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By G WELLESLEY BRABBIT I= iti+t- crNEW INDUSTRY that of power plowing has sprung up inthe west and northwest within the last decade

When the Dakotas Montana Canada and parts of Texaswere opened to agriculture the farms were so large that horsescould not supply the motive power necessary for the plowingof the great land tracts Traction engines were substitutedand they dragged the plows over the vast stretches of landThus power plowing had its beginning From this too sprungcustom plowing an occupation now numbering many hundredsof men with an invested capital of several million These men

do not own the farms upon which they work but plow them with theiryaespecially made outfits for so much per acre

An uptodate outfit or rig costs 4000 and consists of a 20 or 30horsepower traction engine and a series of plows usually in groups of 1012 or 14 called bottoms They are rated as 1012 or 14 bottom gangaccording to their number are attached to an angling platform on wheelsand arranged in pairs diagonally along the back with each pair slightly

ri in advance of the other Levers are attached to allso that they may bes r raised or lowered at discretion When going from one field to another

the plows are elevated With this outfit the engineer or owner goes forthand breaks up the soil at from 3 to 5 per acre according to the char¬acter of the land If it be new more is charged if old less The farmerjrin both cases furnishes the coal

In appearance the traction engine resembles the ordinary one seenduring the threshing season in Illinois only it is larger with exaggeratedback wheels They travel at the rate of two miles per hour over evenground and can turn under 25 to 30 acres daily From fiveto seven inchesis the depth of the furrow

The cost of rllfolnI111Jglos Man to steer 150 water hauler 1 board 3 j Iced for one horse50 cents sharpening plows 250 j on1fbout6 worth of coal isburned

The good custom plower is bringing up the standards of his craftHaving full knowledge that old world plowing methods are superior tothose on this side of the water and realizing that the American farmer

° often sacrifices quality for quantity lie has set about to reduce plowing toEuropean standards and has for the most Part produced satisfactoryresults With his steam engine he can secure quantity with practicalknowledge he obtains quality

There are breakers ahead of him though that will give him worryunless he bestirs himself at once to avoid the trouble and that is pricecutting Qwing to its extreme youth the occupation has no organizationto speak of no power to maintain a standard wage for plowing and thoresult has been a lowering of wages until now in some portions of thewest no money is male at all by it The farmer is glad and willing to payas high as 5 an acre for breaking his land and why less than this shouldbe asked is a mystery Thrcsl ermens trade papers conventions and meet-

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will change this and if worked aut in time the breakers may beavoided

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Custom plowing does not last the year aroundthough but that matters little For by simply unshipping the gang plow from the tractor the latter maybe used for threshing road working and in the wintertime for hauling In Iowa for instance it hauls cornfor miles from crib tp and from the countryto railroad > points In fact there is employment to bebe found all the time and where there is nothing else

x cto do lumber may be cut

There is no nation that has begun todevelop the business of advertising as havethe Americans The art of advertising hasbeen carried to a pitch in the UnitedStates that puts it in a class by itself Ihappen to know that it is a rare tiling foranyof the big mercantile houses of Francoor the continent to spend as much as 10000 a year on the newspapers They havenot learned the value of printers inkashave the Some of your merchantprinces will expend on a single issue in tell ¬ing tho public of their wares as much asour leading establishments will pay out in

three months Not only do your storekeepers use the press on a big scalebut their way of telling the reader about their goods is the most plausiblethe most delightful the most winning thing in the line of literary coax¬ing imaginable and I can well see how such efforts attract customers bythe thousand

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seen in your daily newspapers and I read them with unalloyeddelight merely as a study in an art in which you have exceeded the entireworldI s VI

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At a convention held not long since inChicago it was urged that the increasinglack of farmers now assumes the propor¬tions of a menace to the United StatesHere is onesmaUsolufion which will workout properly There are many homesupporting women in the cities and towns ofthis counttry who are working their livesout for a mere pittance widows with fam¬ilies to rear but who are compelled to lettheir children run the streets without smothers care and wives daughters andsisters who are sole supporters of familiesMany of these long for homes on a farm

but have not the means However the federal government or even therich corporations who have such lands could advance the use of a fewacres to such as are worthy adding to this in each case a small housefurnishings food fuel seed agricultural implements and even a smallsum of money it needed Fall this fully covered by an honest mortgageIt this were dqno there would be very few foreclosures and many goodfkrms and fajanera added to the credit of ibis country

