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THE BUTLER CITIZEN.
WHAT MY CLOCK SAYS.
Hold fast, dreamer—do not fret?
Everything will come ripht yet.
Life fcolud nothlac worth regret-
Let the "in rise—let It set.
I hare seen the young prow old;
Seen the fond turn stern and cold;
Se»a the selQsh, vain and proud.
Feed the worm and crease the shroud.
Do not cry,
Do not figli;
All Will come right by and by.
Pearls, and gems, ur.d jewels Cne,
Fished from sea or dug from mine.
Silken raiment, filmy lac-\
Vnn?sh all. and leave no trace.
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Yet must lie down, sida by side.
When their cruel master. Death.
Seals the eyes and steals the breath.
Do not sigh.
Do not cry;
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Seen the seasons come and go;
Fields of bloom and wastes cf snow,
Sunny skies and winds that blow—
And I mark out ail the hours
Whether there arc frosts or flowers-
Night and day and day and night
Feeling sorrow nor delight.
Do not cry.
Do not sicU;
All will come right by and by.
Seme days come, and shadows br.ng;
Then come joys—but they take wing;
Nothing matter here, to me;
Time drifts to eternity.
And like streams that southward run.
Mingling In the sna as one.
So tend all things—every way—
To oblivion and decay.
Do not sigh.
Do not cry;
All will come right by and by.
I have seen the pure and sweet
Smirched with mire from the street i
Seen Sin and her daughter Vice
Lock as chaste and cold as ice;
Seen the hungry and the poor
Beg for bread from door to door:
Vet—for all th«j rich man's load-
God widens not the Narrow Road.
Do not sigh.
Do not cry;
All will come right by and by.
Nothing matters! Nothing can
In tho destiny of man.
Vain, alas! all tears and sighs;
Vain, reproaches—vain, replies.
Silence and decay must fall
Like a shadow on you all;
And Ho who mado your life a span
Will Judge as never Judges man.
Do not sigh.
Do not cry;
All will come right by and by.
—Nelly Marshall McAfee, in Century Magazine
fiaggfe
J f.iat attention
~y~ WjBBMk I has already
been called in
the daily
-—to certain cu
rious features of the astronomical dis
cussion between Prof. Macadam, of
Joplin university, aud Prof. Morgan, of
tho samo Institution, but newspaper
comment has related only to the. scien
tific aspect of tho case, lacking all ref
erences to the origin of the debate and
to the inevitable woman and the ro
mance. As a matter of fact, the discus
sion which has set the scientific world,
or at least'the astronomical part of it,
by the ears, had its ineeption in a love
affair and terminated with that affair's
symmetrical development. It has
seemed to me that something more
than the dry husks of the story should
be given to the public and that a great
many people might be quito as much
interested in the romance as in the
mathematical conclusions reached.
That i.i wliy I toil the tale in full.
ilod Prof. Macadam never owiffcd a
daughter, or had the one appertaining
to him been plain Instead of charming,
young Prof. Morgan would never have
broken a metaphoric lance with the
crusty senior educator. Isut Prof.
Mac&datu did have a daughter, Lee—
odd i...iuc for a girl - and she was about
as pretty as a girl may grow to be, aDd
sometimes they grow that way amaz
ingly. She was clever, too, and good,
and Prof. Morgan had not known her
for half a year when it was all up with
him. It became essential for his per
manent welfare, mental, moral and
physical, that I his particular young
woman should be his, to have and to
hold, and he did not deny the fact to
himself at all. Without going into de
tail, it may be added that he did not
deny the fact to her. eithor, and so ex
erted himself and improved his oppor
tunities that before much time elapsed
he had secured a strong ally in his de
signs. This ally was the young lady
herself, and it will he admitted that
l'rof. Morgan had thus made a fair be
ginning. But ail was not to be easy
tnl' 1
Mi fe, ft
ft ■ A , ' / v T 3^i*
" FIOURES WILI. NOT LTE, SIR!"
for tho pair, however faithful or re
solved they were.
College professors generally are not
much addicted to either the accumula
tion or the love of money, but Prof.
Macadam was rather an exception to
the rule. Sixty years of ago, noted ai
a great mathematician and astronomer,
ho had long had a good income from
his teaching and books, had hoarded
and made good investments and was a
rich man. Lee, being- an only child,
was in a lair way some day of coming
into a fortune, end her father was re
solved that it should not go to any
poor man lie had often expressed his
opinion on this subject; it was well
known to tho lovers, but this did not
prevent Prof. Morgan, who was just
beginning and had only a fair salary
with no surplus, from asking tho old
man for his daughter.
