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W&tt&?BJ.aEi. Consolidated Feb., 1899.
COKVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1902.
VOL. III. NO. 9.
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IlIERR STEINHARDT'S NEMESIS 1
S BY J. MACLAREN COBBAN.
CHAPTER XIII Continued.
"What is it?" he demanded; his
tooe was not loud, but his eyes seemed
standing out as with suppressed rage
"what is it you two are together for?
What can you do? You have nothing!
money, influence, nothing!"
"No, "Manuel," said Birley; "you've
grabbed them all."
"Is it," said he, glaring at me,
"that you you a beggarly curate!
want, expect to-marry an heiress, the
heiress of an old family? I have said
befo-e that she is not an heiress that
she has no money, and that she is not
for you, sir!"
"I have reason," I said, "to believe
that Herr Steinhardt does not always
speak the truth."
"Pouf! You are insolent as well!
An insolent beggar is not to be borne!
And so you have got, too, this reckless
old man to abet you in your tricks and
schemes! What for is it," he de
manded of Birley,. "that you have set
yourself to go against me in this?"
"Partly, 'Manuel," answered Birley,
"because I have gradually got con
vinced you are the biggest villain un
hung, and partly because I like this
lad (Jnwin. As for tricks and
schemes"
"Piff! You are foolish as well as
reckless."
"I Fav. as for tricks and schemes
may ha v. an account to settle with you
of that tort, before I have done, but
not tonight."
"Not tonight! After tonight you
will be more completely nothing than
you have been yet! I will destroy you
both! You shall be beggars hoth
without hope, without reputation!"
"These are brave words, 'Manuel,
and I know you will carry them out, if
you can; I know you can make me a
beggai , but I think Unwin is pretty fit
tc give an account of himself yet, and
of you, too, 'Manuel, if it comes to
that. But, see, you'd better go home,
for it's Sunday morning, and you're
frightening the poor girl there."
This careless dismissal must have
been especially exasperating to a man
like Steinhardt. He was almost beside
himself, vet he still held his fury down
"You are beggars, sneaks and cow
ards both!" he exclaimed.
"Nay, but," said Birley, now roused,
and approaching to urge the necessity
of a speedy departure, "if we begin
calling names we may have the better
of it, but not tonight. Come, 'Manuel,
you must go!"
He was reluctantly withdrawing,
when he and we also were startled by
Louise exclaiming with outstretched
hands
"Where is my father, you wicked
man? What have you done with him?
Where have you put him?"
He paused a moment to set his face,
and then turned again to look at her.
"The nirl is gone mad!" he said.
"Does she think I am her father's
keeper? Where have I put him ! Have
I got him in my pocket do you think?"
The knowledge of this, It may be
guessed, did not make me reel any
the less bitterly toward stemnarai.
CHAPTER XIV.
On Monday morning the wtfole
neighborhood was alive with the
news that Mr. Birley was "to be
sold up." An execution had been put
Into his house under a bill of sale, and
an agent or auctioneer person (acting
of course by instruction) had stuck
notices announcing a sale of "furni
ture and effects" on boards in the
front-garden. Steinhardt knew there
would be no redemption of the bill,
but in his haste to be as peremptory
with his old friend as possible he had
overlooked the fact that by an act
which had come in force in the be
ginning of that year, he was bound
to give Birley five days' opportunity
to pay off the bill. Birley, therefore,
plucked up the notice boards and
threw them into the lane, and then
went and talked to the man in pos
session. But that afternoon I had business
of my own on hand: I had deter
mined to settle to my own satisfac
tion the exact spot indicated by
Frauleln Haas's vision as that where
Lacroix's remains were interred. I
mentioned the ruined mill in the be
ginning of this story, which occupied
part of a dreadfully littered little pe
ninsula formed by a curve of the
stream. More than one of its walls
had fallen, but I had particularly no
ticed frequently in passing, and had
wondered at one wall which lay as
flat as the walls of Jericho: It seemed
from the public side of the stream to
cohere as completely as when it had
been standing, expept at its outer
edges where the bricks were Broken
and dislocated. This I suspected was
the wall; and T was resolved to visit
It to see whether I could make sure
my suspicion was correct.
