The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-12-06

paper, and each time found them In
different about getting the paper
for as the man said, he heard al
the news at the saloon before th'
paper came out. Asked II he did no
care to have the paper for his wifi
and children so he would be savet
the time of reciting 1t to them wheI
he got home, he said he didn't know
as he wanted them to hear 1.-THE
things he heard at the saloon.
His house had a circle of empt,
cans around it, the gatherings OF
many years, representing hundreds
of dollars of grocery bills, and not
a sign of garden nor orchard in
sight.
| A short distance away was another
ranch of an early settler. A big
fine house, milk cellar, lawn, Or
chard, large garden, shrubs, berries
flowers, fat horses and cattle, good
vehicles and machinery, boys and
girls getting college education, loyal
to the backbone and willing to work
their fingers off during the summer
to have things in shape so some of
them could go to college in winter,
or teach school to earn money to be
used for school expenses for the
others. Everything good in the eel
i lar, but not enough empty tin cans
about the place to make flower pots
for the geraniums. Everybody hap
py and no grumbling.
Another case to be mentioned Is
different from all. An old man, used
up with rheumatism, wanted a farm,
and as the water in the streams was
all decreed, he went up dry gulch,
and built reservoir where he could
store snow water in the early spring!
At the mouth of the gulch, where
the hills were steep and the land
stony, and not even sheep would
claim the spot, he built his house
and stables, and began farming. He
plowed the steep hillsides where the
sun shines warm and the winds do
not blow. Apples, pears, plums,
prunes, cabbage, tomatoes, onions
and many other things grow In abun-
dance on the hill sides, while grains
and grasses grow high and dense
on the flats bordering the hills. He
follows the principles of dryfarming,
and If anything needs water, he sup
pies 1t from his reservoir the day
it needs 1t.
When he began he was the junior
PARTNER of the firm of Man and Ma
ture. In a very few years he has
acquired the controlling interest, and
Nature has increased her power by
growing million blades of grass
where none grew before. While he
wrested a home from Nature, he
gave to Nature the fuel 1t needed to
produce the home and more, and
they work on, happy partners, each
enriched by giving more to the other.
Another Example.
A young married couple settled
near Blackfoot twenty years ago, and
built their house near the river bank
where the land was not the best, and
where they could dip up water out
of the stream, but dug well as soon
as they could. They built small
house, but 1t was good, and they
planted shade trees in the yard and
fruit trees In the garden. The hus-
band farmed in small way, but was
thorough in what he did. The wife
was not much of a "gadder," but
was diligent in her house work, and
visited her husbands works about the
farm and took keen interest in it,
When the children we're old enough
to plant tree or shrub or ar
range flower bed, each one became
sole owner of something that he or
she controlled in partnership with
nature. Love and sympathy grew for
each flower and plant as 1t bloomed
beauty FOR the hand that kept it's
soil rich and mellow. ANYBODY that
went to the house would be received
as politely by the little folks as he
might wish to be by adults. Plain
simple sfriendship and good will were