THOSE THAT ARE LEFT. ......
-Mid n the onrush of the world;
Neath blazoned conquest1! flags unfurled;
Remember, when the foe's downhurlcd
Those that are left I
Not they who fell beneath thy power)
Not they who helped thee scnle the tower;
But they who mimed the tidal hour
Those that are lcftl
Not fewl not fewl nor yet to blame
That never riches, power, or fame
Came nigh to conjure with their name
Those that are left!
Not fewl Not fewl The god of chance,
With careless hand and eyes askance
Hurls, without destiny, his lance.
Those that are left!
The maid unsought. The cripple cowed.
The child untaught. Man unendowed.
The gray head, disillusion-bowed
They are the left!
Remember! Man who art a cod!
When, head erect, thou walk st abroad
Remember those who kiss the rod
Those thnt are left!
Stephen Chalmers, in the New York limes.
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"It's the expert swimmer who usu
ally gets drowned," said Jackson,
throwing down the newspaper he tad
been reading aloud, and gazing off
upon the lake. "I insist that my boy
learn to swim, but right there I stop.
I don't want him to be what they
call a 'crack swimmer."
"What are your reasons, Fred?" I
asked carelessly.
"The expert is too venturesome,"
lie replied. "He overestimates his
powers, takes chances, gets exhaust
ed, or is seized with cramp, and goes
down. Every one Bhould swim well,
enough to keep afloat for a time in
n emergency. That degree of skill
Would save hundreds of lives now lost
through complete ignorance of a very
useful art. But everyone also should
have a wholesome respect for the su
perior power of nature. The expert
loses that respect; the indifferent
swimmer knows his limitations, and
keeps within the margin of safety."
"Your theory is certainly plausi
ble," I admitted, "but how about your
own experience? You're a crnck
swimmer, and you have never been
drowned."
"To all intents and purposes I have
been," he said, earnestly. "True,
they revived me before life was quite
extinct, but I had all the sensations
ef a drowning man, and lost con
sciousness as completely, if not as
permanently, as it I had been dead.
And I also fully illustrate the fool
hardiness of the expert, precisely as
did the lad mentioned in the article
I have been reading.
"The thing happened nineteen
years ago this summer, while I was
here on a visit to my uncle. I had
won two swimming races that season,
and felt as much at home in the water
as I did on land. I think I can truth
fully say that I had absolutely no
sense of fear when swimming like
the young fool that I was!
"I heard that Davy Brown, father
of Isaac Brown, you know, had set a
number of lines for sturgeon out
there in the lake, and I wanted to see
how that type of fishing was conduct
ed. When he and his son-in-law,
Honry Simmons, went to visit them
one morning, I asked and received
permission to go along.
"We rowed out in a heavy scow
the, kind they used to draw their
seine with and the trip took some
time, deceiving me as to the actual
distance. I estimated it at less than
a mile, because their boat rowed like
an ore barge; but we must have gone
faster than I thought, for the distance
to the bar is approximately a mile
and a half.
"I had on swimming tights, and
the moment we reached the shallows
on the 'old bight beach, as they call
the bar out where you see the waves
breaking I sprang overboard, The
water at that point was not more
than two feet in depth, and I waded
across to where they had a spar as
thick as my leg deeply planted among
the rocks. It stood fifteen or twenty
feet out of water.
"The fishermen ' had a guide line
leading straight out from the spar for
about forty yards, to where one end
of the set line was anchored. The
set line, kept afloat by kegs used as
buoys, eitended along the deep water
outside the bar and parallel with it
for a hundred rods, to where there
was another anchor, similarly equip
ped with guide line and pole. Brown
and Simmons had three set lines,
fixed thug end to end, reaching near
ly a mile, or most of the way across
the entrance of the bight.
'There was merely a light breeze
at the time, and the low waves did
not break on the shallows as they do
now, so I was not bothered by them
as 1 splashed along; but I soon found
that where I had jumped from the
boat was the shallowest part of the
submerged beach. There also were
gaps lu the bar, wide enough for
ship channels, where the water was
at least one hundred feet deep, per
haps more. You can see three or
tour gaps in the breakers from here
now.
"Well, I swam across those places,
and along not a few other stretches,
too, for everywhere toward the north'
east shore of the bight the water was
at least breast deep. Finally, when
the eud of the last line had been
reached, I climbed back into the scow
and helped to row it to shore. Thus
my first trip to the drowned beach
was, as you see, without Incident.
