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"But it seems so soon," said Mary
"Not at all We cannot possibly pull
it off under a fortnight. and we knoliv
each other so well. There is nothing
like working together for getting to
know somebody
"But the story?" she nrg,ed. "We
:must finish the etory,''
Alan Stacey looked grave for the first
time. ''Yes 1 had forgotten the story.
Little woman, what a business head
you have I promised it for the end of
the month, didn't I?"
yon clicl.''
"Yes, I should like to finish the story,
but perhaps," cheerfully, "if we were
to pueb on, we might be able to manage
it.
"There is still half of it to do
'And I shall want von I can't let
you spend all your days at the old type
writer now I wonder if I could work
with anybody else'?"
"You are not going to try," said
Mary, speaking in decided tones for the
iirst time
"Is there no way ir which one conld
ease you a little?"
"Oh, yes! Let me have a good typist
in the afternoon, and I can dictate the
work off very much more quickly than
Icon do it myself. But I don't see why
I can't work just as usual. What differ-
ence is there? The fact that I know you
love me need not turn me lazy all at
once:''
"No; nothing could do that. But 1
gthallwant you more with me. You for-
get that up to now I have done any
morning's -work and have been free for
the rest of the day, and you, poor little
soul, have' sat here fagging your heart
out, as I' don't mean to let you do when
we are married. Of course I would rath-
er work with you, because you are you.
and you know my thoughts almoet as
they come You interpret me to perfec-
tion. But at the same time I shall want
more of your society than I have had in
the past "
"I see no way," said Mary, "except
ing, as I suggested, a typist who will
work at my dictation."
Eventually she gave way and con
sented to be married as goon as the
proper arrangements could be made. It
was -all so different froxn her last mar
riage. Then, everything had been :rt.
ranged for her; now, everything Was
arranged so as to fall in with her slight
est wish. Ler first husband had had
wery little to offer her, when put in
comparison with Alan Stacey Captain
Conway had been elderly. rough, plain
and only comparatively well off He
bad demanded impossible things. and
when he discovered that his desires
were impoesible of gratification his love
:for the girl whom be had sworn to pro-
tect and cherish had been curiously in-
termingled with an absolute hatred.
His was the kind of nature which to
begin with says. "I will teach you to
love me," and aftorward, "If I cannot
teach you to love me, I will kill you!'
His WaS the kind of nature which says,
I cannot bend, I will break;" the
nature which looks at every situation
of Life from its own standpoint and
ano'ges aU the world entirely by its own
, doings, It is always this kind of na-
ture which is inherently dominant and
essentially domineering. And how dif-
ferent was Alan Stacey! He. gifted, in-
tellectual and brilliant. was content to
lay everything at the feet of the woman
be loved—all the fame he had won, the
position he had made, the wealth he
had amassed His desire was not to be
his wife's master, but her knight; not
to feel that he was conferring honor
and statue upon her, but to assume al-
ways that in giving herself to him she
was laying him under an everlasting
and delightful obligation.
It NSW but natural that Mary was
not only filled with love, but with a
boundlees and unbounded adroiration.
This was the man at whose feet she
would have been content to sit for the
rest of her life, not daring to lift her
.eyes higher than bis knees. This was
her kin, men. gifted and blessed
with tile right royal inheritance of
genius This mon who asked so little,
who gave so mtich, was not one who
bad power only over a handful' of men.
No, the name with which he was en-
dowed was one which was known and
known approvingly throughout the
world, known wherever the English
language was spoken; nay, more than
known, for it was loved.
I do not wish to portray the charac-
ter of Alan Stacey as that of a perfect
being I edeed I must own. what Mary
bad found out very early in her knowl-
edge of him, that bis besetting sin was
idleness, which is the besetting, sin of
most ;thinners of stories. He was beset,
too, with idleness clf two kinds, the
genuine and ordinary sort and the idle-
ness which afflicts the brain worker. It
;1 only your nobodies svho are thorough-
ly industrious in art Great genius is
always snbject to what it usually calls
"idleness"—in other words, to brain
fag To my mind the most pathetic rec-
a.d that we have of George Eliot is
where eh e conveys in a letter to a friend
that she hos no natural desire for work
and has to flog her brain continually so
that she may get her promieecl task
completed in timeShe, too, speaks of
it as idlem/ss, And With that same kind
of idleness Alan Stacey was continually
afflicted, ail he waS With a real love of
doing nothing
In titnes gone by he had many a day
t down to work in the morning, say-
ing "NOY, Mrs. Conway, I have got
to work today; I have got to work hard.
