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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-11-11, Page 20 CT JACK. By ST. GEORGE RATIIUQRNE.. C)Nanttl to. Doctor Tack is at first indignant, and then he laughs as though amus- ed,. This man has been gotten up to imitate himself, and with such suc- cess that the platform is fairly cover- ed with flowers tossed upon the hero • by the hands of Madrid's dark -eyed daughters. Now they are close by—the Ameri- can athlete could with one spring gain that platform, and hurl the mock WI -fighter to.. the around; but the temptation comes and goes instantly. "'Let him have his fun—unless I am mistaken he will pay for it before morning," he mutters, and there is truth in his words, for, although all the women go wild over the • Sup- posed hero of the greatest bull -fight Madrid ever saw, there are many dark scowls cast after the cavalcade by the male portions of the revelers could one but peep beneath their masks— these are the friends of the defeated Pedro Vasquez, who hate the man up- on whose head rests the laurels that should bave come to their favourite god. So the cavalcade wends its way down the Del Prado amid a hurricane of houts and tremendous excitement, heading for the thoroughfare that leads to the grand central plaza, the Puerta del Sol. where the greatest sights are to be witnessed on these gala occasions. Jack quenches his thirst with some lemonade from a stand near by, and starting a cigar continues his stroll. Other strange sights greet his eyes, and even his cold Northern blood is to a certain degree fired by the music and the gayety around him, so that he can readily perceive how these warm Spanish people give way to the excitement of the carnival. He smiles grimly when he hears a great racket far down the street, and makes up his mind that the bogus Doctor Tack has already case to grief, the bull -fighter's friends having prob- ably pelted him with oranges, and per- haps dragged him through the street mud. The mad scene goes on, and fresh actors in it seem to be continually coming and going. Until the mid- night bells announce again that the three days of jollity are past, and Lent ushered in. Madrid will be in one continual ferment, day and night pranks will be played and strange scenes enacted, each citizen vieing with his neighbours in producing noise by day and illumination by night, or adding new features to the parade of masks upon the public streets, Jack stops to witness the feats of an East Indian juggler .and sword. swallower, who exhibits on the street corner, surrounded by a curious crowd of masked persons. Several flaming swinging lamps smoke round him—the odour of oil is strong, the weird cos- tumes of the audience striking, and the feats of the juggler something out of the ordinary. An attendant passes a little basket around, and the crowd is disposed to be liberal, judging from the reals and. pesetas that jingle within it as he ends his share of the labour, Then the star of the combination begins business. Jack watches him curiously, and be- fore the man has gone far makes up his mind that this is not the first time he and the juggler bave met, al- though the last time he saw Ben Achrned was upon the dusty street of Delhi in India. It is a little singular that he should run across the juggler again so far away from Hindostan, and Jack be- lieves he will wait until the perform- ance is over, when he may have a few words with the other. Leaning against a neighbouring tree, he smokes his cigar, which luxury the half mask allows, watching the drift- ing crowds, the weird actions of the juggier, and listening to the jargon of sounds. From this state of reverie something finally arouses him. .A. familiar . fig - sire heaves in sight—surely there can be no mistaking that dudish dress even if a half mask clone hide the face of Cousin Larry. The New York sport is out to see the sights, and per- haps take a hand in any frolic. As he is passing by his name is ut- tered by Jack, to whom the little fel- low is soon talking. The athlete thinks more of Larry since the ex- hibition in the hotel. Then again he is a cousin to Avis—that counts for something.. " What ! you, Doctor Jack. I thought I saw a fellow of your size riding by on a sedan chair, the wo- men cheering, the men cursing, but made up my mind I was mistaken, says Larry, grasping the outstretched hand eagerly, for he takes quick lik- inee, and, unbeknown to the others, witnessed the bull -fight of the after- noon, so that