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C H A P T E R X I I — (Continued.)
“ You beet m e! You h iveo’t the slight
•at idea who the other shareholder* are;
the company is thoroughly rotten in all
Ita past history, and here you go plung
ing into it up to your eyee. And they
say you’re the moat conaenratire banker
on the riser."
" I guess you don’t have to get me out
o f many scrapes.’’ said Porter.
“ When's the annual meeting?” asked
Kenton.
“ It's day after to-morrow— a close call
hui I ’H make it all right.**
“ Mr. Porter, I want you to remember
that I haven’t given you any advice at
all in this matter. It’s an extra hasard-
ous thing that you’re doing. Now, I don’t
know anything definitely about it. but
— I ’ ve got the impression that Margrave’s
paralleling your lines in this busii
“ Where'd you get that?’’
“ It's this way,” said Fenton, in hla
quietest tones. “ A Baltimore laeryer that
I know wrote me a letter asking me
about Margrave's responsibility. It seems
that my friend has a client who owns
soa^e of these shares. A good deal of
that stock went to Baltimore and Phi'a-
delphia, you may remember. I assume
that Margrave Is after it.”
“ W ire your friend right away not to
s e ll!" shouted Porter, pounding the table
with his fist.
“ I did that this morning, and here's his
answer. <• I got it just before you came
in. Margrave evidently got anxious and
wired them to send certificates with draft
through the Drovers’ National. They’ re
probably on the way now.” He passed
the telegram across to Porter, who put
on his glasses and read it.
"Now ,” continued Fenton, “ I
don’ t
know just what this means, hut It looks
to me as if Margrave eras hot on the
track of the trolley company himself; and
Tim Margrave isn’ t a particularly pleas
ant fellow to go into business with, is
h*r
“ But the bondholders would still have
their chance, wouldn’t they, even if he got
a majority o f the stock?”
“ Well, you haven’t any bonds, have
you? First thing I know you’ll be telling
me that you’ve got a few barrels of
them,” he added, jokingly. He could not
help laughing at Porter.
“ My dear boy. I ’ ve got every blamed
bond V*
Fenton sat gaxtng at him in stupefied
wonder. He walked around the table and
put his hand on Porter’s shoulder. He
was trying to keep from laughing, like a
parent who is about to rebuke a child
and yet laughs at the cause of Its of
fense. Porter evidently thought that he
had dose an extremely bright thing.
“ As F understand you. you have bought
all o f the bonds and half of the stock.”
“ About half. I ’ m a little— just a little
— short.”
“ W ill you kindly tell me what you
wanted with the stock if you had the
bon d er
“ Well, I figured it this way, that the
franchise was worth the price I had to
pay for the whole thing, and if I had the
stock control I ’d save the fuss of foreclos
ing. You lawyers always make a lot of
rumpus about those things, and a receiv
ership would prejudice the Eastern mar
ket when I come to reorganise and sell
oa t.”
Fenton lay back in hla chair and
laughed, while Porter looked at him a lit
tle defiantly, with his hat tipped over his
eyes.
“ You'd better finish your job and make
sure of your majority,” said Fenton. His
rage was rising now and he did not urge
Porter to remain when the banker got
up to do. He was not at all anxious to
defend a franchise which the local courts,
always sensitive to public sentiment,
might set aside.
“ I ’ ll see you in the
morning first
thing,” said Porter at the door, which
Fenton opened for him. “ I want you to
go to the meeting with me and we'll need
a day to get ready.”
The lawyer watched his client walk
toward the elevator. It occurred to him
that Porter’ s step was losing its elastic
ity. While the banker waited for the ele
vator he leaned wearily against the wire
screen of the shaft.
Fenton then sat down with a copy of
the charter of the Clarkson Traction
Company before him, and spent the re
mainder o f tha day studying it. Ha had
troubled much over Porter’s secretive
ways, and had labored to shatter the dan
gerous conceit which had gradually grown
up in his client. Portsr had, in fact, a
contempt for lawyers, though, he leaned
on Fenton more than be would admit.
Fenton, on the other hand, was constant
ly fearful lest bis client should undo him
self by hia secretive methods. H e had
dlflkulty in getting all the facts out of
him even when they were Imperatively re
quired.
