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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-8-11, Page 7MISMXin nh,i ce . „• 1 !0 vie - Wince— i nWW I01nnn Thc y CICO f Libcrty OR, A MIDNIGHT CALL' nm -- _ ,.,u,il,wnuu,n„nn a ., Mix, it 'R "1.(Lt-n iJ n,. elle i�IMRn„n Uu,+ulRn, IIN,ttN,--��r,-t1lfin�,.,�^,. Yell, it was worth a ransom. And, 0 long as there was nothing Welton- ornbte attached to it, Steel was pre- , payed to redeem his pledge. E[e knew Perfectly well front bitter experience that the poor elan pays usurious ' rates for fortune's favors. And he was not without a strange sense of gratitude. If— Clicc, click, click, Three electric 1 switches were snapped off almost '' simultaneously outside, and the din- , ing-room was plunged into pitchy darkness. Steel instantly caught up it a chair. Ile was no coward, but he ii! was a novelist eith a novelist's im- agination. As he stood there the sweetest, most musical laugh in the world broke on his car. 1Te caught • f the swish of silken drapery and the , 411tle scent that suggested fragrance a woman's ]lair. It was vague. efined. yet soothing. Pray be seated, Mr. Steel," the eryy voice said. "Believelite, there been any other way, 1 inclnot have given you all this uble, You found the parcel ad- dressed to you? It is an earnest of good faith. Is not that a correct 7Inglish expression?" 0 David murmured that it was. But what did the speaker mean? She asked the question like a student of the English language, yet her accent and phrasing were perfect, Silo laughed again noiselessly, and once more Steel caught the subtle, en- trancing perfume. "I make no further apology, for dragging you Here at this tense," the sweet 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 came to knew so much of your private affairs. hest ensured that we learnt nothing in Brighton. Presently you may gath- er why I am so deeply interested in you_; I have been for the past fort- night. You sec, we were not quite certain that you would come to our assistance unless we could land some means of coercing you. Then we go to one of the smartest inquiry agents in the world and say : 'Toll us all about Mr. David Steel witholt de- lay. Money is no object.' In less than a week we know all about Beck= stein. We Leave matters till the last moment. If you only knew how revolting it all wast" "So your tole aeons to imply, ma- dam," Steel Bald, dryly. "Oh, but truly. You were in great trouble, and we found a way to get eat out. •.(.t a price; ah, yes. But your trouble is nothing compafed with mine—which brings me to busi- ness. A. fortnight ago last Monday ,you posted to Mr. Vaustole, editor of the 'Piccadilly Magazine,' the synopsis of the first four or five chapter's of a proposed serial for the journal in question. You open that story with a young and beautiful woman who is in deadly peril. Is not that so?" "Yes," Steel said, faintly, "It is just: as you suggest, But how.--" "Never mind that, because I ala not going to tell you. In common parlance—is not that the word—that woman is in a frightful fix. There is nothing strained about your heroine's situation, because I have heard of people being in 0 similar plight be- fore. Mr. Steel, I want you to tell mo truthfully and candidly can you see the way clear to save your hero- ine ? 011, I don't mean by the long arm of coincidence or otlier favorite ruses known to your craft, I mean by common sense, logical methods, by brilliant ruses, by 'Machiavellian means, Tell me, do you see a way?" ''hc question cane eagerly, almost' imploringly; from the darkness. Dav- id could hear the quick gasps of his questioner, could catch the rustle of the silken corsage as she breathed, "Tee," he said, "I can sec a bril- liant way out that would satisfy, the strictest logician. But you—' "Thank Hoeven! brae Steel, I am your herein°. I am placed in exact- ly xactly the same position as the woman whose story you are going to write, The setting Is different, the local coloring is not the same, but the same deadly peril menaces inc. For the love of Heaven hold out yea]' hand to save a lonely and desperate woman whose only crime is that she is rich and beautiful. Providence had placed in my hands the gist of your heroine's story. hence this masquerade; hence the fact that you are here to -night. I have helped you lielp me in return." It was some time before Steel spoke, "It shall be as you wish," he said. "I will toll you how I propose to save my heroine. Her sufferings are fiction; yours