he looks up to the doctor as a hero. Jack tells him about the imposter, and they both laugh. Then the little man grows serious again. " Do you know, I was on my way to your hotel, Doctor Zack—I believe it is en this desert street, is it not ?" he asks. " That le the bt ff mine 'ate Valves the great lantern is hanging—but what brings you here ?" Doctor Jack's curiosity is again aroused—we have, seen that he posses - res a fair amount of this womanly trait. Why should he not feel a de- sire to know the cause ' of Larry's coming when the latter is her cousin ? Just now the whole world revolves around Avis Morton—Jack has jumped into a new sphere during the last twelve hours—we shall see , in time whether he can play at lover as well as at bull -fighter. " My pedal extremities, to be Sure. tried to get a carriage, but as . beast- ly luck would have it they were all taken. Then I started to walk, and before I had taken ten paces an im- pudent a,leuazil toned me on the area and informed me I would not be SU - leveed on the public streets while the carnival lasted, at night any way, without a . mask, so I had to stop at a fakir's, :and he robbed for once. Just then he said they were worth their weight in oro, he called it, which, I take it, means gold, Then I was pushed and knocked about a good deal, but in spite of all here's Larry Kennedy, right, side up with care, and don't you forget it." The dude is 'long -winded -he likes to hear himself talk, and drawls so that it is misery for Ja,ck to listen. The latter thinks he knows a way to hurry old siowbones up, which plan he stands ready to adopt if necessary. " Now that you've found the hotel,. what do you want with it, Larry ?" be questions. After all, now that I think of it, the hotel wasn't what I was looking for. It !" from Doctor Jack, who holds bis breath, for he sees the dude thrust his hand into a pocket as if in search of something. " It was you I wanted, Doctor Jack." "What for, nay dear man ?" The hand comes out of the pocket— it ocketit holds something, and the sharp eyes of Doctor Jaek detect a bit of white paper. Ills heart gives a throb—it la a message front Avis, In a moment of time various thoughts and speculations flash through his brain. What can Avis want ? Has she learned something since their parting that has a bearing on the purposed mission? He remem bers that the Pasha was about the Peninsular at the time, and Larry, with him. These things flit through his brain in a much shorter space of time than it takes to read them in print. Larry holds out his hand. "That will explain my presence, doc- tor," he said, languidly, but his in- difference is assumed, as indeed many of his moods are—there is more fire concealed under this affeeted, cool, and deliberate exterior than one could imagine. Endeavouring to be calm, Doctor Jack unfolds the paper. His hande tremble a little. The paper has be- come somewhat crumpled in the dude's pocket, but leaning over so that the light from the four smoky flambeaux of the Indian sword -swal- lower may fall upon it, Jack reads. He immediately gives an exclama- tion, and bends closer, Larry watching hint with a smile, his slender figure drawn up a la Napoleon as though he deems himself of considerable import- ance just at this moment. " Jove ! this is singular !" mutters Jack. Then he looks up, an odd smile crossing his face which the half mask hides—he has suddenly caught a glim- mer of the truth. '"Ah 1 you appear puzzled," says Larry. " Well, yes. There seems a cipher needed here to set me straight," re- sponds the other. So Larry straightens his slender legs, throws out his chest, pulls at the awfully diminutive mustache fierce- ly, and rapping on his breast as a Booth or a Barrett might, he cries :— " Look on me—I—I am the missing link." Doctoe Seek, remembering his first opinion that the dude resembled a monkey, inwardly chuckles to think how near the mark these words may be construed—children and fools al- ways speak the truth, they say. " I presume this note does refer to. you, my good fellow, but I am afraid it was never intended for my' eyes." " Oh ! yes, no doubt of that. Just read it out and then I'll explain." So Jack once more bends over and reads, in a. voice that the other can easily hear above the jargon of sounds on the street, the contents of the note given to him :— " Four doors below Monsieur Blanc's conservatory of music—will meet you between two and four this day, my charming Larry. I have not forgot- ten your vows in the garden of the