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CHAPTER XIII—(Continued.)
"Mildred, what do you mean?” he
exclaimed.
"The day after tomorrow you shall
have the fifteen thousand pounds.” she
said; “and I—I am engaged to be mar
riei to Lord Lyndon.”
Her mother arose, flushed and tri
umphant. Here indeed was a match
worthy of her darling. All recollec
tion of the relief to be gained through
the promised money faded in compari
son with this wonderful piece of news.
At last Mildred had made her choice,
and it was a most wise one.
"Oh, Mildred, is it true? How glad
I am!” she began. "'I think-”
But the girl put up her hands to her
ears and recoiled from her touch.
><■ “Not now—not now!” she exclaimed
almost roughly.
How could she endure congratula
tions and good wishes about what
^ seemed to her the crudest event in all
her life? How submit to question
ings and kindly probings, when she
felt her heart was breaking? Surely
in such a case congratulations were a
mockery.
She left them, and hurrying to her
own room, strove hard to quiet the
storm that raged within her; while
they, remaining behind, asked each
other in whispers how it had all hap
pened, and half feared to believe the
welcome news was true.
But Lady Caroline’s heart smote her
when she remembered the look in
Mildred’s eyes when they had met hers
—the great unhappy light that had
shone in them, revealing so much that
she would gladly have kept untold.
But the mother’s eyes had seen it,
and so she followed Mildred to her
room, only to find the poor child pac
ing up and down with restless, fever
ish hands and face grown old with
passionate care. She stopped as her
mother entered, sighing heavily. Lady
Caroline stretched out her hands.
“Mildred, tell me what it is,” she
entreated, wistfully, with sorrowful,
longing sympathy in her tone. “Am
I not your mother?”
J And Mildred cried, “Oh, mother!”
and, falling on her knees, with arms
round the mother’s waist, and eyes
hidden, sobbed a little of her grief
■*, away.
All in vain. The next morning
brought a letter from Lady Eagleton’s
solicitor, containing the news of her
ladyship’s sudden death, and stating
that, on her will being opened, it was
discovered that she had bequeathed to
her “beautiful and well-beloved grand
niece, Mildred Trevauion,” the sum of
thirty-five thousand pounds.
CHABTiSK XIV.
Christmas was at hand, and with it
came Denzil Younge.
“I hear you are to be congratulated,”
he said to Mildred, whom he met in the
grounds immediately upon his arrival
—‘‘is it true?”
“Yes, it is quite true,” answered
Miss Trevanion, steadily, disdaining to
put off the evil hour by equivocation
or pretended ignorance.
“Then you are going to marry him
after all?” said Denzil.
“I am engaged to be married to Lord
Lyndon,” returned Miss Trevanion.
Then, very abruptly, Denzil asked:
“Are you happy?”
“Of course, I am happy,” she an
swered, with a faint accession of color
—“why do you ask me such a strange
question? Do I look unhappy?”
“I think you do," he said, gently;
“your face seems changed to me; it
does not wear its old expression; and
just now, as I was passing by the vil
lage church, I glanced in for a mo
ment”—she raised her eye3 anxiously
—"and saw you. You were kneeling
at the altar rails, and, as I watched—
forgive me, it was but for an instant—
I thought I heard—Mildred, were you
crying?”
“And so,” observed Mildred pettish
ly, giving no heed to his question, “be
cause one happens to feel a little fret
ted about some trifling matter, and
cries a few silly tears, one is to be con
sidered in the lowest depths of des
pair? It is absurd. I will not listen to
such folly; Lord Lyndon, I am sure,
would not wish mo to do so, and—”
“And as he is everything to you now,
white I and all the rest of the world
count nothing,” interrupted Denzil,
bitterly—"is that so? Do you expect
me to believe that? Because, if you
do, I tell you plainly, that I do not be
lieve it, and never shall. He is un
suited to you in every way, having not
an idea in common with you. Oh,
Mildred”—passionately — “why have
you done this thing? Why have you
sacrificed your whole long, sweet life
so miserably? Was there some great
reason for it of which I have never
heard? Could you not have waited?
