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CHAPTER, NGIII.
TIM REV19LAxi0N,
" It was the act of 4 woman, Stratton,"
sold Brettleen with an apologetic smile,
"but ): am only a weak old man, and never
weaker than in those momenta,
"I could not have been there a moment,
anal must have gilded down, or you would
have heard,me, I came to and for a mo.
meat couldnot understand why I was
there. Thou all Dame book with overwhelm-
ing force, and I crept back to the panel to
look through.
"You were returning from the door, and
the next moment were standing by the
body, with the pistol in your hand, an-.
parentlyunharmed; and then,to my horror,
it seamed as if you were about to use the
weapon upon youraelt; but to my intense re.
lief I caw you thrust it into your pooket,and
then stand by the body ee if reit of sense,
utterly helpleae ae to what course to
pursue. While sharing your mieery 1 for-
got my intentions of Beaking help ; and
nerving myself for the encounter I was
about to come round, but your looks chain.
ed me to the spot, and, utterly helpless
now, I stayed there watching your wild
countenance and reading ite meaning, se
with an eager, hunted look you went to
the outer door, opened it, and etood look-
ing down. Then carefully closing both,
you went to thewindow to peer out furtively
from the aide of the blind. ae if to make
out whether by any possibility anyone
could have overlooked the scene.
"I knew that you had some plan in mind
by your actions, and it rapidly dawned on
me what it was, as, like cue suffering from
nightmare I stood watching, with the
cold sweat gathering on my face, ae I sew
you go toward the other side of the fire.
place, come into eight again and take a
chair in the same direction.
"I soma divined, though, that it was to
hold open the door, sad now came the her -
e'er of the scene,"
Stratton tittered a low groan as he sat
there with his face buried in his hands, and
Brettison went on :
"I was all clear to ma now. You were
seeking for a way out of your terrible
dilemma by concealing the body, and I
looked on, speechless with horror, as I.saw
you stoop to seize the arms, droop forward,
and fall across the chest."
"I was faint from my hurt," said Strat.
ton, almost in a whisper.
" But you rose directly, and I saw you
drag the body toward the door of your
bathroom, and,ae if drawn there to know
the rest, I came back here and stood listen-
ing by that loose panel, where the scene
stood out a, vividly before me as if I were
in the same room."
Stratton groaned, while, excited by his
narration, Brettison went on :
"Yon were evidently faint stili, and
weak, for I heard you atop again and again,
only to resume the dreadful task of drag-
ging the body along the floor, till at last
you stood within a few feet of me, and I
could hear your labored breathing for a few
minutes, followed by a sound that I knew
to be the throwing bank of the bath lid ;
and then followed what you know -that
horrible struggle with a weight with which
you were not fit to cope. A minute later
the lid was closed and you abut and locked
the bath closet door, while I eat dowu,
faint and exhausted, to try and think out
what I should do.
"I must have sat there for a long time, for
I was roused by the sound of vetoes in your
room, and I heard the scene that took place
with the admiral. I knew that you fainted,
and that Guest tried the door which you
had locked ; and I shuddered ae I thought
of what that place contained, and how
easily the dieoovery might follow.
" But this time I had made up my mind
how toact ; and, after stealing outto get
the necessary tools, I waited my time and
eet to work. It was along taak,for I had to
work and not make a sound• but the
old fastening soon gave Way, and I draw the
door open and stood shivering in the narrow
place, with yours and Guest's words cam-
lug pltinly to me.
' At times you were angry, at other
times Gueat spoke loudly,and twice over he
had the outer door open to talk to people
on the landing.
" Those were my opportunities, and,
helped by strength I did not think I pos.
aeseed,I worked on, dragging the body out
inch by inch, and lowering it down. A
dozen times over I felt that I must be
heard, but you were both too intent upon
yourselves, and your words often rose to a
quarrel on one side, and, as I sold, at such
times I worked, till at last I bore the man
through the door and laid him there."
He pointed to the heavy rug in front of
the fireplace, and, as if faecinated,Stratton
gazed at the epot.
