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MATES DOICL BT KIL COCRTLAXD. C?r the tops of purple motmtaint, Where the Roman twilight falls, Softly smile* the Mat*r Dolcl On the gray old church'* walls. Many year* hare bloomed and faded. Many years will bloom again, (Still she listens 'mid the stillnesi To the cries of human pain, i . Hater Dolci! thou hndst tasted / Every giief and every ill, *. When thou watched beside the_cr oases 'N?*th the stars on calvary Hill. Mater Dcld I in the gloaming, When the Roman twilight falls, Stoop and gather up the teardrops Btrovrn within the church's walls. Petoucton, 8. C. BERENICE ST. CYH A Story of Love, Intrigue, and Grime. BY DWIGHT BALDWIN. CHAPTER XTL VAILUBX. Noiselessly Cole Winters glided on to the door of trie room where he had overheard the brief conversation between Berenice St. Cyr and her croel persecutor. Instinctively he flew to the closet. Once there, however, he realized that it wa> a foolish hiding place, since if detooted he would have absolutely no chanoe for escaping. Be was about to withdraw when he remembered tho haven of refuge he bad found earlier in the night, when the officers were after him. ti i :?a ..jv. I nim una mougm, uope ictitdu, buu us began groping about to get an idea of hi* surroundings. The closet, which was quite deep, had clothes-press with swinging doors oc one side, while tbe other was fitted up with shelves. Cole's plan was instantly formed; he would imitate his former prooeeding. In a moment he had ollmbed up to what he supposed to be the topmost one. As he crept oaok, to be as secure as possible from observation, what he had supposed to be the oeiling above him moved at his touch. A hasty examination showed him that .it was in reality another shelf similar to the one on which he was lying. By a very slight exertion he raised it higher, and was enabled a moment later to creep past it up into an open spaoe above. Marveling at this, he returned the board to its former position and raised his hand At a height of, perhaps, four feet from the floor it came_in contact with the roof of the house, tie was in a shallow attic between the ceiling of the upper floor and the slates above. Satisfied on this point he produoed a match, of which he found quite a supply in the pookets of his borrowed disguise. The faint light thus obtained not only verified his previously formed judgment, but revealed something that oaused him to ut:er an exclamation of pleasure. On a line with the open spaoe bj which he had made his escape, 'and only a few feet away, was a similar opening. This, oar hero reasoned, communicated In a similar manner with the closet is the Toom where Berenice was oonflned. In an instant he was planning for the future. He oould now communicate with her, and a little later would be able to secu?e her release. Having reached this encouraging conclusion, he bent forward and listened Intently. He heard first a confused noise, then the sound of tramping feet, and lastly well-defined voices. In aootner moment tne speakers nao entered tbe room Cole had just left, and be bad no trouble in recognizing them by their voices. "I tell yon he's escaped!" cried Morris. "Don't see bow be eonld," replied Seers. "Have we Bearohed every plaoe?" "This is the very last room, sir," answered tbe servant, Lake, "and be aini "It's strange!" muttered Morris, witb an oath. "He must have slipped out the front door, sir," suggested Luke. "He didn't nave time, and besides we'd have heard him." "He may have stayed in tbe vestibule, and unlocked tne door after you had run op tbe stair, and before I got there." "That's it! That's tbe way it was donel Run down, Luke, and cee if there's anything to indicate it." Cole beard the Bervant leaving tbe room. "Now, who is this party who comes here dressed in one of your disguises?" "Ob! That never occurred to me. He's reporter." "For what paper?" "I didn't notice, though I saw his star." "You're a chomp, A1 Sears!" "I don't see "And I'm another, so I won't npbraid you. I never once doubted but what I -was talking with you. I'm a bigger dolt than you, for I ought to know your voioe bettter than yon do his." ""Why, I never saw him before!" "Where did he get that outfit?" "At my place?that is, if it's really mine." "And that's where we left Mr. Coif Winters." " Confusion!" "That's the size of it! He's bearded ui ta our den. I begin to feel a little shaky. There's no telling what that fello* may do." "He's afraid to ro to tbe polioer and will try to work the case up on his own account Tho next time we get him io pur power we'll " "well?" urged Morris. "Kill