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CHAPTER Vll.-continued.

Franklin had small notion of Curly's
locality, but he heard his voice. half
taunting and half encouraging. and
calling on his pluck as he saw some
hope of a successful issue. he resolved
tn ride 1t out If il lay within him so
to do. He was well on with his reso-
luton when he heard another voice,
which he recognized clearly.
Good boy, Ned" cried out this
voice heartily, though likewise from
some locality yet vague. ''Rride the
divil to a finish. me boy Git up his
head, Ned Git up his head The
murderin', haythin' brutel Kill him!
Ride him OUT"
And ride him out Franklin did, per-
haps as much by good fortune as by
skill, though none but a shrewd horse
man would have hoped to do this
feat Hurt and Jared, he yet kept
upright and at last he did get the
horses head up and saw the wild per-
Torrance close as quickly as it had
begun. The pony ceased his grunt-
ing and fell into stiff trot. with little
to indicate his hidden pyrotechnic
quality. Franklin whirled him around
and rode up to where Battersleigh
and Curly had now joined He was a
bit pale, but he pulled himself togeth-
er well before he reached them and
do counted with good front of I'M
@cern. Battersleigh grasped his
sand in both his own and greeted him
with shower of welcomes and of
compliments. Curly slapped him
heartily upon the shoulders.
you're all right. pardner," said
he. You're the d-dest best pill
grim that ever struck this place. an
! kin lick airy man that says differ'nt.
He's yore horse, now, shore"
And how do We do, Ned? God bless
vel" said Battersleigh moment later,
after things had become more tran
quill. I'm glad to see ye: glad as
liver | was in all me life to see liv-
in SOUL Why didn't We tell We was
comm. and not come ridin' like a
murderin Cintaur--but ay, boy, ye're
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CHAPT Err VII.


The Beginning.
Franklin's foot tool hold upon the
soil of the new land, His soul reached
out and laid hold upon the sky, the
harsh flowers, the rasping wind He
gave, and he drank in. Thus grew
the people of the West
Think you, Ned, my boy" said Bat
tersleigh, one day. as they stood at
the tent door-"think you, this old
gray world has been Inhabited a mil
lion years. by billions of people and
yet here we have a chance TO own a
part of IL, each for himself, here. at
this last minute of the worlds life!
Do you mind that, what il means?
Never you think a chance like that'n
last forever. Yet here we are, before
the law, and almost antedatin' the
social lice. It's the beginnin'. man,
it's the very beginnin' of things,
where we're standin' here, this very
blessed day of grace. It's Batty has
travelled all his life, and seen the
lands, but never did Batty live till
nowi"
TITS grand" murmured Franklin,
half dreamily and unconsciously re-
peating the very words of his friend,
as he had done before.
Yet Franklin was well bitten of the
ambition germ. 1t would serve him
to run only in the front rank He was
not content to dream. He saw the
great things ahead, and the small
things that lay between. In q week
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Feeding Farm Horses.

