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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-10-7, Page 6HE ARUM 0.11-4 reN 797A iT JVL5 . C L A R.E1 oPYK!,9!:9:.?7 e Ithe autopsy should arrive, and the head , keeper a the morgue advised laim to ! possess himself with patience and while ; was waiting to look azoencl mid see the latest cadavers which, lead been brought there. "We Jaye had in eight days a larger number of wcznen thau mem whiele is rare. and tltese womeu were nearly all habitues of the publio balls and ellen traCkS." "And how can you tell that?" "Bal:et) they have pretty feet." "Ab, v ery well indeed:" said No- Prefeszer edevin arrivetl with a con- - edebe. "I lead forgotteu that one—a felt r srere, :young penneeien dem% evens at, his face bronzed and a Ca011, AeQkr..t. a singular etinel, broad and reeeptive, .1Ie hail cense; fru 1 Away of eoulewhere,and wee pissed amoug his coeval/ions Be was prebably a Spa/4=1" or a man iteni of chimeras, a little et - "Soule beggar likely, 4 peer devil tiiu0bewevtr, auti given lyver Ise malt - whom the cortsul bad 17.11RWII Auer- lug exaerimeate mee to vague dretune. ea, in the aaleadaes one know§ net M. Merin a1uLe L. Ginery and pre- wbere." seined to Jahn the aoung doctor, Erwin "A bad face!" said lateiliehe- "No- by name, atal said to the magietrate Roverereceived hire, however. and gave that the htlese et/lee/Its bad probably hilts aid,Iremerabia. If the youues luau ' lannen the ;Antal-era to gain time - bad come eften, I should think that be The teaF. griPeed of its elothinfe. lay straek the alow, and aleo, I ought to upon the dit-st.setiug tablh\ and three add, if there was net the other." yonng men velvet ekullcaps, with "Tan hut there is the ether," Ins APIX`ilS tied abeut their Wairl$, IVCIN1 Wife replied, "There is the one is 1 standiug ont ehe corrse. They h;n1 an eaw etauding iu frent et the cospens aud rkudY begun the autopsy. The mortal wbo was loeltaug at Thos.e ether papers eveund le a ,a reacier than ever in the with flashing eyes, I give ray word.. avhittniesa 4.4 the =1;a d oiv There is thee oue, Meniohe, and I am Eineteraet glided into the roomtry - willing to put ray hand iutothetreand inn To kttp Mt Qt eighn listening mid Innen eon nsoasenee if it uot eala above evere.flate; tan los- "If he is the oue, he will be foetal." ing eight of X. Giuory's face—a face in "Oh, bue if be has dieapiaeared? One whist the lin* ll'aS Itaeu. laeuetTefiug. disapvears yery grannie- ne these days," eharp as a knife, as lie but over the "We shall see; we shall see. Teeth:* pale face ef the zuurdereil man, regard - enemas, and we are 'seen,* He saw nun big it as searchingly as tile surgeous' "we are bere" as a grenadier a The Scalpels were searchbag tbe wouua, and guard before BD important engage/1103r, the h Aiong til0Se nieu in their They had taken the body to the black clothe% some with bared beads Morgue, At tbe lamer fiseel ter the an- order to work better, others with bats aapsy Beruardet arrived. He seemea eta the staetelseel eat earns° aeaMed like tenet excited and asked M Gann.). in a wax figure upon a ruerble slab, Ber- anon tune eenyeesestose sn Revere's narclet thouglit of taose images which library be had reflected and devided to had seen copied front Rembrandt's permit him to make tbe experiment— the famous experiment reported for so an years as useless, absurd, alzuost matures—the poet with, the anatomical pinahers aud the shambles. The surgeons bent over the body, their bands busy redsctdous. and their sciesors main the muscles i' / i Viet wowed, witich had let out Ids life, "With any elle but n Ginory should not dare to hope," thought the that large wound, like a monstrous and pollee einem ,„ but be does not sneer at; grimacing mouth, they eularged still strange discoveries" I more. The bead oscillated from side to ,, ..., Ile bad brought his photographic ap- slue, end they were obliged, to prop it with scene mats. The eyes remained the Wattle. that kodak which he declared; WAS snore dangeroue to the ex., iminal '1 Emile Aud in :Vito of the hems which than a loaded weaponne, had develop' had passed seemed as living, as auenac- ed ein, eneenees whine be sled taeete ing and eloquent as the night before. and of tlfe three two bad come out in The"' 1"re' hawever, Tell° With 501°0 - good mamma. The face of tie mar. , thing vitreous over the pupils, like the dered umn, appeared