him! Come to tbe library where we oan talk matters over and determine what to do." When the Bound of their footsteps had died away, Cole struck another match, by the light of which he located and enl ttred the other aperture. "Berenice!" called he, in intense though modified tones. He heard a murmured response, but eould distinguish no words. By this time he found that the top of tho closet, like the one by way of which he had aaoended, was not ceiled, but only Closed by a loose board. Whether this had been the result of an oversight on the part of the builder or design in the scheming Max Morris, our hero did not Btop to consider. In a moment he reached the floor and was groping for the fastening of the door. To his joy it yielded to his touch and opened readi;y. "Merciful heaven!" In affright our heroino covered her face with hor hands and staggered back. In his ezcitoment, Cole had forgotten 11 about his disguise. "It's I?Cole Winters!" cried he, rea?? uriDgly. As h s words reaohed her, Berenioe St, Cyr sprang forward and threw herself into the arms of her would-be rescuer. No word of love had passed between tb? twain, yet each knew the heart of the other. Under ordinary oircumstances finch a demonstration would have been utterly foreign to her nature, but now, bere v?d, persecuted, imnri60ned, she iaw in out nero ner only ftiehd, and fiTt full rein to the natural impulses of er heart. "You?alive and safe!" said she, wonderine, rapturously. "It's I. I'm alive, but anything besides afpr "But how " "Never mind, now. The present is our the opportunity! While they are consulting er, below, we will make our esoape." B Cole turned the gas higher and ap- had proached the window. of 1 He found it carefully secured, a screw having been put above the lower sash to "J prevent its being pushed up. stn With a pocket* knife, whioh with many I to other conveniences he had found in his ?] pocket, Cole soon removed this, and 1 threw up the window. ,! Then, loweringthe gas again, he opened ?, VUnJa /I IAAVAII Atif _ ^ UO UUWIUO UiUiUV W1U AVVUVU VUH J The window was on the Bide of the 1 ? house and at least twenty feet from the ?j ground. Earing ascertained that the coast was '?jj clear, he flew to the bed and seized a a: sheet whioh he prooeeded to tear into . strip*. f0* This oocnpied no longer time than is ]j, required to tell of it, and in a minnte or two he held in his hands an improvised rope dolj strong enough to support the weight of his fair companion or himself, and of a s; length sufficient to reach the ground. "Now!" said Cole. 'Don't be afraid! *** Tonll soon be oat of this house and beyond the reach of your enemies." her< As he spoke be passed the rope around htr form and knotted it together under ms' her arms. "< Then be assisted her to the ledge of the Be open window. fcto With infinite care he pushed her for- C ward, and, having braced himself for the thai task, be began lowering her toward the ooo ground. qui' This proved quite laborious but con- "< sumed only a little time. you Soon the strain ceased, and looking "j forth Cole saw, to his great joy, that Berenioe had reached the ground in .ftbo safety and was removing the improvised Brix rope. "1 w * ** I- l?1- - 14 1? 1 _ du 116 lost BO mug w IY1BB ? louumj >u a aUam heater which stood neir the "J window, and in a moment was ready to ">11 make the descent.. my At that instant a cry caused him to look V6x downward. *] ' I? his utter consternation he saw in the lather indistinct light that the young Pro lady was straggling in the grasp of a thin powerful man. ha* At that instant an exclamation of ai mingled rage and triumph oansed him to mj look upward. thiz At the window, an open knife in his pod hand, stood hisenfemy, Almon Bears. T, The next instant the blade described a and circle in the air and desoended. . It Then our hero felt himself falling rap- edit idly downward. the lv CHAPTER XVIL Moc SPECIAL PBOVIDENC*. * C.VT Herel None of that!" mm With one foot out of the bed, Cole Winters paused and looked curiously at a811*j toe speaxer. He was a man of small statare, his height being apparently something lens u than five feet. But what he lacked of the "fall proportions" of a man in that *?? regard was amply compensated for in the breadth and thickness of hie body. His arms, too, were large and c musoular, his enormous knotted hands J1?