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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-1-8, Page 6Doctor Jack By St. George Rathbonee Larry nas a dea how the Iand lies ahead, and upon questtoning the drtver he finds he is correct. There is a ennction eome ten miles ra.rther on. where they take a new course. and heaa almost wattle ter distant 13;1qm:t- ee sena Bordeaux. At this place tbere will be lights, enainee, people, u1 the motor win be ceanged. They are beleind time, but they preset epeed will make up what arse lost if no aecitient occurs. $e Larry must resew; his soul in pattonee. and watt—it wIll not he for leng. The slwayIng of the locomotive aeweeeut to tnee une.ccestorned to It. and rnarzy a thee Larry Is thrilled to the beart as" he imagines the massive piece ef meclianistrx about to topple over; bet nale atter rano is placed be - bend, aed OS yet eve.rything teeeras eght be can see the stars glizertereng oa the bosern of the Raw - leg Ebro, one wbieh river ET.3Qy must crese at the junetion. Wizen he eees the teazle:tea:ever reiett his hand ntid pun the whistle -cord. he knows they are aaproaohing ate place waere he Can lie relieved from e;,',.:.ard duty aura leen up. his faerele. niglas are eleining alaea4 pew. arid It te evtelent they are nearing the polne where the talkie meet. Teen' wave beeatess setwee, mud at leugth tiler eoree to a lane Signs of bustle aheezei, zed Latay eve a imagines I reeenat 'as in a, elearee Arnerica statate. lia aeteas tlie driver to his owe dee Vitae, an icapipg te the ground. Ler- ries batit atong the eide of the Unita anziezte to tisetrtaeri %A:at has become off 31; irk -1146. len the way he rune Into rr.e one wetnn he ha$ not no•• ticee, • "Poo *onoet I, you must pawden. ne% "Leery1 reat te•cott !" is snouted irts ear, arel he feels himself lifted beJily teem the ground by the etrong urine of.' Decter Jack, who is es dee U'etlixe to find his freend aa though. the elifele were a teng-ioet arether. Tegether they v.tatt to tbe Carriage where they find thinge in their TWIT= Centinten. eel the twa lanies Welting teeeut of the window. Leary is warmly egreetea by neat of them, who leek up - ten Cze duele uet a. be. altbounh Aens e,::n never place hint fat the earn% class telte the man eaw boldina ate nwia baY. So ter at; they can foreee, *bele' troubies of the journey are Tiow oven True. Pen Carlos tufa the rube- are probably en the train. and Dector Zack zernetrbers having seen Pedro Vas- quez, the tnatadior. in their compatiat bet ft does net seem proleabbe that they will be able to to any more rale. etilef on the rrail to Paris, however, eauelt they ;nay ueeemplish later. Soon they ure onee nem OA the wove. it le nearty hilantght, and un- til early tlawn they will creep north, - ward. With the early morning they rao.y eaecet to EvQ, the green wa.tors et' the reeeniticent Way of IttecaY on tbeir 2t as ther advance upon Marouree 0 The renrceal approaches the coast, beconea in this way the great mourn tain ;tali of the Pyreneee is avoided in paeeing over to Franee. Besitlee. there are eities of considerable int - portae that need to be visited. When tlicy move OP. the gentlemen enalre the laaies comfortable with rugs, having cbanged to another com- partment at the. Junction because of tho dilapidated condition of the one that teal sustained the attack of the • mob—lite guard. wee belongs te Jack, body and :soul, "oes throutth to Paris, It seemsand he loolts a.fter them, .Tack manages to sleep some himself In spite of the jostling of the car, which fact Droves what a nature he ttas—few men aeentlitti ..ceelniiy tat down eann.p atter •engaging in a itangennary battle with a. desperate mole de.terrnined to have his life. Time slips by—Jaek is up and down. now out talking with the guard at a station, and more than once bending over to gently replace a rug tbat has Slipped aewn from Avis' shoulders. SEter eyes are shut, she seems to be asleep, and he stands a minute look- ing into that fair face. Will he ever bsere the privilege of pressing a kiss upon that sweet mouth. Re is sore - 1y tempted, but turns away with a :sigh, which causes Avis to open her eyes and wonder what worries Doc- tor Jack. All things must have an end, and this seemingly interminable night is no exception to the general rule—light appears without, and gray dawn shows them the waters of the bay. In places so close does the railway trend along the shore that the waves, rolling in and lashing the little beach, seem directly beneath therre --Then timerewe. e e small town of San Sebastian, and soon ',the sun rises. Bayonne comes next, nd our frien.ds breathe a sigh of r4Uef to think they have actually lel Spada behind, and are speeding al g to- ward Bordeaux. At last they are in a condition to • ' congratulate each other on the suc- cess