fThe Plunderers^
^ BY C. J. CUTLIFFE HYNE. £
CHAPTER VL
r I V E HUNDRED THOUSANt
POUNDS IN GOLD.
The little red bearded man had gone
•lamming the door noisily behind him
Shelf mopped his largo white fact
with a scented pocket handkerchief
"Do you think,” he said nervously, "dc
you think we may trust him?”
‘To begin with, we’ve got to know,
whether wo like It or not. He's noth
ing to gain by pluylng traitor.”
"But would he betray us In caso ot
•uccess?’
"Perhaps," said Cambel, "ho won’t
have the chance. Other hands on that
steamer win have to share tho secret In
Whole or in part. Perhaps they won’t
ail of them come through It alive. If
you remember that wo are plotting de
liberate piracy on the high seas, you
Will recognize that there Is precedent
for a considerable percentage of casu
alties.
, The city man shuddered. Through
the double windows came the sullen
rear of a London street, and In Imagi
nation he seemed to distinguish the
bowl of tho crowd Joined In execration
against him.
HI# eyo fell upon a paper on the
desk. It was the formal notice from
her bankers that his wife’s account
was heavily overdrawn. He lifted tho
paper and tore It with his teeth, then
•mote the table so that geysers flew
from the Ink wells. But Ills passion
found no outlet In words. He spoko In
bla platform voice and said nothing
about the prime compelling force.
"Wo will not talk of these unpleasant
details. If you please, Mr. Cambel. I—
sny heart Is weak, I think, and they
turn me sick. But, at whatever cost,
no must go through with the affair. It
ta necessary that I make a heavy coup
within the next month, or the conso
ces may be disastrous.’
armaduke Rivers & Shelf will go
lawn? Quito so. I also am at the end
■ef my cash balance, so that money
•eems to be the Impelling power for
aach of us. And, after all, I suppose
It's natural. Out of fiction men don’t
gamble with their necks for the sheer
amusement of the thing. They either
do It for the love of place, or the love
•f woman, or the love of gold, and of
ths three the last Is the best prize to
Win, because with It you can buy the
ythers. But come, now, wako up, sir,
|iot so sweet on this city atmosphere of
yours that I coro to spend another
morning down here If It can be avoided.
How are you going to raise tho specie?"
*Tll proceed about it at once,” said
♦Jhett pressing another of the buttons
on his desk. "You may as well wit
ness every step of the process."
In answer to the bell Fairfax came
Into tho room, nodded rather stiffly to
Cambel and turned to Shelf with an
■expectant "Yes, sir.”
In terse businesslike phrases his
principal touched upon tho sliver crisis
in America and the gold famine in the
southern states. Th?n he explained
the external view of his projected en
terprise. "The Port Edes," he said, "Is
In the Herculaneum dock, returned on
pur hands today. Wire Liverpool at
•nee nsklng for freights to Norfolk, Va.,
Pensacola, Fla,; Mobile, Ala.; or New
Orleans p.\ lowest rates. .Ne\y Orleans
Is her final port,'and offer that at 16
fper cent. less. Captain Owen Kettle
«wfH he In command, and he sails In four
days from now?
b*<£!Wi>en you have deputed your clerks
• to dB’thls, go yourself to the bank and
.♦negotiate for half a million In gold to
"be delivered on board the Port Edes
f'ln dg£k. Tho Insurance policy on the
»«miey will be deposited with th» bank
rte secure them In full for the loan It
self, and for their other charges the
credit of the house will easily suffice.
That clear?"
*• "Perfectly,’ said Fairfax, ’but I should
like to remind you of one thing—wharf
thefts' at New Orleans are notorious,
and you’ll have to pay heavily to In
sure againSt them.”
"1 know, more heavily than for risks
•across the ocean and the run of the
giver. uiiuerwrnei s two jusity nervous
About those all nation thieves But In
this instance I propose to save myself
that fee and Insure In a different way.
