The Exeter Advocate, 1898-8-19, Page 6THEY WEr-v.i. WED.
Pretty Miss Polly not We
She'd -rathet ,Fes, far rather. be dead.
'Iver e better to ite ;FL V4,14. grave !,
Than he some horridiz sirre.
For what z$ a WI•e!ne Se said,
"A. slave when °nee she
Rardsome young Barry.t he'd not
for a -.vita must he petted aziA. pampered and .
fed
'Twere better ta live ;Font. all
That year tse ramy es,:ape the proverbial l•
,'For a husband is naught, but a slave!" he
A slave wtzen er.Qe he is wed."
nai4ht esz?,,,et:/, this perverse young
pair
fell to
Ir 't e tstraightway
•Twete tir better. they twain, siavaZi
Than t3
"For ts a slave, ave6.) agy
4i.farever 7 and 7:4.7w1:
"-Anne a .41-,,,,;a12.1. t4i.fraza
LOVE IN TWO WARS
,e-go-tre epee!" Liet-eterfant Cet
reel Vet...ft-et,
fr:-.TUf
beef:ere:tee t.ent. "'Wt:7!, .
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toe
SZirt
lba of tee
4 7:-
gir.t t'70
cattier
crlit.le44 7v. int
Cent, vt!tf•te e ettette estwe !eat eate tee!
atenen ea tette au tire terewu
▪ catelp. eult-te tif
atelateel
oleo Sh There, sir; taempatta F."
"liett! thonekt it wee ssetiethitee
Ise, lee; alealltrui Meow:tette C•taa
nel Pelee ene rett,tizieree.
eta fete lesett 4 at her father with a tle.
eide ily ettaitaisal veilittg, itf it, r t ety
wily it
fu.nuy that a yefeette tuau enet-e- 01 en tee
2oeel rate:rent ettatal
lived ta tit te nufeetteerbeett.
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'" rr teele rwt ete etitl
Seerei "Neel t tee tie
fte e -ng, beat:, Yeultuteett to tee
=Met
Tm
of Vert.
prey 1", Ara tt:
eleeet 0tet. - tet as tete,
te Tette ea ete
care wee tee
tarra--, ,yeeme, me -r
a
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t 1ni,"';11.5(4117.14-1 an
wetlyf r aerie etetye.
"Wive- ie.. le yea fie that,
zzot:r ilia, tie y ve PAntf
•-tttyetauget ?
2 de: t site tiee istee 3. E. I Lei
eerie : +. 113,:-.4t 11 a • it lee
tea te-1 to fv.
OP Lae,' tatele, iy of tite tame t See
ttetel— ete e• tete e tart hie sofa ea
lieek ere Manly t'aP.ax,tr v.1440, Lnt
ate e, ttietsH,ditughter. Tbat's tbt
who.- • a."
Th- tertee trim Late :tow was k,',13.1'-'1
QUM% dente tie- line el Zoti!..4
azter :name the earner. .Nu
Baseetur Ltd ta7.:1-il an ea a into it- r
at ;el. awl tee itl:wa taltiug her ea a
walk, :eve took the tenting whi elte
thought would leatl her to the quart, rs
af Comeau:: F, and eke was very uearly
tight in lea gnats.
She was leulting for LeeShepherd and
was soon face to face with him.
Leo smilea at the girl with an ex-
pression of IlOrfi:qt uneeretazeling. She
was a late? Nurprised that be showed no
eurprise at her vi -it.
"Mr. tehepherd," she said, "I don't
know whether I ought to apologize for
troubling; you" --
"You ought not, Miss Bascerne,"
said Lee. "There is no call for an apol-
ogy—hardly even for an explanation."
"No, I know what you want to ask
the."
"You do?" said Nelly, in some sur-
prise.
"You want to know if I know why
the lieutenant colonel •called me back
just now. He doesn't know any one of
the name of Shepherd, does he?"
"No, he doesn't. Why did he call
you back? Why did he ask your name?"
