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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-7-28, Page 2, floc of Libcrty OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL rez.retnitiereiteetseene*..erreerieneremliaa.C.Lei . r77-1-rrry-r/ • Well, it %vile worth a ransom. And, so kegis t hore was nothing &shoo- . orui,a• attached to it, Steel was pre - eared to rejeein his pledge. He knew pesfectly Well from bitter experience the t. the poor num pays tieurious rates for fortune's favors. Aud he was not without a strange sense gre &tette. If— Pliek, click, click. • Three electrie seviiches were snapped off almost simultaneouely outside, and the din- ing -room was plunged into pitchy d ark e este Steel instant ly caught up a chilli', • Ire wee no coward, but be was a. novelist with a novelist's im- aginatioe. As he stood there the eweetest, most musical laugh in the world broke on his ear. He caught the saleh of silken drapery and the entitle scent that suggested fragrance of a wonam's babe It was vague, .ttefiteI , yet soothing. Pray be seethe, Mr. FAteel," the e ilvere- voice said. "Believe me, had there been any other way, would not have given you all this trouble. You found the tweet &d- ere-I:red to you? It is an earnest of goirl faith. Is not that a correct 'English expressiOn?" David murmured that it was. But what did the speaker mean? She as'red the question like a student of tla.. English language, yet her accent Liao phrasing were perfect,. She laughed again noiselessly, and once niore Steel caught • the subtle, en- tranciug perfume. "I make no further apology, for Alrngging you here et this time, ' the eweet voice said. "We knew that you were in the habit of sitting up alone late at night, hence the tele- phone message. You will perhaps wonder how we carne to know so much of your private affairs. Rest nesured that we learnt nothing. in Brighton. Presently you may gath- er why I arn so deeply interested M you; I have been for the past fort - eight. You see, We were not quite certain that you would COMO to our assistance unless 'we could Red some means of coercing you. Then we go to one of the smartest inquiry agents in the world and say : 'Tell us all about Mr. David Steel without de- lay. Money is no obleet.' In, less thnn a week we know all about Beek - stein. We leave matters till the last moment. If you only knew how revolting it all was!" "So your tone seems to imply, ma- dam," Steel said, dryly. 'Oh, but truly. You were in great trouble, and we found a way to get you out. At a price; ah, yes. But your trouble is nothing compared Sh mine—valid' brings me to bust- s. A fortnight ago last Monday you posted to Mr. Vanetone, editor of the 'Piccadilly Magazine,' the synopsis of the first four or five chapters of a proposed serial for the journal in question. You open that btory with a. young and beautiful w oman who is in deadly- peril. Is not that so?" Yes.' Steel sold, Meetly, is just; as you suggest. But how----" "Never mind that, because I am not going to tell you. In commen parlance—is not that the word—that woreari is in a frightful fix. There is nothing strained about your heroine's eituation, because I have heard of people being M a similar plight • be- fore. Mr. Steel, I want you to tell ire truthfully and candidly can you lice the way clear to save your hero - Inc ? Oh, 1 don't rnean by the long arm of coincidence or other favorite ruses kuown to your craft. I mean by common sense, logica1 methods, ley brilliant ruses; by Machiavellian Means.. Tell me, do you see a The question mine eagerly, almost imploringly, from the darkness. Dav- id could hear the quick gasps of his queetioner, could catch the rustle of the silken corsage lee she breathed, "Yes," be said, "I can see a bril- liant way out that would satisfy the strietest logician. But you.—" "Thank Heaven! Mr. Steel, I am your heroine. I am placed. in: exact- ly the same position as the woman whose story you are going to write. van The setting is different, tee local eoloring is the same, but • the some deadly peril men.aces me. For the love of Heaven hold out your bend to save a lonely and desperate woman whose only crime is that she is rich and beautiful. Providence had placed in any hands the gist ol your heroine's story. Renee this masquerade; 1 the fact that you aro here to -night, 1 have helped youe-help me in. return." It was some time before Steel spoke. "It shall be as you wish," he said. "I will tell you how I propose to slave my heroine. Her suflbrings are