The Brussels Post, 1897-1-29, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST. JAN. 29, 18eq
OGILVIE WRITTLECH.URCH1
attaYmit IV. ,
The Ma1iaranee did win the race, and
low lay esfely secured alongside the
wheal. The crew have gone; and the
officers, who are now at breakfast in
the cuddy have only to send in their
store accounts and turn the ahietour
to the owners' agents, before they.
.well be fres to go home. iaih ton two
post ,his brought Reni g
letters, The one be opens first is in a
lady's hand -writing: Monday.
ROSE COTTAGE,
Dear Old Georgie,—Why don't
come home? Mother and 1 go to the sta-
tion
t -tion about sixty, times a. day
ry to
impress on her that you're not worth.
it; but I know we shall go on doing
so until your majesty deigns to hon-
our us with your preseceee• But your
poor sister's spirit is not yet quite crush-
ed,
rushed, and she doesn't mean to wear out
her best pair of shoes for nothing. So
bo advised in time, sir. Take the first
train north, and throw; yourself on tbe
mercy of the court. Remember tthe cold
pigs that somebody g last
r.
Forward, whom you introduced deto s
goodin Scotland, hes been here a
when he has been on leave. Els father
is the nicest old gentleman you ever
saw. They have been awfully kind to
us, and take us out in a.littic yacht of
theirs. We went to Rubin Hood's Bay
in her last week; it was so jolly 1 Col-
onel Forward says that he hopes you
;will come in her a lot, if ,rou do not
have enough of the sea at other times.
-The post is just going, so I must make
this letter a short one, and say good-
bye.—Your affectionate sister,
Mary.
The other letter was from Parkins:
Monday, Sept. 12.
GRAND HOTEL,
Dear Rienington,—It seems that we
were entirely on the wrong scent. Our
Ogilvie Whittlecbmeh is at present in
a solicitor's offiee. 1319 father and
mother are both alive, and be has no
first -cousins. Be is going to look me
up to -morrow. Come clod lunch with
us at one o'clock.—Yours very sincerely,
John Parkins.
2.S.—Where the right man is remains
a mystery.
Rimiington had a good deal to do that
forenoon, and could not help arriving
rather later than the hour which Par-
kins had named. He found them wait-
ing lunch for him. It was so long since
he had seen Whittlechuaeh, that it re-
quired some effort of memory to re-
call his appearance; but, this made, he
fancied that in the young man before
him he could still trace some resemb-
lance to the little fellow he had known
so long ago at school.
Lunch was served in the dining -room,
and afterwards they retired to Parkins'
sitting -room for cigars and coffee. Dur-
ing lunoh the conversation bad been
chiefly about Parkins' adventure at
Wangtsing, and now it egain drifted
back to the same topic.
"Well," said Parkins, "this shall be
a warning to me never ;wean to eon -
fuse probability with certainty. That
:there should be another Whittlecburob
in the world is only likely; but that
*here should be another Ogilvie Whit-
iileohairoh of about your age, not arela-
tion, I thought impossible."
But I have suspected his existence
far a long time," quietly put in the
young solicitor.
You have!" exclaimed at once both
Rimxington and Parkins.
"Yes. Don't you remember ths,t wvhen
Iwaskinked out of Oiswick, old Layiton
said that he had seen my name out on
one of the apple trees 1 was supposed
to have robbed."
"But hadn't you been there?" asked
Parkins.
"No, I had not; and to this day, I
remember my indignation when the
doctor refused to believe me. The ques-
tion then arises: how did the name get
there? And to this question there are
only two possible answers, Either one
of the fellows at school owed me a
grudge, and carved it ; or else some one
of the same name had been in that very
orchard the same afternoon. A cynic
would say .that the first answer was
the more likely; but I prefer to believe
the second."
"There are blackguards everywhere,"
said Rimington. "But it a fellow did
carve your name, and then allow you to
be expelled without saying a word, he
must have bean a very black sheep in-
deed. Why, a fellow who could do a
thing like that as a youngster, would
have murdered a man or robbed abank
before he was. twenty. Under ordin-
ary:eireumstances, however, I should be
inclined to accept the first theory. That
there should be another fellow of your
name, and that that fellow should have
been at a certain place at a certain
t'me, is too much to assume. But now
the case is altered. We know for a cer-
tainty that there is, or, at anyrate, that
there was another OgilvieWhittle-
church. Is it, then, more likely that
:this individual was at a certain place
at a certain time, or that one of the GIs -
;wick fellows, was, for his age, one of the
most utter sneaks and blackguards that
ever stepped l-,WLat do you say, Par-
kins?"