"Well, Miss &scams, if you ask me,
and if you promise not to spoil my
plan"—
" What plan?"
"My plan is to see whether your fa-
ther's memory will go on troubling him
• about me until he finds out Will you.
promise not to tell him until I give
you leave?"
"I promise," said Nelly, delighted at
being able to solve the mystery so soon.
"Well, then, here's the whole thieg
In a nutshell. I'm very like my grand-
father. Everybody tells me that Then,
you see, this hat, I suppose, brings out
the likeness. They used to wear hats
like these, you know."
"Who used to ?" said Neely. "Who
Spas your grandfather?"
"Why, my grandfather was a John-
ny Rab. Both my grandfathers were.
ut your father is thinking about my
inother's father, old General Good-
lowe. "
• "Oh, that's it, is it? I remember
"Ever hear the lieutenant colonel
•opeak of the time he was a prisOner of
war on parole in North Carolina?"
• "Of coetse I have, and Colonel Good-
lowe had him there at the old place."
"That's right, and my mother used
to play cribbage with him when he
couldn't walk on account of his sprained
knee. Did he ever tell you that?"
/dolly shook her head, smiling. "But
is your mother still living?" she asked.
4 'I should so tauch like to meet her
said Lee "She would like
lo meet you. "
"How do you Ithow?"
▪ 'Well, to be quite candid about it, I've
exert disobeying orders from home
W e cott spinnieg business. Then I
joinea the regiment, Company F. Bet
I never wrote your father's name home
until we were called out for this war.
As stem. as I told mother—she still lives
on the old place—who the lieutenant
colonel was, she wrote back. Here, I've
got her letter in my poeleet She says:
*You are going to serve under a Yank
who was your grandfather's prisoner of
WA r iu lehe. Thank •God that it eau be
se." Then she tette me a perfect little
romance aud wants me to go and Wire^
duee myself."
"Why didn't you?"
"It isn't good discipline for an enlist-
ed team you know."
"I think its lovely. Come to tea to-
morrow afterncom wlil you"
"How about military discipline, Min
Baseome?"
"Obey me- orders," said Nelly severe-
. .auti with that she marched away.
But ehe sael iatte one 'A ord to her fa-
ther aireut her discovery, although she
kilOw
what was puzzling lulu when he
s.at pultine eis mustache in the tent aft-
er evening revele.
Next atterneau, as Nelly and one or
two girl erienee waout she had invitee
out to camp were arranging things for
leer afterneett tea, the lieutenant colo-
nelts dategett r remarked te her tether,
"Da. I've invitee cello nue man to tee
this afterteeere—au enlieted
°Tea deeee Feet have!"
"Juet ee, Private Lee Shepherd,
Compaq F."
"Vett Lel 1 spolie to yesterday?"'
4071, -
And .3'nt at that mement the oraerly
repent a Pri WV' Sheplterel, Compaus
orm it:r hy oraer, sir," *aid Lee,
ealutime,
Tite: Iterttenautcolonel looked bard at
the enlietal an for a roomera or two,
awl teen eteret out: "By jingo! It was
• no hatIzeiaatiest after all. Ditleat ao
tell
no yum in this state?"
"Yes, sir. Ent you didn't tisk nte
weere I Was tam. I'm from North Car-
eliau, mat they Fay 1 let very intuit
in my gra:el:ether, General Good.
levee."
Luz Nelty didn't hint to Iter father
that elle au fat:tn.:thing of his civil wat
eafeeetife meett WA; the
eteetneett vote tot the eve of its depaSteta
t.)T the area.
Tie u p -a.* fedi, taking his arm effete
Ii7naTAF: "lee a I'm glad yen merrit
lliXt.m,ift: nil glee: eat; cif:411%1=ra*
Geuerat tete at vet's atiegitter,"
"Tut, tee. aitiettei \Vila are you tall.
et alemet"
a Well, yeu !mow, all that cribaage
ell tatieat Mime eitti•i in that way."
eat t wee attiel .eg, as the lieut. mut et:la-
me tieetatie very itopertinentty.