The next morning Fenton was at his
office early and sent his boy at one* to
ask Mr. Porter to come up. The boy re
ported that Mr. Forter had not been at
ths bank. Fenton went down himself at
10 o'clock and found the president’s desk
closed.
“ Where’s tbs bom?” he demanded.
“ Mten’ t be dowa this morning,” mid
Wheaton. “ Mlm Porter telephoned that
he wasn’t feeling well, but ha expected to
be dowa after luncheon.”
confined to his house by illness, he tfelt the'xpmpnny when w* get reorganised.
that Porter must really be very sick; and That mqght to show you what a lot of
he naturally turned the fact over in hia confident I ’ve been putting in you all
mind to see how this might affect him. this time tn*t you’ve been watching ms
The directors cam* in and sat about with run into tbe sohn. clear up to my chin.
their hate on, and Wingate, the^starch
“ I'm honestly sonq;''— began Wheaton.
manufacturer, who had seen Porter's doc “ I had no idea you
depending on
tor, pronounced the president a very sick me. You ought to have hqown that 1
man and suggested that Thompson, the couldn’t betray Mr. Porter.”
invalid vice president, ought to be noti
““ You ought to be sorry,” said Mar
fied. The others acquiesced, and they pre grave. dolefully. “ But, look hare, Jim,
pared a telegram to Thompson at Phoe I don’t believe you’re going to do me up
nix. suggesting his immediate return, it on this.”
^
possible.
“ I ’m not going to do anybody up; but
Fenton spent the afternoon in court. I don't aee what I can do to help you
A G o o d S t r a in e r l a If
He Intended to call at "the Porters’ on
“ Well, I do. You gave roe to under-
D lrt-carrylng bacteria onoe In tha
his way home, and stopped at the bank stand that you were buying this stuff m ilk has dona its harm, and no num-
before going to his office, thinking that yourself. You still got what you had? ber o f strainers o f any kind yet In
Now, how many shares have you, Jim?”
the banker might be there ; but the
vented can
“ Just what I bought in tbe beginning;
dent’s desk was cloeed.
out
the pernicious
"H ow sick is Mr. Porter?” he asked one hundred shares.”
germs.
Th e best
Margrave took a pad from hia desk and
Wheaton.
strainer for tha
“ H e’s pretty sick.”
mid
Wheaton added one hundred to a short column of
average dairyman
“ It's typhoid fever. I spoke to Miss Por figures. He made the footing and regard
is a metal veasel,
ter over the telephone a few minutes ago. ed the total with careless interest before
and she did not seem to be alarmed about looking up.
aa shown In tha
“ How much do you want for that,
her father. H e’s vary strong, yon know.
c u t w ith a w ire
But Fenton was Rot listening. “ See Jim?’’
screen o f 100 w ire*
T o tell the truth, Mr. Margrave, I
here, Wheaton.” he said, suddenly, “ do
to th# Inch.
A
yon know anything about Porter’a private don't know that I want to sell It.”
w ire screen on a strainer should be
“ Now, Jim, you ain’t going to hold
affairs?”
“ Not very much,’ mid Wheaton, guard me up on this? You've got me into a replaced as soon as It becomes broken
pretty mess, and I hope you're not going or rusted. Th e only satisfactory way
edly.
to clean the screen o f a strainer Is
I guess you don't and I guess nobody to keep on pushing me in.”
“ What I have wouldn’t do you any w ith a small, stiff brush. Th s best
does, worse luck 1 You know how mor
kind o f a strainer is one w ith the
bidly secretive he la, and how he shim good.”
“ But it might do me some harm! Now, screen on the sides, rather than on
off from publicity— I suppose you do,” he
went on a little grimly. He did not like you don’ t want these shares, Jim. Ydu’re the bottom. H r then there Is no un
Wheaton particularly. “ Well, he has entitled to a profit, and 1’U pay you a due pressure, which sometimes forces
some Traction stock— the annual meeting fair price."
small partlclaa o f d irt through the
“ I can't do anything to hurt Mr. Por
is held to-morrow and he’s got to be rep
screen. Th e screener cannot be count
ter,” said Wheaton. He remembered just
resented.”
ed upon \fi make up fo r previous care
how
the
drawing-room
at
the
Portera’
“ He never told me of It,’ mid Whea
lessness
In m ilking.
