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SEMI-WEEKLY. SXKS'S&iT'&i'Ei.. I Consolidated Feb., 1899. CORVALLIS, BEOTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1902. VOL. III. NO. 21. A STUDY IN SCARLET BY A. CONAN DOYLE. CHAPTER VI Continued. After a very brief pause the detec tice continued : "Of course after that there was nothing more to be done. I found out .here Lieutenant Charpentier was, "' 'took two ofBcers with me and arrested him.- When I touched him on the shoulder and warned him to come quietly with us, he answered us as bold as brass: -l suppose you are arresting me for being concerned in the death 6f that scoundrel Drebber,' he "said. We had said nothing to him about it, so that his alluding to it had a most suspicious aspect." "Very," said Holmes. "He still carried the heavy stick which the mother described him as having with him when he followed Drebber. It was a stout oak cudgel." "What is your theory, then?" "Well, my theory is that he followed Drebber as far as the Briston road. When there a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick in the pit of the stomach, per haps, which killed him without leav ing any mark. The night was so wet that no one was about, so Charpentier ' 'dragged the body of his victim into the empty house. As to the candle and The blood and the writing on the wall and tbo ring, they may all be so many tricks to throw the police on to Ihe wrong scent." "Well done!" said Holmes in an en couraging voice. "Really, Gregson, you are getting along. We shall make something of you yet." "I flatter myself that I have man aived it rather neatly." the detective answered proudly.- "The young man volunteered a statement in which he said that after following Drebber some time,, the ' latter perceived him and took a cab in order to get away from him. On his way home he met an old shipmate and took a long-walk with him.. On being asked where this old shipniate lived, he was unable to give ;my satisfactory reply. I think the whole case Jits together uncom monly well. What amuses me is to think of Lestrade, who had started off upon the wrong scent. I am afraid he won't make much of it. Why, by Jove! here's the very man himself!" It was. indeed, Lestrade, who had ascended the stairs while we were talking, and who now entered the room. The assurance and jauntiness .which generally marked his demeanor and dress were, however wanting. His face was disturbed and trou bled, while his clothes were disar ranged and untidy. He had evidently come with the in tention of consulting with Sherlock Holmes, for on perceiving his col league he appeared to be embarrassed and put out. He stood in the center of the room, fumbling nervously with his hat, and uncertain what to do. "This is a most extraordinary case," he said, at last "a most incompre hensible affair." "Ah, you find it so, Mr. Lestrade?" cried Gregson, triumphantly. "I thought you would come to that con clusion. Have you managed to hnd the secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson?" "The secretary, Mr. Joseph Stanger son," said Lestrade, gravely, "was murdered at Halliday's Private Hotel about 6 o'clock this morning." CHAPTER VII. Light in the Darkness. The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected that we were all three fair ly dumfounded. Gresrson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whisky and . water. I stared in silence ' at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes. "Stangerson, too!" he muttered, "The plot thickens" "it was quite thick enough before." grumbled Lestrade, taking a chair. "I seem to have dropped into a sort of council of war." "Are you are you sure of this piece of intelligence?" stammered Gregson. " "I have just come from his room." said Lestrade. "I was the first to dis cover what had occurred." "We have been hearing Gresrson's view of the matter," Holmes observed. "Would you mind letting us know what you have seen and done?" "I have no objection," Lestra-le an swered, seating himself. "I freely con fess that I was of the opinion that Stangerson was concerned in the death of Drebber.- This fresh development has shown me that I was completely mistaken. Full of the one idea. I set roypelf to find out what had become of the secretary. They had been seen together at Euston Station about half past eight on the evening of the third. At two in the morning Drebber had been found in the Brixton Road. The ouestion which confronted me was to find out how Stangerson had been em ploved between 8:30 aid the time of the crime and what h!d become of him afterward. I telegraphed to Liverpool, givini a descriotion of the man and warning them to keep a wntch UDon th American boats. I then set to work calling upon all the hotels and lodeing houses in the vicinity of Euston. You see. I argued that if Drebber and his companion had