" The rest of the task was lighter for
the moment; 1 had but to close the door,and
secure itslightly. Ileft the proper fastening
up till a future time, and 1'll tell you :hat
now -the fastening up took place at the
time when you working ehudderingly in
the dark, taking in cans of spirit, and
pouring them gargling and eahoing into
the bath ; and I heard all this, and,the final
ecrewing down of the lid and screwing up
of your door, I tell you 1 heard it all,boy,
and still worked on in your service." f
" In my service ?" said Stratton blankly, i
" Yea. Why did I do all this 1 Did I not I
know that in spite of all your suborning and 1
precautions, sooner or later the disoovary h
must be made. Was 1 to let you live on with v
that horror waiting always at your elbow, h
driving you mad with dread, as I felt it a
wee for your sake, boy, that I fought as I
din, and brought your vtatim out here,"
•' Tell me at eome what you did -with
a
" Let me toll you•my own way. Old men h
are tedious, Stratton, aud 1 em, 1 suppose, S
no exception to the rule. However, 1 will
be brief, for I am torturing you, I fear, I e
reeked my Braine for hours and evoked t
dozens of plane, but there was always eome
terrible obstacle in the way, and et last I b
eat back here in utter despair, seeing s
nothing Lot tiro plain foot before me -that w
your wisdom was greater than mind, and d
that the only way ant of the difficult wee h
the one you bad chosen -to restore the mbody to the hiding. ,face In there. a
"10 Was ini±ernlily hamlliatieg, bur 1 0
could do no :rare, It Was matinees to tee.. to
toe poor wroten where I had laid ldn, ,
dieoovery might come at any time, Once I
thought of leaving him there and going
away myself-4isappear{ng, 55 10 were,from
the world. I could keep my chambers
untouched for menthe -perhaps years --by
Bending a check to the agent from time to
time, 13ut I knew that this must end in
dieoovery, An unforeseen event might
result in the chambers being opened and
searched, and, in all probability, the dead -
might take revenge and prove our betrayer
.yon, sea naturalist, know how.
"1 gave that up, then, like the reeb,and,
In utter despair began to unlaeten the door
again, drew it open, listened, and all was
Mill. You and Guest were, in all probabi-
lity, asleep.
"Going book to the hearthrug, eiokand
in disgust,.I stooped down to reverse my
repule{ve teak, when, as 1 touched the body
and half raised his head and shoulders from.
the floor, like a flash of lightening, the way
out of the difficulty Dame, Then,overoome
by my emotion, I literally reeled into my
bedroom like a drunken man, and dropped
upon my knees by my pillow in the thank-
fulness of my heart, though it was long
before I could utter other words than -
Heaven, S thank thee ! Illy poor lad is
saved.'"
CHAPTER XT.4V.
TIIE REVELATION CONTINUED -A LIO$TN4YO
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The moment before these lash words
escaped from Brettiaon's lips Stratton had
been sitting there with hie elbows on the
table, his fade worn, haggard, and full of
horror and disgust ; but now the igtereat
in his old friend's etatement returned, and
he watched him eagerly. The explanation
was coming at last. The half -cynical, in-
different manner, too, had passed away, as
he continued.
"I came beak to this very ohair,Stratton,
trembling and agitated ae I had never been
before, to stoop down at once and then
go upon one knee there -there on the
rug. His head wee just there, boy, and
hie face a little on one side, mthat the
profile of the vile scoundrel stood out,olear-
ly cut, against the background of dark
chocolate wood."
Brettieon', manner was now excited, his
words low and hoarse, and hie manner had
proved contagious ; for Stratton's lips
parted, and he leaned over toward the
speaker.
"Fora few minutes l could do no more,"
continued Brettieon. "A horrible dread
assailed me -that I had been deceived -
that the door I had, in imagination, seen
open before me had closed again, and that
I was once more shut in with the terrible
difficulty. But, nerving myself again, I
passed one arm beneath the shoulders as
before, raised him a little, and once more
there was a low moan."
"What ?" oried Stratton wildly, as he
startled from hie seat.
"Wait patiently, and you shall hear,"
said Brettieon ; then, drawing a panting
breath, as if the effort of recalling the
terrible scene, with its excitement, was
almost more than he could bear, he went
OA:
"I lowered him again, not daring to
think that he was alive, knowing that the
sound might have been canted by the es-
cape of a little air from the cavity of the
oheat. For a few minutes I was sure that
this was so, and my hopes were all dashed
again, People have called me a learned
man, Malcolm ; but, before a difficulty
like that, I was a poor, helpless, ignorant
child.