To get to the mill I had to pass
round to the head of the peninsula (I
wondered whether Steinhardt had
taken that route on his jonrney with
his horrible burden, or whether he
had boldly forded the stream opposite
one of the side gates to the grounds
of his works'), jhis led nre between
two old rattling mills of some sort,
past piles of lumber broken wagons
and fragments of old machinery rust
ing away past some flourishing pig
sties, constructed of old boards and
old sacks. I had to pick my way very
carefully, for it was. beset with gul
lies and holes worn out by rain tor
rents, and with entrenchments of cin
ders and "clinkers." At length I
came out upon the open space round
the mill. I approached the wall with
a shuddering but fascinated sense. In
the middle of It. toward the edge
which had been the top. was a bolted
Iron plate, answering exactly to the
requirements of Fraulein Haas's vis
ion. My eye was at once attracted to a
part of th wall, near its base, which
was altogether unlike the rest. Most
of the wall was as bare of anything
like vegetation as a mill-wall com
monly is, but this part was covered
with a fine yellowish-green fungus on
the bricks, and grass in the mortar of
the interstices. This. I was satisfied,
was the spot. Under these bricks
had lain, for eighteen months, the
mutilated remains of the unfortunate
Lacroix, probably at no great depth;
hence the eagerness of Steinhardt to
cover them with so widespreading a
tomb-slab as this fallen wall, and
hence, also, probably, this traitorous
growth of green. As I looked. I won
dered how much Steinhardt would
give now to be able to move his T-i
tanlc tombstone and remove his dead!
The wall was too secure a covering
It was the grand mistake of a strong,
resolute and originl criminal! the
enormous blunder of the bold, uncom
promising villain, entirely confident
in his security against every risk of
discovery!
I hurriedly withdrew to consider
my course of action. I began to find
that I was in an awkward dilemma,
My promise to Fraulein Haas forbade
a public examination of that spot, yet
how could my promise to Louise, that
her father's remains should be prop
erly interred how could that be ful
filled without the discovery becoming
public? There was another point
which gave me pause: suppose this
rude grave broken into, and its con
tents identified as the remains of Mr.
Lacroix, how could I show that Stein
hardt had buried them? How. then
could I bring the crime home so as to
move him as I desired?
I resolved to go to Freeman, and
talk the difficulty over with him
had seen little of my friend since his
return from London; he had been
much from home on some business
of his denomination. He did not even
know yet of the successful result of
our Inquiry upon old Jaques
I found him in bis study, inr which
he was always most at ease. In ac
cordance with his request I "posted"
him "up to date" in rov doings and
discoveries from the finding of the
French papers in Jacque's cottage,
through the revelations at Basel, to
the discovery I had made a few min
utes before. He was most impressed
with my account of the visions of
Fraulein Haas. He was something of
a mystic, of the pseudo-scientific kind
well known in these latter days, and
he would turn his attention to no oth
er point till he had found an explana
tion or tne Fraulein s experiences.
His explanation at least satisfied him
self, and it certainly was very plaus
ible. He described the phenomena
as "magnetic clairvoyance.' Here,
said he, were two people who had at
one time been deeply interested in
each other, one of whom (the more
sympathetic subject) still thought
much of the other: the one was high
ly nervous, the other was strong
willed. The strong-willed person was
in an extraordinary difficulty, in
which he had to put a resolute strain
upon all his resources of mind and
body and memory. In his casting
about in his excited mood for aid to
remove his difficulty, he might well
have thought. "If she were here!
she who has been of all beings the
most devoted to me! Or. if I were
only with her. rid of this horrible
business!" This strong wishing, this
reaching out of spirit" for her.
would sink to a mere nothing when
the difficulty of the time was once
settled, and the bond of attraction
would sink loose and lifeless, til' it
was drawn tense again, and thrilled
again with vigor when his need of her
returned upon him with a new diffi
culty. This would account for Frau
lein Haas's feeling of being drawn as
if away from herself at those times
when she had her visions.
This explanation made, he was
ready to turn with me to more press
ing points. He could not see. how
ever, any more than I could, that I
was at present likely to effect any
thing with Steinhardt by private
threats of the disclosure of my knowl
edge, by anything, indeed, but a pub
lic investigation and even that might
do little more than create a public
scandal.
You see." said Freeman, "you have
absolutely nothing yet of a reliable
kind that can point even circumstan
tially to Steinhardt as the murderer."