** extending fully half way down hia legs. |?C1 which were the only portion of his body that appeared dwarfed. "1 This circumstance, however, gave him "1 a grotesque, almost ludicrous appearance, "I which brought a smile to the pale lips of * ' oar hero. Bat an instant later an awful toll flood of dark and bitter memories surged I ws in upon him and fairly swept it from his A face. man "I?I don't " *ftl? In the midst of a question Cole paused ?? and looked searchingly around. p , He found himself in a large room whioh w0 < seemed to contain no furniture except a 21 cluir, a stove, an old lounge, a rickety , tab lb upon whioh stood a number of bot- J. ties, and the bed, where Cola half sat. J half reclined. J The floor was uncarpeted, and the light half exoluded from the one window by an klanVaf Wfta + AAVAfta M lower portion. "Ain't muoh acquainted hereabouts?" queried the man, whose age teemed to be "*n 50 jears at least, as he seated himself on the ohair and assumed a hideous look; *1 vhioh Cole subsequently determined was ver intended for a imilt. wan "I should say not!" responded the at- out tonished and bewildered young man. was "Probably you don't know me?" poli For the apparent purpose of aiding our to g kero in identifying him, the man stood "J up to the extent that his diminutive leg* "1 permitted, azd turned his huge faoe full whi upon his observer. one "Beckon you can oall ma down &OW," it aid he. bed "I must admit that I oannot" j "Propose to repudiate me, do yonf* " The short man snapped this out, nl ?nr flung himself back upon the ohair. I kmi "Certainly not," returned the now fhoiw ? onghly mvstified young man. "The fact ? is that I don't * "That's a fact That's one on you, Jerry Moorel You were a leetle too f small to remember me, I guess." bole Where Cole had wondered before, he marveled now. Onoe more he looked at the meager appointments of the room. e: and returned 'hie gaze to the face of the man "who half way announced hia name to p be Jerry Moore. "I don't understand. You'll have to explain," replied he, making an effort to rise to his feet. "None of thatl You lie down!" In a manner tiger-like, both as to S[uickneBs and ferooity, the man sprang orward and foroed Cole baok upon the bed. I "I'm in the hands of a lunatic," ajj( thought the latter, who, partly as a matter of policy, but principally from a feel- , , ing of weakness, quietly maintained the V* position into which he had fallen. the] For a moment only the evil light shone abo in the man's large and expressive eyes. . acre This subsided as suddenly as it hid flamed up, and he quietly resumed his ^,er "Lie still and I'll tell you all about it. ca I'm your Uncle Jerry." out "No?" replied our hero, thinking to pre: humor his self-announced relative." L "You can gamble on it and win. But C0II they don't know it." , "No?" Baid Cole again. a 81 "I should say not. Do you suppose ^er that they are fools enough to think that eatt old Jerry Moore would make way with his the own flesh and blood. They think I'm ove artrl T'm a IaaIIa rrrain vnrao 'n tViov think, but I wouldn't do that." P ThiB was becoming interesting. Cole ancJ Winters felt that the mystery surround- eat* Ing him -was lu the way of being ?eei olea?ed up. hav "What's your name?" asked Jerry the Moore, suddenly. tha: "I?why you know, UnoJe Jerry." "That won't interfere with your telling _ , me. Out with itl" Bo1 "My name Is Cole Winters." To the utter astonishment of the speaker the other sprang forward and seized him by the wriBts in a vise-like rr grip. A moment niore and he had taken from 1S F one of the spacious pockets of his coat a pas: pair of hand-cuffs. tali "Don't iron mo!" cried Cole in oon- pOU 6tercatioiu j 0( "I must. You're getting bad again. I J thought you'd got all over that notion." ui What notion?" free "That yon were that young murderer, obj< who killed old man St. Cyr." Fre "How came I here?" aBked Cole, when his compnnion had returned the hand- by 1 cnffs to his pocket and reRumed the and 1 1 1 J - _ cnair, wuiuu uo u?u uruwu ciose up 10 ^(J ^ the bed. . , is n "Now yonr senses nre coming back to ui:e yon. Lie still and I'll tell yoa. Jn?t a* , yoa fell ont of the window I happened . along. I have a graat faculty of happen- 8im ing along when I'm wanted. I'd had mv it ir eye on Mux Morris for better'n a week drii and 'lowed that he'd want me soon, 'oaoie no^ I calculated that something wag afoot" Wellf* *aid the anxious-auditor upon bed, by way of stirring ap the speakwho had paused in hie narative. [e said yon watt a nasty reporter who , got into his house and learned some us secrets." And the young lady?" [ didn't bother about her. Ton had ick your head on a rock in falling, and Id Max you were dead." Did yon re all? think so?" Por a fact. And I near gave the thing >y by laughing.