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kf lupll.
lv Thou tender, craceful little mail.
I see thee now at play at tennis,
la modesty of youth arrayed.
7aoa mmdest me of the daisy which to ea
lisutened minds is yclcptUM ptrtnnit.
X can bnt Iotc thee, little girl,
I fain would call thee m'a tpota;
Thca art blooming and as fair
As that queen of the garden the rose; see Lin-scu-
JCeta.
My doting heart doth fly to thee
la It to thine own heart notent voUnt;
And in the garland of thy years
X pray may come no rue, the proper name of
which, by the bye, is Buta grateeUnt.
For all thy bine (Hola) eyes.
Thy lips and cheeks like blushing rma.
Thou art as modest and as shy
.As the common field flower popularly known
as the butter-cup, but genetically as the
RsniuieuXui lulboia.
Thy lips like Cupid's bow appear.
Or like a charming coral chalice.
Thou art as innocent and pure
Jks purest snowdrop the snowdrop is the col
loquial came; in reality it is the Galan
thus uituli.
Although so cay and thoughtless thou.
Thy joys on trantocness no'er border,
. Thou art an airy butterfly
Uutterfly is only the vulvar vernacular lor an
insect of the PopHio family, Lepidopltra
order.
"When thou dost smile in maiden glee.
Thy profile is a classic Grecian.
Tfcy teeth to pearls I must compare
(Pearls, by the way, arc merely bicarbonate of
lime, lnterstratitied with animal mem
brane; in mollusks the result of a diseased
secretion).
If thou dost lore me, dear, or no,
I lore as Strcphon loved his Phyllis.
I pray thy fair head maybe crowned
With wreaths of laurel which as you proba
bly know :s the Laiurut no'Ali.
America.
A MOMENT OF ASGER;
The
History of ISr. and
Brownlowa Quarrel.
Mrs.
BY KOIIERT HOTE.
CHAPTER IL Continued.
The public prosecutor was indignant and
exasperated. lie was used to speak to
humble people who endeavored to please
him and always were respectfully submis
sive in his presence, and he could not admit
the pretension of this man to treat him as
an equal. He had been on the point of hav
ing him arretted on the spot, upon the c
casauon of insulting a law officer in the ex
ercise of his functions: then he was afraid
to open a prosecution on a personal inci
dent. It is always disagreeable to acknowl
edge that we have been treated disrespect
fully. He had, besides, a perfectly regular
means at his disposal to make his adversary
understand that one can not thus attempt
to baffle justice; it was to allow the pro
ceedings to follow their normal course. The
very same day he sent the papers to a
judge, with his own brief to the court, and
the next cay an inspector of police, accom
panied by two detectives, presented him
self at the house of Mr. Brownlow with a
warrant of arrest. The prisoner made no
resistance and no observation. In conform
ity with the law he was taken within twenty-four
fours to the Tombs and submitted
to a first interrogatory.
Asked as to whether ho wished to answer
the complaint, the prisoner declared that
the warrant of arrest had modified the situ
ation. So far he had been a citizen acting
in the fullness of his liberty; ho had de
termined not to be forced to answer ques
tions which no one had a right to ask him;
he had become anry at his visitors. Now,
as he was in the hands of the law, he bad
no reason for refusing to answer. He did
not consider himself when before the judge
as a man in the presence of an equal, but as
a prisoner standing before the representa
tive of the law, and he was disposed to
answer the questiens that might be ad
dressed to him in so far as they bore di
rectly upon the accusation.
Consequently he told his name, first
name, age, profession, his address and
place of birth. He affirmed to the judge
who questioned him that he could read and
xvrite, and that ho had never been arrested
before, and that he had satisfied his obliga
tions as a citizen. But when themagistrate
asked him ir he had lulled his wife ho sim
ply answered:
"No."
"Where is she!"
"I do not know."
'When did she go away!''
"On Tuesdav, the 14th, between seven
and half-past seven o'clock.'
"What circumstances
rienarturef"
have caused her
" As to that, I do not owe any account to
anv one."