become separated the natural course of the latter would be to put up somewhere In the vicinity for the night find then hnng about the stft'on nsain next morning." "They would be likelv to aeree on som meeting-place beforehand," -re-ma'-ke'" Holmes. "So it proved. I spent the whole of vesterday evening in making inquiries entirely without avail. This morning I began verv early, and at eight o'clock I reached Halliday's Private Hotel, ir Little George street. On .my inquiry as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was living there, they an once answered me In the affirmative. "No doubt you are the gentleman he was expecting, they said. "He had been waiting for a gentleman for two flays.' j Si Si s s & " "Where is he now?' I asked. " 'He is upstairs in bed. He wished to be called at nine.' "It seemed to me that my sudden appearance might shake his nerves and lead him to say something un guarded. The Boots volunteered to show me the room; it was on the sec ond floor, and there was a small cor ridor leading up to it. The Boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to go down stairs again, when I saw something that .made me feel sick ish, in spite of my twenty years ex perience. From under the door there curled a little red ribbon of blood, which had meandered across the pas sage and formed a little pool along the skirting at the other side. I gave a cry which brought the Boots back. He nearly fainted when he saw it. The door was locked on the inside, but we put our shoulders to it and knocked it in. The window of the room waa open, and beside the window, all hud dled up, lay the body of a man in his night-dress. He was quite dead, and had been for some time, for his limbs were rigid and cold. When we turned him over the Boots recognized him at once as being the same gentleman who had engaged the room under the name of James Stangerson. The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which must have penetrated the heart. And now comes the strangest part of the affair. What do you sup pose was above the murdered man?" I felt a creeping of flesh and a .pro sentiment of coming horror, even be fore Sherlock Holmes answered. "The word 'Rache." written in let ters of blood," he said. "That was it," said Lestrade, In an awstruck voice: and we were all silent for a while. There was something "so methodical and so incomprehensible about the rfeedf of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes. My nerves, which were steady enough on the field of battle, tingled as I thought of it. "The man was seen," continued Les trade. "A milkboy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some car penter or joiner at work in the hotel. He took no particular notice of him, beyond thinking in his own mind that it was early for him to be at work. He baa an impression that tpe man was tall, had a reddish face, and thought it was early for him to be at work. He must have stayed in the room some little time alter the murder, for we found blood-stained water in the basin, where he had washed his hands, and marks on the sheet, where he had de liberately wiped his knife." I glanced at Holmes on hearing the description of the murderer which tal lied so exactly with his own. There was, however, no trace of exul tation or satisfaction upon his face. "Did you find nothing in the room which could furnish a clew to the mur-. derer?" he asked. "Nothing. Stangerson had Drebber's nurse in his pocket, but it seems that this was usual, as he did all the pay ing. There was eighty-odd pounds in it. but nothing had been taken. What ever the motives of these extraordinary crimes, robbery is certainly not one of them. There were no papers or mem oranda in the murdered man's pockets, except a single telesxam, dated from Cleveland about a month ago. and con taining the words. J. H. is in Eurooe.' There was no name appended to this messaee." "And there was nothing else?" Holmes asked. "Nothing of any importance. The. man's novel, with which he had read himself to sleep, was lying unon the bed. and his pipe was on a chair be side him.- There was a glass of water on the table, and on the window sill a small chip ointment box containing a co"nle of nills." ' . - , Sherlock Holmes snrang fwi his chair with an ercln.mation of dplteht. "The last link." ie cried, exultantly. "Mv case is comTilfte." The two detectives stared at him in amazement. "I have now in my hands." my com panion said confidently, "all the threads which have formed sucn a tangle. There are, of course, details to be filled in, but I am certain of all the main facts, from the time that Drebber part ed from Stangerson at the station, up to the discovery of the body of the latter, as if I had seen them with my own eyes. I will give you proof of my knowledge. Could you lay your hands upon those pills?" "I have them." said Lestrade, pro