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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-4-29, Page 6)111 ,I•aemr.1010•••••••••••••••••MINNOINOMPAIMMOiliaM•01••••••=1010.11•111•1•1111•01 DR. JACK'S WIFE BY ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE. CONTINUED. It is evident that uuseen enemies are • around him, ready to strike in the dark. Ete groans to think that Avis is here with bine exposed to thee dangers. If she were only hire, he could better afford to laugh at the plottiugs of his enemies. Below he duds Larry, to whoin he cone des the new and alarming turn which such a powerful secret society as your eaemies. The recent events in this region bave torn our relations asuuder, We are almost in chaos as yet. Crime rens ram- pant I hardly InIONV Which men to trust. The figure clingiug to the well naakes another movement. Evidently lie has stopped to rest upon a ledge, or else be- cause Jack's footsteps on the pavement alarmed hina; but if this latter is the But I shall do my best," he says, case he has bravely overcome his fear, eince his movement is certabely upward. gravely. "It is all can ask. do not know 13y this time the fellow has his heads whether it is oustornary to have a permte uPon the windoev-sill. What if Avis binutyoluwe ocuityid flourre thyewcait;rywinrgite,o,froaorrz _..uslheseetplearesistflieetliwiotanttleciaheeortheeesrus :it:sable° frusgt monaluyubswtainbtiii one. Then I shall defend myself. " And, we will hear a good aec,oent of watehing over his fortuaes, It is tire° something was done, and you. Por Dios! I was in Madrid at the time you played your part in •the plaza Jack slowly raises his baud to wing the los teros, and, I was forced to admiee darls reas.s thus outliaed against the „sky,. htakenAmith bring bine down to the pavement a as tiaSe . s ght be rpm'- grit." ed, this worthy is astounded, and shows ' Doctor Jaole smiles. It pleases him to crippled evretcla, howliug with agony and, It en his face. Like a brave man he feels remember those old scenes once In a fear* able to meet open but this cowardly while, when the panorama of the past - at this moment oceurs the event net fees, way of seeking revenge, adopted by the sweeps before laina. Aim:memo the ethehe down en the bilk, Doctor Jack plainly seems cabaa against whom Doctor Jack dertth writes. hears the swish of liquid thecae, and sees has pitted biniself, is of such a terrify. "That covers the case, Doetor Jack. It somethietie shoot from the window,. A h.q. v‘odiotive, eliabolieal nature that it Is hardly necessary, since every one car- few drops -een splash upon his face and ab wet freezes the bloodries arms in these disturbed tunes Flow feel like flashes of fire, such is the heat . . - Leering the little man on guard, jaele ever, in ease you bowl over half a dozen contained in them. pa's outside to gad a eebiete whieh of these fellows you will be held guilt- ' As for the xogue who clings to the will t"..trry him to the Intendencia. One less." wall, and receives the full benefit of the haniems ta be mar. It looks like a lucky "They take their lives in their hands fiery deluge, he gives oue wild shriek of eh aiee, which be is oney too willing to when they run across my pull. I AM a anguish. His hande release their clutch. emlicetee. If he die but anew that this peaceable man, sir, but retest be let alone upon the windowsill above and down he same driver has twice refused a fare to attend to my business. As for this emu's in a heap. within the lase half hours, perhaps his impuoent English buil-dog who wants th , le:ome good fortune causes hire to drop suernaions inight he the sooner an:eased. wed Doctor Jack's widoweao ! in a sitting posture, and this, although . the iiight ride begins. The °facer laughs eland. ou tless eat T It is au chain:Iry back in watiela Doe. "Pardon, but it is too comical. I have fractured linab. Perbaps he fearsasecond tor -teen. finds hinteelf.. Hepays little seen much of these Engleshenea. They deluge et hot wattr: or 1 nay bo s az: ettion to the vehicle itself, since its are brave, too, but so full of boast -car. , buries have set hint wild. At may rate, le etretie zuovement presently engage his relabel the -world belougs to theni-we is thelicrous to eee the way in which the r.egerds. . all breathe only bemuse they are meg- . demeralized chap scrambles to his feet The driver must be drunk, be at first nanheous. Doctor Jack, I tell you. I my.' awl rushes down the ealle, groaning, and. eanebueel, Tee,e ie gashes threao his self would glve ten pesos to be present grim:hag tout Chillau curses with a pro- raimi that evben be betel his brief con - vet -ween with this worthy the man gave tate evidence of beteg under the iefluence of liquor. Indeed, Jack was inellned to bell ae. him unusuelly Might and Smart ethen you again come in contact with tioieney acquired en the any this Plyrapt•on," A few people come runtilug up and out Really, Doctor Jack is begiening to of the hotel to see what is the matter, for believe the Valparaiso chief of polica may although scenes of vialenoe are frequent be a pleasant sore of fellow after all, in the streets, they never fallattract for a h alp:tea:so Jetta. When he leaves him he has not learned. etteetiouA cochafighe or battle or the Ties, then, bringe tho case down to 3 grt'at deal to he eigh but the nasal° bulls hes always been a drawing card in wield 41,..