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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-11-4, Page 2UOCTQt JACKI By ST. GEOR(E I d T/1 E0M Me. CONTi W1i I. /*ewe a dim aaspie.lon begins to creep' through her mind that there allay have been a deep, dark metlive in his ac- tions. Such a man seemed fit for treason, stratagem, and spoils, be- cause he had no music in his soul, and would as soon listen to the croaking of a frog as the sweet notes of a fiehtin- gale. So she mentions her thoughts to Jack, who for some reason seems to see enough in the matter to investi- gate deeper, and asks her numerous questions concerning what passed be- tween the Pasha and herself at their meeting in the English house. A dreadful suspicion is hammering at the door for admittance, but he can hardly believe it possible that any man could de,v nel to such depths of infancy; so for the present it is shut out, to arise again later on and muck him with the reality. They talk for some time longer, grin- cipafiy upon the subject that interests them both. avis Morton believes it Is the hand of Providence that brought about this meeting. After the Prodi- gies of valour which she witnessed Doctor Jack perform at the bull -fight, she does not see Trow anything could long; remain a. barrier for such a man, and if any one can help her and and save Alecle he is the person. Their quiet little tete-a-tete is dis- turb. d—loud isturb':d—loud voices sound without, " it is Cousin Larry—what can be the matter ?" exclaims Avis, rising hurriedly, The voices bare grown more reS'h- lutt•--•two men are quarreling, and while one pours hot Spanish oaths in a heavy tone the other squeals Ameri- can ':,nes in a, shrill falsetto. I beg you to remain seated here. while I see to your cousin. Ile may be annihilated by that bully," and so saying Doctor Jack passes out of the little room. Ile Bees a peculiar sight—the dude le thee to face with a burly fellow, who glowers upon hlm as though he would only need an invitation to eat tap. You are a thief—a scoundrel ;" de - dares Couain Larry in the bully's teeth, Thi, is the last straw on the camel's baatk—the fellow has reached his limit,' and with a roar of anger he aims a� blow at the head of the dude. Doc- tor Jack, too late to prevent the con- flict, holds his breath, expecting to see Cousin Larry sent flying across the office, but just here he makes a seri- ous. mistake. A quick ducking movement saves the dude, and then springing up he rains a shower of blows upon the face of his antagonist, who, blinded, roars with pain and fright, and, turning, runs off like the coward that he is, followed by Larry, who manages to administer a parting kick. It has seemed to Jack so like a fight between a big Brahma fowl and a lit - tie bantam, that he almost expects the victor to crow as fie comes back again. An odd genius he certainly is, and Tack is glad to know his first estimate of the little man was not far in the 'wrong. "It does me proud to see an Ameri- can stand up like that. Now, what was It all alemt ?" he asks, after step- ping out and shaking hands with the victor in the main. The dazdy carefully brushes off a speck of dust he imagines he sees up- on his lavender coloured trousers, twists the ends of the ghostly mous- tache which supports his dignified claim of kering a roan, and answers in his cool way :— " The beggah insulted me. He was inquisitive about my cousin's move- ments, and actually offahed me—Law- rence Ierigewater Kennedy, of Fifth avenue, New York—two miserable doubloons if I would induce my Cou- sin Avis to patronize a hotel in Con- stantinople that he wepwesenteed. I3ah Jove 1 I couldn't shake him off, and we had teenage, you see." The trouble seems to sit lightly on the head of Mr. Larry. Jack, on the contrary, looking beyond, sees a cer- tain significance in this affair of the night. He does not mean to tell Larry that his cousin is so near, for, selfish as the rest of mankind, he hopes to con- tinue the delicious tete-a-tete in the little _iarlour. Hence he is glad when Larry walks over to greet an acquaintance, and Jack is about . returning to his fair 3Dulcina, when he happens to follow the dude with his eyes, and immedi- ately receives something of a shock, for he sees Larey earnestly talking with "ne whom he recognizes as the Pastia. Hero long 1,as the Turk been 'Bare? Perhaps he saw Doctor Jae% come in, send up his card, and go in the par- lour to wait, for the American did not look around, being too much