L. A. Merrill, Utah, speaking to con-
|ourse of farmers, said the amount of
f ay fed on the ordinary farm may be
beatty reduced, so far as horses are
|oncerned. This, he said, would be
|aving to the farmers and would re-
,ult in reducing the digestive disor-
krs to which the horses are subject.
|Drses should receive most of the hay
night, very little in the morning
hid none at all for the noon meal.
|lways water before feeding. Oats
Jake the best grain feed for horses,
dt these can be replaced by bran or
'horts or supplemented by the use Of
'orn Carrots and sugar-beet pulp
ave a marked beneficial effect in
. e.---r-. - Aiua
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Feeding Meat and Cooked Food.
My experience in feeding meat in
any form to poultry is quite limited.
In summer give as good as unlimited
range to my fowls, which does away
with the necessity for such feed.
While | have faith in the balanced
ration theories, yet | believe If an
"old hen" has the opportunity she
will balance her rations better than
her owner.
have never fed blood meal, and my
experience in feeding commercial
meat meals has been confined to beef
meal, fed late in fall. winter and
spring. | am sure 1t added materially
to the general health and vigor OF
the fowls and of course increased the
egg production. The cost OF the meal
( feooo DEC o0uoror II Ia rpn high
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cus.triruxenes. Having Asssveo. svs
vAve scented kerchiefs bstweep m
and tire thought OF snch a beginning
n our prosperity. Having lost touch
of the earth. having lost sight of the
sky, we opine there could have been
small augur in land where each
man found Joy in an earth and sky
which to him seemed his own. There
we're those who knew that Joy and
who foresaw its passing, yet they
were happy.
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Cotton Seed Meal as Stock Food.
]. M. Bartlett, who has had much to
do with cotton seed meals for feeding
avs that first-class meal sbouId
ontain over 40Iper cent of protein
nd per cent of fat, and should be
light yellow color. Dark color
nd the presence of many fine black
pecks is an indication that ground
bulls have been added. A rusty brown
color indicates that the meal is old or
has undergone fermentation. Sucb
meals are not safe to use. Cotton seed
meal should have about the same tex-
ture as corn meal, and should he
practically free from lint. The ammnt
of lint can be determined by sitting q
portion of the meal Lint and brI1s
can also be detected by stirring tba
meal in water, when the black bulIs
will settle to the bottom. the eood
meal will be in the next laver and
the lint on top. A first-class maaI
should have scarcely any lint and onlv
a few black hulls. The quality ~ tbe
cotton seed meal can also be iudpa6
by tasting II. The best fresh meals
have an agreeably nutty flavor NOT
found in inferior goods. The pras
ence OF much fiber is readily noted nv
the sense of touch in the moutb rAo
absence of the nutty flavor and the
presence OF a rancid taste ipdio...
that the meal is old.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Cling street, These new edifces were
mr. the most part used as business
places, the sorts of commerce being
bat two-"general merchandise. 4"
which meant chiefly saddles and fire
sS"ns, and that other industry of new
lands which fiaunts under such sign
boards as the Lone Star, the Happy
Rome, the Quiet Place, the Cowboys
INeam and such descriptive nomencla-
rlre. OF fourteen bushes houses, nine
we're saloons, and all these were pros
rerous.
One by oae, then in a body, as
though struck by panic, the white
fonts of the railroad laborers van
Dshed, passing on yet farther to the
West, only the engineers remaining
at Ellisville and prosecuting from the
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Remember that Gen. Money. who
captured the town of Da1abon, is
partisan of Gen. Jiminez, This will
help to keep you clear on Santo Dom
lingo politics
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

We are glad Richard T. Fox has re
signed. for his name won't get into
the papers hereafter Every time we
saw that name it made us think of the
gentleman who made diamond-studded
belts famous.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

1t couldn't have been that woman
with a record of 500 beatings from her
spouse who invented the formula: "He
hardly ever beat me; he's more like a
friend than a husband"
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Sir Henry Irving's son, II. b. IT.
wing. is coming over here in Lights
Out" Merely to have it recorded and
out of the way once for all. we an
nounce that he Lights Out" from
England, so to speak.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

To be sure, it is something new that
convict should win the 5000 prize
for correctly guessing the attendance
at the ST. Louis exposition, but the rest
OF the story is familiar. His lawyer
gets half.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Jack London is going to spend four
of five years with his wife on literary
yachting trip around the world Mean
while the social revolution will have to
take care of itself
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

To develop style. says a critic, young
authors should write poetry. Good ad-
vice, provided the poetry is not pub
lished Otherwise, think of what it
might develop in the readers.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

1t IS reported that King Leopold has
cleaned up s15,000,000 In the Kongo
Free State. Leopold is one of the few
men who have made fortunes by rub
bering.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

