The daily sentinel., 1913-12-03
ABOUT HOME FOLKS
and
ABOUT HOME DOINGS

1 prices. The buyer may rent If he
prefers, paying part of the crop az
rental. At the end OF the year he
can buy. paying part of the crop each
year-small crop small payment. II
he wishes to quit he can do so.-he
has paid rent and lost nothing, but
IL he keeps on he eventually pays out
from the crop. He is asked to make
no cash payment and is never under
heavy burden. Mr.. Pepper watches
over the buyers and gives them his
advice and also his personal example.
because he crops the land not sold
or rented. BY the way Mr.. Pepper
was many years ago prominent in
Kansas politics and is quite an in
teresting man to meet.
A few weeks ago the will OF Adol-
phus Busch was probated in the st.
Louis courts. 1t revealed an estate
worth fifty millions of dollars. all
garnered from the profits of beer. l
am satisfied that great many Sem
tinel readers will be gratified by
the thought that they never contrib
uted towards that vast and almost
uncountable sum of money. Those
who did never received as much ben
eft for the money paid as would re-
suit from patronizing the pump or
hydrant. The millions never added
a single cent to the comfort of any
home or the happiness of any wife or
child. That fifty millions is the
aggregate selfishness of millions of
men. The Busch millions are Just
drop in the bucket of the vast aggre-
gate sum of the accumulations of
other men like him and those vast
sums are all the while being used to
keep the saloons open in hundreds
of towns and cities in this country.
There is something of irony in the
fact that twelve charitable institu-
tions are mentioned in the Busch will
for $4,000 each, aside from several
which get larger sums-one $4,000.
The state Of Missouri has recently
passed a law which compels the care
and spraying Of the orchards. The
chief orchard and nursery inspector
of the University of Missouri, informs
his people that they are setting aside
every year thirty millions of dollars
to feed the insect pests of that state
and tells them also that by proper
spraying and other ways then can
materially reduce this amount. Won
der what 1t costs the growers in
Mesa county to feed the codling moth
alone?
Under a new law in PENNSYLVANIA
no storage eggs can be sold after the
first of December. Have the law
makers of that state joined the COM
bine against the hens?
A concerted effort is now being
made in New York to prosecute those
commission men who have not COM
piled with the state law which re-
quires them to take out license and
give bond. The law is along the
same line as that passed by the Colo
RADIO legislature last winter and
which will be voted on by the people
next fall.
Large amounts of potatoes are
now coming into this country from
across the water. They are very In
ferior in quality to those raised in
this country but are eaten by the
poorer classes in the eastern cities,
as they sell for good deal less
money. The tariff is now removed
from such commodities.
Wealthy families have organized
boycott against the hen, but poor
people simply do without eggs be-
cause they have no money to buy
them. There is no way to induce the
lady fowl to do business for several
months in the latter part of the year.
She needs must rest to grow a new
crop Of feathers and no amount Of
boycotting will increase the produc-
tion Of fruit.