.1 mote twauld—ies
teeter taut e eeteplierd islet my
brette r. I ream te say if he were I
eltealtl !lave u a father anti a brother
;
..tiir VPL. g Ulla 1;;Sitt
tatier e 0 ale tet tette. to mete,"
But tee t that Lee Shepherd was
net r tau o ii• r tail not u.• ten tu alleviate
Ne0Aly's in least .1‘..A#Ve When
an* lir *rrd for the Iv -tut neat
mernina.
Tee f the stelae iu feet, cannot
• be tele ueta twaretent ever end end
Centitany 1 yre' Mae-
•
ethereal in w Yerk "t1744411.
Sheridan at the Milliner's.
•
General eheritlan as he became older
• conquered bie silences. At the time of
the cutummue let was in Paris with his
ale -de -camp. There was aleo stopping
' at the same Jettel a charming American
•
woman with whom he was slightly ;le-
i quaiutel. The prisoner, had been liber-
ated and were rushing madly through
I the streets. The order had also been
given that all windows and shutters
must ete kept closed. Shut up in her
dark room tette hearing the noisy rabble
below, the woman became greatly
alarmed.
"There is but one thing for me to
do," she cried, "to insure safety. I will
put myself underthe care of the Ameri-
can general."
She therefore sent her card to Sheri-
dan, who at once called and offered his
services. He also advised that she should
join his party in the morning and get
away to London. Still she appeared dis-
tressed. Fivally she cried: "It is my
bonnets at Virot's. They were to have
been down today. How can I go and
leave them?"
The general grasped the situation and
offered his arm to escort her to the mil-
liner's. Happily it was not far off.
Ever afterward he delighted to tell of
his pleasure at seeing such an array of
dainty headgear. He had never been at
a milliner's before.—New York Sun.
Maps of Valley Forge.
It is somewhat remarkable that the
only known maps of the Valley Forge
encampment during the winter of
1777-8 were made known to an Amer-
ican as late as last summer, when Judge
Pennypacker discovered them in Am-
sterdam, and that, presented before the
Sons of the Revolution on their visit to
Valley Forge Saturday, tbey will only
become known to the American public
when published in the society's year-
book The series of maps now in Judge
Pennypacker's possession and made
originally by a French engineer with the
American army include not only care-
ful drawings of the Valley Forge en-
campment, but plans also of the battle-
fields of Pentsylvania and New Jersey.
It is understood that the plot of the
Valley Forge encampment modifies ma-
terially the traditions concerning the
camp, showing the location of troops
where heretofore no troops have been
supposed to have had their encampment.
The careful Hollander who contributed
so heartily to the American cause ap-
pears to have contributed the last chea-
ter to the bistory of the cause by pre-
serving these maps until they fell into
the eget hands. — Philadelphia In
-
quiver. •
Sweet Woman.
MISS Passay—I dread to think of my
fortieth birthday.
Miss Pei t— Did something un
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Dame north three yea re ago to go into eleaseut happen then?—Brooklyn Life.
LOVE'S TIME TABLE.'
011, Margery sweet, in your daffodil gown,
YOU pease at the turn of the stau
Beside a wee lassie with lashes of brown
Who eons the old table with care.
"Sixty seconds a minute," 1 hear her repeat.
Noy, not for a lover, I call.
en lintlr: 1 would, swear when I'm
'Waiting, petite,
For Margery hero in the hall..
But when on the sofa, with lights dim and
low,
She hears my sweet story again
o• o soon the old elook will be biddirzg me go.
Si41y minutes a second make them."
Xtunean M Mother's 1),Iagazine.
AFTER YEARS.
"It—seems—to—me, Estelle," said
Ferathaud Essex after a moment or two
"of grave observation, "that you're
about old enough to leave off playing
with dolls."