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Speech Vulgarand Profane

HERE Is no need of goingto Webster for the defini ¬tlon of a cigarette Every¬body knows that it is a lit¬tie cigar It Is a bit of tobacco rolled uo Ina bit of

paper add made to look both attrac-tive and karmless It is a cigar In Itsinfancy In time if the one who indulges in cigarette smoking lives lonenough it will grow Into a cigar Butthe weed done up in the fine style ofa cigarette is not thought to be quiteso offensive and vulgar as when en-joyed in the form of a pure Havana 01a big black Conestoga or a clay pipeIt Is tobacco all the same whetheheld together by a leaf from Its ownstem or wrapped up In curl papersor crammed into the bowl of a moorschaum For obvious reasons it is thecigarette that is most affected by

ladlesHowever it is not with cigarettesmoking that we are now concernedbut with cigarette swearing For thereis a kind of profanity which bears thesame relation to the coarser sort oitaking the name of tho Lord in vainthat tho tempting little cigarette doesto the full grown cigar This too Istho form of swearing which is mostindulged in by the fair sex It is notoften fortunately that one hears around plump oath from the lips ofawoman When one does it is unut-terably shocking especially if it befrom the lips of a mother in the midstof her

childrenHProfanity

But profanity akin to this loud-mouthed

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and repulsive type andwhich suggests a Very strong inclina ¬tion to use the more emphatic wordswere it allowable to do so Is not uncommon in the conversation of largenumbers of our wellmeaning and ovencultivated ladies At every turn ofsurprise in the talk that Is going onon every little occasion when thereseems to be a call for protest it iaGood Lord >Good heavens > My

gracious I and so on through the listSometimes there is more boldness inthe expletive employed and onewhose opinions on actions are notsatisfactory Is denounced as nublanllIdiot Every one who hears the ex-pression knows exactly what thespeaker wishes to say and the pften-ed substitute docs not much reevethe situation nor does the smilewhich goes round In the circle oflisteners do much toward atoning furthe suggested blasphemy

Habit a Vicious One

Now there is no need here of wan¬dering off into wide ethical discusslons and trying to fix the precisemeasure or the comparative measureof guilt In Gods sight which theremay be In this or that or the otherform of profanity It Is enough tosay that the cigarette habit of swearing is not good Ic is a mild typo ofprofanity and because it is mild ismore frequently put In evidence bywomen than men but it Is not goodIt is an offense to a refined tasto Itis a debasement of language andtends all the time to reduce ones vo-cabulary of choice and appropriatewords It lowers the mental tone ofindividuals and circles and under thedelusive gulso of vivacity reducesthought to the cheap quality of a bargain counter

tThe atmosphere of a home which

is filled with these Explosives is not awholesome one for children to breatheIt Is bad anywhere and everywhereIt Is impossible to believe that a dis-ciple

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of our Lord can be quite sospiritually minded can live in quite soclose and vital a relationship with himwho made that startling deliveranceabout our responsibility for even theIdle words that wo use and be quiteso much like him in mind and aimand character if there Is no restraintof the kind of speech which savorseven In a mild degree of the profaneIf one cannot express ones opinionand say ones say whether man orwoman without swearing or So muchas indicating a desire to swear it isbetter to remain silent NorthwesternChristian Advocate

Answers to PrayerThe answer toprpyerto most

prayersbegins on two sides Godsand our own Wo must be willing towork toward it and sacrifice for itand the sacrifice is sometimes soheavy that we shrink back If weask for health for education forprosperity we know that we mustwork in the direction of our desireIf we ask for spiritual gifts we rea ¬lize that the snme Is true but toooften when we plead for some specialblessing for those we love for thelifting of a burden from their lives orours for some charge that holds goodand happiness We fprget that itsgranting will surely claim from Ussome price of sacrifIce or renuncia ¬tion Whatever our prayer we needsmust have a share in its answeringnot because of the Fathers unwillingness but because of his love thatknows us through and through

When a mans heart is drying up Inthe desert of conceit hO tries to com-fort

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himself by looking at the slzofhis head

