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to This Famons Remedy.
" Omnopo, :,lo "I rn3 simply a nor
Tons wreck. 1 cou'd not walk acrost
line unor v n ii u in
i.iv (apart (111! ti'I'IIia
anl J could not even
n'ccivo a le ter.
Lvery month I had
3:n-!i lirarirflovi-n
'.'nsation. .11 if tho
Mover parts would
fail out. Lv-lia JJ.
i!'ifiMi:ini'3 Vegeta.
I J rs Compound has
d'nio my nerves a
errrtt dial of (rood
Jard luasalsorelii'ved
the bearing ilnw.ii. 1 recoTiimoiKiea is
to some fru'in's and two of them nave
leen prea'lv l.cni.iiN'd hy it." Mrs.
Mak M( Kx'.'.ht. Orotm-n, Mo.
Anotlicr (Jialoi 'il Woman.
Bt. J.onU :io. "i was bothered
terribly vim a female) weakness and
bad backache. 1 ;: ri sijj down pains and
rains in lev r jvtrt.s. I brcan taking
Lydia E. l'in'i'iain's Yocretablo Com
pound repul ulvand used the Sanative
Wash and now 1 have no more trouble?
that way." irs. At. JIfrzoo, 672J
I'rrscott Ave., bt. Louis, Mo.
Jiecaufp- vor.r c.t.o is a diilicult ono,
doctors li'ivin? dono yon no pootL
do not e"i!ii:iiK to Buffer without
firing Lydia K. Iinkham's Vegetable
Compound atrial. It surely lias cured
many cases of female ills, such bs in.
flammation, ulceration, displacements,
fibroid tunmri, irregularities, periodic
rains, backache, that bearing-down
feelintr, indigestion, dizziness, and ner
vous prostration. It costs but a trifl
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women.
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FRANCIS LYNDE
J3 Copyrlehl, 1906, by Franrls Lyr.c; " XX
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"Why, v hat's the matter, my lad?"
"Boo hoo! Ma 8ez I got to presi
dent when I grows up, an' I'd set my
heart on boiu' a prize fighter. Ceo
hoo!"
Autoing and Optics.
"Is not auto driving terribly hard
on the eyes?" we asked.
"Well, I guess not," replied the
cnnuiieur, withering us wiiu Beorn.
"Why, before I pot to runiiln' a car I
was thlnkin' o' gettln' specks, my eye
sight was that poor 1 couldn't see the
contribution box In church until It was
so near post nie it was too late to dig
for any money. Hut I hadn't been
runnin' that wagon two days till I
could see a policeman's little tinker
utlckln' out from behind a tree four
miles away. I could tven see which
way a copper's eyeballs were turned
If he was standln in the shade three
miles off. Hard on the eyes! Well,
not much'. U'a tho Lett medicine for
weak eyes that was ever invented,
.don't you forget it."
v His Claim to Prominence.
- At a social gathering a certain man,
Intent on knowing every one, was In
troduced to Senator Julius C. Burrows
of Michigan.
"The name Burrows la very famil
iar to me," he said. "I am certain
that you are a man of some promi
nence." "Yes," replied Senator Burrows, "I
am the man that 'died at first' just
before Casey came to bat in that cele
brated ball game In Mudvllle." Suc
cess Magazine.
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Their Object.
Banks The women of my
have formed a secret society.
Rivers A secret society T Surely,
that's a misnomer; women don't know
ihow to keep secrets. .
Banks But they know how to tell
them, and that's why they formed
tho society.
The satirist can talk about the "av
erage man" with impunity, because
every man considers himself above
the average.
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CHAI'TKIl XIV. (Continual.) I
Tho IkuhIs of hi,s wnttli were point
In to 8 o'clock the following mornlntf
win n Tom maile his way through tho
throng In the Grand Cent nil st.itlon
nnd found u cub. The salllnK hour of
tho Baltic wns 10, and ho picked his
cabman aecor.'iiiKly.
"I shall want you for a couplo of
hours, and it's double fare if you don't
nilss. 271 Broadway, first," was his
fillip for the driver; and he was speed
ily rattling away to tho down-town
address.
Tho taking of tho cab was his first
mIMake, and he discovered It before
he had sone very far. Time was pre
cIoiib, nnd the horse, pushed to tho po
lice limit, was too slow. Tom signaled
his Irishman.
"Get me over to the Kleyated, and
'hen ro to Madison Square and wait
for me," he, ordered; and by this
change of conveyance ho obtained hi
mail nnd won back to the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel by late breakfast time.
