The Sauk Centre herald., 1906-09-13


Jean; you have preserved eternal
youth in my poor blind eyes. I have
never ceased to see you, as | saw you
then. And still it is as if something
had changed. Your voice that tells me
| that l am still beautiful is no longer
| the same"
Ten years had passed since Elise
| lost her eyesight Little by little it
| left her. and the beautiful eyes grew
dim. She felt as if she were living be-
hind a gray prison wall, and only her
| husbands love connected her with the
| world. Without her knowing it her
| face grew old, and fine lines appeared
around her dead eyes. Her golden hair
lost its color until it was now snow
white She was only shadow of the
once beautiful Elise, though he made
her believe that she had not changed
at all. During all these ten years she
had believed his loving words, and this
illusion had become a glass house IN
which she lived as in beautiful pal.
ace.
She did not know that the light-col.
ored dresses and the gay ribbons with
which she adorned herself as when
she was still young made her age still
more apparent and contrasted sharply
with her poor old body.
One day she woke up from her slum.
Der in her shair, which as usual stood
near the window. She heard soft
whisper in the next room and recog-
nized Jeans voice and that of another
which mad a sarcastic ring to 1.-THE
voice Of Nine. Delac, whom she had
always disliked. She arose and walked
softly across the carpet toward .se
door into the room from where she
heard the voices.
"You are so beautiful whispered
Jean. "I adore you and only live In
the hope that you will once be mine"
and the other voice said. with a
laugh:
And l am sure you tell your poor
wife the same thing. Does she not
still believe herself beautiful, though
she is bent and wrinkled? Oh. my
friend l must laugh at you!"
They saw light shadow fall across
the opening of the door. Jean, my
Jean!"
The glass house collapsed. Elise
took another step and fell in faint in
front of her husband
"A second means Of controlling the
Uniformity Of distribution is found in
he custom of removing the butt and
lip kernels of the seed ears. It has
peen determined experimentally that
# all the kernels of an ear are shelled
.ogether, a good planter will not drop
over 70 to rs per cent, with the prop
Or number per hill, but when the ir-
regular kernels from butt and tip are
removed, the same planter will drop
rs high as 80 to 95 per cent. with the
ways necessary that butts and tips
be removed from ears before shell
ng."
After the uniformity of dropping the
seed comes the proper amount of seed
to be dropped in a hill. There is no
rule that definitely fixes the proper
lumber, but some experimenters have
fixed on two or three while others
prefer three and four. Not infrequent-
ly a corn grower favors two kernels,
believing that he gets better ear.
For silage corn, four and five are fire.
luently advocated. While he does not
mention the number to the hill, a
writer in Coburn's Corn Book" drops
4 hint that may be useful to our read
srs:
Where soil has been growing corn
for a number of years in succession,
three kernels per hill is, if anything
q little thick. We realize that the
planting of three kernels per hill does
not always mean that there will be
three stalks found standing when the
corn is husked out, as certain
amount of the crop will always meet
with grief; nevertheless, where it is
known that the soil is impoverished,
we believe that there will be more
welldeveloped corn if it is planted
so as to make good average of two
kernels per hill.
I'VE would consider it a great mis-
lake to adjust the planter in advance
and use the same plates over the en-
lire area mentioned. 1t will be wise
practice to change the plates after
the poorer land is planted and use
something that will drop just little
more corn on clover sod. Not only
will the richer soil sustain more
plants, but we have found that corn
on sod ground is apt to meet with
more opposition in the way Of enc
mics than even an old land, and in
planting we generally like to allow
little for this"
In the accompanying illustration we
show graphically some of the results
by which George T. Petit, Of Mamaha
county, Kan, determined upon two