Exeter Advocate, 1900-7-19, Page 6CHAPTER I.
PO, long, long, is the winter D-710
And el o wiydnwns (he; day,
elseee is a slain kuigeti in my bo
And I wises he were away."
The liebt grew etrouger, and e
beee,ate the loweeed hlieds that
the eay flOWera oe the baleony,
sufegrsd their sweet smell to e
through the open windows, sprea
self softly over the esamet, and s
ed aworriaa's gold thimbles Vieg, t
..-eliett stole toward taa shut t:Qt(
wei
sept
Iiid
yet
Mee
d it,-
how-
herlinge
eoors seem the other side of w
net a emend or movement hid c
for hours. Here it seensea to p
awhile, as if afraid, thee, eteelt
passed unclereeaLb them, and trav
ed oddly-ehapecl apartment
eutted in a plaee not muela bissger
large recess, aud partly hidden
soilt, pink mu slie drapery, DOW p
ed roughly ou one side and 1101(11
by something that had fallen. hea
betsveen them.
la pity seemed the light to to
it,
There it lay, a strong figure 1
face downsvard, with sunny CT
abased, and. brows pressed to, the
erlid ef a wide couch, upon svhic
woman was lying in a deep sleep,
head pillo,wed on her outstretched a
a picture of perfect innocence
rest,
With the smooth coverlid draw
her chin, and her air of happy dre;
s she securely slept, she looked
2-1: she had not stirred since she 1
her down—as if, indeed, she would
stir now, did. not some one co
to wake her, though the light k
en ever widening, and egrowing,
the pink hung room was full of s
rosy atmosphere fit for such a pr
eess as she, yet was strong enou
surely to rouse the re.an who lay w
arm doubled up beneath' him in a
tude unnatural. and strange.
Serenely the clock ticked away
moments and the minutes to hours,
Dresden china shepherds and sh
herdesses on the mantel -piece had lo
ago nodded each other good-morro
the pictures on the wall exchang
glances, first of amaze, then of
awry, as to who was the nesv-corn.
who disturbed their privacy, a
come, alas, in such woeful and uncou.
ay guise!
,The white mouse looking perchan
for his absent little master, popp
his pink nose out of the cage th
was never very far from the pr
eess, and, aghaet at what he saw, we
In again.
In the street without, in the hou
within, the cheerful noises of ever
day life began, and swelled each m
sn.ene louder, so that when a footst
in the next room caused a vibrati
ef the floor, she opened her eyes, a
/ay listening and broad awake. T
touch was so low that what lay
its feet did not come within her ran
ef vision, as she fixed her glance
^the folding -doors, watching for the
to open, and her maid with the t
came in; and as she looked, one swu
back, and through it came Rose, e
eect, pimpante, in her smart cap a
apron, smiling too, as if she had som
?especial cause for satisfaction th
morning. But as she came forwar
. something—something between h
mistress and her, arrested Rose's a
lention ; the cups on the tray in h
"hand rattled violently with the tr
mor that shook her, and: shudderin
'gasping she backed away, with sta
ng eyes fixed on that --backed ti
ehe came to the door, and escapin
through it, shrieked—such a shriek a
clove through walls and window, an
made the passers-by stand, still in th
street, with that heart -quake whic
men know when tragedy stalks red
handed through their midst.
Mea.nwhtle her mistress, guided b
She woman's eyes, had raised. hersel
and by some dreadeul instinct bora o
eourage, felt herself dra,wn toward in
stead of away from it—so that o
elands and knees she crawled tower
th,e still figure, which dumbly spok
its own eloquent message of eterna
separation from her and all livin
things..
ae hand's-breadth away from it sh
paused, looking down at the tossed
:silky, fair laair satin a wide halo o
blood ---blood that had soaked and well
st.1 and ebbed for many an hou
through the long summer night int
ehe coyerlid at her feet. ,
One arm was doubled beneath' hi
chest just as he had fallen, the oth
er lay stretched out to itS full length
pale palm uppermost — a hand that
would never sew or reap any more
neves help or hurt any one any more
never be filled with those gifts that
the prime of. a man's life well -spent
,ssay reasonably be hoped to brin
fleet:re, the last reoni of all ap-
pearing a stage, with its two in
males eased in a silent ancl terrible
tC''bititcas?