:Now, you keep me up to it." .And no
won& had Mary insctibed half a dozen
lines in her notebook than heveoulcl get
end say, "By Jove, there's another
robin building ite nest in that holly
brish4" or Mame such remark, which Was
interesting enetlah in itself, but which
did not help upon its Way the story then
in heed And often and often MarY bad
had all her work eut out, to keep him
cheined to his teek, end after thesehad
cothe to an linderstanding with One
other it eeemed to. her as if he never
imeaat to work again, as if he coulfl. not
P001) his mind eft. their plans for the
fotere, , and as if any and every subject
was melte ,interesting to him than th
fascinating 'romance upon :which they
were then at work.
"Yes. we will go to Monte Carlo,'
she said at last one day, "but we win.
not go to Monte Carle, or to Paris,: or.
to church, or anywhere else until' you
have finished this story Come, now, I
am waiting to hear what yen are going
to do .with°Evautteline nonto"
"I think she'll ehuck it np," was
his reply
"No, Do. To that I resolutely decline
to be a party. I ani not coming into
your life to ruin you. YOU have to fin-
ish that story before we Can dream of
being married Came, pull yoprself. to-
gether Think! Evangeline is standing
at the top of the staircase wondering
witat is going to happen next- "
Web, in due course the story was
finished, and when the last worda had
been taken down be asked her: eagerly
What she thought of it,
"Give me your candid opinion," he
said.
"I think," said Mary, "that it is by
far the greatest book that you have ever
done."
And then they were Married, going
mnietly to church one morning, attend-
ed only by a great friend of Alan
Stacey's and the girl through whoin
indirectly the marriage had came abont.
—the girl who had first given Mary the
idea of taking up typewriting as a. Seri-
ous profession. Then they went back to
the Sycamores and had a'dainty little
lunch, at which they made miniature
speeches, drank each Other's health
and were as merry as if the party had
been one' and forty instead of but four
persons. Then at the last moment, just
before they rose from the table, the best
man thought of something.
"My dear chap," Said he to the bride-
grootu, "there is one thing about
which you have given me no instruc-
tions What about the annontmements
to the papers?"
"Need it be announced ?" asked Mary
"My dear Mrs. Stacey," replied the
best man, "it is absolutely essential.
Bohemian as Stacey is --bas always
been—he is yet at the same time a per-
sona grata in society, and unless your
marriage is announced formally and im-
mediately I am afraid that it will not
be so pleasant for you when you come
home again Here, give me a bit of pa-
per, Stacey Tell me how you wish the
announcement to be worded, and I will
see that it is in all tomorrow's papers.'
Alan Stacey got up and fetched a
sheet of paper and a pen and ink fronx
the writing table in the window
"Give it to me," said Mary. "This
is my idea what to say.She took the
sheet of paper from his hand and wrote
clearly and firmlta "On the 1 Oth, at
the parish church, Fulham, by the Rev
F. D Johnson -Brown, Alan Stacey,
only son of the late Colonel John
Stacey. Bengal staff .eorps, to Mary
Conway, daughter of the late Rev
George Hamilton.'"
She handed the paper across the table
to her husband, and he, knowing her
well, realized instantly that her horror
and detestation of her first marriage
. •
She took the sheet of paper from his hand
and wrote clearly and airraty.
had remained with her to such an ex-
tent that she would not, even in the
formal amortisement, identify herself
with the man who had commanded the
Arikhama, the tnan who had bought
her with a price,. the man who had
given her the only blow that she had
ever received in the whole course of her
life.
• CHAPTER XI.
ON TIIE TOP 01' THE TIDE.
One of the rules of Alan Stacey's life
was that when be took a holiday it
should be a • real holiday He was not
one of those persons who combine busi-
ness with pleasure and make themselves
an annoyance to their friends by keep.
ing, the bogy of work ever present with
them.
