been tied to the head board by the
'longshoremen; we had nothing to da
with the loading. We put the buckets
in the corn trough along In front of
them, then poured water In the buck
ets as they were emptied.
MULES ARE MOST NEGLECTED
AND ABUSED OF FARM ANIMALS
It all sounds very well but each
In First Place It Should be of Good Stock, Not From Scrubby
steer wanted to drink from a bucket
of bis neighbor.' They fought and
Jerked and pulled and upset the buck
ets, but we must make tbem drink or
ware, out uam of Blood Breeding Qualities by
Proper Treatment and Attention It Can
be Made In First Year Good
Feeding Essential.
they would die. So, with water splash
ing on us and running down our shoe
tops, we would pat them kindly on
the nose and say nice words. Three
steers often would not drink when
offered three buckets, but if two
buckets were taken away all three
would fight to drink from the same
one.
THE great trans-Atlantio liners
carry thousands and thousands
of Americans Into the great
ports of the old world. Most
of them pay a good round
price for the service, although there
are some people who go In the steer
age rather than miss the trip. But
there are many American college
students and perhaps some Others
who go to Europe and who do not
worry ahead of time about cabin
quarters or staterooms. They are the
fellows who work for their passage on
cattle ships.
Without a doubt the experiences of
one who crosses the Atlantic as a cat
tleman are unique. Twenty or thirty
years ago a man was paid from $30
to $60 together with all of his ex
penses to cross the ocean as a cattle
man, but now there are two men In
Boston who are getting rich charg
ing college students $5 to get them
positions (for want of a more approp
riate word) on cattle ships. The boys
get no more for their services than
their passage and board.
Having been assured that we would
have to "rough it" and bave lots of
work to do, a college friend and I
went over to the Cunard docks in East
Boston on a beautiful morning. There
we signed up to work for our passage
as cattlemen and to get accommoda
tions same as the seamen. We didn't
know wbat we were doing, but we
knew ten days later. There we met
the rest of our "party," eight other
college fellows from various parts of
the country, and an Irishman and a
Scotchman who were going back to
see the home folks.
There were 400 cattle on board. The
ship carried 70 first-class or cabin pas
sengers and, according to our friend,
the Scotchman, the cattle were second
class and we were third class. I be
lieve he was right At any rate, the
petty officers of the ship wasted lots
of good time telling us that we were
Woman Has
Flat Dweller Proves the Old 8aylng
That Necessity la Mother of
Invention.
We are told that necessity Is the
mother of Invention, and one feminine
flat-dweller is willing to take a lot of
credit for her own particular achieve
ment With two big wardrobes and
a closet to her bedroom she was yet
without room for her big hats and
dresses. There were hats to the left
of her, hats to the right of her and
dresses likewise.
So she conceived an Idea. It is
nothing more nor less than an under
bed wardrobe and an underbed hat
box made In the form of a long flat
box mounted on four wooden wheels.
The wardrobe holds several dresses
that can be packed away full length
without crushing. It is easily stowed
away, and being fitted with brass ban
dies at the sides and front, It Is quite
simply wheeled from under the bed
when wanted. The hat box Is made
cn the same principle, only It hat Iron
cattlemen, and can not and must not
do this and that The Irishman said
"To be sure they 'ave sartin rhules
givernln' ballast."
We sat In a fine-looking group on
the for'ard end of the main deck as
the ship left the Boston harbor that
morning.
Up to this point we knew nothing of
what we were to do and Just what
sort of "accommodations" we were to
have. A petty officer, with shining
face and shoes, and the characteristic
thin mustache, which is quite the
thing among the young Englishmen
Informed us that our dinner, stores
and "dishes" could be had at the gal
ley.
Our first meal and pan washing on
the main deck attracted too much of
the attention of the cabin passengers
on the deck above, and the captain
sent down orders for us to repair to
the cattlemen's quarters in the fo'cas-
tle. The seamen pronounce that word
In two syllables. The name applies to
the quarters of the seamen and the
cattlemen.
The Cattleman's Work.