fiction; yours will be real. But if you are to be saved by the same means, ITea,ve.n help you to bear the troubles that are in front of you, Before God. it would be snore merci- Nft.otno li!orINnameN‘tlplyb,e, silent and let you go ••• David was silent for some little time. The strangeliess of the situa- tion had shut down on him again, -end he was thiakiag of nothing else for the moment, In the dead still- ness of the place he could hear the quick breathing of his compaatone the z•ustle of her dress seemed near to him and then to be very far oft Nor did th.e pitchydarkness yield a. jot to his now accustomed eyes. He held a hand close to his eyes, but he could see nothing. "Well?" the sweet voice in the darkness said, impatiently. "Well?" "Believe me, I will give you all the assistance possible. If • you would only turn up the "Oh, Later° not. I have given my word of honor not to violate the seal of secrecy. You may say that zee have been absurdly cautious in this matter, but you would not think so if you knew everything. Even ROW the wretch who holds xne in his power may have.guessecl my strategy and be laughing at me. 'Some day, The speaker stopped, with some- thing like a sob in her throat. "We are wasting prcious • time," she went on, more calmly. , "I had better tell you my history. In your story a woman commits a crime : she is guilty of a serious breach of trust to save the life of a. man she loves. By doing so she places the future and the happiness of naany people in the hands of an abandoned , scoundrel. If she can only manage Lo regain the tiring she has. parted from the situation is saved. Is not i that so?" I "So far you h,aere stated the case correctly," David murmured. "As I said before, I am in practi- cally similar case. Only, in my sit- uation, I hastened everything and risked the happiness of many people for the sake of a little child." "Ali!" David cried. "Your owe. •child? No The child of one very . near and dear to you, then. From the mere novelist point of view, that is a far more artistic idea than ,mine. I see that I shall have tq 'amend my stoey before it is publish- ed." A rippling little laugh came like the song of a bird in the darkness. "Dear Mr: Steel," the voice said, "I implore you to do nothing a the kind. You are a. man of fertile im- egination—a plot more or less makes no difference to you. le you publish that story you go ear on the way to ruin me." "I• am afraid that I am in. the dark in more senses than one," David iseyrnaured. "Then let me enlighten you. Dallsr your books are. more widely read. Illy enemy is a great novel reader. You publish that story, and what re- sults? You not only tell that en- emy ray story, but you show him 'my way out of tho. difficulty, and show him how he can checkmate ray every move. Perham after I have es- caped from the net—" "You are right," Steel said, promptly, "Prom a professional point ef view the story is abandon- ed. And now you want mo to show you a rational and logical, a human, way out." • ur f the H few., art An Ailment Which Torrilies its Victims—Indicated by Pains About the Heart and Quick, Loud Breathing—Cured by DR. CHASE'S NERVE FO 'It is quite natural to. he alarmed when the beart beecenee affected, but there is no reason to despair of be- ing cured. The great. majority of heart de- rangements are due to exhaustion of the nerves and a watery condition of tho blood. I3t.overeoraing thew. causes Of trouble with the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, the heart will he restored to. befall and its action again becalm norn'atl, Mr. James G. Clark, Westerville, 'Stork County, N33., writes have been a great sufferer from -what the doctors said was neuralgia of the heart, The pain Started in the back of the neek and 'Worked clown into the regioti of the hezert, Though I bad taken a lot of Inedielne of one kind and anotheia X could not get ' ' • anything to help me until r tested Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. "When 1 begtan this treatment could not rest in bed, except by sitt- ing upright, on account of the dread- ful painS about the heart .aed the quiets, loud beating. The change which Dr. Chase's Nessise Food has made in nay condition is wonderful It has entirely overcome these szynne ewes and in making 010 strong and well, If this ?statement will help to relieve the suffering of others, you are at liberty to use feat Dr. ,Chase's Nezeie Wood, 30- cente a. box, six boxect for $2,151), at ail deal- ers, orLde feafieen, Bates Sr; CO3• Toronto. r pioteet