HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1907-07-25, Page 3+0+0445+0+0+04.04.04.0+0+0.0.40.04.0+040.0.0+040,40 'here?" in a quirk, panic-struck tone, as
of toe smitten with u new and 'Burp
apprehension.
+ "Oh. no !"
"You do not think ,..at h., s at all
Likely to join you here?"
"Not in the left r with an almost an-
, how deeplyEdi_ tlich wtefulreveals
the utero suto ''himself
K b
tion. of ltyng3 reappearance un the
, scene is to tum.
Mrs. Le Marchant heaves a second
Sigh. This time it is one of relief.
"Then I du not see," with a suelden
bound upward into sanguineness which
reminds tum of her daughter, "why we
should not all bo very comfortable."
Jin is Pondering in his tnind upon oho
...i.e., segniflcunee of this "all," whether it is
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CII:U'1'lai XX\ 11.—(Continued). �tilhin the d.wrs !ha! are clo t u to nil c'' whether, under its Sheller, he hint -
within + self may creep into (hilt promised coin.
DARE Ji
OR, Al SAD LIFE STORY
After she is gone, he rages about the
garden. and passes beyond it to where—:
-.sell sunlight-smitten—the blue elediter-
r'he'a is breaking in joyous team.
Ile sits down on Iho Shelly strand,
-and, in futile anger, huts back the wet
pebbles into the sea's azure lap. Away
to the left, the three -cornered town
•rtvarnls candescent up: 1h0 hill, and the
white light -house stands out against the
lapisoulorod air.
How sharp -cut and intense it all is?—
none of our dear undecided grays. Here,
it you are not piercing blue, you aro
-dazzling white or profound green. There
is, indeed, something less sharp -cut and
IineonipromLsing--a something more of
•mystery in that gory that—bright, too,
but not 'nuking its full revelation—en-
velops the long hill range that, ending
hi (:ape 11lutifou, stretches away to the
far right. hound the corner, to the right
too, a party of Arabs, sitting sideways
-o;l little danketys, white draped, with
their haik-swathed heads, aro disappear-
ing on their small beasts in the clear
.air. It Ls like a page out of the Bible-
-a flight into Egypt—and they aro going
towards Egypt too.
Jinn's eye follows the'pincid Easterns,
but without catching the infection of
their tranquility. "Whenever 1 see her,
i stick n knife into her! It is impos-
.siblo ! There is no use trying! I will
give ur tho attempt. It is out of oho
-question to have any happy relations
with a woman who has a past!"
Atter all, Mr. 1.0 Marchant does not
-like Hammen) Mira. Ile thinks the ho-
tel cold and the roads bad. Jim over-
hears him telling someone this, and his
•own heart leaps. It is true that he takes
it to task for doing so. Perhaps, after
all, Elizabeth's removal would have been
the best solution of his problem. Had
.sho left Algiers, ho could scarcely have
followed her, and sho would have been
freed from Tho chance of his clumsy
_stabs.
But all the same, his heart leaps. it
leaps yet higher a day or two iater
when he discovers that, though Ham -
men) Mira has not met with Mr. 1.0
i
e '
Matrhanl:s approbation, yet that,y his
trip to it. he hes been bitten with a
taste for travel, the outcome of which is
'bis solitary departure on an expedition
to Constantin, Tunis, ele., which must
-occupy Win at least a week. His wife
^companies hint to the station, hut his
daughter is not allowed to go beyond
the hotel steps.
Jiro surreptitiously watches her hover-
ing with diffident affection round her
father. unobtrusively and unthnnked,
fetching and carrying for him. Ile sees
the cold kiss that just brushes her cheek
.end hears the chill parting admonition
to look well after her mother and see
that sho does not, overtire herself.
It is accepted with ready mneekns'ss,
but leaves the recipient so crestfallen,
:as she stands looking after the depart-
ing vehicle, that Burgoyne cannot fore-
bear ;dining her, with shoe vnguo, and,
.as ho knows, senseless vaileity of cham-
pinenship and consolation.
"lie Ls gone for a week, is not ho?"
is the form that his sympathy takes. In
n Irmo in which lie is al hal small pains
tet to render congratulatory.
"Yes, quite a week."
