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Waiting. 
Serene, I fold my hands and wait. 
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea; 
1 rave no more ’gainst time or fate. 
For lo. my own shall come to me, 
I stay my haste. I make delays. 
For what avails this eager place? 
I stand amid the eternal ways, 
And what is mine shall know my face. 
Asleep, awake, by night or day. 
The friends I seek are seeking me; 
No wind can drive my hark astray. 
Nor change the tide of destiny. 
What matter if I stand alone? 
I wait with joy the coming years; 
My heart shall reap where it has sown, 
And garner up its fruit of tears. 
The waters know their own and draw 
The brook that springs in yonder 
height; 
80 flows the good with equal law 
Unto the soul of pure delight. 
The stars come nightly to the sky; 
The tidal wave unto the sea; 
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, 
Can keep my own away from me. 
—John Burroughs. 
* 
The Crickets. 
Pipe, little minstrel of the waning year; 
In gentle concert pipe: 
Pipe the warm noons; the mellow harvest 
near; 
The apples dropping ripe. 
The tempered sunshine, and the softened 
shade; 
The trill of lonely bird: 
The sweet, sad hush on Nature’s gladness 
laid : 
The sounds through silence heard. 
Pipe tenderly the passing of the year: 
The Summer's brief reprieve : 
The dry husk rustling round the yellow 
ear: 
The chill of morn and eve. 
Pipe the untroubled trouble of the year: 
Pipe low the painless pain; 
Pipe your unceasing melancholy cheer: 
The year is in the wane. 
—Harriet M. Kimball. 
* 
“Unseen." 
At the spring of an arch in the great 
north tower, 
High up on the wall, is an angel’s head ; 
And beneath it is a lily flower, 
With delicate wings at the side out¬ 
spread. 
They say that the sculptor wrought from 
the face 
Of his youth’s lost love, of his prom¬ 
ised bride, 
And when he had added the last sad grace 
To the features, he dropped his chisel 
and died. 
And the worshippers throng to the shrine 
below, 
And the sight-seers come with their cur- 
, ious eyes, 
But deep in the shadow, where none may 
know 
Its beauty, the gem of his carving lies. 
Yet at early morn on a midsummer’s day, 
When the sun is far to the north, for 
the space 
Of a few short minutes, there falls a ray 
Through an amber pane on the angel’s 
face. 
It was wrought for the eye of God, and it 
seems 
That he blesses the work of the dead 
man’s hand 
With a ray of the golden light that 
streams 
On the lost that are found in the death¬ 
less land. 
—Author Unknown. 
* 
Milking Machines. 
►$ a rule there is not much poetry 
about machinery, but we have re¬ 
ceived the following little poem to ac¬ 
company the picture given here. As a 
good companion to it we print the* state¬ 
ment of the crippled milker which fol¬ 
lows. Machinery which enables defectives 
to do a full job may be said to have brains 
and sentiment. 
The Machine Milk Kids. 
Us kids is raised on “machinery” milk, 
An’ we guess it ’grees wif us, 
For Pa he says we’re slick as silk, 
An’ free from all bacterius. 
When out to the barn with Pa we go 
It’s the raostest an’ bestest fun 
To hear our Pa say, “So-B’oss-So,” 
An’ get the “machinery” already to run. 
The bossies stan’ as still as can be, 
An’ never widdle an ear or a hoof, 
An’ Pa he looks roun’ to see, 
If the engine’s a runnin’ wif a woofity- 
woof. 
An’ when we come back to the house 
from tin* barn 
An’ the separator “chine” ’mences to 
hum, 
I tell you we’re glad that we live on a 
farm, 
It’s the greatest and most bestest of 
fun. 
The Hosley Twins, John and Kate, and 
their baby brother Truxton. 
* 
Machine for Disabled Man. 
EBRUARY 13, 1912, while feeding a 
corn-husking machine, I was un¬ 
fortunate enough in getting ray left hand 
caught in the rollers, crushing it so badly 
it had to be taken off back almost to the 
wrist joint, leaving only a stump. At 
that time I was caring for 1C head of 
cattle, doing my own milking, as compe¬ 
tent help was hard to get. While in the 
hospital I decided to sell my cows as soon 
as I could, but while there noticed a 
milking machine advertised. I wrote for 
price and all particulars. Finding this 
machine reasonable and the firm agree¬ 
ing to stand behind it, I decided to have 
one installed and by the last day of April, 
1912, had one working. I have been run¬ 
ning one ever since without any trouble 
and very little repair, and have cared for 
more cattle since having the machine 
than ever before. Being slightly afflicted 
is no reason why a person cannot con¬ 
tinue with the dairy much easier than the 
old-fashioned way of hand milking. 
