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Show HI ETFITO SID ELdTxflTS EdfiH MSK ll )For several days after my arrival shack on the hillside, where I fas supposed to repose, sit in the learning and listen to farm talk be- on the brain nse it was not wearing r Ulso listen to Clara pestering High-lateon the organ for her steady, I Ld noticed an elephantine figure that ame lumbering down the left side of I e road every morning when the men I curTi iarted work in the field opposite. Ld also noticed with what delibera- if i came to the rail m that same figure nce. crossed its arms upon the top Lit, lifted its left foot to the lower til' and posed there in all the glorl--' flesh-ladesoul, enjoying cation of further efTort. without jings Finally I began to ask questions. is that individual over there (Who to be happy though doing 1. n othing? you mean Lehm Pembrook? Yes. utg him; alius does it this time of Hes Just car, when the men work. them work, thats all, wjiile ;i getting his health back. Lem was ,ry once, before he went to Sandago put the war down. Since then he latching well" Lint been A veteran of the affair "Ah! Spain and the United States?" "So he says; says he had a hefty md in putting the thing down. But gays he lost his health and it haint He cant ver come back since. irk no more, poor Lem!" be-ree- n next morning Lemuel got on The job earlier than usual, over to Investigate the a position on the fence and I start-- j affair. close by, I Iproached the subject by saying: (Nice crop of oats. Lemuel peeled his China blue eyes me; 1 had disturbed him, and his He fastened his gaze ce showed it. ion the workers, changed footrests id said nothing. Oats will not be very dear this sea-- d if all the crops turn out as good this, friend, I continued. Tak--L know. "I d The boys over there are buckling vn to work getting in oats while e sun shines. Did you ever notice v kind nature was to weak, frail I asked, inanity? IK CUP. he Moit- - P the State e beets d he i Inir-clos- e sec; pren; leclneM barley. impauy, tfaltisg trying to first National Irrigation Con held at Salt Lake City in H, the home of the first example of erican irrigation by the Anglo-so- l rare Mormon irrigation forty (.years before. In 1891 about three f million acres were under gatlon In the arid regions, all ough private enterprise and ss was one-hal- effort. To-da- y there are nearly ht million acres irrigated, and the st tanla at the threshold of a 4ty development through govern nt irrigation. There are now flf a million dollars in the United (tes treasury awaiting expenditure great dams and states and ter the construction of als In the Western Dries. the coming .M. m Irrigation congress will eleventh convention of that y and will meet in Ogden, Utah, next. intermediate congresses have n held at various points through-th- e arid region. The second con was held at Los Angeles and attended by representatives from at Britain. Canada, Australia. In I Russia, France, Mexico and Peru, fbe third Irrigation congress met at liver, the fourth at Albuquerque, N. (and the fifth at Phoenix, Arizona, a something of a coincidence that Phoenix congress should have been member 15 he s (Special Correspondence.) The first sight that greets the trav- with which to sink a counter-mine- ; his eler to Havana as he comes Into port force was much hard by depreciated Lemuel open. Is Morro Castle; the last thing which service, and it had consisted of trainI d know, he sees on leaving is Morro Castle, ed solders, whose places had now I hear you are and it and Its neighbor Cabana Fort- been filled by others less experienced. late war ress are the places that he has in But he refused to surrender his n I besh! lost flo3ef; my health mind to visit, whatever other points charge, and the council put It In his dern It! I also lost my of Interest may have escaped his power to do as he thought best. too, b dum! Fightln' an Forty-fou- r days after the English puttin notice. down thet Bcrlmmage cost me It Is a massive piece of work, and landed their mines under Morro s my health an Agger. An all fur flS a month, b gosh, too! I got malary in ail o my cherry pecteral muscles, an thur s a dull pain in my sarry bellyum all the while, an a dod gasted wobly reelin through my lumber system also, as well as chaos In my head I when I have to do any hefty work, not to mention shootin sounds in my left SSSi arlferous when I get left over on meals cause Im fishln. See my head? Bald as a billiard ball. "Thats war, rel war. I wuz hit by the dumm thing frum all sides, as well as top an bottom, b gosh. Fore I got bitched up In that deal I had a Agger like Pollar, I did. I went way ' V i' a Pollar, an cum back a livin I did." You seem to be gettin your form back Yes, Im roundin up to my ole shape, an hope In time Ill