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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-7-1, Page 6DR. JACK'S WIFE say nothing about Ids body, and Jelau replies instantly ea. .•You, bet!" He sees at his side, endeavorbeg to By ST GEORGE R.A.THBORNE, keep in the thadow, so that those in the vehicle may not cliscoyer him, e ten, ens - Doctor Jack now begins to cow& tho tinguithed geneleman, undou,btedly Enghman daya and tgure on the 'time Which inusii elapse before he reaches New York. e"te WOt7 wemveietein Puts some deed. es his plans meture, he even lows!M 31144' NUS that ammint Rome of his old coolnew, altel showthestima ePeei1104,- 11tt1e feverish anxiety that AStonishes " "hat ant to der demands the bo driver, probably in doubt as to whether those wheve beeu ecoustomed to sea - Sag him so melte even under extraorden, Me" Veil away withis load, or dump hey them ere ese trimy be robbed een cocesions. seenewh He and Kirke have many consultatious Whielt lab he he -V(117 " /1°) aPPear- i0, tne latter's state -roma, Toe- AU00 0f DOCttor Week. and Wee Texan, bun- ?o,ke -tunes remangneon, an are caste iuert of nwelution, bola fighters, and never:. en deen s'he same time, They Parties nee to be ItArayedwith baYe eat:teething I+1 guard there, Wine- a,ats'e them ta the wrong etation- thine that repreeents Deater Jarkes ed'eF want na go nlst- Xenage it ea then set,rant. and whith gtowit msse, saleable mite the train, and the money is yours. to hiere with each peening hour, Celt Fon do it, main!'" eneeavors tO la:1d vlit WE `Tehagvi.sgltvglieg loughand day the v ere Lavr to lar.d Sem eine, hew 3:eg it wen nine to mane the ;:ed,'1,etnet • e,e- trip nerets the enitinne to ew NYornADA , en earle ''Pe how 'Yon come The official is eyeing him steadih. y=!,_yus other nonttt that thnietjte ins our," with whieh the Euglishman dodges "Were you le 'apan new ye ers aio?" des4, ta men:the snt. sisotatten into the crowd just as Larry pokes his "Yes." weie out ee tee beeweediest squeaking e Ab! I an proud ne meet you, Doctor Islatel at an ear:y date Ile even wendere dawn to the engine- "IS high voiCez"" Jaen. 1 won a wager on e -our success at reerat nta tonventet. nhth the eine tan= "new-, Wale wily don't you vaanet that bull fight," holdieg ouv h,i,slire,hawd ctit tnnsgs, !rants n.:notions with h,/,ns haste': Jovel nova It wouolid ld be too "So id I," rentarke the dQto11 aea 'wenn nee Invent.; eintweeeeresassan had e'en kuow, if we flawed our twanz- Straight. to where they see some .offieial in the uniform of the railroad company they proceed, and there neck drops his 'burden, "Are We too late ter the eastern train?" he *wee. "Unforninately, yea It left fifteen =bailees ago," ft the .ffiscouraging reply, nut Doctor Jack bas prepeeed bineself for this emergency, "It is of the teeniest importance thet. sneak overtake thee train, eir." "It is..our fa.st express, sir, se. flyer," "Never miud. I will engage a *special." "An =pensive bustetees, zny deae sin" "Haug ex.penws, Man. Direct Me as to what I shall de," . : CHAPTER XXI% . . Tee lln-ial utiees smother look at Dov-. noneand makes up his nand thie emu is fully able to .stand the reeket. Beside, • he discovers something familiar ebeen the other.. eI have met you before, my dear sir." "leery likely. I baveareveled much." ae:es thet the steamer will de her beet „ h•T f L . **Missed in" roars jack, eroused, rom that eur on. iseras ha neenees JChas, larirwe the.reet he the dickens to pay." tee on the veselt. Such thiugs effete Whereellatt they stern WW1 the drier, tocittr, 1.„4,ard sw.mam, fee% a little waeasy oYer his poeitiete gee the itttsengsts nte a tonewilleasaaa Tree, be lase the fifty dollare evolved. ireowel, and away r.4morm thetie Minuet "naY reete4 dud 1h4t w4)14(1 be exist witheut sena* sert of excitement, ell"elm fer matk7 " han312ng "er the °abet n7 azaw-4een,s hiruseu 4,4 bevet bet ee van ',I steniehow he fears t,eat these totirieue These nee g ziumbv, vaosens,ers are ineliesed to be desperate people. tut they coasjiat, fat, the most, parte ; They have come iu on A 13ritish Tested, retngeee, / but he wcognizes fellow-Americane. The Perleeps the feet thee such a eel:Want 41e4en gives him sh litleasT feeling,while eurveillenee is kept up preveuts the l'eeteP `Tank awes 134n1* enenlies from mailing further Attenuate It penhawave; that *Tabl ina a se Str3nge Paekage• Manes* rco4w,6 'son Of =Oa. and he believea he iu its quartere, aud diseiptine eau e3r414 VaeileT 4134 esvralla berme is intained on beard with they discover the mistake. .