"Playing with dolls, indeed!" echoed
Estelle, drawing berself up, with infi-
nite scoru expressed in the gracetul
curves of her lissome shape. "I playing
with dolls!"
and Mrs. Colouel ()Imagines gaveMajor
Essex no peace of his life. Rawest ride
with her. • He must esoort ber hither
and you. He must go with her to select
her new pony phaetom In act, she
found herself uuable to transact the
commonest teem of business without
Major Essex.
So it happeued that wben she went
to buy a set of ermine furs Major Essex
• was her uuwilliug comaauion.
"It's the last time," thought the neat
auf to himself; "it must be the lest
• time or she will Merry me before I
• know it "
Mrs, Ohaughley was very bard to suit
et the matter of furs, and whee at last
he folual a set -Mika she liked it proved
to be too small round the neck,
• "We eau have it altered in a minete,
ma'am," said the polite salesman.
"One of our young *mum can ilx it
weile you wait. Miss Carson—bere—
send Estelle to tee!"
And a light pretty little figure glid-
ed in, dressed in eoraeweat shabby
mouthing. Major Essex sat by the -win-
doev, looking absently out into the
street, but as the work girl attempted
to remove the fur wrapping from Mrs.
"Well, what are you doing, theue" Colonel Chaughley's neele a pin at hex
"Why,. 1 ant dressing 15 of thou for4 wrist caught in the widow's lace collar.
the church fair!" and Estelle held taal "rat' awkward, elutaV thing t" al
most screamed Mrs. Colouel Obanghley,
one completed fairy, gorgeous hi piult'i and theu she thecae(' herself abruptly,
rape and Fp:metes. with a floating mill rememberieg the presence of Major Ts,•
d fleas of gauze ribbon.
"Tile churele fair I" eaid Major Essex, Ilet1 am very sorry, tua'am—indeed—
curling his lip, "Of all absurd Pon- indeed I did not iuteud it, 'faltered a
ase, devised to stir up quarrels meow- sweet, low eolee, whielx made Essex
tee womaukind and rob the 'nen le- start round as if a auger of fixe bail
wholesale, that is the most ridiculous!"
"But you are going, Major Essex?" taiegi,tAesitteiiitiespeaayamtp,
"Going! No, 1 .6110Uld, rather albeit "Ole Major Essex, is it you?"
Estelle colored Awl Veer* grew pale—
the FROWy little circlet of fur dropped
from ber Angara to tbe Aeon
"Miss Dayton—if you please!" began
Mr. Mink of the trut of Mink & Fur -
tail. And Estelle, eatchiug up the er-
t t,
:, vulva,
"Haven't I just told you Bemuse
disapprove of the whole thieg."
"Major Essex," said Estelle, leer
voice quivering with indignation and
two awed scarlet spots starting out upon mine collar. murmured WOrd or two
her ebeeka "I do believe it is just as cf apology and escaped from the room.
Aunt Marion eays "So you're acquainted with the
young woman!" Niel Mrs, Colima
Ohaughle,y a little superciliously,
"The young lady's father," atm Es-
sex coldly. -was one at my oldest
friends and cue of the wealthiest citi-
zees of Florala before this uultappy war
desolated all rauke of life. Mr. Mink,
"Aud eveat does Aant Marion say?"
demauded Essex, rather amused.
"She says that you are gettiug to be
Selfish, uarrow mauled bacitelote-
"I can't be so very old. • I am uot ea
until the New Year!" *tided Essex.