My love, my darling, is there nothing
I can do for you?*’
“There is nothing I would have
done,” she answered, half angrily.
“Why will you persist in thinking I
have done something worthy of repent
ance? I am happy. Do you hear me?
—perfectly happy. I have accepted my
position willingly and of my own free
choice, and I do not wish it altered or
undone in any single way. I have
quite made up my mind; and although
you once told me you considered me
unworthy to be the wife of any honest
man, still I am vain enough to believe
that at all events I can make this most
honest man fairly contented.”
“I was mad when I said that,” re
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joined Denzil, slowly. “Many a time
since have I recollected my words and
felt how brutal they must have sound
ed. But surely you will forgive me
now—at this moment when I am learn
ing for the first time how miserable
and bare and cold a place this world
is. Let me bid good-by to all my hope
with the certainty that at least you
bear me no ill-wil.”
He held out his hand as he spoke
and took hers. Mildred's voice failed
her, but she managed to whisper
faintly:
“Give me your forgiveness also.”
“If you think it necessary,” he said,
“you have it; but I can remember no
wrong you ever did me.”
They were standing with hands
clasped and eyes reading each other’s
hearts. Denzil drew his breath quick
ly.
“Good-by,” he murmured, despair
ingly, and, tu.uing away, abruptly,
passed rapidly out of her sight.
When all the people at King's Ab
bott met to dine Denzil was among
them, and very welcome he found him
self. Charlie alone of all the family
was absent; but even he had written
word to say he would be with them for
a day or two in the course of the fol
lowing week.
“We ought to get up a party and go
to the lake tomorrow,” suggested Ed
die, during a pause in the conversation.
Lyndon, who was also dining with
them, and who generally agreed with
everybody, said he thought it was a
“capital pfe.n,” and appealed to Miss
Trevanion, who sat beside him. She
thought she had lost her skates or mis
placed them, or something; but Fran
ces Sylverton overruled all such oppo
sition by declaring that she had sever
al pairs to lend, and that a day on the
ice would be delicious.
“But perhaps it will be hardly safe
enough this week,” she added, some
what anxiously. “Shall we wait until
Tuesday next?”
“Charlie said he would be down on
Monday night,” put in Eddie, inno
cently, apropos of nothing, and with
out lifting his eyes from the cream
on which he was seemingly intent;
whereupon Miss Sylverton blushed
furiously, and declined any further in
vestigation of the subject.
Finally, however—chiefly through
the instrumentality of Mildred—the
expedition was arranged to take place
on the Tuesday following, so that
Frances, in her inmost heart, was sat
isfied.
In process of time the day arrived—
as also did Charlie the night before,
very much to the satisfaction of every
body concerned in the excursion—and,
after a considerable amount of harm
less and utterly unavoidable squab
bling, the party—which had become
rather a large one, in consequence of
numerous invitations issued later on
—divided into twos and threes, as cir
cumstances or inclinations dictated—
Lady Caroline, Mrs. Deverill, and one
other married lady occupying the first
open carriage; while Charlie, Miss Syl
verton, Jane Deverill, and Captain
Harvey took possession of the second.
Mabel, seeing Denzil looking.slightly
dejected, with her usual sweetness had
entreated him in the prettiest manner
to drive her in the dog cart; and Ed
die, who, at this period was hopelessly
and finally in love—for about the fif
teenth time—with an extremely pretty,
but decidedly idiotic little girl, stay
ing with the Deverills, had managed
to vanish in some mysterious way, in
company with others, similarily heart
bound; while Mildred, whom nobody
seemed to want, and with whom none
of the opposite sex in these days at
tempted to interfere, fell to Lord Lyn
don’s lot.
