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Even without the title J V you'll be a splendid match for Mrs. ;' Wybert, and she must have a tidy lot f ^ of millions after this deaL" ' Sorely distressed, he walked back to ?• ^ .-ti tils lodgings in Thirty-second street. ?*£$ Wild, Quixotic notions of sacrifice flood- f\ •ed his mood of dejection. If the worst carae, he could go west with the fam- «y and learn how to do something. " , • And yet--Mrs. Wybert. Of course it «nust be that The other idea was ab­ surd--too wild for serious considera­ tion. He was 30 years old, and there *»s only one may for an English gentle­ man live--even if It must break the 1%r-, heart of a poor girl who had loved him t devotedly, and for whom he had felt a f-'<.steady and genuine affection. He * * passed a troubled night Down at the hotel of Peter Bines was an Intimation from Mrs. Wybert herself, bearing upon this same for­ tuity. When Uncle Peter reached ther« at two a. m., he found in his box ft email scented envelop* which he opened with wonder. Two Inclosures fell out One was a clipping from an evening paper, an­ nouncing the bitth of twin sons to Loft Casselfhorpe. The other was the carfl be had left with Mrs. Wybert on tb* day of his call; his name on one side, announcing him; on the other the words he had written: "Sell Consolidated Copper all you cafc Until It goes down to 65. Do this up to th* limit of your capital, and I will make goo4 anything yoa lose. "PETKR BINES." He read the note: "Arllnjfham Hotel--7:80. •"Mr. Peter Bltfes. "Dear Sir: You funny old man, you. I don't pretend to understand your gam* t>ut you may rely on my secrecy. I am mor* grateful to you than words can utter--anfl I will always be glad to do anything for you. Tours very truly, "BLANCHE CATHERTON WYBERT. "P. S.--About that other matter--him y<*v •enow--yen will see from this notice I cfc'f from the paper that the party won't g«t amy title at all now, so a dead swell NeH York man to In every way more eliglbl« In fact tbe other party is not to be thougr tr of for one voment, as I am positive y<TV would agree with me." He tore tbe note tfod the curd to Una fclts. "It does beat all," he complained later to Billy Brae. "Put a beggar on horseback and they begin right away to fuss around because the bridle ain't set with diamonds--give 'em a little, and they want the whole ball of wax!" "That's rigiit," said Billy Brue, with the quick sympathy of the experienced. "That guy that doped me, he wa'n't satisfied with my good $30 wad. Not by no means! He had to go take my breastpin nugget from the Early Bird." At 11 o'clock the next morning Mau- burn waited in Mrs. Drelmer's draw­ ing-room for the news sae might have. When that competent person sailed teThe saw temporary defeat written on her brow. His heart sank to its low level of the night before. "Well, I saw the creature," she be­ gan, "and it required no time at all to reach a very definite understanding with her. I had feared it might be rather a delicate matter, talking to her at once, you know--and we needed to hurry--but she's a woman one can talk to. She's made heaps of money, and the poor thing is society-mad--so afraid the modish world won't take her at her true value--but she talked very frankly about marriage--really she's cool-headed for all the fire she seems to have--and the short of it Is that she's determined to marry some one of the smart men here in New York. The creature's fascinated by the very I d e a . " v , j "Did you mention me?" "You may be sure I did, but she'd read the papers, and, like so many of these people, she has no use at all for an Englishman without a title. Of course I couldn't b§ too definite with her, but she understood perfectly, and Bhe let me see she wouldn't hear of it at all. So she's off the list But don't give up. Now, there's-- But Mauburn, was determinedly downcast "It's uncommon handsome of you, Mrs. Drelmer, really, but we'll have to leave off that, you know. If a chap Isn't heir to a peerage or a city fortune there's no getting on that way." "Why, the man is actually dlscour- tged. Now you need some American pluck, old chap. An American of your age wouldn't give up." "But, hang it all! an American knows •ow to do things, you know, and like u> not he'd nothing to begin with, by iove! Now I'd a lot to begin with, ind here's it's all taken away." « "Look at young Bines. He's had a lot taken away, but I'll wager he makes it all back again and more, too, before te's 40." "He might In this country; he'd lever do it at home, you Anow." '"This country is for you as much as tor him. Now, there's Augusta Har- xrag--those mixed-pickle millionaires, rou know. I was chatting with Au­ gusta's mother only the Vther day, and t I'd only suspected thin--" "Awfully kind of you, Mrs. Drelmer, •nt it's no use. I'm fairly