The interview was not a long one,
but there was a good deal of low
barometer and high temperature to it,
meteorologically speaking. I'rof.
Macadam fumed anil said something
about fortune hunters and flatly de
clined to consider tho subject of such
an alliance. "It is absurd!" ho said.
"What would you live on?"
I'rof. Morgan intimated that two
people might m - tain themselves la a
njodest way on the salary ho was get
ting.
"Nonsense, sir! Nonsense!" was the
retort. "My daughter has been accus
tomed to a better style of living than
you could afford her and I decline to
consider the proposition for a moment.
You're in no condition to support a
wife, sir! Figures do not lie, sir! Fig
arcs do not lie!"
Frof. Morgan suggested that figures
sometimes did give a wrong impres
sion.
"Then it is because they are used by
an incompetent person! I am surprised
that you. sir, assistant professor of as
tronomy iu a great in titulion of learn
ing, should ifisert that any mathemati
cal fact i-. >t .1 actual one. Prove to
nil- that figures lio and you can hove
my daughter! liut this is only uun
■cnsc. You una and
BUTLMR. PA., FRIDAY, >sO\ KMBKIt (>. 1891.
something of an as.-, sir: Uoort aay,
sirl"
When Prof. Morjran imparted to his
sweetheart the result at 'his interest
ing interview they were both some
what cast down. It was t>he who first
recovered.
"And so papa said I could have you,
did ho. if you could prove to him that
figures ever lied?"
"Yes. he said that, though I don't
suppose he meant it. It was simply a
Bort of defiance lie blurted out in his
anger. lUit what difference does it
make? llow could I prove an impossi
bility in any event, even if such a gro
tesque challenge were accepted in
earnest? When 1 said to him that fig
ures might give wrong impressions, it
was only to convey the idea that peo
plo who cared very much for each
other miffht get along with very little
money and that the ordinary estimates
for necessary income did not apply."
"Yon don't know papa! Ile'll keep
his word, cron one uttered in excite
ment. lie has almost a superstition
regarding the literal observance of any
promise made, though it might be ac
cidental and really meaning nothing.
You are very clever —as great a math
ematician as papa is. You must prove
to him that figures sometimes really
lie, oven where computations are all
correct. Surely there must be some
way of doing that?"
"I'm afraid not, dear. The moon
isn't made of preen cheese."
"Hut there must be some way and
you must find it. You shall be like a
knight of old who is to gain a maiden's
hand by the accomplishment of some
great deed of derring-do. Am I not
worth it, sir?" and she stood before
him jauntily, with her pretty elbows
out.
lie looked down into a face so fair aud
so full of all fealty and promise of sweet
wifehood that he resolved in an in
stant that, if it lay in human power to
meet the terms of the old man's gro
tesque challenge, the thing should ho
accomplished. He said as much and
what he said was punctuated labially.
Reing a professor, it would never have
done for him to neglect his punctua
tion.
It was not three months after the
stormy Mac ad am-Morgan interview
that Prof. Morgan's great book on
"Eclipses, Past and to Come"' mado its
appearance. And it was not three
weeks after that great work's appear
ance when all the scientific world was
in a turmoiL
Prof. Macadam had, for a season
after the interview between him and
Prof. Morpan, maintained a cold and
formal air in all his intercourse with
the latter gentleman, but after a time
this wore away and the old relations,
never very familiar, were resumed.
Indeed, it seemed at length that Prof.
Macadam had forgotten all about the
affair or, if he remembered it at all.
did so only as an exhibition of fool
ishness which lii 3 own force and wis
dom had cheeked forever. When,there
fore, Prof. Morgan's book appeared It
was read at once with interest as the
word of a scientist who, though not a
veteran, was of undeniable ability and
good repute. Hut when tho book had
been considered, there was a literary
earthquake! Prof. Macadam reviewed
it and sought to tear it, figuratively,
limb from limb! He was ably sup
ported by other pundits everywhere.
The point upon which the debate
hlnped was a remarkable one.
As already indicated. Prof. Morgan's
standing as an astronomer was undis
puted, and Prof. Macadam did not
question the accuracy of his reasoning,
so far as mere computations went It
is known, even to the non-scientific,
that eclipses of the moon can be fore
told with the utmost accuracy, and not
only thjs, but that astronomers can
readily determine, by the same meth
ods reversed, when eclipses of tho
moon have occurred at any time in the
past It was to one of Prof. Morgan's
past eclipses that Prof. Macadam ob
jected.