with a dearness , amaurosis of death, yet full of that width in the proofs rendered it formi., anger, of that fright or that ferocious dable as in the reality, and the eyes, , malediction which was reproduced in a startling manner in the negatives taken 1 by Betuardet. "The secret of the crime is in that ' look," thouglit the police agent. "Those ! eyes see; those eyes speak. They tell Wbat they know; they accuse some oue." Theu while the professor, kis asso- ciates and Ms students went an with i the autopsy, excbanging observations, following in the mutilated body their researches for the truth, trying to be very accurate as to the nature of the wound, the form even of the knife with which it was made, Bernardet softly 1 approacbed the exaaniuing magistrate, ! and iu a low tone timidly, reepectfully, ! he spoke some words, which were in - Isistent, however, and pressing, urging the magistrate to quickly interfere. "Ale a le Juge, this is the mo- ment! You who Call do everything"— The examining magistrate has with ass absolute power. He does whatever seems to him best, and be wishes to do a thing because he wishes to do it. M. Ginory, curious by nature and because items bis duty, hesitated, scratched his ear, rubbed his nose, bit his lips, listen- ed to the supplicating murmur of the police officer, but decided not to speak just then and continued gazing with a fixed stare at the dead man. This thought caisae to him, moreover, insistent and imperious—that he was there to testify in all things in favor of that truth the discovery of which im- posed upon him—and suddenly his sharp voice interrupted the suageon's -work. "Messieurs, does not the expression of the open eyes strike you?" "Yes; they express admirably the most perfect agony," M. Morin replied. "And does it not seem," asked the examining magistrate, "as if they were fixed with that expression on the mur- derer?" "Without doubt. The raouth seems to curse and the eyes to menace." "And what if the last image seen— in fact, that of the murderer—still re- mains epon the retina of the eyes?" M. Morin looked at the magistrate in astonishment. His air was slightly mocking and tbe lips and eyes assumed a quizzical ex -pression. But Bernardet was very inuch surprised when he heard one remark. Dr. Erwin raised his head, and while he seemed to approve of that which M. Ginory had advanced be said, "That image must have disappeared from the retina some time ago." "Who knows?" said M. Ginory. Bernardet experienced • a profound emotion. He felt that this time the probIena worad be officially settled. M. Ginory had not feared ridicule when he spoke, and a discussion arose there, in that dissecting room'in the 'Presence of the corpse What had existed only in a dream in Bernardet's little study be- came here in the presence of the exam- ining magistrate, a member of the in- stitute, and the young students almost full fledged doctors, a question frankly discussed in all its bearings. And it was be standing back, he, a poor devil of a police officer, who had urged this examining magistrate to question this savant - "At the back of the eyes," said the professor, touching the eyes with bie scalpel, "there is nothing, believe Dae. It is OlSewhere filet you must look for your proof.' "But"—and M. Ginory repeated his "who knows?" --'what if we try it this time? Will it inconvenience you, my dear master?" M. Morin made a movement with Inc lips which =emit "Penh!" and his whole countenance e. pressed his Korn. "But I see no bacon - alai' the doctorsdelegated to perform venience."-1 At the end of a raoment he , . ---,sena' • They taxa the matter over. those tragic, living eyes, retained their terrible, accusing expression which the supreme agony had left in them. The light had struck full on the eyes, and they spoke. Bernardet showed the proofs to M. Ginory. They examined them with a magnifying glass, but they showed only the emotion, the agony, the anger, of that last moment: Ber- nardet hoped to convince M. Ginory that Bourion's experiment was not a failure. Eleven o'clock was the hour named for the autopsy. Twenty minutes before Bernardet was at the morgue. Re walk- ed restlessly about outside among the spectators. Some were women, young girls, students and children who were hovering about the place hoping that some chance would perrait them to sat- isfy their morbid curiosity and to enter and gaze on those