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Once In a while the sun shines out.
And the arching skies axe a perfect
blue:
Once in a while, 'mid clouds of doubt.
Hope's brightest stars come peeping
through.
Our paths lead down by the meadows
" fair.
Where the sweetest blossoms nod and
smile.
And we lay aside our cross of care
Once In a while.
' Once in a while within our own
We clasp the hand of a. steadfast
friend:
Tricks of Soldiers
inJ
The boys played tricks on one an
other even when under fire," says a
writer in the Chicago Inter Ocean. "On
one occasion after our line of battle
.'had been formed the color-bearer
stock the flagstaff In a hole in a
-stump, behind which he sought shelter
from the bullets of the enemy's sharp
shooters. For a time the rebel fire
centered on that stump, or rather on
the flag waving from it, while all the
time the color-bearer, curled up behind
the stump, smiled at the efforts of the
rebs to cut his flag down.
"Soon the firing became regular and
the boys relaxed from the high tension
of the opening session. The color-bearer,
as the boys settled down to regu
lar business, drowsed off to sleep, his
flag still flying from the stump. I. N.
Cook, now of Guilford, 111., thought
the c-b. was having a pretty easy time
and he crept up, lifted the flag-staff
out of the stump and let the colors
fall to the ground. The boys yelled,
'Raise the flag.' and the color-bearer,
waking up, crawled around to the
rebel side of the stump, caught up the
flag, examined it for bullet marks,
and finding none, was greatly mysti
fied
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The GraLnd Army
New
The forcible letter of Mr. Victor
Hagemann, which you published yes
terday on the editorial page of the
Times, strongly and clearly points out
the great error which the Grand Army
of the Republic commits in admitting
to its membership every one who at
any time during the civil war (as we
now politely term it) was In the mili
tary service of the United States for a
period of thirty days.
Under these liberal terms of admis
sion thousands and tens of thousands
of men belong to the Grand Army
aad attain the highest positions in it
without having in the least degree
participated in the war or aided in the
suppression of the rebellion. Every
member of a militia regiment that
was hurriedly called into service for
a brief period (and which was passed
'in fortifications or other duty far re
moved from the field), has now blos
somed into a veteran and is associated
In the common mind with all the bat
tles and great campaigns of the war.
Men without the faintest knowledge of
actual war, who never came within
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The Famous Apple Tree
Old Soldier Hat Wax Relic
"I have carried from that day to this
a square inch of the apple tree of Ap
pomattox, which came to me in this
way: There was a general Impression
that Grant and Lee met under an ap
ple tree for their first informal talk
over the terms of surrender, and the
particular tree was guarded by both
Unionists and Confederates," says an
old soldier. "But, as soldiers passed,
twig after twig was broken off, and
finally cavalrymen broke off large
limbs as they rode by. At this junc
ture a squad of cavalry rode down on
the crowd about the tree, dismounted,
and two men proceeded to cut it
down, the chips flying out among the
Pio.no With &
A presentation of more than ordi
nary interest was made in New Or
leans the other night, and thereby
hangs a story. Just after the fall of
Vicksburg, when Gen. Sherman's
army was marching on Jackson, Gen.
Joseph EL Johnston made a determin
ed stand in the suburbs of Jackson,
lliss. The famous Washington Artil
lery of New Orleans constituted a por
tion of his forces, and they were sta
tioned at what was known as the
Cooper residence, two miles west of
the town. It was known that every
thing in the Cooper house would be
ruined if not burned, wherefore the
Death of Col. McCook
"That story of Sergeant David U.
' llcColloogh," said the captain, "re
minded me that I was almost at Mc
Cullough's side when be was shot. He
was carrying the colors of the Fifty
second Ohio when he met the assault
on Kenesaw. June 27, 1864. He was
at the abattis in front of the main
rebel works when he was shot through
the shoulder. As one of the color
guards caught him and lowered him to
the ground McCollough handed Major
J. T. Holmes, then in command of the
Fifty-second, the colors and said:
Take them, major; they never
touched the ground.'
"The major grasped the colors, gave
them to one of the corporals of the
color guard, and led the way through
the obstructions. At first the colors
were planted on top of the rebel works.
When they were shot down and the
flagstaff spluttered, the boys cut a can
tees, la strips, repaired the staff, and
planted the colors in the loose earth
at the foot of the works. I remem
ber, that a rebel captain was killed
hi trying to get the flag while it was
oa 'top of the works, and when the
burial parties went out between the
Uses to look after the dead, the adju
tant of the Rock City guards told me
that he saw CoL Dan McCook en top
of the works, aad said farther that
ofltoers sad men were amazed to see
kim there and to hear him coolly de
sued their surrender. For a minute
so one fired. Then came the fusillade
that fatally wounded the colonel."