you against imitatione, the portrait end signae Wye of Dr. A, W. Chew, the'fainotia receipt book author, are 00 every "0 yon Cau 'do so. you haVe My everlasting gra-to:take": 'Then you 'mast • tell ette in detail whet it is you want to reeeyer. iNey heroine pelts with a doewnent welch ' tile villain knows to be a, forgery. Money menet buy it back beeeuse the villain can make as in.ucli money as he likes by retailing it. Fle does as he la:0,s with the tinnily property; he keeps my heroine's huebaad out of ellagland by dangling the forgery and its consequences over his head. eillicet is to be done? Ifo.w is the ruitlie,n to be bullied int() a false sense of security by the one man who de- sires to throw dust in his eves?" "Ah," the voice cried, "ate if you could only toll ma that! Let my ruf- fian only irnag'ine that X• am dead; let him have proofs of it, and the ! thing is done. I could read), Min I then; I could tear from him the let- 1 ter that—but I need not go' into de- i tails. But he is cunning as the serpent, Nothing but the most con- viacing proofs would satisfy bine" i "A ccrtiftcate of death sigued by a physician beyond reproach?" "Yes, that would do. But you I couldn't get a medical man like that to commit felony." my story "No, but we could trick him into it," Steel exclaimed, "In l s fraud is perpetrated to blind the , villain and to derive him of his wea- pons. It is a. 05.88 of the end justi- fying the means. • But it is one , .thing, my dear lady, to cominit fraud I actually and to perpetrate it M a I novel. In the latter case . you can ; defy the police, but unfortunately) you and I are dealing with real life, 1 If I am to help you I must•be a: party to a ielony." I "But you will 1 You are not going to draw back now? Mr- Steel, I have saved your home. You are a happy ; men compared to what you were two 1 hours ago. If the risk isagreat you have brains and imagination to get out of danger. Show inc how to do it, and tho test shall be mine. Yoe have never seen me, you know noth- ing, not even the name of the person who called you over the telephone. You have 071Iy to keep your own counsel, and if I wade in. blood to my end you are sae. Toll me. how I can die, disappear, leaving that one man to believe I am no more. And don't make it too ingenious. Don't forget that you promised to tell me a rational way out of the difeculty. Bow can it be done?" "In any pocket I have a cuteing , from. the 'Times,' which , contains a ! chapter from the history ol a medi- cal student who is alone in London. It closely resembles my plot. He says he has no friends, and he deems • it. prudent for melons we •need not I discuss to let the world assume that , he is dead. The rest is . tolerably,: easy. He disguises himself and goes 1 to a doctor of repute, whom he asks 1 ,to come and see his brother—ea, I himself—who is dangerously ill. The • doctor goes later in the day and ends! his patient in bed with severe inter- ' nal infiamination. This is brought 1 about by -a free -use of albumen, I I don't know what amount of albumen I one would take without extreme risk, I but you could pump that information 1 out of any 'doctor. Woll, our medi- cal man calls again and ;yet again, i and finds his patient sinking. • The next day the patient, disguised, calls upon his doctor with the Won:nation that his 'brother' is dead. The doc- tor is not in the least surprised, and without 'going to view the body gives a certificate of death. Now, I ad- mit that all this sounds cheap and theatrical, but you can't get eves facts. The thing actually happened ,a little time 'ago M London, and 'there is no reason why it shouldn't happen again.' "You suggest that I should do this thing?" the voice asked. "Pardon me, I did nothing of the kind," Steel replied. "You asked me to show you how My heroine gets herself out of a terrible position, and I am doing it. You nee no without friends. The way I was called up to -night and the way I was brought here prove that. With the aid of your friends the thing is pos" sible to you. You have only to, find a lodging where people are not • too observant and n, doctor who M too busy or too careless, to look after dead patient, and the thing is done, lf you desire • to be looked upon as dead --especially by n, powerful eneray—I cannot re- teele, and a ,paying ono, preee- ed the precious packet of notee to his side and his soul expanded. He was home at lest, But surely he lied (eased the doe% Wore he started?