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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

Young Penfold was leaving those
comfortable rooms of his in South
street. He had not been very careful
with his money of late. and what with
one thing and another there had been
little irregularities in regard TO the
payment Of his weekly rent, which had
led good Mrs. Davies, his landlady, to
suggest to him that he should find 9TH
er quarters.
The luggage the cabman lifted on to
the top of his vehicle was not on Il very
elaborate scale. There was a tin trunk,
a couple of worn pOrtmanteaux and
two or three boxes shaped with an I'M
questionable regard to hats. Az he
stepped into the cab he gave "A final
glance at the house where he had spent
that last twelvemonth.
They a been a giddy twelve. those
months. Could he Dun the number of
supper parties Mrs. Davies had been
ruefully summoned to cater for. Could
he remember all the gay, boyish faces
that had from time to time made mer-
ry there with him over countless bot =
ties of wine? No, but still 1t had been
II giddy time.
Now he was to bid farewell-not
merely to the house. but to the chapter
In his life to which it formed the back
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

IL past which left it's traces on it's
frayed edge.
He had not shaved very recently and
his light brown hair hung very shay
gily on his head. His eyes were red.
too. and underlined by black marks.
the revelation of late hours and, per-
maps. hard drinking. This was after
six months of attempted employment of
those brains. the goodness of which he
had so confidently trusted the previous
spring.
On the table in from, of him lay an
outward and visible revelation of those
rains in the shape of a manuscript.
lying half outside an envelope. and in
closing Il little single sheet of printed
p~aper--that callous usher of evil, the
editorial rejection form. Penfold had
known many of these. and most of
them had caused him Il passing spasln
of disappointment. He had never
known despair. for, despite his worn
appearance, he still hoped and trusted
in those brains of his. Sui this last
returned manuscript fell less lightly
on him. He had not eaten much that
ton where he should cat the following
day. under previous circumstances
that WOULD have troubled him little.
But tonight they were not. He felt.
for the first time almost in his life.
that insidious fever of depression
which Is the inVariable of
despair. In Il it had over
whelined him. y dark fash came to his
eye. and he clenched his fists and
walked absently around the room. He
opened the window hurriedly n
glanced down the crowded street a
hundred feet below. He wondered il
there We're palings at the bottom. and.
remembering there We're. closed the
window. He glanced round the room
as though seeking for something. but
apparently did not see 1t. Then. as in
a moment of resolve. he seized that
faded soft felt hat and thrust it or
his head. and with that same wild look,
and those clenched fists. he descended
the marrow. creaking stairway and
emerged into tho street.
He did not notice the figure Of a
woman standing close by. Il woman
dressed in e black. And, as he
walked hurriedly down the street. anc
turned several emerging into
Holborn. he did moi know that a few
yards behind him walked hat same
solitary figure. Pausing here anC
there. az II in thought. he continued hii
curse southwark. reaching Fleet street
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

ground. That giddy life was, for the
honce over. There was now nothing
for him but work-hard. very hard
work-for the little legacy his dead
mother had bequeathed him u year ago
was now All gone. He had nothing u
his brains. They were good brains he
fondly believed.
He had also. which was perhaps as
much to the shallow world. a good face,
at least so Annie Garth thought as
from behind a curtain in his late bed
room h took Il last peep ut it as It's
possessor drove away in the cab. An
ME WAS the hOusemaid at South street
who had ministered to Leslie PeEfoid's
needs during that twelvefnonth He had
never said an abrupt word to her. Ii
dinner Il been late and had kept him
feveriShly waiting he had never been
nasty about 1t. He had always accepted
her lame with Il forced smile.
If he had ever given an order it had
been as IL kindly request. pretiNed al
ways by a Would YOU please He had
often smiled at her, too, and made a
jolly remark. and he had thought
Annie such a beautiful smile.
And now he WAS goinE-perhaps size
would never see MIN again. Perhaps
that fitting glance he gave toward the
window would be the last that would
ever meet hers. Tine lear boy she had
looked after. To whose little wants she
had n,lniStered with feelings of delight
unconscious to him-was vanishing.
And Annie knew only too well-ser-
wants diagnose these things on IA sys-
tenn entirely their own-that Pcnfold
was no facing a world of roses as he
sped away in hat cab. The address
he mad given her for the forwarding
of his letters was not "A good address
1t WAS FAR from AS classy" as South
street. aud Annie knew. too. that he
was not free from financial trouble. ant
WAS woman of the world enough t.
doubt If ;he boy would meet with much
better ~ fate than most of the gen
tlcinen she had known who lived b,
their brains"
These thoughts Vt was. that accounted
Tor the fnet that when good Mrs. Davies
cn'ared the bedroom OF her departed
lolgrt. she found her faithful domesti,
rltttns 10y the window n ~ Hood o
tcttE-a headache. sfe e~xplained-an,
tears That. even when they did cease
"h'y made way for 70 Annie CART
had - heart aud. Impossible though /
1rrticd. HAT liei,'' was 1T presen. az
campaigning Leslie penfoid ana his be
'"nshres 81 that embarrassing journe.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