"The second day following this trip
was a scorcher. The thermometer
registered ninety degrees In the
hade; and directly after my aunt's
noon dinner 1 resolved to cool oft in
.e laUe. - 1 -
' I walked the three miles to the
beach, and when I reached there was
"ripping wet with perspiration. In
Plunged, with the smallest cosslble
delay, however; and the only wonder
u that I didn't have a cramp at the
uuiset. i
"Near shore the water was almost
too warm, but onee out few rods,
I had enly to let my feet down te
strike a temperature that seemed arc
tic by comparison. Tbe depths of
the Great Lakes are uway cold.
"I had been accustomed to bathing
In the Atlantic, and thought I had
swum in fresh, it had been only dur
ing contests of limited duration. The
difference in buoyancy is very percep
tible, if you are not racing. I swam
a hundred rods or so from shore,
turned upon my back, and tried to
float. In five seconds I was stand
ing upright, treading water.
"This was repeated again and
again; but at last I learned the knack.
and drifted easily for a long time
perhaps an hour; much longer, in
fact, than I should have remained in
the water. The July sun was blazing
hotly overhead, but finally a chill be
gan to penetrate my flesh, and soon
seemed to reach to the marrow of
my bones.
"I turned over, to swim ashore,
when in an evil moment my eye tell
upon one of the spars by means of
which tbe set lines were guyed, and
without thought, I started to swim
out there, my plan being to stand
knee deep in the shallows till warmed
through, and then swim ashore. Dis
tances on the water are deceptive,
and it seemed to me that the spar
was much nearer than the beach.
santly. Just before the rain came-"
and with it a slight lessening in the
violence of the gale the highest
wave of all broke over me with stun
ning force.
"As it descended, I felt myself fall
ing and the spar falling, too. It
had pried loose at the bottom under
the impact, to which my weight gave
added force. .Somehow I clung to the
stick, which, held in leash by the guy
line, rose and fell with the breakers,
now banging its water soaked butt
on the bottom, and again tossed high
in air. It seemed as if the life would
be beaten out of me by this pounding
alone, besides which I could catch my
breath only at intervals, and was half
smothered.
"The set line anchor dragged, and
Inch by inch I drifted across the bar.
The deeper water Inside no 'longer
permitted the stick to touch bottom.
This was a marked relief, till the
anchor caught firmly against the out
er edge of the bar, and the pitching
became so violent that I was sure that
I should be torn from the spar.
"Suddenly, however, just as my
strength collapsed, the pitching gave
place to rapid drifting; the guy line
bad parted.
"About ten feet remained attached
to the stick. I drew it in and began
feebly to wrap It about my waist and
the spar, to bind myself fast. I re
member taking two turns. After
ward I must have taken another and
made a couple of half hitches, but I
do not remember doing it.
"I was drowning by inches and I
knew it! I had no expectation of
reaching the shore alive, for I was
sure the breakers inshore would fin
ish me; but I wanted the timber to
keep my body afloat.
"They say that when a man is
drowning his entire life passes like
a panorama through his mind. I
doubt it; certainly nothing of the
kind happened to me. Before the
pole came loose, I had been too scared
to think of anything except the perils
surrounding me. After that my mind
seemed sodden, like my body, and
there was no consecutive thought,
only blind instinct.
"I felt as if an iron hand were
bound about my chest. Then con
sciousness floated from me. The last
I remember was when the spar turned
over with me, plunging my head be
neath the surface.
"It seemed only a second later,
though a halt hour had elapsed, when
I opened my eyes and saw Henry
Simmons kneeling back at my head,
A
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PERFORMANCE of "The Heroes of the Riff" at the
Novidades Theatre, Madrid, recently, gave rise to an un
usual demonstration. Thn nlav contains nn entnnrin nf
the defense of a cannon by a common artilleryman against
a horde of Moors. The soldier kills four of the enemy,
wounds a fifth, and then falls down exhausted, having lost
the power of speech.
While this scone was being enacted, amid the intensest
excitement of the audience, a man dressed in the special uni
form worn by the Spanish troops at Melllla tried to make his
way down the aisle of the theatre, but being unable to get
upon the stage that way gained entrance by a Bide door and
making his appearance on the stage a moment later, dashed
in among the Moorish soldiers, gave them a good hammering
and carried the cannon off in triumph. While the audience
was still wondering what it all meant, the soldier stepped out
of the wings and made a speech.