• no remembered disteectlY, trying the latch. And hereetho was beak' and the door open. true quick soap of the electele light dee dared nobody 1 the dining -Mom, Beyond, the stuely was in darkness. Nobody them, but—stopf A stein on the carpet; analiee by the conservatory door. Pas of flowers scattered abeute and a hud- dled mass like a litter of eneety sa,cksin one cornea. Then the hud- dled mess resolved itself into the figure of a gem with a wbite face smeared with blood. Dead! Oh, Yea deari eaough. Steel flew to the telepliene and rang fartOUSly. "UiVe me 52, Police Station," he cried. "Are you there? Seed some- body at once up here --15, Downend Terrace, There has been murder done here. For Heaven's sake come nice] " • Steel dropped the receiver and stared with, streinecl• eyes at the dreadful sight before him. '- CHAPTER For some tine—a minute, an hour —Steel stood over the "(heeded thing huddled upon ,the floor of his conser- v at ors. J ust then he was,incapabee of consecutive ideas. Nis mind began to move at length. The more he thought of it the more absolutely certain he was tha.t he had fastened the door before leaving the house. True, the latch was on- ly all ordinary elle, and a key might easily have been made to fit it. AS a matter of fact, Davisi had two, one in reserve in case of accidents. The ether was usually kept in a jewel - drawer of the dressing -table. Per- ha p s — David went quietly upstairs. It was just possible that the murderer was in, the house. But the closest search brought nothing to light. He pulled put the jewel -drawer in the dressing -table. The .spare latch -key had gone! Here was something to go upon. Thee there was a rumbling of an electric bell somewhere that set Deletes heart boating like a drum. The hall light streamed on a police- man in uniforni and an in:vectorin a dark overcoat and a hard felt hat, On the pavement was a, long :Mallow tray, which David recognised mechan- ically as the ambulance. • 'Something very serious, sir?" Ia- spectur Marley asked, quietly. ‘`I've brought the 'doctor with me." David nodded. Both the inspector and the doctor were acquaintances of his. He closed the door and led the way into the study. just inside the conservatory and not far fione the huddled egure lay David's new eigar-case. Doubtless, without knowing it, the owner had whisked it off the table when he had sprang the telepnone. "Um," 7%larley muttered. "Is this a .cetie, or yours, sir?" He lifted the case with its dia- diamonds gleaming like stars on a dark night. David had. forgotten all about it, for the time, had forgotten where it came from, or that it con- tained £250 in hank -notes. "Not mine," he said. "I mean to say, of course, at is mine. A recent present. The shock of this discov- ery has deprived :Me of my senses Pretty wen." Marley laid the cigar -case on the table. It- seemed strange to him, who could follow a tragedy calmly, that a man should forget his own property. Meanwhile •Cross was bending over the body. David could S c a face smooth like that of a wo- man. A quick little exclataation caine from the doctor. "A drop of brandy here, and quick as possible," he commanded. - "You don't -mean to say," Steel. began; "you donet--" • Cross waved his arra, impatiently.. The brandy was procured as Bveedily as possible. Steel, watching intent- ly, fancied that he detected a slight flicker of the muscles of the white stark face. "Being the ambulance here," Cross said, curtly. "If we can get this poor chap to -the hospital there is just a. chance for him. Fortunately, we have not many yards to go' As far as elucidation, went Marley naturally looked to Steel. "I should like to have your ex- planation, sir," he said gravely. "Positively, I have no explanation to ofeer," David replied. "About midnight I let myself out, to go for a. stroll, carefully closing the door behind rne. 'Naturally, the door was on the latch. When I came back an. hour or so later, to my horror and eat poor fel- syua,o ,p,trii7. irtsrle.,,I found those marks of a struggle yondr and th low leeng, on the floor of the censer- , Was th‘e door last on your return?" "No, it wee pulled to, but it was QP`4"14)%allildtiC1111(1'1,Xthaalcp." pen to lo.se your latelaken deirieg your 'midnight ntroll Sir?" "No, it was only when I put my key in the door that 1 diseovered 88 to 'bo oPers. I have a spare leteh-key which I keep for emergencies, but when I' went to look for it just now the key Was not to 'be found. , When came back the house was perfeetly quiet," • / "What family have you, eh'? And what kind of servant:Or M"There is only myeelf and my other, with threc maker You may I dismiss any seepiction of the servants from your mind at once. My mother trained them ell th the old vicarage where I was born, and not one of the trio has been with um les% than twelve years.'' ' 'The t PIM/AMOS Inallara SOMO. 010 1, ", so i t, Om, all trill isr. eel ly emir le tch-laty wo 11 0801- 00 by morneboily who ham nni' care. f.111 study of your !whits. Do you gisierelle f,v11 r,O. 1ft1 1 1V1,111i5 1121(0' T10144411,0 't lttiR gM1C, 1 o 510" v !a reel 1,l emee•Ite 1gre dee nee e- thet lie I orf «'vor done anal n1,11f11P1 11e1oro„. 