ducing a small white box: "I took them and the purse and the telegram, in tending to have them put in a place of safety at tne police station. It was the merest chance my taking these pills, for I am bound to say that I do not attach any importance to them." "Give them here," said Holmes. "Now, doctor," turning to .me, "are those ordinary pills?" They certainly were not. They were of a pearly gray color, small, round. and almost transparent against the light. "From their lightness and transpar ency, Ishould imagine that they are soluble"-in water," I remarked. . "Precisely so." answered Holmes. "Now, would you mind going down and fetching that poor little devil of a ter rier which has been bad so long, and which the landlady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday?" I went downstairs and carried the dog upstairs in my arms. - Its labored breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow white muzzle pro claimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed it upon a cushion on the rug. - "I will now cut one of these pills In , two," said Holmes, and drawing his penknife, he suited the action to the ! word. "One half we return into the i box for future purposes. The other half 1 1 will place in this wine glass, in which Is a teaspoonful of water. . You per I ceive that our friend, the doctor, is right, and that it readily dissolves. "This may be very interesting, said Lestrade, in the injured tone of one who suspects that he is being laughed at. "I can not see, however, what it has to do with the death of Mr. Joseph Stangerson." "Patience, my friend, patience. Yon will find in time that is has everything to do with it. I shall now add a little milk to make the mixture palatable, and on presenting it to the dog you will find that he laps it up readily enough." As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrior, who speedily licked it dry. Sherlock Holmes' earnest demeanor had so far convinced us that we all sat in silence, watching the animal intent ly and expecting some startling effect. None such appeared, however. The dog continued to He stretched upon the cushion, 'breathing in a labored way, but apparently neither the better nor the worse for its draught. Holmes had taken out his watch, and as minute followed minute without re sult, an expression of the utmost cha grin and disappointment appeared up on his features. He gnawed his lip, drummed his fin gers upon the table and showed every other symptom of acute impatience. So- great was his emotion that I felt sincerely sorry for him, while the two detectives smiled derisively, by no means displeased at this check which he had met, "It can't be coincidence," he cried at last, springing from his chair and pacing wildly up and down the room: "it is impossible that is should be a .mere coincidence. The very pills which. I suspected in the case of Drub ber are actually found after the death of Stangerson. And yet they are inert. What can it mean? Surely my whole chain or reasoning cannot have been false. It is. impossible! And yet this wretched dog is none the worse. Ah, I have it, I have it!" With a perfect shriek of delight he rushed to the box, cut the other pill in two. dissolved it, added milk, and presented it to the terrier. The unfortunate . creature's tongue hardly seemed to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and life less as if it had been struck by light ning. Sherlock Holmes drew a long breath and wiped the perspiration from his forehead. "I should have more faith," he said; T ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation. Of the two pills in that box one was the most deadly poison and the other was entirely harmless. I ought to have known that before ever I saw the box at all." This last statement appeared to me to be so startling that I could hardly believe that he was in his sober senses. There was the dead dog, however, to prove that his conjecture had been cor rect. It seemed to me that the mists in my own mind were gradually clearing away, and I began to have a dim, vague perception of the truth. "All this seems strange to you," con tinued Holmes, "because you failed at the beginning of the inquiry to grasp the importance of the single real clew which was presented to you. I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred sinae then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed was the logical sequence of it. Hence, things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure have served to enlighten me and to strength en .my conclusions. It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it pre sents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This mtirder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outer and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from mak ing the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so." (To be Continued.) ! Things That May $ j M interest You. jig I ' Over a million persons die yetrly in Europe of consumption. Five hnndreda nd eighty-seven dis tinct languages are epoken in Europe. Out of 2,599 murders of Christiana j in Turkey last year there were only 61 i casus in which the murderers were pun ; iehed. ! The longest railway run in the world ' without changing is on the Canadian ! Pacific, from Halifax to Vancouver. ! 