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The Bow of Orange Ribbon \
A ROMANCE OF NEW YOitE
By AMELIA E. BARR.
Author of "Friend OIIvIbl." "I, Thou end the Other One," Eto.
Copyright. 1886, by Dodd, Mead and Company.
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CHAPTER XIV.—(Continued.)
, "I will give it to him again. With
my own hands I will give it to him
once more. Oh. Richard, my lover,
my husband! Now I will hasten to
see thee.”
She reached London the next night,
and, weary and terrified, drove at
once to the small hostlery where
Hyde lay.
“Katherine!” he cried; and his
voice was as weak and as tearful as
that of a troubled child.
“Here come I, my dear one.
“Oh. how you love me, Katherine!"
Sho took from her bosom the St.
Nicholas ribbon. "I give it to thee
again. At the first time l loved thee;
now, my husband, ten thousand times
more I love thee. As I went through
the papers, I found it.”
And between their clasped hands it
jay—the bit of orange ribbon that had
handseled all their happiness.
“It is the promise of everything I
can give thee, my loved one,' whis
pered Katherine.
“It is the luck of Richard Hyde.
Dearest wife, thou hast given me my
iife back again.”
CHAPTER XV.
Turning Westward.
It was a hot August afternoon, and
Hyde sat at an open window at Hyde
Manor. He was pale and wasted from
his long sickness, but there was spec
ulation and purpose in his face, and
he had evidently cast away the mental
apathy of the invalid. As he sat thus,
a servant entered and said a few
words which made him turn with a
glad, expectant manner to the open
door; and, as he did so, a man of near
sixty years of age passed through it
—a handsome, lordly leaking man,
who had that striking personal re
semblance to Hyde which affectionate
brothers often have to one another.
“Faith, William, you are welcome
home! How delighted I am to see
you!”
“ ’Tis twelve years since we met
Dick. And Hyde Manor is a miracle.
I expected to find It mouldy and
messy. On the contrary it is a place
of perfect beauty.”
“And it is all my Katherine’s doing.
She is my angel. I ain unworthy of
her goodness and beauty.”
"Why, then, Dick, I may as well tell
you that I have also found a treasure
past belief of the same kind. In fact,
Dick, I am married, and have two
sons.”
There was a moment’s profound si
lence, and an inexplicable shadow
passed rapidly over Hyde's face; but
it was fleeting as a thought, and, ere
the pause became strained and pain
fui, he turned to his brother and said,
“I am glad, William. With all my
heart, I am glad.”
“I was married very quietly, and
have been in Italy ever since. I was
told that you had left the army.”
“That is exactly true. When I
heard that Lord Percy’s regiment was
designed for America, and against the
Americans, I put It out of the king s
power to send me on such a busi
ness.”
“Indeed, I think the Americans have
been ill-used, and I find the town In
a great commotion upon the matter.
The people of New York have burned
effigies of Lord North and Gov. Hutch
inson, and the new troops were no
sooner landed than five hundred of
them deserted in a body.”
Hyde's white face was crimson with
excitement, and his eyes glowed like
stars as he listened. "That was like
New York; and, faith, if I had been
there, I would have helped them!”
“Why not go there? I owe you
much for the hope, of which my hap
piness has robbed you. I will take
Hyde Manor at its highest price; 1
will add to it fifty thousand pounds
Indemnity for the loss of the succes
sion. You may buy land enough for
a duchy there, and found in the New
World a new line of the old family.
Hick, my dear brother, out of real
love and honor, I speak these words.”
“Indeed, William, I am very sensible
of your kindness, and I will consider
well your proposition. 1 think, in
deed, that my Katherine will be in a
transport of delight to return to her
native land.”
Almost with the words she entered,
clothed in a white India muslin, with
carnations at her breaBt. The earl
bowed low, and then kissed her cheeks
and led her to a chair, which he
placed between Hyde and himself.
Katherine was predisposed to emi
gration, but yet she dearly loved the
home she had made so beautiful. Dur
ing Hyde’s convalescence, alBO, other
plans had become very hopeful and
pleasant, and they could not be cast
aside without some reluctance.
It was on a cold, stormy afternoon
In February, when the fens were
white with snow. Hyde sat by the big
wood fire, re-reading a letter from
Jorls Van Heemskirk. which also In
closed a copy of Joslah Quincy's
speech on the Boston Port Bill. Kath
erine had a piece of worsted work In
her hands.
