Cashion Advance. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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Prejudiced! By Jove' 1 go a great
deal further than that I should like
to her well shaken—1 should like
to .-hake her myself, in fart First,
for believing such nonsense herself.an-1
then for writing a pack of stories,
enough to turn a whole nursery of
children into dangerous lunatics. I
wonder if ghe lets her own children
read that wretched book."
MARGAKET
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' by the name of Old Jeffrey!' At other
times it is the figure of a lady also in
grey costume, and is described by Mr.
Drurv. She iti sometimes seen sitting
wrapped in a sort of mantle, with her
head depressed, and her hands crossed
on her lap. The most terrible fact is
that she is without eyes.
"To hear such sober and superior
people gravely relate to you such
things gives you a very odd feeling.
' 1 can't say. But if you would only They say that the noise made is often
let me read you one story, papa
"Read to me!—a ghost story to me'
Rose. 1 begin to think you must be
going mad!"
I'm not. papa; and this particular
story is vouched for by your beau ideal
Mr. How lit."
1 don't believe it."
But it is, indeed! There is his
name! and he had the accounts of the
haunted house from credible witness-
es!"
Mr.
like that of a pavior with his rammer
thumping on the floor. At other times
it is coming down stairs, making a
similar loud sound. At others, it
coughs, sighs and groans, like a person
in distress; and again, there is the
sound of a number of little fnet pat-
tering on the floor of the upper cham-
ber, where the apparition has more
particularly exhibited itself, and which
for that reason is solely used as a lum-
ber room. Here these foot steps may
Oli yes—of course!' sneered Mr. be often heard, as if careering a child s
Cowley. "However, I don't care if carriage about, which in bad weather
I hear this one tale 1 should like to is kept up there. Sometimes again, it
see what kind of a case he can make makes th" most horrible laughs. Nor
out of such outrageous rubbish." does it always confine itself to the
I won't bother you with a long sto- night. On one occasion a young lady,
ry: but just hear what Mr. Drury say* as she assured me herself, opened the
he saw at the haunted house in Wil- door in answer to a knock, the house-
mington. where Mr Howitt went af- maid being absent, and a lady in fawn . ,i0
.. .. i i .i . i held the light high above his head,
terwards. colored silk entered, and potceeded | ?. .
She began to read up stairs. As the young lady, of course.
About ten minutes to twelve we
heard a noise, as if a number of peo-
ple were pattering with their bare feet
upon the floor; and yet. so singular
was the noise tbut I could not minute-
ly determine from whence it proceeded.
A few minutes afterwards we heard a
noise, and a.; if some one was knock-
lug with his knuckles among our feet;
this was followed by a hollow cough
from tlu1 very room from which ih
apparition proceeded. The only noise
after this was as if a person were rus-
tling against the wall in coming up
stairs At a quarter to one I told my
friend tint, feeling a little
would like to go to bed, as 1
tarthy bring a light and ftiat In
one hand and ths pistol in the other
Mrs. Cowley and Catharine shivered
In the background but Mrs M a earth v
and Rose stood stoutly on the other
side of the door eager to get the first
I peep at the mysterious room
"Now, you fellow, who ever you may
be. I give you fair warning" called
I out Mr. Cowley In a loud voice.
Still the cradle rocked.
"I have got a loaded pistol In my
hand and the moment l catch sight of
you I shall Are."
Still the cradle rocked.
"I>o you hear me. you ^camp? I'll
teach you to cut these capers here."
Still the cradle rocked.
1 shall count three'" roared Mr
Cowley, getting into a rage, and then
I shall tire.'
Still the cradle rocked.
*' One."
Still the cradle rocked.
"Two"
Still the cradle rocked
"Three."
Still the cradle rocked; and. for the
first time they heard distinctly a
sweet female voice, as if singing to a
child within.
"Oh, gracious'" screamed Mrs Cow-
ley
Mr. Cowley looked aghast, but quick-
ly recovered himself.
"Another trick;but you shan't fright-
en me with your confounded nonsense
Stand back, all of you. Here goes"'
He gave the door a tremendous kick,
which sent it flying from the hinges
At the same Instant he fired.