attending their efforts; but the end is not yet—other dangers Ile In the future, which may be as yet hid- den from their view, but.are neverthe- lese as real as those they have just conie tbrough. The run to Paris is now no great • tnatter, and with bright skies above them they pass through Bordeaux, and speed onward toward the ga,3r French capital, where every tourist eventually turns no matter what his object on the Continent. There is but one Paris—it is much the same to -day as during the last Napoleon dyne:star, when galloping along the road to Ems ' with blindfolded -eyes. It seemed a terrible thing to poor Itu- enniated. France to have Germany at her door, and the gay capital of the world in the halide of the Teutons, feat looking back to -day, who would have it changed, since that defeat was • but one of a aeries of events, destined to shake the grasp of the Napoleons , from the throat of' la belle Frame, and leave the coutary in the happy con- 2tion. she rejoices in to -day --a re- ! public, with no tyrant at her head. It is early in the • afternoon when the delayed express enterz Paris Our friend,s immediately •debark. Jack keeps a sharp eye around for familiar faces, but those be hopes to discover keep shady, for he fails to discover them. A. carriage is hired, and they set t for a hotet glad to be out of spank, with the many discomforts that greet one there, It is not their intention to retrain long in the French capital—duty beckons them on taward the Orient, where, as they believe, poor Aleele Merton languishes in conane- meet a victim to the vengeance of the Pesba. It is neeeseary _ that they have a broatbing spell, however, and hence they determine eo remain over adaY Or two until Jack has a eleanee to perfect leis plans. He knows the Pasha Is le the city, teeing track o them, and the idea at the Turk *will arrive in Con- tieople tie early as themselves •es lam sorne concern. If some leerne could be devised to hold hiin Tack one or more days it would etre en a. start. Der Jack has been consideang this matter for some time—lt matte ihn eobar whtle on the train. even a ter all troubles seemed to have -en bruelied aside. axed ever since tee ea bas remained with beel. By dee-Lees a plan Teas been evolven. tel Peator Jack beeozates more steel- ,• atee, etztee be has :tented the enigma. ` Ile spend$ ti e rase ot the daY with hie friends, and goes to the theatre at nielet—leata or *Late so eg ban ts . tee (retied Opera altnese. and tear erienes enjoy the sights at Meade tht erten them bete, et le after taidnielit when they re - 'e to the botel, somewhat. weary. Jaek gmis a chance to whisper ee driver in Feenter havo further need of your services." The man winOne eye. as though be unaeretareia-be is an old Jell% awl en mare' an teeeaeien bas tatteu the ea of a family or the male mem- of P. tourist party to the Parleian atabW fter the regular perfortn- teeeee at the etantiara tint:ere* are vor. Jack seee his frietele hate the them all good -meat, and. ne tete: hetteve retiree, but be bee • rit. te night. Three min - ;es lay? he emerges tom the WWI. ea tentes ;wean the driver pacing up d down. Jack can ehatter in nen line a =triVe. "1 ni IV;rdy, driver." eaterina the -etia " Witere inensieur go ?" ashs t team with a, leer, eteeing the doer • glen is down. TO the office of the Prefect e." comes the asteuratiag answer. " Le diable I" celacule,tes the Jehu, wring back, " then it is not to the gerderts e" " You have MY Ordereaelrive on." " QJ monsieur." Screaulatngto his eittat. his mouth is in a Picker a a Matt trying to whistle, bat un - 1e to make a sound, until several elm have beetx reseed over. There protraely Cafes tot live a Jet= n New Yari . veto does not know lettere the mayor's ranee is, altice thee their licenses there. In Pario every driver van tell rou exactly where the Kenat ot pollee may be founde-even the daily bairns of this leelt aria ralgrity futietiOnarY are well known to them. Bence it is that .Taeles driver has ne difficulty in taking his patron to tite building where ire will be apt to nd the bead of the greatest police of modern times at work—tor releur le Prefect has a holiday vera sejdozzi, and at certain hours is al- ways to be found in Ins office. Jaek knows himself where he is 0 - Ing—he has not spent weeks and even mouths in Paris without learning a few things, though as yet it has ever een his fortune to meet the prefect of police save in a, social way. Ltatvine his vehicle in. a quiet street, he enters a door—it belongs to no public house, and is one of the pri- vate ways fax reaching the elevated office of the head officer. On the way he passes two quiet men who look at him closely, and then silently bow, pointing onward. In this manner he finally reaches an ante -room, where he finds several officers gathered—they look like the