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N..ANY MEMBERS WEIC:IL EACH
MILKING DAILY.
By Chas. F. Whitley, Dairy Branch,
Dominion Department of
Agriculture.
In 1904 the Dairy and Cold Stor-
age Branch of the Department of
Agriculture uhdertook some prelim-
inarywork in three counties in Que-
bec to gauge the attitude of farm-
ers towards cow testing and to ga-
ther data for driving home some
forceful comparisons. Sevouty
herds were then under observation.
With a view of arousing more wide-
spread interest in the movement,
the next year saw a change in me-
thods, and seven localities in On-
tario, Quebec and Prince Edward
Islandwere selected for a thirty -
day test, and over 1,360 cows were
recorded.
In January 1906 the first cow test-
ing .association was organized at
Cowansville, Que. Sixteen asso-
ciations commenced work that year
with entries of over 4,000 cows. The
plan in brief provides for the or-
ganization of any number of dairy
farmers into an association, the
members electing officers and a
committee of management. Mem-
bers agree to weigh the milk of each
cow in the herd night and morning
on at least three days every month
throughout the entire period of lac-
tation, and to' take samples of each
of the six milkings. These com-
posite samples are
TESTED ONCE A MONTH
at the nearest cheese factory or
creamery. blembers provide them-
. selves with scales, sampling dipper,
and one sample bottle for each cow.
The Dairy Branch of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture has so far pro-
vided all blank record forms free,
together with preservative tablets
and sulphuric acid for testing. In
addition to this the Department has
paid the local makers at the fac-
tories for testing each sample every
month.
Many members have taken the
next step in systematic testing and
are now weighing each milking
daily, and recording the weights
and 'kinds of feed consumed. The
Department also supplies a small
bookletfor keeping an account with
each cow in the herd.
In 1907 there were 52 associations,
increasing in 1908 and 1909, till in
1910 this number had grown to 167,
with 11,850 cows, being recorded. In
addition to these associations, re-
cords are kept of over 600 cows
owned by individual dairymen,
while more than 20,000 forms for
daily milk records were supplied
Last year to applicants.
The early months of 1911 saw a
further enlargement of the asso-
ciation plan in the establishment of
Dairy Record Centres in Oxford,
Peterborough and Lanark counties,
Ontario ; St. Hyacinthe and Brome,
Quebec; and Kensington, Prince
Edward Island. The official in
charge of each centre, besides su-
pervising the regular association
work is taking a dairy census of his
district and dispensing dairy infor-
mation. Specific, concentrated ef-
fort of this kind continifed in each
locality for several years, should
prove of the utmost value.
FACTS AND POSSIBILITIES.
Cow testing has had a remarkable
influence on profitable dairying.
Aiming at obtaining definite know-
ledge of the actual production in
milk and fat of each individsa: cow
in the herd instead of resting con-
Uc
'4eneet-ing The °total yield
o£ t° '"" .e herd and then estimat-
e:1r n average per cow, cow testing
ha§ been instrumental in opening
11 ,the eyes of scores of dairy farmers
to £tots and possibilities. The cows
ite " thet..do not pay for their feed are
being discovered, those considered
air ° only average are classified on their
4li merits, many thought the best in
the herd ate found to be poor, and
some even not to be worth keep
ing: Cows are selling for higher
prices as their racerds prove their
value as producers, good herds are
being built up as the worthless
cows are oliininated and heifers
from the bast dams are retained;
young hulls from the good cows arc
in active demand at remunerative
prices.'
More milk is being obtained per
'heed and oven from a smaller
herd; hence more milk comes from
a given areal which: lowers the cost t
of making at the factory. .As the
cows are handled better, owing to
the desire to increase the record,
the milk and cream are cared for
better, so that the factory work is
lightened while the duality -is .un-
proved. Cow testing is working a
revolution in the condition of
stables. Owners see by the records
that it pays to provide ventilation
and abundance of light; and they
notice that health improves and
the yield increases as the animals
and stables are kept thoroughly
clean. A new order of feeding is
commencing on farms where here-
toforedry straw was the winter's
menu; corn and roots are being
grown so that a cow with any latent
possibilities in her may be develop-
ed as a producer. With the more
careful feeders the grain ration is
being apportioned according to the
yield of fat so that true economy
of production is the rule. Many
correspondents testify that cow
testing is interesting the boys and
girls on the farm. Another bright
resulting feature is the tremend-
ous saving being effected in time,
energy, feed and unnecessary labor
that was bestowed on animals not
worthy the name of dairy cows. A
vast amount of power and human
energy has been wasted on such
thankless guests, but the dairyniaa
is awakening to the fact that cow
testing is a valuable time-saver and
labor -saver as the poor cows are
DETECTED AND BEEFED.