will be reel. But if you are to be saved by the same means, ITeaven help you to bear the troubles that are in front of you, 'Before God, it would he more merci- ful for me to bo silent and let you go your own way," CHAPTER XII. David was silent for so1n0 little time. The strangeness of the situa- tion had shut down on him again, Mild he was thinking of nothing else for the moment. In the dead still- ness of the place he could hear the quick breathing of his companion; the rustle of her dress seemed near to him and then to be very far off, Nor did the pitchy dorknees yield a. jot to his now accustomed eyes. lee held a hand close to his eyes, but he could see nothing. "Well?" the sweet voice in the darkness said, impatiently. "Well?" "B Zieve me, I will give you all the assistance possible. If you would only turn up the light—" "Oh, I dare not. I have given my word of honor not to violate the seal of secrecy. You may say that we have been absurdly cautious in this matter, but you would not think so if you knew everything. Even now the wretch who holds me in ifs power may have guessed my strategy and be laughing at lee. Some day, The speaker stopped, with some- thing liko a sob in her throat. "We are wasting precious time," she neat on, more calmly, 'T had bettor tell you my history. In your story a woman Ceml11it5 a c:.'lnle : she is guilty of a serious breach of trust to save the life of a man she loves. Ily doing so she Mecca the future and the hakvrpiuess of many people' in the hands of an abandoned scoundrel. If she cans only manage to regain the thing she has paled from the situation is saved. Is not that so?" "So far you have stated the case correctly," David murmured. "As I said before, I em 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." "Ah! David cried. "Your own child? No ! The child of one very near and clear to you, then. From the mere novelist point of view, that is a far more artistic idea than. urine. 1 see that I shall, have to amend my story before it is publish- ed." A rippling little laugh came liko the song of a bird in the darkness. "Dear Mr. Steel," the voice said, "I implore you to (To nothing of the kind. You are a man of fertile in1- agination -a plot more or less makes no difference to you. If yon publish that story you go fax on the way, to ruin me." "I am afraid that I am .n the dark in more senses than one," David murmured, ' "Then let me enlighten you, Daily your books are more widely read. My enemy is a great novel reader. You publish that story, and what re- sults? You not only tell that en- emy my story, but you show him niy way out of the diiliculty, and show him How he can checkmate my every move. Perhaps, after I have es- caped from the net—" "You are right," Steel said, promptly. "From a professional, point of view the story is ab ndon- hildren Had Skin Is a Itching so Bad They Would Tear Their Flesh—An Extraordinary Cure by CR. CHASE'S 01NTW[ENT. Too many children are la agony from itching, burnieg skin disease. Too many mothers are wore out by anxiety and loss orf sleep in welching over their little ones who aro torture ed by such ailments, Dr. Clutsc'e Ointment is a prompt lend positive cure for every form of itching skin cllseaSe, and 1018 proven its marvellous power in thousands of 00005, Mintier to tho one described below, Mrs, I,oitl 11•felCay, Tiverton, Digby County, 3T $,, writes a• -'My 01111dree ;Ore taken with all itching, burnin1r, /AM disease and tore their 11051) until it Was sore tied their bidets would solaetimes bo wet with blood, The doctor did not seem to know • what. ailed thorn -end meld give Ieie relief, so I began using Dr. Chase's Oint- ment, "Wherever it was applied it did its work well, and has entirely aired them of this IroaribM disease. They suffered so they could not sleep nights, and I think i1 it had lasted mach longer 1 would have gone erasy from the anxiety and loss of sleep, I eatn1Ot fine] words to .praise Dr. Chase's Ohrtmont enough for the good it has dote my children, and hope other suflerors will try it." Dr. Chase's Ointment, 60 cents a bo.t, at 11:11 tlealers, 01' 301manson, hates le Company, Toroito, To pre- test yell agalnet itnitations,.the pole trait and signature of 3)r. W. A, Chase, the famous, receipt book au- thor, are on every, box. ed. Anil now you want me to show you a rational and logical, a human, way out," If you Can do 50 you have my ] stn gratitude." avex a, 1g rat t da." g "Thenyou u toll 0 detail 3 x11 st 01 m in c a l what It is