Ocie it, stood the husbend, white,
rigid, his arms folded on his breast,
appaeently as iecapable oe movement
or ef. epeeels, as what was laying at
his f.eet.
R(Kie, the maid, recovered herself
Hest. Pushing her way tarough' the
throng, and eastieg a look of con-
tempt on her master, she stepped over
the dead body ol the man with a shud-
der, then snatched up a silk dressing -
gown that hung over the back of a
thole; \\allele, with a small tabl e and
the couch, completed, the furniture el
the recess, and threw it round the
lonely figure that croimhed on the
bed,
Her mit; less did not move while!.be_
ng twraelied. in it, nor when she fele he eh:livers yes on aer
1 ' feet;
°!?-1e'kut\vlien. Rose tried to raise her, she
aer got up with a quiels, defiant move -
•",,`e,3' went, and sat down with the wide
-folds a• silk, draeing her loyally, look -
that
mg past her husband at the rout be -
Ilea" yond, as Marie Antoinette may have
done at the crowd that surrounded
her tumbril,
e Yet her lips quivered noe for that
v".17 poor dead rean—her heart was hard
as a stone toward him, and she had
neli no thought of the suddenly arrested
• life, or of the eity of it, but because
Yill_g he had let the sin a blood -guiltiness
°\''n, hold. him back from clasping her in
0°V-1 his arms — because he could seer her
h a "there alone, nor move one stepto take
herkis rightful place beside her. t
TM' "Let us bear it together!" was the
and anguished cry of her heart; then the
pain passed and a cold feeling of an-
ger grew in her breast. If she could
forgive him, what quarrel had, he then
with her? In chat moment she de-
spised him — as a 'woman despises a
man who does not rise to the occa-
sion, as she herself has done, ay, and
higher yet, for however magnificent
a woman's pluck may be, a man's
should always Us able to soar above
it.
One of the policemen kneeled clown
and turned that quiet figure at the
foot of 'the bed over, revealing a calm
and handsome face, marred only by
at small hole in the forehead, through
which a bullet had passed, and out of
whicla the life -blood had ebbed quietly
away during tee night.
Barry Ross Oaad been a good-looking
enough fellow in life, but in death his
face took on a ssveetness and majes-
ty that brought tears to the eyes of
many who looked down on him that
day, bitterly resenting the foul injus-
tice that had robbed him of his
birthright --life. Rose, who stood with
her back to the wall, glanced swiftly
from mistress to master, and back
again. Their faces told nothing; in fact,
so unnatural to the onlookers seemed
their stony acceptance of the situa-
tion, without any of that display of
amazement and horror which might
have been naturally expected, that the
conviction gained , ground that both
were "in tlse swim," and knew all
about the night's work, and each oth-
er's share in it.
To Elizabeth St. George it seemed
afterward that she sat for hours in
ell that alcove, facing the mouthing,
m staring multitude; but she could not
ea remember what any one had said, or
lag what anssver she had given to the
r- question put to her, ,for at her heart's
nd tribunal, was standing the man once
e her lover, now her husband, who thus
at openly by his silence and his deser-
d/ tion, accused her.
er All things have an end and at la
ts the moment came when Rose was' fr
er to take her mistress away.
