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CORVA SEMI-WEEKLY. ZllfiSVLlli. Consolidated Feb., 1899. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUKTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1902. VOIi. III. NO. 7. GAZETTE. I HERR STEINHARDT'S NEMESIS I BY J. MACLAREN COBBAN. CHAPTER XII. I was go taken aback I could for the moment neither stir nor speak, while a new feeling, a feeling of shame, arose in me for appearing in that woman's presence as Steinhardt'a representative. After her outburst of surprise she looked at the letter again, and at me. I rose, uncertain. "Fraulein," I said, "I do not know what to pay. I did not seek to come this journey myself ; Herr Steinhardt asked me to undertake it. He thought, and I thought, too, that your adver tisement, in which, of course.you could not use many words, signified that you were very ill and alone perhaps, and that you needed a "(I did not quite know how to put it; I added hurriedlv) "a friendly hand." "He did not think that I could wish to see him for his own sake, I mean for the sake ol his own peace?" Her German was becoming too rapid for me to follow without 'an effort; I was not sure I understood her. "He lias business," I said, "which prevented him from coming himself." "I suppose," said she, with some touch of bitterness, I thought, "he is still always very busy making more and more money in your rich England." "It is now," I answered, "a lawsuit that keeps him in England." "A lawsuit? A trial?" she ex claimed, with a mange anxiety. "Is he in danger?" "Indeed, Fraulein, I do not know. The other party to the trial thinks him self in danger from HerrSteinhardt; he accuses Herr Steinhardt of using, and making much money by using, his patent for chemical dyes." "I think," said she, simply, "you are not Emmanuel's friend." To this I had nothing to say for a moment. I took refuge in an evasion. "Herr Steinhardt." I said, "has sent me to act as his representative. But it appears there is nothing for me to do." (I was standing uncertain, but read v to go.) "What shall I say to hini when I return.'?' "I wonder," said she, more than half to herself, "if you are the person I have seen lately?" I I was startled; I stared in blank be wilderment. Was the woman a mani ac? The pupils of her keen eyes seemed to rapidly dilate and contract, while she gazed into vacancy, and at the same time kept a referring glance on me. . "A man " alie continued, "who goes about and about, and evidently causes .Emmanuel great anxiety about some thing." Conceive the sudden turmoil of thought and feeling, of imagination and hope into which I was thus thrown! The Lacriox mystery was until then almost absent from my mind; I seemed to have left it in Eng land, and though I certainly thought of It sometimes, it was as of something waiting in the distance for my return Now here was I presented with an allu sion of it a vague and uncertain allu sion, perhaps, but still unmistakably for me an allusion here in an attic of an old house in Basel 1 What strange coincidence was this? Who was this ti AiTia n f Kat l,-ii(yVifr if VafrrA mo n 01 i 11 I was afraid to speak or to stir, lest I should break or dispel that filmy some thing her fancy or her vision had got touch of. "You are a pastor," she continued, looking at me with more natural eyes; "Emmanuel calls you 'Reverend Mr. Unwin.' It is surely, sir, a pastor's duty to bring repentance and forgive ness and peace to the hearts of man, and not pride, and tear, and condemna tion!" "You say very strange things, Frau lein," I answered; "I think I hope I understand what you mean. Perhaps I deserve your rebuke. But are you sure you "altogether know the terrible mystery?" "Ach!" she cried. "There is then a mystery and part of the burden of it is with me! Ach! mein Gott! mein Gott!" "If you know" I impulsively be gan, in ill-suppressed excitement. "I do not know anything!" shecried suddenly interrupting me, and spring ing to her feet. She paced nervously up and down the room, her lingers wildly playing with each other, or about her arms and her head. She stopped and looked at me, trembling in every limb and nerve. "You must go away, sir!" I lingerd uncertainly. "Please go away, sir!" she urged. I cannot bear more now. Come again tomorrow. It may be that my God has ftont you to me!" I withdrew without a word, some what awed by the emotion of the strange 'woman. As I closed the door I caught a glimpse of her with hands clasped and face raised, as if in en treaty or