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New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
BY c. W. Jennings.
CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XII.
Don't turn up your nose When Irleliu
suggests that you encourage your BOY 10
take I'D farming for his lifework L know
that a farmer has been looked upon as an
unkempt, iliterate, awkward, poor. strug-
Cling creature. without hope OF reward lot
the utmost self-denial and planning with
buildings and ground and machinery and
horses mortgaged, wife overworked and
ohiidren forced 10 remain out of school to
helm at farm Work-nothing but toll ana
poverty
If such conditions ever reaiiy existed gem
eraliy among Uncle Sans tillers of the
soil. which is extremely doubtful they
have departed, for agriculture nowadays IS
king 1t has taken long time TO bring IL
about, but the farmer of to-day has every
opportunity TO be the most independent
and self-respecting citizen OF this country.
By all means. therefore If you possibly
can. persuade your boy TO be a farmer
not the cIodhopper kind. of city tradition.
but the modern kind, the scientific farmer.
Don't object that you can't afford to pay
his way through college dhough, for that
matter, any ambitious boy can work his
way through college without cent from
home. and it IS particularly easy 10 90 so
in agricultural colleges), for the most
earnest effort of colleges all over the
United States these days is to help boy
become proficient in agriculture. Really, it
is far easier to be scientific farmer than
the other kind.
A recent letter from D. j. Crosby, gov
ernment specialist in agricultural educa-
ton, to the writer contained this:
Nearly every state agricultural college
in the United States makes some pro-
vision for reaching the young man who
cannot secure college education. Several
of these institutions offer correspondence
courses and reading courses in agriculture;
nearly every one OF them is engaged in
farmers institute work or in conducting
movable schools OF agriculture, or short
winter courses. at the college or at acces-
sble places in different parts Of the state"
So great has been the impetus in educa-
ton for the farmer that there are i've hum
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
INSANITY ON INCREASE.

oh, yes! insanity often follows. Insanity
is on the increase The cases of insanity
in the last few years in New York are not
in a natural proportion TO the growth of
the city population. 1t is true that all in
sanity is not directly due to business strain
or business worry. But DR.. Gregory of the
psychopathic ward at Bellevue Hospital,
pointed out to the writer a few days ago
that insanity rarely comes from a single
cause. The nervous system is very COM
plex structure. 1t requires more than one
contributing cause as a rule before man
loses his reason for good
Business worry and overwork may drive
q man to drink. which again sends him
headlong into weak mindedness or perhaps
crime! He may become a ulonomaniac and
eventually commit suicide-due generally
to insanity.
New York must take care" said DR..
Gregory. New Workers, even those who
suffer under business strain and worries.
bring children into the world. What will
they be like?''
Now, is II any wonder that a
woman who works day IN and day out
for some nine hours a day gets tired?
No, they get tired all over the world, and
they go home in order TO rest till the next
day of toll comes along. And is it any
cess, you have adversely and bad luck,
aside from all your routine work, you get
sullen and irritable? These conditions, OF
course, prevail everywhere on earth.
But here! In the city of New York?
It is different. First OF all. you have
your work, which in itself should do you
good, instead of harm But In addition
you are tempted to work more than is good
for you, not because you must. but because
the opportunities Of this growing city's
commerce are great and inexhaustble and
you cannot resist. You oyerwork yourself
and then you start for home.
Now, the few acres that represent the
real business part of New York, the south
end of Manhattan, constitute one of the
most congtgted spots which a great
and tremendously important part of the
worlds business could possibly De trans
acted There is no room for expansion,
and the consequence is that the business
section of New York resembles a busy,
crowded beehive more than anything else.
People literally fall over one another in
their efforts to get along quickly.
And the transit facilities How can sew
eral hundred thousand persons be trans
ported out of a little strip of land in a.
few minutes after closing hours? Add to
the strain of the day the irritability and
unpleaSdltDeSS OIL Iiul4IS III elSFaICu oi
subway trains packed like sardines in
Lox< and what sort of preparation is that
for dinner and restful evening?
The picture drawn is not pleasant one
1t becomes the imperative and essential
duty of every member of that gigantic busi-
ness machine, downtown New York. to ac-
quaint himself with the methods by which
he may hope TO remain in comparatively
good health, in spite of business strain
Yes said a neurological expert who
was consulted on the topic, business peo-
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
by Fritz =. Holm.

