THE HOUSE EXCITED.
WRANGLE OVER A DEFENSE OF
SECESSION.
Ur. Barrett Introduces a Regulation to
Censure Mr- Talbott of South Carolina
for Remarks Alleged to Be Treason
able In Character—The Motion Was
Referred After an Animated Discus
sion.
lively Time In the Lower House.
Washington, Feb. 8.—The debate
on the Senate free silver substitute
for the Iiouse bond hill proceeded
steadily in the House to-day. Tho
Iiouse met at 10:30 o’clock with less
than thirty members present and a
few stragglers in the galleries. Mr.
Newiands of Nevada, awoke the empty
echoes of the big hall with a vigorous
argument in favor of the free and in
dependent coinage of silver. He as
serted that not one debtor nation in
the world had maintained the gold
standard except the United States and
we bad done so at the price of contin
ued bond issues.
Mr. -Hartman of Montana, and Mr.
Kern of Nebraska, Populist, followed
in favor of concurrence and Mr.
Tucker of Virginia, in favor of non
concurrence.
Mr. Talbot of South Carolina rose to
a question of personal privilege to
correct what he said was an uninten
tional misrepresentation of himself in
, the public prints. This led to a stir
ring incident. He said that Mr. Pear
son of North Carolina had made an
unwarranted attack on the loyalty of
his state, which he declared was as
loyaPas any state in the union. Mr.
Pearson had said that North Carolina
had followed South Carolina out of
the union, and had got whipped along
with the Palmetto state.
“in a joeular way, Mr. Speaker,”
continued. Mr. Talbot, “1 declared that
we were not whipped but had worn
ourselves out trying to whip tho other
fellows. In the heat of the moment,”
he continued, “and impulsively, I
saids that South Carolina was not
ashamed of the part she took in it:
that she was proud of it, and that I
for one indorsed secession then. 1
thought we were right; I think so yet,
and that under the same circum
stances, surrounded by the same con
ditions, that I would do the same
tiling again. Now, Mr. Speaker I re
peat it. ” .
“He has said that he has repeated
the statement that under, certain cir*
cumstances lie believed in secession.
I propose now to offer a resolution of
censure, ’ put in Mr. Barrett of Massa
chusetts. (
By this time the excitement on the
floor was intense.
Mr. Crisp said that he had never
known an instance when a member
was called to order and- a motion was
made that he be allowed to explain his
utterances that such a motion was not
considered. To this Mr. Barrett re
plied that he had no objection to the
gentleman from South Carolina ex
plaining at the proper time his state
ment; that the gentleman, having
taken an oath to sustain the constitu
tion of the United States said he
would, under certain cirumstance, at
tempt to overthrow and humiliate the
government.
There was more parl.imentary spar
ring between Mr. Crisp and Mr. Bar
rett, during which the excitement
gradually rose. The Speaker finally
cut the matter short by saying that if
the House was not satisfied with Mr.
Talbot’s explanation the resolutiom
might bo offered. The Speaker de- -
cicred that Mr. Crisp’s motion was in
■order.
"I take it for granted,” said Mr.
Dingiey, rising, “that the House does
not intend to vote on a resolution of
eensur# without according the gentle
man from South Carolina an opporun
ity to explain.”
These words won the applause of
the Democratic side.
Mr. Talbot availed himself of the
opportunity and explained that he
had risen to correct a misrepresenta
tion. Ho had no idea that the press
intended te misrepresent him inten
tionally. South Carolina, he pro
ceeded, was as loyal and as true to the
Union'as any State in the Union. The
circumstances under which she se
ceded could not exist again and ho
was glad of it. (Democratic applause).
Mr. Barrett of Massachusetts jumped
up at these words and asked that the
words be taken down.
Several members appealed to him
■not to do so and the speaker asked
Mr. Barrett if he insisted upon the
■demand.
Mr. Barrett seemed to hesitate when
Mr. Talbot again got on his feet and
■declared in a loud voice that he was
willing to have his words taken down.