They left London immediately after,
the wedding, going by slow and easy
stages to ft:ly, and for three long, de-
licious months they reveled in luxn-
rions happiness, Man Stacey made
traveling so easy He was content to
travel for pleasure, ho detested people
who made it a business.
"No, lay dear sir," he said one day
to an enthnsiastic Ameriean who was
badgering him to go and see an Etrus-
can totnb, "I have not gone, and 1 do
Dot mean to go.''
"I3ut, my dear sir: it is your duty to
go; yon ought to go; you ought to im-
prove your mind; you ought to see all
that there is to be seen. This is a won-
derful specimen, a real old Etruscan
tomb, You may never have another op-
pertnnity of seeing one so perfect and
interesting."
"I don't care," anid Alan Stacey dog-
etedIv. "I came here to enjoy myself
With zny wire wile d 0000 't care
enout tombs, and I don't care about
t malts All the Etruscan tembs in the
worlit will not be the smalleat nee to
Inc. They do not interest me, and they
do not please me, and 1 refrtee to be
berigeiten into meditations Which only
irritnte nad annoy me. 1)0 you go and
•look at the tomb and stay there, 1 shall
not eomplain. I shall never grumble at
your choice of a habitation. ''
"Poor thing! He means well," said
Mary when the energetic sightseer had
departed.
'I dare say he does, '' Alan replied,
with a laugh, "but I wisb he'd go'and
mean well somewhere else. Lotus move
on You said 'yesterday that you would
like to go to Bella Vilna. Let as go to
Bella and lose him."
They worked their way home' from
Italy at last, returning by way of the
Riviera, and the middle of May saw
Mrs. Alan Stacey settled in the beauti-
ful old house at Fulham, with what
was practically the world at her feet.
How happy she was 1 She had been
used to think that. no matter what fate
awaited her in the future, the 116rror,
the sickening dread, the terror, the re-
pugnance, the shuddering misery, of the
past would always be with her. But it
was not so. Time, the wonderful phy-
sician, taught her to forget, and ,by the
time she found herself installed in the
Fulham house she might, so far as her
feelings went, have been Mrs. Alan
Stacey for ten years instead of little
more than as many weeks.. .
On the very first morning after their
arrival home she sent for the honsekeep-
er who had been left in charge of the
iSiyacga6mores at the time of their mar -
"I sent for you,- said Mrs. Stacey
gently, "because it is better that we
shoeld begin with a clear understand-
ing or 1.1OW We mean to go on. Yon will
quite understand that as I shall con -
tin ne to help Mr. Stacey with his work
I shall have no time for housekeep-
ing You nnderstand Mr. Stacey's
waste, his likes and dislikes. He has
been admirably satisfied with you in
the past, and I would like you to know
now that I desire to make no change.
So long as you continue to satisfy your
master you will eatisfy me, Yon will
please continue exactly as you have
done heretofore—your accounts. your
menus, everything just as before Oc-
casionally I may make a suggestion to
you if there is some dish that I should
like to have, or if we are having visit-
ors I may like to make some little al-
terations in the menu, but as a general
rule I do not wish to be troubled with
any housekeeping arrangements.'
The housekeeper. who was a,French-
woman and thoroughly lrnew the value
of a good place, thanked her mistress
and assured her of her fidelity and de-
votion.
Then Mary rang the bell, and when
John came in answer to the summons
she told him to shut the door; that she
wished to speak to' him .'nts
"John," she said. "I have jnst been
talking to Mine Boniface and telling
her that I wish your master's marriage
to make no difference in the domestic
arrangements, You have satisfied him
for many years, and I hope you will
continue to satisfy him for many years
longer. I may have to give yon a few
orders, but OD the whole I wish you to
continue precisely as you have always
done." -
'Yon would like to have the key of
the cellar. ma'am?" said John politely
He had no more intention of giving up
the key of the cellar than he had of
giving up the use of his senses, but to
make the offer was the highest compli-
ment he could pay to his new mistress.
