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"- ? ' .Vf SSsfraBEePlte-' '? JJ5 fi ? ts- . .s-JT. mtrmit --. - -. - v -r . - ?SM -l -- VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 4. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 5, 1897. WHOLE NUMBER 1,408. Cfllumbfe mmmWmT HaW ! iTh --- 7 v- I J .VM " sassm. ism Jmw r t s - r f. 1 1 Vv Ml ,1 '' I A MAN FROM THE CAPE T was aa eccentric picture gallery, with pictures paint ed by men who were young enough to know better, of sprawling ladies in green, scarlet land scapes, and blue angels. The frames formed in them selves a CTim at- -.traction to most of the visitors; the " catalogue wa3 usually preserved by suburban patrons for the purpose of frightening birds. Yet the gallery was not without' attractions on a cold day when the wind cut along from the Green Park, down Piccadilly, racing another wind which was speeding mad ly along Pall Mall with a slight start in advance toward Waterloo Place. "It does one good," said Mr. James Marchant to cose to a show- like this. If I ever go out to the Cape again " "Which you wont," said the young lady. ' "And I feel wistful " r "Mai du pays." suggested the young lady. "Exactly. Why. then. I shall think of this hideous collection of pictures, and I shell feel reconciled to my lot. The Cape is net all honey, but at any rate you do get nature there. And na ture i always good." "I suppose these artists think she can be improved by the introduction of a. little novelty." "I wouldn't," said Mr. James March .ant, waving his stick round the gal lery, "I wouldn't give twopence half penny for the lot of them." "I don't suppose they would care to sell them for less." Mr. James Marchant laughed good temperedly, and touched her hand, which happened to be resting on her knee. It was a very pretty hand and viryceatly gloved, and there was good excuse for him. "But -there Is something." he said, lowering his voice, "something in the gallery. Ella, that I would give every penny I have In the world to possess." "A picture?" "Prettier than any picture." "Statuary?" "Detter shaped than any statuary." "Xot disposed of already?" "I hope not. There is only one diffi culty I am not sure, if I were to make aa offer now, that it would be ac cepted." "How shall you find out?" He rose and adjusted his frock coat with the manner of a man to whom for soma years frock coats had not fceen familiar wear. He was a tall brown-iaced man. with a good deal of earnestness in his eyes. "I shall ask Mrs. Beckett" "Or she said. She gasped a little before she went on. "And you you think my stepmother will be will be able to advise you in the matter?" ."I think she will." They walked slowly on the thick carpet to the swing doors. "Besides, it's only fair to do so." "It seems to me," she said, rolling , up her catalogue very tightly, "rather m old-fashioned mode of procedure." "There is this excuse in my case Mrs. Beckett has an idea, I am afraid, that I have brought back from the Cape untold gold. I want to make her fcritfi-; T but " I rvvi;3j;y I "And, fortunately enough, to con Jf a' " ? WT? it l n'm m? suspicions, I came across a let- v-'J aMuk mm 'ii T Vn 4 v "THEY DON'T KISS ME." understand that when I say I shall have to work for my living, I really mean it." "I am glad." she said quietly. "I know that you are. dear. But I suppose parents are different." "My parent is." "And if she objects, why," he looked down upon her affectionately. "I shall ' just pack you up, Ella, and run off with you. "Now," she said, delightedly, "that is more old-fashioned than ever. I be lieve it's an idea you have learnt from the Kaffirs. What a wonderful thing travel is for imnrovinsr thp mind!' I "I shall see you tonight?" "I am not sure," she said, with her little hand resting for a moment in his. "I think the invitation is for two only." "I have a great mind," said Mr. James Marchant, looking down at her .affectionately, "to kiss you." "That Is no evidence of a great mind, she said reprovingly. "Besides, you are in London now." "And don't people kiss in London?" "They don't kiss me. Mr. Marchant" "I am very glad of that." ! "And people don't talk of kissing at i the doors of picture galleries." "I am afraid," said James Marchant i apologetically, "that I have much to learn before I become recivilked. The Cape makes one forget all one's.man ners." "It has not made you forget your friends," she said. "There was cne." he said, as he as sisted her into the hansom, "she was only a small girl " "Not old enough to count: "Of whonul thought every day of my life oat there." There were tears in her eyes that challenged the lightness of her good by. The small gloved hand was pressed in the big fist of the man from the Cape for cne moment, and then he ' gave the address to the driver. A bright face with the tears of hap piness still there looked through the glass as the hans-om drore off. and Mr. James Marchant