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“The new and valuable steamer
which, though overinsured, is likely to
be reported lost is evidently to have a
consignment of specie on board. Five
hundred thousand pounds I fancy you
mentioned ns the figure in the billiard
room this morning. Well, If one is go
ing In for robbery or piracy. I suppose
It would turn out to be in this Insta. ce
-—there's nothing like a large coup.
It’s your Higgler who usually falls and
gets laid by the heels. Drive on, and
be a little more explicit."
“Couldn't the steamer be lost some
how in the gulf of Mexico and a boat
containing the boxes of specie find its
way through this channel of yours in
to the interior of Florida?"
“How lost?"
Mr. Shelf mopped his forehead again.
**I)on’t steamers," he asked, “don't
they sometimes have sad accidents
Which cause them to blow up?"
“Such things have been known. But
tt'« rather rough on the crew, don't
jrou think?"
‘Oh. poor fellows, yes. But a sailors
fife is always hazardous. Indeed, what
can he expect with wages at their pre
gent ruinous rate? Shipowners must
live."
“Oh, you beauty!" said Patrick Cam
bel.
“I must ask you to refrain from these
comments, sir. But, tell me, before I
r> any further in this confidence, am
to count upon your assistance?"
‘That depends upon many things. To
begin with, there'll have to be modifi
cations before I dabble. I'm not obtru
sively squeamish about human life—my
own or other people’s. On occasion I
bagged my man because he had twice
•hot at me. Still piracy, complicated
with what practically amounts to mur
der, is on art which 1 haven’t trafficked
In as yet, and, curious to relate, I
don’t intend to begin. Your scheme is
delicious in its cold bloorledness, but It
Would look better if It were toned down
W trifle. By the way, better help your
self to a drink. Your nerves are in
such a joggle that I fancy you'll faint
If you don’t. I notice there’s no blue
.fibbon on your evening dress. Humph!
That’s a second mate’s nip—four fln
• gers If It's a drop. Apparently you’re
Used to this. By the way, what honor
arium do you propose I should take for
•nglneerlng this piece of rascality in
jrour favor?"
i win give you
"Now, would you really? Not even
guineas?'
"Mr. Cambel, I'll make It a thousand.
There!"
"Mr. Theodore Shelf, when a monkey
wants a eat to pull chestnuts for him
out of the flie, he first has to be
gtronger than the cat. You don’t oc
cupy that enviable position. In fact, I
have the tvhlphand of you In every :
way. We need not particularize, hut
you can sum the Items for yourself.
Mow, I’ll make you an offer—half of all
ithe plunder and entire control of every
thin;."
'“My God, do you want to ruin me?”
*T don’t care In the least If I do.
Tour welfare doesn’t Interest mo. My
Services are on the market with a prlx i
tlx*. You can take 'em or leave ’em. •
That's Anal.’’
Shelf burst Into a torrent of expos
tulations, exciting himself more and •
t»oro as he went on, till at last he stood
before the other, with gripped fists and
the veins ridged down hla neck, Inar- 1
.JlCpJato with fury.
«• Cambel heard him out with a eon
••iemptuous smile, but when the man had ]
• •termed himself Into silence then he 1
•‘•poke. 1
"When one trades In life and death, >
the brokerage Is heavy. You have heard 1
imy offer. If you don’t like It, say so I
'Without further palaver, and I’ll leave 1
you now—with your conscience, If you '
pave a rag of such a commodity left." 1
"You may sit whero you aro,’’ replied <
JSholf sullenly.
"Well and good. That means to say 1
jny terms are accepted. I’ll pin you to 1
them later. But for tho present let me
observe to you something else, so that *
(there may be no misunderstanding be- 1
rtween us. I’vo been rambling up and \
lawn the world half my life, and I’ve
■met blackguards of most descriptions
in every Iniquitous place from Callao
to Port Said—forgers, thieves, mur
derers of nearly every grade of pro
•tlclency—but they say that the prime
•of everything gets to London, and I
•verily believe now that It does, for, by
Jove, you are the most pernicious
••coundrel of all tho collection.”
“Sir,” thundered Shelf, "am I to lis
ten to these foul insults In my own
bouse?”