I could not but agree with him. and
assent to his advice to "wait." In
the meantime Steinhardt must be per
mitted to pursue his vindictive con
duct toward our dear old friend Bir
ley. and his chances of causing "fur
ther annoyance and anxiety to Miss
Lacroix. Our helplessness in the mat
ter chafed severely both Freeman and
myself.
'Is there no way at all.'T exclaim
ed, "but the w-ay of evidence to bring
the crime home to him? to really
satisfy ourselves that the crime is
his. and to make him feel that we
know it Is?"
"Have you any objection." said he.
rising as if anticipating I would have
none, to take my wife into counsel.
She sometimes has a clear idea in
her head."
I said I certainly would like Mrs.
Freeman to consult with us. and in a
few moments she was sitting oppo
site me. I told her the whole mat
ter, and pointed out the difficulty of
the situation.
"So," said she. "you want to get at
some way of bringing it home to
him. as you say. If. now, you could
only hit upon something like Ham
let's play to catch the King."
"Ah. yes, Hamlet!" we both ex
claimed.
This was our first formative hint.
and I need not describe in detail how
from that, through aimless-seeming
discussion, and wild suggestion of one
sort and another.
a plan was at
I shall but state
length developed.
the result.
Friday. and Saturday of that very
week were the days of what are
known as Timperley Wakes. They
had in the past, I understood, been
celebrated with wild orgies of drink
ing, "mumming." and dancing round
and through bonfires. But this "pass-
ing through the fire to Moloch" was
no longer a pastime of the people; It
had become the dull daily occupation
of their lives. The only orgies now
known were drinking and fighting,
and spending small sums at the
booths of the fair. The church naa
for some years -exerted itseir 10 pro
TrtAa nfhar recreation for some at
ion st nf the Deonle. In accordance
with this , usage there was advertised
for Friday evening a mild tea enter
tainment, to be followed by "Grand
Dissolving Views," which last Free
man had learned would be shown bv
a fine new magic lantern Stetnnarat
had just presented to the Sunday
school. Steinhardt was going to hon
or the affair with his presence. Our
plan then was this: I would contrive
through the new curate (whose ac
quaintance I had already made) to
ret a sight of the magic lantern and
judre of the size of its slides; I
would straightway go into the town
and buy a certain number of blank
slides of that size. On these Mrs.
Freeman, who had a knack of such
things, would paint the chief scenes
of our tragedy. I must then prevail
upon the curate, or upon whatever
person I could learn was to have the
management of the lantern, to Intro
duce them in order at the end of the
exhibition.
To carry out our plan with success
demanded dispatch. I discovered
that very evening, bv going casually
Into my landlady's kitchen, that her
herculean son was going to have
charge of the magic lantern, he was
at that moment busilv making ac
quaintance with it. The rest of my
task was therefore easy.
(To be continued)
THERE WAS A MISTAKE.
Why the Colonel Stopped His Score of
Chinamen at Five.
"I had read," said the colonel, as
he was relating some of his experi
ences in China, "that if a person fell
into the water no one could pull him
out, holding that his falling in was a
decree of Providence that must not
be interfered with.
"One day. on one of the canals, I
stumbled and went overboard, and,
although there were twelve boatmen,
not one of them would extend me a
hand. After a close shave, as I can
not swim, I got aboard again, and as
soon as I recovered my breath I yell
ed at the boss boatman:
" 'You infernal scoundrel, why
didn't you help me out?'
" 'It was your fate to fall in,' he
calmly replied.
" 'And it's you fate to take a good
licking!' I said as I went for him.
"TMhen I had finished him off I took
another, and I was just polishing oft
my fifth victim when the sixth man
halted me to say:
'There seems to be a mistake
here. We are taught that if a person
falls Into the water he must save
himself, or drown, but we pre not
taught that if he does save himself
he is at liberty to lick half of China
in revenge.'
"I thought his point well taken."
laughed the colonel, and I stopped my
score at five and went down to change
into dry clotnes.
Cigar Brands.
There are between 1.500 000 and
2,000,000 brands of cigars sold in this
country, and your average smoker
thinks that every brand means a dif
ferent kind of tobacco. As a matter
of fact. 150 Is an outside estimate of
the different kinds pf tobacco that
can be' procured from all sources, and
even experts can't tell some of these
apart.
Expert Pulse Reader.
"I suppose." said the physician.
smiling, and trying to appear witty
while feeling the pulse of a ladv pa
tient "I suppose you consider me an
old humbug?"