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At a mumn gives by the earrirers
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A WHILE.
Once in a while we hear a tone
Of love with the heart's own voice t
blend;
And the dearest of all our dreams come
true.
And on life's way is a golden "".
Each thirsting flower is kissed with 4SW,
Once in a while.
Once in a while in the desert sand
We find a spot of the fairest green:
Once in a while from where we stand
The hills of Paradise are seen:
A joy that the world cannot defile:
We trade earth's dross for the purest
gold
Once In a while.
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Even In the Fevce of Death
"He placed the colors again on the
stump and in a short time was asleep
again. Cook slipped up again and
dropped the flag on the ground, and
again the boys shouted, 'Raise the
flag,' and kept it up. They wanted the
color-bearer to expalin how the rebels
could shoot the colors out of the
stump and leave no bullet marks on
the staff. The color-bearer replaced
the flag at great personal risk, and in
a few minutes seemed to be sound
asleep. But when Cook made a third
attempt to remove the flag from the
stump, the color-bearer, making a
jump, landed squarely on Cook's back.
"The two men clinched and were soon
engaged in a rough-and-tumble fight.
The color-bearer was swearing at the
top of his voice, our boys were yelling
in encouragement or derision, and the
rebels opened a furious fire on the
combatants. Finally rome of our men
crept op, separated the fighters, and
put the flag again in the stump. This
ended the incident, but not until years
after the close of the war did Cook
and the color-bearer become friends."
The man who talks but fails to act
fs trying to get a reputation on credit
York Writer Points Out
What He Considers a MistsJn
fifty miles of a battlefield or heard a
bullet whistle in their lives, command
Grand Army posts and are consplcu
ous in the public view as representa
tive Grand Army men.
I have now before me the roster ol
a large and Influential post having
about 500 members. By actual count
305 of them gained their membership
by the fact that they had belonged tc
militia regiments which were under
the national government's orders for
a few months, or even thirty days, but
never saw service. All who know
these men and what constitutes their
ward record naturally judge the Grand
Army and its veteran members by
them, and conclude, not unnaturally,
that its claims and character are un
founded and fictitious.
Let it reorganize itself, classify its
members by their service and record
in the field, and then it can demand
and will surely receive the considera
tion and public confidence which i
fear It does not now wholly possess.
Tenth New Jersey, in New York
Times.
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men who stood near. One of these
chips I put in my pocket, and I have
it yet.
"When the tree hail been cut down
the cavalrymen cut it in sections, and,
mounting their horses, carried all oil
toward headquarters. In five minutes
every chip and scrap had disappeared,
and the next day there was a great
hole where the tree had stood, the
relic-hunters digging down to get even
the smallest root branch. And, after
all, Lee did not surrender under the
tree, but rested under it while waiting
to hear from Grant, and was met there
by Marshall and Babcock, who carried
Grant s message to him
History
Was Played Within the Breastworks
During the Siege of Vicksburg
piano, a handsome instrument for
those days, was picked up by the sol
diers, and carried within the breast
works. One of the members of the
artillery company, in a spirit of reck
less fun, sat down to the piano and
played a lively air while the shot and
shells were whizzing all about him.
When the enemy came close he grab
bed up his gun and got in the firing
line, where he remained until the
Federals were repulsedjeaving several
hundred dead on the field, when the
daredevil young Loulsianian resumed
the music. It is that battle-scarred
old piano that was presented to the
Washington Artillery.
Shot Down avs He Ordered
Confederates to Surrender
ment at Boston recently, President Ru
fus A. Soule of the Massachusetts Sen
ate was the only guest He was a
member of the old Third regiment,
from which the Fifty-eighth was re
cruited for the remainder of the war,
and he is looked upon as a comrade
of the Fifty-eighth.
He stated that his great-grandfather
was an officer in the revolutionary
war; his grandfather was in the war
of 1812, both of whom bore the same
name, George Dunham, and his cou
sin, another George Dunham, haa en
listed and became an officer in the
Fifty-eighth regiment
President Soule thought that it was
a mistake that none of his family en
listed in the Mexican war. He sup
posed the reason to be that "the
Georges had run out
Massachusetts has never forgotten
her soldiers, he continued, for from
tne outset she has been a leader in
looking after their comfort Under
the laws of this state no soldier need
go to the poorhouse. That is some
thing which all of us ought to be glad
and proud of. When the soldiers need
aid I know, and you know, that Massa
chusetts will always do what is right
Speaking of .the old Third regiment
he said that it was enlisted gain as a
veteran regiment and while it was
the last year of the war, it put more
work into that year than any of the
other regiments that served through
the entire war.
When nothing around town gives
people a chance to find fault with a
widower, they drive out to the ceme
tery to see if there are any weeds on
the grave of bis wife.
