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-
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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.
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Is ninety miles In circumference and1
the mountain is 11.000 feet high.
When a child disobeys his mother
the mischief is transparent