played out { shall go to see Miss Bines, and have t chat with her people, you know." "Now, for heaven's sake, don't make l silly of yourself, whatever you do! £/. Hind, the girl released you of her own t'i- looord!" T ' « "Awfully obliged. Til think about it | U : - I jolly well, first. See you soon. Good by!" And Maubufn was off. He was reproaching himself. "That poor girl h£s been eating her h?art out for a word of love faom me. I'm * brute!" r . V C H A P T E R X X V L THE GOD IN THE MACHIN*. Peter next morning was up to a late breakfast with the stricken fam­ ily. Percival found him a trifle less bitter, but not less convinced in his despair. The young man himself had recovered his spirits wonderfully. The utter collapse of the old man, always so reliant before, had served to fire all his latent energy. He was now voluble with plans for the future; not only determined to reassure Uncle Peter that the family would be provided for, but not a little anxious to justify tus old man's earlier praise, and refute his calumnies of the night before. Mrs. Bines, so complacent overnight, was the most disconsolate one of the group. With her low tastes she was now regarding the loss of the fortune as a calamity to the worthy infants of her own chosen field. "And there, I had promised to give |5,000 to the new »ome for crippled children, and $5,000 to St John's Guild for the floating hospitals this sum­ mer--just yesterday--and I do declare, I just couldn t stay in New York with­ out money, and see those poor babies suffer." "You couldn't stay in New York without money, Mrs. Good-thing," said her son--"not even if you couldn't see a thing; but don't you welsh on any Of your plays--we'll make that ten thou­ sand good if I have to get a sandbag, and lay out a few of these lads around here some dark night" "But anyway you can't do much to relieve them. I don't know but what it's honester to be poor while the au­ thorities allow such goings on." "You have the makings of a very dangerous anarchist in you, ma. I've seen that for some time. But we're an honest family all right now, with the exception of a few properties that I'll have to sit up with nights--sit right by their sick beds and wake them up to take their meuay every half hour--" "Now, my son, don't you get to going without your sleep," began his mother. "And wasn't it lucky about my send­ ing that note to George," said Psyche. "Here In this morning's paper we find he isn't going to be Lord Casselthorpe, after all. What could I have done if we hadn't lost the .money?" From which it might be inferred that certain people who had declared Miss Bines to be very hard-headed were not so far wrong as the notorious "casual ob­ server" is very apt to be. "Never you mind, sis," said her brother, cheerfully, "we 11 be all right yet. You wait a little, and hear Uncle Peter take back what he's said about me. Uncle Peter, I'll have you taking off that hat of yours every time you get sight of me, in about a year." He went again over the plans. The Income from the One Girl was to be used in developing the other proper­ ties; the stock ranch up on the Bitter Root, the other mines that'had been worked but little and with crude ap­ pliances; the irrigation and land im­ provement enterprises, and the big tim­ ber tracts. "I got something of an idea of it when Uncle Peter took me around sum­ mer before last, and I learned a lot more getting the stuff together with Coplen. Now, I'm ready to buckle down to It." He looked at Uncle Peter, hungry for a word of encouragement to soothe the hurts the old man had put upon him. But all Uncle Peter would say was; "That soundB very well," compelling the inference that he regarded sound and substance as phenomena not nec­ essarily related. "But give me a chance, Uncle Peter. Just don't jump on me too hard for a year!" "Well, I know that country. There's big chances for a young man wiin brains--understand?--that has got all the high-living nonsense blasted out of his upper levels--but it takes work. You may do, something--there are white blackbirds--but you're on a nasty piece of roadbed--curves all down on tne outside--wheels flattened under every truck, and you've had her down in the corner so long I doubt if you can even slow up, say nothin' of reversin'. And think of me gettin' fooled that way at my time of life," he continued, as if in confidence to himself. "But then, I always was a terrible poor judge of human nature." "We'll, have your own way; but I'll fool you again, while you're coppering me. You watch, that's all I ask. Just sit around and talk wise about me all you want to, but watch. Now, I must go down and get to work with Fouts. Thank the Lord, we didn't have to welsh either, any more than Mrs. Give- up there did»" "You won't touch any more stock; you won't get that' money from Shep- ler?" "I