“I will stand by them,*’ said he.
These words seemed to clinch Mr.
Barrett’s resolve, and Mr. Barrett re-,
plied to the speaker with feeling:
“Yes, 1 insist 1 want to see if a
member can violate bis oath in this
"The chair understood that the gen
tleman from South Carolina was only
repeating what he had said on a for
mer occasion,” said Speaker Reed.
Mr. Uarrett replied that in that case
Re had a point of order to submit. Mr.
•Crisp, the Democratic leader, how
ever, at this point crowded into the
arena and moved that Mr. Talbot be
permitted to explain. The words
were then read at the clerk’s desk and
Mr.' Barrett then formally made the
poinj, of order that when a statement
made by a member had been called in
-question and he deliberately reiter
ated it, it constituted a new state
ment and a new offense.
After a wrangle and some explana
tions, Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania
moved to refer the Barrett resolution
"to the committee on judiciary. This,
was carried by a vote of 154 to 41.
This is understood to mean that no
notice wiH be taken of the matter.
Mr. Owens of Kentucky was the only
Democrat who voted against the mo
tion.
Will Serve Many Dogs.
Dead wood, S. D., Feh S—A council
of Ogallalla Sioux Indians will be held
at Wounded Knee on the 10th, to se
lect delegates to send to Washington
to confer with the Great Father upon
matters relative to the manner of deal
ing with the Indians. The council
twill conclude with a feast at which
J8o dogs will be served.
MONROE DOCTRINE AGAIN.
Senator Allen of Nebraska Ventilates Hit
Views.
Wasiiingtox, Feb. 8.—Senator Allen
of Nebraska addressed the Senate to
day on the Monroe doctrine resolu
tion. lie contended that the Monroe
doctrine was one of national self-pres
ervation, and that if the invasion of
the South American republics by
Great Britain will endanger the wel
fare or menaco the safety of this Gov
ernment in any way, we should resent
the action with all the strength and
resources of a mighty nation. The
United States must be the exclusive
judge of when the doctrine is to be
apnlied. The United States, Mr. Allen
maintained, cannot permit Great
Britain or any other foreign power to
determine when and to what extent
the acquisition of territory on the
Western hemisphere will imperil our
Government.
He thought, however, that it would
be ample time to act when the Venez
uelan commission shall have reported,
and said: “If we shalldetermine that
the action of Great Britain in acquir
ing territory in Venezuela will imperil
our government by imperiling the
rights of Venezuela, it will become
our duty to marshal all the resources
of our people to resist the threatened
or actual invasion. If, on the other
hand, we shall determine, after due
investigation and deliberation, that
our interests will not be imperiled, it
will be our dutv to abstain fiom any
interference with the action of Great
Britain.”
Continuing, Mr. Alleri said: “The
threatened demolition of England and
the English institutions that we have
heard in this chamber is not real; there
iB no danger from foes without. We
have simply been indulging in the
harmless pastime of twisting the cau
dal appendage of the British lion to
arouse a war spirit in the breasts of our
people, and thus induce them to for
get their grievances and their wrongs.
“We mistake the temper of the
American people. They know full
well that there is no danger of our
becoming involved in a war with Eng
land, or with any other foreign power.
They do not seek war, and I cannot
condemn in too severe terms the lack
of confidence in the sober judgement,
the intelligence and patriotism of the
American people that has led at least
one Senator to assert that a large por
tion of them would welcome war and
bloodshed as a relief from their present
conditions.
“If, unhappily, the time shall come,
which God grant it may not, that
American valor must again be dis
played on the field of battle in defense
of American institutions and against
foreign greed and aggrandizement,
we may confidently expect the sons
of-America to march under the flag of
'the free, consecrated by the blood of
a hundred years to permanent and
glorious victory. Then for every
Grant there will be a Lee, for every
Sherman a Johnston, for every Thomas
a Jackson, for every Sheridan a Stuart,
and Mason and Dixon’s line will be
blotted from the map of the United
States and true Americans, North and
South, wedded by the blood of the
revolution, the war of 1813 and the
war with Mexico, renewed by the es
trangement of 1861, as lovers renew
and intensify their affection by es
trangement, soothed and sustained by
a united and splendid American wo
manhood, will give to the world a
lesson in valor that it has never
known before.”