"I am the soldier who performed the deed which is here
represented," he said. "My name is Pedro Cruz. With my
own hands I killed four Moors, wounded a fifth and saved the
gun, all for the honor of Spain. I lost the power of speech,
but recovered it in the Military Hospital at Cartagena. I
ha7e been promoted to .the rank of sergeant and to-morrow I
am going to the palace to be received by the King."
The audience developed hysterical symptoms of enthu
siasm, interrupting the play by Bwarmlng on the stage and
bearing the hero off on their shoulders in a wild tumult of
excitement. New York Dramatic Mirror.
4
"I must have been nearly a mile
from it, and the swim, in my chilled
condition, proved very exhausting. To
make matters worse,- a thunder
storm was gathering in the north
west, and the wind that preceded it
began to ruffle the lake. The waves,
converging on the bight, rose very
rapidly there. Within five minutes I
could hear them pounding on the
bar.
"Of course I should have turned
back at the first thunder peal, but
pride kept me going pride, igno
rance ot conditions on the lake and
of my own limitations. When at last
I felt that I was making very little
headway, and wag minded to turn for
the shore, I did not dare. For the
first time I was really worried, forced
to the conviction that my strength
would be exhausted it I tried to cover
tbe mile of tumbled water between
me and tbe bach.
"I set my teeth' and kept doggedly
at it, husbanding my breath and fight
ing oft the sharp pain that kept re
turning to the muscles extending
from beneath my right shoulder
blade down to my hip. For ten min
utes I seemed to gain hardly at all,
but I really waB going ahead, though
slowly, for suddenly the breakers
were on both sides of me, and the air
was thick with spray. In a few sec
onds I was clutching tbe spar, with
my back turned to the wind.
"It seemed as it the waves were
high enough and extended deep
enough to expose the sand and rocks
between crests, but I could see noth
ing but roily water, even in the
troughs. I lowered my feet to touch
bottom, and went down nearly to my
eyebrows before my toes came in con
tact with the boulder that were
piled about the foot ef the spar. I
gasped, climbed hastily up the thick
stick, and looked about me.
"Then I knew that, instead of
swimming to the pole near which I
bad alighted before, I had reached
one farther to the east, where the
water on the bar was deeper. But it
bad then been only four feet in depth
and was now nearly six. Were there
tides on the Great Lakes?
"There are such things, as I now
know, although tbe rise and fall or
dinarily is only a fraction ot an inch.
But a northwest wind will raise the
water two feet in this bltiht In a very
short time, It it blows hard enough;
and that squall was a record breaker.
Even with my back to the waves, I
soon became afraid ot being smoth
ered. I climbed higher and higher
up tbe spar.
"The land was hidden, tbe sky bad
become a dull lead color, splashed
with black,, and tbe thunder and
lightulng roared and flamed lncei-
grasping my wrists and working my
arms like pumps, to force respiration.
I knew I had drifted ashore and been
picked up by the fishermen, but it
was an hour before I could converse
with them coherently.
"I was bruised and battered from
head to foot, and was sick In bed tor
several days. Simmons had seen me
from the bluff and had dragged me
out of tbe breakers, or I should have
stayed drowned.
"I am now one of the few good
swimmers who have learned how
helpless a man can be when he is
really exposed to the fury of the ele
ments. That, perhaps, is best of all;
but only abeut one in a hundred
would have the good fortune to ac
quire my experience and come
through it alive." Youth's Companion.
The Laborer's Thanks.
A tramcar was going down a busy
street one day, and was already com
fortably full when it was hailed by a
laboring man much the worse for li
quor, who presently staggering along
the car between two rows of well
dressed people, regardless of polished
shoes and tender feet, says Tit Bits.
Murmurs and complaints arose on
all sides, and demands were made
that the offender should be ejected at
once.
But amid the storm ot abuse one
friendly voice was raised and a benev
olent clergyman rose from his seat,
saying:
"No, no! Let the man sit down
and be quiet." The discomfiture of
the party turned to mirth when the
drunken one seized his benefactor by
the band, exclaiming:
"Thank ye, sirthank ye. I see
you know what it Is to be tight."
Cause of Some Mysterious Fires.