"I call that very old indeed," said
Estelle ItaughttlYt "Atul slaa says you will you oblige me with Miss Dayton's
,are settling down into a set groove of eeeeeestet
thought mai feeling, and uuless"— And Mrs. Changhley wiebed she end
"Stop, stop." eta the major, whin- . net justeted ou major Best:els company
sically ;etching his eyebrows. "Doe.t1 duriugthe fur eeking expeditiou.
give ton /wavy doses of bitter medicine, R went, as enee as he had ream to
Estelle. I've heard quite enough ter Suppose Weil:less bours were over, to the
the preeent." phtee tanned be Mr. Minx, but his expo -
"I don't suppose Aunt Marion meaut matt was ln vain. Mies Dayton was
that it should be repeated to you odd I not at bona.,
Estelle, sewing vigorously away at a me.""Howhat a contrast vats this to
doll's elate and priching her taper the the cool veranda and wide belle of Day-
gers nierciltaely, "but I believe it's ev. ton's place. lestexes heart '-auk within
ery word of it true." him as hi. looked round at the carpet -
"You believe ite" less floors awl rickety stairs of the
"Yea I do," nodded Estelle emphat third rate emulate, house.
ically. Half an hour later he was sitting in
"Tbat's bard on me," said Major lee his private parlor at the De L'Orme ho-
ses, with an attempt at pa:110s Whit tel suadting tmetlitatiev cigar when the
was contradieted by the sparkle of his waiter knocked at the door mul ushered
lideebieeoue beefeau eyes. "Do You sule in asleuder egure in black. Essex flung
his cigar into the fire and spume up
with a glad countenance.
"Estelle! I have been to your house
to find you, but without success."
"We worked late tonight," she said
quietly, "mid. the late hours and con-
stant confinementare killing me. Major
Essex, I bare a favor to ask of you for
the sake of old tines."
Be bad drawn forward a cbair for
her, into which she wearily sank.
"It is already granted, Estelle."
"I wish to beg of you to use your in-
fluence to obtain me the situation of
companion or seamstress—to—to your
wife."
"omy wife, Estelle? But I am not
married."
The rosy scarlet suffused Estelle Day-
ton's cheek.
"That lady in the black silk dress—
was she not your wife?"
"No, nor likely to be, I hope," Essex
answered, with a slight grimace. "But,
Estelle, though I do not happen to be
married, that's no reason why I should
not want a companion and a seamstress.
Dear Estelle, will you come to me and
be my wife?"
"But, Major Essex"—
"I know I am 15 years older than
you, but I am not an old man yet, and
I believe I have loved you longer than I
aall remember."
"It is not that—oh," sobbed Estelle,
"it is not that 1 But only lam not good
enough for you, dear friend."
Mrs. Colonel Changhley was highly
scandalized at the whole affair and
positively declined to attend the wed-
ding or visit the bride, but Mrs. Major
Essex somehow has contrived to survive
ber neglect and bas grown fairer than
ever in the sunshine of her husband's
love, and the shadows through which
the has passed only added new bright-
ness to her present life.—Exchange.
pose I could retrieve my character if I
were to go to the church fair told buy
the biggest doll you have been dress-
ing?"
Estellewas silent, but the compressed
lips and crimsoning cheeks bettateued
her inward indignation.
"Come," persisted Major Essex, balf
lifting ilimeelf from the sofa to get a
better view of the young face 1» the
corner t "You know I'm going away
next week, and I shall want some kind
of a souvenir to remind me of you
when Ian away on the other side of the
habitable globe. Shall we say $5 for
that doll?"
"I couldn't sell it to you for $500,"
broke out Estelle, -with flashing eyes
and coloring temples. "It's just as
Aunt Marion says—you are a disagree-
able, cross, tormenting old bachelor!"
"Why, Stella, I thought we used to
be such good friends!"
"So we used," said Estelle, "but not
since you have begun to tease and tor-
ment me."
The major watched her with languid,
half closed eyes.
"Estelle, I believe you are crying."
"I am not crying!" flashed Estelle,
and to hide the bright, gathering drops
she caught up all the pile of dolls,
satin, tarlatan and glittering ribbon
into her frock and darted out of the
room like an arrow.
"The little firefly," laughed Major
Essex. "But I'll make it up with her
yet. Stella and I mustn't part unrecon-
ciled. As for Aunt Marion, who has
such a very derogatory opinion of me,
it's hardly worth my while to attempt
to undeceive her."
