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4,'HArTKK VII.—(Continued.)
■On tlie left stood the Phoenician, as
'the first colonist. She was a girl
robed in royul purple, girdled with a
gold zone, and holding in hor fingers
■a lotos flower. A temple, dedicated to
Aatarte, was behind her, while at her
feet were scattered rude instruments
of astronomy and navigation, linen
•reaving, and the fusion of metals.
Diana occupied the central arch, as
Representing Greece in the shadow of
the Parthenon. Clad in a white robe,
-with the silver crescent attached to
ilier dimpled shoulders, the goddess
(had an aspect of cold and severe beauty.
>6he gathered aside the veil, which
formed a diadem on her head. A
torch, reversed, depended from her
.arm.
On the right appeared the Roman,
wore mature in beauty than her com
panions, and in richly wrought gnr
enents and sandals. She held a statuetto
of Mercury, emblematic of commerce,
and the wolf on u column, as well as
the ruins of the l-'oruiii, indicated her
-origin.
The rich coloring of tho Phoenician
and tho Roman formed a characterise,
contrast with tho fail symmetry of
.feature of Diana.
A murmur of admiration and ap
plause greeted this charming group,
necessitating a second lifting of the
■curtain.
a inning incident marred me repe
'tition. A tiny dog, resembling a ball
• of white, floss silk, rushed on tho
stage, peered at the audience, growled
’And began to bark vociferously.
Phoenicia forgot her pose, caught up
% the animal, kissed him on the nose,
and thrust him under one arm.
“Florio followed us,” she explained,
'In audible tones, to the hostess, “lie
would not stay at home alone. I am
•sorry. Evil little beast! How dare
you bark? Eh!"
“The picture is now complete," said
■Gen. Lubomirsky, smiling. “Did not
ithe Sybarites carry these dogs to the
baths, held under the arm,' and even
bonor them with monuments and
.epitaphs after death?” !
“Who is the Phoenician?” inquired
'the young prince of his host, after a
! pause.
tien. Griffith was at fault. He had
-never seen her before, and did not
iknow her name, lie fancied she was
some native, Maltese girl used for the
A. occasion.
On the stage tho Grand Muster Vil
Uiersde l’lsle d'Adurn, in the person of
•Capk Fillingham. wearing pasteboard
Armor in lieu of wrought steel, indi
cated the scene of fortifications begun
■In defense of his chosen island home.
The Knight La Vallctte next ap
ypeared. Clad in mail, he unfurled the
banner of the order of St. John and
trampled beneath his heel the Ma
hometan crescent
Then Lieut Curzon, in uniform and
(rasping the national standard, was
.disclosed by the raised curtain. The
^young officer stood on the margin of
blue sea, with a lighthouse depicted
• on the shore and a man-of-war in the
• distance, embodying later British su
premacy of rule, and brought the tab
teaux to a fitting close.
The draperies wore once more swept
aside and Calypso, surrounded by the
.Phoenician, the Greek and the Roman,
'.flanked by the two knights of Malta
and the British sailor, again tendered
M welcome to the august guest.
The ball that ensued was opened by
ftha grand duke and the hostess. At
rthe conclusion of the quadrille he said
auowiy:
‘*1 nave to ask of the Goddess Calyp
r.ao the further pleasure of the next
cjuadrille with the youngest and most
beautiful of her nymphs, the Phoeni
cian, for a partner. ”
'The Phoenician? Heavens! Who
f 'was the girl picked up by ]
v .Arthur Curzon somewhere about !
(the island? Mrs. Griffith did mot !