you want to recover. My heroine parts with a document which the villain knows to bo a forgery, Money eanmot buy it back because the villain can make as much honey es 110 likes by retaining it, He docs as he lilces with the family property; he 1(eep8 my heroine's husband out of England by dangling the forgery and its consequences over hie bead. Wluat is to be 'lone? How is the ruflfan to be bullied into a false sense of security by the ono man who de- sires to tbrow duet In his eyes?" "Ab," the voice cried, "011, if you could only, tell me that! Let my ruf- fian only magma that I am dead; let him have proofs of it, and the thing is done. I could reach Min then; I could tear from him the let- ter that—but X need not go into de- tails, But he Is cunning as the serpent. Nothing but the most con- vincing proofs would satisfy him," "A certificate of death signed by, a physician beyond reproach?" "Yes, that would do. Ilut you couldn't get a medical Hien like that to commit felony." "No, but we could trick hint into it," Steel exclaimed. "In my story s fraud is perpetrated to blind the villain and to derive him of his wea- pons. It is a case of the end justi- fying the means. But it is one thing, my dear lady, to, commit fraud actually and to perpetrate it In a novel. In the latter case you can defy the police, but unfortunately you and 1 are dealing with real life. If I act to help you I must be a party to felony." "But you will 1 You are not going to draw back now? Mr. Steel, I have saved your home. You are a happy man compared to what you were two hours ago. If the risk i5 great you have brains and imagination to get out of danger. Show 1110 how to do it, and the test shall bo mine. You have never seen me, you know noth- ing, not even the name of tho person Who called you over the telephone. You have only to keep your own counsel, and if I wade in blood to my end you aro safe. Tellme how I can die, disappear, leaving that ono man to believe I am no more. And don't snake it too ingenious. Don't forget that you promised to tell me a rational way out of the difficulty. How can it be done?" "In my pocket '1 have e, cutting from the 'Times,' which contains a chapter from the history of a medi- cal student who is alone in London. It closely resembles my plot. I -Io Says he lyes (to friends, and he deems it pruclelit for reasons the need, not discuss to let the world assume that nue is dead. The rest is tolerably easy. He disguises himself and goes to a doctor of repute, whom he asks to come and see his brother—em, labesell—who is dangorovsly i11. The doctor goes later In the day and finds his patient in bed with severe inter- nal inllafunation. 'Phis is brought about by a free use of albumen. I don't know what amount of albumen one would take without extreme risk, but you could pump that information out of any 'doctor. Well, our medi- cal man calls again and yet again, and finds his patient sinking. The next day the patient, disguised, calls upon his doctor with the information that his 'brother' is dead. The doc- to'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 got over facts. The thing actually bappened a little tame ago in London, and there is elo reason why it shouldn't happen again." "You suggest that I should b'o this thing?" the voice asked. "Pardon nue, I did nothing of the kind," Steel replied. "You asked me to show you hole my heroine gets herself out of a terrible position, and I ani doing it. You are not withhout friends. The way I was culled up to -night and the way I was brought here prove that. Witli the aid of your friends the thing is pm' siblo to you. You have only to find a lodging where People nee not too observant and a doctor who is too busy o1' too careless, to look a(tor dead patients', and the thing is done. 31 you desire to be looked upon as dead—espestiaily by a powerful enemy -1 cannot re- commend n more enteral, 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 -night cot - views me that I have nothing to teach you in this direction. And if mere is anything more I can de—" "A thousand, thousand .thanks," the voice crircd, passionately, "1'0 be looked upon as 'dead,' to be near to the 1-85001 who smiles to tank that I tun in my grave. And acne, - thing so dull ane. prosaic on the sur- face! Yes, I have friends who will aid vie in the business. Some day I may be able to thank you face to face, to tell you liow I olanttged to see your plot. May, I?" Tho question came quite measly, almost imploringly. In the (1(Lrlums Steel felt a hand trembling on his breast, a teal, slim hand. wil:tt many rings on the singers. Steel took the hand and car'r'ied it to his lips. "Nothing would give nae g`ea'ter pleasure," lie said. ' "And may you be 5uccessfnl. Good -night." "Goodnight, and God bless you for a real gentleman end a true friend. 