it. There's nothing j ; narrow about our aristocracy." ^ . "Well, when you come to think of it in its true light," Mrs. Flanelle . remarked dreamily, "they can be but , ( ordinary flesh and blood, can they?" . . "I thought Lady Alexandra was . still, figuratively speaking, in the ^ schoolroom," Mrs. Cogwheel said ^ 5 doubtfully. "In Provence, some- ; , where, with governess and tutors. ^ t Naturally, not at a common convent ^ ; school. Somewhere near Aries. Or ma t J is it Avignon? One of those Old ^ World towns, I feel sure. I hear she h-r . is the plain one, but still? And I ^ dare say she's nice. They very often inE > are. Like the ugly duckling. Audrey used to love the story of the i I ugly duckling when she was a child ' , ?didn't you, dear?" , | jj0. It really was a wonderfully inter- ' i esting dinner party for Malinder, and CU] j Lise took Audrey aside in the draw- WQ r ing room, and lose no time in carrying _Q1 ? on the campaign. I ; "I'm so glad, dear," she said gasmoothly, "that the barriers are to be ? removed at lasc." ve] t Audrey shook her head. ; "It Vvon't be any good," she said sadly. "Father is so prudent. He r will insist upon waiting to see if . Michael keeps the post. I know he ; will. And Michael won't keep it. He ke) ) never does. You mustn't let me dwell ^ . upon it, Lice. Don't let me live in a jea false parau.se. . I ^m learning to bear i 5+ onri ho rocip-nprf Don't fill me with i new hopes only to be dashed again." ^ 5 "You haven't much faith in your lover," Lise said, with a curious quick look at her. "Are you getting over ter [ your?dream?" Audrey sighed reproachfully. m? 1 "I don't change," said she sadly. to s "I only wish I.did. Constancy isn't a virtue; it's only a folly. It isn't hu- ho 5 man nature to be constant, but, then, ar( ir I I'm different, I suppose. One learns I to see things as they really are when *, one is unhappy.'' Bi, 1 I "Audrey!" Lise came close up to : do j her and tucked her hand under the J j^e 1 the girl's round arm. "If Mitchell 1 came like a bold knight of old and - carried you off willy nilly to Gretna 3 Green, what would you do?" I Qe s Audrey's eyes lit up with answer- A1 ing enthusiasm. gu I "I should love il!" she cried. "But sjt s ho never will." | st? "You wouldn't listen to your con- aj] " science then?" i The girl's eyes fell. th: e "I couldn't if I were carried off by y force," she said. "It wouldn't be my a fault then, would it? I often say to d0 t motner, wnat a pity 11 is uicii w? umi l i w,i i live in the good old days! And father j [ ] 1 says he likes glass in the windows, I Lo - and Lot and cold water laid on and J electric light. He's hopelessly modern, I am afraid, but mother said, gr, 3 'Oh, yes.'" -? de "And you wouldn't scold your bold j soi y knight afterwards when he couldn't I no buy cloth of gold and diamonds for | ex ; you? You'd forgive the daring se' a I lover?" "Oh, one likes a man to be a 1 man," said Audrey, with true woman- th s lv feelins. in! r And then Lise enlarged upon her cei t subject. I ri? j ! tei Tormentilla beean to alow with tlie m< sling that success was almost !nItable. Here was Michael fixed up th a comfortable and lazy job, connting like a lamb to the plans for 3 welfare; not enthusiastically, cerInly, but then he never was enthus>tic; there was Audrey on the verge consent, frankly acknowledging -eady that the idea charmed her: at it would break her heart to let in go away without her; and there is Lise a staunch ally, gallantly eping them both up to the scratch. 1 her plans were going well. Mr. omsgrove had had the young eper William removed to Greense, it is true, but that in itself had fen her a triumph, for she had reed with Groves that it was best r him to be out of the Vicar's reach, d had persuaded Mrs. Gramper to range with the housekeeper at eenrose, who was even more of a mfortable old dear than she herIf, to take Minnie as a still-room lid. And Mrs. Banks loved a love >ry almost as much as Tormentilla i, so those two would be happy, d Tormentilla told herself that if 5y were true to each other a little iger, she would take care that their ,re story had a happy ending. Willn should be promoted, or at least 5 wages raised, and she herself luld give away the happy bride. They had not yet fixed the date of e elopement. Audrey, however, was already buy? quantities of new clothes on the ength of it, to her mother's delight. ie fact that her daughter ^yas shak% off her gloom, and taking a ramal girlish interest in the really portant matters of life, cheered r immensely, and she said as much Lise, who would, of course, uudertnd how thankful she and the ild's father would be to see her ppily settled with Nigel's excellent :ome. "We are so glad young Kenworthy 11 be out of the way," the good )ther went on, "aHliough I am raid he isn't more likely to keep is post than any of the others, even it has fallen so miraculously from s skies." "You think not?" said Lise, amily, but afterwards, when she talked Tormentilla