VOL. LXIV
INDIANAPOLIS, APRIL 10, 1909.
NO. 14
Things Seen, Heard and Thought.
Ky J. II. Haynes.
Some people go through life neither seeing, hearing nor thinking—mere machines.
Bach lives are of little value either to the
person or the world.
1 heard    a good    natured —
toy say: "Dont worry
mother,'' as he eame in
Irom a hard day's labor and
found his mother trying to
get the evening meal while
her head was racked with
pain. "You taught me all
kinds of work aud now I
can pay you for some of
ycur trouble. You go to
that chair and rest yourself and 111 get the supper."
So right cheerfully did he
wash and wipe his hands,
sweep the floor, fill the
wood box and then set to
work preparing the meal as
gracefully as any girl—aud
Mich a pattern of a cook
jou never saw. So very
unlike the slatternly girl
avissa thinkshousework a dis-
grace and herself above it.
"Oh he is worth a dozen
girls," said his grateful
mother as he left the room
after bringing her a cup of
tea and with a feeling akin
t'i distinct he led his little
brother from the room fearing his merry prattle anil
the patter of his toddling
feet would jar upon tbe
mother's aching brow.
"Bread cast upon the
water, that has returnesl to
me," she whispered to herself.
I thought of these words
but yesterday when I hesxd
u young wife blessing the
memory of her husbansl's
mother who had died many
years ago.    She said:    "He
knew    how    every kind   ot        	
work   is    done.      He    does
the milking because he says it  is not a
woman's work. He helps  me in many-
ways.      Oh, he had such a gosssl mother"—
The mother's teachings, bsiw like one
planting a beautiful shade tree alssng the
roadside under whose shade many weary
Bad worn travelers might rs'st long after
the hand that planted it had been laid to
rest.
I heard Sam Gl_? say to his wife:
"What a fool old Smith's wife is making
of her son John Why tonight as I passed
by he was going along with the old woman to milk the cow carrying the pail on
his arm as though it was a portfolio."
And Sam gave one of his big derisive
laughs as though he thought that he is,
abont the right kind of a fellow himself.
Sam has four children .the oldest is a
hoy of eight years, who has his way in
everything. Sam owns a large farm. He
sleeps plenty of hired help for bis wife to
wait upon, and though he clears his thousands he can't afford to hire help in the
home.
As to milking the five cows, or carrying
'he water from the spring even on wash
days why he never once thought of being
*> undignified as to do a woman's work—
not he.
Once he did carry a pail of dishwater to
the pigs, ausl when he brought back tbe
pail be gave it a kick on tbe kitchen floor,
saying: "No more carrying slop for inc."
In spite of his wife's protest be built a
little square pen alongside the fence and
beside the front gate and moved the pigs
into it, so she would not have so far to
carry  the feed aud he made her believe
treasl down to    patching    pantaloon,    ot
sewing  sm   buttons.
Maybe in college they must board themselves. They may be called to wars in
strange lands. They may be psior wit!:
sickly wives ,or they may share wealth
with scarcity of help or they may be
bachelors    needing    worst of    all  men  il
Keeping Farm Help.
A I'air of Imported Belgians.
that his love and consideration for her welfare caused him to take this labor and
trouble npon himself. His wife was one
ol those kind, patient forbearing little
cieatures—living under a continual struggle, but her augelic sweetness suppressed
it all and sealed her poor lips with a sad
smile, though intended to be bright and
cheerful.
Oh dear how I wish there were no more
such real pictures, but every community
bas just such sad, sad ones as this. I
have beard some creatures in the form of
men, great brawny armed men. say:
"Fudge, a woman's work; it's all chiM's
Play."
Poor mortals—they did not deserve kiml
mothers tss sacrifice their lives at middle
age that tbey might live nor did tbey merit
poor unhappy wives tsi minister to their
\> sinls in fsar and trembling. Such mon
deserve a well shod heel upon their necks
grinding rhem to earth—with martyred
wiv?s ami mothers whispering in their
enrs: "Child's play Indeed."
Old horses going the rounds of tread
11.ills day in ami slay out. like little squii ■
reis in cages living to find solid grssunsl sin
a  revolving wheel—"Child's play."
Mothers teach the boys    to    be handy in
ab   kimls  of  work—from   the  making  of
knowledge of home keeping.
Or yourself may become infirm and then
they can help you and pay back principal
and interest for all your trouble. It will
pot be lost anyway. At some time in
jour life they will  bless you  for it.
Teach them to care for the sick. How
tsi move with gentleness and care. By
doing so you will smooth over the rough
edges of man's nature making tbem more
lovable, kind and generous, teaching them
to appreciate the toilsome labors that go
to make up woman's life; and remember if
jou receive little or no benefit Irom thQM
teachings somebody will and that somebody will bless you for it—when your
grave is covered with moss and green lichens and your memory is but as a dream of
lung ago.
In view of the recent decision of the
Boa nl of Food and Drug Inspection of
the United States Department of Agriculture relative to the use of henznate of
sissla in food products, the meat-inspection regulations of the Bureau ssf Animal
Industry have been amended so as to permit the addition of this preservative to
minis and meat food prodncts, provided
they bear approved labels plainly slowing
the presence and amount of ben/.oate of
soda.
By E.  B.Hushing.
The  annual    slurrying    for good  farm
help  has  commenced  again  in  earnest  as
usual.       The problem in many sections is
a   perplexing  oils'. As   all   labor   prob-
- buns are,    it    seems to    me
that the only  feasible way
to meet the situation is to
gi'i at the root of the mat-
ter and sis' what influences
are driving competent young
men from the fields.
In the first place, many
only hire help for six or
eight months in the year,
for their cropping operations are so planned that
there is practically no
further use for extra help.
I have often beard this remark, "I will be glad when
I get throngh my wssrk this
summer, so I can get rid of
my hired help." No ambitious young man will work
by the month under such
conditions longer tban is
iisss'ssary to accumulate
enough money to start i'\
with a piece of land for
himself, for surely there is
mit much hope of getting
much ahead on six-months'
work out of twelve and
then paying board the other
six  months.
Young men who have not
the ambition to get land of
tbeir own wander off to the
cities, where factories offer
better pay and steady work.
These matters are not
new. by any means, but are
worth recalling.
Many farmers know precisely where the trouble lies,
but  instead  of  making  arrangements to meet the sit-
iialinn    .many     have    been
tempted to ss'ii (heir farms
____^      and    get    off      into    small
tsiwns,    as they    say,    "so
they will not be bothered."   But later they
(md their mistake, they are bothered worse
than  when  they were on the farms,    lur
sisisn tbe money is gone, and too old to buy
a  farm again,  Ihey must      tough    it out.
A   L'o'jil   farm  hand  is  a  jewel   un   any
farm.        Fie   should be given    substantia!
encouragement to remain  until he  wants
ts. farm for himself.
Surely a little planning on most farms
will arrange the work for him the year
around, and he will feel he has a permanent place at good wages.
Fader such an arrangement the hired
man takes an interest in things and is
worth twice as much as the man who
is meg is, you fssr six months at the highest
wages lie can squeeze out of you with the
least amount of work performed on his
p.-rt.
The man who does hard work day after
cay should have good meals ami a cotn-
fortflble room. Treat them as men. and
tht chances are you will get much better
service and your men will stay with you.
By the explosion of a gasolinestove while
she was getting breakfast last Sunday,
Mrs. ... W. Brown, of Brownstown was
l.urnesl to death and the flames consumed
the farmhouse, one mile east of that place.