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Show MAKING i! - - ; t . . ' s Chicago. T o flaxen hatred orphan Boys, one blind and footsore, bronzed and sunburned by the southern sun, are In Chicago, the elder searching for fk to support and educate bis sight-les-s brother. New Orleans, tbelr birthplace, offered little hospitality and no future to the orphans and they departed for the big city of the north. Penniless and hungry, the brothers, one leading the other elowly In Chicago' busiest thoroughfare, were seen by a policeman, who took them to the Harrison street station, where they were given food and care by Mrs. Alice .Shanahan, the matron. -The orphan are Joseph and Samuel Leonard, IS and 14 years old, respectively, - Joe, after he had fed hie younger brother, nibbed hla eyes.- - washed bis face and then narrated his Intentions and determination to give hie younger brother a good education. "I don't care so much about myself, but I want to see little Sam go ahead,1 said Joe. came to Chicago to work for hie sake, I will do- anything from peeling potatoes to scrubbing floors for Sam's sake. I will get ahead, too. While hla elder brother told of their struggle la New Orleans, the death of their father and mother and their trip to Chicago, Sam placed hie arm affectionately about hla neck. During their four, days trip on freight cart Joe aided and watched over hla afflicted brother, and when they reached their destination be spent ble last pennies to feed him, while bs suffered In silence. Seven years ago papa died and mamma followed him a ' abort time later," said Joe. "Little Sam bad been troubled with tore eyes and four years ago be went blind. I sold newspapers and did odd jobs so ws could live. Once I was taken sick, to sick I could not work, and little 8am had to live on the few dollars we had saved. Ws struggled along until two weeks ago, when I ran out of work. I couldn't get another Job. Ws had often beard of the big city In the north, and last Saturday ws decided to come here. "1 had 93. and after I helped 8am-ml- e on a freight train 1 got on and we rode to Memphis. I was so afraid that aomethlng might happen to Sam- ' ml I didn't sleep much. One bight It got cold and ! put my coat over Sam to keep warm. A tramp waa In the car and 1 was so sleepy 1 couldnt Watch him. When 1 woks np la the morning he had left with my coat and $2, which I had In my pocket ' -- V ' , i - "'; t v 7 for Employment to Educate eighties .Brother. t - ' a . l . . ' r ' Washington. 8mejdaythe steady Increase of population In tbs United States li bound to overtax Tbs ability of tb farmer to provide tor it sun tenance, but that day la remote. In the opinion of Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department Nor will It bs necessary, bs believes. In the near future to Import grain for bread, notpredictions by certain withstanding men. Everything, say Mr. Wilson, depends on the disposition of the American farmer to make the most of the resources of hts land and to Improve his methods of agriculture In accordance with the needs of the people. a The secretary also pointed to St crop production, showing that the value of the American farm output In one year aggregated That wa for the calendar fig-nre- 4 : 1908, but the eecretary wae con- 5 I 7 SV 1 jActJ Cohn chib Aja JHIJ AtPL(MENTS WAf r SQXBl' L ft kbxyt Feeo & - T V ' , Vr 4 y- ' ir 4 zz Ae. a vSli. . AN AIRSHIP. Big Gun Mounted an an Automobile Deslgnad to Offset Fight-InAir Craft. g Berlin. The great success of dirigible balloons has created a demand for the invention of means to destroy them in war time. Of these the fire from rifles and machine guna was not sufficient, 'on account of their email caliber and the difficulty of watching the moving airship. Cannon have therefore been designed in Germany the greatest manufacturing country of war material Tor the sole purpose of attacking and shooting balloons, flying machines, and the like. To do this effectively such a cannon must comply with the following requirements: Unlimited moving ability sideways, shooting at any"angle up to the vertical, highest speed of the projectile or smallest time for flying. In Oat Bin Reet fo'A or v - W Convenient , Horse Barn. Mtny farmers find necessary, to house it convenient, or spouts or chutes. The corn crib has the horses in a pears Instead of s' solid foundation separate building. The usual small and the floor la laid over hors barn Is rather small and pro- Joists w 1th 2x6 inch timbers, a space vides no space for storing hay and of about being left f VA Th other rough feeds. The arrangement between the same for the air to circuAirship Destroyer. 