HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1899-1-20, Page 2BETWEEN
TWO LOVES,
ern BERTHA et.
(Contieued.)
At eeventeen, the rent through the
erdeol of all Enfdish ladies—she wee
'levee -Med at coert, and took her place
in society ae one of its greatest orna-
ments. It was a strange, piquant, yet
aimoet terribie position; only seeeeteen,
beautiful aa a peri, time wealthy as
prineettatin a' fairy tale.; The whole of
her motheree large fortune had beet)
settled on nen, and the ineeritaace oe
Weerlye was in itself tt grand one. All
the trod(' raved about ber, as it was
mire to do; she was more than pitmen:,
We, (hie daughter of a hundred earls;
here was not the common ode r of
*emits; the Marvelous regmlaritY of
treetop; the aristecratie grace. the ex-,
etenete coloriag, were the least eharma
*f her face: its piquant expression, its
twice lovelinese—aew grave, noty gets—
he thousand charms or change, its smiles
sad teem, its Aprit-like loveliness, its
radiance of pure beauty, could, not
Mee been pat on minvas—no painte:
amid Ire.ve; deplete' them: ber ey(w were
of vielet hue, large, bright, full of a
likoasand. meaninge that could never be
told In words; her hair was of bright,
soft getid—its seaviug, eilken abtindaeice
"de henutY in itself; her figure was
perfect—ilet grace aed symmetry were
of the idgineet order: she bad "white
hltele htuels," end Utile feet. No womier
time, fee once the tablee were tithed.
mad ennead of speculating what eeee
Oman would marry her, the world wane
leered we she would Merv.
time* no youpg girl ever bad more
Severe. She seemed to nee in a meted
f theca—she was surrounde.d by them;
,tetteree homage. aduletion were all
hound he. She may saw the fair eta
bright side of life; she was preisee, flat-
tete& complimented, until she began to
think that se could do no wrong.
Whom would the ratirre?—which would
she choose from this crowd of adrotir.
era? &lie had reached her nineteenth
real- before her heart was touched at
an; by that time the world, with its
pneise and lts liattety, had sometthat
emitted her. Theu the elle great love
ot her life cane to her, mad her lover
was env Clintou Adair. Perham in a
-worldly poiet or view, the might have
deue better. Sir Clinton was a baroutt;
dultee and earls ead asked her in tear-
y -age, and she hod refused them. The
Astkiire of leastwohl, were ea ancient,
Iowa, 'honorable. wealthy faralle: but
ambler and wealtbiee ;nen bed been
suttees to Lady hiny. This love was
ber ttote—slet had bad notie before it.
Line come after it; it wag the love of
her life, the one greed crown of her
womanhood—ehe knew no other. Peep
one of the reasous she loved Sir Min-
ton no well vras that he wire older their
heestef—of a graver, more reserved na-
ture: she was utivonseiously attracted
by the very contrast he presented to
he,
; His wooieg had been a subject of
wonder; the was, ae ,he said, like a
well, beautiful bird, difficult to tame;
h required more sidle nore talent, more
patience thou would bave been re -
ii whining a battle.
Be did win at lost; Lady May own-
ed that she loved him, and promised to
be les
wife. Then her goodness seem-
ed to citme to a sudden end—perhaps he
had made concession enough; she be-
came rmtive, and her lover, deephe 'his
mitesive strength and patience, had
some difficulty in managing- her. She
wilehapromieed wife; sbe loved him
more lban she knew; yet she would not
hear the word marriage named—elle &f-
leeted the utmost dreed of it. When
he preyed and pleaded to her, the
would place her white hands on his
shoulder, and raise her winsome face to
She would say:
"Itly youth, Clinton; let me enjoy iny
beautiful, happy youth; do not tease me
bout being married yen"
, She never dreamed that it was love
which made her youth so beautiful and
o happy to her, and he was as wax
to her hands.
There were times when her coy, shy
avoideatee of love and marriage almost
saddened hire; yet she was so sweet
and winsome in her graceful tyranny
he could not resist it. He could not
be angry with it. He was, indeed, as
he owned to himself, wax in her heeds.
