HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-8-30, Page 2Astonishment at the. new turn things
had taken was now growing apaee,
but Mr. Skewtort's appearance on the
scene heralded a volte face that speed-
ily caused the readjustment of a good
manY newly acquired ideas, and blew
the theory expounded by Mr. Lemaire
irito thin air.
Skewton described bow he had
proceeded etraight to the l'0001 where
Mr. Ross had been shot the body
hav-
iog already been removed to his own
0115 mber.
He deposed to the prisoner's exces-
sive agitation, to the Ostia.", which he
was concealing in his breast-pooket,
and which he, :Mr. Skewton, took from
him ; to his voluntary confession of
the murder, how it happened, and in
fact all save the motive that evident-
ly Prompted it.
He further related how in Mr. Bose's
room, partly disordered, as if in the
apt of undressing he had suddenly
gone done stairs, he had found an en-
velope oia the toilet -table addreleed
to that gentleman ; how be hall teken
Et down to the prisoner, who recogniz-
ed it am his wife's handwriting; of
what a terrible effect was produeed
upon himby the sight of it. and of
how valuable a link in the cnain of
evidence he considered that scrap of
writing .supplied.
Being brought to book for this last
remark, Me. Skewton imperturably
went on to relate how he went up to
1\TI'S. St. George's room, where he found
her locked in with her maid; hew pre-
sently she opened the door to him,
and presently accused herself of hav-
ing killed Mr. Ross. how, by an Incau-
tious gesture he 'had indicated the
pistol iai his pocket; how she had
+snatched it from him, and declared
that with it she had cotnnaitted the
crime; how he had treated her words
as idle ravings, now Mr. St. George
her conae up and forbidden her to so
Perjure herself; and how she had
begged him, her husband, to speak to
her before he went down, and how her
husband had refused.
Jack's face was white and drawn as
he listened. Had she not kneeled to
him, his good, his pure, little Elizabeth,
and had he not spurned her as though
she were the vilest of God's creatures?
Could she forgive hi,m ? Was her sil-
ence indeed the silence of outraged
love that had turned to hate?
Mr. Skewton went on to say that
the most diligent enquiry had failed
to discover any trace of any person
or burglar entering, the house on that
night. True, there was the skylight,
but the cobbler who lived in the house
was above suspicion, or rather, phesi-
cally incapacitated from attempting
burglary, and he was ,the only person
-who had slept in the place that night.
His assistant slept out, and it had
been positively proved that he did
sleep at his lodgings that niglat, as
he, Mr. Skewtoon, had naade it his
business to find out. He had gone
straight there after work, gone to bed
early, had breakfasted there next
morning, and only got the news of the
murder when he returned to work. His
name was Janin Pierrot.,
With regard to the tumbler, which
undoubtedly contained a seditnent of
chloral, he had rernoved it without be-
ing perfectly sure of whoa it had con-
tained, but it smelt odd, and at that
time he had hi,s own theory about the
murder.
Mr. Skewton's evidence produced a
profound impression. How -ever much
Lhe hill erred in bis zeal and officious-
ly assisted Jack along his road to the
gallows, thereby earning for himself
the " hammering" of the judge, he had
spoken to facts, and proved them, too;
while as yet Mr. Lemaire had noth-
ing substantial with which to support
his theory. Nevertheless, he was in his
best form when he jumped up, and
.said:
"You suspected the French maid
from the beginning ?"
"I thought she had a hand in the
destruction of the missing letter."
" You think so still?" '
0 NO,"
apprentice kept, and mariU Otherdee
tails, thal made that young titan ape.
pear an iudusteious etX1d. 101rinless
creature, who would not hurt 5 r1Y,
and. 1V1.10, by no nierme.r of means uould
have obtained entrance to 'the eob-
bier's howee, tenienetvii by the cobble'',
that night.
But just as ,he cross old man was
congratulating himself; on hie ordeal
being over, elm Lemaire mac, and
pounced upon him, like a epiaer on a
fly,
"How long has janin Plerrot been
With you?"
"1 don't rightly remember. It
might be a naonth—or iWo—or six."
