Corvallis gazette., January 14, 1902, Image 1

CORVALLIS
GAZETTE.
SEMI-WEEKLY.
SSKntt&'i'stt. (Consolidated Feb., 1899.
COKVAIiLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1902.
YOL. II. NO. 38.
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Jhe Doctor's fjilemma
By Hesba
CnAPTEH XXVIII.
I do not know why terror always strikes
me dumb and motionless. I did not stir
or speak, but looked steadily, with a
fascinated gaze, into my husband's face
a worn, white, emaciated face, with
eyes peering cruelly into mine. It was
an awful look; one of dark trimnph, of
sneering, cunning exultation. Neither of
us spoke.
He sank down on the seat beside me,
with an air of exhaustion, yet with a
low, fiendish laugh which sounded hide
ously loud in my ears. His fingers were
still about my arm, but he had to wait
to recover from the first shock of his suc
cess for it had been a shock. His face
was bathed with perspiration, and his
breath came and went fitfully. I thought'
I could even hear the heavy throbbing of
'lis heart.
'"I've found you," he said, his hand
tightening its hold and at the first sound
of his voice the spell which bound me
snapped "I've tracked you out at last
to this cursed hole. The game is up, my
little lady.. By heaven! you'll repent of
this. You are mine, and no man shall
come between us."
"I don't understand you," I muttered.
He had spoken in an undertone, and I
could not raise my voice above a whis
per, so pan-he 1 and dry was my throat.
"Understand:" he said, with a shrug of
his shoulders. '"I know all about Dr.
.Martin Dobree. You understand that
well enough. I am here to take charge
of you, to carry you home with me as
my wife, and neither man nor woman
can interfere with me in that. It will be
best for you to come with me quietly."
"I will not go with you," I answered,
in the same hoarse whisper; "I am Iiv-
."THIS MAX IS
ing here in the presbytery, and you can
not force me away. I will not go." I
"The silly raving of an ignorant girl!" J
he sneered. "The law will compel you
to return to me. 1 will take the law
Into my own hands, and compel you to go
with me at once. If there is no convoy- j
once to be hired in this confounded hole,
we will walk down the road together,
like two lovers, and wait for the oumi- j
bus. Come, Olivia."
Our voices had not risen much above
their undertones yet, but these last words
he spoke more lqjidly. Jean opened the
door of the sacristy and looked out, and
Pierre came down to the coiner of the
transept to see who was speaking. I
lifted the hand Richard was not holding,
and beckoned Jean.
"Jean," I said, in a low tone still, "this
man is my enemy. Monsieur le Cure
knows all about him; but he is not hero.
You must protect me."
"Certainly, madame," he replied "Mon
sieur, have the goodness to release mad
am." "She is my wife," retorted Bichard
Foster.
"I have told all to Monsieur le Cure,"
I said.
"Monsieur le Cure is gone to England;
It is necessary to wait till his retu.n.
Monsieur Englishman."
"Fool!" said Kichard in a passion; "she
Is my wife, I tell you."
"Ah!" he replied phlogmatically, "but
it is my affair to protect madame. There
is no resource but to wait till Monsieur
le Cure returns from his voyage. If
madame does not say, 'This is my hus
band,' how can I believe you? She says,
He Is my enemy.' I cannot confide her
to a stranger."
"I will not leave her," he exclaimed.
"Good! very good! Pardon, monsieur."
responded Jean, laying his iron fingers
upon the hand that held me. and loosen
ing its grip as easily as if it had been
the hand of a child. "Madame, you are
free. Leave Mousieur the Englishman
to me. and go away into the house, if you
please."
I did not wait to hear any further al
tercation, but tied as quickly as I could
luto the presbytery. L'p iuto my own
chamber I ran, drew a heavy chest
against the door and fell down trembling
and nerveless upon the lloor beside it.
