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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-11-11, Page 6y'. r© d Q k` u,i p chte: �A �a, LI CLAR lam,'a.""fit: . CtoyMP F NOS, "I was not there! I swear that I was asset there!" Dantin fervently do eland. "Then esrbiu," said the magistrate. Dentin remained silent a moasnent, as if frightened. Then the stammered; am dreaming! l; am dreaming!" And M. eiinozy replied in a calm tone: "Notice that I attribute no exaggerat- ed impertenee to these proofs, Ie is not on- them alone that I base tbe accuse tied, But they constitute a strange wit- ness, eery dt..,uieting • in its mute eke qu"nce. They a"l"l to the &Dubs which yc.' desire fee silence has weal. peal. Yeti tell me that on were uot near Ro- ver,, when he died. These yroots, ir- refi:tt;•lr as a fact, seem to prove at once the ciah:rary. Then the day Ro- vers was assessivatel, where were you?" "I do net knew. At b rue, without doubt. I will have to think. it over. At what hour was Revere F;ille,ir" _•l. Cain.sy made a gesture. ofiguIrenee arral en a tone of raillery said: "That ! There are others who .;midis it better then L" Azad I):autin, irritated, baled et lain, "Yes, 1' went en the magistrate with rac;liiug politeness, "the e-r:rneeus who can tell the hour in. which be was killed." He turned over his papers. was about an Lour Paris, in broad day - a zturde>: was cort- cant?" Aud the three little girls, rais- ing their heads, looked at their father as Si to repeat their mother's question. The eldest murmured, "Yes, what if mamma is right?" Bernardet shrugged his shoulders. "To bear them, if one listened to them, one would believe them all inno- cent and the crimes would have to commit themselves. If this one is .;pilo- cent, I shall be astonished as if I should see .snow fall in Paris in June. He will have to prove that he is inaceent, These i things prove themselves. Give vie same more soup, Melanie." .As lime. le ardet turned a ladl efu l of hot soup into her husband's plate she softly asked: "Are there no inno- Gent ones condemned? Do yea never de - "Tice assassination before midday. In light. at that hour, "Al that hour," s "I was just leaving "To go where?" "For a walk. I bad a beadache. I was going to wally in the Champs k ly- aees to eure� it." "Awl did you in yourwalk meet any eue wiltm knew?" knew« "No ane." ""Did yell go into some shop'" "I slid not" Aerie ere, sou have no alibi?" aid Jacques Dantin, .tome.:' eeive yourself?" Bernardet did not stop eating. ""I cannot say, No one is infal- lible, no one. The shrewdest deceive themselves; they are sometimes duped, but it is rare, very rare. As well to say that it does uot happen---Lesurques, yes (and the three little girls opened wide their large blue eyes), as at a play the Lesurques of the Courier de Lyon, who has made you weep so many times at the theater at Montmartre. One' would like to revise his trial to reinstate bink, but no one has been able to do it. I have studied his trial. Ey my faith,. I swear. I would condemn. hind still-- Ah, what mod soup!" "'But this one today`,'" aslisd Mine. Bernareet. "Art thou certain? What is . The went made Dantin regain trem- ble. Ile fit the =elms of the net des - tug around him. "An alibi! Ab, that! Decidedly. Monsieur, yen accuse me of assassinat- ng ray friend," he violently said. "I do not eveuse. I tisk a question." And 3L Ginory in n dry tone which gradually beeame cutting end menac- ing said: "I question you, but I warn you that the interview has taken a bad turn. You do not answer; you pretend to keep secret I know not what in- formation which concerns us. You are mot yet oxac.ly accused. But—but—but —yon are g"'ng to be" -- The magi: trate waited a moment as if to give the h.,au time to refect, and he 3a tad his pen suspended, after clipping it in the ink, as an auctioneer holds his ivory hammer before bringing it down 'to close a sale. "I am going to drop the pen," it seemed to salt'. Dantin, very angry, remained silent. His look of bravado seemed to say: "Do you dare? if you dare, do it." "You refuse to speak?" asked Ginory for the last time. "I refuse." "Yon have willed it. Do you persist In giving no explanation? Do you in - trench yourself behind I know not what soruple of duty to honor? Do you keep to your systematic silence? For the last time, do you still persist in this?" have nothing—nothing—nothing to tell yon," Dantin cried in a sort of rage. "Oh, well, Jacques Dantin"—and the magistrate's voice was grave and