es Gathering her robes around he
g/ Elizabeth rose, and swerving a little
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eleela frierlied les the 0.01tcete. merle
Which the reeeee woe hirters,
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sari._ A rit'liall rOn WOOL As WELL ' '`..1he Iligheet l.tutlioritlee admit tha
the present laws tieeins1 the sale et bet -
ate,. ae AS sisurross—Velesier SaitEEP
-sii, s,i.: , rnElog.a. ' ter substitutee cannot ).)o enfOl'COd, Sa'S
(Mild $":"t'l'O'1°•i"toi(4>'0,-I4-1-0-:-*.:...,1:* L. A. S' ' '
,sete Ill\'en the great Dairy union of Ohio,
loclswell in the Indiana reveller
i tee It is an old but true adege that too represcuting mil/Ione 0 done's, is im-
ielcl- many eoolcs spoil the breth„ says a
writer in 'The Sheep Breeder. One
good thing is worth 'several other
shines not se' ebed. r„E'lle eheepnien
Pc had kneeled down to kiss her p
11 hair, and bless her with ;Lillis h
and then --he seemea to see
lying there, the house. eushed in
once, and preseuLly the steelthy s
of, a man's stem on the elate. He
the outer door open, seemed to fee
pauee before the folding -doors, y
est to maluticht intruder's touch—
saw 13arry Ross staliclineo there on the
tines %se -14°31(01h leseestufnriol Yin 1 the()°lt snfeonnoet hohnisliks
or to the renegade against' his fr
and. the brute in intesstioa, he "e.
1 0 God what more did he see a
turned away his eyes. shudder
Prese,ntly he came nearer to the
nose tossed attcl disordered., that
been so setooth when Elizabeth as
1 that motning. He stooped oyer
what lausines,s had he with it. and
dal his Mend steal to his breast a
arose again., starting violently at s
o e man who at that moment c
terough. the foldhag-door with ss
silent tread, and eyes that said, "
are mine—you have done murder,
I am here to tproveeie." '
Jack's calm had brolaen att lasst
lend/ aro just neW overwhelmed with advice,
sem( times good, bet. geherally bad to
ings ha •
? try too umny crepe. Sorghum is sea-
bed, ommended for one Thum erieu grass
hg'd for another, Awnless broom grass and
vi°1;k2 eeeeeta ethers ef which it is very safe
why to say ilia writess of the aavice have
s he litel no eeperience; so between these
ight various stools the unwary shepberd
ame emates to the grouted, and his flock may
vift, eome to grief. Now, all experience and
You
and preseut knowledge combine to prove
that of all crops grown rapes is by far
and the very best in every respect. Sheep
, or from all other animals ie. the
sieve fact that their woolly coat, weighing
the [Pow 5 to 10 or even 15 per cent of
his their other solid matter, contains a
den large ansount of sulphur, or 4 per cent
and on the average --that its, a fleece of 0
well bred Rambouillet ram may have
iful one full pound of sulphur in it, or balf.
ent 1120120, in some of the heavier fleeces of
de -
this breed.
se_ Of course every one realizes the fact
he, that whatever is in the fleece is de-
uived from the food, for there is no
an other way possible. Then what will
happen if the food does not contain
sr- this indispeusable sulphur? What
red would happen, let us think, if the tai -
he lor had everything to make clothes
With theead, or the mason were
without sand or water to make his
mortar, or the carpenter had no nails
to put the house together? Simply
nothing could be done for want of the
necessary material. So with the sheep's
fleece. There could be no wool; the
animal would be simply bald or cover-
ed with very short, scant hair if there
with a vengeance. HO Sat down
Pc must ha ye fallen from, execs
agitation, and if ever a man wore.
livery of gilt, he wore it ellen.
Tee quiet, keen -eyed man laid
hand on Jack's trembling one, hid
in the breast, pocket oe bis coat,
drew. it out, will twhatoit held. 1
It was a toy pistol of beaut
make and enality and looked Irmo°
as a child's playeleing, lying in the
tective's hand.
The shiver in Jack's limbs had pa
ed, he looked afraid of not/sine as
said: f.
"1 don't deny i it. I shot the m
with that. iNow do ybur duty."
Mr. Skewton' s eyes narrovved.
He felt that he woueel have che
fully paid a good deal to have ente
the room three seconds sooner than
had done.
"Is this pistol yours?" be asked.