be the same ole Pollar. I will git thar If I can only keep 'way frum work, an an if I git my penshin fur this dern Morro from the 8ea. malary an the other sickness. stands as one of the many links which walls wjre sprung. Only one had any I hope you will get it; you certainconnect Cubas present with her past effect The report of the explosion ly deserve a pension. You have been Anything which has stood In our own waB heard within, and the officer of pretty badly used. When do you ex- country for an entire century is old; the day Investigated at once, and repect to get your claim allowed? had W9 anything with the authentic ported to Capt Velasco that the damI d' Know. date of 1589 the date which Morro age was so trifling ns to be almost Then Lemuel relapsed into silence bears it would seem worthy of the none at all. And yet this officer, and I could not drag another word highest veneration. It was in the Mllla by name, was in no wise In from him. I left him leaning upon year mentioned that the plans of this league with the English. The Engthe fence while I went back to the fortification were traced by the cele- lish leaders inspected the breach from shade on the hillside to think in solid brated engineer Juan AntonellL their vantage point by means of chunks. Horace Seymour Keller In The high rocky point at the narrow glasses, and, influenced by the chief New York Times, entrance of the bay was an admirable engineer, came to a conclusion exactly site for a strong fortification, and the opposed to the one reached by the one planned by Antonelll was brought Spanish officer of the day. The mine was sprung shortly after to a successful completion. It Is an excellent example of mediaeval fort- 1 o'clock at 4 the English standard ress, wltn its deep moats blasted out floated over the mass of ruins, for of the solid rock, its drawbridge and within it was nothing else. Capt. Velportcullis; the upper works, though asco was mortally wounded early In to ot first declare for the policy the are of somewhat more recent the assault. On the 14th day of old, national Irrigation," and that that Finished before 1600, the heav- August the conquerors took possession date. city is likely to be the scene of the iest strain did not come upon it for of Havana. first great government dam the outAs the traveler wanders about withtwo centuries. In the wall of come of the policy and resolutions, almost near the angle where in the walls he sees dungeons with the upper part, rigidly adhered to by every succeed- the sea meets the land, Is a tablet out any light, where he may imagine ing Irrigation congress, In spite of bit- whose Inscription tells that it was that prisoners languished, although ter fights for cession of the arid lands erected to the memory of the gallant the military prison was In Cabana to the several states. Some of the rooms were and Marques Gonzales, fortress Velasco The sixth congress was held at Lin- Capt fell in the defense of the castle; used as prison cells during the last who coln, Neb.; the seventh at Cheyenne, It was very near here that the Eng- few months of the American regime. Wyo.; the eighth at Missoula, Mont.; lish forced their way in and took pos- Now, it has only a guard of Cuban solthe ninth, the first .big congress, at session. diers, and seems to be only a show-placChicago, 111., and the tenth at Colorado and Its walls a visitors book. In fancy the traveler may go back Springs, Colo. 140 years to that summer which saw Its guns would doubtless give a good The Chicago congress had the effect of themselves, however, the beginning of the most important account of bringing the Irrigation discussion of Cuba's history most im- should the occasion arise. But this epoch into the East and showing its national portant save this last one. Looking does not occur to the visitor as be aspect that any great Improvement over the parapet in the wall of which goes about looking into gloomy rooms in any western section would have a the tablet is placed, one may see a here rusty ernnon balls are piled reflex benefit In the eastern part of stretched cut before him the scene of up or peering Into darker ones from the country and that the agricultural the hardest military struggles of the which the hoot of a white owl comes development in the West would mean English invasion. All of that section to him. When on ' his way out he an increased market for the products speak of that summer of 1762 to goes through the long covered way of eastern manufacturers. those that have read the history, for and crosses the moat by means of Then came a surprisingly strong it was there that siege was laid to the drawbridge, from which several fight by the Irrigation forces in the the Morro. The roads from the land- boards are missing coming out upon short session of the 5Gth