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Exeter Advocate, 1906-11-29, Page 64-0-4-04-0-4-Ce+4+0+ cest.ie-sec+sese-o-4-o+o-4.-Q-40•4-0+o-4-e-e-o+o-a-ot • 13 , OR, A SAD LIFE STORY o-e-t3-e-0+04-cee-0-0-0+0eit+ceesoe)-0404-0.4-0-4-04-0+04-0-4 CHAPTER X. "We are not pine out." .Th3 formula, implies mourning, and yet the clothes both ot Elizabeth and her mother are unmistakably colored ones, and give no indication of an even moder- ately recent loss. But it is so clearthat Miss Le Merchant means to add no ex- planation that he has to change the subject. . "Though Bertie is not, an old friend," he says, smiting,•4`yet I have come across one here to-day—she opened the door to me; I should have liked te shake hands with her, only she looked so haughty— she never used to look haughty at the Moat." "DO yeti mean nurse?" she asks. "Yes, I knew her in an instant, she is not in the leastSchanged, less even"— hesitating a little, as if doubtful whether the stiffness of their new relations war- ranted a personality—"even. less than you." ' She enatches a hasty look at him, a, look upon which he sees, to his surprise, imprinted a character of almost fear. . "You must be laughing •at me," . she says, in a voice in which he detects. an undoubted tremor; "I am very much changed." There is such obvious apprehension in her whole manner that his one thought —after a firstflash of astonishment—is to reassure her. - "Of course was only speaking of ex- ternals," he says quickly; "ten years could hardly be expected to leave any of us quite where we were ae to our in- ner selves;" then, ,seeing her still look flurried, and becoming himself nervous, he weds rather stupidly, the hackneyed Swinburnian couplet— - "Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives' theugh I never could see that that was quite a necessary alternative!" Ere the words areoutof his mouth she has risen with precipitation, and be- gun hurriedly to rearrange the branches of lilac in a scaldino on the table near her. She is apparently so awkward about it that one odorous white bough falls out on the -floor. Before Jim can stoop to pick it up, Byng has rushed, tio the xescue. In eagerly thanking him, in receiving it back from him and accept- ing his services in replacing it aniong its perfwnechbrothers,ithe girl, perhaps involuntarily. turns her back upon her former interlocutor,. who sits for a mo- ment staring rather blankly a her; and. wondering what stings there could have Meted upon. Ms nerves by his own per- lurked in his apparently' harmless wmds formance. The scene is so entirely to drive her away so abruptly. What- ever may have driven her away, there is certainly no doubt as to her being gone. Nor as Jim sees her moving about the room, followed by Byng, and showing him her treasures—the little wild red and yellow tulips she plucked in the field this morning; the . chicken -skin bex she bought at Ciamppolina's yesterday, and mixing all that she shows with her deli - advances to greet him, that he recovei,s _cote light laughter--ean he buoy himself himself. up with any reasonable hope of her dd?" ever, with her own good will, return - o youoshe sayssmiling "Flow , , tag. He must be looking more blank and with less constreint than he has of than he is conscious of, for Mrs. Le Mar - late learnt to expect. "Are you fond of music ? (putting, as she speaks, , her hands up to her ears). "I hope so Did you ever hear such a shocking noise?" There is no particular mirth in Bur, geylie's mind as he mounts the stone stairs of the house Web announces it- self as 12. Bis, in the commonplace new square of the Piazza, d'Azeglice But yet it fs evident that, if he wishes to be in tune with the mood of the family to whom he is going to pay his respects, he must. not be only mirthful, but musical. At the door of the entresol, to which he Is directed by the porter, opens in ans- wer to his ring, bursts of laughter, among which he can plainly detect the voice of Byng, assail his eat, niingled with music, or rather noise of a sort, but what sort his ear, without feller evi- dence than is yet. before it, is unable to decide. The person who has admitted hint is an elderly Englishwoman, whose features at once strike him as familiar - 80 familiar that it needs scarcely one reaching back of memory's hand to cap- ture the fact of her having filled the