It was et this moment Lettice came
In with a bundle of newspapers. "They
be brought by Sir Thomas SwafTham's
man, sir, with Sir Thomas’ compli
ments; there being news he th'nks
you would like to read, sir.”
Hyde opened the papers with eager
curiosity and road the news from
America.
v “I must draw my sword again,
Katherine," he said, as his hand im
pulsively went to his left side. "I
thought I had done with it forever;
but, by St. George, I’ll draw it in thi3
quarrel!”
"The American quarrel, Richard?”
"No other could so move me. Every
good man and true wishes them well.
Are you willing?"
“Orly to be with you,only to please j
you, Richard. I have no other happi
ness.”
"Then it is settled. The earl buys
Hyde as it stands; we have nothing
except our personal effects to pack.
Write to-night to your father. Tell
him that we are coming in two weeks
to cast our lot with America."
When Joris Van Hooraskirk received
this letter he was very much excited
by its contents.
He was sitting in the calm evening,
with unloosened buckles, in a cloud
of fragrant tobacco, talking of these
things. Then he put on his hat and
walked down his garden. He was
standing on the river bank, and the
meadows over it were green and fair
to see, and the fresh wind blew into
his soul a thought of its own un
trammeled liberty. He looked up and
down the river, and lifted his face to
the clear sky, and said aloud, "Iteauti
tul land! To be thy children we
should not deserve, if one inch of thy
soil wo yielded to a tyrant. Truly a
vaderland to me and to mine thou
hast been. Truly do I love thee.”
Then, with hia mind made up, ho
went into the house.
lu a rew minutes Elder Semple came
In. He looked exceedingly worried,
and, although Joris and he avoided
politics by a kind of tacit agreement,
he could not keep to kirk and com
mercial matters, but constantly re
turned to one subject—a vessel lying
at Murray's wharf, which had sold
her cargo of molasses and rum to the
‘‘Committee of Safety,”
Joris let the elder drift frojn one
grievance to another, and he was just
in the middle of a sentence contain
ing the opinion of Scars and Willet,
when Brant's entrance arrested it. He
walked straight to the side of Joris:
"Father, we have closed his majes
ty’s custom house forever.”
“We! Who, then, Bram?”
“The Committee of Safety and the
Sons of Liberty.”
Semple rose to his feet, trembling
with passion. "Let me tell you, then,
Bram, you are a parcel o' rogues and
rebels: and, if I were his majesty, I'd
gibbet the last ane o’ you.”
"Patience, elder. Sit down, I’ll
speak”
“No, councillor. I'll no sit down un
til I ken what kind o’ men I'm sitting
wi\ Oot wi’ ycur maist secret thoughts.
Wha are you for?”
“For the people and for freedom, am
I,” said Joris. calmly rising to his
feet. “Too long have wre borne injus
tice. Bram, tny son, 1 am your com
rade in this quarrel.” He spoke with
fervent, but not rapid speech, and with
a firm, round voice, full of magical
sympathies.
1 11 hear nae malr o such roily.
Gle me my bonnet and plaid, madam,
and I’ll be going. I hope the morn
will bring you a measure o* common
sense.” He was at the door as he
spoke; but, ere he passed it, he lifted
his bonnet above his head and said,
‘‘God save the king! God save his
gracious majesty, George of Eng
land!”
.Joris turned to his son. To shut up
the king's customs was an overt act of
treason. Dram, then, had fully com
mitted himself, and, following out bis
own thoughts, he asked abruptly,
“What will come of it, Bram?”
“War will come, and liberty—a
great commonwealth, a great coun
try.”
In the meantime Semple, fuming
and ejaculating, was making his way
slowly home. However, before he had
gone very far, he was overtaken by
his son Neil, now a very staid and
stately gentleman, holding under the
government a high legal position in
the investigation of the disputed New
Hampshire grants.
He listened respectfully to his fath
er’s animadversions on the folly of
the Van Heemskirks; but he was
thinking mainly of the first news told
him—the early return of Katherine.
He was conscious that he still loved
Katherine, and that he still hated
Hyde. So Neil was somber and silent.
His father was uncertain as to his
views, and he did not want to force or
hurry a decision.
Next morning, when the elder
reached the store, the clerks and por
ters were all standing together talk
ing. He knew quite well what topic
they were discussing with such eager
movements and excited speech. But
they dispersed to their work at the
sight of his sour, stern face, and t^e
did not intend to open a fresh dispute
by any question.