"Take care, sir. iIow Many, months
has he been WiLII you?" "
"Three,"
"You wented an aeeietant, and he
came to you to offer himself?"
"Ay, he did."
"hew Game he to know you wanted
an assistant?"
"How do 1 knowi le'r'ape you told
"And you took: laim without recora-
meneetione?"
"P'r'aps I did, and p'eaps 1 ditint."
You took him )vithout rec,onunenda..
ethos?"
",Since you're so pressing, 1 did."
"He was a good workman ?"
"Geod enough for me."
"Did ti iorenehwoman call to see
hinae"
"1 den' I, 01100U 151)5 no petticoata
about the place.
1 'm a bactieldore, I am, thank the
Lc)"1ciS.la.'e' did call?"
-"One called yeslerday."
"Nleas that her -irst, visit?"
.1Vonien be suce tiggers nowadays,
and dress so much adku—how can 1
tell?"
Mr. Lemaire pressed the point—to his
sorrow.
"1 bali 'ee," said Job, getting, angry,
"1 never saw the woman—nor did
Piorror for ehe matter of that —
till
about a fortnight ago, when she same
in in a hurry to get a shoe easel for
a little child she had with her. And
she never said a word, to he, nor he to
she."
Mr. Lemaire ,sevallowed his chagrin
bravely_
"You knew ehe " was maid to Mrs„
St. George?"
"You knew her name?"
"No. Neighbors told me afterward
she came Irene No. 13, but her money
was as good as any one else's so I
wasn't going to turn it away."
"At what time did Pierrot leave off
work?"
"Six o'clock."
"He left at that time the night of
tha murder?"
did."
"You remained in the house all the
evening?" "
eyeh.i•
"You never once left the house?"
Job Trubshoes hesitated scowlin
and mumbling his grizzly jaws.
".P'r'aps I did. For a matter of
five minutes. To buy nay supper
beer."
"You left your cloor unlocked.?"
"Yes."
"Any one might have got' in during
your .absence?"
"Who wanted to gee in?" snarled the
old man, "I'd got nothing to steal."
"it was dark when you went out?"
"Cates twilight," ,
,.."Did you visit the aetic that night?"
"No; it's a lunaber-room.. What
should I want there at night?"
Mr. Lemaire nodded his head several
times.
"What time did Janin come next
morning?" "
Eight o clock.
"Did he look as usual?"
"A man don't change his face with
Ills coat. I took no particular notice
on him."
"Some inquiries were made att your
house that day?"
"Yes, a passel of fools who turned
e p ace upside down, and me and
Janin inside out. But, they didn't `get
much change out of either on es." •
' "He has come regularly to work ever
since?"
"Never missed a day."
"Seems cheerful?"
"Shoemaking don't want cheerful-
ness, it wants skill, Janin istuck t
" What do you think?". ' his work, and didn't trouble about
" That Mrs. St. George obtainedpOs- ,women, and murders, and such -like h,
session of it., a.nd destroyed it her_ etutf. pirl" added the old wretch I
with a rin ' h
she wee, to let her lover know velum
KU, St, George WaS Pleoping down-
4ildIrs) alone end unprotected, with
the eapplairee <nose at hand; and, in
ethert, everyehing fell out precisely as
alae had hoped and intended—wide elle
exception---tlie unexpeeted eonlingellee
of Me. Ross's return. Mi. St. Georg()
duly drenk her draught, and went to
bed and to sleep; a notoriously had
sleeper elle slept right away from ele-
ven o'cloek that night uneil eight ou
clock the next morning! Mr. St.George
111 dee couree went upstaire and also
retired to rest, not, as that woman
with the toothache had sworn, after
Mr. Rose came in, but before.
" The coast was now cleee, ell wee
Prepared eor the thief, Janin Piereot,
ane at the given ti.1110 he stole safely
and eecretly into the hertse. into the
house, yes, but meanwhile, seine one
who had net been taken into the wo-
man's reettouing came in with his
latchkey, arid in the act of undressing,
hearing movements below for which
he could not account, lent'ehably the
loise made by the men's getting
through the wiodow, deseencled quick-
ly, and found himself face to face
witb an intruder, )vlio, having come
for plunder, was betrayed by person-
al jeopardy aud fear of consequences
into murder. Mr. Ross always carried
firearms; in this instance he tarried
a pistol belonging to Mr, St. George
anti it was natural enough that he
.should present the weapon he had with
him at the man lie found there under
such desperate circumstances at such
an hour of the night.