" Mastering myself, though, at last, I
thrust my hand into his breast ; but 1
eodld feel nothing. I fancied there was a
pulsation, but could not tell but that it
,night be caused by my own throbbing
arteries. I tried the wrists, and then,
tearing open 1 he collar of Ms shirt, thrust
my baud in there, and the pulsation was
plain now. More, I distinctly felt a throb,
as a low moan once more escaped tbe man's
lips."
"Not dead?" gasped Stratton. "Her
husband I Living? Great Heavens 1"
He Bank back into his °hair, staring
widly ; and then, in a hoarse whisper :
"Go on 3" he panted, "go on 1"
"'toe way 0t escape was open widely
now," cried Brettieon, reaching over to
olutah his companion's wrist, "and I could
see my way clearly, It was madness to
attempt to move the body of a dead man
through the emote,' boy -detection was
pertain ; but to take a tick or injured man
from one place to another was simplicity
itself, and I breathed freely. I could
act."
"Not dead -not dead 1" muttered Strut -
ton, who looked as if be had received some
terrible mental blow, whioh had oonfueed
his faoultiea and made the effort of following
hie old frlead'e narrative almost beyond hie
powers.
"I closed that door at once, in dread
now lest the moans should have heard ;
and, able to grasp the position, I
could work cooly enough. Going down on
my knees with sponge and basin, I soon
found that there was a small orifice behind
the right ear. This had bled freely, but it
had ceased ; and, grasping at once that
the bullet had gone upward, I examined
next to find its plane of exit.
"There was none. The bullet was, in
all probability, still in the head
"He moaned a little as I bathed away
all traces of the injury ; and when I had
done, save that tiny orifice just behind the
ear, there was nothing to show that he was
not sleeping, for tbe face was quite com.
posed.
What to do next 7 Not a moment, I
ell, must he lost, if I wiehed to save hie
Ire ; and, with a feeling of grim cynicism,
asked myself whether I did. .For I was
it a dilemma. Ou one hand, if I saved
im, it cleared you from what might de.
oleo in a charge of murder; on the other
and, if I let him die, (lyra would be free,
nd eome day-"
' lI o, no, impossible!" groaned Stratton.
'Go on,"
"I could not decide what I ought to do
o deb, for -1 pontos it --1 was dragKed
oth ways ; but I took the right road,
tratton,
"It was late, but it was a ogee of
mergency, and the man's fade helped me
o tell the tale T meant to tell, There Was
the swollen nose and there were the pimply
!Mabee of the man who drank. That was
ufficient for me ; and, with a strength of
hich I did not believe myself capable, I
ragged him by the shoulders into my
edroom'and leaked hint in. Then, taking
y. hat, i made my way out unseen, took
cab, ami ..0 myself driven to rho house
1 an obi ,. . ant, who was a ponefoner of
me in vouch. London. She was just about h
hero for the tight, but road1ly made n
prepr,ratione for the re0epbiou of an ppfor.
tuuatefriend of mise who had toot with an
aootdeut, white I hurried bank, discharged
my oab, toed; a (rook one -the man, for
ample pay, being willing enough to under•
take my task, and soon found for me a
Mang helper:
"The rout was easy. 1 lied to them,
and, ori taking the man up with me, left
hint In my room, while ,I went lobo the
chamber, trembling lost I should find our
enemy was dead.
" But he was lyingbook as I had I
him,ou a lounge, anI returned to t
fellow I had brought up. I gave the m
brandy, took a glass myself, and, bare
utilizing tbe help 1' had brought, purpose
sprinkled the wounded man with Marti)
hint being sufficient to direct the helpe
thoughts into the °hamlet that thio pera
he was to help to the cab was a viobint.
delirium Demme, for the fade was ovidon
enough,
" My new companion was to have apo
erign for hie pales, so he found no mime
objeot ; and when I offered to help laug
ingly put me aside,
" ` Oh, 1 can carry him,' he said, `like
baby.'
