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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-30, Page 2EMIR OE NM $SAM+ Ma J JVLLS CLARE, I 1 +y fCi l4T. 12;,97 3 q o a .� o a1Z F FEh1N08rCci " 'And since thou art feeling better, ms dear Revere, it ie perhaps the op- portunity to pet everything in order in that life wheat thou art about to recov cr. ene whtelt will be a new lite.' °: c+ 10",i4t.'al fixedly at tee with 1115 beaulifel eyes. It was a pa•eematd re- gartl, and 1 saw that . ane divined my thought. °" `Thou art right!' he said firmly. 'No weakness.' "Then, gathering all leis forces, he arose, sited upright, refusing even the arm wheel* I held out to him, and in his dreseiug gown, which hung about hint, he Seemed to me taller, thinner, even haradsom,er. Bre took two or three atep;e, :at lime a little unsteady, then, earnighcen ng up, he walkup directly to his safe, turued the letters and opened' it, after having smiled and raid; " had forgotten the word --four !otters, It is, however, a little thing. Sty heat] is empty,' "Then, the safe opened, lw took out papers ---of valuta, without doubt... pe- prs which he tool: baele to his lounge, spread out ou a,table near at hand, and said; '"Let us see. This which I am going to givo thee is for her. • A will --yes, I could make a will, best it would create his eyes desperately, found nothing, re- membered nothing. "It was awful, this combat against memory which had disappeared, fled, this aspect of a pantiug beast, a hunted boar, which seemed to seize this uiau, and I shivered when, with a rage I shah never forget, the dying name rushed iu two steps to the table, bent over the papers, snatched thein up with his thin hands, crumpled them up, tore them in two and threw thele under his feet. with up almost maniacal laugh, saying in sari- _ 4enes: `Ah'. Decorations! Brevets! Bau- bles! Childish foolishness! What good are they ; 1' i .gild they give her ai livid„ 't' "And he kepe cal leugliin . Fie exeit- ed Itimeelf over the papers, which lie steee gel under his feet until he had completely exhausted himself. }Ie gasp- ed, "I stifle,' and he half fell over the lounge, upon which I laid him. I fully believed that he was dying. I experi- enced a horrible sensation, which was agonizing. lie revived, however. Bnt bow, after that swoon and that crisis, could I Speak to him again of his daugh- ter, of that which he wished to leave her, to give in trust to me? Ile became preoccupied with childish things, re- turning to the dreams of a rich man. He spoke of going out the next day. We would go together in the Bois. We would dine at the pavilion. He would tike to travel. And thus he rambled on, "I said to myself: 'Wait. Let us wait. Tomorrow, after a good night's sleep, he will perhaps remember. I sure- ly" have solus days before tine. To speak to lulu today world be to provoke a uow crisis.' "And I helped hint to put back in the safe the crushed, torn papers with- out his askiug me, or even himself questioning how they had come there, who had thrown thein on the floor or who bad opened the safe, His face wore a slight smile; his gestures were auto- matic. Very weary, he at last said; am very tired. I would like to sleep.' I left him. He had stretched himself out and covered himself up. He closed his eyes and said; ,"'Itis so good to sleep,' "I would see him tomorrow. 'would try again tomorrow to awaken in him the desire which now seemed dulled, Tomorrow his memory would have re- turned. and in same of his books where he had (like the Arabs who put their harvests in silos) placed his treasure he would find the fortune intended for his daughter. "Tomorrow! It is the word one re- peats most often, and which ono has the least right to use. "I saw Revere only after he was dead, with his throat cut --assassinated bywhom? The man whom you have ar- rested ar- i comes r d has traveled much, o , Ho from a distance. Rovere was consul at Buenos Ayres, and you know that he said to me the last day 1 saw him, 'I have known many rascals in my life,' which seemed very simple when one thinks of the way he bad lived. "This is the truth, monsieur. I ought to have told you sooner. I repeat that I had the wealniess of wishing to keep the vow given to my dead friend. I had the name of a woman to betray, the name of a man, too, innocent of Ro- vere's fault. And then, again, it seemed to me that this truth ought to become known of itself. When I was arrested, a sort of foolish bravado urged me to see how far the absurdity of the charge could accumulate against me seeming proofs. I am a gambler. That was a part I played against you, or, rather, against the foolishness of destiny. I did not take a second thought that the error could be a lasting one. I had, moreover, only a word to say, but this word, I re- peat, I hesitated to speak, and I willing- ly supported the consequence of this hesitation, even because this word was a name." "That name," said M. Ginory, "I have not asked you." "I refused it to the magistrate," said Jacques Dentin, "but I confide it to the man of honor!" "There is only a magistrate here," M. Ginory replied, "but the legal in- quiry has its secrets, as life bas." And Jacques Dantin gave the name which the one whom Louis Pierre Ro- vere called Martbe bore as