" That -mart," went on Mr, Lemair
stilt with his eyes fixed on Rose's hoe
ed figure, Janin Pieerot, Rose DI
Font's lover, alias the cobbler's assis
ant, snatched the pistol. from :el
Ross's hand, shot him dead with it, lai
Linn alt the very feet of the clrugge
e,
t -
r.
and innocent woman who had been
•betrayed by the maid, she had bene-
fitted tend trusted, anti too terrine
to pause and secuee the booty fo
11
which he bad come, made his escape
"If the evonaan up stairs stole clow
in the night, and saw the hideous wor
her greed had wrought, ,she has prov
ed herself of sufficient resource an
resolution to go up again, and remai
quietly there till the morning, Nvhe
the discovery of the night's event
would come almu't naturally and n
suspicion attach to herself.
" So indeed, things fell out, and w
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BACTERIAIN MILK
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MOW TIMMY Ann DEIVEL0een1e "
ereetliwnnAeruttE AND •
statitotneDINGs.
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•
Bacteria are minute plaute, frequent,
Ly not more than 0111) twenty-nve-thou-
sandth of an inch in diameter and per-
veding, air, water and soil everywhere
says Professor W. H. Conn In 'The
American ,Agriculturist, They multi-
ply so rapidly that a single individual
neay produce 17,000,000 offspring in
24 hours. Their importance to agri-
cult-awe Consists in their power of
brealeing up various conipounds and
alsosecreting from their bodies cer-
tain chemical products.
The Mods of bacteria which occiir
most, commonly in milk may be called
dairy bactevia. They are so common
that they cannot be excluded from the
CONVENIENT COW STALL,
milk by any practicable means, but
their numbers'may be reduced. There
are many uncommon kinds which
when present cause great mischief, but
these may be excluded altogether by
care and cleanliness.
n So far as concerns the milkman, bac-
• teria are an unmitigated nuisance, be-
ing the cause of souring and other ma-
° desirable changes in the product. The
e common dairy bacteria as they grow
may be sure that when her poor mis
tress woke out of the drugged sleep
d which gives a sour taste and finally
- causes the milk to` curdle. This change
d
: cannot be prevented but t may be
_ , i
to find a murdered may only a yar
or two away, the maid shrieked loud
er than the mistress and manifeste
ten times as muoh surprise and ler
produce a' chemical change in milk
, sugar and ebuvert it into lactic acid,
"And here," Mr. Lomeli.° turned an
looked at Jack, "came in, apart fron
postponed by reducing the number of
• bacteria. The first means of reduction
1 is by cleanliness, carefully .washing
that poor young man's death, the mos
tragic, the most unfortunate featur
of the whole case, and the one that s
completely played into Rose Dupont'
hands as left her mistress of th
game. In the first -shock of the dis
covery husband and wife mutually sus
pected each other of the crime, th
husband thinking the wife had kill
ed his friend in defence of her honor,
the wife believing that Mr. Ross had
stolen into her room while she wa
asleep, 'been discovered there by he
husband, and that in a fit of fug th
latter had killed hls friend, believing
in her guilt, and left the dead man
there to tell his own talo.”
Mr. Lemaire removed his eyes from
Rose, to glance at Jack, and thrilled
with satisfaction at the euceess of hi
bold guess, while the eyes of,all pm
sent, following his, found in Jack's
face a living corroboration of his coun
sens worde.
Have you ever stood still to watch
the mists chased from the hillside by
theemorning sun? '
Was it indeed he who had unhesit-
atingly accepted Elizabeth's guilt, who
afterward, when he had assailed lik
of unfaithfulness, had even been thril-
led by an exultant thought through
all his anguish' that she had loved him
enough to become a criminal in the
defence of her honor?
01 Heavens why had he not 'taken
her in his arms and heard her story ?