strode away with a (lad heart to see a business man in ts i VlWM 3JI Ml - 'i 7 Bedford street. For men who want to earn, money must force their thoughts away even from the direction of pleas ant young women. It was by great dexterity that at din ner In Dn)") Street Mansions that night Mr. JaSses Marchant contrived to get himself paired with the excellent Mrs. Beckett. Mrs. Beckett declared her self enchanted; but this was so fre quent a declaration on the part of Mr. Beckett that it was held to mean something less than the phrase really meant. "I aaould have thought you would have insisted, sim ply insisted on tak ing down my dear Madeline." Mrs. Beckett fluttered her fan at Mr. Marchant in a manner that had in the early seventies been pronounced be- L witching. I want particularly to speak to yon, Mrs. Beckett. I want to offer my self S s sh," said Mrs. Beckett mys teriously. "Not a word. I know ex actly what you are coins to say. Madeline, my dear." She called to a tall, bony damsel just in front of them. "Tom haven't shaken hands with dear Mr. Marchant. How very remiss of you. The dear girl is so thoughtless; do you know, Mr. Marchant, that I de clare to goodness I believe she's in love?" Miss Madeline received this raillery with a grim smile and shook hands with Mr. Marchant. Miss Madeline explained that her half-sister Ella had remained at home because she had some writing to do. "Poor Ella." said Mrs. Beckett, with effusive sympathy, "poor, dear girL I'm really dreadfully fond of her. You must give me your advice. Mr. March ant, concerning her at dinner. I feel already forgive me for saying so I feel already as though you were one of the family." Mrs. Beckett gave her little cackle of self-approval and general satisfac tion and went on as they seated them selves at table. "I have noticed it all along, do you know, and I am so delighted. Quite enchanted really. And my influence with the dear girl will make her like you. I dare say you may have thought her a little what shall I say cold? but. as a matter of fact, it has only been O, bless my soul, thick soup, please what is the expression? It has only been it has only been " "Maidenly reserve?" suggested Marchant. "Pre cisely! Pre cisely what I was trying to say. How clever of you, dear Mr. Marchant. I can understand now how it was you got on so well in South Africa. And your assertion that you had come home with very little was. I could see, only a pretense to try us. Yes, sherry, please." "I want to speak to you about that. i Mrs. Beckett. I'm afraid you don't realize what I mean when I say that I haven't brought much home with me." "Xow, my dear Mr. Marchant.' "You must allow me, please, to tell you exactly my position. Unless I work and earn money we shan't have " "Mr. MarchantI This elaborate ruse is one that I have heard of before. A woman iice myseu aoesn t uve in this world for well, a certain number of years for nothting." No," said Mr. Marchant; "it costs ney. I know." money, "That is not at all what I mean. But when you came back from the Cape a tew weess ago anu cmtea tnat you had only a few hundreds I could through it at once. It was this is a dreadfully slangy expression too thin. But the dear girl, of course, didn't sea through it, 'and consequently you may feel quite sure that she will love you for yourself alone. That's all you wanted, isn't it?" "That, certainly, is all that I wanted. ' ter addressed to a friend of mine she didn t know that I saw it, but I managed to do so all the same from your partner, Burchison." "Really?" Mr. James Marchant wa3 suddenly interested. "And Mr. Burchison said that you and he had made a pile such aa odd expression isn't it of 20,000. And he said that he thought you would both stay on for a few years, but as we knew you sensibly came nome." Mrs. Beckett looked triumphantly across at her angular daughter oppo site, who was bawling information about the weather to a deaf archdea con, and then at Marchant. She shook her head waggishly at the man from the Cape. "Can I see that letter?" he asked sharply. "TJ'nrrTntolv T hivo ! in mr nnT.a w T rciir "rfn- tw t i uuw ..u....- .uu. .. "UU" WiiCCUCl X ought to show it you. You see it is private." "Is that why you took it. Mrs. Beck ett?" "Come, come, Mr. Marchant Don't I ue iuu stveru. jue aaa 10 seep ones I eyes open in this world." She found the letter with some diffi i culty for the pockets in ladies' dress es are remote and difficult of access I and under ambush of his plate March ' ant read it. , "Mrs. Beckett." he said excitedly, 1 "you have, without knowing it, done declared to me that he had invested our Saias and taa- aI1 e money had been lcst lt seems from tQis letter taat ne nas behaved shamefully, and I sbaI1 nake him dssorge every penny taat belongs to me. I shall go back to the CaPe fa tne aext toat." "This is very unsatisfactory," de- dared Mrs. Beckett aggrievedly. "You can't very well get married before next Saturday." "The dear girl will wait," he an swered confidently. 