9 ' abowi in the floor plan herewith Illus- late up through the corn. This permits addition It must be possible to move trate seems well adapted to the pur- solid, side walls and keeps out the the gun from place to place in the pose and not only provides 'storage rain and snow,, also the wind, but will shortest time. room for the hay, etc., but also has admit plenty of air to circulate The automobile illustrated herewith a large corn crib, a oats through the corn. Any grain that may complies with these many and difffall through the cracks la eaten by the icult bin, sad a large Implement room. has been built It requirements. A of Qlx32 foot drive way separates poultry or hogs, so none is wasted, tht lets empress dowager Burning the beat designed to carry the spirit the . concern and . famous by Krupp stalls from the crib and feed writes J. E. I5ridgo.an in of Chins across the rtver, separating it from the heavenly nirvana The heat the was exhibited jn the recent internaroom and fitted out much carved will no is and doubt was be There that for cost about $37,000. It sumptuously handy protecting aero show at Frankfort. The a loa4 of hay or grain at night, or dur- corn Is wasted by storing same in the tional fact that the gun is rather long favt cribs. It Is not nec- ors a ing stormy weather It mar also be high speed for the projectile. "Then we were put off In Centralis, SECURES A FAMOUS CANNON used for storing vehicles. The upper essary to say this building should have Above it is a brake with a liquid and 111., and we bad to wait nearly a whole floor bay be arranged to suit your a good foundation and the exposed air compressor. When a shot Is to be day before a train stopped. We Historical 8ociety of Chicago to Make fancy,-- , or requirements, but wood work receive at least two coats fired the bolting of tbe gun is disenclimbed Into a box car and got to Home for Gun That Opened bins should be provided above of paint, as this should be the rule and the latter slides out by found us A and policeman Chicago. Civil War.' the feed room for storing chop feeds with any building that is built on the gaged the expansion of the air. The total took us here. which are drawn down through small farm. "1 am strong and healthy and I am weight of the car is 4,315 kilograms, Chicago. The first gun fired In the Is Sam. and that of tbe gun alone 450 kilo-- ' Sam to work to help going civil war has reached what probably r grams. A 50 engine to pretty' smart and I willhimsoon make Is Its last --resting place In the mumounted under the hood and propels' through seum of the Chicago Historical enough money to put society the vehicle with a speed of 70 miles school. Oh, if get a Job then we will on the North side. Four companions, All four wheels are an One." get along which, though they have not no clear connected with the motoivand thus a title to fame, saw hard service In Child. Thalr Twenty-Thirany rough ground and steep grades the civil war, are having more diffiVallone Mrs. Nate Pa, can be overcome. On the platform Pittsburg, has presented to her husband their culty In finding comfortable bertha. seats for five men are provided and were The guns purchased by the Cit23rd child, a robust boy. room for 32 cartridges. There have now been 15 boys and izens association during the riota of The cartridges deserve some deand were presented to Battery as they have some novel eight girls, of whom ten boys and 1877, scription, three girls live. The Vallones were D of the Illinois National Guard. Up features. It Is necessary to watch the married In 1884. Vallone wants to to a year ago they were In active uae path of a projectile if applied to a by the artillery company, and then name the boy BUI Taft Vallone. balloon. Shrapnel hit only the cover the government came forward with and these holes are mostly closed