Why haddhe, who best knew her good-
ness, lapsed to such a fatal conclusion
and clung grimly to it like One whom
the gods wishing to destroy had de-
prived of wisdom?
Soddenly he threw out hie hungry
ands as if he would seize (her; and
hose who looked at him thought he
ad been long mad, but was now sane.
nd many thought of Elizabeth re-
abilleated, if all Mr. Lemaire eaid"
vere true.
eVilere they pleased, amazed? Searce-
y. The usual experience is, that
hen people have maile up their minds
hat sueh a thing is they mostly feel
isappointed and ill-used to find tbat
the flagitious thing is not, arid that
their pity or blame, usually the lat-
ter, has been wasted.
"Gentlemen," went on Mr. Lemaire
imptessively, "there could eutely be
no more piteous and moving situation.
on earth than that of these two per-
-
eons, nebly wrong, and superhumanly
oolish, who instead of opening their
earts to each other, and ironaediately
iscovering their guiltlessness fell
ato the error of believing each other
uili,y, and in their great love, strove
acer to suffer for the wrong thee.,
alloyed his fellaweepeebeeereee-hereeneee!
(00,16)4::.,5; If ifice shine out
. Se -sacr
an almost Divine light beside
he foul tre.ariher3 of yonder woman,
ho was deliberately betraying" the
ersons whose breed she ate?
t the milk vessels, and more attention to
O the clean condition of the cow. The
• second means is by regulation of tem -
e perature. When freshly drawn, tnilk
_ is about 100 degrees, a temperature
favorable to rapid growth of dairy bac-
. . .
e tela. Cooling the milk immediately
- checks their growth greatly.
It is necessary, however, to empha-
size the need of immediate cooling
s'
✓ Half an hour or an hour after milking
e the cooling will be of very much less
value than if done at 'once. During
this half hour the bacteria have al-
ready become very numerous. It some-
times laappens that night's milk keeps
8 better than that of the next morning
- because the night's milk was cooled at
once, while sometimes the morning's
-, milk is put into the cans at once and
taken into the city without cooling.
The two chief agencies to prevent sour-
ing, tnen, are cleanlinees and low tem-
perature. The same means will pre-
vent all the other bacterial growth
which causes slimy milk, tainted milk
1 and other peculiar conditions.
Milk from a healthy cow contains no
bacteria, but by. the tinae it has reach-
ed the milk pail it is already contami-
nated to a surprising extent, 'contain::
ing from a few thousand to' 150,000
germs to the cubic inch, sometimes
more. These are obtained chiefly from
four sources --the alr, the milker and
his clothing, the milk pail, the cow.
They are always floating in the air,
especiallY if hay is fed during milking-.
They are likely to be on the hands of
the milker to some extent, and his
efethee are teeming with them. die
pails not completely clean contain a
large number, but the greatest source
of milk bacteria is the cow., The germs
get into the teats through the milk
ducth'and between one milking and the
next multiply rapidly. The first milk
taken from the gland washes these
bacteria into the milk pail.
,C1L,
" And your impression was that
the maid had doctored the draught ?"
"At first—yes."
" in order to put- her mistress into
a sound sleep while the sapphires were
stolen?"
"You did not believe Mr. St.George
when he accused- himself of the mur-
der?"
"I might not have done withoutethe
confirmatory evidence of the pis-
tol.'
" You say you saw he was hiding
it in his breast, May he not have pick-
ed it up from where it had been flung
by some other person ?"
" It is possible. .But, his demeanor
was that of a guilty person."
"Which you took care to intensify.
Does it not strike ,you tleat you went
considera,bly beyond your duty in try-
ing to get him to incriminate him-
self ?"
Mr. Slaiwton was ,
"Even after this convincing evi-
dence of the prisoner's guilt, you held
to your theory that a burglar had
something to do with the business ?"
"Yes, But after working continuous-
ly at the case I was reluctantly oblig-
ed to dismiss the idea, there was eteec-
lutely no, evidence to enee2.ceireee'ehe
"You lid notegee.
1 rcertain that the
cr',22-et'''‘;'1..heass,:khent- was Rose Dupont's
rc,eeeeeeeirkeeeee."'"'"1.-over ?"