I won't' venture an opinion; but
what I will do is to write to Pryer the
detective, wba is employed about this;
and will be for him to decade Whether
the trace is worth following up.'
After some further conversation, Rim-
iegton and Whittleohurah took leave of
.their host, who promised to write and
imform them of anything which happen-
ed in the matter.
From the Grand hotel in Northum-
berland Avenue to Gatti's cafe at Char-
ing Cross, is not five minutes' walk;
yet, while Parkins and his friends were
still sitting over their coffee at the for -
sem establiehreent, Mr. Pedro Bersano,
at the latter, was waiting for Charles
lyiiller, able seaman, who was to meet
hies there at three o'clock. Thus does
chance delight in "impossible" coincid-
ences. Whale, however, Parkins, Rim-
ington, and hWittledhureh were quite
disinterested parties,, actuated solely by
a not unneturol desire to follow to its
conclusion, and, if possible, facilitate the
unravelleng of a mystery which bad
been so .remarkably thrust under their
notice, Mr, Bersano, on the central',
o ansiderabie
bar and a continental cafe. In sbappe it
er dimension being parallel to Valises
is long and somewhat narrow, its great-
Street,
erivernthe Entering .at
door onetheslo t
leading into the restaurant. Then comes
the lair, w1iob extends about belt the
length of the room. On a level with the
upper and of the bar there is a sort of
semi -partition, whish more or less di-
vides the room into two parts, Above
this, again, is the door wbivlt leads to
the ladies' cloak -room on the lett. Be-
hind the bar, two Babes are in attend -
awe; and an Italian waiter looks to the
wants of those visitors who prefer to
patronize the numerous little marble
tables which are scattered, in true Nea-
politan style, about the apartment.
When Mr. Bersano arrived, it want-
ed ten minutes to three, and the cafe
was absolutely deserted. Ile called for
a tankard of lager, end sat down at a
table opposite the bar, He had not long
to wait. At about five minutes to ttxee,
Miller entered by the upper door, glanc-
ed round and then accosted him: "Are
you Mr. 'Bersano ?"
"I am.—And you, I presume, are Mr.
Miller? Come over here." So saying, he
led the way to the farther corner of
the room, where they would be out of
hearing of any stray customers.
"Now, valet is your business?"
"I'm thiwsty."
"Porter?"
"To begin with"
The porter was brought and paid for,
then Bersano continued: "You say that
you have information of great impor-
tance to me. What is it ?'
Taim't nothing to be given away."
"Indeed! And may I esk the reserve
price?"
"A 'hundred pounds,"
"You are drunk."
"And yet, I don't speak so extraor-
dinary thick. There's others will give
Inc just as much alor it."
"Others will give you just as much,
will they ? In what way does !your in-
formation concern me?"
Twealdn't do you any 'arm if acer-
tain Ogilvie Whittleoharch was found,
by any chance, would it, mister 1"
Cool and sharp -wilted as he was, Ber-
sano could not help an involuntary
start at this sentence. The man evi-
dently did know something, and he had
not come on a fool's errand, after all.
Instantly recovering himself, he re-
plicd: 'Txue • it will be slightly to my
advantage if they fail to find him."
"It would make you a millionaire?"
"Well, not quite; but I have yet to
learn in what way you can be of service
to me in the matter. So fax you have
toed me nothing that I did not know
already"
For reply, the other tapped his tank-
ard.
"More porter.?"
"Rum.—Ah 1 that's more wvarmim'.
'Ere's at yer, ulster."
"Well?"
?"
"I can give yer the w.bereabouts of
this chap for a hundred quid; and if
yer don't like that—well, I'll give 'in
the straight tip about the will."
I conclude, 'however, that he knows
his own name, and will be fast enough
to answer when they advertise for hire."
"Young men don't read the papers—
leastways, not carefully—and there ain't
nobody but an ofd bloke to point it out.
You see. 'e don't call 'imself Ogilvie
Whittleahurch."
Weil, I accept ,your terms. When
I have your information, I will give you
a hundred pound."
"Yes?—I don't think. We'll put it
Vetter way, please. You shall out the
shimmers,—then 111 spin the yarn."
"As you will. But I don't carry the
Balk o (England about with me, so you
must come to my rooms."