engross- ed with his thoughts and anticipa- tions of the coming meeting. It is even possible that the Pasha knew of the appointment, although not present when It was entered into. Then he has also seen Avis coxae down and join Jack. Not once does he look toward the letter, but converses fluently with Larry. who seems to have taleen n strange liking to lniin. Jack iznae gines that the crafty Pasha, believing he could make the Neav York dude useful. has cultivated his axcivafnt- mice, and as Larry's hairs•* is so evenly balanced on either side, a very little flattery is apt to•turn leis bead. There may trouble come of this yet, but as the skies are still clear, Jack goes back to enjoy a little more of Miss Morton's company. When .lin- allybe leaves her, the Pasha is no longer to be seen hi the hotel. One experience with the footpads is quite enough for Senor Jack, and he looks around for a vehicle to take him to the caravansary at which he is lo- cated, and which is .situated far away Orem the Puerto' del Sol. :A driver sees his action' and anticl- patee his wish, for he brings his dos- ed, vehicle .close to the pavement, and calls hitt to know if the senor desires a carriage, Perhaps )Doctor Jock might leave he- sitatee about engaging this fellow had be seen hire holding a whispered eon- versation with the Turkish Pasha a short time before; but being in ignor- ance of this same thing, he jumps in- to the vehicle, gives the driver the name of his betel, and slams the door. Again he is threading the narrow +'alle. and around them darkness i;acitis much of the time. Fortunate- ly for hint the American has his wits about him --a suspielon comes first --he observes the route, and teen of a cer- tainty discovers that his driver is away off. 1'ndouetodly the fellow is u1) tag some ugly business—perhaps he knows the Paella. and is endavouring to lead the bold American into a trap of some sort. It :takes < a wide-awake Yankee to deal with such crafty men. Doctor Jack, when he makes this discovery, does net call upon the driver to halt. They are in a dark part of thenarrow street, and the vehicle makes such a noise rattling along that any sound he may rause is urowned. Without a moment's hesitation he opens the window beside 'frim, over the door, pushes his head and should- ers out, grasps the steer railing arvurd tlae top of the coach, and be- gins to draw his whole form out. None but an athlete could accom- i:fish this, what with the darkness and the niuviug coach, but Doctor Jack bis the .job, feels with his foot for the front step, used by the driver, finds it,, gives one turn, and with a single motion seats himself beside that s;urthy, who, never dreaming of the gymnastics going on behind, is tre- menduusly astounded to discover a human body planted beside his own, but who is even more surprised when he feels the cold muzzle of a revolver tuuelz his face, and a voice bellow in his ear al.,.ive the rattle of steel -shod NA Beet on the cobblestones t— " 1 ant your passenger. Your game is up. Turn along the first Calle lead- ing to the Del Prado or I'll murder you. No words, but obey," says this terrible voice. The man shivers ---perhaps he fears lest be has picked up a crazy fare— ;Jut he obeys orders, and in ten min- utes Doctor Jack drupe down in front of the little fondle where be has put up, bards the man a peso, gives him a look that makes his hair stand up, and rearehes into the hotel. He does nut mean to retire yet— there etthere is much thinking to be done ere turning in—and he takes out a, cigar to smoke, when he discovers the one given him by Don Carlos. Again that suspicion comes to him. He takes the cigar to his room, whetee in a simple way he can tell whether it has been drugged, To his surprise the experiment proves the fact beyond a question. Then ho wonders, while smoking one of his own cheroots, what the game is —why should loon Carlos desire to keep him under his roof against his will—for he rernambers how earnest both of them were in beseeching him to remain. Robbery seems out of the question, and lack never dreams that the fact of his having an engage- ment at eight cuts any figure in the :natter. So he is all at sea, and the more he ponders the less able he is to get at the kernel which he knows lies hid- den somewhere inside this hard, flinty outer shell. Meanwhile time has slipped by. It lacks less than an hour to midnight now. Jack does not smoke furiously as when with Don Carlos, but in a dreamy fashion. Ile is seated near