The tangible additions to incomes
are not the ]east satisfactory results
of a few minutes per month spent in
recording milk yields from indi-
vidual cows. Sample letters from
members read as follows. From one
in an Ontario association: "My
herd has increased from 5,000 to 8,-
000 pounds of milk for each cow in
two years." This is a 60 per cent.
increase. Another Ontario member
states: "In 1907 the ayerage yield
was 3,794 pounds of milk, in 1910
it was 6,000 pounds." This is an
increase of 2,206 pounds per cow,
or 50 per cent in three years. From
Quebec comes: "In 1908 our cows
gave a revenue of $90 each, but in
1910 it was $41.43," or more than
twice as much. From the same
province is the statement: "Previ-
ous to weighing and keeping records
our average returns per cow were
only about $40, last year we got
$69." This is an increase of 72 per
cent. A member in Nova Scotia
writes : "From four cows in 1908 I
sold 587 pounds of butter; from six
cows in 1910 I sold 1,400 pounds."
This is an increase of 68 per cent.
One in New Brunswick says : "I
have just about doubled the aver-
age yield of milk." One in Prince
Edward Island writes: "My herd
now gives'me three times as much
milk per cow." From British Co-
lumbia comes the statement: "We
have more than doubled our aver-
age per cow;" and from the same
province: "I have raised the aver-
age yield of fat by forty pounds
per cow."
Such definite gains surely fur-
nish the strongest possible incen-
tive for every dairy farmer to take
up cow testing systematically. •
ATE BREAD 2,000 YEARS OLD.
Guests at Dinner Spread it With
Butter of Elizabeth's Reign.
One of the oddest dinners ever
given was that in Brussels, Bel-
gium, recently, of which a guest
says:—"At that dinner I ate ap-
ples ripened more than eighteen
hundred years ago, bread made
from wheat grown before the Chil-
dren of Israel passed through the
Red Sea, and spread with butter
which was made when Elizabeth
was Queen; and I washed down the
repast with wine that was old hun-
dreds of years before Shakespeare
was born." This seems at first
blush an incredible story; but it
appears that the apples were from
an earthen jar taken from the
ruins of Pompeii ; the wheat was
taken from a chamber in one of
the Pyramids; the butter from a
stone shelf in an old well in Scot-
land, where for several centuries
it had lain in an earthen crock in
icy water; while the wine was re-
covered from an old vault in the
city of Corinth,
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WILL SEND CANNON '1O MINT,
The French Government has just
decided to send several old Cannon
to the mint to be turned into mon-
ey. Several okl fortroeses aro be-
ing dismantled and these breeze
cannon are no longer necessary, so
it has been thought bother to cen-
veast them into awns than to throw
hem on the scrap heap.
SPEED OF A BIIINOCi,ROS,
Chased a Hunting Party and Got
Away in. Safety.
Out he burst at last with a crash-
ing of brush and timber, xeaobing
the open just in front of me; step-
ped for a minute to sniff the breeze,
then advanced at quick trot ta-
ward. my pony, writes Dora Vat#-
deleur in the Empire Review,.
Being mounted and inexperiene-
ed, I felt a false sense of security;
he lumbered toward us with surpris-
ing swiftness, yet it seemed so dif-
ficult. tobelieve this uncouth animal
bent on mischief that I simply sat
dill and watched its approach.
The pony stoed this inaction as
long asits nerves allowed, which
1 'should ,judge was until the crea-
ture had got within eight' or ten
Yards; then wheeled with a; most
disooncerning suddenness, and set
off like the wince across the level.
Fast though the pony flew (anal
having caught his panic, I was urg-
ing him to do his utmost), to my;
horror and astonishment the rhino
not only had no difficulty in keep-
ing up, but gained.
I heard a shot, and then another,
and looked back over my shoulder
hopefully; the creature was coming
on faster than before! A third
shot came from somewhere on my
right, and I felt the pony slacken
his pace; evidently the last bullet
had found a billet somewhere in
the rhino's thick hide, for to my
surprise and relief hehad wheeled
round sharply, and set off at a
clumsy gallop across the plain at
right angles to his former direc-
tion.