The judge remarked to him that this sys
tematic refusal to answer singularly aggra
vated his case, and even constituted, to tell
tho truth, the onlv serious charge against
him. He replied with an imperturbable
coolness that he could not be prosecuted for
the simple fact that his wife had left his
house and that was the only fact he ac
knowledged. "You accuse me of having killed my
wife." said he. " I deny it. It is for you to
furnish the proof. Show me her body. I
can not rrove that I have not kilJed my
wife. Prove to me that I have killed her."
"But what reasons have you to refuse the
explanations which would save you from
an indictment of murder! If there is any
thing of a delicate nature concerning the
honor of vour name you must have con
fidence enough in the justice of your coun
try to know that it will not be divulged. The
personal duty of the magistrate, as well as
his professional honor, is a guarantee to you.
If vou do not answer it is because you have
something to hide. It is in your own inter
est to speak, for whatever you have to hide
could never be as grave as that of which
vou are accused." ....
"I shall answer no question which has
not a direct bearingon the actof which I am
accused. 8tatc your proofs; I shall discuss
their value. Mv wife's disappearance is not
a proof that I have killed her."
After this interrogatory the judge made
out a warrant of arrest against Brownlow,
who was committed to prison.
CHAPTER III.
As soon as it became known that Brown
low had not only been arrested, but that he
was under formal accusation, and that his
trial for murder would soon take place, the
excitement which pervaded the neighbor
hood of his handsome house on Fifth
avenue abated. But the newspapers threw
themselves with all the more earnestness
into the mystery of clearing up the disap
pearance of his wife. Their reports were
sent out in every direction, and at times
they supplemented the work of the detect
ives, and at times they went into investi
gations on their own account in a charac
teristic way. The families of both Brown
low and Champion were successfully in-
lernewou ana emissaries vi mc mv hwd
coastaaUy dogging the heels of the police
and presenting themselves at headquarters
to find the latest clew. Certain enterpris
ing reporters visited the morgue from day
to day and tried to identify bodies as the
remains of Mrs. Brownlow, and many a
sensational story produced good returns to
its writers by the space given to the matter
by all the principal papers in the city. The
private life of Champion was laid bare be
fore the public in a way that was little
gratifying to that gentleman. Meantime
the police continued their investigations by
themselves, and gave as little information
to the reporters as possible. The detectives
called upon the servants of Mr. Brownlow,
and used all the devices in their power to
induce them to give testimony which should
lead to a definite clew. The servants ad
mitted that they had been present at some
pretty lively discussions which were
brought about by the jealousy of Mrs.
Brownlow or the irritation of Mr. Brown
low against her parents. But the dis
agreement had never, apparently, gone
further than high words between them.
In these disputes Mrs. Brownlow never
hesitated to give vent to her anger in the
presence of the servants. As to what might
have taken place on Tuesday, the 14th, they
knew nothing except that when they left
the house at seven o clock Mr. ana .Mrs.
Brownlow were dressed to go out, and that
when they returned both the master and
the mistress were still absent, and further,
that Mr. Brownlow returned alone at three
o'clock in the morning. Although no
definite facts, therefore, were developed in
this testimony, the tenor of it was decided
ly unfavorable. Whether they disliked
their master or whether they had some
foolish pride to satisfy in seeing the accu
sations of which they had furnished the
first elements corroborated, they certainly
expressed the moral conviction that in their
absence something terrible must have
passed between the couple.
As for the neighbors whom the detectives
interviewed with unceasing perseverance,
none had remarked whether Mr. and Mrs.
Brownlow had gone out on that evening
separately or together. The difficulty of
establishing this first point was ono which
caused the detectives the keenest anxiety.
Brownlow in the few words which he had
consented to utter had declared that bis
wife had left the bouse between seven and
half past seven. It was this point that sev
eral of the detectives who were employed
on the case discussed most seriously when
they met one morning for a consultation in
the chiefs office. One of the mostenter
prisingand successful of the detectives on
the regular force was Mr. Seth Ketcham.