&t any rate, masuch eevers ity the; luen with evil intentions hesitate Van be elled an err" an his Part. *neut. carrying out their desires. Wscapa e.r.„hey MaTe eeee erenesseee. we express tenni a es one can complain of the sow rate eau be hearsied winieh will eayry thees of 5Peed, for Jahn drivellblliersea beyeed eaneermar ewe thene the wile e; man who luteads reeching his goal. eceaumer; Nara a eapenu wbo, t5 st owl Our frieuds feel that they Will get there judge and etiew Lino der the eime tele; 'ha Piewee of thne, and ell seem easy ia 0 mina their minds -ail seve Lerree over, the littie 1;e3°.=, i". ttnss sennts eitnine ntes (valet,U worthr appears to have a spirit They. tee, maae reaee evaa c,rgatza a et unrest, he lieles his head out of the geese emeeiracey enenet ehe iteaa venom Nthalaw a de'lerl tluclea• $eav4 the leaaP ea 41;4 gfkvo aw, Weenever ocitesieu effete , sts aS theT ragR. alld in rations ways ttey /TT nv,in toss fauagers the manifests something more than curiosity. dee: *meth 1,enry tann his wife. greedily .a.t leureti they pull eip. the driver wrl ereazd f,„,r drops Lt.11 oleAtber pOrtinanteatla frOM stem vszat :nay sncs, maws to stew ' eitore aud iS presently a th• door, left way tbe wait N5ws, Decter Jack Fame is to receive his pay, :vomit his bas tnrs, ;It 4;.r.zni beam ha , vehicle, and daelt away Were his victims fitneins !its ram, y and nettenes :sew discaver how he has left them ;trended. Tern eafecy with the paeket Bark* 11 at the wrong istatioll. Smith braught in, Thie is a wry nice idea, but Doctor Jack immediately kimono it 013 the head. "Remain in the vehicle, friends, while CEIAPTE X rem and see about, the train. If we are left we may have te go te the Palace "Land in eight !" Howl." Thie glad clw paeeed amend. the Tho driver grits his teeth at having his Ineereew etie neeruiree wean ten e-noent , plans foiled, but dares limy nothing. He and az.' usual preiliee.s 5,nne eseitementw'3111'an give a gesel deal to be able to Ga -e are brought': iuto use, and all crawl out of sight just them dreading Jack's return eats geese -es rue„le. both coneerning the :moire of the laud so dimly seen on / Doctor Jack is gene just three minutes, their starbeard hew, cermet ahead, and and then he appears in view, rushing tbe tune that must elepse ere they reach toward them with Anions strides, ht tLeir dew ination. face dark, his =tamer alarming, at least Dintor Jack, wise nail that he lea Rue*, in the eyes of the guilty Jelne wbo clireetiy to headquarters and is speedily trembles in his boots. In plissession of all the facts known to Straight up to him Jack steps and de - his friend, the captain. Theowill,berring Mends, in a lon- but wrribIe Telco, what accideuts. and tides being tivorable, drop he means by taking them to the wrong - anchor off the city of San Francisco d deP°e• The fellow plays his part fairly well, but it takes the quick eye of Doctor Jack to read between the lines. "You are Wiling me wnat Is fals% demand the truth Were you hired to bring us here? Admit it, and I will not some time that evening. Duren::: the afternoen all the travelers get their belongings in shape for a move. After the long wiewee ereiw one appears balmy at the prospeet of steppingou terra Doctor Jack's brow is clouded at times, harm you. Persist in your denial, and f you must take the consequences." or the steamer was thrown from her course by a storm safely weathered three Somethine about his maxiner assures clues Welt, and counderahle time ows tost the driver that there Is but one course for in reaniniug it, sr, that when he figures him to pursue. Doctor Jack has a way on reaching ew York in pereon babout him of convincing men with whom Ny nooa on the fourth day of November, he bas a he bas dealings that it will be to their interest to obey his will. Hereuleare task Were him. What is un- fortunate he can find out nothing of the So the fellow falters out a half -way train tinemtable on board, and this, in a confession, endeavoring to screen himself, measure, amputate- ler his eagerness to as well as he can, at the expense of truth. land. in order te make inveetiesttions. Jack brings him to a halt in the midst The day wears away, and gradually the of his effort. He has no time to