"Oh, I quite understand the obliga
tions of bread and salt, but you are be
yond the pale of that. You are a
■noxious beast who ought to b6 stamped
•nut. But you can be useful to me, so
X shall hire myself out to be useful to
you. But I have brought these un
pleasant facts under your notice to let
you thoroughly understand that I have
vurnmed you up from horns to hoofs,
•end to point out to you that I wouldn't
gl”c a piastre for your most sacred
word of honor. We shall be hound to
•one another in this precious scheme by
community of Interests alone, and If
you can swindle me you may. Only
look out for the consequences If you
flo try it on. I never yet left a score
unpaid."
\ ir ni v.uuva twuuvi, i ciov ilia IHHU,
only we're different varieties of rascal.
1 know you pretty thoroughly, and If
you don’t know mo ns well possibly you
will before we’ve done with one an
other
“And now, if It please you, we’ll go
Into the minuter details of this piece
of villainy and sketch out definitely
how we are to steal this half a million
In specie anti this valnuable steamer
without committing more murder than
la absolutely essential to success."
CHAPTER V.
THE TEMPTING OF CAPTAIN
OWEN KETTLE.
“If one niignt judge from the lac
quered majesty of your office appoint
ments," said Patrick Cumbel, taking
-one of the big chairs In Shelf’s Inner
sanctum, "your firm Is doing a roaring
business.”
Mr. Theodore Shelf seated himself
before his desk and began sorting out
somo papers. "The turnover," he said
evasively, "is enormous. Our opera
tions are most extensive."
•Extensive and peculiar," commented
Cambol.
'But X regret to say that during the
last eighteen months the firm's profits
Ifaave seriously decreased and the scope
of Its operations been much hampered.
I take credit to myself that this diminu
tion could have been prevented by no
action on my putt. It is entirely the
outcome of the times—the lazy greed
of the working class* s, fomented by the
frolhinge of paid agitators. The series
of strikes which \v_* have had to con
tend against is unprecedented.'
■“Is It? Well, 1 don’t know. There have
’been labot bothers all down through
lilsioty. ami I fancy tiny 11 continue to
en I of time. If you’ll tecollect thou
was a certain Egypthuj king who
once had troubles with his bricklayers
and I fancy there have been similar dif
ficulties trotting through the centuries
in pretty quick succession ever since.
Of course each man thinks bis own em
ployes the most unreasonable and
grasping that have ever uttered opin
ion since the record began. That’s
only natural, but I might point out to
you that in definite results you aren’t
in the worst box yet. Your chariot
hasn’t been upset in the Red sea so far,
and it may be that a certain operation
in the Mexican gulf will piece up the
wheels and set it running on triumph
antly. Grumble If you like, Mr. Shelf,
but don't make yourself out to be the
worst used man in history. Pharaoh
hadn’t half your opportunities.’
“Yes, yes,” said Shelf, who didn’t
relish this kind of conversation, “but
we will come to business, if you please.”
“Right you are. Let's finish floating
the swindle.”
"Mr.. Cambel,” exclaimed the other
passionately, “will you never learn to
moderate your language? There are a
hundred clerks within a hundred feet
of you through that door, and some
times even wails can listen and repeat.
Besides I object altogether to your
phraseology. We engage in no such
things as swindles in the city. Our
operations are all commercial enter
prise.”
“Very well,” said Cambel, shrugging
his shoulders, “don’t let's squabble
over it. You call your spado what you
like, oniy I reserve a right to slap on a
plainer brand. We’re built differently,
Mr. Shelf. I prefer to be honest in my
ilshonesty. And now, as I’ve said, let’s
?ot to business. You say the charter
of this steamer of yours, the Port Edes,
has expired and she's back on your
hands. Shft's 2,000 tons, built under
Lloyd’s survey and classed 100 Al.
3he’s well engined and has just been
irydocked. She’ll Insure for every six
pence of her value without comment,
tnd there’s nothing more natural than
:o send out your specie in such a
iound bottom. Remains to pick a suit
lble complement.”