He had worked longer than any of the
others upon the case, and on the point at
issue said to his chief and colleagues:
"Inasmuch as Brownlow declares that his
wife left the house between seven and half
past seven, it must be a falsehood. A man
in his grade of society and of his peculiarly
stubborn pride of character could not let
any thing escape through inadvertence, and
if he had furnished this indication it could
only have been with the purpose of mislead
ing justice. It is therefore reasonable to sup
pose that Mrs. Brownlow did not leave the
house in the way in which her husband indi
cated. In all probability the deed was done
indoors, and the body thereafter concealed
in some way that we have to find out. In
mv opinion, therefore, wo should search the
house. In all probability Mrs. Brownlow
was murdered without premeditation,
probably in a moment of anger. Between
seven and midnight, the hour when the
servants had returned, the assassin had
five hours to cover up all traces of his
crime."
"But," suggested the chief, "it is not
conceivablo that, having committed the
crime in the house, he could have carried
the body on his back through the streets of
New York. He would have been obliged to
take a carriage. He could not have put the
body into a carriage and taken it out again
without making the coachman his accom
plice. Now, he had had no time to prepare for
this complicity, as he did not know an hour
before seven o'clock that all the servants
were to be out that night. There is just a
bare possibility, however, that be may have
planned this thing deliberately, for you will
remember that he permitted his own coach
man to goto the theater of his own free
will, and it looks as if he had dismissed him
for the evening with a special purpose. It
certainly follows that his coachman was
not the one who conspired with him to dis
pose of the body. Therefore, although I
agree that the house should be most thor
oughly searched, it is highly important that
we should look after all the hack-drivers in
the neighborhood, if not all in the city and
vicinity."
The next day the search was begun as
Ketcham had suggested. Almost all the
detectives were confident that in the
thorough search men of their calling know
how to make they should find some direct
clew to the crime in the house. For al
though a hackman might have been in com
plicity with Mr. Brownlow in the terrible
"IT SEEMS PROBABLE SOW," HE SAID.
affair, every thing pointed to premeditation,
inasmuch as he had arranged matters so
that he could be alone with his wife for
several hours.
The police searched not only every corner,
every armoire and cupboard, from cellar to
garret, and all the barrels and boxes and
packages; they sounded the walls; they
dug up the stones of the cellar that seemed
to be loose; they ripped up the floors and
tho steps of the stairs: for three days tbey
devoted themselves to a systematic and
unremitting search, and literally left no
stone unturned that might by any possibili
ty conceal a clew to the crime. They
found nothing.
They had to comeback to the first hypothe
sis that Mr. Brownlow had induced his wife
to leave the house and had led her to some
out-of-the-way spot and there murdered
her, where eventually they would find the
body in sucn a state of decomposition that
its identity could not Toe established. It
would only be one more body to add to
those which are found daily in the river and
by the docks and in out-ef-the-way places.
Another consultation was held in the chiefs
office, in fact, they were held every day,
but at this one a new theory was suggested,
this time also by Ketcham.
"It seems probable now," he said, "that
this deed could not have been committed
in New York at all. Brownlow must have
mnni .
knowa how ditlcult
it to to hide for any
length of time the traces of a murder upon
ground which is traversed daily in all direc
tions and watched over by a police whose
effective force is the standing admiration
of the entire country. He had plenty of
time not only to get out of the city but to go
for a long distance. There are a great many
railroads running from New York with fre
quent trains in the early evening. He could
have taken any one of those and gone out as
far as from fifty to one hundred miles and
yet have had two hours or more in which to
carry out his purpose and return to the city
by the last train and reach his home, as the
servants will testify that he did, at three
o'clock in the morning. It will be necessary,
then, to have the search proceed until all
ground is covered within a radius of one
hundred miles from New York."
This plan of the campaign was so expen
sive and so difficult that if the murder had
not been one of unusual interest the detect
ives would never have thought of under
taking it. But the popular clamor was
so great, the newspapers were so constant
in their publication of sensational clews,
and editorials were hurled in such volume
unon the department as to compel it to take
every chance, no matter how chimerical it
might seem, to ferret out the truth of this
mystery. The general cry was: "Let there
be the same law for tho rich man as well as
for the poor." The wildest sort of stories
were circulated and even pumisnca to me
effect that the wealthy friends of Mr.