„ign, If the man es eue of his of police protection is cast upon him, Chili, theugh of lath the laws me becom- mind. there is a uaethod in his madness. whatever that may count for. At auy lug more severe in this regard, and a ihis health -he movements, passing up rate, he tuts the right th protect himself. . live Yanithe circus pleases the populace Ona.. Sv."`i.; and down auother, might do The Chilian has suggested that be go about as well. They are fast becorniug hor a man trying to throw another off on board the Baltimore. Captain Selaeley eaucated along the republio ot the Andes. the traek, but: they are certainly entirely would daurtless receive a fellowoitizen Nothieg is to be see% save a wet spot out of pleee for a driver who has been of the great republic, who has become so on the pavement, mad ooly through ;Med et a round figure to take a fare to well kJ:KATI:1 AO Doctor Jack, wItti the seem:dation can they reach the truth. polite. headquarters as seen as possible, greetest pleasure in the world, and inane Doctor Jack does not Hager, but a min- eteeneound the fellow, what eau he quarters for birnself awl wife on board ute leter givee the peculiar rap on his mesas" innttere the Americau, as for -at least until their vessel leaves. door witiott Avis recoguizes, and it the third time his vehicle leaves the it is worth thinking aver. proves an "open eesanac " adraittiug him main avenue and pinups down Imo a Jack reaches the street. No vehlele can to the sacred precincts. eieyond, dark .i. C.ilte. be seen, and, be is now realty sorry be While Avis reiceles and. barricades the It lies gene beyond a joke. Doctor Jack let the other go. Be might have kept the dour her lieee lord gropes fora, chair,and, aeateies a moment ere eeeiaing what river in his employ, and between the gift throwing 14.1)11Eelf 1iit0 itS depths, htuglie em -ht to be done, and then pokes bit cif silver and the threat of lead influencect as though he would take A ilt. head out of the window, halaexpecting . him to be faithful. , "Well, you seem a.raueeel. Suppose Ton to see some footpads with whom the There is only one thieg to be dome- " share the eubeect?" she says, sitting on eirseer is in collueion. , be must use shanks' nare andtbus reach , the arm of tbe chair and stroking Doctor 'Lite rattle of wheels drowns his voice i the fondle His thoughts are with Avis. „ Jack's curly hair. when be speaks, ante he eeleounh eon.; Ileaven grats nothing else has occurred , "Ye gods! 1 snail never forgot how thinplittes firing a shot past the fellow's „ during his absence. Tbe terrible nature that fellow came down, doundering like ear that must bring him to terms. a. i of the last shaft, so recklessly aimed at a great bear. You brave little wonta.n, I stout, however accomplishes the same : him that it might easily have taken an- deelere-" thing. The Jelm turns, beholds his fare I other innocent party for a victim, bas "Oh, that's it! Well, I meant he should malting a threatening movement, and. given Jack an uneasiness quite foreign maand gave him the benefit of the whole putts hastily up. 1 to his nature. can of hot water beated on our little oil Doetor Jaen fiercely deroauds the Iva- He begins his walk. , stove here," she remarks, composedly, as ben for Ms erratic, movements. whereupon The hour has grown late and it is though such a feat were an everyday the man abjectly apitingiees. The only i just lacking seventeen minutes of mid- ocourrence. "And now, hack, if you can =vivo he manes is that the pavement Is; night 'when ' be leaves the Intendencia. control your laughter, tell me what you bad on (Termite feetions of the maw,: At this time the Chitin seaport might have seen and done since you lea here." street which it is policy on his part to . I naturally be expected to have an air of - avoid. i quiet resting upon its streets. ; CHAPTER IX, "Well, get to the (Alice of the Int -en- It is just the contrary. , dente as speedily as possible. It's all I. The success of the rebellion against; ! The balance of this singular night In • Balmaeeda bas excited all the elements Valparaiso plisses without adventure. ask " P alums his excuse is valid, but Jack i in the ety to such an extent that they t Doctor Jack., taking warning froxu what pienie of re. ! bits already occurred, does not neglect the hae reeal Imough of life to doubt it. He , seem to be holding a sort of ; helievee the man has another motive. and t ioicing all the while. One from the proper precautions for safety, and while a; in beigue with outside parties, though i States might readily believe an election the door is secured, no one could pee- wit ,a his purpose May be is a mystery. had just taken place, for bonfires blaze : sibly enter at the window, left open for The niatt air is ehilly, but Jack keeps here and there, while it is nothing un- • air, without disturbing bis slumbers, and usual to h ar a gun go off Perhaps be- to arouse a mau of his caliber would be a fore settling down to abusiness life again • Poor piece of business for the daring in - the Chili:ins desire to use up the super- truder, -whose reception must partake of !thous aramunition left over after the late a more serious nature than a sudden hot unpleasantness. water shower -bath. Jack keeps to the main street, and So the day comes, that fateful October avoids all crowds that seem noisy, if by day that almost precipitates a bloody war crossing over to the other side he can do between the valiant little South hmeri- so. Many a fracas occurs, but as the can free country and the greatest republic participants are natives, the spark is the world as ever seen. entered, hence it nenet be exhaled from not applied to the magazine. That ex- 1 It opens auspiciously for .Tack. e mine receptacle as they jolt along over plosion is left for another twenty-four As he comes down stairs he is accosted the road. hours. by a man -who has just entered Valper- He is at nnce suspicious. The very fact At last he sights the hotel. His own also's thief caravansary -a man, upon that the odor has a eoothing effect, and position is now assured, and the fear whom the dust of travel rests, and. who makes him drowsy, causes alarm. Such that pushes itself into his mind is in con- has undoubtedly ridden far and hard. things he has read of as happening in nection with his wife. At sight of him Doctor Jack receives a leaden and Paris. where wonderful He glances up at the -windows which shock, for although the man's face is games of fraud are inaireurated, but who belong to his rooms. All is dark there, soiled with dust and perspiration, he re - would ere= of such a thing in old Val- and no sign of life can be seen, but this cognizes him. paralethe is just as Avis has said it would be. "Kirke Smith!" bursts from his lips. Doctor Jack can circumvent a game it was here, just beneath the window The man holds out his hand, which is that is even better played than this. He at the corner, that the English lord and seized by Doctor Jack and heartily squeezed. Then the two step aside to a puts his head out of the window, and. breathes the fresh air of the night, which Invigorates him so that he can decide neon the next move. On a former occa- sion he remembers pulling himself out of the window of a hack, and reaching the roof. He tries it again, and succeeds as before, nor does the driver suspect his presence near until Jack gives him a dig in the ribs that causes the fellow to roar aloud In sudden fright. Turning, he beholds his fare coolly zeated othe roof of the vehicle, and hears spoken in Spanish the words :- "I'll finish the tide on top, man; the -odor of your vehicle doesn's please me. Now, make a bee -line for our destination, or I'll tumble you. overboard in a jiffy." Baffled in all he has undertaken the aim heads once more for the main Street. His look amuses the Anaerican, who would fain draw from him the secret he guards, but the fellow at least has the merit of being taciturn when ugly. When at length he alights before the flaming red lantern that marks the Inteedente's office, Jack believes he can well afford to spate the driver who has played him false, so he pays the fellow off and enters the office. CHAPTER VI= The office of the ' Valparaiso eltief ef police is not a model of corafort by any means, and a strong odor of tobacco (smoke impregnates the air at all hours. Doctor Jack finds the Intendente an agreeable raan, however, more than ordinarily shrewd for a Chili= officer though not to be compared with the Frenchman -who occupies molt a position in Paris. So Jack tells his story, or at least as :much of it as he deems necessary. From elm manner of the other he concludes 'that the main facts are already known to the officer. Perhaps he has means of collecting infoaTaation. Perhaps he is in some way connected with the secret cabal , against Which Jack Evans struo•gles. If the latter proves to be the truth'', there te small chance of help from this quartet At last the American completes his eaarrabive mad demands protection. He has pot Molten the lawe of Chili, and It is elle wrath of individuals in the mad race ger wealth that has been kindled against "X will do what I am able. hhankly, Doctor jack, I must tell you. my office at . Flame is pooAT equipped to engem with_ a WindOW open, then:eh he bas to fasten it, ne .entei secret spring pushes it shut. His mind is wrought up by the recent events that have occurred, and he finds pleney to think about, vehicle will form the hasis of his conversation with the In - end n?.' Pres.-ntly it strikes Jack that there is a peculiar, though pleaeent odor in the vehiele. He diet net notice it when he his Milian ally came to a halt as if by accident, and held. their pointed converse - tion concerning Doctor Jack, which was saturated with vemon and especially in- tended for the ears of the wife seated above. Jack smiles as he remembers how this carefully arranged scheme fell to the ground, because Avis Evans had such perfect confidence in her husband. Then, as he stands there, he remem- bers, too, the beautiful Chili= woman who has conceived such a passion for hine and shudders as he thinks for somehow her adoration acts upon him as might the evil charm of a -serpent, for Doctor Jack is an honorable man, deeply in love with his wife. He has only stopped here a minute or so to recover breath after his rapid walk, and cahn himself ere appearing