about it, she con;sed that she had misjudged Ausy. "I thought I understood her," s said doubtfully. "I thought she luld take Nigel In the end." "But you said that j'ou knew she iuld never swallow the nuts and ans," Tormentilla reminded her. nd the rational dress, didn't you?" "I know I said that. But what I illy thought was that she would ep him dancing on a string till he s driven to such a state of desperon that she could make any conions. Audrey's very clever, you ow. And yet now she seems quite ppy at the idea of this romantic, naway love-match. She can't be i mercenary little wretch I thD&ght r, after all." "I never thought she was murcenrl" Tormentilla cried warmly, he's too simple and loving and Qtle to think of money. I have petimes thought her rather silly, 3 hated myself for being so unkind 3 uncharitable. She can't be realsilly, you know, or she wouldn't ve this depth of feeling, this true, interested love for a penniless e:\" "No-o," Lise admitted thoughtful. "I give her up. She's certainly xaordinarily sweet-tempered. I juldn't wonder if they were very ppy, after all." Tormentilla looked puzzled. A ppy life was bound to follow, she d always supposed, on a loveitch. No novel that she had ever ;n allowed to read had/so much as ited at anything else, but then, she In't had time for much novel-readand Greenie and her mother had lerally chosen her fiction for her. "Who is this friend of yours who to lend them his motor for the ueymoon, arid help us so generouswith the dark scheme?" Lise asked riously. Tormentilla hesitated. It uldn't do to tell the truth, she supsed, if? "His name's John Edward," she d at last, and this was quite true, e's quite pleased to help. He's a *y old friend." "I see." Lise asked no more. To be Continued. How Many Commandments? A country lad came to be confirmed fore Bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia. e bishop asked him if he had .rned his catechism. "I have," was the reply. "How many commandments are ;re?" "Forty." "Go home, child, and learn betOn his way 'home the youngster ;t a companion who was also gr ag be confirmed. "Ston!" says he. "Do you know w many Commandments there j?" "Ten," was the reply. "Pshaw, you fool! I tried the shop with forty and that wouldn't . Go home and learn better."? iw York Times. Historic Doubles. Those almost perfect doubles, orge Du Maurier and Sir Laurence ma-Tadema, were nearly indistinishable. The story goes that a lady ting beside Du Maurier at dinner irted conversation by pooh-poohing idea of a resemblance. "You know, Mr. Alma-Tadema, 1 ink it's absurd to say that you and i Maurier are so awfully alike, lere's really no resemblance at all. >n't you agree with me?" "Quite," is the polite answer, "but, you see, happen to be Mr. Du Maurier!"? naon Chronicle. Miss Elizabeth Moore, a Vassar aduate, has entered the agricultural partment of the University of Mis-^ uri, at Columbia, and has an* unced her intention of becoming an pert farmer. She is a member of k'eral clubs in St. Louis. According to the Pekin Daily News, e Chinese Ministry of the Interior tends to make investigations conrning the prohibition of early mariges, which it considers to be aruded with evil results. The iy be fixed at twenty. ?I? SHOWS FOX ITSELF v E REPUBLICAN PARTY'S RECORD ON , THE TARIFF. il Rubber Schedule of Payne-Aldrich g Bill Is Typical Example of Revi- ^ s sion as Accomplished by Its "Friends." n e With the declaration Vice-President e Sherman made in his speech in Enid, o Okla., "that the present and future w prosperity of the nation is dependent 0 upon thev tariff," no intelligent citizen n of these United States will take issue. ^ Wi:h his further declaration "that the $ election of a Democrat at the approaching election will retard the ef- e forts of the Republican party to rorm- S) ulate a scientific tariff" every sane n observer of political movements will, 0 however, take instant issue. e That the Republican party could under any circumstances approve or e assist the formulation of a scientific a tariff may at once be determined by j, consideration of its actual perform- a ances. The cardinal tariff doctrine of 3 the Republican party, uppermost alike in peachment and practise, is that the j, tariff should only be revised by the 0 "friends of the tariff." The. present y law, which is now about a year and a month old, is the latest concrete ap- y plication of this Republican doctrine, a and it is already, stamped with the in- g effaceable seal of popular condemna- t] tion. The rubber schedule is a typical example of what revision of the tariff y by the friends of the tariff really e means. No schedule in the act of August 5, 1909, affords a better illustra- 0 tion of what the friends of the tariff ^ can be counted on to do when they a undertake the task of revision. v It Is pretty well understood now n that the rubber schedule has for Its friend at the national capitol the one a man who can be said to be of most ^ potent influence