* what thing?" rhe soft snap I would have. Ton see lew just wh?t Max wanted." ind that was?" Said Max, 'I hope he is, and I want , HI IliniO DUIO Ul lb rh? Booundrel!" cried Cola., \ Ob, yon can't blame him- Yon had nd ont.jacrati of hia, he aaid." What did yon aay?w [ said, "bow much?' Ha aaid, 'fifty Lara.' I aaid, 'not enough.' Ha aaid, b hundred.' I aaid, 'good'." A.nd then?" rhen I carried yon back to the allay [ went for my wagon?I'm an expreaai ^ when I work?and brought you Did Morris believe that yon would kill > Of eonrae, if yon weren't dead already, knowa me. I've worked for him bei." ole shuddered. He did sot donbt c the man waa partly inaane, bnt the 1 way in which he talked of murder te startled him. Do the way," returned Moore, "I felt r pulae and found yon were alive." ind ao brought me here?" No. I waa pointing for the lake shore, e the eity. What would I want to ig you here for?" But when you found I waa not d " t nren&red to rectify the miatake. I ed you ore* in the wagon and clubbed whip, which is loaded for just ruch k." Merciful heaven!" gasped Oole, rhat was what saved yon?that or videnoe, whioh I reckon was the same g?or, rather, saved me, for I'd nevex b slept easy again if I'd killed yon." What happened?" is I was aiming for von I saw someig white that had fallen out of your ket There it is." he dwarf took from an inside pocket handed our hero a white card. was the one given him by the city or who had employed him to work up 8t Cyr murder mystery. stated that the bearer, Milton >re, was specially engaged in the Bt. matter, which would account for any sioions movements on his part. What did von do, then?" asked Cole, ie turned the card over and over. [ .lit a match to read it, and then e nigh faintin' away." Nhy bo?" Wbj so? Haidn't I come within an of doin' up little Milton Moore, the r son of my only brother? Wasn't ; enough to give me a torn?" iuite, Uncle Jerry," answered oui ? ?* #?%11 ? nAmn*A^an^a<1 fkn rtA I| mm <UO AVU4J vvtupivu^uwww VMV WWdence of names that had saved Hit [hen you don't bear me a grudge. * Tot in the least" ! was afraid yon would, and made up or; for you, but I'd a heap rather the truth. 1 learned to do that when is a boy with your father." strange combination it seemed?a wlya loved to tell the truth, yet hesid not to take the life of a fellowiure. low can I bear a grudge?" returned i. "If you hadn't happened along, ris would have killed me." )f course he would, Milty; that's the to look at it/ lave I been delirious?" >???? u t t/inn Runt ?nil4Tver tnnv " CoJe Linton. That's why I kept D." core pointed to ? pile of newspaper* \ lay in one oorn?r of the room, and escaped the observation of our ! flThat do yon mean?* ; didn't know but what the fe. would have mad* yon oratr, and fted the papers to knock the delusions of yon By showing that Cole Winter* running around loose, but that the ce kept a sayin' that they were snre :et him next day." Lnd so I couldn't be he?" Fou've called the turn. Look at em le I set you something to est. Tou bt to be hungry by this time." irry Moore tossed the papers upon the , and beg*n mending tne fire in the inutive cook-stove. rith hands trembling with eagerness, hero caught them up and began a ried examination of tbeir oontents. ut he continued this but a moment, addenly he uttered a cry of anguish sank back upon the pillow in a. iting oondition. is eye bad fallen upon the following 1 headlines: THE CALUMET MY8TERT1 I CITING SCENE AT THE KOBOUX. itiive Identification of the Body o$ BERENICE 8T. (JTBI [TO BE CONTUUEIX] A Deer Story. iast fall Mr. Walling, -whose farm ains the village of Haliburton, had acres and a half df Swede turnips, these he gathered two acres, putting in in heaps and covering them with ut six inches of straw. The half i was not harvested. Mr. Walling's intion was to draw the turnips which e in heaps ns soon as the first snow te, but the intention was not carried and the snow covered the heaps and sfirved the turnips. iast -week Mr. Walling decided to iraence feeding the turnips rind took eigh to the turnip field. The heaps e all gone. Every turnip had been :n by the deer. More than that, half acre had been carefully gone r by the herd of deer and every turhad been grubbed out of the ground 1 eaten, 1000 barrels in all being ;n. The markB of the deer were 1 in every direction, and there must e been nine or ten. The field where turnips were consumed is not more n thrae-quarters of a mfle from the age Postoffice as the crow flies.? jcaygeon (Canadu) IndependentWater Purified by Iron. "he filthy water of the River Nethe urified for use in Antwerp by being jed through revolving cylinders conling small pieces of