Brownlow had bribed the police, from the
chief to the humblest patrolman, not to find
evidence in this case. Smarting tinder this
sort of criticism, therefore, and with a nat
ural pride in their work, the detectives put
their most earnest endeavors into the case
and studied and worked night and day to
get at the truth.
One of the detectives who had been au
thorized to mako special investigations into
the family ofMrs.Brownlow reported one day
that tho theory of sudden anger would real
ly not hold in this case; that there must be
some other satisfactory motive for tho deed,
and that he believed that it would bo found
by examination of the papers of Mrs.
Brownlow. TJptothistimeall the private
documents found in the Brownlow mansion,
when it had been starched, had been care
fully kept without examination. The de
tective averred that the Champion family
felt so strongly that Mr. Brownlow had
married their daughter for the sake of her
money that he now believed that he had
been instrumental in putting her out of the
wav for the sake of getting a secure and
undivided hold upon it Accordingly, an
examination was made of the property
which Mrs. Brownlow held. It was found
that nothing had been touched by Mr.
Brownlow, and that the property which
stood in her name consisted almost entirely
of unregistered bonds, which, as everybody
knows, are good for their face value on pre
sentation. Among tho papers, however, was a will
made by Mrs. Brownlow, in which her hus
band was nominated as her sole heir, and
this will bore a date six days previous to
the crime. The finding of this testament
created a sensation among the detectives,
but its discovery was for a considerable
period kept from the public. They knew
now what interest the husband had in the
death or disappearance of his wife. There
was only one objection to this theory: In
order to inherit this property he must pro
duce a certificate of death of his wife.
But after her disappearance this was im
possible. However, it would have been
comparatively easy to overcome this, for as
long as the death of Leonora was not regu
larly proven Mr. Brownlow remained in
practicable possession of the fortune as the
administrator, and it would have been very
difficult to oust him from his position. If,
later on, her death should become an estab
lished fact, the will would then set aside
any adverse claim. It seemed to be a clev
erly executed scheme.
CHAPTER IV.
As time wore on the situation of the ac
cused became more serious. It was more
and more impossible to believe that Mrs.
Brownlow had left the house of her own
free will. After discussion of all the the
ories they could possibly evolve, the report'
ers, in order to keep the matter well before
the public in an attractive shape, origin
ated this theorv: That Mrs. Brownlow had
simply gone with her husband's consent to
take a journey, tho object of which they did
not care to reveal. Althougnthis tneory
gained credit in the papers, especially be
cause of efforts on the part of some of Mr.
Brownlow's friends to substantiate it, the
detectives paid little attention to it. It was
so evident that Mrs. Brownlow, had such
been the case, would have returned as soon
as she had heard the accusations directed
against her husband, that the theory seemed
to be of no importance. Day after day, of
course, the detectives gave Mr. Brownlow
every opportunity to talk and state his
side of tne case, but he obstinately re
mained silent. It was disappointing to the
detectives engaged upon the case that they
could not get direct and incontrovertible
evidence of the fundamental fact in the
case, namely, that Mrs. Brownlow was
dead. The fact of her disappearance need
ed no proof; the object of the accused in
committing the crime was established; he
had refused to account for the time passed,
where and how no one knew, during the
evening and part of the night of Tuesday,
the 14th. And his attitude from the time
of his arrest bad been compromising in the
extreme; but there was still no evidence
that seemed to justify conviction. Ono day
the detectives found just the clew that they
seemed to have been waiting for so long.