won t; I won't go near Shepler, I prpmlae you. Now you'll believe me in one thing, I know you will, Uncle Peter.". He went over to the old man. "I want to thank you for pulling.me up on that play as you did last night. *ou saved me, and I'm more grateful to you than I can yay. But for you I'd have gone in and dug the hole deeper." He made the old man shake handa with him--though Uncle Peter's, hand remained limp and cheerless. ' "You can shake on that, at least. You saved me, and I thank you for it" "Well, I'm glad you got some sense," answered the old man, grudg­ ingly. "It's always the way in that stock game. There's always goin' to bo a big killing made in Wall street to-morrow, only to-morrow never, comes. Reminds me of Hollings' old turtle out at Spokane--Hollings that keeps the Little Gem restaurant. He's got an enormous big turtle in his cel­ lar that he's kept to my knowledge fur 15 years. Every time he gets a little turtle from the coast he takes a can of red paint down cellar, and touches up the sign on old Ben's back--they call the turtle Ben, after Hollings' father-in-law that won't do a thing but lay around the house all the time, and kick about the meals. Well, the sign on Ben's back is, 'Green Turtle Soup To-Morrow,' and Ben is drug up to the sidewalk in front of the Little Gem. back to his beucioir until another Mil. ing comes off. It's a good deal like that in Wall street; there's killings made, but the big fellers with the signs on their back don't worry none." You're right Uncle Peter. It cer­ tainly wasn't my game. Will you come down with me?" "Me? Shucks, no! I'm jest a poor, broken old man, now. I'm goin' down to the square if I can walk that fur, and set on a bench in the sun." Uncle Peter did succeed In walking as far as Madison square. He walked^ indeed, with a step of amazing spring!* ness for a man of his years. But theret. instead of reposing in the sun, he en* tered a cab and was driven to the Van- devere building, where he sent in his name to Rulon Shepler. He was ushered into Shepler's office after a little delay. The two men shook hands warmly. Uncle Peter was grinning now with rare enjoyment--ne who had in the presence of the family shown naught but broken age and utter despondency. "You rough-uoused the boy consider­ able yesterday," "I never believed the fellow would hold on," said Shepler. "I'm sure you're right in a way about the west There Isn't another man in this sec­ tion who'd have plunged as he did. Really, Mr. Bines, the street's never known anything like It Here are those matters." ^ He handed the old man a dozen or so certified checks oh as many different banks. Each check had many figures on it Uncle Peter placed them in h.s old leather wallet "I knew he'd plunge," he said, taking the chair proffered him, near Shepler'a desk. "I knew he was a natural born plunger, and I knew that once he gets an idea in his head you can't blast it out; makes no difference what he starts on, he'll play the string out H s pa was jest that way. Then of course he wa'n't used to money, and he was ignorant of this game, and he didn't realize what he was doin'. He sort of distrusted himself along toward the last--but I kept him swelled up good and plenty." "Well, I'm glad It's over, Mfc Bines. Of course I concede the relative in­ significance of money to a young man or his qualities--" "Not it's relative insignificance, Mr. Shepler--It's plain damned insignifi­ cance, if you'll excuse the word. If that boy'd gone on heu 'a' been ons of what Billy Brue calls them h)gh- collared Clarences--no good fur any­ thing but to spend moijey, and get apo­ plexy or worse by 40. As it is now, he'll be a man. He's got his health turned on like a steam radiator, he's full of responsibility, and he's rsally long-headed." "How did he take the loss?" "He acted jest like a healthy baby does when you take one toy away from him. He cries a minute, then forgets all about it, and grabs up something else to play with. Hi? other toy was bad. What he's playin' with now will do him a lot of «;ood." "He's not discouraged, then--he's really hopeful?" * "That ain't any name fur it Why, he's actln' this mornin' jest like the world's his oyster--and every month had an 'r' in it at that" "I'm delighted to hear it I've al­ ways been taken with the chap; and i'm very glad you read him correctly. It seemed to me you were taking a risk. It would have broken the spirit of most men." "Well, you see I knew the stock. It's pushin', Lghtin' stock. My grand­ father fought his way west to Pennsyl­ vania when that country was wllder'n Africa, and my father fought his way to Ohio when that was the frontier. I seen some hard times myself, and this boy's father was a fighter, too. So I knew the boy had in him, all right He's got bis faults, but they don't hurt -him none." "Will he