■knew what had become of this Cinder- j
•ells, and yet the young prince had ex- j
. {-pressed a wish to dance with her. The
:hostess bowed assent without betray
ing either surprise or annoyance at the
unforeseen request
As for Dolores, swept from the se
S. .elusion of the little garden by the
: .«nergetic will of Lieut. Curzon, she
.found herself launched amid the
$>. .most unfamiliar elements of life,
is; The young officer had returned to
-the Watch Tower in the morning, true
-to his promise, with the stage ward
robe requisite for the girl, purchased
by himself in the town, with much
jr. .aecreey. Oh sweetnessof the morning
hour, stolen from all the world, in the
- .seclusion of the neglected garden,
where Dolores became transformed
.into the Phoenician maiden, with Jacob
Dealtry and the perturbed little dug
Florio for audience! How many con
fidences were exchanged among the
flowers, with the pigeons circling near,
jfj .and in the shade of the orange tree,
•f while the grandfather sought yet
v .another specimen to impose on hia un
resisting victim, the amateur collector.
Mrs. Griffith had received this fresh
recruit to her dramatic staff with affa
bility, but in the cold, blue eyes of
Miss Ethel Symthe swift disapproval
was perceptible.
Capt. Hlake, toiling in the cause like
a galley slave, to use his own term, as
stage manager, scene painter and
actor in one, remarked, audibly:
•'What a pretty girl! Really, the
sailor has an eye for beauty.”
Miss Symthe bit her lip in silence.
“Are we quits, my lady?” mused the
Bocial wasp, resuming his brush with
renewed ardor, in the interests of de
puting the lighthouse and the blue
sea on the final scene.
The clever pencil of the young lady
just out from London had designed
the decorations for each tableau, with
the assistance of Capt Hlake, and her
skillful proficiency was apparent in all
the minor details of grouping and cos
tume. She had demurred at the new
comer's fitness to fill the role of the
Phoenician.
“Darken her eyebrows,” suggested
Lieut. Curzon.
The ladies made no further
objection. The hostess may have
reviewed the situation, with
keen, feminine insight, and discerned
an unexpected checkmate on the inter
course of friend and cousin so oppor
tunely brought together beneath her
root.
During the first quadrille Dolores
had nimbly divested her rounded
limbs of the purple, Tyrian draperies
of the stage, and slipped on the pretty
pink dress. No necklace of pearls had
she, but she tied a ribbon around her
throat, terminating in a coquettish lit
tle bow under the left ear. The class
ical sandal was cast from her foot in
favor of the black satin slippers of her
mother, the true shoe of a Spanish
senorita.
ouo was not sny witn the timidity of
northern races under similar circum
stances. She emerged from a dress
ing-room, holding Florio tightly in her
arms. She must find her grandfather,
who waited in one of the colonnades,
and consign the pet to his keeping.
Her whole nature basked in the light,
perfume and warmth of the place and
the hour. She paused before a large
Chinese vase and rifled it of several
roses of the color of her gown, placing
one in her hair and the rest in her cor
sage. She resembled the fairy princess
of the enchanted palace. All belonged
to her in this realm of delight, and she
must not be surprised at any marvel.
Strains of music floated through the
chamber to her keenly expectant ear,
mingled with a rather awe-inspiring
murmur of voices as of many people
gathered together. Where were all
these people? The glitter of gilt, the
flowing folds of embroidered hang
ings and the long vista of lamps, mul
tiplied by the shimmer of mirrors,
charmed her eye. Surely the marvel
ous history of the milkmaid, who
dressed in the hollow of a tree to at
tend a county ball, was no more sur
prising than that she, Dolores of the
Watch Tower, should be here in the
palace of the Knights of Malta.
Entering a deserted apartment, she
paused, involuntarily, to survey her
reflected image in one of those glitter
ing looking-glasses.
Another girl, who had previously
been pacing the floor with marked
impatience, approached and stood be
side her, giving a touch of readjust
ment to her own coiffure, and hum
ming a song meanwhile.
“Is this your first ball?” she inquired
in Italian, saanning Dolores.
“Yes," said the latter,turning to the
stranger with a surprise which merged
into native admiration as she contem
plated her.
Dolores had not yet entered the por
tals of the ball-room, and thought she
had never dreamed of any one as
beautiful as her -companion at the pres
ent moment.
The stranger was small and slight,
and robed in pale green silk, draped
with an embroidery of crystal hold
with trailing water-lilies, leaves, and
river grasses. Her blonde hair, slight
ly dashed with sparkling gold powder,
was caught up with Stars of brilliants.