Then he knew she was young to be
married—he was willing to wait patient-
ly until she was twenty, if she would
only indulge him by allowing him to
talk about their marriage or their fu-
ture; but she woeld not. She was the
fairest enti sweetest of tyrants. The
tract of the engagement seemed enouph
for her.
"Is it that you do not love me, Mayr
he would cry sometimes, when a look
or word from her had silenced him
againet his will.
"No." she would reply; "but, Mettle
love and marriage seem so different.
Let us go on as we are—in peace."
"Bet. eurely," he remonstrated once,
amused in spite of himself—"surely you
will let me speak to you of merriage
some day?"
"Yee. certainly, Clinton " she replied.
"And when will that be?" he asked,
gravely.
"When I cannot help it," ehe replied,
with impudent frankness, for which he
did net like her any the less."
I "That is the most cheering prospect
t ever heard for a lover," he said.
`It was no wonder that sbe, so young,
so bright, and beautiful, liked to enjoy
her youth and defer the responsibilities
of marriage. She liked the bright,
taughing side of lite best, and she had
grave suspicions that marriage hid some
IBerliOGS MTG. it as not because eht
failed in love for him thee she disliked
the mention of nmeriage—he misjudged
her in that; it was because she did not
wisth to take up the cares and respcee
eibilities of life mail, es she had said
herself, she was obligetd.
CHAPTER III.
"wino BE 'remit P"
reyerythitig goes by repression.
rlintosa Adair had aelieved the great
triumph of dm dew he had Won the
love of the faireet arid weelthiest heir -
Mrs in England, end with that know-
ledge, be woe compelled to be content.
Lady May had no idea of making any
*other coneessions.
"When will you marry ine, May?"
v.aa the prayer ever on this lips, and she
nod no austver for him. So that hie
love grew be repression, Eecause Ms
Mir, imperious queen did loot mire fox
what the coiled loee scenes, and woe
not willing to *elk about marriage, he
was obliged te leverets, in some de-
gree, the intensity of his love. She
would, perhaps nave been startled could
she have known how he worthipped her,
and niert jealous peep lodged in het
heart.
For be did uot quite understand leer.
He had beeu accustomed to worldly
women, who never concealed the fleet
that a good marriage, either for thept.
selves, their diimehters, or sisters, was
tiae beginuing and mid of existence. He
del, not quite understand the reluctance
of a girl to leave her gireheod behind
her, and take upon herself the mem et
womembood.
Lady May often said to herself that
she eould not possibly be happier than
she um& The world was at her feet;
she loved end was beloved; she was me
premely lumpy ht her choice; *he oh-
lieved Sir Clinton to be the noblest
man fit tbe world; wee dieturb matters
et -ben they were so pleasant? It would
be time menet in a few years to think
of marriage; when she was married,
the would be obliged to change her life«
she must heve less of laughter and mum
less rayelw; she would hare ewe* that
would make her graver. True, to out -
balance that, she would beve niere love.
bet her heert was warm now with its
happy your:- love; eller need of Mere?
But lilt° iitese tboughte her impetuous
'lover did not enter. He levee eler with
las whole trent and soul; he would have
prayed her with his whole helm aud
5014 to marry bite at once Iler etey,
sweet avoidauee wagered hinz, If he
had remembered her youth, end had
been mere patient, mere eonsiderate,
this story of a great trugedy waled
laever have been writtee, Bet lie had
rean's nature-, etroug, halleferee, be,
cavil*, of even understeading the de-
licate wineliuge of a woman's mina.
What was really a daiuty dreaci of
turbing a ham, sunny life, a girlith
dread of the uuknown land of marriego,
he nesteok for want of love,
So be brooded In silence over his owe
great love, wide"; grew now by revue-
sion—gradually jeeloueo^ mingted mitt,
las love, It Lady May had been more
like other girls af the heti tallied of
tealt future, if the had indulged him
in prette love tete-a-tetes he would never
bare been jealous. As it was, he wed
that what he mild not win no one eln
ebould have. IIie fair, Ineeld, dente
Iove *holed give to no other wee* she
refueed
She was his promised wife; yet she,
in some sweet, vague faehion tbat he
hardly understood Itimself, be -id herself
;loot from Wm; he had kissed her face
onee—it was oz the evening of their
betrothal; he Itad never dreamed of kles
$n her again. Once he remembered
laying' his heed with a loving. cares -sing
touch on her hair, and the had drawn
herself coyly away from him. It was
the remembranee ot that fact which
argered hire ao greatly when he saw
Count Soideni touch the fallen coil of
hair, She had not ehrank from him.