MR. CLEVELAND TALKS.
Discusses the Recent Bond Issue and
Syndicate Deal of 1805.
Washington, Feb. 8.—In an inter
view President Cleveland said regard
ing the bond issue: “From such in
formation as comes to me from various
private sources, I am convinced that
more small holdings of gold will be
drawn into the treasury by the present
arrangement than appear on the sur
face. The small country banks, for
instance, which are buying bonds for
their customers, have made their bids
through their New York and Boston
correspondents, and this gives the loan
the appearance of having been taken
up by the big financial institutions at
the money centers, although, as a mat
ter of fact, not a little of it will como
from tiie small investors.”
The subject of the syndicate con
tract of February, 18^5, having been
mentioned, Mr. Cleveland remarked
that he had never had reason to ques
tion the wisdom of that arrangement
under the conditions then existing.
“That contract,” he added, “helped
us out at a time when a forty-eight
hours’ delay might have produced se
rious results, I sympathize, never
theless, with some of the objections
made to that form of placing a loan.
The difference between the price ob
tained from the syndicate and the
price currently quoted can be twisted
into an argument which will appeal
to people who do not stop to calculate
the actual cost to the syndicate of
floating a loan at that time.
“My preference would have been to
have the present loan much mote pop
ular than it appears on its face, but
we have done the best we could. The
people who hoard small savings of
gold or the equivalent of gold are un
accustomed to transacting business on
the basis on which these bonds had to
be issued; they are unused to premi
ums or tp the formalities of making
bids. If we could have sold them,
three per cent gold bonds at par, I
think it would have brought out a
good deal of this gold, but the only
bonds the law allows us to issue have
to be sold considerably above par in
order to keep the net rate of interest
within reasonable limits.”
Treasury Losing Gold.
Wsshingtox, Feb. 8.—The treasury
yesterday lost $1,072,800 in gold coin
and $10,400 in bars, leaving the true
amount of the reserve 9»5,208,778.
Notwithstanding the success of the
new loan, fours are entertained that a
considerable share of the gold offered
in payment will have been withdrawn
from the treasury for that purpose.
Hungarians In a Bloc.
Whiting, Ind., Feb. 8.—Two men
were killed and one fatally and two
slightly injured here yesterday, dur
ing a savage riot among the Hucga- i
riau employes of the Standard Oil
Company and a slight outbreak that
followed the main battle. Many ar
rests were made, the men being taken
to Hammond.
VEST AFTEK MOBTON.
THE SECRETARY ROASTED TO
■ A BROWN. V
SI* Seed Pollejr nenounced and Ridiculed
in Turn—Vest Say* the Devil n»d a
Grudge Against the Democratic Party
and In a Spirit of Revenge Inflicted It
with Morton—Irony, Sarcasm and Bid*
Icnle.
. Sensational Word* In the Seuate.
Washington, Feb. 7.—The most
caustic utterances heard in the senate
since Mr. Tillman’s sensational speech
was that of Mr. Vest arraigning Sec*
retary of Agriculture Morton yester
day. The general satire and ridicule
directed against the secretary, and the
allusions made to the president, made
the speech hardly less notable than
that which Btartled the senate. Mr.
Vest referred derisively to “the
colossal intellect dealing with cab
bages."
At one point the senator said: “The
secretary of agriculture charges from
his office', reminding us of what Cicero
says of Cataline’s flight from the sen
ate: ‘Ab it excessit evasit erupit.’
(Laughter). When the secretary of
agriculture hears of a silver luuatic he
is like the warhorse in Job, his neck is
clothed with thunder. You might go
further and say, ‘lie saith among tho
prophets, ha. ha; and he smelleth thfe
battle afar off, the thunder of the
captains and the shouting.”’