"Then congratulate Scotland
Yard on you," said Mr. Lemaire, con-
temptuously, as he sat clown."
But jurymen are tieually plain mere
veho do not eultiva-te their imagine,
tions, and who are apt to Sift everi
feels to their extreniest winnowing -
point, ,so that Mr. I,emaire's cross-ee.-
amination appeared to them in the
Tight of fireworks, that did no harm,
if but 'Little good. '
Job Trubshoes, the cobbler, wae next
called, not so much as a witnese
against the prisoner, as to offer re-
butting testimony to (he possibility of
any persoti having got from; his house
'nee. No. 13 that night.
Pushed int.o the witness -box against
his will; and presenting as crabbed an
appearance as a human being well ,
could, he anewered the questions ,put
to him slowly and grudgingly' at first,
btit presently got angry, and gave out
his snarls quicker.
What Ito had to say had been largely
discounted by Mr. Skewtom but be was
made to relate in detail what hours hie
g , 'you've found a mares
neet, and much good. may- it do 'ee!" A-
S() departed Job Trubshoes; but. Mr, h
Lemaire bad made his point, viz., that
,Tanin could easily have returned to the ,
house, unknown to Job, have hidden
in the disused a.ttic and made his way w
comfortably enough into No 13 Could t
—might have—but did he? d
The alibi was very clear.
And then the court adjourned for
luncheon.
CHA_PTER XII.
There's nane may lean on a rotten
staff -
But him that risks to get a fan"
Itir. Lemaire was in no worse night , f
than many a clever advocate had been h
before liina, viz.: having to make bricks Id
,, , ,
without Straw, and good hard con-
vincing brieks, too, that. would, stand, g
any amount of scanning and throw- e
I
ing about. b
Yet, having decided to call no wit- D
nesses, as he rose after luncheon to: ,
reply, he bore so confident a behoriree 1 '
s t
and had so easy an air eLeeeeeeeeeee w
Ram, that sitting C011101
feet ,d0,1e. i;
of the courth,..„tena-%41.ed with fear as
eem e. : p
she 1,?..o.>1.,-,:jet him.
......24-i' very first words gave her good e
cause' for terror, for he roundly stet- w,
in a very fine and impeessiye man- n
ner, that the prisoner in the dock had 0
no business there at all; for, that if 11'
the detectives had not blundered and t
misled ,Justice, another man, and that
the really guilty one, would be stand- a
ing there in his place. !,„
"rt'be name of that man,"—and here "
Mr. Lemaire paused, and his scathing
eyee found out the French woman !-)
whore she sat, " was Janin Pi.errot, ,'
Rose Dupont's lover, and Rose Du- a
Ponies coefederate, the men whom she 8
had assisted to get into the house, a
whern she had helped to depart, and e,
Nyho had shot Mr. Rees when discover- w
ed on the premises by thet gentleman n
when he returned to the house after g
Mr. St. George, had gone up to bed." w
At this daring indictment, unexpect- ab
et,lh -3tarlling, a bolt out of the blue, ev
an eyes ,were turned on Jack, then er
on .Rose, who, powering as under a iv
crushing physical blow, bad crouched
clown with bowed head in her place ev- ha
erY line ,of her figure a corroboration dr
of hes words. " That woman," said Mr. int
Lernaire, pointing a terrible finger at qu
her, " laid her plane well. She had by up
her the chlormi ready to mix with her w
mistress's night -draught, and had ete
long ago arranged tlae signal by whittle
"Could a more, cruel fate be imagin-
d than' had overtaken this poor lady,
ho, blameless and secure in her
usband's love, and the shelter of her
wn home, afflieted, too, with a sect
lisfortune that left ber especially at
he mercy of rogues, and,which in this
nstance, had eau,. Lly conspired
gainst her to make her appear in-
anamis, found herself suddenly con-
onted with a tragedy that aught
hatter the strongest nerves, :Ind
randed with a character that, made
er infamous among women?'Her
usband snatched from her, willing; to
urine' for her, yet rmu
chs
to so mch
s toueh her hand, her home Icleetroy-
d, her character ruine'd --,- and ley
horn ? Yonder wom n, who cared tor
othing so long as her loutish dover
o.t free, who, aiming first at robbery,
as not satisfied with having brought
out one murder, but by perjured
idenee sought to being ebuue ;moth-
-the judicial murder of the man
ho stood in the doek that day."