This opens up the marriage ques-
tion," says Joe Howard, in the full
tide OF his Sunday letter. Il have no
desire to go into that branch OF the
subject" Was there ever wiser
man?
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Canadian orators assert that the
twentieth century belongs to the Do
minion. 1t should be added hastily
that she does not intend to monopo-
lie 1t literally.
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Still another airship is going to fly
next-er-week or. possibly, it is next
year. or. maybe, next century. If we
had invented an airship we would wait
till II few before we said 1t did.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Senator Pettus, of Alabama. is a
great friend of the squirrels in the
capitol grounds, and never forgets TO
put a crust of bread in his pocket
when he leaves his home in the morn
ing, with which. to feed the little fell
lows. Long life TO him!
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Admiral Togo cables that he cannot
say definitely just when he will visit
the United States. That April proph-a
ecy, is appears, was that kind of
story.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Why do autobubbers go to Florida
TO prove that you can ramble at rate
of two miles minute. We who dodge
them know 1t already.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

The Nile-Red Sea railroad is open,
and we may expect to get our gum
arabic and bedouin bugs at more
reasonable figure
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

In spite of the alarmsts, it Is worth
remembering that no monopoly has
ever succeeded yet in cornering the
visible supply. of ocean.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Still, as a concrete and impressive
warning to overcapitalized American
women Count Boni may serve a useful
purpose.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

The American girl who deliberately
marries title encun.bered with
rake and fool is entitled to no sym
pathy when the trouble comes.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

There is tariff war in the Balkans
A great improvement, at all events, on
the other kind of war that section is
famous for.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Says Japanese: Judo is much less
brutal than football. In judo the aim
is to XII your opponent. or disable
him for life" If that is the reputation
football has in the Japanese mind, no
wonder they are sending judo mission.
aries over here to convert us.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

1t will astonish everybody to learn
from Philadelphia paper, that phil
adelphia is the most religious city on
this continent"
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The Dual Purpose sh.sn

There was time when sheen were
raised for wool only. Then came q tin.o
when they were raised almost entiraI,.
for mutton. Now there has beer an
equalization. and the sheep that e.
now wanted is the one that ~"
duces good mutton and fair amount
OF wool. When wool sells at 90 cen1s
pound as it does now, the man tbor
has been breeding entirely for mrtto,s
regrets the course he has taken
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Alice Roosevelt is said TO have
twenty-seven hats, but wen bet she
win insist upon having a new one for
Easter
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

Korea asks joint protectorate of
the great powers. This proves that
she needs a conservator
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es.sa. -anl was killed Ru.s-1p--s q,
has never missed a train. He stanuf
on the platform wagging his tail, MS
tongue hanging opt, an expresslon/o f
anxious hope in hrs eyes, waiting for
his master.
When one of the trahSmen Explains,
!" He amt on this train" the red
tongue goes slowly back into the big
mouth. the strong jaws close, the
shaggy tail drops and Ribs turns and
walks back to his kennel. But or the
following day he appears promptly
in time for his masters usual train.
and waits until some one of the pity
ing train hands tells him, He amt
come in yeti"
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chops any worse tl-an mock mince
pie?
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The Holy Land is to be lighted by
electric as well as Israelites, under a
concession from the Sultan
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

sad flirt--which rhymes appropriately
with squirt.
The Oakley eagle. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1901-1908, 1906-04-05