office of nurse at the Moat, at the period when the nursery there had been the scene of those frantic romps in which he himself had taken a prominent part, and In which Elizabeth had been to him by turns .so able a second, or so vigorous an adversary. Be would like to claim_ acquaintance with her, and, perhaps If she had made any difficulty as to ad- mitting him, might have screwed up his courage to do so; but as she lets him in without delay or hesitation, he follows her in silence along the passage of a by no means imposing little entresol— they are not so well off as they used to be in his passing thought—is ushered into a small sitting -room; and, entering behind his own name, which has been completely drowned by the din. issuing from within, has time, before the con- sciousness of his own appearance has disturbed it, to take in the details of a. group which his entry naturally breaks up. Set slantwise across one angle of the room Is an open cottage piano, and beside it stands Elizabeth, her elbow resting on the top, and all her pensive face convulsed with helpless laughter. Upon the music -stool Is seated a. large collie dog, supported froin behind in an upright position by Byng. Before him Is a score of music, .from Which be is ob- viou.sly supposed to be playing. as in- deed he is doing in a sense—that is to say, he is bringing down first one large paw and then another heavily on the keys, accompanying each crash with e short howl to express the agony 1. - different a one from what he had ex- pected ; the immoderately laughing Elizabeth has so much more kinship with the sweet hoyden. of the Moat than with the pale woman with a history of bis two last meetings, that for a second or two Burgoyne stands in the doorway as if stunned. It is not till Mrs. Le Merchant, coming out of an inner room chants voice sounds quite apologetic in his ears, when, having been, like him- self, deserted by _her companions,she takes a seat near him. "I do not know which I admire most, "Elizabeth is so proud of her bar- . the vocal or the instrumental part of gains," she says, glancing with a lenient the performance," replies he, laughing; smile towards her daughter; "she must but even as he speaks, both cease. show them to everybody." Elizabeth lifts her elbow from the "She never offered to show them to piano, and Byng removes his hands from me," replies Jim, rather morosely; then under the dog's arms, who, at once, joy- becoming Aware ' of the almost. puerile ful and released, jumps down, upsetting jealousy 'evidenced by his last 'remark,' his music -stool with the impetus of his he adds: descent, and .yet immediately, with all . "I am afraid I said something that an - a dog's real good-liearledness, begins to noyecl Miss Le Merchant; I.cannot think swing e handsome tail, to show that he what it could have been. I told her how bears no real malice.for the odious prac- wonderfully. littlachanged I thou/she her tical joke that has been played upon in the last ten years, but it could not tern. The clamorous fail of dog and have been that, could it?" music-stoel reveals an object which had The mother's eye is still 'bellowing her been hidden behind both, in the shape of child, and, if it were not art absurd as- p. Mile boy, in wbose behalf, as it darts sumption, Burgoyne could hive fancied across Jim's mind, the eccentric con- that there was a sudden moitsiuee in it. cert, for which he has come in, must "She is very sensitive," eirs.•.Le Mar, have been got up. e chant, answers slowly; "perhaps it would be safer not to say anything about herself to her." "Perhaps itewould be safer," rejoins Jim, with some ill -humor, "If you were to draw up a listof subjects for me to avoid; I have no wish to play the pea ol a bull in a china shop; and yet I seem to be always doing it; imprimis" (strik- ing ,The forefinger of his left hand witli. the right), "imprimis the Moat." He pauses, as if ex.peeling a disclaim- er, but none such comes -7'111e past generally" (moving tin to the second linger and. again halting; but with no more result than before). "Yourselves" (reahhing the third finger). Stilt that silence, which, ifit mean anything, Must mean assehts Re looks. impatiently 'in - her face, to seek lhe response which her lips refuse him. ' "On your own sheivirigi" she saes gently,' though in a.ratlier troubled volt°, "you have the whole.fielo. of thepresent and the future left you; are not they wide enough for you?". His brows draw together fide ,a, pain-, ful frown. . ' "Perhaps I have as little entree to be fond of 'them as you have of the pose". It is a random shot, a bow drawn ae, a venture, but it trend not have hit more true apparently had it been level- ed with the nicest aim. As her daughter had done before her, Mrs, Le Merchant rises hastily, and leavea him—letwee him to retleet front- eally upon how. wisely' Amelia had acted in insisting upon his visiting these "dear old friends,' upon wheni the effect of his conversation is So obviously exhilas rating. . 