the window, for the night air; laden with the perfume of flowers that bloom in the spring time in sunny Spain, seems unusually pleasant. At this hour it would seem natural that the city should be growing more quiet, for every metropolis Jack has ever known' subsides into a more peaceful state as the night wears in- to the small hoars. To his surprise just the contrary seems to be the case. It is much more noisy than at ten o'clock, when he reached the hotel. Jack becomes interested. He even leans out of the window to see what is up. ' New lights have sprung into existence—even streets that were ne- glected before now seem to throb with a pulsating life, and are in a measure illuminated, as though a great un- written law compels every citizen to have at least one lamp or candle in his wind.aw. The change is amazing—with every Passing minute new lights spring up. Down below he sees a moving throng of people. All seem light-hearted, laughter and jest are bandied about, and it is very evident that no serious business brings these crowds abroad. Music is heard here, there, and everywhere—distant hands thrill the and quicken the pulses, groups on the boulevard sing snatches of songs, and more than one sweet -toned man- dolin throbs `to the lingers of a music - loving Spanish lassie in the courts near bee Doctor Jack is amazed—he rubs his eyes as though under the belief that he must be dreaming. What does all this mean ? Madrid has awakened From her lethatiie state—site seems for the time being to outrival Paris in. gayety. One thinks of a royal wed - cling, with the whole city rejoicing, but Jack knows this cannot be. What then ? The music grows in volume, and even under his eyes the crowds in- crease. .I(e can see them better :now, on account of th light. If Jack has. been sler-ply before, he was never more wide awake than now. Instead of abating, his interest grows with the excitement. Looking at his watch he finds that, the lnotu lacks just nine , minutes of twelve. Tlien the idea strikes him that these mercurial people are wait- ing foe midnight, which time will ush- er in some great: holiday. He begins to grasp the reins; and reach a solution of the mystery. Look- ing closer than before he realizes two thing's. The first of these is the fact that there are Scores of women upon the streets as well as rnen, and It is evident, that the. night walkers have now been reinfoced by a stream of respectable senorasand senoritas from the dwellings, What Doctor Jack notices in the se- cond. plaee is the fact that many of these women wear long cloaks, and their faces are concealed by masks,. while even numbers of the men are also masked. Re suddenly jumps to his feet with a laugh. " Bless my soul, I understand it a11. At midnight the great carnival be- gins 1" CHAPTER X. Once a year Madrid, in common with all Latin cities, arouses from her long sleep, and for three days and nights preceding Lent, engages in the most extravagant orgies. During this time the people run wild, and seem. never to sleep—day and night the streets are jammed with crowds of pleasure seekers, music fills the air with intoxicating. sounds, revelry is in progress at every cor- ner, and too look at the light-hearted people one would never dream that they lived over a mine, which is liable to explode at any moment. Soldiers are as thick as skippers in an old .cheese, their bright uniforms adding splendour to the scene, for Spain is a country where the rest- less populace,, dreaming of liberty and license, have to be constantly re- minded of the power resting with the royal family --she has been a repub- lic before and will again, with the shining example of France so near at hand. As Doctor Jack looks the bells of the Spanish Capital ring out the hour 02 midnight. It is a signal long an- tielpated, since it ushers in the car. nivel season. More people flock out of the houses—the brilliant promenade below is thronged. In vain the Am- erican seeks a face—at the ringing of the bells every countenance is eov- ered, for it Is another unwritten law that, from midnight to sunrise on these three nights, no one shall ap- pear upon the streets unmasked—the Penalty may be a broken head. As Jack has never chanced to be in the south of Europe during the carni- val time he is greatly interested in the sight, as wilt be every sojourner in Madrid. Sleep 'seems out of the ques• tion with such a racket in progress, even if he did desire to obtain. It. Leaving his room he passes down- stairs to .see the