In a recent issue of a great foreign
review, M. Camille Flammarion, tho
French astronomer, advanced the view
that this globe has been inhabited
twenty-two million of years, which is
accepted by other scientists as a fair
estimato. It is also admitted that the
moon was at one time part of the
earth and was hurled off into space be
fore tho crust upon this body h#d fair
ly cooled. Of courso there is no way
of fixing the exact dato of this inter
esting event, but for the sake of con
venience, it is put at about one hun
dred million of years ago. It may
havo been a little earl er or a little
later. Hut that does not matter.
In the table of dates of past eclipses
in Prof. Morgan's hook ho referred to
a certain eclipse of the nsoou which
occurred about two hundred millions
of years 1!. C., and not a flaw could bo
discovered in his figuring. But Prof.
Macadam did not he-iitata to make a
charge. Ho asserted with great vehe
mence that, as there was no moon two
hundred millions of years B. C., there
could have been no eclipse of the
moon. Had there been an eclipse of
the moon, then, he admitted that the
eclipse would have taken place at just
the time Prof. Morgan's table indicat
ed, but, as the case v.-as, he referred
to such an event contemptuously as "an
Irish eclipse," and was extremely
scathing in his language. His review
closed with an expression of regret
that an educator connected with the
great Joplin university could have been
guilty of such an error, not of figures
but of logic.
Prof. Morgan replied to all his crit
ics, Prof. Macadam included, in a mas
terly article in which he declared that
he was responsible only for his mathe
matics, not fur the degree of cohesion
of the earth's mucky mass, hundreds of
millions of years ago, and that the
eclipse he had calculated must stand.
Prof. Macadam came to the charge
once more, briefly but savagely. He
again admitted the correctness of the
computation but ridiculed Prof. Mor
gan's attitude on the subject. "His fig
ures," he concluded, "simply lie."
The day following the appearance of
Prof. Macadam's final article, he was
called upon, in his study, by Prof. Mor
gan. The younger man did not present
the appearance of a crushed controver
sialist. On the contrary, his air was
pluasantly expectant. "I called," said
he, "to learn how soon yon expected
"I CAME TO SEE ABOUT OtTH MARRIAGE."
my marriage with your daughter to I
take place?"
The older man started in his teat:
"What do yon mean, sir?" lie de- i
saaiided.
"Why, I called simply to discuss my
marriage with yoitr daughter. Oa the
occasion when you refused my first
proposition you said that if I proved |
that figures would lie, vaur consent
\rottld bo forthcoming. X Uave i>rored
to you that fipuros sometimes lie. I
hare not only your own admission, bat
your assertion to that effect, made pub
lic in the columns of a pre at quarterly.
1 know you to be a man of your word.
I have come to talk about my mar
riage."
l'rof. Macadam did not at once reply,
llis face became very red. "I must
talk with my daughter," he said finally.
That afternoon Prof. Macadam and
his daughter had an interview. The
young lady proved very firm. She
would listen to no equivocation and no
protest She had thought her father to
be a man of honor —that was all she
bad to saj. She touched the old gen
tleman upon his weak point He
yielded, not gracefully, but that was of
no moment. She and Prof. Morgan,
just then, had grace enough for an en
tire family—in their hearts.
And so they were married. And so
you know the origin of one of the most
exciting scientific discussions of the
period.—Stanley Waterloo, in Chicago
Graphic.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
Tho Kiml That Br»t Fit* a Man to Make
a Living.
In order to be successful in active
life a man mu>-t have a working knowl
edge of three things:
First—Human nature.
Second The practices in vogue
among his neighbors.
Third —Logic.
Whatever study or mental exercise
or discipline teaches him the most re
garding these matters is the best practi
cal education. This practical educa
tion must be supplemented by special
training in the prerequisites of that
particular vocation in life which he is
to follow.
Other things being equal, a large
school or college affords a better edu
cation than a small one. for the reason
that It gives to each student a larger
opportunity to observe human nature
and the customs of his neighbors. The
mere information obtained by studying
text-books is in itself ordinarily of very
little value compared with the whet
ting which it gives ko the mind, and
when the mind is once sharpened it
should be so turned as to lean from the
world of to-day, If the student wishes
to be in the world and of tho world.
Should In. show a fondness for study
ing politics and a wish to enter public
life, a comprehension of American
democracy is of more value to him
than a knowledge of Athenian democ
racy. Should he decide to enter busi
ness, knowledge of human nature and
business practices is of equal conse
quence with logical nicety of calcula
tion—an important result of studying
the classics —however valuable this last
may be. This fact explains why it is
that those valedictorians who do not
join in the general life of their collogo
class and who devote themselves en
tirely to the are frequently
outstripped in public life, law and
business by classmates who stood a
grade or two lower in seholarshipi
These latter give a portion of time to
observing their environment, while
valedictorians of the kind mentioned
take all their views from books, and
are consequently less frjlf-reliant—N.