Is it not Robert Louis Stevenson who
says somewhere Il is by no means sure
that mans business is the most impor-
tant thing he has 10 do?
Still. If he had taken the average New
Yorker Of these later strenuous days as his
standard he would have thought that not
only was a mans business the most Inn
portan; thing he had to do. hut that 1T
vas altogether the only thing a man was
called upon to perform.
II is or no use 10 tell about the exceptions
who generally prove the rule. 1t is useless
10 speak. as far as business strain is con-
cerned. about the wealthy man. young or
old. who rises at 2 o'clock. works from
II till and spends the rest of the twenty
four hours in his club. among fashionable
women or in his bed. Neither viii it do
although they certainly need 1t ever so
much more-to give too much thought In
this respect to those overworked classes.
that is. all those humber ones who toll in
zuch ways cleaning out offices and
streets and who get little pay and less
rest IN speaking about the heavy strain
OF business and business worries as found
in the metropolis it is essential to confine
ones self to the middle classes
Seen through the eyes OF a fellow citizen
who may not work under fully the same
pressure OF steam, the nervous, over
worked business man OF to-day may or
may not appear to be that really strange
creature he has developed into. But the
rest of the country looks upon New York
hustler with eyes widely different-per-
hsps with the exception OF few brothers
from the Windy City. He appears TO the
duller farmer a marvel OF capacity for
work and endurance, and perhaps he Is.
What do you think, then. that the for
eigner who comes TO this country 10 stay
or go. as he pleases. thinks Of the Ameri-
can business man in New York City? In
most cases he would ask TO he excused
from passing al opinion He might be mis-
understood. he might even get hurt. if he
said what he thought.
From a big bundle of evidence collect
ed in the course of the last few weeks. the
writer presents example which may
adequately serve as an illustration.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
YOUR BOYS LIFE WORk===WF1AT SHALL 1T BE ?

fuence of present practice on future prac-
tice. And present practice is sure to have
powerful influence on the young people
who are to be the future farmers. and on
the quality of SOIL farm machinery and
domestic animals with which these young
people will have to do when they take
charge of farms
And, finally, there are the summer
schools for teachers and the one-year and
two-year normal courses, in all of which
nature study and elementary agriculture
are important features"
These and special extension courses are
generally given with only a slight, if any.
charge for tuition. and entrance examina-
ttons are not required.
So great has been the recognition of the
Importance of agriculture that in nearly all
states it is taught in the common schools
typical four-year high school agricultural
course includes such subjects as study of
the seeds of grasses, grains and vegetables
methods of preventing and eradicating
weeds; physical features of the soil their
composition and behavior under different
treatments; different types of soils and
their characteristics chemical constituents
OF soils and effects OF rotation of crops and
different systems of farming breeding
nOISCS
and cattle; principles OF fruit growing. To-
cation and climate, tillage fertlizing. nlant-
ing, diseases, insects. spraying, pruning. etc
Another important phase of present dav
agricultural education is the farmers IN
stitutes. of which over fifteen thousand ara
held annually under state or government
auspices. running from one TO several davs
in duration. They take up a great va rietv
OF subjects which fit the particular needs
OF the locality where they are held Ar
tendance is always free.
The government Department ~ A,,.,
culture stands ready 70 assist farmers ,r
every way 1t can, even to the extant 90
sending experts TO their farms whom tha,a
experts are within reaching distance
often this is done without any axrang. :,
the farmers. If the question raised a. on,
of general Importance. IL the forr,or,.
question can be answered by corra.,,.,.,
ence or by sending a publication tha
pert does not go to visit him; If The iro,,,,,,.
relates to some new problem OF gen.rai g.,
portance. the expert goes TO the far,na,.
Just TO show what can be achia,,e, -
a man that is determined to be a scien,,e,
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
PUBLIC LANDS IN KANSAS.