9 Wish 1, had not Male:it Wishlt-Was time le go homer • • • The Small fractious .voice; that •vvails "Oh. do go on!" erles the child shrilly. "Oh, do make him do it again! Oh, why do you slop?" And indeed through the whole of the ensuing conversation this cry recurs at short Intervals with the iteration . of tt guinea-hen. But none of the three per- formers seem disposed to comply with this request. TWO of fhetn sit down de- corously on chairs, and the third throws himself upon the floor panting, showing a -fine red longue, and dragging lilinself luxuriously along on his stomach. to show his relief at the corvei being end- ed. The child has followed, Elisabeth, and now stands beside her, tiresoinely pulling at her white hands. • "Buda bas Come to spend the day with us," she says,. looking. explanator- ily up at Jim; but, speaking with: a formality very different, as he feel& from the exuberant ease and inirthlhat had marked her intercourse With Eying. Tim had already hat a flash of speen- Intion about the child, as to whether •he might, be. a late -Come little brother tir- rht'd on the scene at a period sub.se- fluent to his own connection with the family, since plainly the pan of his small life did nol streteti t a decade. "Beale is a new friend," he says kind- ly. "I do eat know Beetle." "His mother, Mrs: Roche, is a cousin of oars; she has a villa on Bellosguarcloi •Peehaps you Icrioet herr' . "I am going to a party At her house on Wednesday," cries lirn, le e tone di eager ple.aaure, at the disCovety of this fresh link,. and of the vista of _probable meetings- whioh 11 opens up. , "1 Anti meet yeti there?' e . Elizabett three her -head slightirealde and shakes 11 asslightly, pispa 20 • the two preceding sentences seems to be Jtms own moutlipieee, It Is, in point of fact, the voice of Beetle, who, tired of Uttering bis unreeithiled request for the repetition ot the eoneert, whieh hash filled him With Such delight, has of late been trying the effect of bis unassisted pow- ers to hring about the desired =Sum- mation, by putting his arms as far as he can round the dog's body, and, endeavor- ing to lug him towards the music -stool. The. collie has been enduring ;this treat- ment for flee Minutes—endurine it with an expressioa or magnanimous patience, which seams to say, that, though it is andoubtedly an unpleasard experience, yet, as it isiriflicted upon him by one of his own family, he must of course put up with it, when Elizabeth goes to the reecue. Elizabeth goes ,alone, eince Deng 1:3 held in a:inverse by her Mother idethe ether sideof the room. Verbal persua- sions having entirely failed, elin tries to loosen tho child' a arms; but his grasp. though puny, is ebstinate, and the only perceptible result of her . endeayees is the .utterance by her young friend ot the two polite, aspirations above Met:Waled. "Ho. does not want to sing: any More teiday," Jim huge her saying in her gentle voice; "you really are, hurting him; he is too polite to say so; but you are squeezing him so tight, that you really are hurling him. . Why now (with a little accent ef pain), "youare hurting me," -- „ Jim has been looking with lacklustre; eye out of the openevindhw at the young plates.' trees exchanging their frowsy buds for infant leaves; at the oee Judas tree pranking in its purple blossoms in the Piazza.; butat that low cemplaint ie makes one step across the room, and, whipping off Muster 13ertie alike from long -enduring dog and plairelve woman, stoops over the latter as she sits upon the floor, passing one ,and over ,the other, 'upon whieh the chilclh ehgry fin- gers, transfereed from- his first victim, have left rosy prints of pain. "I wish I had not coineeI wish it was time