And in conclusion, Mr, nemaire; who
d ecareely suffered ide audience to
aw breath, with such hurricaue forc
.
e
d he proceeded, with all the elo-
enee, of evhich he wae capable, called
on the jury to ecquit the twisoner,
ho in thought and in deed was in -
cent,
To be Continued.
Cow Comfort.
The man who at this season of the
year provides some kind of shelter
from the sun for his cows /is going to
receive a big interest on his invest;
inent, says I-Ioard's Dairytnau.
to return a Profit from the ---feed she
conslln.,2-e4--11-0.0.---legese-31-n—fortable, and
9.cleee-fort isnot found where the animal
is required to stand under a blazing
sun or bunting for a few mouthfuls of
dried grase over a drought stricken 40
acre pasture. Butter is a slippery ar-
ticle, and it-, slips away easily and
quickly when its factory is required to
spend three-fotirths of .the time fight -
Mg dies. A cow will appreciate shelter
OD a hot day as much as, if not more
than, a man. Cool water and a corner
sheltered from the sun, together with
a breeze to keep the flies away, will go
as far toward fillieg the milk pail as
heat, die, poor water and dried uP
pesture will produce the opposite.,
Costly .shelter is not necessary, but
some old boards and straw, together
with a few hours' work, will go far In
producing; cow comfort.
Aeration and Cooling,.
Makers of milk who have not yet
learned the value of aeration and cool-
ing are lacking in fundamental educa-
tion of their calling, says The Breed-
er's Gazette., Cleanliness, aeration and
coolimg will do much to preserve milk
pure -and sweet during the hot weather
approaching and do rtweY with the
temptation to use preservatives. Cl'eftirl-
erymen are especially interested in
spreading the knowledge of the bene-
fits to be derived froni the use of the
simple cooling apparatuses on the mar-
ket, 'IS the success of their summer
OUR CHEESE INDUSTRY,
vorehroors Attotti to noy or. Account
02 mieeenreeeniationa.
A leading cheese exporter who is
quoted in the Boston Transcript states
that the total peodoction of cheeee in
this country at the present time is fig-
ured at about 205,000,000 pounds menu,
ally and that we export about 70,000,-
000 pouncls of this amount. He figures
that the home consumptiou is about
260,000,000 pounds, including about
12,000,000 pounds of foreign cheese
that is imported. If these figures' ate
correct, our exports of cheese are very
much larger than they were last year,
which are given by the treasury bu-
reau of statistics at 88,198,753 pounds
for the fiscal year of 1899. 'Utast likely
the Boston exporter's figures are exag-
gerated, but it -is probable that we
shall show a considerable gain th our
exports for this year. Since tbe cru-
sade that has been made against "fill-
ed" cheese our cheese has recovered
some of the reputation that it lost.
There is et'demand for further legisht-
Hui to prevent the counterfeiting of
well known !armlets of' cheese. in order
to restore tbe prestige or these differ,
ent makes. Congress is being urged.to
give our cheesernakers the benefit of
laws that will enable them to compete
with the Canadian dairymen, who have
developed a large export trade in re-
cent years at our expense. It is believ-
ed that with laws that guarantee the
genuineness of our cheese products we
might recover the former high position
they enjoyed in foreign markets. It is
pointed out thee Amerreati cheese is in
some cases bought by Canadians 'mitt
shipped to Great Britain as a Canadian
product, Ending a ready market. Our
dalryen make as good cheese as can
be found in the world and should have
a considerable share of the foreign
trade. What tbey need in order to oc-
cupy a more prominent position is leg-
islation that will convince the foreign
consumer that he is not being deceived,
but is buying cheese tnat is exactly
what it is represented to be.