Y. Ledger.
A CURIOUS BULLET.
The Queer Missile Found In an Old Sol
dier's I.eR.
A curious missile was recently cut out
of the limb of a prominent citizen of
Mount Sterling, who was wounded in
that member in the first battle of
Manassas, says a letter in the Philadel
phia Times. This citizen, Maj. James
Morrison, has buffered from periodical
breaking out of the wound, which was
situated in the calf, but, though probed
for several times, all attempts to find
the ball proved unsuccessful. However,
the doctors succeeded in recovering
and removing the irritating body, when
it was found to be no bullet, but a
small gold button. This was cleaned
and was found to be inscribed with the
legend: "E. to It. Mizpah," in small
German lettering.
The button was perfectly round and
about the size of a buckshot, having a
small link attached, by which it was
caught to a garment or watch chain, on
which it was in all probability worn as
a charm. In all likelihood it was hastily
crammed into the owner's musket
when out of ammunition and in an
emergency. Maj. Morrison naturally
prizes this memento which he has car
ried thirty-one years, but says he will
return it to the mau who fired it if ho
still lives and can relate the circum
stances under which he made use of it,
which circumstances were such as to
impress the major, and cannot have
failed to have remained in the mind of
his assailant.
The button was in all probability the
loving gift of some fair young sweet
heart or faithful wife to her beloved
boy in blue, who will IK glad to recover
the pretty trifle, which is none the
worse for its long hiding in the major's
leg, though the latter is decidedly bet
ter for its removal, and is rapidly heal
ing since the operation.
THE MOURNFUL MUSE.
Poems Whose Titlc.i SuKgent Sorrow,
Klgli* ami Trar».
The editors of the periodicals at the
present time have undoubtedly the dis
agreeable task of reading much poetry
which is not only "unavailable," but
utterly without merit; still, as the taste
of the majority of readers in this gen
eration is for that which is cheerful in
poetry as well as in prose, it is not like
ly that any editor to-day would have
such a depressing list of rejected con
tributions as the one printed in a mag
azine which bears a date over fifty years
ago.
"My Wife's Grave," "Midnight,"
"Lament Over the Grave of a Wife,"
the "Poet's Doom." "Reflections," "On
Hearing the Eulogy of a New Friend,"
"Let Me Weep," "The Poetry of Teirs,"
and "Alone." Such are the titles of
these unavailable poems.
It appears that the articles accepted
were of much the same character, al
though they displayed marks of genius
which induced the afflicted editor to ac
cept them: "Autumn Musings," "The
Last Song Bird," "The Mourner," "The
Bereaved," "Shadows of tho Past,"
"Solitude," and "Passing Away."
If any poems of a more cheerful
order were received, they were certain
ly not considered worthy of any notice
in that number of the magazine.
A Nihilistic Trlrk.
The Odessa police force was put in
great commotion recently by a singular
incident Before the house of the
Natchalnik of thti city, the chief of tho
police, was a big ffun, fired every day
at noon. The gun was fastened with a
heavy chain to th» granite base of a
pillar before the house of the official.
When the artillerymen came to fire tho
gun they did not find it. A search was
immediately instituted, but nothing
could be discovered. One week later
parts of the gun ind of the heavy chain
were found 1.-fore the residences of the
highest officials in town. It is supposed
that the revolutionists or nihilists re
moved the (run to show the government
officials their power and craft. Thero is
no doubt but that many persons must
have labored at tlii3 feat. Still, not a
trace of the perpetrators can be discov
ered.
Muslrul Item.
"I want the music of O'Reilly and the
Four Hundred," said a little boy enter
ing a New York music store.
"F,.r singing or for the piano?"
"I don't want it for either. I want it
formv histvr."— Wiftjngs.
GREAT TRAVELERS.
Ttaa Chliioss in America Continu
ally oa the 00.
They Aro as Mnch »t Homo In » Third*
i inn* Vat h« If Lolling at Ease
Vntler th© W*shh«u«e
Table.
The Chinese are gTeat travelers. So
proficient have the celestials become in
the use of our language and the knowl
edge of our ways that the Southern Pa
cific railroad ht.s found it no lonjrer nec
essary to maintain its old Chinese
agency at Sacramento, and it has just
bceu abolished. The Chinese are al
ways <>n the go. So it seems, at least,
to a writer in the San Francisco Chron
icle. What the emigant trains would
do, he writes, for a full complement of
passengers unless they hail a carload or
so of Mongolians it would bo difficult
to say. When one goes about on the
rail and sees the steady tides of outgo
ing and incoming pagans he wonders
how they manage to earn money enough
to pay so much railroad fare. No one
for a moment will question the truth of
the assertion that in proportion to their
percentage of the population they are
much greater travelers than the white
people of this country, leaving aside all
consideration of their big journeys
across the Pacific.