thankfulness. After leaving the house I walked for a long time, without knowing whither I went, about the streets of Basel and along the Rhine bank. In spite of my excitement I slept well that night. I spent the next day i until evening wandering about the tow n, examining the windows of its sleepy shops, wondering at the content ed, bi-lingual shopkeepers, and gazing at the glorious Swiss mountains which I was so near, yet which I must not think of visitiug. I was again at the old house w ith the watchful, but heavy eyes soon after five o'clock, -Poor Fraulein Haas seemed to have passed both a sleepless night and a weary day. She was evi dently ill at ease and anxious, and I pitied her. "I fear, Fraulein," I said, "the thought of me and my presence gives you pain. - What you may have to say to me I do not know, I am not able to guess, but it seems saving it will give you great pain." we must not care if we give our selves pain to do right, must we, Herr Pastor? said the with a smile of sing ular sweetness. "So," I answered; "but 1 would wish to lighten your pain, Fraulein, if I can. L thank you, she said; it may ne that you can. tsut hrst 1 must say this one thing: Emmanuel Steinhardt of Brisach was very much to me many years ago. He went away to England but you will understand, Herr Pastor I have never forgotten hiib. For the first time I knew he was in very great danger and anxiety about a year and a half ago; (lam almost started from my seat; that was the very time of Lacroix's disappearance!) "I learned it in a dream, indeed, dreams, which the Almighty God sends oftener and clearer to his chosen ones than to other persons." (She was then a Pietist, if not a maniac.) "His danger and anx iety then, I suppose passed away, for soon i saw no more of them. But now for many weeks I see him and feel him more and more anxious than before, and I am made to feel there is always now another man near him making him anxious and afraid, and the other man seems to be you, I think, Herr Pastor I sat silently marvelling. "I tell you all this plainly, Herr rastor, she added, " because you are not one of those who laugh at dreams ; for you know that the Sacred Scripture says that the great God reveals to those who are ready to see, many strange things in dreams and visions of the night." " ou nave, indeed, 1 said, "seen strange thnigs." "Will you now," she continued, "be plain with me? Tell me, if you know, exactlv what is the thing, the serious matter, he is anxious and afraid about." "I can tell you, Fraulein," I said, a very serious matter, about the dis covery ot which 1 suspect he is very anxious. A little more than a year and a half ago Herr Steinhardt s partner in business went to London from Lanca shire, and it was thought he never re turned; no trace of him could be found. So his fate remamined altogether a mystery for a yeat, until I went to be cure in the village. Why the mystery should have been left so long, I cannot sav, because it was no great cleverness in me that after that made it less of a mystery; perhaps the Almighty left it so long to give Emmanuel Steinhardt time to repent. Soon after I came to the village certain things made me sus pect that Herr Steinhardt's partner did not stay in London, but came home and then disappeared. -I now know, from evidence that I have got, that he did; but what became of him I eannot tell. I suspect that Herr Steinhardt put him out of the way, but I ' do not yet know that he did. I am sure, how ever, that the Divine Vengeance, which has thus far revealed it to me bit by bit, will yet make clear the whole hor rible crime." She heard me through in silence, gazing intently at me the while; but when I came to the end, she drew back and looked at me in anger and aston ishment. "But," said she, "who are you, Herr Pastor, to make yourself the minister of Divine Vengeance?" I was dumb for a moment under this warm rebuke. " "I think, Fraulein," I said a length, "you mistake me. I do not put myself forward as the agent of Divine Venge ance. I first began to look into the mystery at the request of the missing man's orphan daughter, who longs to know what has become of her father; since then all I have learned concern ing his fate has been revealed to me with little or no effort on my part." "Achl Mein Gott!" she exclaimed. "The poor man has left a daughter!" "Yes," I replied; "and Herr Stein hardt. who is her guardian, uses her verv cruelly. If it were not for that, I think I should let the whole matter rest, and take no