Now, something of the work that
falls to the lot of the cattlemen. We
were called by the night watchmen
(when they were not asleep) at 4
o'clock iii the morning, and we literal
ly rolled out of the bay. Our crowd
of five, all working together, attended
to every want of the 200 cattle. The
first job was to water the stock. The
story about making a horse drink was
Invented by a man who never tried to
water a wild steer from a bucket, for
certainly by substituting the latter for
the former the point would bave been
more forcible. We used ten wooden
buckets, dipping the water from large
tanks that we filled from overhead
pipes. There were two main alley
ways along each side of the cattle
deck and they, dear things, lined each
side of the alleys with their horns
sticking half way across. They had
a Great Idea
rollers Instead of wheels. One of ber
hats has very high trimming and that
reposes in the top of ber wardrobe.
Both these underbed wardrobes are
stained mahogany to match the furni
ture. A Reasonable Request.
"Sit down!" exclaimed the man of
few Inches.
The man of many took no notice.
"Sit down!" repeated the little man
again. "I can't see anything I"
But still the giant paid no heed, and
the little man could only hear the
tantalizing sounds of feet and car
riage wheels as the procession passed
along. '
"Will you sit down T" he cried,
for the third time. "I've paid two
guineas for this seat and you're blot
ting every blessed thing from view I"
Again no response.
"Well, If you won't sit down."
roared the little man, thumping the
giant on his massive back, "will you
at least oblige me by tying your cars
back!"
Feeding the Brutes.
The next course was hay. It was
stored near the first hatch In large
bales, averaging about 200 pounds
apiece. Some one forgot to put a bay
hook on the boat, so we ba ' to roll
the bales with out finger nails. If
was the early morning duty of each
man to roll a certain number down the
alley, and that was fine exercise be
fore breakfast Then we cut the
wires, shook the hay with care, remov
ing all lumps, and fed it to the brutes.
Our morning work generally was
finished at 11 o'clock and the work In
the afternoon lasted from 2 to about
5:30. The afternoon menu was an
other round of more buckets and more
hay. We swept alleys again in the
afternoon. Our brooms were very
artistic, being a bundle of twigs tied
together and a stick Jammed Into one
end of the bundle. I don't know how
rich the Inventor has become who
first thought of that method of water
ing cattle and sweeping alleys.
The English Seamen.
We didn't understand the English
seamen very well at first their
speech or manners. But when we be
came acquainted we liked- some of
them better and a few of them be
came good friends of the cattlemen.
Most of them are down there working
a month for 4 and a large part of
It goes for drink when they get back
to Liverpool. They are good conver
sationalists and we were surprised to
find their vocabulary much more de
veloped than that of the average
American laborer.
The last three days of the trip most
of the seamen .had a paint bucket or
can and was daubing everything in
sight Brushes were few, but some
used rags and Others seemed to paint
with their bands. We learned that
the reason it was put on In such large
quantities and so carelessly was that
each ship had to use a certain amount
of paint on each trip and show the
empty buckets to prove that it bad
been used. I believe that
The first sight of the lights off the
Irish coast looked pretty good to us.
All that day we could see either Ire
land or England. n the afternoon
the ship kept pretty close to the
Welsh shore. The coast Is high and
rocky and In the sunset it was a
beautiful dull reddish color. The bills
beyond were green and divided by the
old stone fences Into small Irregular
farms. The stone bouses, most of
them white, were scattered here and
there along the fertile valleys. Our
pilot came on at Lynas Point at 6:30
in the evening and bad full charge of
things till be reached Liverpool. The
cattle could smell land, so the seamen
said, and were restless the last night
and we slept but little. We turned
down the broad Mersey shortly after
midnight That was Saturday morn
ing and we reached Birkenhead, on
the west bank. In a short time. Here
we landed our 400 cattle,, all In ex
cellent health and we shed no tears
at seeing them depart Each of us
carried some cargo down the gang
plank and set foot for the first time
on English soil.