sudden- lysolemn—"yon are from this moment arrested." The pen, uplifted till this instant, fell upon the paper. It was an order for arrest. The registrar looked at the man. Jacques Dantin did not move. His expression seemed vague, the fixed expression of a person who dreams with wide open eyes. M. Ginory touched one of the electric buttons above his table and pointed Dantin ont to the guards, whose shakos suddenly darkened the doorway. " Take away the prisoner," be said shortly and mechanically, and, over - some, without revolt, Jacques Dantin allowed himself to be led through the corridors of the palais, saying nothing, comprehending nothing, stumbling oc- casionally like an intoxicated man or a somnambulist. ""Dautin—Jacques Dantin. Oh, be Is la gentleman—.'h very fine man, elegant indeed. ---some Bohemian of the upper class, who evidently needed money and who-- Revere had some valuables in his safe. The occasion made the thief, and there it is." ""Papa," interrupted the eldest of the three little girls, "e ust then take us to see the trial when he shall be sworn:" ""That depends. It is not easy. I will try, I will ask. If thou wilt work }hard— Oh, dame," said. Bernardet, "that will be a drama!" "I will work hard." At dessert, after he bad taken bis coffee, be allowed his three little girls to dip lumps of sugar into leis saucer: He threw bilnselt into his easy chair; "Ah," he said, opening a paper. be gave a sigh of satisfaction, like a man whose daily, wearisome tasks are behind him, and who is catching a mo- ment's repose. "Ah," he said, opening a paper which bis wife bad placed on a table near bins, together with a little glass of cordial sent to them by some cous- ins in Burgundy, "I am going to see what has happened and what those good journalists bave invented about the af- fair in the Boulevard de Oliohy. It is true, it is a steeple chase between the re- porters andns. Sometimes they win the race in the mornings. At other times, when they know nothing—ah l Then they invent, they embroider their his- tories." A petroleum lamp lighted the paper whioh Bernardet unfolded and began to read. "Let us see what Lutece says." He suddenly remembered what Pani Rodier had said to him, "Read my journal." This woman in black, found in the province, did she really exist? Had the novelist written a romance in order to follow the example of his friend? He looked over the paper to see if Paul Rodier had collaborated, as his friend had. Bernardet skipped over the headlines and glanced at the theatrical news. "Politics—they are all the same to me—ministerial crisis—nothing new about that. That could as well be pub- lished in yesterday's paper as in today's. 'The Crime of the Boulevard de Clichy.' Ah, good! Very good. We shall see." And he began to read. Had Paul Rodier invented all the information to which he had treated the public? What was certain was that the police offioer frown- ed and now gave strict attention to what he was reading, as if weighing the reporter's words. Rodier had republished the biography of the ex -consul. M. Revere had been mixed in South America in violent dramas. ' He .as a romantic person, about whom more than the adventure in Buenos Ayres was known. The re- porter had gained his information from an Argentina journal, the Prensa, es- tablished in Paris, and whose editor, in South America, had visited intimately the French consul. The appearance of a woman in blank, those visits made on fixed dates, as on anniversaries, revealed an intimacy, a relationship perhaps, of the murdered man with that unknown woman. The woman was young, elegant and did not live in Paris. Rodier had set himself to discover her retreat, her name, and ,per: haps, thanks to her, to unravel the mys- tery which still enveloped the nturder. "Muhl That is not very preoise .in- formation," thought the police offioer. But it at least awoke Bernardet's curios- ity and intelligence. It soloed no prob- lem, bat it put one. M. de Sartines' famous searnh for the woman came nat- urally to Pani Rodier's pen, and be finished the article with some details about Jacques Dantin, the intimate, the only friend of Louis Pierre Revere, and CHAPTER XL M. Bernardet was triumphant. He went home to dinner in a jubilant mood. His three little girls, dressed alike, clasped him round the neck, all at the same time, while Mme. Bernardet, al- ways fresh, smiling and gay, held up ber face with its soft, round, rosy cheeks no him. "My little ones," said the officer, "I .believe that I have done well, and