more part at all in bringing the crime home to the guilty man. But so long as she is in danger I must do what I can, I must let the Divine Power use me. God baa sent me to you, Fraulein ; if you then have had anything more revealed to you than I yet know, I beg you will tell it me. "Ach, Herr Pastor!" she cried, "you know not what you ask! You ask me to condemn Emmanuel Steinhardt! me to condemn him! Ach! Gott! mein Gott! why hast tbou laid this on me!" She clasped her ."hands in her lap, and looked fixedlv before her. "Fraulein, I ventured to urge, "I only wish to hinder Steinhardt from going on his cruel, unscrupulous way." "What you may wish, Herr Pastor," she said, with her look still fixed on va-ancy, "will not matter verv much. The great God, I know, is a God of i justice as well as a God of mercv, and he w ill work his own will with both you and me! I have prayed for Em manuel, as a mother might for her only son! Purely my God will hear me! If he only had time and warning to re pent! Oh, was not that why I wished him to come! "What can I say, Fraulein, to les son your pain? "You can say nothing, Herr Pastor. Leave me for tonight leave me, if you please! I cannot speak to you more uowl" - Hers was such distress and emotion as could only be calmed by her being let alone alone, or only withthat Un seen Presence in whom she waa doubt less wont to seek strergth and peace I therefore ent away without another word, and accompanied for a time by the painful doubt whether it were well to pursue my inquiry, since it caused her such pain; whether there was not even something vindictive in following up evidence which would lead to the incrimination of even such a villain as Steinhardt. But all doubt was dispelled by a let ter I received next morning from Bir- ley. J hon must come back, my lad, at once," he wrote. "I waa mistaken in my notion that Manuel would bring you know who, back home. Frank came home the ianie day you left; and his father went off to London next morning. x manageu to get to see Frank. He is in very low spirits, poor lad. His father has almost scared him into marrying the girl -y but I don't quite think he can bring that about without asking me, at any rate. I shall not be at all surprised if he does ask me one of these days, for he has not yet come down near so hard on me you know what I mean as I expect ed. I fancy he wants to reserve the chance for a. last big squeeze. But don't thou be afraid, lad; I'll stand by the lass and thee. Well, I prevailed on Frank to tell nie the Blackpool ad dress, though I had to promise much his father shouldn't get to know he had told me. I went straight away, and found her; and she was main glad to 6ee me. poor thing. I told her what I had come for; and the end of it was she packed up her little traps, and came back with me and here she is with me now. But I've not tome to the den yet. 'Manuel has only gone to London for the week, I find. He will be home on Saturday; and then I ex pect he will want me to square up with him. So I say you had better come back at once.'" Here, surely, was matter for the gravest anxiety and apprehension, though it did not appear what there was to fear exactly, except that Stein hardt might somehow reclaim Louise from Birley's charge, and again hide her away. But the fact is, my dread and suspicion of Steinhardt were such that I was prepared for his committing the greatest and vaguest enormities. It was now Friday morning, and there was only another day during which I could think of Louise as at rest in Bir ley's house. I could leave Basel that night by the mail train, and probably reach Timperley late on Saturday night. Greater 6peed could not be made. But was I, after all, going to leave without knowing what was that damning some thing concerning Steinhardt which Fraulein Haas's "dream, or dreams." i might reveal or suggest? I must en deavor to win it from her. I called that morning, but was told. as on the first occasion, she would not be home till five o'clock in the after noon. I got everything ready at mv hotel tor a prompt departure, and called again soon after the hour named. So you have come again," she eaid. wearily, when she saw me. Yes, Fraulein," I answered, "and I have come in haste." To urge me, I know. Bat whv is it necessary? It is a terrible law that quick death should be' brought upon one man because he brought quick death on another! a terrible law. I am not sure it is God's law. Think you it is, Herr Pastor?" "Fraulein!" I exclaimed, alarmed at her