The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 17, 1903, Image 2
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A NOVEL OF AMERICAN.LIFE
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CONTINUED.
^Vben General Andrew Jackson
?aua to New Orleaus, be came as a
typical Anglo-Amerieau, as contradistinguished
from the Latin Creole. He
was a man of iron, rough, resolute,
imperious, even impetuous, with the
trailing of au Indian tighter and border
chieftain, who had never known
defeat. Bat hero in the fAr-famed
city of romance, here in the warm,
languorous South, he found to his
Mrpriae that those pleasure-loving
Creoles, these descendants of princes
sad of buccaneers, these vivacious,
picturesquely haudsomo men with the
ort voices and the courtly uiauue:s,
did not particularly admire and certainly
did not fear him. They rather
looked upon him as an interloper.
The np-couutry rnou were not in good
reputo there, anyway. Burr and Wilkinson
and Claiborno and a whole
clas of losser fellows bad given these
Creoles a great deal of trouble while
preparing the way to lift them into the
great American Union, and now Jackset
was lookod upon as the arch interloper.
But not a few of the inkahitants
of New Orleaus who called
themselvos Freuch were in reality
?agliali, Irish, German, Scotch or
Polish refugees; and at this partio lac
juuoturo, when the British army
was about to assault the gates of the
city, there were those among them
who were glad to bavo the adamant of
Jackson's will and the prestige of his
coarage and generalship thrust befweea
them and the coming foe. One
of these was Mr. Vernon. To him the
thought of an English commander
getting control of New Orleans was
the vision of absolute ruin. Not only
woald it be the end of all his wealth (
suul influence, but there would swiftiv .
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follow a terrible visitation of so-called
justice upon his head. But for this
Jm might lrave been indifferent, as
wwro many of the population, or ho
sight have preferred British success
to the domination of men like Jackson
end Claiborne.
He left the theatre on the night of 1
the alarm with a groat burden of
trouble oDDressiuz him. Fairfar had
observed before this that Colonel LoritX
S8smed to oxert a singular influ- !
?? over Mr. Vernon, or rather, it s
looked as if Mr. Vernon had some '
'deep interest in the welfare of that
dark, saturnine man who was, sa he '
feahevod, Pierre Bameau, the *
oobbor. Both Mrs. Vernon and Paul- 1
iae had noticed thi3 remarkable intimacy
and had more than once won- r
tdered together rogarding it. On a J
certain occasion, Pauline had acci- *
<fex tally overheard her father, when
conferring alone with Loring, address 1
kiea with impatienco and speak as
Akoagh chiding him for some fanlt. c
these rash acts," Mr. Vernon 8
wri* Trying to him, on tho morning
(fallo ving the scenes recorded in our
Plant chapter, "yon have made it prob- '
> ably impossible for yon to stay in this
vBflllDirj."
J* They we:o sitting facing each other ^
In tho library; Loriug had come into ^
the house by a sido entrance from a f
private alley.
II f? XI- . ?f P
"UD, wen, was ma careteos au- i
swer, "if I can't stay I can go. Thero 1
if .Mexico; I oan return to my mines."
Mr. Teroon gazed steadily at him c
-with ojes that hnrned half wistfully,
half in anger.
"Bat," he presently said, "it is !
time for yo* to quit this roving life;
get yourself under control, and make
the most of your talents. You aro (
still young, just ooming into the pine
of life."
. "*'1 know?I've been thinking of it." v
"Bmt what does thinking amount to ,
if yen keep on? No man ever did
aeti more absolutely unjustifiable or 1
ju ore desperately foolish than "
"Oh, certainly, there's no use tell- 1
lag me that; but I couldn't help it. The
only wonder is that Ikdidn't kill
' the? both; I usually do." '
lioriag spoke with au indescribable
expression; it was if ho felt no spocial
interest in what he was saying?as if 1
it woro hollow mockery for him to
speak at All. His eyes, bis lips, the !
lines of his face gave forth a hard, I
Bopoicss, unreciing ugub huiuu
seemed to como oat of a physical
xather than a montal dilemma.
"I saw no excuse whatever f )r yonr i
treatment of Ballanchc," said Mr.
Veruan. "It looked like a pieca of 1
wanton viciousness."
The old man's face had grown a-?
as his beard, and the wrinkles
deepened strangely.
Loring eat npright, not rigidly, bnt
with a certain animal elasticity of
litnb and body which suggested a surplus
of vital force. He made no response
in words, and appeared to
throw off with some superficial effort
the whole burden of tho subject.
"Of course' it will be impossible
for you to join Jackson now," Mr.
Vernon added, after a long silence.
"I shall probably go to the other
side," said Loring, with a smilo.
"The other side!"
v ??)yby not? It's my bost way to
*nako it even "
"But, in honor, you cannot do
that."
"Humph!"
'.Moreover yon know that for the
lEaglish to takoNew Orleans would bo
*uin to ine."
