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Going West, Mixed
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7.40 a.m
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SPOILING THE DAIRY COW.
One of the greatest drawbacks in
dairying is the diffioulty of seguring
honest, faithful help. There is gen-
erally no complaint to 'make so far as
pecuniary matters are concerned, but
there is honesty in another direction
to be considered says V. M. Couch
in an exchange. The ,majority of milk-
men are neither strict nor particular
in the performance of their work. when
the employer's eye is not upon them.
There are but very few people who
can find pleasure in milking a num-
ber of cows morning and night, month
in and month out, yet it .must be done
with the most perfect regularity and
thoroughness. The ud$er must be
emptied to the last drop, andthis
if
is not done every lime, the supply will
be likely to fall short every, time. Na-
ture, finding that more milk has been
produced than is taken from the udder,
will abstain from producing so much
milk and devote the food to the produc-
tion of fat or muscle. Almost% anybody
Can milk acow, but there are. few who
ban do it as it should be 'done. It is
an art, and the man who can do it
properly is worth more, to the dairy-
mah than any other help. The art of
milking is to draw it out steadily,
quickly (by no means hurriedly) and
)completely. Scarcely any two cows are
exactly alike in disposition and in the
character or nature of their teats and
udder. Some are hard to milk, and
have very small apertures; some have
tender teats; some cows are veryt easy
to milk; and some cows are dull, while
others are lively and nervous. Now it
is quite adifficult matter to find a
man who will trouble himself to study
the individualities of the various cows,
and try to humor their caprices or
adapt his plass to their peculiarities.
He is anxious to get the, job done a.s
quickly as possible. The cow that
milks the easiest, is the favorite, and
bones off by far the best., but he sits
down beside the hard milker with a
kind of grudge against the supposed
failing, He expects some trouble with
the timid one, and this very fact is
likely to make the trouble appear. The
animals know him and his temper, and
ways far better than he knows theirs.
'hey must be humored and put into
al gentle mood. They may be forced
into submission, but they ougbt, in-
-ql pe ensead ao persoa eq of 'Gaols
to willing oompliance. If they are
roughly handled, approached hastily,
and without any care for their 'mood,"
it irritates and worries them. The fret -
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HE KNEW A THING OR TWO.
A few evenings ago a gentleman step-
pers from a train at one of the London
stations, when a young lady skipped
up to him, threw her arms rapturous-
ly about his neck, and kissed him many
times, saying, "Oh, papa, I'm so glad
you have come."
The old gentleman threw both arms
around her and held her firmly to his
breast..
Soon she looked up into his face, and
horror stood in her eyes.
" Oh, my I You're not my papa I" she
said, trying to free herself from his
embrace.
Yes, I am," insisted the old gentle-
man holding her tightly ; " you are
my long lost daughter and I am go-
ing to keep you in my arms, until Iget
a policeman."
When the officer arrived he found
the old gentleman's diamond pin in the
girl's hand.
1 lborn of Brooklyn,
Mrs. Annie Muelborn 9 ,
N Y., the mother of six children, tried
to •ornmit suicide by hlva,lot%ing her
wedding ring.
ting, agitation and the worry make
them fall short in quantity, and within of this dowry is fixed by the Govern -
a very short time the deorease in the went. In the Austro-Hungarian
yield is very marked. The worst of it army the number of officers authorize
is that the return to proper treat- ed to marry is limited by a fixed pro -
Ment will not restore the formes con- portion in each grade, and when these
dition of things, when the supply, has ' totals are reached further marriages
fallen off through wrong treatment, are prohibited until vacancies occur in
by the employment of careless help. It the married ranks. The Italian army
Ls next to impossible to restore this regulations fix the limit of a bride's
'condition by entrusting cows to the dowry, but the law Ls frequently brok-
care of even the most careful persons. i en, for it has been recently estimated
Under proper feeding and kind treat-
ment, the udder of the cow' becomes
distended with milk, and• when the
time arrives, she expects to be reliev-
ed of this burden. If, the milker un-
derstands the cow she looks to him
as her friend, and yields up( her milk
with pleasure, because the distention
of the udder is painful to a certain
extent. But when a cow becomes trou-
blesome, tries to kick over the pail,
will riot give down her milk, and so
on, there is a cause for it, and the
cause will generally be found outside
the tete. She hes not • een properly
itraw and pay a good price for it, and
tre glad to 'haul it themselves, Other
:ovations are favorably situated and
paper mills will take agood deal 'of it.