entertalnme>,lt at shorter range, not that it is his in- tention to join in just then, though many foreigners do so, and become mixed up in the brawls that often oc- cur. With all the wickedness that marks the Spanish capital during the gay carnival season at least one good thing can be said—few drunken men are seen. Light wines are the drinks indulged in by the people of Spain, rum seldom being used, and whiskey never. They may have copied the ab- sinthe drinkers of Paris to a certair degree, but this serves to stupefy their minds like opium, and not engender street brawls. Down below Jack finds quite a throng gathered near the doors to watch the merry maskers on the pale without. Everyone seems to own a mask of some sort. and a man stands by selling these for a few pesetas each, so the American invests, intend- ing to saunter down the street and wit. ness the sights. Once outside he joins in with the throng, and keeps his eyes about him, It is indeed a remarkable sight to look upon the crowds the midnight bells of Madrid have called into review, and Jack photographs them upon his mem- ory for future use. Along the edges of the sidewalk are many street stands, where is seen the peddler of national drinks or refrescos, with his botieo or Oriental jar con- taining the expressed juice of some fruit, mixed with sugar and water, and as harmless as it is agreeable. Others have a nobby little tin or braes tray, upon which are placed glasses for the different horchatas, as the good people of Madrid call these cool- ing non-spiritous drinks. Along ,the walk are rows of orange trees, and upon these coloured lan- terns have been placed at intervals, and are now lighted up, so that Witt; the yellow gas jets the scene -looks like one of enchantment. Here and there small crowds con- gregate around some fakir engaged in selling wonderful things, or to watch the astonishing evolutions and beat the weird music that accompany s sidewalk gitano or gipsy dance. Everywhere reigns an air of says- tery—fancy costumes, monks. cheva- liers, Oriental warriors, courtly dames, flower girls, and almost Every imaginable character we zee in our greatest masque balls are to be mei with. Mad revelry abounds—every one ap- pears determined to be as happy and careless as his or her neighbour, so that when the carnival season is over every soul will gladly welcome Lent, which seems to be the idea of all this merriment, the old adage holding good, "Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to -morrow we --mourn." So Madrid enters upon the fun. The merriment is as a general thing good- natured, and free from riot or rude- ness. Whatever dark secrets may be 'working beneath the surface, on top all is apparently innocent enjoyment. From the balconies of houses fah senoritas, whose guardians are toe strict to allow them uoon the streets, have enjoyment of their own in watching the procession below. .A.t times they toss a flower' to this. courtly knight . who has found favour in their eyes, or drop. rice down the 'back of a more than usually hideous gnome who delights in the .shudder hie awful appearance causes. ` Jack is greatly amused by the kaleidoscopic changes around him; Something in his quiet demeanour at- tracts the very attention he would avoid, and more than one unknown charmer ventures to address him. These may be the most respectable 01 Senoras, for the mystery of mask and domino gives them assurance and li- cense to a certain degree, but Jack pays little or no attention to their lauhinn' words. Various processions pass him by, and suddenly one comes that gives him 8 shock. Re hears a cocotte standing near him take up the cry that sounds down the boulevard. What is it she is calling :—" The hero of the bull- fight ?" Presently the excitement ' increases, and a little party arrive, bearing on their shoulders a square platform in which rests a chain and this is oc- cupied by a masked man, who sits there with folded arms, gravely bow- ing, at times kissing his hand to the senoritas above, now almost wild with excitement. (TO BE CONTINUED.) JOB' FOR A PAINTER, Georgie Explains to His Uncle Fred the Accident That Causos the Demand. DEAR UNCLE PnED—Paw painted part If our stable day Before yistady, He would a painted it all .if it Hadent a Bin for a accident. When He got About time Boards painted maw come out to see Flow he %vas gitten along and when she looked at Him she says: "1 thot you was agoin to paint the Stable." Paw was up on a ladder and he stop- ped and looked