A man who has accumulated a
great deal ot definite lnfermation
about many things remarked to Tip
recently that be believed many fires
of mysterious origin have been caused
by the carelessness of painters, pol
ishers or decorators. Referring to a
fire of this description in a Urge
apartment house, be said: "Call up
tbe Fire Marshall and ask if men in
any ot those trades were at work in
the building." The answer was:
"Yes, painters and decorators had
been working on tbe ninth floor."
Now York Press.
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A Cure For Nerves.
The "nervy" girl will find that an
hour's sewing is a wonderful nerve
soother. She can sew in all her little
irritations, her fancied Injuries, and
generally become her normal self
?galn when she has finished a long
seam.
One of the most neurotic and ex
citable women, the famous George
Sand, wrote In praise of the soothing
powers of needlework, and every girl
who fries this simple remedy for
nerves will doubtless confirm hor tes
timony. Home Notes.
Fran Bertha's Hotel.
In the little town ot Essen, Ger
many, is a hotel a first-class hotel
at which tbe principal guests who put
np there never have to pay for their
accommodation. It is owned by Frau
Bertha Krupp, the richest woman in
Germany, and owner of the great
Krupp works at Essen. She runs it
at a loss of more than $100,000 a
year, fhe hotel was built by Frau
Krupp solely for the entertainment
of the representatives of foreign gov
ernments who visit Essen to superin
tend the execution of orders. Ordi
narily travelers sometimes can find
accommodation at the Krupp Hotel,
but only when the rooms are not re
quired for Frau Krupp's foreign offi
cial guests. -Coston Post.
Tho New Waist Line.
A stronger indication of the waist
line that gives a basque effect is no
ticed in some of the shorter coats, al
though their fit Is still very easy.
Then there are those fascinating Rus
sian blouses whose influence in the
long buttoning line which lends a
military air In closer-fitted garments
is felt about ninety-nine coats out of
every hundred. Belts on these Rus
sian shapes are straight and wide,
ornament; not simply and merely fop
decorative purposes. She has been
trained to work.
One president ot a New England
Institution declare "the college!
have no sympathy with the view that
it is undignified to work; tather, the?
believe that is beneath the dignity
ot a human being not to work." The
head ot another institution that id
maintaining a high level in the edu
cation ot women believes that the"
higher education for women "is sub'
stltutlng for the weak and vain am
bitions ot what Is called society ami
bltlons worthy of spiritual and Intel
lectual womanhood." And anothed
distinguished college , president ex
presses the view that "for the ideally
trained woman service to others la
an essential condition of her life and
growth. Contact with noble minds
through study of books and personal
association will make her eager to
throw herself into the great struggle
ot humanity. Snobbishness, clannish
ness and self-seeking have no place
where truth reigns." Not one of tbe
college presidents concurs in that
view which has at times being given
expression, that a college training un
fits women for domestic life for
being wives, mothers and the super
intendents of homes.
In answering the question, "What
kind of a woman should the college
produce?" the head ot a Massachu
setts woman's college replies: "Wo
men like that mother of a family in
a Western city who is commissioner
of public schools, who looks well to
the ways ot her household and yet Is
a most valued and efficient public ser
vant." The suggestion of anether of
the commentators upon the college
bred woman's mission 19 that "the
college woman learnB to be adaptable,
to work with deflnlteness and system,
to think quickly and clearly and tc
Browned Onions. Select onions of uniform size; peol,
drop into salted boiling water and cook until tender, but not
broken. Lift out of the water and stand in a baking dish.
On the top of each onion lay a thin strip of breakfast bacon
and stand in a hot oven until the bacon is crisp and the
onions nicely browned.
which necessitates their being worn
loose and round, and this gives n
quaint look that is most charming
and entirely new, a cross between a
Russian soldier and an 1830 school
boy. Braiding in military designs is
another coat touch that is rather im
portant. Harper's Bazar.
Men Bunglers ns Builders.
"I looked at one house to-day,
highly desirable In many respects, in
which the kitchen and scullery were
at opposite ends of a long passage.