3,662 milea. The biggest orchard in the world is near Santa Barbara, Cal. It covers 1,700 acres and contains 31,000 fruit and nut trees. The amount of heat generated by a man's body in a day's work ia sufficient to raise 63 pounds of water from freez bing to oiling point. Lord Kelvin, who ia- now 78 yeara of age, is entitled to place no less than 26 letters, indicating varioua titles of hon or, after his name. - During the past ten years immigra tion to America from Germany, Ireland and England has decreased, while that from Italy, Asutria and Russia has in creased. Three are 6,000 mouka on - the prom- j ontory of Athos. They pay tothesul-i tatn 2,000 pounds a year for the privi-1 lege of being allowed to govern them selves. The number of ships in the Ameri can whaling fleet haa fallen off in the last twelve years from 97 fo to 40, and much the same ia the case with the Scotch whaling industry. j TOUN Folks Hla Stepma. I knowed a little codger once. As onery as could be; - He'd chaw and swear, run off from school, And pester beast and tree; Kept all the neighbors' dogs afeared And half their winders broke; There couldn't for that -Tommy Tuff One praisin' word be spoke. - But by and by his ma was dead His pa met Widder Green And courted herf she parleyed son 'Cause Tommy was so mean. But last she said she'd give consent If neighbors, friends, and kin- " Would promise to let meddlin out While she broke Tommy in. These mentioned, knowin things was bad, Saw something must be done. So all agreed to keep hands off And let his stepma run ! The youngster; well, she used the twig ' I A little, but not much; But, gracious! How she used the ax J And 'tater hoe and such! She kept that boy a choppin wood And doin' turns and chores, And hoein' corn and garden sass And scrubbin' steps an' floors Till he was glad to go to school To get a little restfs Yet she was monstrous kind and good Soon- as he'ddone his best. His busy hands stirred up his wits, And soon that boy at school Was leadin' all his classes: him They used to call a fool! He studied doctorin, got to be A most uncommon man, AH 'cause his stepma worked the vim That once to meanness ran. The nerve that playin' hookey takes Might turn a whole school down, ' And that which breaks a winder light Might sometimes build a town. There's lots of onery Jittle tykes A loafin' 'round the streets Need only work to make 'em men Instead of triflin' beats. Denver News. Making Figures with Carboard. . SOME OF THE FIGURES. HOW TO CUT THE CABBBOABD. Cut the square of cardboard in seven parts, following the white lines, end you will be able to make many amus ing .figures, also all the letters of the alphabet. Bnth'a "Thank Yon" letter. Ruth skipped to the door to see what the mall carrier was bringing. Then came a delighted squeal, and she danc ed back, her eyes shining as she tore the envelope, and something "fat and soft" fell out. "Oh! oh! Look, mother! A lace handkerchief for me, and I never had one before. And here's a note, and it says, 'For my dear niece Ruth, from her Aunt Mary, with her love in every one of the stitches.'" ' "It Is a beauty," said mother. "You will want to write and thank aunty for it, and you surely ought to send a very nice letter for such a pretty present See if you can make every letter right, Just as aunty did every stitch." Ruth was seven, and had learned to write so well that her father, who was a traveling man, was very proud of the letters his little girl sent him. .He always kept them, and carried them round in his vest pocket. She knew about capitals and periods and com mas; Bhe could spell the words In the First Reader, and some in the Second Reader, too. When she wrote, every letter was round like chubby Ruth herself, and as plain as print "Ver diggle writing," explained Ruth. -.'My 'thank you letter's all done," announced Ruth, with a tired sigh. "I'll read it to you, mother, and you tell me if it's . nice enough to send to aunty for that dear, lovely, beautiful handkerchief." Then Ruth read this aloud: "Dear Aunty The map you sent me Is the sweetest one I. ever had in all my life. It is too pretty to use, so I am going to stick it in the front of my best dress, the way mother does hers. I send you my love and a big, big thank you, and this nice round kiss. Your loving niece, Ruth." "Did I hear you read 'map' ?'K ex claimed Mrs. Seymour: and Bhe lifted the letter for a look. .