at Her like if He diden't no What she meat. The He says: "Well, ain't I painten it? If you Dont like this Here job, mebbyyou Bet- ter take Bold and finish it yourself." "Oh, you're doin all rite," says maw, "only it seems to me it would Be a lit- tle Better if you'd git more paint on the Barn and not quite so mutch on yourself." `Huh!" paw growled, "I s'pose you Think that Blame funny, don't you? Why 1 seen that old gag in The papers twenty years ago," "Oh not that long ago," says Gnaw, "Why not?" Paw est. "Bernsyou never read the Papers, then," says maw. "It's only since we Got married and I want to Be Sociable Or they's samothin you ought to Do around the House that you gib so Bizzy roaden papers you Don't have no Time for anything eLse." "That's What Thanks a feller Bits," Paw says, "for tryin to Do things. If you told the truth, How does it Come I'm Up Here now?" Paw was tickled by that shot and Ile kind of Whirled around on one foot to See How maw was again to Take it, But the ladder give a slide, and Dawn she Went with Paw holy>,rin fer thaw 10 ketch the Blame Thing; Maw she jist yelled and run away, and paw Come Down kersmash on the Paint Bucket, and upset it, and the stuff run all over His neck and nearly smothered Him Before He Could git =- tangled out of the ladder. Wo was all party scared. But it Didnt Hurt him much, so when we was leaden Him into the House he says to maw: "Well, I Hope you're Happy now. You Couldcn't a stayed in the 'House Where you Belonged because they wasen't nobody in there to make your tongue waggle. I s'pose the only thing you're Sorry about is that T diden't Git my nock Broke." Maw she Diden't say a word. I Gess She must a Been party full of remorst. They's a Job Here fer some painter now. Gnoitamt, —Cleveland Leader, His Exception. Barker—I claim that every woman has the right to wear any kind of clothes that she likes. If she wants to appear upon the streets in bloomers, or even in tights; that should be her priv- ilege. Dunning—Do you mean to tell me that you would extend this privilege to all women? Barker—Well, to all except members of my own family.—Chicago News. The War In Cuba "We made the enemy ran today," joyfully exclaimed the Spanish officer, "and we are to be congratulated." "You did nobly, gallantly. What did you do with the enemy—capture him, or did you leave him at large?" "We left him. That's the best part of it. He was at least half a mile be- hind us when we got back to the city." —New York Truth. Too Hitch. "In five minutes," announced the leader of the mob, "you will be hung.". The victim shuddered. "No, no l he cried. "Let me"— His voice rose to a shriek. . —"be hanged, but not—not hung!" Ho buried his face in his hands. Hardened criminal though he was, he had been born in Boston.—New York Press. At the Seaside. Landlady (to shivering lodger)—No, sir, I don't object to your dining at a restorong, nor to, taking an 'apenny pa- per, but 1 must resent your constant 'abit of locking up your whisky, there- by himplying that me, a clergyman's daughter, is prone to larceny. ---Punch. On a Yacht. Captain—We've just weighed anchor. Tottse-How much does it weigh?— ' He Had It. • CATTLE DIPPING. Experiments Conducted. For Destroying the Teras Fever Tick. Texas is fighting upon her own ground the terrible little tick which is now believed to spread the cattle fever. Dr. Victor Norgaard, chief of the divi- sion oI pathology in tho bureau of ani- mal industry at Washington, is conduct- ing experiments at the expense of the TEXAS CATTLE, TICE ENLARGED. owners of the great stockyards at Fort Worth. The method adopted is to swim the cattle through a large tank contain- ing a mixture which it is hoped will de- stroy tate ticks on them. Tho St, Louis Post -Dispatch gives an aocount of the experiments, with a vivid pictureoj;the horrible tick ;and a diagram of the dip- ping apparatus. The Post -Dispatch says: These exper- iments are made by dipping the cattle infested with ticks into a carbolic prep- aration, "elxloro-naphtixoleum," manu- factured by a New York company, To properly make these interesting tests required the building of special pens and shoots and a large vat to contain the chemical for dipping. • There are a number of these new pens and vats, all located in the quarantine division of the yards. From the pens a wide shoot leads to a smaller pen near the head of the dipping vat, just large enough to ' contain, about 100 cattle, This pen converges to a narrow shoot about 20 feet long that