continued disposition to consider too curiosly and abstrusely, "lam sorry i cannot linger to discuss such tbinzs with you. I must travel back to Eng land in a very few hours, on most anx ious business, and I entreat you to re solve to tell me what you say has been revealed to you concerning this crime. I have said it already, Fraulein, and I say it again: what the great God may have in store for Herr Steinhardt for all his wickedness, I cannot judge, and l do not seek to put out my hand to ! force; I say I do not desire to brine punishment on him, 1 only wish to be ' able to make him withdraw his hand1 from the nerpetration of more cruelty ' ana oppression. Is he so wicked, then?" she cried in an accent of the keenest pain. (To be continue.!) Muskets Ten Feet Long. Gen. F. C. Aineworth, chief of the record and pension division of the army, is in receipt of several interest ing relics from friends in the Philip pines and China, comprising a collec tion of arms of different varieties, mod ern and archaic, u ed by the Chinese. In the collection are two jinjals, whioh look a good deal like overgrown mus kets. They are too heavy for soldiers to carry about the field, and are usually rested upon a parapet. One of these weapons is more than 10 feet long, with an iron barrel of one inch caliber. Both guns are in good working order, and Gen. Ainsworth has had them burnished and added to the ornaments of his office in the war department. Making Artificial Diamonds. TheChemiker Zeitung describes some experiments in the making of artificial diamonds. Carbon was heated in an atmosphere of inert gas in an iron flask raised to a high tompeiature by the elec tric arc. Bits the size of a pea were obtained having the hardness and cryi tall me form of a diamond. The crys tals nave a gray tint that makes them worthless for jewelry, but their use in drills seems promising. A- French chemist has made minute diamonds by heating pure carbon under pressure Odd Idea in Jewelry. One sees curious things in jewels these days, especially in the cheaper line. A girl on a street car the other day wore a brooch which looked exact ly like a 6et of false teeth in brilliants. New York Letter. . How Birds Talk. In England Is a man who has good grounds for claiming that he cannot only understand what many birds say, but can tell them things that they un derstand. He is Kelson Wood, the naturalist, who has made -a lifelong study of bird language. Some of the tuings he relates about the conversa tion of feathered creatures are very In teresting. Turkeys, chickens and others that do not fly much talk more than birds of the air. The reason is that the ground birds are always in more danger, and have many notes of warning. Bird talk Is confined to simple expressions of danger, hunger, warning, pleasure, and such common sensations. The turkey has one note for over head danger, another for danger on the ground, a third for a distant hawk, and POLITE Here Is a picture of old Mr. Brown walking quietly along the street on beautiful morning. He meets a great many people be knows, and, being a polite old fellow. Is anxious to take his hat off and bow to one and alL Let's see If we can help him. With the scis sors first cut him out, being sure not to snip off that square piece beneath his feet, and also not to forget the arm and hat. Then cut through the dotted lines on the old man's waistcoat mark ed "A" in the picture, and through a peculiar complaint when being driven. One call is used In bushes and another in the open, a particular sig nal at night, and a special tone for common conversation. Chickens are more talkative. A hen sings one song on the way to her nest, another to her mate, and a third when crooning to herself or getting a meal. Some of the rooster's notes are not commonly known. For instance, he gives a low, -ne whistle sometimes, on a dark day, while going to roost. His main talking, however, is done to "the other fellow," when ne gets into a fight with a rival. It ranges from a defiant chuckle which says as plainly as words, "Come on if you dare; I'm I ready for you," to a henlike croon showing that he is afraid and wants to get out of the scrape. The brightest talker of all birds, per haps, is the parrot Mr. Wood says that many birds of this kind fully un derstand what they are saying for in stance, one always greeted him with "Good morning" early in the day and "Good night" In the evening. Crows, as Is well known, have vary ing caws, which express warning, fear, affection, and