'Tm not so sura of that." tsaid Mrs. Beckett with some snappishness. "Dear Madeleine is not so young as she was." "So I should judge. But what has she to do with the affair? Is she to be bridesmaid?" "Madeleine has been bridesmaid ortea enough," said Madeleine's mota cr. "This time, providing this money affair of yours comes out right, she will be the bride." "Whose bride, Mrs. Beckett?" "Why, bless the man," cried Mrs. Beckett, "yours." "I" don't see how that can be man aged with convenience. There's a law against bigamy, I believe. Besides. I only want to marry your stepdaugh ter." "Ella?" cried Mra. Beckett amazedly. "If you don't mind." Mrs. Beckett laid down her fish knife and fork and stared distractedly around the table at the other guests. Finally her eyes rested on Madeleine, and she frowned so much at that young lady that Madeleine asked across the table in an audible tone if she were ilL "EI? echoed Mrs. Beckett tartly; I have uncommonly good cause to be. To think that I have taken all this trouble for the sake of poor Mr. Beck ett's ridiculous little danghter by his first wife. Why, she isn't worth " "Excuse me." interrupted Marchant promptly; "you will remember, please, that you are speaking of a lady who is to hemy wife." "Bah!" said Mrs. Beckett Cham bers' Journal. MAKING THE TORTILLA. SCala Article ef Food. The tortilla is typical of old Mexico and is encountered wherever the in fluence of the cactus republic has reached, says the Woman's Home Com panion. It was found as the main ar ticle of food among the ancient Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest more than three and a half centuries ago, and the little hand-grown and palm-fashioned corn cake has well held its own down through the ages, being to-day as popular and in as general use a3 ever. "Shelled corn intended for this use is first soaked over night in llmewater until the outer husks of the kernels is loose enough to be removed by being rolled between the hands and is then ready for grinding. This is done by the Mexican women of the lower class, who often work in the doorways of their homes, bending over the historic stone hand mill called in Mexico a metate. The mill is simply a rough slab of stone supported by four stocky legs and is made of volcanic tufa, the coarse grain of which is best adapted for the grtading of the corn, beans, chile, seeds, cheese or whatever it may be desired to finely puverize. The stone hand mill is an indispensa ble item in the culinary outfit of the tropical home. The accompanying hand piece, looking like a rude rolling pin, is also of stone and is briskly worked up and down the incline of the crude stone table by the woman as she bends to her work with a steady swing of body, shoulders and arms. It is claimed that the flour for the tortilla can be perfectly milled only by the an cient methods and when one sees the result of the grinding he is ready to admit that possibly the assertion is right. As the moist windrows of the meal roll off the grinding board it is caught in a basin and is then all ready for being formed into cakes for bak- i ms. When readv to bafcp a nrom.n takes a small luirp of the heavy mix ture and lays it in the palm of her hand. Then with the other palm she rolls it into a ball and begins to quick ly pat it into the required thinness, deftly spreading the fingers to allow it i to enlarge its size and chaneins it from hand to hand until it is only an eighth of an Inch in thickness and generally about six inches in diameter, although sometimes as large as a dinner nlale. The plastic cakes are tossed, one after J another, as completed, upon the stove, called a brasero, and as fast aa dell. j cately browned and turned they are placed in a steaming heap and envel oped In a cloth to keep them warm from which arises a most temptiaj cdor. XeceMary "Do you think," said the lady who was shopping, "that anybody wool steal this umbrella If I were to leave tt for a few minutes?" "Really, madam," replied the clerk. "I should not like to venture an opinion without first examining the umbrella." Washington Star. Wash-a-Kle Baptised. After living a pagan and polygamlst for ninety-three years, Wash-a-kie, chief of the Shoshones, has been bap- j tized at Fort Washakie, Wyo. He is one of the bravest and wisest of the Indians of the west. Definition of a Fool. Chollie What is your idea of a fool? Dollie A man who neglects to kiss a girl who has asked him to tuck her sleeves in her coat. Yonkers States man. FLOTSAM AHD JETSAM. "Now for another Arctic explora tion," said Fogg, as he started on a search for his overshoes. Boston Tran script. A gentleman who recently died in Portland, Me., bequeathed $3,000 for a fund, the interest of which is to be ex pended in caring for neglected graves in Evergreen Cemetery, that city. In Waterford, Me., there is a pastor who