1 will go out of the room first end put the lights up after- wards. You will walk away and close the door behind you, Ile news paper euttingl Thanks. And otuce. Moro good -eight, bet let us hope not good-bye." She was gone. Steel could hear the dist0hnt dying swish of 0111c, the rustling of the portiere, and then, With a Irick, the lights came up again. Half -blinded by the sudden illumination Steel enabled • ifdu sway to the door and into the street: As he died so Hove Teem Dahl clock y chimed two, With a cigarette be- e tweon his tooth David made his way hou10, t think He could not tl rn 3t all out yeti 1 he would wait unt31 he was in hie r own eonfortable chair' under• the c roses and palms lendisig teem hie s toin adventure, 1" study. 'A fine night a! advent ]v, �!'y�i �p�f��, truly, and a paying one. FIo press- pp��, �aI'i'��rik� yA ed the precious packet of notes to eqq �a FAR his tide and his soul espand3,ON�E a He was home t last, Dat surely 0�* e a o o a e Y he had closedu+ thedoor foto I be ger trying the latch. And here the late)] was back alai the door open, The quick snap of the electric light de- clared nobody in the dining -room. Beyond, the study was in darkness. Nobody there, but—stop! A stain on the carpet; another by the conservatory door. Pots of k 1C3.MPING A RECORD started? Tie remembered distinctlyZel,rr7�� r��!►►!!�� .{{•V {:,r� Q� �y Tf3E1 Pllte.au 3 OI` i)AIFtY1N0. 'l'he dairy business collet be learn- ed in one day, 0118 month or one year, even IC one deal read all he eau about the htlsino58 says Mr, flowers scattered about, and a bade A, Burris. Beading about the dled mass like a litter of empty dairy and running the dairy aro two sacs in ono corner. Then the bud- different things. We become experts tiled mass resolved itself into the only by actual practice. One that figure of a marl with a white face can start and milk a steady gait smeared with blood, Dead! Oh, yes will have greater results than the dead enough, one that milks fast then slow ❑gain. Steel flew to the telephone and We must learn to mrllk a steady gait rang furiously. and as test as it is possible to keep Dive mo 52, Police Station," he It (rp until the 0Ow is milked dry', cried. "Are you there? Send some Ti'eedinr, is another thing tee must body at once up here --1 5, 1)ownend ezperlecico betore wo can do it suc- Terrace. Those has been murder cessions.. The amount each cow done hero. roe lIeaven's salve mum wants and the quantity she should quickly," have we must learn by actual pr'ac- lteel dropped the receiver end tire, stared with strained eyes at the It is impossible, or almost so, to dreaded sight before hum, buy a first-class dn4iry cow. She is seldom or ever for sale a friend or CHAPTER 1.V, neighbor will get her. We cannot tell the value of a dairy cow until For some time—a minute, an hour we have milked her through one —Steel stood over the cfreadl'ut thing period of laceration, and used the huddled upon the floor of his censer- scales and tester in determining the vatory. Just then he was incapable quantity and quality of her milk. of consecutive ideas. She may have a perfect shaped body His mind began to ;love at length. and udder, and not yet be defective The more he thought of it the more in some, She may have the self - absolutely certain he was that he had fastened the door before leaving the house. True, the .latch was 0n - 1y an ordinary one, and a lcey might easily have been made to bit it. As a matter of feet, David had two, one in reserve in case of accidents. The other was usually kap" in a jewel - drawer of the dressing -table. Per- haps— David went quietly upstairs. It was just possible that the murderer was in the house, ]tut the closest search brought nothing to light. He palled out the jewel -drawer in the dressing -table. The spare latch -key had gone! Frere was something to go upon. Then thorn was a rumbling of an electric bell somewhere that set David's heart beating like a drum. The hall light streamed on a 'police - 113a11 in uniform and an inspector in a dark overcoat and a hard felt hat. On the pavement was a long shallow tray, which 'favid recognised mechan- ically as the ambulance. "Something Very