"See for yourself." said Jack, a
r. Skewton looked and found a name
and date inscribed on the barrel of
the pistol. and the name was Jack St.
, Mystery of No. 13
George and the date over a year old.
"The sooner you take me' away the
better " said Jack curtly and turned
on his heel and went into the outer
roorn.
Mr. Skewton. left alone. shook his
head'. There was a good deal more in
this business than met the eve. He
had naturatly only an imperfect know-
ledge of the circumstances of the case,
and the account of flie enterprising
constalble who had sent for him, had
pointed to a woman in the case. whose
absence from the scene puzzled him.
He followed Jack "easio the other
room where he stood looking; out on
the balcony with the sweet breath of
stocks and mignonette in his nostrils,
so that ever after the sight of those
sick els- flowers turned him faint and
"There is a lady- in the case ?" said
Mr. Skewton.
My wife," said Jack. briefly.
Mr. Skesvton pau.sed. and 'before th
pause had grown wearying, jack fill
ed icf up.
"My wife sometimes sleeps down
stairs," he said. his face calni and
resolute, "the weal -her has been
very hot lately, and she was brought
up in the countr:e, and feels the poo
accommodation upstairs very much.'
"Why poor ?" said Mr: Skewto
eking round. "these rooms are a ver
ir size. I imagine those above ar
le same."
The rooms above ere not ours,',
Id Jack abruptly, "They belong', t
r. Barry Ross—who is dead."
"He was your lodger ?" said Shew
n.
"My lodger," said Jack, proudly
yhy not ?"
Probably no man ever looked less
ke a lodging -house keeper than Jack
. George did then. but then nobody
rely west:Lever so little like a traitor
d a hound as Barry Ross, and
t--
BABEEL PEED RACE,,
were no sulphur' in the feed. This
is a fact we are to think of when pre -
t paring feed for our flocks. and when
we find that rape largely excels all
other plants mentioned above in the
quantity of sulphur in it aud equally
excels in its quantity of Potash (and
r the yolk of wool, which, we know, is
/ indispensable to the good condition and
re quality of the 'fleece, has about 90 per
y eent of potash in its ash) we may be
e very sure that rape must be tbe very
best of all feeds for sheep during the
season in which it may be grown in
the best manner.
Rape is a leafy, thin, taprooted plant,
while its very close relative, the tur-
nip, is bulb rooted. This is the , only
difference between these two plants.
They have both the same habit of
growth, needing two years to complete
It; the same shaped seed pod, and the
very same kind of seed. So that where
and how one can be grown, there and
so the other may, and both are of very
easy, growth, needing, as every good
crop does, good soil and good culture
and then paying a very satisfactory
_ profit. .
, But the sheep. May we not very ju-
. diciously ask what their opinion of it
is? This they are not slow in express-
ing:.by their intense satisfaction and
enjoyment of it wben turned on to it.
Indeed care is to be exercised at first,
as they would kill themselves by over-
eating it. So it is necessary to turn
the fdock on to the rape 'uuder these
safe conditions: First, when it is dry;
second, when the eheep or lambs have
them bellies well ,filled with grass or
other feed:, third, only for a few min -
ere • t first 1 h y .3 clay grad-
ually using them to ,it until in, time
they are in no danger of gorging them-
selees. The wise shepherd will he ex-
tremely careful of this, for when the
sheep is overfilled with rape 11 le in im-
minent danger of early death from the,
severe bloating due to it.
There need be no hesitation in dis-
carding all the other crops mentioned
and confining the flock for its late sum-
mer feeding wholly to this. Indeed the
next early stammer grow,th may be pas-
tured until the land is ready for plow-
ing for other CrODS.
one side lest they should step on the! sa
body, and., the crowd dividing for AI
them, the two women passed through
the rooms, and up the staircase, and to
out of sight.
CHAPTER II.
" Whaur shall I gae, whaur shall I li
St
su
an
ye
run,
Yi Whaur shall I gae to lay me? .
fs For I has killed a gallant squire,
1
1 And his friends they seek to slay
- me."