Apprentices and clerks then showed
a great deal of deference to their mas
ters, and Elder Semple demanded the
full measure due to him. Something,
however, in the carriage, in the faces,
in the very tones of his servants’
voices, ofTended him; and he soon
discovered that various small duties
had been neglected.
“Listen to me, lads.” he said angrily,
“I’ll have nae politics mixed up wl’
my exports and imports. Neither king
nor Congress has aught to do wi’ my
business; and if there is among you
ane o’ them fools that ca’ themselves
the ‘Sons o ‘Liberty,’ I'll pay him what- j
i uwo liiiu uuw, aim uc *.«*u
Ran* to Madam Liberty for his future
wage."
He was standing on the step of his
high counting desk as he spoke, and
he peered over the little wooden rail
ing at the men scattered about with
pens or hammers or goods in their
hands. There w as a moment’s silence,
then a middle-aged man quietly laid
down the tools with which he was
closing a box. and walked up to the
desk. The next moment, every one
in the place had followed him. Sem
ple was amazed and angry, but he
made no sign of either emotion. He
counted to the most accurate fraction
every one’s due, and let them go with
out one word of remonstrance.
But. as soon as he was alone, he felt
the full bitterness of their desertion,
and he could not keep the tears out of
his eyes as he looked at their empty
places.
At this Juncture Neil entered the
store. "Here’s a bonnie pass, Nell;
every man has left the store. 1 may
asr weel put up the shutters.’’
"There are other men to he hired.”
"They were maistly a’ auld stand
bys, auld married men that ought to
have had mair sense.”
"The married men are the trouble
makers; the women have hatched and
nursed this rebellion. If they would
only spin their webs, and mind their
knitting! ”
“But they wiilna, Neil, and they
never would. If there's a pot o’ re
bellion brewing between the twa
poles, women will be dabbling in it.
They have aye been against lavvfu’
authority. The restraints o’ paradise
was tyranny to them. And they get
worse and worse; it isna ane apple
would do them the noo; they'd strip
the tree, my lad, to its vera topmost
branch.”
You ought to know, lather. i
have smalt and sad experience with
them."
‘‘Sao, I hope you'll stand by my
side. We twa can keep the house
theglther. If we are a’ right, the gov
ernment will whistle by a woman’s
talk.”
“Did you not say Katherine was
coming hack?"
"I did that. See there, again. Hyde
has dropped his uniform, and sold a’
that he has, and is coming to fight in
a quarrel that’s nane o’ his. Heard
you ever such foolishness? But it is
Katherine's doing; there’s little doot
o’ that."
“He’s turned rebel, then?"
“Ay has he. That's what women do.
Politics and rebellion is the same
thing to them."
“Well, father. I shall not turn rebel.”
“Oh. Neil, you take a load off my
heart by thae words!”
“I have nothing against the king,
and I cculd not be Hyde’s comrade.”
(To be continued.)
GESTURES IN GENERAL USE.
Motions That Are Common to Ail Na
tions of the Earth.
Certain gestures are absolutely
identified with certain feelings. To
shake one’s fist is to threaten; to
hold up one's finger is to warn. To in
dicate thought we place the tips of
the fingers on the forehead; to show
concentrated attention we apply the
whole hand. To rub the hands is
everywhere a sign of joy, and to clap
them a sign of enthusiasm. It would
be easy to multiply examples. Af
firmation, negation, repulsion are all
indicated by motions that every one
understands.
It is the same, in quite as great a
degree, with nationalities, In spite of
the original diversity of the races that
make them up. The mimetic cnar
acter results at once from race, from
history and from climate.
The gesture of the Englishman Is
fierce and harsh; he speaks briefly,
brusquely; he is cold, positive, force
ful. His salutation is cold and accen
tuated, but his handshake is loyal.
The gesture of Germany is heavy,
good humored and always ungraceful.
Many of the Slav people are unwilling
to look one in the face, and they have
a fatse gesture.
The Spaniard and the Portuguese,
although dwelling in a Southern land,
gesticulate little; their language is
rythmic, slow’, solemn; they are grave,
their salutation is a little theatrical.
The Italian is lively, mobile, intel
ligent, gay; his language is harmo
nious, sonorous, warm and luminous,
like his country's sky. The salutation
of the Italian is quick and full of
feeling, his gestures colored and ex
aggerated.
Won the Old Man.
“Sir,” he said to her father, “this
le a practical world. The spirit of
commercialism cannot bo throttled by
the tender bonds of sentiment. Per
haps you have noticed this?”