already beginning to pick auarrels
with other nations.
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Meantime, froni the direction of the
north, there camet Travelling across the
prairie another cloud of dust more
rapid than that stirred up by the slow.
moving emjgrant wagon Sam. the
stage driver, was crossing on his reg.
iiar blackboard trip from Ellisyille 10
lum Centre. and was now nearly
pathway on his journey. Obviously
he courses of these two vehicles
nust lhtersect, and at the natural
polnt Oh this intersection the driver
y the faster pulled up and waited for
ne other. Movers" were not vet so
common in that region that the stage
nrlver, natural news agent, must NOT
pause for investigation.
The driver of the wagon a ta,1
ark man, drew rein with grave sal.
eation, his tired horses standing with
lrooping heads while there took place
me OF the pregnant conversations of
1he plains.
Mornln', FRIEND said Sam.
"Mornin', sir said the other
winch way you headin', friend?o
Isked Sam.
I We'll, sir" came the answer slow.
~ l rather reckon you've got me.
I've just been movin' on out. | want
70 locate, but reckon my team couId
PRAYER a little further If they had to-,
5Ihis with a certain grimness in bis
fmlle, as though he realized the whim-
sicallty or the average motive which
governed in that day in quests like
mis-. Is there much travel comm,
Through here this season." he ra.
fumed, turning in his seat and resting
pne foot on the wheel as he sat still |
Perched on the high wagon seat.
X Wen replied Sam, they amt so
luch Just yet, but they will be pretty
pon. You see, the Land Office is
pout sixty miles east of here vet
PA folks is mostly stoppin' in there
pand around here is pretty much ALI
'peh yet. II they move the Land OF
zee to the track-end, of course all this
and viii be taken up a good deal
aster."
, is it good farmin' land around
lere?"
sure. Bettern it is farther west
nd Just as good as it is farther east
gheatll do well here, and it amt too
old Tor corn. Best COW country on
arth."
How is Ellisville doing now?"
''Bloomin'."
y res, SIR, SO | heard farther back.
4 1t goin' to be real town?D
That's whatever How can n ba1n
Z? It's goin' to be a division point {
a the road. It's goin' to have all the /
lttle-shippin' trade. After a while g
~ have all the farmin' trade. It's c
pm to be the town, all right. don't s
u neglect that. Yes, sir. Ellisville s
the place." d
Which way are you bound. sir?" 4
'ked the stranger, still sitting. an a
arently in thought, with his chin a
sting on his hand. A
Go be continued.) m
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Noteworthy the ould Forty-siv-
enth-yis, more, I'll say we might be a
officer in the guards, or in the Rile
Irish itself, b'gad, yes, sir!-Curly. ye
divvil, what do we mean by putin
me friend on such a brute, him the
first day in the land? And, Ned, how
are We goin' to like it here. me boy?"
Franklin wiped his forehead as he
replied to Battersleigh's running fire
of salutations.
We'll, Battersleigh," he said, 81
must say I've been pretty busy ever
since | got here, and so far as | can
tell at this date, I'm much disposed to
think this is a strange and rather rap
Id sort of country you've got out
here"
Best d---n pilgrim ever hit this
rodeo!" repeat - --- ~
ton.
"Shut up,
Battersleigh.
the both of you
but ye're wei,
are. too, Ned, D,,s, 49,
World"
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Renewed Interest in Sheep.

Renewed interest in Sheep.
For the past year there has been
strong growing interest in registered
Shropshires for the bands of sheep
towards the Rocky Mountain states
The largest number of orders for regis
tered Shropshires have come from the
Middle States Our association has
not suffered by the decadence of
sheep breeding east of the Mississippi
river, as the last annual report will
show that the past year has exceeded
any of the former twenty-five years of
our association work. We have re-
ceived more new members-about two
hundred-and recorded nearly 10000
registered Shropshires. There is a
marked renewal of interest in sheep
breeding as far east as Maine The
writer does not remember any year
in which so many new f1ocks of Shrop-
shires have been started from Maine
to California as the present year
The increased price of wool has
stimulated and had beneficial effect
on the sheep growing interests
| throughout the country, but it is not
alone entitled to the credit, for mutton
sheep have brought such exceedingly
high prices on the market for food
that, with high-priced wool and high
| priced mutton, sheep breeders have
had wave of unusual prosperity.
Shropshire grade lambs have sold the
past season in three car load lots at
| $9.40 per cwt. The advanced price of
| sheep for consumption is due to the
fact that for the past few years sheep
breeders have been using mutton
breeds on their fiocks. and the quality
of mutton of all sheep now coming
to market has so much improved that
people have learned to eat mutton and
are well satisfied with it, which was
not the case until within the past few
years.
Mortimer lowering,
Secretary American hropshire Regis
try Association.
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CHAPTER TX,
The New Movers.