to new and smaller lodgings i'm Blooms
bury.
This was all in the spring. when
people don't very much think about
destiny and such things, and Leslie
was not particularly downcast or dis
pirited when he entered those new
lodgings. After all, he told himself
he had brains.
Blu there was to be an autumn. and
autumn did not find him even in those
lesser lodgings in respectable Blooms
bury. We must turn many times to
the left and right. cross many mean.
tram-lined thoroughfares and evil
smelling streets, to trace our youth
where autumn found him.
1t was not in respectable Blooms
bury. but Clerkenwell: not on the first
floor. but the fifth. and in the back. too,
that a young fellow sat with his head
between his hands that following No
vember There was not here any neatly
laid meal on a clean tablecloth. await
ing him as he entered that evening.
And he was not wearing that fashion
ably cut suit and one of those spot
less collars and nea ties that had in
the old days shown his good looks to
such advantage. The clothes he wore
We're ~threadbare, and his collar had
known three days of active service and
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19
BABY BAIT FOR cRocop,LEs.
Sometimes Four c%roeoodiles Are
Taken fer Each Child Used.
From the Philadelphia Bullet

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Wot do ye think" said the sailor, 'of
usin' live babies for bait? We done IL in
Ceylon.'
Babies for bait? Fishing for shark?,
No: crocodile. Baby bait is the only
thing for crocodile. and everybody uses II.
Ye rent a baby down there for half a dol
lar Il day.
o course" the sailor went on, the
thing amt as cruel as it sounds. No harm
ever comes to the babies. or else, O. course
their mothers wouldn't rent 'em. The kids
is simply sot on the soft mud bank of a
crocodile stream and the hunters lays hid
near them. a sure perfection.
The crocodile is lazy. He basks in the
sun in midstream. Noth.n' will draw him
in to shore where We can pot him. But
set Il little fat naked baby on the bank
and the crocodile soon rouses up. In he
comes. a greedy look in his dull eyes. and
then We open fire.
II have got as many as four crocodiles
with one baby in a mornings fishin'. Some
Cinsalesc women wot lives neal good
crocodile streams make as much as 81
a week reg lar out q rentin' their babies
for crocodile bat"
The Limerick Craze.
London" said a tourist, lis crazy
over limericks. You know wha q
limerick is-a iive-line Jingle? Well. in
l(OtiOOI e"VeTSDOuy 10 liIIISEICkInR.
ut is a new way of advertising. Vari-
Gus papers started it. Now 1t has been
AIKEN up by tea Dealers. sOapmakers
and so on. In a number Of cases SIS
a week for life has been won.
1.-The thing is worked like this: The
advertiser supplies the first four lines
of the limerick. and YOU. the contestant
you always number many thousands
supply the last line. 1t is for your
one little last line that you win a life
pension of $500 or so in cash.
Here are n few limericks that wor
from $500 to 1000:
A tripper to Southend once went
To cut a great dash full intent,
But a thief viii much stealth
Annexed all his wealth.
Rent his pocket TO pocket his rent.
4 picrrot who sang on a pier
Was feeling most lonesome and quee,
For all on the beach
Said his song was a screech,
Ae wondered II ~strychnine was dear
Taken the world over the annual av
erage rainfall is sixty inches
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

When corn was sold at 10 or IL cents
per bushel and "A quarter of u dol
lar was Il high price. the farmer could
afford to put a lanket of fat around
his cattle or horses and allow them
considerable exposure to the weather.
Though it was probably never CO.
nomical and certainly not humanitar-
ian, to winter stock with only barb
wire" shelter 1t certainly is not In
these days. Feed is high so is lum-
Der. but the latter properly put into
buildings can be used many winters
while the former one assimilated by
the animal will never be availa BILE
again for the same purpose. The re-
fore provide shelter for you stock. 1t
need not be expensive but enough to
keep off the storms and allow at last
a quiet. reasonably warm IND dry
place at nights. Men are put all day
In this wind and cold, but they want
II warm place at night, so. too. 1t seems,
it would be profitable to prepare for
the stock. Horses not at work will
winter with little shelter, and II feed
Is plentiful. will come out In the spring
in shape for a seasons work and be
better than II kept In a close barn
and fed heavily with grain.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