And still, when the echo of the shot
had died away, they heard the self-
same noise, the self-same cradle song
Mr. Cowley entered the room, and
It
I was a small closet, liko a butler's pan-
try, with no window, no other mode of
it
the benefit t th* whole itate wOuU
be great
Alfalfa is not. like red clover, a
plant that will endure for two or three
years only, it is a perennial, and.
once established, can be depended on
to grow for a considerable number
of years, depending on the seasons
and the way it is cut and otherwise
handled. In fact In the dryer portions
of South America there are said to
be fields of alfalfa that have been
growing continuously for the last 200
years. But we are not generally able
to get in this elimatt fields that will
stand for all time There are added
elements here antagonistic to such a
state of affairs Alfalfa being a very-
deep rooter may be grown on land
barren to other plants. If there be a
FARM AND GARDEN
MATTERS OP INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Somii r p-1 o- Dm t n lllut* Al.out Cultiva-
tion of llit* >t.il Mini \ i«*l.l* I ln«r«of—
Horticulture, Mtlcultui* Hud i'lorliul
tare.
What n iall We n ut t
From Farmers' Review The time
of the year is drawing near when every
property owner in the great North-
west will be asking himself the ques-
tion, "What shall I plant In the or-
chard?" Ah, that Is the great ques- i
tiou with the tree planters of this sec-
tion. I, for one, would like to have
the tree planters discuss this question
through the columns of the Review.
By the permission of the editor, 1 will
give my experience for the past twen-
ty-five years 1 have been trying to
run an experimental orchard at my ^ ^ ..
own expense. When 1 first started the ]tjjim underlaid at some depth b> moist .son cattle than this one On both
orchard 1 bought everything in the gravei. Saturated land of any kind |li}J rancheiJ| Colonel Burnett reports
is not suitable to it even though it Is
t.lfO Mock limit.
Mr Brazil, an extensive ah- ^p raiser
living southeast of Tulare, Oal., has
been troubled by the coyotes, fo ir or
live men being necess try to guarJ each
band of sheep from them. Mr. Brazil
has been using a Winchester pretty
freely upon them, but this is expensive
and he has struck upon another plan
which seems to be almost as effective
and a great deal cheap-t. Every other
night he goes around the ranch an i
explodes firecrackers. He finds the
noise and the smell of the powder ar«
sufficient to keep the coyotes away for
a couple of days. He has tried the ex-
periment several times and it has
proved a success
The Fort Worth Register publishes
an interview on cattle conditions in
Texas, with Col. S. B. Burnett who
partly barren strip of dry soil with a
good water table ten feet below the recently returned from visiting his
surface the long roots of the alfalfa arc ranches in Indian Territory and King
often able to sustain Its development county, rexes He said that In all hi®
when all ordinary forage plants die long experience in the cattle business
out for lack of moisture , |n the Indian Territory aul Texas In
The best soil for the plant is a sand> never ggen a more favorable s
supposed it a neighbor come to make ,
. ,, m i>, .i. ingress or egress than the door,
a morning call on Mrs. Proctor, sh-
... , was impossible for anyone to escape,
followed her up to the drawing loom. .
. . , ioi ,,it nor was there a single living thing in
where, however, to her astonishment, j
she did not find her, nor was anything
more
en of her."
CHAPTER V.
At this stage of the reading Mrs
Cowley, who had been listening in per-
fect agony of fear, suddenly found
strength to rebel.
"Rose, shut that book instantly!"
she exclaimed. "No, Mr. Cowley. I
will not sit and hear such things! I've
old, 1 got a creeping down my back already,
might and my arms are all goose flesh; and
hear the noise equally well there; he | l wouldn't hear the rest of it It you
replied that he might not go to bed gave me five thousand pounds—therp!"
till daylight. I took up a note which Rose closed the book. Her father
1 had accidentally dropped, and began did not object, and drew his chair clos-
to read it. after which I took out my
watch to ascertain the time, and found
that It wanted ten minutes to one.