'all It was Rose who locked her mistress
' into her bedroom, who got the house
7' cleared of its uninvited guests, the
body of poor Barry laid upon the bed
6 that had not ,been slept in, that night
and who, then, leaving her master still in
t stupefied and alone in the place where Is
he had stood throughout, returned to
her mistress, and shut herself in with in
her. We
r renftly he] had not moved yet, it!!
° when Mr. Skewton who lad been tele "
graphed for from Scotland Yard, ar-
"H'm," said Mr. Skewton, stroking
his chin, "and e friend ?"
" So I thought him till last night.
Listen. He loved my wife, though she
did not know it, and before God I swear
never suspected him of the treach
y in hin heart. My wife went to bed
that rece,ss you saw, about eleven
at up reading for an hour, then went
to see that she was all safe, and
nt back. I had turned out the gas,
d was about to cross the outer room
go up stairs, when the, door corn-
nicating with the staircase open -
am awns one came in quickly, and
nt through the folding -doors. He
nt straight to the recess --in the dim
ht I saw him and—in a second—in
lightning monaent of fury -1 shot
ap, he turned to face me, and he
down dead across the foot of the
rived, and found him there, aged and
- lined in the space of one hour,, to such
a HI:knees as his own mother would ligI
Parc found it hard to recognize.
ono
y as night- that Eliza fen
beth had said to him, "It is so dos un
and hot up stairs, Jack, that Res bed
thinks had better sleep down stair
to -night, do you mead?" a.nd then she: thi
had rung for her maid, and Rose had le
made up the Chesterfield couch in "
the recess off the second drawing
room, and she had said in joke how
easy it would be for any one to come
in and murder her, walking over the
leads of the great library built out
at the back.
He hadproposed tim.t he should come
down, too, hut this she would not al-
InSwh.a., knees. it was all fancy' dieliking
her room at the top of the house so
much, but he should not hel allowed to
suffer for it, and then she had gone
gayly up stairs to undress, coming
dowe presently in her dressing -gown,
and with Rose in attendance, who
placsed on a table beside her bed, the
night-cap Mrs. St. George usually
took the last thing at neght, Jack al-
', ys au.'g e at her for taking it—
but take it she slid, with 'the utmost
re.,geilarity. It consisted of a tea-
spoonful Of Jamaica, ginge,r in hot
water, with sugar, and on that par-
ticular evening there was barely
enough for her usual dose in the bot -
and she told Rose to be sure and
get some neer° next day, "When the
girl had t iza e
done sonse dancing stepe in her flow -
g robe before a long glass, had
frolicked around generally, cut smile
jokes, reviewed the events of the day,
and finally, after kissing Jack, had
drunk her nightcap and retired to
bed.
"I shall come down in the night and
see how you are" the had said, as he
tuclsed her to and then she had asked
hilm to leave the windows (men in the
second room, and the rOotn' beyond,
and to clog° the folding -doors between.
This he heel clime. returning to his
books, but going in again' to look at
Steve were coming, people were cone-
ing, with a thundering, rushing sound,
all hastening madly to that horror
in the honse, that smell of blood in
the air that we call "sasurder. and
that we stand agape to look' on, even
while our flesh recoils at it.
The master of the house came first
(511 (hat terrified wave of struggling
eamanity—came in to see the naur-
dered -man eying there, and his -wife
on her knees beside hina—aeross the
limey their eyes met, and oh! what a,
look was t here!
The gla,tice of horror, wonder, and
7.0(1. with which she had first gazed
aown at the murdered man, had been
swiftly followed by one of dawning
zotripreleeneion, changing into one of
passionate loathing and r.onte.mpe.