serious, sir'?" In- spector Afarlev asked, quietly. "I've brought the doctor with mo." David nodded, Both the inspector and the doctor were acquaintances of his. Ile closed the door and led the way into the study. Just inside the conservatory and not far from the huddled Sigel -0 lay David's new cigar -case. Doubtless, without knowing at, the owner had whisked it off the table when he had sprung the telephone. "elm," Marley muttered, "Is this a clue, or yours, sir?" - ITo lifted the case with its dia- diturionds 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 71250 du bank -notes. "Not mine," he said. "I mean to say, of course, it is aline. A recent present. The shock of this discov- ery has ,deprived me of my senses 'pretty well." Marley. laid the cigar -case on the table. It seemed strange to hien, who could follow a tragedy calmly, that a man should forget his own property. Meanwhile Cross was bending over the body. David could see a face smooth like that of a wo- man. A quick little exclaulation came from the doctor. "A drop of brandy hero, and quick as possible," lie commanded. "You don't mean to say," Steel began: "you don't—" Cross waved Ifs 00ra, impatiently, The brandy was procured as speedily, as possible. Steel, watching intent- ly, fancied that he detected a slight flicker of the museles of the white stark face. "Bring the ambulance here," Cross said, curtly, "If we call get this poor chap to the hospital there is just a chalice for hive. 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 otter," David replied. "About midnight I let myself out to go for a stroll, carefully closing the door behind me. Naturally, the door was on the latch. When 100m0 back an hour of so later, to my horror and. surprise I fount those marks of a struggle yonder and that pool' fel- low lying or the floor of the cons0l'- wat0ry." "TJm, Was the door fast on your return?" No, it was pulled to, but it Wes open all the mane." "You didn't happen to lose your latchh-key, during your midnight stroll sir?" "No, it was only when I put my key in the door that I discovered it to nue open, I have a spare latch -key which I keep for emergeneies, but when 1 went to look for it just new the 'key was not to be found. When I carne back the house was perfectly quiet.'r What family kayo you, sir? And What kind of servants?" "There is only myself and my mother, with three maids. You may rlisiniss any suspicion of the servants rom your mind et onto. My mother raised thele 811 in the old Vieitrage where I was born, can not one of the trio has been with us less than twelve years." "That simpliS1s matters some- what," Marleysaid, thoughtfully. 'Apparently Jour latch -key was stol- e ber Somebody Who has made care - 3 0 fol study of year habits, Do ,you geutrally go for late walks after our househ0i01 has gone to bed, lr?"- David replied sonl0tvltat grudgingly hat he had [lever done stole a tlhing, fare. , He Would telae to 0 1 halo con- ceited 'the Met, but it was bound to onto out 000ner or inter, 11e had trolled along the front and rotind • milking habit, be a kicicer, be breathy, or hold her milk and not let it down as she should, or have sone other habit that would make her en unprofitable cow. The safest way 18 to raise the dairy herd by careful selection of dam and sire, and by using only trio very best milk strain to be had. A cow will fail to yield to her owner a profit on a empty stomach or when she has the shady side of a barbed wire fence for shelter. She mu8t he satisfied with both feed and s) - for 24 hours a day, 7 days it week, and 52 weeks in a year, in order to be profitable. Com- fort means profit wills a cow. 1f she is satisfied, she will not need an iron yoke or a crotch of a cotton- wood limb to keep her from going through the fence. Tlrunswick Square. Marley shrugged his shoulders. "Well, it's a bit of a puzzle to me," he admitted. "You go out for a midnight walk—a thing you have never done before—and when you !come hack you find somebody has got into your house by means of a ltolen latch -key and murdered some- body else in your conservatory. Ac- cording to that, two people must have entered the ]louse." "That's logic," David admitted. "There can be no murder without the slain and the slayer. My impres- sion Is that somebody who knows the ways of the house watched me depart. Then he lured his victim in here under pretence that it was his own house—he had the purloined latch-key—and murdered him. Au- dacious, but a far safer way than doing