rt of graft, and he
was poor. He took up a preemption and built him a little log house
12x16. One day he took a load of logs to the mill and, stumbling, fell
on the saw. This caught him in the back and split it open, and also took
a stab at his right arm.

It was hot weather and no surgeon within fifty miles. I followed him to
his home; we did not think he could live. I picked out the sawdust and
rags from his back and kept the wounded arm wrapped in cold water, and
now for a surgeon I got a horse from a neighbor and a man to ride him. I
said, "Don't hurt the horse but go as fast as it is safe." Twenty miles
ahead I knew another man with whom he could exchange horses, and then
another relay brought him to the doctor. Dr. Hunter proved to be a good
surgeon. We had kept the patient with such care that with his clean
habits and robust constitution he underwent the operation all right. I
helped the doctor, and we took off the arm near the shoulder. I had a
busy time until the surgeon came. I stayed with the man all day, then
drove home ten miles and was by his side early. It took the doctor about
three days to get there. The horses were poor, and the auto did not
exist even in a dream. By the next December the old hero was out
chopping rails with his left hand.

How poor the people were! Every dollar had a big task before it. The
good doctor only charged $20. I rode quite a distance--got a little here
and there and paid the bill. A son of the old man, C. A. Lindbergh, is
now representative in congress from the 6th district of Minnesota. We
discovered each other this winter. I have kept up a pleasant
correspondence. His daughter, Eva, who helps her father, has just
written me that she is going to be married in Minneapolis in June, and
she wants me to perform the ceremony. All the friends and relatives will
be there, and she wants the man who saved her grandpa. Thus, after
fifty-five years, stirring memories of the past are awakened and happy
anticipations of the future.--C. S. Harrison.

SECRETARY'S CORNER

MORE EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES.--Mr. Walter Ferguson, of
Mankato, has pretty near the record number of strawberry plants raised
last year. From four plants of No. 1017 everbearing strawberries he
reports having raised several over six hundred. He says he reset twelve
new plants in July and they produced over three hundred.

ADVANCE PREMIUM LIST, ANNUAL MEETING, 1916.--Elsewhere in this
number will be found an