11, would Mu* 1.0 'COalVd. II.. fain, hut it, wait; leered to came out Siotiner or Inter, /in had steolled along the treat ene rognee commend a more natural, rational way than this. As to the details, they may be safely left to you. The clever manner in which you have kept up the mystery to-niglit cox- vinces me that I have nothing to teach you in this direction. And if there is anything more I can "A thousand, thousand thanks," the voice cried, passionately. "To be looked upon as 'dead,' to Iie near to the rascal who smiles to think that I am m my grave. And oveTy, thing so dull and prosaic on the sur- face! Yes, I have friends whe a ill aid me in the business. :ionic day I may be able to thank you face to face, to tell you how I• managed, to see your plot. May I?" The question came quite eageily, almoSt imploringly. In, the darkness Steel felt a hand trembling cm his breaSt, a cool, slim hand, with inane, rings on the lingers. Steel took the hand aed carried it to his lip. "Nothing would give me greater pleasure," fie said. "And tuey you be successful. Good -night." "Good -night, era God bless you for a real gentlemae and e true friend, 1 will go out of the room nrst and put the lights up- after - Wards: You will walk away and close the door behind you. The nears paper eutting! Thanks, And once !more good -night, but let us hope not go o d-bYe." She was gone. Steel could hear 'the distaa dying swish of silk, ilia rustling of the portiere, and then, with a flick, the lights came isp rrelf-liandoct by VW EiUdden illumination Steel tunabled his wny to the door awl bite the etreht„ AN, ihe did 00 Hove "Pown efall clock Ch hoed two, eVi la a alga rut 10 he - tweet>, hie teeth Havel made his, NV:ay home. lie enalif nob think 11 et out Yet, he wOuld wait until In was in leis Owit comfortable under tho rOPOS and Willa lending froin 024 iStlidy,, A fine night of adverteUre, . • ' TESTING CREAM. A correspondent of Roard'e Dairy- l1OEX1 asks the following questions., wheal are answered by Pea. E. a Farrington. "How ean the creamery aerive at the cream patron's test if one day his cream may test 30 per cent., an- other 20 per cent., or 40 per cent? A composite sample is taken eech day, Then this ereana after being weighed, is pub in the cream -vat. The can must he rinsed out. We don't went Lhat water in the cream vat, so it is put into the milk vat for the cream patron's fellow pat- ron to have as skim milk. "How ean a correct test be takee? Cream will else and get heavy on the surface. This cream, quiestion is one of the mast important ones we have to deal, with at butter fac- tories." When such cream as this is wait- ing for the gatheriog wagon, the driver Pours it into bus cream weighing pail, then back to the farmer's can, repeating this opera- tion at least three times, 110 than hangs his weighiug pail on the scales, fills it will the cream, merles the weight in the proper place in his book, and takes a sample by means of a long, slim tube which is put down into the crea,ra until it touclees the bottom of the weighing pail, standing in a vertical position. This tube will be filled to the height of the cream in the pail and by clos- ing a cork in the top of the tube the cream inside of it may be lifted out by taking out the sampling tube and emptying it into a glass bottle having, the name or number of this patron thereon. THE AMOUNT OF CREAM taken as a sample will depend on the length and diameter of the sampling • tube, but if tubes of the same size are used for sampling cream in weighing pails of the same eize, the samples will always be the same fractional part of the different lots of cream and et will consequently Brunswick Square. Marley shrugged his shoulders. "Well, it's a bit of a puzzle to me,” he admitted, "You go out for a midnight evalle—a thing you have never done before—and when you come back you find .soneebody has got into your house by means of a etolen latch -key and murdered some- body else in your coneervatoey. Ac- cording- to that, two people must have entered the house." . "That's logic," David admitted. "There can be no murder without the eeain and the slayer. My impres- sion is that somebody who knows the ways o'f the house watched Inc depart. Then he lured his victim in here tinder pretence that it was his own house—he had the purloined latch-key—and murdered iiini. Au- dacious, but a far safer *ay than doing it out of doors." But 3/Turley's imagination refused to go so far. The theory was plau- sible enough, he pointed out respect- fully, ,if the assassin had •been as- sured that these inidaight rambles were a matter of custom. The point was a shrewd one, and Steel had to admit it. Ile almost wished now that lie had suggested that he often took these midnight rambles. Fre regretted the fiction still more when Marley asked if he had had Some ap- pointment elsewhere to -night. "No," Dapid said, promptly, "I hadn't." He prevaricated without li.esitation. His adventure in Brunswick Square could not possibly have anything to do with the tragedy, a,nd nothing would be gained by betraying that trust. "I'll run round to the hospital and come and see you again in. the morn- ing, sir," Marley said: "Whatever was the nature of the crime, it wasn't robbery, or the criminal wouldn't have left that eigar-case of yours behind. Sir James Lythera had one stolen like that at the last races, and he valued it at Lee." "I'll come as far as the hospital with you," said Steel. At the bottom of the flight of steps they encountered Dr. Cross and the policeman. The former handed over to Marley a pocket -book and some papers, together with a -watch • and eh ain. "leveret/ling that we could find upon hint," he explained. "Is the poor fellow dead yet,?" David asked. "No," Cross replied. ."He Was stabbed twice in the brick in the re- gion of the liver, I could not say for sure, but there is .just a chance that he weer recover. But one thing is pretty certain it will be a good time before hp is in a position to say anything for himself. Good -night Mr , S tee! ," David. Went indoors thoughtfully, with a genera feeling that something like a, hared had graved hie brain and was squeezing it like a sponge. Ho wag free from hie corking enxiety twee, bet it monied to him that he was paying It heavy price for his M- OH:ye IVfechanfealle, he counted out the banknoteS, and. RIMOnt tus emelt- anically he cut his initials on elte gun -Metal timid() tee eigineeacie, efe, was ene Of the kind of men Who like to have their initials everywhere. 'Re snapped UM lights out elect, 'went to bed at Met, But not to ale0P. The welcome -dawn came at Length and Ehtvl.J took his bath gratefully, Ho. would larva to tell hie mother what had Iniptemed, Sup» prasebee eIl referenee to the Bruee- ; wiek Squereopisode. Ti, area 1106 0. pleasant etory, Imt Mrs, Steel tea aindieted it at 1(,ligl) OVere her Ofirii 1011 and toast. ' "it Iniglit have been you, 'my she •en y. pl lel d , in - need; It ie a -dreadful busirmeta Dot roniy not telephone lei the fempital 'end' eek, how the poor follow lo?" , ; he pa (font waft bet wee etill 114 ee uncenieceone coeclitioe, (Ire hst: enatiellietNi 1 . , I , I , • , • • , I • • , " ereece no difference whether one hi of cream tests 10 per cent, and the eext 30 per cent, , !! fat, the samples will fairly reprot the erectei from( 1 whieh they ear t., ,en. The samples taken at the te real !ly the driver are deiivered by 141 40 1.0 the buttermaker at the commuter. Hove they are poured Tatter iitspection) into the composite samPle inrs at tee factory, and a test of such a, cemposite sam- ple ought to give perfectly satisfac- tory results, You say that the can rinsings at the factory are not put in the cream. I do hot eee arty objectioa to ad- ding them to the vat, if .the water used is perfectly pure and there is not an ex( misty° amount of it. A little pure water in your cream rip- ening vat, will net hurt the butter, neither will it interfere with an ac- curate calculation of the dividends. . The weights and tests of the cream. , will show how Much fat there is int the cream delivered to a factory in a given time (one menthe and the creamery books should show what` was received for the butter. Then, after subtra,eting the expenses of run - nine the factory from this butterI money, the (Ash left is to be paid, the patrons. Divide tbe money by the total weight of butter fat M the .