Sir Clinton did not understand that the
shy avoidance ;of him was but a girlieh
sign of Jove.
Day by day his jealousy inereaeed. /t
was not exactly that elm gave him any
cause; the could not help being fairer
than other women, ehe could not help
men admiring her and trying to win
smiles and kind words from her. Yet
as time wore on, she began to take a
wicked, amused kind of interest in her
power OVer bine It gratified her inexpressibly to be so completely mistress
of one human heart.
While he talked about jealousy and
warned her against flatterers, she was
content. It was only when he begin
to talk about marriage that she turned
restive.
"My dear May," said Mee Lockwood
to her one morning, "the patience of that
lover of yours is something wonderful.
eland you do not try it too fare'
But Lady May, secure in her youth
and beauty, only laughed as she an-
swered:
"I should like to know what he would
do in that case."
Miss Lockwood shook her head
gravely.
"I know," she sale, "that on a sub-
jett like this, all Interference seems to
be impertinence. I do not interel my
warning as such. I have known men
to some trange deeds when their pati-
ence ended."
"But," said Lady May, "I do not see
how I try his patience, auntie; tell me"
Sete had a fashion of calling Miss
Lockwood auntie; the elder lady pre-
ferred it.
"Tell yea! I cannot tell you; you
must know yourself. A long time hilte
elapeed since you first became engaged
to hen, yet you will not settle any dine
ior your marriage."
"Marriage!" cried the girl, impatient-
ly; "people seem to talk and think about
nothing but mei-liege. Why not leave
me to enjoy a few years of my youth in
peace?"
"My dear Lady May, that is not the
language of love."
"You mistake—you are quite wrong."
cried the young girl, eagerly. "I do in
deed love him." Her face flushed hone
"Why do you make me say such thingn,
auntie? Yon make me ashamed of my-
self."
"My dear," replied peaceable Miss
Loektrood, "I do not make you say
them; I know you are accustomed to no
voice save the vtece of praise. Let me,
for once, speak the truth. You premise
me that you will not be angry?"
"If I am to hear the truth for the
first time, 1 ought to be pleased with
the novelty," said Lady May.
"You shoe hear it. 1 wal tell you
why you dislike all D3elltIOD of maw
Wage, even with the man you, profess
to love.
"I do love him," interrupted Lady
May; but Miss Leckwood took no heed
of the ieterruption.
"Bride in at the root of it all, Lade
May; pride, and nothing elee. You like
your fall, free, unalloyed liberty; you
like being uncontrolledmistress of ell
your actions; you would not like to be
itecountable to any one for anything
ocu do or sey; you like being Lady May
Trevlyn, the weelthy heirete, the
leading belle of the day; you like being
able to bestow smiles and kind words
upon a crowd of adorers; you are too
proud to religaish the advantages of
your feemerm, too proud to submit to
another's will."
Lady May listened thoughtfully; then.
with the fratokness that Made ilea, elaief
charm, Se mid;
"I am half inclined to think you are
right, auntie. I have never had to eub-
mit, and the idea et it is eot very plee-
*tut, 1 am willing te own thee if I
were lees proud, the notion of maritag,t
would be less—what shall ;aye—lees
terrible than it is,"
"I know I am rient, dear. have
studied Toil well. You are toe meld.,
Lady Mae; and' there never was a prnlol
hetet Yet,' continued the simple lady.
"that Heaver& did not brieg low„
all fee Pride, LOT May . that yett twe
malting one of the most houest heaves
that ever beat ache Ititle 4 deadly pain."