aids of a general waiting either to deliver reports or receive orders, which is really the ease, One of them steps forward, looks him in the face, and says :— " You are Doctor Evans ?" "Yes. I would see the prefect," re- plies Jack. "He is expecting you—pass through yonder Etoor, and yclu will find him," Is the astounding answer Doctor Jack receives—he can hardly believe Ins ears, for not to a single soul has he mentioned his Intentions with regard to paying a visit to this place—surely the secret police of Paris must have supernatural power to be able to read one's very thoughts. Filled with wonder and awe—he is not the first one who has been thus amazed by the power of these men— Jack does as directed, opens a door, and enters a room, where he finds the Irefect engaged in writing. "One moment, Doctor Jack," calls the officer, never raising his eyes from his work, and the American has an- other shock. His coming is known, just as though he were some high official, and his business of a great public importance, instead of a private affair, interesting to few besides himself. ' He watches the prefect, notes the high character and shrewdness of the man as indicated by his countenance, and wonders what success he will have here, for the mission that has taken Doctor Jack to the °ince of the prefect of police is something of a haphazard one, and he cannot even wager on the result, but depends in a great measure on his luck to take him through. • At length the bell is Sounded—an of- ficial enter8 the room. and the paper is handed to him with a few low words—the man makes a military salute, and is gone. " Now, Monsieur Jack, I am at 'liberty to pay attention to you. If I ezista.ke not yoU COIrie here to tell me stery and ask a favour." " Monsieur, it is apparent to me, £rorn what 1 have seen and heard, that irntich of my story is already 1..,n)wn to you," remarks Jack, at which thc prefect smiles and answers :-- " Our system is nmeh the same as el under the regitne of Napoleon, We wateh, our borders, scan the passports of ell strangers, and make it our busi- ness. to find out who they are. whi- ther they came from, and why they enter Franca, The moment yoe set foot on French territories enquiries be- gau to be grade, anti as a resutt X know meat about yoe—setnething knew when You were here befere, bat since then Doctor Jack has seen Ittrance things. I have hal* an hour to spare—it happens to be a lax time with me. If it pleases you,1 weaue like to hear your story." It does please Tack immensele—h sees he has a splendid. opportunity t gale his point, and, anxious not to los it begins. First of all be tells of the adventere in Constantinople, and, an all the world loves a lover, especially a lerenehman. he soon sees that Mut- steur la Prefect is interested in Aleele atorton. Then he skips to Parts, one relate▪ s the event that bas bad so strong a • bearing on Ins late career in Spain— his lookirg in upon a secret couneil ot Carnets in company with the Duke Arroyo. •After this he goes to the Perenees, and tens of the bear Inuit In coznpany with Don Carlos. Then cetnee the to Barcelona, the flower girl, struggle in the street, and tie; mystery of the null wet() nursed Jack speaks needestly of his own Stare tat these events --be never could be a Waster., ana Is apt te mene the description of Seette too tame be. cause ot his extreme diffideuce, etapiely he eketehed his advent in Alaetld, the meeting with elereedee, and the bultflht. Then comes the little affair in the edueeo det Prefect, mention of ..tvis, and the fact that she is the etster et his friene ,A,lecit, cautivitv among. the Turku, lie hay desvribes all that took Place -adrid, and then reaches the • ieurner mare Paris. dwelling the herniate ot Lerry, while Net entierdna the fact that he had a lite exeitement iseepieg back the Mole of earliste meanwhile. When he linislies, to his surprise, ils worelerfal Preteele official, who The Intereate of tile whole republte $ keeping, reactive out and shakes halide with him most beartily. "ten Dien I 1 love mien a. man as u, Deena' Jack ---You are brave. and u would conceal It. Better and bet- e he brave are always modest. t you cannot expect to keen tbia light hidden under a. bushel. Our Parisian papers published a Icing aee count of tne grami hull -fight, telling ll the particulera et your 'heroism. b I roy good man, Doctor Jack fur wentn-four bora was the hero of Tarte—every American was proud that You be.loxiget to New York. As for the little a aer beyond Logrono—I have had a fedi account ot it from a eceret agent wii0 was In the next compartment to yours, and 1 am proud to know the man who performed at% Predigiee of valour during that Jack turns very red in the face—he knowe the prefect not only has a coin- preirensive !Elea et the past, but meet guess Ills secret of the future—even his love for Avis. lie keeps in mind what has brought him bare—does the Wen• dt!rful °Metal know this ? "Monsieur, I came here to ask a ra.