Air. Vest severely criticised the
practice of furnishing costly flowers
from Government greenhouses for the
receptions at the Executive mansion,
and added: “Sir, I would rather give
twice the amount of this appropriation
to enable some poor man in a distant
cgunty of the West who is lighting the
hard battle of life; 1 would rather give
him something that wonld make his
cheerless home comfortable and bring
light to his fireside. I would rather
put one flower in the sick room of a
noble working girl or matron than to
have it said that I had voted a hun
dred and odd thousand dollars for the
flowers and exotics to go to the re
ceptions and banquets of the officials
of this Government, where the chan
delier flashes its light across the red
wine and the air is fragrant with per
fume like the spicy breeze of Araby
the blessed.” I
X
Mr. Vest referred to the ‘‘bugle
blasts” from the Secretary of Agricul
ture as to the congressional extrava
gance in distributing seeds.
“The Democratic party has been
most unfortunate,” said the Senator,
with emphasis, “not only as to its in
ternal discords, but also in the
fact that the devil has owed us a
grudge and has paid it in a secretary
of agriculture.
“The Secretary had,” continued Mr.
Vest, “put the Democratic party in
antagonism to the great agricultural
interests of the party, althongh that
party had always stood as the close
friends of agriculture.
“The gigantic intellect of this sec
retary of agriculture has daily gone
outside of his legitimate duties and
why did it not discover some of the
really flagrant abuses?”
“This secretary,” proceeded the Sen
ator, “lias assumed to run the entire
government. He has been practically
the secretary of the treasury, flooding
this country with reports and pamph
lets denouncing the silver lunatics and
upholding the single gold standard.”
Mr. Vest said the Senator from
South Carolina, (Tillman) had been
called a communist because he had
sounded a warning in the Senate, lie
compared this with a New York pub
lication threatening revolution unless
Senators and Representatives yielded
to the gold standard.
“The trouble is,” said Mr. Vest,
“that the secretary of agriculture is a
monomaniac on the gold standard.
He sees only gold, gold, red gold, and
he thinks any roan who dpes not see
as he sees is a lunatic.”
Mr. Vest closed shortly after 2
o’clock with a remarkably sarcastic
and bitter peroration. He referred to
the useless seeds, which it was assert
ed the secretary had properly refused
to buy. “Rue,” added the Senator,
“there was one seed not mentioned.
“It was,” he proceeded, smiling
maliciously, “the aurefur feniculm
canes mortonae, or, in pluiner words,
Morton’s golden dogweed. This would
flourish while the secretary, swinging
his golden censor at the executive
mansion, shouted his holy, holy, art
thou, oh Grover, King of Kings and
Lord of Lords.”
Mr. Teller, Republican, Col., look
occasion during the debate to refer to
the success of the bond issue. Large
as the offerings were, they would have
been larger if the secretary of the
treasury had received bids at a fixed
price for the bonds. Clumsy and
awkward as this bond submission had
been, lacking the essential features of
a popular loan, yet it completelv
answered those who had talked of the
necessity of looking to foreign syndi
cates to sustain our credit.
The debate • on distributing the ap
propriation bills ran through the en
tire afternoon and was not concluded
when, at 4:30 o’clock, the senate went
into executive session, and at 5:30 ad
journed.
Stuart on tbo Fight Situation.
El 'aso, Tex., Feb. 7.—“No power
/uti stop these fights,” Bald Dan A.
Stuart when informed of the passage
of an anti-prize fighting bill by the
.liouse of Representatives. “They are
coming off just as they were adver
tised. Ton ean say for me that so
sure as the principals are alive and in
condition to get into the ring on the
date set for the contests, so sure will
they fight, and fight to a finish. If
anyone sees fit to doubt this, I will
lay four to one for any part of 850,000.”
Massachusetts Indorses Morton’s Action.