"I’ve got a master waiting here now
iy appointment. His name’s Kettle. I
lave him to a certain extent under my
;humb, and I fancy he’ll prove a reli
lble man. He was once in our firm’s ,
employment/
“Owen Kettle, by any chance?”
i'll, mi' il jciimvu IU u 1 vu 1UO
vritlng table.
"Captain Owen Kettle—yes. He was
he man who lost the Doge of Venice,
incl since then he’s never had another
ihip.”
"Poor wretch—yes, I know. That
3oge of Venice cuse was an awful
icandal. Owners filled up the board of
fade surveyor to the teeth with
■hainpagne, or she'd never have been
>assed to sea. As it was, she'd such
in unholy reputation that two crews
•an from her before they could get her
nanned. She was as rotten as rust
mil tumbled rivets could make her, and
iho was sent to sea ns a edit In ship
0 earn her dividends out of Lloyds.
Cottle had been out of a Job for some
imo, He was a desperate man, with
1 family depending on him, and he went
is skipper fully conscious of what was
ixpected of him. He did It like a man.
rlc let the Doge of Venice founder In a
s'orth sea gale, and by a marvelous
Ihance managed to save his ship's eom
>any. At the inquiry, of course, he
vns made scrapegoat, and he didn't
■ontrlve to save his ticket. They sus
lended his master’s certificate for a
•ear. On the strength of that ho ap
illed for maintenance, putting It on the
easonable claims of service rendered.
Jwners, being upright merchants and
enslble men, naturally repudiated all
inowledge or liability; said he was a
ilackmalllng scoundrel as well as an
insklllful seaman and threatened him
vith an action for libel. Kettle, not
laving a solitary proof to show, did
he only thing left for him to do, and
hat was eat dirt or subside. But the
ncklent and the subsequent starvation
laven’t tended to sweeten his temper,
jatterly he's been serving as mate on
l Pacific ship, and he was Just a holy
error with his men. He simply kept
dive by carrying his fist on a revolver
)Utt. There wasn't a man who's ser
ved with Red Kettle three weeks that
vouldn't have cheerfully swung for the
■njoyment of murdering him.”
"You appear to know a good deal
ibout this man.”
“When It suits my purpose,” returned
Gambol dryly, “I mostly contrive to
tnow something about anybody. How
sver, tt's no use discussing the poor
Deggar any longer. What's amiss with
having him In here?"
Shelf touched one of the electric
buttons which studded the edge of his
table, and a clerk appeared, who went
away again and shortly returned. With
him was a shriveled up little man of
about 40, with a red head and a peaked
red beard, who made a stiff, nervous
salaam to Mr. Theodore Shelf and then
turned to stare at Cambel with puck
ered amazement.
Cambel nodded and laughed. “Been
carrying any more pilgrims from Port
Said to the Morocco cuust on Iron
decks?" he said.
i never am mat, snapped captain
Kettle.
“Ah, one's memory falls at times. I
dare say also you forget a water famine
when tho condenser broke down, and
a trifling affray with knuckle dusters
and other toys, and a dash of cholera,
and nine dead bodies of Hadjis which
went overboard? Perhaps, too, you
don't remember fudging a clean bill of
health and back-sheeshing certain
officials of ldS..Stl?reefian majesty?"
"No," said Cfapiafn Kettle sourly, "I
don't remember.”
“I'm going to forget It also, if you’ll
prove yourself a sensible man and deal
amicably with Mr. Shelf and myself.
I'm also going to forget that when you
were shipping rice for Calcutta in 1S82
you rented snuts you called your own to
the consignor made a tidy penny
put of FI.aT, and T snail similarly let
slip from my memory' a trilling squeeze
of $800 which you made out of a
stevedore in New Orleans before you
let him touch your ship in the fall of
1887."
“You can't make anything out of
those.” said Kettle. They're the ordi
nary customs of the trade."
"Ship masters' perquisites for which
owners pay. Exactly. I know skippers
consider these trifles to be their lawful
right, but a court of law might be
ignorant enough to set them down as
robbery."
"1 should like to kuuvv where've you
got all these things from,” Captain
Kettle demanded, facing Cambei with
his lean, scraggy neck thrust forth
nearly a foot from its stepping. “1
should like to know, too, how you're
here? I'd a fancy you were dead."