When fairly started the skaters made
as picturesque a group as any eye
could wish to rest on, the girls, in
their soft, luxurious furs and brilliant
satin petticoats, striking out oddly on
the glassy surface of the lake. Fiances
and Mildred were accomplished skat
ers, Mabel was not quite so good; still
the latter could hold her own and cer
tainly beside the Deverill girls—who
were generally clumsy—looked every
thing that could be desired.
“You will help me, Mr. Younge,” she
had whispered to Denzil, as he assisted
her down from the dog-cart.
So when he had fastened her skates
and pronounced her “fit,” she started
bravely enough on the slippery prome
nade. At one end there rose a post
marked “Dangerous,” of which as
usual those whom it should have warn
ed remained profoundly ignorant. Den
zil alone had observed it; others, If
they observed, attached little import
ance to it.
Mi3s Trevanion and Frances Sylver
ton, with merry, gay laughter that
rang through the crisp air, were trying
to outdo each other in grace and agil
ity, Frances decidedly having the best
of it, she being one of those girls who
do anything they set their hearts on
“better than anybody else.”
As Denzil turned from watching
them, he perceived Lord Lyndon, at a
distance, leisurely, but surely, making
for the forbidden spot; and, as he saw
this, an almost savage desire to see
this man, who had robbed him of his
all, humiliated before the eyes of his
betrothed, took possession of him.
A minute later, however, and—hav
ing deposited Mabel on the bank—he
was skating hurriedly toward his un
suspecting lordship.
“Lyndon!” he shouted, when still
some way from him, and shortly after
ward laid his hand upon his arm.
“Hullo!" exclaimed Lyndon, trying
to keep his balance, and succeeding
with much difficulty. “What is the
matter? You have nearly thrown me!
Anything wrong, eh?"
“Don’t you see where you are go
ing?” cried Denzil, angrily and ungra
ciously, being considerably out of
breath and temper. “Have you no
eyes? Unless you want to be drowned,
or, at all events, wet to the skin, you
will get away from this place. Can't
you see it marked ’Dangerous’?”
“Never saw It until this very mo
ment, I give you my honor,” said Lyn
don, solemnly gazing at the warning
as though lost in amazement at his
own want of observation. “I should
have gone straight on, and in another
moment- I am awfully obliged to
you, Younge—Indeed, more grateful
t .an I can tell you."
Mildred had been looking on, and,
having witnessed the whole scene, had
understood it thoroughly—had seen
her future lord and master gliding to
his doom, and had half started up to
call out or warn him in some way of
his danger, when Denzil’s figure, flash
ing before her eyes, showed her that
he, too, had recognized Lyndon’s peril,
and was on his way to tell him of it.
As Denzil returned from his mission
and cast his eyes upon her, she appear
ed unconscious of everythilng but the
dainty little pair of skates she was in
the act of unfastening. He stopped.
“Can I help you?” he asked; and
she answered promptly, without lifting
her eyes:
“No, thank you. I am quite accus
tomed to do this sort of thing for my
self”—whereupon she drew off the
skates, in confirmation of her words,
and Denzil went on to Mabel.
An hour crept by, and then Lady
Caroline, feeling that she had suffered
enough for her friends for that one
day, declared her intention of return
ing without further delay, and forth
with departed, carrying with her Ma
bel, who was anxious to reach home
before the post-hour arrived.
The eldest Miss Deverill was afflicted
with nervousness, and, having been
driven to the lake by “Sonny” Sum
merton—who was in a bad temper,
and knew as much about driving as
the “man in the moon”—had endured
such agonies on the journey as deter
mined her, whatever came of it, to
drive back in different company. So,
going up to her cousin, Lord Lyndon,
who was an undoubted “whip,” she
entreated him as follows:
“Promise me,” she said, “that you
will drive me home.”
“My dear Margaret,” said Lyndon,
“do not ask me to do that. You know I
have Mildred under my care.”