- vOUr." he says, and, as he expeets„ the Other smiles. "I can gum ft. Doctor Jack. You would have me assist you by detain- ing, the paelia." "1 may be asking too rauch—" be- gins Jaen when the other interrupts bine " As a man, I would assist you with every pleasure la the world—as the refect of police hi the city of Paris, I must be more cautious. True, Prance and America, sister republics, are joined hand in band in ties that I trust shall never be broken; but we are also at peaCe with Turkey, and it would be a serious matter to of- fend officially one so high in author- ity as Abdallah Pasha—complications have arisen from even a smaller thing than that, which have threatened the peace of all Europe." Not for the world would I cause you trouble. Monsieur le Prefect. I was foolish to think you could give me assistance, not that I shall ever doubt your goodness of heart. but I see now more clearly that you have an official character to sustain." Doctor Jack reaches out his hand for his hat. as if to go, when the other lays a finger on his arm, looks into his face, and says :— " Patience, Doctor Jack. I have still ten .minutes left, and we may find a way out of this trouble yet." just what you want done, and leave the money In his hands to pay his men fer their trouale. As for myself, you understand I am to know nothing about the matter. Monsieur Depree will do all Yeti ask him when you give this sign from me." Iere the officer teases Jack's hand, and as he presses it allows one finger to rest on the other's wrist—it is a secret grip, and eoesesses a. significanee. MBE noternitutn.) MADE THE EARTH TREMBLE. e' A Meteor That ItAett WOree Ottket. 'utter. waged aloed Rams In the Sky. Settle interesting information wee ceraing the receut fall -of a big meteor Is furnished by R. L. Wito reeent,, ly returned from a two months' trip itea to the genie- districts ou the Illaelefoot ed Flathead. Speaking of -the *mar- :rence„ 5fr. Fisk had this to -say; "We were boned tato the Flathead • country in seamb of bilrgame. Thepar. • ty consisted of George Xiller, Pestneas- .. ter at Lincoln; my brother and myself.. We broke camp Owe ()tenth:a on day meriting, Sept. 17, and took what Is known as the 'falls trail" up the s th: tale of Montour _creek, The trail an awful one for pack horses even, aud progress was very slow. Just before 6 ,ceelock in the afternoon we halted at game old elle wallow* ()erectly en the watershed.. Lim we unpacked, buile tire and started to cook supper, "About 20 iniu.uteepaSt 6 the groand underfoot theole and vibrated, and we heard .distinetly three reports, the first oundiag more like the emelt of some fellingjnolleter cliff weighingtlemeeude of taus from eome one -of' the nennereue eales earroweding ne then auything Sa and the other two the Tinging ech- oes seat back feena the steep meentain sides. The horses even, netieed the teem. bliug of the earth and. stood with .peiut- ed, ears and dilated nostrilsoutering tuned worts. MY brother renaarked • mewbae facetiously: 4"(Set down Qie your marrow hopes, fellowet the ellentlitairte are taming CalAPTER XVIII. His words give the American new hope, and he once more settles down to listen to this man who can help him so much. " How long would you have the Pasha detained ?" asks the French- raan. One clay would be good—two bet- ter," is the quick reply of Doctor Jack. " We shall see. 1 have a plan where- by I think it can be done, without corn - ranting any official act which could be reported to his government. He might fall Into the pa% er of a secret clique that has long defied our most careful scrutiny. They have even held one man fcr ransom, and received it, too, right here In Paris." "It seems incredible," gasps Jack— the ;power of the police has appeared so tremendous to him that he cannot conceive of any men defying their ut- most endeavours, and working such a game even M the heart of the French capital. " Nevertheless it Is true. Only lately we discovered that the gang had its headquarters—where do you think ?— in the catacen-,b sewers under the city. We have broken them up, ,but still factions might and probably do exist. Now, it would not be strange for some of these men to capture Abdallan Pasha, convey him to a hid- ing -place in the sewers, and hold him there for ransom several day -a" Jack grasps the idea instantly, and the look on his face shows his pleas- ura " You will put me into communi- tion with the man who will arrange this ?" he cries. "Immediately. You will find him in the room that door leads to. Tell Ilan _ "We stood aweiting the next ecte dia. cutsia the probable- origin of the stxango noise. Happening to glance sky- ward, straight north of our etteep we beheld a peculiarly sheped cloud whit - sit gray in color and resembling three interlecked ringe. With our fieldglass- we could make this out ever 40 clear- ly, "We suddenly tumbled to the fact that we had. witnessed or rather felt the results attending a meteor's fell, Mx. Bliller looked at his watch and an- neilliecil the time as 6:28. From our camp it appeared to us that the meteor bad fallen on the range we were then on. 