iron. Fifteen nds of metallic iron will purify )0,000 gallons of water. The water s treated is said to be completely ;d from germs, bacteria and other actionable matters. English and nch chemists find that the contact 3 iron reduces the organic matter forty-five to eighty-five per cent, albuminoid ammonia by from fifty ixty per cent, and all free ammonia emoved. The process has been apd with success to the water of the aware River in Pennsylvania. It is pie and cheap. From all of which i _ r 1 xl?x my ue liuorceu mut mu UJ iking water through iron pipes does injure it.?Baltimore American. GUERNSEY CATTLE. ; EI-VICE-PRESIDENT MORTON'S I MAGNIFICENT HERD. I Most Costly Barn Ever Built In the United States?Butter-Making on Scientific Principles ?A New Process. fR. LEVI P. MOBTON, late VicePresident of the United States, is the owner of the largest Guernsey herd of cattle in the world. The New York Tribune, in an account of Mr. Morton's country place of 1000 acres on the Hudson, says: An interesting fact regarding the management of the farm is that it is vested in a college man, H. M Cottrell, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural College. He is the superintendent, and Mr. Morton holds him responsible for everything done about the place. He is a young man of unusual ability, and thoroughly proficient in the science of the soil. One of the most important changes Mr. Cottrell recommended was the concentration of energy upon the cattle and poultry and tha abandonment of all other stock. This was done. Another improvement was the erection of a mammoth barn in plaoe of the one that was destroyed by lightning last _ ? - 1?l; J ?J tuy. 17118 D&ru us Lwuevcu n< w uio most oostly and complete ever built in the United States. The main building is about 800 feet long, or, to speak more precisely, 297 feet by 66 feet in width and 60 feet in height, with an L 89 by 62 feet The structure includes besides three 600-ton silos, each 47 feet in depth, tool and engine rooms, grain bins, laboratory, bathing-room and ample hallways, no less than 120 ordinary stalls and forty-six box-stalls on the main floor. ' An equal number are placed in the basement, which is light, dry and airy, its bottom being level on one side with the ground, while on the other side its windows open into a depressed area that can be protected by a series of trapdoorb from the incoming nf mow and rain. The bays above the stalls can accommodate 400*tons of hay, without coming over the middle hallway; and the grain-rooms will hold twenty carloads. The south door, looking np through the centre of the building, is much larger than would be neoessary to admit a freight train and the cars and engine would have more than ample room inside, the passage Deing nearly sixteen feet wide and thirty-nine feet high in the clear. The barn, which is so arranged that it can be doubled in length, will accommodate 360 head of stock, or 400 with crowding, and also house all the hay, grain and ensilage needed for this regiment of cows. The grain bin alone will hold twenty carloads, while three silos hold 500 tons each. The cows stand in two long rows in the basement and on the first floor. They are placed head to head with a wide feeding alley between. Back of them are the rows of large, roomy box stalls for calves, bulls and lying-in cows. T" Umn/. tlifl nlana Wr ' Xil XOJ Ulg VUV M*V ?- ? WW.? ? work, no point of hygiene, comfort or convenience seems to hare been overlooked. The basement, which is made light and airy by a system of double walls, is really a cellar, bat along the sides is a trench reaching to the bottom and securely walled on the other side. Windows run to the bottom of this trench, and thns let in ligljit in abnndanoe. The air is kept pure by means "gTiT.-ERSLTF.," MB. MORTON'S HOME. of box ventilatory Fastened above to the walk in front and back of the rows of cows are steel tracks on which run hanging cars. That back of the cows is for a manure car. The manare is thrown into this from the trench, and rolled out to the rear, where it is dumped into a wagon or sled, to be hauled at once to the field. The saving under this system as compared with the old plan of throwing the manure out through a hole in the wall back of each cow is apparent. The tracks in front of the cows carry cars from the ilos and grain bins. The hay is stored directly over the cows. By means of slings and hay forks it can be unloaded and mowed by steam power. For Guernsey stock Mr. Cottrell shares Mr. Morton's enthusiastic admiration. It iB the dairy stock of the future, he believes, and he looks forward with confidence