used to be an expert boxer in his college days, and this winter he has been giving lessons in the manly art to the youths of his neighborhood. San Francisco is soon to have the largest plant in the world for dispos ing of the city's refuse by fire. There will be thirty-two furnaces with a ca pacity for disposing of 400 tons of ma terial a day. The two oldest newspapers in Spain are the Gazette de Madrid, founded in 1661. and the Diario de Barcelona, founded in 1792. The latter has a cir culation of 20,000. and is the only large Spanish paper that appears twice a day. A paper published in Switzerland makes the astonishing assertion that there are in that country no fewer than 5,635 women's societies, with nearly 100,000 members. Most of them kare charitable or utilitarian objects In view. Florida will this year plant a large acreage in tobacco. A northern firm has bought 6,000 acres near Qulncy, la Gadsden county, and will put it all rst nn m r . - v kiuuoiui. x ue name una nas oeen mac- ing a successful test upon a 100-acre tract. The midnight music of cats so an noyed Jerome Summers of Weaver vine, N. Y-. that he hurried out bare footed with his pistol to shoot tfcem. In the yard he stepped upon a rusty nail, which caused lockjaw, and in ten days be died. CAMPF1BE SKETCHES. CAMP-FIRE SKETCHES FOR OUR OLD SOLDIER READERS. PatztoUBBft Rampant la Female Col lag Aa Old jcro Whom Gen. Shel by Bght Jnat Before the War ;e of Soldier. HOE the steed with silver That bore him to the fray. When be heard the guns at dawning Miles away; When he heard them calling-, calling Mount! nor stay; Quick, or all Is lost: They've surprised and stormed the post. They push your routed host Gallop! retrieve the dy. . House the horse in ermine For the foam-flake blew White through the red October; He thundered into view; They cheered him in the looming. Horseman and horse they knew. The turn of the tide began. The rally of bugles ran. He swung his hat in the van; The electric hoof-spark flew. Wreathe the steed and lead him For the charge he led Touched and turned the cypress Into amaranths for the head Of Philip, king of riders. Who raised then, from the dead. The camp (at dawning lost), -By eve. recovered forced. Rang wth laughter of the host At belated Early fled. Shroud the horse in sable For the mounds they heap! There is firing in the Valley. And yet no strife they keep: It is the parting- volley. It Is the pathos deep. There is jflory for the brave Who lead, and nobly save. But no knowledge in the grave Where the nameless followers sleep. Patriotism Karapaat in a Female College. Two years ago the faculty of Vassar college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., voted that, for various reasons. Washing- cn's birthday should not be given -o the students as a holiday. In 1S9S the day fell upon the last day of th-i i-eek, aud so seemed like a holiday In many respects. But this year brought t on Monday, and the young lady stu- Ients of Vassar felt it an insult to heir patriotism to be obliged to at- end classes on a legal national holt- iay. They resolved to protest against his as a body. Asout a quarter of an hour before reakfast that day a body of students -s-scmSIed in the senior parlor, and started in procession over the corri dcrs, increasing in numbers as they inarched. "America" and "Yankee Doodle" were sung with a wilL By the time the procession passed cut of :he front entrance and over to the president's house there- were 200 or 3G0 students in line. They saluted President Taylor's windows with "Three Cheers for the Red, White and Cluel" and hearty cheers for George Washington. Then, returning, tht-y rn:ered the dining-room to the tune of America." Quick and silent hands had transformed the dining-room into a giory of national colors. A chalk ins was drawn around the faculty able, and a screen of flags shut them away from the patriotic ones who were stent on celebration. The professors ere greeted as they entered the class -corns with patriotic songs, and found heir classes all arrayed in Sunday est. some with hats and gloves on, as if just ready to leave the college. More than this, a poster for every 'lass was conspicuous behind the desk. The French poster announced r "Qui cntre ici laisse le patriotism dehors." The algebra poster was a clever com putat.cn of the results of taking away patriotism from the faculty and adding it to the students. That of the Greek class informed the college that the Greeks loved freedom and taught hon or to those who freed their country. "Would that cur teachers would do the same."' The psychology pester traced the effect on the mind caused by de priving the students of tho holiday. In the morning mail each member of the faculty received a notice: "A re vised edition of Shakespeare's tragedy George Washington.' " with extracts to illustrate the situation. The bulle tin beard on the main corridor was covered with notices. Those