The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1907-12-06

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n many lines, and hei farmers
are not the least behind the rest
of the population in invention
and initiative. The Kansas City
Journal tells admiringly Of
,ne Of the Sunfower States ag-
isulturists who combined the
nlsiness Of contracting advanta-
geous marriages for his foHT
laaghters md at the same time
nancing tu4 value of the broad
ieres winch they grace, says the
outhern Farm Magazine. Tha
8 stumbled upon this remark
ole system quite by accident
ices not detract from it's worth
n the least, and his experience
S recounted that it may convey
profitable hint to other fathers
# girls who grace farms and
who are not averse to contract
ing advantageous matrimonial
alliances.
1t seems that the farmer, whose
name was Daniel Kindred, had
struggled manfully for many
gears to rear his daughters in
Intelligence and thrift, but when
hey had reached the age which
uggetts flight from the paren-
al roof they still fingered visit
July, it is true, but persistently.
one day Kindred-whose very
lame seemed a hoodoo-sent an
advertisement to a newspaper,
stating that he wanted farm
hands, and as an additional in
ducement specified that every
man who applied would have a
chance to WOO a daughter, pro-
vided-and here was the critical
clause-every claimant to a
laughter should do something of
a beneficial nature to improve
the farm.
The first man who applied at
the Kindred farm for work and
a daughter 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 daugh
ter and found her exceeding fair,
he began to speculate on the
farm improvement idea. Kin
dred wanted him to begin at the
other end of the line of daugh-
,ers, which is the usual parental
| sentiment in a family of girls,
but this he firmly declined to do.
Before he had been on the farm
a week he had installed an ire
cation ditch and stone-enclosed
fish pond, which he stocked with
bass and pickerel. Kindred
looked upon this achievement
and saw that it was good. The
man got the daughter.
The second applicant piped
water from an artesian we'll into
the house and put in a porcelain
bathtub. In addition to this he
cured a disease in some of the
Kindred cattle and won a prize.
The third man was dreamy-eyed
but enthusiastic. After choos-
ing one of the remaining daugh-
1ers he started out zealously to
earn her. First he invented
some sort of lightning rod to be
fixed to each domestic animal,
| with spines along the back and
head and ground connection be-
side the hoof. But Kindred was
| not impressed and said it would
| aot do. The inventor tried
again. This time he was success
| Jul. He built a water-wheel at
| the artisan well, rugged up an
electric generator, which runs
the churn, sewing and washing
machines, lights the house and
oarns, and furnishes power for
saw mills, etc. He was rewar-
led by Kindred in the promised
way. There is only one daugh-
ter remaining, which is regretted
exceedingly by Kindred, who
had formerly considered girls a
| burden. But he is hanging onto
| his one daughter for something
really extraordinary in the way
If inventions. It will be an ex-