'We didn't know any one else had witnessed its fell until WO got back in- to civil:Wien about a week ago, aud all of us counted on 1,„iving the interest - Mg occurrence to the prees. The smoke cloud was discernible as long as day- light /mod. 'The next day, just after We Strugie ‘40,1mon Trout creek, a tributary of the north fork of tbe Big Blackfoot, we en- couutered a halide of Flathead Indians. They were Louie Ashley, a half breed; Kootenai, a stepson of the old Flathead chief Axlee, and another brave whose Indian name meant coyote or same other of the wild beasts of tho region, I have forgotten what. They had their SqnaVi's and children with them. All were ex- cited, and Ashley remarked; "'Indian much scared. Think world coming to end. Get away from here.' "They were unanimous in the opin; ion that the meteor, for -we told them that 'WAS what it was, had fallen on the range or watershed between the North Fork, Willow creek, a tributary of the South Fork of Flathead and Montour creek, and I believe such was the case. "It is easy to account for the story that it struck near Hay Stack Butte in this county. A circle drawn with a cir- cumference of 50 miles with its central point on Willow creek will cover the headwaters of a dozen different streams flowing in as many different directions. It is but eight miles from Willow creek over on to the headwaters of Sun river. "If the formation of the country counts for anything in deciding just where it fell, it was somewhere in the range I have referred to. Iron predomi- nates, with considerable slate and lime and other baser rook. I honestly be- lieve if any one wants to discover that meteor that the place to look for it is in the big range situated as stated. I do not believe that the -meteor as a whole landed anywhere. The first report was very clear, as if the meteor had exploded in midair and then rained its broken fragments on all •sides. We estimated the smoke cloud to be about 60 miles above the range and compasses placed it directly north. From the vibration of the ground we concluded that some of the fragments struck within a few miles of our camp. Several days later we met two white men named McKnight and Betts, both well known at Ovando, who were cut- ting hay in a big meadow on Willow creek expecting to winter stook on shares, though they had not solved the problem as to how they were to get the stoolrin there, and both said they had witnessed the strange scene of the Fri- day before, and that it appeared south- west of their cabin." Mr. Miller and R. O. Fisk both con- firmed the above. The Indians named, when at home can be found at the sta- tion of Arlee on the Northern Paciflo west of Missoula.—Helene Herald.. A Novelty. The stranger glared at the editor eaves - lively. "I have here a poem on 'Beautiful Snow.'" The editor jumped up and shook him warmly by the hand. • "I will buy it," he said, "without read- ing it. I have been an editor for eight years, and during that time DO one has ever offered me a poem on that subject be- fore on account of the fun poked at it by the joker. A poena on 'Beautiful Snow' will be a sensational novelty. ".---New York Journal. LKA e A TEXAS HOLSTEIN. Southern Bred cow With a Remarkable Milk and muter Record. At the Texas AgriCeltaral and Ale- olianical college is the HoisteiteFriesian cow Yentje Netherland. She is of Neth- erland-Aaggie blood from /ter sire, and her dam was Yeittje 11, . The agricultural experiment stations Of the south can do floating better than show by practical example how to breed milk and butter COWS. The dairy 'mei- nese has a great fotere in the south. The beautiful cow in the picture is 6 years old. She gave 12 gallons 2 quarts Yneeene enereilinfeenn. 