"Why. doctor," replied the ladv. "I
had no idea you could ascertain a wo
man s thoughts by merely feeling her
pulse." Tid Bits.
A Familiar Response.
Cholly I called on that nrettv Miss
Pompadour, who clerks at the ribbon
counter at Sellall & Whooper's de
partment store, last night.
tieorge Have a nice call?
Cholly No; she sent down word
that she was sorry, but she was "just
out!" Puck.
When He Decided.
Edith You know that new horse
papa named after you? Well, he's
proved to be quite worthless and Dana
is going to shoot him.
Ferdy Indeed! But I didn't know
he named him after me.
Edith WeM, he didn't till he de
cided to shoot him. Puck.
Plesant for A he Cfller.
'Mamma is dressing."
'Why, she needn't have dressed
just for me. dearie."
"She knows that: but she said the
more .time she killed' in dressing the
less time you'd have to bore her"
Indianapolis News.
Looking Ahead. .
'But," she said, "we are little mnro
that strangers as yet. you know."
Yes. he answered, "but dnn'f lot
that interfere. We can break oft the
engagement after we get better ae
ouainted. if necessary." Chicago
Record-Herald.
Of Course It Was.
Yeast I was in a book store this
morning, and saw a copy of a book
called "A Girl's Birthdav" in?t k
lished.
Crimsonbeak T suppose it was
marked down? Yonk.ers Statesman.
Cinematograph for the 8'ind.
A cinematograph for the Mind Soo
! neen invented Dy Dr. Dussand, a
j French physician. The successive
stages of the picture are embossed on
rfbeets of tin and made to revolve rap-
idly between the fingers of the blind
person.
Trusts of Marble Men.
The Carrara marble exporters have
formed a trust which will affect the
price of the more than three-quarters
of a million dollars' worth of monu
ment marble the United States buys
at that Italian town.
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OUN
OLKSC?
For Parlor K
Let a candle burn until it has a good.
long snuff, then blow it oat with , a
sudden puff. A bright wreath of white
Smoke Will Cnrl nn from th tint -nrioVr
now, if . a flame be applied to thfs
snioKe, even at a distance of two or
3T three inches from the candle, the
flame will run down the smoke and re
kindle the wick fn a very fantastic
manner. To perforin this exneriment
nicely there must be no draught or
Danging" doors while the mystic snell
is rising. ,
CANDLE IS MVSTEBIOUSLY LIGHTED.
Very few people are. aware of the
height of the crown of a stovepipe
hat. "A good deal of fun may be cre
ated by testing it in thl3 way: Ask
a person to point out on a wall with
a cane about what he supposes to be
the height of an ordinary hat, and he
will place the cane usually at about a
foot from the ground. You then place
a hat under it, and to his surprise he
finds that the space indicated is more
than double the height of the hat.
Take a pint of water and dissolve in
RAT MEASUREMENT.
it as much common salt as It will take,
up; with this brine half fill a tall glass;
then fill up the remaining space with
plain water, pouring it in very care
fully down the side of the glass or
into a spoon, to break its fall. The
pure water will then float upon the
brine, and, in appearance, the two
liquids will seem but as one. Now take
another glass and fill It with common
water. If an egg be put Into this it
will instantly sink to the bottom, see
figure 4; but If, on the contrary, the
egg is put into the glass containing the
ri
THE MAGIC EGO.
brine, it will sink through the plain
water only, and float upon that por
tion which is saturated with salt,1 ap
pearing to be suspended In a very re
markable and curious manner; see fig
ure 3.
This trick has caused much aston
ishment when publicly exhibited, al
though Its principle could be explain
ed by every housewife who, before
"pickling." tries the strength of the
brine by observing If an egg will float
on It.
For the Boys.
Boys, I saw a good Story the other
day of a boy who did not think
enough. A shabbily dressed young
man went to the manager of a large
store to see if he could get a bltua
tion. The manager asked him what
he could do, and he replied: "Most
anything." "Can you dust?" "Yes,
Indeed." "Then why don't you begin
on your hat?" The young man hadn't
thought of that. v "Can you clean leath
er goods?" "Oh, yes." "Then it's
carelessness on your, part that your
shoes are not clean." The young man
hadn't thought of that. "Can you
scrub?" "Yes, indeed," was the reply.
"Then 1 can give you "something to do.
Go out and try your strength on that
collar you hav on. But don't come
back."