Within the next half a dozen years Kan
sas will be the most compacuy settled
state in the West. BY 1915 there will not
be an acre of government land left within
the borders OF the state, with the excep-
ton of the military and Indian reserva-
tions. if filing by hOmesteaders continues
AZ the plesant rate according to J. g..
Wood, receiver of the United States Land
Office at Topeka
Since the Colby Land Office was d1scon-
tinued there are but two federal land OF
fees in Kansas the one at Topeka and the
Dodge City office. In the Topeka district
there is left a total of about thirty thou
sand acres of public land, while in the
Dodge City district the total is now about
two hundred thousand acres: making the
total for the state something like two nun
tired and thirty thousand acres When IT
is remembered that only few years ago
the public domain in Kansas ran into mill
ions of acres, the present, comparatively
small total shows the rapid rate at which
the public has been taking up homeSteadS
within the last few yearS.-Topeka Capital
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
LIFE IN SASKATCHEWAN.

Does farming pay? 1t certainly does
at least in Saskatchewan. Thirty farmers
of that fair section made up a purse OF
s1O0 eco the other day and sent one of their
number, by name j. C. Coe, to Detroit to
buy thirty automobiles, The average cost
OF these devil wagons, as the accomplished
mathematician will discern, worked out 10
moro than IS, 900 apiece. Coe himself bought
very classy car for $500. paying for il
in spot cash and starting home in il across
the bleak steppes.
"All we need in Saskatchewan 10 bring
us up 10 the level OF the effete East" said
Coe. addressing a crowd of gaping young
reporters, lis a garage and some speed
laws" To which the student of mortality
statistics may venture TO add, perhaps.
modern mOrgue. a drove OF ambulanceS,
two or three hospitals. a fiotilla OF motor
cycle cops and half dozen coroners. with
their attandant anatomstS, clerks and
atchpolls.-BaltimOre Sun.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

beginning to abstract his thoughts from
the worries and the strain that do him
such Ill turns; but gradually. it is to be
hoped, he will understand that he is not
only responsible for himself and his near
est relatives, but also for the generations
that are to succeed him, and which in so
large a measure are to be the deciding
factor in the continuous success or the
total failure of New York's future as the
worlds most important business centre.
Change of thought, regularity in taking
meals and vigorous exercise every day.
whether in rain sun, are the essential
factors for making a successful fight
against the intense nervous strain of New
York business life.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
RAINING CATS AND DOGS

in reply to query by correspondent
In "Symons's Meteorological Magazine" as
10 the origin of the above term. Is. T.
Rowsweh writes the following explana-
ton OF 1t as given in DIR. Brewers Die
uonagy of Phrase and Fable" "A per
We of the word catadupe (a WATERFALL
IL Is raining caJadupeS or cataractS Mr.
Ford inSenioUSy, though not with much
probability. suggests the Greek cata tioxas
contrary To eXperiencel. i. e.. in an un-
usual manner. Dean Swift. describing n
IaH OF rain. says the kennels were oTer-
flowed and that
Dead puppies. sinking sprats, all
drenChed in mud.
Drowned cats and turnip tops come
tumbhng down the flood
London Globe
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
ELECTRIC BREAD BAKING.

Electric baking ovens have long been
available. but their use has not spread very
rapidly. probably because of the cost or the
difficulty of procuring the requisite current.
In the little Swiss town OF Kerns, where
electric power is cheap. the electric baking
factory manner. In furnace less than
eight feet long one hundred pounds OF
bread. IN loaves OF one and three pounds
each can be baked at one time. and eight
hakings can he made in twelve hours The
cost or the heating is little more than
Ia cents a pound of bread.-Youth's Com
panion.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
IGNORANCE OF HOME PLACE.