And Major Essex dragged the chintz
cushions into a heap directly under-
neath leis head and composed himself
ler a comfortable nap before dinner.
When the next week came, he packed
his valise as nonchalantly as if he were
going to Baltimore or Philadelphia and Trying the Wrong Nan.
started for Calcutta, and when he re- An unusual verdict was rendered by
turned the south bad passed through the jery in a case tried in a California
the terrible pangs of war. He went to town 25 years ago. The question was as
the old Dayton place. The velvet lawn bo the ownership of several head of cat
was plowed up and planted in rice. The tie which the defendant was accused of
orange grove, where the mocking birds having stolen from the plaintiff.
used to sing their merry roundelays, As the case proceeded and different
lay leveled to the ground, and only a witnesses gave their evidence it became
ruinous stone chimney, half overgrown pparent to all listeners that the defend
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w ith a rank poison vine, remained of ant was an innocent man. When it
the hospitable old mansion. Dame time for the jui'y to retire to con
For a moment Essex gave way to sider their verdict, they did so, but re
natural emotions He eat down on the turned to the courtroom in a few mo
-
ruined doorstep and wept tnents.
And then he went back to Baltimore, The foreman looked the judge straight
where his home was to be for the future, in the eye and said with a drawl and
all efforts to discover any trace of the twang which betrayed his New England
Dayton family having proved futile and origin :
vain. "Jedge, we find the plaintiff guilty. ''
"By Jove, I wish I had etaid in Cal- "The court is not trying the plaintiff,
cutta," be said to himself. "Home is but the defeudant," said his honor has
not home with all these changes around tily, and, the matter being explained,
the foreman Wa§ at length induced to
Mrs. Colarel Changhley had returned express the jury's opinion that the de
from India in the same vessel Vial hm tend tnt was "not guilty."
—a plump, handsome widow, who had "Howsomever," added the foreman
lost her lamented colonel in a sepoy solemnly, " 'pears to me we're consider
-
mutiny among the jungles end was on bag the wroug man, your honor!" —
the qui vive for a successor to him—. Youth's Compani011.
eta
SKIM MILK CALVES.
reed Which Will Produce Growth and
Lean Meat Rather Than rat.
A correspondent oe Hoard's Dairy-
man, P. B. Crosby of Maryland, says
that most people have an idea that a
calf will not thrive 011 skinunilk, and,
they consequeutly give it new milk,
and with the uew milk goes the profit
also. Now, I know by actual experience
teat a calf can be raised ou
if he has enough. We have one 110V1
this place that at 4 weeks gets ete
pounds of sktmmilk a day, and, besides,
all the briget bay it wants, welch is a
good detel. And with this liberal feed-
ing it is a beauty, aud, as for growth, as
the hired man expresses it "It beats any
calf I ever did see." The trouble with
not only calves, butmostyouug stook, is
elpitysi:;;;!,
MIT' FOUR weeits leen
that they do uot get enoug,h. A growth
boy will eat tuore than a grown mate
and the growing calf wants enough, oi
it will not be a growing calf.
Another idea that ehould be taken
into cousideration is the ultimate pure
pose for which the calf is inteuded. If
it is only for veal, theu it should be
got fat, but for the dairy purpose,
theu all its feed should be with the aim
of growth rather than fat A wise
teacher tolls ea to train up a child when
it is Frew and when it is old its train -
tug will not depart from it. Just so
with a calf. If, when it is a calf, it is
trained to lay on fat. wIteu it is old it
will still beve tite eame tendency, lute
its feed will go to fat instead of the
milk pail. For this reason skiunnilk is
manifestly better for a calf than wbole
milk if the dairy is to be its purpose.
for the tendency of saimmilk is to pro-
duce growth and lean meat rather than
fat, and this teudeucy in later years
will cause the cow to turn her feed intc
milk rather than fat.
Upsetting. Natureta Laws.