Sir. Cambel Is going out on the Port
Sdes expressly as my representative,
«nd 1 fancy that he and the captain
together will be capable of seeing to
Aaf« delivery. The ship’s arrival will be
reported by telegraph from the pass at
Mississippi mouth, and my New
Orleans agent can calculate her ap
pearance alongside the levee to a quar
ter of an hour. He will meet her with
rehlcles and a strong escort of deputy
sheriffs as she brings in to her berth
And take the specie boxes off by the
first gangway which Is put ashore, and
carry them straight to a bank. Does
this strike you as a sound coursef”
"Yes." said Fairfax thoughfully. "I
Bee no undue risks. By the way, gs the
Port Rdes is merely a cargo tramp
And doesn't hold certificate for passen
gers, I’m afraid the board of trade
wouldn’t let Mr. Cambel travel by her
Blmply as the firms representative.
But that could be easily overcome.”
"’Oh,” said Cambel, "I’ll sign on ar
ticles In the usual way as one of the
ship’s company—as fourth mate, say
nr doctor with salary of a shilling foi
the run. ’Tlsn't the first time thal
pleasing fiction has been palmed upof
A shipping master. It doesn't deceive
Any one, you know, because the rate 01
wages gives one away at the outset
toal shipplnq laws are obeyed, and sc
tel shlping laws are obeyed, and sc
verybody's pleased.”
,* Fairfax laughed and went Into the
Bfflces, and Patrick Cambel turned t(
the shipowner wltn a couple of ques
tions. "To begin with," he said, ”whj
Bid you offer freight to Norfolk am
Pensacola and Mobile and those places'
If you call In there, the natural thlnj
kvould be to get the specie ashore ant
express It by railroad direct to Nev
Orleans. If you miss that chance am
start carrying It round by sea, th'
thing looks fishy at once. Now, flshl
tieus Is an aspect which we can’t af
ford In the very least degree. Th
Swindle will call up quite enough sen
Batlon In Its most honest and straight
forward dress.”
. “My dear Mr. Cambel, please give m
credit for a little more finesse. 1 se
the objection to Intermediate ports a
touch as you do, but I merely mention
«d them to Fairfax as a blind. To be
jgln with, It Is a hundred to one ehanc
against our getting any cargo consign
ed to them at this season of the yea
At all, even If wo offered to carry 1
gratis. In the second pluce, If It wa
offered I could easily get out of it i
Ht ways. Afterward, when the deplor
able accident takes place, an lnqulr
Into this will help draw off at
tentton from your Floridian penlnsulr
Any one inclined to carp will lnstantl
be told that we were equally ready t
put the specie ashore on the Vlrginl
.coast if our cargo had led us then
"What do you think of that now?"
"Beg vour paraon. That's elea
Bighte 1 enough and should work cor
r ■ tly. But I fancy my other objec
tion Is bett-r founded. What In th
Aar. ■ of plague did you go and econ
omlze overinsurance for? Why didn't
you get the stuff underwritten slap up
to the strongroom of the bank?"
“To save £ 500. If you aren't going
past the middle of the Mexican gulf,
what is the use of wasting money by
insuring further?”
"Five hundred pounds In a deal of
£500,000! A mere straw in a cart
load 1'
"That, my dear Mr. Cambel, Is busi
ness. As I often assure my young
friends commencing life, If one takes
care of the pennies, the pounds take
care of themselves. It Is by looking
after what you are pleased to consider
trivial sums like those that the firm of
Murmaduke Rivers <Si Shelf has risen
to Its present eminence."
"Oh, wind!" retorted Cambel. "Don't
tell me."
’Sir!" exclalme- Shelf.
"Well, If you will have It, the emi
nence appears to be uncommon tottery,
and because of your Infernal mean
ness you're doing your best to bring
It over. It's just trifles like this that
tell. Consider what’ll happen after the
catastrophe. There’ll be an Inquiry
that'll lay everything bare down to the
very bed plates. Do you think they
won’t jump on this point at once? The
stuff's fully Insured on up to Now
Orleans. It Isn't Insured on the levee
and In the streets where the thefts are
notorious. Doesn’t this drop an In
stantaneous hint that It was never ln
fended to get so far?”
"No," said Shelf sourly. "I don't
see that It does."
"Then," retorted Cambel, "I differ
from you entirely, and as I'm to be the
active agent In this affair and have to
take the (list and gravest physical risk
I do not choose to have my retreat un
necessarily hampered. I must Insist
upon your recalling Fairfax for ad
ditional Instructions. That extra In
surance has got to be paid.”
"Then pay It yourself.”
"That’s outside the bargain. Work
ing expenses are your contribution to
the partnership. And besides, for an
other thing I couldn't plunk down that
money If I wished. I haven’t It In the
world.”