that any chief will advance me or give me some acknowledgment. I will buy you .some bracelets, my dears, if that hap- pens. But it is not the idea of filthy lu- cre whioh has urged me on, and I be- lieve that I have certainly made a great stride in judiciary instruction, all ow- ing to my kodak. It would be too long an explanation and perhaps a perfectly useless one. Let us go to dinner. I am as hungry as a wolf." He ate, truly, with a good appetite, scarcely stopped to tell how the assassin was under lock and key. The man had been measured and had become a num- ber in the collection, always increasing, of accused persons in the catalogue con - tinned each day for the museum of crime. "Ahl' He is not happy," said Ber mardet between two spoonfuls of soup. "Not happy, not happy at all. Not hap- py, and astonished -protesting, more- over, his innocence, as they all do. It is customary." •'But," sweetly asked good little Mme. Bernardet, "what if he is inno the reporter, when he had written this, was still ignorant that Dantin was un- der arrest. "Tomorrow," said Bernardet to him- self, "he will give ns Dautin's biogra- phy. Ile tells me nothing new in bis re- port. And yet"— He folded up the pa- per and laid it on the table, and while sipping his cordial he thought of that mysterious visitor—the woman in black —and told himself that truly the trial must be there. Ile would see Aioniche and his wife again; he would question them; he would make a thorough search, "But what for? We have the guilty man. It is 140 to 1 that the assassin is behiud bars, The woman might be an accomplice." Then Bernardet, filled with passion for his profession, rather than vaaits--this artist in a police sense, this lover of art for art's sake ---rubbed his hands'. and silently applauded himself, because be had insisted, and, as it were, com- pelled N. Ginory and the dcetors to adopt his idea. He, the humble, un- knowe subofhicer, standing back and simply striving to do his duty, bad in- fluenced distiuguisbed persons as pow- erful ow-erful as magistrates and members of the academy. They had obeyed bis sugges- tice. The little Bernardet felt tl;at. be had done a glorious deed. He had expe- rienced a strong convietion, which would not be denied. He had proved that what had been. considered only a chimera was a reality. Ile bad aceere. plisltcil a seeming impossibility. Ho bad evoked the dead males teoret even from the tomb. "Ate M. Ginory thinks that it 'sill not help his candidature at the acad- ezny! Ile 'will wear the green robe, and he will owe it to roe, There are others who owe zue sometbing too. With his faculty for believing in his dreams, of seeing his visions_ appear,. realized and living—a faeultywhieh in. such a than seemed like the strange bal- lucination of a poet — Bernardet did not doubt for a monied the reality of this phantom which, bad appeared in the retina of the eye. It was nothing more, that eye removed by the snrgean's seal- pel, than au avenging mirror. It ac- cused; it overwhelmed. Jacques Dentin was foutd there in all, the atxoeity of his aline, "When I think, when I think that they did notwisk to try the experiment] It is made now," thought Bernardet, . Ginory had strongly recaaunhend- ed that all that part of the examination should not be made public. Absolute ei- leueo was necessary. If the press could have obtained the slightest information, every detail of the experiment would have become public) property, and the account would have been embellished and made as fantastic as possible. This would bave been a deep mine for Edgar A. Poe, wito would have worked that lode well and made the Parisians shud- der, How the ink would have been mix- ed with Revere's blood! It was well understood that if the suspected man would in the end confess his guilt the result of the singular scientifically in- credible experiment should be made known, but until then absolute silence. Everything which had been said and done around the dissecting table at the morgue or in the examining magis- trate's room would remain a secret. But would Dantin confess? Tho next day after M. Ginory had put him under arrest Bernardethad gone to the palais for news, He wished to con- sult his chief about the "woman in black," to ask him what be thought of the article which had been published in the paper by Paul Rodier. M. Leriohe attached no great importance to it. "A reporter's information. Very vague. There is always a woman, par - bleu, in the life of every man. But did this one know