if the straw is stacked properly and
the grain has been out ire comparative
greenness, it will make very good feed
for almost all kinds of stook. It is a
splendid winter feed for work horses,
and we believe a great deal more of
it could be fed to advantage. We one
day rode on the cars from a looality
where the straw was all burned to get
it out of the road to one where the
farmers carefully housed every bit of
the straw they equld get in their barns,
and then did not have enough. In this
district you could travel a whole day
and not see a etraw stack. You could
see plenty of stubble fields that indi-
cated that small grain was grown, but
no straw stacks, all of the straw being
housed in capacious barns.
NEW METHOD OF PRESERVING
MEAT.
.A new method of preserving freshly
killed meate has
been discoveredvera
d by
the Danish zoologist. August Fjel-
strup, already well known through his
method of condensing milk, without
sugar. The system (according to the
printed reports) has stood a remark-
ably hard three months' test at the
Odense (Danish) Company's slaughter-
houses, in a very satisfactory man-
ner.
The animal to be used is first shot or
stunned try a shot from a revolver
(loaded with small slugs) in the, fore-
head, in such a way as nob to injure
the brain proper. As the animal drops
senseless, an assistant cuts down over
the heart, opens a ventricle, and al-
lows all the blood to flow out, the
theory of this being that the decom-
posing of the blood, is almost( entirely
responsible for the quick putrefac-
tion of fresh meats. Immediately
thereafter a briny solution (made of
coarse or fine salt, more or less strong,
according to length of time meat is
to be kept) is injected by means of
a powerful syringe through the other
ventricle into the veins of the body.
'l'he whole process takes only a few
minutes, and the beef is ready: for use
and can be cut up at once. This me-
thod has been examined and very fa-
vorably reported on by the general
councils at Odense and Aarbaus, and
also by many experts.
Sonnerberg, April 27, 1898.
DOWRY OF BRIDES.
In almost every country there are
restrictive conditions in force with re-
gard to the marriage of army officers.
In Russia especially is this to be found,
as no circumstances will permit the
marriage of an officer under the age
of 28, and not even between that and 28
years, unless the bride's dowry is a
sum sufficient to allow him to keep his
money for his personal use. The limit
that only about one eighth of the mar-
riages have occurred under the proper
conditions. The other seven eights
are attended with all the inconvenience
of a marriage not recognized by the
civil law.
A CERTAIN CLAIM.
Emerson. writing to Carlyle after the
death of Margaret Fuller, says of her,
"Without either beauty or genius, she
hada certain wealth and generosity of
treated, and she resents t. If, her de- nature which have lent a kind of claim
livery is slow, perhaps the milkman on our conscience to build her acairn."
has been too hurried, and hurts the
teats in trying to force the flow, if As we read these words of the mystic
timid, he may have been too hasty or philosopher, so full of the knightly
abrupt. At any rate it is always safe spirit, we picture that charmed circle
to look first for ;the fault in the man
and not in the cow, lis utexity in
feeding and perfect gentleness and
kindness in dealing with oows, are es-
sential to success. Any breach of
these rules is inevitably marked by a
falling off in the yield and a conse-
quent diminution of profits.
STACKING STRAW.
We believe that not enough import -
AT THE TOP OF ST. PAUL'S.
IT IS A VERY WEARY AND DANGER-
OUS PLACE TO CLIMB.
But the Ascent Is Rewarded by a Close in.
speeUon or the World's Largest Hall,
'Which Crowns the 'top.
It is in contemplation to build for
the forthcoming Paris Exhibition a
mighty model of the earth itself, with
oceans, continents and countries plain-
ly marked out upon its surface. When
this extraordinary work is completed—
if it ever is—it will take rank as the
biggest ball in the world. But, until
then, this distinction belongs to the
wrought -iron globe which surmounts
the dome of our national cathedral.
A pilgrimage to the top of St. Paul's
is a trip to be undertaken once, in
one's youth, and once only. The nt of the ascent, com-
mencement c t true,
is
is simple enough; the broad,shallow
steps being apparently designed for
the express object of luring the un-
wary one upward and onward. After
the Whispering Gallery is passed the
passages grow narrower and more tor-
tuous; and the way wended becomes
darker and dustier. It is not until
the Golden Gallery is reached, how-
ever, 800 feet above the floor of the
dome, that the real difficulties begin.