"I do not believe that," said Lady
Mee., proUdly,
eh is mote, my deer, nevertheless. Sir
Clinton Adair is not like the same Mtn
he was wheo he fleet loved you; he loeke
sad at times, like a man Accuetomed
to repress tee feelings, Iuteeference Is
resb, I know; but, ag you have pro.
wised to marry bim. I think you might
eliitigthink ekinudeleft7tell'izIrei
.p"ied the far,
proud gd, aud Miss Leawood wit*
copeent. Sae knew that the 'taught"'
yeterg beires.e eeldem made a greater
coneeesiou than that -
"11 -hen you are older, you will know
wore of the value of such love as Gir
Chnealde," contliatied Miss. Lockwooli.
Teit Det eppreviate it lest wive, he,,
asuse every one ilattem
Ent 1 do appreelate it, fellatio. D
ou really think he laves me bei eery
Thiiik, roe deer! 1 am mire of it, If
1 dared, 1ehottiti say that izt loved Tea
better than he loved his ewe. soul, Too
great love le often panished, as is greet
wide."
Lady May 414 tnitilt ot it the next
time ale saw Iter' lever; for the Aral
time'and of ber own free will. she
spolce of iteh. marriage. She did it with
a flushed raCe,. and a etrettee elownees
of speech; but elle was rewarded for
the effort by the light that shone in his
Mee,
If it Was peaeible tem his lore tO
crease, it did so; the time eame when
its force alemet Mantered hira—wbea
its strength reacle
fereut to everetbium It was when
matters had reached this stage that the
scene occurred with which ear story
opens, Lady May had been the leadMe
belle at one of tbe grandest halls et the
season. As...ebe was engaged to be
married to Clillten, it was one of
her whims never to danee more then
one. witli Wan -.111 the same ball, aud,
when he remmaetrated with her, the
eaid:
"People used to laugb at Colonel
Dempster and Lady Greeve; beeause
they were levees, they (rely danced weer
each other; no one shah =ugh at ewe'
He knew when she took that view of
a subject alt words were vain. He did
net like standing by while her sweet
smiles and lovely face charmed °thee
men; he submitted, but it was with an
ill-graee. He watched the little eptsode
Chat had angered hire so. One of the
loeg, golden roils of hair bad fallea
over Count Soldenes arm, and be bad
touched It with a smile. That smile
enraged Sir Clinton; he said to himself
that he would bear this tyranny no
longer'that he would resist and as-
sert his tights. The morning after the
ball he called, resolved upon winning
frerzt her a promise that she would not
tvaitz again'except weal himself. That
promise he had failed in obtaining, yea
he left Cliffe Rhine more in love with
her than ever—astonished, too, at his
own daring in baying read his proud
lady -love so long a lecture.
"Will he tame her?" that was the
question every one had asked, and era
was the question which perplexed him
as he walked home. That is the ques-
tien, the answering of tylecla forms our
story.
CHAPTER IV.
That was the question which, by
morning, by noon and by night, oc-
eupled him. Should he tame her?
Should he eves. bend this bright, impe.1-
ous, capricious girl? Should he ever
really capture this proud, _sensitive
heart? Should he ever feel sure a her
love?
Ile had tested her on this one point,
and Ills test had failed; she would not
give him the promise he asked. He was
not more jealous of Count Soldeni than
any one else. There was only one of
whom he felt really jealous, and that
was the young Duke of Roseeium, ene
of the handsomest and most accom-
plished peers in England—one, too, who
admired Lady May more than most peo-
ple. He bad made her an offer of raor-
riage. which she refused, as she loved
Sir Clinton—refused him, much to the
young duke's amazement; but he would
not give up all hopes of winning her;
he Ahmed of .her engagement to Sir Clin-
ton, hut be argued with himself that all
was fair in lot -e and war—that, until she
was -really another man's wife, he should
never give up all hope. Of him Sir Clin-
ton was jealous, not that his proud, fa:r
young lady love gave him any cause; her
manner, even to the young duke, was
one of proud. indifferent calm. Lady
May had learned some lessons of late,
and leahang them had changed her.
One of her friends. a young French giti,
had recently married, and Lady May
was discussing her wedding with the
Countess of Lumbar.
