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March 23. lOls 
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WV serve our trade from 60 points. <2 
just scttli'd (liiwii wlion tl)(' first 
w<*)it <'|V. jirofossor \v;is uuid 
gav<' us n iji’i'at dowu. "Now. 
Siii<l li<‘. “wr will settle down lo work.' 
lie had uot gotten the words out of his 
mouth when olT went another, lie was 
certainly 4'uriou.s. and gave us a };reat 
deal worst' lecture. "Now to husint'ss I 
he roared, and another alarni^ r.ang ont. 
rpoii this the men all rose with a groat 
shont and ran downstairs yelliii}; tn- 
rionsly. and tin' recitation was over I 
Lost thk 1’.\pki:. —Anotlier time we all 
went niistiiirs for a recitation in English. 
To tin* dismay of all. tin' professor jin- 
notinced that then? wonid he a written 
recitation. Of conrse. the men hated 
tln'se—tln'.v imitlied some litth' knowl('dt;e 
of the lesson, and it took .some effort to 
write ont what yon mitrht happen to 
know. The ]»rofi'ssor drew ont a groat 
l>ile of faculty pafior, nearly two inches 
thick, and placed it on the corner of his 
desk for distrihntion. .Inst at that mo¬ 
ment one fellow stopi)od n)» to tin* other 
side of the desk and asked a (inostion, 
indicative of liis gr<;at interest in this 
branch of learning. The teacher was <le- 
lighted with this interest and turned his 
attention to answering him. When he 
did turn round no one was writing ! Ilow 
could thev write—they had no paper! 
A fellow had backed ni> to that desk, 
within a f<nv inches of the ju'ofessor him¬ 
self. and i)nlled that paper right off and 
sliftped it under his coat and walked 
o\it the door! "I give you three minutes 
to i)rodnce that paper!” he cried lie 
was mad. Yon could see that with half 
a wheel in those days—and came stalking 
into the room, lie gave a look of horror 
:is he saw Rrick. just at the moment 
fi'othing horribly I "Who has done this'.'" 
lie roared. ‘T did it! I did it!” cried 
Stnhhy. “T really didn't realize I had so 
much power.” "This is very serious,” re- 
l»lied the doctor, as he felt Brick’s pulse. 
"I may he able to save him. but to do so T 
shall have to bleed him !” lie then or- 
(h'red all to withdraw from the room. The 
latfle of the instruments—-bike wrenches 
and screwdrivers—was too much for Stub¬ 
by. and he had to be jint to bed. The 
hoys paced nj) and doivn the hallway, 
wringing tlu'ir hands in grief and worry. 
Suddenly the door oi)ened the least hit 
and tin* “doctor” whispered three words : 
“There is hope.'’ T'pon this they all hurst 
ont singing the doxologj'. It was .some 
time before the, real situation dawned on 
the great hypnotist, hut, one thing was 
certain; there was no more heard ahoni 
his great powei-. 
Wii.n Oats. —The, Parson remembers 
one perfect Si»ring morning he met Prof. 
Luther on the walk, and, knowing that 
the gentleman was farm-bred, he ven¬ 
tured to remark: “Oreat morning to he 
ont sowing oats. I’rofessor.” “Yes,” he 
rejdied, instantly, “wild oats.” There 
were far too many of tliat brand of oals 
sown in those days, but things are far 
better now in the colleges. 
Tiif: Right End. —The Parson has jnsr 
heard of a well-meaning young lady of 
the city who got move and more exciPMl 
because the young men <lid not enlist 
faster—especially the young men from the 
The frcc.se on the Toml 
an eye. iinm such a search as tlu're 
was. Several nearly stood on their heads 
looking on tin* llooi'. Om^ f»*llow' with a 
look of triumph i)roduced a piece about 
the size of a saucer and said it would 
help some ! Others held up tlieir hands to 
be searclied. But no use. The Three 
minutes wei-e nj) and all were di.smissed 
with tliree marks and a zero. ’I’lie only 
man. of course, wiio suffered nothing, 
haviiig a f»'w cuts left, was the man wiio 
ciirried off the pap»'r, and he got the 
)iaitei' Ix'sides, for it was never found. 
Mes.mkhism.—H ow those fellows used 
to act in school! ()nce W'c had a fi'llow’ 
in ela.ss that laid great <iaim to being a 
hyiniorist. He was forever telling what 
wonderful things he <'Ould do. He really 
marv<‘led himself at his great pow'er. 
Wliat must the fellows do hut arrange Ji 
seams'. The victim w.is to he one "Brick,” 
so-e.alled because he had a r»*d mustache. 
The man who had the great power, being 
?omewimt short and thii-kset. was known 
as "Stnhhy.'’ ''I'he place was Stubby’s 
room, in which wms <-oaI stove*, hod, stove- 
shovel. small bed. <‘te. W^eli,' Stnhhy made 
a few i>asses ha<'k and lorth and immedi¬ 
ately Jirick l)egan to sneenmb. He had a 
way* etf rolling bis eyes up till the halls 
did not show’, and looking something 
ghastly. This he did to jjerfecrion. It 
was sometliing aw’ful. Soon he began to 
grow worse, till he .sprawled on the lloor 
and got terribly mi.xed nj) in that <'oal 
hod: With his black hands he made a 
few deft strokes over his face, and of all 
the sights! 
