The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-10-19
MATRIMONY AND FARMING.
How One Ingenious Kansas Agricul-
turist Managed to Combine the
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turist Managed to Combine the
Two.
Kansas is a State Of novelties in
many lines and her farmers are not
the least behind the rest of the pop.
ula ton in invention and initiative. A
kansa paper tells admiringly Of one
of the SunfiOwer States agricultural
lists who combined the business OF
contracting advantageous marriages
for his four daughters and at the same
time enhancing the value of the broad
acres which they grace. That he
stumbled upon this remarkable sys-
TEN quite by accident does not detract
from its worth in the least, and his
experience is recounted that it may
convey profitable hint to other faith
ers of girls who grace farms and who
are not averse 10 contracting adyan'
tasoCu5 matrimonial alliances.
II seems that the farmer. whose
name was Daniel Kindred. had strug-
gled manfully for many years to rear
mis- daughters in intelligence and
thrift, but when they had reached the
age which suggests fight from the pa
ternal roof they still lingered-wist-
fully, it is true, but persistenly. One
day Kinkaid-whose very name seem.
ed hoodOo-sent an advertisement
to a newspaper, stating that he want
ed farm hands, and as an additional
inducement specified that every man
that applied would have a chance to
WOO a daughter. provided-and here
was the critical clause-every claim.
ant to a daughter should do some
think of beneficial nature to improve
the farm.
The first man who applied at the
Kindred farm for work and daught-
er was from the East, and claimed to
be a graduate from an agricultural
college He was retained, and after
he had looked upon the youngest
daughter AID found her exceeding fair
he began to speculate on the farm i'm
provement idea. Before he had been
on the farm week he had
installed an irrigation ditch and
stone-inclosed fish pond, which he
stocked with bass and pickerel. Kind
red looked upon this achievement and
saw that it was good The man go.
the daughter
The second applicant piped water
from an artesian we'll into the house
and put in porcelain bathtub. In
addition to this he cured a disease in
some Of the Kindred cattle and won
a prize. The third was dreamyeyed,
but enthusiastic. After choosing one
OF the remaining daughters he started
out jealousy to earn her. First he
invented some sort OF lightning rod to
be fixed to each domestic animal, with
spi1es along the back and head and
the ground connection beside the
hoofs. But Kindred was not impress
ed and said it wouldn't do. The sin
ventor tried again. This time he was
successful He built a water wheel at
the artesian well. rugged up an cleo
trio generator, which runs the churn,
sewing and washing machine. lights
the house and barns and furnishes
power for saw mills, etc. he was re-
warded by Kindred in the promised
way There is only one daughter re-
naming, which is regretted exceed
ingly by Kindred, who had formerly
considered girls burden. But he is
hanging On to his une daughter for
something really extraordinary in the
way Of Inventions 1t will be an ex-
ceedingly difficult thing to win this
last rose. But if some young man Is
really crafty he will first find some
way to secure wife for the old man.
who is widower. This would be such
an improvement to the latter's wife
as would merit the recognition OF
ever so exacting father. Then the
happy family would be complete
New York Tribune.