“I cannot say I have,” replied the
stern parent “but that needn’t detain
you.”
“Of course not,” said the youth with
an affable smile. “What I was about
to say is that while 1 am sitting up
courting your daughter I feel that It
would be no more than fair to offer
to pay for the gas I assist In consum
ing.”
“Good,” said the old man. "And
how about the coal? Do you expect
me to throw that in?”
“Certainly not,” cried the youth.
“I'll gladly throw in the coal. Bless
you, I worked my way through collego
tending a furnace.”
And the old man smiled approv
ingly.
The real difference between men is
energy. A strong will, a settled pur
I>ose, an invincible determination, can
accomplish almost anything; ord in
this lies the distinction between
great men *id little men.—Fuller.
SOME
COM PA li ISONS!
AMERICAN PROSPERITY AND
EUROPEAN HARD TIMES.
Industrial Conditions at Home and
Abroad Good Proof That Our People
Made No Mistake When They Voted
for Republicanism and Prosperity.
Advices from abroad show a sad
state of affairs In the countries that
are the principal commercial competi
tors of the United States. When this
country brought to a successful con
clusion its war with Spain there was a
notable expansion of industrial and
commercial activity, such as was wit
nessed in Germany al ter her encounter
with France in 1870, and such as usu
ally follows a victorious military cam
paign. But in Great Britain, notwith
standing that the result of her conflict
in South Africa was the vanquishment
of the Boers, there Is anything but a
flood of prosperity in trade. The num
ber of persons unable to obtain work
within the limits of the kingdom is
conservatively computed at half a mil
lion, and the report comes from I.on
don that it has been found necessary
to place police guards at the gates
of the dock yards to prevent violence
among the crowds assembling there
to struggle for the chance of earning
a day's wages. The London County
Council is considering plans for re
lieving the widespread distress, and
newspapers have started subscriptions
for the same purpose. There are bad
times in England.
Germany is faring even worse. What
is the meaning of tlie Socialist tipris
ing in that country, which has grown
so powerful that the leading journal
istic organ of the movement ts daily
boarding the Emperor" Socialism in
Germany, as was Populism in the
United States, is largely a product of
the desperation induced by hard times.
It is not long since Germany re
sounded to the crash of toppling
banks. She has gone through financial
throes almost equal to those which
shook the United States in 1893. She
is now in a political and economic
crisis not far different form that which
In this country led to the nomination
of Bryan for the presidency in 1890.
During the recent political campaign
In the United States Democratic news
papers and orator* blatantly asserted
that American prosperity was not the
result of American fiscal policies, but
a thing that came of itself. Business
in this country was prosperous, they
said, because business everywhere was
prosperous. The same oracles as
serted while Cleveland and Democracy
were enthroned at. Washington that
the panic and the depression which
followed the panic were caused not
by Democratic folly, but by wide
spread natural laws affecting business
in general, though at the very time
when Coxey's army and Kelly's army
of unemployed men were rampaging
in Ohio and Iowa, factories in Great
Britain and Germany were advertising
for help.
The fact is that the Republican leg
islation enacted under the administra
tion of President McKinley produced
conditions which opened avenues to
employment for all the men in the
United States willing to work. The
fact is that the American protective
tariff is doing the good which it was
expected to do—keeping American
workingmen at work at good wages,
at a time when workingmen in com
peting countries are walking the
streets looking for jobs. The fact is
that Democratic free trade newspa
pers are blind teachers, who would
mislead the American people to their
undoing.
Happily the American people are
intelligent and cannot be easily mis
led. The contrast between industrial
conditions abroad and industrial con
ditions here '.s a demonstration that
when the American people vote for a |
Republican Congress they made no
mistake.—Milwaukee Wisconsin.
MEXICAN PROGRESS.
What American Railroad Building Has
Done for Our Sister Republic.
Nearly all daily newspapers have
printed a Washington dispatch giving
with some other figures the following
table showing the commerce of the
United States with Mexico at decen
nial periods from 1850 to 1900; also
for the fiscal year 1902:
Imports from Exports to
Mexico. Mexico.