slabs whereon lay— . swollen, livid, disfigured—the bodies. Never perhaps in his life had the police officer been so strongly moved with a desire to succeed. He brought to Ms tragic task all the ardor of an apos- tle. It was not the idea of success, the re- nown or the possibility of advancement which urged him on. It was tbe joy, the glory, of aiding progress, of attacas- ing Inc name to a new discovery. He worked for art and the love of art. As he wandered about Inc sole thought was of his desk() to test Dr. Baarion's ex- periraent, of the realization of lais dream. "Ab, if M. Ginory will only permit it!" he thought. .As he formulated that hope in his mind he saw M. Ginory desoend from the fiaore. He hurried up to him and maluted him respectfully. Seeing Ber- nardet so moved and the first one on the spot, he ceuld not repress a smile. "1 see you are still enthused." "I have thought of nothing else all night, Ginay." "Well, but," said M. Ginory in a tone which seemed to Bernardet to thsply hope, "no idea must be rejected, and I do not see why we should not try the experiraent. I have reflected upon It 'Where is the unsuitableness?" "Ah, M. le Juge," cried the agent "if you permit it, who knows but we may revolutionize medical jurispru- dence?" ' "Revolutionize, revolutionize!" he teed. Would the examining magistrate yet find it an idiotic idea? M. Ginory passed around the build- ing and entered by a small door open - bag on the Seine, The registtar folloWe ed him, and behind him came the po- lice agent Beenardet wished to wait said in, a sharp tone, It Will be lost time." "A little more, a little less," replied M. Giuory, "The experiment is worth the trouble to make it." M, Ginory and proved without doubt that be, like Bernardet, wished to satis- fy his curiosity, and in looking at tbet opet eyes of the oorpse, although in his duties he never allowed, himself to be Wine/iced by the sentimental or the dramatic', yet it seemed to him that these eyes urged him to haslet—nay, even tenni/lit-need hien. "I know, I know," said X. "what you dream of in your magis- trate's braiu is as amusing as a tale of Nagar Poe'. But to fiad in those eyes the beuge of the murderer—come, now, leave that to the inventive genius of a Rtulyard Kipling, but do not mix the impossible with our researches in medical jurisprudence. Let as not make romance. Let ne Make, you the exara. iDatiOUS and 1 the diseection." The short thaw in which, the professor had spoken did not exactly please M. Oinory, who now, a little through self conceit (since he bad auade the proposi- tion), a little through curiosity, decided that he would not beat a retreat. "ls there anything to risk?" be asked. "And it might be one chance in a thousand." "But there is no chance," quickly enswered M. Moran "none, none," Then, relentiog A little, be entered the discussion, explaining wily he had no faith, "It is -not I, X. Ginory, 'who will de- ny the possibility of suell a result, But it would be miraculous. Bo you believe in miracles? The impressions of heat, of tbe blood, of light, on our tissues are not cataloguable, if I may be allowed the expression. The impression on the retina is produced_ by the refraction which is called ethereal, phospliores- oent, and whieb is almost as difficult to seize as to weigh, the imponderable, To think to find ou the retina a Inn/ince:a impressiou after a certaia =ether of hours and days would be, as Versmis has very well said, to tbink oue can find in the organs of hearing the last sound which reverberated through them, Peub Seize the air bubble at the end of a tube aud place it in a museum as a curiosi- ty. Is there anything left of it but a drop of water whith is burst, while of the fleeting vision or the passing sound nothing remains!" The unfortunate Bernardet suffered keenly evben he beard this. He wished to answer. The words came to his lips. Ab, if lee was only in M. Giuory's place! The latter, with bowed head, listeued and seemed to weigh each word as it dropped from M. arorin's lips. "Let us reason it; but," the profess- or went on, "since the ophthalmoscope does not show to the oculist on the reti- na any of the objects or beings which a sick man sees—you understand, not one of them—how can you think that pho. tography can fled tbat object or being on the retina of a dead man's eye?" Be waited for objections from the ex- amining magistrate, and Bernardet hoped that len Ginory would combat some of the professor's arguments. He had only to say: "What of it? Let as see. Let us experiment." And Bomar- det had longed for just these words from him, but the magistrate remained si- lent, his head still bent. 