From that on, luck was with him.
Tho Parleys, father nnd ron, wero In
the lobby of the hot' l, waiting for the
others) to come down to the cafe break
fast. Tom saw them, confronted them,
and went nt things very concisely.
"I have come all the way from Boston
to ask. for a few minutes of your time,
Mr. Farley," he said to tho president.
"Will you glvo It to me now?"
"Surely!" was the Kenlal reply, and
the, promoter signed to his son and
drew npart with tho Importunate one.
"Well, go on, my boy; what can I do
for you at this last American moment?
some message from your good fath
er?' "No," said Tom, shortly; "it's from
me, Individually. You know In what
shape you have left things nt home;
they've got to be stood on their feat
before you go aboard the Ualtlc."
"What's this what's this? Why, my
dear young man! what can you possi
bly menu?" this In buttered tones of
the gentlest expostulation.
"I mean Just about what I say. You
have smashed Chiawassee Consolidat
ed, nnd now you are going off to leave
my father to hold the bag. Or, rather.
I should say, you are taking the bag
with you."
Why, Thomas you must be loslnj?
your mind! You've you ve ueeu
studying too hard; that's It the term
work up there in Boston has been too
much for you."
"Cut it out, Mr. Farley," said Tom,
savngely, all the Gordon lighting blood
singing In his veins. "You ve got a
thing to do, and it Is going to be done
before you leave America. . Will you
talk; straight business, oc not?"
"And If I decline to discuss business
matters with a rudo school-boy?" lie
Intimated mildly.
"Then It will be rather the worse for
you," was the defiant rejoinder. "Act
ing for my father nnd the minority
stockholders, I shall try to have you
and your son held In America., pending
an expert examination of the com
pany's affairs."
It was a long shot, with a thousand
chances of missing. If there was any
thing criminal In the Farley adminis
tration, tho evidences were doubtlesi
well burled. But Tom was looking
iie; into tne ahtlty flue eyes or nis
antagonist when ho fired, and lie saw
that ho had not wholly missed. JCono
the less, the president attempted tj
carry it off lightly.
"What do you think of this, Vin
cent'.'" l.e sibl, turning to his son.
"Here Is Tom Gordon our Tom talk
ing wildly about investigations and ar
rests, and I don't know what all. Shall
wo glvo him his breakfast and send
him back to school?"
Tom cut In qutckly before Vincent
could make a reply.
"It you're sparring to gain time. It's
no use, Mr. Farley. I mean what I say,
and I'm dead In earnest." Then ho
tried another long shot: "I tell you
right now we've had this thing cocked
and primed ever since we found out
what you and Vincent meant to do. You
must turn over the control of Chiawas
see Consolidated, legally and formally,
to my father before you go aboard the
Baltic, pr you don't go aboard!"
"Let me understand," said the treas
urer, cutting In. "Are you accusing us
of crime?"
"You will find out what the accusa
tion Is, later on," said Tom, taking yet
another cartridge from the lung-range
box. "What I want now Is a plain,
straightforward yes or no. If either of
you Is capable of laying It."
Tho president took his son aside.
"Do you suppose Byckman has been
talking too much?" he asked, hurriedly.
Vincent shook hla head.
"You can i ten - - it looks a
little rocky. Of course, we had a right
to do as we pleased with our own, but
we don't want to have an unfriendly
construction put on things."
"But they can't do anything!" pro
tested the president. "Why, I'd be per
fectly willlnsi to turn over my private
papers, If they were asked for!"
"Yes, of course. But there would be
misconstruction. There Is that con
tract with the combination, for exam
ple: we had a right to manipulate
things so we'd have to cloan down, and
It might not transpire that we made
money by doing It. But, on the other
hand. It might leak out, and there'd bo
no end of a row. Then there Is anoth
er thing: there Is somebody behind this
who Is bigger than the old soldier or
this young football tough. It's too
nicely timed."
"But you wouldn't turn the property
over to Gordon, would you?"
The younger man's smile was a mere
contortion of the lipa. "It's a sucked
orange," ho said. "Let the ohl man
have It. lie may work a miracle of
aonie sort and pull out alive. I shoult
call U a Biiap. and take him up too
quick. If he wins out. so much tho
belter for till concerned. If ho doesn't,
why, we left the property entirely In
hln hands, and he smashed it. Don't
you see the beauty of It?"
The uresident wheeled short on lorn.