"Aro you"—ho is perfectly conscious
while asking it that ho has not the
sslighkst right to put the question—"are
you glad or sorry r
tihe 'tarts perceptil)ly. •
"Why should I bo glad? illi you
•.mean" --with an tuk•o:ultk`rahl.' streak of
:sntsfnchon in her own voice—'because
i shall have mammy all to myself ? You
must not think" ---with an obvious rush
-e1 quickly -blowing conlpunctien—"that
1 nm not fund of hire, because he seine•
limes speaks a little roughly In ate."
After a pause, In a lowered voice : "Teti
see, when you have lmken 0 person's
'heart, you can scare'cly blanie him for
not hating a very high opinion of you."
So saying. she suddenly leaves hint ns
•ani' had left him in the Jnrdin dl -.s ni.
ile does not. again nprroach her that
day, but at dinner -lime 1►e has Iho
answer to his question as to her being
glad or sorry al her father's departure.
'tihe 1•t' eppsnrenlly in the hest of spirits,
-sitting !celled close up to her mother
for the better convenience of firing a
series of little jokes and arnunenis into
that parentis appreciative ear.
"111.'y make fun of the whole hotel,"
etsert es Miss Strutt with exasperation.
"I 410 not believe then one of us escapes!
'When he is not here to check Iheum,
there is no holding them
No holding Elizabeth ! The phrase re-
-curs to him several limes during the next
few days. ns not without its justness,
when he sees its object flitting mend the
house. gay as n linnet; when he meets
lier singing sul•.hledly to herself upon
Pe- stairs ; w Len ho watches her romp -
lig with the French children. end rut's.
ch'evou'ly rollcrting hovers of Claphatn
• eh..p ienre from Iheir governess, which
,(Sime is g.n_ti1 enough to retail for his own
:and her mnliaer+ benefit when evening
'unites the three in the relirimenl of
1Leir little salon. For, strange and im-
probably bossfui ns it seems, he has
i•intltehow, ero 11111 ,41 dnys are over.
cft'etd an entrance into that stnall and
.fragrant sanctuary.
Mrs. i.e Marchanl's firs) fears that the
meeting with hail again wotehl re-oren
r,orr)ty have ilisnppcarel in the light of
bet daughter's childish gaiety. and ere
even e\changetl for n compunctious
.gratludc to lien tear having been in part
the cause of her new light-heartedness.
Tho w.'nther has nsrain Heiken, n fact
'chick lie alone of the whole hotel does
11 it deplore. since it ons his nen oslen-
$ iloraly displayed w et•day dreelrile:as
*.t :e -as the cause of his hest iadntlaaion
others. Moreover, had it not been wet
weather, could he have held an umbrel-
la over Elizabellt's head wher he met her
in lite eucalyptus wood, and They walked
*owing tho naked trunks, while.tho long,
Seise, pale foliage waved like dis-
sttevelkd hair. in the rain. and. the pun-
gent asphodels grew thick about their
lead in the red earth? And when, by -
and -bye, the clouds disperse again, and
there comes a fair day, bracketed be-
tween three or four foul ones—the usual
Algerian proportion—it has grown quite
natural to all three that he should sit
opposite to them in their drive; that
he should haggle with Arabs for then),
and remonstrate with the landlord, and
generally transfer all the smaller rougit-
hese.i of life from their shoulders 10 his
Own. Brought into more intimate com-
munion with then) than he has ever been
before, Burgoyne realizes hew notch they
belong to the kneeling, leaning, sroiling
type of womankind. Elizabelhe would be
the easiest woman in. the world to 111811 -
age. Ilow Ls it that in her ten years of
womanhood no elan has been found to
tmdertake the lovely facile task? Ile
himself knows perfectly the treatment
that would befit her ; the hinted wishes
t—her tact is too tine and her spirit too
meek to need anything so coarse ns
commands —the infinitesimal rebukes
end the unlimilal—oh ! limitless—car-
esscs :
"Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears
and smiles."
Every day he finds himself rcpeatng
M'orlsworth's line, and every day. in
his fancied guidance of her, he tells him-
self that the blame sheute lie lees and
the, kisses more.