her rightful name. "ate tore than: ere two and threw them under Ms feet." talk, it would be asked what I bad done, itwouid be searched out, dug out of the past, it would open a tomb. I cannot, What I have shall be hers. Thou wilt give it to her-thon'— "And his large, haggard eyes search- ed,through the papers. " here,' he said—'here are some bonds—Egyptian---of a certain valve to the bolder, at 3 per cent. I hid that. Where did I put it?' "He picked up the papers, turned them over and over, became alarmed, turued pale. "'But,' I said to him, 'is it not among those papers?' "Ho shrugged his shoulders and dis- played with an ironical smile the en- graved papers. "'Some certificates of decorations— the bric-a-brac of a consular life,' "Then with renewed energy he again went to the safe, opened the till, pulled it out and searched again and again. "Overcome with fright, he exclaim- ed, 'It is not there!' "'Why is it not there?' "And he gave me another look—hag- gard, terrible. His face was fearfully contracted. He clasped his head with both hands and stammered as if coming out of a dream. "'It is time, I remember—I have hidden it. Yes, I hid it I do not know where—in some book. In which one?' "He looked around him with wild eyes. The cerebral anmmia which had made him fear robbery again seized him, and poor Rovere, my old friend plainly showed that he was enduring the agony of a man who is drowning and who dons not know whore to cling in order to save himself. "He was still standing, but as he turned around he staggered. "He repeated in a hoarse, frightened voice: 'Where, where have I hidden that? Fool! The safe did not seem tc me secure enough. Where, where have I put it?' "It was then, monsieur—yes, at that moment—that the concierge entered and sevens standing face to face before those papers of which she has spoken. I must have looked greatly embarrassed, very pale, showing the violent emotion which seized me by the throat. Rovere said tc her rather roughly, ' What are you here for?' and sent her away with a gesture. Mme. Moniche had had time to see the open safe and the papers spread out, which she supposed were valuable. 1 understand how she deceived herself, and when I think of it I accuse myself. There was something tragio taking plane between Rovere and me. This woman could not know what it was, but she felt it. "And it was more terrible, a hundred times more terrible, when she had dis, appeared. There seemed to be a battle raging in Rovere's brain, as between his will and bis weakness. Standing up- right, striving not to give way, strug gling to concentrate all his brain power in his effort to remember, to find some trace of the hidden place where he had foolishly put this fortune between the Soaves of some huge book, Rovere called violently, ardently, to his aid his last remnant of strength to combat against this anaemia which took away the "sensory of what he had done. He rolled Prades the instrument and the arm. of an association of vengeance. He could even believe that there was anarchy in the affair. Then he had the young man mixed in some love affair, a drama of passion, with the Argentine Republic for the theater. As a result he had succeeded in mak- ing interesting the man whom Beruardet. had pushed a few nights before into the station house. And, what was a singular thing, the reporter had divined part of the truth It was still another episode in his past that Rovere expiated when he foiled himself one day, in .his salon in ti Boulevard de Clichy, face to face wit' the roan who was to be his murderer. At Buenos Ayres the ex -consul had beet: associated in a large agricultural zenter- brise with a ,lean whose hazardous speo- ttlations, play and various adventures had completely ruined him, and who bad left two children—a young girl whom Rovere thought for a moment of marrying, .Jud a sou, younger—poor be- ings of whom the consul, paying his partner's debts, seemed the natural pro- tector. Jean Prades, in committing eui- eide—he had .killed himself, frightened at the magnitude of bis debts—had commended his children to Revere's care. If Carlotta had lived, without doubt Rover() would have made her his wife, Re loved her with a deep and respeetful tenderness. The poor girl died very and- deraly, and there remained to Rovere only his dream, one of those remem- brances of a fireside, one of those spec- ters which brush the forehead with their wiugs or the folds of their wind- ing sheets, when in the solitude" in which be has voluntarily buried Wre- nn the searcher after adventures re• calls the past—the past of yesterday, illusions, disillusions, old loves, mis- eries. Rovere gave to this brother of the dead girl the affection which he had felt for her. He remembered also the father's request. Prades' sou, passion- ate, eager to live, tempted in all his ap- petites, accepted as his due Rovere's truly paternal devotion, worked on the sympathy of this man, who, through pity and duty, too, gave to Charles a little of the affection if =h he had felt for the sister, almost his fiancee, and for the father, dead by his own hand. But, little by little, the solicitations, the unreasonable demands of Prades, who, believing that he bad a just claire on his father's old partner, found it very natural that