Unless a man makes the most of hisopportunities he cant expect hit pp

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RESCUED FROM DEATH

ON A RAFT OF ICE

NEW YORK MAN FLOATING OUTTO SEA WHEN FEEBLE CRIES

ATTRACT ATTENTION

Now YorkrFoeblo cries for helpthat seemed tb come from far put onthe East river were heard early onomorning recently by employes of thomunicipal lorry at thQ pottery from apartially frozen man lying helpless aconsiderable distance off shore on alarge ice floe on which he had floatedfor several hours

For ton minutes the men were un ¬able to seethe man who they be¬lieved was swimming toward theshore They called out but in responseagain heard only his faint cries forhelp At that instant the tide carrieda number of Ice floes across the moon-lit

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part of the Waters and tho mansform was discovered

Frank Dugan of 1311 Bristol street

and Patrick McQann of 146 WestThirtyfifth street and several otheremployes launched a lifeboat from theferry slip

The man Was found lying on hisback One leg extended over vtho icefloe and was dragging in the water Hisclothes were frozen to the ice His hairwas Covered with ice and his body wasrigid from the cold They lifted himoff the floe after a great deal of dimfculty and took him ashore

In the hospital he said ho was Wil ¬liam Wlssman 42 years old and thathe lived at 216 East Fortyfirst streetOn account of his condition it washard to get a coherent statementfrom himAHo said he fell from a dock but he

could not tell whether it was near thefoot of the street whero he lives orin that Immediate vicinity

Ho struggled to get to the shore butthe tide carried him out to midstreamHis shoes and clothes made it difficultfor him to swim He remembers seeIng = the lights of what he believes werethe Williamsburg and the Brooklynbridges

Wood Seasoned By ElectricityIn France a method of seasoning

wood through the agency of electricityIs credited 1 with much success It Iscalled the Nod nIirottonnean processThe timber is nearly immersed in atank of water containing ten per centof borax five of resin and a little car ¬bonate of soda and rests on a leadplate connected with tho positive poleof a dynamo Another similar platelying on the exposed surface of thetimber is connected with the negativepole Thus a current of electricitycan be passed through the wood fromwhich all the sap appears to be re<moved while the borax and resin takeIts place in the pores In a few hoursthe timber is taken out and dried andthe seasoning is said to be complete

LuxuryThough luxury is something which

only fools go In for the incidentalcrumbs thereof are what toed tho muletitude It is proof that Providencedoesnt wish the multitude to go hun-gry

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when fools with a knack for ma ¬king money keep on being born

If all men were wise and luxurytherefore a thing unknown we mightstill be fed after a fashion but thesum total of happiness would be lessNobody would be happier except thosefew who have been permitted by trialto discover what a poor thing luxuryis while the rest of us having nobodyto envy would be miserable Puck

An EightPound Square Tall TroutThe largest square tall trout ever

taken from Moosehead lake has justbeen hooked by a party of winter fishermen near Tomheagan stream a lit¬tie north of K neo It was taken byCrawford Johnson one of the bestknown guides In the Maine woodsand tipped the scales at eight poundstwo ounces and measured nearlytwentythree Inches in length Kineocorrespondence Boston Herald

Two Ways of Saying ftThen 1 am to consider myself re-

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asked the young suitorYour are to consoler your offer of

marriage returned wjth thanks and theregret that it is impossible at this Untojo accept 1ttaI4 the daughter of th-eiuaztne editor rt LouU star

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unDRAWING INFERENCES

Presidents Lincoln once told the folstory to DH Bates luunmser

of the war department telegraph of¬See

Im like an old colored man I knowHo spent so much of his time preach ¬ing to the other slaves it kept him andthem from their labors His mastertold him he would punish him thenext Limo he was caught preaching

But marsa said the old manwith tears In his eyes I always hasto draw Influences from Bible textswhen dey comes In ma bald I jescalnt help It Can you mares

Well said his master I suspect IIdo sometimes draw inferences Butthere is one text I never could under¬stand and if you can draw the rightInference from It Ill let you preach toyour hearts content

U What is do text mares askedthe colored man

I IThe ass snuffeth up thq castwind Now what inference do youdraw from that

Well mares Is nober heard dattext befo nohow but I specie tiP Infruenco am she got to snuff a longtime befo she got fat

His Secret-I dont see how you make your

butter Brown said to tho modernfarmer Ive been around your farmfor a week now but I havent soona sign of a churn

Ho laughed pleasantly partly be-cause of Browns stupidity and partlybecause of his success in keeping hismethod a mystery Oh my schemeIs a cinch he explained UAll I hayto do is to take a flvcmllo trip alongtho roughest road on my motorcyclewith a bucket of cream strapped onbehindI