In taking my eyes from the watch
they became riveted upon a closet door
which 1 listinctly saw open, and saw
also the figure of a female attired in
greyish garments, with the head inclin-
ing downwards, and the one hand
pressed upon the chest, as if in pain,
and the other, viz., the right hand, ex-
tended towards the floor, with the in-
dex finger pointing downwards. It ad-
vanced with an apparent cautious step
across the floor towards me; immedi-
er to the fire, and glanced nervously
over his shoulder as he did so. Cath-
arine looked very pale, though she
made no remark, and Rose was satis-
fied. It was a pleasure, If a malicious
one. to think that not one of them all
would dare go up stairs in the dark
at that moment, any more than she
would. And she felt quite sure that
if the lady in grey "without eyes" came
to her bedside that night. Catharine s
shape oI a fruit tree that was recom
mended as an iron clad, but they have .( pjant requires a good deal of
nearly all passed away. As we cut wate:\ rite soli that has a hard-pan
the dead trees Into stove wood, my ,jown fQOt or so is not suitable to
bovs asked me if it would not be Ug K,owth if the hard-pan be lm-
cheaper for me to pay $20 a cord for pervious to roots. A limy soil is suit
oak wood than to raise it by planting dt)ie to its growth, and where the land
fruit trees. 1 have the consolation ja deficient in lime that article should
that 1 am not the only farmer that be 8Uppuej. The plant, being a heavy
has been humbugged into buying fruit feeder, will not thrive on land that is
trees that die from the bottom up, deficient in plant food. If artificial
for the dilapidated orchards hear me manureg of any kind are to be used
witness. Who is to blaine for this con- they should consist principally of pot-
d 11ion of affairs? Well, let us use a ag^ and phosphorous. To give the
little common sense and we will find plant a good start, nitrogenous nia-
"the nigger in the wood pile." in 1S71 nures are sometimes very serviceable.
there were quite a number of good
orchards here. In that year the can-
ker worms made their appearance, and
for 3 years they fed upon the trees.
A few farmers sprayed their trees;
these saved their orchards. Those who
did not spray lost theirs. Those who
lost their orchards have been replac-
ing, but they have no trees like the
ones killed by the worms. I asked
one of these old farmers several years
ago where he bought his trees. He
replied, "From a local nursery. 1 had
hem dug in the spring and had them
planted on my return from the nur-
sery." He told me that they were col-
lar grafted in the nursery row on
whole roots. These roots were mostly
grown from wild crab seed. This was
before we had any railroad through
here.
This orchard has not been sprayed,
trimmed or cultivated since 1874, and
is not a model orchard because of
the place except Nmstdf. Vet the cra-
dle rocked, and the song wns sung
while he stood there, almost at his
very feet.
He stepped hack into the kitchen,
looking very pale, feeling very sick
and faint.
Rose caught him by the arm.
"Oh. papa!" she whispered, with
white lips, "the place is haunted, and
we were very wrong to come. What
shall we do'' I*oot at mamma!"
It was. indeed, time to do so, for
Mrs. Cowley lav In strong hysterics up-
on the kitchen floor. Catharine had
fainted, and Mrs. Macarthy was bend-
ing over them both, alternately admin-
istering restoratives. Mr. Cowley raised 1 neglect. The original owner several
his wife in his arms; Ros^ and Mrs. I years ago passed over the silent river.
Macarthy supported Catharine between
them.
And as they left the haunted room
the cradle was still rocking, the low
nursery song still sounding in their
ears!
(To be Continued.)
Old Trinity Cienealojjle*.
Nowhere is the increasing interest
couch would by no means remain un- I in genealogy and genealogical socle-
visited. j ties more felt than in the parish of Old
There was a short silence, broken Trinity, in this city, says the New
by the sound of a rapid scuffling step ; York Times. The city is so old, and
ately as it approached my friend, who I in the hall. They looked at each other the church dates back so far in its his-
was slumbering, its right hand was somewhat timidly, and Mrs. Cowley tory, and so many people have lived
extended towards him. 1 then rushed gave a little yelp of terror when the | jn Now York state that every other
at it. giving, as Mr. Proctor states, parlor door was flung violently open.
a most awful veil; but. instead of But nothig worse than Mrs. Macarthy
grasping it. I fell upon my friend, and stood there; Mrs. Macarthy no longer
1 recollected nothing distinctly for ruddy and laughing, but pale and
nearly three hours afterwards. I have j frightened, as she had once vowed she
since learned that I was carried down i never could be.
stairs in an agony of fear and terror.
