vator run by gasoline power and geared to run slowly, so that seed ears might be selected from the crop at corn husking time, was installed. All corn intended for seed was again hand-selected and stored where it would thoroughly dry. Under his management, early in the spring a great portion of his seed was given a germination test.

High protein and high oil strains of corn was developed in cooperation with the State Experiment Station at the University of Illinois. Mr. Reid developed ears showing under test, as high as 16.85 per cent protein.

His high tension program of growing corn eight months of the year and caring for the seed crop during the remaining four months, was exceedingly trying to the health of a strong man. In January, 1910, Mr. Reid took his first rest. He spent a few weeks in Florida with beneficial results. In January, 1910, his health being considerably impaired, he again sought the benefits of a Florida climate, but the winter was cold and conditions unfavorable. He returned to his home at East Lynn in May and on the first day of June, 1910, he passed to his reward. His life work finished.

In the fall of 1910, Doctor L. H. Smith, Professor of Plant Breeding in the University of Illinois, and Mr. W. G. Griffith of McNall, Illinois, selected seed from the last corn crop grown from James L. Reid's seed corn selection. This crop had been produced by his son Bruce Reid.

It was their plan and purpose to keep up as near as possible, the strain of Reid's Yellow Dent. Up to the present date their purpose has been realized. The widow, Marietta Reid, has continued to grow corn from the 1910 crop, in order to keep it for the future needs of the grand-children of James L. Reid, Harry and Virgil, who seem to be developing agricultural tastes.

In his lifetime, James L. Reid was director of the Illinois Seed Corn Breeders Association; a member of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, was also a member of the Top Notch Farmers' Club.

In 1908 he accepted an invitation from J. Wilkes Jones of Lincoln, Illinois and manager of the National Corn Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, to attend the big corn show. Mr. Jones gave him most generous public recognition of his

Trees on South of House on the Homestead Farm. Taken from Lane on South Side of House.

achievements in developing and distributing "Reid's Yellow Dent." He introduced him as the man who had put more millions into the pockets of the corn belt farmers, than any other living man.

While corn was the special medium through which his life found expression, yet all lines of farm work, home life, and community betterment, received an impetus for good through his work and influence.

He was quiet and reserved in his manner; a generous, faithful friend; a public spirited citizen and a man of big faith in eternal truths.

"No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife and all life not be purer and stronger thereby."

THE CANNON-STARK INDIAN MASSACRE AND CAPTIVITY.

Contributed by MILO CUSTER.

202 West Elm Street, Bloomington, Illinois, Jan. 3, 1919. "Dear Mrs. Weber:

"I am sending you herewith a copy of the late Robert Lindley's account of the Cannon-Stark Indian massacre and captivity. I am also giving you herewith a brief account of this Lindley family, which I would be pleased to have you publish with the account of the massacre.

"Robert Lindley, son of William and Unity (Warren) Lindley, was born in McLean County, Illinois, Oct. 3, 1842, received a common school education at the Hinshaw School, in Bloomington Township, McLean County, followed farming and market gardening, and spent all his life in his native county. He never married. He was accidentally killed by a train in Bloomington, Illinois, April 12, 1901.

"His parents were both natives of Christian County, Kentucky, from whence they emigrated to what is now Bloomington Township, McLean County, Illinois, in the year 1828. William Lindley died June 24, 1891. His wife died Feb. 10, 1881. They and their son, Robert, are buried in Scogin's Cemetery, Section 13, Dale Township, McLean County.

"A biography of William Lindley is contained in Duis' "Good Old Times" (published in 1874), on page 211.

"Robert Lindley was almost a life-long friend of my father, Samuel Custer. They were very nearly the same age, my father being but five days the younger. They attended the same common school together.