Dantin? She seems to me simply an old, abandoned friend, and who came occasionally to ask aid of the old boy"— "The woman noticed by Moniche is young," said Bernardet. "Abandoned friends are often young," M. Leriche replied, visibly enohanted with his observation. As for Dantin, he still maintained his obstinate silence. He persisted in find- ing iniquitous an arrest forwhich there was no motive, and he kept the haugh- ty, almost provoking attitude of those whom the obief called the greatest cul- prits. "Murderers in redingotes believe that they have sprung from Jupiter's thigh and will not admit that any one should be arrested except those who wear smocks and peaked hats. They believe in an aristocracy and its privileges and threaten to have us removed. You know that very well, Bernardet. Then, as time passes, they become, in a measure, calm and meek as little lambs; then they whimper and confess. Dantin will do as all the others have done. For the moment he howls about his innocence and will threaten us, yon will see, with a summons from the chamber. That is of no importance." The chief then gave the officer some instructions. He need not trouble him- self any more just now about the Dan - tin affair, but attend to another matter of less importance, a trivial affair. Aft- er the murder and his experiences at the morgue this matter seemed a low one to Bernardet. But eaoh duty has its antith- esis. The police officer put into this petty affair of a theft the same zeal, the same sharp attention, with which he had investigated the crime of the Boulevard de Clichy. It was his profession. Bernardet started out on his quest. It was near the Relies (markets) that ho bad to work this time. The suspected man was probably one of the rascals who prowl about day and night, living on adventures, and without any home; sleeping under bridges or in one of the hovels on the outskirts of the Rue de Venise, where 'Vice, distress and Sriinn flourished. Bernardet first questioned the owner of the stolen property, obtained ell ilr.. information which he could about the suspected man, and, with his keen scent for a criminal aroused, he glanced at anything—.nen, things, objects that would have escaped a less practiced eye. „ He was wall.in4 slowly along toward the Perxuanence, looking keenly at the passersby, tint I:rticles in the shops, the various movements in the streets,to see if the could get a Mut upon which to work. (T(, HI; Ce.):ZICWNt0-1 The Real . {,"N 1,,:<moan.. One cf the tea fan mem six shooter. used by the rough ridcsis at the elharge of San Juan hill attracts a good deal o2 attention iu the window of an up town store.• It is a type of weapon almost peculiar to the west—single action, 4o caliber, with a barrel eight inches long and a wooden 'muffle, Tho real cowboy • and veteran miner will carry nothing; else, Both despise .a double action or self cocking pistol, and in the "eow country" it is a common thing for cambium to take out the triggers of their six shooters and Are them by ma- nipuating the hammer with the thumb. To see an expert do this is to witness a pretty piece of juggling. Another odd- ity of frontier revolver etiquette is in the way the weapon is carried. Many cowboys sling it in a holster on the right hip, with the handle pointing out- ward. Itis drawu with a curious drew - lar sweep and comes up cocked and ready for business, More than one "tenderfoot" has bored a hole through himself in attempting to acquire this particular bit of legerdewain,—New Orleans Tieses•Demecrat, A Story et Z4 .pule Apropos of the death of Miss Winnie Davis, the Philadelphia Press quotes a story told about her by a Philatlelpbia man. He was a colonel Ander the stars and bars, and is uow a rich mat. "But five years ago I wasn't," be eays. "I'd lost every penny I'd bad before thewar, and I had not made many since. A big slump in the west bad done for me, and I put up at a New York hotel with just enough to pay my bill and no more. Aly nerves gave way, and I was taken "Tho doctor said I must have a long rest and a complete change of scene. I said I might rest in the grave and change this steno for that of the next world, but that I had no money or friends and would never leave the city any way but feet first. Well, Miss Da. vie was staying at that hotel. She knew I wouldn't accept money from beg, a:o Me got the doctor to pretend bo was lending MOWS own. I went abroad and came home cured and already an the way to wealth, It was only then that I found out whom I owed my life