OTTO G. NEWMAN. 
* 
T HE greatest advantage that life can 
ever give yon in the knowledge that, 
you hare never taken an unfair advan¬ 
tage of any human being. 
W ABAUNSEE 00., Kansas, gives 
school credit for “sleeping with the 
windows open and going to bed before 
9 o’clock.” The school superintendent of 
that county is a woman—Annie G. 
Crouch. If this is a sample of her super¬ 
intendence we would like more of it. 
Why should not the office of school super¬ 
intendent naturally fall to a woman? 
U'TMIE high places now occupied in the 
X minds of the American people by 
the warrior, the politician, and the liter¬ 
ary man are due to the prejudices of 
Greek culture of 2.500 years ago.” That 
is what a Columbia college professor told 
the students at the Kansas Agriculture 
College. We knew the prejudice was old 
and deep rooted, but it is slowly wearing 
out. Every mother and every teacher 
who puts truer ideals before the children 
helps “change the subject.” 
* 
W E find the following in an English 
paper: 
\ scarecrow of the ordinary type 
placed in Mr. Howard Wilson’s cornfields 
having failed to frighten the birds, was 
replaced by a feminine figure with a 
low-necked blouse, slit skirt, and plumed 
hat. Crows have now ceased to haunt 
the locality. 
Those crows were wise, but the farmer 
did not know his business. It was not 
necessary to involve the higher household 
law in this way, for tar or arsenate of 
lead on the seed would have more than 
satisfied Mr. Crow. 
t{TV TAN works from sun to sun hut 
1V1 woman’s work is never done.” 
How many hours does the farmer woman 
work? In California the Farmers’ Pro¬ 
tective League has figured the following 
from the records of 145,154 male work¬ 
ers : 
1.(575 or 1.5 per cent, worked 12 hours. 
950 or 0.9 per cent, worked 11 hours. 
18,115 or 16.8 per cent, worked 10 hours. 
46,627 or 43.2 per cent, worked 9 hours. 
39.532 or 36.(5 per cent, worked 8 hours. 
1,051 or 1.0 per cent, worked less than 
8 hours. 
Now we would like to know how much 
of a working day the woman on the farm 
puts in. Will you give us a report of 
your own hours of labor and also of your 
neighbors? 
T HERE was something of a flurry in 
Kansas over the “age question" for 
women who desired to register. Kansas 
women now have the right to vote. When 
they came to register some of the officers 
insisted upon asking their age—probably 
as part of a plan to keep them from 
registering. The Attorney-General of 
MACHINE MILK. 
Kansas came to the aid of the women 
with an opinion in which he says: 
“All (he Constitution says on the 
question of the age of voters is that they 
must be ‘21 years old and upward,’ and 
where that venerable instrument exacts 
no further particularity an election of¬ 
ficer need not let his zeal run away with 
his courtesy nor forget that registration 
of voters is only to prevent fraud and not 
to give some official factotum the right to 
embarrass the new voters with irrelevant 
questions. 
“Perhaps I ought to add that even if 
the voter has not yet attained the age of 
21 years but will reach that age on or 
before the November election day siich 
voter is entitled to registration for the 
primary. Only in such cases need the 
registration officer particularize as to the 
age of any person seeking registration 
further than to set it down that she is 
over 21.” 
* 
A S respects suffrage, would it he fair 
or desirable that women, unable to 
serve as soldiers or police to enforce 
the laws, should have an equal franchise 
with men, who are able? E. s. 
One of tin* arguments raised against 
giving the vote to woman is the statement 
that she could not fight as a soldier in 
case of war. France is now at war with 
Germany, and every able-bodied man has 
been called into the army. The harvest 
was left ungathered. Now the premier 
of France issues the following appeal: 
“The grain stands unreaped, and the 
time of vintage approaches. I appeal 
to your hardihood and to that of your 
children, whose age alone, not their cour¬ 
age, withholds them from the lighting 
line. 
“I ask you to maintain the lives of our 
fields, to .finish this year’s harvest and to 
prepare for that of next year. You can¬ 
not render greater service to your coun¬ 
try.” 