The Hen Yard in Summer.
It Is quite easy to make the hem
yard in summer a profitable feeding
ground for the fowls. Enough poultry
wire to divide the yard will coat lit
tle. After the division Is made, one
side should be sown to seeds that will
produce forage. One of the best things
to sow we have found to be lettuce.
The fowls eat this greedily It should
not !e used for pasturage till It is well
rooted and established. Another thing
that should be sown Is rape. A pound
of seed will go a long way. It is not
too late to sow it even In midsummer.
It grows rapidly and soon reaches a
height of a foot or more vhen the
fowls may Le turned onto it They
will strip it of its tenderest portions,
but will leave the stems and the mid
veins. As soon as the fowls are taken
off this pasturage, tin midveins will
at once begin to send out new leaves
and soon the plant is again in full
foliage. The writer noticed that at
the North Carolina experiment station
the yards were sown with oats. This
makes a most excellent pasturage, and
the fowls eat It readily. Some feed
chopped grass In summer time, but we
have observed that hens do not take
much Interest In eating anything that
has been thus prepared. They prefer
to have their green forage fastened
down so they can pull it to pieces
themselves. It Is. therefore, better to
give them green pasture in the form
of growing crops than to give them
green stuff cut up.
Deformed Chicks.
While the faults of Incubation are
responsible for many of the deformi
ties found in the chickens, and un
doubtedly weaken others in ways
which are not so apparent to us, one
cannot state that the chickens which
come from the egg in developed con
dition and can eat ever die on account
of weakness due to the incubation,
says a report of the Rhode Island ex
periment station. In my experience
so far the weak chickens, when prop
erly handled, seem to have developed
and grown as rapidly as the stronger.
However, those which were hatched
incompletely developed or with crip
pled members, as the legs or beak,
have not been able to survive in all
cases. Under the even temperature
system, however, the weaklings, when
separated into hovers by themselves,
grow unexpectedly well, and may at
tain some weight As a practical mat
ter, however, all such weaklings and
cripples should be destroyed as soon
as hatched. To the poultryman who
can devote but little attention to them
they would prove an annoyance.
Prices for Poultry Products.
From Farmers' Review: In a re
cent issue the Farmers' Review asked
its readers to report on the prices they
are receiving for poultry and poultry
products. In reply I will say, we are
receiving as follows: Eggs, 13 cents;
hens, 9 cents per pound; broilers, ac
cording to size, 12 to 16 cents per
pound. In other words, we receive
within one and one-half cent per pound
of the price quoted In the St Louis
daily report of the market Our coun
ty is traversed In every nook and cor
ner by huckster wagons, aad the prod
ucts are paid for at the farmer's door.
It does not, therefore, pay the farmer
to take them to market A. L. Ham
erton, Clark County, Illinois.
Poultry Points Picked Up.
If a uan wants to show birds he
must raise only good stock and that
In abundance. The man that raises
only a dozen birds a year stands less
chance of having winning birds than
does the man that can raise hundreds.
In that case he finds it easy to get
together a few exceptional birds. In
this connection we must remark that
in case the breeder is looking to con
tests in the show room he will need
to make a study of the points of birds
himself that he may when he goes to
the show take only his very best In
stead of inferior stock.
Cull rigidly. Always be on the look
out for the poorest specimens of birds
and get rid of them as soon as found
and as fast as found. To permit the
culls to go right on producing more
culls or what should be culls is a mis
take. The best thing to do with culls
Is to send them to the butcher, and if
mere is danger of his selling them for
breeders send them to him dressed.
Hens should be made to lay when
eggs are high In price. This can be
done, but it requires attention to
something more than feeding. The
breeding must be looked after. The
hens must be raised from early spring
chicks and must be forced forward
from birth to maturity.
One should not attempt to winter
more fowls than can be comfortably
housed. Too many birds in a house
makes it extremely difficult to keep
the air pure or the floors clean. Lice
and disease are encouraged. The at
tempt to do this usually results in dis
aster of some kind.
Eggs should be soli to private cus
tomers, If possible, as In that way the
farmer takes to himself the middle
man's profits. Besides, private cus
tomers are usually well-to-do people
and are willing to pay a little more
than the usual customers of grocery
stores.
Tree Labels.
A good way to make a label that
will last for years is to use a pine
strip, painting it with white lead. Be
fore the lead is dry write the name of
the tree on the -tag with a lead pencil.
The plumbago and the oil will com
bine to form an indellible inscription
that will be good for years. Many of
the little tags that come with new
trees are so badly written that the
names are effaced in a few months, or
the Iron wire rusts and the tags drop
off. Tags should be fastened to trees
with copper wire. To allow a tree to
go untagged may cause all kinds of
complications in the future. The mat
ter is worth attending to at the first
opportunity, and if the opportunity
does not come of itself it should be
made.