who step ped to read found a notice from every club in the college: "There will be co meeting of the students' association today." "Federal councils will hold no meeting today," "The Wake Robin club -will not meet -today." And in striding contrast was an unsigned no tice. "The faculty will meet aa usual today." In the evening there was a Colonial ball given in the gymnasium, and the whc!c senior class went as George Washingtons, with labels to in sure identification. Wa $:ielb; Faith fat Slave. Kansas City Star: A darkey with bent form and wrinkled face that bore traces of ac and sorrow stood on Min nesota avenue in front of the office of the Star in Kansas City, Kan., early yesterday morning. For a long time he watched the newsboys enter the build ing and then run out again with their papers under their arms. Finally he went into the office and asked for a paper containing General Shelby's pic ture. A smile lighted up his face as ha took the paper in his trembling hands. Then he leaned against the wall and gazed steadfastly at the pic ture on the front page for ten min utes. "Did yen know General Shelby?" cne of the office men asked of him. "Did I know him?" the old darkey replied, without taking his eyes from the paper. "Did I know Jo Shelby T he repeated. "Why. he was my ole marstah." As he looked ap the tears were coursing dawn his cheeks. The old darkey's name was George Miller. He was the faithful slave who was with Shelby through the war and took care of the general's horses. He Is now 58 years old and lives at the corner of Tenth street and Washington avenue in Kansas. City. rep He earns a living by delivering groceries Tor Henry Horstman a grocer. Miller told a reporter that he was fecrn la Madison, county, Kentucky, In 183S. About ten years before the war fcroke out he was brought to Lexiac- ton, Me., with a number of claves who were to be sold on the block. On the day tTtne sale. Miller says, General Shelby came along and purchased him at private sale. "Hapafd fl.OOO for me, and he was the brat marstah I eber had." Thefaki darkey said he was taken to Shelby's farm, where he was given chargf of tae general's stables. When the war broke out General Shelby took Sillier with him and he wa3 a faith ful stave during all the long siege of civil ibife. After it was over he was giveahia-freedom. Tha old darkey's sorrow over the deatkTof his ideal soldier and master is pathetic to witness. I jt JKarriac for Soldiers. Tb post commander at Fort Asain iboiaT Mont, recently reprimanded Post Chaplain Bateman because the latter had officiated at the marriage ol a nsp-cojuaissioaed officer and a ymakT woman: ax"tne post, says the New 'York World. The whole affair was stigmatized "unauthorized and improper," but the chaplain didn't think so, and promptly appealed. He held that no authority was known to exist which can grant or deny -permission to enlisted men to get married and that his authority to perform the marriage ceremony is in no way de rived from the military establishment. The post commander held that no married men were wanted in the ser vice and special authority was nqt only required to re-enlist a married man but also to marry one. General Brooke, commanding the department of Dakota, through whose hands the papers passed, pronounced Chaplain Bateman's act "perfectly lawful and proper," but favored some rule being adopted which might prevent enlisted men from marrying while in the ser vice. Maj.-Gen. Miles comments as follows upon the points at issue: "The course of Chaplain Bateman appears fully warranted by law and regula tions. While the objection to soldiers marrying is well recognized It Is not prohibited by law or regulations, and the military authorities are not, there fore, warranted iu Intervening. As neither the soldier nor his wife are entitled to claim or privilege from th2 government during his service on ac count of marriage, under proper admin istration, no detriment to the service need result." The major-general re marks further that "the evil conse quences likely to result from prohib iting the marriage of soldiers would no doubt far exceed those existing un der present conditions." Too Much Dixie. Chicago Times-Herald: Brick Pom eroy did not pose as a wit. but he had a keen appreciation of humor and was full of fun. He was not particularly fond of practical jokes, but occasion ally Indulged ia a humorous fancy that took a practical turn. He had many funny experiences to relate, and he laughed most heartily as he told his story about the organ-grinder. "While I wa3 publishing a New York edition of the La Crosse Weekly Demo crat I had a little business office in the Daily Sun building. One day in the Bowery I met a one-armed soldier, who was trying to earn his living by grind ing an organ. Something moved me o talk to him. and learning his history and that he had lost an arm at Freder icksburg. I handed him a quarter and asked him to