" A bold, indifferent manner was all,
.felt, that was necessary; and fortune favor
me, for we did not pass a soul, and
placing of an apparently tipsy man in
four-wheel cab was not novelty enough
excite the interest of paeeera•by. k w
quite right, 1 tell you ; a bold, carate
front carried all before it, and in a very fe
minutes I had left my chambers looked u
the helper was onthe box seat, and w
were rolled over Blaokfriare Bridge to m
old servant's house,
" Here he was carried in, but old Ma
shook her head ab the octant of the spirit
but assisted willingly till my ohange w
laid upon the bed, the cabman and h
companion dismissed, and then the Boot
was fetched."
"The doctor came, saw the patient, an
made his examination carefully, ending b
applying proper bandages to the woun
while Barron lay perfectly insensible, onl
uttering a low moan now and then, as if h
felt pain when touched ; otherwise he 1
quite calmly, as if asleep.
"And as the dnotor busied himself h
asked no questions ; but, as if he wer
influenced by my bhoughte as I stood b
him, watching him and waiting to give hi
a garble -there, a lying -version of th
incident, he at last took the very view as
wished to convey it to him by words,
"'A bad oase, sir,' he said at last. '
clan do no more now. The bullet is evident
ly deeply imbedded. I will not take bh
risk of probing for it. Shall S get out o
our eminent speoialieto in Consultation ?'
"1 shook my head.
"' Fatal VI said at Last.
" He shrugged his shoulders.
"' Must speak plainly, air,' he said. ' 1
is of no use to talk of hope toa man who
one feels that there can be none. Poo
fellow, his face toga the tale plainly enough
Drink. Stimulus after etimulue till th
brandy, or whatever it ie, ceases to haves
its effect. I knew one poor fellow who use
to heat brandy over a spirit lamp to make it
effect more rapid. Yes, ceases to have its
effect, and more is used. Then the digestive
powers break down, the over.goaded brain
leaps from its bounds, and we have the
delirium that ends in man feeling that life
le not worth living, and makes them WWI -
dal like this.'"
" You remember the very words ?"
said Stratton, looking at his friend wonder -
in "Word for word," said Brettison slowly,
"and always shall. I remember, too, the
thrill of Horror that ran through my nerves
ae he stood for a few momenta with his
book to me, between me and the' bed,bend.
ing first over hie patient,and then straight.
ening himself up and raising one arm -his
right -with the fist clenched, all but the
index finger, which he passed over his
shoulder to touch, with the point of the
finger, the spot behind his own ear where
the bullet had entered.
"For a few momenta Idid not understand
hie gesture ; then I grasped the fact, and
followed his thoughts. He wee, inimagin-
ation, holding a pistol to hie -head as he
thought his patient must have held it when
the trigger was drawn. He had completely
taken my view that I wished to impart,and
he was thinking of the inquest and the
evidence he would have to give."
Stratton looked at him for a few memento
with dilated eyes.
At last he spoke, for Brettison had be-
come wrapped in thought, and eat gazing
before him, as if aeeiog the whole horror
once again.
" And did he," said Stratton, in broken
words, " attend him -to the end ; did he
say -at the ioqueet-that it was suicide ?"
No," said Brettieon, looking up with a
start from his musings, and watching the
effect of his words on hie companion ; " he
tended him, but James Dale, or Barron,
did not die. He is living now,"
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"James Barron living now?" cried Strat-
ton excitedly.
"Thank Heaven I"
But as the words left his lips his whole
manner changed. His face had lighted up
at Brettieon'e announcement, for the
knowledge that he was nob answerable for
the convict', death -that Ile had not slain
the husband of the woman heloved-was
a tremendous weight, which had crushed
him down, suddenly removed; but, like• a
a sudden, scathing flash, oame the horror
of Myra's position once more.
There was no selfishness in the feeling;
his thoughts were solely of and for her.
The man still Itved, and she was his wife
--tied to an escaped convict', and at his
mercy, toilette Brettison had done his duty
and handed him over to the authorities,
But with his sympathetic feeling for her,
there came over him a crenae of overwhelm.
ing despair at hie owe helpless position.
He passed his hand across his eyee,threw
up his head, and seemed more like the old
dlaloolm Stratton, to he held out hie hand
to his friend, took that which was eagerly
extended to him, and the two men eat,
hand grasped in hand, silently for the space
of some minutes.
Brobtisou was first to speak.
"Then you think, in spite of all, I did
wisely?"