It is related of an Atchison man
that he gave his first grandchild a sil
ver mug valued at $30. He bought a
tin cup for ten cents yesterday, re
marking that it was for the fifth.
Some women love like a balky
horse. No telling what kind of a
ntuat it will indulge in.
It is never too kite to learn frt
e are sometimes too late.
Students on Stack Farms.
A communication to The Farmers
Review from the Iowa Agricultural
college says: The department of ani
mal husbandry of the Iowa Agricul
tural college has succeeded In placing
a large number of its. students on
prominent stock farms during; the
summer vacation. These positions are
beneficial to the student in two ways.
First and most important, it affords
them an excellent opportunity of fa
miliarizing themselves with the meth
ods of stock farming In vogue on the
most successful stock farms on the
continent Secondly, they receive a
liberal compensation for their services,
which aids them In defraying their
expenses during the school year. Ex
perience gained in this way serves the
student an excellent purpose in after
life, whether he decides to return to
manage the home farm, to pursue ag
ricultural Instruction work or to as
sume the responsibility of managing a
stock farm. During the past few
months the department has received a
great many requests for competent
men to manage stock farms. Some or
these positions have been filled, but
so far the demand has been greater
than the supply. In the future, how
ever, the college should be in a po
sition to supply men exceptionally
well qualified for this line of work.
The Feeding of Hogs.
From Farmers' Review: Last week
in traveling through our county I was
struck by the way the farmers' hogs
were rooting up lots and pastures. At
Cedar Hill Farm with over sixty hogs
of ail ages, there cannot be found a
spot that has been rooted up by the
hogs. When a hog is inclined to root
he shows very plainly that he lacks
some food element to make him
healthy and contented. A hog must
have a balanced ration just as much
as a steer, cow or horse. I do not
think there Is a farm animal that pays
such quick and good returns as a hog
that has his everyday food and care
well balanced. The brood sow gives
us larger, healthier litters; the shoates
develop into fine hogs quicker, and
the whole transaction is one of pleas
ure and satisfaction to the breeder and
feeder. One of the chief sources of
profit we derive from our cows Is in
the large amount of skim milk we
have for the hogs. To increase the
milk quantity we are paying our neigh
bors 8 cents per gallon for their milk
that returns 4 pounds of butter fat
per 100 pounds of milk, we keeping
the skim milk. With this milk, plen
ty of rape pasture and gluten feed,
with a limited amount of corn, we are
making pork at a price that leaves us
a good profit "Buff Jersey," Warren
County, Illinois.
Reseeding the Plains.
The reseeding of the plains grasses,
while important, is no light task. The
cattle and sheep herder on wild lands
cares nothing about the future. Find
ing good feed, he continues to overpas
ture and overrun, until the earth is
tramped solid and the plants virtually
eaten down to the roots, and then
seeks pastures new, going on with the
work of destruction over and over
again. The soil, also, produces less
and less, until at length the land be
comes a bare desert, and the ill effects
of this savage procedure is felt hun
dreds and hundreds of miles away. In
the summer the parched and heated
earth gives rise to cyclones and si
moon winds that scorch and wither
vegetation even to the Mississippi riv
er and eastward. It will take more
years to again cover the plains with
grass than it has taken the reckless
squatter herds to feed it off. In fact,
it never can be done, unless stock can
be kept off the seeded ground for
three years, or at least so carefully
pastured the second and third year as
to leave the ground fairly covered with
foliage. Jonathan Periam ia Inter
Ocean.
Oats for Horses.
Horses nurtured on oats show mettle
that cannot be reached by the use of
any other feeding stuff. Then, too,
there is no grain so safe for horse
feeding, the animal rarely being seri
ously injured if by accident or other
wise the groom deals out an over-supply.
This safety is due in no small
measure to the presence of the oat
hull, which causes a given weight of
grain to possess considerable volume,
because of which there is less liability
of mistake in measuring out the ra
tion further, the digestive tract can
not hold a quantity of oat grains suf
ficient to produce serious disorders.
Unless the horse is hard pressed for
time or has poor teeth, oats should be
fed in the whole condition. Musty oats
should be avoided. Horsemen general
ly agree that new oats should not be
used, though Benslngault, conducting
extensive experiments with army
horses, arrived at the conclusion that
new oats do not possess the injurious
qualities attributed to them. Feeds
and Feeding.
Mites on Cattle and Sheep.