before Avis. Fate sonaetimes manipulates things in a queer way. Even this thirty seconds, during which he stands there, are des- tined to be marked by an event. It would seem as though he bas been allowed to reach the scene in order to be a witness of the bravery of the woman he calls his wiAfeS he glances up again toward the point where, as he well knows, the Win- dows of his rooms aro situated, Dootor Jack receives a start. Not nacre than fif- teen feet of space lies between, ansi against the background of sky he sees le protub- erance fastened to the face of the build- ing. While Jack gazes, spell -bound, it moves, and he makes out beyond all question the figure of a man. This is a strange place for one to cling to like a monkey. No man would be in such a position unless he has evil intentions. It flaehes through the mind of the Ameriaan that some enemy seeks to do him harm. He is surroended by so many who wish labia ill that 15 is folly attempting to bother his head cencerning the identity of this fellow. Of course, he may be an ordinary thief, for the city has more than its usual quota of this selectee. Doctor Jack ponders con- cerning his best move, and shandle his reeolver with the air of a man who feele half Impelled to use it, yet hesitates be- cause he bates to shed the blood of a hit - man being, however much the other may deserve it ,And while he thee deliberates the mat- ter is taken out of 1 is hands. gome one It concerned in the earne whom he has foegetten to fiere n-Ayis. quiet corner where they may talk with- out being overheard, for already several Chili:ins watch them with interest. "You are twelve hours ahead, Kirke. What am I to believe, good. or bad. news?" is the first thing Jack Evans asks. "Both," returns the Texan rider, whose equal on a horse it would be hard to find. Doctor Jack preserves his wonderful calmness, although his whole fortune is at stake. The man's nerve is simply astonishing, and it has won him more than one battle in the past. "Explain what you mean, my dear fellow. Have you brought it with you?" "Yes; lost it on the way and recovered It again. I've ridden like Satan, Jack, ,ancl met with some adventures that will do to amuse you another time." "Quite right -.they'll keep. Now, where is the -package you were to fetch?" "Concealed outside the oity. I dared not bring it in until I had seen you." Doctor Jack heaves a deep sigh of re- lief. "That much Is safe, them Once we get it on board the steamer all will be well." "When do you sail?" "In the morning, and you also, Kirke, my boy. Don't think I mean to lose sight of you so easily. Besides, your presence may be needed to confirm the statements in New York." "'Are you bound there:" with eager interest, "Possibly. I have received news in the last ten hours that inAkes me alter my piens. Your coming, with. words of cheer, brightens the skies which were getting very dark above. I am .surrounded by enemies here, and can hardly turn with - oat knocking the elbow of a men who hopes to pick a quarrel." The other gives a lowwhistle of sur- prise, but his face expresses no alarm. Kirke Snaith has bean in some of the most desperate Situations ever faced by a hmnan being, and no one ever knew him to flinch. Up conies Larry at this 3uncture, and is delighted to see the man for whom Jack has been waiting, on the ground. His idea is that they can go on board the steamer at once, but is met by the relay that, however profitable such a MOTO might be, it is not to be thought of until evening comes. A boat, will be engaged awl kept in waiting at a certain point angst oonv.eaa teet and when they bave secured that which girhe Smith dares not being into, Valparaiso in broad daylight,. a short pull will briug them to the ste,senet All they must avoid will he the Argus eyes of the enemies waorn Jae* and Ws trusted agent have thns tar baffled, and it may be set down AS certain that these men will be eonstantly on the alert. The hart rider who conaes from the nitrate region of Chili goes to brush Up little, and. theoappeare ready for break- fast. Avie joins them, and in low toned they converse. Kirke bee mach of drape- atie interest to tellend bolds them spell, hound while he relates hie adventures. (To be contioueda Fr.,tid.trit His Owa .1t9 tigtiter Reader, The long standing ocoupation of one of the White House clerks is gone. Bach through several administratious it has been the duty of one man to rea,4 the newspapers for the presideat. Vale man read and clipped and peeted. te filled scrapbooks with such articles oa the administratiou as he thought the president might want to see at some future time. But besides this he rea4 with reference be what miglae be of mediate concerti to the president. When he found anything he thought the pres- lelent weuld like to see at once, he clip- ped it Mad pasted it on a sheet, with the date and the name of the paper. These sheets were laid down before the presi- dent as regularly as tias mail requiring his attention. The reader for the presi- dent had a place on the White House staff as far back as Grant's time, it not earlier, ble went through all of the principal papers of tile aountry Lt WAS in this way that Mrs, Grant saw the beautiful tribute to her daughter at the time of the Sartoris wedding, written by the late John N. 