This, too, was gone, when her Inesband
came, and their eyes leaped togeth-
er,
"He thought me guilty, and he kill-
ed that hound—and he, (lid well," she
thought, svith a wild sense of exul-
tation that brought a strange light
tO her (eyes, anda heave to her breast,
and in that moment he saw her not
11) the Elizabeth he knew, but—
,IireatlaleSe they gazed, in one light-
snonsene engraving en. each soul
ihe likeness of it's fellow's guilt then,
without a Emend, the woman shrank
aesvn, hiding hdr face and shudder -
leg, away Leona him, and, from life,
Alone, as it were, with lerself and
1•,he dead.,
Up they came, those people, surg-
Reg 'up frOm without, who had' see the
honse-door wide? bearing the officers
of the law with them istte the dainty
drawing-reora, and through the fold-
ing -doors, that would hardly open far
enough to admit them,/ pausing int the
aecond room as in the auditorium of
And emir wife slept through all
?'" said Mr. Skewton, incredulous-
•
I' D011' t -you kncisv ?" said Jack In
- ourpriae. "She is deaf."'
A tragedy, indeed," said Mr. Skew-
, dryly; but one would think even
a deaf peasson would be wakened by a
pistol shot within a yard of he.r."
"But she did not stir," said Jack,
calmly, his alwae-s resolute jaw and
mouth more resolute than ever.
"And a.fter ?"' said Mr. Skewton.
"1 went up stairs," Said Jack.
"And then ?"
For a naoment Jack looked like one
suddenly checked at fault.
'If
hat does tee way in which r spent
the later part of the night matter to
1 bYoued.,7,1, said geee, sharply, "1 went to
I lo bed 1 Leavittg that body as a
p easant surprise to your wife when
she 'woke! Irm—and you shot an un-
armed man. Had you a grudge against
her ?" he asked, suddenly.
Jack made no reply.
"Where is she ?" said Mr. Skew -
ton.
' `Upstairs."
"You had had a conversation to-
gether since thie--occurrence I"
o one syllable."
H'ne" ktved Mr. Skewten, "then she
does not know who did it ?"
keen-
ly, "that you might. have had a
fir yes.1/
" Yes,— he knows." .
" She kcw," said Mr: Skewton, keen-
mo-
tive for illing this,young Man?"
ot
Tie sai it defiantly, and as if he
had put s, ame for her miles away from
himself. t
Mr. Slrewton went Out BOftlq., called
a eabordPiate tvhorn he left outside
the drawang-rotnn door, and ascended
to the slit° of rooms above.
l' To be Continued.
t
Early nrentring.
The Arabs gee strong advocates of
early breaking. The Tenth' Abd el Kilda.
says that during his long career, in his
tribes, his friends, or among his fol-
lowers, he has seen epward of 10000
colts reared, and be affirms that all
those wiles@ education was not begun
at a very °may ago never turee.d
out other than stubborn, troublesome
bosses, unfit for war. He adds that
when he bad made long, Vapid luerches
at the head of 1,220 Or 1,500 liorscanen
horses, however lean, 11 early broken
ID to fatigue, never fell out of' the
ranks to the rear. His cOnviction that
early breaking' and sehooling were es-
seetial was based on such long expe-
rience that he refneed peine wanks
when buying a nuinber of horses, to
thee any teat heti been broken at a
comparatively advenced age. Arab
Colts Dro taken in hand when about
18 or 20 months old and ridden at first
only by children, whereby "the child
grows up a horsensan and the colt ac-
quires the habit of carrying a weight."
potent. Is it possible that a class as
intelligent as tee dairymen in this
country cannot, see the one thing need -
MR. SUCCES$013.
The New Arista:it:Lint Secretary of the
Navy Waseengton. esesvesee.
Mr. Frank W. Hie.ikett, the new assist-
ant secretary of the navy, who succeeds
Charles H. .Allem now civil governor of
korto Rico, is the third aesistant to Sec-
retary Long under the present adminis-
tration. The first to occupy the post
was Theodore ,Rooeevelt, who resigned
to oeganiee the rough riders. Mr.
for •ed''' The e t is the first of Secretary Long s as-
sistants, howeves, to have any praetical
full to Lia -Ye (ho
laws (in , knowledge of the navy. lie io an lute
d)etillera a mere handifin mate friend of Secretary Lon- and his
compaelson with the butter makers,
know how to get laws for their protec-
tion passed aud enforced. ret a man.
put up a little "still" In the mountains
of Kenueeky, Teenessee Or North Caro-
lina, see how quickly and with certain-
ty the officers of Uncle Sam will hunt
him down and destroy his property.