A pair of large eyes, full of vivacity,
animated her oval face, which was
piquant in expression. White gloves
of exquisite fineness covered her tiny
hands and arms, reaching to the shoul
der. She held a roll of music. Her
manner was petulant, abrupt, whim
sical, yet assured. She read plainly
such flattery of appreciation in the
gaze of simple Dolores that her irrita
tion of the previous moment, at being
apparently overlooked and forgotten,
vanished.
'•I have been invited to sing’ to
the Grand Duke,” continued the
other, lapsing into English, and
speaking in a tone of blended
egotism and familiarity. “I suppose I
am to stay out here, like a servant,
until 1 am summoned. X have heard
of such things before in London houses
during the season, but I do not intend
to put up with it in my day. Just
wait until 1 am fairly launched!
Nous*verrons, cherie! The Maestro at
Milan says that my voice possesses the
same flexibility as Patti's, and more
quality than Xeilson's register. I
have half a mind to put one of my dia
mond stars in your black hair, but no!
J the rosebud is even more becoming,
i You are the prettiest creature I ever
' saw in my life. Do you understand
! English, little one?"
"Oh, yes,” laughed Dolores “I am
English, or Maltese. My mother was
•Spanish, I can dance, perhaps, but I
should be afraid to sing here.”
"I am not afraid to sing before all
the Grand Dukes in Christendom,” re
torted the Undine of the water-lilies,
with a little grimance. “I only hope
1 may obtain an engagement at St.
Petersburg soon. 1 am to make my
debut at the Maltese opera-house,
you know -in the ‘Barber of
Seville.' I have taken the name
of Signorina Giulia Melita. I was born
in Chicago, and my real name is Lizzie
Shannon. I shall be known as Melita
all over the world. Are you coming
to hear me on Thursday night?”
"Oh, how I wish I could I” sighed
Dolores, clasping her hands together.
“I fear that grandpapa never goes to
the theater."
“There comes Mr. Brown," said the
embryo Diva, quickly.
“Mr. Brown?” repeated Dolores, in
terrogatively, and much interested in
her new acquaintance.
“You know him, of course. No?
You must have heard of Mr. Brown.
Why! everybody knows him from
Vienna and Paris to London and
New York. Mr. Brown is at
present my guardian dragon, and
keeps all small fry at a safe distance.
If I were a race horse of blood, you
might say he had bet on my winning
—invested in me. He is a good soul,
too, and looks after my onion soup as
well as my future engagements.”
Mr. Brown approached. He was a
portly man of mature age, with a high
ly-colored countenance, and jet black
hair and mustache. He was attired
in what may be termed effulgent, mas
culine evening dress, and had the
ponderous grace of manner of the ring
master of a clrcua
iney are ready to bear you sing,
my dear,” he announced, in a paternal
and wheezy voice. “Give that aria
from the Sicilian Vespers with as much
finish as possible, Melita. ”
“Are they ready for me?" she re
torted, with a sarcastic intonation.
“Supposing that I am not ready for
them, Mr. Brown?”
Mr. Brown smiled a fat smile, a
facial wrinkle that rippled over cheek
and jowl as the surface of water is
stirred by a falling pebble, bowed pro
foundly, and kissed the tips of the
girl’s fingers, as if saluting a princess.
“Patience, my angel,” he said, in
dulgently. “We must strive to make
a good impression to-night by our
modesty and grace. Later, we shall
make our own terms Eh?”
She sighed impatiently, and shook
out the train of her dresa
“Come along, then,” was her uncer
emonious assent. 1 hate being patron
ized, though.”
She moved away a few paces, re
membered Dolores, ran back, and kissed
her suddenly. “You must come to
my debut,” she said. “Ask for Mr.
Brown at the stage door. Bring
your grandpa, too. And—your gloves
are shabby, child,” halting, with con
viction.
“I know it,” confessed Dolores, rue
fully. “They are old ones that I
found in a box. 1 tried to clean them
with bread-crumbs, and I thought,
perhaps, they would not show much.”