"Other people have labored undei
that impression. Hut I’ve an awk
ward knack of keeping alive. You've
the same. The faculty may prove use
ful to us both in tho course of the nexi
month if you're not ass enough to re
fuse £ 500."
"Ho! That's the game we've goi
about, is it? What uld wind jammei
do you want me to lose now?"
"Sir!" thundered Shelf, lifting hts
voice for the first Umo. “This is pretty
language. I would have you remembei
that but a short time ago you were in
my employ.”
“And a fat lot of good It did me,” re
torted the sailor. "But,” he added,
with the sudden recollection that It Is
never wise of a master mariner to Ir
ritate any shipowner, "but, sir, I wasn’t
| talking to you. I fancied it was Mr.
Cambel here who was wanting to deal
| with me.’
"Then your fancy carried you astray
captain.” said Shelf. “Come, come,
don't let us get angry with one another.
As I repeatedly Impress on ail who
come In contact with me, there is never
any good born out of words voiced In
anger. Mr. Cambel has seen fit to
mention a few of your—shall I say—
eccentricities, just to show—er—that
we understand one another.”
“To show he’s got his knife In me,
Mr. Shelf, and can wraggle It if he
chooses.”
"What a fractious pepper box It Is,”
said Cambel, with a laugh. "Man, dear,
If I’ve got to be shipmates with you
for a solid , month, d'ye think I’d put
your back more up than Is necessary?
If you remember me at all, you must
know I’in the deuce of a stickler for
my own personal comfort and conven
ience. You can bet I haven't been
talking at you through gratuitous
cruelty. But Mr. Shelf and I have got
a yarn to bring out directly, which is
a bit of a coarse, tough flbered yarn,
and we didn’t want you to give It a
top dressing of varnish. So, by way of
safeguard, I pointed out to you that If
we show ourselves to be sinners you
needn’t sing out that you find yourself
In evil company for the first time.”
Mr. Theodore Shelf had been shuff
ling his feet uneasily for some time.
Cambel’s method of speech Jarred him
to the verge of profanity. His own
saintliness was a garb which he never
threw entirely away at any moment.
Ills voice had always the oily drone of
the conventicle. His smug hypocrisy
was a perennial source of pride and
comfort to him, without which he
would have felt very lonely and aban
doned.
At this point he drew the conversa
tion Into his own hands. It had been
said of him that he always addressed
the house of commons as though It
were the congregation of his own tin
tabernacle, and he preached out his
scheme of plunder, violence and other
moral uncleanness with similar fervent
unction. Cambel was openly amused
and once broke out Into a mocking
laugh. Ho was never at any pain to
conceal his contempt for Mr. Theodore
Shelf, which was more honest than
judicious on his part. Kettle, on the
other hand, wore the puckered face of
a puzzled man. The combination of
cant and criminality was not alto
gether new to him. Men of his own
profession are very apt to behave like
devils unbooted at sea and then grovel
ill clamorous piety among the pews of
some obscure dissenting chapel the mo
ment they get ashore. It is a peculiar
l. ait, but tho average sea captain be
lieves that ho can lay up a stock of
lire insuranco of this sort which will
comfortably see him through future ef
forts. But in Kettle’s mind ship
owners were a vastly different class of
beings, and so it never occured to him
that tho same might apply to them.
In this attitude Captain Kettle listen
ed to the sermon which was reeled
out to him and rather gathered that the
project he was exhorted to take part
in was in some obscure manner a mis
sionary enterprise promoted solely in
the honor and glory of Mr. Theodoro
Shelf's own particular narrow little
deity, and had Mr. Shelf made any ap
preciable pause between his sonorous
periods Kettle would have felt it his
respectful duty to slip in a humble
“amen.’’ But the dictator of the great
shipping firm was too fearful of in
terruptions from his partner to give
any opening for a syllable of comment.