"I should look forward to . marriage
as the end of all my troubles, if 1 were
a French demoiselle," she said. laugh-
ingly; "married ladies in Prance sse-a
to me to have intree freedom then ;n
England; I do not hear ee much of ob-
edience and submission among Meet."
The Countess of Lumbar looked quiet-
ly at the girl's lovely face.
"lely dear Lady May," she said, gent-
ly, "the law of marriage is the mane
everywhere where Christianity prevails;
that law is 'submission and obedience
from the wife to the husband."
"I think it is terribly unfair," said
Lady May. "In many cases that I
know the husband is greatly info:tier to
the wife. When that is the case, haw
can she obey?"
"I do not think it matters at all," wed
the countess, gently. "Providence, in
framing that Jew, did not make it depend
on the ,husbantes worthiness; it is in-
dependent of all such consider:Alone."
[To BE CONTINUED.]
•
LONGHORN CATTLE.
'Rent -vat of Intel -ewe In no Old Vane
hen •hreee,
How the naeution of thenarne "Long
horn" eeente to awelrert Memoreee of the
past, says the London Live Stock ;four
nal, with the many pleasant associa-
tions that linger .round our schoolboy,
and early farming days! Then we used
to he delighted with the euormons, .pic-
turesque bores and the long, deep .hodies
of this famous breed and to hear the
breeders and feeders of those days dis-
cussing the prodts tttat had been drawn
feign the grazing. We learned of the
weight of cheese that had been produced
from the cows during the summer or
the weekly yield of hotter, or perchance
it might be the merits of mime renowned
breeding animal that after 15 or 16
years in the herd hattat last succumbed,
when the thickness of flea) upon the
loin formed the subject of great boast -
ng, aud most of theee remarles applied
.t that thee to the Longhorn. The het
proved Shorthorn, or Durham As it WAS
more commonly called then, bad only
juell begun to displace the old ,familiar
LONGHORN PM= PULL NENII.W011111.
!towel] cattle, Among the many
tuieede in the British islands that for
perfection of form and general contour
As well as for the, mere practical per -
pens of produeing meat and milk are
the admiration of every foreigner that
ts foot upon our shores, whose line of
life is ha any way connected with cattle
breeding, it is very pleasing to find that
the old Longhorn still finds a place,
awl that this, one of the oldest breeds
in the country and at ono time threat-
ened with extinction, is still to be found
in various parts of the country and iu
sufficient numbers to make a very erect-
itabie display.
.At the reeeut Royal ehow, where ow-
ing to the exertious of several breeders
of this variety classes were instituted
with a view to the reeuseitation of this
at one titue leading breed of tbe central
midlauds, hut whieh had become SO
much reduced in numbers that it was
thought by many to have been already
eutirely lost, tbe entry of some 22 ani-
mals in the three elasses ailettee to
them at Four,Oaks Park, bowever.
proved very coneintively that considee.
able intereet is still tateth in their breed-
ing, and the writer's experience is that
there are many parts of England, and
many conditions obtaining for wbich
the Longborn will be found a more
profitable eternal than many of the oth-
er breeds.
The general cheracteristies of the
Longhorn are undoubtedly an ability to
combine beef with niilk and also a
hardihood of constitution that fits them
for the greatest exposure. Indeed the
breed are never happier than when Out
in the fields both winter and summer,
their thick mellow hide and heavy coat
of hair enabling them to endure cold or
wet without feeling the slightest ill
effects. This quality alone admirably
fits them for the greatly increased
amount of permanent pasture that has
been created in Eugland during the past
decade, as well as for the increased la-
bor difficulties connected with farming
and which outlying cattle during the
winter season reduce to a minimum.
Then again, the rapidity with which
the Longborn becomes fit for the butch-
er is a very strong element in its favor,
as is also its suitability for crossing
purposes, crossbred steers attaining a
great weight and good value at a very
early age. As an instance of the latter
it is within the kuowleclge of the writer
that half horned steers, as the Longhorn
crosses are usually termed, have very
imently been sold to the butcher at as
much as 30 guineas each at 2te years
old, while as instancing their "great
aptitude to fatten, it may be mentioned
tbat during last month an offer of £27
was refused for a steer of the pure
breed that was purchased lean imme-
diately before last Christmas at half
that sum. Then coming to the dairy,
another very important point, the Long-
horn for quality of milk and yield of
butter occupies a position second only
to those of the Channel island breed.