Natural Born PessimistA Denver man says he was standing

on the platform of a small town rail ¬road station not very far from thiscity recently when a youth from thecountry came up and began gazing attho train report blackboard On theboard was written

All trains on time Sept 1After studying tho board a couplo of

minutes tho young man turnedaround owning

All trains on time cept one hesaid Ill bet that there one Is thevery one I have come hero to meet

WANTED IT ALL HIMSELF

PlgHeyl little boy keep out ofmy mudpuddle Cant you read thatsign Y v

Then and Now IIn the days of old

Tho knights were boldBut In days of now

Tho nights are cold

EgotistsIts lucky for the world that some

of us are succesful In life 4 remarkedthe man who made his pile

Whats the answer we queriedIf all men bad Jd remain 10awcek

clerks their selfimportance would sotthe atmosphere on fire explained thoparty of the first part

Not the SameNaters What has become of Emma

Tyenotter since she marriedTollers Why she and her husband

have gone to light housekeeping some-where

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in ArizonaNatersIs that so I didnt know

there were any lighthouses In Arizona

UsefulnessvWhy are the funny men always

kicking about the turkey hashGive It upI think Its a good thing It makes

the descent from white meat to cornedbeef kind of gradual like Y <

Too DangerousAn aviator cannot lboastofhli

family Y+ Why not 7Because In his profession there is

no cause for boasting of descent

A changeJigsby is all up Itf the air about bas

recently purchased traveling machineWhat Has he anew motor carNo aeroplane j

Fitting GarbHow does Jack look in his hunting

costumeSimply killing

The VarietyWhat kind of stars take beat 1n

Ihe melodramatic circuit1 su 8f it U tbf hootin UntH

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RURAL JOY RIDES J L 1tf MJoy riding T Huh These city chaps srei r

boasting all the while IOf whizzing past In motor cars irltliCltf h

gals In styleThey let theIr sIren whIstles shriek UBJ °wfltthey almost stunAnd flashing by like comet tails they <

think IB tots of tunnut though tho big machines can speed i

and cost a princely priceThey never give the pleaauro or to me I

seem quite no nlco j kAll JOY rIdes the farm boys have a gxwith Both or Sue 1 ey

Down tho old road by moonlight a wmend me to a good political C3rpef1MJThe SenatorPolitical carpenterWhat do you want done

Tho CongressmanI want to sail Jcome campaign lies

WaitingThough tho wind may shako the shutter

And tho days bring Icy rainWell possess ourselves In patience 4

Till the June bug comes again

The Stand She Would TakeRodrickYes tho lady orator is one

of tho most stern unemotional looksIng women I over met Why I believeif there was an earthquake she wouldbo standing in tho same place attar It irxwasoveryVan AlbertThats ridiculous What 4would sho bo standing on 1 4 1jjclso i °her dignity e i tv

So It WasA young man In Baltimore was 1 i

dining with a friend and happened to J1 > jget hold of n second joint of a chick z JJen which ho found rather hard to twithout the use of consid ¬ ferable forcet iGee but this is a tough Joint ha t rsaid to his friend < i4

It is that replied his friend itvought to bo pulled I rw >Mystifying

Seymour Why did you leave Elafl Inigans boarding houseAshley There was too much

sleightofhand work golngon-SoymourSJelghtofhnnd

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gottho coffee and tho toa from tho same rpot

Gritty ReasonKind LndyAnd you ate going to

Nicaragua and become a soldier offortune Why not go in search of theofnorth

Gr itty Georgek1ofsnowballs fWhy Go So FarDoreUa1I1 take a long walk every rymorning for my complexionrMordelleWhYrI thought there

was a drug store just around the cornnor v

GallantHawkinsAre you in favor of worn

an suffrage fDawkinsNo I think women ought

to be spared suffering as much as posible t

ACCOMMODATING

f jJGuest Thin lobster is very hardWaiter Yes sIr We ware all out I

of lobsters but you insisted upon hay-Ing one and thats the paper machs clobster out of tho window

No Meat on the Platter 5 >Jli n j tFor they are both tabooing tTheir diet Is the bean iThIs Way 1IoDp you think this age travels IVcycles 1 1 Y irecyclesy t lContrary Prospect

This year bids fair to break toe tt

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