Congress, ing place, more than three miles away, the Jill which overlooks the bay and followed by President Roosevelts ac- was jut siowly and with great labor the city beyond, be thinks that he has tive championship of the cause and through a stubborn underbrush and come back from the past to the presthe passage of the irrigation law In over a rocky sod. Men fell at their ent Tres Reyes (Three Kings) Is the the following long session, June 17, work, exhausted by the unusual heat, 1902. The early part of August, 1903, and yellow fever broke out in their specific name of the castle, although saw the contract let for the first government Irrigation works under this law. fig-Be- r, T?' I?.. r 8' ' skll-lento- Ideals in Womans Life. ''ring her engagement the woman certain type spends her waking momeuts building a ped-- ! u leeping e upon which she places her the honeymoon is over she tes that she built the pedestal too nd proceeds to remove a few the foundation blocks labeled denhoods ideals. ut the third year of their marble she becomes possessed of the that the belongs on that pedestal, ealmly climbs up. A year or so T he reads that Helen of Troy ping pong with her nation ,r? forty, and that Cloopatra reached the same mature age captivated Caesar, Anthony few other notablos of her day. reupon Milady Matrimony drops a r maltor-o- f fact spouse that b prou1 of lh 1. r,ht 10of after money for the purpose og md embellishing the figure bo Is so marked a credit to bolov-Befor- i Thlwes Have Their Omens. Pkpocket la auporatttloua. He !y rob a person who squints, fat og accounted a certain sign tililfaer . n1 11 fc'Pl11 that the K V h . teala contain DrlU811 foreign aa I believed mony. that he will travel a good to Immediate future; - but ;.h th company of a couple $t0Jolccr or not there la noth- - feu." . nLfunrl th '4 are lignin-ik- k thief. .V". RtProfessional funeral would urt immediate disaster; but Can. Dirty Milk the Desert Bloom. Make The Pry - 1 & m -- -..U mm a . 1 V. ml. J ' M s.i v vwV I- - i n. y t been subjected to all kinds of cleansing processes, Including steaming In a steam chest, the smell still clung to them, and must have remained with them after they were again filled with milk. After this process has gone on for several months in summer, what must he the condition of such cans so used and so abused? Chicago Butter Supply. The recopits of butter at Chicago this summer have been greater than during any previous summer for several years at least From the first of May to the middle of August there were received over 652,000 tubs, which Is about 60,000 tubs in excess of what was received during the same period last year. During the summer of 1898 tubs were received, which was considered phenomenal at that time. In spite of this large supply this year the prices have held up, due largely to the rapid growth in popu lation of the city and the continued activity In business. It Is reported that the home tradd Is larger thap ever before and seems inclined to take all the first-clas-s goods that come In. Studying the market one notices that the only kinds of butter that do not sell well are the poorer grades, though they are disposed of at a low price. Thus ladles are quoted as "slow In sale. Ladles are produced by working over country butter till It Is uni form in salt and coloring. It is poor in quality because it Is some days old before subjected to the process. goods are neither a profit nor a credit to the farmers. 692,000 Cheese and Butter Making. A good many cheese factories are now being equipped with butter making machinery, so that they can make cheese in the summer and butter In the winter and thus take the farmers milk the year round. One of the objections to cheese factories in some localities Is the fact that they run for only six months In the year and the farmer Is loft without a market for his milk during the rest of the year. By this process also the farmer has to have all of bis cows calve In the spring so that he may get as big a flow ot milk as possible during tbe months when he can sell it It is much more to the Interest of the farmer to have some of his cows calve In tbe fall. In the first place his calves can then have the sklmmllk at an age when milk in some form must be supplied to them. Later they can live on pasture grasses. Tbe man that produces milk for the summer cheese factory only has none for his calves, and the whey Is a poor substt tute. All tbe year dairying must take the place of tbe summer method if we are to have our dairy localities centers of industry and prosperity. Dairy 8choola. The agricultural colleges of the country are every year giving more and more attention to their dairy schools. We bellove that as many young men and women as possible, that are interested In dairying, should attend