1 think you saved that man's life,"
said Stratton with a faint, cad smile two
hie lip, "But for you I must have gone to
therave with that knowledge always on
my brain. You have spared me that. I
can sleep without waking to think of chat
man's blood being on my hands."
" And there 1t hope for you yet,"
whispered Brettieon earnestly,
" 1w here?" said Stratton mournfully..
"In the other world?"
"Bah I Deepairing at your ago ? Wily,
man, thio life is full of change and surprise.
Nothing Demos to pose so often as the
unexpected,"
Stratton shook hie' head,
What I Doubting, in the face of all I
ave told you just now? Why, man, my
ewe num have 00100 Upton you like a
Waage, Vanie, I °hall see Yon and Myra
happy yet,'
Stlpnce I" er(pd Stgattpn obernly, "Io.
possible 1 All that ie poet. Brettieon, I
Wept my fate lei all thankfalneee for what
I know, If Myra sad I even meet again.
I pap take her hand and book her calmly
in the oyes, 1 know my position now,
and, thank, Clod, 1 am Pune more a man -a.
free from the groat horror of my life, Now,
tell too, 'rite map recovered from hie
wound?"
,t Yes," said l3rettieon looking at Strut.
ton ouriouely, "he {s quite reeovered from
that; only much ahauged."
"You have seen hint lately, then?" cried
Stratton eagerly.
Yee; not many hours since,"
"Brettieon 1"
"Yea? Why do you Start like that?"
"Theu you have not heeded him over to
the authorities'?"
"No Why should I?"
"Man, you ask me that/ You leave him
free, to go yonder and make her life a bur,
den?"
"I did not say so," replied 'Brettison
calmly. "Supppose I had handed the man
over to the authorities, what then 7 The
news would' have been in every paper of the
conviot's marvelous escape from death.
Pleasant reading for the Bourne Square
breakfast table. Surely that poor giri has
suffered enough?"
"'Tell me where is the man. He has
been in your charge ever e{aoe hie reoov.
cry."
"From the wound ? Yee."
"And he submits to your dictation -to
your rule?"
"Yes."
"Because he fears thatyou will give him
up?"
; he does not fear that. But listen
to me ; you shall not judge too hastily,
Wait till you know all my reasons."
" Tell me them."
"Not now.
" When then?"
"After you have seen James Barron."
" Seen him ? Meet that man again ?
Med Stratton, with a look of horror.
"Yes."
"Impossible 1"
"No ; it is my wish -my prayer. Come
with me and Bee him. Then you ideal' de-
cide what shall be done ; a d I will give
you my word that I will follow out your
wishes to the letter,"
"You promise that ?"
Brettieon gave him his hand in token of
hie promise, and Stratton stood thinking
for a moment or two.
"Yee," he said then, "I have no cause to
fear. Itis cowardly to refuse. When shall
the meeting be ?"
"To -morrow."
(TO he OONTLYIIED.)
PAPA WAS T00 LATE.
Dow a Mauuraotnrer'e Daughter Did Not
Itceome "Dy Lady."
Some years ago I was acting as curate
in a Iarge London parish. Two young
people i0 whom I was greatly interested•
were to be married on a certain Wednesday
in April. Contrary to custom, the bride
arrived before the bridgroom-indeed, the
bridegroom never arrived at all I
It subsequently transpired that the
bridegroom had disappeared the previous
evening and was nowhere to bo found,
Saye a writer in an English paper. He has
not been found to this day. No cause for
his disappearance was ever assigned, nor
has any clew to his whereabouts ever been
discovered. The poor young bride suc-
cumbed to the shock, and it was my
melancholy duty to officiate at her burial
some weeks later.
One more case and I have done. A
curate, in receipt of little more than 1100
a year, proposed to the daughter of a
wealthy north country manufacturer and
was accepted. Paterfamilias was extreme-
ly angry at this and forbade the young,
fellow his house. Candor compels me to
state that the daughter offered very little
resistance to her father's objections, and
the curate, who was genuinely fond of the
girl, removed to a distant pariah.
Two months after this event he fell into
a baronetoy and rather more than 13,000 a
year. The manufacturer saw that he had
made a mistake, and opened up negotia-
tions in a letter. By return he received a
telegram with the laoontc information :
" Too late." We may be certain that the
good manufacturer's wife gave him a
"piece of her mind," as the saying goes.