Cannot you realize that only a man
could have been guilty of such an
arrangement? The lack of cupboards
Is another masculine omission, and
even those that are put in usually
are inconveniently placed. Men also
are responsible for building most
bathrooms far too small for real com
fort. In houses, as distinct from
apartments, they rarely make the
stair ratlings high enough, the result
being that most staircases are death
traps for clambering children; and
nursery windows often are made so
h!gh that the little ones cannot pos
sibly Eee out of them, while the room
Itself too often is placed in a gloomy
and sunless part of the house. So
far as I am concerned," the house-
hunter wound up, "we are uncom
fortable where we are, and, from all
I have been able to see, we will be
miserable if we move." New York
Press." .
judge dispassionately qualities
quite as desirable in the home as in
the study or the class room." And
another declares that the home, the
church and society needs women who
can think, who love the truth, who
are courageous, who are public spir
ited, efficient, eager tor service and
arc, withal, sincere, gentle, sympa
thetic and womanly." No, tbe sweet
girl graduate is not merely a finished
art work, however much she may
look to be a thing perfect and com
pleted when viewed across the foot
lights as she appears in her graduat
ing glory. Her commencement day
marks a commencement in her life
mission; and her life mission la not
by any means, according to those who
should be well qualified to speak for
her, to be "the butterfly along the
road." Baltimore American.
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. a Dressing a Girt.
A very difficult problem to a mother
is the dressing of the between age
girl. The average girl of sixteen is
not Infrequently a most attractive
person, but requires most careful
dressing. She has all the grace and
charm ot budding womanhood, with
some ot the gaucherie ot childhood.
With abundant locks and bright
pink cheeks quiet dressing is a neces.
slty. None ot the laclr.eas of very
young girlhood is possible, or she
iooks overdressed. It trimmings are
used, they must be of the simplest
description, and, If posatble, self-colored.
For the girl still at school there is
nothing nicer than a navy-blue coat
and Bfclrt, worn with various blouses
and a simple bat. But there are times
when other attire is necessary, and
then it is realized bow bard it is to
drees tbe adolescent girl. She must
be simply garbed, yet, of course, de
sires her clothes to be pretty. There
fore, special consideration should be
given to her wardrobe colorings,
materials and style, being well
thought out. Philadelphia Record.
Ideals of Colleges. i
In a recent number ot a popular
magazine there is a brief exposition
by tbe beads ot seven American col
leges devoted exclusively to the
higher education of women ot the
ideals aimed at by the woman col
legos and concerning the life mUsion
of the college-bred woman. There is
not a very great diversity of view
among the seven distinguished edu
cators in tbe setting forth of the
results broadly aimed at In the higher
education ot women. Sorvlce to her
generation, to her race that, la a
nutshell, is the ideal for their grad
uates at which the woman's colleges
are aiming. This thought of service
and ot a highly trained capacity fori
service Is expressed In practically,
very one ot the papers contributed
under tbe heading ot "What Kinds
ot Young Women Our Leading Ami-1
can Colleges Are Aiming to Pro
duce?" Th sweet girl graduate is a
finished product, but not a society,
Long-walsted effects appear In the
new lingerie.
Flowers ot different kinds and col
ors are seen together.
Foulard is coming in for something
of its old-time popularity.
Linings must be as soft as they can'
be made and aa clinging.
The popularity of the embroidery
robe is more marked than ever be
fore. Veils are many of them more ex
treme in tbe slao ot tbe mesh than
ever.
Tiny white linen buttons are used
on the new linen suits and house
gewns.
Black and black and white both
promise to be fashionable veiling
colors.
Marquisettes, linen homespuns, all
now appear in checks, both gun club
and shepherd.
An odd fancy of the moment is the
use on dressy toilettes ot bells of var
nished leather.
The hexagon mesh Is the veiling
most often met with, whether the veil
be fine or coarse.
The soft serges and cashmere are
used to build traveling costumes for
tbe warm days.
Hand embroidery and pretty lacea
ae tbe dominant notes In many ot
tbe new blouses.
Nets are again much liked for,
transparent undorsleeves and gulmpe
purposes in frocks.
A new lace grenadine, more often
called "net" than grenadine, is shown
among the new materials.
Narrow silk fringe is used to edge
many of tbe sew straw bats, the ef
fect being to soften tbe taoe.
Billows ot fluffy materials and cob
webby laces enhance nearly every lin
gerie frock now being shown.
It seems that the rabat Is to have
another successful season, since it
appears as a coat, dress and blouse
decoration. , 1
A groat deal ot soutache uraldlng
appears on tbe dressy broadcloth
coats tor children ot from three to
seven years.'
The scarf, first Intended as a light
covering for the head, now ha devel
oped into a wrap sufficient for protec
tion from bead to knee.
Mercerlxatlon has reached an art,
and the silky appearance given by It
raises some of tbe erstwhile humble
trimmings to a prominent place. .