It came partly as chance and partly as
the result of keen detective work. Seth
Eetcham had reasoned with himself that as
Mrs. Brownlow had left the house, or had
at all events been last seen in evening
dress, and as those garments were not
found in the house at the time of the search,
she must have had them on whenever the
deed was committed. Next to the difficulty
of hiding the body would be the difficulty of
disposing of this peculiar clothing. He bad
made tireless searches among the second
hand clothing stores and pawn-shops of the
city to see if therein might not be found some
of the garments which Mrs. Brownlow had
worn, his idea being the vague one that
perhaps Mr. Brownlow had taken that
means to disguise any trace of the crime
that might be found on the clothing. Hav
ing found nothing in any of those places
that be went through, he thought over the
possible ways in which the crime might
have been committed. Any noisy violence
in the city would be liable to attract atten
tion; therefore he concluded that tne aeea
must have been done some other war. In
the course of his investigations he found that
the deck hand of a ferry-boat that had been
crossing the North river upon that night
about tea o'clock had seen a man and wom
an quarreling in low tones upon the after
part of the boat.
He had paid bnt little attention to them,
although he confessed that his post of duty
should have been at that end of the boat.
He went forward to the engine-room for a
moment, and when he returned he saw the
man standing by the rail alone. As he ap
proached the stranger the man turned
abruptly and walked into the gentlemen's
cabin. The deck hand had paid no atten
tion to it, because circumstances of that
natare are so common where crowds assess
I We, aad had thought nothing farther 0ff
it until the detectives had put their usaal
inquiries to him as to whether he had seen
such people as Mr. and Mrs. Brownlow
come over on his boat on the night in ques
tion. Eetcham reasoned from this that the
murder had been done upon tho ferry-boat,
and he strongly believed that there was a
clew to the crime. He was therefore watch
ing the river as patiently as possible
One day a ragamuffin, who was fishing
from the end of a long dock that ran out
into the North river, pulled up something
heavy on his line. He knew that it was no
fish, and was in some disgust that his line
should have caught in a snag. But when
he brought the object to the surface it
proved to be a garment of some kind. He
quickly pulled it up to the wharf and found
at the end of the line a fashionable opera
cloak in an advanced state of ruin. The
cloak was made in the latest fashion, in
black Indian cashmere, embroidered in gold
passementeries. Few such garments are
worn by people who cross on the ferry
boats or who ratnblo about the docks.
The ragamuffin was much rejoiced at his
find, and, although the garment was so
nearly spoiled, he believed that he could
realize a considerable sum upon it by dis
posing of it to a second-hand dealer. As he
was going off the wharf with it a policeman,
whose beat lay in that quarter, approached
him and demanded what he had with him.
The ragamuffin was obliged to disclose his
find, and tho policeman, believing that in it
might be found a clew to either some crime
or somo accident, took him and the garment
to the station house. There it naturally
came under the eyes of the detectives whe
had been working upon the Brownlow case,
and the greatest sensation that had oc
curred since the news of the disappearance
was created by the identification of this
cloak as that of Mrs. Brownlow s.
Her dressmaker was hunted up, and
stated to the detective that the garment
had been made especially for Mrs. Brown
low, and that none other like it had ever
been turned out of her establishment. It
was, therefore, certain to the detectives
TIIK RAGAMUrrtX WAS OBLIGED TO DISCLOSB
nis FIND.
that Mrs. Brownlow had been murdered
and her body thrown into the river. The
garment, being a loose one, might have
worked away from the body as it lay at
the bottom of tho river and have floated
down miles away from the spot where it
was thrown in. If there had been no other
evidence in which to identify the garment
it was procured from the examination
made by a chemical expert. He scruti
nized very carefully the oxidization that
had resulted from the immersing in the
metal of the passementerie trimmings in
the water, and from the thickness of the
crust thns laid on he determined, in o
scientific way, that the garment had been
lying in the water just the length of time
that had elapsed since the disappearance ol
Mrs. Brownlow.
TO BK C05T1NUED.1
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG.
Views of a Writer ho Believes That
Sweet Are the Vses of Adversity."