The whole party followed in hot
pursuit, even the Irishterrier
puppy which accompanied us 00 all
out expeditions rushed as hard as
he could, tumbling head over heels
upon the tussocks of coarse grass,
and emitting shrill yaps of defiance
We could not get near enough
to get another shot at the rhino;
it was amazing that such a great
unwieldy brute could travel at the
pace he did, far quicker than a
horse's gallop. Finally we had to
give up the chase, much to our
disappointment, for my sister and
I had been longing for a rhinoceros
horn to take home as a trophy ever
since we started on our month's
trip up country.
THE TREE OF TRUTH.
How an Officer Was Detected of a
Theft.
In her recent book descriptive of
the Island : of Cuba, Irene A.
Wright has given a pretty legend
told her in Guanajay, a town not
far from Havana. "Opposite its
principal cafe is the plaza, na esu
ally attractive, it seemed to me; in
its little plots of soil the roses
bloom the year, roau1. ddjolning
the cafe building is the clurch;
its altars are curious, and l have
since heard, regarding one of the
trees of the small yard about it,
the best legend told me with refei-
enee to any locality in Cuba. In
the shade of that tree roe must
speak the truth.
"In the early years,—the story
goes,—when Indian chiefs were
still powerful enough to make it
worth the Spaniards' while to pla-
cate them, the daughter of a caci-
que of a Guanajay tribe was robbed
of a wonderful necklace of pearls.
So great was her father's wrath
hat it became necessary to pun-
sli someone for the theft; and as
the culprit could not be identified,
they pitched upon a young man
who, by some unhappy circum-
stance, might safely be charged
with the crime.
"The young man was condemned
to die, though he denied his guilt
up to the very moment of execu-
tion. A priest, mounted on a mule,
accompanied him to the spot where
the church now stands, where death
was to be inflicted.
"The victim, still protesting that
he had stolen no pearls, asked for
ten minutes' final grace, and it
was granted.
"The firing -squad stood close at
hand, and especially near was the
officer in charge. The priest, still
mounted on Ins mule, kept close
by the prisoner; and he, as the
minues speeded, called upon San-
tiago and upon Mary to heed his
plight.
"The padre's mule, at that crit-
ical juneturo, snatched at a single
leaf drifting down from the tree
in the shade of which he rested,
and missed it; but his teeth caught
in the doublet of the officer in
charge of the firing -squad, ripped
it-open—and the missing pearls
fell to the ground in the sight of
all.
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THEIR STYLE,
By hard work and careful habits
he had got together a little fortune.
The time had arrived for him when
walking was nolonger a pleasure,
and so he decided that he was at
last justified in ordering a family
carriage.
, Off he went one morning to a car
nage builder's. and described in
detail the kind of vehicle he wished
to buy.
"Of course, you'll want rubber
tyres?" saki the carriage builder.
"No, sir," replied the old man in
tones of reuentment. "My folks
ain't that k nd. When they're rid-
ing they want to know it."
FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS 1Ii MAIL b.ROUT JOAN
1,1ULL ,t11) IIIS I4E0PLE.
Oieerrepees In the Laud Two
Reigns Supreme in the Coni-
mercial World,
There were 182 deaths from
Measles in London last week -129
above the average number:
hear -Admiral Charles H. Cake
succeeds 'Vice -Admiral Sir , Alfred
W. Paget, as. senior officer on the
coast of lreland.
A man who committed sukgle by
shooting himself in a,'. first -glass
compartment of a Midland Railway
train at Trent Station, has been
identified as Harold Swain Ellis,
of Greenfield House, Hemstead,
Birmingham.
A man who was killed by a train
near Clapham Junction, was stated
at an inquest not to have been
struck by the engine, but to have
been hurled aside by the air eush-
ion which was formed in front of it
by the speed at which it was travel-
ling.
In seven days no fewer than
267,000,000 herring have been land-
ed at Yarmouth,
A Sheffield` police constable giv-
ing evidence against two soldiers
charged with breaking a plate-
glass window with their canes, said.
the numbersand initials of the
Danes had been imprinted on the
glass.
Owing to the declining birth-rate
in Leeds, there are fewer children
in the Public Schools than there
were in 1900.
The tallest member of the new
Parliament will probably be found
to be Douglas B. Hall, the Union-
ist representative for the Isle of
Wight, who is no less than six feet.
five inches in height.
After an interval of a week, an-
other case of smallpox was noti-
fied at Bury the other day, bring-
ing the total number of cases to
27.
Collin's Music Hall, Islington
Green, was sold at the Mart, Lon-
don, for $50,000.
Permission to take Australian
aboriginals to England for show
purposes has been refused by the
Commonwealth Government.
