Connecticut western news., 1906-12-13

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 The father who Is the friend" of his children In their early years need not fear being sent to the poorhouse when his hair Is gray and his step feeble.
 If the mother puts the kids to bed at night, winds the clock and sees that dog and cat are where they belong, the head of the house should build the fire and start things going In the morning.
 It Is well to bundle the little tots in the home up even on cold days and all low them to go out in the open and get their lungs filled with fresh air. Many a delicate child has been made robust by such treatment.
 The man who can lay aside his busi- ness cares when he does his overcoat and enjoy a romp with his children not only succeeds in increasing their affec ton for him, but by thus relaxing in- creases his own capacity for the next days work.
 There is probably no product of the farm that Is produced with less cost of time and money and gives a greater return in money and real satisfaction than that of the beehives which one may have. It Is gain which Is at- tended with no corresponding loss.
 The difference between 75 and 300 bushels of potatoes per acre, yields we have noted this fall, was due to care ful treating and planting of seed, prep aration of seed bed and thorough cul- tivation. In this respect potatoes are good deal like kids-don't turn first rate if left to shift for themselves.
 Snow, shelled corn and a barbed wire fence for outdoor shelter are not calculated to superinduce any partic- ular gratitude or response in egg pro duction on the part of ones flock of hens. They are quite likely of about the same frame of mind and body that human beings would be in under like circumstances.
 In view of the fact that banking for the house should be primarily and chiefly a windbreak 1t should be of close enough texture so as to best serve this purpose. It Is often we'll to tack heavy paper for space of three feet from the ground, fastening 1t with strips of lath, before putting other banking material In place.
 The noting of two instances recently in which the owners of thoroughbred herd boars were nearly killed by at tacks from the ugly brutes would seem to indicate the propriety of handling them as one does bulls and dynamite, with a good deal of care and precau- tion. They are an ugly yet unavoida- ble proposition, and it Is well to keep a weather eye on them.
 Our love and fondness for thing sometimes blind us to the fact that 1t Is possible to get too much of good thing. This Is frequently found true after a Thanksgiving dinner or a Fourth of July celebration. We have seen people who specialize in fads and become one liners-for instance, the front yard will run to evergreens, the house to pink wall paper or the chil- dren to pet rabbits. Ones enthusiasm is shorter lived than the fad.
 While he is a good citizen and pa triot who raises seventy bushels of corn per acre where forty grew before. he Is a better citizen and more pa triotic who leaves such a field on cleo ton day and casts his ballot for the sake of perpetuating sound fiscal poli- cies and good government. The great est privilege of a republican govern ment Is the right of suffrage; the great est obligation of such a government the duty of exercising that right.
 The only gold mining proposition which any farmer is justified in going into to any extent is that to be found in more thorough digging and culti- yation of the black soil of his own farm. Time and money put into this kind of mining bring generous returns. The same squandered In buying shares in a faraway Bonanza, Golden Bullfrog or otherwise euphoniously designated mining company might as well be thrown into the deep blue sea.
 As showing the progress that some of the western states are making in the matter of improving public highways a recent federal bulletin issued by the department of public roads states that in the year 1904 there were 5!,295 miles of public roads in the state of South Dakota. Of this mileage 147 mileS wera Surfocpd with gravel and