“My dear Henry,” returned Miss
Deverill, desperately, “you must drive
me, or you will have my death to an
swer for. I will not trust myself again
to that hare-brained boy, who sulked
the entire way here, and knows noth
ing whatever of driving. Indeed, my
nerves are at present in such a state
that I can go home with nobody but
you; besides, anybody can see that the
horse is positively dangerous.”
Lyndon glanced toward the animal
in question, and saw that it was un
questionably . skittish, displaying an
evident desire to bolt, and seeming to
take particular delight in taxing the
patience of the small groom who stood
on tiptoe to hold him, after which he
looked once more at his cousin’s dolor
ous countenance and relented.
“Well, somebody must take care of
Mildred,’ he said, with hesitation, “and
—where is Mildred?”
“She went toward the wood about
half an hour ago—somebody ought to
find her and say that we are on the
move,” responded Harvey, from be
neath a horse, where he was hastily
arranging a twisted strap.
“Eddie, go and find her,” said his
lordship, distractedly.
(To be continued.)
TRAVELERS’ DOG BAGS.
Theatrical People Carry Pet Dogg from
Place to Place.
A novel thing in travelers’ equipment
is the dog bag. It is produced by a
trunk and bag maker who makes a
specialty of things for theatrical peo
ple, and it is used chiefly by theatrical
people for the convenient carrying of
pet dogs from place to place in their
constant traveling when on the road.
The pets carried about the country by
theatrical people, mainly women, in
clude dogs of various kinds and sizes.
It may be that the dog owners are on
the road eight or ten months in a year
and constantly moving as they are,
some means of getting the dogs about
easily is especially desirable. The dog
bag is made in the form of what is
called in the trade a cabin bag. It has
a box-shaped body with vertical sides
and ends and with the top sloping.
Obviously the cabin bag was the most
desirable for this use, because with its
straight sides it afforded the most
room inside, and so gave the greatest
comfort to the dog. Made up as a dog
bag one end of the bag is taken out
entirely, and in place is set a wire
screen. Sometimes both ends for
greater ventilation are thus equipped.
Over the grating is a leather curtain,
which may be opened or closed.—Chi
cago Journal.
Studying Criminal Records.
H. B. Irving, second son of Sir Henry
Irving, is busy on a unique work, in
which he has analyzed tho cynicism,
refined cruelty and sheer brutality
shown by such criminals as Lacenaire,
Troppmann, Prado and Ravaehol. Mr.
Irving has selected those criminals
whose individualities and misdeeds re
move them from the category of ordi
nary malefactors. It may be inter
esting to know that long before Mr.
Irving became an actor he was inter
ested in the study of crime. His rooms
at Oxford were piled high with crimi
nal records.
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OPPOSE REVISION.
TARIFF QUESTION MUST NOT
BE REOPENED.
I'll® Babcock Program for Dealing with
the Iron and Stool Comhlue Would Re
sult In Wrecking Many Concerns Not
Connected with the Big Trust.
“I was much Interested in the clear
and emphatic interview with Mr.
Payne, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of Congress, pub
lished in the ‘Mail and Express,’ con
cerning Representative Babcock's
proposition to revise the Dtr.gley Tar
iff law," said Charles A. Moore. “As
president of the American Protective
Tariff League, I was naturally some
what surprised when Mr. Babcock an
nounced last February his Idea that
manufactured products of steel should
be placed upon the free list. Soon aft
er Mr. Babcock presented that bill in
the house he was a guest at the annual
dinner here in New York of The Pro
tective Tariff League. But he did not
discuss his bill at that time, either in
his after-dinner speech or in private
conversation.
“It is reassuring to learn, from such
an authority as the chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, that Mr.
Babcock's revival of the topic of Tar
iff revision meets with no sympathy
from his Republican colleagues, at
least along the line that he proposes.”
"Do you agree with Chairman Payne
that Mr. Babcock cannot excite an
agitation at this time for a revision
of the Tariff?”