1850 .$575,200 $2,012,827
1800 . 1,903,431 G,324,713
1870 . 2,715,665 5,859,700
1880 . 7,20i»,593 7,866,493
1890 .22,690,915 13,285,287
1900 .28,046,053 34,974,961
1902 .40,382,596 39,873,606
We commenced building railroads
in Mexico in 1880. Before that the
steamer lines on both the Gulf and
Pacific coasts were built in the United
States and owned by a citizen or citi
zens thereof. But when we com
menced railroad building foreigners
had the larger part of the Mexican
trade, England alone having about 10
per cent more than re. Now we have
decidedly more thau half of Mexico's
trade. The jump in our trade with
Mexico between 18S0 and 1890 was due
in part to our having better means of
communication in our own hands and
in part to the reduction in the cost
of transportation, leaving the Mexi
cans more money with which to buy
goods.
It is proposed by that class of our
economists and statesmen that get
their names the most in print that we
should build no railroads in the Philip
pines for fear “some American would
get rich" and hand over our carrying
trade to and about those Islands to our
German and English rivals. The only
boon 1hey are willing to give to either
the inhacltants of the United States
or to the Filipino is Chinese cheap
labor and higher education.
DUTY ON HIDES.
It Will Stand Until Shoes Are Put On
the Free List.
The American people will never al
low hides to go on the free list with
out boots and shoes going on the free
list as well. If the farmer is com
pelled to compete with the markets of
the world In hides he will insist that
the shoe manufacturer shall compete
with the markets of the world as well;
and the farmer will he right. No shoe
manufacturer pledges that manufac
tured shoes will be any cheaper than
at present in case he is given free
hides. Hon. John F. Lacey wrote to a
large shoo manufacturer inquiring as
to the probable reduction in the price
of shoes, and was told that there
would be none provided the tariff were
taken off hides. Who then would get
the benefit of the reduction in the
price of hides? The answer is, the
shoe manufacturer. The American
people nmy think just as much of the
beef trust as they do of the shoe
trust.
The contest for free hides illustrates
the selfishness of special interests
when it comes to the tariff question
and demonstrates that the tariff had
better be left alone. When raw ma
terials are made free, especially such
raw materials as are produced abund
antly in America, there will be an
end to all the tariff, because free raw
materials will be and should be fol
lowed by free manufactured goods.
The shoe Industry is prospering
while hides are on the protected list,
and that interest is simply hoggish in
its present demands.—Des Moine*
Capital.
Enough of the Iowa Idea.
Iowa is undergoing a change of
sentiment on the tariff revision ques
tion, and the prevailing sentiment in
the state to-day is to “let well enough
alone" on the tariff schedules, or at
least to move with care and caution
in changing the existing tariffs.
Governor Cummins has had his
“Iowa idea” fully and freely exploit
ed for two years. Many Republican
leaders in the state, while not In ac
cord with the governor's strenuous
efforts to modify, and while not be
lieving as he professes, that the tariff
breeds and shelters trusts, have, nev
ertheless, remained in line with tho
party and its platform. They have
recognized that the matter was sim
ply a local craze, which the party in
the nation would not accept, and
rather than create division and tur
moil within the party they have con
tented to let it pass through two
campaigns, either In silence or with
inild protests.
Now it is being realized that the
“Iowa idea” far from being an import
ant stepping stone for the party in
aid of the people, is degenerating
Into something like laughing stock
for the Republicans of other stales.
It is doubtful if a single one of the
Iowa Congressmen, either now serv
ing o'' elect, will have the courage to
broach the idea in the halls of Con
gress, and it is almost a foregone con
clusion that the next Republican
state convention will see that fho
“idea” is eliminated from the plat
form.
In doing this there may be a per
sonal antagonism to Gov. Cummins,
but he will find it conducive to his
political peace of mind and political
comfort, too, to get Into line with the
majority of his party, and especially
with the old time leaders who have
carried the organization along such
successful lines In the past. It Is
time to stop the “Iowa idea” before
Iowa loses credit for all the good
political sense she has exhibited in
the past and is made to rank with
populistic Kansas of a few years ago.
—Waterloo Courier.
The Inevitable Effect.
As a tariff iaw must apply alike to
all, as no discrimination can be made
in such a law against the combina
tions, whatever efTect the removal of
duties might have upon the stronger
Industries would also reach the weaker
ones, and while the former might with
stand the consequences and survive
the latter could r.ot. If by this course
the combinations should be destroyed
certainly the independent industries
would also be. But only the weaker
industries would go to the wall. Tho
stronger cnes would remain, and with
the competition removed they would
grow stronger. The proposed policy,
therefore, of striking the industrial
combinations through the tariff would
result in increasing the opportunities
for the creation of monopoly.—Omaha
Bee.
How We House Our Barred and Buff
Rocks in Winter.