“Mr Cotnhol T V.„Unv’r, Will xrrtii
extend the same courtesy to me when I
tell you that It I were to attempt rais
ing even such a trivial sum as £500
today It would precipitate me Into
bankruptcy tomorrow."
"Whewl Are you nipped as badly as
all that?"
“I have a remorseless drain on me
which drinks up the profits of tills
business like a great sponge. It Is a
domestic drain, and I cannot resist It.”
cou poor devil," said Cambel, with
the first scrap of sympathy he had yet
shown to his partner. “I believe I un
derstand, and It tones down your dingy
color. You aren’t quite all black. I be
lieve by your own painting you’re
among a moderate sort of gray. And If
I’yo Ijeeu beastly rude and hard with
you, because I've considered you a
soapy scoundrel playing entirely for
your own hand, I’ll apologize to you.
That Isn’t in the least polite, but I
think it’s plain, and perhaps we shall
get on togethor better now. But about
this bankruptcy. It’ll be rather a mess
if you go smash before our Florida
operation realize Its profits it will
thicken the Inquiry down toi a very un
pleasant keenness."
"I think I shall keep on my feet, Mr.
Cambel, I trust, I pray, I shall, and,
moreover, I thank you for what you
have said. I do confess that your man
ner of speech has wounded me much
at times."
"Oh, aB to that,” returned Cambel,
"I say ’spade’ when I mean It, and
I don’t care to mix religion with theft
when I’m talking with a conspirator,
But I fancy we understand one another
more comfortably now, and I’ll leave
you to make the rest of the arrange
ments here In London. This afternoon
I’ll pick up Kettle and run down
to Liverpool and get things In hand
there. They’ll require care. To begin
with, there's a suitable armamont to
bo smuggled on board without adver
tisement. And there are the nefarious
preparations to be made. Piracy on
the high seas Is not a thing to be un
dertaken lightly nowadays. Nor is a
“Oh, my God," cried Shelf. "Don’t
speak of these horrors."
"I speak of them,” replied Cambel
grimly, “because It Is right that you
should understand whqt wll probably
be done. I don’t Intend to redden my
fingers If It can be avoided, but os
I put my neck In jeopardy, failure or
no failure, I naturally don’t Intend to
hesitate at any action which will bring
unqualified success.
“Only understand fully, Mr. Theodore
Shelf, that piracy you are already an
active bnnrer In, and If there’s mur
dgr.'Qone to boot you will be as guilty
Ss the worst, even though you sit here
In your snug London offices while otjrer
rougher men are handling pistol and
knife In the gulf or In a Florida man
grove swamp." — jhwitj..
’ ' CHAPTER VIL
THE SENDOFF.
The Port Edes had gained the name
of an unlucky ship. She had slain three
men In her building, she had crushed
another to death the day she left the
slips, and though only three years in
the water she had already maimed
enough hands from various crews to
make her a full complement. Some
vessels are this way. From no explain
able cause there seems to be a diaboli
cal fatality about them.
It is ]]0t to J>e supposed that sailor
men rush to join a Craft of this sin
ister reputation. They may be asses in
the bulk, but they are only asses in
part. They always try for the best
berths. But because there arp not
enough of these to go around, and
because, thanks to tho Dago, and the
Dutchman, there are not sufficient
berths of any sort whatever to -supply
all aspirants, it is always possible to
[ man any vcessol which a board of trade
i official will pass through a dock gates.
Just as no man Is ever sucessful In
anything without due course, so per
> contra few sailormen are down on their
luck except through some peculiar
■ trait of incapacity, so that on your
unpopular ship, be she tramp steamer
! or eke weeping wind jammer, you do
i not get much pick of a crew. You
> have to put up with what other people
• have left, and it uoes not take you
- lotvg to find out that your beauties
s have not been rejected for their ex
■ cellencles.
■ It was this way on the Port Edes.
t Forward and aft, engine hold and pan
J try, each man on board of her had his
> private sea failing. Between them they
- lack wakefulness, eye sight. decision,
r strength of language, seamanship and
- common sobriety. Among the deck
■ hands there were virulent sea lawyers;
r in the stoke holds there were ames
9 damnees wanted by several govern
1 ments. The engineers were skillful in
• gaining the smallest possible knottage
per ton of coal; the mates were all
r slipshod navigators, untrustworthy
■ even to correct a compass and useless
■ to drive a truculent crew.