"What you may think you are exto-t
Ing, my dear boy. you are going to get
through sheer good-will and a desire
to give your father every chance In thj
world." ho said, blandly. "We discuss
ed the plun of electing him vies presi
dent, with power to act, before we left
home, but there seemed to be some ob
jections. We are willing to give him
full control and this altogether apart
from any foolish, threats you have aeon
nt to make. Bring your lejal counsel
to Koom 321 af'-er breakfast an a i
will p through tno formalities. Ara
you satisfied?"
"I shall bo a lot better satisfied nfter
tho fact," said Tom, bluntly; and he
turned away to avoid meeting Major
Dabney and the ladies, who were com
ing from tho elevator to Join the two
early risers. Ho had seen next to
nothing of Ardea during the three Bos
ton years, nnd would willingly have
Been more. But tho new manhood was
warning him that time was short, and
that he must not mix business with
sentiment. So Ardea saw nothing but
Ills back, which, curiously enou-'li, "ho
failed to recognize.
l'lcklng up his cab at the curl., Tom
had himself driven quickly to the of
fice of tho corporation lawyer whose
name ho had obtained from Mr. Clark
son the 'day before, nnd with whom he
had made a wire appointment befor-i
leaving Boston. Tho attorney ' was
waiting for him, nnd Tom slated thi
case succinctly, adding a brief oT the
interview which imd Just taken place
at the hotel.
"You say they agreed to your pro
posal?" observed the lawyer. "Hid Mr.
Farley Indicate tho method'.'"
"No."
"Have you a copy of the by-laws of
your company?"
Tom produced the packet of papers
received that morning from his fath:r,
and handed the required pamphlet to
Mr. t'roswell.
"ll'm ha! the usual form. A stock
holders' meeting, with a resolution,
would be tho simplest way out of it;
but that enn't be held without the pub
lished call. You say your father is a
stockholder?"
"Ho has four hundred nnd three of
(he original one thousand shares. I
hold his proxy."
Tho attorney smiled shrewdly.
"You are a very remarkable young
man. lou seem to have come pre
pared at all points."
' Tho conference In Boom 327, Fifth
Avenue Hotel, held while the carriages
wero waiting t take the steamer party
to the pier, was brief nnd businesslike.
Something to Tom's surprise, Major
Dabney was present; and a llttlo la tar
ho learned, with a shock of resentment,
that the Major was also a minority
stockholder liv the moribund Chiawas
see Consolidated. The master of Deer
Trace was as gracious to Caleb Gor
don's son as only a Dabney knew how
to be.
"Nothing could glvo mo greateh
pleasure, my deah boy, than this pU:
of having youlv father In command at
Gordonia," he beamed, shaking Tom's
hand effusively. "I hope you'll have us
all made milllonaihs when wo get back
home again; I do. for a fact, suh."
Tom smiled and shook his head.
"It looks pretty black, just now, M i-
tor. I'm afraid we're In for rough
weather."
The leave-takings were brief, and
omewhat constrained, save those of
tho ireninl Major. Tom pleaded bus!
ness, further business, with bis attor
ney, when the Major would have had
him wait to tell tho l.dlics cood-l.y:
hence he saw no more of the tourist
after tho conference broke up.
Xot to loso time, lorn took a noon
train back to Boston, first wl'-ing his
father to try and keep tilings h, ordev
at Goruonla tor unoiuer weiiv ai m
hazards. Winning back to the techni
cal school, he plunged once more into
the examination whirlpool, domv; iii.
best t(y forget Chiawassee Consi ilida t -ed
and its mortal sickness for th. tine
being, and succeeding so well that h"
passed1 with colors Hying.
But tho school task done, he turned
down the old-leaf, pasting It firmly hi
place. Tclegraphlifg bis father to meel
him, on the morning of the thinl day
following, at the station in Miuin ire-
degar, he allowed himself a few hours
for a run up tho North Shore and a
conference with the Michigan Iron
king; after which he turned his fac
south wnrd and was soon speeding to
the battle-field through a land' by this
time shaking to its Industrmr founda
tions to the throes of tho panic t-arrth-
quake.
CHAPTKU XV.
As early as 1 o clock in me after
noon, the elder llelgerson, acting as
! von nre out uf a mo In the middle Of
summer: and I umb-rst mil you are not
fully satisfied with the reason that ws
given hard times. You have been say
ing among yourselves that if the presi
dent and the treasurer could go oft on
a holiday trip to Btnopo, tlr; situation
couldn't be no very desperate. Isn't
that so?"