“Yes, i agree with Mr. Payne and
with other Republican members of that
committee and with several Senators
who are in the Finance Committee
with whom I have consulted,” replied
Mr. Moore. “I have also received the
opinions of many manufacturers, busi
ness men and of those acquainted with
the feeling of workingmen, and I am
convinced that there can be no re
opening of the general Tariff question,
either this summer or when the next
Congress convenes. Any student of
trade conditions and of their relations
to customs duties and the national
revenue will admit that there might be
made some changes in the Tariff
schedules that would be of advantage
to both producer and consumer. No
system of Tariff schedules was ever
constructed that would not bear
amendment from time to time.
"It is that recognized fact that
causes the periodic discussion of the
wisdom of creating a permanent Tar
iff commission. But the genius of our
institutions is against even the sem
blance of government by commissions;
and, moreover, a Tariff commission
could do nothing more than make rec
ommendations, upon which the Con
gress could act, under the Constitu
tion, as it pleased. The usefulness,
therefore, of a commission to consider
questions affecting Federal revenue is
doubtful. But, aside from that, the
changes that might be made to advant
age in the present Tariff law are both
too few in number and too unimport
ant to warrant a reopening of the
subject. Agitation of the Tariff ques
tion is inevitably disturbing to trade,
causing uncertainty and halting new
enterprises. It should t occur, there
fore, at as widely separated intervals
as possible.”
“Mr. Babcock asserts that his prop
osition is to strike at the so-called
steel trust, and that it is, therefore, a
politic step for the Republican party to
take.”
i cio not, agree witn Mr. HaDcocK
in that idea,” replied Mr. Moore. “Ho
is chairman of the Republican Con
gresisonal Campaign Committee, and
I am afraid that his intimate knowl
edge of local party and factional con
ditions in many Congressional dis
tricts has distorted his perspective, so
to speak, of the general question. I
would say that neither his bill nor any
other legislation can destroy the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation without
first destroying every smaller and in
dividual concern engaged in the same
business. These smaller makers of
steel products have their specialties in
manufacturing. Some of them prob
ably will sell their output to othqr con
cerns that have been amalgamated in
the steel trust. Others will continue
to retain their own customers, at
home and abroad. But if steel goods
were placed on the free list, these in
dividual manufacturers would be
forced to the wall, because the steel
trusts of Great Britain, Prance and
Germany, if our tariff barrier were re
moved, would dump their surplus
product upon our market at prices that
the smaller manufacturers could not
meet. Only the big corporation could
survive; and that combination of men,
who are kings in the several branches
of their business, being united, could
compete successfully, I believe, at home
or abroad, in any part of the world,
with any foreign trust—provided for
eign governments do not erect prohib
itive tariff barriers against us.
"In other words, the proposition of
Mr. Babcock would in the end play
into the hands of the so-called Amer
ican Steel Trust, which he thinks
would be a good political play to at
tack.”
“But Mr. Babcock asserts that pro
tected American manufacturers sell
their goods abroad more cheaply than
at home.”
, “That is an old and worn-out Demo
cratic argument,” said Mr. Mooro. “It
is an argument that has the specious
allurement of a half-truth. It ap
peals to many minds when first heard
because it carries the implication that
a Protective Tariff operates to the ad
vantage of the foreign consumer and
discriminates against the home buyer.
But we have to consider in this connec
tion that, in the first place, the asaer
; tlon is true only in a few cases; sec
ond, that it applies to foreign manu
facturers as well as our own, and,
third, and most important, that it is
labor that receives the benefit of Pro
tection.
For example, suppose that a manu
facturer finds that by employing a
thousand additional men .he can re
duce the total cost of his product by
10 per cent. If he does that he will
make more goods than the home mar
ket can absorb, even at a reduced price.
So that it. will pay him, and afford ad
ditional employment to labor, if ho
sells his surplus product to a foreign
market at a greater reduction than at
home, or even at cost of production.