But there was no time to lose in wom
anish terrors: my difficulty aud danger
were too great. 'Why should 1 not write
to Tardif? He had promised to come to
my help whenever aud wherever I niisht
summon him. I ran down to Mademoi
selle Therese for the materials for a let
ter, and in a few minutes it was written,
and on the way to Sark.
The night fell while I was still alone.
Suddenly there was the noisy rattle of
wheels over the rough pavement the
baying of dogs an indistinct shout. A
horrible dread took hold of me. Was it
possible that he had returned, with some
force which should drag me away from
my refuge and give me up to him?
I heard hurried footsteps and joyous
voices. A minute or two afterward, Min
ima beat against my barricaded door.
.HiT.I..I..i'1"I-'-i-"i.
Stretton
and shouted gleefully through the key
hole. t
''Come down. Aunt Nelly," she cried;
"Monsieur Laurentie is come home
again:"
I felt as if some strong hand had lifted
me out of a whirl of troubled waters and
set me safely upon a rock. I ran down
into the salon, where Monsieur Lauren-
tie was seated, as tranquilly as if he
had never been away, in his high-backed
armchair, smiling quietly at Minima's
gambol of delight. Jean stool just with
in the tlnor, his hands behind his back,
holding his white cotton cap in them; he
had been making his report of the day s
events. Monsieur held out his hand to
me, and I ran to him, caught it in both
of mine, bent down my face upon it, and
burst into a passion of weeping, in spite
of myself.
"Come, come, madame!" he said, his
own voice faltering a little; "I am here,
my child; behold me! There is no place
for fear now; I am king in Ville-en-bois.
Is it not so, my good Jean?"
"Monsieur le Cure, you are emperor,"
replied Jean.
"If that is the case," he continued,
"madame is perfectly secure in my castle.
You do not ask me what brings me back
again so soon. But I will tell you, mad
ame. At Noireau, the proprietor of the
omnibus to Granville told me that an
Englishni.-m had gone that morning to
visit my little parish. Good! We do not
have that honor every day. I ask him to
have the goodness to tell me the English
man's name. It is written in the book
at the bureau. Monsieur Fostere. I re
member that name well, very well. That
is the name of the husband of my little
English daughter. Fostere! I see in a
MY ENEMY."
moment it will not do to proceed on my
voyage."
The cure's return, and his presence un
der the same roof, gave me a sense of
security. When the chirping of the birds
awoke me in the morning, I could not at
first believe that the events of the day
before were not themselves a dream.
Matins were ended, aud the villagers
were scattering about their farms and
households, when I noticed Pierre loiter
ing stealthily about the presbytery, as
if anxious uot to be seen. He made me
a sign to follow him out of sight, round
the corner of the church.
"I know a secret, madame." he said, in
a troubled tone, "that monsieur who came
yesterday has not left the valley. I fol
lowed monsieur your enemy. He did not
go far away."
"But where is he then?" I asked, look
ing down the street, with a thrill of fear.
"Madame," whispered Pierre, "he is a
stranger to this place, and the people
would not receive him iuto their houses
not one of them. My father only said,
'He is an enemy to our dear English
madame,' and all the women turned the
back upou him. I stole after him, be
hind the trees an 1 the hedges. He
inarched very slowly, like a man very
weary, till he came iu sight of the fac
tory of the late Pineaux. He turned
aside into the court th re. I saw hinr
knock at the door of the house, try to lift
the latch, and peep through the windows.
After that he goes into the factory; there
is a door from it into the house. He
passed through. I dared not follow him,
but in one short half-hour I saw smo'ce
coming out of the chimney. The smoke
is there. The Englishman has sojo.irn
ed there all the night."
"But. Pierre," I said, shi erlng. th.mgh
the sun was already shining hotly
"Pierre, the house is like a lazaretto. Xo
one has been in it since Mademoiselle Pi
neau died. Monsieur le Cure locked it
up, aud brought away the key."