WoKSE Yet.—B ut tin* worst was to fol¬ 
low. Being the regular hi’ick that he was 
(he i.s now de.an of a cathedral), he had 
lixt'd a j)ieee of soap just up iinder his 
ni>per li)). and by w’orking this up and 
d()wu he .soon l)<‘gan a fiuirful Irothing at 
the intiuth I He w’ould champ his teeth, 
gi'owl like a dog. and blow that froth all 
over the room. The men began to sug¬ 
gest to Stnhhy that it was high time to 
bring liim ont of it. But here the troiihle 
))egan ! The more Stnhhy made i)assi's 
and even gave dt'linite orders, the worse 
the ft'llow was. Someone la'calh'd that 
such ju’aetices were against the law nnle.ss 
a spt'eial license' was issin'd. Thei’e wuis 
r<*al dang(*r from the ))olice! So a man 
had to he sent oiit to patrol up and <lown 
on the walk and lu'ad off any cop that 
might siinnter that way. But still Brick 
grew Worse, ('rawling about on-the lloor, 
w’ith coal all over his face and froth tl.y- 
ing from liis mouth, ami (‘y<‘S st't in this 
}),.;i(l_he was solin' sigiit! He also lit'gan 
to litter terrible noises. 
A Doctor Cai-EED. —It was evident tliat 
something innst hi' done, and that soon . 
A doctor must lie called, which would 
lirobably result in Stubby’s arrest! Now. 
there hapiiened to be an alumnus about 
the school that day whom Stubby had 
never .seen. He sported a Vandyke and 
was very dignified in appearance. He 
w.as let in on. the scheme- and fixed up as 
the doctor. He got a little satchel and 
put in SOUK* bicycle tools—everyone had 
country. She declared she would go right 
out herself and get after them and make 
them asliained of theni.selves. Ont she 
went, alighted from her car and nisheil 
pellmell into a <-ow stable. A great big 
.strajiiiing fellow sat there milking, “Why 
aren’t yon at the front'/” she cried in 
scorn. “Because the milk ain’t there.’’ 
was the calm resjionsi* as he went on 
with liis work. 
A Hoo.SE Ego. —Yes, we got our jirst 
goose egg today, the lirst ilay of March. 
Wc don’t know what to do with it. It 
was in a hen's nest on some I'orn husks 
just off the barn floor, 'riie Parson shout¬ 
ed “Douhle-yolker.'’ but the lioys were 
not to he fooled. They saw it was a goose 
egg. It is too early to set it, and there 
are no "settin’ ” hens around, anyhow. 
We fonnd from most ('xpeiisive experience 
last .vear that the later goose eggs are set 
the better. Y'oii will remember we only 
rai.sed one from Jj*.'! worth of egg.s. We 
jirocnred two other geese during the Sum- 
m<*r. so yon now sei; three in the i)ietur('. 
()i.i> .Teruv. The white one is the old 
gander, .Terry. He originally eame from 
N((W .ler.s(\v and .arrived in Connecticut 
under the arm of a baek-to-the-lauder. 
He seems in<Tined this Spring to he some¬ 
what ugly .and we shall have to shut^ tlie 
whoh^ three up in the hi'iiyard hack of the 
henhouse. He <-an strike terribly with his 
wings. He wa'ighs 17 i)ounds. From the 
jtieture you can see a group of the Par¬ 
son’s hens getting busy for the Spring 
camitaign. !Most of them are lycghorns. 
'I’hese .are great birds for a farm where 
they can have large range. There setans 
to i)e little or no danger of their getting 
too fat. But they are poor sitters, and 
so you .see a sprinkling of Reds and Wy- 
.•imiotU's for this purpose. IVi* shall try 
to r.aise about 10(1 chickens this year, and 
get ahotit 40 good pullets. Our hens now 
are three, four, and .some live years old. 
T tliink we Imve incurred great lo.sses in 
killing rejilly good hens .iust heetin.si* they 
were two years old. 
4’itE flOR.v. —You will remember that 
la.st year we did not go crazy over the po- 
tiito proposition, but stuck to good old 
New England corn—and mostly eight- 
rowt'd flint at that. AVe .shall do the same 
this year, ('orn is the great <-roi). say 
what yon will. The meal will feed the 
household and the .stalks the barnhold. 
Though we planted the flint late*, we h*t it 
stand after the frost till well hardened, 
and it tt^sted 100 iJer cent at the govern¬ 
ment station. There, will be a great call 
for such as we can sp.-irc* for seed here 
locally. Many a man got left last year 
by planting some new-fangled, high-.sound- 
ing vai-iety. Bett<'r stick, in war times, to 
some good, home-grown, native kind that 
has stood the test for years. 
Tii.vr CoxcRETE Waltv. —In the pic¬ 
ture you will see the concrete walk that 
goes to the barn. It took a lot of .stones 
and a lot of work, hut, my, it has been 
sueh a comfort! The drain froze up and 
it holds the water back, and you can see 
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