'The police agent felt with despair his chance slip- ping, slipping away from him, and that never, never again would he find a like opportunity to test the experiment. Suddenly the strident tones of Dr. Er - win's voice raw, out sharply, like an electric bell, aner Bernardet experienced a sensation like that of a sudden unex- pected illumination. "My dear master," he respectfully began, "I saw at home in Denmark a poor devil picked up dying, half de- voured by a wolf, and who, when taken from the very jaws of the beast, still re- tained in the eye a very visible image In which one could see the nose and teeth of the brute. A vision! Imagina- tion, perhaps! But the fact struck me at the time and we made a note of it." "And?" questioned M. Morin in a tone of raillery. Bernardet cocked his ear as a dog does when he hears an unusual sound. elk "But there is no chance," QuietIN an- swered 31. Morin. M. Ginory looked at this slender young man with his long blond hair, his eyes as blue as the waters of a lake, his face pale and wearing the peculiar look com- mon to searchers after the mysterious. The students and the others gathered about their master, remained motionless and listened intently as to a lecture. [To BE CONTINUED.] A HARD RAILROAD TO BEAT, One Sian In Double Distilled ZU Luck Found It so. The Soutnern Pacific is about the worst road in the wide, wide world to fool in the matter of transportation. r.ahe Southern Pacific has such a plain monopoly of California business that it is not necessary for it to loon fax favors, so it closes down very tight. Even the tickets which the seaipers succeed in gettiug are so hedged about with pre - mations that it is like talthig a oivil service examination. to beat oue of them. The favorite is a long slip which is designed to be punobea to fit the de- scription of the purchaser, so that by eto means can it be used by another than the rightful owner. When one of these tickets appears iu a scalper's stock, it looks like a porous plaster, being punoturea fax the color of the eyes, the hair stature, weight, complexion and other details of the physical make up. Once Jim Crawford of Laramie found himself stuck in'San Francisco with $4 and A fearful Manger fax home. But $4 was as nothing to the fare back over the desert. While he was worryiug his soul with regrets he canteupon a ueatly, folded slip of paper which hadbeen lost, doubtless by some hurried tourist. It was one of those pieces of orgauette mu - Pie representing a ride back to Ogden. Jim read it over, priuted wetter, punches and all, and rushed fax adrug store, lie bought dyes fax hie hair, stain fax Inc complexiou, got a pair of blue goggles and ran a concealing band- age over bis chin. A barber took off his mustache, and fax a doller a °beep oeulist made Inc eyes blue, so that the goggles were re-euforced with corrabo- ration. It took all Ms motley but 40 mats. Taws he climbed aboard the train. He had reached Port Costa wben the conductor came around and gave one burried look at the ticket, "This thing expired a month ago," he said tersely. The telegraph poles were peuclalaus with blue and brimstone fax two weeke after Crawford bad finished his walk back to Oak-lawn—Chicago Record, The firecracker so extensively used by Americans in celebrating Independence day is a Chinese invention and is sup- posed to have been used iu China in prehistoric times as universally ae it ie now used in the Flowery Kingdom upon nearly all ceremonious occaeionsa Its original use is supposed to have been to frighten away evil spieits, and in some parts of the Celestial empire it is still regarded as an effeetive weapon against ghosts and hobgoblins ' "NO BOXES SOLO HERE," A Sign Displayed In Shops Which Guard Carefully Their Reputations, "No Boxes Sold Here" is the sign that hangs in one of the principal jewelry establishments in the airy. The sign, made its appearance after the shop- ping of one Christmas season. But there is no time of the year in which the de - /mud fax boxes is quite discontinued, and the sigu serves its purpose always. The demand fax boxes was prompted by the amiable desire to deceive. some frieud or relative into