it; out of doors." But Marley's imagination refused to go so far. The theory was plau- sible enough, he pointed out respect- fully, if tho assassin Had been as- sured that these Midnight rambles were a matter of custom. The point was a shrewd one, and Steel had to admit it. He almost wished now that lie had suggested that he often took triose midnight rambles. He 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." Be prevaricated without Hesitation. His adventure in Brunswick Square could not possibly have anything to do with the tragedy, and nothing would ba gained by betraying that trust. "I'11 run round to the hospital and come and see youagain 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 cigar -case of yours behind. Sir James Lythem had ono stolen like that at the last races, and he valued it at 180," "I'll come as far as the hospital with you," said Steel. At the bottom of the flight of steps they encountered Dr, Gross and the policeman. The former handedover to Marley a pocket -book and some papers, together with a watch and chain. "Everything that we could find upon hirn," he e'cpleined. "Is the poor fellow dead yet?" David risked. No," Cross replied. "He was stabbed twice in the back in the re- gion, of the liver. I could not say for sure, but there is just a cihance that ho may recover, But one thing is pretty certain it will be a good time before 110 is in a position to say anything for Himself. Good -night Mr. Steel," David went indoors thoughtfully, with a general feeling that something like a hand bad grasped his brain and was squeezing it like a sponge. He was free from his calking anxiety now, but it seemed to him t11at he was paying tl, heavy price for 1115 M- arty, Mechanically, he counted out the banknotes, and almost as mecb- &Ideally he cut his initials on the gunl-metal inside the cigar -case. lie was one of the kind of men who like to have their initials everywhere. ITo snapped the lights out and went to bed at last, 3313 not to Moo, The welcome dawn canto at length and Devid took his bath gratefully. He would have to tell his mothor what had happened, sup- pressing all reference to the Bruns- wick Scuttles episode, It was not a pleasant story, but Mrs. Stool as- similated it at length over her early. tea and toast. "It might have been you, my, dear," she said, idle. "And, in- deed, it Is a dreadfulbusiness. Dat why not telephone to the hospital and ask how the peon fellow is?" The patient teas better, but lege still en en unconscious eonditicn,; (To be Ceetinnesl.) of bots] quantty ead quality of each cow's milk, I have learned that bet- tor care and feeding will produce bete t T it teemto do ter cows. he time this 00100nts to but very little and will detect the robbers in the Herd. I have learned in the past 5easaal8 that my cows running in the pastnr0 would fall off gradually for four ce five weeks, ']'hest, after a good shower, they wadi go back to their former' yield per day. If 11fad sup- plied them with feed Mitring that time my profit would have been greater. It pays to get a good dairy breed, 'Ph'ev are generglty sof a kinder die - Position, and when you feed a dairy cow she will show it In the talk Pail, and not in the laying on of flesh. With the beef breed it is just the reverse. It pays better to run a dairy without a dog; the cows are quiet- er. A dog that nips their heels will cause kicky cows. '['be moment ane touches the cow's lege while milking, she will kick, thinking the dog lo after her. I used to think it was Impossible to get along without a dog to thrive the cows, but since we have been without one the cows are much quieter and do not offer to kick. I have no fault. to find with a dog for stock cattle. It pays to keep the cows and also the stable clean. by having a floor o1 some kind and a gutter 16 or 18 inches wide behind the cows. It Is then an easy matter to keep the cows and stable clean. 'The barn should be cleansed both morning and night. The heifer calf that is kept in a clean and dry place till she be- comes a cow will not lie in filth if she eau help it, • Also, if a heifer calf is provided with clean water, end not allowed to drink out of a puddle. it will be hard to get her to drink filthy water. I have five Jer- sey nous calif one heifer that were kept and raised in a pasture that had only a mud puddle for them to drink out of, and after I got them they would drink out of a mud pud- dle before they would drink out of a ' ink. None of the other cows would do this. 13y feeding the cows after milking the milk will not have any disagree- able odor from the feed we may give them. In my part of the country we are bothered Crory much with wild onions, or garlic, in the pas- tures, and for a few weeks in the spring we can hardly use either milk or butter. But when we take the 00205 off the pasture three or four hours -before milking, the smell of the onions cannot be detected IN THE MIMIC OR BUTTER. `Ir,,,..