to go home!" whimpers the little boy. "Since he is so anxious to go home, I will take him if you like," says Jim in a stiff voice; "I must be going Myself." She looks up at him from her lowly posture, chaerning, half -apologetic, wholly., peace -making smile fleeting across her small face, while ,he still chafes her hand—that little pinched hand which makes him feel so ridiculously tender. "Are you, too, sorry that you came?" she asks. The question takes him by surprise. He is not prepered for so friendly and almost intimate a sequel to her short. shy answers, and her abrupt quitting of him. He hesitates heiv to answeeit; and as he hesitates, she rises andoistands be- side him. It is not easy for a grown person' to rise gracefully from eeseat on the floor. Jim catches himselfithinking with what a roll and a flounder Cecilia wouldhave executed the same maritime. vre; but Elizabeth, supple and light, rises as smoothly as an exhalation" froni a summer meadow. "If I was rude to you just now," she says, rather tremulously ; "if I am ever rude to you in the future, I hope you will put it down to the fact that 1-1— am very ignorant of—that I kriow very little of the world." • • The two men are gone; so is the child; so is the dog; and Elizabeth is shiftinge up the piano and removing the score. `What a noise we madel4 she says,. smiling at the red:election. "If you make such a shockipg noise again, the,signorina and the other lodg- ers will info:Lamy interfere." Mrs. Le Merchant, has, followed her doughtere and now throws one arm about her slight neck, With a gesture of passionate affection. "If you knew," she says, in a voice of deep and happy c.g,ation, "what it was to me to hear you laugh as you did to: day!" "I have a good many arrears in that wa.y to 'make up, have not I, mammy? And so have you, too," answers the younger woman, laying her sleek bead down caressingly en her mother's shoul- der; then, in a changed and restless voice: "Oh, if we could stop that man talking.about the, Moat I Why does be go on hammering about it?" "Why, indeed?" ,replies Mrs. Le Mer- chant with a. shrug. "Men are so thiple skinned( but .it is rather touching, his havnig remembered us- all these years, is not it? For My part, I had almost, forgotten his existence—had not you?" "Absolutely!" replies Elizabeth, with emphasis; -`and if he will only let me, I am more than willing to forget it' over again. Oh, mammy" (turning her face round, and burying it on hev mother's breast), "why .can't we forget every- thing? begin everything ahesh, from now—this delightful now ?" (To be conlinued). 20*.i. MOLL, • $975,000 FORA PATENT. Enormous Sums Have Been Paid lnven- • tors For Their, Work. It was recently reported that James Develin, a locomotive fireman, has been paid $975,000 for his method of making rotary engines reversible. This is quite believable, if Develires invention really accomplishes that, which it is credited with doing, for Inc improvement—long sought after by inventors—enhances enormously the value of the steam tur- bine. But all the same, the amount paid, as. sliming the figures are as stated, probe-, bly constitute.s a record, although, of Nurse, more money has been made in the long run out of inventions by inven- tors -who have been smart . enough to retain for themselves the whole fruits of theirilt.tlbtCrs. Charles ieup' oele, fete instance, who hlaborated the idea of the trelley car, is a millionaire to -day, although not long since he was a mechanic, 'working for a weekly wageMergenthaler, the inven- tor of the linotype machine", and also at case time a. weekly wage earner, affords another instance in point; as does also Westinghouse, who sold a, part interest only in his brake for $600,000, retaitthe for ali again,thehprincipalteisashare. Tcase o Bradford boob-Poker—Blakey was his nerne—who made $500,000 out of ari iron boot-proteetoe; FL Cook, who ibeiented the caster'egister till, and who is now 000plo ih the world live under the tire able le take life easy, corifIdent that on n Sack. each one sold he wet receive 4 royalty of two donate; and L. C. Crowell, once a printer's laborer, but now 4 wealthy man, oiving to his having invented a new folder for magazines and news- papers which for quickness and effi- ciency heat easily all contrivances of the kind the in the market. TO ONE Wig -425 o oo o. Very Large