9 Over all was Owen Kettle, master
- mariner, and whatever his fallings
I might be—and the Index of them tailed
out—they did nut snow prominently at
! the head of such a ship's company.
LJke all men In the merchant marine,
he had been bred In the roughest
school, but unlike his successful
brethren he had not graduated later on
: to the smooth things of a well manned
passenger liraT. I4'or his sins he had
remained the pitiful knockabout skip
per, a man with knife edged words al
ways ready on the lip of his teeth, a
leaden whistle in one jacket pocket and
a lethal weapon in the other.
He was an excellent seaman and
navigator, a man capable of going an
entire voyage without taking off hla
clothes or enjoying one watch of regu
lar sleep. Taking Into account these
qualifications, it may be understood
that while In command at sea he
credited himself with tho powers of 9.
czar and was entirely unscrupulous In
gaining ends which expediency or his
owners laid down for him, and though
not physically powerful he had the
pluck of a dog and an unholy reputa
tion for marksmanship. For the hand
ling of such a menagerie of all nation
scroundreldom and Incapacity as bunk
ed In the steamship Port Edes no bet
ter man than Owen Kettle breathed in
either hernlshpere.
The crew signed their marks on tho
articles at tho shipping office In tho
Sailor’s home and went grumbling to
get rid of their advances. Later most
of them turned up on the steamer, some
with their worldly goods done up In
dunnago sacks, which look to tho un
initiated like pillowslips, some appar
ently possessing nothing but tho I
squalid raiment they stood up In. '
There was not one of them dressed like
a sailor, according to the conventional j
Idea. Yet most of them had made their
bread upon the seas slnco early boy- j
hood, which show's what conventional ;
Ideas are sometimes worth. They were j
most of them oldish men nnd looked I
even older than their years.
Tho engineers came on board early,
for the most part In scrubby blue serge
and sour black temper. They grumbled
at the messroom In broad Glaswegian,
prophesied evil (In advance) about the
capacities of the messroom steward
and ship’s cook, dumped their belong
ings Into their various ronms and
changed to apparel more suitable for
tall twisting In the unclean regions be
low'. Then they w-ent on duty, quar
reled with the donkeyman who was
making steam for the winches and pro
men and trimmers Into watches and
apportion them to furnace doors and '
bunkers.
The three mates, tho boatswain and
the carpenter were also on board be
times, ^nost of them large headed with
recent libations and feeling cantank
erous accordingly. There was a small
general cargo being shipped for New
Orleans, and It gave these worthy of
ficers ease to find occasional acid fault
with the stevedor'B crew or the crane
men on the wharf, but for the most part
they shuffled about the decks In easy
slippers, attending to tho various ship
duties in massive sneering silence.
Patrick Cambel came Into the chart
roorti on the bridge deck, closing the
door behind him. "A cheery, amiable
crowd you’ve collected," he suld.
“Aren’t they?" replied Captain Ket
tle from a sofa locker. “They’re Just- a
terror of a crew. You wait till we get
to sea, and they start on mischief. My
mate’s a cur. He wouldn’t stand up to
a Chinaman. And the reBt of the after
guard Is much of a pattern, picked that
way on purpose Oh, I tell you, Mr.
Cambel, that I stand alone, and I shall
have my hands full. But let ’em start,
the brutes! I’ll haze them. It Isn’t
a new sort of tea party this with me.”
"You’re going Into It with your eyes
open anyway.’’
“Oh, don’t you make any error,” said
Kettle. “I know my Job. And If I warn
you it’s because you'll see things for
yourself and perhaps Join In at them.
I don’t go and tell everybody. Not
much. They think ashore I’ve got a
real soft thing on this tlma Why, do
you know, Mr. Cambel," he added, with
a thin, sour grin, "my old woman want
ed to come with me for tho trip?” She
said It was so long since she’s had a
whiff of outside air that now I’d such
a tidy steamboat under me she couldn't
miss the chance. Yes, and she said
she’d bring one of tho kids with her
that Wanted to be a sailor, like hla
daddy. I tell yon she was that took
on the Idea she’d hear no refusal, and I
had to write a letter to owners and get
them to wire back a ‘No’ she could read
for herself. It’d took well set to muslo,
that tale, wouldn’t It? Sort of Jumpy
muslo, you know, with a yo-heave
humbug chorus to it, same as all
sailors’ songs that you hear In the
Cambel shrugged his shoulders.