Turneries, and I swear to you that I love no other man as I do you. Be- ware lest you meet my guardian, for Doctor Jack stops. A hand is laid on his arm, and look- ing up he sees the face of the dude. close to his own. "You were right, doctor; I did make a beastly mistake. That is a billet deux from a champing little eweature in Paris. Turned out she had anoth- er lover—we met at the house—he punctured me with a sword in the arm, and I gave him a bullet that kept him in the hospital de la charite for two weeks. I was arrested, but proved to, be the assaulted pawty, so they let me off," gabbles the little man. But my note—come, man, let me have it " cries Jack, on needles and pins. He feels as though it would do Wan good to seize hold of this fellow and shake Some animation into his slow ntev.ing body, but fears the man might fall to pieces on his hands, he is so wonderfully made up. "I'm getting at it. Patience, good doctor. Your class of men have to exercise a deal of it, I know. Ah ! here's another document—let's see if it is what we are after." Larry is not so reckless with his pa- pers now perhaps he has other pri- nate affairs he does not wish the pub- lic to see. So he glances cautiously at this document ere handing it over to the tender mercies of the scoffer. This seems more like it—Jack reads: "There is trouble for you, Doctor Jack, here—now—inMadrid. You have enemies. By accident Cousin Larry learned something of their plotting. You can trust him through anything. To get at the pith of the matter ask him questions. He admires you, and standsready to do anything he can." Her name is at the bottom—Avis Morton. " Come," says Jack, decisively, tak- ing the arm of the New York dude in his own, " we will go to some place where we can talk unheard, and there you shall tell me what this means." "I'm quite agweeable, doctor' lisps Larry. So they leave the juggler and his ad- mirers behind, turning their backs on the smoky flambeaux, and pusha pas- sage through the crowd toward the Panda. CHAPTER XI. Jack's first thought is' of the hotel, where in the quiet of his room, they may engage in a conversation unin- terrupted. He has already passed over half the distance, and the fonda seems near at hand, when he becomes aware of the fact that his companion desires to stop, so a, halt is called. " Beg pardon, doctor, but are you heading for that caravansary yon- deh?" asks Cousin Larry. " Certainly. I have a room there. Over a bottle of wine we can discuss this matter," replies the athlete, won- dering what is in the wind. The dude makes a half way French shrug that at another time would have amused Jack more than words could tell, but just now he has his mind oc- cupied with other things. The temptation is strong but the wisk is too great, my boy." " Risk ! What the duce do you mean, Larry ? They know me here--• the best the house affords is at my service," cries Jack, "Yes, they know you-that'O it. For me tobe seen in your company is clan l erous." " Eh ? I don't comprehend," gasps the doctor. Larry bends his head over, for there is a noisy band bearing down upon them, filling' the air with some na- tional melody, and the crowd. of tvask- ed students accompany it shouting a college song at the top of their lungs, so that the dude is compelled to give his shrill voice full play in order to be heard. " Because you are a marked man, Doctor Jack," is the astonishing de- claration he makes. " There is a big conspiracy against you, right here in the city of Madrid. " What has that todo with not en- tering the hotel, may I ask ?" " Everythirrg, An enemy is there on the watch. He would see us together. Thy would believe I had warned . you, and a beastly mess would come of it for don't ye see I'm supposed to be on the other side—that's how T picked up my information, pretending to be as mad as the duse at you because you seemed to have found favour in the eye$ of my cousin—I am very parti- cular who she makes up with, don't ye know, for once I thought I'd have her myself, 'Pon 'anon, only Avis argued me out of it, deal girl." Some men would get angry at such. talk, but Jack cannot -he knows Larry is a conceited fool—under his breath he calls him a jackass, but it is also dead certain that the little man is wiser than surface indications would promise. His present errand proves it, and Jack is not the one to find fault with a little eccentricity, for it serves as a spice to flavour the soup. So he makes out that he is highly pleased, presses the dude's hand warmly, and howls