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IRRIGATION AGE. 



Long rows of vegetables or plants mean 

 less waste land for turning plows and cul- 

 tivators. 



Did you ever know a railroad company 

 to charge less for carrying second-class 

 produce? 



Luck always comes to him who believes 

 that the only chance for success lies in 

 hard work. 



Don't leave your machines in the field 

 to get rusty now that the seasons work is 

 nearly done. 



Don't neglect to plow your garden this 

 fall. Early plowing is best, but better late 

 than not at all. 



The great thing in this world is not so 

 much "where we stand" as in what direc- 

 tion we are moving. 



Simple science makes appliance of the 

 laws of life easy going; truth is growing 

 down with wordy strife. 



Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we 

 may write; but error is a scribbed one, on 

 which we must first erase. 



We believe in bi mental ism for the 

 home give both father's and mother's 

 thoughts a chance to circulate. 



When vice is used as a multiplicand and 

 idleness as a multiplier, the product may 

 be found in our prisons and jails. 



"Back numbers' are needed for refer- 

 ence and comparison. No reason why you 

 should be one if you don't wish to be. 



Here's a question I wish you would run 

 through your brains: "If they tied your 

 home tyrant, would you be in chains? 



Sitting on the counter at the village 

 store declaiming about monopolies, wont 

 gave the country. That's not the counter 

 irritant this country needs. 



Jack "Well, I don't suppose that wor" 

 ries McKinley. He isn't likely to get 

 fired." 



HER MOTTO. 



"Better late than never," 



She said as she turned the lock 



He'd just proposed and said good-night, 

 And it was twelve o'clock! 



TRUE BROTHERLY LOVE. 



Baggs "I was passing the insane asylum 

 today and stopped in to see your brother." 

 Jaggs ''Did he ask about rne?" 

 Kaggs Yes. He's crazy to see you." 



AS IT IS IN KENTUCKY. 



Willie "Pa, what's a smiling land- 

 scape?" 



Pa "It's a field of corn or rye in Ken- 

 tucky, Willie. 



IN SUFFERING KANSAS. 



Sprocket "That's the last time I'll ever 

 use that red and green lantern. " 



Gearing "Why, what's the matter with 

 it?" 



Sprockett "I had it on my wheel last 

 night and half the men in town were chas- 

 ing me, thinking I was a traveling drug 

 store." Chicago Daily News. 



Arkansas City Traveler: Man that is 

 born of woman is of few days and full of 

 trouble if he does not get full of anything 

 else. 



AT THE MINSTREL SHOW. 



NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. 



Tom "Thfey say that the white house 

 has insufficient exits in case of fire." 



THINGS ABOUT DENVER. 



Denver's population is 175,000. 



Twenty-one railroads enter Denver. 



Altitude, 5,200 feet above sea level. 



Denver has 181 miles of street railway. 



The sun shines 340 days out of the 365 

 in Denver. 



Denver's smelters produce over $30,000- 

 000 annually. 



Denver has 30,535 scholars attending 

 her public schools, and 500 teachers to 

 teach them. 



There are 121 churches in Denver with 

 a membership of 47,105; property valua- 

 tion. $4,212,000. 



