THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



be a dry one in the east you may wish 

 you had mastered the subject in the win- 

 ter. This is the first and only treatise on 

 the actual handling of water in the field 

 and from his twenty-two years of study and 

 travel combined with much practical ex- 

 perience of his own Mr. Van Dyke at the 

 request of THE IRRIGATION AGE has 

 written a work that cannot be duplicated 

 and that anv one can understand. 



HIGH PAY. 



The lord-lieutenant of Ireland receives 

 $100.000 for his services and expenses. 



The prince of Wales gets $200,000 a 

 year for the labor of being heir-apparent. 



Italy pays her king $2,600,000 a year in 

 spite of the fact that she lost 10,000 men 

 in Abyssinia. 



The German emperor receives about 

 $4,000,000 a year besides the large rev- 

 enues from estates belonging personally 

 to the royal family. 



Though the United States is such a 

 a wealthy nation our president receives 

 the small salary of $50,000 a year, and till 

 1873 it was but $25,000. 



If little Alfonso of Spain saves as he 

 should he will be one of the richest mon- 

 archs in Europe when he comes of age, as 

 the government allows him $1,400,000 ad- 

 ditional for family expenses. 



The British government pays the royal 

 family of England $4,000,000 every year 

 and of this the queen receives nearly $2,- 

 000,000, besides her quarter of a million 

 income from the duchy of Lancaster. 



The czar of Russia owns in fee simple 

 1,000,000 square miles of cultivated land 

 and has an income of $12,000,000, al- 

 though, as he is a despot, he can command 

 the resources of the whole nation, 



The president of France receives $240,- 

 000 a year a large salary, when -it is re- 

 membered that the government is strug- 

 gling under a debt of $6,000,000.000, 

 which is largest debt ever incurred by any 

 nation. 



COLORADO. 



All the brooklets sing a song 



In Colorado, 

 As they dash and purl along 



In Colorado; 

 Notes of robin in the hay 

 Cheer till gloaming endeth day 

 Only notes we cannot pay 



In Colorado. 

 There is nothing that we lack 



In Colorado, 

 Gay as crickets in a crack 



In Colorado; 



There is naught which doth not grow 

 Without aid of spade or hoe 

 Soil's so rich we need not sow 



In Colorado. 

 Nature played her ace and king 



In Colorado, 

 Paens make the welkin ring 



In Colorado: 



And the mountain summit's brace 

 Keeping heaven in its place 

 Looming up with rugged grace 



In Colorado. 



Death declares his biz is dead 



In Colorado, 

 We're not even sick abed 



In Colorado; 



And the doctor's earn their salt 

 From the transient blind and halt 

 Say, 'tis healthy to a fault 



In Colorado. 

 You should see the taters sprout 



In Colorado, 

 Are so big we blast them out 



In Colorado; 



And they are so very nice 

 That they fetch an awful price 

 And are only sold by slice 



In Colorado. 

 And the wheat stem is so thick 



In Colorado, 

 That 'tis used for walking stick 



In Colorado; 



Tho' we have the proper clime, 

 Corn that only brings a dime 

 Is not worthy of our time 



In Colorado. 



FRANK K, PAGE. 