There are times when every thing seems
to go wrong. From seven o'clock a. m. till
ten p. m. affairs are in a twist. You rise in
the morning, and the room is cold, and a
button is off, and the breakfast is tough,
and the stove smokes, and the pipes burst,
and you start down the street nettled from
head to foot. All day long things are ad
verse. Insinuations, petty losses, mean
ness on the part of customers. The ink
bottle upsets, and spoils the carpet Some
one gives a wrong turn to the damper, and
the gas escapes. An agent comes in de
termined to insure your life, when it is al
ready insured for more than it is worth,
and you are afraid some one will knock you
on the head to get the price of your policy:
but he sticks to you, showingyou pictures of
Old Time and the hour-glass, and death's
scythe, and a skeleton, making it quite
certain that you will die before your
time unless you take out papers in his
company. Besides this, you have a cold
in your head, and a grain of dirt in
your eye, and you are a walking uneasi
ness. The day is out of joint, and
no surgeon can set it The probability is
that if you would look at the weathervane
you would find that the wind is northeast
and you might remember that you have lost
much sleep lately. It might happen to be
that vu are out of joint instead of the
day. Be careful and not write many let
ters while you are in that irritable mood.
You will pen some things in the way of
criticism or fault-finding that you will be
sorry for afterwards. Let us remember
that these spiked nettles of life are part of
our discipline. Life would get nauseating
if it were all honey. The table would be
poorly set that had on it nothing but
treacle. We need a little vinegar, mustard,
pepper and horse-radish that brings the
tears even when we do not feel pathetic.
If this world were all smoothness, we
should never be ready for emigration to a
higher and better. Blustering March and
weeping April prepare us for shining May.
This world is a poor nitching-post Instead
of tying fast on the cold mountains, we had
better whip up and hasten on toward the
warm inn, where our good friends are look
ing out of the window watching to see up
come up. N. Y. Observer.
Sats a Western exchange: A practical
revivalist in this neighborhood requested all
in the congregation who paid their debts to
rise. The rising was general. After tak
ing their seats a call was made for those
who didn't pay their debts, and one solitary
individual arose, who explained mat e was
an editor, and could not, because the rest
of the congregation were owing him foi
their subscriptions.
m m
Ax absent-minded doctor, who had con
siderable investments ia real estate, was
about leaving a patient after writing a pre
scription, when he was asked for directions
as to how the medicine was to be taken.
"Oh, yes," he said, "I forgot One-thira
down and the balance in one and two years."
Poo scrroa (to rich belle who has ac
cepted him) "I can not givyou diamonds,
darling; I am poor!" Rich belle "Oh,
never mind, Edwin! I can buy my own,
all I want; but you caa give m a ore
aioaal ruby or sapphire bow aadtnex '
HANGING FEELS GOOD.
Se
Says a Yoan- Ma Who Has Gea
Through the Kxperieac.
I learned from the hotel clerk here,
says a New York Herald correspondent
at Elmira the other day. that a young
plumber doing-business on the prin
cipal street hod once been hanged, and
when cut down was thought to be dead.
Here seemed a good chance to inves
tigate from first hands the tortures of
the operation which has relieved the
State of so many of its ornamental
citizens.
This young man's name is Miles
Doyle. He is a fine, strapping fellow,
a member of Assemblyman Bush's
crack Twenty-sixth Company. He has
always resided in Elmira, where his
parents were among the first settlers
long before it became a city.
The event which culminated in his
hanging happened five years ago. and
at the time attracted much attention
from the local press, although his de
scription of his feelings while dang
ling by the neck was never recorded.
It was a school-boy's escapade. While
chasing a rabbit through the grounds
of ex-Alderman Hughes, he attempted
to run over a raised platform upon
which the housewives stand while
hanging clothes upon a revolving reel.
There is no dato obtainable as to the
length of time which ensued from tho
moment he ran upon the platform
and the time when a servant girl
opened the kitchen door and was hor
rified to see a young man, his face
black and blue, dancrlinir from tho
rope on this reel. Ona glance at the
distorted features convinced her that
the youth was dead, but she gave a
shriek which called the neighbors to
the scene.
Ex-Speaker JereMcGuire was among
tho first to arrive, and with consider
able presence of mind cut young Doyle
down and, with the assistance of Mrs.
Hughes, proceeded to resuscitate him.