Keep the Figs at Home.
There Is a fortune In hogs for all
of us If the present prices hold until
we can raise tbe valuable animals.
It should be borne In mind, however,
that In these later days it Is not safe
to allow one's pig to roam tbe streets.
Automobiles and thieves are thicker
than they were a century ago. The
back yard and the nearest vacant lot
ought to give the porker sufficient
room for comfort. Providence Bulletin.
Items of Expense.
There are items of expense to the
tarm that should be credit rather
than debits. To see farmers buying
In the markets thing that could and
should be grown on the farm shows
lack of forethought. It Is no uncom
mon thing for farmers living near
towns to buy their garden vegetables,
whereas every one of these can be
produced at home. By growing these
greater opportunities will bo given
to purchase more of such as cannot
be grown. Even fruit, especially
the small fruits, are chiefly had In the
market. Indiana Farmer.
Cow Ration.
A correspondent from Edgar Coun
ty, Illinois, says that he has .plenty
of clover hay, corn meal, wheat bran
and middlings, and wants a dally
cow ration for his twelve cows. A
good doily ration feeding three times
a day would be in quantity for each
cow, all the clover hay it will cat
up clean, and by weight equal parts
of middlings and bran mixed with
two pounds of corn meal, feeding a
pound of this to each cow in tbe pro
portion of a pound for three .pounds
of milk each gives. It is always best
to apportion concentrates in propor
tion to tbe amount ot milk, and there
foFe different cows require different
amounts of these concentrated feeds,
though each should have all the
clover hay it will eat. Indiana
Farmer.
farm" literature In their dreams ot
bow to return to tbe good old times
when "bam and" was a part of the
daily breakfast menu. In the opinion
of Mrs. Osborn. A small City lot and
little feed and care is all that Is neces
sary to produce enough eggs for each
family to break the Egg Trust, If the
new breed of chickens lives up to her
statements.
Feeding For Butter Making.
A good English dairy authority say
that to a small extent rich fatty foods
add to the butter fat content of the
milk, but only by supplying material
which the cow is ready to make
cream of, a cows naturally giving
poor milk will lay this fat on their
bocks, and it Is probably useless to
try to make a bad cow give richer
milk. If it were not for Uils, It would
seem somewhat meaningless to de
scribe certain foods a Toutter-firoduc-ers
or less suitable for butter making
than tor milk-producing, ttiough tho
foods are all useful for the latter
purpose also. Peae and rye, for In
stance, are apt to maks the butter
hard, and so we find tnam classed a?
third-rate butter foods fn Denmark,
though both ot them are useful as
milk foods.
Butter making is so well under
stood in Denmark that tt la Interest
ing to see in what estimation differ'
en,t foods are held for this purpose.
Rape cake, oats, and wheat bran are
held in the highest estimation; cotton
cake, barley, and palm not cake coma
next, peas and rye ranking last. It
will be noticed that the best foods
are highly nitrogenous, excepting
rape cake, and not particularly rich
in fat, the socond-clasH foods being
superior In this respect.
Richness of milk being, however,
dependent on the individual cow or
particular breed, tbe question may
well be asked whether tt pays to use
these foods in any quantity for all
cows alike In a milk herd, rfihose that
give the richest milk should have a
A Small Greenhouse.
P
While moot greenhouses are expensive to build and maintain, it is possible for
an amateur to have one at small expense, as an addition to the dwelling. Hotbed
SMahes ooet from 83.25 to 13.60 each, and measuie 3x6 feet. If steam or hot water
beating cannot be provided from the house, an oil stove will maintain a high enough
temperature.
The Cows and Tuberculin Test.
In some of the extensive tests made
on cows with the tuberculin test, un
der tbe new regulation and laws re
quiring it, about twenty-five per cent,
of the cows reacted, and were thus
found to be affected.
Tbe tuberculous cow presents a
vivid picture of disease long con
cealed, slowly but surely destroying
the tissue until the factor ot safety
of some organ or structure of the
body has nearly been destroyed. Dur
ing the early stages of the disease
the animal may appear to be healthy
in every respect, and it is with these
that tbe tuberculin test Is valuable.