in his ear -the vil- lainous band is just passing. " Awful glad to know you don't ob- ject to my cutting you out with. Miss Avis. You know that's the fate of cousins, anyhow. If I'm ever so lucky as to succeed you shall be my best man, Larry." The plot thickens—Larry tumbles into the pit dug for him by the scheming lover, and shakes Jack's hand in return. " Thanks, awfully, doctor—count on me. " And now let's move back here a piece. I remember a spot where we can talk—a nice quiet place," shouts the other. They soon reach the quarter Jack has reference to—it does promise them a chance for a quiet talk, being a lit- tle refreshment saloon, gaudily light- ed up for the occasion, but as yet not well patronized, for the weird scenes upon the street keep every one on the qui vive. Entering here, Doctor Jack selects a table just around acorner, where they will not be in view from the open doors. A black-eyed Spanish girl takes their order, and refreshments are speedily served. Besides themselves there are a few persons in the refresco shop, and the noise from the street is heard with less violence, so they can talk with some sense of securit3'. A stout man, in the guise of a monk, cowled and masked, enters and seats himself not far away. Two students are treating a couple 'of inamoratas at another table, the party laughing and giggling as the young men endeavour to discover who their companions are, the girls seeming to know them. Now and then the outside roar in- creases, and then dies away again—a strange noise it is, taken altogether, and one that would puzzle a stranger in Madrid, aroused from his midnight slumbers with visions of bloody revo- lution, perhaps, or the terrors of the dread earthquake that once destroyed Lisbon. Doctor Jack is not the man to beat about the bush—he goes straight at the mark every time, and hits the bull's-eye. So he takes Larry in hand, remembering the instructions written by Avis—he has that note in the poc- ket next his heart, by the way. Now, tellme' what you know, Larry, and kindly make the .story to the point. If I desire additional in- formation at any place I shall not hesitate to break in and ask a ques- tion." This is the kind of talk that Larry likes—he wants a man to take hold of him firmly—most men treat him as though he were a fool, and handle him as if they thought he would break. He is ready to swear by Doctor Jack. The latter is surprised to see him toss aside his flippant mood as one might a wail, and for the time being show something of the real spirit behind. Even his lisp is gone, and , he talks like other human beings, and not a conceited puppy. - "You know, doctor, I have been arm in arm with that Turkish pasha—had a 'sneaking notion from the start he was cultivating my acquaintance with an object in view—believed it was the same old story, dead gone on my cou- sin, and played him for a fool, but I was wrong—dead wrong:' He had an- other game in view. " I soon got on to It, and found it was hate instead of love. You were the man. At once I became insanely jealous; raved over Avis, and mut tered threats against Doctor Jack, all of which seemed to tickle the"! old pasha.. " I thought he might take me ,into the game, but he was cautious -not that he suspected my feelings in the hatter, but, doubtless, had little faith in my ability to aid him. Then he saw a chance to utilize me as a tool or a fool, and gradually T picked up points. ." There is adeep plot against you, doctor, and a number of persons seem to be interested in it. Among others there is Pedro Vasquez, the bull -fight- er you outgeneraled at the pavilion—I Saw the thing, and was proud of you. It was luck you jumped when you did, for my blood was boiling at the insult offered America, and, 'pon 'onah, I was just about to step forward myself." (TO BB CONTINUEAD.) Deanandson a Royal Parse. "Marie Antoinette as Dauphine" is the title of an article in The Century by Miss Anna L. Bicknell. Miss Biok- nelI, who has used much new matter from the state papers in Vienna, says: The minute difficulties and inconven- iences which beset the princess in her daily life would hardly be believed but for the testimony of competent witness- es. Mercy states in a letter to Maria Theresa: "I must call attention to the fact that the dauphine, whose purse is nominally of 6,000 livres a month, has in reality not a single Drown at her dis- posal. There are scandalous abuses here as regards money matters. The dau- phine's purse is given into the caro of her treasurer, who