when anything is pro- n posed that bears on the tariff schedules. The chairman of the senate v committee on finance, Nelson W. Al- s drich, senator from Rhode Island, Is himself a dealer in rubber. j] While Senator Aldrich has admit- p ted in a communication, prepared for publication a month ago, that he is a Q stockholder and a director of the Intercontinental Rubber company, he denies that either he or any member of q his family "has ever had any pecuniary interest as to whether the duty on manufactures of rubber were 30, 35 c or 300 per cent," but in the same let- a ter he admitted that his company ' produced yearly 10,000,000 pounds of rubber in Mexico alone, land that of a v totA world's product in' 1908 of 175,- ^ 000,000 pounds the Intercontinental P company marketed 10,000,000 pounds. v Unfortunately, he* neglected to say - - - .... n bow mucb or tne product ms company w marketed was sold in the United c States, but it is probably fair to say that the bulk if not the whole of its ^ product found its market here. 0 Mr. Aldrich is peculiarly construct- 11 ed if he felt no concern in the measure of protection accorded to the customers with whom he is doing business. He may say that an advance in the duty on manufactures of hard rubber amounting to 17 per cent, was not t' to his personal advantage, but he will li find it difficult to convince the Ameri- n can people. What happened in the re- t! vision of the rubber schedule upward ti is exactly what must always happen 0 when "the friends of the tariff" do the ti revising. p : t< He Made Them Come to Time. J; "I will make 'the corporations come ^ to time," shouted Mr. Roosevelt at Toledo. ' e He made the Equitable Life come to * time with a $50,000 campaign ^ontrl- 1 bution. He made the beef trust come v to time with a big campaign contribu- ^ tion. He made the Standard Oil come ^ wfHVi tmnflior Ki or nomnfliom IU UXUC TV Ji IU OUV/bUVA VULUJ/MUQI* contribution. He made E. H. Harrl- ? man, after a personal conference at the White House, come to time with a $200,000. jj These are only a few of the corporations and plutocratic interests Mr. n Roosevelt made come to time in the 8 1904 campaign when he was a candi- 0 date for the presidency to succeed i himself. Turn on the light!?New York World. . b a No More Argument Needed. 8 In his enumeration of platform q pledges fulfilled, Mr. Taft specifies the a promise that the tariff revision should d be so made as to cover only the difference in cost of production at home and tl abroad and a reasonable profit to n manufacturers. No Democratic wit- a nesses need be summoned to establish the fact that not even a pretense g was made at following this rule. All It Is necessary to do is to summon B Senator Cummins to the stand, who, c ta a series of powerful speeches In n Kansas and other portions of the e: west, has shown that the platform ut- a terances on this point were totally dls- Sl regarded and seemed even to have b been forgotten. n Gold and Cost of Living. Stand-pat economists still stick to the massive theory that the great pro- n duction of gold is the cause of the in- ? creased cost of living. Their breadth ts of knowledge is amazing by its ab- o sence. ii The higher cost of living is due to 0 the higher profit;; of eastern mill u bosses under special privilege of the tl A.ldrich-Taft tariff. To blame it on si the increasing supply of gold is like c, blaming the price of hen's eggs on w th-2 war in Nicaragua. li Taft's Weak Argument. Congress has been in adjournment g less than two months. It would have V been so easy for the Republicans, had R they been sincere, to make at the last session those changes in the Aldrich law demanded by Mr. Taft instead of p at the next session or the session tl thereafter. Mr. Taft's argument is tl thc.t if a man refuses to do as he tl agreed the first time, that Is all the y more reason for asserting that he will jr do it the second time. b VASTE OF PEOPLE'S MONEY ;normou? Expenditures of the Government Shown Here by Comparison. National expenditures for the ensuag year made and authorized by conress amounted to $1,098,847.184?coniderably more than a thousand milions! Let us see what that fact leans. 1. It means that we are spending very year nearly one per cent, of our ntire national wealth?$120,000,000,00; or nearly one-half of the national ealth of Switzerland?$2,400,000,000; r . of Portugal?$2,500,000,000; or lore than one-fifth of the national 'ealth of the thrifty Netherlands? 5,000,000,000. 2. It means that we are spending very year more than the entire asessed valuation, real and personal, of lost of the states in the union, in nly 14 of which is there property in xcess of a thousand millions. 3. It means that we are spending very year almost as much money as 11 the farms, city lots and buildings i so great and rich a state as Indina are worth for taxation?$1,110,91,659. 4. It means that we are spending i one year one-third of the entire utput of all our gold mines in 120 ears, $3,063,787,000! 