From here the ascent is by a series of
iron and wooden ladders; some set at a
slight angle, others
QUITE PERPENDICULAR.
Up, up, up, amide. maze of stays, joists
and brackets! Higher yet, to where
huge iron girders—hand-worked, and
made of charcoal smelted iron from the
Sussex ironfields—bind the mighty hall
and its superincumbent cross to the
of transcendentalist, and as a central
light the gifted, forceful, trained wo-
man who, as Carlyle said, "had a prede-
termination to eat the world as her
oyster, or her egg," and cannot help
wondering if the insistence in the
nature of this all -conquering woman
did not exert a compelling influence up-
on those who worshipped at her shrine,
once is attached to the etacking of the even after she was personally list to
them. Was there mixed with the ob-
straw in the west. In early days when
ligation of esteem and admiration the
there were so many extensive fields of knowledge in the mind of the pure -
small grain and so much wil prairie hearted Emerson that the queen of the
for hay lands, the straw was bucked coterie would have expected her survi-
vors to build her a cairn?
Up the five hundred wooden steps
that lead towards a lonely height pil-
grims are passing, the enthusiasm
there is little excuse for it now. strengthening though the flesh may
Threshing machines are so improved faint, for the privilege of laying a stone
upon the cairn of that woman of genius
that if a rotary stacker is not( provid-
ed a wind stacker is, and in either
case the stacking may be done with
but little hand labor. Two good men
with the rotary stacker can build a nant message to the world. If one
neat straw stack that will keep, and may choose a place for the enshrine-
, ;
with 1 he wind stacker, properly adjust-ent of the bodyshe surely chose well
andmthat the five hundred steps of the
ed by the thresher, there will be little stairway are constantly pressed by
need of any man to make a.stack that eager devotees isawitness to the ap-
will not keep. The writer can remem- Preciation of the service done by one
her when he had to stand at the tail whose work. beginning e, ended too
soon, viewed from rho earthlatside. But
end of one of the short stackers run in these days, when work and progress
by a chain extending to a pulley at Press close upon the hours that decency
the top of the stacker, and when he allows for the indulgence of first
was bets worked harder than he !grief, the question, "Why this waste 7"
g intrudes itself, it would be strange if
thought his physical condition would among the thousands that climb the
justify, he would throw the chain with stairs carrying the stone for the cairn
it should never be whispered in the ear
of one, to give rise to a suspicion that
the wish of the departed was associated
with the caprice that was so curiously
other than getting along in the enalest mixed with her noble traits.
manner. The c.hain soon gave way to The husband who obeys the last wish
of his wife by taking her coffined re -
a different. manner in running the mains across ac:ontinent to lay it Iiia
stnckers. Later on, having obtained the abases spot,lcaving his motherless chil-
away with as little labor as/would get
it out of the way of the machine, and
as soon as the threshing was. done it
was burned. Tbis practice, is yet fol-
lowed on some western farms, but
"H.H." Her she willed to lie. This
was the trysting-place of aspiration
with inspiration. Here power met her
purpose and sent her forth with a preg-
his fork, which called for a stop end
all hands were glad. This was in a
day when he had little or no interest
reputation of building good straw
stacks, he gotnhout. all the stacking
to do in the neighborhood. At, some
farms be was given two or three good
men as helpers, but at ot her places a
like number of lazy a.nrl impudent hoys
made up the straw stack force, and to
force these hoys to do the, right thing
was simply an impossibility. We believe
thal no farmer who has small grain
to thresh nen afford to stack him straw
in acareless manner. It may he that
the straw is not needed on the farm for
feed or bedding, but if there is no ot her
reason for not stacking it, it should
he kept an the farm to help contribute
fertility at the right time. When
straw is plentiful t.bere is usually no
sole for it at any price, hut when n
year of comparative soareity °omen it
melle readily. There is mush a thing as
stacking the straw in such n manner
that the hulks of it wilt 'keep for two
or three years. We have known of
straw being sold. at $4 per, ton whish
wee thought to be worthless the year
it ens threshed. Some localities are
,••n situated that large feeders will buy
dren in their first days of loss with
strangers, perhaps borrowing the funds
to comply with the request of his loved
one, may possibly, when grief is no
longer new, he visited by a thought
that in a vague way suggests that he
has been, in a sense, a victim
of tyranny.