keeps back 2,500 livres every month for pensions granted by the late queen, and which have fall- en on the dauphine without her know- ing anything about them. Her garcons do ohambre receive 100 louis a month for the dauphine's card playing. Wheth- er she wins or loses no one sees any- thing more of this money. The bedchare ber women take charge of all the re- mainder, which is usually distributed in gifts suggested by Mme, de Noailles, with the forced consent of the dau- phine, who thus keeps no money at her own disposal. She is certainly not well dressed, but that is the fault of the la- dy who has the charge of her wardrobe. This lady pays little attention to it and has not much taste." Wills and Taxes. "There are 'tricks in all trades,' but none in ours," remarked a lawyer to a friend yesterday. "" We do not stoop to tricks. But we do see that our clients' interests do not suffer, and a new phase in the manner in which we look after the interests of our clients has been de- veloped by the vigilance of the tax com- missioners. "Unless. a lawyer is without expe- rience in practicing in the surrogate's court mention is never made of the value of an estate, if legal acumen can prevent it. About the last time this was done was when Jay Gould's will was filed. If . I remember oorrectly the value of the estate was given at $78,- 000,000. Mr. Gould never paidtaxes on any such an amount as that, but his heirs had to do it. They did for awhile and then gave up their residence in the city. Taxes were lower elsewhere. This taught lawyers a lesson they have not forgotten. The tax commissioners can scan all wills and other similar papers without getting the best of any estate. It used to be that a will was no sooner filed with a true estimate of the estate than the tax officials were after it."— New t."—New York Commercial. Atomic Unions. As chemists studied the actions of va- rious kinds of atoms in regard to their onions with one another to form mole- cules it gradually dawned upon them that not all elements are satisfied with the same number of companions. Some elements ask only one and refuse to take more, while others link themselves when occasion offers with two, three, four or more. Thus we saw that oxy-• gen forsook a single atom of its own kind and linked itself with two atoms of hydrogen. Clearly, then, the oxygen atom, like a creature with two hands, is able to clutch two other atoms, but we have no proof that under any cir- cumstances it could hold more than two. Its affinities seem satisfied when it has two bonds; but, on the other hand, the atom of nitrogen is able to hold three atoms of hydrogen and does so in the molecule of ammonium (NH3), while the carbon atom can hold four atoms of hydrogen or two atoms of oxygen.— Henry Smith 'Williams, M. D., in Har - per's Magazine. Good and Poor Foods. The best brain foods, or phosphates, are lean meats, fish, cheese, crabs, wheat, barley, oatmeal, almond nuts, southern corn, beans, potatoes, figs and prunes. The best carbonates, or heat pro- ducers, are fat meat, sugar, butter, rice, rye, ejiocolate, dates, buckwheat, north- ern corn, white flour. ` Excess in this branch is the cause of poor health, poor blood and bad skin. The best nitroge- nous foods, or muscle makers, are vermi- celli, eggs, cheese, meats (particularly beef), southern corn, salmon, beans and peas. Phosphatic foods for persons of strong mentality and those who study much cannot be too strongly urged. The best food is the cheapest. It is well to remember that in hot weather we should avoid carbonates or heat makers, such as fats, rich cereals, sweets, etc. A lib- eral fruit diet at such times is well. Medical Mirror. For the Window. Very beautiful transparencies for hanging in windows, etc., may be made from the ordinary, gelatin plate. Use a slow plate, . as it gives greater con- trast. Place the negative from which you wish to make the positive film side up in a printing frame which does not have very stiff springs. Lay the gela- tin plate film side down on the nega- tive, put in the back press board and press the springs into place very gently, then hold it about two feet from the lamp and expose for from 5 to 20 sec- onds, according to the density of the negative. Deve1qp and fix as for an or- dinary negative.