So you see a great deal in this world
depends on what we do, and not on
what we can do. If this boy had have
"only paid a little more attention to
his personal appearance in all probabil
ity he would have secured a good sit
uation. No matter how poor his bat
and shoes may have been. theycould
have been dusted and cleaned. A boy
that is so careless as to go shabby
from dirt, would be careless with any
work intrusted to him, aad It Is not
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surprising for one to suppose such
fellow would be a shabby worker. So
you see it is very necessary to think
of such things and show by your ap
pearance what yon really do, and not
boast of what yon can do.
Travels of an Iceberg;.
From the regions around the north
and south poles there are perpetually
starting on journeys, which may . be
long or short, according to the cur
rents of the ocean, a great number of
Icebergs. Many of these ice hills, are
of large size, and wander far before
they are at last melted by the heat of
the tropical seas, into which they have
been 'carried. Bergs setting out from
Baffin's Bay, up Greenland way, have
traveled as far as the Azores before
vanishing forever that Is to say, some
2,500 miles, or even more. Sometimes
they are a source of serious danger to
the greyhounds of the Atlantic and
other vessels, because they cross the
track ef many of these steamers. It is
no joke to run into a berg at dead of
night, and close watch has constantly
to be kept at certain seasons. Bergs
setting out from near the south pole
have occasionally reached close to the
Cape of Good Hope ere disappearing.
a jouruey almost as long as that un
dertaken by some of their northern
relatives.
What's Your Name?
When a boy, the great French author
Alphonse Daudet was very poor, but
he was allowed to attend, without pay
ing any fees, a school in which the
majority of the pupils were the sons
of rich men. His appearance at the
school, dressed in a blouse, which only
the . very poor wore, was the occasion
of many taunts and jeers from his
school fellows, aud even the master
never called him by his name, but ad
dressed him as "What's you name,'
says the American Boy. But the boy
never heeded the 111 will nor the
sneers; he determined that he would
make something of himself, saying,
"If I am to take any position in this
school I must work twice as hard as
the others." By steadfast persistency
and courageous determination,-be did
succeed, and when his name had be
come famous he wrote a story in mem
ory of those days of hardship and pov
erty, and called it "Little What's-Hls-
Naine."
STRANGE PHOTO OF CHRIST.
Picture of Holy Shroud Said to Reveal
a Mysterious Face.
The sensational story that portraits
of the dead body of Christ have been
obtained at Turin by photographing
the holy shroud preserved in the ca
thedral there has been rev Jyed. by. the
Figaro and Is causing a huge stir. The
famous relic, which belongs to the
royal house of Savoy and is recognized
as authentic, shows numerous blood
staius, which are faint ordinarily, but
it is alleged that they turn a vivid scar
let on Holy Friday.
Nearly two years ago a Turin photog
rapher asserted that negatives of the
shroud revealed a perfect resemblance
to Jesus. The plates were examined
by church authorities, who found that
they bore evidence of clever retouching
and therefore a sensation was nipped
in the bud. Now the photos are ex
hibited in the lobby of the Figaro's
building and thousands are thronging
to the place every day to see them.
A good idea of what they look like
may be had from any of the later and
bearded portraits of Alphonse Daudet.
The forehead is terribly lacerated and
the hands are crossed over the body.
The nails do not appear to have been
driven through the palms of the hands,
as It Is generally believed they were,
but through the wrists.
Concurrently with the exhibiting of
the photographs two eminent physi
cians, Drs. Delage and Vignon, have
communicated to the Academy of Sci
ence theories explaining the miracle,
basing their argument on M. Gautier's
discovery tfiat the body of a dying man
emits an alkaline perspiration, and M.
Colson's previous discovery that cer
tain chemicals could impress sensitized
plates in absolute darkness or leave
traces Invisible to the human eye, but
capable of being photographed, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. Delage and
Vignon believe Christ's dying torture
emitted a perspiration which enabled
the shroud to preserve an invisible like
ness, which now for the first time has
been revealed by the photo negative.
Some prominent scientists ridicule
the ingenious theories. M. Berthelot,
for instance, said:
'First, the negatives, it has been
proved, were doctored. Second, after
nineteen eenturies such chemical forces
would have long evaporated. Third, it
is impossible to wrap a shroud in such
a manner as to obtain the continuous
perfect imprints shown in those pic
tures." The Real Andrew Carnegie.