Looking at these desirable characteris-
tics many will naturally be led to ask
why, if all this is true, did the breed
so rapidly sink into comparative ob-
livion? To this question there are sev-
eral answers. Doubtless the breed, as it
formerly existed, was a little longer in
coming to maturity than some of the
newer breeds. Then 'Ohre was the de-
sire to try the Shorthorn, which tempt-
ed really to get rid of their old favor-
Stes. Then again, a great many herds
had suffered from overbreeding, whioh
had given an excess of fat in the flesh
arid a recluotion of the milk giving prop-
erties, and, further, there is little doubt
that the Longhorn, so to speak, hasten-
ed its own end by its rapid fattening
properties.
Disease of Young Cattle.
A new disease, so far only affecting
cattle less than a year old, has appeared
in the herds of Messrs. Reed, Hamilton
and Talbot in Hermon in northern New
York. The disease makes itself known
In the breeding in the throat of hun-
dreds of white worms, which if not re-
moved speedily' eat their way into the
iflesh, making death certain.
AERATING MILK,
Mist Various Authorities Say OD OM
subject.
Hoard's Dairynian says that there it
hardly a plaoe in whicli milk is used
that it will not pay te cool and aeeate
it at the same time. Such milk brought
to the creamery or cheese faetory, if all
the patrons would pramice it, would
show at once in the increased quality
Of the product aud the price. The diffi-
culty is that there are so mAny patrons
who don't believe in any improvement
if it ie goieg to cost something to set it
et Work. Yet wherever there is a fa°,
tory or creamery that has prevailed on
its patrons to practice aeration and cool-
ing that institution stande high in the
price received for its produet.
Cornell experiment station in bulletin
No, 89 published a table showing re -
molt of tests made to ascertain the keep-
ing qualities Of milk aerated by the
champion milk emeler and aerator in
comparison with milk aerated be a ma-
chine for stirring and airing the milk
and in comparigen With Milk neither
cooled nor aerated. The result showed
thAt the iniik aerated axid cooled by
stirring kept sweet no longer tbau tlae
unaerated milk, but that the milk aerat-
ed by the champion nzilk cooler kept
sweet in some nstances 14 boors IOW
ger. Summing up the results of these
tests, Professor Wing said that owing to
the special conditions et cleanliness and
care itt the Cornell dairy the result in
favor of finch aeration was HO nearly so
greet as would he obtained under or -
(Unary farm CQuelitione,
The New York farmers' institute
bulletin gives the following excellent
advice on this sublect; So do pot bo
misled by a few cranks who will tell
you that the Aerittlea Of Milk le Of no
treble to the dairyman, who will tell
you that aeritted railk will net remaie
sweet one whit longer tban any otbei
milk. lie not reieled by thee, we say,
but try for yourself, et A good WEI*
hined cooler and aerator and MO it ev.
ery day in the year, winter and sum -
liter Alike, In buyiug a cooler and
aerator don't make the mistake of get-
ting one thAt airs tbe uiitk Witleaut
cooling it. Don't make the mistake of
getting one thet cools the milk before it
airs it, as aeration to drive out animal
aud food odors must be done wbile tbe
/milk is hot from the cow and before
any zeduction itt tbe temperatere bee
been ramie.
Struggle to Keep Milk Were.
It is an unending straggle, says The
Breeder's Gazette, to keep the milk
pure front the cow to the consumer, The
honest beak does her work. If her milk
aoraetimee fella under a 3 per cent con-
tent of butter fat, it is not her fault.
Sho was bred thet way and fed tbat
way. But the handler aud mauipulator
Of her milk is limited in his rougery
only by his wits' ends and the law. He
waters the milk or robs it partially of
its fat. He colors and thickens the
cream to give it the appearance of
greater tbickPess and richness. He
mixes neutral oil with butter and pro-
duces a counterfeit article. He takes
rancid "axle grease" butter or oleo oil
and turns cut "lied" cheese. He uses
beracic acid or borax, which are sub.
stances deitterieret to the etemach, and
thus keeps milk and cream "sweet."