"That is trite, madame," answered the
boy; "no one in the village would go near
the accursed place, but I never thought
of that. Perhaps monsieur your enemy
will take the fever aud perish."
"Bun. rierrr, run!" I cried; "Monsieur
Laurentie is in the sacristy with the
strange vieaire. Tell him I must speak
to him this very moment. There is no
time to be lost!"
I dragged myself to the seat under the
sycamore tree, anl hid my face in my
hands, while shudder after shudder quiv
ered through me. I seemed to be watch
ing him again, as he strode weariedly
down the street, leaning with bent shoul
ders on his stick, and turned away from
every door at which he asked for rest
and shelter for the night. Oh! that the
time could but come back again, that I
might send Jean to fiud some safe place
for him where he could sleep! Back to
my memory rushed the old days, when he
screened me from the uukinduess of my
step-mother, and when he seemed to love
me. For the sake of those times, would
to heaven, the evening that was gone,
and the sultry, breathless nig':t, could
only come back again!
I felt as if I had passed through an
immeasurable spell, both of memory and
anguish, before Monsienr Laurentie
came, though he had responded to my
summons immediately. I then told him
in hurried, broken sentences, what Pierre
had confessed to me. His face grew
overcast and troubled, and he at once
started for the factory. He returned af
ter a long, long suspense.
"My child," he said, "monsieur is ill
attacked, I am afraid, by the fever.
shall remain with him all this day. Yon
must bring us what we have need of, and
leave it on the stone there, as it used to
be."
"But cannot he be removed at once?"
I asked.
"My dear," he answered, "what can I
do? The village is free from sickness
now; how can 1 run the risk of carrying
the fever there again? It is too far to
send monsieur to Noireau. Obey me, my
child, and leave him to me and to God.
Cannot you confide in me yet?
"Yes." I said, weeping, "I trust yon
with all mv heart."
"Go, then, and iio .what I bid you," he
replied. "Tell my sister and Jean, tell
all my people, that no one must intrude
upon me, no one must come nearer this
house than the appointed place. ion
must think of me as one absent, yet. close
at hand: that is the difference. 1 am
here, in the path of my duty. Go, and
fulfill yours."
For three days, morning after morning,
whilst the dew lay still upon the grass,
I went down, with a heavy and forebod
ing heart, to the place where I could
watch the cottage, through the long sul
trv hours of the summer day.
Here in the open sunshine, with the
hot walls of the mill casting its rays
back again, the heat was intense; though
the white cap I wore protected my head
from it, my eyes were dazzled, and I felt
ready to faint. No wonder if Monsieur
Laurentie should have sunk tinder it. and
the long strain upon his energies, whieh
would have overtaxed a younger and
stronger man. I had passed the invisi
ble line which his will had drawn about
the place, and had half crossed the court,
when I heard footsteps close behind me,
and a large, brown, rough hand suddenly
caught mine.
"Mam'zelle!" cried a voice I knew, "is
this you?"
"Oh. Tardif! Tardif!" I exclaimed. 1
rested my beating head against him,"4d
sobbed violently, whilst he surrounded
me with his strong arm, and laid his
hand upon my head, as if to assure me" of
his help and protection.
"Hush, hush! mam zelle, he said. It
is Tardif, your friend, my little mam'
zelle; your servant, you know. 1 am
here. What shall I do for you ? Is there
any person in yonder house who fright
ens you, my poor little mam'zelle? Tell
me what to do.
He had drawn me back into the green
shade of the trees, and placed me upon
the felled tree where I had been sitting
before. I told him all quickly, briefly
all that had happened since I had written
to him. I saw the tears start to his
eyes.