Mr. Le Marchant heft Snore
than a week, and Febrieery" tae cultic
wetly in, with rain wildly weeping
against the casemeuls, and angry -hand-
ed train boxing the unlucky orange -tree
ears. it has rained for forty-eight hours
without a break. The Grand (Hotel is at
lite end of its resources. Uncle Toby. his
struggle ended, lies vanquished in the
►.vidow's net ; and there Is murder in
tits hiri'l eye which \Iiss Slrult turns on
the votary of Whiteley.
Jinn alone, outdoor man as he habit-
Ilally is, looking upon a house merely in
the light of a necessary shelter. has no
quarrel either with the absent stns or the
t)resent deluge; for aro not they the
eauso of his having spent two whole
afternoons in the company of Elizabeth
and her mother? 'I'o•dny has not Eliza-
beth been singing to hint, and cutting
?rim orange -lower brad -and -butter,
w hen Fritz brought in the afternoon tea,
andset the real English kettle fizzing
over: its spirit -lamp? And, in return,
tins not he now, after dinner, been help-
ing her to weed out her own and her
n:others photograph -books? As he does
tea tho idea strikes hint of how very
meagre her own collection of acquain-
lances seems to he. Emit that weeding
'have they not, by an easy transition, at
beer suggestion. passed to the more rlay-
'fu! and ingenious occupation of ampu-
tating the heads of some of 1110 rejected
friends and applying "them to the bodies
6' others? Each armed with a pair of
Scissors, and with Mrs. Le Marchant for
Umpire, they have been vying with each
other as to who can prole^e the utast
startling re ells by this clever process.
The paten Inas just been uwardel to
Eliznl:••ih for a n,nlbinatien which pre-
sents the head of en elderly Indy. in a
Widow's rap, meuntd nixie the cuirass
and long io-lots of a Life Go,nrd:mnan.
Jet's npplicntlen of the cornet's discard -
el bend to. the body of 't baby in long
deities, although aletwc.1 to be a pretty
conceit, conunnnds but little real adnmir-
alein—an Inslnnc0 of nepotism which he
does not allow to rnss without protest.
Elizabeth, elated by her triumph. has
Dawn out of the room to examine her
private stores for fresh material, and
Jim and her mother—for the first lime
as it happens. since that early [Heeling,
\viten her anxious eyo had so plainly
implorrl hhn to leave Algiers—ere Iele-
a-tele. )ler ehengrvl newel towards him
as she sits, with u lingering laugh still
en her Inco, beside the wood lire—
%%heti. after having twice gene out, ns
1; almost always does, the souches being
Invariably wet, burns brightly and
t•rnckly—strikes him with such a feeling
of warns pleasure ilial he says in a voice
ni undisguised triumph :
"What spirits she is in, is mol she?"
"Yes ; is not she?" a.ssints the mo-
ther, eagerly. "Oh, 1 cannel say how
grateful 1 nun to you for having cheered
her 01) as you have done! "(►1h," with n
lov sigh that seems to bear ave)' on its
slow wings the last echoes of her late
mirth. "if it could only last 1"
"Why should not it Ins[ ?"
"If nothing fresh \wield happen !"
"Why should any lieng fresh hnppellr
She answers only indirectly :
"Fear at my heart. ns al n Cup,
The life•bkiod scorned to sip.'
Sometimes I think that Coleridge wrote
Mos.. lines exrressly her me." After n
rinse, its a \'.,iCe of ilii\I0us asking :
"She has net mentioned him to you
lately. has she?"
"No..,
"Thal is n god sign. D0 not you
think that that ie n good sign? 1 think
(hat she' is getting better; do not you?'
Vie a moment lie cannot answer, lath
'lie -ems. he is deeply leucite.' 1.y the con•
iiden,•.' in him and his sympathy ewi-
delb'ed by her appeal. and f: .r n yet
hem, potent reason. Little she guesses
hiev often. and with what Iteart-seareli•
legs end spirit•sinkings, he has put that
micelle') to himself.
"I (ht not knew," he repliers al la.sl,
1% silt •1i111Cully ; "it is hard to jii.1,o."
"lou have not told lint that we aro
furl, when she of whom they have been
'speaking re-enters. She has a packet of
photographs, presumably suitable for
uu►pututon, in her hand, in which is
also held a telegram, which she extends
to Burgoyne,
"I nee Ml. Cipriani bringing you this.