We bought English bicycles and
spent two months on the perfect roads
of England and the continent
The cattleman has his Joys and sor
rows but the latter are very soon for
gotten and one finds himself planning
to go again even as a cattleman.
Know Your Work and Do It
There Is perennial nobleness and
even sacredness in work; were he
never so benighted, forgetful of his
high calling, there Is always hope
in a man that actually and earnestly
works; In Idleness alone Is there per
petual despair. Work, never so mam
monish, mean. Is In communication
with nature; the real desire to get
work done will Itself lead one more
and more to truth, to nature's ap
pointments and regulations which
are truth. The latest gospel In this
world Is: ' Know thy work and do It
Know tbyself long enough has that
poor self of thine tormented thee;
thou wilt never get to know It, I be
lieve. Think It not thy business, this
of knowing thyself; thou art an un
knowable Individual; know what thou
canst work at, and work at it like
Hercules I That will be thy better
plan. Thome Cariyle.
There Is a least one country In the
world where li costs nothing to die.
In some of the cantons of Switzerland
ail the dead, rich as well as poor, are
burled at the publla expens
.If" ,kJ?
Prize Winning Jack.
Mules, much abused and neglected
animals, are not generally understood
by farmers. A mule In the first place
must be of good stock, not an off
spring of some scrubby mare, but a
mare with good breeding qualities,
writes Ed McLaughlin in the Rural
New Yorker. A mule of the mam
moth stock Is supposed to be the beet
mule under all conditions. Mules are
cheaper than colts, for the service fee
Is not generally as high. Many peo
ple make a mistake In working the
mare too soon after foaling. Never
work a mare under ten days, then she
can do light work, but the mule must
be left In the barn.
When the mare is brought In from
work never allow the mule to suck as
long as the mare is warm. After a
mule Is two or three weeks old turn
It out In a lot away from the mare,
especially at night, for a mule is very
hard on a mare, much more than colts.
When the mule is about two montha
old he may be allowed to eat a few
oats, about a pint In the beginning.
Increase as be grows older, or the
same amount of bran along with a lit
tle hay, alfalfa Is preferred. At the
age of nine months a mule should be
weaned, not gradually, but all at once.
Take It away from the mare and
never let it suck afterwards. He
DIRT THAT POISONS THE MILK
The difference between a clean cow
and a dirty one Is strikingly shown In
the picture. The cow on the right
had been running on pasture ten days,
sleeping out at night, when the photo
graph was taken. Naturally a great
deal of the filth she had accumulated
In a vile stable had been rubbed oft
and washed off by the rains, but
enough remains to show that her milk
would carry poison to hundreds of
gallons when added to that of other
cows in the dairy. At the Illinois
station It was found the milk
should be put by himspl' or tied up.
At this time you can give an ear of
corn at a meal and a small amount of
hay. The mule should be turned out
In fair weather and not left to stand
in the stable.
A mule should be made before be
Is a year old. This can be done by
good breeding and the proper care.
It Is not necessary to give a great
quantity of food to him during the
winter, but It must be of the kind to
keep him growing, such as alfalfa
hay, silage, some corn fodder, some
corn and chopped food occasionally.
Oats are very good, but very expen
sive food. In spring he may be turned
out on pasture during the day and
fed some hay at night and morning,
because grass at this time is very
washy. As the grass gets older leave
on pasture, but be sure to bave plenty
of shade and water. A mule should
not be broken until he Is three years
old, although many are broken before
they are near that age.
8upply Summer Pasture.
We always plant a piece of corn as
early In the spring as the weather
will permit, to supplement the pas
ture, which is sure to dry up In late
summer.
from the average, unwashed, un
brusbed cow contained many times
as much dirt as that from a perfectly
clean oow. This is not guess work,
as a glazed dish equal In size to a pall
was held under a cow's udder ihi
minutes, the average time consumed
In milking, while motions similar to
milking were made. The dirt caught
In the dish was then carefully
weighed. It was then found that milk
from soiled and muddy uddors slmllai
to that shown by the cow on the right
contained from 20 to 24 times as much
dirt as from that from clean cow.