The Hog Paid The Mortgage

The other day my old (ierman friend Theodore Louis visited ne on his way home from farmers' meetings at the east. Many years ago Mr. Louis, an emigrant, settled on a governnent claim in Dunn county, Wis., prepaing hia fixst little piece of clearing fir corn and potatoes by spading. Fdlowing the universal practico he embaiïed in wheat raising, and as time wenton his sandy lands, none too well storedvith fertility in the beginning, grew pooitr and poorer under the steady drain, while the mortgage gradually increased and the log house settled out of shipe little by little with each passing seison. It was then Mr. Louis in desperaSon changed his vocation and placed hisfaith in the hog, that animal which tas lifted bo many mortgages from farms in the northwest. Nor were his efforts in vain, for the mortgage disappeared and a frame house occupied the site of the log structure of pioneer days. The hog had rooted the mortgage off the farm and now has lifted Mr. Louis into enviable TDrominence in asrrieultnral circles. -