"What can you expect at the price?" he
asked. "This Isn’t a £12 a month
berth, and you've thrashed across
Atlantic In a worse Bhlp for lees.”
"Don’t yoQ mistake me,” retorted
Kettle. Tm working for full value re
ceived, and there’s many an old Ballot'd
like to be In my Shoes If he only knew.
I’m ntft. grumbling at the berth, only
when a /ten's oh a racket of thlB kind
it's a bfthard on him to have a wife
and kids he’s fool enough to be fond of.
It’s an ugly amusement lying to them
like a play actor when^ySu know It’s
ten chances to one ,yf)U'll • ever see
English mud agulfl.'' That's the way It
cuts.'though I -iMDPOBe you’ll think It
aU a., Sailors grumble. Perhaps you
aren't a married man?”
'No, I’m not.”
(Continued Next Week.)
INVENTOR OF ARTIFICIAL PEARL5*
Silvery Lustre on 5 ^ond That Set •
Bead Maker Thinking.
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The string of artlflclal pearls was
very beautiful. But for the regularity
of the beads anyone would have
thought It a rope of real pearls worth
a king's ransom.
"I'll tell you,” said the jeweler, as he
wrapped up the deceptive necklet, "how
the wonderfully perfect artificial pearl
came to be Invented.
"A rich French beadmaker—Sloise
Jaquin—he lived in the seventeenth
century—found a pond In his garden
covered one morning with a lovely sil
very luster. Amazed, he called his
gardener, who said it was nothing—
some albettes had got crushed, that
was all.
"Albettes were little silver fish—
bleaks—the Leuciscus alournus. The
gardener explained that If you crushed
them they always gave the water a
pearly sheen like that. Jaquin put on
his thinking cap.
"For six years he worked with beads
and bleaks, wasting millions of both.
But finally he achieved success, ffa
learned how to extract the pearly lustre
from the bleaks' scales and to cover a
glass bead with It.
"What he did—and his method Is still
used—was to scrape the scales from the
fish, wash and rub them and save the
water. The water, decanted, gave off
a lustrous fluid of the thickness of oil,
a veritable pearl paint, a magic fluid
that Imparts a lovely pearly sheen to
everything it is applied to.
“It takes 1,000 bleaks to yield an
ounce of this pearl paint.”
T ou"h.
"I wish to complain," said the Easts,
bride haughtily, "about that flour you sold
me. It was tough."
"Tough, ma’am?" stammered the grocer.
1*’Yes, tough. I made a pie with it and
nj husband could hardly cut It."
i :.'r j.. i. " *" ij »•* .. ... ! ■*■ \ *. **■
PUT UP HAY SHEDS.
It Is surprising how many still cli'^g
to the wasteful practice of stacking
both timothy and clover hay' out in the
fields. When lands were cheap, or
when prairie lands were mowed, that
might have been some excuse for it,
but with good hay selling from $12 to
$20 per ton it is wasteful, to say the
least, to stack where much of the crop
is wasted. If the barns will not take in
the crop, put up sheds. These need not
be expensive. The main thing is to
have a good water proof roof. The
sides may be protected, but get a roof
over the hay by all means. Arrange a
track with carrier and fprk, and the
crop can be handled easily and quickly.
WRONG PLACE FOR MANURE.
One of my neighbors teiis me how he
blundered last year in ham^ag out and
spreading his manure. During the win
ter the manure was hauled cict on the
meadow land and dumped in 045 piles.
It was coarse, trashy stuff and ra-rd to
handle. During the early spring these
piles were scattered with a fork, and
such a mess he made of it. The manure
was thrown haphazard, no attempt be
ing made to cover the ground evenly,
with the result that the spots of grass
caine up too rank and, worst of all,
where the hay was cut and put up, the
rake gathered up all the trash and
mixed it well with the hay. Of course
it spoiled the crop for baling—and hay
selling now at $22 a ton.—L. C. B.
PRUNE THE TREES NOW.