Both men were now in earnest. As
soon as they were safely inane of Ber-
sano's rooms, he produced without fur-
ther goggling a cash -box, from which
he took fifty sovereigns, and five tan-
pouad Bank of England notes, and hand-
ed them to Miller.
dered its wearer completely moire from
the airy of the elements. Ile took, a
handbag with bias, and left directions
Lar the rest of his Luggage to be for-
warded in the morning.
It wasindeeda te'rlele night; end the
weather was repitbly becoming worse,
The wield blew in sudden, gusts aver the
elites from seaward, while at the, foot
of them the angry waves brolce wttb a
deafening roar, which promisee but
little mercy to any ship wlpich, through
bad seamanship or unfortunate cironm-
stamees, should be wreoked that night
upon the coast, Happily,, the quiet
wbieh reigned both at he ifeboat abed
and the rocket -apparatus house was a
sign that, as yet at anyrate, no vessel
had fallen a prey to the tempest.
,His thoughts as be walked turned nat-
urally to the home be was approach-
ing, and to his mother and Mary
but a sailor can appreciate that word
home In its true sense? In all MS wan-
derings, to ail his .h:ardshipa, the
thought of it is there, shining
ahead like a gaidiog star, a beacon
of hope, Coming up channel on , n.
dirty night, the wind cutting him like
a knife, the snow blinding him, and
with every chance of a collision at
any moment, bo remembers that be
is only a few flours off England, and
the thought cheers hien up, Reming-
ton knew that they were not expect -
leg bim till the next morning, and he
amused himself by thinking of their
surprise when he turned up, He Inp-
Cured to himself his mother, sitting in
her armchair by the fire with Mary
on the rug at her feet, working or read -
mg. Then would come his knock at
the door, and they would wonder who
it could be at that time of night. But
their wonder would not be for bong.
Mary would have guessed that it must
be bim, and be peeping from the top
of the stairs when the maid let him
in. Then what a kissing and hugging
and asking of questions 1 Flow, he
would enjoy his supper that evening,
and bis pipe after it, sitting with his
mother and sister by the fire. He was
now nearly there; and just as he ar-
rived at the little iron gate leading
into the garden, he was rather surpris-
ed to hear, during a temporary lull,
the sounds of a piano, and—yes, there
was no doubt'about it—a man's voice
singing to its accompaniment. Who on
earth could it be? He eemaimed listen-
ing for a fete seconds with the gate
open, and was just going to recluse
it after him when, as he turned to
do so, his attention was drawn to the
figure of a mace stonding a little way
off in the path alongwhich he had
come. There would have been noth-
ing very strange in. this, but that be
had happened to notice on his way that
he was the only individual on the cliff.
'Some one who has walked across
tbe common, I suppose," he thougbt,
"to see whether there is a wreck, and
get a blow through."
Just then, however, to his intense
astonishment, he saw the man delib-
erately lie down on the ground. "By
J ove!" he thought, "the fellows in
liquor. _ I can't leave bim there, or
he'll either die where he lies before
morning, or else wake up and fall over
the oliff." So, hastily aeclosing the
gate, he started forth, like a good Sa-
maritan, to rescue the unfortunate
wight from his perilous position.
(To Be Continued.)
The latter then proceeded to give his
information, which ne did faithfully and
fully, and without omitting a single de-
tail; and explained also how the story
of the will, and Bersano's address had
come to his ears.
The other load grasped the situation
before he had half finished, and was
busy maturing a scheme of action while
he listened. A shrewd unscrupulous
cosmopolitan, familiar with the ways
and customs of every state in Europe
and America, he knew that England was
the worst, from his point of view, in
which this could have happened. In
France, Germany, or the United States
of America, iris course would have been
simple. He would have introduced him-
self -to Forward under an assumed name,
picked a queers' with •him, and shot
bim. In other parts of America, a hun-
dred dollars would have paid for a few
inches of steel, which would bave done
the business with even less trouble. But
in England—in England, one has to be
discreet in these little matters. How-
ever, something must be done.
When Miller had finished, he was ris-
ing to go.
ris-
ing
said the other, looking at
him fixedly. ' You wave been of
groat service to me, but you can be cf
greater service still."
'Ow's that?"
"You say that he lives at Wbitby?"
"Yes."
"The cliffs are high on the coast?"
"Yes,,"
"And overhanging1"
"In some places,—Why?"
"Merely curiosity. But you must be
thirsty. I have some excellent brandy
in the cupboard here; will you try a
glass?"