But if Captain Owen Kettle was un
versed in the finer niceties of the art
of hyprocrisy he was a man of angular
common sense, and by degrees it dawn
ed upon him that Mr. Shelf's project,
when removed of its top dressing of
religion, was in its naked self some
thing very different from what he had
at first been drawn to believe. As this
idea grew upon him the devotional
droop faded from the corners of his
lips, and his mouth drew to a hard
straigh line scarcely to be distinguished
among the curving bristles of hair
which surrounded it. But he made no
interruption and drank in every word
till the speaker had delivered the whole
of his say. Then he uttered his deci
sion.
"So, gentlemen, you are standing In
partners over this precious business?
And because you know me to be a
poor, broke man, with wife and family
you naturally think you can buy me to
work for you off the straight. Well,
perhaps that's possible, but there are
two ways of doing it, and of the two
I llko Mr. Cambel's best. When a man’*
a blackguard, it don't make him swal
low any sweeter for setting up to be a
little tin saint. And I don’t mind who
I say that to.”
you mean to threaten me?"
"My good man,” snarled Shelf, "do
“No, I don’t. I just gave you my
own opinion, as from man to man, just
because I respect myself. But I’m not
going round to your chapel to shout it
out to them that sit under you Sundays.
They wouldn’t believe me if I did, not
now at any rate. Besides it wouldn’t
do me any good, and I couldn't afford
It. I’in a needy man, Mr. Shelf, as you
have guessed, and that’s why I am
going to accept your offer. But don't
let us have any misunderstanding he
tween ourselves as to what It foots up
to.
‘‘What I’m going to sign on for di
rectly, when you hand me the papers, Is
a spell of piracy on the high seas,
neither more nor less. And I'm going
to have money all paid down In ad
vance before I ring an engine bell on
your blasted tramp of a steamer. I
gues that’s fair enough. My family’ll
want something to go on with If I’m
eaughti find if one’s found out at this
ganfe It's Just a common ordinary
hanging matter—yes, sir, swing by the
neck till I'm dead as an ax, and may tho
Lord have mercy on your miserable tag
of a soul. That's what this tea party
means and for your dirty £500 you’ru
buying a live human man.”
(Continued Next Week.)
' . 1 1 1 " ' v ■
What W© May Com© To.
Alexis Alladin, the leader of tbe Rus
sian duma’s labor party, was marveling
in New York at the strength of the labor
unions of America.
“Now that I grasp the size and power
of these unions,” he said, smiling, “I see
the point of a story that I failed to un
derstand coming over on tho boat.
“An American woman told me this story.
She said that a young bride was found,
one afternoon, crying bitterly in the smok
ing room of her club.
** ‘Why, my dear,’ said an elderly ma
tron, ‘what is the matter with you?’
“ ‘Oh,’ sobbed the bride, ‘I am going to
leave George. Dear me, I am going
straight back to mother.’
“ ’What,’ exclaimed the matron, ‘has
George already proved unkind? Well,
they’re all alike, my-’
“But the weeping bride interrupted her.
“ ‘No,’ she said, her shoulders shaking
with grief, ‘George is a dear. He’s per
fect. But that brute of a Henry S'.mmons
has refused to buy Mrs. Simmons a new
dinner gown, and District No. 4 of the
Amalgamated Wives' union has been or
dered out on strike.’ ’’
The male population is made up of
fellows who patronize manicure parlor*
,. and of men.
POULTRY POINTS.
Don’t on any account set a hen this
month without ftpst dusting her thor
oughly with insect powder or bettei
still dipipng her for lice. A settins
hen has not the nicest Job in the worlc
this hot weather the best she can be
fixed bo add as much to her comfort as
you can by ridding her of all vermin.
It is best to dust her again during the
time she is setting and once after she
brings off her brood.
Chicks that are so near gone as to
actually appear dead may be rescusci
tated after a little wetting if wrapped
warmly and placed near the fire. Often
after a severe storm when the hens
with chicks fail to reach shelter sev
eral chicks will be found so chilled and
wet that little hopes of a recovery were
entertained, but heat will bring them
out all right. So it is always wise to
get right out after each storm and see
what you can find.