When the San Francisco Chinatown
resident gets money enough together to
take atrip to Los Angeles, Omaha, Chi
cago or New York ho generally begins
to think of traveling. It matters not
what he may be doing here; if hctliinks
Kansas City needs a new washhouse he
buys a ticket for that town and away
he goes. In the matter of ticket i ir
chasing he has a great advantage er
white persons. If he is at all slu vd,
and he generally is. lie can buy an li
(Trant ti.-ket at a cut rate of fn m uve
to fifteen dollars cheaper th:m any
white man can buy it This fact, curi
ously enough, is wholly dne to tho white
man's utter lack of confidence in Lira as
an oath-observer
"We can sell a Chinaman a ticket
cheaper than anybody else,'' hays a Cal
ifornia ticket agent the other day. "for
the reason that there is no danger of
anybody in the railroad pool
catching us cutting rates. All tes
timony as to rate-cutting before
the pool commissioner must be
by affidavit, and as Chinamen's affida
vits are not admissible as evidence, of
course we can always steer clear of a
fino when we cut a rate for them."
When John travels he invariably car
ries a stuffy-looking carpet sack in his
hand and a lot of nondescript bundles
over his shoulder, generally tied to
gether with a heavy cord or a piece of
hayrope. Where they get all the car
pet sacks is a mystery. They are cer
tainly not an Asiatic article of luggage,
but they cannot be dissociated from the
idea of Mongolian travel in this country.
Approaching the Oakland ferry, aftei
buying his ticket up-town, John casts a
wary eye about him for the poll-tax
gatherer, who haunts the landing aud
keeps close watch over all the newcom
ers as well as outgoers. He is a very
lucky John if he can manage to run the
gantlet of those keen optics. As soon
as tho attack begins the Mongolian
clutches with mighty grasp the handle
of his carpet sack, for he knows that
this is fie first point of advantage which
the seeucr for his two dollars will try
to gain.
The poll-tix mau knows the trick of
loosening the heathen's hold. Having
ser.ured the carpet sack he will not let
it go until the tax has been paid. No
Chinaman was ever known to pay his
poll-tax cheerfully, and this John is no
exception. lie shakes his head, jabbers
and raves and tries to convince the tax
man that he has not the slightest notion
in the world of what he is after. That
dodge will not work, however, for it is
an old one and the tax gatherer, sitting
serenely on the stuffy carpet sack, wins
the day, unless John values his two
dollars more than he does his cheap
luggage and flees for the boat; in which
event the tax man wins a two-bit
"jumper," a pair of wornout overalls,
some mysterious-looking provender and
a pair of cork-sole d shoes with turned
up toes.
Once aboard his train John sits be
side a countryman of his, who is sure
to turn out either a cousin or a cousin
of a friend of his. They make a few
remarks about the weather, the state
of the labor market and the chances of
getting rich in a few weeks at the
places whither thary are bound. None
of these remarks are of a lively nature.
In fact, John on the rail is the same
stolid, lethargic John that he is any
where else. He folds his loosely-draped
arms and takes little heed of anything,
dozing away the long hours on the
train as contentedly as if he was lotling
at ease under the washhouse table. In
fact, a carload of Chinese is as much
like a carload of mummies as it is like
anything.
The nomadic instinct is so deeply
rooted in the Mongolian that he feels al
most as much at home while scurrying
around the country as he does vinder
his own roof tree. The intense desire
to travel is without any douot a Tartar
heritage, most of the forces of working
Chinese who have come to this country
being gathered from the great plains of
the eastern part of the empire, whera
the roving' instinct is strong' and where
many tribes are almost constantly on
the go. Western China is more a coun
try of homes, and it has sent us the
quiet merchant, the cigarmakcr and
the steady-going sewing machine oper
ator. Even these, however, are yeat
patrons of the railroad. They have
"cousins" living at Yreka, Yuba or
Yuma that must be visited now and
again, and this k#eps them on the move
for days at a time.
Charity of Ei-Kmpreii Eugenie.
When cx-Kmpress Eugenie was in
Paris a few weeks ago she gave a
very handsome contribution to the fund
for the benefit of the poor of the city,
and now the prefect has sent a most
courteous acknowledgment of the gift*
couched in official language, but neces
sarily addressed to "Mmc. Comtcsse dc
Pierre fonda."