grind out just one tune for luck. He thanked me, turned the crank, and out came "Dixie" in a strain that would almost causa a mule to stop eating oats. It was the wlieeziest thing I had ever heard. Then another idea occurred to me; it was to hire him to sit with his organ immediately next to my office door, between it and the window. I closed a contract with him that he would play for four hours each day under my window, from 1 to 4 o'clock, and that he should play noth ing but 'Dixie.' For this service I was to pay him 50 cents an hour and he was to have in addition all the money :hrown into his bat by the public. This contract to be in force so long as he kept sober. The soldier picked up his organ, went with me and began work at once. At first no one took any no tice of him. I told him not to be dis couraged, that he would make a hit if he persevered, and to peg right away until the city hall clock opposite in dicated 4. Then I went upstairs to wait. "Away down soatli in Dixie's land, Away, away. In Dixie's land I'll take my stand. Til live and die in Dixie wailed the organ. Then it began all over again. In about half aa hour a man came out of a store adjoining and asked him to move on. The soldier said 'no, never missing a turn of the crank. The man went across to the city hall for a policeman, who came back vith him and ordered the organ grinder to move on. This gathered a crowd. Then I came down stairs and informed the policeman that I had em ployed this man to furnish me with music. Mr. Officer looked puzzled, but went away. Soon the publisher of the Sun ccme out and ordered the soldier to march. He declined. By 2 o'clock there was a crowd in the street. By 3 o'clock every occupant in the building except these in the Democrat office was swearing mad. Just before 4 o'clock Editor Dana sent a messenger to com plain to the mayor. When the mes senger returned the organ grinder had collected his first installment of 2 and departed. "The next day the soldier reappeared and b?gan busines sat the old stand promptly at 12 o'clock. The editors and p oprietors of the Sun were en raged. They sent for a policeman. I info-ined that officer that the organ grinder was my employe and I should protect him if I had to appeal to the suprene court. The policeman de parted to consult higher authorities. The crowd in the street gathered to the nrmber of hundreds, and realizing the siuation. began to throw money into the soldier's hat. so that he took in $20 during his four hours' work. For five weeks the soldier held his ground, but he couldn't stand prosper ity,, and going on a spree, lost his situa tion. I was sorry because of his fall frcm grace, but to tell the truth I was getting a little tired of 'Dixie myssif. Stanley Wood DA1KY AM) R)ULTY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Row Sacceaafal Farmer Operate ThJ Departmeat of tho Tarm A Few BlaU aa to tba Car of Utt Stock PMlizy. R H E double-necked skim milk test bot-. tie has now been in use about a year. Its principal ad vantage over the milk test bottle is the fine gradua tions which It has for measuring fat. Each graduation of the double-necked teat bottle represents .05 of one per cent fat and one araduatlon requires ao long: a space on the scale thatie " a quantity of fat as .02 of one par cent can be measured by this scale. We have found by the ose of these test bottles at the Wisconsin Dairy school that an accurate test of skim milk may be made with them just as easily as with any other test bottle, although it Is not because of any fault In the bottle. The test bottle measures the fat all right, but if the speed of the tester is too low or It is not run long enough only a small part of the fat is separated so that it can be measured. We have re peatedly noticed that while the usual amount of acid and speed of the tester may give satisfactory results -when testing whole milk, both acid and speed must be increased to give correct tests of skim milk. Whenever a skim milk test shows that the fat has not all been separated, although the fat in the test bottle may be very clear and to all ap pearance look as if the test was all right. It 13 very seldom, if ever, that a separator skim3 milk so that the skim milk contains only .05 of one per cent fat. and when a test shows less than this amount of fat in a sample of skim milk it generally indicates that the test was so made that the fat was .not all separated. In order to separate trora skim milk as much fat as is pos sible by the Babcock test, it is neces sary to add about one-third more than i he usual amount of acid to the milk In the test bottle. This is clearly hown by the following results. A sample of skim milk was tested twelve ames. The amount of acid used in each test and the length of time the tester was run each time, as well a3 the per cent of fat obtained in each test, are riven in the following statement: testes Asiouyr or acid, kcs 17.5 