„......„.........:„....„...,l 1 JIFALTH 1 t......................1 ' DANt:I:rl1.B IN O1131AI't CATVDIV.S. good Sugar beets and sugar beet leaves or tops may be very good feed, but must be fed carefully, or they will cause the milk to have a peculiar smell. They should not be fed heav- ily if cows are kept in the barn all the time, o1 account of the strange odor they cause. Tops make 11111011 better feed if cured, but if fed very heavy it will tante a long time to churn the creator. I have learned that a calf given alfalfa hay es soon as it will eat it will make a better calf than if foil any other roughage I have ever fed, I have raised as good calves on se- parator milk, oil cake, and alfalfa hay, as can be raised running with the cow, 031 cake and alfalfa hay are cheaper than butter /at. I hare learned that it will take years to build up a very good dairy herd, and that we must be very careful in breeding or purchasing our herd. My plain in staring out would 1)e to purchase goad heifers just a. little before they become fresh. By careful selection and care one can build up a good herd in a few years. I have learned a great deal in the past years; no doubt only what others in the dairy business have learned years ago. I expect to learn a groat deal more 31 I stay in the business. I intend to stay at it too. 1 find that it rcgndree our at- tention every day. We have no days off. IVe do not have to wait till the end of the year for the harvest. It conies every day, It is a very good teacher to teach one to attend strictly business. When we are working by the month o1' day, and stop, our pay stops, too. We would lay off a great many clays if we could make the dairy pay and lay off, too. In the dairy business, if we neglect our work for one day, we not only sufi'or loss that dale, but for days to come. 1 tInd it is a very good busi- ness for one that has a family grow- ing up. One can teach the Children to be industrious and lhelpfcul. I have learned that I cannot tell the boys to go and do this, but when I am with the boys and say come let's do this or that thing we can accomplish something. My wife and I expect to have a day oft' once in a while by and by, and know that the wot'1c will not be neglected. It is an occupation that Is helpful, be- cause you Have the pure articles of food, pure milk, pure butter, and good veal anal plenty of exercise. These will make the doctors wish they had a few cows to milk. It bottle all rho drug esteblishirnents 311 the world for health, neither do we need drugs to keep the pure article sweet, We draw it freeli every twelve hears, What better ;Io you (10 for yourself and family. - Some mon get under a cloud for the purpose of swiping the silver lining. "That was a great, 50heme old Shrewdly wonted." "Didn't shear of it," "Oave it out that the first one of his 0.0500 daughters to be married should have his entire fortune," "What was the result?" "Eleven elopements In ono night, They can't determine which ono was the first, so Shrewdly gets rid of the girls and. keeps the fortune" IIINL A. Ws CHASE'S ce CATARRH CARi:... i. cent dlr.t, to the ctt855nei eperrrtss b7 she ire pane Blower. leash the Woecq dentia she eir encee8e, stepn reapplies. le the team 14 sietweenctiygerc. CeeethandffiYaeYltever, ulama lite, yeq aia, wept. 1. W,,Chese Utelelas Ctl.. Tereate wind leek* Cheap candies are not onily often poisonous, lett are badly adtliterhlto cilli glucose, r"ornstarCJL and 1 clay, writes Prof. 1.,ouis 33, Allyn, A. sample recently purchased contained nearly live per cent, of the fatter s e.n Glucose or sterols, sugar cub t ce u t is now produced in enormous quanti- ties, both in this country and in flermany, from corn or potato I starch, 1t is used chiefly in table syrups, candies, as food ter bees, in brewing and in adulterating honey. The process of manufacture is inter- esting, and le short is es follows .1 The starch is boiled with dilute sul- phuric acid from fifteen minuted to two hours, according to the apparee tut used; the longer the agebert the greater t'tteapereentage 