1t seems that you ought to have had it
two days ago, but by some mistake, it
was put Ink, mother gentlemen's mom
—a gentleman who pus never arrived—
and there it has rentaitee. Ile was full
of apologies, but I told him what culpa-
ble carelessness it showed. 1 do trust,'
With a sweetly solicitous look, "lout it
1s not anything that matters."
"It cannot be of much consepeence."
'replies Jim indifferently, while a sort of
pang darts through him at the thought
e: how strangely destitute he is of people
t.• be unoontforttbly anxious about, and
S3 tears it open.
An English telegram transmitted by
french clerks often wears a very differ-
ent air from that meant to bo imparted
to it by the sender, w•hieh is, perhaps,
the reason vliy Jim remains staring su
tong at his—so long that the two wo-
men's good manners prompt Them to
remove their sympathetic eyes from hint,
and to attempt a little talk with each
other.
"I hope you have no bad news?"
Tho elder one perniils herself this in-
gciry after a more Ihnn decent interval
hos elapsed, during which he has made
'to sign.
Ile gives a slr.rt, es ono loo suddenly
awakened out tit deep sleep.
"Bad news?" he repeats in nn odd
voice --"what, is bad news? That de-
fends upon people's tastes. 11 is for
you to judge of that: it concerns you
as notch or more than it does roe."
So saying, lie place the paper in her
hand and, walking away to the little
'square window—open, despite the wild-
ness of the weather—looks out upon the
indigo -colored night.
Although his loch Ls turned towards
them, he knows that Elizabeth is reading
over her mother's shoulder—reading
(Itis :
"
, g
Lour ouin
"Grand hotel,
"Algiers.
"Have heard of Le Marchnnts. if you
cls not wire to the contrary. sisal! cross
to-nx,rrov.—Bl'\G, Mlarseillc."
ilo Is not left long in doubt as to their
hewing mastered. the meaning of the
tussive.
"Ile is coming!" says Mrs. Le Mer-
chant with a species of gasp ; "end yea
told mem---not live minutes ago you told
lne"—with an accent of reproach—"Ili:it
'Otero was not the remotest chance of it.
'Ole stop him ! slop hint ! Telegraph at
once! The otllce will be open for two
ler three hours yet 1 There Ls plenty,
plenty of lintel Oh, telegraph at once--
iat once!"
"Il is ton late" replies Jim. retracing
his steps to the table; "you forget that
it is two days old. You see. they have
spelt my name wrong; that accounts
for the mistake. ltourgonin ! it looks
odd spell Iourgouin, does not it ?"
llo hears himself giving a small, dry
laugh, which nnlxxly (slaws.
"Ile must have soiled yestenlny" con-
lirue51 the young man, wishing the could
persuade his voice fn sound more
natural ; "he may he here al any mo-
ment. 1f the weather had been decent,
he would have arrival ere now:,
"Then there Ls nettling to b' done !"
rejoins Mrs. 1.o Marchant in a tone of
Oat (1dSpet'atoll. sitting down again on
1l.' chair out of which .5110 bud instinc-
tively risen al the Tittle stir of the tele-
gram's arrival.
Elizabeth is dead silent. Though there
is tet' direction by the eye to show that
Jun's next remark is eines! al her, there
can be no doubt that it is awkwardly
Ilu'own in her direction.
"If this had not been delnyel—if it bind
not been lot Isle, would you have
wished, would you have decided to stop
him T'
"Whet ie the use of asking me such a
question now that it Ls ton late?" replies
she, with more of intpntience, nlnosl
wrath in her voice Mian he has ever be.
fere heart that most gentle organ ex-
press.
But besides the ire end irrilntion,
there is another quality in it which
gentle him 14) snatch it reluctant glance
at her. She is extremely agitated, but
Underlying the distress and (belt:Nonce
of her ince there is an undoubted light
Shining like a himp through a pale pink
shade—n light That, with all her laugh-
ter and het jokes, wens not there halt an
Weir ego. Ile hail often reprooehrrl hint -
soli that. by his elnrnsinese, he had
stitch it knife Into her lender heart. She
1+ even with trim 10-11ight. 'Fe -night the
tulles are turned. It Ls She that has
shack a knife into hint. 1l is ekar as day
that sho Ls glad it is too late.