-. "Oh, well, course it was a handker chief,' said Ruth, cheerfully, "but I put 'map' on purpose, 'cause you said this had to be a nice letter, and I must get every word right And I didn't know how to spell handkerchief, and I did know, how to spell map, so I put map. But map'll be all right," declar ed Ruth, with confidence, " 'cause aunty knows what she sent me, course she does." - So Ruth's thank you letter was sent Just as it was; and aunty knew what Ruth meant of course she did and was delighted to see that her young niece had spelled every word exactly right Youth's Companion. ' Watching- for Fanlta. : "When I was a boy," -said an old man. "I was often very idle, and during the lesson used to play with other boys as Idle as myself. One day we were fair ly caught by the master. 'Boys,, he said, 'you must not be idle; yon must attend closely to your books. The first one of you who sees another boy idle will please come and tell me.' " "Ah!" I thought to myself, "there is Joe Simmons, whom I don't like. Ill watch him, and if I see him look off his book I'll tell the teacher." "It was not long until I saw Joe look off his book, and I went up at once to tell the master. " 'Indeed,' said he, 'how did you know he was idle?' "'I saw him,' said I. . . -' " 'You did? And were your eyes on your book when you saw him?' . "I was caught, and the 'other boys laughed, and I never watched for 'die boys again." If we watch over our own conduct, and try to keep It right and always do our duty, we will not have time to watcfi for faults or idleness In others. This will keep us out of mischief and make us helpful to others. Baltimore Methodist. The Banana Plant.' The banana was named musa after Antoninus Musa, the freedman and physician of the great Augustus of the Romans, says Linnaeus. The sapien tum the wiseness in Its name is a graceful tribute to it as the "wise man's food," for, incredible as It may seem, It is perhaps the best food pro duct of the earth, being far more pro ductive than either wheat or potatoes the staple food of other nations. Long ago It was calculated that it is 133 times as productive as wheat and 44 times as productive as the potato; in other words, that the ' ground that would give 33 pounds of wheat or 99 pounds of potatoes ; would, as far as mere space is concerned, give 4,000 pounds of bananas, and with a frac tional amount of the same trouble. It has been called the "Prince of the Trop ics," because It takes the same place, only to an even greater degree, in these hot countries that wheat, rye and bar ley take in 'West Asia and Europe, n.nd that rice takes in India and China. Man in the Moon Off Doty. "I think' the man in the moon must be sick," said little Fred, one dark night. "Why, dear?" asked his mother. " 'Cause," replied the youthful ob server, "he didn't light up to-night" Willing to Take Chances. A little girl wanted more buttered toast, but was told that she'd had enough and that more would make her ill. "Well," said she, "give me anuz zer piece and send for the doctor." IDLERS AND THE OVERWORKED. Both Claaaea Need Pity One Is Aim less and the Other Is Driven. In fine, I hardly know who are most to be pitied, the rich or Idle and lazy, who underwork, or the very poor who must overwork to live. The former grow flabby or tense, according to their heredity, in both muscle and mind, be come fastidious, flnnicky and senti mental, are specially prone to yield to temptations, must aimlessly change their interests, locations and pursuits from sheer ennui; are easily bored, and finally lose the power of being strenu ous about anything. The effects of an inactive life upon the offspring are sometimes sadly and markedly degen erate. The overworked, especially If young, are prone to many forms of arrest Chil dren are undergrown in both height and height; they are robbed of the paradise of leisure, which is the literal trans lation of the Greek word schooL The high, ideals and ambitions normal to adolescence fade into a dull state of apathy and discouragement, and, at worstof smoldering revolt against the existing order of things. To be always tired is miserable, and individual or social misery is a powder magazine lia ble to explode at any time. Man Is endowed with a fatigue sense that tells him when he is tired, con tinues a writer in AInslee's. It seems to be a specific feeling, due perhaps to accumulated products of decomposition in the muscles. This pain-tire is a warning to stop or let up. It is, how ever, possible to press on In defiance of it and if we persist in so doing there comes a point when this fatigue sense is itself fatigued and tired out and ceases to act This Is when run ners get their second breath; when those beginning night work have fought through the period of sleepiness that comes when they have been wont to go to bed and feel very wide awake