spare. land opens up, so that without a glass "Take hold here -up with it -now the they can see its beauties. San Francisco lies there like a gen set in a ring. her stately buildings flaehleg in the light of the setting sun that gilds their many windows until the scene looks like one of enchantment. Then dusk creepe, on, and. the good yessel makes a spurt as though anxious to reach the gaol ahea.d,where a thousand 'electric lights mark the site of the wealthy city. Doctor Jack and his wife are on deck, ready to go ashore just as soon as pos- sible, when the health officer permits. Jack chafes at the thought of this delay, •and growls at the regulations which the health and custom officials make use of to build a hedge around all incoming travelers. Doctor Jack has under his coat, and fastened securely to his body the flat package which Kirke Smith delivered to him in Valparaiso, but it is far from his intention to smuggle jewelry or other -valuables into the States, yet that which he carries is worth a fortune -to him. Nearer still the steamer advances, slowly creeping past the rocks, under the guidance of the pilot who knows every toot of water in these parts. The lights no longer dazzle them, as a whole, but each individual one stands out on its own merits. To the impatient souls on board it seems as though their progress is snail- like, but at last the anchor goes down. They are immediately boarded by several officials, and for this Doctor Jack is at least thankful. A few formalities are gone through with, when a dozen passengers descend. to the tug, which will take them with their effects ashore. Jack glances at his watch, and. notes the time with an uneasy feeling, as though he apprehends trmible. Great traveler that he is he has not been in San Francisco before, and must depend upon others for a knowledge of facts. Hence, when a man pushes for- ward and offers the use ef his hack, Jack points to a couple of leather port. manteaus, their only baggage, and opens the door of the vehicle for Avis to enter. In two minutes all is ready. The driver comes to the door for his orders, which Jack gives, he is positive, iix plain lang- uage, Just as the fellow turns away, he lends his arm grasped and hear e a low, fierce voice say:-. "Would you like to earn fifty dollars, saaati?'' Well, for half that sum a San Fran - regi hackman would peril hie_pouloo other. Off for the 'Union Pacific station, man." He makes no threats, but his -voice and manner are both terrible, and the driver fears he has gotten himself into a serious mess. AIL idea strikes him that may save his neck. Using the whip vigorously, he sends his team and vehicle across the city to the main station about as speedily as a hack has ever been known to travel in San Francisco. Hills are surmounted on the urap. Jehu seems determined to remedy bis mistake, if such it could be called. Secretly, he knows full well, the sly rascal, that it is already too late. The manner ihi which they are dragged through the streets of the Golden City - prevents any conversation inside the coach. At any moment the vehicle is apt to give a lurch that may send them for- ward. Jack has thrown that strong left arm of his wound Avis, while he braces himself to meet any crisis. -Unless there comes an upset, all will be well. This rocking, dragging, reckless move- ment is kept up for some little time, when suddenly the vehicle draws up near the curb. .Tack looks out, and sees by the many lights that they have arrived at their destination. He feels for the handle of the door, but after finding it is baffled a little. Still the driver does not put in an appearance to help him. At last .Taok succeeds, and leaps out. The secret of the driver's failure to come to his assistance is explained. Jahn is not on the box, nor can he be seen. Evidently the man's fears have gotten the better of his valor. As soon as he brought his vehicle to a stop, he dropped down and deserted it. This does not bother Jack. He is more vitally concerned regarding a train just now. So he whips the two small leather trunks from the boot of the vehicle with as much ease as though they were band - bags. By this time Larry is on the pavement with Kirke beside him, and AVIS appears. As Doctor Jack shoulders a portman- teau, Larry makes for the other, but finds the Texan aheacl. "Look out for Doctor jack's wife. I'll take care of this, ' says Kirke'quietly. Leaving the deserted hack they bustle Into the station, staling at the odd ap- pearance which they undoubtedly present., but business allows little regardfor looks, and Doctor Jack snaps his fingers a* such things as this. a glance inthe direction of bis wife, "And any favor I can do, Doctor Jack, I will be only too glad of the opporeun- 4ffben sea about the special a quickly as yen can, sir. I have a tremendous alnelitit a interest in overtaking that Unita" "Yee. will be on betird, Doctor 'leek, long before it crosws the Rockies, I give you my Word; but it eatty cent you half themeand defiers." 