return wsstt" "He will that--and the west Is the only place fur him. He was gettin' bad notions aoout his own country here from them folks that's always crackin' up the 'other side' 'sif there wa'n't any 'this side,' worth speakin' of in com­ pany. This was no place fur him. Mr. Shepler, this whole country isf God's country. I don't talk much about them things, but I believe in God --a man has to if he lives so much alone in them wild places as I have--* and I believe this country is His favor­ ite. I believe He set it apart fur great works. The history of the United States bears me out so fur. And I didn't want any of my stock growin' up without feelin' that he had the best native land on earth, and without be- in' ready to fight fur it at the drop of the hat And jest between you and me, I believe we can raise that kind in the, west better'n you can here la New Ytfrk. You got a fine, handsome town Ipre, it'B a corkln' good place to see--apd get out of--but it ain't any breedtn' place--there ain't the room to grow. Now we produce everything in the west, lncludin' men. Here you don't do anything but consume--in- cludin' men. If the west stopped pro- ducln' men fur you, you'd be as bad off as if it stopped producin' fcoi. You can't grow a big man on this island any more than you can grow wheat out there on Broadway. You'rf all right. You folks have your uses. I ain't like one of these crazy fools that thinks you're rascals and all like that; but my point is that you don't get the fun out of life. You don't get the big feelin's. Out in the west they're the flesh and blood and bone; and you people here, meanin' no disre­ spect--you're the dimples and wrinkles and--the warts. You spend and gam­ ble back and forth with that moner we raise and dig out of the ground, and you think you're gettin' the best end of it, but you ain't I found that out *32 years ago this spring. I had a crazy fool notion then to go back there even when I hadn't gone broke--and I done well to go. And that's why 1 wanted that boy back there. And that's *%y I'm mighty proud of him, to see he's so hot to gp and take hold, like I knew he would be" 'That's excellent Now, Mr. Bines, I like him and I dare say you're dons the best thing for him. unusual as it was. But don't grind him. Might it not be well to ease up a little after he's out there? You might let it be under- TORCH IS HIS RAZOR. USE OF THE BABCOCK TESTER. T Secure Accurate Results. NEWS OF ILLINOIS. HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST FROM ALL. OVER THE STATE. RATES Ot^EXPORT GRAIN Chicago Merchants Take Steps to Have Railroads Reach an Agrfip.' .: ment--Say Business of City Is Being Hurt. And Hollings does have turtle soup I stood that 1 am willing to finance any next day, but It's always the little tup-1 Qf those propositions there liberally ^ ties that's killed, and old Ben is hiked 1 cro BE CONTINUBXX) Chicago.--In deference to agitation among Chicago grain merchants for a readjustment of rates oh export grain to protect the local market against ad­ verse results that are expected after the close of navigation on the lakes, if the cancellation of the two-cent arbi­ trary on shipments from interior Illi­ nois points remains in effect, traffic officials of eastern and western lines are endeavoring to reach an agree­ ment that will forever settle this ques­ tion. The western roads, it is said, have completed the schedules on which they expect to base , an 'agree­ ment. This question has been one 'of the principal subjects of discussion among eastern and western roads since sev­ eral eastern lines followed the lead of the Big Four in canceling the plus basis on export grain shipments from interior points in Illinois to the sea­ board. The north and south lines im­ mediately registered a oomplainl, claiming they could not afford to haul grain into Chicago on the prorate pre­ scribed in the tariffs canceling the ar­ bitrary. The Illinois Central was the first north and south line to take radical retaliatory action. By reducing the rate on grain to New Orleans from all Illinois points to a fiat ten-cent basis it was expected a general reduction would follow. Other roads traversing the same competitive field, however, refrained from making a like reduc­ tion, pending developments. The shippers who are endeavoring to bring about a permanent settlement of this question say they do not desire a reduction of the rate, but rather the establishment of a concrete basis for all business east and south which will not impair the standing of the Chicago gateway. 8elect New Officers. Carllnville.