- arper's Round Ts- ble. BEAUTIFUL COWS, Specimens of a New Jersey Bard of Belted Cattle.. "Dutch Belts," as the . Belted cattle are commonly called, come from Hol- land. They are somewhat similar to the Holstein -Friesians, except that they are rounder and neater iu build. • As milk producers they are first class. Their milk is rich in quality. These picturesque animals are some- times also called Blanket cattle, from the effect of the white belt on their bodies, which gives them the appear- ance at 'a distance of having a white sheet or blanket pinned smoothly around them. In disposition they are as intelli- SILO FILLING. Friendly Neighbors Work It Effectively on the Co-operative Plan. Corn has been raised on clover sod on which 15 or 20 loads of manure to the acre had been spread during the winter. Variety of corn, Pride of the North. Rows three feet apart, with from 20 to 25 kernels to the rod of row drilled in, Weeder used twice. Corn cultivated six times, cultivation shallow and level. Average' height of corn, 8 feet. Corn heavily eared and well matured. Three neighbors change work iu filling silos. One has a ton horsepower engine, an- other has a machine that cuts and binds the corn in the field, and the other owns a cutter 'aud elevator. No better rig is needed for drawing the corn than a flat hayrack 16 feet long and 8 feet wide, with standards at each end. A truck wagon is used, and the top of the rank is on a level with the feed table of the cutterwhen iu position for unloading, AUTOS Blum. gent and gentle as cows could be. A dairyman who had a herd of them would be sure of a large quantity of milk of fine quality and richness, and he would have besides a herd that would make his farm one of the show places of the neighborhood, so picturesque and attractive are the Dutch Belts, At Llewellen Park, N. J., is a fine herd of these cattle. They drew to themselves much attention at the state fair and captured nine prizes. The Dutch Belts are very hardy in constitution, enduring extremes of weather well. In color they are entire- ly black except for the wide white band around their bodies. The"bulls mark the characteristics of the breed strongly upon their grade offspring, In a herd of cattle the Dutch Belt cross is sometimes shown in red cows with the white band around their bodies. Classes of Creamery Patrons. First.—There is the genuine dairy- man, who always has at least 20 cows giving milk and sometimes 60 or more. The cows and his mind are both well oared for. The butter maker who at- tempts to instruot such a man about the management of his herd or the care of his milk must be well informed and read at least three agricultural or dairy papers every -week. Second.—The farmer who keeps from two to six cows. He does most of the work himself and has a neat and attract- ive barn, house and home. He is very well acquainted with his cows, but reads the weekly edition of the daily papers and some of the monthly maga- zines more than he does his one agricul- tural paper. Third.—The man who farms a good many acres of land, but lives in a small house which is surrounded by an ac- cumulation of broken wagons, farm ma- chinery and many other things that have been dropped in the shuffle of his everyday work. Pigs, geese and chick- ens dodge around this mass of material or roost on the water tank. They may occasionally enter the house, but the human inhabitants of this complicated dooryard seem to be either hustling about, as if they were nearly overcome by the amount of work they are trying to do, or are quietly content to live with the stock in these untidy surroundings. —Professor Farrington. See These Records. At the Rockville (Conn.) fair $100 was offered in prizes for six cows enter- ed by one man that should produce the most butter fat in 24 hours. The six winning eows gave 176X pounds of milk which contained 8.4 pounds of butter fat, equal to 9.8 pounds of but. ter. This is not a large performance as compared with many, private records made at home. These six cows, howev- er, are good business animals. With 24 cows competing for the prizes the aver- age weight of milk was 27.3 pounds and of butter 1.49 pounds. Such dairy con- tests are worth ten times as much to the average farmer as is the "horse trot," yet the latter performance usual- ly oommands so much of the money that there is little for other prizes., Such dairy contests are usually surpris- ing. Actual weights and analyses mark out the robber cows and show farmers the necessity of knowing what their cattle are doing.