Rovere should devote himself to him—these continual and pressing demands became for the consul irritating obsessions. Revere seemed to this young man, who was a spendthrift and a gambler—a gambler possessed with atavistic fr nz a sort of living savings bank, from which he could draw without counting, His importu- nities at last seemed fatiguing and ex- cessive, and Prades was advised ono beautiful day that ho no longer need count from that moment on the generos- ity of his benefactor. All this happened at Buenos Ayres and about the time of the consul's departure for France. Ro- vere added to this very curt declaration a last benefit. He gave to the brother of the dead girl, to the son of Prades, of the firm of Rovere & Prades, a sum sufficient to enable him to live while waiting for better things, and he told the young man in proper terms that as he had now no one to depend upon that he had better take himself elsewhere to be hung. The word could not be, with the appetites and habits of Charles Prades, taken in a figurative sense, and the young man continued his life of ad- ventures, as tragic in their reality and as improbable as the reporters' melo- dramatic inventions. Tlien, at the end of his resources, after having searched for fortune among miners, weary of tramping about in America, he embarked one morning for Havre, with the idea that the best gold mine was still that living placer which he had exploited in Buenos Ayres and which was called Pierre Rovere. At Paris, where he knew the ex -consul had retired, Prades soon found trace of him and learned where was the retreat of his brother-in-law. His brother-in- law! He pronounced the word with a wicked sneer, as if it had for him a something understood about the sweet and maiden remembrance of the dead girl. There, in gay Paris, with some re- sources which allowed him to pay for his board and lodging in a third rate hotel, he searched, asked, discovered at last, the address of the ex-oonsul and presented himself to. Rovere, who felt at sight of this specter his anger re - CHAPTER XVL M. Ginory, M. Leriche, the chief; Bernardet, and, in fact, all the judi- ciary believed that Charles Prades was guilty of tho murder of Rovere. Ber- nardet, who bad been an actor in this drama, had now become a spectator. Paul Rodier, a good reporter, ho.' ',,turn. learned before his confreres of the ar- rest rrest of the young man, and abandon- ing what he had called his trail of the woman in black he abruptly wbirled about and quickly invented a sensa- tional biography of the newcomer. Charles Henri Prades, or, rather, Carlos Prades, as he called himself, had been a gaucho, a buffalo tamer, a cowboy, using, turn by turn, the American re- volver against the redskins and the Mexican lasso against the Yankees. The jonrnalist had obtained a signa- ture, pinked up by the lodging house keeper where the guilty man had been hunted down, and published in his paper the autograpbio characters. He had de- duced from them some dramatic obser- vations. Cooper of former times, Gus- tave Aymard of yesterday, Rudyard Kipling or Bret Harte of today, has never met a personage more dreadful and at the same time more heroic. Car- los Prades used the navaja (Spanish knife) with the terrible rapidity of a Catalan. He had felt since the days of Buenos Ayres a fierce hate for the ex- consul, and this crime, which some of bis brother reporters, habitually indif- ferently informed (it was. Paul Rodier who spoke), now attributed alone to the avarice of this cambrioleur from over CHOPS AND BACON. Rivalry of Species at the Minnesota A,,ricultural, College, Professor Shaw, head of the depart- ment of animal husbandry at the Minne- sota State Agricultural college, has in- stituted a new series of experiments, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The farm has just purchased 120 lambs, and in a few days more Professor Shaw will be in the midst of feeding experiments designed to solve definitely the impor- tant problem of what breeds possess the best qualifications for quick and eco- nomical fattening. The experiments will. cover four of the most popular sheep breeds in the northwest—Cotswolds, Merinos, Oxfords and mixed Shrop- shires and Southdowns. Some 35 or 40 of each class will be used in the experiments. They are all en band now. with the exception of the Oxfords, and these are expected almost any day. The Iambs were purchased at the New Brighton yards and aro from a large slumber brought in from the Mon- tana ranges for fluisbing. Each lot is a representative collection of grade lambs, baif bloods or better and selected with en eye to ne perfect uniformity as possi- ble between the four classes, The con- ditions seem to be good for a fair test Qf the fattening qualities of different breeds. The system of feeding will be changed somewhat from former years, owing chiefly to the higher prices of grain. Barley was one of the leading con- comitants iu last winter's sebeme of feeding, and it was found to work splendidly, but barley is out of the ques- tion this year on account of the price, so Profaner elhaw will replace it with corn. In place of corn ensilage and clover hay, corn fodder and sorghum will be mainly used for the roughage. Otherwise the system of feeding will practically follow