Miller nodded.
"Water1"
"No."
had, 05 we know/ a v ry o
personal interest in the question. Miller
also was bent on bustness,ineemueh as
he had no isitentioli at giving his infor-
elation for nothing.
Gatti's" is something of a compro-
mise between an English refreshment
BR GARDNER'S LECTURE
The Veteran Saeal.er Airs 121s Views on
Goodness fielere 111.x• cane
"My areas," said Brother Gardner,
as he motioned to Samuel Shin to raise
an alley window, and lock the doors,
" it is wid mingled feelin's of pleasure
and sorrow dat I announce to you de
death of de Hon. Comeback Thompson,
who has bin a member of dis Lime-
I{iln Club fur de past ten Mars. I feel
to rejoice dot he are through wid life's
trubbles an' hes gwvine to a better land,
an' I sorrow dat be didn't bey a better
time doorin' his so,iourn on airth.
HE WAS A GOOD MAN.
was Min' in one eye 1 Only three or
to' platoons wiaitod him doorin' his
illness, an' one keeraga hold all de
mourners dat followed 'him to lila
grave. Just befo' we lea de house fur
do sad journey a man arrove fur do
purpose of borrowin' do cook stove fur
a week or two, an' when he Yarned
dat Brudder Thompson was dead be
also wanted to borrow de baok doah
an' two beds. Takin' not only dis case,
but my own experience an' dot of
others, I'm free to say to yoclic
evenin' dat goodness don't pay, It
not
am my aerbeastoo an'good; Dairiest ere advio0ain't to yoany'
money in it. Dere ain't any ggratitood
in it. Dere ain't any satisfacicahun in
it. Bain' too good means comin' down
from roast beef an' sweet iters, to a
mighty thin porridgeand crust coffee.
Be goo dap to a sartin' pint, but neb-
ber 'go beyond it. If a naybur sends
yo' a free ticket to a cakewalk yo' kin
reciprocate by sending 'brim a pound of
dried apples, but stop right Mbar'. If
yo' should send bim a ten -dollar box
to do theatre, he'd only look upon yo'
as a soft snap. In de y'ars gone by I
took Braider Thompson as an example
an' tried to be as good as he was. It
didn't take me but t'hr'ee months to
diskiver dat I was gallopin' to de poor-
house. If I borrowed a dollar of a
friend 'he turned aroun' an' axed fur a
loan of five. If I told a man I believed
in his hoonur, lie got my money an' I
got 'his word. If I accepted a pump-
kin -pie, from a naybur, I soon found
dat 'he wanted to borrow my mewl fur
a week to make eben. I 'had to quit
bein' too good or lib on roots.
HOW BAD SHOULD ONE BE?
"Don't be too good, an' don't bo too
bad. Dar's a happy medium which yo'
kin strike if yo' figger a tootle• I went
to work to figger, an' I think I've got
t.
"If yo' want to trade mewls wid a
may a11ms fix it so dart 930'11 cum to yo'
fust. In dat case he won't be half so
apt to look fur spavins on yo'r mewl.
"1 nebber beat a church out o' my
pew rent, but five pennies will make
mo' clatter on de contribnshhm plate
dan a ten -dollar bill.
, If yo' h0v a old hoe an' yo' naybur
has a new shovel, anus be de dust to
offer to lend.
De 'higher rates of interest yo'
charge a man who wants to borrow
money, de quicker yo' kin discourage
him from aloin bizness outside de
banks.
TE yo' want
to buy of a man, wait
till he am hard up an' am obieeged to
seel. If you am '!pard. up an' want to
sell doan' lot anybody know it.
"Be seen at church ebery Sunday as
a rule, but if der am any money to be
picked up around a circus or a 1088 -
race don't let naiffin' keep yo' away.
T don't advise you to bet or play
poker but, if yo' win $25 on a Presiden-
shul 'leckshun or de same. amount on
fo' aces, it's a beep better to put it
in de bank dan to gib it back to de
man who lost it.
11 my milkman should gib me a
dime too much in makin' change, I
should return de overplus to him, but
if X should find de wallet of a cap-
italist on de sidewalk, I should con-
sider dat I was ahead of de game.
If de street kayr conductor holds
out lais hand to me I pay my fare, but
it he overlooks me I am a nickel ahead.
"I wouldn't buy counterfeit money
to pass off on de !public, but when I
find myself stuck wid a bad bill I don't
fell easy in my mind 'till I :bey got rid
of it.