Scientists say
looked, and the kindness and frankness
ton, truthfully.
that a poor strainer may even In
“ Hia share* are probably in hia inside of Evelyn Porter’s eyes.
“ Yes, but you’ve got n du ty, to me.
pocket, or hid under the bed at home ; but
we’ve got to get them if he has any, and You can bet your life that if it hadn’t
get them quick. I f he has his wits he’ll been for you, I ’d never have been in this
probably try and send word to me. I pickle. Come along uow, Jim, I ’ ve got a
suppose I couldn’t see him if I went up.” lot of our railroad people to go in on
“ Miss Porter telephoned me to come— thla. They depend absolutely on my
on some business matter, she said, and no judgment. I ’ m a ruined man if I fail to
show up at the meeting to-morrow with
doubt that’s what it la.”
“Then I won’t go just now, but I ’ ll see a majority o f these shares. It won’t make
you here as soon as you get down town. any difference to Billy Porter whether he
I ’ll be at my office right after dinner.” wins out or not. lle'a got plenty of irons
He panaed. deliberating. Fenton was a in the fire. I don't know as a matter of
fact that I need these shares; but I want
careful man, wbo rose to emergencies.
“ I ’ll come directly back here,”
said to be on the safe side. How much shall
Wheaton.
“ No doubt the papers you I make the check for, Jim?” '
“ You can’t make it for anything, Mr.
want are In one -of Mr. Porter’a private
crease the bacterial content of m ilk.
Margrave, and I want to say that I ’ m
boxes.”
very much disappointed in the way you’ve In nslng cheesecloth or thick linen
“ Can you get Into It to-night?”
“ Yes; It’a in the vault where we keep tried to get it from roe. I can't imagine fo r straining m ilk It should not only
the account books, and there’s no time that tbme few shares of stock I hold can be boiled a fter use. but should then
be of Teal importance in deciding the be wrapped In a paper and baked In
lock."
Late in the afternoon Wheaton had control o f this company. I don't say I thé oven fo r th irty minutes and then
been unusually busy with routiqe wor» won’t give you these shares, but I can’ t kept wrapped up until tim e to uae
and the directors bad taken an hour of do it now.”
again.— F arm and Homa.
Margrave's face grew red and purple as
hia time. H e had turned away from
Fenton to answer a message from Mar Wheaton walked toward the door.
T r u c k P a tc h a a d O rch ard .
“ Maybe you think you can wring more
grave, then he went toward the Trafis-
When one o f our W estern farm ers
continental office with a feeling o f fore out of Porter than you can out of me.
boding. As he crossed the threshold of But I ’ ll take thia out of you and out of goes down East he Is Impressed with
tbe fact that tha truck patch, the
the private office, the sight o f Margrave’s him, too, if I go broke doing i t ”
o rch ard,'th a poultry yard
and the
(T o be continued.)
fat bulk squeezed Into a chair that eras
dairy are relatively o f vastly greater
too small for him, impressed him ua-
P o e t r y a n d P a t r io t is m .
pleaaantty: he had come with mixed feel
importance than In
country where
Zakris Topelius, "th e moat popular broad fields o f grain, alfalfa, spuds
ings, not knowing whether his friendly
relations with the railroader were to be poet Finland has ever known,” was and sugar beets are In fashion and big
further emphasized, or whether Margrave a lover o f his native land above all bunches o f beef cattle enliven
the
was about to make some demand of him. else. Once, says Paul W alnem an in landscape. T h * great cities, some o f
Hia doubts were quickly dispelled by
A Summer T ou r in Finland,”
he them containing more people than the
Margrave, who turned around fiercely as
w rote aa follow s to a little Finnish entire State o f Colorado, must be ted
the door closed.
boy who w a* at the tim e residing in from the farms. Th e products o f the
“ Sit down. Wheaton,” he said. H e was
West are m ainly such as may be
England fo r his schooling:
breathing in the difficult choked manner
“ You are in a great and rich coum readily transported over long dis
of fat men in their rage. “ Now, I want
you to tell me something; I want you to try, but never forget that you are only tances. But milk, vegetables and
small fruits are
better, aa wall as
answer up fair and square. I ’ve got to an exile.