44,& mere bagatelle, sir. If I fail to emit New Torn by neon on November the foereit, it Will probebly cost rue a million dealers." The etfieial purees up bit lips as if to whistle, but emits no sowed. 4‘A pretty close Shave even if you are on time. If it were any one else than Deetew Jaen I'd say ft eouldn't be done," "I mean to do my best, and, As a, gen- eral thing I have managed to succeed in. the past. This special, sir---" "I have telegraphed, already tor the Man you enu,st see, and here he COWS. hour won't make Mtn% difference. a will have only an engine and deeper. dispatcher will mak• out your dule and give it to the condemn you will know just at what point ycu ean overtake the eastern ilyer." This is very soothing to Doctor Zack, who begins to see the 'wrinkles being smoothed oue of the rough, road in front. Be Is soon deeply engaged, in converse,- tiou with ehe gentleman who comes up. Bvery tine seems to take A decided. Inter- est in him when they hear who be is. Sometimes it pays to he foam% The arsungements are speedily* made, nil our little party feel their spirits rise as they contemplate a solution of the problem that has so recently overshadow- ed them. What does an hour count, when with a special they can rush over the rail like lightning. It is astonishing what money can be made to do in this world -at any rate, it lubricates the wheels and makes traveling a pleasure. Doctor Jack consults his watch as they arise from the lunch which has en- gaged their ;mention in the restaurant, more to pass the time away than because they were hungry. "The hour is up," he remabks. "'Your train is ready', Doctor Jack," says the official to whom he has been turned over. "Good" The small amount of luggage is put aboard, and. presently they enter the Pullman sleeper 'winch is to be their quarters until the regular train is over- hauled. It is not an unusual thing for a special to be sent flying over the rails, awl, according to the rules of the road, every- thing gives way to such a wizard trav- eler. The start is made. Once they clear the yards their speed increases, and. presently they rattle along in a way that causes Kirke ennith some anxiety, for the Texan, quite at home on the wildest horse one could find, is not much of a railroad traveler, and. holds his breath when be finds himself being whirled over some level stretch, or down a slight declivity at the speed of a mile a minute. And this is only a beginning. When the locomotive gets warmed to the work, more astonishing figures will be shown. As for Larry,this pleases him immense- ly. He lolls in a chair in the smoking compartment. and uses up numerous packages of cigarettes -a luxury he has been deprived of for some time, owing to the haste of their' deearture from Valpar- aiso. The others now understand the meaning of Larry's wonderful smile so child -like and bland, when he came in with bulging pockets, while they were at lunch. He had bought out the entire cigarette stock of thedealer in the sta- tion, resolved not to be left in the grand hustle across the Continent. Jack has secured pillows from the por- ter of the car, and has a lower berth made up for AVIS, who, feeling tired, will lie down for a time. As for himself, he enters into conver- sation with the conductor, a bright, agreeable fellow, and picks up a number of facts connected with the route across the plains, some of which may prove valuable to him. "I wonder if, with this open window, I could. indulge in a cigar. Join me?" he says. "With pleasure, sir. You can do what you please, since you own the oar for the time being. Of course, we have a smok- ing compartment-" "Larry monopolizes that," laughs Jaok, lighting up. "Whatl that little man?" "With a fearful weed." "Ale! I comprehend. Yon do not take to the