(11 cream from which' the butter was made, and the figure obtained, will. bel the price per pound of butter fat that the factory is to pay its pat -e, tons for that month. Each patron's' check is made out for the amount -al Money shown to be due hint, by! multiplying his weight sof cream by the average of the tests of the com- posite saraples, which will give the' pounds of butter fat in the cream, then by multiplying these pounds oft fat by the price por poand, as ob-' seined above, you will have the', amount of each check. smtlia, BENEFIT PASTURES. The addition of five or six hea1! of sheep for each cow will tend .to increase the productiveness of a! very weedy pasture, nearly, *if vett quite, to the extent of the amountl consumed by the sheep. After a fewj, years, when the weeds have been ex- terminated, the relative number. of cows may be iticreased, but of course the proportion of cows to .sheep, as well as the total amount of stockl that can be profitably kept upon a. given area, will depend upon the na- ture .of the soil. and the vegetatiom, the locality, the climatic conditions,' and domh soe f°sttehep could be profieablyt kept upon nearly all farms. They will, not only serve to keep the pasture free froni weeds, but they will also, prove excellent scavengers for clear- ing up stubble fields after harvest! and the odd corners on. the fartn... .and moreover, they will yield a "! handsome proet on the investment as well as providing the most whole- some kind of fresh meat fur the 'farm- er's family whenever it is desired. • A mistake often made by farmers, who start in with a small flock oll • sheep to act as scavengers is to .buy; anything that anyone else may\ choose to call sheep that has little' wool. on its back and will eat weeds, and then treat them as meanly as; their appearance seems to deserve. This does not pay. Good blood, In- dividual merit, and good care are as1 necessary for profitable sheep 'raising as with any other kind of stock. Buy a few good, pure bred, 'regis-1 tared sheep of any one of half a doz- en of the standard breeds, treat theare right, and they will do the hand-. some thing by you. They will earn' their keep during the summer by de- stroying weeds, but they must have good care and feed during the win- ter. When e considerable number . of, sheep are retained and pure breds; cannot be oh tabled at satisfactory; prices, good grade ewes mill do, but nothing but registered rams of high, individual merit should ever be used. Such a Rock of sheep of appropri- ate size will in a few years extermin- ate the weeds and greatly improve the grass of any good native pasture., Top dressing with manure and _sow- ing bluegrass upon the bare spots, will also be found beneficial. If, how-, § ever, the native grasses are too bade.' ly run out, it May pay better to! borreathkreteheye !lordd s acitnIti tchreonp sietedf oirt dotg I again. HANDLING MARKET MILK. Every dairyman knows that better; butter can be made In the private; dairy, as a general rule, simply bee cease one man, or one WOMall. USU.-1 ally has charge or personal coveted! , over the whole process, from the feeding of the Cows to the marketing) of the finished product. . . Every.' patron of a Creamery, BO, matter what his relation to the cora- pany may be, financially or official- ly, . will always find it to his est 80 to see that his milk is furnished dailyat n t ctoheditcirotin mery the best possible A disregard of any of the details which assist in ftirnishing pure, clean milk, every night and morning, al- ' Ways affects the quality of the svhole of that day's supply of milk at the factoey, and the cream and better taken therefrom is also likewise af- fected. The cows should be kept jest as clean as possible. There is hardly arty necessity of keeping cows with filtby flanks, belly, and teats. It cots barely hothiug, except a few hoard, a little time and energy, to fix the stalls or stanchiene in any old ColV stable, so that the cowe cannot get soiled. Of bourse, soma coWs will soil themselves if -they 5.e3 olallged to alniost break their Melo to do it. In stich a case it Might be liettee to give the butcher a ehane0 in do the "breaking" provid- ev ad be is Willing to pay a fair price -Ay II To erovazo yore tulle_ 11 U 1 es M-1.?.??Irltrentibl'103torot?..r.- and eYety teen el itchinte 11 ifierletIlus r14n°1111.10111e616811117viiiierticrsialeirndildPnrafilletifin'5ga°P°:1117t t6111 what they think 0 t if. You ean nee at aie l even; money batik if net cured. •iiie a box, al 11 dealers ex elosatesoteleiree Se Goe'rerenta Dr. Chase's Wntrnerti • . •