Sums—Paid in *Alicia ar by Bich Men. Just now, when the papers are full stories of the difficulties, doeters find. making both ends meet, the glad case De. Richard•Bier, of Berlin, comes as pleasant 'eerprise, Summoned all the way from Germany to attend the Sultan of Turkey' in his recent illness, he received, in additivn to a fee of $25,000, carpets valued at $2,000, and a gold. and diamond -skidded cigar -case and three gold and silver medals. Of corse, however, this by no means establishes a record..in big medical fees. Money kings .nowadays are able to afford to pity ancire•than -just ordinary crowned ones. The late Philip J. Ar- mour, of Chicago, paid the Austrian Dr. Lorenz ("the„ bloodless surgeon") $1751- 000 for curing his little daughter of hip disease. Jay Gould monopolized the Services of a private doctor at a salary of 815,000 a year, and "extras"; • Mr. Whitney paid 820,000 for a week's at tehda.nee. . Nevertheless, roynities as /Alien* are worth cultivating. Sir Mcirell' Mac- kenzie's ."little account". for iattending the Emperor Frederick in his last illness Is said to have totalled up to 870,000 Dr. Dubois, the Italian Specialist, eves made s a baron •fer bringing into the world theKing or Rome, andreceived in addition a lump sum of $20.000, 'and a substantial increase in his already large salary as Court Physician. While, se long ago as the reign of the Empress Catherine of Russia, the first Baron Dimsdale, for 0. few hours' atten- dance On that erratic lady, received his title, $50,000 in dash, an enmity of $2,500 a. year ear life, and 65,000 for the ex- pense of his journey between Landon and, St. Petersburg and. back. The laygest, fee ever paid was that given tg- Dr, Samos Gales for curing a wealthy patient of eome knee trouble. The fee lie received was $250,000. WHEN 'YOU'RE "DOWN." When your -pocket's lined with money, then your friends are sweet as honey, And they'll pat you on the back and praise you, too. When success attends your labor, then • .they want you for a -neighbor--,. There's no other chap on earth se nice as you, tut when ,you have been exalted and,.it ' happens you've .defaulted, - On your former reputation theywill frown, And 11 18 -enough toshock you just to • hear how they will knock you— Ws because you once were. up, but . now you're "down." • . Once they almost would caress .you when they'd stop' to address you, You remember how they met you with a smile. That was When they heard the tingle of the ducats you would jingle, You were then a "royal fellow" all the while. -• Just as long as you'd a dollar for your colors they would holler, They would spread your reputation over town; When • -they learned that you were ."busted," how they all got up and - dusted, Just because you took a tumble and were "down." When you've got a job that's paying, then your friends are always say- ing That you really are a very clever chap. They will cheer you and applaud „yeti, to the vaulted sides wilt.laud yteu, -Till you chance to meet a serious mis- hap. Them they eye you with suspicion, talk about your sect condition,, And they'll.roast.yeu to the verydark! est brown, And -declare they thought it funny. where you always got your money— '. It's because you . took a tumble' and went "down." It's a fenny way to view it, but the world will always do it-- ' Praise the chap who .climbs to heights of great -success ; • - Overlook his streak of yellow—he's 'an "all-around good fellow," Till he's mired in the quicksands of • distress. Then they'll turn around and stick him in the back and try to kick him, . And forget the fellow ever won re- • nown, And they'll pass and never know you, for they think that they Must show you What they think aboutthe fellow who is "down." —E. A. Brininstool, One,:of the most rema4able and most intereeting men in the Bi itieh peerage is tthasEarl of Crawford. He is the beed•Of the house of Lindsay and Premier Earl of. Scotland, and one of his titles is Baron Wigan fle owns extensive coal fields in the neighborhood ofWigan, as well as many acres' of land in Scotland. He is a keen philatelist, haiiirig a collec. tfon of stamps valued at £0,000, and he ia also a greet scientist and traveller. Marty museum have been, enriched by his gifts of rare birds, etc„ and retently, he ,presented to Bei Zoo a small •family Of elephantine tortoises which he had foUnd in