these schools. Tbe entrance Is not, however, as easy as It was. Borne of the dairy schools make the rule that the students must have bad at least six months experience in a creamery or cheese factory. This rule has been made bccauso In the past It has been found that the students that make the most progress and are the best satisfied with tbe schools are those that have had such experience. We think, however, that this may be carried too far. We want good farm buttermakcra as well as good creamery buttermakers and good cbeese-maker- f La midst so that at Futrra Oldest Utilldlr one time 8.000 sol- Havana. tt la never called that, and many do not know that It has any tlalm to la the generic that name "Morro came of fortrerses situated aa It la on a jutting rock-- Santiago baa one, 8an Juan naa one, and other cities also With tu Iunta Castle guarding the city aide of the entrance, and planned In the same year 1589, and the Fuerza, half a mile further In and antedating It by fifty years, It forma the motive of .he Havana escutcheon, three raatlrs; the key signifies the position of the city. In diers and seamen were on their backs, almost half th entire number. Still l0,e to become disa If think Pr it por- the English refused many of them on of their batwhen n at a wedding contain goldthe thlof couraged. 600 men seven taken for had which luck of best teries. tend! the to build, waa destroyed by fire. during the ensuing month.a favorite days continued to have push their trenebe They Some pickpocket aa and wear long planted mines unAiorro pair of boots that they on their foot, toward walls. them ery Its can der keep a they while Tb governor of the Morro wsa th If they are not arrested cut th. they them naval captain Don Lull de Velasco, "ry are wearing "(1 camQUr P1"1 about whom the glory of that UP Into Httl hat la, on the Spangathers-tpaign solAnswer. ish side. He was the Idol of the their friends. Ixindon Chinese Students In Japan. of the officers, Inspiration tie diery. arc 8"0 Chinese students In There and the admiration of the enemy. He the colleges of Americans I" Mexico. Japan and 600 more ran th trade by Amer C0.OO0 knew c f the preparations Mexico now has bo to sent. are no materials enemy, and toal he had money. . - bis good taste, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Five years later she thinks her husband Is something of a brute because be cannot figure out how to send two athletic loving boys through college and give daughter a few finishing touehes in French and music all on storm 13,000 a year. Then, when the sethave and the over boys has blown the college tled into business without stem education, and daughter Is head Co., at ographer for Dim, Burrell that twenty per. she one day discoveri the gray hair are coming In thick ther above lather's temples, and that are lines In his face which she had never noticed before. of re Then cornea to her a moment panothe roll flection. Backward abe and married life, their of rama Then, mist a gentle sees It through flnda himself oddly enough, the man togother-- on out started just where they the pedestal. iw The city milk trade Is one that per mlts the greatest amount of untidiness simply for the reason that the consumers know nothing of the conditions surrounding the milk traffic. It Is often asserted that, could the consumers know In what kind ot cans their milk Is handled, many of them would quit the use of that article ot food altogether. The cans that go hack to the farmers are some of them so very dirty that It Is impossible to get the stench out of them even by scrubbing and steaming, and many shippers of milk have no steaming appliances. The cans, Instead of being washed out with cold water after use, are left with some milk In them and this sours and putrefies for a day before being removed. It must be remembered that milk Is blood held In suspension and that it putrefies as does blood and flesh. Experts have testified that after such cans have Hava Good Buttsrmaksra. It does not pay to employ a poor butterroaker when a good buttermaker can be secured at a little advance In tbe salary. Get a competent man at all hazards. Many a buttermaklug establishment loses more by employ Ing a poor buttermaker than It saves In his salary, la the first place, poor butter will not long continue to bring a good price. In the second place, the Incompetent man will lose butter-fa- t and never know It, and this butter-fa- t lost In tbe course of a year will aggregate a very large sum. Then, too, tbe buttermaker that la not experienced with machinery will destroy expensive machines and never mistrust that his Ignorance la the cause of 1L He will blame the company that makes the machines. Tho .more buttermaktng becomca a science the more educated must the buttermaker bo. Water Drank by Hoge. We find Prof, W. A. Henry says: little recorded on this subject, possibly because the matter Is not considered of Importance by many. In a feeding trial by the writer at the Wisconsin station a group of ten pigs divided Into two lots of five each, one lot getting barley meal and the other corn meal, was fed for a period of eight weeks, with the results given , below. The five fed on barley averaged 208 pounds at beginning of test, ate 2,832 pounds of grain, gained 601 pounds In weight, consumed . 