I
Tou will have better success with late
hatched chicks if too many are not
crowded under each hen. Eggs are
cheap this season, so biddies' time is
not worth so much to you as it was
earlier in the season. So provide plen
ty of hens, turn them loose as soon as
they have learned their coops and let
them hunt for their flocks. They can
do a better job balancing the ration
than can you, and feed is plenty and
the weather generally good. If you
want to furnish some feed place it in
the coops at night, then if they are
not getting enough on the range they
may have a chance to fill up, and if
any remains it will be there for morn
ing. Keep watch, and if they eat up
all the feed at night put in more for
morning, as it is a sign the range is
not furnishing an abundance for their
needs if they come in hungry enough
to eat a good deal at night.
Nearly all breeders sell eggs at half
price after June 1, so if you didn't get
some eggs to better your stock early in
the season get some of these eggs now
and hatch you a nice flock of chicks
for next spring's pullets. The June
hatched pullet is not the ideal breeder
of course, but June or July hatched
pure bred pullets are worth more than
lots of April hatched scrubs. If they
are given a good chance away from the
older broods and kept growing with a
mue extra care in miu ran uiey win
often outgrow the extra early hatched
pullet. We have had July hatched
cockerels that we could hardly tell
from the April hatched fellows by
spring, but they were given extra good
care and attention In early winter In
order that they receive no check to
their growth.
Cut corn out of the ration as much
as possible from now on. Corn is heat
ing and fattening, the very thing we
want to avoid during the heated term.
Clean skim milk Is an excellent food
for hot weather, but must be kept out
of the direct rays of the hot sun. Must
be kept in clean vessels and furnished
fresh at least twice a day. The vessels
should be cleaned a.t least once a day.
Clabber Is the best form to feed it In.
Of course you will not by any means
allow tills milk to be the only means
of slaking thirst—water, and that fresh
and clean—must be furnished besides.
There Is nothing like running water for
summer chicks, but of course we can
not all have this. I have one hen now
with a large brood of over thirty who
Is rearing her chicks almost without
any help from us, and she gets the wa
ter supply from the spring. As soon
as we are up In the morning we see
her with iier brood down at the creek,
and she hasn't lost a chick, every one
Is strong and vigorous. They are self
reliant, too, and we predict they arc
going to make the stock that will gc
through another winter, rustling fot
their living. There will be no frozen
combs for them, no sitting around
waiting for some special brand ol
dainty food. They have already learn
ed the knack of making use of any and
all kinds of material for food. When
we get back nearer to nature's meth
ods m rearing and caring for chicks we
will have less disease among our poul
try and more hardy ana vigorous
breeding stock. It Is not the fact thal
the chick Is hatched out In an Incuba
tor that makes the majority of lncu
mator hatched stock less hardy, but tht
more artificial methods of bringing uf
the chicks. Rear them In nature’s waj
and you can't tell how they were
hatched.
The June hatched chick is a verj
profitable chick to have If he Is taker
to some distance from the house ant
turned loose with Ills mother for the
first feed. Just turn them out on i
little heap of Sana, scatter a little fine
seed near and let them go. You wil
find a very self reliant brood the re
sult of this method. You mav neet
to supplement the food foraged for, es
peclally on wet days, and a shelte
must of course be handy. A good plai
Is to have several broods the sanu
uge and groop them In a colony. Tin
main object Is to get these late arrival:
away from the trampling feet of thi
older fowls, the vermin of the old coop:
and where they may enjoy life In peace
Be sure they do not suffer for wate
on these distant ranges.
If rats or other vermin trouble you
flocks at night try covering the coop:
with half Inch wire netting. It can b
purchased In any width down to si:
Inches and comes by the running too
or In the ball of 150 feet. It ts not ex
penslvo and If you loose many chick
by these varmints It will pay you t
cover the fronts and perhaps the bot
toms of coops with the netting. Som
places rats are so bad they eat throug!
thick boards to get at the chicks, 1
such eases It will pay to complete!
surround the coop with netting, elthe
Inside the wood or outside.
If you find a considerable number o
fowls, either young or old, with pal
combs. Investigate and see If It is no
lice that is sapping their vitality. Don'
be too sure there are no lice till yoi
have thoroughly Investigated. If the:
are found, get to work and treat the en
tire bunch. It does little good to trea
a fowl Individually when there are lot
of the pests around on other birds t
spread. The quickest and surest wa:
to treat a large flock at once is to dl
them. A tobacco tea may be used o
ar.y of the commercial cattle or ho;
dips. Fowls may be dusted lr^ one o
the patent dusting machines, but 1
seems less humane to the fowl.
| HOW TO KEEP MILK SWEET.