“I have some pice gloves,” affirmed
the Signorina Giulia Melita, shaking
her head as she scrutinized those of
Dolores. “Mr. Brown always carries
a lot in his pocket in case 1 should
change my mind-about a pair. Your
gloves have a great deal to do with
your temper. You are a Spaniard and
I am an American, so our hands are
small. Give me the package, quick,
Mr. Brown. These pink ones will suit
you, child. 1 wish I could stop to help
you button them, but I may see you
again, later. Don't forget the night
of my debut, and to come to the stage
door. She may bring me good luck,
Mr. Brown. Who knows?”
(to be continued.)
He Identified the Corpse.
The waters of the bay had washed
up a lone, lank body and for two days
it lay in an undertaker’s shop awaiting
identification. Nobody on Cape Cod
knew the man. At last an old rickety
wagon rattled up and Farmer Hall got
down. Passing into the back room he
looked at the body for a moment and
said: “That’s him.”
The undertaker asked for further
inforucation, but Farmer Hall could
only say it was Tompkins, his hired
man
“But can’t you tell just why be is
Tompkins? Are they his clothes?
Can’t you furnish some positive means
of identification?” And the under
taker looked expectant
Farmer Hall shifted his place and
was lost in thought Suddenly he
slapped his leg.
“Well?”
“He stuttered.”—Boston Budget
Where He Sew it.
Mr. Hayseed—Marier, I’ve made up
my mind ter send our boy to the city
writing school to learn how to write.
Mrs. Hayseed—He writes a good
hand.
"Yes, Marier, but he’s too slow for
these times. The city’s the place to
learn things, Marier, no matter what
They write like greased lightnin'
there. Why, Marier, while I was in
the city I saw a man write a two-page
love letter in seventeen seconds, by
the watch. He was a regular city
feller, too—I could tell by his clothes.
Why, Marier, when the girl that letter
was writ to got it, it took her 'most
five minutes to read it. I timed her,
too. ”
"Love letter—girl reading it! Why,
where and how on ’arth did you see a
letter written, and then-”
"Oh, it’s all so, Marier. I saw it in
a theater.”
Evkry farrowing sow should have a
shelter to herself and be pnt in in
time to get acquainted with her sur
roundings.
DAIRY AND POULTRY'
INTERESTING CHAPTERS * FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmer* Operate This
Department 'of the Farm —A Few
Hint* a* to the Care of Lire Stock
and Poultry.
ROF. Joseph Hills,
director of the Ver
mont Experiment
Station, says:
The experiment
on a large number
of cows has shown
that, as a rule, a
■ cow gives the most
milk, but of the
poorest quality, in
the first two
months of her lactation; that
during the first six months of
her lactation the quality does
not materially change, but in the last
half of the year (if she calves every
year) the milk flow shrinks and Its
quality increases, the latter being on
the average an increase of about one
quarter of the total fat. It has been
found that the cows calving in the
spring change the quality of their milk
in the latter part of their lactation
more decidedly than those that calve
in the fall, while farrow cows calving
either In spring or fall, hold to the
even quality of their milk more than
those that calve each year.
The variations from day to day of the
milk from the same cow or herd are
frequently extreme, and are often due
to causes which are not understood.
If, however, by means of the com
posite sample the quality of the yield
of an expert. No better winter or sum
mer layer exists—large white eggs that
command the highest market price;
they stand confinement well, and if al
lowed liberty are the best of foragers.
What can be more beautiful than a
proud fowl of graceful figure, with
glossy metallic black plumage, vermil
ion comb, face and wattles, pure white
earlobes and yellowish legs. They are
certainly one of the handsomest breeds
in existence. Regarding their history,
it commences with Reed Watson’s im
portation in 1871, though as the Poul
try World of December, 1875, states,
there were accounts of black fowls
being brought over before. It has been
said that a flock of Black Leghorns
were kept on a farm near Newark, N.
J., between 1845 and 1850. They were
imported to this country from Italy,
the home of the Leghorns. In the show
room they are very attractive, the fact,
which was clearly demonstrated at the
last Nashville show, held last Decem
ber, and were admired by both visitors
and breeders.