Whit• Spots In Butter,
A correspondent writes es that h
had a Jersey heifer the butter of whic
was injured by wiaite spots, suppose
to be due to eaiuute clots of curd, say
The Rural New Yorker. The condition
was remedied by giving every nigh
one-half tablespoonful of cooking soda
We have submitted this to Professol
Law of the New York State Veterinary
college, who says if the white spot
are really minute clots of curd the ex
planation cap. be made on a purele
chemical basis. Tbe most COMMOD
cause of clotting is the development of
acid in the milk and the presence of
an excess of salts of lime. The lime
salts especially determine a firmness
and insolubility in the coagulum. -The
giving of bicarbonate of soda in small
d tends to increase the secretion
from the stomach and thus to improve
digestion, assimilation aud secretion,
including the condition of the milk.
The increased secretion from the stom-
ach implies a greater flow of hydro-
chloric acid, but in the presence of soda
this is soon resolved into chloride of
sodium, or common salt, which is no
longer acid. The surplus seda salt cir-
culating in the blood and secreted with
the milk to a certain extent bars the
early formation of acid -in the milk and
the resultant souring. Again, the soda
bas stronger chemical affinities- than
lime and tends to take to Itself the
acids that go ro` make up the salts ol
lime and tbus to diminish the amount
of lime present in the milk and the
teiadency ,to firtn clotting. Even sup-
posing the white spots should have
been due*to the growth of a ferment
(bacterium), this must be a gerna that
finds its proper home in a sour (acid)
inedible], and the increase of the alka-
line soda, by hindering souring, would
for a time leeep the medium in a eon
dition in which such a germ fitted fen
acid media could not grow.
LOINPON SINKING.
The Underground Railworm Said
Ie the 'Douse.
The Ieondon Lencet has a remark.
able article, which will probably cause
some Consternation among the di-
rectors and shareholders of thteCentral
London underground railway, as well
as among the owners and occupiers of
property over the route of the great
tunnel.
IThe article; disclaiming any 'desire
to be alarmist, asks whether the'new
railway will not, by altering the level
of the subsoil water, have a grave ef-
fect on the health of the inhabitants
In its immediate neighborhood and
lead to disasters to property by a grad-
ual and long continued eubsidence of
the ground. -
The Lancet writer's contention is ,
that in practice it is impossible to fill
up the space between the outside of
the tunnel tubes and the earth. His
fear ie that the water in the subsolloger---
"the series of pools resting orf th$
clay," will run down the vertical
shafts (outside the steel cylinders) and
be connected end form along the out-
side of the cylinders containing the
railway.
"It must be evident that if anyac-
cidental conneetion is made between
detached groups et'. water bearing tee
strata at present (-fielded by beds of
impermeable
-
impermeable clay the water in the
higher level will be lowered and tha,t
in the lower will be raised. Any de-
fect in the sewers that permitted the
entrance of the subsoil water would,
under certain conditions, now permit
the -escape of water from the sewers
to the lower drainage level."
The Lancet correspondent show
that, according to the ordnance survey
levels, there is a general surface fall
eastward in the ground from th
e ar-
ble Arch to the Bank of nearly 60 feet
e9, and from the Marble Arch to Sbep-
`,,; herd's Bush a fall westward of Over 70,
" feet. There would iherefore be plenty
of "flow" if his fears came to be re.
t alized.
He then sets forth the well proved
geological facts of Londonfssuabnsdoil,As
is well known, the strata o , grav-
el and clay resting on the bed that is
S called the London clay all are more or
- less saturated with water. The clay
Green Alfalfa For Cows.
During the summer of 1899 the Kan
SaS Agricultural college fed ten bead of
cows on green alfalfa for a period of
74 days. During this time they receiv:
ed 77,145 pounds of alfalfa and 1,623
pounds of corn and Kaffir cornmeal
On account of other experimental work
it was impossible to retain the same
field of alfalfa through the entire pe
riod, and consequently we could not
measure the area used; but, figuring
the basis of dry matter produced
and comparing it with the amount pro.
duced by an average yield of four tons
of well cured hay per acre, we Cud
that it took 2.97 acres to keep ten cows
74 days. During this time these cows
yielded $85.69 worth of butter fat and
skinunilk. The grain eost 310.65. This
leaves 375.04 to be credited to the
green alfalfa, atnountleg to 31.95 per
ton, or 325.26 per acre. Green alfalfa
is relished by the cows, and a field can
be kept in good condition for feediug
during the whole smnmer. Where pas-
turage is abundant it will doubtless
not pay to feed green alfalfa, but
where pasture land is searce or the
grass becomee short or dry green alfab
fa furnishes an excellent feed and will
not only .keep up the flow of milir for
the time being, but will help ntaterially
to Maintain a large 'flow through a
longer period of Ittetation. Pasturing
alfalfa will sometimes cause cows to
bloat, We did not have a single case
of bloat from cutting alfalfa and feell
Ing it green.