” I f Queen V ictoria herself should cheaper. If produced near the place of
come right down to brass tacks with you
and I want you to tell me the truth. How w rite and offer you a post in her king consumption And this line o f agrlcul
much Traction has Billy Porter got?”
dom, remember that you must answer, tnre has from the exigency of things
“ I don’t know -what right you’ve got ‘I cannot; because I have a cottage become the Industry of. Eastern farm
to ask me such a question,” Wheaton an w aitin g for me when I am grown up. ers.— F ield and Farm.
swered, coldly.
I t has a roof higher than the loftiest
“ N o right— no right!” Margrave pant
A c id it y sad Bariev Flavor.
ed. “ You miserable fool, what do you hall in W indsor Castle. Th at roof Is
I
t
has boon a generally accepted
the
blue
sky
o
f
my
own
land.’
”
know or mean by right or wrong either?
theory among teachers o f and w riter*
I can take my medicine as well as the
on dairy subjects that the production
W i l l H e E scaped.
next man. but when a friend does me up.
then I throw up my bauds. W hy did you
“ I was mighty sorry to learn that of good bu tter necessitates the devel
opment o f a certain amout o f acid In
tell me you knew what Porter was doing. your w ife had left yon, old fellow.”
and lead me to think------"
“ Ob, well, it might have been w orse tha cream, fo r tw o reasons, to develop
“ Mr. Margrave,” said Wheaton, “ I
“ I am glad you can find the philoso a desirable flavor and to Im prove th*
didn’ t come here to be abused by you. I f
phy that enables you to look at it in keeping quality. Recent Investiga
I ’ ve done you any Injury, I ’ m not aware
tions by the United States Department
that w ay.”
o f It.”
“ S u re; haven't you heard that tbd of A gricu ltu re Indicate, however, that
“ I guess that’s right,” said Margrave.
butter made from Pasteurized sweet
Ironically. “ What I want to know is coming gowns fo r women w ill have 600
:ream has better keeping qualities and
buttons'/"—
Exchange.
what you let me think Porter wasn’ t tak
remains free from objectionable flav
ing hold of Traction for? You knew I
ors fo r a longer tim e than butter
T h e O ld e s t o f P r o fe s s io n s .
was going into it. I told you that with
An old friend o f the fam ily had made from sour cream. I f these facts
the fool Idea that you were a friend of
miM. You told me the old man had dropped in to see a young law yer whos« ir e established It m ight seem that In
stopped buying----- ”
father was still paying his office ren t the years to come only sweet cream
“ And when I did I betrayed a confi
“ So you are now practicing law,” th« would be bought fo r butter making.
dence.” said Wheaton. “ I had no busi old friend said, genially.
ness tell you anything of the kind.”
“ No, sir,” said the candid youth. *1
S t a r t l e s l a d l a a c a s F a r a ic r c .
“ When you told me that,” Margrave
appear to be, but I am really practlo
Th e Cheyenne R iv e r Agency w ill be
went on in bitter derision, shaking his
busy fo r some tim e to come, as the
finger in Wheaton’s face— “ when yon told ln g economy.” — Youth’s Companion.
me that you told me a lie, that’s what
you did, Jim Wheaton.”
“ You can’t talk to me that way,” said
Wheaton. “ When I told you that, I be
lieved it,” and be added, with a second’s
hesitation. “ I still believe it.”
“ Don't lie any more to me about I t I
can take my medicine as well as the next
man. but” — swaying his big head back
and forth on his fat shoulders— “ when a
man plays a trick on Tim Margrave, I
want him to know when Margrave finds
it out. I never thought it o f you, Jim.
I ’ ve always treated you as white as I
knew how; I ’ ve been glad to see you in
“ I don’t know what you’ re driving at,
but I want you to stop abusing mei,”
said Wheaton, with more vigor of tone
than be had yet manifested. “ I never
said a word to you about Mr. Porter In
connection with Traction that I didn’t
think true. The only mistake I made was
in saying anything to you at a li; bot I
thought you were a friend o f mine. I f
anybody’s been deceived. I'm the one.”