"That's so; you've hit it in the head
first crack out o' the box," was the
swift reply from a score of the men.
"Good; thin we'll i.etie; that point
before we go any rurther. I want to
tell you men that the hard times nro
here, sure enough. Wo are all ii '"'
that they won't last ery long; but thrf
fact remains that tho wheels have
stopped. Bet mo tell yo.i: I've Just
come down from the North, and tho
streets of the citus up He re aro full of
bile men. All t!." way down hero I
didn't see a single iron-furnace in
blast, and tho. of you who have been
over to South Tred! ar know what the
condition.) ore there. Mr. Farley has
gone to F.urope I i cause he believes
lie re is notion,' t he done here, aftd
the facts. are on h.s sid-. For anybody
with money enoech to live on, this Is a
nii.;'nty good time to take a vacation."
There w:s a murmur of protest,
voicing Itself generally in a denial of
the possibility nir men who wrought
with their hands ami ate In the sweat
of their brows.
"I know that," was Tom's rejoinder.
"Some of us can't afford to take a lay
oT; I can't, for one. And that's why
we are here this afternoon. Chiawas
see can blow in again and stay in blast
If we've all got nerve enough to hang
on. if wo start up and go on malum
pig. It'll be on a .bad market and we'll
have to Mdl it at a h3 or stack It In
the var.ls. We can't do the first, and
I needn't tell you that it is going to
take a mi vhty loir; purse to do tho
slacking. It will be all outgo and no
Income. If "
"Spit it out," called I.udlow, from the
forefront of tie- miners' division. "I
reckon we all know wiiat's comin'."
"It's a case !' half a loaf or no bread.
If Chiawassee blows in again, it will
he on borrowed money. If you men
will tn l.e lc.lf-pay in cash and half in
promises, the promised half to bo paid
when we ca.i sell tin; stacked pig. wo
-o on. If not, we don't. Talk it over
among yourselves and let us have your
decision."
Tb. re wis ho! caucusing and a fair
imilUio:i of pandemonium on the foun
dry floor following this bomb-hurling,
;;nd Tom f at down on the edge of the
platform to phe the men time. Caleb
Gordon sat within arm's reach, nursing
his knee, diligently saying nothing. It
was Tor.!, undoubtedly, but a Tom who
ii.ul become a citizen of another world,
a newer world than tho one the ex-ar-tillevyman
knew nnd lived in. He
Caleb had freely predicted a riot as
the result of the half-pay proposal;
yet Tom had applied the match an J
there was no explosion. The buzzlii',
r.rguing groups were not riotous only
fiercely questioning.
(To be continued.)
PROFITABLE DAIRYING
li
Bjr HUGH G. VAN PELT
Dairy Expert Iowa State Dairy Association
Pure Bred or Grade Cows?
THE HED DAB OF DEATH.
'I ragle lnr!i " Gi- Mcel SI. t-Ielon
of (he SUyderuiier.
"See that ids blob of starlet paint?"
catd tl.r. fovneer as he pointed to a
girder high uji in the skeleton of the
new sUyta raiiei. "That red spot means
that one of ilio men working on tho
i)u:Uing wins 1UU1 by the girder
a...Ki.inii hiLi oft flie strut lure whilo
being put in position."
The visitor craned his neck and saw
a ic,t"--:i patch cf vermilion paint on
one of the iioor gird vis tip on the six
teenth story. "It must be a danger
nits Isle," lie raid ;o lus engineering
li iend.
'"les. Tlio-e men up Uitro aro work
ing tinder the chance of instant, death
at any mo. nc.it. Tlny'll walk alons
the tn;ioto.st i-'.inlcr. "do foot above tho
b'.. 7. :!'-.- a little ua'-h f f slippery iron
live
wan!
coa.l .'
Many who start In tho dairy busi
ness with dairy rattle begin at once
with puro bred cows of one or ths
other dairy breeds. There are dis
tinct advantages in using pure bred
dairy animals In that thcro is always
a ready market for tho offspring.