5. It means that we spend every ear more than the entire capital of 11 the national banks In the United tates?$919,143,825?and nearly onehird of all our savings bank deposits -$3,713,405,709. 6. It means that we spend in one ear one-third of the value of our forign commerce?3,055,115,138. 7. It means that we spend each year ur entire corn crop?2,668,651,000 ushels, and that our wheat crop for single year?664,602,060 bushels? ould be sufficient to run the governlent only six months. 8. It means that, excluding Sundays nd holidays, there is spent at Washagton every day in the year the enorious sum of $3,567,685.66! 9. It means that for every man. foman and child in the country we pend each year $11. 10. It means that for every family a the United States the yearly exenditure at Washington Is $55. If the waste at Washington is $300,00,000 a>year, as Senator Aldrich has itimated, every American family sufsrs by this prolifigacy to the extent f $16.66 every twelvemonth. This is enough to buy a suit of lothehs. It will buy an overcoat or cloak. It will buy a good dress. It 'ill furnish a room. It will buy nearly three tons of anthracite coal. It rill buy four or five pairs of shoes. It rill buy two or three barrels of flour r over three hundred loaves of shortreight bread. The cost of one battleship?$12,000,00 to $18,000,000, needless and an inentive only to jingoism and war? ro'uld endow a great university, estqbsh and support a dozen fine hospitals r equip and maintain forever one undred good libraries. Turn on the light! / Little Credit Due Tariff Law. The recent statement concerning he beauties of the new tariff law, itely given out at Washington, does ot seem greatly to have impressed lie country. The papers were quick d see that, after deducting the $28,00,000 derived from the corporation ax, the $12,000,000 resulting from im* roved business methods in the cusDm houses, and making allowance for he imports rushed In in advance of he abrogation of the reciprocity reaties, we should have had a considrable deficit. The purpose evidently ras to make the people believe that t was the tariff that was working so - ell. There has 'been an increase in evenue derived from customs, It ia rue, but It Is not considerable, and of ite has been shrinking. The Journal f Commerce says that "such a shuflng statement as was put out in the bsence of the secretary of the treasry, and it is to be hoped without his nowledge, is a discredit to the ad* ilnistration." It Is not meant to erve as an official statejnent, but as a ampaign 'document i , More Soothing Sirup. Further revision of the tariff is to e recommended by President Taft, ccording to an unofficial statement ent out from Washington. He is uoted as demanding that "exortionte and unreasonable profits" by proucers no ldnger shall be tolerated. This evidently is another dose of ae president's famous soothing sirup. : is 'especially significant that it is dministered Just as Mr. Roosevelt ras about to circulate through insurent strongholds. Memory of the president's abject urrender to the Aldrich-Cannon lique, however, is still fresh in tho iinds of the voters. With due defernee to his belated concession to an roused public sentiment, they will in1st on electing a congress that can e depended on to enact that sentilent into l&w. Republican Hypocrisy. What fools the Republican leaders lust think the voting citizens of the fnited States are. Mr. Roosevelt has iken occasion to declare his approval f President Taft's suggestion regardlg revision of the tariff by taking up tie schedule at a time. He subscribes nquaHfiedly to the humbug theory lat this program will be a successful hock absorber in so far as business is oncerned. The November elections rill show how far this device of potical hyporisy has succeeded. A Surprising Statement. "We cannot afford to be without the reat leaders." added the colonel. That! are there two??Springfield epublican. As we understand it. to revise the ayne-Aldrich tariff would be to paint ne lily and gild refined gold?but lerc is a petal or two that would be le better for a trifle of Chinese /bite, and some of the edges of the igot need a bit cf gold leaf, just to righten 'em uo a bit. ?? i-'t Fanners' Educational m and Co-Operative Union of America Matters tf Especial Moment to the Progressive Agriculturist A full pocketbook makes a sleepy conscience. To a brave hearted man his farm is his country. A drop in the bucket is worth a whole half pint in the whisky barrel. This fall will witness the long needed and general conservation of the straw stack. A hen as a bird is a poor singer, but nobody objects to the practise she indulges in. All is not gold that glitters, but a good many people take comfort in thinking so. ! The conservationists who forget to conserve men miss the prime end of all conservation. A thick coat of manure on the corn land means warm coats lor mother and the girls next winter. If you fool with every agent that comes along some agent is sure to come along who will fool you. Some men are surp they were meant for a better world because they have made such a mess of this one. Just as soon as a man is as old as he wanted to be he is sure to begin wishing he were younger than he Is. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Cultivate the habit of cheerfulness, It Is contagious and should be cultivated. It Is go6d business to get a good thing for the least possible money, ahd there Isn't any secret in how to go about it. The farm workman who Is always afraid he will do more than he is paid for, is not going about it in the right way to get more pay. 4 Most of us like to say mean things about rlctf men, but very few there are who would refuse to change places with them, If we had the chance. . Nine times out of ten, bad luck is ; nothing less than shiftle^sness. There nt-Q a nrraeit moTlV more fOOlS in the world than wise men, but the latter manage to control things pretty much their own way. PROGRESS MADE IN DAIRYING 1 1 Probably Greatest Advance Achieved In Co-operative Enterprises In That Industry. Probably the greatest advance In cooperative enterprises among American farmers, with the possible exception of fruit growers, is found in the methods practised by dairymen, says Orange Judd Fanner. The growth of cooperative creameries throughout the middle west, especially during the past 12 or 15 years, has been very extensive. Ttys movement began with the establishment of separating stations for receiving whole milk from farmers at'the time of the'in traduction of separators of large capacity. Sometimes these plants were owned by farmers' associations and operated upon the co-operative plan. Sometimes they were owned by large sreamery concerns, who received the milk from the farmers, separated it and paid each patron according to the amount of butterffct actually received. Sometimes this cream was - sold In bulk to the big creamery concerns, while In other plants it was churned and toe Duuer mametea azr^eci. The most complete co-operation Is found In those plants where the entire operations are carried on by the farmers themselves, but there are certain elements of cooperation In all of them. For Instance, a number of farmers could club together for the delivery of milk to the separating station and the return of skimmed milk to the farms, thuB reducing the expense and labor for all concerned. These receiving stations for whole milk have been displaced in nearly every instance by cream receiving stations. This has been brought about by the extensive Introduction of hand separators, so that the actual work of separation Is done by each farmer for himself and only the cream disposed of. In many sections this cream is received by local creameries, owned either individually or by farmers' associations, Is churned and the butter marketed direct from there. In this case there are large amounts of buttermilk to be disposed of as a by-product. If this Is apportioned among the farmers, according to the amount of cream received, the amount given each Is too small to be of any value. So it is customary to have the creameries dispose of the entire output of buttermilk for a year In advance to some-Individual farmer or group of farmers, according to the highest bidder, and a return of from 25 to 50 cents per barrel may thus be obtained by the creamery for a by-product Worth Thinking Over. One single swearing, vlle-mlnded hired man will soon corrupt the boys of an entire neighborhood. The city boy whose eyes open every morning cn the blank wall o 1 a flat building and who has never seen the sun rise or the clouds gather and the storm break as the country boy does cannot know the sense of freedom and joy and power which they convey. If we would help ourselves we can do no better than to be helping others. Maybe one reason why boys leave the farm la because their standpoint of work is set at that of a full grown man?let up on the boy. We rannot hew close to the line if we have a private ax to grind. The man who does his duty best never thinks of it as a duty. Apple Tree Planting. As to distances between trees, 50 feet is preferred for Rhode Island Greenings. Kings and Spys and 45 feet for Baldwins. Apples used as fillers can bo pruned severely and fertilized with double rations. MARKETING OF COTTON CROP Committee Appointed by Tex a* Cottaa Growers' Association Makes Practical Suggestions. At the recent meeting of the Farna? > ers' congress at College Station, a com? mlttee was appointed by the Texaa Cotton Growers' association waa a|>pointed to study and make reoom- 'im mendatlons as to what was best to b? < done relative to the crop this year. says Co-Operator. This committee met In Dallas and discussed cotton . growing, ginning, hauling, baling and marketing, and -with -the view that ' there might be system and co-operation In marketing issued their \ signatures the folowir^ fS^j^iendatlons to the public: ' To the Cotton Planters ofTexas and the Entire South: We, your committee on best methods of handling and !'M marketing the cotton crop, beg noir to recommend: 1. That with the present prospect? of a short crop, no cotton be sold at less than 15 cents per pound, middling basis, interior common points, and' that the same be marketed at a rate of not more than ten per cent par month. 