and alert as if they could go on for ever. But the day of reckoning comes. They are now living on their capital, which is being rapidly overdrawn. . ' Making: Bntter in Hot Weather. In a recent Home and Farm, Maud Shields, of Arkansas, gives some points on the subject She says: I say by all means get a separator, then buy milk cans large enough to hold one milking of cream, let it cool, put the lid on the can and hang it in the well. It does not matter whether It is in the water or not, it will keep cool, and will be ready to churn in twenty-four hours. Use a thermometer and churn at about 64 or 67 degrees. Take up the butter, wash thoroughly by pressing with the paddle. Don't drag the pad dle through it as it spoils the grain. Salt it using pure salt and mold it as quick as possible. Wrap each pound in a nice clean cloth wrung out of cold water. Get you an empty butter keg from your grocery man, bore holes near the top Just below the lid, take a piece of new rope and make a handle, put nice, clean, new white paper in the bot tom, then put In the butter. Put an other piece on top just below the lid and hang it in the well. Paper is bet ter than cloth, as the cloth mildews. When you are ready to go to town, use another keg just like the one in the well; put a clean towel in the bot tom; put in the butter; then another clean towel on top. Fasten on the lid, wet some clean sacks in a tub, fold them without wringing on the bottom of-your wagon, set the-butter keg on them, and wrap wet sacks around the keg and on top. As you deliver the butter take the cloths off, take them home, and wash and scald thoroughly. Keep two sets of cloths; while one set Is sunning and drying another can be used. We have a separator; we sell a part of the milk sweet the rest we make buttermilk. We set it and let it clabber; then take an old-fashioned churn-dash, and churn it up and down until it is free from lumps and is smooth. Don't put any water in it! leave it thick; it sells much better. When you are ready to go to town, mix what buttermilk you have from the cream with it . Saw-Filing Device. Selecting a crosscut saw that will work rapidly and with ease requires considerable experience. A saw having 4 cutting teeth, as shown in -cut at a, to 1 straight drag tooth, b, with back of saw 4 gauges thinner than edge, will do as much work as any other. It requires less work to keep such a saw in order. Medium thickness is best A thick saw is clumsy and cuts a large groove, while a very thin one requires frequent resetting. Our cut shows a filing frame for a crosscut saw. The base, e, is 2 feet long, 1 foot wide and 6 inches high. It should be fastened to the floor. The pieces, d, d, are 2x3 Inches and are mortised In the base. The piece, c, is 1x6 inches, cut 3 SAW-TIUXQ DEVICE. shape of saw and beveled to the saw. There are three -inch bolts at c, c, c, on which saw rests and is tightened when put in the' frame. The entire height is 45 inches. W. A. Sharp, in Farm and Home. Feed for Laying Hens. There is probably no food better cal culated to promote laying in fowls than cowpeaa. Peas or beans of any sort are good, but large ones must be ground, or fowls will rarely eat them. Of cow peas the smallest variety should be chosen, as fowls unused to such grain must be accustomed to it gradually. But once get them to eat peas and the victory is won. They are a perfect sub stitute for Insects, meat scrap, blood meal and other animal preparations that are often so combined with cheap substances that the hens are a long time learning that when they are fed "Lobsmith's concentrated egg food" they ought to lay fluently, instead of almost imperceptibly. Pea vines with peas on them cut as soon as the peas are full grown and while yet green, thrown into the chicken yard, will give them exercise and the very sort of food their nature craves. They will eat the peas, the leaves, and as much of the stems as they can break up small enough to swallow. A Good Thing to Do. There is no branch of farm opera tions that can be permanently and profitably improved more easily and at less cost than the poultry yards. A dollar or two Invested in eggs of good breeds of fowls will bring back many times the investment within a year or two. If you want to improve your poultry,' you can do It quickly, cheaply and with but little risk. - Breeders have learned that it pays to send out no eggs except from good stock. A sitting or two is all that Is needed for a good start A very few dollars spentfor good ergs means a nice flock of -fowls In one 'year, ihen you may .be In a position to' sell to yourv neighbors at good big prices. Exchange. - J " . Catting Grass Karly. Chemical analysis is said to show that the grass, cut when the seed has ripened, or Is nearly ripe, has about the same' amount of nutrition as it has when cut earlier, and thus some allow