At first it was thought life was extinct,
but in less than half an hour he had
been sufficiently restored to be con
veyed to his home.
Such is the narrative of the occur
rence, all tne parties named being
well-known residents of this com
munity. I found young Doyle at his mother's
jesidence, 660 Columbia street. The
young gentleman was making active
preparations to join his military com
pany. When I asked him what were
his feelings while hanging he replied:
At first I experienced a slight
wrench in the neck, but no pain fol
lowed it 1 thought then that I had
jumped from the top of a high building.
and when goingdown 1 kept wondering
when I was going to alight. Gradually
the air seemed to thicken, and then I
thought I wasn't going to fall any
further, but that something under me
kept me floating in the air. I could
hear distant music, and a wonderful
light flashed through the scene that
made the whole place the most beauti
ful I had ever seen. I felt awfully
happy, and when 1 recovered my senses
my first thoughts were of resentment
to the rude persons who took me away
from my beautiful vision.
I think hanging is about as happy
a death as one can choose, if he's got
to go."
A TANK INCUBATOR.
New Way or Hatching- Chicks for the
Philadelphia Slarket.
Not many spring chickens are being
raised by incubators in Berks County,
Pennsylvania, which clings to the old
fashioned way. But Mr. Hoch. of Oley,
made a success in that line and intro
duced some new ideas. He makes his
own incubators. He runs two of them
this spring, the one having a capacity
of 350 eggs and the other 100. His in
cubators are heated with hot water,
the tank being immediately over the
top of the drawer containing the eggs.
Mr. Hoch claims that this is far better
and safer than the oil-lamp heat. Each
day, two or three times, he taps off a
quantity of water and refills the tank
with boiling water, enough to keep the
temperature in the egg drawer at 103
degrees. When the eggs have been in
the incubator five or six days they arc
tested, and Mr. Hoch says he can then
tell whether they are fertile or not
The sterile eggs are thus removed and
the good ones placed back in the incu
bator. At the end of tho time required
by a hatching hen three weeks the
drawer is full of chicks, nearly every
egg producing one.
But where do you get a mother
from to take care of the chickens?"
asked an Eagle representative.
Mr. Hoch replied that he had a
building for this purpose called a
brooder-house. The building is forty
six feet long by ten wide and ten feet
high. The side toward the east slants
to within two feet of the ground, and
is supplied with windows which, by
means of a twine and pulley on the in
side, are raised and lowered at will.
Thirty-six feet of the house are divided
into pens four feet wide, and in these
the chicks are placed as soon as
hatched. The floor of the house is
double, with four inches of space be
tween the two. In the space is a coil
of inch pipe and the building is heated
by the hot-water system. The water
is heated in tho ten-foot room at one
2nd of the building. Instead of using
a stove, as others do, to heat the watc.
Mr. Hoch merely walled in a coil of
five one-inch pipes one foot long, with
a fire-place beneath. In each four-foot
pen a small tin pipe protrude about
two inches above the floor. Over this
is placed an ordinary stool with four
legs about three inches long. Around
the outside of the stool is tacked a
piece of calico, which hangs nearly to
the floor. Under this stool the chicks
gather aad are as comfortable as under
7ataer ura are aa conuoretuie as unuer
the wiagsof ahenaad out of daogex
of in9cts.-Keadinjr (Pa.) Eagla.
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
Land poor and poor land are evils'
to be avoided. Western Plowman.
It is better to kill one or two of tb
young pigs than to allow the sow to
attempt to provide milk for a large
litter.
Milk is a much better food for
poultry during the summer than corn.
Corn is heating and fattening, two
conditions that, as a rule, ought to be
avoided, unless feeding fortbe market.
No farm is complete unless it con
tains orchards. Not only should tho
apple be given a place but all other va
rieties of fruit The small fruits should
be grown especially for family use. and
a large supply of all kinds should be
canned for winter.
A green-pea omelet can bo made
with four eggs and half a pint of boiled
green peas or canned peas, poured in
side the omelet before it is folded. As
paragus may be used in the same way.
Only the green ends should be used
after they are boiled, drained and
seasoned.