the Aldabra !stands, and some leaf insects teem the Seychelles. ; Fair Hosteei—"I want yeti to take that lady over there by the door In to dinner. My husband -say. -she Is a bit er an old frump, but as she has money and orte Of his greatest Merits has just mended her for it, and we must be nice to her." Guest—'I, am sprry, but, yOU see,,I am the particular friend who Married her," , • TWerity-eotreo out Of every hundred CEYLON GIULIA TEA. is Being Exploited by Lis on ACDOWit of - Its Vast Superiority Over Japans. LEAD PACKETS ONLY. AT ALL GROCERS 4oc, Soc and 6oc Per Pound. +++44.44++++++++++4444; About the ..Farm I i$-+++++++4. ++4,++++++++ DENMARK'S MODEL MILK •SUPPLY. ' That Copenhagen has, to -day, purer and' cleaner milk than any other pity is due in great measure to the wisdom, energy and good 'judgment of Gunn! Biursetto'r thee!' tfoheunCdeorpen fh Copenhagen ni managing dsup- ply ossoogenevenpalny.Ano ndlwrlelatrenlaalcribeii escaitsts, uc; rtheaast.9nit4.ivaAst ettiaitiedtimofoorf itpshtleagnitrkhnroineigice e'‘eri a doctor Mild not get pure milk for a sick baby. Mr. Busek started to remedy this, and from so smell a begin- hing has •grown the immense' concern' IMI supplies the entire city and earns ler the company 50 per cent on its money, and besides this it is enabled to sell large quantities -of wholesome half - slammed milk for a small sum o poor people,' and to even give it to thte very poor. • The concern is managed under two heads, Elrst,. _regulations for the farm- er; and second, regulations for the com- pany. The farmer who joins the • com- pany has .to guarantee: • (a) The strict observance of the so- ciety's rules concerning the cleanliness Of animals and Milking methods. (b) The observance of definite rules for feeding, int:finding grazing in sum- mer. . (c) Observance of rules correerning cuffing, use . of ice, and transport. . (d) The removal of all diseasedand tuberculous, cows.' (6) The 'reporting of cases of infectious disease among his laborers. The cows are examined twice a month by a veter- inary surgeon, who applies the tuber- iculin test, .and surprise visits are paid frequently by an inspector or an ex- perienced dairy maid. • Th.e.company on its part agree topaythc .highest .market price for the milk, and if an infectious disease is reported or thesmilk of a cow is under suspicion, and the company notified, the seine price paid as if he milk was delivered and sold. In this wrie deception is rarely practised, for there is a heavy penalty when found out, and there is no gain by withholding the information.. In this way all share one inan's misfortune. The company , sells three kinds of milk, children's milk, from cows fed on special food; ordinary whole milk and half -skimmed. milk, which contains 1 per cent of fat. .At the company's plant one is struck by the skill or all the work people and eviry one, boil( men and women wear clean white, clothes from head to foot. Great care is taken in cleansing all bottles. Both hot and cold water is. used, also soda and lime wnier So a bottle must be free from all germs. It is guile time our pepple knew that .milk is one of the best carriers of disease in the world, and no amount of trouble is too great 11 11 gives the' peo- ple safe milk. •••=ma...• CABE OF BREEDING EWES. ,Every farm should have a flock of. sheep. The number kept should de - Pend somewhat upon the size and make- up of the, farm. There Is alwash, enough -"forage on a farm that can be utilized to gooc,1 advantage, if' it is taken care of in time, to -keep. a small fleck,' at least fkrough the winter. Take a flock of breeding ewes and there is no 'stock on the farm that will pay any better, writes Levi A. Page. Theyshould be kept through the winter lee good, thriv- ing condition, not trio% fat. They can - be kept in this condition by judicious feeding of corn fodder or bean pods ur clover hay. A chahge of feed is desir- able.. Ahlittle wheat bran and oats, maims a fine, healthy' grain ration. A. yard or field to rim in during suitable weather will keep them in the best el Condition. They are sure .to bring a fine, thrifty lamb. They should have a good shelter at night and away from stornse. Sheep should be kept dry, especially in winter. As 1.114 seascin draws near to the lamb- ing time, they need watching carefully to see that their udders ere not caked or sore.