Show the old settler continued from last week neek my aly dear san Jua ners they foli followed owed his style all over the country sometimes building in quonset hut style with tn t two N 0 straight vertical ends such houses when stuccoed coed are si sightly fitly and everlasting they have very few stoves but a kind of inbuilt in furnace where they burn coal their company trucks go out with beans rye honey or ot oter er produce and trade for coal and other things needed on oil the farms what used to be called stores are very verv dilfer different crit to t tlc alc c ihirg taking its place they are simply ply places of barter and exchange dealing with necessities only receiving and offering no such thing as cash men can neither eat nor wear cash and if it cant be given for something to eat or wear it is of no value in the matter oi of clothing they thes I 1 have adopted burns philosophy to the effect that rags are but a cotton roll just for wrapping up a soul style is pretty much a thing of the past anything is clothing which will cover the nakedness or afford any protection from tho the weather some of them would to our old standards of dress dress and culture appear pretty beggarly they dote heavily on the wing windmill and these loom up all over the country with their strange doors and gates opening and shutting in a way which at one time would have made us rub our eyes and wonder whether we were seeing things or just what we had found these mills generate power which is stored in the improved storage battery to do many things which used to be an indispensable part of the drudgery of the farm to be continued next week ALIBERT ALBERT R LYMAN |