About fifty cases of measles are
still being treated at the Royal
Naval College, Osborne.
An "In Memoriam" concert was
held at the Queen's Hall, London,
on May 6, in memory' of the late
King Edward.
One of the street donations ob-
tained by Salvation Army collect-
ors during the self-denial week
was a $500 note.
The Countess of Dundonald, of
Gwrych Castle, Abergele, has pro-
mised $1,250 to the fund which is
being raised for the investiture of
the Prince of Wales.
A return recently issued shows
that the cost of Civil Services has
grown from £26,685,934 in 1903-4
to :246,787,873 in 1911-12.
While a motor engine was travel-
ing to a Bermondsey fire it skidded
in Tower Bridge road, mounted the
pavement, knocked down a tree,
and killed a woman.
Mr. John Read, who rose from
the position of working shipwright
to be a magistrate of Portsmouth,
died at Portsmouth in- his eighty-
ninth year.
The governors of the Dulwich
College estates have voted $5,000
for 'the repair of roads under their
control which will be traversed by
the -ling and Queen on their visit
to the Crystal Palace to open the
Festival of Empire.
NEW CURIE FOR CANCER.
Germany Using Fungus As Remedy
For Extreme Cases.
What appears to be a very pro-
mising' experiment for the cure of
caneer has lately been made in
Germany. A fungus bearing the
name of Mucor racemus malignus
has been grown in malignant tum-
ors of certain animals. This is not
the irritant but a dead culture of
it, which applied to the growth,
causes it, as alleged, to subside.
This remedy, called antimeristem
by its discoverer, is not a specific
but, like tuberculin, consists of
the fungus itself and its decompos-
ition products. In action is also
resembles tuberculin, for after in-
jection a febrile reaction takes
place. It must be used only when
an operation has become impos-
sible, and even at that advanced
stage cures have been effected.
There is also a remedy of much the
same nature for tumors for whieh
no operation can .be made. This
i.s called antituman and contains
substances which go to build up the
cartilaginous tissue of the animal
body. The fact 'that cartilaginous
tissue does not suffer from cancer
led a Berlin pathologist to the idea
of using this substance to stop the
further development,of the cancer
cells. After injection . of antitu-
man a strong reaction sets in also.
What success these remedies, will
have remains to be seen.
INEXPENSIVE FRIENDSHIPS.
"Be likes to make friends with
dogs and children,"
'Yes; ho says dogs don't want
anything and children don't want
much."
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SCOTLAND
YARD IS READY
HAS PLANS TO GUARD CORON-
ATION VISI'TORS.
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Arrivals at Ports Will be Inspect-
ed, Raids Made and Hotels
Watched.
The hundreds of international
crooks andgrafters who intend
visiting London this summer ' and
are hopeful of reaping a bumper
harvest during the coronation time
will be annoyed to learn that Scot-
land Yard has prepared 'extensive
plans for their care and reception.
Every device of the English law
will be employed to keep thein out
of the country and if they should
happen to slip in, every device to
harry and prevent them from doing
business will be enforced.
EXPECT SWARM OF CROOKS.
Information which Scotland 'Yard
has received leads it to believe that
a perfect locust -like swarm of
crooks from all lands intend to
descend upon London this year.
Superintendent Frank Forest, the
head of the criminal department of
Scotland Yard, is fully cognizant
of the situation and is arranging
the most effective deposition of his
800 detectives to cope with the un
welcome invasion.
Arrivals at every English port,
inoleding Liverpool, Plymouth,
Southampton, Fishguard, Dover,
Folkstone and others, will be sub-
Jected to a scrutiny by experienc-
ed detectives from the yard and
any recognized crook will be de-
tained and rejected under the alien
act. But this port precaution is
only the skirmishing line 'of the
campaign, so to speak. A large
force of detectives will be set aside
to spend their time at the leading
hotels and restaurants watching
for crooks and harrying them away
if no real definite charge can be
brought against them. The hotels
will be most anxious to co-operate
with Scotland Yard, not only
prompted by the desire to rid their
hostelries of undesirables, and to
protect their guests, but for their
own protection as well, as under
the English law a hotel that har-
bers thieves is liable to lose its
license
PLAN PERIODICAL RAIDS.
Periodical raids and round -ups
will be made at the various night
resorts where these criminal pet-
rels are sure to congregate. The
section of the metropolitan police
act which gives the police power to
arrest anyone on suspicion of loit-
ering about the streets for the
purpose of committing a crime will
be rigorously enforced.'