Show the boys how to prune. Take
them out into the orchard and go over
the apple, pear, plum and cherry trees,
and explain why you do things. If
your trees were properly trimmed when
they were set out they can be kept in
shape without much pruning. But, go
over the trees every spring, using a
sharp knife and pruning shears. Make
clean, neat cuts, and if large limbs are
removed use a saw. Cut out crossed
limbs, thin out the top, but don’t cut
off too many lower limbs. Keep the
head as low as possible. A beginner
must prune with a good deal of care.
The aim should be to keep the trees
shapely, and keep the fruit as near the
ground as possible.
FARM FACTS.
Some people get into the habit of al
ways putting off every piece of work
for a day or two. There is one best
time for plowing, harrowing and seed
ing. If this time is passed by, it is not
likely that conditions will be as favor
abel again.
Push the lambs now for the early
market. Corn meal will fatten them
up quickly and make nice meat. There
Is a flavor about meal fed lambs that
is not produced by any other feed.
A neighbor of mine is trying for a
bumper corn crop this season. The
ground Is sod, manured last fall. In
stead of planting In checks he has
drilled in his seed, two and three
grains in a hill, eighteen inches apart.
This is rather thick planting, but as
this ground is strong, with plenty of
moisture, It ought to make a big crop.
There is really no excuse this season
for keeping old hay. Prices are very
high, and everything should now be
cleaned up and sold. It is a good time
also to clean up the old stack bottoms.
Make^a fresh start. Get rid of the hay
worm's.
The collars and saddle pads .should
be cleaned every day to remove the
filth. If they are left all gummed up
they soon gall and make mean sores.
Dust and sweat will ruin a horse's
Shoulder in two or three days.
The first cultivation does more to
make the crop than all subsequent
ones. This Is the only time when the
shovels should run up close to the hills..
Lift up the shield and allow the fine
dirt to sift around In the hills and cover
up the weeds which are just starting,
Trlln up the orchard now. This Is the
time to cut out dead limbs. Trim to
let In the sun; cut out crossed branches.
Proper work done In the orchards now
will show in the better quality of the
fruit.
The proper handling of 160 acres of
land calls for thought as well as work.
Most farmers know In a general way
that corn is the crop to put on sod
»d, and that oats should not be
Oh too rich ground. But when to
omit one crop and put In another, get
ting the maximum yield from each
crop is a big proposition. It Is well
worth while to study every field and
SSSaffi—-.-aw**
Some men work like troopers, but
they never accomplish much. They
tnl/o time to thinlr onrl nlnn nnrl
their hustling is really lost time. 4*
■ i. nwaiufirTrr
Nagging a team is a poor way to get
more service out of it, and tapping
horses with the lines or whip does no
good. The thing to do is to teach the
horses to walk fast. Do this and they
will give you all the work you want
without urging.
Keep all the birds, all the chickens
and turkeys, and in fact anything that
will eat bugs out in the orchard. They
will find plenty of picking now.
It’s bad business to crowd too many
litters of pigs into one feeding pen.
Pigs and sows need plenty of room,
and out in the pasture is now the best
plaoe for them to run.
Don't scatter coarse manure on the
meadows. Last summer a neighbor of
mine spoiled his hay crop by scatter
ing coarse manure early in the spring.
When he came to rake off the hay he
raked up all the trash and ruined his
hay for baling. Keep meadows clean.
April was a fatal month for young
pigs. About the quickest way to lose
money is to neglect the pigs when they
come during chilly weather. Every pig
saved until it is one week old is worth
$2.50. Just count up and see how
many you have lost by not having good
quarters for them.
We nave been growing such big
grain crops for three or four years
that we have n «cted to raise young
stock. Th.-ie i» a scarcity of colts,
calves and pigs. Make the next few
months count in the breeding of ali
,.indi of stock
| DAIRY NOTES.
The poorest quality of butter la
made during May. This is because
cows are turned out to grass before
j there is much nourishment in it and
| usually grain feed is cut rfff. Grass is
good, but it is a mistake to take away
all dry feed. June is the best butter
month and cows should be then at their
I best.
There is a greater demand for good
' dairy bred bulls this spring than there
: has been for many years. This shows
i that dairynrcn appreciate what is now
j urgently needed to keep dairying on a
paying basis.
Fresh cows, especially heavy milkers,
should be milked regularly. Frequent
ly leaky teats result from compelling
: a cow to go two or three hours over
1 her regular milking time. There is
also danger of inflammation when the
udder becomes too full.