9,066 ' pounds of water, and required 471 of of pounds grain for 100 pounds gain. For every 100 pounds ot food eaten they drank 320 pounds of water. The five fed on corn meal aver- aged 209 pounds In weight at beginning of test, ate 3,100 pounds of grain, ' gained 713 pounds In weight, drank 6,620 pounds of water and used 436 ' pounds of food In making 100 pounds of gain. For every 100 pounds of feed eaten they drank 213 pounds of . water, or 107 pounds less than those , fed on barley. The weight of water reported Includes that required for soaking the meal and also that drank from a second trough. It will be seen that the pigs fed corn meal consumed about two pounds of water, and the barley-feover three pounds, for each pound of meal eaten. The pigs getting corn meal consumed over 900 pounds ot water, and the barley-fepigs 1,600 pounds, for each 100 pounds of gain ' in live weight Pigs fed corn meal appear to require less water than when on other feeds. . , d Points on Guinea Fowl Guinea fowls have dark colored flesh, but It Is very palatable. 1 results In rendering the birds tender and reduces their size. The young of birds given their freedom are hardy and will follow their mother as soon almost aa they are out of the shell; at least they are good Hampers after they are a day old. The young live on bugs and seeds discovered for them by the mothers. In tbe early laying season the birds will lay their eggs anywhere, and several will deposit their eggs in the same locality. When about to sit they seek separation and lay a dozen or more eggs in a bidden nest, where they incubate them. Tbe guineas differ from common fowls in that the males are as anxious about tbe brood as is tbe ben, and helps take care of them during the day time, forsaking them at nlgbL Guluea hens and their broods forage lu a body, tbe old males helping to keep up the laggards of the line. At night each mother collects her own brood. The young at a very early age learn to roost In the trees, even before they can reach the branches by flying. They half fly and half run up the trunk of the tree. Guinea eggs are very fertile and. a large percentage of the birds hatch- ed live if they are permitted to run wild with their mother. Like tbe turkey, the guinea prefers the open tree top to the secure poultry house. ( ( Treatment for Heaves. In accordance with the request ot a reader of the Farmers Review we quote the advice for treatment ot heaves from two wrltors: Prof. D. McIntosh: Feed so aa not to overload the stomach; allow a little hay to be eaten first, then give water and then oats. Never feed more than twelve to fourtoea pounds ot hay per day and fifteen pounds of oats. Boiled flaxseed mixed with a little bran at night will keep the bowels regular, besides being very nutritious. Sulphate of Iron, four ounces; nitrate of potassium, four ounces; nux vomica, two ounces; divided Into twueity-fou- r doses, and one given every night In bran mash, la very useful. After this quantity has been given, skip two or three weeks and repeat One ounce of Fowler! solution of arsenlo given every night in small bran mash, when tbe animal le at work in the spring, Is very good and often enablos an animal to do a good day's work, which It could not do except for the arsenic This can be continued for a month to six week without any danger to th animal Then stop for a few weeks or aa long as th animat can do without It, and when the breathing becomes difficult resume again and ao on. I have treated horses In this way and they would do their work with ease for years. Jonathan Perlam: Treatment with a view to permanent cur Is generally not successful. However the ailment may be greatly ameliorated by a strict attention to the diet, which should be the reverie of that which has hitherto been given. GW nutritive food of small bulk and best qual- M wild bay mired ity, such as finely-cu- t with ground oats and corn, bran and a small quantity of ground oll-raor flaxseed meal, and slightly mole toned. In summer give green or food Instead of hay, and In winter dally allowances of sliced carrots and other roots. Such horse should never be fed or watered Immediately before use, and they should be used only for sow and easy work. Rexlew. ' k eno-cule- A ton of pound sugar beets of refined sugar. yield 10 - ' i |