In this his elder brother told him he
vas manifestly wrong, for while II is a
well known fact that yoa generally know
less about your own town than about the
one you visit a tourist IL remains abso-
sutely true that the loss of the nervous,
overwurked business New Yorker. as far
intimate acquaintance with his wonderful
city Is concerned, is equalled nowhere on
earth.
Well said the Dublinite. you'll GER
tsinly come with me for ride to-day,
Saturday.
And the brother consented. They started
north from Broad street after luncheon,
and three hours later they arrived at
hotel near Central Park. That amount of
time had been taken up en- route because
the stock broker Oh the way from his Office
spent thirty minutes with his colleagues in
the Waldorf, used the telephone-on the
spur OF the acknowledgement times in va
rious stores, and discovered that he had to
dictate several letters which were Of the
utmost importance, in three different hotels
on the way 10 59th street.
His brother was a patient man and said
nothing But he swore silently TO himself
that nothing in the world should ever in
diIce him TO become business lunatic."
and Mr.. Stock Brokers' health! Fourteen
years ago he had been a good looking youth
OF athletic build. BY st. Patrick: He looked
sixty now; he was nearsighted like any
ordinary mole and had nervous dyspepsia
20 beat anything ever seen on the Green
Isle.
II il were only the art treasures and
parks that were missed so completely by
the downtown business New Yorker 1t is
2 well known fact that a successful bust
ness man In Europe and IN other parts OF
The United States generally has an album
dance OF money with which he buys him
self the many things that are coveted so
eagerly by those who are less fortunate.
The successful man of affairs has a beau
tifuI home and he enjoys the company of
wife and children when the days toll is
ever. He has many friends, and he is ad-
mired and even enyied.
But the New Yorker! The typical down
town man OF affairs!
No. he is entirely different
For those who believe in metempsychosis
there can be little doubt that the hustler
OF New York must be a severely punished
souI. One gets the idea that he is q man
who does his level best to XIII himself with
the utmost speed for the benefit of his sur
Vivors.
Sometimes things get into too bad
shape, and his physician sends him abroad
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
GUARD NEVIS.

Brigadier General George Moore Smith.
commanding the First Brigade, is indg-
nant at reports alleging that a subordinate
member of the armory board had for some
time past been treating a number of Off
GERS with discourtesy. and that requisi-
tions for supplies and repairs to armories
had been purposely ignored General
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

Niagara which fell from the roof. owihs
to a defect In it's construction The deiuge
of water was caused by melted snow. -
review of the seth Regiment by Generai
George Moore Smith Will be held at the
armory next Saturday night, and Lheuten-
ant Colonel Conley hopes by that time thc
snow on tho roof will all be melted, as
otherwise the reviewing party VIII not
only need rubber boots. but umbrellas also
Company of the seth Regiment. Captain
Charles Healy, has unanimously elected
Private Roger A Nolan first lieutenant
and PrYvase Francis Y. Hennessy second
lieutenant Both iiiegsahaye performed 100
per cent of duty for a long time aid Fssssr
looked upon as promising officers At the
review Of the regiment next Saturday night
the officer of the day will be Captain =. j.
Maguire OF Company F. and the officer
of the guard Lieutenant James K. Dillon
of Company K.
Company Fl OF the 18th Regiment has
unanimously elected John Leon Martin
from the 7th Regiment first lieutenant
Company l. has unanimously elected Ser
seant F. A. Wagner second lieutenant
Private Dyell, or Company q. who per-
formed 100 per cent of duty for over nVe
wears. and is a crack rifieman and athlete.
has been promoted TO corporal. Captain W.
E. Downes of Company has been elected
commander of Manhattan Command of
Spanish War Veterans
Brevet Major David Wilson. commanding
the battalion of field artillery, will review
the Sd Battery In its armory next Thurs
day night and in addition to the mounted
exercises by the entire battery there viii
be some interesting drills by platoon
Captain C. A Wulff, of Company L. and
First Lieutenant A. l.. l.. Martin, of Com
pany NJ 18th Regiment, have resigned.
Company vi is to be placed in temporary
command of Lieutenant G. Hollender, OF
Company X.
Colonel Bates of the list Regiment has
appointed First Sergeant Frank r. Potter.
of Company 3, a second lieutenant He is
a Spanish war veteran and a 100 per cent
duty man. and first joined the regiment in
1895. He is a member OF the rife team.
and served with the regiment in the Cuban
campaign as wagner. Company ID is ex-
pected to win the inter-company bowling
tournament The nexc field problem for Of
hcers will be fought out on February IS.
Private e J. Herter, of Company d. who
died on December 20. was buried with mill
tary honors last Wednesday.
Veterans of the sd Regiment will ho!d
their annual dinner on February ID. Lieu
tenant Colonel-eIect C. G. Rasmus, has
passed the examining board.
Battalion drills in the 22d Regiment will
begin this month. Second Lieutenant A =.
Portious. of Company X, recently appoint
ed, has passed the examining board.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
AN OBSERVER FROM IRELAND.