Washington, Feb. 7. — Secretary
Morton has received the following let
ter: “Boston, January 15. 180C.—To
the Honorable Secretary of Agricul
ture, Washington, D. C.: At the an
nual meeting of the Bay State Agri
cultural society held this date, the
following was unanimously adopted:
“Resolved, That the Bay State Agri
sultural society heartily approves of
tho action of Secretary Morton in
stopping seed distribution, and hereby
condemns the old system of seed dis
tribution to mombers of Congress as
sn extravagant, unnecessary and
wasteful use of the public money.”
NOT IN THIS COUNTRY.
Catron’s Prize FleHt Bill Hushed Through
the Senate and Heady for the President.
Washington-. Feb. 7.—The Catron
bill to prohibit prize fighting m Fed
eral territory, passed by the House
.yesterday on the urgent request of
Delegate Catron of New Mexico, was
sent to the Senate to-day. It was
passed without division. To-morrow
it will bo sent to the President and it
is deemed certain that it will be signed
promptly, thus making it a law and
operative immediately. With this law
on the statue books the whole govern
ment authority, judicial and if neces
sary military, will be invoked to see
that the prize fight is stopped.
Th® f«H text of the anti-prize fight
bill is as follows: “That any persons
who in any of the territories, or the
District of Columbia, shall voluntarily
engage in a pugilistic encounter be
tween man and man, or a fight be
tween a man and a bull, or any otlieK
animal, for money or for .things of
value, or for any championship, or
upon the result of which any money
•i" anything of value is bet or wagered,
or to see which any admission fee is
charged, either directly or indirectly,
shall be deemed guilty of a felony
and upon conviction shall bo punished
by imprisonment in the penitentiary
for not less than one year nor more
than five years.
“My the term ‘pugilistic encounter,’
as used in-this bill, is meant any vol
untary fight by blows by means of
fists or otherwise, whether with or
without ‘gloves, but when two or more
men for money or for a prize of any
character, or for any other thing of
value, or for any championship, or
upon the result of which any mondy
or any thing ot value is bet or wag
ered, or to see which any admission
fee is charged, either directly or indi
rectly.”
COULD USE $25,678,860.
Secretary iLumnnt Says That Sura Would
, Provide Needed Coast Defenses.
Washington, Feb. 7.—Secretary of
War Laaiont has. sent to the Senate a
statement o,f the amount of money
which could be used advantageously
in coast defenses. He says S-‘5,G78,aoO
could be used by the department prior
to July l, 1807, of which amount 91,
733,000 should be made during the
present fiscal year. He recommends
that 915,90;,000 be designated for forti
fications, 91,000,000 for sites, 93,000,000
for submarine defenses and 90,318,850
for guns, mortars, projectiles, etc.
The special advantages of the in
creased appropriations as enumerated
by the secretary are: The utilization
of the army gun factory to its full
capacity, the more rapid armament of
our fortifications, the addition of
twelve mortars and carriages to those
already estimated for, the purchase of
an additional 500 deck piercing shells
and the supply of heavy material for
siege service.
THE BOND ISSUE;
jlorgau'a Syndicate Will Get a Large
Portion of the Hew Loan.
Washington, Feb. 7.—The work of
scheduling and classifying the bids
opened yesterday was resumed to-day
and until the task is completed no in
formation of an exact and definite
character can be obtained as to the
amounts bid for at each of the several
rates, or as to how low a rate will be
accepted. Th’e bid of J. P. Morgan
and his associates undoubtedly will be
accepted for a large amount, variously
estimated at from 843,000,000 to 855,
000,000.- In any event all legitimate
bids at a rate above that submitted by
Mr. Morgan (110.6677) will be accepted
and all below that rate will be relected.
THE SUBSTITUTE MAY WIN
Populist Senators Decide to Oppose Re
commitment of the Tariff Measure.
Washington, Feb. 7.-=-Mr. Quay to
day modified his resolution to recom
mit the silver substitute for the House
tariff bill so as not to include instruc
tions to the committee, and at his own
request it went over until Monday.