“ Let me ask you something. Haven't
you known all these weeks when I ’ ve
been seeing you every few days at the
club, and at my house several times’’— he
dwelt on the second clause as If the
breach of hospitality on Wheaton’s part
bad been the grievous offense— “ haven’t
you known that the old man was chasing
over the country In his carpet slippers
haying all that stock he could lay his
hands on?”
“ On my sacred honor, I have not.
When w* talked of It I knew he had been
buying no me, but I thought he’d stopped,
C H A PTE R X III.
Porter's Illness was proclaimed la the as I lot you understand. I'm sorry If
f o f the afternoon papers, yon were minted by anything I said.”
“ W ell, that’s all over now,” sold Mar-
aw at hie dash. News
a force by publication, aad when he grace, la a conciliatory tone. T v * boon
lei/lag an your Information ; la fact, r e s
I the printed statement that the
la ask s yea txsasurse of
la id » -
‘
/
T r i a l s o f P o r e i s a T r a v e l.
“ Did you do much sightseeing when
yon went sbrosd?”
“ No.” answered Mr. Cumrox. “ Moth
er and the girls did the sightseeing. I
had to put in my time finding th«
places where they cash letters of cred
i t ” — Washington Star.
R et aim ed W i t h T h a a k s .
Blnner— I was under the Impression
that the new editor o f Blank's Maga
zine was a young man.
Rhym er— I thought so. too; but h«
appears to have reached his rleclln
lng years.
D i d R o t M a te h .
Ellen— A re yon going abroad this
spring?
Ernest— No.
Ellen— W hy not?
Ernest— My means are too narrow to
be abroad.
H arb e
So.
Tommy— Bay,
pn,
when a man’*
wool-gathering, don't that mean that
he's lacy?
Pa— No, H e may he gathering wool
o ff tbe lambs In W all street
M o a a o f M la a lo .
Claude—Oh, Minnie, I have an Idas!
Minnie— Trea t it kindly, Claude, ft*«
In a strange place.— Yale Record.
R a t a r a ll p .
She— Man springs from s monkey.
H e— And women from a mouse.
Every miller draws tha water to his
Owa mill.— Dutch.
distribution o f liv e stock to Indians
has commenced. T o each head o f a
fam ily is to be given
twenty-three
head o f 2-year-old heifers, q r In case
he so desires a team o f mares, a wag
on and harness, agricultural Imple
ments. five cows and $50 In cash, says
ths P ierre correspondent o f the 8L
Paul Dispatch.
T h is distribution means that to any
of th* Indians who desire w ill be g iv
en a start o f about $1,000 tn value
either toward starting a herd o f cat
tle or beginning farm ing operations
without any expense.
SOMETHDJQ FOB EVZBYB0DY
Th ere are about seven m illion F ili
pino* Inhabiting three hundred differ
ent Islands.
Last year’s output o f coal In E n g
land showed a decrease o f ovor six
m illion tons.
v
C aasasare tal M * s r a r a s . —
T h * production o f m arket eggs is
probably tha safest branch o f th * poul
try business, and the amount o f capi
tal Invested need not be very large.
In the N ew England States, N ew Y ork
and N ew Jersey there are many com
m ercial egg farms, keeping from 600
to several thousand bona. , Th e farm
era, too, In this section o f th * country
keep large flocks for eggs for ths East
ern markets, and all seem to be do
ing w ell and m aking money.
W hat
wa need In the South Is m ors egg
farms. Lands are cheap, m aterial for
housing and labor cheap, and, again,
it Is not pecessary In ths South to
build such expensive houses. W s have
every advantage In the Southland for
producing eggs at a less cost than our
Northern brothers, and w ith quick and
satisfactory railroad facilities to the
Eastern markets the South should be
come the greatest poultry producing
section o f the en tire country.
Other branches o f ths poultry Indus
try may pay better than egg farm ing,
but none a r* attended w ith so little
w orry and risk and are eo certain of
steady returns and » fa ir remunera
tion fo r the tim e and money expended.
B u r lr
P lo w ie g
A lw a y s
B eet.
Last summer we got a field o f wheat
stubble about h alf plowed when other
w ork called ua away. The rem aining
stubble was turned under early this
spring, and tha whole field planted to
corn. Th e corn on last summer’s plow
in g Is now several Inches taller than
that on th* land plowed thle spring,
and Is ranker and better In every
other way.