" As I said to yo', don't be too good
an' don't bo too bad. De too good
man am a puddin' fur de hull world
to eat at, while de too bad man has to
put out all of his money to de lawyers
to keep him outer prison. Jest find out
de betwixt and between—de pint whar
ye kin make about twenty per Dent.
profit on all yo' do fur mankind an' yit
be so well thought of that yo' will be
prominent at a county convenshun an'
de postmaster won't ea fur any refer -
once when yo' go to rent a box. Let
us now break de meettn' in two an' go
hom."
" Brudder Thompson was a good
man in all sat de term implies, 0.0'
'dat's de reason he was glad to go when
death bad called him. An experience of
sixty y'ars 'bad proved to him dot
goodness didn't pay one per cent. on
de capital invested. I knowed him
fur ober fifty y'ars, an' I knowed ail
his pecooliarities . Doorin' his life-
time ke lent to his teens an' nayburs,
400,287 umbrellas, and the nebber got but
two of 'em back, and dot was by acci-
dent. For twenty y'ars he Jibed next
doah to a woodyard, an' nebber stole
a splinter, an' yet the woodyard man
wouldn't eben send a bunch of roses
to his funeral. He figgered. up dat in
fo'ty y'ars he lost 720,000 wvatermil-
lyons from his garden, an' yit no man
was ginerous 'nuff to leave de rinds
behind to feed de pig. He nebber
lent this wheelbarrer dat it didn't git
broke, an' he nebber lent his crowbar
dat he didn't hen a lawsuit to git it
book. If he lent $2 do pusson who
borrowed it atlas run away or got
struck by lightin'. If bo borrowed a
dollar de lender allus jumped on him
avid boat feet to git it back. If Brud-
der Thompson ever got ready to go to
a circus or a picnic some naybur got
kicke'1 by a mewl or run ober by a
street kayr, an' de ole man would sac-
rifice his pleasure to act as nurse and
consoler. Dar was 0(pole in de side-
walk in front of -his house, an' fur
twenty y'ars he hung a lantern on his
gate to warn pedestrians Agin the peril.
Not only was be laughed at, fur his
pains, but de lantern was stolen so
often dat de ole man had to go widout
'tams and sugar to buy new ones.
People who stole de eowcumbers from
his lectle garden, an' got a case of de
colic bad de cheek to send to his bouse
fur remedies, an' mo' dan fifteen die-
erent tamales used his washbo'cl, his
flat -irons an' Ms Eine comb, As a good
man—e man wiba wanted to do de
sense' thing by his feller man—Brud-
der Thompson was at de head 01 de
purceeblun. Nobber in all de y'ars I
know'd him did be cease dohs' good
or utter one complaint about de wvay
de world used him.
GOODNESS DOESN'T PAY.
" An' do odder day 180 was called
home. One of e1e last things be did
"X see you appreciate it.—Have an-
other?" And without waili.n6 for a re-
ply, ho refilled the glass. !Glen he con-
tinued: 'Lets see what was it We were
talking about•?—Oh,, yes, the cliffs at
Whitby—I wonder' rf people often fail
over themwish this fallow would;
but of course he won't, I would give
a thousand pounds to know that be bad
done so."
Their eyes met.
Make it two."
"I will draw you a chegue for fif-
teen hundred, dated ten Clays hence. If
the account of a certain dreadful ac-
cident does not appear in the papers
before that date, it will he stopped."
And if 'e aim't at Whitby?"
"'Wolf then, he might possibly fall
over a °lief somewhere else, or even into
a canal—life is so uncertain."
Two days after this intex'view,Georgo
Xlimington was able to leave London
for the North, end arrived at Whitby
station at about nine o'clock in the even-
ing. It was rather more than two miles
to Rose Cottage; but feeling rather stilt
and crimped after his journey, he chose
to walk, notwithstanding that the night
was stormy and threatened rain. In
view of the hatter ho took the precau-
tion to put on a big Mutating overcoat,
which was strapped up with his rug. It was to lend an naylnom his washtub and a certificate of character
was a good thick coat, at old friend, h bars, an' do ale man was skass- ltirssiana put d t
which lied stases Lim in good stead on clot es in the dead persons hand, so the no
dead bolo' sat naybur traded 'de apes 'alight be eased et the gate
ted with an enarmoue hoed, that ren , things off fur a yeller parrot w ie of heaven,
THE BANANA CURE.
THE FARM.