Far away, across the wide gray
plain, appeared a tiny dot, apparently
an unimportant fixture of the land
scape. An hour earlier 1t might not
have been observed at all by even
the keenest eye, and it would have
needed yet more time to assure an
observer even now that the dot was
a moving object Presently an occa-
sional side-blown puff of dust added a
certain heraldry, and thus finally the
white-topped wagon and its plodding
team came fully into view, crawling
ever persistently frrp the East to
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memo, Ribs, he amt on this train,.
nus orakeman or baggagemaster
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are their stomachs fitted to digest
milk, for they have a large supply OF
the particular digestive juices needed.
But the older the animal grows the
less able is he to digest the greatest
possible quantity, at least within
year from birth After that his diges-
tive power as regards milk may be
quite uniform. We have digestive ta-
bles that are quite reliable, and every
farmer should study them to be able
to determine the amount of digestible
elements in the foods. We are certain
that If farmers will make a study of
the digestible nutrients in foods few
of them will consider it profitable to
feed oat straw to their farm animals
except when it is required to give
bulk to food containing large amount
of concentrates.
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IIVEy
STOCK

The Feeding Of Farm Animals
In the feeding of farm animals the
bulk or weight of food given should
not be taken into consideration, Out
rather the digestible portions. IL is
about useless for scientists to attempt
to show what the constituents OF FOODS
are unless they show the digestioie
amounts. The other way has Deeh
followed because it was the easiest
1t is not now difficult matter to make
a chemical analysis and that is why
we have a great many tables showing
the various components of animal
foods rather than the amounts that
are actually digested. 1t is not an
easy matter to find how much OF
food is digested or digestible. Long
digestion experiments have to be car
ried out to determine the digestibility
of certain foods and this doubtless
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the farmers COW ehor'a be The hes-
COW In the counttgt "est
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{ duITIiHIS. 4 HtI :
ways of arriving
digestibility of
1st vary with diff
, will take for in
ID to farm animals.
.nimals the better
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VI N "
lhe plac e Of th W
st white-toppey
hcook carts
ne van of tn
was the begi
ftle drive fro Il
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uuctor OF a train which wa
sEsa; ana was killed R,z<p-s,

'thern rangt conductor
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-28
FOSTER.

Foster, Aug. 21.-Miss Lula Phillips
returned to her home Sunday, after Il
two weeks visit with her sister, Mrs.
Ed. Kicker.
Fred Hickenlooper of Rutledge, Wis
listed friends in Foster Sunday.
Thos. Lewis was in White City Sun
day visiting his brother Will.
Joseph Eldon returned from Louis
Vile, Colo, Saturday, where he had
been for the benefit of his health.
James Darby and family went to
New Town, Mo-, Saturday to visit Mrs
Darby's parents.
Mrs. David Anderson and three chill
dren are spending two weeks with
Mrs. Anderson's sister in Cawker City,
Kan.
Mr. Dawson, an old gentleman from
Missouri is very sock with dropsy, at
the home of John Madison, ST., Dr.
Lynch of Moravia, is attending him.
Mrs. George Cain is very sick with
a fever.
Mrs. Ella McKellep of Alta, was a
guest of Mrs. Henry Maneor a few
days last week.
Rev. Samuelson of Brompton, is on
the sick list. threatened with typhoid
fever.
Mrs. John Terry went to Ottumwa
Tuesday to visit with her daughter
Mrs. j. C. Hale on Highland avenue
A. ]. Erskine, superintendent of the
Phillips Fuel company of Ottumwa,
was in Foster Thursday of last week
on business for the company
Miss Gladys Rector has been on the
sick list the past week
While moving load of household
goods Saturday afternoon, George Cain
came near being killed. The front
wheel of the wagon dropped into hole
and the wagon. and load tipped over
with Mr. Cain on top of it. He re-
ceived a dislocation of the right shout
der and collar bone. DR.. Lynch of Nor
avia. was called and rendered the
necessary medical aid and the patient
Is getting along as we'll as could be
expected