(To be continue)).
Cis V1.1'1'ACTOB1'.
Candi.!nte—"Yes. n51 I've already told
veil, gentlemen, you see before jou a
Pelf -made nem."
1'oice frons the back—"Benet ha' put
the job out, mister!"
NEXT D0011 NEIGHBOR.
"Who lives next door to you?" inquir-
ed litt'o Dnrrit of the amiable visitor.
"Why do you ask?" questioned the
A. V.
"Because Ina says you're next door to
a brute."
There's something wrons somewhere.
When n ma; Is giten rt taste her cu-
cumbers. he ought to le given the di-
gestion to go with R.
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A deer of human blood illustrates its
well as any other substance the illimi-
table profundity of Nature. 'There is the
Colorless watery liquid of the blood
called the plasma, and suspended in this
plasma there Iso multitudes of little
bodies that may be divided roughly into
three kinds. Most prominent are the
red blood -corpuscles, little button -like
discs, of which there exist about 5,000,000
to the cubic millimetre; then there are
the white blood -corpuscles, or leucocytes,
little masses of protoplasm that have the
power to change their shupo and to move
front' place to place, and that look ear-
velk,usly like the organists called the
amu'ba that lives in muddy water; and,
finally, there are tho tiny 110(11 51, that to
the eye of sense ere hardly more than
points, expand under the eye of the
mind to worlds—worlds of "wingy mys-
teries and airy subtleties" that dare a
ratan to study, and that are yet plainly
of atcsolule importance to his life and
welfare.
Thus, in the colorless watery r)nsma
o: the blood there exist numerous sub-
stances that contpart'tl with Their infini-
tesimal quantities are almost infinitely
powerful for good or evil. in demon-
stration of this, one, only. out of these
many interesting substances 5111111 he
taken as the subject-tnatler of this
paper—the opsonins.
\VIIAT, 'l'l1EN, iS AN OPSONIN?
The best way to define an opsonin is
just 10 prove That there is such a thing;
dot 1151 existence can only bo proved by
its properties, and its properties will
comprise the definition. The little de-
monstration opens with the while blood -
corpuscles, or leucocytes. These !Kitties
are shapeless masses of protoplasm that
exist to the number of some 6,000 or
$1)1)0 in every cubic millimetre of blood.
In their function they are scavengers,
for wherever in the Jody there is an in-
vasion of certain kirfds of microbes, to
that point flock these white blood -cor-
puscles to do battle with the invading
host. In Iho contest the body is a
"fenced field of battle"; if the white
blood -corpuscles can engulf the mieetobes
foster than they multiply, then there is
an end to the microbes; if the contrary
is true, then there is an end not only to
he while blood -corpuscles but to that
particular homo sapiens that contains
them. All this is true not only in the
trdy, but In a lest -tube; for if a mix-
ture of blood and microbes be kept at a
blood -heal for fifteen minutes, a micro-
scopic examination will show that the
microbes have been devoured by the
white blood -corpuscles. This has, in-
deed. been known for many n day, but
always coupled with a certain assump-
tion. This assumption tuns that the
"gobbling" power of the while blood -
corpuscles elerended, to speak naively,
on their appetite; it seemed natural to
suppose this. But only yesterday, 84) to
speak, there has Como about certain
knowledge that
MIKES UNTENABLE THIS iDi?A.
This knowledge is Hint the while
blood -corpuscles will not "gobble"
microbes unless the microbes have been
prepared for their fastidious tastes by
op,sontns.
Not\•. since a microbic inf0elion in man
generally spells disease. since the cor-
puscles are an indifferent factor, end
since for the particular diseases with
which we are here concerned the sole
defence in the body lies in its opsonin,
the discovery of such n substance has a
capital practical importance that alto-
gether transcends Its intellectual inter-
est. The imtnensely ierorlant question,
then, is, "what has an opsonin to do
with the contraction or the cure of dis-
ease?" Simply this. that a deficiency of
opsonins predisposes to disease and
often prevents relief, and an excess of
opsonins results hl relief or cure in
111n11v Cases.
The all-important problem now pre-
sents itself : in the cnse•of any tinter -
innate person suffering from Iheeee dis-
01(50s, how elm this deficiency' in a par -
Heeler opsonin be remedied?