Tuberculin has been used by the
experiment station of the Bureau of
Animal Industry regularly and con
tinuously during the last seventeen
years. Weekly Witness.
larger proportion of non-nitrogenous
food, which may to some extent
cheapen the ration, as tbe albuminoid
ratio is enlarged. This later in the
eame proportion for all the cows
in a herd has been perhaps too rigidly,
adhered to, and one of our leading
dairy authorities advocates attention
being paid more to tbe actual require
ments of the cows rather than strict
adherence to any prescribed diet.
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Wide-Awake Fanner.
Mr. Stephenson, writing in Hoard's
Dairyman, from Iowa, says: "I be
lieve I am safe in saying that fifty
per cent, of the farmers to-day are
fanning the same as they did twenty
five years ago." And this too in a
State where wide-awake livestock
associations, farmers' institutes, far
more' clubs and granges have been
actively engaged in training the
young farmer In the way he should
go.
Should this be a discouragement
tor farmers to try to learn better
methods? We say no, decidedly,
Let us think ot the other fifty per
cent. Are tbey not reaping the bene
fit of tbe improvements from which
the statistics of Iowa have been
made. Who are getting the benefit
of increased products of that great
State? Not the fifty per cent, who
farm as tbey did a quarter century
ago.
ITcns Sure to Lay Every Day.
' Mrs. John Osborn, of Clayton. St.
Louis County, has joined tbe ranks
of the foes of high prices as the wo
man Egg Trust buster. After eight
years research, she says, she origin
ated a breed of chicken guaranteed
to produce eggs every day in the year.
Tbe only trouble with the new va
riety is that tbe bens are so busy lay
ing eggs they forget to set. Tbey are
a mixture of Rhode Island Reds,
White Leghorns and Blue Audalu
slans. Mrs. Osborn grows enthusiastic as
fhe describes the new products of
the chicken world In this fashion:
"Talk about your egg machines, here
In Missouri, the realm ot the queen
of the barnyard, they sink into ob
livion In comparison to the new Os
borns. They are the superior ot tbe
poultry family a egg producers.
"They have bad no time to go to
poultry shows and have tbolr toenails
manicured, feather powdered and
their combs bathed In vinegar to en
hance their beauty. Tbey lay egg
every day whether they hate protty
prize ribbons fluttering from - their
coops or not."
With a few hens, each laying one
egg every day, it is not necessary for
city resident to study "back to the
Must Fe a Good Milker.
For a cow to be worth keeping In
a dairy herd she must produce
enough milk above the cost ot her
feed to pay a good Income on the in
vestment. She must do even more
than this. There are a great many
cows that are mere boarders, and
when tho test ia applied It Is found
that so far as profit is concerned they
are worthless, and profit is the ouly
object In view.
Why one cow will subsist on tbe
same feed as another and yet give
twice as much milk is a mystery that
has not yet been solved. The cow Is
a machine to take In grain, hay, fod
der, etc., and out of this to manufac
ture milk. The feed Is her raw ma
terial, and she is the best cow which
can take this feed and from it give
the greatest return. She, of course,
can give back only what Is first sup
plied to her In a different form, but
it is a characteristic of some cows
to get out ot tho feed all the milk
available while with others halt of
it is wasted.
While some breeds are better milk
ers than others, yet it ie not alto
gether a matter ot breed. Because a
cow may be a Jersey, a Guernsey or a
Holsteln, this does not signify that
she is a good milker, but the individ
ual cow must stand on her own mer
its. It is true, hdwevtr, that tbe best
milkers belong to these breeds.
Uusually the Holsteln will give the
greatest amount of milk, but for rich
ness the Jersey is unexcelled.
The cow should also be of good dis
position and not be a kicker. If she
is wild and easily frightened there
will be times when it wiU be impos
sible to get aU the milk, and the
whole herd may at times be made
restless. She should also be an easy
milker. In a herd the bard milker 1
anything but satisfactory. And above
all else she should not be broochy or
a fence pusher, aud she should pro
duce a calt every year. She should
no go dry, unless turned dry, and
she should have an even flow ot milk.
Many cows produce a large quan
tity of milk for a few weeks after
calving and after that tbe flow grows
gradually less until it cease alto
gether. Size or gsneral appearance should
not be given much consideration.
Color Is ot no Importance eicept a a
mark of breed. Wbat Is desired In
tbe dairy cow is milk or butler, and
the cow that will give the greater'
amount ot this at the least expense
I the bent cow for tbe dairy. H., in
the Indiana Fa-nier.
Canada water yielded last year
bout 30,000,009 lobsters, bait of
which war canned.
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