the belief that the article presented to him came from the best establishnient in the oity. Sim- ilar attempts are made at the well kucevn glass and china shops, at one of the well known Preach confectioners and at all of the establishments witich have made a reputation in some par- ticular field. Neaely all of these answer such ap- plications with the words of the sign, "No Boxes Sold Here," but there are some few which sell them as regularly as they do other objects of merchandise and are quite indifferent to what be- comes of them so long as they get their rather high prices for the empty boxes bearing the name of the firna. Similar indifference is shown by a well knowu Euglish pickle factory, which allows its labels to be sold here and pasted over any sort of stuff that the pur- chaser of them happens to concoct.— New York Sun. The il'ose Lasts Longest. Bone and cartilage enter so largely into the structure of the nose and de- termine its characteristics that it un- dergoes little perceptible change, as a rule, with the lapse of years. The brow becomes wrinkled, and crows' feet gather round the eyes, which them- selves gradually grow dim as time rolls on. Cheeks lose the bloom which cos- metics cannot replace and lips their fullness and color. The chin, dimpled in youth, develops angularities or globularities, as the case may be, and the eyebrows become, heavy with the crop of many years' growth. The nose shows no mark com- parable to these familiar facial indica- tions a the approach of old age and practically enjoys immunity from the ravages which time mikes on the other features of the face. Next to the nose, probably the ears, as a rule, show the fewest and least obvious signs of old age. A. Curious stem. In Japan the traveler sees many cu- rious sights. One of the strangest of which is the population washing it- self at the corners of streets toward evening. In Yeddo the citizens fre- quent large bathing establishments. The street doors of such resorts stand open, and a striking spectacle, to say the least, is presented by the inmates witting washing themselves with the ut- /nest unconcern. This is a general cus- tom, and nothing whatever is thought ef it. Such an apparent want of modes- ty is difficult to comprehend and is not reconcilable with the advanced state of civilization of the Japanese In many other of the manners and customs do the Japs offer a striking antagonism to those accepted by us. Watching Plants Grow. Procure a little collomia seed. Take one of the seeds, and with a razor cut off a verystiny slice, place it on a slide, cover vvith a glass and place under the microscope. The instrumeht must be in a vertical position, When it is well fo- cused and lighted, moisten it with a drop of water. The seed will absorb the moisture and throw out a very large number of spiral fibers, giving the ap- ptetrance of veritable germination. Be- ginnere will find it easier if one applies the moisture while the other looks through the instrument.--Iiiicroscopioal Journal. CLEAN MILK. Plain. Talk on a Topic Involving Doth ilealth and Money, In a receut address to dairyman and milk dealers .Professor Clinton I), Smith of the Michigan agricultural college spoke in plain terms On the subject of eleanibless„ One thing, said be, that oux lady customer notes in the mubk we furuieh is freedom from dirt. She does not nee to find in the bottom of the bowl, as she empties out her 'morning's purchase, 94 teaspoonful af black eedi- tame 1 know it is the custom of milk- men to call that stuff metal rubbed frame the tin can, but it is, in truth, filth that ouglat to be in the barnyard. I have sold nulik in an eastern- town fax a good xemuy mouths and know ethereof I speak when I say that this filth in /nth; CAU be almost if not entirely prevented. TO tarnish milk free from dirt the cows Must be kept entirely clean as to their sides and .udders. Years ago, be. fore the invention of the modern styles of vow stalls: this VW practically imo possible, hut in modem times it is tot The point I make is that you caunot produce clean milk without keeping the cows eleau, The .importance of this .phase of the subject would wereaut me in speedinga whole hour 04 it. .01efill7 smeaauSs MILK CAN. liness in this line is not next to godii ness—it is godliness. Filthy milk is uu• healthy. It ought to be unsalable. It oomes from dairies where the sides and udders of the cows