Mary laughed outright. "No, John,'
she said; "I do not think the key of the
cellar would be of very much use to tec.
am frightened of cellars, to tell you
the truth, and I shouldn't know one
bottle of wine from another. No, John;
you understand Mr, Stacey's ways. and
you will please jnst do for him as you
have been accustomed to do. I don't.
think that his marriage—our marriage
—will make him more difficult to
please. I hope quite the contrary But,
thank you, John, for offering me the
key of the cellar. I am sure it is a very
great compliment, and I appreciate it
bighly.'"
And then she smilingly dismissed
him, and John went away feeling that,
after an. his master had done the very
best possible thing for himself.
Then she and Alan settled down to
real hard,grinding wOrk. He declared
many times that never in the whole
course of his existence had he been
kept to work so ruthlesely and so per-
sistently as by his new task mistress.
"By Jove, if Lhad thought that you
were going to goad me on like this. I
should have- twice before
athed you to come here for good and
"Oh, no, yort wouldn't!" said Mary.
"It is very good for you. and you know
you are perfectly happy, SO don't pre-
tend anything else."
And it was true enough. She cer-
tainly managed him and his work ad-
mirably, for by keeping' him np to the
mark for Certain hours the wile able to
be free herself at a fixed time every day.
And there was never an idle min -cite for'
either of them, for. as I said awhile
ago, Man Stacey 'had always been a
persona grata in society; and his many
friends, all eeemed but` too allXIOUS to
receive his wife with open arms,
It was a brilliant lire. All that was
best and brightest in tho great world of
art flo'cked to Alan Stacey's house now,
that it boagted of so charming a mis-
tress, Mrs Alan Stacey went every-
where and was noted 'wherever She
wept. Almost every day, in' the cal -
tonne devoted to the doings of well
known people, there was mention of,the
brilliant novelist and his wire. Her
drese, her receptions, her tastes, were
continually chronicled, and for his sake
—for Mary was singtflarly farseeing in
everything that conceived her hustatad
—She put herself to immense pains in
order that the should always create as
favorable an liapresai on as peeS3b:10Th0 '
Woe essentially the very wiferer seelt
matt . Sine 'maga attempted in any way .. i
. MILK COAGULATION. M0 NEY IN COWS,
to shine him down, Rather, on tile con,
tsarya did she draw him out and alma,
P1113 at his best. She ruled his house-
hold with a dignity and eimplinity that
went to make her a favorit.te with ail
classes of his friends. Her great hold
over hhp lay in the fact that, although
she was possessed of no artistic girt her-
self, she was never dull, WAS not in tlio
least degree marrow in mind or judg
ment, that she WaS pOSSOSSed 0± 131131
sorupulous politeness svhich demands tts
well as gives attention. At the end of a
year—a year of wholly unalloyed hap-
piness—Alan Stacey '.void 00 soon, Parc
thought of striking his wife as or omit-
ting te pay her any of those small at-
tentions which are as oil to the-svhcel
of the /matrimonial chariot, lt was won-
derful that it was so, because be had be-
stowed everything npon her He had
changed her life from one of toil, of
comparative penury, of dullness, of
loneliness, to a brilliant existence, the
light of which she had never known, ;Ind
which, had she known, she would IluVtIr
have dared to think could possibly otau
4t2V berg.
ITO BE CONTINUED.] A
ahattered Diamonds,
"Under certain conditions, which are
very rare and remarkable," said an old
jeweler, "a diamond may be shattered
to atoms by a smart, sudden blow. ,The
stone seems to disintegrate and fly
apart, as nearly as I can express it.
and when the Kimberly gems first
came into the market the Brazilian
brokers claimed that they were espe-
cially subject to that kind of accident.
For the time being the story had its
effect on trade, but it was proved to be
untrue, and the incident is now forgot-
ten. In the course of an experience of
nearly 40 years I have known of only
two cases of diamonds being broken.
"One occurred many years ago, when
I was working in a. shop in the old
Reid House in Chattanooga. A lady
customer dropped a cluster brooch
from the counter to the tiled floor, a
distance of about 31/2 feet. It struck
squarely on the center stone, which
was brolsea intoit number of small, ir-
regular fragnienta. The diamond had
weighed about two carats.
"The other instance took place here
In New Orleans about six years ago.