2. That we urge upon all the great importance of diversifications aa the greatest factor that will enable the planter to control his cotton by living * ; at home, and to that end we urge the planters to avail themselves of the v education advantages of all demonstration work carried on by the got- v ernment 3. That we Indorse the idea of ma^ king cotton grading a part of our pob- . J ... 11c school curriculum, .more especially in the rural districts, and' appeal tx>il $ our state legislature to make provision** luereior. ^ -.m, 4. We urge the proper warehousing , 5 and care of cotton, to the end that It " will become a safe and ready collateral^; and urge the hearty cooperation of' v bankers and financiers In assistingthe planter to hold his cotton when so a. desired, by making liberal advanfcea' on same. 5. We deplore the slovenly manner In which the present square bale, as & rule, is prepared and sent to marktiV and the gross extravagance in ab&" careless handling of same from L th? ginner to the spinner, entailing need- ','M lesB time and .expense In shipping', recompreaslng, etc., and recommend! . ; some package acceptable to the trade ' " that can be compressed at the gin and v % go direct and rapidly from the gfn. . to the mill or the ship's side. f 6. We finally urge the planters to . cov??r their cotton entirely with heavy bagging and keep same unjler shelter*. . either'on the farm at the gin or ilk; ' thq^ cotton yprd, In order to prevent,v country damage, waste, etc. . / ' We realize the consummation of the above suggestions to a large eap-( tent depends upon -the widest pubHeity and we therefore request the press of the south at large to give space tosame, and to our bankers, merchants,. < business men generally find brother . ? farmers to give us their ablest counsel and co-operation In the common (ansa . X of educating and upbuilding the agjrl cultural classes,, the bulwark of our national prosperity. Respectfully snb? mitted, W. B. YEARY, Prea, J H- O. BOATWRIGHT, ( ' J. TOM PADGITT, i MRS. J. T. PADGOTV N. T. BLACKWELL. W. B. Yeary of Farmersvllle Is a member of the Farmers' union and fe _ 3 a large cultivator of cotton and other farm products, and his advice, being. In line with common sense and good, % judgment, is well worth heeding. .. if'' TOO LAZY TO GROW COTTW AttemDt of British Government to Make Egypt Rival of Southern States Proves Failure. The British goverment has failed In. its attempt to make Egypt'a rival of our south in cotton growing. A h few years ago considerable uneasiness, was felt .in this country lest the Brit-, lsh would be able to develop the to- 1 dustry along the Nile to the 4xfea&&, ; that it would hurt our cotton growing. But after spending millions of dollar* irrigating areas and In experimental: , ."'4' work the crop last year was smaller than the year before. Laziness on the part of the nativesis the principal cause. They will not work but prefer to steal or beg for a. living. 'One enterprising planter took over a large number of our southern negroes in the hope that they would. make ideal laborers on his cottoa plantations but In a year or two they got as lazy as the natives and also refused to work. In that country a strip of cotton la all that a man needs in the way of J clothing and as all he has to do to? ?{ secure his food Is to steal a few bfcnanaB every day work seems to Mm * useless euoru The British government la very much discouraged over the experiment so far and it looks as though the future is not likely to hold any fur- \ ther terrors for our American growers unless some enterprising Yankee Invents some mechanical cotton picker and adopts plows and cultivators that will run under their o* power. A Work Shop on the Farm. Every farmer should have something that he can call a "shop," which should contain forge, 'anvil, a vise, two or three pairs of tongs, two or three wrenches, and set of bits, square, a saw or two, v<>nd ax, two planes, chisel, cold chh>. claw hammer, case of bolts from one inch to six inches in length, rivets, washers, a little good timber for repairing. These things may be bought at odd times and they will save many dollars, by having them handy. The "work shop" - / should also be the storeroom ror noes, shovels, chains, picks and utensils o| that kind. Profitable Farming. The man that grows on the farm all that he consumes on It saves a double transportation?the hauling home ol what he buys and the hauling to mar ket of what he sells to pay for it, say? Rural Home. These two items of cost help very materially to make up the difference between profitable and unDrofita^ farming. ; jj ??I