Any animal that is in a healthy con -
did= will, if it has enough to eat, lay
on fat. It may take a great deal of feed
to make a small amount of fat, but only
keep on and ultinuttely it will get fat.
Taus nue- one Iva° is iu the busbnes of
fattening cattle has nature hack of him,
and the kind of animal with which he
is working is not of such vital impor-
tance.
But in the dairy the case is entirely
different. The milk cowis anunnatural
product and her tendency is to go back
to the original state from which she
came. And if the highest measure of
success is to be obtained there must be
a constant combating of nature's laws.
We often hear it advised that the heifer
at her first calf should be milked as
long as possible to strengthen the milk-
ing habit. This is because of the fact
that we have just stated, and it is ad-
vice that should be well considered.
But the most important bearing of this
fact is upon the feeding of the cow. If
by liberal feeding we force the heifer to
give a large quantity of milk, we there-
by strengthen the tendency to give milk
in the later years of her life, and this is
not only true of the heifer with her first
calf but also of the older cow; the more
we train her to give milk the more she
can be made to produce. So that we
may safely say that a cow that has had
liberal feeding from her calfhood up is
worth more, very much more, than if
she had been poorly fed. Which way
are you training your cows?
Troublesome Tests.
The test is a great source of trouble
to the butter maker, for a certain patron
will claim that his test is too low, an-
other varies too much from month to
month. Another changes feeding bis
cows, and it makes no difference with
his test. Now, when these complaints
are being made is the time to invite
them to see you on testing day. Most
butter makers have certain days for do-
ing their testing. Have the dissatisfied
patrons and the noncomplainer as well
go with you and see their milk tested
and compared with their neighbor's
test. By so doing they will know that
you are trying to be honest with them.
There are so many butter makers that,
wheu test day comes, they will go to
the creamery, lock the doors and do the
testing as though they were experiment-
ing on some new invention and were
afraid some one would learn their secret.
The Danger of Paint.
Dr. James Law reports an interesting
case of poisoning by lead, which he re-
cently observed. He found several sick
cows, suffering from nervous disorders,
in a herd from which one had but rot,
ceritly died. An examination of the dead
animal revealed nothing, but a glance
at the new tub silo gave the reason. It
had been painted inside with a thin
coat of lead last summer, the knots be-
ing coated again. The acetic acid, de-
veloped in the ensilage, had dissolved
some of the paint forraing the poison-
ous sugar of lead, lead acetate By
prompt treatment of the sick animals
they were saved, but one in the herd,
apparently veell, succurabed suddenly,
making the second victim. Coal tar
Would have been safe and quite effectual
a covering tae vtood.
THE DAIRYMAN'$ WIFE.
A• n Ideal Not Realized by Everybody on
Earth.
• "The Dairy Farmer's Wife" was the
• subject of a prize essay read, before the
ediesouri Dairy associatiou by M. W.
Wood of Pike county in that state. She
should, says the essayist, have confi-
dence in man, the cow end her lacteal
fluid—know its constituent elements
and their uses and abuses. She should
believe iu millt as a diet for babes,
youth and Men of adult age; should
love the cow as a God given blessing to
the human femily. She should be a
neat, tidy woman in her dress, and
wheu she walks into her dairy it
should be a model of 'teethes& aud clean-
liness free from all blemishes—a large
room with trough to set tier milk cans
in, supplied with running, cool, spring
water to tee depth of half the heighth
of the eaus, the cans thoroughly clean-
ed, aired aucl sweetened in the sunlight,
shining bright as new dollars, before
the milk goes into them. The windows
and ventilators of her dairy should be
coveredwith gauze wire screens, so that
neither fly, gnat or smallest insect caa
enter, or in any manlier intrude its
preseuce. She will keep the floor of Iter
dairy eleanle- swept and moistened with
water, so not a particle of dust arise
from ber footfall as sae passes in or
our. be will Java ber dairy stand re-
mote from barn, stable, pig sty or any
other source ot deleterious Odors that
might taint or be absorbed by the ex-
tremely sensitive product of the dairy
cow. The dairyman's wife will aid het
lausband in placing ber model rolls of
gilt edged butter at crates for sbipment,
neatly covered with suow wbite nap-
kina interlaid with ice io summer, aud
so weed in winter that print awl mono-
gram eau be easily read by city mer-
e's:tuts to whom consigned for sale. This
model wife should regard ber butter as
the apple of ber eye—her stock iu trade.