cigarette, then?" "1 abominate them; but Larry is priv- ileged. He's a great fellow. Let me tell you some of the things I've known him to do." . These are numerous enough to cause the conductor to feel the utmost interest in the peculiar little dude, though find- ing it hard to understand how a hero can appear such amnddity. Their speed is terrific. At times they seem to actually shoot through space, such is the manner in which a fearless engineer can whirl a special on its way. Doctor Jack is deeply Interested in the progress made, and makes a copy of the schedule whioh the conductor carries'of course subject to changes. A red light at a station may bring them to a halt, when a message brought aboard will govern their future inovemente. 'r/AeZ. "_19-vr npassiag_AIM& tbil conductor looks out, guesses the identity of the place, consults his paper and an- nounces that they are "on time." So the night ride goes on. What Jack fears most of all is some accident that may delay therm He knows the men with whom lee deals, mid would pet no deeiltay past them. If they learn in some way, as is certainly rossible, that a speoial follows them, they eau readily lump at conolosions and understand who pays the bill, jade believes u man would be dropped at some statious with thstruotions to Wow up the trestle, or in any way deley the special for some hours, even if QOM- Pelled to ditch it. oro Az CONTINCEDJ DEV.E,Y WON. The verreeater's Tricks Explained, to Some Boss County Uen• When the news of Dewey's victory reached Pennyroyal, in Ross county, 0,* and that was not maim days ago, it caused no excitement and. there was no telebration of any land, but on naturday night John Bridges' stout was crowded with men who wanted to bear a description of the battle by DAniel Doble mid an explanation of come things tbet were not understood. "Whitt I can't git through toy noddle," saki Pontius Anderson, "is hOW Male 0' tee Spanish cannon balls didn't go eight thromth our boats jest. th' same as our balls went through theirn." hSimple enough," said Daniel Doble, 44 411411Se our boats is tiled* re soft Metal an theira's made o' brittle, levty time old Dewey hit a Spanish boat her sides eraelted jest like they wuz glass, bUt when a hall hit Dewey's it was diffrunt. Th' reetel bein soft, it closed over th' bails when they Struck not TeaN113 a hole jest ul Me 0± you threw a marble int' a P441T 3"ol;eneip dough, anierde is Sharp, though, an they ketched Ems' th' thing, an ef they'd ketched en sooner mebby Dewey'd haa hard time, They seen that soft metal was th* best, so they het up their boat, th' last one they bad, in, hotter it gat the better 15 wuz, an they het ex' way up, Ohl Dewey seen tit' balls frum his boats wuen't dole no hurt, an be seen tin Mule so be yelled out 5' his captains, *Dont shoot within but heavy balls!' They kept pepperin away with big balls till th' Spanish boat Win SO full o' lead she sleek o er own 'Tweight.4heea Torment fellers ie great fer tricks, I tell Feu. Dewey's =tiers waded 5' shore an got in single rank, Indian ale. Spauish gen'rel seen whut Dewey wuz dean an he sez, 'Whut's good. fer Yanks is goodefer Spanish.' Alt he druwed his men up in Indian IBo the SMIle way. That wuz jest wbet old Dewey Wuz walt111 Let'. There W112 'mixt 12 an 14 thoueen' Spaniards, an they made a line morehisiX miles long. 'Fire!' sez Dewey when be seen 'am, an bang went Is gun, th' big - est oue he had with 'int, one that carried Ii miles, Tbet ball went °basin down the line, km:acacia their, 'Spaniards over like they wuz tenpins. Th' first three seconds a mile o' Spaniards fell. Th' beads wuz knocked clean off'n eery one o' them. Course() th' ball wuz gittin weaker ev'ey minute, an when it struck, tit' second mile it had drapped till it ketehed 'ext 1 th' necks. Th' third tulle o' Spaniards got hit in th' breast an th' fourth mile right In th' stummicks. Then th' Spanish seen whet wuz goin on an they begun, t' drap th' ground, but it didn't do no good, fer th' ball wuz gifting spent an dropped too. It mowed down close an killed every Spaniard deaderna a last year's bird's nest, 'whereas ef they hadn't dranned they'd only lost their legs an feet." -New York Sun, Her Answer. "Ws all nonsense!" exclaimed the man who is usually out of the house at night and. out of temper itt tho morning, "Whatdo you mean?" inquired his wife, who can smile while she speaks firmly. "This