T hereby certify that the above ac-
count is strictly true and correct in
every respect.
EDWARD DRl'RY."
"North Shields."
' What stuff!" exclaimed Mr. Cowley.
"Is there any more. Rose"
"A little, papa. An account of a
ghost seen in the same house by two
young ladies."
The first night, as they were sleep-
ing in the same bed. they felt the bed
"1 wish you would step this way,
sir," she said, addressing Mr. Cowley,
eagerly. "Something queer has hap-
pened out there." ?
"Oh gracious, the ghost, the ghost!"
screamed Mrs. Cowley.
No, ma'am, at least, nothing that
you can see. But it isn't exactly im
proving to the spirits to sit and hear I
Do come out. sir.
it all by one'i
and listen."
Mr. Cowley went. The rest, seized
with a sudden panic, ran after him.
lifted up beneath them. Of course, they I ^,rs Macarthy led the way to the
were much alarmed. They feared lest | kitchen, where she hart been sitting
some one had concealed himself there
woman who can trace her relatives'
ancestors into New York state is
pretty sure that they must have been
registered for birth, marriage or death
in the Trinity records. They write to
inquire without hesitation, and one
clerk is kept busy most of the time
looking up possible ancestors ami lost
links in ancestral chains. Where
something like a clew Is given, an ef-
fort is made to obtain the informal
tion. but when there Is only a supposi-
tion it is not possible to hunt through
all the records. It would keep an office
full of clerks constantly at the records
to answer all the requests that arc
made.
for the purpose of robbery. They gave
an alarm, search was made, but noth-
ing was found. On another night their
bed was violently shaken, and the cur-
tains suddenly hoisted up all around to
the very tester, as if pulled by cords,
reading "Love and Revenge, or The
"Bandit's Vengeance and the Maiden's
Choice," by the light of two tallow
candles and a blazing fire large enough
to roast an ox. Mr. Cowley looked
round curiously, so did the girls, cling-
ing very close to their mother all the
and as rapidly let down again, several j
Search again produced no evi- I Hark.
next day they I "P h"r flnKer
They listened with hated breath
times.
dence of the cause.
had th" curtains totally removed from
the bed. resolving to sleep without
them, as they felt as though evil eyes
were lurking behind them. The con-
sequences of this, however, were still
more striking and terrific. The follow-
ing night, as they happened to wake,
and the chamber was light enough
(for it was summer) to see everything
in it, for they both saw a female fig-
ure. of a misty substance, and a blue-
ish-grey. hue. come out of the wall at
the bed's head, and through the head-
board. in a horizontal position, and
lean over them. They saw it most dis-
tinctly They saw it as a female fig-
ure come out of. and again pass into,
the wall. Their terror became intense;
and one of the sisters, from that night.
U itmnn'K A miming; Mistake.
An American woman tells an amus-
ing story against herself, resulting
from her blissful ignorance of any lan-
guage but her own. She was one of
three American girls traveling in Italy.
They had come to Europe with the
laudable determination to see famous
people as well as all famous places;
and in pursuance of this plan, while in
Milan, they paid a visit to Sig. Verdi.
Verdi received his unexpected visitors
graciously, but as they were taking
leave, he raised his voice slightly say-
From behind a closed door on the Roberto! She, imagining this
right hand side of the kitchen came a niust be the Italian equivalent for
strange, continuous sound. "farewell," raised her voice also, and
The rocking of a cradle, by Jove!" j looking him full in the face, exclaimed
said Mr. Cowley. And Mrs. Macarthy in her turn "Roberto! then turned to
nodded assent. j discover, to her dire confusion, that
"Some confounded tricks! Have you ; Sig Verdi had merely been calling his
aid Mrs. Macarthy. hold-
there It is again!"
refused to sleep any more in the house games with impunity. Give me the
but took refuge in the house of the hammer, Mrs. Macarthy. and I'll break
foreman during her stay; the other j the door open. I'll cradle the fellow
shifted her
of the house
qu
liters to another part
It was the young lady
who slept at the foreman's who saw go for my pistol?'
as above related the singular appari-
tion of th* luminous figure in the w in-
man servant to show them the door.