that which has been found to give the best results for the money in previous years. Professor Shaw is enthusiastic over the possibili- the sea. He (Rodier) gave this note as the cause of vengeance, and built there- upon a romance which made his readers shiver, or, rather, he said nothing out- right. He permitted one a glimpse into, he outlined. one knows' not what, dark h S h i d this Carlos The first time that Charles Prades had asked at the lodge if M. Rovere was at home the Moniches had permitted him to go up stairs, and perhaps Mme. Moniche would have suspected the man in the sombi ero if she had not surprised Jacques Dentin before the open safe and the papers. Prades, moreover, had appeared only three times at Rovere's house, and on the day of the murder he had entered at the moment when Mine. Moniche was sweeping the upper floors and Moniche was working in his shop in the rear of the lodge and the staircase was empty He rang, and Rovere, with dragging steps, came to open the door. Rovore was ill and was a little ennuied, and he believed, or instinotively hoped, that it was the woman in black—his daughter! Everything served Prades' projects He had come not to kill, but by some means to gain entrance to Rovere's apartments, and, when once there, to find some resource—a loan, more or less freely given, more or less forced—and he would leave with it. '[TO BR CONTINUED.] r 4,114: } J i t • \;.•- .. .may. RHttoPsUIP.E RAM. des of his winter's experiments, and aonfidentiy expecte to get some results that will be of interest and value to the tigricultural world. He had also determined to conduct tome new experiments in the line of teeding steers of different breeds this winter, but has had to give up the idea, owing to his inability to get the ani- mals wanted. Professor Shaw in the midst of all his other work will find time again this winter to extol and praise the merits of the bacon hog. To that end be has pur- chased four fine specimens of Poland - China sows and will use them as the base of his experiments. They will be bred respectively to a Poland -China, Berkshire, Tamworth and Improved Yorkshire male, and it is expected that the first cross will give some of the re- mits wanted. But the real value of the experiment will come out in the second end succeeding Drosses. Professor Shaw expects to get through the Tamworth end Yorkshire crosses better constitu- tions, greater length of body, improved milking qualities, larger litters and a mperior article of pork all through, end all this at a no larger expense per pound for production than in the case of the present popular lard hog, repre- sented by the average individual of the Poland -China or Berkshire type. EMBDEN GEESE. I. Handsome Breed Peculiarly De- airable For Market Purposes.. Embden, or Bremen, geese are said by Samuel. Cushman in The Country Gentleman to be one of the most hand- some and profitable varieties, Of all the unre breeds—if it be bred pure—they Ire the most desirable for market pur- poses. If the best crosses are to be pro- duced. for either the early or late mar- kets, this breed is indispensable. Their white skin aud compact shape give them first place with high class trade. They also );nature early, and are as easily plucked when mature as any breed, and their feathers, being white, are sold most readily. They are also more quiet and gentle than other varieties, and make the best mothers. On the other hand, although their egge are large, low are laid compared Getting On. "But do yon think you can ever teach George to shine in society?" "I have hopes, mother. I've got him to the point where be can actually eat caviare without a shndder."—Oleve- land Plain Dealer. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.. LESSON 1, FIRST QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 1. Text of tbe Lesson, John I, I-14—Memory Verses, 9-12—Golden Text, John i, 6. Commentary Prepared by the Bev. D. ZIL Stearns. [Copyright, 1895. by D. M. Stearns.] 1. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God." The topic of the lesson is "Christ,. tbo True Light," but the verses assigned for the lesson aro the Introduction to the gospel and tell us why John wrote it. In chapter xa, 31, ho says concerning his gospel, "These aro written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of Gad, and that believing yo might have life through His name." While in Matthew Jesus is the King of the .Jews, in Mark the servant of Jehovah, and 1n Luke the Son of Man, in this gospel Ho is the Son of God equal with the Father. The first phrase takes us to Gen. 1, 1, "In the be- ginning God." The mane "The Word of God" takes us to Gen. xv, 1, where God appears to Abram as "The Word of the Lord," 2. "The same was in the beginning with God." A helpful comment upon this is foumd in Fray, viii, 30, and the oontext, where we read of the Word of God under the name of wisdom as being with God when llo created all things, rejoicing always before Him, and in verse 35 it is written, "Wboso findeth me flndeth life," another parallel with a later part of our lessen. John xvit, 6, is also suggested by this verse: "Glorify thou me with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was." 8. "All things were made by Elm, and without Dina was not anything made than was made." nasals() places the Son with the Father 1n Gen. 1, 1, and is finely coin- monted upon and more fully stated in Col. 1, 16, "By Him wore all things created that are in heaven and that aro in earth; all thines were created by Him and for ,flim, and Re is before all things and by Him all things consist." 