No teouele to get the United States dis-
trict attorney to prosecute him. No,
sir! He is tried, convicted aud railroad-
ed to tee penitentiary in short order.
Now, wey this diUerence? Why can
whisky men get such prompt and thor-
ough protection to their business while
the butter Maker can get no protection
at all? Is it because whisky Is more
valuable and more necessary to the
well being and cOmfort and happiness
of the people than good honest butter? .
No. It ie because the whisky men are
thoroughly organized and ready and
determined to down with their votes .
any Set of Men that don't carry 'out
their demands. No petition for them.
They delft petition; they demaud.
Sometimes they get signatures to a
proper setting forth of what they want
and hand or seed it to the proper pub-
lic officials. When the official receives
the'document, he knows exactly what
It mean's, for it tells him between the
lines that if he don't go "right" he
builds his political sarcophagus wide
and deep, and—well, he does "right"
.every time. There is no politics or sen-
timent in whisky. Let any party enact
laws inimical to it, and the makers and
dealers go over to the opposition in a
body. The politicians know this; hence
they get such laws as they want and
get thena enforced. Is there any such
appointineet was at the request of. the
latter.
The new assistant secretary was born
in 1841. He WitS graduated from Har-
vard university in 1861 and is a yiee
president of the Harvard associ-
ation. Ile 'has a good war record, hay -
FRANII W. 1lACIIBTT.
Ing entered the navy in 1862 as an act-
ing assistant paymaster and serving creds
itably in the civil war until 1864, when
he resigned to engage. in the study and
.practice of law in Boston,
cohesion arnon,glarmers or dairymen? Most of his naval service was on the
north Atlantic station where inost of the
Something About Butter Making.
When I was a boy, nearly every o
guessed at everything, says W. I
Camp in The Prairie Farmer. The
guessed at the temperature, for Iles
weee no therniernetees in that part o
the,country. They guessed at the Cm
of night and day, for no one had
clock or watch. When I was ver
young, I worked by the month for well
to do farmers and had a great deal of
churning to do, Sometimes the butter
would come in a few minutes and be
yellow and nice. Again I would churn
an hour, the housewife in the mean-
time adding cold or hot water as she
judged necessary. I remember of think-
ing that there ought to be some way of
knowing how to make butter so it
would always come in about the same
length of time and always look the
same instead of coming white and soft
one time and the next time perhaps
hard and yellow. There was a erea
deal of good butter made at that time,
but it was considered the result of good
luck. A good many of the farmers
make butter in just this way at the
present time. Later in my life it be-
came necessary for me to again do the
butter making. At this time I sent
somewhere in the east for dairy infor-
mation. In a short time I received
some papers full of valuable instruc-
tions. I was told the value of a ther-
mometer, how to feed and care for my
cows, how to milk, how and where to
set the milk, when to skim and the im-
portance of stirring; the cream when
new cream was added. I learned what
ripening meant and the importance'of
doing it right, how to churn and when
to stop, how to salt and work the but-
ter. It is inexcusable for butter makers
not to know all these things at the
present time. I made $55 worth of but-
ter that winter and sold it for 5 cents a
sea fighting was done. Hs' was with
tie Lieutenant Commander Flusher when
e the latter was killed on the Miami in
.„ the engagement with the ram Albemarle
".• at Plymouth, N. C.
'e When Caleb Cushing was senior come
f se] to the Geneva tribunal in 1872, Mr.