The mite which causes cattle itch,
or mange, is closely related to the
mite which causes sheep scab both
belonging to the same genus and
species, but are different varieties. The
sheep-scab v mite will not attack cat
tle, nor will the cattle mite attack
sheep or other animals. The itch mites
are found to be very numerous upon
affected cattle, and a very small quan
tity of debris from an actively infest
ed area of the skin will often reveal
a surprisingly large number of the
parasites. These mites may be re
moved from an animal and retain their
vitality for a long time. Specimens
have been collected and kept in small
glass bottles in the laboratory at the
ordinary temperature of the room dur
ing the winter months, varying from
45 degrees F. during the night to 80
degrees F. during the day, which
would live and remain active from
eight to eleven days. Exposure to
bright sunlight however, would kill
most of the mites in a few hours.
Farmers' Bulletin 152.
The period of the first domestication
of the horse is unknown, but it is sus
pected that Egypt was the scene of his
first service. Horsemen and chariots
are mentioned in Genesis, in connec
tion with the history of Joseph, in
transferring his father's remains from
Egypt to Canaan. The horse was also
in common use among the Egyptians
in the time of Moses. Solomon received
.-aany horses from Egypt
Nothing looks more peculiar than
tit see a young man- trying te flirt.
iwhen fee doesn't know how.
Methods of Removing Stumps.
The clearing of new land Is a sci
ence but little understood. For the
most part It is blindly pursued. This
Is perhaps caused by lack of general
Information oa the subject'readlly ob
tainable by the people that need it
most The United States Department
of Agriculture has taken up the mat
ter and has Issued a bulletin on the
subject From this bulletin we re
produce a number of cuts.
The first cut shows a stump ready
for blasting, the dynamite cartridge
being in position shown. It may be
placed even lower than this, but It is
frequently very difficult to do so. The
lower it Is placed, the better should
be the effects of the blast
Another method is to hollow out a
pace In the soil under the stump and
place the cartridge In this. While the
stump is not so thoroughly demolished
as In the other way, yet It Is general
ly split enough to make its removal
possible.
In our second illustration we show
one method of removing saplings by
the use of a horse and chain. At time
of attempting removel by this meth
od, the ground should he soft and
loose. The chain should be fastened
to the tree as high above the ground
as the flexibility of the tree will per
mit A horse or a team of horses
should be hitched to the other end of
the chain. While the horses are pull
ing, a chopper cuts away the roots.
We also show a method of pulling
stumps by means of horse and chain.
One of the large roots of a stump is
used as the hitching point of the
chain. The chain is placed across the
top of the stump, which acts as a ful
crum and furnishes leverage for. Its
own removal.
A method in use at the Alaska ex
periment stations Is thus described
by Prof. C. C. Georgeson, special agent
in charge of those stations. In his an
nual report for 1901:
"It has been our policy to gradual
ly extend the clearing of land when
time could be spared from other work.
The timber is small and the task Is
not a difficult one, but the stumps are
numerous, and it became necessary to
devise some plan by which they could
be pulled rapidly. The roots do not
grow deep and it does not take great
power to pull the average stump. A
machine which was set up over the
stump and worked by hand was first
tried, but it proved to be too slow
work, and it was too cumbersome to
move. As a cheap and efficient means
to aid in this work, I devised a simple
stump-pulling tackle, consisting of two
triple blocks and 300 feet of one-Inch
rope. One block Is anchored to a sol
id stump and the other Is attached to
the stump it is desired to pull. When
secured In this way the oxen are
hitched to the rope and driven up
slowly, and the stump usually comes
out without trouble. The method of
using this tackle is srown in Fig. 4.
"The illustrations show the method
of attachment when the stumps are
cut high, or when they ere very small.
When the stumps are 12 inches in di
ameter, or when cut low so as to af
ford no leverage, we use a device of
two timbers about six feet high, fas
tened together In the form of a letter
A. To the top of this A is attached a
chain or wire rope some four or live
feet long and terminating in a hook.
The A leans against one side of the
stump and the hook Is attached to a
large toot on the other side. The
power is then applied to the top of
the A, and as this is raised up the
stump Is tilted over. This device sim
ply affords greater leverage than when
the block is secured directly to the
stump, as shown In the illustration.
Corn for Calves.
Calves may be fed whole corn at a
very early age. and they will then
make better use of it than they will
later. Up to nearly a year of age a
calf will digest whole corn fully or
nearly so, much better than in later
years. The stomachs at that time are
engaged In taking care of concentrates
rather .than of hay. All the food that
goes through Is thus digested. When
the time for eating hay comes the
four stomachs get into operation prin
cipally for the purpose of consuming
coarse fodders and In that case the
grain fed goes through whole unless It
is fed with the coarse feed and mixed
with it We see some advising to feed
calves meal, but we fail to see why
corn is not just as good or even bet
ter. The human heart is like a well
strung harp a succession of sweet
tones and of discords.
The life of a grass widow is noi
always green, nor does it run to bay
seed. A man's greatness is often exhib
ited in his self-imposed restrictions.