--At the business meet­ ing of the county farmers' institute, held after the adjournment of the reg­ ular meeting, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, John Perrine, Plainview; vice president, Henry Bauer, Bunker Hill; secretary, James Winchester, Bunker Hill; treasurer, William J. H. Fahrenkrog, Bunker Mill. Officers elected for the ensuing year by the Domestic Science County asso­ ciation were as follows: President, Mrs. John Klinefelter, Bunker Hill; vice president, Mrs. E. Tolan, Girard; secretary, Mrs. W. P. Bauer, Bunker Hill; treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Cookson, Carllnville. Mrs. Thomas Rlnaker was elected delegate to the State Do­ mestic Science association which meets in Quincy in December, and Mrs. John S. Klinefelter, of Bunker Hill, was selected as alternate. Petersburg is Progressive. Petersburg.--Petersburg, while one of the oldest towns in central Illinois, li also one of the most progressive, and within the last ten years has ta­ ken great strides in municipal im­ provement. Many blocks of first-class brick pavement have been put down, while excavations have been made for a score or more blocks of pavement which will be laid this fall. The curb­ ing and gutters are of concrete and the streets where the work is complet­ ed compare favorably with those of towns of four and five timea the size of Petersburg. killed in Coal Witt.--While William Radford, to­ gether with Charles Zandie, was be­ ing lowered into the new mine in a bucket the drum of the engine slipped and the men and bucket fell to th** bottom of the mine, a distance of 250 feet There was about four feet of water in the shaft, and this undoubt­ edly saved the Italian's life. Radford was struck on the head as he fell and he never regained consciousness, Woman Injured in Runaway. Carllnville.--Mrs. David Searles and Miss Laura Barnes, both of Summer- ville, were severly Injured by a team running away with them. When near the residence of A. J. Darrah, the team became frightened, and a sud­ den bound of the horses caused the back seat, which was occupied by the women, to topple over backwards, throwing them violently to the ground. improvements for Aurora. Aurora.--^t is understood that the corporation recently formed for the purpose of constructing a bridge across either channel of the Fox river, has changed its plans somewhat, and the idea now Is to span the river from one bank to the other with a solid line of substantial buildings, all of which are to be rented for store pur­ poses. r Quail Hunting Season 8tarts. Bloomlngton.--Quail can be shot by Illinois hunters beginning Saturday, November 10. The season is a short one, however, the time allowed being only until December 20. As a result of the 40-day liraitation Nimrods will not wait long after the opening of the season before seeking the toothsome birds. The law provides that not over 25 can be killed in one day's hunt. Neither can they be killed for market or commercial purposes. Hunters predict that quail will be numerous this season. Killed Sister and Himself.' Ottawa.--Crazed by drink and by the remonstrances of his sister, Mrs. Mary Fancher, John Murphy, aged 55, killed his sister and ended his own life by shooting, at the Fancher resi­ dence. Mrs. Fancher was 43 years old. Involved in the quarrel which pre­ ceded the tragedy was the division of a considerable sum of money from an estate in which the two were jointly Interested. The slain woman was en­ deavoring to restrain her brother from squandering his portion. ' Now Hampshire Man Singes Beard Off Without Burning Himself. Every man to bis own barber in Mount Vernon, N. H., as far as shav­ ing is concerned, for there are no tonsorial parlors. In many other New Hampshire towns men are frequently accommodated by the village postmas­ ter, storekeeper, locksmith or carpen­ ter, who owns a razor or two, and is a barber, when occasion requires. When Mount Vernon men want a haircut they go to Mllford or some other large town. There is one native of the place, a man of 56 years, who has neither a beard nor a heavy growth of hair, who does not leave town or enlist the aid of a neighbor in "chopping off" his locks. He is his own bar­ ber, and probably one of the best known characters in Mount Vernon-- Jarvis Smith, or "Jarve," as he is called. "Jarve" has a unique meth­ od of removing his superfluous hair, and while it Is possibly original with himself, it is not a secret. He has no patent upon it, and rather^ prefers others to "follow his exampk^ if they wish to practice economy. The process can be done anywhere, in the parlor, on the street, in the field or on the woodlot, and "Jarve" does it when he finds it necessary, regardless of where he happens to be. Smith's method is by singeing. After dipping a piece of wood into kerosene oil and igniting it he starts to work. With the burning torch in one hand, and using the other for a "fire extinguisher," he singes one side of his face, then the other, the upper lip and chin, and in that way rids himself of all the hair on his face, and