e e 1 23 e e rvr-TM FAT FAT MIS PEg CTtST TEg. CTPTT 4 .03-.03 .07-.07 6 .G.1-.04 .07-.C9 8 .03-.O4 .07-.07 This shows that the fourminute time )f running" the "tester"wa3 sunTdentras 10 more fat was separated by running t six or eight minutes, but about twice is much fat was obtained in each test to which an excess of acid was added. Similar results were reported by the .vriter in Bulletin 52, Wisconsin ex periment station. We have repeatedly ,'ound that an excess of acid will separ lte more fat from skim milk samples than is obtained by using the 17.5 per :ent acid, which is the amount of aci I ised for testing whole milk. E. H. Farriagtoa. Wisconsin Dairy School. Poultry Raisins on the Farm. Condensed from Farmers Revie.v Stenographic Report of the Wiscon sin Round-Pp Institute.) Mrs. A. H. Lehman read a paper on he above topic Her paper was foils w :d by a discussion, a part of which was is follows: Q. What breed cf poultry do you ecommend for winter laying and for r. market? A. For laying in the winter I would ecommend a black langshan, but for uarket a Plymouth Rock. For tur keys I prefer to raise the mammoth ironze. Q. How large flocks are profitable? A. That depends on how you haa lle them. I would not keep more than .0 together in one flock. I keep mine n flocks of about 23. You can keep as nany as you want to on the farm pro 'ided you keep them in separate flecks. Q. Would it pay to keep say 500 or 30 on a farm, if you kept them sepa rated? A. Yes, sir. If you kept them in locks of small size as I have said. Q. What is roup? A. It Is a cold in the head, or ca--rrh. You can tell it by the birds having swelled heads. They will sneeze and cough. It is usually caused by lamp places and by draft3. Damp quarters for poultry are very bad. The best remedy Is prevention. Keep the Louse dry and free from drafts. In iheir drinking water put tincture of Iron, at the rate of a teaspoonful in what a fleck of fifty will drink in a lay. Q. Is roup catching? A. I think it is. Q. Which are the best layers, white or brown leghorns? A. I think my brown leghorns have (aid best this year. Q. What do you do for diarrhoea? A. We use Venetian red. Q. Do you follow the practice of whitewashing your pens? A. Yes; we whitewash every year, and the pens should be cleaned out avery week. Q. What do you use for a dust bath? A. We use coal ashes very largely. Wood ashes are not so good. They eem to make their crops sore. Q. Do you have any trouble with the leghorns flying over your fences? A. Yes, sir; and I have to cut the wings of some of them. But they do not all fiy over. Q. Do you wash the henhouse with any insecticide, and if so what? A. Yes; we sometimes wash the house with a mixture of carbolic acid and kerosene. We take a bucket of water and put in about a pint of acid. We buy the cheap acid that does not cost much, and put in a little kerosene In the the water with it. Q. What do you do for scaly legs? A. Kerosene is the best thing that you can use. Q. What do you th'nk about an un ierground teahouse? A. I think that unless they are very well built and are well cemented that they will prove wet and consequently ery unntsiitnlui. I hAVe Jiov.a .j. I some that were very suceesful. but in those cases the hens did not have to stay in them at all by day. They had access to a hay stack all the day. They used the houses only for roosting pur poses. I think it is better to build small pens for birds rather than large ones. I build many pens in my house and have an alley that runs before all the pens. This prevents me from having to get into the pens to feed and water the hens. Q. Do you let your hens, turkeys and geese run together? A. Yes; I let them go together when they are small. I am careful that the little ones do not get wet before they are feathered out, for if they do get wet it will most certainly kill them and the little ducks will die Just as certainly as any other bird. Q. Do you advise feeding green cut bone? A. Yes, if yon can get some one to grind the bones; my men folks will not Britlah Dairy lraperto. The returns of the statistical depart ment regarding the imports of butter and cheese from foreign countries Into the British markets are at hand, says Elgin Dairy Report. Taking butter, cheese and oleo. in 1396 the Imports were 6,208.416 hundred weight, valued at 1113.714.609; an increase in the amount of 303.767 hundred weight, and in value 36,327,030 as compared with the amount and value of 1S95. Of but ter alone the imports for the year of 1S9S amounted to a total of 3,037.947 hundred weight, valued at the enorm ous sum of $77,720,415. In the tables below we give the countries from which the butter was supplied, and the amounts for the years 1396 and 1S95: 1S96. Denmark 1.22S.7S4 Franca 457,901 Sweden 323,829 Holland 234.4S9 Australasia 219,015 United States 141,533 Germany 107.S25 Canada 83.357 1S95. l,lS2.77a 454.S43 310.809 191.201 313.39S 65.932 112.33S 