Again, in starting the herd with pure
bre.ls the farmer or dairyman can
bettor acquaint himself with the indi
vidual merits of the cows by giving
due si tidy to the pedigrees which 11
lustrate their breeding. Tho only ob
jeitlon to starting with puro breds is
the matter of first cost, and as a rule
there is not a great difference in the
cost of cows that are pure bred and
those of nearly tho same individual
character that are only grades. From
the standpoint of milk nnd butter-fat
production there Is no doubt but that
there are gralos that produce equally
well, hut from the standpoint of build
ing up the herd in such a way that a
cmand is created for the offspring
it is necessary that the cows be pure
bred and that we have pedigrees and
registry in pets. As a rule it Is more
idi:-:;:ble and loss expensive for the
beginner in dairying to got his infor
mation nt.u education from grade cows
which cost less money. Later, or
perhaps at the same time, it is ad
visable to buy one or two or three
extra good pure bred heifers or cows
and fioni tlicm build up a puro bred
dairy herd while depending upon the
grades to furnish the dairy products.
One cannot be too careful at this
stage as much cf his success rests
upon the foundation herd. If grades
are purchased thoy should be of the
best character, and although not pure
In their breeding, they should be well
bred. They should be selected for
the specific purpose of producing
dairy products. Experience has taught
that with the dairy function Is to be
found a certain form. The typical
, . ... . t ' .
Good Weil-Bred Daiy Calves Worth Raising Well.
es witlc and will lean out
:insd tli" in 1. You or 1
do ii. for a s." i ii J.
"'o,7 ami again tlieie'.j an accident
A i i':'u slip. A worker gets hit by a
s'vii guts e.ln!cr and flung oft. Anoth
er i-a.in takei au irieautiou.i step and
falls oil iu'.o cttsrnity. The men work
,..,,ar by do their V; to get at
him it' he manages to grab tho girder
lie's 1'j.riin.g from, and there are some
swiit and reckless races with death to
get to their comrade at any cost In the
live or ten seconds allowed them while
strong fingers are slipping away from
a slippery beam llange. If the worst
dairy form Is inclined toward the is always busy.
r,-,lrr, ..l.nnf.- tll-f 1.? fre.TTI IvllHtPVPF '
point of view the observer looks at
the cow. the form which meets his
eye is that more nearly conforming
to the shape of a wedge rather than
the shape of a rectangle. In most
considerations, in fact, the dairy cow
diff rs extremely from the beef cow.
In selecting a dairy cow we tnouid
boar in mind that there are five dis
tinct functions that must be given
due consideration, that nre absolutely
necessary if the cow bo useful on the
farm.
Five Requirements of the Dairy Cow.
In tho first place, of course, she
must live and in order to live under
th ronditlons of environment in
Nnw. sfter one his st.'rtfd tno
dairy lierd lie should her.; In mm I
that the great problem w l h li present?
Itvdf Is the one of building up am!
betterim; the herd nt all times In
stead of iio.iucing nnlmals that are
. sj profitable or poorer in their con
formation than their mothers. There
Is only one way to hri:ig about Im
provement nnd that is by ihe careful
selection of sires and by properly
raising the offspring by feeding and
caring for them with the best possiblo
methods. It la i.ever advisable to use
a grade or a scrub sire no matter
whether the cows he pure In their
breeding or on'y grades. True It Is
that many grade bill's rr as goo'l in
dividually or look to !v as being as
cod as nny pure bred sire, and In
many instances It is true tiiai many
grade bulls can be found that, speak
ing from tho standpoint, cf Individual
ity, aro superior to the largo ma
jority of the pure bred bulls obtain
able. However, one Is always uncer
tain as to tho outcome of his breed
ing operations when using a sire
whose pedigree is not known. It Is
not enough to know the character of
tho sire and dam of tlie bull at the
head of tho herd. It may be and often
times Is the case that a grade bull
may have a most excellent mother
and bo well sired and still the results
of his uso be the greatest of disap
pointment duo to tho law of atavism
or reversion, which means simply
that tho offspring may trace back
through the sire nnd dam, grand sires
and grand dams, often back several
generations, to some animal that was
the most veritable scrub, nnd, conse
quently, the offspring would be much
poorer than any of the other ances
tors. An illustration of this is that
Aberdeen Angus cows, pure in their
breeding, sometimes have red calves.
This Is due undotiblcdly to the fact
that the Aberdeen Angus breed of cat
tle originated scores of years ago
from a foundation of red animals and,
although at the present time the
largest percentage of the offspring
aro jet black, with scarcely a white
spot on them, some of the calves are
horn red.