so on. Queer Way of Telling; Time. A boy who does not own a watch need not go without any knowledge of the time of day. There is a boy who works in a wheat elevator In an Iowa town, and this is how he manages it: A big window almost fills one side of his little office. Into a corner of the window creeps the sunlight earlyIn the morning, and n shines all day long and creeps out of the other corner in the evening. In the floor, where the edge of the shadow from the window sash falls Just at noon, the boy has placed a long chalk mark, and a little farther away there is another mark for 1 o'clock, and so on up to 6. The forenoon is similarly divided on the floor. Each day, by simply looking at the edge of the sun's light, he can tell what time it is. Once in two weeks he changes all these marks because the shadows change as the sun gets higher In the spring or lower in the fall. Pluck. The Quest of Lazy-Lad. Have yon heard the tale of Lazy-Lad Who dearly loved to shirk, " For he "hated" his lessons and "hated" his tasks. And he "bated" to have to work? So he sailed away on a rummer day Over the ocean blue; V Said Lazy-Lad, "1 'will seek till I find The Land of Nothing-to-do. So Lazy-Lad he sailed to the west. And then to the east sailed he. And he sailed north and he sailed south Over many a league of sea, And many a country fair and bright And busy came into view; But never, alas, could he find the coast Of the Land of Nothing-to-do. Then Lazy-Lad sailed back again, -And a wiser lad was he. cor he said, "l ie wandered to every land That is in the geography. And in each and all I've found that folks Are busy the whole year through. And everybody in every place Seemed to have something to do. 'So it must be the best way after all And I mean to stay on shore And learn my lessons and do my tasks And be lazy-lad no more. The busiest folks are the happiest. And what mother said was true. For I've found out there is no such place .As the Land of Nothing-to-do." Kam's Horn. Relics of Early Days. One of the remarkable features of country life In America is the singular persistence of the rail fence and the dug-out canoe. No matter how thickly MR. BROWN. both of these slits from the back run the part "A" of the arm. Bend the stand on the dotted line "B B," and Mr. Brown will be able to keep himself erect with no one's aid. Then with the finger work the arm up and down from behind him, and I'm sure you will find that the old gentleman can bow very nicely and won't slight any of his friends. Mr. Brown will have more backbone to perform his duty and his pleasure If you paste the figure on a light piece of cardboard. settled a section may become or how long It may have been settled, these two survivors of early settlement lin ger on as stubbornly as ever. To-day, In the thickest settled parts of New Eng land and New York, the rail fence is met with, while the shad fishermen of the Potomac and James Rivers and Chesapeake Bay, on the banks of which the first English settlements in Amer ica were established, still manufacture and employ the old dug-out canoe in making the rounds of their shad nets. The dugout canoe Is the simplest and most primitive water craft known, and was used by prehistoric man, both In this country, Europe and Asia. It is made out of a log of wood by trimming the outside down to the proper propor tions of a boat, and by "digging out" the inside with an adze and by the aid of fire. The Potomac River dugout Is to-day pretty much the same as It was In the days of Powhattan, and differs from the general run of dugout canoes In the absence of a curved bow and stern, and in having rather high sides, which rise to a summit from either end of the boat, being highest in the middle, where the seat Is placed. Opposed to Going Ahead. A facetious Britisher in the Holland House cafe last night remarked: "I er see that er among youah one hun dred gentlemen of Industry who met Henry of Prussia at Sherry's there were a great many gentlemen of leis ure, self-made, of course. And with all youah boasted goaheadness one of the most prominent of these gentlemen has devoted his entire career to stopping the wheels of progress. By pursuing h!3 bent he has accumulated a vast for tune, estimated at $40,000,000. Rather odd, is it not, that an American should grow so wealthy endeavoring to retard things? Of course, you know, I refer to George Westlnghouse, whom I met recently at Washington. He has made his fortune by putting on the brakes. Haw-haw!" New York Press. Many