ABOUT WINTER DAIRYING,
" Are you still satisfied with winter
dairying?"—Is: a question frequently
asked me, writes John Gould to Country
Gentleman. After some ten years' trial
I am still satisfied, and on no consid-
eration would X go back to the old plan
oe summer dairying. The reasons for
My abiding faitb in the practice I ask
your indulgence, to make public, though
T may say nothing but what has been
said over and over, and some little part
of which it is possible I may have had
my share in announcing from the plat-
form, or through the press. Winter -
dairying is simply dairying all the year
round instead of milking COWS in the
The ,inked iianivae Recommended as an
-1 rtxele of Pond and 0 L'ac'e: roe iblsease.
Besto w a boon on humanity and help
to popularize the baked banana as an
article of food for rich and poor, espcol-
ally the poor, says a writer in the New
York Sun- No poor child need go to
school hungry: One cent will buy a
good-sized banana, which, when baked
in its skin in an oven for fifteen or
twenty minutes until it is quite soft
and burst open, alone makes a full
meal., Now the baaoana sold at street
corners are really plantains. Hum-
boldt calculated the food product of the
plantain compared with the potato as
44 to 1, and compared to wheat as 193
to 1., I say from personal experience
that tba'ee bananas weighing one pound
are equal in nourishment to twenty-six
pounds of bread when baked.
Bananas should never be eaten raw;
they aro full of animal germs, and aro
productive of tape worm. Raw bananas
are very indigestible. Youngsters fed
o r raw bananas nearly always suffer
from diseases of the intestinal canal and
convulsions. I hysioians call such chil-
dern "banana babies."
Baked bananas aro also the ideal food
for nervous persons and anaemics, also
brain workers_ 1 learned their great
power to sustain mental effort in India.
If people who are under great mental
strain would an two mornings every
week include a couple of baked bananas
in their menu and leave outthe op
or steak, they ,would last longer. I am
as hard a brain worker as any person
in New York, and I have subsisted for
Years entirely on baked bananas, When
I see lean, blood -poor persons I advise
them to eat baked bananas, and they
unfa'llingly build up and gain flash.{
'Chis subject which might not inap-
propriately be called the "banana cure, '
because many diseases can be cured by
eating, baked bananas, merits the closest
invastigalious., Tho lntroduo1.ion of the
otato.was a great boon to the !people
lot al1 lair Akita and favoring breezes,•
rot
do ba pen to disturb one's beat
alculationa, but wirers there la a plan
tad a purpose, and calculations made'
.o meet possible mishaps, making a
study of the business m hand, taking
eaod dairy literature as a means to con-
firm judgment, and bringing new, tame
to the front, there' is yet profit in the
winter dairy, It is an emoting work,
qa,nd demands constant attention; It our
n,0yer succeed in pai'tnerabip with any
alli�oh farmer as once declared against
the dairy, on the ground that he want-
ed a kind o' farmin' that bo could stick
Into the ground, and then go to town
and play pitch while it was growvin',
reeeset a'
FAT AND ILI AN MEAT.
There is a great deal said about• fat
and lean meat production. As this is.
true, let us look at the matter for a
time and see bow it affects the farmer.
summer and then boarding them One great point advanced. in the mat -
through the winter. Since I have been ter is the healthfulness of the produce
winter dairying, there has not been a tion. The contrary conclusion must be'
day in the year in which milk in some
quantity bas not been taken to thenear-
at-band creamery, though it is my plan
to have all the cows freshen' in Septem-
ber, or possibly October. By the old
plan of March and April-ealviug cows,
Thanksgiving found them practically
dried off, ready for a four or five
months' rest, while by the other plan,
the cows on their uniform rations milk
well up to May, and then getting the
fresh grass of spring freshen up and
increase their yield, and for weeks my
herd milks in quantity per cow with
the full average herds, and this year
was the best milking herd at the cream-
ery up to about July 1011'. After that
the shrinkage of midsummer came on
and the long milking and gestation de-
manded that the cows should begin to
have their individual rests of six to
eight weeks; and they tben begin to
drop out of the herd, but before the
last of them bas ceased to give milk
the others have begun to freshen, and
the milk sales begin to increase again.