leads directly into the vat. The vat proper is 20 feet long and 10 feet deep. It is of consid- erable width at the top, but narrows to about 2 feet at the bottom. It is built of cypress and is airtight and lies most- ly beneath the surface of the ground, only a few feet of the walls projecting above. When ready for use, the vat con- tains about 6 feet of fluid. The actual 'work of dipping the cattle is interesting. The cattle used were brought :from north of the present quar- antine line and from counties recently quarantined. The cattle were unloaded direct from the oars into the pons used for the boarding of southern cattlo. They were then driven by way of a shoot into the pen at the head of the vat. From this they were driven through the narrow shoot, one at a time, an to a metal covered trapdoor that lies hori- zontally with one end projecting over the vat. This door is fixed on a horizon- tal pivot, and when the animal reached the far end his weight would bear it down and before he would know it he would plunge head first into the chem- ical bath below. The animal is completely submerged by the fall into the six feet of fluid and upon rising cannot escape from the in- voluntary bath without swimming over 20 feet to the other end of the vat, -where the ascent is an inclined plane provided with footholds. At the top the steer is allowed to stand for awhile and drip, when the gate is opened and he is al- lowed to go with his fellows into pens prepared for their reception. These pens are numbered, and the cattle in each are carefully examined at certain intervals after being dipped and notes taken. They are driven back to the vat and re- dipped if found necessary. So far it does not appear that the ex- periments have proved a decided suc- cess, the end in view having been only partially attained. A large number of the ticks on the cattle experimented upon have, however, been killed and the rest are more or less affected. Experiments are now being continued, with the addition of West Virginia black oil, which, it is promised, will destroy all the ticks. In addition to making the experi- ments relating -to Texas fever Dr. Nor- gaard will from time to time while'in Fort Worth give examples of the proc- ess employed in inoculating cattle to prevent blackleg: This disease has been the cause of a great mortality among cattle in widely separated districts of Doctor -Mr. Enpeck, 1 fear your wife's mind is gone. Mr. Enpeck—That doesn't surprise me. She has been giving me a piece of it every day for ten years.—•Up to Date DIPPING APPARATUS. the United States. In some of the south- ern and western states especially the annual losses from this disease are said to be so great as to equal or exceed the losses of cattle from all other causes combined. A "single vaccine" has been prepar- ed in tlxe pathological laboratory of the bureau of aniwal industry and tested on a large number of calves in Texas, and the results warrant the conclusion that this vaccine is a satisfactoryrem- edy. It is desired, however, before dis- tributing this vaccine to stock owners in general to obtain a record of several thousand stiocessful' vaccinations. For this purpose a quantity of the vaccine will be distributed to such persons as may desire to make preliminary vacci- nations and report the result to the bu- reau. BALKY HORSES. Keep Cool, I?;eep the Team Cool and Don't Overload. Abuse ruins the best of horses, so keep cool, keep the team cool, use good jud ;meat and save time and much tsou- bio. I have handled balky horses by way of trading and buying, and when one 'would take a set I.would cake my time to get started, fix so the load could start easily, maneuver the horse to the right and left a few times, use the whip lightly about his hind legs as though I were not caring whether he started or not, till he seemed ready to start, and started quietly as though he had just learned that he could start, and contin- ued all right, and balking was ended. I have known four powerful strong. pulling horses killed under the whip,; Two died in the gears and two dwin- dled awhile and died. It is strange bow strong a horse will pall when, once: he has learned to know his strength. ` And now I am at the place whore the good horseman or driver knows his business and .knows when ho has loaded too heavily unawares, and will not over - pull and strain his team or horses till their nerve and muscular power is ex- hausted. He will hitch on more team or unload some, but an inexperienced driver