This work of the women will be as 
helpful to France as that of the soldiers 
at the front. There is a famous old paint¬ 
ing entitled “War.” In a retired valley 
an old. white-haired man is holding a 
rude plow which six women and girls are 
pulling at the end < r a rope. The girls 
show terror on their faces—the old man 
a dumb sort of despair. It is a fearful 
presentment of the hideous side of war 
which is thrust into the home. The bur¬ 
dens of such brutal strife are always 
hardest for the women to hear. 
August 2i>, 
ERE is a sample of many notes which 
we receive: 
Will you tell me the address of the 
girl in Fig. 391? I think I know her, 
and would like to write to her if I could 
get her name and address through The 
R. N.-Y. f. j. ii. 
Now imagine for a moment what this 
means. The picture mentioned came to 
us from an entire stranger. We do not 
know “F. J. II.” or where he lives, for 
he neglects to give his address. We 
could not print the girl's address, nor 
would we give it, if we had it. to any 
unknown correspondent. In cases where 
such addresses are desired our plan is to 
send the request right to the persons in¬ 
terested and leave them free to answer 
or not as they see fit. In one case more 
than 50 people wrote for such an address. 
We followed the plan mentioned above, 
but some of these questioners were in¬ 
clined to find fault because they did not 
receive an immediate reply. They could 
not reasonably expect a man who had 
only one thing to offer to take time from 
a busy life to answer 50 letters at once. 
The R. N.-Y. tries to answer letters 
promptly. The editorial department 
alone answered 12,342 questions up to 
August 15, but our plan is to leave our 
reporters and friends free to handle their 
own mail. 
O NE of the best points made by Tom 
Barron in his talk before the Con¬ 
necticut Poultry Association, was the 
tribute In* paid to his wife. It seems 
that Mr. Barron. 20 years ago, was a 
shoemaker, and that when he was mar¬ 
ried he had but a very small income. He 
found that this income was not large 
enough to take care of a family as he 
wanted to care for his wife, so he went 
to Mrs. Barron and talked over with her 
his plans for developing his hen business. 
He said it is very largely due to her 
sound advice, and practical help, that lie 
was ever able to make his start. It 
means a great deal for an English work¬ 
man to start with nothing and accumulate 
enough to buy 20 acres of good land. 
That can be done with reasonable ease 
in this country, but in England the job 
is very much harder, and Tom Barron 
took pleasure on the platform in giving 
a large share of tin* credit for his suc¬ 
cess to Mrs. Barron. The people iu the 
audience were greatly pleased with this 
statement, for you cannot get a group of 
successful American farmers together 
without finding a large proportion of them 
who know that their success is also due 
to the wise counsel and practical help of 
their wives. Some* men know this, yet 
do not like to admit if. It was a great 
satisfaction and pleasure to have Mr. 
Barron so clearly present this family 
obligation to the silent worker at home. 
* 
The Horrors of War, 
ROF. TIIOS. ir. DICKINSON, of 
Wisconsin, would use the motion pic¬ 
ture show to make the people realize the 
horrors of war : 
“In the hands of the producers there is 
to-day this great social opportunity. You 
motion picture men, tell us not only the 
latest news from the front, but tell us 
the awful truth <>f War. Stop ‘The Ad¬ 
ventures of Matilda.’ and ‘The Romance 
of the Handsomest Star.’ Let us sec on 
the film the actual horrors of war, the 
devastation, the ruined homes, the re¬ 
tarded plans, the harvest fields laid 
waste. Let us know by seeing before our 
eyes that war is not ideal glory; it is 
murder and maiming of men; it is rapine 
and theft. It is not glorious crime; it is 
the multiplication of individual sordid 
crimes: if makes citizens murderers, and 
men into brutes. Lot us see these things 
before our eyes that we be no longer m:s- 
led with heroic lies. You can dispel the 
illusion of war among the millions of 
America.” 
A Strange Accident. —The news- 
pa tiers report that in early April a 
woman in New York took her baby lip to 
the top of a high building, put it in a 
baby carriage, and tied the carriage as 
she thought securely to the post. Then 
having provided this fine sun bath for 
baby, she went back to her work. A 
high wind arose and swept down through 
the street and across the top of this 
building with great power. It blew so 
hard that it broke the rope with which 
the carriage was tied, and blew the car¬ 
riage with the baby off tin* roof. It fell 
six stories, and was instantly killed. The 
best place for a baby, as well as for 
most of the rest of us, is down closer to 
the ground. 