The best tonic for fowls in the
drinking water is ten drops tincture of
iron in a gallon of water. Once a
week a teaspoonful of tincture ef cam
phor is excellent if the fowls are de
bilitated. If the flock is in good con
dition nothing but pure, fresh water
need be allowed, along with a variety
of food. '
A splendid substitute for brush for
peas or pole beans is made by driving
strong stakes about twelve feet apart
in the row, leaving thom thirty Inches
high and fastening a smooth fencing
wire along the tops and another within
six inches of the ground. Wrapping
twine is then passed back and forth be
tween the wires. The stakes and wire
cost but little, are easily put away, and
will last for years.
By feeding one kind of soft food
too continuously, to the exclusion ol
raw grain entirely, some poultry
keepers have gotten their flocks intc
an unhealthy condition, and conclud
ing that soft food is the cause of it de
cide to discard its use altogether.
Either extreme is to be avoided. It is
a bad plan to lay down strict undevia
ting rules about many things; in feed
ing fowls one must be governed to a
great degree by the state of the weathet
and its temperature.
In whipping cream there are sev
eral precautions to be taken. While
cream will not whip if either too thick
or too thin, cream should be perfectly
cold to whip. Many persons use ac
egg beater, but the froth made in this
way is apt to be lumpy. The best chum
has a single dasher. To whip easily,
set the churn a little inclined and use
very short strokes, with the force in
the down stroke. A pint of cream
should treble by whipping. Use a deep
dish, and as the froth collects skim it
off into a dish and set it on ice. When
the quantity of cream is too low to al
low the churn to act, add a little milk
and the cream can be reached by the
churn.
"SCAB" IN SHEEP.
TJew te Treat the Disease Tobmce aad
Sulphar a m Dtp.
What is called "scab" in sheep is s
cutaneous disease, closely allied tc
mange in horses and itch in men, foi
in all three the soreness and inflamma
tion of the skin are due to the presence
of a minute parasitic mite, usually
called an acarus, which burrows in the
skin, loosening the hairs or wool. II
one of the female acari is placed on the
wool of a healthy sheep she will quickly
crawl down to the root of it and bury
herself in the skin. These female
acari bring forth from eight to fifteen
young at a litter, and these spread over,
the animal, and wherever they find
lodgment make small sores and cause
the wool to drop out Old and un
healthy sheep are first attacked and
suffer most, but if the disease is neg
lected it will spread to the most healthy
and vigorous, and even young lambs
will sooner or later become affected.
The best and cheapest treatment for
this disease is to dip the entire flock,
lambs as well as the old and fully
grown, in some kind of liquid that will
soften the scab and poison the mites.
The dipping should be done as soon as
the sheep are sheared in spring, for at
this time the liquid will readily reach
every part and destroy the mites. The
most common and perhaps best sheep
dip in use consists of tobacco and sul
phur in the proportions of four ounces
of tobacco and one of sulphur to one
gallon of water. If a large flock of
sheep are to be dipped, then kettles of
sufficient capacity must be provided to
boat the liquid, and also a tank or box
large enough to admit the entire body
of the largest sheep. The tobacco
should be steeped in hot water until its
strength is extracted, and the sulphur
then stirred in. The liquid should then
be poured into the dipping vat and ita
temperature reduced to about 120.
when it is ready for use. Each animal
should be entirely immersed except the
eyes and mouth, then lifted out care
fully aad held on a platform for a few
minutes for the liquid to drain off and
run back into the tank. By using
tobacco stems the cost of the dipping
liquid will be greatly reduced, and still
be equally as effective as one made of
a better quality of tobacco. The cost
of dipping a large flock will not exceed
five cents per head, and the gain ia the
growth of wool, health, and comfort of
the sheep will far exceed the cost of
this operatioa. Sheep ticks and otner
Terrain infesting sheep will also be de
stroyed by the tobacco and sulphur.
In Europe arsenic spirits ot turpentine
aad other poisons are used in making
whmi are called sheep dips;" bat to-
bacoo aBd sulphur are eauallj effica-
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