This ons the great problem for Pro-
fessor Wright. and he has apparently
solved it hy the retuicence of n dis-
credited method which, illumined by his
own genius, now bids fair to become
on.. of the most valuable assets in medi-
cine. in a wort, he inoculates the pa-
tient with an arp►opI'ial' dose of the
demi microorganisms wheel when alive
nee responsible for the infective process;
dot• exnuIpkden(1 Slapliyococcus 111t-
cfrotx's to cenl,6at hniis 1111(1 acne, dcnd
pneutn(cocces microbes 10 combat local-
ized pneumo^occurs infection. dead tuber-
011103ie microbes to combat locnlrzed
tuberculosis.
in practice, the man is inoculated
subcutaneously with n standardized
emulsion of dead micmhes ; thus .we
rend of Wright inoculating a patient
with 2,I11X1,(NK).n00 dead SInphylee o•ci, or
one of his Students inoculating another
patient with 2,000,00) dead pncionecoeci.
AS AN ILLUSTIt.VI'ION
of This method of treatment, it is inter-
esting 1n rend of a case of "bolls" re-
ported hy Wright rind Douglas to Iho
114.5111SoiMy.
"1'he patlenl ons n medical man who
had suffered fmun boils almost continu-
ously for four years. His op..nnie index
was 0.6 In Slnphyoeoeeus pyogenes.
Wright inoculated hits with 2,1000s),1»
dead Staphylococci. On the day follow-
ing, there wens n diminuti.) of the quan-
tity of orsonins. From Ihi.s point, how-
ever. there 11.151 n eteady rise in ops.alie
power from day to day, until an index
of 1.( was reached. While the ep>s,nic
power Arils still high, nnother herein -
lion w'ns given, which resulted first in
n negative phase. then a rapid 'weenie
11 n Welt tide of °pointe power emelt le
twice the normal. The clinical result
was eminently satisfactory. After sever-
e: weeks of treatment the boils quite
dianppcored ."
The men was cured. For infections
due to this specific tnicro1r, infections
slo•h es the humiliating acne, ele., the
vast amount of ldcrntrre oohs"h has
flowed Irina the labor+ttori•'s of Wright,
and his students, and his verifying ooh•
leagues, shows that 1l may be said with
3 high degree of certainly that such di, -
eases may be cured by this method. Of
n;arse, the word "cutter is a dangerous
ono in this connection, because a su0l•
tient time has not elapsed since the ini-
tialion of This treatment to eliminate the
possibilities of a relapse. 'Then again,
to Ila statement there must be added the
words exceptis excepiendis, for an occa-
sional too obstinate ease has beck en-
countered.
But for tuberculosis? For localized
tuberculosis, whether of the bones or
joints or skin, the method of treatment
is the saute, substituting for the Staphy-
lococcus dead lt,bieele bacilli in the
term of Tuberculin. And 'Tuberculin
when Properly used has been found to
be ono of the
MOST VALUABLE ASSETS OF
Such disease, as Tho tuberculosis of
the glands of the neck, of the bladder,
of the hones, o[ the joints, and cases of
consumption that are not loo far ad-
vanced. have been cured by Tuberculin
properly administered.
Wright's laboratories in London are
crowded with students from every quar-
ter of the civilized world—from Russia
end Sweden to Hindustan and Japan—
but it takes time to provide men ade-
quately trained. Some of the great hos-
pitals in this country have already taken
steps to inform themselves by bringing
over from London one of Wright's as-
sistants to demonstrate his methods,
and they are, doubtless, by this nine,
mere or less prepared. Not adtaquntely
prepurel, for therein lies one great
practical difficulty; the determination
of an opsonic index takes more than an
hour, anti to spare this tune, short
though it seems, is of serious difficulty
lei en overworked 1►osrital. Still, the
General Hospital of the city of 'Toronto
has donned it advisable, even at this
early stage of the discovery, to estab-
lish within its gales a department of
opsonin inoculation, and has appointed
as director of this department 1)r. G. W.
(toss, ono of Professor Wright's most
brilliant students. One of the great
houses concerned with the manufacture
of pharmaceutical preparations has al-
ready sent over to England, to slt;dy
under Professor Wright, a member of
its own staff ; for with the establishment
of this method of treatment there will
fall upon these manufacturers the duly
of peoviding for physicians the dead
microbic inoculating 'enteral.