To it she should look for her good name.
Upon its character aud quality depends
her lastiug reputation as a model
dairy wife end butter milker. Moreover,
the dairyman's wife sbeuld eave a stroug
m Awl an iron will. She should beve
a uerve to brook auy teal or any enter
geuey.
Any One Can hfalte Good Butter.
The writer and his wife have worked
p slowly. Flap by step, from the old
stone creek and dailt &urn to the seie
arator mut modern appliances of all
kinds for doing the work speedily and
well; fratti a few scrub cows to a flue
herd of ingb grade and full Wood dairy
cows; from cows that made only 10C
pounds of butter a year to yews that
make ntore thau three times that
Amount. We have met difilcultiete
many of them, aud still meet them, but
determinatiou to win will overcome
them.
The idea that one must be supplied
with all the modern maeltillery for
malting butter before good butter can be
made is erroneous. Modern appliaucet
lighten labor and do the work more
economically. We made just as good
quality of butter when we relead our
cream in tin vans set in a cheap wooden
tank as we did when -lasing a high priced
creamer, or as we uow make when using
a separator. 1 Jaye a friend who was
noted for making fine butter before sep-
arators came in use. A tank and cans,
the cost of which did not exceed $5,
were used, set under a plum tree at
least 50 feet from the well from which
he carried the water to cool the milk;
lots of work, but it was a step toward
something better. He now has a separa-
tor and convenient dairy room. These
friends, like many others, did not com-
plain of lank of opportunity, but used
the means they bad to better their con-
dition instead of complaining about no
chance to improve.—Oor. Rural World.
Keep Lime Oat of Cream.
From the word gowe are dowtion all
devices for the so called "improving"
of pasteurized cream. A soheme has been
devised, declared. to be perfectly harm-
less—heaven save the mark—where-
by a preparation of lime is added to the
cream to thicken it, and so make the
buyer think he is getting a luscious ar-
ticle of pure cow cream. It is a fraud
and a cheat. No preparation of lime can
be healthful when added to cream, and
no cream that has lime in it is pure.
We are surprised beyond measure that
some who have the name of being repu-
table dairy folk should lend their coun-
tenance to this swindle. The stuff that
is put in is a powerful alkali, and even
those who make it and recommend it
admit that it must be "used with ca.re."
Throw it to the dogs. If pasteurized
cream is naturally thin, so thin that
patrons do not like it, then sell the
cream unpasteurized. If the utmost care
ansi cleanliness are observed with milk
and cream, they never need pasteuriza-
tion anyhow. This is the fact.
Filled Cheese.
One of our Wisconsin subscribers,
who has a creamery which is also fitted
for cheesentaking, wants to know if it
would probably pay him to buy the
skimrailk from his patrons and make
filled cheese Independent of the law of
the state, which alisolutely prohibits
the manufacture of filled cheese, we do
not hesitate to say that it would not pay
any more than any other fraudulent and
dishonest business pays. There is some -
tunes a present profit in such transact
times, but in the long run it is disas-
trous, not always to the individual so
far as mere money is concerned, but a
man cannot consort witir the harlot of
adulteration without serious impair-
ment of his moral fiber —Hoard's Dairy-
man.
Be on the Safe Side.
Dairymen that have facilities to keep
milk at a degree of temperature so low'
as to prevent the generating of destruc-
tive bacteria may possibly dispense with
hot water, but the average dairyman
has no way to find out the exact degree,
end to be on the safe side it is best to
ase the hot water, end that, too, at the
tenoieg, boiling point,
ut.