The Populist Senators have decided
in caucus to vote solidly against re
committing the silver substitute for
the tariff bill to the committee on
finance. If the Democrats stand to
gether against the Quay motion the
decision of the Populists will insure
its defeat.
Veteran Pension Clerk Commit* Suicide.
Washington, Feb. 7.—John Shea, a
ilerk of the first class in the record
tnd pension division of the War de
partment and a veteran of the late
war, committed suicide in a closet at
the department this morning by shoot
log himself in the head. He died
almost instantly. It is believed he
was unbalanced mentally from s
wonnd inflicted during the war.
Another Big: Lumber Trust.
Marinkttk, Wis., Feb. 7.—It is re
ported here that a combine of all man
ufacturers of white pine lumber is
being formed. The trust is to include
all manufacturers in Michigan, Wis
consin ana Minnesota. The annual
output is one billion feet, and it is pro
posed to decrease this production next
year by closing all mills.
Professor Dowd Declared Insane.
New York, Feb. 7.—Professor Daniel
L. Dowd, inventor of Dowd’s exer
cises, which is now in many gymna
siums in this country, and who is well
known as an exponent of physical and
vocal culture in New York! was de
clared insane at llellevue hospital last
night. He will be sent to a private
institution.
Mis Palmer IIouso Will Be Convention
Headquarters for Twenty States.
Chicago, Feb. 7.—The Palmer house
will be the rallying center of the
Democratic politicians during the na
tional convention. Besides the na
tional committee twenty states will
have their headquarters at the hotel.
Every available room in the house that
ean be spared has been assignecL New
York and Washington were refused
tccommodations for their entire dele
gations, but each delegation, however,
was given two rooms for the leading
men who desire to keep in touch with
the national committee.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
i -
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Row SncroMful Farmer* Operate This
Department of the Farm—A Few
Htnta aa to the Care of Lite Stock
and Poultry.
OWLS need warm
feet, and this Is
secured by having
a dry bottom to the
poultry house, and
using dry absorb
ents and bedding
material liberally.
Any house that is
In any way liable
to be damp during
any part of the year
should be thoroughly drained and be
provided with a raised floor of boards
and upon top of all a few inches of
any earth or coal ashes. Dampness
brings about a lot of disabilities.
Exercise is of the greatest Importance
to fowls at all times. Of course while
they are ranging and foraging about
they get plenty, but when in winter
quarters, the case is very different and
every inducement must be given the
birds to work. For one thing have two
or three inches of litter, leaves, etc.,
scattered over the floor of the house,
and give a feed of wheat dally, mixing
it up with this same litter. The fowls
must scratch in a lively manner to get
the coveted morsels. Another device is
to hang up a cabbage, turiilp, or beet,
Just high enough so the fowl can get
a bit by taking a good Jump in the
air. Happy, contented, laying hens are
always active birds.
Ah to winter layers any, good nreeo
will lay in winter if they are well
houBed and cared for. Leghorns and
lightly-feathered breeds will do as well
or better than Brahmas and Cochins,
although the latter are a bundle of
downy feathers, the only condition be
ing that they be kept warm.
Lice are not ae troublesome now as
they were In hot weather, but they are
still here to be reckoned with, and poul
try keepers must not slack their
vigilance. Give lice no quarter, for just
as sure as you allow them an inch they
will take a yard. Apply kerosene oil
often to the roosts and their bearings,
adding to the oil a little crude carbolic
acid to render it still more effective as
a slayer of parasites. Be not sparing
of lime, but whitewash as often as you
get a chance.
The more hens wou can keep laying
well on the present cheap grain the
better. It does not take many eggs
now to equal in value a bushel of grain,
so this is the golden opportunity to
make hens pay. Do not feed nothing
but corn because corn is eo cheap.
Rather feed a variety, using wheat,,
oats, and bran as well as corn. No
one feed will permit hens to do their
very best.