"Thank God I am here," he said. "I
lost no time, mam'zelle, after your letter
reached me. I will save Monsieur le
Cure; I will save them both, if 1 can-
He is a good man, this cure, and we
must not let him perish. He has no au
thority over me, and I will go this mo
ment and force my way in, if the door
is fastened. Adieu, my dear little mam'
zelle." He was gone before I could speak a
word, striding with quick, energetic tread
across the court. The closed door under
the eaves opened readily. In an instant
the white head of Monsieur Laurentie
passed the casement, and I could hear
the hum of an earnest altercation, al
though I could not catch a syllable of it.
But presently Tardif appeared again in
the doorway, waving his cap in token of
having gained his point.
It seemed to me almost as if time had
been standing still since that first morn
ing when Monsieur Laurentie had left
my side, and passed out of my sight to
seek for my husband in the fever-smitten
dwelling. Yet it was the tenth day af
ter that when, as I took up my weary
watch soon after day break, I saw him
crossing, the court again and coming to
wards me.
What had he to say? What could im
pel him to break through the strict rule
which had interdicted all dangerous con
tact with himself? His face was pale.
and his eyes were heavy as if with want
of rest, but they looked into mine as if
they could read my inmost soul.
(To be continued.) ,
Why We Need Hobbies.
Business is not inseparable from
higher things. Men may be born gro
cers, but need not live only as grocers.
Solon and Thales, wise men of the
Greeks, were merchants; Plato peddled
oil; Spinoza, the philosopher, mended
spectacles. Linnaeus was a cobbler as
well as a botanist. Shakspeare prided
himself more upon his success as a
stage manager than as a dramatist.
Spenser was a sheriff. It might require
a rather strong wrench of the imagina
tion to imagine sheriffs of to-day "writ
ing another "Faerie Queen" but "why?
Milton taught school, as have almost all
great men. Walter Scott, the wizard of
the North, was circuit clerk and prac
tical man of affairs; Grote was a Lon
don banker, Ricardo a stock jobber and
Sir Isaac Newton master of the English
mint. Taul was a tent-maker and tho
Great Gentleman an apprentice at a
carpenter's bench.
"I practice law simply to support my
self," said one of the greatest of St.
Louis attorneys an attorney-at-law,
not an attorney-at-politics "but my
real life is at home in my library."
Thoroughly practical people need the
help of hobbies to keep them from
shriveling up. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
High-priced Book.
The biggest price ever paid for a book
was $44,50t, given for an original copy
of the Psalterium, published by Faust
in 1439. It was bought by Bernard
Quariteh.
Tasmania's Mineral Wealth.
Tasmania, in proportion to its area,
is the richest in Australasia's colonies
in mineral wealth.
Love is the hot 'waffles and marriage
is the cold biscuits.
TOVN
Folks
Wilhelm'a Eldest Son.
Perhaps the "fierce light that beats
upon the throne" blinds people to possi
ble faults and failings of the German
Crown Prince, but he really seems to
be a manly, attractive young fellow
who deserves "to be liked for bis own
sake. We have beard so much about
the Kaiser as ruler, composer, writer
and sailor that it Is especially satisfac
tory to know something about him as a
father. - ?
The tie between Wilhelm and his
eldest son and heir Is an unusually
close one. The Kaiser looks person
ally after every detail of his son's
training, not only at the university, but
also in his service with the Guards at
Potsdam. Instead of -making the
Crown Prince believe that he is not
old enough to understand the deepest
secrets of statecraft, he has for many
years discussed all public questions
with him with the greatest frankness,
believing that this is just as Important
a part of his son's education as the book
knowledge. And it is.
The result is that while the Prince
has a sunny disposition, he yet takes a
serious view of life and is conscien
tiously fitting himself for" the duties
that will come to him, if hetoutlives his
father. In addition to regular studies
and statecraft, and military service, the
Crown Prince has had plenty of oppor
tunities to become a good shot, a splen
did horseman and a fine tennis player.
He also plays the violin exceedingly
well and draws and paints with skill.
Emperor William has five other sons
and while they do not receive the spe
cial training in statecraft that has been
given to the Crown Prince, the Em
peror has laid out plans for their prac
tical education that is a little unusual.