Early Feed of Hog*.
The low price of hogs has been a bit
ter disappointment to many farmers.
Owing to the high price of corn and
the strong probability of loss in fatten
ing they will decide to stock them
through to grass. This point once
reached, clover will carry them
through in good shape until the last of
June, and later If desirable. It will
be very important by that time to have
a grain crop that will put them in a
good condition for early market. The
grain of last year’s crop will by that
time be exhausted and the new crop
will not be fit to use till September.
What can be done to furnish hog feed
from the new crop in July and August?
Much can be done if the farmer will.
We do not see any way of getting grain
from next year’s crop before July 4, or
A CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE.
We give herewith an illustration of
a cheap and convenient poultry house.
It is used for both hens and ducks.
A board fence extends along the north
side, and this tends to break the force
of the cold winds in early spring and
late fall. The house itself is very sim
ply built, by the arrangement shown
requiring as few joints as possible. The
glass windows on the south side oc
cupy the entire center of the front of
the house, and part of the roof. This
arrangement gives an abundance of
warmth and light in winter. Shingles
arc largely used and prove far cheaper
than matched lumber. The pond In
front need not of necessity be a pool
of stagnant water. It should have a
gravelly bottom or be constructed with
cement like a cistern. Then arrange
ments should be made to renew the
water supply as often as there Is dan
ger of its becoming stagnant. Where
there is a windmill on the place this
will not be a difficult matter, or where
the connection is with a running brook
the change of water may be made con
tinuous.
of several days or a week be estimated
it is usually found that there are less
wide variations than are found from
day to day.
For the past three years we have an
alyzed the milk of each individual cow
of the Vermont Experiment Station
herd twice a month, each sample being
made up from eight consecutive milk
ings. It has been found that the milk
given when the cow is four months
along in lactation is very nearly the
average quality of the milk given by
the cow In the course of the year; that
if two analyses are made at this time,
fifteen days apart, upon composite
samples, the result will probably be
within a tenth of one per cent of the
actual average.
The extremes of fluctuations in the
quality of the milk of a cow are fre
quently noted in the records of tests,
public and private. Some of these are
almost beyond belief, yet many are ap
parently authentic.
The greatest change in quality of
milk from day to day that has come
under my personal observation, was
that made by a registered Ayrshire
owned by L>. S. Drew, of Burlington,
being 2.68 per cent fat change in two
days. This is probably the most violent
change on record where the test was
controlled by chemical analysis.
Has the cow a fixed quality of milk
which she gives throughout life? Does
a heifer in her first lactation, indicate
truly her milking qualities, or may we
expect gain or loss in years to come?
Our records indicate in eight compari
sons of heifers of our own raising, less
than 20 per cent gain in per cent of fat
during the second milking period. Ap
parently the same general character of
the milk is maintained throughout life,
although the quantity may be increased
or diminished. Minor variations in
quality may be expected, but large ones
seldom occur.
Black Leghorn!.
It Is strange to me why the above
named variety is not bred more exten
sively in our section of the country; it
certainly cannot be on account of their
not being a profitable fowl, writes Fred
Klooz in Farm Fancier. All who have
bred the Black Leghorns in conjunc
tion with the other varieties of Leg
horns will, I think, agree with me in
the statement that experience proves
that they are the best of the Leghorn
family. They are more hardy and lay
more and larger eggs than any of the
other varieties, and tf a breeder keeps
them once, he will always breed them.
It is true a great many object to this
breed on account of their color, claim
ing when dressed for market they are
not so salable as those that have skin
of a more yellow color. This is not
the case, however; the yellow that is
now demanded in the legs is accom
panied by a tinge of the same color in
the skin, thus removing any objection
on that point. Solid colored birds are
preferable on account of the large per
cent of chicks produced with correct
plumage, and such birds that score
high in the show room can be mated
with a greater expectation for improve
ment than the parti-colored ones, and
by the beginner without the assistance
June 25 at the nearest. We believe a
good grain feed can be secured at this
time by sowing a bushel of peas per
acre and ploughing them in about three
inches deep, then sowing from a bushel
to a bushel and a half of oats on the
surface and harrowing them in, and
then, to make the job complete, rolling
the ground or going over it with a
planker. The oats will hold the peas
up, and when the peas are in the dough
stage feeding may commence. The hogs
may be turned in or the crop can be cut
and fed to them in the yard. When
this is exhausted oats or winter wheat
can be fed until early corn is fit to use.