Effntlfel; T«ld.
Servant—Oh, miss, that Mr. Borein do
be comin' hero again. There's no use
tellin' him y'r not at home, fur he'll
just push past me an' say he'll wait till
yez do come back.
Miss Beanti—Then, for mercy's sake,
tell him plainly that I'm engaged. Do
it in such a way that he'll conclude to
leave.
Servant—Yis, mum.
Mr. Borein (a minute later) —Is Miss
Beauti at home?
Servant— Yes, sor, but she do be in
paged; an' the felly she's ingaged to do
be waitiu' in th' parler fur yez wid a
club. —N. Y. Weekly.
A Hint to Philanthropist*.
A systematic Man. observing that his
Apples sometimes Froze in Winter, out
of pure Kindness of Heart emptied
several bottles of Hair Renewer over
them, in the Hope that they might
grow fine Coats of Fur to keep them
selves Warm in the Cold Weather.
However, he found that the Apples
remained us Bald as Before; and. More
over, were Unfit for Eating.
Charity injudiciously Applied leaves
its Object worse off than Before.—Puck.
A Serious Case.
Young Mother-- Wake up! Quick!
Quick! You must run for the doctor
Young Father— Eh? What's the mat
ter?
Young Mother—Baby has stopped
smiling ia her^loep.—N. V Weekly.
AN EXCELLENT PLAN.
Benefit* Incidental to Keopinf a YaritCj
of IJre Stock.
One of the benefits derived " from
keeping a variety of stock in that farm
products can be used to lietter advan
tage. In growing the necessary grain
more or less straw and fodder will bo
secure. 1, which, if properly managed,
will make a cheap food, and where a
system of rotation is carried on more
or less grass for loth pasture and hay
will bo grown.
With good shelter young cattle,
horses or mules can l>e kept In a good
condition during the winter with very
little grain if they can have plenty of
fodder, and during the summer grass
in tho pasture can be made nearly or
quite their whole feed. While hogs
will make a fair growth with good pas
turage it is generally profitable to feed
them some grain even during the sum
mer. C'attlo can be pastured during
the summer and fed largely upon fod
der during the winter until they are
three years old, and if comfortably
sheltered will need but little grain.
With good pasturage they will be in a
fair marketable condition in the fall
when they are three years old.
Horses, mules and sheep can be kept
in tho same way and can l>e made
ready for market with very little
grain. Hogs, however, must be fat
tened largely upon grain, and more or
less grain is needed by the work teams
and milk cows. In raising grain for
them more hay and fodder than will be
needed will be secured, and by pur
chasing mill feed to go with them all
can be used to a good advantage. This
plan admits of having a considerable
acreage seeded down to grass for
pasture.-, and meadows and lessens the
labor considerably, lly feeding all of
the products out on the farm, with the
exception of the wheat and buying
wore or less mill feed to use in connec
tion with the grain and fodder will
make a great saving, and applying all
of the manure possible the fertility of
the soil can be kept up
Of course everything that can be
used for feed should be saved and
every advantage be taken to secure all
of tho food i>os9ible, and then feed out
to the best advantage in order to realize
the largest profit—Prairie Farmer.
THE HIDEBOUND HORSE.
How an Animal Afflicted with the Ail
ment Can Be Cured.
This disease occurs often with the
horse an if sometimes with the dog.
The animal as a rule is always hungry
and thin, the skin sticking to the ribs,
fitted to the bones almost as tight as a
drum. The disease is caused generally
by poor feed, or by tho animal being a
greedy feeder and not digesting its
food. A farmer who feeds poor, smut
ty food, and not very often, will get
his horse into the habit of plungiug
his head into the manger and gulping
food as if he were going to catch a
train. In a little while the horse be
gins to look thin and docs not act as
lively as usual and the owner doses
him with condition powders, but with
out avail, and it is not long before his
horse is run down. First says a
writer in New York Tribune, give the
animal a dose of some good purgative,
and at the same time give him a rest
Then I would give about every three
days in his evening feed a tea-spoonful
of powder composed as follows: Gen
tian root three drachms; sulphate of
iron, two drachms; which can be ob
tained of any reliable druggist When
1 say evening feed I mean a feed com
posed not of oats aud hay but of some
thing in the style of bran, fine feed or
urddlings. When you have given about
five of these doses I would discontinue
them for about three weeks and then
give him three or four more. I tried
this on a very bad case and the animal
in less than a month was a new horse,
it having put flesh on her and life and
soul Into her. When she was sick I
think she was one of the greediest
feeders I ever saw eat but now she is
quite calm when tho feed 1b brought to
her and cats with ease and digests
every bit of It so that everything that
passes her lips is of benefit to the sys
tem.