A St. Louis traveling man named
Craivford had a solitaire weighing 11,4
carats set in a. ming. He was standing
in the store and while conversing about
something made a sudden gesture and
struck the stone against a metal fix-
ture. It was split into small, jagged
splinters, a number of which we found
on top of the showcase. The drummer
himself was the most astonished man
I ever saw. He had supposed dia-
monds were indestructible simply be-
cause they were hard."—New Orleans
Times -Democrat.
The Captain's Distinction.
On one of "Old Hoss" Eloey's trips
across the Atlantic the steamer, mov-
ing slowly along in a dense fog at
about 3 on -lock in the morning, struck
on the rocks off Fastnet, the light not
being visible. Fortunately. nothing
more than a scare for the passengers
resulted. Everybody was soon on deck
except Hoey, who had been having a
hilarious Hine the night before and had
slept all through the trouble. One of
his friends sent a .steward for him, and
at last he appeared, still a trifle befog- i
ged. Wben the faces were explained
to him, he joined fervidly in an im-
promptu praise service which the pas-
sengers were holdings
Finally there came a lull in the pro-
ceedings. and "Old floss" took advan-
tage of it to propose three cheers and
a tiger for the captain. This proposi-
tion caused much astonishment, a.nd
some one ventured to ask on what
grounds he based the proposed honor
to the captain.
Drawing himself up to his full height,
"Old floss" replied impressively, "On
the ground that he is the only man
sailing- the Atlantic ocean who could
Parc bit that infernal rock without a
light!"
Same Thing.
At a woman's euchre party the other
day one of the fair players stopped the
game with this query: "What do they
call a little black cat in England?"
A number of the members had been
In England, but they all had to give It
up. ,
The riddle maker smiled sweetly as
she trumped her partner's ace in true
traditional style.
"Can't guess? Why, 'kitty, Ititty'—
lust the same as anywhere else."—Naw
York Mail and Express.
Food Plants.
A wonderful reserve fund for the hu-
man appetite Is to be tound in the veg-
etable diet of the Klamath' Indians. A
novel variety of food, forming a menu
unknown to the civilized, is offered in
the pulp of the great yellow water lily,
which is converted into a farinaceous
food; In the weed known as goosefoot,
Which bears a black seed that is ground
up for loaves and cakes, and in the ar-
rowhead, which in the fall' develops a
starchy white tuber at the end of the
roots.
Better Way of Patting 11.
"Well, what's to be done?" asked the'
"busted" snort.
"Who's to be done?" corrected his
companion in misfortaine.—Chicago Post.
Not a Bribe.
"You sey,",ptir.sued the chairman of
the legiSlative investigating commit-
tee, "that he resorted to no bribery
whatever during the campaign, so far
as you know?"
"Yes, sir," replied the witness; "that
Is what I said."
t`Did he not circulate tleveral boxes
of eigarsi?"
"Yes, sir, but them cigare Wasn't
bribes. Here's one of 'elm Yon can
try. It." -,Chicago Tribune,
Row Dairying Increases the
Value of Laud.
4,4,44.6044.44e4ea..4.4441+.44+4e0
In a recent addrese before Georgia
dairymen D. C. Wade called attention
to the incidental improvement of lands,
the total' canceling of fertiliser bilis
,and the consequent building up of 'agri-
cultural values. Speaking of, the ex-
periment in 'Wisconsin. which had
reached a condition of agricultural des-
peration, Mr. Wade went on to sliow
that in 1870 In the leading counties of
Wiscousin now devoted to dairying
laud hail depreciated In value until the
taxgatherer act' mortgagee were ab-
sorbing large parts of the state. Gov-
ernor Hoard called in that year 0 con-
vention, Six men met and formed the
Wisconsin Dairymen's association. Her
soil had run down so that 'when the
counties raised wheat the average was
down to seven bushels per acre. Now
It is 19; 'never a pound of fertilizer
bought, only the byproduct of the cow.
Land then scarcely salable sold for
taxes or only fetched $1 to $6 or $8
per acre. Now, according to the report
of the secretary of state, Sheboygan
county land sells at an average of $47
per acre, Jefferson coenty $41, Wau-
kesha county $54, Walworth county
$56, while Dane county, much better
naturally than any of these, but hav-
ing little dairy industry, sells for only
$29, and the farmers of Jefferson coun-
ty alone bad last year nearly $2,000,000
on deposit from their dairy business.