while he crops it down about as close as the average man does with a razor, he very rarely burns himself. The same sort of torch is used to remove his superfluous hair. "Burn yourself?" said Smith. "No. If a man knows how to take hla whiskers and hair off in this way he needn't be afraid of scorching his face or head. < I conceived the idea some years ago, and I would not take chances with a sharp razor. Life 1b too precious, and I am not ready to die yet." Nature Has Provided Antelope With the Apparatus. Another remarkable detail of the'an­ telope's anatomy is the white area on each buttock. Although it seems at first like the rest of his spots, a mere patch of white coat, it is found to be specialized for an important service. It is composed of hair graded from short in the center to long at the front edges. Under the skin of the part is a circular muscle, by means of which the hair can in a moment be raised and spread radically Into two great blooming twin chrysanthemums, more or less flattened at the center. When this is done in bright sunlight they shine like tin pans, giving flashes of light that can be seen further than the animal itself, affording a conspicuous Identification mark that muse be of great service to the species. As soon, therefore, as an antelope sees some strange or thrilling object this muscle acts and the rump patch is instantly changed into a great double disk of white that shines afar like a patch of snow, and by its flash­ ing spreads the alarm. This, It will be seen, is simp!/ a heliograph. Man flatters himself that he was the in­ ventor of flash communication, but he Is wrong; the antelope had it fltst They used it thousands of generations before man ever dreamed of it Don't Scold the Babies. Self-government with tenderness-- here you have the condition of all authority over children. The child must discover in us no passion, no weakness of which he can make use; he must feel himself powerless to de­ ceive or trouble us; then he will rec­ ognize in us his natural superiors, and he will attach a special value to our kindness, because he will respect it. The child who can rouse In us anger or impatience or excitement, feels himself stronger than we, and a child respects strength only. The mother should consider herself as her child's sun, a changeless and ever-radiant world, whither the small, restless creature, quick at tears and laughter, light, fickle, passionate, full of storms, may come for fresh stores of light, warmth and electricity, of calm and of courage. The child sees what we are, behind what we wish to be. Hence his repu­ tation as a physiognomist Uncon­ sciously he passes under the influ­ ence of each person about him, and reflects it, while transforming it after his own nature. He is a magni­ fying mirror. This Is why the first principle of education is: Train your­ self; and the first rule to follow, if you wish to possess yourself of a child's will, is: Master your own.-- Exchange. Medicine by the Dlmpful. A man went into a New York drug store'and asked the-Olerk for s*rem- edy for indigestion. The clerk sifted a pink powder into the scales. "Take a heaping dimeful of this," he said. "It will bring you around all right" "A dimeful?" Ejaculated the man. "What kind of system of measure­ ment 1b that?" "It isn't new," replied the clerk, "and it is very simple. Just take a dime and pile as much powder on it as will stick. That will be the proper dose. You couldn't get It any more exact if you measured,for half an hour with scales and spoons." A man standing near by sighed remlnlscently. •Tt makes me feel about ten years younger to hear you say that" be said. "They used to measure medicine that way when I was a kid. I supposed modern appliances had driven all those old methods out of the market." "Not at all," said the clerk. "There are lots of placed where they still take medicine by the dimeful." « Modesty. "Is that all the work you can do ia a day?" asked the discontented em­ ployer. "Well, suh," answered Mr. Erastus Pinklev. "I s'pose I could do mo', but ^ never was much of I hand foh Show- In' off." /* if I The Care Which Must Be Taken U , ^ -• BARN FOR SMALL DAIRY FARM. I ,. '\ 1 A* 'i. One Which Will Accommodate Ton to Twelve Cows. The farm barn here shown Is in- traded to accommodate ten or twelve dairy cows together with th^ horses necessary for a moderate Bized farm, to it is 44 feet long by 34 feet f • • 5 t 1 , ; ' M i l l 1 I I " \ ~~ i , i'IW t Barn and Ground Plarv wide. The main floor is 12 feet wide and the height of posts 18 feet, per­ mitting loads of hay to be driven in. A basement about six feet in depth can be utilized to store the manure and to provide shelter for hogs. The frame can be made of eight inch square hem­ lock timbers, the floor of three inch planks. This style of building should be