Writing in Leslie's Weekly Harrv
Beardsley describes Andrew Carnegie
as "a little smiling, white-haired, man,
unaffected in manner, with nothlug
whatever imposing in his bearing.
without what is commonly called a
'presence,' or. in expressive Slang, a
'front' a man so diminutive that he is
onnsnictious in contrast with other men
and women surrounding him. He seems
so small, so gentle and modest that
you look in vain in his conduct at tbiit
time for some of the forceful personal
traits which he possesses traits which
he has exercised to thrust himself
ahead of those who were in the race
with him."
Liargest Dome in the World.
The largest dome in the world is that
of the Lutheran Church at Warsaw. It3
Interior diameter is 200 feet. That of
the British Museum Library is 130 feet.
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Man's inhumanity to man has made j
thousands of lawyers wealthy.
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Treating; Rot n Peaches.
The brown rot of peaches is generally
familiar to growers of this fruit, but
many are careless In. ridding their or
chards of the pest, probably because
they do not appreciate the damage the
fungous growth does. The illustration
fairly shows how the mummified
peaches look when attacked with this
disease. Not only Is the fruit attacked
by rthls disease, but the twigs are also
affected, and the growth Is much more
formidable during a damp growing sea
son than a dry one.
It seems unnecessary to say that
much of the trouble from this difficulty
could be avoided; that Is, the disease
might be checked. If these mummified
specimens were picked from the trees
before the buds appear In the spring.
As with most fungous diseases of
fruit trees, this brown rot may be large
ly overcome by spraying. It would oc
cupy too much space to go Into the de-
MUMMIFIED PEACHES.
tails of this disease here and tell how
to combat it hence the reader. If a
peach-grower, wherever Jocated, is ad
vised to send a request to the director
of the Georgia Experiment Station, lo
cated at Experiment Station Postofflce,
Ga. If not a resident of Georgia,
end a 2-cent stamp for -the bulletin s.nd
ask for Bulletin No. 50.
Repeated Trials of Crops.
Every farmer who has tried the plan
knows that he frequently fails to get
a satisfactory crop of some grain or
vegetable, and does not always suc
ceed in getting, a stand of the crops
sown for stock. This is often the case
with crimson clover, and sometimes
with' the cow pea and with alfalfa.
Several recent communications from
correspondents who have adopted the
suggestion offered In this column re
garding alfalfa state that they tried
the plan, but did not get a satisfac
tory stand, and hence would give It
up. This is wrong, as the writer can
testify, for on several occasions he has
failed to get a satisfactory stand with
out any apparent cause for the fail
ure except in one instance, when the
seed was poor.
On the other hand, other sowings
have brought good stands,' and addi
tional trials on the same land where
previous failures had been made re
Suited in success. If tests otr small
plots show that certain crops can be
grown on the farm, one ought not to be
discouraged at a single failure, espe
cially with such a crop as alfalfa,
which promises so much to the Amer
ican farmer.
Milking in Australia.
In Australia they have a novel way
of milking in some of the large dairies.
which precludes the access of dirt and
filth to the milk pail
while milking. It Is
milking glove or
tube. The valve cs
oyer the teat and is
connected with a
b n g narrow tuba
which leads to a
covered pall. The
orifices in the lid of
the pail are Just
large enough to admit the tubes into
the pall and are not attached to them.
The plan seems to be the most feasible
of any of the devices for 'he purpose of
excluding foreign substances from the
milk pall. It is very important that all
deleterious substances be kept from the
milk pail in any way that can be em
ployed consistent with economy.
To Destroy Potato Buss.
Hand-picking of potato bugs . is a
slow process, and if the spot is a large
one many of the plants will be in
jured by the beetles before the work Is
finished. On the appearance of . the
pests go over the plot and spray with
parls green, which destroys them
quicker than by any other method.
Delay in so doing, even for a day, may
result In the vines being- so seriously
injured as to render it impossible for
them to recover their vitality, the
yield of the'erop being consequently r
duced to a certain extent.
Economy on the Farm.
Economy on the farm Is only possible
when all work together In harmony.