Based upon these facts, Mr. Wade
said to his assembled Georgia listen-
ers: "I see no reason why you should
not at least eerie! this. You have that
best of market, the home market,
which for a number of years at least
doubles the aeerage Wisconsin market.
I am told by gentlemen In position to
know that the south imports hundreds
of tons of butter and cheese from the
northwest and that the city of Atlanta
alone pays tribute to that dairy section
for butter and cheese in the ueighbor-
hood or 4250,000 annually. Are you
farmers of Gemasia,going to Slibmit to
this? It lies in your hands. Adopt
the motto, `Millions for defense, but
not one cent for tribute'—that is, buy
eovvs, sthcly up tbe question. build
creameries and cheese factories. Pass
state lasvs forniddieg that disrepute -
Tale product oleomargarine frotn flaunt-
ing the livery of our choice creamery
butter into the faces of our citizens.
Let them sell it for What it is and not
an adulterated product. Let every tub
stand on its own bottom. Will you
Georgia farmers give intelligent, per-
severing, energetic effort? If so, you
cannot help but succeed. I ask this
question of you today. What shall
the answer be?"
In the single saving of the fertilizer
bills, amounting to many millions of
dollars aunt/tiny, Ge,orgia would make
a gain which was impossible to Wis-
consin. The result of a similar agri-
cultural policy pursued in this state
would be to double the values attained
In Wisconsin, for even under the slip-
shod and unscientific methods of' the
past we have kept afloat, as against
the returns of well expended thrift
and intelligent action which have char-
acterized the people of the north and
west. Our moats in agriculture should
Parc the same, excess over the sections
named which is represented by the
greater length of productive weather
and sunshine.
Batter Coloring.
Because rich June grass butter is yel-
low the public thought it could secure
the same kind of butter the year round,
says C. S. Walters in The American
Cultivator. The dealers, to satisfy
this demand, made their butter color-
ing at first of aniline coal tar dye,
which is poisonous and injurious to the
system. There was no other 'dye that
would color the butter satisfactorily.
There is some of this injurious butter
color on the market today, and it is
even defended by some of the manu-
facturers as harmless. Their reason-
ing is something after this 'style: A
teaspoonful of the coloring will be suf-
ficient to color 20 quarts of cream, and
this amount of cream will make ten
pounds of butter. On the average a
man will eat only ten pounds of butter
in as many weeks, therefore the
amount of poison he will take Into his
system will be too small to notice. But
this reasoning Is false for the simple
reason that the accumulative effects
of poison in the stomach may take
yearseto work harm, but in the end the
danger is great. Poisons of any kind
should be eliminated from any dairy
products, and where butter colors are
known to be made from these coal tar
products of a poisonous nature they
should be rejected. Our state laws
should absolutely prohibit their sale
and use. But, on the other hand, the
use of the nonpoisonous, vegetable de-
rived colorings is perfectly legitimate.
The coloring material, instead of being
injurious and dangerous to the health,
Is really of benefit to us and can be
looked upon as a food. It gives to the
butter a rich, creamy look and en-
hances its flavor. The use of these
narmless butter colors should be as
generanamong the dairymen who Make
their own butter as among the cream-
eries. The consumers demand the col-
ored butter, and it should be aupplied
to them so lorig as no harm Is being
done, There woeld be more demand
for dairy butter if the makers employ-
ed more of the arts and skill of the pro-
fessional `creamery makers. They have
studied the markets well and can read
the needs of the public.
liolv Oleo Bobs.
It is estimated that 4,300.000 cows
would he necesSary to produce an
amount of' butter ,equal to the quantity
Of oleomargarine manufactured and
used In the [hilted States.
Small Dittereneett Iday Drina Success
or Failure.
Before the inectiug of the French
Academie des Sciences a paper by Dr.
Pages was read relating to the varia-
tions in the latent period necessary for
the coagulation of milk—that is to say,
the time which elapses between the ad-
dition 01'.. the substances which cause
coa,gulatien awl the solidification of
the mass.