a man can trace his ruin to his enemies and many another man could doubtless trace the origin of his down fall to his pretended friends. It costs the average young man a lot of money to trot on the course of true love. "-.' Beauty draws with but a single hair a-nd It is sometimes dyed hair at that. Milking; by Machinery. One of the greatest and most labor! us tasks on the farm is milking. Many persons have addressed themselves to the problem of performing this work by mechanical means, but thus far no machine for the purpose has come generally into use. A late device is ex hibited in the accompanying cut from the Scientific American. It comprises a can provided with an air-pump by which the air in the can may be ex baused to a certain degree of rareflca- tion, as indicated by the vacuum' gauge at the top of the can. A flexible tube is connected at one end with the can and at the other end with the ud der of the cow by means of four teat cups. As soon as a sufficient portion of the air has been exhausted from the can the teats are placed in the cups and the stop cocks opened, which causes the teats to be drawn inward, making an air-tight joint. The suction then draws the milk through the hose into the can. A pneumatic ring in each cup prevents injury to the cow and an out er adjustable cylinder prevents the teat from being drawn in too far. The lower portion of each cup is glass, which per mits the operator to watch the proper working of the device. The pump and gauge are arranged to be easily applied to any milk-can. Wire Fence Stretcher. A correspondent of the, Iowa Home stead writes: "To make a fence stretcher take a wagon wheel for a frame, nail your 2xS's far enough apart to admit wagon hub In between, as shown in the 1 1 1 u s tration, on both sides. Now bore holes through the 2x8's one inch from the front edge large enough to pass FENCE STRETCHER. through a piece of tumbling rod. Put your wheel through uprights and slip the bolt through and place the frame in line with corner post, sink your wheel until the hub will be in line with the center of patent fence and so the wheel will revolve. Clamp on the fence, pass log chain around spoke back to clamp and hook ends together, Put a brace from the top of corner post to top of frame. Wrhen ready to stretch use your wheel as lever and pull down ward and have a piece of 2x4 ready to lock the wheel, which will be placed in between the frame and top of spoke. It will be found equal to a four-ton stretcher." Good White Leghorn. The White Leghorn pullet shown In the cut has scored 95 and 96 at vari ous poultry shows and Is owned by a Pennsylvania man Rural New - Yorker prints the picture as a good likeness of - a business Leg horn and quotes the Owner as follows "W h i t e Leghorns are among the best of poultry for broil ers, as they grow fast and mature ear WHITE LEGHORN. ly and have white, tender meat As for eggs, they are acknowledged by all to be the heaviest layers of any breed of chickens known. They lay large, white eggs and lots of them, and with a little care in cold weather can be made to produce a large quautity of high-priced eggs." Snssestion for Apple Growers. Any apple grower within reasonable distance of a large city will find it profitable to sort his fruit carefully and make up small packages of the finest It makes little difference in what form the package is, although it should, so far as possible, conform to the shapes familiar in the city where the fruit is to be sold. Small baskets holding a half peck of fine fruit will bring the grower much more money than half again the quantity carelessly selected and packed In an ordinary basket. The second grade of fruit, or rather the best grade after the finest specimens are taken out may be put up in larger packages for market. By the use of the selected fruit and the small pack age the high-class trade is reached and the grower puts Into his pocket the profit that usually gets Into the pocket of the middleman. Don't "Waste Corn Fodder. In view of the fact that the annual crop of corn will yield some 60,000,000 to 80,000,000 tons of corn stover,- all of which may be utilized, the American farmer can, if be is thrifty, save one- 'I'lrvj""" -'"M l. third of the feeding value of his crop. From this tho farmer will learn the .lesson that he cannot afford to waste one hill of his corn fodder. It should all be cut and shredded and fed the next summer to save his pastures for the dry fall weather which so often impairs them With a barn or shed