“Then, again, foreign combinations
of capital, which are real trusts—and
there are no trusts, in the legal sense,
in the United States, although there
are hundreds abroad, even in Free
Trade England—are constantly sending
their surplus product to this country
at prices ruinous to competition. They
do this by the device of billing their
goods, not to American importers, but
to their own agencies in this coun
try. This is an abuse upon which I
could dilate at length. But every man
ufacturer, every wholesale and retail
merchant, understands how the Pro
tective intent of our tariff is thus
evaded.
“It seems to me,” concluded Mr.
Moore, “that any survey of our re
cent commercial history must convince
any candid mind that the country will
not consent to enter into any such re
vision of the tariff as Mr. Babcock
suggests. Only twenty-five years ago
the United States was fourth in the
list of exporting nations. Today the
United States holds first place. In
that time the United States has in
creased its exports 192 per cent. Our
tariff has made us the most prosper
ous nation on earth. Labor com
mands here the highest wages. It is
labor that would sutler most from a
radical change in our policy of a sane
ly Protective Tariff.”—New York Mall
and Express.
THREE FLOURISH 1NQ PLANTS.
MUCH ADO ABOUT LITTLE.
As the Pioneer Press pointed out
some time ago,the •xcitement over the
Russian tariff was much ado about lit
tle. Illinois manuafcturers and other
associations sent grave and reverend
deputations to Washington to protest
against the countervailing sugar duty
which they argued would shut out of
the Russian market some $30,000,000
of exports yearly. Secretary Gage in
formed them In the first p'ace he could
not unmake the law requiring a coun
tervailing duty, and that he had no
option in the matter. In the second
place, he told the deputations, what
they could have learned in any gov
ernment report, that the annual ex
ports of our products to Russia did
not amount to $30,000,000, but to
$10,000,000 only. When they told him
that they were particularly troubled
about the trade In agricultural ma
chinery they were told, what they
could have learned in any reliable
newspaper, that agricultural imple
ments and machinery were exempt un
der the Russian retaliatory order. It
now appears that not only our agricul
tural machinery is exempt, but almost
all our iron and steel, which is the
most important item on our list of ex
ports to Russia, will not be affected
by the order. Those two classes of
exports are a large part of the total
sent to all Russian ports. And when
it is considered that some other arti
cles are also exempt, it appears that
the intense excitement of the country
was as premature as it was useless.
—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Bitter Enemy of the Tru*t*.
“Those outrageous trusts ought to
be wiped out of existence if it takes
every gun and every gallows in the
land to do it.”
“What’s your special grievance
against them?”
“Why, the scoundrels refused to buy
up our plant!”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Saved from Injurious Competition.
In consequence of the injurious com
petition of American and other indus
tries the wages of finished iron work
ers in the north of England have been
reduced seven and one-half per cent.
Protection saves the workmen of
America from Injurious competition of
other countries.—Hornellsville (N. Y.)
Times.
Boms Pig Tionblu.
There are several common troubles
of young pigs which breeders find It
difficult to explain or cure. The first
of these which we desire to speak of
is properly called ‘'stomatitis” or
“aphtha” and the cause is usually de
rangement of the digestive organs. For
instance if the brood sow at once after
parturition gives a very full flow of
milk to her young the milk will be
liable to produce a disturbance and
give rise to the disease referred to .