August William and Oscar, the third
and fourth sons, with six companions,
have been established on a; little farm
of twenty-eight acres, and the boys do
all the work. The house is the little
peasant's hut that was there originally,
and it has merely been made comfort
able for the new tenants, with mat
ting, red chairs and whitewashed walls.
In the cupboard are plain earthenware
dishes. A young peasant syid his wife
are all the attendants given the boys,
who often brew their own coffee when
their work in the garden has made
them thirsty.
The boys themselves planted the po
tatoes, corn and other vegetables, culti
vated them, and when ready for mar
ket gathered them and sent them to the
royal kitchen, receiving regular market
values for everything.
If more royal fathers had such sensi
ble, delightful ideas, royal boys would
not find it so hard after all to be born
so close to a throne. Minneapolis Jour
nal. '
The Secret of Success.
One day in huckleberry time, when little
Johnny Flails
And half a dozen other boys were start
ing with their pails
To gather berries, Johnny's pa, in talk
ing with him, said
That he could tell him how to pick so
he'd come out ahead.
"First find your bush," said Johnny's pa,
and then stick to it till
You've picked it clean. Let those go
chasing all about who will
In search of better bushes; but it's pick
ing tells, my son
To look at fifty bushes doesn't count like
picking one."
And Johnny did as he was told; and sure
enough, he found,
By sticking to his bush while all the oth
ers chased around
In search of better picking,- 'twas as his
father said;
For, while all the others looked, he work
ed and so came out ahead.
And Johnny recollected this when he be
came a man;
And first of all he laid him out a well
determined plan;
So, while the brilliant triflers failed with
all their brains and push,
Wise, steady-going Johnny won by
"sticking to his bush."
St. Nicholas.
An Ice Wbiz.
If you want to ride so fast on the ice
as to lose your breath, you should make
an ice whiz. When the Ice gets strong
cut a " hole in it
sharpen a pole six
inches in diameter
and with a beetle
drive it into the
mud. With stones
block it so it will
freeze in the Ice ex
actly vertical. Then
saw It off four feet
above the surface of
the ice, and bore an
inch hole in the top.
Xow get a long light
pole (20 feet or more)
the whiz. and balance it on
the post Next bore a hole so a pin
can run through it into the post At
tach sleds to one end of the sweep and
let skaters push the other end 'round
and 'round. Be careful not to get hurt
It is a powerful and dangerous play
thing. Never President, bnt Best Blacksmith.
There once lived in a Western village
a woman who was anxious that her
only son should achieve some great
success in life, and lift himself above
the common run of men," as she said.
When she reflected that even the
Presidency of the United States is
within the reach of the poorest and
ii
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humblest boy she did not wish her
son to fall far below that station In life.
Long after the son was a man, an
acquaintance met the ambitious old
lady, then visiting In a distant State,
and asked her about her son's success
In life.
"Well," she said cheerily, "he ain't
the President of the United States yet:
he ain't a Senator, nor yet a Congress
man, nor Governor, nor Mayor; but 1
tell you he's the very best blacksmith
there is in our part of the country. In
deed he is!"
Stealing "Whileawaya."
At a church recently there was a song
service, and one mother took her little
5-year-old daughter to it One of the
selections was "I Love to Steal Awhile
Away." It was drawled out in the
good, old-fashioned way to the end, and
the little miss, after the first line, seem
ed to be lost in study.
In the midst of the prayer that fol
lowed, she climbed up on the seat be
side her mother, and In a stage whisper
asked:
"Mamma, what are 'whileaways,' and
what do good people want to steal them
for?"
Stretching;.
You may stretch your mouth in jolly fun;
You may stretch your legs in a good long
run; -
You may stretch your arms in work, fo
sooth;
But never, never stretch the truth.
Youth's Companion.
An Easy Answer.