He adulterates, detericrates and weak-
ens milk, cream, butter and cheese, and
he therety rote, Ameng the latest aids
to tbis deception and trickery is a eub-
stance called alburninoid, compoted of
boracio acid and gelatin, which is used
to thicken and preserve cream. The pro-
ducer who is auspicious that MB milk-
man or marketrnan is perpetrating any
of these fraudson him ahould take sam-
ples of the euepected products and for-
ward tbem to his state experiment sta-
tion or his oity health department for
examination. Publio exposure of such
swindles will have a wholesome effect,
even if tbere is no law to be invoked in
punishment.
Skimmillt Calves,
Professor Curtiss of Iowa is preparing
a paper for publication showing the
results of experiments in calf raising
by skimmilk or separated milk. Genes -
ally speaking, the results have been
highly satisfactory. When Secretary
Wilson of the department of agriculture
was director of the Iowa experiment
station, Fame experiments were con-
ducted of this character. Shorthorn
calves were taken as subjects and im-
mediately. upon being dropped were re-
moved from the 'cows and fed upon
warm, separated milk, fresh from the
milking. They were kept upon this diet
the usual time during which a calf is
allowed to suck and gradually changed
to a grain and grass diet. When 2 years
old, they averaged 1,400 pounds each,
and the cows bearing them had mean-
time made over 360 pounds of butter
each per annum. Record was kept of
the cost of tbe feed. Cornmeal was
found an excellent complement to the
skimmilk, the latter being rioh in nitrog-
enous properties while the corn is rich
in carbohydrates, the two thus forming
a clieap and well balanced ration. The
difference in cost lay in the fact that
the fat or oil in the corn was worth
about 1 cent per pound, whereas that
in the cream was worth 20 cents a
pound.
Better Blotter For Export.
Some years ago we expressed mar be-
lief that when exporters got courage to
buy the highest grades of American
Witter and ship it to Englancl tve should
have a larger trade there and a better
reputation than we could get while they
sent only third rate, imitation and /adle
packed butter, whioh could be bought
cheap at such thoes as the market was
overstocked with low grade goods. Per-
haps the efforts of Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson have had much influence
in this matter, but some of the ship-
pers have helped him, ane onr exports
are increasing, while it is now reported
that American butter sells at higher
prices in Loudon than the best Danish
or any other grade.—Boston Cultivator.
AN HISTORIC RELIC.
THE PAeSING OF LONC)OtWe OLD
NEWGATE PlitSQN.
Said to nave B.904 Built to tho iteles et
Henry w—weit Knowa to ell Anglo-
Saxons Through Britain's Aisitohless
Bistorloal Fiction -Plano for Its fts-
bundling—It will Soon Bo Warn Paw**
Partly by reason ot the historical aeonpiations common to all Angle-EMrotia.
Ann largely through the more entrancing
pages of notion—no les* history, etterever
—Loridores old nooks ane cornere and,
faAnpus biiildinger are household nenuort
les, 411 it were, in Canada as welt ag in
Eogiane, Many Certainties know "Via
Tower" better than most cockneys, and
there are few haunts made memorable by
Dieltene or Theekeray that have not been
hunted out and peopled in imagination
with the (Ammeters all know so Well.
9:hat New/gate Prison and the Old Balltri
Court Botise are to be improved away
thoreform have a personal interest
for Meet of AM, Since they figure in the
notion and serious literatare of England
In (Weide-My eletaresque manner for
bandreds et yeers.