In addition to the pedigree that in
dicates large production in all the ma
ternal ancestry, the Individuality of.
the bull must be of the type desired
In the offspring. He must give indi
cations of prepotency and masculinity,
have a strong constitution, capacity,
circulatory system, nervous tempera
ment, or disposition, nnd the Indica
tions of milking ability described for
the selection of cows. Too much at
tention can never be given to tho se
lecting of the head of tho herd and
the fact that so much carelessness has
In the past been used on the dairy
farm In this particular regard Is the
reason why dairy herds nt the present
time do not produce more largely on
the average and more profitably than
they do. This l.s well illustrated by
the fact that In the neighborhood of
the very best breeders of bred dairy
cattle we find the best farm dairy
herds in the world due to the fact
thnt these breeders have sold or
loaned to their neighbors bulls with
the prepotency and highly developed
dairy breeding behind them that ren
dered them useful in building up tho
herds to their present standard. As
a result of this usage of good sires for
several years past these dairymen aro
selling their cows and heifers for ex
tremely high prices, in many In
stane.f' for grade cows and heifers
from 7r up to StaO a head. As a
In the summer time I matter of fact, there is only one wnv
when she roes to pasture in tho morn- nf securing good profitable dairy co1
ing she woiks diligently ail day and nt the present time without paying
returns at night with a full udder, j extremely large prices for them, ow
After being milked she returns and ing to the great demand for good
works in tho same diligent manner , cows, and that is by the use of good
until morning; but the cow with a sires. As a rule most farmers have
by tho veins upon the udder and 11. e
large mammary or milk veins passing
from the udder forward nnd entering
the abdomen at smnll orblces which
are termed milk wells nnd passing
from here back to tho heart and lungs
for purification and to be pumped
back again past the digestive ap
paratus to bo loaded up with more
nutrients. If this circulatory system
Is dull and sluggish or carries the
nutrients to other parts of the body
rather than to the udder or tho milk
factory, the cow 13 naturally of an
unprofitable kind. It may be readily
noted on the common cow or tho beef
cow that tho mammary vein Is, as a
rule, very small; In fact, about as
largo in dlnmetor a3 a good Blzed
lead pencil and very short in its
length from tho udder to the milk
well. Never are these cows large
producers of milk or butter fat On
the other hand observe tho highly
developed special purpose dairy cow,
nnd It will be noted that the vein on
each side of the body is not only
large in diameter, about tho size of
the wrist, but is very tortuous, ex
tends far forward and Instead of the
entire blood Cow entering one milk
well, there Is often from two to five
of these wells on each side of the
body. Facts demonstrate that cows
with these large mammary systems
are, as a rule, extremely large rro
ducers, while those with small veins
re likewise very small and unprofit
able producers of dairy products.
In the fourth place, the dairy cow
must lie a worker, which is indicated
by her nervous temperament, which I
may be define d hy a bright, prominent,
placid eye, lean appearance, demon
strating that the food nutrients have
been converted into milk and butter
fat rather than into beef to be placed
over the back and ribs. The cow with
a well defined nervous temperament
'i'" ';,:;e-." .
happens and the man falls n P" of 1 are B,tuated
till ir enoris, llieu uiry ui'l'ij i-ios uuu
or red paint, ami the ironworkers call
it a dav. They don't speak much of
i;one, as a rule, tie a
The men consider It
day watchman at the Iron-works, had
opened the great yard gates, and the
men began to gather by twos and
threes and In little caucusing knots in
the aand floor of the huge. Iron-roored
foundry building. Some of tho more
heedful sat to work making seats of
tho wooden flask frames ami bottom
boards; and In the pouring apace front
ing one of the cupolas they built a
rough-and-ready platform out of tlia
ame materials.
As tho numbers Increased the men
fell Into groups, dividing first on tht
color-line, and then by trades, with tho
white miners in the majority ana doing
moat of the talking.
"What's all this buz.ln' about young
Tom," queried one of the men In tho
miners' caucus. "Might' nigh every
other word with old Caleb was, 'Tom,
my son. Tom.' Why, I rlcollcct him
when he wasn't no more'n knee-hign
to a hop-toad!"
"Well, you bet your lire he a -a tie.i;
hlghen'n that now," said another, who
had chanced to be at tho station whn
tho Gordons, father and son, left tho
trln together. "He'a a half a hea l
taller than the old man, an' built lik-i
ono o' Maje' Dabney'a thoroughbreds
But I reckon ho ain't nothln' but .1
school-boy. for ull o' that."
"Gar-r-r!" spat a third. "We've hid
kl,1 too munv 111 this outfit, all
alonif."