There Is a difference between sum
m er and fall plowing, the difference be
in g In favor o f the summer plowing.
Tu rn in g a green grow th Into the soil
seems to be very much better than
turning an equal grow th under, but
w a itin g until It hns matured and dried
before doing It. Here, on this farm
wa aim to do all the plow ing possible
this summer. I t may be hot w ork but
the days are long and on* does not
need to hurry th * tea m * Not only Is
It better to get the w ork done as soon
ay possible fo r any crop to be sown
this fall, but our experience proves to
us that tha earlier the better I f corn
Is to be the next crop.— Farm er’s Mail
and Breeze.
A
H *S
S h e lte r.
The form of individual hoghouse
shown In the Illustration Is C feet
square on the ground and both doors
are hinged so they w ill open and close
read ily; 12 foot boards make the side
and roof. Use good soft pin* floor
ing. as it is ligh ter and much easier
to move when necessary than heavier
lumber; four pieces 2g4 Inch and •
feet long are for sills; two places 2x4
Inch and 6 feet long are for ridge and
plat*. Th e door In the roof can be
opened when tbe sun shines.
Sun
shine Is ths best tonic known for lit
tle pigs In early spring, and th* door
One-third o f all th* tonnage under th *
Am erican flag la employed on th*
Great Lakes.
■
Mora than 200,000 pounds o f human
hair ara exported from Hong-Kong to
this country annually.
T b s w orld’s stock o f gold has de
creased about one-half in tha last
decade, and doubled In th# last quarter
o f a century.
From July 1 to Dec. $1, 1908, 24,500
persons entered Mexico. Of thee* 11.-
000 w ere Americans and 8,700 ware
home-coming Mexicans.
Of the 3,238 fire* which occurred In
London In 1908, electricity Is said to
have been the cause o f 101, and 35$
w a r* attributable to gas.
Th e death records o f ths railroads
have bean lessened m aterially recently
as a result o f the compulsory adoption
o f safety devices and systems.
There Is a union o f hatmakers at La
Mans, Prance, In which th * offices o f
president, vice president, secretary and
treasurer are held by one man.
T h * current year book o f th# Carne
g ie institution shows that during tha
last year $036,300 was distributed
among nearly three hundred parsons
engaged In conducting scientific ra-
arch.
On the shores o f Cap* Cod there
were, during a period o f twenty years
follow in g 1881, as many aa one thou
sand wrecks o f vessels carryin g pre
cious cargoes o f human beings end o f
freight.
The first matriculation o f women
students at tha universities In Prus
sia has resulted In the admission o f
663 students. Including forty-thre*
from Am erica and seven from th*
United Kingdom.
Th e negroes o f this country form ed
in 1800 18.88 per cent o f the popula
tion ; in 1810. 19.03 per cent; in 1850,
16.68'per cent; In 1860, 14.12 per cent:
In 1880, 18.11 per cent; In 1890, 11.92
par cent, and In 1900.11.6$ per cent.
Aa against ths 41,000 motor vehicles
all told In Germany there a r* mors
than 160,000 automobiles In the United
States, or twice the number In uae
throughout all Europe. In New Y ork
S U t* alone there are about 70,000 cars
registered.
The most spectacular fir# ever w it
nessed In the oil Industry was at on*
o f th* Dos Bocas. wells In Mexico.
About sixty thousand barrels o f oil
w ere burned up dally for nearly tw o
months. Th e flames rose to heights o f
800 to 1,400 feet.
W halebone cost oaly 25 cents a
pound h alf a century ago. To-day It
costs about $5 a pound.
The to U l
product landed from the American fish
eries during the nineteenth century
exceeded ninety m illion pound*.
A
single whale may yield up to three
thousand pounds.
Th e story Is an old on* o f th* party
o f tired travelers who entered a house
decorated by a peculiar sign and de
manded oysters. “ T h is Is not a raa-
t au rant,” said th# courteous gentle
man who met them; “ I am an aurist.”
“ Isn’t that aa oyster hung outside th *
door?” asked one. “ No, gentleman. It
Is an ear.”