01 ghees° ))lre- dKced, 'Itis excess acrid is moneyed by treating the solution with chalk, animal charcoal, and by faAltex R1ue filtered solution is evaposated a syrup coye(iistency and sent to the market under the name of "glucose" "mixing syrup," etc. When evapor- etod to dryness the solid product is known to commerce as "grape sug- ar." The main question is whether candy made from glucose is unwhole- some? The answer is, it is not, provided guch glucoee.1as beep freed from possible arseeical contamination through the sulphuric acid used, the lime removed, and provided the re- prehensible practice of bleaching with sulphurous acid has not been followed. Candy made from glucose may frequently be detected by eta leek of sweetness and Be extreme brittleness. Much of the stick can- ny, is composed largely of glue:ose, to which a smaii quantity of cane sugar has been added to increase its sweetness. A. great deal of palata- ble and berm/see coefectionexy con- tains the 'better quality of giuwse. One can often 'find cheap gena drops made from glu00se and cornstarch field together by ordinary gine, the taste of the latter disguised by the flavor employed. The bast guru drops are made from cam sugar and gum arabic. A curious form of adulteration is met with in some of the inferior productions sold as "lic- orice." The essential ingredients do many cases are burnt flour, glue, cornstarch and caramel. This com- bination often becomes practically insoluble. It is an instructive ex - 1 periment to try to dissolve Some of this cheap "licorice" in hot water. Tlie results lead oue to consider its effect on the delicate digestive or- gans of a child. SOMETHING ABOUT BATHING. Exercise before bathing, so that you feel comfortably warm. Allow at least three hours to elapse after a full meal before taking a full bath. Every foams of warm bath, whether general or local, should be followed by cold -water application of equal extent -but only for a moment of time, in the rase of general baths. The, weekly worm bath of theft who take a cold bath daily should. last not more than ten minutes. Chilliness after a bath indicates that it has done harm rather. than good. Find out the cause, and do not repeat it. Train yourself gradually to the use of the cold bath, beginning with tepid water, and decreasing the tenn- pers•ture by degrees from 'clay to day. After patty drying with the towel, vigorously rubbing with the ]ands until quite dry will usually prevent chilliness ASPARe.GIIS AS A MED/CINE. 'Asparagus is a '(11010115, an antil- !that, aperient and deobstrusat; it will make more urine, and seems to have the pewee, of removing vast quantities of mucus adherent to t1ie bladder and urinary passages. 211 the spring, when the young roots are tender, there is no remedy in our material medics that equals it, es a cleaner of the kidneys and urinary tract. MILLET FOR SWINT'iM, The South Dakota. leoperiment Sta- tion has issued a bulletin giving the details of an experiment carried of to determine the value of millet as a food for fattening hogs in cern- parietal with wheat and barley. The summary of conclusions reached aro as follows : 1. Millet seed can , be sown profit- ably as a fattening ration for swine,. 2. It does not furnish as good a ration as either barley or wheat for swine. 3. On account of being so well adapted to the conditions iu this state, and so palatable a feed, it should have a place in the rotation of crops on every stock farm, 4. It was 1101 so profitable to fees for a period of 84 as it sons 56 days as the rate of gain deeresed. • 5. The carcasses of the lot fed an millet were clothed with pure white fat of supel'ior quality as compered With the fat of those fattened on barley o1' wheat. 6. It required one-fifili more millet than it did barley meal and a trifle more barley meal than it iia wlleet to make a pound of gain. 7. A bushel of 56 pounds of 'millet- is equal to a bushel of 48 pounds pf barley for hog feed. 8. Millet metal produced a Softer quality of fat than did either barley or wheat meal, la, Millet meal was fond not to be so good for fattening ration as barley nidal or Wheat mend during extremely cold weather. WORLD'S 1I03*'iS'i' I44ON•U14IiuNT. This is in the pity of 1V•mlhington, and t0 the memory of the great man atter whom the city is named, Tim gigantic raomnees11 is 555 ft, high, 55 ft, square at the base, and e0., Jab* 118,000blocks aI1' lMarble2 .. Cast thick. In the interior are a lift and fifty Sights of stain's, eighteen steps