It is, after all, comforting to know
that the majority will drop out of the
line of service and east off earth's man-
tle without leaving wish or will with
reference to its disposal. It is a fact,
ton, which should make us hopeful witb
regard to the growth of mind and give
better insight of the soul that some who
at an early experience, before discipline
had done its work, were anxious and ex-
acting with reference to the last rest-
ing -place of the body are not so later
on. A higher philosophy and a wider
vision have taught that unselfish ser-
vice holds in itself the germ of Immor-
tality. and that it builds Its own cairn,
and thus, thought and labor and time
being given to the desire to serve well
until the latest moment of life, there im
no room to be careful and troubled
about a cairn for the body.
the above regulation le not strictly en-
forced to all. Besides, there are the
steeple-jaoks and repairers, whose story
coincides that the great ban is agreat
hollow space filled with, dust and cob-
webs.
The cathedral authorities are very
conservative. For instance, at one
time the public was admitted to the
inner Gulden Gallery, which runs
round the interior of the dome, near
its apex. In the year, 1866, however,
a watchmaker named Stuart tried to
throw himself over the railings. He
was prevented. But on the afternoon
ofthe ensuing day he leaped from the
Whispering Gallery, a jump which was
quite as effective, so far as he was
concerned, for nearly every bone in his
body was broken. The cathedral had,
of course, to be reconseorated, and the
authorities
WERE VERY MUCH UPSET,
so much so, in fact, that they decided
to close, not the Whispering Gallery,
from whence the unhappy man had
perpetrated his terrible leap, but the
interior Golden Gallery. And, moreover,
it has remained closed ever since. Per-
haps it is as well, for the protective
railing is not above three feet high,
and the steps, leading from the small
wicket through which access to the
gaffery is gained, down to the level
of the gallery floor, are exceedingly
steep. In fact, one seems to be plung-
ing downwards into nothingness, the
gallery being so tiny in itself, as hard-
ly to count amid the vastness of the
enveloping dome.
One thing that must strike every pil-
grim to the top of St. Paul's is the
number of people who have not been
deterred by the sacredness of the
place from inscribing their names upon
the walls of the galleries and stair-
cases. Thousands of signatures have
been cut deep into the stolid stone
itself, but these, it will be noticed,
mostly bear dates ranging from 1700
up to 1760. During that period.
FREE ACCESS WAS ALLOWED
to this upper portion of the cathe-
dral, and no supervision whatever was
exercised over visitors. Later on at-
tendants were stationed at various
main fabric of the building. In some coignes of vantage, with the object of
places it is bard to squeeze one's body stopping the desecration. They were
between these self -same girders, of such successful, so far as the stone -carving
monstrous thickness are the And was concerned. To carve even one's
Y• initiala in Po,rtland stone is a work
they need be thick, and tense and flaw-
less into the bargain, for they support
a weight of more than 600 tons, poised
nearly 400 ft. in air. Again higher,
creeping cautiously up iron ladders set
of time. But they could not stop, the
scribbling in pencil, and thousands of
individuals have recorded, in Ibis com-
paratively innocuous manner, their
presence among this wilderness of lad-
ders and joists. In the circular cham-
inside a sort of gigantic, up -ended, her which marks the final stage of
drain -pipe. And then- tl species of the ascent, text, a visitors' book has
been placed. .
But it does not (0
apotheosised gridiron! have been very extensively patroniz-
That is all. Admission to the inter- I ed, and fully ninety per cent. ofseem the
for of the ball has, it appears, been recorded addresses are provincial, a
denied to the general public for more peculiarity which would seem to
than thirteen years. Nevertheless, the srcate that London's citizens take but
scant interest In London's sights.
cathedral authorities calmly continue
to charge half a crown a head for per-
mission to " ascend to the ball ;" a pro-
ceeding which, to put it mildly, is not
altogether defensible. It is to be won-
dered how many people of the thousands
who annually undertake that weary
climb,are aware of the existence of that
gridiron. Very few, it is to be presum-
ed, and among the few are certainly not
included the compilers of the guide-'
books. Three of the best known,
ALL OSTENSIBLY REVISED
up to date, state that the ball is open
to visitors, and that parties of twelve
can gain admission at one time. And
so they could, doubtless, if they were
provided with a complete set of burg-
lar's tools, and were able to use them
while clinging to a frail ladder at a
dizzy elevation.