With the 014 Fleet Prison, famous or
infamous for its cruelty to debtors and
for its loose clergy, who married anybody
witeout uompionction, Newgate Betake
divided interest during the Mx oe oven
otnturies. fleet Prieop end a known hie -
tory ter 800 years when lt Was torn down
in 1848, and with it but a memory New
-
TREWS orif5W04,17...
gate was left supreme as the visible am-
teutiment of ole berme and oriminal
romances, with 014 Bailey, Itegiandei
greet criminal court, on Old Belem
street, neat St, Paul's Cathedral, all a
close second. 014 Beiley street runs from
Westgate meet to Ludgate Hill, and so
tho mune and fame or the two plecee are
thus doubly conneeted. In 1887 .Neweete,
weleh bad begonia a mere house ot
detention, was ordered torn down, but
things move slowly In London, 40 it Will
no; be mull this year that its last day
will arrive.
Tbe prison of Neweate is said to have
been built in the reign of Henry
elthough it had an earlier history as
Chamberloin Gate, and wee restored
under llenry 1. and titeplien, As oariy as
1316 it was a cominon jail for felons
talon in the City of Louden And County
of Middlusex. It is recorded that certain
wealthy Jews in len wore ordered to
contribute 20,000 marks for the restora-
tion ot the prison or to be confined In
Nowgato until they paid thig lino. In
1385 Sir Wilibint Walworth loft znoney to
rollove Newgate prisoners, who wore
gonorelly confronted with semi-141mm-
hen, and Sir Richard Whittington be-
queathed money to rebuild tho prison. In
those early days it appears that beyond
the tate-keeping of felons of all desurip-
eons and the confinement of debtors
Newgato Prison was the rompttiolo foe
nobles, officora of state and the contuma-
cious gentry not then impriaoned in the
Probably the bost-known ineldeet hi
the history of Nowgnte is that (used so
eeectively by Charles Dlakono in his
emu of "Burnaby Budge") during the
famous "No Popery" riots in 1780, when
the mob managed to burn down tho otd
jail and release all tho prisoners, over
3u0 alt tola. The illustrations of the fire
from an old :whit and tho new Newgate
show that the jail was rebuilt largely on
the old lines, and its oevority of aspect
was not improved. Nowgitto, after
Tyburn was abandoned, became the
pima of public) executions.
lhe records of the Old Bailey consti-
tute the groat criminal history of Eng-
land, while "The Newgate Calendar"
and "The Cbronicles of Crime," have
furnished plots for plays and novels in-
numerable During its active history the
014 Bailey formed the theatre for crim-
inal notorieties of every description, and
the incidents are of the most sensational
order. The court witnessed tho trial of
tho regicides condemned for their parts
In the trial and exenution of King Charism
I., and of Lord William Russell, Alger-
non Sydney, and other unfortunate
patriots—" household names in conneotion
with English liberty" --for their partici-
pation in "The Rye House Piot."
The Old Bailey gallows -tree was built
withebree orossboams, and held at one
time three rows or unfortunates. Between
February and December, 1785, 96 persons
were examine by the "new drop," the
invention of which superseded the cart,
white) used to be drawn from Nemeth
She victims' feet. The pillory also stood
in the Old Bailey, and the excited orovvds
"AN EXACT REPRESENTATION OF THE BURN-
ING, PLUNDERING AND DESTRUCTION
OF NEWGATE, JUNE 7, 1780."
were treated to the spectacle of offenders
nelorieddh the confinement of a wooden
Warne erected on a tcaeolding. They were
hero pelted with rotten eggs, offal, mud
or offensive missiles, and sometimes;
stoned by 'the mob. Tbe last exhibition
of this nature was one Peter James
Bossy, conyioted of perjury, and sentenced
to seven years' transportation. Before
being transported he was eonfined.for six
months in Newgate, and stood in the
pillory in the Old Bailey June 24, 1830.
All these details of rough and ready
cruelty and rude justice were familiar to
colonists in this country in the last cent-
ury and innhis, and many early prisons
and courts were but reproductions of Old .
Fleet, Olci Bailey and Newgate. The
prisoners of Newgate, for instance, were
allowed to gamble and drink, and the
inmates, of alt things, enjoyed recounting .
stories of their crimes and debaucheries,
so that the prison was a hotbed of
vineinies and vices eEfovoard, the philan-
thropist, has recorded: el scruple not to
tetirm that half the robberies committed
in arlid around London are planned by
that 'dreaciful assemblage of oriminals,
aud tile number of idle people who visit
them." -
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