Close inbreeding should be avoided.
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Prepare far Cold Weather.
In the summer is the time to pre
pare the cow stables for cold weather.
Comfort Is money when applied to the
cow. The cow stable should be wans,
or at least should be warmahle. Tests
have been mads at some of our experi
ment stations to determine how much
comfort counts in the saving of feed.
It has been proven that a cow exposed
to cold and wet requires 25 per cent
more food to produce the same amount
of milk than Is required if she is prop
erly kept in a warm stable. The dairy
cow-will not stand the cold that a beef
steer will stand. With the dairy cow
the fat Is deposited on the intestines
or worked up into cream. It is evident
that if what little fat she has is on the
intestines It does not serve to keep
her warm except in so far as it is
bunted up in the lungs. On the other
hand the beef steer has his fat under
the hide or infiltrated through the
meat The fat in that form helps to
keep out the cold. The result is that
the steer will lie down In a snowbank
in the full sweep of the wind, chew his
cud and look happy. The dairy cow
on the same day will hump in the
shelter of anything she can find and
will look very unhappy. She demands
and should have comfortable quarters,
where the temperature can be kept at
about 70 degrees or a little over.
Temperature of Milk.
Milk, when drawn from the udder of
the cow, has a temperature of 98 de
grees. If this temperature is permit
ted to remain at that point the few
bacteria In the milk when drawn will
increase with great rapidity to aa In
numerable host Therefore the milk
should be cooled down as quickly as
possible to 60 degrees and below. This,
to a considerable extent, stops the in
crease of bacteria. Where the separa
tor is used the milk need not be cooled
before separating. It should be sepa
rated at once and then run over a
milk cooler of some approved make.
In a few minutes It will thus be re
duced to the desired temperature.
Carelessness as regards temperature Is
the cause of much of the poor farm
made butter on the market The milk
during the time when the cream, is
rising Is permitted to remain at almost
any temperature. This facilitates the
increase of the more badly flavored
bacteria, and the cream is thus spoiled
before the butter is made. A low tem
perature from the first would have
given milk and cream of better flavor
and of greater value.
Irish Looking for African Market
Reports from Irelamd indicate that
the Irish are reaching out for the
South African market In some parts
of South Africa butter is reported as
selling at 85 cents per pound and to bo
of inferior quality even at that price.
The Irish creamerymen and dairymen
think they have as good a chance to
take this market as any others. They
claim that state aid to foreign dairy
men Is preventing large sales of Irish
butter in England. They would there
fore look elsewhere. The queer thing
to a distant observer Is that among the
competitors that are driving the Irish
butter out of the English market are
enumerated the Australians. Now if
the Australians can send butter all the
way to London and successfully com
pete with Irish butter, what will pre
vent the Australians doing the same
thing in South Africa? To us it does
not look possible for the Irish to wage
a successful warfare of this kind in a
field thousands of miles from Ireland,
when they cannot meet the same com
petition at their own doors.
Chicago Milkmen Prosecuted.
The Illinois state dairy and food
commissioner has brought about 100
suits against Chicago milkmen for the
breaking of the state law relative to
signs and names on wagons, selling
skim milk for whole milk and for wa
tering milk. Much of the milk being
sold for the use of children in the
poorer quarters was found to be wa
tered. Some of the cases are due to
the use of formaldehyde in the milk,
but these cases are not reported nu
merous. The best part of the prose
cutions consists in the publication in
the daily papers of the names of the
men being prosecuted and the charges
against them. Thus in the list printed
last week we find that there are
charges against 17 for selling adulter
ated milk, charges against ten for hav
ing no labels on their cans of skim
milk and also for selling adulterated
milk, and against nine for selling skim
milk contrary to law and violating the
label law. The other prosecutions are
for the violation of the label law.
When Butter Went Down.
When the price of butter went
down at the opening of the pasturage
season a certain New York firm imag
ined that it had singly and alone been
the cause of the sudden decline in but
ter prices throughout the country. The
firm in question sells butterine. They
attempted to stay the passage of the
oleomargarine bill by advertising in
some New York papers, calling the at
tention of people to the matter. Di
rectly after the advertisement appear
ed the 'spring pasture season opened
and butter fell from 33 to 22 cents.
The firm then came out in a long let
ter in a publication declaring that
their advertisement had so frightened'
the butter makers that they had put
down the price as mentioned. The ad
vertisement cost the firm 8250 and
they claim to have saved to the people
of the United States through it the
enormous sum of 84,000,000. The mod
esty of the firm in question is remark
able. Prof. Behring on Tuberculosis.