Sixty-five feet below the Iron -barred
aperture leading to the ball, In a lit-
tle ciroular chamber situated immedi-
ately over the centre of the dome, but
300 ft. above it, is an old man whose
time eV devoted to extracting shillings
from visitors for the very doubtful pri-
vilege of climbing as high as the grat-
ing aforesaid. Unless the climber, On
his way down proceeds to ask incom-
venient questions, nothing is said con-
cerning this closing of the ball, and
doubtless many people go away under
the impression that the stove -pipe ar-
rangement into which they have suc-
ceeded in projecting themselves is the
veritable interior of the ball itself.
But to those who insist upon an ex-
planation a curious story is told,
Itappears that in the autumn of 1884,
the year rendered memorable by the
series of criminal explosions which
shocked and terrified London, an an-
onymous letter was delivered to the
cathedral authorities. Therein it was
stated that dynamite was to be sur-
reptitiously conveyed into the ball and
therein exploded, the object being to
hurt the erose from its place and send
it crashing downwards, through the
triple dome on to the heads of the hap-
less worshippers below. This may have
been a canard ; and, on the other hand,
it may not have been, The dean and
chapter inclined to the opinion that it
was not. So did Scotland yard. Result
—the gridiron aforesaid. it was, per-
haps, a wise precaution then. But it
certainly does seem a pity that now,
when the dynamite campaign is as
dead as the proverbial door -nail, it
esI1OULD NOT BE ABROGATED.
It need not be added, however, that
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because they are not fleshy
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build the gate, which was done uponii
the customary plan.
.After undergoing an addition re•
pairs,and ref renting at various periods.
the old building gave way to new ones
designed by Geo. Dance, R. A., the first
stone of which was laid by Lord Mayor.
Beokford on May 31, 1770. Before they,
were finished they were pillaged and
burnt on Juno 6 and 7, 1780, by the "No
Popery" rioters. Afterwards a aura of
£30,000 was devoted to repairing and
' completing the fabric, which is cone
! sidered by experts to be admirable he
design and character. On the opening
of Whitecross street prison in l815.
Newgate ceased to be used for debtors,
and since 1882 it has only been used for
prisoners awaiting trial during sessions
and for those condemned to death.
' The present Sessions House, next tq
the goal consists of two courts—the old;
court and the new court. The first
mentioned is for the more serious
cases. It is lighted from the north,
and has a gloomy and sinister aspect.
The first Sessions House was that of
Stowe's time, and, singular to say, the
trial court was open to the street, the
back looking northwards. It was suc-
ceeded by a court house, erected in 1773,
and destroyed in the " No Popery "
riots above alluded to, but rebuilt and
enlarged in 1809 by the addition of the
site of old Surgeon's Hall, where the
bodies of malefactors were taken for
dissection immediately after execution.
The new Sessions House will be re-.
built from plans prepared by Mr.
Andrew Murray, the City Surveyor. and
will be carried out at an estimated
cost of £120,000.
An Old Landmark of London Is Shortly to
be Removed.
Almost every one has heard of the
Gaol of Newgate and the Old Bailey
Sessions House fn London. Novelists
have told of them and travellers have
made a point of seeing them. And
now the historio old buildings are to be
pulled down to admit of the building
02 a grand new Sessions House on the
ground they now occupy. The Lon-
don Chronicle gives the following in-
teresting particulars concerning them.
(Newgate marks the site of an en-
trance into a Roman city. The gate
was made in the west side of the later
City wall. In William the Conqueror's
time a gate known as " Chamberlain,"
or the "Chamberlain's Gate," stood
across the street between Warwick -
lane and the present prison. That
gate, rebuilt in the reign of Henry II.
or his successor, was in the reign of
Henry III. in common use as'a prison.
In the year 1400 Henry IV. committed
it by charter to the care of the Cor-
poration.. Sir Richard Whittington,
moved by the ruinous state of the
fabric end the terrible state of the
gaol, instructed his executors to re -
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from her boots. Her veil does not re-
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binding of her skirt show ragged in
places. Now, many women show their
tidiness in all these little details, but
it is a pleasure to meet the girl or
woman, who is to use a slang term,
" well groomed." The cloth gown of
such a woman fits her without a crease
and there is neither speck nor spot on
it. Her linen collar and cuffs are
snowy white and remain properly fixed
in their places. Her gloves do .,pot
wrinkle, but button smoothly over her
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on straight and her hair is neatness
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