"Yes. chimed In a fourth, a "huckle
berry" miner from tho Bald Mountain
district. "1 don't believe tho old '111:1a
knows, himself. He tit around ami :u
around, talkin' to me, and never said
nothln' more'n that there was goln' to
be a iiieelln' here at 2 o'clock, and Tom
-hU ton Tom was goln' to speak to
it."
Tom ami his father entered tho
building from the cupola aide, and Tom
mounted the llask-bullt platform w hll
tho men were scattering to And seals.
He made a goodly figure of youm
manhood, standing at eaao on tho pd
of frames until quiet should prevail,
and the glances tlung up from the
throng of workmen wero friendly rath
er than-critical. When tho I'me came,
he began to apeak quietly, but with a
certain -masterful quality In his vole
that unmistakably constrained attention.
"I suppose you have all been told
wbv b works ara shut down-r-why
the man that is
sooii forgotten.
fate.
"Yon'd think, by the way " went on
the engineer, "that the higher upihese
men worked the more careful they'd
become. They arn't particularly care
ful, but they do guard against the
hypnotism ot height. One of the men
working on a high girder gets para
lyzed now and again. By a sudden fear
ihat holds him motionless and still
on his Iron beam.
The men look out for this sort of
thing, and the remedy is to aistraci
his attention by a rough blow on th3
back or In some cases by exciting him
to anger through any means In their
nowcr. When the man gets fighting
mad he Is freed from the paralysis or
terror or whatever you may choose to
tail It. He gets up from his girder to
make a rush for the other fellow to
do him up. and the moment he Is safe
he is restrained by the oilier men
"Whenever on see a skyscraper
framework." concluded the engineer.
"ouch dab of scarlet paint on the iron
means that some man has come to his
death. Every skyscraper and every
bridge is Hie monument to some little
croun of unknown workers, laboring
at dizzy heights and dallying with sud
den death as part of their doy's work
New ork I'ress.
A Oulcul Millennia.
The saing that "all men have their
price" is ascribed to Sir Hubert War
pole. While speaking of a faction in
piirli.inii nt w hich bitterly opposed
some of his measure he said. "You
tee with what zeal and vehemence
these gentlemen oppose me, and yet I
know the price of every man in this
house except three.
Of some who tailed themselves pa
trlots he said: "Patriots! I could
raise fifty f them within four snd
twenty hours. I have raised many in
one night. 'TIs but to refuse an un
ruuaonable demand and up springs a
patriot."
Every mind has Its choice between
truth and repose. Take which you
please you can uever have both.
Emerson.
namely,, to be stabled for sis or eight
months out of a year, and oftentimes
Ik barns which are none too welt
lighted or ventilated, the cow must
have a good constitution. Constitu
tion Is Indicated by a large, distended
nostril, bright eye and great depth
through the chest and heart girth.
Secondly, she mast have large feed
ing capacity. The only UBe to which
dairy cow Is put Is to convert the
feed which she consumes Into milk
nd butter fat. If she does not have
the power of consuming a large
mount of feed she will not have 4he
power of producing a lurge amount of
milk. Given two cows, one of which
has the capacity of consuming twice
as much food as the other and con
verting an equal percentage of the
foodstuff consumed Into milk and but
ter fat, It can be easily seen one cow
Is worth more than two of the other.
Those things which Indicate large
feeding capacity are large mouth
and a deep, long barrel with
well sprung ribs that are far apart
This Indicates largeness of capacity,
but more Is necessary; the digestive
apparatus must be powerful and this
l indicated by the quality of the hide
nnd hair found by the touch. If the
hide Is hard and stiff and the hnlr
harsh and wiry. It Is an Indication of
weakness of digestive apparatus. On
the oiber hand, If the hide Is soft and
pliable, much like a kid glove, and
tho hair soft and silky, the Indica
tion Is that there Is sufficient power
of digestive apparatus to handle the
feed which is stored In the great ca
pacity In a short time, and the cow is
ready for more.
lu the third place, the cow must
have a well developed blood ciruu
latory system in order to transport
the nutrients which the digestive ap
paratus takes from the food around
to that portion of her body where It
is converted Into milk and butter fat
The process of taking up the food
nutrieuta after digestion, by the blood,
is termed assimilation. This is 0110
of the ull Important considerations la
selecting dairy cows and Is probably
ci.e of the chief differences between
duuy cows and those bred for othnr
purposes. This Is Indicated also by
the condition of the hair and the hide,
bet her soft and pliable, or hard,
bunk mm& wiry I . also Indicated
dull, sluggish eye, so often round in j
beef steers, and carrying an excttss of 1
fat, can, as a rule, be found lying in ;
the shade and resting most of her j
time day or night, and as n res-ji
she ha3 very Iittlo to give to her mas
ter at milking time. 1
Ability All Important.