are filthy. Keep them clean, and the milk may be ex- pected to be so, To procure pure milk it is essential that the stables be cleaned out regul arly and thoroughly, leaving no excrement on the floor to rot and spoil the air. It Is also essential that something like plaster be used after the stables are cleaned to dry the floor and check the rise of obnoxious odors. The floors should be level, and indeed must be so sraooth as to hold no little puddles of disgusting liquids. As to tho material of which the floor should be made, I have no final advice to give. I believe that cement properly laid and not trow- eled smooth will be found excellent. So much for the floor on which the cow lies, It is of equal importance that the walls and ceilings be not covered with cobwebs or coated with dust. It is not necessary to bave an expensive cow stable to have a good one. The ceiling need not be planed even, but an- nually it should be washed down with a disinfectant solution, say, one part of mercuric chloride to a thousand of wa- ter and immediately whitewashed. I say this should be done annually, every spring. Finally every railkman should feel it due himself to keep his milk cans bright and shining, his milk wagon pre- sentable, and all of the equipment clean and in good order. A milk can for shippers that will al- ways hold a given quantity of milk is shown in the accompanying illustra- tion. The method of securing this re- sult is by having an exterior corrugated skin or covering and within it the regu- lation can. Then, no matter if the can should be dented in transit, the interior receptacle will still hold its original shape. Creameries That Pay. A creamery built with a great splurge and at a great expense VIcl declining rapidly into bankruptcy is one of the things wiaioh gives agricultural in gen- eral and the dairy business in particu- lar a backset. Do not build a creamery on a grand scale, but rather follow the more practical lines laid down by your neighboring localities where the dairy cow is a continual source of profit to the patrons of the creamery. If the plant is built at the right time and upon the proper basis, it makes a cash market for the dairy products relievas the farmer of the labor butter making and very often is a great educator in the way of showing the best methods of feeding and of handling the cream and milk.—Creamery Journal. Don't Let vows Get Tired Remember if a cow is compelled to travel back and forth over a 80 acre field from morning till night in order to hunt a ration for herself she will not give you big pay in the pail. If she has to use the energy to,secure a living that she should have expended in elaborating milk, she °Minot be profitable. To do her best the cow should be enabled to fill up well in a few hours and rest the balance of the time, as it is durieg these rest spells that she is grinding out your profit. There is SOIlle profit in summer dairying, but we must givo very careful attention to all the details if we would realize it —a W. Lighty in National Stockman. IRRIGATION. Eastern Fanners Not Sufficiently Wide Awake In the matter. "Here in the east, where we have ex- cessive rainfall and drought, we are apt to think ourselves helpless in the mat- ter and to depend on .Provislence to send as the proper quantity of moisture for our crops, and at the right time, We aro helpless as fax as rainfall is con- cerned, but many are independent, to a great extent, as to drought quite a share of the farmers living in moun- tainous or rolling sections of the cams try are asleep to the subject of irriga- tion and the oppormuities they have fax irrigating the whole or parts of their farm laud." A faruaer who ex- presses himself thus in Country Gentle- man further says: kilOW of but taree irrigating ditches in use in the northern part of New jer- sey, one of wbich I own. This has been in use for at least a century and covers four telds„ As long as I can remember the water bas been turned, on the fields and etin through the grass nutil near hayiug time, when it was turned off fax the ground to dry out suincieutly fax the aayiug to be done, after wilich it was again turned on and flooded the meadows as before and continued through the rest of the summer. By this Method a large crop of timothy haywae eevix year secured regaediess of rain. We can give the water entire oredit fax the large crops, as they grow Mile. Within a