The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-29
Her Advice
By SARAH ]. TUCKER

Two farms lay side by side. the one
belonging to old Charnley. the other 10
Young Peterson. Peterson had inner
tied his farm with debt on 1t and had
no money with which to stock or WORK
it, The season for planting was COM
ing on. and Charnley was looking out
for hands. Peterson told him that II
he would hire him for the whole sea-
son he would work for him. To this
Charnley agreed.
One morning in April Albert Peterson
was blowing in Charnleys field. Inc
trees were Just taking on that delicate
shade of pale green which is so beautl-
full while the air was balmy with the
first warm breeze coming up from the
south. Albert rested his horses, t1ed
the reins to the pillow handle and lean
Ing against a fence, looked out upon
the pleasant prospect. At Intervals
came q few notes from a bird or pair
of birds building a nest in treetop.
1t was music to Albert, who loved the
country and hated the city. He was
thinking about the latter and how ne
should miss the former, for farming
had not paid his father nor did he see
how it could pay him. So he expected
in the fall to go to town and try for
position in some store or mandatory.
Suddenly he felt pair of hands clasp
ed over his eyes. They were not hard
and coarse, but soft and fine. They
must be a woman's.
"Guess who | ann"
mo guessing is required. Your
voice gives you away. You are Ethel
Charnley."
The clasp was loosened. He turned
and on the other side of the fence saw
a girl of nineteen.
''You look as if you had lost your
best friend" she said. whats the
matterY
"Oh, was thinking how lovely the
country is. and I've got to leave it in
the fall for the city. l have no money
to work my farm, and don't propose
to work for other people. Besides,
farming doesn't pay"
OO you KNOW why IL pay
"No; do you?
"I've been reading in a farmers
journal that it could be made to pay
If practiced scientifically. They say
few acres worked on scientific princi-
Piles is far better than great many
worked in the old fashioned. blunder-
ing way. Why don't you go to some
Of those colleges where they teach new
methods and learn how they do it?"
81 never thought of that" said AL
bert meditatively. But presently he
added:
"To obtain money to pay my ex-
penses while studying I'd have to sell
my farm, and when got it all learn
ed wouldn't have a farm to work.
There was short silence, which the
girl broke:
Suppose you get the education and
leave the rest lowell, to your own
endeavors afterward. You'll be sup
piled with a capital better than a
farm, for a farm is no use If you don't
know how to make it pay"
''Well. Miss Longhead. what else do
you recommends
after I'd got the education it seems
to me I would take a position for
awhile in the service Of some of those
men in the city who handle farm prod
uce. | don't see much use of learn
ing how to get good crops if you don't
know how to get paying prices for
them"
Albert looked at her in surprise.
where did you pick up all that?' he
asked
Il read a great deal There's a lot
In our country papers now we used not
to get. Then l think about what l
read. 1t has shown me that our old
fashioned ways of farming are passing
out.
Farming is going to be like man.
ufacturing. It is manufacturing in a
sense. We mix chemicals with the
ground and manufacture crops. The
manufacturers of goods know as much
about the business Of selling as of maxi
ing them. Why shouldn't it be the
same with the farmer?'
Albert gaped at this slender girl and
said:
whoever would think that a young
woman, who couldn't guide this plow
once across the field. would stand there
telling me. strong man, what to dc?
I'll not only go to college in the fall,
but I'll write at once for bulletins an
nouncing their courses of study and
all that and nights when I'm not ut
work I'll be making my preparations.
Five years from that time Albert Pc
terson returned from his college and
his business training He stopped at
the Charnley farm and. seeing a young
woman directing some field hands pre-
pairing the soil for planting, said:
I'll give you some points on that"
And he proceeded to lecture them for
nalf an hour while they listened ca
gerly.
rs that you, Bert?" asked the wo-
man