Hurtful Coloring in. Millt and Beater.
. .
The Blebs]) governaient's committee
Is now making inquiry into the use of
coloring matters and preservatives in
food. One of the coloring matters used
to color milk rind butter is known ,as
Martins' yellow, naphthol yellow,
naphthalene yellow, 11 lanchester yel-
low, saffron yellow oi. golden yellow,
1111(1 is 0110111 left ILI" tile 511100 as the dini,
tro alpha naphthol prepared froin 1110
,
Implitimiene that cryetalliees lit ges
output depends on the condition of the mains. PheSiologleal experimenteeshoW
'Milk when delivered to them: that it is lejurieus or fatal in food. •
bed iteelf, also in hollows at many dif-
ferent levels, retains large quantities
of water.
Moreover, the writer proceed's the
railway passes through the beds of the
seven ancient streams—the Walbrook,
the 'Fleet, the Old Bourne, the Ty -
bourne' river, the Tybourne brook, the
-Westbourne and the Kilbourne—wbile
much of the land about its route wail
formerly only tuarshlancl.
Paris Fountains.
The fountains of Paris are among the
most interesting features of the city,
and the authorities are careful to
crease their attractiveness wheney
an opportunity arises. An experiment
has been tried by which the waters
will become luminous. A sort of
golden yellow will alone be employ-
ed. But the waters will assume the
appearance of cascades of diamonds
and topazes. The effect will be attain,'
ed by means of electric lights and col-
ored glasses placed around the basin
In such a way that the beauty of the
fountain will not be diminished., when
seen by daylight,.
Maxim Gun Drily. „ •
Maxim gun drill is now carried on
In the various schools of instruction
In Canada. ,Cadet corps regulation
have been extended to include not only -
universities, colleges, collegiate insti-
tutes and high schools, but the public
schools. Provision has been made for
the formation -of cadet battalions and
cadet corps to be attached to existing
battalions of militia. The medical field
service for Canada is now so complete
that Canada was able to send medical
help to England as well 'as fighting
men.
Mexican T17111 e.
Mexico is considering the adetledbill'
ty of adoptinga standard system .of
reckoning time. At present Mexico
has an official time, computed- at the
capital and telegraphed to.. varioull
parts of the repnblic. That time dif-
fers from Greenwich 61/2 hours, It is
the time adopted by the railroads and
telegraph lines, but in many parts is4
Mexico, especially in places not inoele-
grephic communication ,with the rest
of the world, local tinle prevails.
A 11le1nelato Cane.
Seriator Perakeld of, 011io received
from Postmaster . Withoft of Dayton
the other day a curious meroento cane:
The ferrule was made ' from steel.
taken off the sunireii Alain@ as'she lay
in 'I-lavana harbor. 'rhe stick was cut
on the m iittary.”.toredelethRorepielejemehe
the field Of the lest battle fought on
the ieland, lts coveriug of tortoise
shell came from Cuba, and the head
was wrought from ()ripple Creek gold.,
Russia's Coal.
At a recent conference In regard to
the coal crisis Professor D. Mendelieli.
asserted that the mines of Itisleilantslei,
itussi,a,' contain nearly a billion acid a
half tons of coal. But the mines are
not worked up to their full capacity
owing to defective conimutdcatitan and
poor tnachinery. , In his opinion these
mines have a great future.
Clever Thieves'.
A new menace to the domestic prob.
tern is the Chicago praerice of hiring
ont for a few days as a butler or some-
thing of that sort, so as to learn "th0
lay of the crib" This aceo int f the
t s •
number of successful robberies accee.:$.
Me' to the police