W. J. Frazer of the Illinois experiment
station gives these suggestions in regard
to securing milk from your cows that will
keep sweet for a remarkable length of
time:
Keep the cows clean, and do not compel
or allow them to w'ade and live in filth.
This means clean yards and clean well
bedded stalls. Everything short of this Is
absolutely repulsive and should not be
tolerated any longer in a civilized com
j munity.
| Stop the filthy habit known as wetting
the teats, by which is meant the drawing
of a little milk into the hand wdth which
to wet the teats before and during milk
ing, leaving the excess of filthy milk in
; the pall.
! Wash all utensils clean by first using
i lukewarm w'ater, afterwards washing in
warm water, and rinsing in an abundance
of boiling water, then exposing until the
j next ueing in direct sunlight, which is a
good sterilizer.
I Use milk pails, cans, etc., for no other
! purpose but to hold milk.
| Keep out of these utensils all sour or
I tainted milk, even after they have been
, used for the day. Using them for this
I purpose at any time infects them so bad
ly that no amount of wrashing is likely to
clean them.
SHORT MILK SUPPLIES.
During the last six months there has
been a marked falling ofT in supplies of
: milk delivered to creameries. The matter
became so serious that some of the large
i concerns have been investigating and think
i they have found out the reasons. Feed
! has been very high this season, and not
j many dairymen cared to face possible
I losses, by keeping all their cows giving
I milk. They picked out the best ones and
| dried off the rest. The difficulty of secur
! ing good help has also driven many to re
duce their herds, and do the work them
selves. While these conditions may cur
tail for a time the supplies of milk which
goes to creameries, in the end, It will bene
fit the dairy industry by compelling dairy
men to keep better cow's and feed with a
precise understanding of the needs of his
cow's. These conditions also mean higher
prices for butter this summer.
BUYING COWS ON GUARANTEE
When a man starts out to buy cows for
his dairy herd he finds a great many “best
cow in the whole country for milk,” but
when the owner Is pinned down to some
thing definite, he refuses to commit him
self. The result Is the buyer must take
S the cows on. a more or less Indefinite
guarantee, and. take his chances on get
ting his money’s worth. This has proved
very expensive to many who practice sell
ing off all their young stock, and buy
enough cows annually to keep up their
herds. Buying cows at sales or at stock
yards is seldom satisfactory. If one could
drive over the country,and select the best
cows he could find the outcome might bo
different. The truth Is, many do not liko
to bother with calves. But we are com
ing to a time when more dairymen will
need to get back Into line of raising their
calves and do away with the professional
cow seller.
DON'T FOOL WITH THE BULL
Don't torment the bull, and don’t put
too much confidence In his good behavior.
The best way to handle a bull Is to mas
ter him, but at the same time never put
yourself where he can harm you. Let him
work off his pranke out in the open yards,
but when he Is brought In don’t play or
fool with him. Hie playfulness quickly
• develops Into vlclousness.
Jt Is not a good policy to allow the bull
to run in the pasture with the cows, but
It is needless torture to compel him to
stand In a dark stall all day. The bull
should have the run of a yard, well fenced,
with the barn door left open so that he can
get in away from the heat and flies, when
ever he wants to. He should be fed plenty
of green stuff and have access to water at
all times.
DAIRY NOTES.
Many think It Is too much work to feed
soiling crops. Of course It Is some work,
but It Is the best method of helping one’s
scant pastures. There are times during
the summer w'hen stock should be taken
off the pastures for a week or two, espe- 1
dally In dry seasons. A nice, green crop,
which can be cut and fed to the cow's In
the yards or mangers, will come in nice
at that time.