- If the ewe is in good condition, there is usually very little treuble about, • tho Iamb starting all right, As soon as possible, when the weather will admit,' I ,sheer dile ewes. They, Will do • better, and their udders are not so liable to get' sore. The lambs will also do better. Of course, the barn where they are kept should be olosed, se the flock is kept fairly warm. The ewes need stronger feed as the !Blebs begin to grow. It will not be. long .bergre the lames will begin to want to eat, and a Place should be provided for them to run in- to where a 'little 'wheat brari ,c,an be d, also a little clover hay. These should be put In fresh every day. It is astonishing how soon theywill begin to eat ite and soon begin to show the good. effects. Everything about the feed troughs and 'racks should be kept clean. There is no animal s particular as ai sheep about its feed and drink. They should have clean 'water where they can get it any time. As nearly an the sheepkept now, are -- cif the mutton breeds, I do not believe. in crossing the breeds. I use onlyther.i oughbred rams upon my ewes. To keep. hp the flock, retain the best ewe lamb fcr breeding purposes. In this way, in• a short time, h person may have a fine flock of grade ewes, Always have the type of ,tho sbeep in mind that you • wish, and breed for it. . —.— LIVE STOCK NOTES. Dry cows should be fed 'so as not to take on much flesh. Keep them in model condition and they will yield better. Keep your hogs clean, feed them on pure and wholesome food, and you will not be very likely to have any diaease among them. . Use a loose check when plowing. It is very disagrerable to have a horse all the; time putting Hs head down to the, ground when at work. A slack check will make it more comfortable for the horse—and the man, too. There are two common mistakes made in feeding caws; flrst, not feeding liberally enough; second., feeding a ra- tion: not properly balanced. It has been found by experiments that about 60 per cent. of. what anow •can eat is necessary merely to eneiniain her without procluc- leg any milk or gaining in weight. This being, true, it is evident thatilt is net economy to feed only a little more. than this 60 per cent. needed to `keep up the cow's body. As grass forms the best ration, so one must get as near to that as Possible in fcochelements. See to it that the man- gers, feed boxes, etc., are free from all: refese rernaining from the previous feed: before giving fresh rations. You will' feel more self-respecting yourself, tee side makine-the animals more comfort- able. Put yourself in their place; would. It be -comfortable or pleasant to cat from the seine plate, unwashed for three, or fcter days or a week? Thoughtless- ness is the cause of Mitch downright. cruelty to animals many time,s. Keep tho cows contented; the contented caw' is the profitable one, as a rule. FARM NOTES. Cut yew coat according to your cloth., Most of the hard times on the farm, as well as everywhere else, come from liv- ing beyond our means. The farmers et this country ought to be happy. ,They niay be happy; but to be so they rnusl keep . theirneed o below their .resources. -Scrub brushes are the best article: for use ip cleanipg dairy- utensils, Coarse linen cloths May also he used, but they require more are in keeping them clean. The same methods 'fog cleaning utensils should be followed for cleaning cloths. In making , cider vinegar; the per cent,. by weight of the acetic acid in will be a little less then the per cent. Ly weight of the alcohol in the cider.s, A little of the. Alcohol remains unfer- mented, and serves to give the desired flavor or boquet to the vinegar. There is a rapid mottled of milking cider vine- gar. In this method .the fermented cider, oh "hard cider," is run through a box of beechwood shreeings, wetted wilh eld vinegar. By this method good vine- gar may be made in 24 hours. 04:•00000000020490004104440 0000 Girlhood and Scott's Emulsion, are linked together. The girl who takes Scot's Etnal- alon has plenty of rich, r.vd blood; she is plump, active ancl energetic. The reason is that at a peripd whet; a giri's digestion is weak, Scott' Emulsion provides her with powerful nourishment in easily digested form. It is a food that builds and keeps up a girl's strength. ALL. DRUDDISTS1 15GO. 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