Neck bolls corns w ith the sweaty
season. Many people have large hair
pores on the back o f th* neck. Thq
sweaty starched collar rim Is good
culture soil for boll and carbuncle
garms, which get rubbed Into the large
IN D IVID U AL HOOHqUSB.
hair follicles or sacki, producing a
painful,
sometimes dangerous spread
la essential when the sow needs at
ing crop.
tention at piggin g time as a means
An Iceberg described aa two and one-
o f entrance and, as is sometimes the
case, a very has tv e x it — Breeders’ Ga half miles long and 500 feet high—
presumably not so high for ths w hole
zette.
tw o and one-half miles— was passed
F e e d l a s M a a a r e « * P la n t s .
about tw elve hundred m ile* from New
Our people are perfectly satisfied York on Monday last by th « French
that they can put character intq m ilk line freigh ter Mexico. It was In lati
and cream and butter by feeding the tude 42:20, longitude 46:70.— New York
dairy cow a properly balanced ration Sun.
and all that she w ill properly stand.
More than 2,000 New York jewelers,
Th e cow Is simply a machine, the soil
opticians, optométriste and lena grind
Is sim ply a machine, end ths cabbage
ers have been registered by the Board
bead Is a machine Into which we can
o f Regents end have “ exemption” cor-
put a certain amout o f materia) and
tlflcatea from th* U niversity o f ths
turn out from It so many dollars. I f
State o f New York, which are hard for
you feed this vegetable matter, with
tbe public to tell from medical diplo
high-grade nitrogenous manure you
mas. The head men say that o f all
can make it pay.
who had thua far been examined by
the Board o f Regents only sixteen were
D a ir y R a te *.
able to pass th « examination In optom
Batter methods are gradually gain
etry.
ing favor.
Mrs. Anna 8. Lash brook u the first
Working to the best advantage
deaf woman to have Charge o f a print
means using brains.
ing office. She Is foreman o f the print
Cold and overfeeding w ill k ill the
ing office o f the School for th* Deaf at
yonng calf more quickly than any
Rome, N. Y „ and is also business man
thing els*.
ager or th * Deaf Mutes Register, which
Don’t try to keep a cow fo r m ilk Is published semi-monthly. She has
and beef. Bhe w ill disappoint you ev more than twenty apprentices under
ery time. ,
her. She Is said to be an advocate o f
Tha man with a “ dual
purpose’’ equal suffrage and was one o f several
dream usually wakes up to find
deaf women who last fall voted fo r
ha la tn the beef business.
commissioner o f the Board o f Educa
It’s Just about as hard to get a good tion.'
h elftr out o f a scrub as It is to make
A record ran o f 1,664 m iles by a m o
water run up hill.
torboat travelin g at tha rate o f 27J
T b e Co m a trr S ekool.
Th e farm ers In every school district
are responsible tor ths school they
produce, says Hoard’ s Dairyman. I f
they wanted better school houses th *
could easily make them. I f they w a it
ed batter teachers they could pro
cure them by paying what they ar#
worth. I f they wanted th* school to
help make In telligent boys and girls
who would understand ths chemical
terms that ara used In farm litera
ture, they coaid secure that also. I f
the country school Is a bad failure, i f
It falls to make Intelligent men o f
T h * creamery patron has his month miles an hour throughout th * distança
their boys, th* farm ers a r* alone to
ly cream checks while tha other fal has Just been accomplished by tha
Mama fo r I t
“ Brad Fox II.,” which le ft Cincinnati
low has th * store bill.
recently to make tha long distance
Th
e
¿rdlnary
man
may
ha
Judged
R ape mu Sleek
by the company he keeps, but .the speed teat ran to New Orleans, carry
F or generations English farm ers
ing a message from th* Governor o f
have made extensive ns* o f d w arf Es dairy farm er Is judged by tha cows Ohio to th* Governor o f Louisiana.
sex rape as a stack food. Th is plant ha keep*.
Faster tim e has bean mad* by racing
T h * bast way to Insure high prices
may be described as a ruta-bega run
motorboats ovor a short cours*, but
to head. Tha seed la sown like ruta fo r dairy products la to make them so the 1,864-mll* ran breaks all records
baga turnips and cultivated, without good that th * people can’t help sating fo r speed maintained throughout
thinning.