suitable for many parts where the number of live stock is limited. SCIENCE OF MILKING CLEAN. What Prof. J. L. Hills, of Vermont Ex­ periment Station, Has to Say. It is well known that the average milker gets less milk than he who does a thorough job, that Incomplete milking means not only direct but in­ direct loss, not only an immediate lessening of the fat yield, but tends toward drying the cow. A Danish scientist has recently developed a spe­ cial system of udder manipulation, a sort of massage of the mammary gland, as it were, which it is claimed augments the flow. The Hegelund method, as It is called, involves three manipulations, each thrice repeated or until no more milk 1B obtained. FirBt, the pressure of the quarter on each side against each other thrice repeat­ ed, followed by removal of the milk; second, the pressure of the glands to­ gether on each side, the fore quarter being first manipulated and then the hindquarters, followed by removal 6t the milk; and third, the fore quarters are pressed between hand and body, the hands holding the teats loosely, then the hind quarters also, followed by milking. Trials of the scheme made at the Wisconsin and New York stations af­ forded a daily average increase per cow of a pound of milk and two ounces of butter. The after milk was very rich in fat testing above ten per cent This after milking takes not to exceed five minutes' time, often only two or three minutes. The two ounces of butter may be held at a low estimate to be worth two cents. This would be a fair pay for five min­ utes' work, 24 cents an hour, and the skim milk thrown in. Not only is more mUk and butter made, but the secretion is stimulated and the lac­ tation period prolonged. It may be remarked, however, that the differ­ ence in milk and butter yields be­ tween this methodwand careful strip­ ping are not grefit. This Danish method emphasizes more perhaps than has hitherto been done, the act­ ual and potential losses due to incom­ plete milking. TO HOLD A GATE OPiMli •. " v ' • ' :X-, - • • ; ' ' ' ' . Brace Which Can Be Swung Out of the Way When Not in Use. The illustration shows a very handy method which I Invented to hold a i. swing gate open at any width, writes a corre­ spondent of Or­ ange Judd Farm­ er. Most gates are hung so they swing upward a little in opening, to clear snow, grass, etc. They swing shut of their own accord, hence something to hold the gate open at any place while driving through or let ^ ting out stock is a necessity. To meet this need I devised the brace shown herewith. It is simply a piece of wood 1x2 Inches and a little longer than half the height of the gate. One end is fastened by a spike passed through it and driven into the edge of the vertical board at the end of the gatf, or It may be put on with a hinge. The dotted lines show its position when not In use, it being swung upward and snapped beneath a spring nailed to the top of the gate. v Dairy Facts. Doat .overdo the milking tube aet It is Impossible for a cow to be two opposite things, a dairy cow of the highest type and a beef animal of the greatest possible value. The control of moisture in butter is not possible without the control of churning temperatures. Ice and ther­ mometers are necessary for the mak­ ing of butter under proper conditions. The New South Wales Farmer and Settler tells of a New Zealand farmer who holds the record as a milker. For a considerable time he and his wife milked 72 cows night and morning, without keeping any hired help, their family consisting of one small child. We are told that the farmer and his wife were healthy and robust--which they need be- -and fine of humanity.' ' . ^ 'iM- The use of the Babcock test Is doming more and more common by > /S dairy men, who have now got it fully If i n t o t h e i r h e a d s t h a t n e a r l y a l l d a i r i e s 1 - have cows who are eating their heads i off and should be promptly got rid of. If in a dairy of thirty cows, there are ten whose milk does not pay for \ their feed, it is evident that the other twenty must not only support the ,^ *1 dairyman, but pay part of the cost of "15; maintaining the ten delinquents, and, ? ^ therefore, the net income of the dairy ' v ' would be larger if the ten were off the * 'fj 1 place. A very poor cow, of course, is "i* j very easily detected and disposed of, f "] but there is no way of discovering, - those along the border Kne of profit ^ -• and loss except by weighing the milk 4 ^ ] and ascertaining the fat content. The - J | B a b c o c k t e s t W i l l g i v e t h e f a t c o n t e n t ! 