HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe 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
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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. ,