From Farmers' Review:—When
we began raising fancy poultry like
many others we made many mistakes
In the construction of our buildings.
We arranged the houses to suit the
ground Instead of convenience for our
selves and comfort for the fowls. Our
first house faced the west. Was cov
ered with a shed roof made of boards.
The floor was of earth. The roosts
were made of strips and hung to the
wall with hinges, so as to be raised
up out of the way when cleaning out
the droppings. But we soon came to
grief. A skunk burrowed under but
failed to get out before we arrived. A
short war followed. “He paid with
his life for the keen pleasures of a
moment.’’ The moles worked up the
floor and the hens by wallowing in the
dust made It almost impossible to
clean. The roof leaked and the sun
only got into the house during the
afternoon. Our next building was
made with a gable roof. It was twelve
feet wide and long enough for three
pens. This house faced the south.
About two-thirds of the roof sloped to
the north, thus giving greater height
to the side through which we wished
the sunshine to enter. In this we
placed a cinder floor. We covered the
roof with shingles. Used common
boards for siding and lined It with
Dunning paper, placing a winnow iwu
feet square in each pen about a foot
from the ground. Tho fowls did fine
in this house. We were never troubled
with frosted combs and have found it
warm enough for a brooder house dur
ing February. The great trouble with
this shed was the large space in the
gable and the cinders on the floor
made it difficult to clean. This season
we have erected a four-pen house fac
ing the south, making it five feet high
on the north side and eight feet on the
south. The siding is common stock
boards and the cracks are battoned.
The lining is of heavy felt paper. The
roof is of shingles. We placed four
windows two feet square in the south
side. These are about eighteen Inches
from the floor. We also placed an out
side door into each adjoining lot. We
aided up the partitions solid for two
feet and finished out with lath. A door
hung on spring hinges was placed be
tween each pen. The feature of this
house was the cement floor. The
roosts were small tressels placed over
dropping boards, making it easy to
clean out and the litter is kept off
of the floor. We think this house is a
dandy.—A. A. Anderson, Macon Coun
ty, Illinois.
Feeding for Eggs.
From Fanners’ Review:—I would
not advise any one that has a good,
healthy flock to undertake doctoring
them with antidotes with a view of
forcing egg production, either sum
mer or winter. On most farms there
are plenty of feeds that would go to
wards making a perfect balanced ra
tion, if we take advantage of it. The
secret In making hens lay is simply
providing them with suitable feed,
and it’s a safe way. Corn, wheat,
oats, barley and millet seed are good
poultry feeds, some do not believe In
corn, but their reasons are mostly
like the small boy’s ‘‘because.” The
Agricultural Experiment Stations tell
us that corn is one of the very best
feeds for poultry, but they do not tell
us to feed it exclusively; still more,
cool reasoning would not suggest
that we feed it exclusively.
The natural makeup of their feed
is a variety; a little of this and that
and a constant exercise in procuring
it. Some tell us to make them
scratch for their feed, a more correct
way to say it would be to let them
scratch for their feed; they would
rather do it than not, besides, it does
away with gorging and encouraging
a lazy lumlx disposition. Corn ex
clusively, or in fact wheat or millet is
too heavy and too rich, something to
make bulk must be added. I know of
nothing better than wheat bran to
balance up a heavy rich feed—it’s so
common though that it Is hardly pop
ular. Bran makes bulk, not only
bulk, but it clears the passages and
keeps the digestive organs in condi
tion. Bran alone would be too light
for an exclusive feed, besides, it
would not be in line with nature to
feed nothing else. The craw is a
grinding mill and we must keep it at
work.
The different grains would not be
a perfect feed alone; grass, insects
r ;,d dozens of things we hardly think
ea; go towards completing the nat
ural wants. Fowls on free range
usually And these extra knlckknacks,
but peuned-up fowls or fowls In win
ter must have their equivalent in
some form, or they cannot do the
very best. Cut clover or alfalfa hay
imitates, cut vegetables imitate and
green cut bone helps to make sum
mer out of winter as near as it would
be possible. All these things are
within our reach and the time re
quired to procure them would return
a nice profit, these means will bring
eggs, and it’s a safe way.—M. M.
Johnson, Clay County, Nebraska.
American conditions change import
ed dairy breeds. It has been fre
quently remarked that the descend
ants of Channel Island cattle Imported
to this country increase in size in a
few generations, and that the Amer
ican Jersey cow is larger than the
Jersey cow on her native island.
The first electrical railway waa that
of Siemens of Berlin in 1879.