Men with records, .or known to
the police, will be generally judged
by the English magistrates to lee
loitering about for no good pur-
pose, unless they can -definitely
show to the contrary, and be sen-
tenced to three months' imprison-
ment. At the end of that time, un-
der the new alien criminal act,
which has been introduced, they
will be deported, and if they show
their noses again in England a two
years' term will be the penalty.
'A CLUB FOR EACH WIFE.
No Papuan Gentleman Idents Two.
Wives With Same Weapon.
The marriage customs of the
Papuans are somewhat similar to
those of many other savage races,
The ceremony is largely• a matter
of purchase. The men marry when
they are about 18 years of age and
the girls at '14 or even earlier,
When a young lake man . desires
to ,get married he visits the father
of his prospective bride and puts
forward his personal belongings as
as inducement to the father to con-
sent to the union.
If a man has a gun he is a great
personage and can demandany-
thing, but besides their bows and
arrows and spears most of the Papu-
ans, have very, little. Even agricul-
tural produce is scarce,. the only
cultivation undertaken being on a
very primitive scale.
A little clearing is made by both
men and women, and the women
then grow bananas and sweet pota-
toes. Tho ,leen are alawys armed,
and ivhen the women go to tho patch
to attend to their crops or gather
the produce the men go with them
as aprotectiori. The women, how-
ever, do the work.
Many families have a bundle of
ancient Portuguese cloth centuries
old, and when a young man is
seeking a bride one of these heir-
looms is generally part of the deal.
The youth and the girl's father hag-
gle over the marriage until eventu-
ally they agree to terms and then
the thing is done. The mon are not
limited to one wife, and once a girl
is married she is subject to her hus-
band in everything and is practi-
cally his slave,
"In another part of New Gui-
nea," says a writer in the Wide
World, "I remember a distinctly
strong confirmation of the custom
which places a woman at the entire
mercy of her , husband, At one
house I visited I saw standing out-
side the doorway three huge stone
clubs, each large enough to fell a
bullock.
"On making enquiries I found
that they tallied with the number
of wives owing allegiance to the
householder; the. clubs were used
by the man to beat his wives with
if they annoyed him. The quaint
part of it was thatwhile the women
seemed tei raise no objection to be-
ing flogged unmercifully by ` their
lord and master, they would not be
beaten with the same weapon as
that used on another woman, so
the native kept a separate club for
each, wife."
FIRST CHILDREN.
English Doctor Thinks They Aro
the Poorest.
"The law of inheritance should
be altered so that not the eldest
but the second or third son comes
into the possession of title, proper-
ty and position on the father's
death."
This revolutionary opinion was
given by a physician with a large
family practice in London when
discussing the examinations of on-
ly' and eldest children recently
made in Vienna by Professor J.
Friedjung, from which it would ap-
pear that only the eldest children
are usually timid, . neurotic, un-
stable and hysterical,
The professor had under exam-
ination 100 such children, forty-
five of them being boys. Of them
all only thirteen were fully normal,
Eighteen were severely neuropath-
ic and sixty-nine showed nervous
instability.
"I have frequently noticed that
the eldest children are often back-
ward and neurotic," said the fam-
ily physician referred to. "The
eldest child has usually been the
only child for a considerable period
and the only child is the hubof
the house. 'Everybody has to give
way to it; .everything is sacrificed
to it, and the child speedily suf-
fees from exaggerated ego. Such a
child is spoiled, pampered and im-
properly fed. Even supposing that
it is not true that the first child is
naturally not so good as later chil-
dren, he soon becomes not so good
because of the, way he is treated.
"In large families the healthy
children, physically andmentally,
are those which, having been born
latest, are left to grow up by
themselves and look after each
other, instead of being coddled and
shepherded by the parents, Child-
ren of It big family are far fitter
than those of one or. two children
only."
"Professor Friedjung,_:is quite
right," said another physician.
"The best children are born when
the mother is aged from 28 to 35."
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WOMEN OF SOUTH AFRICA.
The South African woman is gen-
erally very highly domesticated ; she
is not only capable of managing her
native servants very • cleverly, but
sheds able to cook well, make jam
and pickles, look after poultry, at-
tend to the garden anti make her
own' dresses and those of her chil-
dren, says the Empire Magazine.
Thesocial life in all South African
towns' is a strong feature, clinking
is a favorite amusement and holiday
picnics on river banks are general.
Women play tennis, croquet and
golf and do a good deal of cycling.