Many new users of cream separators
say that their separator cream does not
keep any better h Dreaming In the
old way. OF course. 1t doesn't. The
cream should be cooled at once after
1t Is separated, then 1t will keep sew
eral days.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

For green iced for poultry there is
nothing quite go good as alfalfa or Glow
err chopped up fine, steamed and Their
fed as "A mash. Poultry will thrive OH
1t, and the egg will keep coming right
along through the winter.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

Glover straw should be scattered back
on the fields after threshing. Not much
of II will be eaten by stock, and 1t il
too valuable to let stand and rot down
in a stack. Spread this on the thin
spots OF the clover field and see how
II helps matters ney, season.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

During the winter season IL n good
to watch the calves you have
to build up your herd. Keep
only the calves which develop good
digestive powers and hav unmlstak-
able signs OF dairy work.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

The importance of considering the
plant on which h seed selected for
growing the next crop is no. as n gen.
eral thing considered as it should be.
Two rows of corn. planted by an cx-
pertinent station IN trial plots had
nearly half of the stalks down on the
ground, W other rows had only three
or four per cent so down. Yet II seed
were picked from the wagon at husk-
ing time there would be man, ears Sc
Iected from the former sort of stalks as
undesirable as they are. Potatoes from
n plant that has produced a number OF
large, smooth tubers will be much more
desirable for planting thar ever better
specimens from plants that produced
only one good potato and a number OF
small or u ones. To tell anything
about these things the seed must be se-
lected fISm the field. We would much
rather plant the small potatoes from "A
productive plant than the large ones
from plants hat did not produce but
the one large smooth tuber.
Az a man IS OF little consequence / in
the world without at least "a reasonably
good physical being SO the plant is of
little consequence that Is not strong
and hardy. The man may by great at
tention to avoid ~unfavorable conditions
accomplish something of good, but the
plant cannot be protected from the va
riations of the weather to the same ex
tent that many may care for himself.
Pick out suitable ears. grown on the
proper sort of stalks, dry out wen and
keep dry or put where they will not
freeze severely, or better both dry and
keep from very great cold and the time
spent will do much to prevent the poor
stand that is now being husked. The
loss in the cor crop OF 1907 from
.Slanting ordinarily good seed would
pay many times the cost Of having had
strictly good seed corn. We do not for
get that the seed planted last spring
had unusual griefs to stand. but strict
ly good seed would hav stood them
much better than what was generally
nlanted.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

Clean out the COW stalls every day
and put In fresh bedding. Use a fork
to shake out the old bedding: and
then "A steel brush or hoe will scrape
out the manure better than anything
else.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19
DAIRY NoTEs.

Professor Hacker says alfalfa hay
and corn silage produces more butter
for him than any other roughage COM
bination he has tried. n he puts the
feeding value OF a ton Of alfalfa at
$40.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19
FARM FACTS.

Some farmers make a nice thing by
constantly looking about for some new
crop OF which the supply is short. A
Missouri farmer had in twenty acres
OF pop corn this season and 1t has
turned him in about $500.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

The man who is feeding so cent corn
and 30 cent oats to his cows will have
to see pretty heavy cream checks to
keep things Generally cream
buyers have advanced the prices paid
for cream. but the situation calls for
precise feeding and economical u
Cows will readily eat turnips. cab
bages Oh most any root or vegetable
grown on the farm. To prevent any
faint in the milk. better feed these
things just after milking. instead OF be-
fore.
When COWS have fallen of in their
milk flow 1t takes fine work to get thcm
back. Silage will help do 1t. and clover
hay. meal. bran and oats will start milk
viii not recover until they freshen
again.
Just think OF 1t. Professor Fraser
says there are $50. 900 cows in Illinois
that how n profit Of only n cents each.
farmers quit after a year or two. The
sooner the better with hat kind OF
COWS.
1t does not pay to play or fool with
the heifer calves Intended for mich
cows. A mean cow often results from
teaching a calf to butt. Deal gently
with them. but give then. 60 understand
you are boss.
Calves intended for the dairy seldom
make good show calves. These dairy
calves require different food and differ-
ent care. The show calf must be fed
fattening foods: the dairy calf requires
food for a strong body and ample d.
gestior.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19
rlMeER FOR SHELTER.