Dairying when properly carried on
never fails. It is the business that
invariably follows when other busi
nesses go down. Corn growing and
wheat growing in many sections is be
coming less profitable. A good herd
of cows, kept on these farms for a
few years, will set things right again.
It is surprising how many farmers
are guessing the worth of their cows.
No other business could stand such
methods for any length of time, and
we are now coming to a point where
no dairy farmer can stand it. Feed
costs too much and we are buying too
much feed to not know Just what re
sults we are getting.
Many who would like to make butter
for market during the summer months
find that their product arrives in poor
condition at destination. It is difficult
to ship butter any distance without ice,
and this, of course, the small shipper
cannot get. If there is not a good home
market, the safest plan is to sell cream
to the factory.
With the great increase in popula
tion and the rapid rise in land values,
the time is not far away when farm
ers must handle $200 acre land and
make a profit from it. That will call
for closer methods, better cows, and
more definite knowledge of breeding
for results.
This is the season when many trou
bles come to the butter maker. Those
who supply private trade and=»shlp In
wooden packages get complaint'of mold
Just as soon as warm weather strikes
us. Soak the wooden packages In. a
strong solution of brine before filling.
This will check the mold and retain the
flavor of the butter.
The only way to kill oft the renovated
butter plants Is to quit making such
poor stuff that it has to be sold to these
factories and worked over before it is
fit to eat. When creamery butter Is
selling at 25 cents per pound, one ought
to be ashamed to have to sell 15-cent
stuff.
As the cows are cut down on their
fodder and grain ration and are given
the run of pastures we are apt to de»
tect undesirable flavors, and the cream
is more difficult to churn. As the grass
becomes better the coiys will be more
particular what they eat. so that off
flavors will disappear. It will help
matters If tjie creanrl Is churned at a
lower temperature, say 60 or 62 degrees
Fahrenheit.
A subscriber asks what crop makes
the best silage, and says that a neigh
bor put up some clover last year, but
did not have very good success. Good
dent corn, with plenty of foliage, cut
when the groin begins to glaze, makes
the best silage, and It keeps hetter than
any other kind. Clover will make good
silage If it Is handled right, but It Is
harder to keep In good condition than
corn silage. Ther- trouble comes-in get
ting it packed solid enough and in cut
ting It at Just the right stage. The
-first crop makes the best silage, al
though on account of wet weather
some prefer to put up the second crop.
It should be kept In mind that the
out straw and leaves are the rich
est In nitrogen up to the time when
grain begins to ripen. This Is the rea
son that outstraw is considered more
valuable than other kinds. Where the
quality of the straw Is Important oats
should be cut before too weil ripened.
Sweet com is one of the best and
most profitable crops for milch cows.
Plant early and late varieties and the
earliest should be ready to feed by
July 15. This comes In right at a time
when pastures are poor and when
something is needed to keep up the
Many plant pumpkin seeds with their
corn. A better plan is to give up an
acre or two or rich ground and plant
the pumpkin hills about eight feet
apart. Plant the field variety, give the
patch some care and it will yield an
enormous amount of fall feed.
When remodeling the farm buildings
is a good time to think about winter
work. No wonder it is difficult to get
hired help to do winter milking, when
they have to do it where their feet
and fingers are nearly freezing all the
time.
Good dairy farms mean prosperous
owners, Increasing land values and
thriving towns. Debts are promptly
paid and the business men of the towns
have good business. In fact good dairy
ing makes all wheels go around.
Early cut hay is liked best by the
cows. It comes nearer to the green
grass than the late cut hay and Is rel
ished. The "late cut hay is all right
when it is to be sold and shipped.
Gentle handling of the dairy heifer
will have a wonderful influence in
making her a good dairy cow. Right
here is where thousands of growing
heifers are ruined. If she Is handled
roughly she will be timid and appre
hensive. When her calf is taken from
her, she naturally connects her enemy
with the theft. The result is lessened
nr.ik flow, and unless very care
fully handled she will dry up within
tlx months. Treat the heifer In a way
that gets her confidence. Keep <.n good
terms with her all along, so that when
j her first calf comes she will not worry
[ when It is taken from b“'~
TO PLEASE THE MEN.