'Edwards of Mis- souri, which she acknowledged grace- fully as the expression that bad touched her most deeply. The reader for the president has been abolished, lfr„ Por- ter is a newspaper man and believes he has a better way to accomplish the eaule purpose. Furthermore, the president has a select number of newspapers which he prefers to go through himself. St,. Louis elobe-Democrat. The eiurei Tower Tweited. The daily movement ot the Eiffel tower, due to expansion and contrac- tion, has been studied by Colonel Bas- set, who recently explained to the Academy of Sciences that the expansion of the metallio components of the struc- ture produces a torsion movement from sunrise to sunset. This movement is re- peated in an inverse dtrection during the night, as the column becomes cool- ed, so that the lightning rod on the sunuuit of the tower is in constant mo- tion, Colonel Laussedat, director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, being appealed to for conarmetion of Colonel Basset's statements, stated that be bad carefully followed Colonel Basset's in- vestigations, which extended over ten years, and that the results given -were perfectly exact. The laws of the expansion and con- traotion of iron by heat and cold are well known, and the tower simplyobeys the physical law of temperature influ- ence. In summer the expansion is great- er than in winter, and the movement reverses at night, owing to contraction duo to the cooling down of the mass. Yet this twisting, this torsion, in no case compromises the solidity of the structure, which is absolute.-Ledus- tries and Iron. Milk and a Zork Frian One Cow. "A ratherhmusual thing occurred up at our town one day recently," said Mr. B. F. Davis, a well knoven and reputa- ble merchant of Ezel, Ky. "While milking a cow Mr. D. 5: Rose, one of our respected citizens, no- ticed the tines of an old fashioned table fork protruding from behind one of the animal's fore legs. Wondering how the fork could have got there, Mr. Rose attempted to extract it from the cow's skin, but found the thing stuck fast and causing the old milker much pain. "Dr. A. B. Nickell, a neighboring physician, was called in and found a surgical operation was necessary to re- move the fork and relieve faithful old Pide's sufferiug. .An incision was made In the animal's shoulder, and it four tined fork taken from the dunab brute's flesh. "It is supposed that the cow swal- lowed the fork while eating bran from a box last spring, and the piece of table cutlery had just worked out behind the fore leg after all those months. The wonder is that the fork didn't strike it vital spot and kill the heifer. Dr. Nick- ell has the fork on exhibition at his office in Ezel. "-Louisville Post. Watching For the Alen to ran. A heavy platform 6 feet square, to the corners of which heavy chains are fastened, the four, chains meeting at it ring about eight feet above the plat- . form, the ring in turn being at the clad , of a steel rope wound about the wind- lass, is used to hoist building naaterial from the street to the top of the Syndi- cate building in Park row. The struc- ture is now about 26 stories high, and a huge derrick swings the platform free from the side of the building. Workmen frequently use this platform in prefer- ence to climbing ladders. Recently sev- eral barrels of cement were placed on the platform and three naen sat on the barrels. One of the men carried a small American flag, which he waved as he ascended. In five minutes Park row was choked with people who got cricks in their necks looking up. The perilous trip was made safely by the inen and then the crowd melted away. Two young women who had come out of a "hurry up" lunchroom shuddered as they went their Way, one remarking, "Suppese they had fallen. "-hiret Sorry He Spoke. He --There are at least a dozen women who would be glad to gems if you were to die. She -I hetet doubt it. They know I have got you pretty well trahied.-Indian- OORT OF RUTTER FAT, Row much Cows of /Different Breeds charge For enticing I. An instructive experiment was con- ducted at the Minnesota station some time ago. Its object was to find out the cost of food per cow to each pound of butter fat she produced. The beef breeds were tried in connection with the dairy breeds. Three animals of the beef breeds were selected, two Short- horns and one Polled Angus. The aver- age weight of these beef cows was 1,240 pounds. The amount of food each consumed and the amount of butter fat Bear TWA'. her milk yielded were carefully noted. It was found that a pound of butter fat when produced by a Shorthorn or Polled Angus cow cost on the average 17,8 cents in the winter season. The cows of the beef breeds were of the shape of the ono in the illustration, plump, blocky and small boned, covered with thick meat. Another group of cows used for the experiment belonged to the distinctive dairy breeds, bony. thin fleshed and sharp, with heavy ud- ders end curving bind legs. They w. re of the shape shown in the second pie- ture. There wore other groups included, In the general experiment, but the two specimens here represented will illus- trate sufficiently the point we wish to make plain -namely, the extravagance involved