to a signal triumph for his favorites in the stock contest which has been undertaken at the World's Fair. Five of Mr. Morton's herd have been selected for this purpose, and are now in Chicago. The Guernsey, Mr. Cottrell insists, is simply an improved Jersey. "The two breeds differ chiefly," he added, "in size, vigor, disposition and feeding habits. The milk is just about the same, no expert can tell the two apart. The Guernseys are, on the average, heavier milkers, and their milk may have a little higher color. They are heartier eaters as a rule. They average heavier than Jerseys, and never having been closely inbred or pampered, are freer from disease and more vigorous in constitution. The chief difference! is in dispositon. They ore not nervous and high-strung like the Jerseys. Guernseys are the best barn dairy cattle in the world. They are perfectly at home at public shows or contests, while Jerseys are usually too excited and frightened to do their best. The Guernseys can be shipped and handled easier and have a greater capacity for turning food into milk when fed in a barn. Of the stock in the barn Midas, 2003, the king of the herd, attracts mcst attention. He iB a five-year-old, and is pronounced by many experts to be the finest Guernsey bull in the world. His large, well rounded body, btraight back, broad loins, fin? head, I well set eyes, deep, rich yellow horns ] and skin combine to give him a perfect \ form. His disposition is so mild that 1 a child can lead him. Besides being a 1 grand individual he traces back on . both sire and dam's sides to noted butter Guernseys. His dam, imported Bella Luce 2d, 3655, is an attractive cow with well shaped body and good adder, and has given, under light feeding, 6484 pounds milk in eleven and a half months. As a yearling Midas won i -e?i. : i IV. 1 Iirtli pflXU Bi bllt? JJUUftlU uautvuw) Dutehees County and Bay State Fairs in 1889, and second prize in the New York State Fair that year. He also headed the first prize herd at the New Tork and Bay State Fairs in 1889, and in addition, won the sweepstakes at Buffalo as best bull of any age. Midas has thirty-six prize winners among his ancestors. The belle of the stable is Beinfaitrice 4th, 3667, declared in the Bay State Fair Report to be "one of the best and most typical Guernsey cows that ever lived." A model of her kind, and with her huge udder, large tortuous milk VTDAg^ WfftT> 07 'I'H Hi HKHItveins, and well-sprung ribs, appears to be what she is, an enormous milker. She was exhibited in 1688, at the Buffalo International, New Tork State, Dntchess County and Bay State Fairs, where, notwithstanding the fact -that she had been in milk since February 10 previous, she was awarded first prize in every instance. She has given 1067J pounds of milk in a month and 6464} pounds in ten months, and 2f pounds of butter in a day on regular rations. Like Midas, she traces to the famous show bull and stockgetter, Squire of Les Yauxbelets. She was selected for the World's .irair, dud aia not calve at the right time to enable her to be sent. Passagere 2d, 1528, is a fine large IB DJTERIOB OP T oow, and the champion milk yielder this year, giving 10,816 pounds (over five tons), of milk during the last twelve months, and 1288} pounds (more than her own weight) in thirty days. She was imported by J. W. Puller. An offer of $800 for her was refused. The picture of Diss 3d, 3664, appears. She is a fine cow with a model udder. She has given 7133} pounds of milk in a year. Ohamoinesse 2d, 3661, whose picture is also given, is another of the lot im ported by Mr. Morton. She is lemon fawn and white in color, with a rich yellow skin, and has, as -will be perceived, almost an ideal dairy form, wedge-shaped, with large space for digestion, a capacious udder, and plenty of room to make it comfortable. She gives from 700 to 800 pounds of milk per month on her regular herd ration. The record of the sixty-two cows and heifers that have completed the season's work has just been compiled. It is an interesting exhibit. The average yield as stated is 611&f pounds of milk in a year, the highest being Passagere, 10,316 pounds. Eight cows produced over 8000 pounds, fifteen over 7000 pounds, thirty-three over 6000 pounds. The yearly average of butter is one pound from a little less than seventeen pounds of the mixed milk of the whole herd. The cows have never been forced, but are given what grain they are able profitably to turn into butter. A composite Bample of the mixed milk of the whole herd for eight milkings, just analyzed by Professor Cooke, of the Vermont Experiment Station, shows 