A Baby Bicyclist.
Out in San Francisco there may be seen
any bright day a tiny figure on a tiny
bioycie, scurrying along the roadways o
the park of that city, This is little Laurine
LITTLE LADAINE 1:1E041,10,
The smallest cyoltat in the world.
Devanv, who is the smallest bicyclist in
the world. She is only three years old, a
dear little girl, with fluffy yellow hair and
big blue eyes. She rides a wheel that had
to be made especially for her, of oouree,and
it weigh, only twelve pounds. The picture
of her which is given here shows what a
roguish litho fade she has, and what a
chubby little eprite she is in her blouse and
bloomers. Those who have erten her ride'
say it is something to remember, as those
twinkling lege churn the pedals and the
bright curls toss back from beneath the
Tam o' Shunter as she races before the
wind.
Pussy Appreciated.
Mrs. Sonrfaao-Come here, my little dear.
What a nioe, lovely little girl you ate ? Tell
me why you are so -fond of that oat."'
Little Girl--'Caueewhen she purrs I know
she means
COU}d See Very Weii.
Mother (angrily) -Why didn't
come in when 1 called you 1
Johnny -I'm centro',
Yoe, you're coming now; but I nailed and
called, and you didn't budge till you caw
me at the door with a switch in my hand.
Well, my eareigghb {e tied o' Weak to-
day, but my eyesight is all right.
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A MCULTURA ,,
A Stone Ladder.
To angst in loading stonee,wo have found
the simple ladder shown in the aoaompany
ing illuotration of oeneiderable value. It
ooneiets of two strong oak poles joined by
HANDY 00011E L400511,
Means of a 17a inch pin a foot from each
end. The poles are about three ruches in
diameter. Plage one end of the ladder on
the ground and the other on the wagon and
it is ready for use, and saves Iota of lift -
101,
Barley for Stook.
We have repeatedly urged the feeding of
more barley to stook. The past season has
demonstrated its utility as a general stock
food, and has, done rnuoh to encourage bar-
ley growing by farmers. The :following is
an average analysis of barley
:-
Water... ............... ........... , 14.0
Albuminoids 10.5
Fat
Starch, etc
W 6
4.5
, 02.0
Woody
bre „ 7,0
Mineral matter 2,0
100, 0
Barley is thus exceedingly rich in the
fattening properties of food. It is seldom,
and never should be, given in its dry whole
state as food for stock, but in the form of
rough meal, or'malt, or cooked, it is em-
ployed very extensively in feeding stook.
When, barley is cooked it roost be allowed
to simmer slowly at tenet twelve hours,
until the whole forme a mass of rioh, pulpy
matter; perfectly free from whole graine,and
in cooking the greatest care must be taken
to prevent the barley from becoming burned
by adhering to the boiler in whioh it is
prepared. When thoroughly cooked it
becomes a most valuable ingredient in the
food of fattening animals, and horses thrive
rikmarkably well upon it -so much so, that
a courses of boiled barely given at least once
a day will very soon renovate horses that
have been worn- out with hard work.
Boiled barley is used by some of the most
successful exhibitors of Shorthorns in the
preparation of their cattle for the show.
yards. Along with a little olioake 10 gives
that finish -brings out that mellownese in
handling -which le so much to be desired
in such oases. For the fattening of pigs,
barleymeal is the king of foods. For pork
production it is, on 000000t of exception-
ally high percentage of starchy matter, the
most perfect food yet discovered, and no
other animal will yield a larger percentage
of butcher meat from a given quantity of
barley than a pig of good sort. Whole
barley should be steeped in water at least
twenty-four hours before being given to
stook ; but the more common practice now
ie to grind it or crush it into rough meal.
Some think it advisable to steep the ground
barley in water. -_
Quantity of Cake to Feed.
A writer in an English exchange asks:
Will eome of your readers who have ex-
perience in feeding cattle let me know
what quantity of cake they would recom.
mend me to give three-year-old cattle,
which I am feeding ? I am giving them a
full allowance of turnips and a little clover
bay. What time should they be fed with
the cake ? The quantity of each will
oblige.