in using a beef cow as a dairy animal. In order to be the best kind of a deiry animal, it was found that a cow must not ouly be spare bodied, but 410 3ritiSt also be deep through the middle, as deep, in fact, proportionally, as the beef cow. This depth of middle body gives a large stomach, and hence large power to as. similate food and turn it into butter. The cows of the group whose type is represented in the second illustration were jerseys, Guernseys and Holsteins, full blond and grade, with one excep- tion. Thiswas n Shorthorn of the dairy shape. In the table herewith given it will be seen that notwithstanding her dairy etyle she still gave less butter fat for the cost of her feed than any others in her group. The table appended aliOwS the result of this prolific experiment We com- mend it especially to those who keep cows for profit It represents the cost of feed in winter. 'twill be noticed in the table that the cow which produced a pound of butter fat with the least cost was a full blood Guernsey, and the price she charged was 11.4 cents, This -bears out the claim made for Guernseys that they give the best returns on the least amount of food of any breed. For this DALEY TYPE. reason, however, putting them on half rations is not to be recommended. The average price at which a pound of but- ter fat was produced by the model daigy type group was 12.1 cents: Dairy and Creamery. The most valuable cows are apt to be those that have been raised and kept on their home place. Dairy cows should have grain feed nine or ten months in the year. The Danes generally use commercial starters to ripen cream. No 00W is worth her keep unless she makes 150 pounds of butter a year at the least. The patrons of creameries in Dickin- son county, Kan., are agitating for the appointment of a county milk tester. There has been so wide a difference in the amounts paid thein for the butter fat in their milk that they want to have the testing put into the hands of one man who will travel the county over and do the work at the various cream- eries. This is an excellent idea, if the salary of the official tester can be satis- factorily arranged for. It would hardly be fair to tax the whole couhty for that The patrons of all the crearaeries might club together and each contribute a given sum to pay the tester. Then they could be sure that the difference in but- ter fat shown to exist between the cows of one herd and its next neigbbor repre- sented actual difference in the cows epees Journal. themselves. . . CREAM RIPENINO. Tsvloas Tests Used, in Determining Ada- ty and Other Conditiops. Butter makers know that cream from pure, sweet milk is not nearly so ripe after standing 20 hours at a tempera- ture of 56 degrees F. as cream from slightly sour milk will be if it is kept at the same temperature for the same length of time. Creameries have to deal with milk of many varieties between these two extremes, consequently they should test the ripeuess of each lot of cream, and govern the ripeuing accord, ingly in order th secure a uniformity in ittheisrcipz7esdof eaoh lot of cream when I have received many requests to ex- plain the use of alkaline tablets fOr test- ing the acidity el eitlaer milk or oreara and show how they can be used to aid thebutter naaker (*tabling uniforraity in the ripeuess of cream. Bach one of the tablets contains a standard amount of alkali, and by dissolving a definite number of them in a certaiu amount of water the solution thus obtained will be of a. standard strength. When this col - cored liquid is poured into a certain amount of cream in a white cup, the ream remains uncolored until all its acid is neutralized. As soon as the acid- ity of the cream is completely neutral- ized by the tablet solution the cream in the cup becomes pink colored, and the operator notes bow much tablet solution is required to produce this pink color in the Create. The process is something like measuring the sourness of lemottude by Sliding out how many lumps of sugar of u certain size it isnecessary to add to the lemon juice in order to make it sweet. The sourer tbe lemonade the more sugar is required to sweeten it, and so the ripe cream takes more tablet solution to produce the pink coler thau a sweet cream, The amount of acidity in the cream is indicated by the amoune 01 thblet solution used in each test. The standard tablet solutiore is easily Made of a convenient strength by (Us - solving Ave tablets in 50 centimeters of water iu A graduated cylinder. A 20 erntimeter pipette is used for rumoring the (Team, and the per cent of acidity ha the cream is found by multiplyiug by two the numher eeutimeters of tablet solution required, to pruluee the pink calor in the 20 centimeters Of cream. Bach centimeter of tablet relation is ap- proximately equal to two-huudredths of per cent of aeklity, so that 10 coati. meters tablet solution represents about .2 per cent acid, 20 Centimeters .4 per Cent, 25 centimeters .5 per cent acid, and so on. Cream that is sweet to the taste and smell may contain from .1Z to .30 per cent acidity. This quite a wide range in the acidity whielt cannot be measured by taste or smell, but the sweet cream which coutains .3 per cent twid will ripen much faster in a given time then one having only .15 per cent acidity, if both be kept at the same temperature. This shows the ad- vantage of testing the acidity of each lot of cream waen it is first put into the cream 'nt. The cream with .3 per cent acid will ripen to much fatter than one with only .13 eier cent avid that they must be kept at different temperatures if it is desired to have the same amount of acid developed at churning time, which is usually about the same num- ber of hours from the time the cream is put into the ripening vat. The great majority of butter makers ripen cream alemt 20 hours and then. churn it. Very few practice holding the cream 40 hours before it is churned. During its ripening an acid test should °octagonally be made of the thorougbly raixed cream. This will show whether the ripening should be checked by cool- ing the cream or hastened by warming it. Since the butter maker can easily check or hasten the cream ripening by either cooling or 'warming the cream he can use it sEa' rter or ripen the cream without one for either 20 or 40 hours if be will test the acidity every few hours and find how fast the ripening is pro- gressing. If cream is allowed to ripen maoh be- yond .6 per cent of acidity, the butter will often have a sour flavor from over- ripe cream. When cream has reached this point of .6 per cent aoid, it should be cooled at once and kept as cold as possible -50 degrees F. or lower -until it is churned. Very little acidity -will develop in cream which is cooled to 50 degrees F., but it will ripen very fast at 70 degrees F. The efforts of the butter -maker should be directed toward ripening the cream up to about .6 per cent acid and no further, and this amount of acidity should be attained a few hours before churning time in order that the cream may be cooled during these few hours and reduced to a low churning tempera- ture. If the cream has not been suffi- ciently ripened, there will be a lack of . flavor in the butter, and if it is over - ripened the butter will have a sour flavor. The acid test is an aid to uni- form butter flavor by showing when the cream has developed a certain amount of acidity. -Professor E. H. Farrington of the Wisconsin Dairy School in Rural 15eTwh:S°irS)CSeill°p"lyngahirtekliCOrke,ainclOtted cream Which has incorporated in it more or less of the albumen and -casein of the mille. The railk is strained into pans 7 to 8 inches deep and allowed to stand 8 to 12 hours, when they are carefully re- moved and their contents heated to 170 to 180 degrees. To accomplish this without burning the pans are usually set in water but we judge the modern asbestus mat, for sale at any hardware store, would serve the purpose full bet- ter. This heating coagulates the albu- men and "crinkles" the surface of the cream. The pans are then removed to the milkroona and allowed to stand 12 to 24 hours, according to the condition of the weather, when the cream may be removed. It is a thick, compact mass and may be out into squares of suitable size and taken off with an old fashioned skimmer. , Lbs. dry matter per day per 1,000 lbs. live weight, Lbs. dry matter per 1 111. butter fat. Lbs: of bufter fat from 100 lbs. of dry matter. Cost of 1 lb. but - tor fat. Cents. jersey 25.80 21.68 4.61 12.8 Holstein 22.04 21.29 4.69 12.8 Jersey 22.88 15.44 5.42 11.1 Grade Jersey 03.20 21.53 4.64 12.8 Jersey Guernsey 28.24 20.16 4.96 10.8 Grade Jersey 22.20 22.27 4.49 12.6 Jersey 24.82 21.18 4.72 12.6 Shorthorn 17.87 21.87 4.67 12.9 Grade Jersey 28.52 21.91 4.56 12.4 Guernsey 25.65 28.06 4,82 12.8 Holstein 20.91 20.04 4.93 -12.0 Guernsey 26.46 20.88 4.18 11.4 Average 28.58 21.15 4.78 12.1 Dairy and Creamery. The most valuable cows are apt to be those that have been raised and kept on their home place. Dairy cows should have grain feed nine or ten months in the year. The Danes generally use commercial starters to ripen cream. No 00W is worth her keep unless she makes 150 pounds of butter a year at the least. The patrons of creameries in Dickin- son county, Kan., are agitating for the appointment of a county milk tester. There has been so wide a difference in the amounts paid thein for the butter fat in their milk that they want to have the testing put into the hands of one man who will travel the county over and do the work at the various cream- eries. This is an excellent idea, if the salary of the official tester can be satis- factorily arranged for. It would hardly be fair to tax the whole couhty for that The patrons of all the crearaeries might club together and each contribute a given sum to pay the tester. Then they could be sure that the difference in but- ter fat shown to exist between the cows of one herd and its next neigbbor repre- sented actual difference in the cows epees Journal. themselves. . . CREAM RIPENINO. Tsvloas Tests Used, in Determining Ada- ty and Other Conditiops. Butter makers know that cream from pure, sweet milk is not nearly so ripe after standing 20 hours at a tempera- ture of 56 degrees F. as cream from slightly sour milk will be if it is kept at the same temperature for the same length of time. Creameries have to deal with milk of many varieties between these two extremes, consequently they should test the ripeuess of each lot of cream, and govern the ripeuing accord, ingly in order