couple of hundred feet of the ditohes, after which the grasses grad- ually get poorer in queiity and less iu quantity teWard the lower sides of the fields. The grass near the diteh grows up, falls down and nrows up agaie, and we have trouble to get it properly cured when oat unless everything fa - Tors, The bay DOW sells fax e9,50 per ten in tka mow, which shows the qual- The ground irrigated is upland, made from gneiss reeks, oontaining a consid- erable quantity of felspar and conse- quently potash. The head of the ditch Is by a small dam across a stream 10 to 15 feet wide, and poles are so placed in the fall of the year that most of the leaves and fioating material are tweed in the ditch and eventually enrich the meadow. In the spring I open the ditcli at a point above ground I wish to en- rich and turn out a large stream of wa- ter, and then with a garden rake stir up the muck and leaves, thus flooding that part of the field, my object being to carry the fertility down to the poorer portion of the field and past where in the preceding years it had been allowed to stop. The ditch is three-fifths of a nine long, and if it were not fax the water power rights it migbt be enlarged aud extended 13 miles aloug the /lord/. west side of the valley, watering farms all the way. Where the water is cold in SittalUee, AS, fax instance, spring water or snow water from mountains, tbe irrig,atiug ditch should be made wide and shallow and bevy a very elveht grade, so- that the water may become warns before go- ing on the Made. I may be tlooaing the ground too mush fax the real good of the grass., but I tun getting, better crops all the time from the enrichment of the ground. In New Jersey a farmer bas a right to use water from a etreane but must turn it back into the tream before it • passes a water power, The above is my experience in ierigat- ing grass land, but in ever so many in- stances ditches can be taken out by the individual or several farmers, the water being used but little during a wet sea- son, but during a dry one extensively used, thereby getting large crop, or at any rate average ones. when, owing to the failure or partial failure of the crops of those who do nob irrigate, prices are high. Drying Wheat For Fall Seeding. After every damp harvest, as the present has been in most localities, the grain goes into the barn with its straw not so thoroughly dried out as it should be. There is also considerable dampness in the grain itself, and this will prob- ably cause heating of the grain in the mow. With spring grain this does not matter much, for the grain will be pretty sure to dry out when freezing cold weather comes. But whenever winter grain is grown, the seed fax next harvest has to be selected from the pres- ent year's crop, and this often means the premature thrashing of the winter grain and using it while still damp as seed. To tais fact is probably to be at- tributed the common belief among farm- ers that ole wheat and rye are better for seed than new. In the old graiu the freezing of winter and the subsequent thawing has made the seed nearly wholly free of moisture. Entertaining this view of the matter, The American Cultivator expresses the belief that it is fax better to thoroughly dry the seed even by artificial means. "We have over and over again dried seed grain in frnit evapdrators such as are used for drying apples, and always with the best results in a large propor- • tion grown of the seed that was sown. We believe that it is best to dry all grain used as seed by the heat of fire e" How to Idalte Good Bacon. The secret of producing choice bacon lies in the feed trough. If any one doubts this, let him put two Poland - China, Berkshire, Chester -White Duroc Jersey or any of our recognized breeds of hogs in two different pens, feed one all the can he can eat until fat, and the other boiled potatoes, milk, barley or wheat ground fine and some peanaeal until fat (the old country way). Kill both, put in dry salt for six or seven weeks, then take out and wash and hang it up in the kitchen or drying house until thoroughly dried, then cut off a good big chunk and boil it, let it atand till cold, then cut off a few slices and you will see the corn fed raeat is not so firm, is more oily and not so many streaks of lean as meat fed on barley, potatoes milk, etc., and this is all the difference you or any one else 0611 detect. —American Swineherd.