5.37 per cent, fat, 3.00 per cent, casein and 15.18 per cent, total solids. Forty-two per cent, of the milk is from cows that have calved within the last three months. PASSAGERE. Aside from the few bull calves that are sold from time to time, the 6olc market product of the herd is butter, and butter-making at Ellerslie is a most important department and a most interesting site. Between seventy-five and one hundred pounds are sent to this city daily. Most of it is taken by the Windsor Hotel, the Union League and some other largo clubs. To witness its manufacture under the experienced eye and scientific direction of Mr. Robson is to have one's ideas on the subject completely revolutionized. The milk, as soon as it is taken from i the cows, ip carried to the dairy. Cold air, taken from outdoors bo ae to be jj i * aerfeetly pure, is foroed into the bot- th torn of the cans holding the milk by a it Bill's aerator. This air rises through te the milk and carries out every particle 01 diss m. tl ?? * cl of animal odor in it The pumping is ti />rvn tinTiA^ from one to three minutes or | tl until the air that comes from the milk is absolutely odorless. The milk as it comes from the cow has a temperature of about ninety-eight degrees. The tl aerating reduces it about ten degrees, o It is then run through a De Laval fl separator and the cream taken off. The it separator is simply a large steel bowl D set in a suitable frame. This bowl re- b volves 8600 times in a minute, the out- S side traveling about two and a half si miles a minute. The milk runs to the * center of the bowl and the centrifugal ij force throws it to the outside. The e skim milk, being the heavier, is thrown & clear to the outside and the lighter c cream has to go nearer the middle. In b this way one is separated from the p other and the cream can be taken from n 1200 pounds of milk in an hour. The ij cream is taken from the separator and a immediately run over a Star cooler, a wiucli reduces we temperature uuu eighty-six to thirty-eight degrees. It is churned at thirty-eight degrees in summer and forty-two degrees in winter in a Diamond churn. This oonsista f of a diamond-box, supported and re- 4 volved upon trunions, and having its interior divided into two equilateral triangles by a moving centre board, which separates the cream in equal parts and produces a balance at all points in its revolution, illustrating the liquid-balance principle.' But the most interesting feature of the Ellerslie dairy is not the mechanical contrivance or analytical instru- ments, but the new process resulting in the immediate production of butter from the warm milk instead of from the cold cream, as formerly. This is another^ of Mr. CottrelTs improve- ments, and one in which he takes great c BE BIO BABJT. pride. He explained the discovery of it at length. "Ripened cream butter was made," said he, "from the time the dairy was started. The cream was kept from thirty-six to forty-eight hours at a high temperature until a certain degree of acidity was developed 6 when it was cooled to sixty degrees and * churned. This is the ordinary way of * making butter. Early in 1892 a trial 1 ^ ' i CHAMOINESSE IL ? \ was made with a machine to produce 1 batter directly from the new milk. The butter made in this wajk had a very different flavor from that made by the old method. Samples were sent to each of our customers with the request that they try it side by side with that made by the old process and report With a single exception every customer wanted butter by the new method. We went to work making butter with the machine, but it did not take all the butter out of the milk. The loss was about 7 per cent., and we had to devise some way to make the quality of butter demanded by our customers and at the same time save all the butter. We ran the milk through the separator, cooled the cream immediately to 60 degrees and r churned The buttermilk from this t churning was analyzed and showed d about 3 per cent, butter?as much as is found in ordinary city milk. We tried h again, cooling the cream to 50 degrees, a and the buttermilk showed consider- ably less loss in butter. We were on the right track. We kept reducing the temperature, every reduction showing a corresponding reduction in amount of butter lost in the butter mlik 11 n 111 a icuiijciaiuic ux uu uc^icco was reached, when the buttermilk 1 showed odIj a faint trace of butter, usually less than 1-20 of 1 per cent. Throughout the summer we churned at 36 to 40 degrees. After the cattle were put in the 6table and given dry feed we found it necessary to raise the churning