Get up a reputation for quality 'in
eggs and dressed poultry. Use business
methods to present your products to
the markets. Other business men find
it pays to have a distinctive brand to
place upon their goods. Why shouldn’t
poultry-men follow the same example?
Stamp your fresh eggs attractively,
calling attention to the fact that they
are really fresh, guaranteed to be such,
and that your name is so and eo. As
soon as customers find your integrity
to be unimpeachable, you will find the
business will make a steady, healthy
growth.
Hen houses must be warm In winter
to have the hens lay. To this end bank
up with sods the cold north and west
aides of the poultry house. Put on each
window an extra outside sash and have
tightly-fitting shutters to cover over all
the windows. Paper Is a remarkable
bold excluder, so tack It up over all
cracks, and even cover the walls.
W. P. Perkin* In Farmers' Review.
loM WbcoMla Dtlrf bwi>
If. Filled cheese. (Sec. 1, ch. SO,
1895.) No person, by himself or by his
agents or servants, shall manufacture,
or shall buy, sell, offer, ship, consign,
expose or have In his possession for
sale and cheese manufactured from or
by the use of skimmed milk to which
there has been added any iat which Is
foreign to such milk.
15. Slzo of Bklmmed-mtlk cheese.
(Sec. 2, ch. 30, 1895.) No person, by
himself or by his agents or servants,
shall manufacture, or shall buy, sell,
offer, ship, consign, expose or have in
his possession for sale, within this
state, any skimmed milk cheese, or
cheese manufactured from milk from
which any of the fat originally con
tained therein has been removed, except
such cheese Is ten inches in diameter
and nine Inches In height
! 16. Imitation butter. (Sec. 3, ch..
30, 1895.) No person, by himself or by
his agents or servants, shall render or
manufacture, sell, ship, consign, offer
for sale, expose for sale, or have in
his possession with Intent to sell, any
article, product or compound mado
wholly or partly out of any fat, oil or
oleaginous substance or compound
thereof, not produced from unadulter
ated milk or cream from the same, and
without the admixture or addition of
any fat foreign to said milk or cream,
.which shall be in imitation of yellow
butter produced from pure unadulterat
ed milk or cream of the same, with or
without coloring matter; provided, that
nothing In this act shall be construed
to prohibit the manufacture or sale of
oleomargarine In a separate and dis
tinct form and in such manner as will
advise the consumer of its real char
acter, free from coloration or ingredient
that causes it to look like butter.
Fraud in Dairy Factories.
39. Penalty. (Sec. 1494a, R. 8.)
Any butter or cheese manufacturer who
shall knowingly use, or allow any of his
employes or any other person to nse
for his or their own individual benefit,
any milk, or cream from the milk,
brought to said butter or cheese menu
facturer, without the consent of an the
owners thereof, or an? butter or cheeso
manufacturerwhoshallrefuseor neglect
to keep, or cauoe to be kept, a correct
account (open to the inspection of any
one furnishing milk t.o sueb manufac- '
turer) of the amount of milk daily re
ceived, or of the number of pounds ot
butter, and the number and aggregate
weight of cheese made eacb day, or of
the number cut or otherwise disposed
of, and the weight of eacb, shall for
each and every offense forfeit and pay
a sum not less than twenty-five dollars,
nor more than one hundred dollars, to
be recovered in an action in any court
of competent jurisdiction, one-half for.
the benefit of the person or persons,
firm or association, or their assigns, up
on whom such fraud or neglect shall :
be committed, first having made com
plaint therefor, the remainder to the >
school fund.
Cooling Sklmmllk.
