The National tribune., 1909-08-05

Is the crop sure, do you ask? Now,
you know it isn't. You know that in the
North there will come a killing frost just
when your peaches, grapes and apples are
in their perfect bloom, and what. hap
pens? Barren trees for that year, and
the next and the next, maybe. There come
high winds just as the fruit is getting
heavy one season, and off it blows. Hor-
rid bugs" take all the fruit another year,
and blights another year. The same bad
luck follows wheat and corn, potatoes and
other truck in the North, especially disas-
trous in "droutby" years. -
Now, you need not think that because
Summer smiles with soft, signing winds,
and always sunny skies that there is noth-
thing to. disturb the seeming Paradise
Eden had its serpent, you know. Once in
very long period frost gets down there
and plays havoc. But frost once in 30 or
40 years isn't so very awful, considering,
Cloud. In Winter it rains as regularly
every day as the day rolls round. 1t Is
Winter now down there, and 1t rains
oh, don't know? The very wettest rains
l ever beheld. 1t is as if the foods gates
of the rain dam were opened for an hour
or two each day. and old Jupiter -Pluvius
was cleaning the whole thing out In
| five minutes everything seems afloat, and
in ten minutes after the foOd-gates are
shut down, you order your buzz wagon, or
road-cart and drive over the hard, white
sand roads, forgetting that rain ever fell:
said ''it is the Winter season" And
SO it Is. But what does Winter mean
down at st. Cloud? 1t means green aud
tender grass for the cattle and sheep and
hogs. 1t means great, beautiful citrus
fruit trees, hanging heavy with fruit. all
nature washed, flowers of every kind
Haunting their perfume and bright colora,
small fruits just out of the way, family
I ~Trun -taf nF nm
put away and another 10 feet tall with
three and four ears to the stalk in the
/ milk for your eager appetite. Every kind
of melon may be had for the picking; a
second crop of hay. potatoes, all small
grains - but remember that is not really
sugar cane - but what is the use of enum-
Grating the various kinds of vegetables,
grains and fruits. This is the Winter sea
son, and they are all here, and all grow
ing, and take my word for it, they have
a better flavor than the fruits of Califor-
4 MIA, or Of Washinoton and Oregon, or even
of the tropics. The richness and flavor,
+, the sweetness, and the bouquet seem un-
rivalled = always excepting apples and
cherries and pears. They are pretty fair
but l do not like them as well as the
better-feshed and more delicate-fayored
fruits Of the North
/ The Summer season after the rains
CestSe, IIeSe Deduluul ITultS anu NUS Su
on growing and ripening. And meantime
you are planting another crop of vegeta
bles and things for early marketing VI
4 North. =
What WeH-Willed Woman Can Do
u A woman well willed can make small
! fortune in st. Cloud by canning and pre-
; serving fruits, but she's got to do it righ
up to the top notch of perfection. THAI
is easy however, and she can find &
ready market for these up North. She
may raise all sorts Of feathered creatures
; at very small cost, and get good prices
There is splendid field for q good SEWN.
| woman among bachelor-keeping men, wht
, lose strings and buttons off clothes, Whose
socks will spring holes, and whose button
holes yawn. The little family shop viii
be bonanza for few years, right in TIN
town. and woman may keep that ant
supply largely her own stock. She cal
have home made bread, pies and cakes
. jellies, preserves and pickles; she 'ean man
l ufacture delicious homemade candy; sht
1 can find ready sale for homemade wOrl
/, aprons she may keep a COW or two ant
4 sell the milk, always profitable thing
1 or she may make gilt-edged butter, an,
| cottage cheese to exc out the little stor,
or necessary commodities in that smal
e store. In very truth n woman may do al
r most any kind of work that any woman
= ever has done in a any community at ST
E Cloud and do it at less cost and more
, profit than she could any place else
except it may be clerking in a store, book
: keeping. stenography, or school teaching
d There is no call for any of these at ST
A Cloud. Yet. the woman who has worn th'
0 soul of her to a FRAGILE in these occupa
b tions where souls count for as much onl,
0 as they can do and not die. can go to ST
) Cloud and take up any one of a dozeI
X light occupations. and win back health an,
q strength. and make it pay otherwise.
: As for a mani Well, st. Cloul ought t.
i. be haven of rest for the workout ma,
t of the world. who has tasted all life'
pleasures and run afoul of most of it
f dangers. its trials and vicissitudes. If In
/, loves fishing. he can find in the beautiful
! fresh-water TOhOpekaligas the finest fisi
] in the world, and a world of them. | at.
2 two OF three kinds. just to try them, fo
r am not fond of fish. but | think coult
: learn to ike them if they are all as goo,
z rs those l saw come speckled and shiniE!
I from the cool waters of the lake.
: Beautiful Lake East TOhopekaIiga.
III And that lake! 1t is just another of til,
4 beautiful features of beautiful St. Cloud
e | never saw anything more exquisitely en-