Did you ever hear a man regret that
he planted IL grove or "A shelter belt
twenty or more years ago" Have you
heard Others say: IF l had planted
trees there" and pointing out some
particular place. "wh.n l first came
here what n great advantage 1t you
he to the farm now" or words Of that
purport? Time is short looking back
wards and II you are thinking OF plant
Ing some trees do not allow the idea
of time to prevent. The shelter Of a
grove In our colder climates is great.
Northern Iowa or similar ATTITUDES will
be more comfortable on Il cold winter
day behind a we'll grown windbreak
than a hundred miles south without
shelter. We will never forget one event
full cold stormy day In southern Mime
sofa. many years ago. when facing Il
northwest Wind we were approaching IL
set of well out up farm buildings. Half
a mile or more away we could see the
cattle standing In apparent comfort
and we wondered. but suddenly there
into the protection of n timber claim
grove and 1t seemed that the mercury
had risen 40 degrees in "A minute.
Cattle n horses were nibbling at
the straw stack. their owner was work
ing around with apparent comfort and
even l got warm in the pleasant sur
roundings. That state Is ahead Of Iowa
in the way of shelter belts and OH that
account the rigors of winter are less
felt than further south. The timber
countries are p~leasanter in winter than
the prairies and corn was grown much
more satisfactorily in the big woods
country than in more -thern ATTITUDES
where timber was unknown.
With these thoughts i'm mine let us
W. more shelter belts planted. Trees
are Il great help in the dry winds
country as they will modify the effect
OF those crop destroying freaks of ma
lure. In II of our dry years the only
fields Of corn that produced any appre-
ciable crop We're those on the north side
OF the hills or north of a shelter belt
of trees. We see these things when
the winds. either hot or cold. blow, but
as trees cannot be planted hen all is
forgotten about them when planting
time comes. Trees sap the soil, moth
ing can be raised near them" True.
but Il field with a shelter belt will prob
ably in q series of years produce more
than one without.
Shelter for the buildings is even more
important. A few rows of evergreens
will add many dollars to the farm ten
or twenty years hence If planted next
spring and properly cared for. A few
years only is required before they will
need no attention further than keeping
the stock away from them. and their
usefulness has begun. Does any one
doubt the advantage of a grove for
shelter? II so Lat hin get out in n wind
where it has u fair sweep and stand
still a while thsn get behind IL grove
and compare the differences. Broken.
billy countries do not need the trees
AS do more level sections of country.
but i'm h latter that are "a thing of
beauty n JOY forever" Stock gets
out of the winds behind hills and barns
are put in protected places where the
face of the country will so admit.
Aye. plant a tree. Jock. 1t will be
growing while ye're sleepin'."
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

There has been some of the worst
work done on the roads over which we
have Travelled this past mon that we
ever saw. "A road grader is n good ma
chine when the man who uses 1t also
uses his brains. otherwise, other
wise. This is not the work of
are criticising, nor Is our own
opinion only that we are expressing.
1t comes to us every few days. Re
ports of earth and weeds drawn into
the middle of the road and left too
rough for any team to travel over. I'm
places piled up in II sharp ridge. and I'm
others h earth drawn from the two
sides not meeting in the center OF the
road. Often the bitches are not deep
enough to drain the surface water from
the road. All his will be accounted for
by the operators on account of lac of
time To do a proper job. yet not n OF
the men doing this work would tolerate
such II half done piece of work OF their
own farms.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19
SIZE UP O Y cows.

Iowa dairy farmers will have to sell
OF nearly so per cent. OF their cows
before they put their business Oh q
profitable basis. 1t is II notorious fact
that nearly half Of the cows in Iowa.
which are being MIXED this winter. will
lose money for their owners. Still We
venture that the majority of these cows
will be fed the fat Of the land. and bob
up In the dairy herds again next spring.
l can't understand why farmers will
stick TO these cows year after year.
when they are losing on them every
week they are MIXED. viii 1t not pay
to test these cows this winter and cut
out the ones which have been rObbing
you? Make every cow stand upon her
own bottom. and it will surprise you
how some of them will fall down. In
stead of pouring you feed into twenty
cows. better select out five Of the
m~Oney-makers and sell the others. You
will cut down your help expense n
have ii big lot of grain left next spring.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19

Taken the world over the annual av-
erage rainfall is sixty inches.
The Washington times., 1907-12-08

5. Pa rusheS in and gives a shout
Just as bold Burglar Jim goes out,
While Teds are dancing round the floor
And one whole window is no more.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-09

time for the address of their speaker
w. b. Smith, of Lexington, for the
morning hours, but singularly enough
precisely the same thing that hap
pened at Winchester happened here
this morning.
The Democratic speaker was in the
midst Of an entertaining presentation
of what he had to say, to an audience
of about 200 people in the court
house when Mr.. Wilson drove by in
an open Victoria on the way from the
railroad station to the hotel. Some
one standing in the door of the court
house espied him and shouted There
goes Wilson"
II was enough for the crowd. Mr..
Smiths audience suddenly became
fired with Wilson enthusiasm and
bolted in the direction of the rapidly
moving carriage containing the Re
publican leader And Mr.. Smith was
left with an empty house.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-09
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