High ItooAta an Abomination.
High roosts are an abomination. The
large, heavy hens can only reach the
high roosts with difficulty, and they are
llablo to be dislodged from their posi
tion, thrown off and injured by the
fall. Make the roosts low —a foot from
the floor being sufficiently high—and
have ail the roosts on a level, instead
of making them step-like; that is, one
higher than the other. Bumble foot
lameness of the joints and other ail
tnents arc often due to high roosts, and
it is to their seeking lofty perches that
young turkeys are usually affected
with swollen feet and legs It is really
doubtful if roosts are at all necessary
in a poultry house, a-s thoso who have
tried the plan of providing litter for
tho liens, and cleaning it away dally,
report that the hens keep in much bet
ter condition, being less liable to
draughts of air, and are seldom lamo.
It is an experiment worthy of a trial,
as the removal of the roosts will ren
der the interior of a poultry house more
roomy and convenient —Farm and Fire
side.
Hints About Tile Draining.
In tile draining a good main or out
let is essential 1 use cither five or
six-incli, according to amount of water
to be carried. Lay the main with the
natural flow, if practicable, and a foot
decpci than the laterals, so as to make
the connection perfect on top of the
main, giving a free flow. Make the
connections perfect so there will bo no
_. oarth working
~ J through. Tho
*""* *""5 accompanying
'A177~ ■. HJ- > cut shows tho
arrangement; a
is the main, b tho connecting urm and
c tho lateral. A flat stono will close
tho top of the arm all right 1 place
laterals about two feet deep, more or
less, according to soil, etc., and place
them three to seven rods apart, «and if
possible, across the natural flow, there
by cutting off surface water more
quickly. —J. F. Jamicson, In Ohio
Farmer.
Snttably Represented It.
"Hero is my boggage, sir," said the
dusty tourist in tho long-frescoed linen
ulster, handing a lean, consumptive
valise over the counter. "I am the ad
vance agent of a celebrated theatrical
attraction."
"What is the name of the attraction?"
asked the hotel clerk in a dry, hard,
pay-in-advance tone.
" 'Cheek,' " responded tho dusty trav
eler, folding his arms with dignity.—
—Chicago Tribuno.
very Acnrtu.
FIRST PAY.
Mistress (to new cook) —Now, Bridg
et divide the meal equally—so. This
half scald for corn bread, for dinner.
W'itli this half make mush, for tea.
SECOXP PAV.
Mistress—Bridget, why don't you get
dinner? You were standing just as you
now are, half an hour ago as I passed
through the kitchen.
Bridget—l divided the male jist ea
yez tould me yestiddy, main, and for
the life of me I can't inako up me mind
which half It was yez said for to scald.
—Jwy- _________
Matrimonial Item.
Molly—So you have got married since
I saw you last-
Sadie—Yes. I have been two
months.
"But you always said you would
never sacrifice your freedom for any
man."
"Neither have 1- It is my husband
who dpes all tfcto sacrificing-"—feX*
NO.l
SIMPLE MILK TESTER.
Vtiaiblo information ft ojn Prof- J. It*
fin: ton, of <. onneeUcnt.
One of the prime elements nt sueecta
in dairying at the present day is a
knowledge of the commercial value of
the mi lit handled. It is generally con
ceded that the valuo of milk for near
ly every purpose is in proportion to its
percentage of fat, tnd many attempts
have been mude to devise a satisfactory
method of testing milk on the basis of
the fat contained. To be of popular
use such a method must be rapid and
simpie, as well as accurate and com*
parativelv inexpensive. Tho principal
methods that have been tried are lack*
ing in one or more of these require
ments.
The machine and method here de»
scribed are the result of an effort to
cheapen and simplify still further the
iLr ~
FtG. I.—nrTTOX'B MILK TESTER.
work of testing milk. The method,
similar to thoso now in use, consists In
mixing a measure of the milk to bo
tested with enough alcohol and sul
phuric acid, and rapidly whirling the
mixture to separate the fat Fig. 1
represents only one of a number of
very cheap and simple machines, which
auyonc can make, and one way of
attaching it. In this tho test bottles,
while being whirled, are supported in
a piece of 2x4-lnch 6cantling, fifteen
inches long, centered on the upper end
of the shaft. This is made of fivc
eighths-inch rod iron, eight inches'
long, with upper end squared and
slightly tapered to fit into a square
hole in tho center of tho whirler. The
shaft turns in a block at the side and
through a hole (with tin bearing) in
the top of the table. A small pulley on
the shaft is connected by a band with
the wheel at the left, turning on a bolt
through the leg of the table. One turn
of the wheel makes about ten of the
whirler, which should make about SOO
per minute while testing. The capaci
ty of the whirler is easily increased by
making two crosspicees, and still
further by a continuous wheeL The
cost of the machine is about fifty cents.