some twentieth century Dean Quite at 75. equipment, again by the Inner gas pressure, so and the old guna were In .the way. New York. John Howard Van that not much gas egpapes. The best f . The Citizens association was asked dean of Columbia college, has result comes from brlsance grenades, jew which explode Inside the balloon and " presented hie resignation to the board to help dispose of the relict, and this of trustees. It will take effect next organization .offered them to the hisnot only hit the envelope, but ignfts the gas. Thus an airship will be com-- x June, when he will have completed torical society. The historical directhe 75th year of his life and the 50th tors decided to accept the salute gun pleteiy wrecked, as the photograph ' B shows. Another valuable feature la year of hla service In the Columbia which opened the civil war, but It did not want the others. that each projectile contains a burner facul(y. ignited as it leaver the gun, and. thla tA - JJ 2xl0-lnc- r. good-size- d htf-s- Farmers-Review- old-styl- -- hopper-shspe- 1 e open-sla- q borse-powe- FOR STOCK PENS GATE PLANS hour-averag- d W Am-ring- s, rr --- I 4 i iL BAR EMIGRATION IN , Secretary Wilson said h was sending experts to Siberia to obtain th seed of native grasses which resist unfavorable climatic conditions. Soma of these hsv been tested successfully and soon' there will bs no excuse for tbs exhaustion of th northwestern wheat farms lf erd!nary-prudenc-is observed, Mr. Wilson asserts. Will American wheat' gobelow $17 the secretary waa asked. Probably not." h replied, "but thers la no telling what might follow auch a disturbance In the Industrial and financial world as w had In 1907 and If w meet such a crisis again it I possible there will be r A 1 SWEDEN - Stockholm, The leading newspapers have opened office throughout Sweden to raise funds for the purpose of preventing emigration. It Is felt that Sweden can no longer afford to lose its Ufe blood In the shape .of young workers. At the next seqpion of tbs riksdag legislation looking to ths tarns end will be enacted and It Is probable that the vast domaln of land now owned by the state will be offered to bona fide settlers oq favorable terme, as Is done In America. Young workingmen are deter mined to leave Sweden not only to better their own condition but to punish their employers against whom they have recently been on strike. DANIEL WEBSTERS My ban la 30 feet wide, and across while By parting the gates in the cenFig. $ ' one. end R Is divided into three pens, ter opens the middle pen. Business Ma'n'Who Owns Great each-te- a feet - square, - writes G. A. shows .the form of catch I .use for. the 'BostonScholars Hotpe, Keeps ths center one of the a If has gates. Clark, In American Agriculturist The Famous Coach. CARRIAGE gates are ten feet long, and are bung rollers, and on common barn-doo- r -seen will be as by sketch. tnck, a stationary fence extendths wall half across each outside pen, B B, Fig. L By shoving right ths the gates to . pea Is opened, and by pushing them pen. to the left opens the right-hanIs ing from Then th. left-han- d d -i making money ON THREE ACRES Laughed at Her Name. Xondon. Asked why she gave an Incorrect Christian name when attending a hospital, a witness at Westminster county court said that people laughed and said: Oh, what a name!" when she gave her real one Mary Ann. forge It can be made very easily at home. C C In Fig. 2 are short projections of wood beveled at the ends to pass between the bars of the opposite gates and hold them rigid when closed. Fig. S shows the form of loop that may be made of old wagon lire, It. Is secured to the poets that divide the pens, as shown at a a, Fig. 1, and keeps the gates from swinging. Boston. Walton ball, a Boston business man, who now owns the farm where Daniel Webster lived at Marshfield, Mass., has many relics of the great scholar, among them being the coach. in. wbich Webgter used Jto ride, . Many persons visit the place annually, and none leaves the place-withothe old coach, initiating himself to which to' not so old,- either, as far hill lands, and the man with $300 or as appearance goer. Mr. Hall pur$400 could soon have a home to be chased the carriage and has kept it in ''' of. proud At the time Admiral repair. good As much of this land still has some timber left, true It would be aSaqk-wood- s life for a few years, but the time to not far distant when the change will come. Much of this hill land belongs to people who give It no care. They came there to work in the timber for the railroads; they bought the land for the timber, worked it np and are now glad to part with it at almost any price, as they are not suited to farm -- 68-ce- wheat" produces a wake of black smoke, showing the line of flight by night or day. 3. 