After that she took lessons In Italian.
I.ady'n Privilege oil Second Meeting.
It is the lady's privilege, if so in-
clined, to first recognize and salute a
gentleman upon next meeting him af-
ter being introduced. This prerogative
is reserved to ladies, in order to pro-
tect them from annoyance; as in com-
pany, many casual introductions are
made to persons with w hom It may not
be desirable to keep up an acquaint-
ance. If the lady is disinclined to
continue the acquaintance with per-
sons so introduced, she will, of course,
make no recognition upon next meet-
"111 go," said Rose, growing very ing Bupt if it should happen to be
brave in the belief that a trick was otherwise, she must take care not to
opened the door?"
"1 tried, sir."
"Well?"
"It would not come open."
"Why not?"
"It Is nailed up, sir."
"Didn't I tell you so?" exclaimed Mr.
Cowley, gaining fresh courage from
this circumstance. "Some rascal has
got in there to frighten us out of the
place, so he can carry on his usual
with a vengeance. I wonder if one
of you would have pluck enough to
dow along with the foreman and his being played upon them. She was not ' omit the duty incumbent upon her. as
wife
afraid of anything human, even though j politeness and etiquette debar the gen-
It would be too long to relate all | it came in the shape of a masked bur- ! tlei
Ne
the forms fn which this nocturnal dis- glar at midnight, and she ran and
turbance is said by the family to pre- 1 brought the pistol, without giving i
sent itself. When a figure appears, it thought as to anything that might still
is sometimes that of a man. as already be lurking on the stairs.
described, which is often very lunii- When she got back her father had
nous, and passes through the walls as finished his task, and was just about
though they were nothing. This male j to open the door. Still the cradlo
figure is well known to the neighbors [ rocked unceasingly. He bade Mrs. Ma- school
ian from making and advances.-
York Weekly
He—"Carrie, do you know you are
the first woman I ever loved?" She—
"So then that is what accounts for
your greenness" But to think that I
should run a kindergarten courtship
These old orchards that escaped the
ravages of the worms were planted in
1841; most of the trees stand as
straight upright as a line. This is
because they are well anchored with
good tap roots. The roots were not
damaged by the hard freeze of 1898-
99. Such trees bore a fair crop of ap-
ples in 1900.
The up-to-date nurseryman does not
fool away his time trying to grow
hardy roots to graft hardy varieties of
fruit upon, but sends to France for
his apple seeds and seedlings, because
he can get them much cheaper there
than he can get them in this country.
The roots of these French seedlings
freeze to death during a winter like
1898-99. in Febuary. 1899, the frost
went down into the earth to a depth
of six feet; this great depth of frost
paralyzed all the roots of French stock
upon my farm, such as Mazzard and
Mahaleb cherry, Myrabolan plum and
cfloiee French apple roots. All of my
apples grown on Siberian and wild
crab roots, cherries on Montmorency
cherry pits, and plums grown on na-
tive wild plum roots, came through
that trying ordeal with colors flying,
with not a dead tree. While of those
grown on eastern and choice French
hardy (?) roots I lost thousands of
trees. 1 am so disgusted with this
nursery humbug that I have conclud-
ed to grow my own trees; apples on
hardy roots that have withstood our
trying climate for 60 years; cherries
on stock grown from Montmorency,
Wraggs and other hardy cherry pits,
and plums from our native plum pits.
Upon these roots I will graft the hard-
iest fruit that grows in my neighbor-
hood. Now, brother farmers, let U3
have your experience through the col-
umns of the Review. Please don't all
speak at once.- D. F. Thompson,
Stephenson county, 111.
Alfalfa tn the Went and I'.ast.