The work of making a test is brief
ly as follows: Amyl alcohol is added
to a test bottle
(Fig. 8) to a
depth of one- 3
fourth of an T
Inch; the pip
ette (Fig. 8) is f
then filled with f
the well-mixed Jil
milk, c 1 its con- f \
tents delivered
into the bottle.
Strong sulphurio
acid is added up
to the neck of the
bottle, a small V
cork held firmly V l__
in the mouth, FIO. 3. FIO. 3.
and the bottle shaken vigorously until
the curd is dissolved, and the contents
become a hot solution of a light brown
color. Tho neck is tlicu nearly filled
with weak acid (equal parts of strong
acid and water), tho bottle placed in
the whirler and whirled for about half
a minute, or until nil the fat appears
as a clear yellow oil within the gradua
tions of the neck, from which its per
centage is read at once. Tho time re
quired to make a test is about two
minutes, and the cost for chemicals
about one-fourth of a cent Cream,
skimmilk and buttermilk are tested in
a similar way, if a fair sample can bo
obtained with the pipette. For cream
a pipette delivering 4-5 grains is used,
and the reading multiplied by three for
the per cent of fat Ono hundred tests
require about one-half pound of alco
hol and five pounds of acid, both of
which may be obtained from any drug
gist The pipetto costs twenty-flvo
cents, the bottles fifty cents each. An
accurate milk tester of some kind
should be used by every farmer who
has much milk to sell or butter to
make. Its use will enable him to form
an intelligent Idea of the dairy value
of his cows. American Agriculturist
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.
MII.K can be tested cheaply as it is
received at the creamery and you Bbould
Insist that it should be done.
THE advice to supply salt whero the
cows can get at it at will is often given
but not universally adopted. But it is
good advice nevertheless.
Tun man who kicks the liveliest
against the artificial coloring of butter
is about as sure to select colored but
ter for his own use us anybody else.
DECEMBER, January and February
are the throe months when the oows
require the best of seed and care in or
der to get the greatest profit from
them. From now till then we should
do all we can to prepare the cows for
their winter's work. And now is the
time to weed out the herd and sell the
poor cows.
ALWAYS be on the lookout for an ex
tra good cow. There is such a vast dif
ference between an extra good cow and
an ordinary good ono. Sometimes tho
difference is ono hundred per cent, but
a fifty per cent gain is common. Some
cows are good for six months some for
eight and some all the year. It is the
all-the-year cows we want
Variations In Batter rat.
At the Illinois experiment station
tests have been made to determine the
constancy of the amount of butter tat
in milk, and It appears that though tho
general law, that the amount of milk
decreased and the percentage of butter
fat increased as the period of lactation
progressed held true, yet tbore were
surprising variations of almost dally
occurrence. The amount of butter fat
might bo six per cent more In the
morning and by night drop off three or
four per cent. From these Investiga
tions it is apparent that a single test
for only a day or two can give no re
liably correct idea of u cow's milk and
butter-producing capacity.
Ulrlnjc an Order tor Dinner.
Cook—What will yez havo fur dinner
the day, mum?
Young Mistress —ls there any nioe
fresh pork in the honse, Norahf
"Yes, mum."
"Then take some of it and oook a
mess of nice smoked hum. Close the
door as you go out Norab." —Chicago
Tribune.
He Know* Them Both.
Teacher—Johnny Cumso, if your fa
ther can do a piece of work in seven
days, and your Uncle Ueorgo can do it
in nine days, how long would it take
both of them?
Johnny—They'd never get it done.
They'd sit around and swap fish stories.
—Epoch ________
The Open Fireplace.
Host— What do you think of my now
open fireplace? Just see how merrily
the flumes leap.
Visitor— It's beautiful (teeth ohatter
ing).£lmply beautiful.
Host—lf you feel cold come down into
tho kitchen and get warm.—Yankee
Blade.
Only One FaHebood.
Pcnolope—He told mo you were not
nearly so good looking ns I.
Pcrdit- - Dear me. Ho told m* J®"
were not nearly so good lookilnr I-
Penelope —Then ho bus ribbed to both
of us. 4
Pordita—Oh, no. Only to you, dear.—
Life. -