—Farm and Dairy.
A Summer Henhonne.
r For a summer house for hens, build
portable buildings 4x8, corner posts 3
test high, narrow board at top and base,
and double roof, with light frame.
Then clapboard the back side, roof and
one end, slat the front with laths and
partially clapboard the other end, leav
ing space for small door. Inside place
the broad, flat roosts about ten inches
from the ground, and the nests upon
the ground, and the building is ready
for a dozen hens or thirty to fifty chick
ens. Two men can easily move these
buildings once a week, and thus not
only will a large area be well fertil
ized during the season, but the stock
be colonized away from winter quar
ters, where a larger measure of the food
supply will be obtained. Place the flock
in one of these coops after dark, and
keep shut up for twenty-four hours,
and there will be no trouble afterwards
about their finding their own home.
The material for these buildings will
| cost not far from 75 cents to $1 each,
and will last several years. Having
used them for years, we can testify to
their value.—Ex.
Feed and Milk Flavors.
It seems to me Injudicious to cast
even seeming doubt on the fact that the
food does not affect the flavor of the
milk, and especially of the butter, and
this all the more so because these ill
flavors mostly consist of oils that (it is
my firm belief, as well as the belief of
many others) are intimately connected
with the product of the cow's butter.
Forty years’ experience and careful
study of this matter convince me that
the selection of the food is the most
important element both of quantity
and quality—including the odor and
the flavor of the butter, and those who
stand in the position of instructors of
farmers and dairymen should be care
ful not to mislead, even by Implication,
in respect to questions of this kind,
and if any leaning any way is to be
permitted, it should be on the side of
safety. I am as certain that musty
food will affect the flavor of butter as
that onions or turnips will. And the
mixture of other food, while it might
dilute the effect, cannot neutralize It.
—H. Stewart, in Country Gentleman.
Jinks—I despise a man who Is nvtM
with his wife. Do you give yours nn
allowance, or what she can whorile
out of you?
Filklns—Both.—Tidbits. - ■ —
dreading ,al
A well-known breederT*
Angus cattle has been . **»
breeds and feeds
his Scottish farm ?» brtl1 oj
see if a wrinkle cannot w* ^
practice. He buvs » „ “* 801 b»
bred heifers, which h.UIBb*r «'
Polled Angus buaH*re,’l
ers to suckle their calv« ‘.N
year, and at weaning
heifers are fattened off uL^*
sold again, and sold “’tbet«th_
To augment the numb" T* 4
obtained, he adopts a
exemplary system
his black-polled buiKv^4
ing cow-keepers on c<»ditL"N
gets the calves. The^" M
cows, to whom themilk *1
important, part with th./.?py 11 •
and quickly. These
SWW" be rew«d by ffi*
the first ten weeks they i^1
now milk. Prom thuLj? f'
gradually transferred tour ih ?J
skim-milk, linseed and mSl?*
ridge, and at four or five mom !
are entirely weaned, and
cakes and meals along with
suckled calves receive no
‘«7'°0d untU they are weaned a
age of seven or eight month,
calves are then put towXr l
w«th autumn tares, follo^n,} Sd
and about three pounds each
?ir k^h and “eals during the first*
They Ket no artificial tool *
on the grass the following summer *
when driven into the courts earl,
autumn, turnips and sometimes»
toes, are fed in liberal quantities 7
cake and meal feeding is also resua,
and the dally allowance gradually t
creased, until at twenty months «
animal receives over eight m
They are generally ready for the |
market at from twenty to thir
months. This system Is found pmltn
e> en at present prices, but it is Insist
that the best and purest class of bs
only be used. The breeder referred
employs Aberdeen-Angus sires froml
pedigreed herd, but he suggests tl
pure-bred short horn bulla might
equally satisfactory. The heifers
buys for breeding from are genera
cross bred lean Irish, and he sen
them about April or May, when ah
eighteen months old.—Mark Lanel
press.