A busy stock broker in Broad street.-the
had come 10 New York in 1895 and settled
had a guest in his house. This guest hap
pened TO be his elder brother, whom he
had not seen for years because he had been
too busy" The brother had stayed home
in Dublin. where he carried on the pros
porous little business of the family ances-
tors.
When the Dublin brother had been in New
York about a week he had had splendid
time. according TO his own opinion, and one
Saturday noon he came down to take his
brother out for ride in an automobile so
that the latter might enjoy his half holi-
day.
They had luncheon together downtown,
and naturally the Dublin man dwelt pleas
Hntly on all the wonders he had seen in
this great city of his small brother"
He told Mr Stock Broker about the art
treasures in the Metropolitan Museum and
the splendid collections in the sister mu-
scum on the other side OF the park, which
IN itself was wonder (for the information
OF the average New Yorker in business. be
II here inserted that this other museum is
the American Museum OF Natural History.
He told his brother about the large ZOO
which was far better than the London one,
not TO speak OF the Dublin garden, and he
praised the many charming rides and
walks on the Palisades. Oh Staten Island
and in New Jersey
The stock broker listened with evident in
terest- He looked exactly like man who
IS half ashamed, half amused. The first
part OF this feeling was natural, for he had
never since he arrived in 1885, been TO any
OF these places, except the Metropolitan
Museum, where he had once felt obliged to
attend reception TO which he was invited.
The second feeling his face expressed, the
amusement. was decidedly artificial, unless
perhaps. IL reflected a faint pleasure and a
desire 10 see all these marvels some day
before he should be laid to rest.
The Dublin man asked his brother how
he liked all these things in and around
New York, and was thunderstruck when
the brother answered that he knew nothing
about them He mad time for knock
ing about" like tourist. and as far as his
ignorance as TO the art treasures stored
within the city limits was concerned, he
asroastically remarked that he did not
think that the average Partisan knew any,
thing about the Louvre that the City
man in London knew his British Museum
or even the Tower.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

Smith said: Il should be pleased TO have
any officer make known to me any lack OF
courtesy on the part of a subordinate on
the board, any deliberate attempt TO
sidetrack acquisitions that should be hon
ored. If l can learn of any such happen
ings officers can rest assured that shall
take proper action, and without any delay"
Complaints have been very pronounced
among officers having dealings with the
armOry board against certain subor1i-
nate on the board who. it is claimed. not
only fails 10 treat officers with the respect
due. but plays favorites. with the result,
it Is claimed, that some organizations get
all the repairs. etc. they want, while
others cannot get anything, 1t is said
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02
THE MODERN DISCOVERIES.

DO YOU know what I'd do If 1 planned TO
go TO the North POle?"
What"
I'D take less provisions and more
proof. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

The large drill hall of the 6ath Regi-
ment was like pond during the early
days of the week as a result of a small
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

1t is learned from an officer high in the
national guard of the state, and who
knows whereof he speaks. that there is
absolutely no truth in reports which have
been actively circulated during the last
few days to the effect that the 9th Regi-
ment was to be reduced to a battalion.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

Captain C. A. Wulff, of Company L. and
First Lieutenant A. l.. l.. Martin, OF Com
pany NJ, 18th Regiment. have resigned.
Company Nj is TO be placed in temporary
command of Lieutenant G. Hollender, OF
Company K
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-04
Mamma News.
to Times Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Manning. Aug. 4.-The Manning run
ming team went to Red COAX to partic-
ipate in state The team
was very successful in winning prizes at
the tournament held at Perry a short
time ago..
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. C. Perry are So
journing in South Dakota for the ben
eft of Mrs. Perry's health.
The Charles Rocksin family anne
home Tuesday morning from Zion City.
where Homer Waugh. a brother-in-law
was recently drowned in Lake Mich:-
gan.
Two engines and a coal car on the
c. NJ. & st. p. railroad We're derailed
near town Monday morning, causing
some delay to the passenger trains.
l.. c. Sutherland and wife from Buff
falo Center visited the formers father
for several days. From here they went
to DeS Moines to be present at the
state convention, Mrs. sutherland be-
ing a sister of Senator "A. B. Cum
Minis.
When Henry Stoelk, a farmer, was
driving over a Great Western crossing
a passing train struck the buggy. Mr..
Stoelk was badly bruised y the
team escaped uninjured.