to," A. Battle of Ants. Mr, John Bxaye writes to us from Old Hole, Brightling, Sussex: "Yes- terday, Sept. 4, I witnessed a curious sight. In trout of this house and about a quarter of a guile distant, on the top of a hill 300 feet above sea level, there is a plump of six tall Scotch fir trees.. At 8 o'clock these trees appeared to be on fire. A dark mass surrounded the top, which looked in the distanoe like smoke. On inspection it turned out to be millions of red winged ants, curling round and round, evidently fighting, as the ground underneath the trees was covered with dead and struggling ants, I watched the fight till sunset, when the numbers had decreased slightly, but the fighting seemed to be as vigorous as it did four hours previously. Several people watched the fight, but no one had ever seen such a sight before. The martins and swallows hovered round on the outskirts of the battle for the first hour or two, but they seemed to tight shy of the little warriors after a time." —London Times. Baby Brides of India. We hear from a correspondent that two memorable marriages are just going on at Tiruchanur. In one case the bride is only a little child just a year old and. hardly able to stand erect, and her would be husband is a boy of 10 or 11, and his eyesight is said to be defective, but the parents say that because Brah- ma wills that he should be the husband of the little baby there can really be no help for it. In the other case the bride is 4 years old, and the husband is ten times older. Our correspondent adds: "Such marriages have not altogether ceased in this country, and these clear- ly indicate the neoessity for effective legislation. Let those who object to the introduction of the two recent bills with which the country is familiar and whioh follow the lines of the law now in force in the Mysore territory pause and think calmly over this deplorable state of things."—Advocate of India. DE KOLS. What a I.eadittg Breeder Claims For '.'hese Butter Producers.. Henry Stevens R Sons of Now York are among the most extensive breeders of Holstein -Friesian cattle, In a recent interview with C. \V. Jennings, pub- lished in Hoard's Dairyman, Mr, Ste- vens expressed great preference for the De Rol family. He said, "We have Do Rol II, the foundation cow of that fam- ily, with a butter record of 33 pounds 6' ounces in seven days, the largest record of any .cow in the breed. It was Ships That Never Return. One of Lloyd's melancholy periodi- cals makes its appearance today. It deals with the return of vessels totally lost, condemned and otherwise passed out of sight in the first quarter of the year. Of the steam vessels lost three, with a tonnage of 5,698 gross, were aban- doned, 15 of 22,909 tons were broken up or condemned, three of 3,679 tons were burned, nine of 10,802 tons were lost in collision, one of 982 tons was lost without any adequate particulars being forthcoming, and 11, with a ton- nage of 15,888, are reported missing, while 37 of 53,934 tons were wrecked. —Pall Mall Gazette. General Coppinger. General Coppinger, who will retire soon from the United States army un- der the age limit, is the representative of one of the most ancient Oatholio fam- ilies in Ireland and is heirpresumptive to the estate of Ballynolnm, in the county of Cork, Ireland, a property. with a'rental of $50,000 a year, whioh has been for several centuries in his family. He is a son-in-law' of the late James G. Blaine and nearly related to the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Ormende:—Exchange. Colored Cotton. Peruvian cotton grows in 12 different colors,' running from white to a rich dark red. Each color produces when the seed is planted the same color. na ztoi" tr, made in her fourth year. D00114.1101. eleventh year she made au official test under very unfavorable circumstance, of 20 51-100 pounds of butter in seven days, $0 per cent fat, her milk everag- iug 3.96 per ceut, J, W. Howard of the New York state dairy &pertinent of agriculture made the test, being present earls time the cow was milked and tale iing the nemples himself. Her largest on" day's yield was 4 3-10 'mauls of butter, We think this official record quite large- ly substantiates ber earlier unofficial one, All of her daughters, with one ex- ception. are now in aur herd, "Some of their records are: De Rel II's Queen, as a 8 -year-old, 28 pounds 7 ounces butter in 7 days; Netherland Di Rel, at 2 years, 30 pounds 5 ounces in 7 days, 827 pounds 12 ounces of milk in 3o days, the largest