On every side it is seen that the atti-
tude of the educated and intelligent part
cf the medical profession towards this
opsonic philosophy is one of waiting. of
susrended judgment, and of extreme
respect.
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About the Farm
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DAiI1Y \\'iSDOMi IN BRIEF.
Every dairy utensil should be kept
scrupulously clean.
None but the best cows should get the
good fed. Of course, you don't have
pxor feed, therefore you should have
none but the best cows.
Beautiful cows are not those that ap-
p•eer best on canvas in pictures, but on
the balance sheet in dollars and cents.
Stop and thick how many steps you
might rave yourself by having a place
f. r each dairy utensil and keeping °t
there. Try it a few days and you net••,
Cr will go back lo the old .way.
The calf should have. whole milk the
lrsl Iwo weeks of its life. i'hett begin
reducing the quantity of whole milk
and add a little shorts or oilmeal. \\'hen
lire or six weeks old it should be sub-
s:sting wholly on skim milk, shorts and
Lay.
Gild may cause n big appetite, but if
tier Lad is all used in lighting the cold
there will Ix, very little left to increase
Hie milk flow. Just take notice,
'There is it big difference between a
c'.111 1111(1 n worm stable. One means
comfort and profits, and the other
Means loss.
Promote the cows that do not come
l;p to the average yield of the herd.
Give Them n walk off the farm. Ile.
bullet* them with tsars lhnt can and do
keep above the average yield.
(e,w.. Hint are compelled to wade In
mud and manure half knee deep, sleep
under open sky and eat corn and hay
cnnnot be expected to produce conch
m:ilk. Cows must be well fed 11 they
give any considerable quantity of milk.
\'cry rich cretin is quite apt to pias-
ter or thicken in the churn, so that the
conclusion ceases. This can usually
corre'ted by adding enough water c t
the same temperature ns the cream to
d&lute it so it will drop.
The cots should be well bedded both
ter comfort and clennliness.
\ bran mesh now and then before
calving is most heneficinl.
If the udder Is excessively caked and
Hart, it is well to draw a little milk
from it. .This will help to ward off In-
Ilninnualion and gargel.
It's poor policy to use nnyllung but
tee hest bull. A grade has a place 81
Mc head of your herd.
Dei mol above cows faster than n corn-
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fellable walk while on the way to place
of milking or feeding.
The Hrccder who has a definite idea
Iii view can improve his animate. The
one who goes at it blindly never can.
Too many dairymen do not know
whether their cows are paying or not.
'fhey do not know which are the good
tine which the poor ones.
Make n sludy of the herd of cows, se.
Incl the best ones, sell the poor on.
and make the cows keep you Instead of
you keeping the cows.
in all well regulated libraries there
are signs posted in censpietlons pl•• .
bearalg the one word "Silence." :'imil,u•
s:gns should be posted in every milking
$
he d,
1l you want a ventilator 10 drew well.
says n dairyman. run it straight up and
do not put any curves or dips in it, and
1e,' no 81011 1.'11 yeti! that the middle of
lh barn Ls Ibis proper place to have the
\u11Haler. I would. rather have four
v 'dilaters than one.
Sunlight is the natural disinfcelanl.
Sunlight and pure air are leo great et
s nti'Ls to the health of 811111 and teas'.
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(lark, roorly ventilated and Ijlthy stablee
are disease breeding grounds. Keep the
Ptables clean and let the sunlight anti
fresh air penetrate every nook and cor-
ner (herein. Provide plenty of window'
in the stables and lir them see they can
be opened and closed t\:tti t:tx! and
facility.
Mi.sl cows begin t.) fail ie their midi
about three months after calving. (:aro.;
!u: feeding and permslent milking is then
only way to overcome this tendency. A
Cow once alk.wed to fail to her milk
is very hard to gel back to the normal
yield. -
DAM' COW SI':\\i)ARD.
Some twelve yeas a►", when 1 took
charge of a dairy department, we had
eloul a dozen ordinary grade cows,
writes Professor Dean, of Ontario at
Hoard's Dairyman. At present we
have about thirty coos milking and
twenty younger animals coming on.