One of the great difficulties at separa
tor creameries, during the summer
months, is to get the sklmmllk back,
to the patron in a sweet condition. - Aj
great many farmers who wish to raise ’
calves refuse to send their milk to the
creamery because the product they get
back is not what they want for feeding
purposes. A great mapy writers have
advocated partial pasteurization ana
while this is efficacious, yet the cost amt
time involved prevent its general adapt
ability to creamery work. The best
way to treat milk as it comes from
the separator, the cheapest way and
yet a satisfactory one, ia to cool it to >
aa low a temperature as possible ns it
runs from the separator. In all cream- >
cries where there Is a sufficiency of,
cold water, say 50 degrees, the milk
can be cooled as fast as it' comes from
the machines and attL very light ex
pense. Simply running over a system
of ordinary coolers would answer the .
purpose and the milk thus cooled would ,
keep a sufficient time to admit of its
being fed sweet—Am. Creamery. .i
J. V. Hardy, Kansas—I use no ther
mometer In my hen house, but try to
keep the temperature comfortable. In
building a suitable hen-house, one must
be governed greatly by the amount ot
money to be Invested and at the same
time have a warmi light and con
venient winter house for the birds. For
a cheap, warm, winter house, suitable
(or this climate, select a location slop
ing to the south. Make an excavation :
say three feet by twelve feet by thirty
feet, with the thirty-foot side to the
south. Cover, as In any ordinary case,
making the height from five to six feet
in the clear. Have the doors In the
south. The entire south side above the
ground should be covered by glass. This
will admit the light and the sun all
day long, and water will never treese
in the house. In your coldest winter
days your birds will be found working
in the litter as happily as in summer.
It will give you winter eggs and your
show birds will not have frosted combs.
The only objection raised by tbe people
to this one-half under ground house Is
dampness, which opinion la a mistake
if your glass is of the proper slope. The
sun, shining on the bottom of yopr
house every day, will make the grpund
as dry in a week as a western Kansas ■:
cornfield.—Farmers’ Review.
A Small Boy Tells What Hens Are.—A
boy’s composition on hens reads as fol
lows: “Hens is curious animals. They '
don’t have no nose, nor no teeth, nor no
ears. They swaller their vlttles whole,
and chew it up In their crops In side of i
’em. The outside of hens is generally
put into plllers and feather dusters.
The inside of a hen la sometimes filled
up with marbles and shirt buttons and
etch. A hen is very much smaller than
a good many other animals, but they’ll
dig up more tomato plants than any
thing that ain’t a hen. Hens Is very
useful to lay eggs for plum pudding. 1
Bet yer life I like plum pudding. Skin
ny Bates eat so much plum pudding
once that it set him Into the collery.
Hens has got wlnga and can fly when
they are sc art. I cut my uncle Will
iam’s hen’s neck pff with a hatchet, and -
It scart her to death. Hens sometimes
make very fine spring chickens.
Mexican Dairying.—Da^nc., Is a
Buying Milk and Water—Yet another,
novelty la to be recorded. A Sheffield
mllkseller sold an inapector some
liquid, which on analyala proved to be
milk and water. Thia was not dented
by the vendor, who not only told the
Inspector what be waa buying, but ac
tually produced in court two customers '*■
who Informed the stipendiary that they
had for a long time been buying the
mixture, well knowing It to be a com- i
pound of milk mixed with water in
the proportion of one quart to every
two gallons. It is difficult to believe
that anybody can be anxious to pur
chase milk and water, and actually to
prefer it to milk; but, verily, there ia
no accounting for taste.—The Dairy '■
(England).
much neglected branch of agriculture.
and ought to be a profitable field for
intelligent investment. Butter sells at
75 cents per pound, Mexican silver. To
the credit of Mexico be it said that I do
not think much, if any, oleomargarine
is produced here and to the discredit of
my own land be it also said that con
siderable of the stuff is shipped in from
the United States. One dairyman who
has been supplying a limited trade here
with Jersey products has, I see by the
paper, gone to the states for more cows
of the same breed.—C; A. Moseley, in
Western Plowman.
Where sheep can be pastured during
the winter, says American Sheep Breed
er, there is no more valuable green crop
for this use than white mustard. Two
pounds of seed sown per acre will af
ford a thick growth that may be eaten '
off by hurdling the flock on the field.
This is one of-the very best feeding
crops for sheep, as it is rich In the
sulphur that is needed for the health
ful growth of wool, in which these tg
Sft per cent of thia substance.