2 pints of milk, wet= made 4 ponds 1 1-8 ounces of butter, every clay for a week during One test. Once elm gave 870 galloes of milk Ana male 85.90 poonds of butter in 80 daye. Roeglily estimated a plat of milk weighe a pound. Her week's test showed over 100 pounds a milk a day. There is scarcely anoth( r oaw in the country equal to this. For a dairy cow Yentje Netherland seems strongly and. compactly built too, 'Unsalted Butter. The consumption of unsalted, or aweet butter in this city is increaeiug all the time. A few years ago there were only three er four counnieelon houses that handled it at all. Now there are perhaps a dezefa that do, some of them receiving large quantities. The sales of unsalted butter anultmt to 'nee than 1 per cent of all, but the total daily coueumption of butter here is enormous, and the amount of unsalted butter sold is IMO very considerable. In a general way it may be said that sweet butter is eaten mostly by the very poor- est people and by those who are very comfortably eitunted. By fax the limpet consumers of unsalted butter here are the Hebrews, and unsalted batter !snow used, or it may be had, in many of the finest hotels and restaurants. It has long been used iu einne of these. Its increas- ing use in them is perhaps due in 6D140 degree to demands frone foreign guests. "Unealted butter is far more commonly used in Europe than here. Tim butter commonly sold contains about au minced ealt to the pound, and rear() or less co/oriug matter. The sweet butter contains no sale whatever and L uncolored. Salt is added to suit the taste d the consumer. In some restaurants there is now used a butter containing about half the -mud proportion of salt. Salt is a preservative, and the ordinary butter of commerce keeps much longer than sweet butter, which raust bo used while fresh. Sweet butter is mainly New York state butter, but in winter some is brought from ferther west. A great deal of the sweet butter is brought to the oity by express, which adds to the cost of it, and the butter makers charge a little more for it because it is all butter and no salt. Sweet butter costs at wholesale commonly a cent a pound nore than salted butter, and sometimes 8 or 4 cents a pound more. It is of a lighter color than mast salted butters, and when fresh and sweet is of an agreeable fragrance. The ordinary commeroial package of unsalted butter contains 60 pounds. Hebrew jobbers buy sech packages of the wholesale commission merchants and break them up into ten pound pack- ages for sale to grocers and small deal- ers. In this way the butter is widely dispersed and quickly disposed of. Ur - salted butter can be kept for days Li perfectly good condition if properly cared for. If not sold, it is put into a freezer or cold storage warehouse in which it is frozen. There it may be kept in perfect order for raonths, but when once taken out of the freezer it must be sold promptly.—New York Sun. Ship Butter Yu Good Couditlon. I believe butter can and ought to be made so it could not be substituted. It is an article that has been in use a good many years and will remain a necessity ane command a good price if properly made. Now, let every one who is inter- ested in the dairy business stop so much kicking and put his shoulder to the wheel of progress in the manufac- ture of pure creamery butter. Let every owner of a COW who sends milk to a factory do his utmost to help his but- ter maker. The butter maker should at- tend to his work carefully and see that there is nothing left undone in making and preparing his butter for the market, and I think it would give better prices, make it more pleasant to do business, make better times and better people.— H. J. Hand in Creamery Journal. • if You HEasy,ablitoney Enough. Build a fine'big red barn, if you have money enough, but if you have not go out in the woods, out down some good, straight poles, set them in the ground, buy some rough boards and building paper and make a good, warm stable that will never freeze with the cows in it in the coldest weather. It does not make so much difference what a stable is built of so it is warm, bas plenty of sun- light and ventilation and is convenient to feed' and arranged to keep the cows clean and healthy. Make the winter condition just as near like June as pos- sible, and as to water have plenty of the pure, clean, warm article. You know milk is 87 per cent water and sometimes more. If the water gets cold, make it Warim FACTS AND FASHIONS. sow mtvr: Are Itespousible For Peultrx In these days of keen, competitraleansd_ transient novelty, wheu the efforts of a large proportion, though fortunately not all, of the faney seem for the time be- inugo iga to be coUngeree t atr at e dins o elt lar cwapon a e tini°go: d if one might -use the term, to buffoon each and every established variety which leaS the Misfortune he come under their notice, it is a matter almost for serious apprehensieu that old, and well, tried fbaenenorfiolma tenr s, wanting, tin, ixthebp:es:niter temnot. porarily searcer, both in the exhibition pen and utility yard. I say temporarily, because it is my firm belief that the poultry world, after its attack of yellow fever has subsided, will again return to the knowledge thet mongrelism does not necessarily mean utility, and, that but little credit, if any, attaohea to the procees of color feeding. Meanwhile it is a matter for °On - gratulation that here and therethrough- eat tile country genuine faneiere are to lie found, who shay in preserving purity Of breed and can look back with par- donable pride on the many years of pa- tient effort which have resulted. in ma- ces.