th secure a uniformity in ittheisrcipz7esdof eaoh lot of cream when I have received many requests to ex- plain the use of alkaline tablets fOr test- ing the acidity el eitlaer milk or oreara and show how they can be used to aid thebutter naaker (*tabling uniforraity in the ripeuess of cream. Bach one of the tablets contains a standard amount of alkali, and by dissolving a definite number of them in a certaiu amount of water the solution thus obtained will be of a. standard strength. When this col - cored liquid is poured into a certain amount of cream in a white cup, the ream remains uncolored until all its acid is neutralized. As soon as the acid- ity of the cream is completely neutral- ized by the tablet solution the cream in the cup becomes pink colored, and the operator notes bow much tablet solution is required to produce this pink color in the Create. The process is something like measuring the sourness of lemottude by Sliding out how many lumps of sugar of u certain size it isnecessary to add to the lemon juice in order to make it sweet. The sourer tbe lemonade the more sugar is required to sweeten it, and so the ripe cream takes more tablet solution to produce the pink coler thau a sweet cream, The amount of acidity in the cream is indicated by the amoune 01 thblet solution used in each test. The standard tablet solutiore is easily Made of a convenient strength by (Us - solving Ave tablets in 50 centimeters of water iu A graduated cylinder. A 20 erntimeter pipette is used for rumoring the (Team, and the per cent of acidity ha the cream is found by multiplyiug by two the numher eeutimeters of tablet solution required, to pruluee the pink calor in the 20 centimeters Of cream. Bach centimeter of tablet relation is ap- proximately equal to two-huudredths of per cent of aeklity, so that 10 coati. meters tablet solution represents about .2 per cent acid, 20 Centimeters .4 per Cent, 25 centimeters .5 per cent acid, and so on. Cream that is sweet to the taste and smell may contain from .1Z to .30 per cent acidity. This quite a wide range in the acidity whielt cannot be measured by taste or smell, but the sweet cream which coutains .3 per cent twid will ripen much faster in a given time then one having only .15 per cent acidity, if both be kept at the same temperature. This shows the ad- vantage of testing the acidity of each lot of cream waen it is first put into the cream 'nt. The cream with .3 per cent acid will ripen to much fatter than one with only .13 eier cent avid that they must be kept at different temperatures if it is desired to have the same amount of acid developed at churning time, which is usually about the same num- ber of hours from the time the cream is put into the ripening vat. The great majority of butter makers ripen cream alemt 20 hours and then. churn it. Very few practice holding the cream 40 hours before it is churned. During its ripening an acid test should °octagonally be made of the thorougbly raixed cream. This will show whether the ripening should be checked by cool- ing the cream or hastened by warming it. Since the butter maker can easily check or hasten the cream ripening by either cooling or 'warming the cream he can use it sEa' rter or ripen the cream without one for either 20 or 40 hours if be will test the acidity every few hours and find how fast the ripening is pro- gressing. If cream is allowed to ripen maoh be- yond .6 per cent of acidity, the butter will often have a sour flavor from over- ripe cream. When cream has reached this point of .6 per cent aoid, it should be cooled at once and kept as cold as possible -50 degrees F. or lower -until it is churned. Very little acidity -will develop in cream which is cooled to 50 degrees F., but it will ripen very fast at 70 degrees F. The efforts of the butter -maker should be directed toward ripening the cream up to about .6 per cent acid and no further, and this amount of acidity should be attained a few hours before churning time in order that the cream may be cooled during these few hours and reduced to a low churning tempera- ture. If the cream has not been suffi- ciently ripened, there will be a lack of . flavor in the butter, and if it is over - ripened the butter will have a sour flavor. The acid test is an aid to uni- form butter flavor by showing when the cream has developed a certain amount of acidity. -Professor E. H. Farrington of the Wisconsin Dairy School in Rural 15eTwh:S°irS)CSeill°p"lyngahirtekliCOrke,ainclOtted cream Which has incorporated in it more or less of the albumen and -casein of the mille. The railk is strained into pans 7 to 8 inches deep and allowed to stand 8 to 12 hours, when they are carefully re- moved and their contents heated to 170 to 180 degrees. To accomplish this without burning the pans are usually set in water but we judge the modern asbestus mat, for sale at any hardware store, would serve the purpose full bet- ter. This heating coagulates the albu- men and "crinkles" the surface of the cream. The pans are then removed to the milkroona and allowed to stand 12 to 24 hours, according to the condition of the weather, when the cream may be removed. It is a thick, compact mass and may be out into squares of suitable size and taken off with an old fashioned skimmer. ,