Alfalfa is a plant primarily adapted
to the lands of drouth and sunshine,
and up to a very recent, date it has
been regarded as entirely unsuited to
any lands east of the Mlnsissippl river
and north of the Ohio. The trials
with It in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Illinois and Indiana were in the
main against it, and the stations as
well as the leading farmers of the
states named, have advised that it be
left alone. But in the states of Ohio,
New York and even in New Jersey,
alfalfa has been recently grown in
some localities with marked success.
This has revived the investigations
relative to Its usefulness in these
states usually abundantly supplied
with moisture.
Doubtless It will be found that there
are in all of our states counties or
par's of counties far more subject to
droui. than are other counties. It
naturally follows that such localities
have an excessive amount of sunshine
and are hence adapted to the develop-
ment of the alfalfa plant. Some of
the best farmers in the east have
found the plant adapted to their local-
ities and have commenced to grow It
for the supplying of the protein needed
in their feeding rations. We have no-
ticed that during the last ten years
there are certain parts of Illinois far
more subject to drouth than are the
other parts of the state. If alfalfa
aouM be rstabliibed in Buch localities
liii|.ro lni; llorte. In Amtrallu.
In Victoria, in Australia, the agri-
cultural societies have taken up the
matter of horse improvement, and. in
a recent convention, proposed souk
rather severe measures. The Aus
tralasian. commenting on the action
of the convention, says:
"The report recommends a tax on
stallions, but beyond the registration
of the animals there appears to be lit-
tle or no encouragement to horse-
breeding The penalty for using an
unregistered stallion—a tine not ex
ceeding A) 50 for the llrst offense and
confiscation for a second offense is
sufficiently heavy to extinguish all, or
nearly all, the worthless sires in the
country. But as this drafting of the
culls is not to be accompanied by any
encouragement in the way of cheapen-
ing the services of the registered stal
lions it is not likely to encourage
horse-breeding tu any appreciable ex
tent. The absence of the cheap sires
will have the effect of considerably
lessening the number of mares bred
from, as the owners will not consider
the weeds worth paying the service
fee of a good stallion, (letting rid of
all the worthless stallions will doubt
less prove a great advantage, but
something more Is wanted to improve
the general horse stock of the country.
The plan adopted by the governments
of European nations is an excellent
one. Stallions of the highest class are
purchased, and these are sold to stud-
owners at a considerable reduction in
price ou the condition that tney serve
a certain number of approved mares
at a very moderate fee. The owners
of mares that if bred to a good stallion
are capable of producing useful stock
do not usually send their mares to
weedy stallions from choice, but for
financial reasons. If the price of good
sires were brought within their reach
the majority would gladly use high-
class sires. No scheme that does not
provide for cheapening the services of
registered stallions to approved mares
will do much to encourage the raising
of good horses in Victoria. Merely to
tax ami register those stallions that
are proved to be of value for raising
good stock will no more encourage
tue owners of such horses than it will
encourage those who cannot afford to
pay a high prise for the service of
those registered stallions."
We publish the above for the reason
that we have the identical problem to
deal with in this country. Further-
more, if Australia gets to breeding a
high type of horse the horse raisers
of the United States will find a strong
competitor. We have been shipping
horses to South Africa. How many
would have gone there had there been
an available supply in Australia? We,
too, need to weed out the worthless
sires.
Trouhlo of Kami-* Hay Growers.
There has been so much dissatis-
faction among Kansas farmers over
the methods practiced by the Kansas
City Hay Dealers' association through
whom most of the hay that goes to
that city is marketed that an investi-
gation has been ordered. It is claimed
that the secretary of the association,
who is empowered to furnish to the
press quotations on hay, has sys-
tematically sent out quotations 50
cents to $100 below the true market
prices, thus making it possible for hay
dealers who are members of the asso-
ciation to defraud the farmers by pay-
ing them according to the quotations
sent out my the secretary. The system
of hay inspection inaugurated by the
association and upon which it depends
for revenue is also severely criticised
as being incompetent, unfair and of
no real value, either to shipper or
grower. The Kansas City hay receipts
for 1900 were 137,070 tons, and if the
charges made can be proved, the
farmers of the district have lost in the
neighborhood of $100,000,
"There is another difference," said
the milkman, pointedly; "the cow does
not give any credit."