% and that, too, without the aid of elleMiMls or dyes. To this quarter by and by we ellen he oonetm, hied to look for ealvatien when the craze for buff or altould X say orange tinted—birds has externfiunted blood in the yards of the professional dealers and of general patine alike. The present tendency among e. Ream of the fancier commu- nity to breed for reoveltat alone is, more- over, indirectly xeeponsible for math disappointment and diseouTagenient younger fanciers. Thom who Unmet upon the publio so called breeds, mauve factured forsooth in a couple of years at most by the promiscuous intermix- ing of three or foe= established vaxie- ties, in the vain hope of thereby pro- dueing a variety which will combine the good qualities alone of all four; Tor - get thatthereare two great laws which, turn where wormy, present themselves thoughout the domalu a nature. These laws are, first, that the prog- eny of mongrels is to a large extent aterile when interbreeding is attempt- ed, and, Wend, that the products a crossbreeds invariably tend to tlthow back, even if again crossed with pure bleed. Among nations the Sallee ISM apply and any one who has been in our West Indian cold:ties cannot- fail to have been impressed with the sterility of quadroons and octoroons aud will have met with plenty of instances of black offspring from white parents whose genealogical trees have not been quite clear of Week branches. For the manufaeture of even the sem- blance of n new variety capable of trans- mitting its likeness with any degree of certainty decades are required, nor can it he done in a few seasons withoub re- sorting to such inbreeding as leads to sterility, and I -would commend the above to the consideration of all who hanker after new breeds or believe that even utility strains can be turned out with rapidity. This must not, howevee, be taken to be a sweeping condemnation of buff breeds in general. By all means let us have Buff Rooks or Buff Wyan- dottes, eta., provided they conforra strictly to the types of Rocks, Wyan- dottes, eta, in general poiuts, differing little except in color. Such require no alien blood fax their manufacture and are but subvarieties or sports from the parent species, precisely as a new color may arise in seeding chrysanthemtuns or pansies, but until the new subvarie- ties aro capable of breeding true to their own points and color it behooves the poultry club and other powerful societies to decline to form separete classifica- tions fax them at shows. Speaking of exhibiting brings us to another and most important question affecting buffs in particular—viz, as to the legality of color feeding. There can scarcely be a doubt in the niind of any true fancier that to dye feathers by feed- • ing with color is no more creditable • than to apply the dye externally, nor is it easy to see 3,vhat satisfaction a sena cessful exhibitor who follows this prac- tice can derive in wresting a prize from his less fortunate but morehonest rival, who scorns to convert what should be a buff bird into an orange one by artificial means. Fashion in the poultry world has been responsible not only for many absurdi- ties, but by emphasizing with one hand oome trivial detail in a breed, such as lobe or comb, has with the ,bther de- stroyed more serviceable qualities. Minorca fanciers, for instance, are surely discovering that the fashion of breeding chiefly for comb is not only depriving their favorites of their well earned reputation for laying, but in making the breed more delicate. Again, the followers of modem game are begin- ning to see many good qualities in the - neglected old tnglish breed which for many years had escaped their notice, while we have yet to discover the table bird to eclipse the game Dorking. Let us not, therefore, give way to the present temptation to don yellow spec- tacles or forget that there are in exist- ence such sterling breeds as Hamburg% Anclalusians and Brahmas, not to men- tion several others which in points of utility or fancy will give their patrons as much if not more satisfaction than many of the more complex and there- fore less stable productions of late sea- sons, bearing in mind that color alone will not impart utility, and that the bore numerous are the factors employed in orossing the less likely will the re- sulting offspring be to possess and per- petuate all the good attributes of the variionuspporuoly. gtrenitors.—H. B. Greene, M. D., As cold Weather comes on see that the inside of the poultry quarters are pa- pered and whitewashed and that all cracks and crevices are closed up. One decided advantage with the small flocks is that each individual can be given better attention.