"Sixteen boys went to the canal on a
summer's afternoon to swim," said the
teacher," but five were told not to
bathe. How many went In?"
"Sixteen," said Sam.
Bus in a Hammock.
One morning little Nellie discovered
a spider's web In the window. "Oh,
mamma," she exclaimed,"come and see
this bug in a little hammock!"
FOOTBALL ARMOR.
How the Players Protect Themselves
on the Gridiron.
The player has three protections
against injury, writes Julian Bur
roughs, in Leslie's Weekly. First and
best of all is his muscle. When the sea
son begins the men are given long hard
work with the dumbbells, and this is
kept up for some time. Most of the men
begin to play in school. Years of train
ing, not of football alone, of course,
have covered them with hard muscle,
which is like a suit of armor. It binds
covers, braces, supports and wards off
injury as nothing else can. Secondly,
the covering of clothing protects the
muscles themselves from bruising, and
covers the points that the muscles do
not This is mostly leather for the
rules forbid any metal and seeks to
protect the points most subject to in
jury without hampering the player's
movements. Ankle supports, laced up
tight; shinguards, like the greaves of
the ancient Greeks; a thick leather hel
met for the head with cotton padded
flaps over the ears, make up the leather
fittings. A thick rubber noseguard adds
a touch of gentleness to the player's ap
pearance. This last is bound to the head
above, and is gripped firmly with the
teeth below, while the wearer blows
fiercely through the air-holes at his op
ponent.
The men are taught how to fall down.
Falling down seems quite simple some
people come by it naturally. In fact one
watching a game of football would say
the only difficult thing about falling
down was to stand up. But to fall down
so that piling a dozen or so of 200-pound
men on top of you does not crush a
bone is not so simple, and the men must
be taught. Soon formations are tried
without opponents; ex-quarterbacks,
centers and backs are on the field, of
ten in football togs, teaching the men
how to form interference and run off
signals. Soon two teams are selected
and made to play each other; then a
'varsity and second team are picked,
every man being carefully "tried out"
until the worthless ones are dropped
and the best men are on the team.
Attacked by a Heron.
"I've hunted everything from gray
squirrels to grizzlies," said a veteran
Philadelphia sportsman, "and the near
est I ever came to being seriously in
jured by any sort of game was one
time when a wounded bird attacked
and tried to kill me.
"I was a boy then, and went down
to a creek that flowed through my fath
er's farm to watch for a mink. It was
early in the evening and a blue heron
came and sat within tempting gunshot
I knew it would spoil my chances at
mink to shoot the bird, and I didn't in
tend to do it, but, kidlike, I raised my
gun and took aim just to see how I
could kill it if I would. I lowered the
gun and then raised it again. Every
time I raised it I would touch the trig
ger gently. After a while I touched it
too hard, the gun went off and I started
toward the heron, which was wounded
"I thought it would be a good scheme
to catch the bird, and started to do so.
when its bill shot out like a sledge
hammer and struck me between the
eyes. When I came to my senses it
was dark, and It was several minutes
longer before I could remember where
I was or what bad happened. A little
harder," said the sportsman, accord
ing to the New York Times, "and the
bird would have killed me. I shudder
even yet when I think of what would
have been the result if the bill bad
struck one of my eyes."
Ocean to Ocean Telephone.
With the construction of two short
gaps, one from a point in North Dakota
to Miles City and the other from Bil
lings, Mont, to same place, there will
be a telephone line from ocean to ocean,
via Boston, New York, Chicago, Helena
(Mont), Portland to Los Angeles.
True love doesn't cut much congealed
aqua pur a in a divorce case.
Apple Tree Borers. .
Apple growers through the country
lone annually many trees from the rav
ages of the apple tree borer. There are
two species, one of which is known as
the flat-headed borer and the other the
round-headed borer. Both are shown
in the accompanying Illustration. By
taking proper precaution many apple
trees could be saved If watched care
fully. All trees should be closely examined
early In the fall, when the young lar
vae or worms. If present may be de
tected by the discoloration of the bark,
which sometimes has a flattened and
dried appearance. Exuding sap and
the presence of sawdust-like castings
give the clew to their . whereabouts.