An Opinion on rattle Prim.
Below we give a short article I
duced from a Chicago paper. We*I
not know how reliable the atatemeA I
are and only give them as one mil |
opinion:
Colonel D. R. Faut advises the trugt I
housewife to begin to teach her facuir I
to live on oatmeal and popcorn. He ha I
just come up from Texas with a strinj
of cattle, which placed end to end util I
reach Into Macoupin county, and * I
clares there are not enough feeders I# I
on the ranches to even supply the* J
mand of the stockmen. He |
that the retail price of meat h
fairly started on its upward flight, aid I
suggests that the winter wiil see til |
great eating public converted into i
vegetarian one.
Colonel Faut, who is all right at air I
point in the trail, is not given to fairy I
tales. He has supplied nearly 1,0W#
beeves from his 200,000-acre pasture li
Camaron county and this year he pro
poses to keep the roast and sirloin pro
ducers eating grass on the plains, id
ding a cent a day for each pound «
his ounch of 20,000. It is the strange*
condition of affairs in his memory-ii
honest recollection which goes 1
to the days when cowboys drove the
animals 2,000 milesacross an unexplored
country into the wilderness arornd
Aurora and Elgin and then shipped ti
Chicago. Indians and desperadoes har
rassed cattle men in those days, aid
while the colonel does not long for on
times he laments the fact that pr«
civilization has robbed the count,- ot
its old-time picturesqueness.
“Meat is high, simply because cattit
are scarce,” he said. “It would not»
without the province of the pacW
men to form a combine, and they w““
do it did it mean a nickel. There a
no such agreement at this time, pro
ably, because it is not necessary, stock
men in Texas are paying as higu “
$5 a head more for live cattle than e
before, and the demand is twice
great as the supply. Besides this
drought has filled the plains with
carcasses. There are thousands
thousands of prairie acres withoti1
hcof upon them. The owners who satw
their stock are holding it until
year, and the very conditions of ta s
point to a much greater increase
prices than has been experiences.
"This is the first time since the»
that cattle have been worth nto •
foot than dressed. In other years
been the custom to drive laffls
into the Indian territory to fa.ten,
this year the growers are
in car lots and holding every -- „
possible. The same conditions esis ..
only shippi'*
animal
““ 'xlst |a
over the western country, and I *
you, for once the people are no- are
robbed by a combination, but me
paying for meat exactly what■
creased quantity of cattle ma
lutely necessary.”
Butter for Japan.-Mr.
the Vancouver creamerj, In
that the company has jusi r
a separator at the Woodland jffl_
which place will be used a from
ming station to gather portions
La Center, Etna and °Lh Lli(m is
along Lewis river. Thenni) nounds
handling from 12.0C0 to la, J^mery
of milk per day. The king in
with the station is now * t „(
cheese and butter the en ge
4,800 pounds of butter PeI Vj stores
sides supplying eighty-one gripping
in Portland, the company wty
3,000 pounds of butter e ■
one days to the markets of
. _The south
The Southern Hog. -J a, to
turning to hogs of late. ' _ gas bees
raise its own P°rl;~““ vmor.? the
in the dumps with whent A ul aoJ
feed one writer indicates jjermuda
available for thefV ’niuaPk'11?'
grass, peanuts, P°ta‘°eelo'n3 and ar»
kershaws, squashes, me » corn ffill
chokes, with which '<r> he says 15
be required. H.s practu^ h cs
to pour great baskets of W with
the feeding pens every at erfUClimM>
some watermelons an ut3 si*
Sorghum is used also. butiP ^ b,i
preferred. On the ‘‘“ tic for
of fare seems rather arisw
swine.-—Ex. _
_ nt 86* ortr
Swallows have been 4
ona thousand mile* from