Prof. Behring, a noted German scien
tist has written a book on tubercu
losis, in which he points out that the
disease in animals and In man is iden
tical. He says that his book is the re
sult of six years' trials in Marburg,
where he had the assistance of two
other able physicians. He asserts that
the apparent difference in the bacilli
in man and in animals arises from the
ability of the bacilli to accommodate
themselves to the organism In which
they live. The professor declares that
he has succesfully inoculated cattle
with human virus and has thus pro
duced fatal cases of the disease. He
believes that immunity may be se
cured by vaccination. He regards this
as a great discovery.
If the Creator ever made a failure
it was probably due to an attempt to
make a man who could please his
neighbors.
Negotiations for the sale of the
aeoas Hope diamond to a rich
merican have been In progress ever
lince the big blue gem was brought
o the United States last November.
The price of the diamond la 8500,-
oo.
It Is known that the Hope diamond
as recently sent to Senator Clark's
flce at No. 49 Wall street, and that
io examined it with great Interest
While he has never been known as a
.ollector of rare gems he Is known in
Europe and America as a large pur
chaser of paintings and costly works
f art
The Hope diamond came to the
United States on Nov. 26. 1901.
;t was brought over by Simon Frankel.
if the firm of Joseph Frankel's
3ons of Nassau street. The diamond
was brought in the safe of the Ger
man liner Kronprinz Wilhelm in a
plain pine case screwed to a shelf.
The Hope diamond is one of these
rarest of gems, a perfect blue dia
mond. It weighs 44 carats, and is
-ushlon-shaped, reflecting a deep sap
phire blue light from nearly 200
'acets. As to its origin, that, like the
ilstory of many other famous gems, is
shrouded in mystery. In its present
size and form it dates back only to
1838, but there is good reason to be
lieve that it is half of what was once
Bessie and
In a gown that is a vision
Noted for its close adhesion
To the figure it is privileged to
pinch
To the figure in its shaping
Like the hourglass it is aping.
3welling out in both directions from
the cinch.
With her soft eyes proudly blink
ing, As the pretty queen is thinking
Of the envious admiration she will
win,
Charming Bessie looks so queenly
As she gracefully, serenely,
Lifts her skirts and mounts her auto
for a spin.
Down the avenue she's sailing
While a film of steam is trailing
In her wake as fleecy as a bridal veil;
At the knob her foot is banging
And the gong is loudly clanging
At pedestrians who turn a deathly
pale!
See them rushing helter-skelter.
Seeking for a place of shelter.
While the fair 'mobilises features
flash a grin.
For it is her sweet opinion
None dares question her dominion
When she's out upon her auto for a
spin.
In a reckless way she forces
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that good stories have o ccal habita
tion. Ian Maclareo. in his interesting
experience of Drumtcchty. brought to
gether under the title of "Auld Lang
Syne." tells a story of "Jamie" Soutar.
who possessed a nippy tongue, which
he was very fond of exploiting at the
expense of humbugs of all sorts. Dr.
Watson says one of Jamie's most feli
citous strokes was his guileless re
sponse to the humiliating invitation of
a lay preacher, who hail secured the
Free Kirk for an exhoratlon meeting
to wake up Dniratochty to a sense of
its sinful cocdition. not being aware
that the people of that village carried
their religion deep down in their souls
and not upon their sleeves.
"'Now, my dear friends. said the
exhorter. 'all who wish to go to heav
en, stand up.' and Drumtochty rose in
a solid mass, except Lachlan Camp
bell, who considered the preacher ig
norant of the very elements of doc
trine, and Jamie.
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SELF-PROTECTED PLANTS.
Southwestern Vegetation
Either
Armed or Armored.
Writing in The Century of th
Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico
particularly), Ray Stannard Baker has
this to sar of the self-protected plants
of the desert spaces:
"In the green hills one loves to He
on the grass, to brush against the
trees, to pick a twig here and there
aad taste the tart sap. but the desert
allows no such familiarity. Every
thing that lives within its confines is
either armed or armored. Every cac
tus stalk is covered with a myriad
of spikes and hooks as sharp as
needles, that warn one to keep his
distance. Thread not on the cactus
with your heavy shoes even, for the
barbed spines will often pierce thick
leather; every rider of the plains his
had the experience of picking cactus
spines from his bare flesh. The racs-
qult tree, which is a near relative to
the honey locust. Is covered with
thorns, so that you trespass at your
peril; the cat's claw strikes at you
as you pass, tearing your clothing and
lacerating your skin. Even the agaves
and the yuccas, the green foliage of
which looks soft enough in the dis
tance, are armed with leaves each of
which is a double-edged sword with
a spear point. The leaves of the
spreading bunches of bear grass,
which covers a thousand desert hills,
often are so stiff, needle-pointed, and
rasp-edged that no animal ever ven
tures to touch them. Even the grease
wood and the strange paloverdc tree
the 'green pole of the Mexicans, -i
tree with branches, but with almost
Invisible leaves while having :i
spines, yet know well how to protect
themselves. Break off a twig of either
and the smell of it that clings to your
fingers will cure you of further de
side to meddle."