This refers not only to the outside de
partment, but also to the harmonious
working of the household with this
department. It is possible for the
housewife to practice little economies
which in turn more than leak away In
the extravagances on the farm. While
It Ls a good plan to practice economy,
yet health should never be sacrificed
for the dollars, neither should the edu
cation of children be neglected for the
mere purpose of laying np a bank ac
count. It Is never a good plan to plant
more than can be properly cared for, as
there Is sure to be some waste from
this practice. Where It is possible It is
recommended that the money-borrowing
practice should be indulged in to a
very slight extent, as it generally re
sults In extravagance In the end.
Treatment of Meadows.
If the portion of the farm that Is In
meadow is Inclined to be wet and cold
the chances are It is also more or less
acid, hence will be much benefited by a
top dressing of lime, and this dressing
should be in liberal quantities, a ton
per acre not being too much.
Where some reseeding is necessary,
and this point should be looked after
carefully, the application of the lime
should be made after the seed Is sown.
This reseeding will be found beneficial
on ten meadows out of fifteen, and If
it Is .done now the meadow will be
good for several seasons without more
seeding, under normal conditions of
weather.
Timothy, clover and red top makes a
good mixtures for reseeding. and may
be applied in quantities according to
the needs of the field,-usually about'
double the quantity of timothy seed be
ing used to either of the other grasses.
It will be understood that the liming
of the soil referred to does not In any
sense take the place of the annual top
dressing, with fertilizers that should
be applied to all meadows, but is sim
ply designed to sweeten acid soils.
Grain ane Dairy Farming.
An Important difference between
dairy farming and grain farming is
the amount of the farm that is sold
with the product that Is of the fertility
of the farm. The man who sells a
ton of wheat sells in it about $7 worth
of fertilizing elements, and If he does
not buy something to replace them his
farm is so much poorer. The dairy
man who seals a ton of butter has sold
but 50 cents' worth of fertilizing ma
terial, and if he is a good dairyman,
he has probably added much more than
that, or twenty times that to the value
of the farm in ti.e bran, oil meal, cot
ton seed, or other food that he pur
chased while feeding bis cows for mak
ing that ton of butter. It Is In this
way that the dairyman's farm Is con
tinua.ly growing more productive, and
if he does not make much from his
dairy, he should from the crops that
he can grow on his much enriched soil.
American Cultivator.
Bloating Cows.
There Is always more or less com
plaint regarding the bloating of cows
during the first weeks after they have
been turned out to pasture. Doubtless
a part of the trouble Is due to the an
imal, long deprived of green food, over
loading her stomach and at the same
time drinking copiously of water.
Oftentimes, however, the trouble is
either due to improper feeding or else
the animal has an attack of indiges
tion. In either case the remedy is in
an entire change of diet, avoiding any
food that Is not of the best quality
and confining the grain ration to such
as are of easy digestion.
The quality of the-water drunk by
the animal should be looked into care
fully and particularly if the water is
from a stream in the pasture. If there
is the slightest doubt about the quality
of the water, the source of supply
should be changed.
Value of Buckwheat.
Do not overlook buckwheat, especial
ly where bees are kept. It will grow
on poor land, and If not desired for Its
grain makes an excellent crop for plow
ing under. It provides forage for bees
at a time when many other plants are
not In flower.
Dairy Notes.
See that each cow eats her
food
clean.
Cows fed on rich food make rich ma
nure. Better five cows on full feed than ten
ou scant rations.
Try an Increase in rations before con
demning a cow.
Skill in feeding will make a vast dif
ference In -the profits.
If butter is overworked It will show
an oily or greasy look.
Do not let the cream get thick 60ur;
churn when slightly acid.
A good separator does wonderfully
close skimming if intelligently han
dled. One essential to success In dairying
is a cow fitted for a special purpose.
Fall and winter calves will make
fully as good dairy cows as spring
calves.
Rich food will make rich milk and
rich milk will make the most cream
and butter.
In dairying especially, economy of
land means the fewest acres and the
most cows.
There is no complicated work about
making gilt-edged butter. If one will
only follow the right principles in the
art.
One of the best ways lo Judge a
cow's worth Is to milk her; the result
will usually be more satisfactory.
Much of the butter made on the farm '
loses much of its value before reaching
market by Improper handling.
If you are after a good dairy coWi It
is not desirable to lay too much stress
on having a good beef animal too.
A pound of butter can be produced so
as to give a better profit than a quart
of 'milk, if proper management, is
given.
It Is often found that the animal giv
ing the most milk, is not the one that
gives the most butter fat. A smaller
yield of milk with a higher per cent
of butter fat may make the cow the
real leader of the herd.