milk record by a 2 -year-old of the breed. De Rol II's Pauline, tested officially as a 4 -year- old, made 24 148-1,000 pounds of butter in 7 days, thus winning the first prize in the official test in 1890-7, her mill; averaging during the week 4.30 per cent fat. Mildred de Kol, another daugbter, purohased at the Hayes sale at Cleveland in December, 1897, has a reported rec- ord of 60 pounds of milk in one day, testing 4.6 per cent fat, when in her 2 -year-old form. Later she gave 12,000 pounds of milk in 10 months, testing on different occasions as high as 6 per cent fat. During the last seven or eight years the berd has been headed by some one of the sons of Do Kol II. There is no other herd of the breed on this con- tinent so rich in the blood of De Sol Il a8 i8 this one. "Ono of the loading" bulls is Manor de Rol, 4 years old, aired by a son of De Kol II, thus combining the blood of the two richest butter families of the breed. Another service bull is De Kol II's Butter Boy III, now in his seoond year. He is a son of the cow De Rol II, sired by Manor de Kol. All of our young things now in the herd are very strong in the blood of De Sol II and Nether- land Henger'eld. In the young herd are 22 bulls, and for rich breeding as well as for individual merit it will be hard to find their superiors in the breed. The young heifers are beau- tifully formed, show large udder de- velopment and have every appearance of making large producers of milk both of quantity and quality," Bran For Dairy Cows. Whenever it is made an item to get the most out of the dairy cows, espe- cially through the winter, more or less wheat bran can be fed to them with ad- vantage. In fact, if there is any one ma- terial that can be made a part of their daily ration, it is wheat bran. In many oases, in order to make sure of a full supply at the lowest cost, it will be found best to lay in a full supply now and store it away. If put where it will keep dry, bran will keep in good condi- tion all winter, and the difference in price at which it can be bought now and what must be paid in the spring or winter will ,give a good profit, saying nothing of the ,advantage of having a full supply when needed. The bran can be used to advantage with ground grain or with roughness and will help mate- rially not only in making up a variety, but in supplying a complete ration, so that ordinarily there is little danger of storing away too much.—St. Louis Re- publio. Creameries and Their Patrons. Every creamery patron should keep constantly in mind the fact that the price he gets for bis milk depends on the price the creamery man gets for the butter, and this in turn depends in a large measure on the condition in which the whole milk reaches the creamery, lays Oreamery Gazette. The best butter maker in the whole country will fail in making a striotly fancy grade of . butter if the milk reaches him sour or tainted. All creameries are co-operative in fact whether they are in form or. not. Sue. Jess depends upon thorough co-opera- tion between the patron and creamery man. The latter must provide improved machinery, experienced butter makers land exercise good business in marketing the product. The former must furnish first class milk. If either fails in his iuty, both will suffer. When both tend io business, they both, make money. MILK AS HUMAN FOOD. Important Considerations In tbe Nourish- ,vont of Infants.. A writer in The Country Clentlemata. in bis business as a milk producer; es- pecially fox family use, has hacl fre- quent visits from physicians, who very carefully examined the milk of each of tbe cows, noted the Condit! az of the dairy and otiose a special cow as the source of this supply for the families over whose health they were watching. T may say just Item, continues the writ- er, that in every case the mine cow was selected for the milk, and thi was a pure Ayrshire, whose milk, as that of the breed generally, is the best for this use, ou accouut of the much smaller size of the milk globules and the twee. proportion of fat in the milk, This quality added greatly to the easy di- gestibility of the milk and preserved it for a longer time in the best condition for use. Tho milk producer who desires this best of all methods of disposing of his milk should clearly understand the no- tura of ,milk and why it is that special qualities of it are desirable. h'irst a comparison of the two kinds of milt used by infants should be studied. This is here given: Truman, Cow. Goat. Ass, Water,. 