klea of rolling eggs." "Of course, dear, but let the children httee their little pleasures. In the course of time they will grow up and realize tho superior intellectual development to be at- tained by rolling wooden balls down • bowling alley." -Washington Star. .A Soft Snap For HIM* "Thank de Lewd!" exclaimed the un- patriotic colored inhabitant. "Dey ain't gwine ter 'Rs' me in dis warl Deg des can't git me I" "How come?" "Well, I got three wiyes, all livin, en I'm on good terms wid de jedge, en he dote promise ter sere me up fer bigamy!" -Atlanta Constitution. The Dear Wriends. Mildred -Did you know Harold Bingo had proposed to Vesta lIazzbin? Mabel -No. When I refused him last Saturday, he told ine he was going to do something desperate, but I supposed he meant suicide or enlisting as a soldier or something like that. Poor fellow! How he :must have taken it to heart 1 -Chicago Tribune. Tender Hearted. "It must have been a very tender heart- ed butcher who killed this lamb," said the cheerful idiot, pausing in the sawing of his chop. "Why?" kindly asked the shoe clerk boarder. "He must have hesitated three or four years before striking the fatal blow." -London Liberal. She Would Be a Widow. Hewitt -I'd hate to have to call you a Jewett -And your wife would hate to have you. Hewitt -What do you mean? Jewett -She doesn't look well in black. -Town Topics. A. Summer Sadness. "What kind of rations do they give you at your new place?" inquired °lee work- man. The other looked at him reproachfully and answered, "Perspirations, that's all. -Washington Star. A Legal One. Dr. Lancet -How about that case of typhus you were tailing 1110 of lase week? Will a consultation be necessary? 33r. Squills -Er -I'm afraid so. 1 don't -know much about probating bills.-Ain- slie's Magazine. A Terrible Revenge. "I got even with Harry for criticising any granamar." "What did you do?" "I introduced him to a girl who can't talk a thing but Ibsen.' '-Chicago R,ecord, Dramatic Criticism. "Many of the witticisms," wrote the critic of The Bugle, revievving the play of the Thursday night before, "might have been written by Thomas Hood." Later-. "They were.' '-Indianapolis Journal. y ANE. -Tc HOLSTEIN -FRIESIAN. 0 oow of Tlais Breed Not to Be Beaten 'or 3uutter, Here is the picture of an American bred Ilolstein-Friesiau cow that makes 600 pounds of butter in a year. If any Jersey or Guernsey can beat that, now is her owner's time to make it known. The truth about the comparative but - tie making powers of the breeds is as follows: As a rule the Jersey or Guerin nntewe nesennOIN nWnrnA inenelt, Fey produces considerably more butter than the holstein -Friesian, to far as We know, always more to a given amount of milk. That is another way of saying that Guernsey and Jersey milk is Tioller than holstein, But occasionally along comes a cow of the blaok and white breed that up- sets all the known facts iu regard to butter making powers. For instance, the greatest butter cow ever in America was the imported llolstein-Friesian Pauline Paul that made 1,158 0844 pounds in a year, or aver three pounds every day and Sunday, too, for 660 days. The cow in the illustration is west - ere barn and bred. Wheu only 3 years Old she gave 66 pouuds of milk in one day and made in a week 103e, pounds of butter. Just observe her shape. Making 0115 lalged Butter. It is ilOW conceded that to make gilt edge butter it is necessary to use a sep- arator, Professor Babcook says that hand separators rightly handled will give 5 per cent more butter than any other system and that you eau chum separator cream at a lower temperature and mare exhaustively than by any oth- er system of getting the cream. Next the churn. I use the swing diem, but any of the concussion churns are all right. I think if I were getting a new churn I would try an end over ead bar rel churn. We find that the best temperature for churning is from 68 to 00 degrees and that temperatere eutirely coutrols the time of churning, but tbat the lower the temperature at which you eau churn and brieg the butter in a reasonable time the less liability there is of loss by the butter fat passing off in the but- termilk. We average about 20 zuinutes for churning. When the butter comes and the granules are about the size of wheat kernels, stop churning, draw off the buttermilk, wash the butter with water at a temperature of 48 to 50 de- grees