What Is Fame?
"Fame is a funny thing." said the
successful writer, who could afford
to affect indifference about it. "and
its trumpet tones sometimes fall on
'est ears. A humorist who uader-
the celebrated Taveraier diamond,
one of the crown jewels of King
Louis XV. the Kohinoor of tho
French crown.
The Taveraier diamond was bought
in India in the early part of the eight
eenth century by a French traveler.
It was said at that time to have been'
one of the royal jewels of the Pha
raohs of Egypt At any rate, it was
brought to France and sold to the
king.
In 1792 it was seized by the revolu
tionists along with the other crown
jewels and placed in a strong box in
the Gardemeuble. From there it was
stolen more than 100 years ago. and
no trace of it has ever been found. In -1830,
however, a trader named Dan
iel Eliason appeared in London with
a blue diamond about half the size
of the missing Taveraier gem, of
which he could give no history. This
was sold to Henry Thomas Hope,
ancestor of the present Lord Hope.
In 1874 there turned up in Geneva
another blue diamond, exactly match
ing the Hope diamond in size and
color, and experts believe this gem.
known as the Brunswick diamond,
and the Hope diamond, are the halves
of the lost Taveraier jewel.
A blue ribbon friendship is better
than an honorable mention love.
Her Auto
Men who drive the vulgar horses
To skedaddle from the middle of tho
street.
And she doesn't care a penny
For the blessings (?), which are
many,
That are fired at her with fervid vocal
heat.
And the wheelman whom sho
grazes
Fill the air with dark blue blazes.
But for that she doesn't care a safe
ty pin;
To the curb they must go scootln
Or she'll smash them sure as
shootin
When she's burning up the roadway
on a spin.
She's of modest disposition
In her home. You'd think her mis
sion On this planet was directed from
above;
Not a sweeter smile was ever
By an angel flashed no, never.
And her eyes are gentle as the eyes
of dove.
But her traits so meekly humble
From their base take a tumble
And a spirit of wild recklessness
creeps in
When she grasps the waiting lever
in a fit of scorching fever
And is off upon her auto for a spin.
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n "Msch cheered by this earnest
spirit, the preacher then asked all
present who wished to go elsewhere
to declare themselves after the same
fashion. No one moved for the space
o thirty seconds, and the preacher
was about to fall back on general ex
hortation, when Jamie arose in his
place and stood with great compos
ure. -
"'You surely did not understand
uhat I said, my aged friend.'
"Jamie indicated that he had thor
oughly grasped the preacher's mean
ing. "Do you really mean that you are
ready to go where
I mentioned?'
A"m no anxious for sic a road.'
said Jamie, blandly, 'but a cudna bear
tae see ye stannin' alane. and you a
stranger in the parisa.' and Drum- .
tochty went home satisfied that it
was not always safe for strangers to
come patronizing the village upon
their superior goodness, at least while
Jamie was to the fore." H, S., in
Boston Journal.
stands its manifestations has said
that in popular estimation the autior
who has a paper collar or a ciyar
named after him is famous. Ami I
dare say it is so. But its limitations
are not generally understood.
"Some weeks ago I had occasion
to call for the first time at the officer
of a popular magazine, and. through
the courtesy of the editors. I had the
pleasure of examining the elaborate
plant from basement to roof. la
the course of my excursion I got into
conversation with an intelligent man.
who has been connected in an im
portant way with the business part of
the establishment for many years.
"I spoke to him of Winston Church
ill, author of 'Richard Carvel,' whs
had resigned his post on the maga
zine preparatory to producing the
novel. My acquaintance said: "O.
yes, I knew Mr. Churchill,' and then
went on to say a pleasant word con
cerning him.
" 'He knew what he was about when
he gave up his desk to write 'Richard
Carvel.' I remarked.
"My acquaintance showed surprise.
'O. is that the same Mr. Churchill?
he asked."
A Final Decision.
It was while Judge Celora E. Martin
of the New York State Court of Ap
peals was on the Supreme Court
bench, says the New York Times, that
a self-important young lawyer was ar
guing a motion before him. Tiring of
the attorney's grandiloquence. Justice
Martin interrupted bim and started to
render an adverse decision.
"But your honor does not under
stand the case," still urged the attor
ney, who saw that things were not
coming his way. "Permit me to ex
plain the law. I have here some of
the latest decisions of the Court of Ap-1
peals in which it is held "
"Motion is denied with costs." again
interrupted the justice. "Have you
any later decision than that?".
Splendid Forests in Siberia.
The island of Sakhalin, the great
penal colony of Russia, has splendid.
forests of fir aad siae.
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