Under normal conditions, and conse-
quently outside the sphere of adultera-
tion, the period varies to a cousidera.-
Lee degree. ,As regards animals of the
sante species, the causes of the varia-
bility may be due to the animal itself,
or to its hygienic surroundings, or to
its food, or to hiflueuces acting on the
milk after it 11318 been drawn. As re-
gards the influence of age, the milk Of
a young animal will coagulate in a
shorter period than that of an adult
animal. In other words, young milk
coagulates :sooner than old mills, and
this difference int:teases on boiling.
• In general recently secreted milk also
coagulates more quickly than milk
which has remained sane time in the
ruilk bag. Similarly the milk which is
drawn last coagulates sooner than that
which is first obtained.
' Regarding the effect of food stuffs
on the subject in question, there are
some which produce milk of extreme
sensibility to the action of coagulating
substances. Such are many artificial
foods, beet root and bran, but especial-
ly lucern, and its aftermath even more
than its first cut. On the other hand,
other foods have the opposite effect.
Such are many species or meadow
grass and hay and forage of a fruites-
cent or arborescent nature.
To exemplify our foregoing remarks
the following instance is given: Two
Normandy cows calve at the same pe-
riod. One cow is fed in the Brie dis-
trict near Paris on green lucent and
bran and the other on the tine herbage
of the permanent pasture of Norman-
dy. The result is a considerable differ-
ence in the latent period of coagulation
of the two lots of milk obtained.
Skilled Normandy dairy farmers have,
tried, without success, to make Brie
cheese at home even when those coag-
ulating substances which are success-
fully employed in the Brie district have
been transferred to Normandy without
delay, and used under the most favor-
able conditions. The milk would not
coagulate sufficiently quickly at the
relatively low temperature, which is
one of the essentials in the manufac-
ture of Brie cheese. The material, for
lustauce, which easily coagulates the
evening mint within a few hours of
Sucy, near Paris, will require the whole
night to have the same effedt at a vil-
lage near Cherbourg. with the result
that spontaneous acidification acts
tmoalt‘eeso.r less on the tnilk before It coag-
ulates.
Points of Brown Swiss.
Brown Swiss cattle are substantial,
fleshy and well proportioned, with
straight, broad back, heavy legs and
neck, giving a general appearance of
coarseness. But when examined they
are found to be small boned for their
size and to possess a fine. silky coat
and rich, elastic skin, with other at-
tractive dairy points. Developed as
BROWN SWISS COw.
O dairy breed, primarily, Brown Swiss
cows yield a generous flow of milk
and hold out well. Good speelmeas
may be expected to give an average
of ten quarts for every day in, the
year. Six thousand 'pounds a year is
an ordinary record, and single in-
stances are known of 8,000 to 10,000
pounds. One Swiss cow owned in
Massachusetts produced by accurately
recorded weights 80,304 pounds of milk
before 12 years old.
Cheese 'rya° Hundred Years Old.
One of the most peculiar bridal or
tnarrlage customs known is one that
has, prevailed for centuries in what is
called the "cheese regions" of Switzer-
land, says Demorest's Magazine. In
that portion of the 'Alpine country
when a pair join in wedlock it is the
fashion of their intimate friends to
buy a "register cheese" for the young
couple. The cheese is preSented to
the newly wedded people on the even-
ing of the wedding day and is ever
after retained by them as a family
register. On these heirloom cheeses
the whole history of the family is carv-
ed, such as births, marriages, deaths
and other Incidents, which it may be
desired to make Matters of record.
Some of these old Swiss family cheese
records are said to date back to the,
middle of the seventeenth century. At
the agricultural fair annually held at
Gessenay a greet many cheese records
have been exhibited which were
known to be from 180 to 200 years old.
The oldest that has yet been displayed
belongs to a country squire living near
Gessenay, who shows his family rec-
ord carved on a eheese made in 1660.
• &argot.
One of the best remedies for garget,
or caked udder, is to gine a milk physic
consisting of a pound and a half of
epsom salts. Feed laxative foods, keep
the affected part of the udder well
milked out and rub vigorously several
tenee a day with hot salt and water.
if the case Is a stubborn one, a table-.
spoonful of powdered saltpeter will bo
benefit's:L.—Live Stock.
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