and wash until the water rims out clear. This will harden the butter and prevent its massing together. We salt in the butter bowl at the rate of three- fourths ounce to a pound. Some of my customers want less salt and some more, and I try to suit them all, but the gen. eral market calls for one ounce to the pound. Great care must be taken not to over- work the butter, as overworking de- stroys the grain. I like to see the grain distinctly in butter when you break a piece of it, so that it will show ragged edges. I have not said anything about color, as we do not need to use it with the Jerseys and my method of feeding. -R. S. Hartley in National Stockman. Cow and Boy. Here is the picture of a registered Jersey cow of average size and weight that made in one month 51 pounds 14 COW AND BOY. ounces of butter besides supplying her owner's family with milk. She is owned in New York state. This cow is so gentle that it somehow seems entirely natural for her halter to be held by a boy as pretty as herself while her photograph is taken. The pic- ture is from Rural New Yorker. Highest Butter Yields. The largest butter record for a full year is claimed for the Holstein cow, Pauline Paul, 2199R. H. B., 1,15363-64 pounds, made in 1890, owned by J. B. Dutcher & Son, Pawling, N. Y. The largest seven days' record is eilaimed for the Jersey oow, Priucess 11, 8046 A. W. C. C., 4650-64 pounds, made in February, 1885, while the property of Mrs. S. M. Shoemaker, Bal- timore This record also includes, as far as we know, a claim for the largest daily yield, which would be a close ap- proximation to six pounds. The highest record ever reached by a cow in a public test was made by the Brown -Swiss cow, Brienz, at the Amer- ican fat stock and dairy show ill Chi- cago, in 1891, where bur average daily yield of butter fat for three successive date! was 3.11 pounds the equivalent of 3, 63 pounds butter. The largest yield of butter at the World's fair in 1893 for one day was by the Jersey cow, Brown Bessie, 3.48 pounds. -Exchange. KEEPING DAIRY. Skilled 5IU Producers Relate Raper& ences and Describe Illethods. For some time Hoard's Dairyman bas been printing answers received to the following questions, wItiole it has asked its readers to reply to: 1, Name, Postoffice, county, state, 8. Number of acres in farm besides wood- land? 4. Number of COWS O. The breed of those cows 0. Number (A other stocki crlsee nAtze'eryyoorudao Tiotur°1:11unc44 parithaetese daa Tyr or 8. Do you sell milk. 9. If so, wile, e is your milk seld? 10. If you wake and market butter, is it sold on family contracts for the season or year or consigned to the general market in some city, and what has been the average Price recetved for the het five Tors? 11, If you eel nem, what has 'been the aver- age price received for ate past five years? 12. Can you keep up the fertility of your farm and sell nem? 34^. RD °ex); raise Tbai u lbe fe eyoru. ea e rS 1 i 1%2 millt and what is the ration yall feed, the calVeS2 rieaSe ite u,s at length on this 25. Des you buy your cows? 1± So, bow many 7enialidsmo v Ovrquarocirtusooef? milk a year egni you Maks rac vllsyol 0.luyi,are ofporee4iniost.oWbilauyttIS the difference fake between well raised home cows and avtie IT. Po yoe bave a silo? 15. What is your Opiiiitni Of the ale ikAti ite looucomy? 19, What ft our daily feed to our OgWaitt omer? 20. Row do yen prOvide far the drying up of feed in Summer and fall dIsvuglits? 21. Wien is year daily feed, to year Cows in Winter in both roueliege and gralu? he, In your experience has it paid well to feed a liberal grain ration ? 21 Ilse it paid well to feed so as to keep the cows from sbrineing in Wilk in the late mum leer and fall? 24. De you have a Malmo or winter dairy? 25. DO you use the Between Wet awl weigle the millt daily a each cow, Se es to 1010W what each cow in your herd is yielding? If so, what bas this velem dieelosed to you.? Write us freely on this, point. 20, leave eou mode speeial study at the con- etmetion and ventilation. ef OW -stables? If so. What is your etable Mau and Year =peri- wig° coecerning it? len We are tole by able Yeterinariane that one of the special causes far the epreed at tu- herettions among dairy herds is Inoue et twheil:72due crusechnse et ems iuto stable* and tad ventilation. Wont ie emir opinion onthis We select AS instructive the typical. aet4)1;:*70:147011.belt"VI l. I 0. 