The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05

sale the wild goose finds rest and shelter
in the willows Of the bar. and the cot.
tontail peels the tender saplings which
have sprung up to hide from mortal ken
the glory and the hopes of my native
village.
THE citizens left In the swamp lands
nave rastled with fever and ague time
| about until there is nothing left Cor
| disease to fasten upon. 1t is said they
are becoming web footed and they
don't know anything only how to shoe;
| ducks and come out on election day ~
vote the Republican ticket"
When Stanford was about 10 there
was a season of unusual heat, drought
| and short crops. Owing to the scarcity
OF feed II became necessary for the
farmers to cut and save all their corn
fodder During the winter young Sta1
| ford, with the gearing of an old flaming
mill. constructed a hand machine for
| cutting fodder and straw, which worked
successfully and was great con-
venience.
A neighbor. who was a carpenter
visited his fathers farm and obtained
permission to make a similar machine
using the boys model. This was done
| and not long afterward a patent was
| secured on the identical machine, which
has since, with some Improvement, come
| into general use throughout all agricul-
| tural countries, bringing fortunes TO
| those who grasped the main chance by
| the forelock.
When l6 Stanford. with cogs and
wheels gathered from a junk pile, con-
structed hand cider mill. later patented
and used all over the country.
At about this period young Stanford
was compelled at times to gather apes
| in his fathers orchard. The finest frat
he discovered grew on the longest twlss
and was most difficult to secure WIN
| a boys natural inclination to save labor
| and with an ingenuity which seemed
natural to him he invented an apple
| picker. His device was long pole upHs
| the end of which was attached basket
A hook worked by means Of lever
gathered the fruit, dropping 1t without
| bruises into the basket. which was
| padded and lined with soft elastic ma
terial.
A friend Of his. a neighbor hoy VINO
| went into the army with him ana was
wounded. afterward obtained pa.'
| in the Patent Office. This ir'rhd oo
| tanned a patent on the apple PICKER VI
boyhood days, realizing handsome III,
come from an implement "hl'" "
largely used in fruit growing regions,
In the early days OF the reaper aun
| mower the most troublesom' P'r"o'
of the machinery was the p man 'ua
which was the source of con'''N a a."
| noyance on account OF break}fc Ine
rod was a curved steel bar, u'''Ssa't
| so on account of the manner u ~
attachment to the sickle.
At fair held in st. Louis many years
| ago Stanford, while eNaminin- We "q
chinery exhibit suggested I" ma"
| charge Of a harvester eNn. II" -,
| large manufacturing COMPANY INA,
the use OF ball and socket l'.. VII,
the pitman was attached to ',' s'"'
| the rod might be made stralL'
A drawing Of the propose .nWo',
| ment was made and the mex YEA,
was generally adopted by 'o'N1'S
turers of harvesting machin'i' '"" "
| Yielded fortunes in royalties NOV '''
of which went to the originate
When the civil war broke o"i S'Il
ford was fiat boating on the '.' -.
enlisted in the famous Twelt'h ''''u -,
| dependent Battery, the battery W."
fired the first and last shot at me ,,s
J ond battle Of Bull Run-but ''' o''''
was lost. ,s
Stanford sometimes sells Sh''-''" ~.
when he Is able to invent q ",' ~ ~.
tain capital. He once invented . w,
tail OF superior merit, he SAYS ''. .,
not been able to afford 10 taN' ,,,.
NE delightfully."- refreshing an' -'''uH or.
ing decoctions in the last twenty !'''