overloaded on wet and soft ground is most apt to stall so that it will be impossible far the full strength of the tenni to start the load. This is where balky Horses are made by lack of good judgment. The team is soon spoil- ed or fooled till they refuse to pull, all the good pulling' has been pulled out of them, and they are in the same fix as a horse that has been broken of pulling back on the halter, having been tied se- curely to a willow bush that 'would spring, pausing him to pull more vigor- ously than ever; and pulled his utmost till ho gives it up, never to pull back on the halter again. The effect is much the same on a team that is called balky, None bat an expert with the toam can endo' the spoil and make the spoiled team as good as ever. I can't explain the modus operandi or matte it clear to the understanding of the unskillful driver. In conclusion I mention something of speoioal importance—that is, playing tricks on colts and horses for sport and frightening them so they are unsafe. It is written in the Proverbs, " A horse is a vain thing for safety." They natural- ly are easily frightened and spoiled, I know a horse that was good to middle g age. The lady was driving past a school- house as the school was dismissed for home, the boys beat on their tin dinner buckets, drum fashion, and said, "Now see him go." He ran away and ship- wrecked the rig, and now frightens at anything that rattles. Boys, be warned and beware of the danger of frightening horses,—Israel Hill in National Stock- man. • At This Time of Year. Cull and weed out carefully all your flocks and herds. Separate the stook animals from those you will fatten 'for market, Sell off for what you can got every runt, weak or defective animal and those that seem unthrifty. It costs to winter a poor quality of animal, and it does not pay to waste good food in fattening such. Whether hogs, sheep, cattle or poultry, weed out and dispose of tho deadheads. If you have wethers that you wish to market early, shear them at the begin- ning of October. By the time they are fat they will have half grown fleeces, and they will look well. Besides that the shearing will free them from ticks if they are so unfortunate as to have any. It is torture to sheep to be penned up and devoured by, ticks. Professor Craig says that a lamb which has been sheared makes a more rapid gain than ono unshorn. After the fleece of the shorn lamb is an inch long, however, the Iamb gains flesh no faster than one not sheared. It is for the ones that aro tp be sold in a month or two that the October shearing is recommended. Live Stock Points. All over the southern half of the great American corn belt the soja bean will grow lux-uriantly and it is one of the best stock feeds ever discovered. The difference between it and 'corn is that the soja contains protein and. oil; the corn contains starch and oil. For fattening hogs a mixture composed of two-thirds cornmeal and one-third soja bean meal makes the ideal food for hogs. The soja bean will grow well its lati- tude as far north as a line cutting off the upper third of the states of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. Soja meal makes lean. meat. It is also a muscle making, hu- manod. Try it next year. T American fat stock 'and horse 4 show at Chicago will not last so long at was at first intended It will begin Nov, 1 and continue only one week. Did you know you could not drive.a hog across a railway track? When animals are to be transported a short distance, it saves much time and bother to haul instead of driving or leading them: Secretary Wilson of the national ag- ricultural department is getting infor- mation from foreign countries in Europe and elsewhere that will enable him to tell American horse breeders exactly what kind of animals are wanted for the markets outside of our own land, from cavalry steeds to plow nags. The draft, horse is in demand again. There is no doubt of that. Those who have a good number of Percherons, Clydesdales or other fine, large pullers will get a profitable price for them. Place a rack upon a wagon box that is 16 to 18 feet long. Have the rack high enough to let' sheep or hogs stand up in. Put board covers upon the top. Toll your sheep or hogs into the rack, then lif it upon the wagon box and Yon will have no trouble in hauling the ani- mals anywhere you wish to take them. This is much better than trying to drive them. g John R. Gentry and Bobert J, pacers, world's champion harness team, went a mile in 2:09. ,