full of shredded fodder the stock can be kept growing all the time and will be in good condition for .the feed lot or to enter the next winter. Raisins a Balanced Ration. It Is now generally understood that the great need in the ration of cows is protein and because It la expensive when one has to buy grain containing it, the cows do not have the grains to make the balanced ration. Of late years experimenters have urged farmers to grow the crops that would give the balanced ration and have shown that it may be obtained by the growing of what are known as forage crops so that one becomes practically independent of cotton seed meal and other concentrated feed. Cow pea hay and silage will take the place of bran largely, In the ration, but a far better combination to grow is alfalfa, although with silage, cow peas and corn meal one may meet the need for protein until the time when alfalfa is fit to cut. The soy bean should also have a place on every farm where it can be grown to advantage. It is of the same nature as the cow pea but on some farms gives better results hence should have a space in that experiment plot referred to some weeks since. This question of growing the feed that may be given to the stock to the best ad vantage is one that should have the attention of every farmer and dairy man. Poultry Pointers. Never feed the poultry near the dwelling or throw out scraps of any kind to attract them near the house. One of the secrets of success with poultry Is not to keep any unprofitable birds; sell them as soon as possible. As long as a really good ben is not too old to lay eggs, she is not too old to keep. Forty hens can no more eat from one plant than forty people. Broadcast the grain and provide long troughs for feeding soft food. Buckwheat straw is very, good for scratching material. The roosts should be low, especially for the heavy breeds. Keep the lice off your fowls and they will keep healthy. Feed plenty of meat scraps If you want to get lots of eggs. Keep plenty of fresh water where your fowls can get it. A pale yolk Is not, an Indication of poor qaulity in an egg. Beware of drafts at night and you will prevent much sickness. If you can secure milk to mix with you mash it will be profitable. Exercise Wisdom. Every breed has individualities pe culiar to itself. These show them selves in ability to assimilate food, susceptibility to changes of climate and weather and general surround ings. He is a wise man who recog nizes this fact and pursues his investi gations steadily until he arrives at a conclusion as to the breed most nearly suited to his conditions and then sticks doggedly to his conclusions regardless of men who have other pet notions of their own. To Secure Good Calves. Warm, sweet milk, fed in clean buck ets, with access to cornmeal or Kaffir corn meal, bright hay, fresh, clean wa ter, salt, plentv of sunlight, shelter and bedding in cold weather, shade in sum mer and regularity and kindness in treatment will usually Insure good, thrifty calves that will gain from a pound and a half to two pounds daily. Kansas Experiment Station. Keep Poultry Houses Dry. A prime requisite is to keep the poul try house dry. As fresh air leads in this direction, it goes without saying that plenty of fresh air should be cir- culating all the time. If the houses are dry, that dreaded disease, roup. Is not apt to get a foothold. The houses should be thoroughly aired every day, rain, hail or shine. Cabbage Growing. Cabbages always do best on a freshly turned sod and should be set before the land has had time to dry after plowing. The secret of success in get ting a large yield of cabbage is to start with rich land and put in all the ma nure obtainable. Clean out the hog yard for this purpose. Exchange. Potato Puffs. Two cupfuls of mashed potatoes, two teaspoonfuls of butter, two eggs, one cupful of cream and salt and pepper to season. Beat the eggs until light, and after melting the butter stir it into the eggs. Beat tnis mixture into be mash ed potatoes, then add the cream and seasoning, and beat the whole until light. Grease popover pans or gern pans, and have each half full of the mixture. Bake the puffs in a quick oven until Drown, and remove them from the pans with a flexible knife to; prevent their breaking. They should be served immediately upon being re moved from the oven. The largest volcano is Etna. Its base Is ninety miles In circumference and1 the mountain is 11.000 feet high. When a child disobeys his mother the mischief is transparent