—Exchange. Model Creamery stutter Maker. The butter maker must strive and ex pest to be the standard of cleanliness which he wishes the patrons to follow. When he has conquered his own coup try, he can commence his crusade against the carelessness of his eustomers in the care of their cows' and their cans. It often happens that sour or tainted milk is the result of ignorance on the part of the patron of the best way to prevent it. In order to be able to advise each patron of effectual remedies and to write a prescription most fitting for each case, it is just as necessary for the butter maker to call at the farm of each patron as it is for the doctor to call on his sick patients. ; A personal acquaint- ance, formed by an occasional visit of the butter maker to each patron's farm, will develop a mutual interest in each other's business that should be bene- ficial to all parties: Three teams are used, ono for cutting and two for drawing. If the corn is far away, a third is used in drawing. Two men in the field handle the bundles with forks, putting them in nearly the right position on the load. The labor in loading and unloading is much less with bundles than with loose corn. Two men are needed at the cutter; one to feed and one to cut bands, chang- ing with alternate loads. The corn out in one-quarter inch lengths is delivered in the silo through a dormer window; Inside it falls on an inclined carrier and. is landed in the center of the silo, which is round. and 22 feet in diameter. One man is kept in the silo most of the time to keep the corn evenly distributed over the surface. For covering damp saw- dust is spread on the corn to the depth of four incites. The silo is opened when ensilage is needed for feeding, usually in five or six weeks after filling.' With such corn the round silo is a perfect suc- cess, and the ensilage of excellent qual ity. Other conditions being equal, we make more and better winter butter than before the silo was built. By changing work with neighbors as above stated very little extra help by the day is needed and the cost of filling is not great.—O. S. Rice in. Rural New Yorker Australian Butter Box. It is a cheaper package than a tub, It is easier to nail a box together than it is to soak atub. The only trouble about boxes is that, being made of whitewood, they are easily soiled in handling. Hands must be kept clean and dry to avoid finger marks. So great is the demand for boxes at this time that many are unable to get. them from the factories in sufficient quantities to fill contracts. All butter packed in boxes should be lined with parchment paper. The opera- tion is very simple, and the expense is less than a cent per package. Batter packed in boxes should weigh at the factory a trifle more than 56 pounds to allow for shrinkage.—Cream- ery Journal. Dairy and Creamery. A creamery that is very successful in dealing with its patrons pays them in this way: It buys the milk from the farmers. Each man's product is tested to determine the amount of butter fat in it. The patron is paid as much for each pound of fat as the price the cream- ery would obtain in the Elgin market. Of course there is one-sixth more com- mercial butter than there are pounds of butter fat. That is to say, for every 60 pounds of pure butter fat there will bo about 70 pounds of commercial butter. Out of the difference between the amount of butter fat andcommercial butter the creamery pays its expenses and makes its profit, and everybody seems well satisfied. In response to the plan of Secretary Wilson samples of American butter were sent to Great Britain from various parts of the Union. The Minnesota packages seera to have brought excellent prices. The butter was done up in 56 Lound packages and was sold by the ondon grocers at 24 to 26 cents a pound. That is the price in the same Y market for the best French and Danish butter. Some butter was also sent to London done up in small prints, one and two pounds. This did not find so good a sale. There is no better medicine than but, termilk. It is good for biliousness and is an excellent tonic for the stomach. Beware, however, of bitter buttermilk. It may be sour, but it must never be bitter. Here is a good balanced ration for a cow to be fed in one day: Twenty pounds cornstalks, two pounds corn- meal, two pounds oats, two pounds bar- ley, three pounds wheat bran, three -pounds gluten meal, two pounds oil- meal. What is called the "new corn prod- uct" is ft valuable cattle feed either for dairy cows or beeves. It consists of the ground up stalks of corn after the pith has been taken out. The ground corn- stalk resembles coarse bran and is used by mixing it at the rate of two to one with bran, oilmeal or cottonseed' meas