which Is characterized by the appear
ance of small blisters and ulcers with
in the mouth, upon the tongue, gum3
and inside of the cheeks. To prevent
this and other troubles of the diges
tive tract the sow should not be
fed generously upon grain just prior
to farrowing and should be very spare
ly fed for some days after the pigs
are born so that the young stomachs
will become accustomed to food and
not suffer from over-abundance. When
It is found that a pig is not taking
the teat and is drooping and apparent
ly "oft feed" then an examination of
the mouth should be made and if the
blisters and ulcers are found then the
sow should have a four ounce dose of
epsom salts in slop and the pig should
be treated as follows: Touch each of
the ulcers with one drop of pure car
bolic acid. This can be safely done by
using a match stick the end of which
has been slightly frayed out so as to
hold the fluid which should not be al
lowed to come in contact with more
than the ulcer itself. Next day the
mouth should be swabbed out twice
with a solution of one ounce of borax
in a quart of water to which add one
teaspoonful of tincture of Iron. Where
necessary this solution may be used for
a few days longer and the disease will
soon disappear. In some cases ftt is
not necessary to use the caustic (car
bolic acid) it being found that the
borax wash Is sufficient and in these
cases the addition of a couple oC
ounces of strained honey to the solu
tion mentioned will make It more
pleasant and effective. Tincture of
iron is also a good caustic and much
less dangerous than carbolic acid and
should be used by all who are afraid
to use the other caustic. Nitrate of
silver in the shape of a lunar caustic
pencil is also used and highly recom
mended by some but we have person
ally found the application of nitrate
of silver severe in its results for many
days after the application. Another
somewhat similar trouble which ia not
uncommon is “canker” of the nose and
head which is due to a parasite some
thing like the parasite of mange. In
this disease the nose becomes covered
with ulcers which soon take on a
greenish, dry, gangrenous appearance
and tend to eat through the tissues so
that the bones of the face are exposed
and the teeth often loosened so that
they drop out. Where this disease ap
pears in a herd the affected pigs must
be at once placed by themselves and
have the best of treatment. The pens
occupied by the sick pigs should after
their removal be well scrubbed and
disinfected then white-washed. The
head of each pig should then be rub
bed with a strong solution such as the
following which Is the best mange
mixture we ever used: Creolin, ono
drachm; sulphurous acid, one ounce;
turpentine, one ounce; oil of tar, two
ounces; cotton seed oil to make one
pint. Shake well before using and see
that it does not get into the eyes. To
the ulcers of advanced cases apply
terchloride of antimony with glass rdd
or a feather and in three days com
mence rubbing once daily with the lo
tion abovo prescribed. The same lo
tion will be found admirable for ap
plication to the skin of horses and cat
tle suffering from disease of a para
sitic nature. If the above treatment
be vigorously followed there will be
little trouble in curing the disease
which left to Itself is a very serious
one and often leads to the death of
PlgB. _
Inspection of Export Cottle,
The number of cattle inspected for
export in 1900 was 876,746, of which
1,682 were rejected. The regulations
of the bureau for the inspection be
fore shipment of export cattle are such
that any animal tagged for export may
be traced back to the farm whence it
came. ‘‘The points where cattle are
to be inspected are named, the cattle
passing the inspection are to be tag
ged, and inspected again at the ports
of export. Cattle arriving at the ports
of export from other parts of the
United States are to be inspected and
tagged there. Animals are to be car
ried, after tagging, in thoroughly
clean and disinfected cars.”
The inspection of cattle for export
aids in our holding the markets of
foreign countries, while the inspection
of meats for export raises their repu
tation and secures prices correspond
ing to their actual quality. The inter
state inspection of meat prevents,
wherever it exists, the shipping from
one state to another of all meat dis
eased or otherwise unfit for food.
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Dipping Scabby Sheep*
The disease of scabies, known as
sheep scab, has been so widespread as
to constitute the greatest obstacle to
wool and mutton production in the
United States; but, through the bu
reau’s preventive methods—inspection
and disinfection, and the process of
dipping—fewer diseased sheep are re
ceived at the stock yards, and the in
fection is gradually disappearing. The
number of sheep inspected during the
fiscal year 1900, in order to prevent the
interstate shipment of diseased ani
mals, was 1,801,379, and the nu;a'uer
dipped under the supervision *}'/ bu
reau inspectors was 626,838.—Govern
ment Report.
While we believe in breeding up for
heavy records, yet at the same time wo
had rather have our hens average 120
eggs a year, and remain in robust con
dition, than to have their systems
drained of vitality i‘i the race to pass
the 200 mark.—Ex.