O Hackett served as his private secretary
a until ill health compelled him to relin-
y quish that office and return to the United
States. Although he has always main-
tained his legal residence at Newcastle,
N. EL, where he has a house, he has
spent the greater part of the last quar-
ter of a century in Washington, engaged
in the practice of his profession before
the courts and the departments. In 1877
he represented Portsmouth in the New
Hampshire legislature.
He is a man of high literary and legal
ability and is the author of several
works. Although his experience in the
navy has been somewhat limited, he has
always shown great interest in that arm
of the service and is probably as well in-
formed in regard to its condition and
needs as any other civilian in the coun-
ound more than others were getting.
Balanced Ratioijs For Milk Produc-
tion.
Most farmers now understand the
necessity of giving rnilk producing
food to the nailk cow if she is to keep
up her production, but many do not
pay any attention to the food given to
ewes and cowS when they are suckling
young, and they go to one of the two
extremes, as may have been their pre-
vious habit of feeding or as may be
the food they have or can buy at the
„lowest price. The result is that while
one man will have the mothers grow-
ing fat while the lambs and pigs are
not growing at all becausathey do not
Parc milk enough another will have
them looking plump and round at the
expense of the clam who turns all her
food into milk. There is as much need
of a balanced ratiott for them that will
cause a good milk production and at
the same time keep up a fair amount
of flesh and strength as there is for the
milk cows.
Milk From Farrow Cown
The milk of cows that have long
passed the season of greatest produc-
tion, which is soon after farrowing, iS
much richer in better Vats than that
which the same cows give eeou after
droppleg their calves, says The Ameri-
can Cultivator. If they had not bean
bred, the milk also usually contains
'more of the albuminoids DISO. For this
reason it is harder to digest, and, as
cows' milk is at boot unsuited to the
SeOlDacli of a youess infant, that from
bow milk COWS, where procurable, is al-
ways to be preferred, The milk of the
cow is too rieb in fats, causing the in
-
rant to throw, it up soon after taking a
quantity. It may be improved by di-
luting It with Warm water triode quite
sweet with wive Sugar. Even farrow
cows' milk tluis prepared may be used
with safety if the infant is obliged to
suck It through a tube, through which
It can only get a small amount A ee4nle a clergyman, ....1,0nden Times.
try. Having practiced law in Washing-
ton
' on for 25 years, he is vvell known there.
He is a prominent member of the Loyal
Legion, the Sons of the American Revolu
tion and other patriotic societies.
THE COTTON QUEEN.
pir,...........-.........-......-8-•-•13 Even in dem-
, Is one of the Finest tano, for to.
i
I i queens. Mon-
ocratic Amer -
Her Plautation ica there are
1 . stance, has a
i In Alabama. i cattle queen.
1................................., There is also a
Is' horso queen. In
Texas there is a ranch queen. Alabama
is not behind in the procession. The
state has a pseudo royal personage in
Mrs. Leila Seton Wilder, who is known
all through the south as the cotton queen.
Mrs. Wilder has one of the largest cot-
ton plantations in Alabama and probably
one of the best. It consists of 700 acrea
LEILA SETON WILDER.
bordering the banks of the Tennessee.
It is a model cotton plantation too. Her
crops are las d
eared for in the mosi systematic ma
nner
and marketed with rare skill and judg-
ment.
The best and most modern, machineey
and plantation equipment are to be found
on Mrs. Wilder'F3 farm, and het. methods
are eagerly studied by the planters of
the state who are anxious to duplicate
lies success.
A Breach of Promise.
Swift before he took orders made love
to a young lady and promised that he
"would marry lier tvlien he became a
clergyman."
When he was established le P10firmt
living, the fair one presented herself and
reminded him of his promise.
"Certainly. I shall be delighted," re-
plied Swift. "Have you brought the
roan?"
"What man?" asked the lady.
"Why, your husband that is to be."
"But," sobbed the poor girl "I thought
you promised to marry me yourself."
"No, my dear," said Swift. "I never
said that. I meant that I would be pleas-
ed to perform the ceremony tor you when
time
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