1 Movement Is on Foot to Prevent Youth of Lan from Leaving Country. Danced Hla Rib Loose. Devotee All off Hie Ttsn Tract aad Find It New Haven, Conn. it waa found la (mall ' By Thomas profitable that while dancing the Salome dance I a M. CieeL at Yale in the Cook-Peari show given between the halves of the game against Colgate, Brevard I knew a man who Is making money M. Connor of Dallas, Tex., so exerted ox three acres of land. himself, that he broke a rib. The Yale This waa his share of the old home Arctic club will now have to look for plica4 When the land waa turned a new Salome. Onr ( Llm he had only the one small Ufe. A man does not have to own a large fidd with no buildings. The first year he planted most of farm to make a success of farming. Daniel Websters Carriage. ths ground to garden truck. One half The middle west Is fast becoming a and fruits In unall the and ao-Planted small Sampson, Senator Hoar and country strawberries. From this first years form of from three to twenty acres to Boutwell visited tbe place he drov looney wa secured to make the more often found than largre bnes, them through the town In It Sixty for 18 days. I gave my life preserv- mop and crops of this kind are bringing vears ago presidents, distinguished first knprovements. er to a man who was my guest on the Th built a storehouse for keeping higher prices each year. men of Europe, governors, senators, boat and who was Inspecting the ill all ' 'have driven from Boston to Marshfield products In winter and used pump. I had difficulty In swimming to Spare 1 Sharp Tools for Pruning. time and money in enriching behind the cream-colorehorses to shore. I sank once, but I finally sucUse very sharp tools in pruning visit ..the great American statesman. ioIL be ceeded In reaching land. waa bought at the stables trees to Insure smooth cuts. Where The same coach has carried equally . We tried to raise the boat later b Milure towns and In three years a heavy branch' to to be cut off sup- distinguished men to the little plot In jar-bentire Three' aefrhsff hwr covt port ITWlTircne BanniuriiK"Tfcr cut; the Marshfield cemetery at the time & almost covered It with sand and ws rid with plenty of etable manure ting process, so that splitting of ths of the memorial services held In his decided It would be too expensive to stub will not result The branch honor.! -- with but a small outlay of money, raise It Later the lake In that yjcln cut of should fin smooth perfectly la crops this same In Gov. slwlysbe he Joslah growing cemetery plow Ity waa filled In. When I learned that sweet pots toes, cabbage and and close to the wood from which It Winslow to burled, also Peregrin the skeleton of boat bad been found besides other garden crops. He grows, so that It wlU heel quickly White, born bn the Mayflower, the underground there 1 thought It was hetns, a house and other buildings, end evenly., Cut away all water first baby. of New England. Here, too, built my old boat and I went out there and has several sprouts, both at ths base of the tree to barfed the famous singer, Adeline small greenhouse, a hu " Identified the remains. stand of bees, a few chickens, fruit and further up. A good way to keep Phillips, who lived on the next place , I orchard In shape to to the Webster estate. a beautiful, a moderate-size- d lna shade trees in fact to keep a large, sharp pocket knife, own. Is his which Nsw Weed Fatal home srl-kep- t Stock Wilt Make Nature Studies, the orchard every few Montrose, Col. A new Ht gives all of his time to thisasmall and go ofthrough esetabl - Ct E, Akf4yr the noted collector o the out had weeks euttiDg useless good to money d to making growth; poisonous cattle and farm jFa, same