The editor answers as follows : Along
with the other rations you are giving your
feeding cattle, I would say' give four to
five pounds linseed cake a day. Owing to
the low figure which oats are at, would it
not be better to give, say, three pounds
oats and two pounds linseed cake? It
would be equally as oheap, and I am con
fident you would have better results. Give
turnips in the early morning and again {n
the afternoon, and the -above mentioned
feeding stuff twice -11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
-and the issue undoubtedly will be setas.
factory.
If your cattle aro getting a full allowance
of turnips, or turnips ad libitum, lees cake
will suffice, and from two to three pounds
gradually increasing to four or five pounds.
The late Mr. MoOombie, who annually fat-
tened from 800 to 400 head of cattle, and
had a high reputation as a cattle feeder,
restricted them also exclusively to turnips,
six weeks being the limit of time for Bake
or corn before being sent to the fat mar -
km. But what is the more approved
practice of to -day is to restrict the turnips
to about eighty pounds or to for each
animal, and to increase the allowance of
cake or grain, beginning with four or five.
pounds and increasing to seven or eight
pounde, and sometimes more.
A Perm, Account.
January lot, 1804, I had 28 cows and.
one bull, one yoke oxen and 10 horde kind,
11 hogs and 81 White Plymouth Rook
pullets and roosters, writes a correspondent.
I Bold one cow, purchased one and loot one
by milk fever. I sold in 1594 :
7260 lbs butter 881647.70
31 calves 180.44
31 hogs and pigs 203.69
603 doz. eggs 124.79
Poultry 21.00,
Maple sugar and honey 112.24
Apples 36,85
Squash and cucumbers...., , 17.87
Gained 40 pullets and r800beia,,20,00.
Amount
I paid out in 1804 :
For 970 days' labor 3695,83
" 11 tons aottoneeed meal..,.,260,50
" 12 " shorts. 216.75
" 7 " cornmeal 131.50
" 2 " fine feed 42,50
" 16 hog° and pigs 130,55
" 112 bush, oats 45.40
" 10 bush. wheat 6.60
"3tore phosphate- ;..,...... ,, 80.10.
" 4 small calves 4.00
" shoeing horsee end oxen. 30.00
189 weeks' board of help 139.00
Amount 41788.73
This taken from 82,424.67 leaves 9635,94
to pay interest money, taxes, repairs on
buildings and' fences, farming tools, car.
riages and harnesses and to pay the clothing
and family expeooee of a largo farm and
family, to say nothing of pay for labor and
use of capital of the proprietors,
I halo on (rand ,Tannery 1st, 1805, 27
sows, one yoke oxen, one ball and nine
horse kind (being fortunate enough to sell
822424,67
a seven your old mare for 900 that Moet u10
8150.50 threeyyesre before)elovcn hop Med
107 White Piymeuth lbeolt pullets an d
roosters, 1 aloe have about 100 buehele
early Ohio lattatem beeides enough far
family use and formed and eome 20 bpehelo
yellow eye beans,
We need over 8100 worth of better in
the family bo say nothing of milk and
Mream, over 100 dozen eggs and over 9100
worth of pork, lard and beef, Add to this
9100 for house rent and fire wood and the
use of a good team any time with no work.,
ing on half time makes farming the most
independent, boalth.giving and safe eoeu.
pation a man (who undorotpnde his bus!-
nese) can go into.
Dairy Granules,
Skim -milk is worth 11 Dente per 100
pounds if poured upon the ground as a
fertilizer,
We have to subscribe, although some-
what reluctantly,. we confess, to the doe.
brine that it is not practicable by any mere
ohange of feed to materially increase the
Per Dent of fat i0 the milk, Eaoh oow has
her own limitabipn in this respect, Otber-
wieo there would be no necessity for epeoida
breeding to thio end._
Our animals are, unavoidably, prisoners.
They ehquld not, however, be doomed to
"prison fare." On the uontrary,they should
be indulged is every possible vayiety of
natural' nutriment. I would like to
despatch an army of foolkillers after that
choice lot of wiseacres who, for instance,
look in holy horror at the mere suggestion
of feeding apples to esws,
It is the nature of cattle, whether young
or old, strong or weak, to domineer over
each other, and dehorning makes no
dif°ranee fu their natural disposition.