Whenever such indications are seen,
the insects should be dug out with a
knife or other sharp-pointed instru
ment Those which have bored deeply
into the wood may be reached by a
sharp, stiff wire thrust into the hole.
They can also be destroyed by cutting
away the bark at the upper end of the
chamber and pouring scalding water
into the opening so that it will soak
through the castings.
Among the preventive remedies, al
kaline washes or solutions are probably
the most useful. Soft soap made to the
consistency of thick paint by the addi
tlon of a strong solution of washing
soda in water, is a good formula for
application. It should be painted over
the bark, especially about the base of
the trees and upward to' the main
branches. A small quantity of gas tar
added to the solution will also assist in
repelling the Insect and will not injure
the tree. Orange Judd Farmer.
Winter Protection of Bee Hives.
After the bees have stopped their fall
flying the hives should be set In a row,
facing south, with about six inches of
space between the hives. Drive a few
stakes between and in front of the
hives at an angle of about forty-five
degrees, so that when boards are plac
ed across them the lower edges of the
boards will rest against the hives Just
above the entrance. Then pack leaves
over the hives and between them, doing
the work thoroughly; the board will
prevent the packing material from clos
ing the entrance. Cover the leaves
with straw to a considerable depth.
Dig a trench along the back of the
hives, forming a ridge against the hives
that will shed water and keep it from
getting In at the bottom of the hives.
This Is a very simple plan, yet gives
ample protection, while, by using the
board in front, the opening of the hive
receives all the sunlight there may be
during the winter. Should the winter
be unusually severe, more straw may
be added from time to time during the
winter to obtain the needed warmth.
Building a Small Ice House.
If Ice is readily obtainable during the
winter, there should be a small ice
house on every farm, holding enough to
last through the summer. A cheap
house may be built by making an ex
cavation, in circular form, ten feet
deep, walling it with brick or stone, or
even heavy planking, and having the
wall come up two or three fet above
the surface of the ground. On this
wall is built the top, which may be
round or octagon and running to a
sharp point This wooden portion may
be built of rough lumber. A door is
fitted In one side and around the out
side the soil is mounded up under the
eaves and back for several feet to form
a perfect watershed. In packing the
ice air must be excluded, and this rule
Is as applicable to an expensive Ice
house as to a cheap one. Sawdust is
the best packing material and should
be used in liberal quantities both be
tween the cakes of ice and as a layer
over the top. If the ice is properly
packed It will keep well In the very In
expensive structure described.
Sacceas in Dairying.
If experience in dairying does not
make a man or woman wise, it counts
for but little. We often see cases where
people grown gray In the care of cows
realize only meager profits from the
business. This is because years ago
they decided that they had mastered
all there was to be known relative to
dairying and have since never tried to
get out of the rut The most conscien
tious attention to detail work in the
care of cows, care of milk and the rou
tine of labor required in butter and
cheese making is necessary to success
In any or all of these branchesFarm
and Ranch.
Shipping Poultry to Market.
There are two errors most poultry
shippers fall into which have consider
able bearing on the results obtained.
TREE BORERS AND THEIR YOUNG.
One Is the use of improper crates, and
the other crowding of the fowls in tho
crates. In the first case, sometimes the
crates used are too heavy and some
times too light The last error is made
usually by poultrymen who have been
in the habit of shipping more or less
breeding stock and who use light crates
to save transportation charges over
long distances. The heavy crates are
generally used by farmers and are
made of any loose material they happen
to have on the farm. The crates should
always be as light as it is possible, and
still have it strong enough to bear
rough handling, and each fowl In it
should have a space equal to that re
quired for It to turn around In com
fort If this sort of packing is done
the fowls will reach the market in good
condition, and there will be none
smothered, as is usually the case when
too many are packed in a crate. Don't
ship the culls and half-starved fowls
to the city market but send only the
plump birds and those in good physical
condition, if you would get the highest
prices.
