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 advance list of premiums to be offered on vegetables and apples at the coming annual meeting of the society.  There will be practically no change from this list, though there may be slight additions to it.  Possible exhibitors may feel safe to save material for exhibition in accordance with the premiums therein offered.

PASSING OF J.F.  BENJAMIN.—­Members of the society who have attended our annual meetings for the last ten or more years will readily recall the face and figure of this very loyal member of the society, who was always at hand to serve in any capacity as opportunity came to him.  Mr. Benjamin was a successful fruit grower, not only from a financial standpoint but from his love of the art.  We hope to publish a suitable sketch of his life at some later date.