can be done In al- branches and shaping the trees to African big game, left New York on has been discovered In western sheen, Colo tlvlnl- - The tasta. If the work to August 17 for British East Africa, individual rado. where It grows In large most any county or state, but It takes suit quantj. all orchard pruning where he will continue studies begua time In V begun i&4 ties along many of the Irrigation cas- study Industry. state land can be can be done with a large, sharp pocket daring former expeditions and will sis. It caused the death of a every almost large j lota at low prices. These knife. With a good knife fit this kind make collections for the American number of animals Dr. F. Babsoo bad to too much for grain and a Uttle practice one can easily museum. A moving picture camera broken of the department of agriculture has lands ere classified it as ascleplaa velgipeifota. fanning and usually can be purchased remove branches an inch in diameter, has been takra for the purpose ol Immediate steps will be taken by ths ar from $8 to $15 per acre, and there doing the work quickly, easily, and getting pictures of army ants on th march and other movements of ant department to check the growth of ths la uo place more suited to the building making a smooth cut than can "bs teals. American Museum --Journal. tool. other with these than mads homes any weed. country peautlful gg field-Saturd- y Vessel Sunk 35 Years Ago fident that, having In mind the higher price of the present, the total thla year would be as large, or perhaps Lost In Grest larger. Experts in the agricultural de- Sandsucker Steamer In Unearthed Storm Chicago prehe said, were at work, partment Sower Boat Identified. paring data tor the present year and the resutt would be shown In hi anChicago. The sandsucker Dispatch, nual report next winter. Last year not less than 60,000,000 which disappeared during a storm In bushels of durum wheat was grown In 1874, was discovered the.other day by tat.aiwLJDrGilowy. workmen f ngage lndlgglng a jsewer jthJCnlt4 who Is making a special study of the at Falrbanka court and East Erls of possibilities of tbls grain, says that at street The woodwork and15engine unthe boat were unearthed feet 21 stations in the west Investigators were ascertaining the conditions best derground. The Identification of the missing adapted to tts growth. Durum is a Siberian grain, peculiarly fit for soli In barge waa made by CapL E. R. Lewwhich there is a small amount of is, former master of the missing boat moisture. The agricultural depsrt-- ' Tbe vessel was sunk in October, 1874, ment has found' that It will grow during one of tbe worst storms- that well west of the one hundredth merid- ever raged on Lake Michigan. The ian In th - northwest, which means boat ran aground and Capt. Lewis and anyw here west Of the middle of Jthh four sailors escaped by swimming to 7 Dakcrta; nd in the eemirtd regions the shore. -We were pumping sand about a of eastern Washington and Oregon. It has been already produced at a cost mile from shore when the storm came of $5 to 70 cents a bushel, which up suddenly about four o'clock In the would return a handsome profit with afternoon," said CapL Lewis In relaWe headed ths wheat above a dollar. ting hla experiences. But the department does not ap- boat for the shore, but tbe machinery prove methods pursued by certain broke and we were driven aground growers. "Soil robbery," Dr. Gallo- quite a distance out. Tbe storm waa one of the fiercest way cans these methods. Great syndicate are farming tracts of 10,000 on the lake up to that time. It lasted v i m Showing Arrangsment of But Id Ins Well Adapted for Storing Feed and Implements By J. E. Bridgman. V'i $7,250,-000,00- year , t CONVENIENT HORSE BARN iliuEkrattoa V ' tatlon. of Crop Rotation Laid to Syndicates Wheat Wont Go B low Dollar Mark. 'i't I A .. HjS&iSfrJStS-Imported. Disregard . I TO DESTROY PLAN OF i Secretary Wilson Say. Be oil Robbery" Only Peril JL 4 mTICAL EMPRESS, J ARE ENOUGH FARMS Before Grain A DEAD v - On Blind, In Sad Plight Elder, In Good Health, Searches VESSEL OF SMOKE FOR - 7 Two Boys Come from New Or- -' leans Penniless and Hungry. ' Brother, A u truck-growin- g sx-Go- r. d i'd y - po-toe- , tf -- a I'1 r fl |