Saving Garden Seeds.
There are many seeds that the farm
er should save for himself every year.
His sweet corn from the earliest ears
to mature, and his field corn from the
most perfect ears, straight rows and
well-filled tips he can find, and if "pos
sible from stalks that have two or mora
ears, to Induce the habit of twin-bearing
stalks. These should be thoroughly
dried and kept dry until wanted for
planting. Rows of peas and beans
should be saved expressly for seed, and
not the seed taken from those that are
left after picking for market. We
have even let the first that set ripen
for seed, and picked them dry while
picking others for table use. This we
did to insure early maturity in the next
crop. Cucumber, pepper, tomato,
squash, pumpkin and melon, we saved
seed from some of the best if not the
earliest on the plants, and if we cared
to save beet, carrot, turnip, cabbage or
onion seed, we saved the best we had
to set out in the spring for seed. The
lettuce and radish go to seed the same
year if left long enough.. Having se
lected our seed and seen It thoroughly
ripened, every package was carefully
labeled with the name of the variety,
and the smaller ones put away In a tin
box, that insects might not get to them,
and the larger ones in cotton bags se
curely tied. A few we thought we
could buy cheaper than we could grow
them, and better because grown in a
more favorable soil or climate, but
when we saved eed as we have de
scribed above, we had no running out
of any variety. American Cultivator.
Watering Hogs in Winter.
The best hog watering device we
know of for winter use is composed of
two barrels. Barrel A should be set
in the line of pipe coming from the sup
ply of water. The float should be ad
justed to a point on a water level line,
as seen in the illustration. Barrel B Is
let down in the ground so the water
line will come near the top, but not flow
over. At C is seen a lid composed ot
two-inch plank or heavy lumber built
I riOAT I atb Line JP3 j
H0O WATERING DEVICE.
in such a way as to make four drinking
places, the hog sticking its snout
through a hole to get the water. Thl3
barrel should be in a corner of the lot
or near a fence where it will be pro
tected to some extent from the coldest
weather. At D will be seen a valve
which regulates the supply of water
and keeps barrel B so full of water all
the time. E is the line of pipe leading
from the float barrel to as many wa
tering places as may be placed on the
line. Barrel A should be covered with
litter to prevent freezing. Iowa Home
stead. Brains in the Dairy.
How many dairymen can tell how
many pounds of milk each cow gives,
the percentage of butter fat in each
cow's milk and the average for the
herd, how many pounds of butter to
each hundred pounds of milk, how
much It costs to. feed each cow, how
much it costs to make a pound of but
ter and a few things like that? Yet
this is just what many up to date dniry
meu know to a nicety. A scale, a Bab
cock test, a lead pencil and a little
brains are the chief requisites.
Hints About the Horse.
Teach a horse what you want him to
do and he will always do it
Plaster scattered on the stable floor
keeps down bad odors and purities the
air.
Don't put your horse's feet in unskill
ed hands. Good feet are spoiled by bad
shoeing.
Keep your horse feeling good by pro
per food and care and he will more
than repay you for the little extra time
you give him. '
Feed your horse as near the ground
as possible; when eating low down
more saliva becomes mixed with tha
food, aiding digestion.
Always treat the nervous horse with
kindness, patience, forbearance, and
never make any quick or sudden move
ment or loud talking if it can be avoid
ed. Tie your horse so that he can lie
down comfortably at night. It is a
practice with some grooms to tie a
horse so he can't lie down, to save
work in cleaning him the next morning.
Don't bring your horse in hot from a
drive If you can help it; if you do, rub
him thoroughly dry. A slow jog or
walk for a short distance before up-'
hitching will cool him off quicker and
save much work.
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