33.94a Denmark, the little country In the Baltic, still keep3 In the lead In in creased shipments to Great Britain, and for the year 1S36 nearly two-fifths of the whole Imports were from that country. France, Sweden and Hol land are also increasing supplies and developing their markets, but Ger many has lost ground. The United States and Canada are increasing their busines3 in that line with Great Britain, and the prospects are for a further increase, providing our people as well as the Canadians take hold of the export trade in the proper spirit and are willing to manufacture and pack the butter In accordance with the wishes and desires of the merchants and dealers In Great Britain. Cheese imports and the countries from which they were received are given in the ta ble below: 1896. 1S95. Canada l.ru.?qZ- . 1.150 011 United States 531,187 509.419 Holland 292,983 305.920 Australasia 55,149 92,759 France 45.676 56.393 Canada has slightly increased her hold on the cheese trade as Great Brit ain continually increases the same. This country has improved somewhat since the year 1S93, and with the competi tion of filled cheese out of the wa? and the reputation for honesty once giined, that we have lost by the sale of so much of the adulterated article, we have no doubt but the United States will again secure her position in the Eritish markets for the sale of full cream cheese. Now when we come to oleomargarine, the imports have de clined from 1SS3 to the amount of 924. 943 cwt. The question that is now agi tating the British consumers, as well 33 the British manufacturers, is what amount of oleomargarine 13 imported 33 the real article. Tke question 13 be coming so important and is attracting so much attention, that the authorities are discussing the question of having all imports examined at the port, branded and stamped by the depart ment to decide whether they are the real or adulterated articles. Jlllk Can. At a convention, in Minnesota. J. K. Bennett said: Brother buttennakers. would it not j be well ia starting a creamery in a new j dairy section to ward off this evil be fore the fanners are supplied with cans by going to the hardware men and tell ing them how a can should be made? Make it emphatic, and give your rea sons. In the care of cans, they are to be kept clean and free from rust. They should be washed as soon as possible after being used. Rinse first witx cold water, then scrub thoroughly witn a brush both inside and outside, using warm water almost hot. or better, a good soap suds, use it often anyhow. Give particular attention to the seams and don't forget the outsldes. You know the inside Is often judged by the outside. Finish with scalding water, not just warm water. Turn your cans upside down long enough only to al low them to drain; then leave them right side up. or on their sides ia the fresh air, and ycu will ha, e clean, sweet cans. It is a very common error to leave them over a stake, or on a board. This is a serious mistake, as invari ably the cans will sour thereby. The hot air or steam rises and has no es cape, consequently condenses in the cans and sours. Much milk otherwise well cared for is often tainted from no other reason. A rusty can should not be used, as it imparts a foreign flavor to milk. Fare Bred Poaltrj-. Stock ap with same thoroughbred fowls far breeding next season. Most i breeders have surpiu3 stock which they will sell at this season provided they were not sacrificed for Thanksgiving: A trio of pure bred fowls will cost considerably more than a setting of eggs, bat it will sa7e a full year in get ting into the improved stock. It will pay to save a few of the best hens of the old stock to use as sitters and to lay eggs, for the table, and if only one thoroughbred male is kept some of these eggs may be set to produce half bred fowls, which are usually good layers. On no account should any of the half bred roosters be kept for breeding, as they will cause a rapid deterioration of the flock. . The sales of American apples in Eu rope hare been large the past season. Turn tae sheep into the weed patci. THE OLD RCLIABLS. Columbus State Bank (Oldest Bank in the State.) Pap literati lis Depik An lata Liasa Bed Hfc ISSLTte MHT DRAFTS 03T CMcage, New York ami, aM FewcicaCwWitries. .-- SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS BUYS GOOD NOTES And helps its customers when they need help OFFICERS A2TD DIKECTOHS: Leaxdek Gebrard, Pres't. B. H. Hesbv, Vice Pres't. 3L Bkcggeu, Cashier. Jonx Stacffer, Wit Bccheb. OF COLUMBUS. NEB., HAS AX AitlMrizii Capital if Pail ii Capital, - $500,000 90,000 erne C. H. SIIELDON. Pres't. U. P. H. OFIILItn'IT. Vice Pres. DANIEL SCH RAM. Cashier. FRANK ROREB. Asat. Cash r. DIRECT R5: C. H. Sheldon, II- P. H. Oehliuch. Joxas Welch. W. A. McA iamteb. Cam. Rxeske. C. G rat. Fra.mc Koukeiu STOCKII LDERSr SItEt.DA EttIA J. HE3RT WCRDEM-X. 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