We have steadily increased the produc-
lion of our herd. end last year the
average of our herd, was over 8,000
p unds of milk per cow and over 39u
pxow1ds of butter per cow
For 1906 the r.'t'ord is Cot so large
owing to the fact that we have five hei-
fers w:til 111.1 years calves, which have
brought down the average. However, 1
L'oIievc we are steadily uilproving our
I:crd.
\\'e selected first the best grade cows
\e could get, using pure bred sires 4 1
the dairy breeds always and raising
practically the heifer calves; )wen al the
end of the second uli;iiiig period weed-
ing out all that had not come up to our
standard.
Here is the firs! principle I would lay
d .ort as necessary in founding a herd.
1;ave a standard, and if n cow does not
come up to that standard the wise dairy-
men will get rid of her, no matter wheal
1 he costs. Our standard is 6,000 pounds.
of milk and 250 pounds of butter.
I expect we shall bring our herd up
to the 10,000 pounds of milk and Mtn
pounds of butler per cow. That can only
Ire done by a process of breeding and
selection. we buy a cow we weigh
her milk every night and morning,
take a sample and put it into the Bab-
cock test and test it. Then at the end
of the 111011111 we know the number of
pounds of milk slto is yielding and 111e
percentage of fat. At the end of the
year we know what each cow has done,
r.nd if she dots not conte up to the
standard we gel rid of her. lo the case
of heifers with their Rest calves we give
them a second trial.
That, briefly, is the plan we have
adopted—raising all our heifer calves,
having then drop their calves at hvo
and a half years old, milking for live
lactation periods and weeding out et
the end of (-he second lactation period.
To improve the quality of the herd and
the quaglity of the milk yield a ratan
Hurst not only breed his cows right and
weed there out according to standard,
e
1 u it also involves the question of [ced-
ing.
People say: "No wonder your cows
milk well. You feed theca so well."
Gm; cannot be expected to milk well
on a small quantity of feed. 1 have 110
lame to discuss the question of feeding
in detail. The main thing Ls 10 give the
cow all the bulky food she will cat, but
;t should bo of a digestible and pals-
tl.ble nature.
In addition to this, she should receive
right pounds of meal lo every thirty
panels of Milk produced in order that
she may produce milk economically.
TIIE OLID i101'S.
Back to the old town they wander, to the
place They once called. Horne;
Sec the old boys in battalions, as with
hastening feet they conte.
13ack to where as baretoat biddies 'n,
the days of long ago.
They \t'ilh noisy childhood's shouting
used to ramble to and fro.
Back to where with feet unwilling they
once dragged their feel 41 school,
Back to where the willows murmur just
above the swimming pool.
Back to where they often idled where
the chores They used 10 shirk,
Di the rippling brooklet's margin where
the sluggish suckers lurk.
To the place that they were born in,
Where they noel their early sweethearts
swinging on the garden gale.
Back to where their mothers spanked
'cru when they got their stockings
wet,
\\'here their papas often licked 'cal is
II Way they don't forget.
Back to where the old lawn nestle,
with a dull and sleepy eye,
Drowsing on in sow existence. while
the great world hurries by;
Back to where they used to ramble In
the days of long ago.
And when they return they'll tell you
that they find it prelly slow.
Things have changed n heap they'll lel)
you. since the days when they were
b oy
\Who n as;round the ' h1 home hamlet cru•
lered all their earthly joys;
Alt their chunm% have emigrnled. all;,
their girls have long since weed,
And the older ones who loved 'em
mostly all are good and dead.
They themselves hare nllered cndly.
couldn't run In save the.
Every ororown p•urllyeir,lifevery.
one hns'has gut a
gwife ;so
Lillie wonder es they come back from
their homes of long ages
'I'hnt they up and tell you frankly that
they find it prelly
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CONT/NUE
Those who ere training flesh
arae strength by regular trout-
ment with
Scott's Emulsion
should continue the treatment
In 1101 weather; smaller don()
and n little cool milk with 1t will
410 away with any objection
which Is attached to fatty bra -
ducts during the heated
••'son.
Send 1or fret eamrt..
SCOTT h Bow NL, (:re r .tt
Two a to, •,'tart,.
yc end 1e d all dry«tet
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