89,00 86.14) slue fie.0 Solids IMO 14.t0 15.te 11,00 Tax 2.70 4.50 Curl 2,80 Cowin audalbumen 4.00 5.u4 Z,.:>ia 0,011 Sugar 4.50 4.110 ;;,50 5.04 Salts 0,I0 0.60 0.00 0.50 These figures are interesting. First, they show the great similarity between the milk of the ass and human milk, which explains the fact that in some of the European countries, and even in England, a Jenny ass is kept to supply the milk used for the infant% as well as for delicate invalids. Among the ,l: reuch people asses are driven from house to house and milked at the decors to supply the infants milk; second, they sbow the serious difference that exists betweenthe cow's milk and the natural supply of the human infant. When the extremely delicate character of the in- fant's stomach is thought of, this wide difference roust widely open the eyes of mothers and expiainhowit is tlmt their infants pine and fret under this enor- mous tax upon their delicate evesins of digestion. Pacts are on the whole far worse than theses figures, for it its came ramie.' thought that tho best nililt for a babe is that of :a Jersey cow, scall on au average Jersey milk, will have ,0 per cent more fat in it than these figures show. Besides, this fat is iu an euceed- ingly improper condition ler this use an account of the siae of the fat glob- ules,'vhich on tux average are three or four timos as largo as those of Ayrsbiro milk, and as the fat is immediately ab- sorbed into the circulation without di- gestion this larger proportiou and the larger size of the globules of eourso ex- ert together a very injurious effect upon the infant. The natural milk for the in- fant .has more water in it, and tho lar- gest proportion of solid in it is the sugar. Babes need a full supply of sugar in their food. It is easily assimilated, and thus the careful nurse adds sugar to. the infant's milk or is taught to do so by the visiting physician. Bow Separators Clean Milk. "While the use of the separator does not extract all the impurities and in- jurious bacteria from milk it does re- move a very large quantity cf both. Those who have had opportunities to examine what is commonly known as 'separator slime' will have noticed that after the skimming is done the in- side of the bowl is covered with a gray- ish, viscid matter that looks like noth- ing else in the world, nothing else in the world being quite so repulsive in appearance. This slime has been an- alyzed and found to consist of the vis- cous portion of the milk, in whioh is entangled hair, particles of manure and filth of all kinds, and to be moreover fairly alive with the injurious bacteria, whose mission in nature seems to be to destroy things that are not worth keep- ing," says The Homestead. "It is be- coming not unusual now among those who make it a point to sell absolutely pure and wholesome milk to run the milk through the separator and extract the extraneous matter referred to, then add the cream to the skimmilk again, when they find it all the better for the cleansing. It is very much more whole- some, and among those who make a point of having clean milk it will bring a better price." Bow to Lead a Wild Cow. "A few years ago," writes a reader of The Farmers' Advocate, "I purchased a highly mettled Jersey heifer. She was sent from her former owner by train, and when she arrived at our sta- tion she was so wild and excited we could not untie her in the car. In fact, we knew that if we did turn her loose, she would go over everything jumpable. So we threw a blanket over her head and untied her, then tied an old sack over her eyes so that she could not see. This so completely subdued her that she walked home some feur miles tied be- hind a wagon as quietly as any one could wish. In a few years the cow was again sold,and her purchaser, al- though oonfideiit he could lead anyoow, could not get .her home until he had, taken my advice . in blindfolding her with an old sack, when she was again led away quite peaceably." Milk Quick and Clean. A cow when slowly milked will not only tend to reduce her yield in, quanti- ty and thus go prematurely dry, but it has been found from experiment that as between slow milking versus quick milking there was a difference of 10 per cent in the butter fat in favor of the quiok milking, and that this differ- ence continued during a greater part of the period of lactation. A cow to yield the largest quantity of the richest milk must be quickly milked and cleanly' milked,. for if this is not done the ani- mal's yield i& very much reduced in every respect.