It may here be said by some one that
these cows are from long -milking
strains of blood; but the facts are that
the herd is one that bas been ,purchas-
ed from Smith, Jones and Robinson, and
selected wholly on the dairy form, sign
and appearance scale of whet a good
COW ought to be. Most of them have in
the past been summer cows, and it is
here made a matter of record that a
COW coming in during the autumn will
give as a rule milk eight to ten weeks
longer than if calving in April. Tbia is
a gain of so mush additional milk,
and lets -her rest in late summer when
produce is at the lowest price, and the
exertion the most active with the man
with the summer dairy, if be attempts
to maintain the flown of milk. As a
rule, the farmer has some available soil-
ing crop later on in the fail to feed
his fresh cows, and gets them into win-
ter with good messes of milk, which
he can then maintain with abundant
food and warm 'stables. Our own plan
is to 'have different varieties of fodder
corn, late millet, and some oats and
peas, sown late in August, to feed and
carry the cows into November and to
the silos on full flow of milk: and tben
by making the stables warm, and the
feeding and watering regular., have
summer' yields of milk for the next five
months. This is then followed by the
freshening made by the spring grasses,
and extension of the milk flow for sev-
enty-five days.
One of the things that we bave found
is that the Dost of a cow's keep in win-
ter can be made with the silo and the
feeding of the usual roughage Of the
farm, and oats and corn, exchanged
" with the usual boot" for fine bran,
not much, if any more than her sum-
mering; and there is a great deal of
difference in the profits if the cow is
converting her food into salable milk,
or staying with you for company, and
eating approximately as much as the
cow that is giving milk. In the best
conducted experiments, it was found
that the cows in full flow of milk con-
sume only 10 per cent. more food than
the dr cows if the latter wore kept
up to full weight and thrift, while ono
year with another winter milk is worth
a full third more than the milk of cor-
responding summer months. One of the
best things about winter -dairying is
that it gives increased opportunities to
mato winter a profitable season Inc la-
bor. 'There is more to do than just
feeding the cattle. There is something
to do that has a money return to it,
and a resulting ambition to make the
herd pay, that is not afforded in any
other line of fermi work falling in the
winter months; and as the cows need
much attention, there need be none of
the usual discharging of help an the
fall and oatah,as-catch-can in the sprbpg
for other help Toa certain extent, we
haw'o found that the milking and care
of the cows lessen as the season pro-
gresses, allowing full time for the rusb-
ing,farm work, and the demands of the
gran harvest, while the torrid heats
of August dog -days give almost total
exemption from dairy work. Now,
what has been demanded of me by the
dairy herd to make it satisfactory in
the winter? A warm, light, dry and
all-round comfortable stable, where it
never freezes ; easy stalls for the cows
and. water in the mangers; a plan of
having water at about 80 degrees for
the cows; a silo so that they can have
fifty pounds each of good ensilage daily
from November to May' roughage in
the form oe millet, oat straw, and the
rest Milder, there being no hay on the
bill of fare; grain in the form 01 bran,
w'bicil was purchased by, exchanging
oats for it at the rate, moludmg the
estimate of the Dost of grinding the oats,
true, let us look at the matter for a
toil of oats; some corn and oats ground
to footles a change, and now ancl then a
dash of oil meal to give relish to a
general sameness; regularity of feed-
ing, watering, cleaning stables and
minting; and the one outer essential—
that of keeping pure air in the stables,
and keeping down all odors by ventila-
tion, absorbent1, and the further use
Of land plaster and road dust in liberal
quantities. With such a stable, andxe-
gnlar care, I db not behove that more
than two Rill fends in twenty-four hours
are triennial, nor bleat any groat de-
gree of exorcise is ie demand for the
three ,severe winter months, Infaet,
I em inchnscl to the praetico of lotting
the cow take her ceerelse in the warn-
er weather, between April 15 and No-
vember 1. Of course winter-dauying is
but 1' predict that• the spreading of
the above facts over this country will
prove of still greater benefit.
STRANGE BURIAL CUSTOM
The Greenlondees know a thing or
two. In the belief that "a dog can
find its way anywhere" they bury ii
living dogin the same grave with a
dead child. The canine is supposed to
be used by the gild as a guide In the
other world. fl',be Australians pull
out the corpse's finger nails, and then
tie the heads to prevent its digging
its way out of the grave to engage in
the vampire business; The primitive
away a cold night-wvateh and was in- y h• b q
that fat meat is unhealthy and con-
sequently the fatter the animal be-
comes, the closer the meccas is to do-
cay. The aim is to get more lean meat
mingled with the fat. As' the animal
approaeb1s the market the experienced'
feeder feeds fat producing foods; in
fact, the cry has been in the main,.