Life in South Afriee, ranges from
old establixhed couture and luxury,
with every surrounding convenience
and taste, to the loneliness. of the
veldt farm, and; to this life and her
husband's interests, the English
born girl soon adapts Herself if she
is at all adaptable. She can he
healthy, happy and 'free and usual-
ly fairly prosperous, with more
moneytospend than she wnnld have e
in a similar position at horne.
GERMANS PLAN CLOUD LINESa
DREAl1I TO CONNECT LONDON
ANA.NEW YORK.
Two Companies Now Being Formed:
to Carry Out the Idea of
Promoters.
Germany intends to lead the.
world in the construction of great.
lighter -than -air vessels to inaugu-
rate navigation in the clouds on an.
unprecedented scale, and accord=
ing to information furifished by -
the
aeronautical expert, Captain
Hildebrandt, two companies are.
in process of formation for- this
purpose.
One of them with n capital of
$10,000,000 has decided to adopt.
the plans of Herr Boerner, a Ger-
man engine., for the construction.
of a giant airship, with a capacity
of 120,000 cubic feet meters, so that.•
the new vessel, will be eight times•
larger than Count Zeppelin's lat-
est creation. Herr Boer'ner's air-
ship will be built on the rigid sys-
tem; and the balloon will be divid-
ed into thirty-eight compartments.
to increase its buoyaney and to
insure safety
IN CASE OF ACCIDENT.
The extreme length will be 775'
feet, and the breadth 130 fent, and
the vessel will be driven by thirty
motors, each developing 30 horse-
power. The ascent, with the aid.
of the gas balloon, wul be assisted
by a number of horizontal screws,
and other propellors .will be pro-
vided for driving the vessel in mid-
air,
There will be six officers and
ninety-four men, of whom eighty-
four will bo chaffeurs to tend the
motors.. Apart from the officers
and crew, numbering together 100,' •
the airship will'' be capable of car-
rying 200 passengers, and elabor-
ate arrangements have been made
for their comfort, including the
provision of cabins with sofas,'
which during the night can be-
transformed
e
transformed into berths, and a.
dining saloon of substantial size.
A promenade deck will run
around these cabins, -with an ap-
proximate length of 1,200 feet. Ev-
eryman of the crew and each pas-
senger
-will be provided wiL.i a par-
achute, to be used in case of dis-
aster. The vessel `will also carry
a portable motor boat, packed in
s ptions, which can be hastily put
together in ease of need. I4 also
intends to publish on board
A SMALL NEWSPAPER,
to be filled with the news obtained
by means of the wireless tele-
graphy apparatus with which the
vessel will be equipped.
The cost of each vessel is estim-
ated at $600,000, and eight air-
ships are to be constructed at this
price at the outset.: It is estimated
that the equipment of the cabins
and of the dining saloon will in-
volve an expenditure of $30,000
and the installation of electric light
nn expenditure of $6,000.
Two of the new airships, accord-
ing to the plans of the organizer
of the company, will be employed
for passenger traffic between New
York and London. Owing to the'
greater quantity. of luggage car-
ried on such voyages, the
vessels will limit their number of
passengers to 150, and the fare will
be $200 per person,
Captain Hildebrandt considers
that Herr Boerner's plans must be
taken seriously, although he is not
oonvineed that they are practicable
and is especially skeptical regard-
ing the proposed trans-Atlantic
service.
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OBEYED INSTRUCTIONS.
A . well-known lawyer, whom we
may call John ;Jackson, because
that is not his name, recently en
gaged. a new office -boy. Said `. Mr.
Jackson to the boy the other morn-
ing
"Who took away my waste -paper
basket?"'
"It was Mr. Reilly," said. the
boa.
is Mr, Reilly?" asked Mr.,
Jackson,
"The porter, sir."
An hour lathe Mr. Jackson ask-
ed.:—
"Jimmie,
sk-
ed:—
"Jimmie, who opened the win-
dow?„
"Mr. Peters, sir."
"And who is itIr, Peters?"
"The window -cleaner, sir."
Mr. Jackson wheeled' about and
looked at the boy.
"Took here, James,"' 'ho said,
"we call men by their first names
hare, We don't ``mister' tlieni in
this otice. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir.'"'
In ten minutes the door- opened
p
and a small, shrill voice said: —
"?'here's a man here as wants
to s0e you, John.''"
"I want to ask one more gees.
tion; said little Frank as he was
being put to 'bed. "Well?" as-
quiesced the tired mainms. "When
:eke come in stockings, what be-
�uiues of the piece of 'stocking that
was there before the hole came?"