As soon as their heads'have got well, if not
before, they will renew their tyranny over
their fellows, with only this difference--.
without their aharp hornet they are unable
to injure eaoh other so muoh.
The possible, legitimat e increase of butt
over butter' fat will be greater as the
percent of fat 1n the milk increases,.. For
instance it is impracticable tomake apound
of butter from 100 pounds of milk testing
only one per cent. fat,but with six per cent.
milk seven pounds could be made, or pose
aibly a fraction more, This reoulte from the
foot that the unavoidable losses in creaming
and churning u ain
are practically
g. the same with
all qualities of;milk,but the par cent. aloes
is much greater with low testing milk.
THE CZAR'S DECISION.
Re Will Maintain the Princlplo or Auto
era,lc Authority.
At a recent gathering in St. Petersburg
of deputations from the Zemetvoe, or local
representative councils, of all parte of the
empire, to congratulate the Czar upon his
marriage, Nicholas II, declared deoioivel.y
that he would' surrender no .part of the
power which the death of hie father had
confided to life hands. He had heard, he
said, that the hope had been expressed in
the Zematvos thatthey might share in the
nteroal administration of the empire; bub
he wished it to be understood that while he
would devote all his energies to the welfare
of the people, he would permit no encroach -
meet on hie rights, and would maintain, aa
his father did, the principle of autocratic
authority. The idea that a ohange of rulers
would materially benefit the cause of free-
dom in Pussies Etuat, therefore,be abandon-
ed, though probably few close observers of
Russian affairs have at any time believed
that the new Czar would be any more will-
ing than Inc father to curtail hie own
powers by advan oing representative govern-
ment The autocracy is firmly based in
the huge army and the belief of the pea-
santry that the Czar ought to possess
abaolute authority; and the cheers with
which the deputation greeted a declaration
which extinguished all hopes of the exten-
sion of representative institutions, show
that the groat mats of the people for which
they stood, prefer an autocrat to any popu-
lar assembly. Their fear isnot ofthe Ciar,
but of the officials who execute his orders
and who use their powers for their own
aggrandizement, and the history of Russia
proves that the more absolute an emperor
is the leas oppressive these officials are.
Moreover, many of the wisest men in
Russia doubt the possibility of holding the
vast empire together without a central
autocratic head, armed withirrestible force
to orush out any opposition, and having but
one possible interest -the welfare. of the
majority of the people. It is true that
Russian policy and institutions cannot be
judged by the standards of western nations,
the conditions being wholly dissimilar ;
and it must be conceded that in promoting
national prosperity the autocratic govern -
matt of the Czar has served Russia fairly,
well, while in developing new states it has
been even more eucctment• than rte more
progressive rivale. Nevertheless, there
seems little doubt that a representative
aoeetouly with consultative powers only,
sitting in St. Petersburg and deliberating
in public, would remedy many of the worst
evils to Russia, by breaking the silence
which prevents knowledge of them by the
Czar. But It is this eilenue which the
otfialals, great and email, wish to maintain
for their own protection; and as they stand
nearest the throne, they resist any effort
made to break it, a restatanae which, coupled
with the natural d °sire of a young ruler to
retain all power, has doubtless led to the
determination recently asserted by the Czar.
Undoubtedly acceptable to the majority of
the Russian people as that determination
will be, however, the failure of Nicholas
II, to indicate the reforms he contemplates
M certain to inoreaee,the despair of the
educated, the ehfef pause of Nihilism, and
to precipitate anew bho never ending we,
teat between the sovereigu and the tevolu-
tienary societies. Wise coneesaiou would
have removed all reason for that oonteatt
but the Nihilists will now declare that the
only hope forItueeia lies in revolution, and'
will renew their policy of terror,. a polio?
almost of necessity fatal to the best exer-
ofae of the autooratie poi/nor whioh the errt•
peror is debertnined to assert.
Profitable as Well.
Rings -Did you pasts a pleasant time in
the concert hall?
Binge -Passed more than a pleasan
time; passed a counterfeit dollar on tiro
green barkeeper.
Edible Snails.
Daughter -The paper ways that edible
walla are advertised {n Engliah reatsur.
ante.
Old Lady --Land aalteel who'd over
•'`a'thoufhu that edible imago were {t Da • i
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