As a fifth consideration, the cow
must have in addition to these pre
ceding essentials the ability of pro
ducing milk and butter fat and this,
of course, is determined largely by
the size, form and texture of the ud
der. This portion of her make-up
must be large in order to have ca
pacity and must gain in size by length
and breadth rather than by depth.
The perfect udder rs one that at
taches well up behind, that extends
far forward and Is broad In Its dimen
sions. An udder that Is short, nar
row and large because of the fact that
It la pendulous and hangs down from
the body is not to be desired, because,
as a rule, the circulation of htnnri
cows that they milk nnd mar.y among
them aro profitable. By sorting these
out, by using the Babeock test and
scales and keeping them r.s a founda
tion herd, usliy; only the very best of
dairy sires, retaining the calves and
growing them well, it is surprising
how quickly ' tho production of the
farm herd may be doubled and then
in the future doubled again and so
on, depending entirely upon the char
acter of the sire used and the meth
ods employed In raising the offspring.
It Is possible at this time to buy good,
high-grade cows capable of producing
from three to six hundred pounds of
butter In a year, but these kind of
cows are very expensive and unless
one is careful in selecting them he Is
liable to bring upon his farm different
diseases, such as abortion, tubercu
losis and many of the other disease!
to which cows are subject
through such an udder Is Door and
furthermore, such udders are the ones
luoet conducive to garget and spoiled
quarters from one cause and another.
In addition to size, the udder should
be well formed, flat at the bottom
and carried in a straight line from
the rear forward la such a way that
the front quarters are developed to as
great a degree as are the hind quar
ters. As a rule common cows give a
larger portion of their milk from the
rear quarters of the udder and this
likely Is the natural way for cows to
give milk, but through the work of
the breeder we have many cows at
the present time, in fact, most of the
pure bred dairy cows that give an
equal amount of milk from the front
quarters. Very Important also Is It
that the texture of the udder be of
good quality. It Is not uncommon to
find cows with udders almost perfect
in size and form that give very llttlo
milk and this is due to the fact that
texture Is lacking The udder Is beefy
and, consequently, just as large after
being milked as before. Good texture
of udder Is determined by the han
dling qualities. If hard and thick and
resistant to the touch of the hand,
then In most cases It Is beefy and
not conducive to large production. If
soft and pliable and elastic, covered
with fine, soft hair and permeated
with blood vessels apparent to the
eye of the observer, It will be found
that at milking time the udder Is large
and distended In all proportions, but
collapses after the m'.lk has been
taken from It In such a way that it
has much the same appearance as a
dlshrag. Then, whi n she returns to
her food the udder at once begins to
expand, being filled with mllk-maklng
nutrients and is again ready to empty
Its great contents at another milking
Why Men Hate to Buy Umbrellas.
"Why Is It that a decent citizen has
to get soaked several times before he
buys an umbrella? Why Is it? He
will turn up his coat collar, dodge In
and out of doorways and stick to the
dry side like a fly to syrup and allow
his new summer straw to be mined by
rain before he begins to feel the need
of an umbrella. It Is not due to4Pt
sire to economize. The same man will
spend Just as much on a two-pound
box of candy for his best girl. He Is
extravagant In everything else; he
wines and dines, and pays his bills
like a dead game sport, but when It
comes to buying an umbrella you have
to lead him up to it and almost give
it to him."
The answer to this is not difficult.
The average man has about as much
trouble In trying to take care of an
umbrella as he would In trying to keep
a white elephant. Like the fool and
his money he soon parts with him
umbrella, or seme one parts him from
it.
Mint Tea for the Nervous.
Mint has many virtues and a few
vices. Well washed, the leaves pulled
from the stems, slightly mashed and
boiling water poured over there re
sults a "mint tea" that Is a sovereign
remedy for nervous as well as stom
ach troubles. Served in a thin glass
with cracked Ice and a little sugar In
it cools and quiets the system gen
erally .
In preparing the mint tea the bowl
Is kept closely covered until the con
tents ar; cool; then strained, pjred
Into a bottle that can be closely cock
ed and set on ice; when wanted let
should be pounded very fine and a lit- 4
I tie sugar added If liked; some prefer' j
the tea unsweetened. New Orleans
hour.
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