The girl who wants to play the sum
mer girl, or, in. other words, to select
her summer wardrobe so that she will
win the admiration of the men she
meets, will confine most of her things
to the plain white shirtwaist suits,
made of percale, that can be laundered
so that they will almost shine. She
will have them made with big tucks
across the front, long shirtwaist sleeves
and with them she will wear stiff linen
turnovers, embroidered, and little bow
ties of black. To complete the cos
tume she will wear sensible low cut
shoes that could never in the world be
accused of having paper soles or
French heels, and a sailor hat.
She will of course have a dress or
two that is decidedly more feminine
with its bewitching frills and flounces
to slip on in the evening, but for long
tramps over the hills, games of tennis,I
sailing on the lake, or long afternoons
spent lazily with books in the country,
it is the shirtwaist suit that will seem
much more consistent, and from man’s
point of view, more sensible as well.
Not Enough Evidence.
From the Boston Herald.
Not many years ago a prominent citi
zen of Haverhill was arrested for the un-,
lawful sale of liquor. On being searched,
a half flash of brandy was found. That
being the only evidence, the judge charged
the jury. They had been out but five min
utes, when they returned and the fore
man queried:
"Your honor, how do we know the flask
contains brandy? I would like to take
the flask into the jury room."
He was given the flask, and soon the
jury returned.
"Have you agreed?” the foreman was
asked.
"We have,” he answered. "We And the
defendant not guilty,” and exhibiting the
now empty flask, he added: "There was
not enough evidence to go around.” The
defendant was discharged.
SUFFERED TORTURES.
Racked with Pain, Day and Night,
for Year*.
Wm. H. Walter, engineer of Chats
worth, UK, writes: “Kidney disease*
was lurking in my system for years. I
bad torturing pain!
in tbe side and back
and tbe urine was
dark and full of|
sediment. I wa»;
racked wtth pain
day and night, could
not sleep or eat
well, and finally be
came crippled and
bent overwith rheu
matism. Doan’s Kidney Pills brought
quick relief, and in time cured me.
Though I lost 40 pounds, I now weigh
2C0, more than ever before.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Jlllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Atchison Glebe Sights.
If you can smile when your rival Is
praised, you have tact.
Nothing equals another love affair to
mend a broken heart.
As a rule, other people are the best
Judges of your importance.
Every man Is a coward, If you pro
duce the proper brand of terror.
One of the surprising things is tho
respect a worthless man has for him
self.
A husband does a good deal of fuss
ing, but his wife has her w# Just tho
same.
One thing a man can never under
stand Is why his enemy has so many
friends.
The man who Is spoiled fcy a little
popularity will never be spiffed by a
lot of It.
The radishes on the table always go
a long ways If there Is anything else
to eat.
What a contemptible weakness char
ity is, when it is felt for those you
dislike.
A woman's idea of wisdom is the
ability to detect cotton In an alleged
all wool fabric.
Instead of envying the millionaires,
invent an automobile that will work,
and become one.
It is usually the case that you can
tell more about a question when you
only hear one side of it.
When a man says you are too smart
to be fooled, look out; he is about to
spring a scheme to fool you.
When a husband goes out with his
wife, she usually says of him: "He's
acting perfectly dreadful today.”
brakeman has a great contempt
for tea, and also for breakfast foods
less substantial than ham and eggs.
If "you are a useful and reliable citi
zen, you are patriotic enough without*
shouting about the Stars and Stripes, j
WENT TO TEA /
And It Wound Her Bobbin. I
Tea drinking frequently affects peo
ple as badly as coffee. A lady in Salis
bury. Md., says that she was compelled
to abaudon the use of coffee a good
many years ago. because It threatened
to ruin her health and that she went
over to tea drinking, but finally, she
had dyspepsia so bad that she had lost
twenty-five pounds aud no food seemed
to agree with her.
She further says: “At this time I
was induced to take up the fatuous
food drink, Postum, and was so much
pleased with the results that I have
never been without it since. I com
menced to Improve at once, regained
my twenty-five pounds of fiesh and went
some beyond my usual weight.
"I know Postum to be good, pure, and
healthful, and there never was an arti
cle, and never will be, I believe, that
does s > surely take the place of coffee,
ns Postum Food Coffee. The beauty of
it all is that it is satisfying and won
derfully nourishing. 1 feel as if I
could not sing its praises too loud.’*'
Read “The Road to Wellvilie,” In pkgs.
“There's a Reason.”