1 accurately, if the testing is well done, but sometimes it Is not well done, and the result is incorrect We have printed the directions for manipulat- "1 ing the taster a godd many times, but/ lilrs. Minna E. Sherman states a few •* common difficulties so clearly that we reprint what she says, as follows: Simple as the Babcock testing ap- * ^ "1 pears, by careless handling the fat "'W; rising in the necks of the test bottles " -If is clouded or mixed with other matter. ' ̂ '/; To test correctly, so as to have the , i fat free from foreign mixtures, is eas- "fit / 4 lly acquired by taking a quart of milk, < shaking it up and filling the test hot- ^ | ties, running it through and reading the per cent of butter fat At first, the . - i readings may vary but practice until 4^ 5 each sample reads alike. When prac- .:' i J tice has made perfect it is safe to 4 infer that the readings from different- \v i samples will be correct A few of the common causes of in- ^ correct readings are air bubles, black floating particles, ashes and cheesy - V matter in the column of butter fat The air bubbles in the fat are pricked by dropping onto the fat three or four drops of alcohol, using a high proof- s p i r i t s f r o m t h e b o t t l e o f g r a i n a l - 1 \ i cohol used in the spirit lamp. Tho alcohol lays on top of the fat and the* * if 3 division line is distinct at first after y a short time there is a slight emulsi- ' ?| fying of the fat, so the reading is? | tnade promptly to insure its correct- / ness. stgw " 'jj t In cloudy lifts where the separa- IV v tion is not distinct between the black: • 5 « mass and the fat it can often bet | cleared by letting the bottles grow, cold and then warming them up tot; !.v \ 1 hot water, where the separation will jJ be found to be completed. ; White ashes appearing among tlPe *• • J fat, or above or below It, indicates too - i 4 little or too weak acid. In buying; t si J acid from the supply houses I haver 3. never received a carboy of acid that was too weak, though I have had ite become so in the carboy by atmos­ pheric moisture--a careless butter*? maker during a spell of tule fog left the cork out for a week. I foundf that the acid would not cut the casein, but by adding a trifle over measure ifc came all right. A little experience will' show the color that the milk should ' turn under the acid and its freedom from lumps that the acid is not too> weak. "One thorn of experience is: worth a whole wilderness of warning.** The acid used has a specific gravity oft 1.82 to 1.83 at 60 degrees Fahrenheit^ A white curry or cheesy substance is often due to not thoroughly mixing the milk and acid in the test bottles when first filled. It is also caused by having the milk too cold--below 60 de­ grees--when the acid does not give off- enough heat In the mixing with tho : milk to burn out all the casein. When the fat shows up a mass of black, then the heat has been too great This may be caused by care­ less pouring of the acid into the cen- ter of milk in the bottle instead of- sliding it gently down the neck and along the sides to the bottom. Mora' care In filling will obviate this. In Fresno during the summer time tho milk in the sample bottles has to b#1 Chilled by standing them in cold water or else the test will be blackened. Th» _ milk tests the clearest if it is at a h- temperature of 60 to 65 degrees, and, • -i the acid at the same temperature. "} i When there is a dirty-colored foam.' % on the top of the Cat In the test boti^i^-|| tie, It indicates that the water used||y|J=3^ in filling the bottles up to reading if|' \ •• too hard, and boiled, or, better yet,} / - the distilled water from the engine, must be used to fill up the bottles.: .t The instructions that come with thoi- ^ y • Babcock tester direct running the ma- # chine two minutes, then filling theT % i, bottles with hot water and running \ one minute more. I presume this j^s. •? time is taken from the time the ma- chine attains full speed. I find it sim- pier to look at the clock as I turn , . -1 on the steam, and when the bottlesfe have twirled jdn minutes, turn off ..J the steam and pbt on the break slow­ ly, then fill the bottles with hot war ter and let on the steam for fir* minutes more. n \\ i vS TA".- COMPOSITION OF MILK. Proportion of Solids to Watar . Content. A given quality of milk is said ts M1 % ED - wx WIIVM* ; RFlHra Solids in Milk Compared. • {V | • * ^ contain 87 per cent water, and 13 par** If J cent total solids. The latter Is divid- ' t K ^ ed into sugar, 4.80 per cent; fat fOur '^® per cent; casein and albumin, 3.5 pwv(,^* f cent, and ash, seven per cent The V*!! ̂ diagram as worked out by the Hatch station shows the comparative rela- -| tionB of the various chemical factors, r Manure Bushes in Fall. | For best results currant bushoa f*§~ should be well manured in the fail " * and the manure plowed In so that tho * j injured rootlets may have time dur­ ing' the winter months to replenish themselves. Plow quite shallow next to the bushes. Give shallow cultlva. tion early in spring at| during the summer ^ -"V.'v