Somo dairymen wrho wish to keep their
cows working to their full capacity feed
a small amount of ground oats with bran,
right through the summer. This may be a
good practice with cows which have been
milking six or seven months, but with
fresh cows they will do their best on grass
and the grain fed may well go kept In re
'
I The man who buys all his feeds and sells
all his mlllc has an easy proposition as
compared with the man who feeds his own
crops to his cows. There Is no way of
telling how much you are getting for your
' crops unless you know exactly what each
i cow Is doing with her feed.
1 Giving a cow all she will eat does not al
i ways produce the biggest flow of milk.
■ The profit comes In feeding a ration that
i will produce milk. It Is estimated that
. twenty cows fed on good rations will pro
' dueo ns much as twenty cows fed on a
poor ration.
. A dairyman tells us the hardest thing
1 for him to learn was the Importance of
, finding out the value of every cow on the
■ farm. This must be done by every dalry
L man sooner or later. There Is no other
. way of putting the dairy on a safe work
i lng basis.
! Mrs. R. G., of Harrison county, asks If
J coloring should be used In butter now.
, There will bo do need of coloring during
, the summer months while the cows are on
• grass. During May and June many buy
• ers even find fault with the deep natural
color.
[ Some butter makers claim that butter
. should not be worked too long at one time,
' ! as It Is apt to Injure the grain. A second
[ I working In two or three hours after the
l llrst will Insure an even distribution of tho
r salt.
[ When building a silo It Is safe to esti
, mate that each cow will eat thirty pounds
, of silage a day for ISO days. Thus It will
, take 5,400 pounds to feed one cow six
j I months.
I One of the best butter makers in Ohio
i uses a pint of buttermilk as a starter. She
S I uses a barrel churn, and cools her cream to
] 58 or 00 degrees before churning.
John L. Cullivan’s Epigrams.
From the Washington Times.
some of the former champion's epi
grams are these;
•'If you meet an obstacle in life don’t
sidestep it; straighten your right and
hand it one on the point of the jaw for
the count.”
"The 'solar plexus’ is a new-fangled
name for the ‘pit of the stomach.’
That's where rum gets you down for
the ten seconds of life's fight. So cut
it out!”
“The ultra economic man is about as
popular as the toothache; but he's
there with the bells on when he's 80.
Save your coin!”
"Woman makes for all that is good
or evil in man. So if you marry a
woman who's the goods, hang on to her
and treat her right. The Referee on
high will award you the bout when it
comes to climbing into your wooden
overcoat for keeps!”
“They say a soft answer turneth
away wrath, but let me tell you there’s
nothing like giving a fellow a good
whaling occasionally just to keep him
from getting too chesty. A man feels
pretty cheap after he’s been handed a
beating!”
The Sole Criterion.
John Sloan, the noted illustrator and
etcher, laid down a newspaper account of
the sale of a Bouguereau for 375,000.
"Such sales,” he said, “remind me of
the conversation of old Gobsa Golde and
his daughter Lotta.
“ ‘Well, did ye buy that pieter?’ said
Lotta, on her father's return from a gal
lery.
“ ‘No,’ the old man answered.
“ ‘Why not, pop?1
" ‘ 'Twan't dear enough.’ ”
ECZEMA COVERED BABY.
Worst Case Doctors Ever Saw—Sn f.
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by Cuticura Remedies.
“My son, who Is now twenty-two
years of age, when four months old
began to have eczema on his face,
spreading quite rapidly until he was
nearly covered. The eczema was some
thing terrible, and the doctors said it
was the worst case they ever saw. At
times bis whole body and face were
covered, ail but his feet. I used many
kinds of patent medicines, to no avail.
A friend teased me to try Cuticura.
At last I decided to try Cuticura when
my boy was three years and four
months old, having had eczema ail that
time and suffering untold misery. I
began to use alt three of the Cuticura
Remedies. He was better In two
months; in six months he was well.
Mrs. R. L. Risley, Piermont, N. H.,
Oct. 24, 1905.’’ _
But No Sparkle.
A reporter asked Senator Tillman rather
maliciously what he thought of a certain
opponent’s speech. /'
“My boy,” said the senator, “it was like
i fine bottle of champagne.”
“Yes,” murmured the reporter, rather
:aken aback.
“Yes,” said Senator Tillman. “Lots of
’roth and very dry.”
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