4. "In Min was life, and the life was the light of men." He that bath the Son hath life, and he that bath net the Sou of God bath not life (I John v, 12), so that not only is there life in Him, but there is no life apart from flim. He also is the light of the world us Ile said in chapter viii, 12; ail, 46, and all apart from Him is darkness, so that while in Him is life and light, apart from Him is only death and darkness. Tho vast majority of the people on earth aro in darkness because the light has never been brought to them, but multitudes who have beard of the light will not receive it. 6. "And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended 1t nob." In the creation story in Gen. 1, 1-3, we read that "darkness was upon the face of the deep, and God said, Lot there bo light, I or, iv,6,we light." In I � d there was rc d that God who commanded te light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 6. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John." Jesus was God, but John was sent from God. Jesus Him- self said in this gospel over 80 times that the Father sent Him, but Ho was sent to reveal the Father while John was sent to herald and point out the Christ. John wad sent as truly as Jesus, but each for a dif- ferent purpose. It is still true that God gives "to every man his work and the ability for it. 7. "The same came for awitness to bear witness of the light, that all mon through Him might believe." His testimony was that he was only a voice. He cried, "Be- hold the Lamb of God?" And when men turned from him and followed .Jesus he said: "This, my joy, is fulfilled. He must increase; I must decrease." He was great in the sight of the Lord, and of him .Jesus said that no greater was born of woman. 8. "He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light." When asked if he was the Christ, he answered, "No." It was his joy to bear witness of the Christ. 9. "That was the true light which light- eth every man that cometh into the world." He who said "Let there be light" is Himself the light, the true light, the only light, and beside Him there is no other. There aro many false lights which only lead men to destruction. All reli- gions which have not Christ and His atone- ment for their foundation aro false and can only lead astray. 10. "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not." Adam and Eve in Eden knew Him not, for they turned away from Him. Cain knew Him not, for he turned away from Him. The antediluvians, as a whole, with but few exceptions, turned from Him. After the deluge the people in the plain of Shinar turned against Him, and when Abram was called to leave his home and kindred he was called out from idolaters (Josh. xxiv). 11. "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not." He chose the land which He gave to Abram, Isaac and Jacob to be specially His own that He might specially bless and caro for it, and He chose Israel to be a special people unto Himself above all people on the earth that He might make Himself known to them and through them to all nations. 12, 13. "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the eons of God, even to them that believe on His name." Here is, to my mind, the best definition of believing, and that is to re- ceive Him as we receive a gift. The gift of God is eternal life (Rom. vi, 23). How simple that we should be required only to accept Him. That the Creator should be- come the Redeemer and by making Him- self one of us work out a salvation which He offers to us freely without money or price or desert on our part is surely a wonder of wonders, but what shall we say of those who know this and yet turn their backs upon Him? There is no room for anything of man in God's salvation, noth- ing of birth or attainment or power or might, for man has proved himself sinful throughout and an enemy of God. Who- ever will be saved must be willing to con- fess himself a sinner and receive the Sou of God as the gift of God. All such are born of God, born from above. 14. "And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth." The parenthesis in the verse says, "And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father." God mani- fest in the flesh, the Son. of God becoming man, partaker of flesh and blood, that Ile might show what man ought to be and what redeemed man will• be, and, having no sin of His own, suffer our sins to be laid upon Him that He might bear them in His own body on the gross, auoh is the mystery of podiinesa. Femme OFESte with those produced by other breeds, and the ganders are not as prolific or as serviceable early in the season as are the African or Brown China ganders. For this reason fewer goslings are se- cured from them, but they mature the most quickly for very early markets. and their quality is of the best. Their pure white plumage, deep orange colored feet, legs and bill, and bright blue eyes cause them to be uni- versally admired. They take their names