temperature 2 to 4 degrees. "Most of our customers use the sweet-cream butter. For them the cream is taken directly from the cooler and churned. By this process t*\e butter in the milk that comes from the cows in the morning is ready for the ^ table at noon, and we have had butter n on table in the evening in New York? x( ninety miles away?made from milk ja given by our cows on the same day. For such of our customers as prefer butter made by the old process we take w \ .e cream from the ooolet and handle; fl in the usual way. Some of our but~ * i is sold unsalted, some has half an! inoe of salt to one pound of butter J id some one and a quarter ounoea of j | Jt to one pound of butter. We makaj J ist what our customers demand." Vyl This manufacture of butter from veet cream has caused a good deal of mtroversial writing in the dairj apers, as might be expected, and thd Ilerslie people have been called upon ) defend and explain their methoda.j hey are ready to do so at all times. he main trouble, Mr. Bobison eayg, aat people have in churning cream (reet is that they put the cream into ie churn, like they would do with ripe' ream, and do not pay any more atten- " . ion to it; second, one needs to have ti > iiermometer for a guide. Hndson and the Halt Moon. -i Now that it has been definitely setled that Henry Hudson, the English1 J ommander sailing under the Dutch. | ag, who discovered the Hudson Jtuver^ i to be New York's patron saint at the1 World's Fair, special pains will be takea y the World's Fair managers from thitf v .. tate to get up the most creditable '' : bow possible to commemorate the 'orks and deeds of the intrepid nay* jator. A contract has already been ntered into for a clay model of Hud-j on. This will be the model for a bronze aat. The walls of the NewTork State" uolding will be embellished with large* ictnres painted thereon, representing! > jpfc otable scenes in the life of the nav-| ?ator who met such a miserable fate; fter his great discoveries and noble1 '0 eta. One of the scenes selected is that THE EAX* MOOH. , ????? i ii . i i. ? ?mmmammmt f "'-''X ?f the siily-ton, rotmd-prowed Dutch ' f ^S 'easel the Half Moon as she lay off thftj lighlands. The picture selected fori * inlargement is from an anthentio old: ; pood cut, of which the picture here iresented is a true copy/ Hudson) . , ; ailed in the Half Moon from Amster-' [am, Holland, on April 4, 1609. He1 ras under commission by the East Inlies Company, and his mission was ia Treat from Spain the Eldorado of the '. in known New World, to" destroy, (pain's power to do harm, and to find,! f possible, a more direct route to the / ndies. This was what brought Henry, ludaon to the shores of the New ?o*ld. On the evening of September f' l, 1609, he anchored inside of Sandy. look; and the World's Fair Commisioner will endeavor next winter to ecure an act making September 3 * . jg egal holiday in this State to comment* >rate the discovery of the territory of few York State. . On September 4 ludson took his little vessel through . U he Narrows and into New Tork knd entered the "River of the Mounains," as the Hndson was called byt he Manhattan Monatou Indiana. The roquois, however, called it Cahohataea; the Delawaree, the Mahican-ittick place of Mahicans), and the he Shatemuc. ',4 On September 19 the Half Moon 1 eached a place opposite Albany and anchored here for fonr days. Of the ivlians Hndson wrote: "I landed in me of their boats in company of an old aan, who was chief there of forty men ind seventeen women. We went to a . J louse of oak bark." On September 28 he return trip was begun, and the ound-nosed Butch vessel passed out nto the sea again on October 4 and eached Dartmouth November 7. The following year Hudson discovired the great bay which bears his tame, and in 1810 his crew thrust him nto a small boat with his son and five ailors sick with scurvy and cut him t fn Tw>rif>h in the ereat waters rhich bear his name.?New York tribune. i A Uncle Sam's Biff Gnns at the Fair. "H Uncle Sam has his big gons in po~ A ition at the Government building.! tome of them were formidable weapons 1 rhen General Scott was having things. j lis own way in Mexico, but they look ' i A COLLECTION OP UNITED STATES GUNS. \ ather harmless when compared witn he monster rifled cannon of the present ay. A dozen men in uniform placed the uge machines of war in position longeide of the twelve-inch terror m Li 'in ijjj S SOME OLD TYPES. teel. In the collection of antique andj lodern ordnance are three huge mor-J irs mounted upon carriages.?Chicago! terald. The census reports 3060 artesian' ells in California. J