11 2. Rent county, 3. Two lutteited and fifty acres in farm. Dave never owed over GO acres a Forty at refloat. Will have detail° that iu another paw fu 7. Private dairy, yeeerse.twe, Loth grade and registered. 0, Twenty boreee and colts, 00 young heifers. 8. 9. Grand Rapids. 10. Sell, when we bath it, at 25 cents. Rave never had enotieb to contract by the year. WO tresilh:os. to get tatetemers at that price. 11. Right cents per quart. 12. Yes. i 14. Feed to neves after they are 2 weeics old , with a porridge made by stirring ground oil - cake with bulling water, trait wetting it a lit- tle with wed, water to prevent lumps form- ing. Feed estell calf wbut it can digest, com- mencing with u very email atemmt, less than a tablespotagul of meal, increasing seine:elk cued oilmeta1 and. rectueing uow mill{ act:oral/1g to capacity ot calf. Separator skinimilk should never be fed, altnie to young calves. That is my experience. 15. I used to, but bave given it up as a poor way to get good cows. 10. The cost of keeping for ono year. 17, Yes. 18. I can keep a cow ismoutbs on the silage from ono acre of corn. 1 thiult she would eat and -waste tets wane corn in six months led in any other evuy, and it would be worth less and less every day it was left standing hs, the field, 19. From live to ten pounds of "ships" and cornmeal (about one-lifth by weight of the meal), with geed pasture and silage as late in epring and early in fall as necessary. 20. By plantnig uf the earliest and me - di= varieties of eweet corn on quick, rich soil and keeping it well cultivated. ' 21. All the silage they will eat night and morning, -with hay or dry fodder corn at noon. The seine kinus of grain are fed. in winter as in summer. The meal is fed separate and the quantity- of both grains varied to suit the needs of different cows, feeding all they will eat; but never allow a cow to leave feed. in her manger the second time. If a cow is foolish enough to leave any feed, she is quite apt to go hungry the next feeding. 22. Yes. 28. Posittey Positively. 24.Anhyear round, but prefer to have more fresh fall cows than spring. If I were making butter, would have nearly all calves come from Sept. 1, to Jan. 1. 25. use test and weigh milk daily. Rave learned more than you wOuld care to have me write in this paper. One very important thing the test has taught is that an excited cow or herd of cows will not give all or anywhere near all of the butter fat, reducing it some- times nearly one-half in a herd, and in indi- vidual cows have known their milk to test 1 per cent fat if greatly excited, the same cows' normal test being 6 per cent fat. 26. Our plan of ventilation gives good satis- faction. Conductors are formed by having an opening at bottom of studs inside of stable and at top on outside, just under eaves, studding Is 21 inches apart, inaking each conductor 6 by 22 inches. Have six of them in 80 feet. The opening outside must be protected so the wind will not blow directly into it, as a strong wind will blow cold air into stable instead of allow- ing foul air to pass off. Air is admitted through windows let down at top. Have a window every ten feet. Stable is warm enough, so windows are never closed tight, even with the mercury below zero. Also have a large hay shoot which we use as a ventilator if nec- essary, opening from ceiling to roof. In cold weather this is kept closed with a slide door at ceiling. 27. I think the veterinarians are right. Mr. J. R. Elliott, who sells milk to a creamery, tells what to do with the "I feed skimmillt to calves and pigs. I feed the calves new milk a few weeks Until they gut to eating oorn and oats, Shen all skimmilk and have had very good success. I think the skim:W.1k is Worth 10 cents a hundred to feed to pigs. The farmers ie this country thought they could not raise calves on creamery' skiminilk, but they have °hang ed Shen. iuund. . To Hoop Your Barnyard Dry. Joshua Elrantingliain tells in The Na- tional Stockman how he secured a dry barnyard: Many ideas of paving were suggested, but all had their objections, especially on account oi expense, until a year ago the idea of coal cinders being the thing to use came into my mind. I according- ly bought a large pile from our grist miller near by and covered the yard to a depth of about six inches. They soon packed down sniooth and solid and have liver since made a good, dry yard at a ;mall espouse.