from the towns or cities Bmbden and Bremen in Germany, from which they were brought. As lung ago as /840 they were imported into Rhode Island by a lair. Sisson of Portsmouth, who bred and sold them for many years, and he reported that some of the gos- lings raised attained a weight of 21 pounds the fust season. Most of our Embdens come to this country by way of England, where fan- ciers breed them to a standard for show purposes, and have much increased their eiza and weight. It is reported that a pair of superior show Embdens have been sold in Bugiand for £50. In England a well matured standard bred adult Embden gander will weigh 30 pounds and a good goose 22 pounds. Old birds have been made to weigh 58 pounds per pair and goslings 50 pounds per pair when fattened for the show- room. These weights are of course ex- cessive, and ganders in ordinary condi- tion weighing 20 pounds are considered fine birds. Here those that have never been overfed or pampered, weighing 16 to 18 pounds, will be much more relia- ble breeders. Of those imported from Germany by the Rhode Island experi- ment station, the ganders weighed 15 to 18 pounds and the geese 12 to 14 pounds when in fair condition. Toulouse geese have been made to weigh 60 pounds to the pair. Embdans are close or tigbt feathered compared with tbe Toulouse. There is nearly as much dif- ference between the former and the ]at - ter in this respect as between the close feathered game fowl and the fluffy loose feathered Cochin fowl. The loose, pendent skin and soft feathers make the Toulouse appear muoh larger and heavier than an Embden of the same weight. Embdens should have long, broad, well rounded and plump bodies and an arched or swanlike but rather think neck. The throat should be free from the pendent gullet or dewlap. Their bodies should not be carried so close to the ground as the Toulouse, and their attitude should be more upright, sprightly and defiant. Demand For Horses. Several years ago, when good brood mares were cheap, farmers were advised to pick up a few, breed them and take :are of the foals. Subsequent events nave proved that this advice was good. The man who has a strictly high class B -year-old or 4 -year-old is not looking In vain far a buyer. Good horses are getting scarce, and little wonder. They have been going to market at a rapid rate duriug the past three years. The past ten months at Chicago alone 106,- 000 head were handled, and the year's business at other points is the greatest on record. Many have gone out of the country, and more will go. This year is the first of the revival of breeding, and it will be at least five years before the foals of this breeding can go to market.. This means that for the next five years we must depend largely on our present supply of horses, and it is likely to be much reduced during that period.—Na- tional Stockman. Kansas Hogs. The quarterly report of Secretary Co- burn of the Kansas board of agriculture is devoted wholly to the pork producing interests of Kansas. He lauds the pork- ers until, were swine endowed with the gift of reading, they would swell up to the proportions that would entitle every one to a blue ribbon at a county fair. He tells of tbe bog as a mortgage re- mover in terms that almost tempt the. casual reader to embrace the first hog be meets. The report shows that in 1897 there were 8,399,494 hogs in Kansas,. worth $11,997,470. This was an in-< crease. of 566,000 bogs over the year previous, and the increase in valve of pork products was ppoportionaL Fattening Chickens. Poultry raisers who make a business of selling young chickens cannot do bet- ter than to study some of the methods which swine and cattle raisers adopt in preparing their animals for market. A fat chicken is always desirable, and a full plump body and limbs will go a long way toward finding a customer. Most of the chickens sent to market are lean and lanky. It is said that it is hard work to fatten a young chicken. Is it so bard? I believe if the right methods are observed that it will be found an easy matter. A young chicken is prone to run around a good deal, and her nervous activity is apt to run off all fat. Three or four weeks before it is time to market the chickens confine them in narrow in - closures where they cannot run around much. Keep out all roosters or fighting chickens, for worry is sure to keep them thin. Only a few should be kept in each inclosure. Now give them clean fresh water once or twice a day and all the fattening food they can eat. Muscle and bone making food are not required. These can be eliminated entirely. Corn in various forms should be fed freely to them. Cooked corn, mashed and ground Dorn and whole corn should be fed every day. Warm potatoes and bread crumbs will also make fat. Any kind of milk and a little sugar will help along the fattening process. The process must be hurried along as fast as possible, for during these days the chickens will eat considerable, and if they do not lay on. fat every day it will be a losing opera- tion. In the end, however, good returns should be made for all this trouble and expense, for the chickens will sell more quickly in the market, weigh more and generally bring the top prices.— Michi-gan Farmer. The goose lays a score or two of eggs +nayear.