it to stand that it may Increase in weight' But when the cow pats It through her. laboratory she does not find the same value in the latecut hay. a . a a. 111 m Jk j a pan or tne seeas nave rarueu out and been lost and the remainder are so small and so encased in a dry coat ing or shell that not many of them are chewed up, and thus pass through the stomach and bowels undigested. Then the stalks which contain the most nutriment before the seed has formed have become simply woody fibre as Indigestible as bean poles, and she gets but little nutrition from them. We think if she could speak she would say that two-thirds or less of the amount of hay, cut early, and not sun-dried too long, was better than her usual ration of hay, ripened before cut and overdried afterward. But if she can not talk she has many times put herself on record to that effect at the mailk pail and the churn, and it is because the owner fails to see and understand these records that he does not know the facts. The scale to weigh the milk and the Babcock test for the butter fat help to tell what Is the best food, as well as which is the best cow. American Cultivator. Haying on Soft Meadows. Along sluggish streams are thous ands ofacres producing fairly good cow hay, but on which teams cannot cannot be driven without . danger . of becoming mired. The work is therefore all done by hand. Including the dreaded task of "poling out," or carrying the hay in large cocks on a pair of poles, to the edge of the upland, where it is to be loaded. To avoid this drudgery some farms use mud shoes for their horses, as illustrated. The shoes are of oak, 1 inch thick and 8x10 inches for a horse of average weight. Edges are beveled and planed, and ends are strongly cleated on the under side. Holes are made to fit the projections of the iron shoe and an iron strap, which a black smith will make from the illustration for a few cents, passes across the hoof and is fastened by nuts on the lower side of the mud shoe. Stomach Staggers in Horses. Quite a common form of indigestion among horses is stomach staggers hav ing the following symptoms: The ears droop forward, the eyes are dull, the animal sweats profusely under even light labor and seems to have little control over the hind quarters at times. During a portion of the time the appe tite Is almost ravenous, at other times there seems to be little appetite. When the symptoms named appear the. corn should be cut out of the diet and the grain ration materially reduced. Change the entire ration as much as possible and keep the bowels in good condition. Dissolve one ounce of glau ber salts in the drinking water twice daily or give as a drench if the animal will not drink. If the dazed or sleepy symptoms continue give a purge of salts and afterwards drachm doses of iodide of potash three times daily until the sleepy feeling passes off. After Harvest. After the wheat ia harvested the" young clover grows rapidly, as its sup ply of plant food is increased by rea son of the riddance of Its wheat com petitor, but many farmers allow weeds to grow, mowing them down before they produce seed. Such a plan is bet ter than to leave the weeds to mature, but the proper course to pursue is to mow the weeds when they are young and before they have deprived the clover plants of food. By mowing them two or three times during the summer many of them will be de stroyed. . Clipping Work Horses. r Whether or not it pays to clip work horses was tested at the Michigan ex periment station and reported ina re cent bulletin. The conclusions were not as definite as might be desired. The station, however, believes that the horses which were clipped did their work with much greater comfort in early spring than those which were not clipped. This of course means a great deal when animals are at work pre paring the land for spring crops. The clipped horses always look better. Commercial Feeding Stuffs. The New York experiment station says that in its Inspection of commer cial feeding stuffs unmixed or stand ard goods were found to be of fairly uniform quality and practically as good as the guarantees except In a single instance. The discrepancies oc curred with the mixed goods, many of which contained oat hulls, as shown by the percentage of crude fiber pres ent. Adulteration of cornmeal and other grain products appears to be practiced. Grass for Sandy Lands. Awnless brome grass (bromus in ermis) will be found excellent for. use on drifting sands. It is a perennial, looks somewhat like blue grass and U suitable for light dry. poor soils-and resists dry weather.' About - fifteen pounds of Beed per acre should be used. It spreads by creeping uuderground stems or root stocks. It will not thrive on wet soils. While not. as valuable as many other varieties, yet it serves well on light sandy soils upon whirl: no oth er grass will grow. -