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We are no longer content to haul our produce to market through 

 mud to the hub, for we are beginning to realize as facts what 

 our horses knew twenty years ago. If the trolley car does not 

 whiz past our door we know that it soon will ; the postman drops 

 us the daily mail ; and the telephone annihilates distance between 

 friends and neighbors. These are but a few of the contrasts 

 between the old fashioned farming and modern agriculture. Too 

 long have we been hardening our hands at the expense of our 

 brains, and the man who continues in the old way will remain a 

 poor farmer and a poor man all the days of his life. 



Rome was not built in a day, neither will the whole fabric 

 of country life and rural society be brought to the highest stand- 

 ard in a day. a month, a year or a generation. There is the 

 porcupine biped with the brain of a mule. Every community has 

 at least a specimen of him. He is the man who wont give his 

 wife a dollar unless she begs for it, who wont hire a girl to assist 

 ill the housework, but expects her to do it all, besides helping to 

 milk, feed the calves and pigs, care for the poultry and work in 

 the garden. He is the man who kicks on paying the teacher more 

 than five dollars per week, who gives his sons twenty-five cents 

 apiece to spend on the Fourth of July and who insists on buy- 

 ing the calico for his daughter's dresses. 



He don't believe in book farming "no how," and takes no 

 stock in books, newspapers and magazines,, music, bicycles, 

 amusements of any kind, nor in higher education for any one, 

 much less a woman. He don't believe in going a visiting and 

 wont join the Grange. He looks on the good roads movement 

 as a scheme to rob him, and hides his long ears under the cloak 

 of conservatism. 



Happily the "conservative" is drawing" beautifully less and 

 after a time we will be rid of him altogether. But the poor, 

 slack farmer, the man who is always striving to keep his am- 

 bition below what his constitution will stand will be with us al- 

 ways. 



Mrs. Le Page : — The next thing on our program will be 

 a reading by Mrs. Kate E. Terrill. 



After music by Wilder 's orchestra the session of the Woman's 

 Auxiliary was adjourned. 



LADIES' AUXILIARY. 



The special meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary was held in 

 the parlors of the Pavilion, Jan. ii, 1:30 o'clock. The meeting- 

 was called to order by the President and opened by the Ladies re- 

 peating the Lord's Prayer. Secretary's report read and approved. 

 A very interesting paper was read by Mrs. C. M. Howe of 