to get the animate fat. It is accord-
ing to nature that the early growth of
meat producing animals should be main
ly that of the frame, bone and muscle,
but as it grows older the tendency tie
lay on fat increases. If, as growers, and
feeders, we would acknowledge this na-
tural law. we would get a better re-
turn for our work, and produce health-
ier meat. If we aim to produce health-
ier moat for the consumer, the animals.
carrying this meat must bo correspond
ingly healthy. Generally we believe
farmers regard the production of this.
marbled meat mare costly than the
mass of fat they usually try to send to.
market. We think they are in error
in this conclusion. One strong argu
ment in favor of feeding wheat to swine
was the superior quality of meat pro-
duced, as it was claimed that the pro-
duct was marbled to a much greater
extent than that made from corn alone.
Now that the wheat feeding will be a
thing of the past, for a time at ]east,
farmers will doubtless fall back into,
the old way of depending mainly on
corn. When wheat was fed, it was of-
ten the question whether to use wheat
or its by-products, as the price per ton
for each was about the same. Now
when farmers have ceased feeding wheat
they seem to have forgotten that these
by-products are so oheap and that they
are more valuable for producing lean
meat than the whole wheat. The whole
question with them appears to be how
to get rid of the immense amount of
corn they have. They reason that it is
so cheap that they cannot afford to buy
these other products to feed. With us
we feel that We cannot afford to da.
without them. In fact, we fear to try
to keep a lot of legs healthy without
their use.
In this direction there is mare in tbe
production of lean meat to the farmer
than there is in the advance is price
he will get for the superior quality 01
pork be puts on the market. Some one
else gets the profit when. the product is
marketed. The extra selling prioe that
one is led to bebeve will. come to the
farmer for his efforts in this direction
are in the main a delusion. With the
country buyer and shipper only the
quality of light and heavy weights are
considered, and all must be bought at
a low enough average to give hien the
advantage of the quality when they
reach, the market. While this is true
of the selling of such hogs, it is still
true that there is profit to the farmer
in produoing such pork. In producing
it there is less risk from disease, from
the fact that the foods necessary to
use must be more healthful in their na-
ture than those that produce fat. IC
we confine ourselves to the production
of pork,we do not find than a hog can
be profitably fattened (if he oan be
fattened at all) on grass, or foods that
are mainly albuminous in their nature.
But with.these we can build the frame,
and as they grow with a light labor
bill attached, and the animals harvest
them, the growth attained is cheaper•
than that made from crops of grain
that have a heavy labor bill attached
in harvesting them, and besides this the
animals are made strong and vigorous
from the exercise in harvesting the
green crops. Animals grown in this
wvay may be too lean in flesh to satisfy
epicurean taste., but whoa we know
that a grain ration with the succulent
food, gives a better return for both then
if they are fed separately, then we can
understand wiry it is to our advan-
tage to produce the kind of meat that
is in suciv high favor. In this way the
farmer should try to get his profit out
of it. So far es hogs e.re cotteerned, the
excessively fat hog is m bad repute,
Still the premium that we are led to
expect from pork fatted on scientific
principles, composed of a strip of lean
and Eat evenly divided, does not ma
terially develop in the interest of the
farmer when the market is
reached. But the farmer should
nob be discouraged on account of dila
feature of the business; but should
rather remember that the production
of tins kind of meat is in the lines
of bettor farming and healthier animals.
When a pig goes out to grass the ef-
fort should be made for him to have
es rice 'oastrre as is given tothe steer
being fitted for market. Giving hint
scant pasture and making up the de-
ficiency. with rich grain will not reach
the pointe aimed at.
UTILITY OF TH111 ELEPHANT.
In a certain sense elephants are still
used in battle by Indian troops, but they
are only used as beasts of burden and
draught for artillery; but years age
they warn used in the East as fight-
ing animals, and taughlt to swing chains
and bars of metal in their trunks.
esesa
A PROMISING CANDIDATE.
Do you think they will allow us to
scorch in the next world? asked the.
bin cic crank.
Some of youwell get a permit, sure,
amswvered his little wife, who bad long
been jealous of his wheel.
A STJIIIS'1'ITTJTB.
Hungry Guest, William, bane you any
canvas -back duck?
Waiter, Sorry, soh, but we ain't got
no canvasback duok to -day,
Well, bring me your next best thing.
Yes, soh, -WO ,got same 1/eeaolaiu'
trip0T eels,
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