An epicure is a masticatcr who ap-
preciates a master caterer.
that cattle are doing as well as he ever
saw them. While It Is very dry. It is
all the better for the range on that ac-
count, and there is enough stock
water to last until April at least
There is little fear that rain will coma
by that time anyway.
Contrary to general opinion, tuber-
culosis, though somewhat rare, Is not
by any means unknown among horses.
There are plenty of cases on record
in which deaths have been caused by
this disease, a ml an addition to the
list lias Just been furnished by Mr
J. 11. Bennett, M It. C. V. S., of Bom-
ford, who contributes to the "Veter-
inary Record" the details of an inter-
esting case which came under his ob-
servation recently. The animal tu
question, a half-bred black cart geld-
ing, was It! years of age. and died In
what is known as the "usual course,
1111 October 10. On post mortem exam-
ination. hli abdominal cavity was
found to contain a large quantity (at
least 10 gal.) of fluid, and further ex
a initiation showed that the animal had
fallen a victim to a very bad attack of
tuberculosis. How he contracted tu-
berculosis is a matter of some mys-
tery. as he had never been in close
contact with cows, nor had he ever
drunk any cow's milk. Mr. Bennetts
assumption Is that the disease was
contracted through the animal drink
at some public trough or fountain, a<
the horse was largely employed In car-
rying farm produce to the London
markets.
Morn* In Chicago.
Frauds practiced by meat dealers
have resulted in an investigation of
Chicago fiims by the Health depart-
ment and have led to the suggestion
that the preparation of horseflesh for
the market be recognized as an indus-
try and be permitted under Inspection
and with license, says a Chicago daily
paper Deception on the part of deal-
ers who have placed the meat on the
local market as beef has caused both
the Investigation and the attempt to
regulate the trade
Efforts to secure evidence against
the firms have not succeeded thus far
The meat was traced into the estab-
lishment of one large Chicago firm, but
when the health officials secured ac-
cess to the barrels in which it had
been packed a substitution of beef for
the horse meat bad been effected. The
evidence was incomplete and the case
was dropped. In addition to the large
firm a number of smaller establish-
ments have been suspected, upon what
the health officials consider good
grounds, of securing the meat and im-
posing it upon their customers as beet'.
The meat purchased from the estab-
lishments which kill horses for the
trade is secured at about two cents a
pound. The profit to the dishonest
dealer who retails the meat at the
prices charged for beef is immense.
There Is one place in Archer avenue
which Is recognized by the Health de-
partment without any definite policy
having been established for the regu-
lation of such places in general. In
the case of this dealer the department
is assured that ills trade is conducted
honestly. He sells to the foreign mar-
ket, principally In Sweden, and his
meat is labeled plainly as horse meat.
A Huron (Cal.) correspondent re-
ports that crop prospects have not
been better in five years in that vlcin-
|ty. Some 8,000 acres have been seeded
to wheat and barley, of which about
4.000 acres have been flooded twice
There are from 200,000 to 250,000
sheep on the plains and all are doln^
well, feed is very good; lambing Is
going on. and tho estimate is that It
will be from 115 to 150 per cent for
lambs. Plenty of butchers are travel-
ing over the plains, buying sheep.
Sheep men are not anxious to sell,
but those who do sell get good prices.
"The difference between a cow and a
milkman," said the man with a rare
memory for old Jesta, "is that the co*
gives pure milk."
Arclilelitlil Witr of Klement*.
By the falling of a tank containing
10,000 gallons of water a fire which had
assumed serious proportions at Capo
May Courthouse village, N. w:is
quenched. Because of lack of fire fight-
ing facilities the fire was spreading in
all directions, when the tank of water
was thrown into the heart of the fli t
below.
About one-half a man-s life is devot-
ed to rectifying the mistakes of the
other h lf.
A I.lvely Fly.
The lantern fly, which lives in the
Malay peninsula, jumps a distance of
live or six feet without spreading its
wings. It does this by drawing its nose
back under its body and striking It
suddenly against the surface upon
which it Is resting. The insect is
thrown forward somewhat as is tlw*
stone from a boy's slingshot.
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