"Oh, yes; I know," Loring said.
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i C")F>:Y
ISLAND
: DURING THE WAR OF 1SI2.
THOMPSON,
7 Eob?rt Bccaer'a Sor-s.
"And yon "
"V - - - -? ? --L I 1 11 _
l ou luigui uui> laro ?u uuaiy.
The Euglisli commander has offered
Hue terms to Lafitte, aud "
"Ta! I know. Cut even Lafitte
will not accept. He has reported to
Ciniborne."
"Reported to Claiborne!"
"Yes," Vernon affirmed.
Loring turned his eyes toward the
ceiling with a slow, thoughtful motion,
as if revolving a new perplexity.
"Who told you this?" he presently
demanded.
"Vassenr."
"Vcsseur!"
"Yes, he is here. He acted as gobetween
in the mattor. He brought
Lalitto'a message to the governor."*
"And how came Vassenr here?"
"Ta! I hadn't told you about his
being robbed?"
"No."
"Pierre Rarne&u and his gangrcbbed
him of all his monoy and took his
jewels."
Loring laughed reflectively.
"Pocr little wretch!" ho said.
"That went hard with him, I know."
"Yes. But he'll have his revenge.
He his laying his plans well. Rameau
is in the city, he says, and the whole
fraternity of freemeu of color is sworn
to kill him, They are drawing their
lines close around him."
Loring threw up his head, and his
eyes became as two long, gleaming
slits, while the augles of his jaws prex
1 . a 1!L. _ __A?_
iruueu use a cai s.
"Bat what are yon going to do? It
is time to act," Mr. Vernon inquired.
"Not moch of anything, probably
?report to Jackson with a gun, muzzle
foremost, maybe."
He arose as if to go, but stood
awile twirling his hat und looking
straight into the old man's eyes. A
touch of something like tendernesssuch
a gleam as you see in a dog's
?yos whoa he gazes at his master?
same in his impenetrable face, when,
it last, he put forth his hand.
"Grocd-bye," ho said.
Mr. Vernon clutched the hand and
nrrung it, but said nothing.
As Loring went forth from the
louse, he mot Vasseur coming in.
The men glared at each othor. Vasleur
r.howod both terror and surprise, ]
mil waa evidently glad that Loring
vas in the humor to pass him by,
The latter did not swerve a hair's .
>readth from his coarse, and the lit,Ie
Frenchman had to shy asido qnicky
to avoid being trampled under foot.
"13 Pierro Ramean your friend?"
iricd Vasseur, in Frenoh, as soon a;
io come into Mr. Vernon's presence,
lis voico husky and rasping.
"Pierro Rauaean! What do you 1
aean, you little scamp?"
"Did you not soe hira? He came '
mt of here this moment! I met him
d the gate!"
"No?" \
"Bat" yes, yes, tbis minute?Fierre ;
dameaa!"
Vasseur was trembling violently, J
On the moment, there was a sndden
vfc irl of thoughts in Mr. Vernon's
>raiu. Could it be? He grabbed his
teard with one baud and, with the
>ther pressed hard upon his forehead,
itood motionless, every feature strainng
and every limb rigid. lie wa3 re- }
lecting with tho power and intensity '
>f a sadden conviction.
After a little while, how-over, ho 1
nnstered himself and demanded Vas- 1
>enr's business. '
"I have uot any buaJttess," faltered (
he little man. "I saw Pierre Rameau '
some in here and "
"Yon are a liar!" 1
Mr. Vernon held liici by the throat \
md made him stand on tiptoe.
"You call my?my friend Pierre 1
Flamoau again, and I'll kill yon, you '
log!" 1
It was the first time in many years
;hat he hud given away to a rash of (
ingor.
Vasseur. unable to stand when re- J
cased, sank into a chair.
"Forgive me, Vasseur," caid Mr.
Vernon in the next breath. "I did
not mcau to hurt you. 1 was augry.
.That mau was not Pierro Pvameau. Ho
wa3 Colonel Loriug."
"Then you did not see the man I
peak of," insisted Vasseur, doggedly.
"I met Pierre Rarueuu coining cut as
I came in. I had tracked him?followed
him hero. I saw him coma in,
and I waited long for him to com*,
out. I "
Mr. Vernon interrnpteil liim with
au impatient wave cf the hand.
"Thero is some mistake!"
Vasseur's cunuing would not let him
he deceived, but he felt some dangerous
mystery hovering close to him
and did not care to tak9 further risk
iu penetrating it. A mind liko his is
quick, nimble, shifty, It must be in
order to givo it a fair chance. Moreover,
it cuts straight through some
difficulties that would be baffling to a
higuor intellect. Just now he was
living for but one object, and whatever
did not bear upon bis purpose
was of no interest to him; but, in spite
of this, there was something in Mr.
Vernon's attitude that aroused strange
and obsenre doubts, suspicions, dreads
ia his mind, while at the came time
uo saw that there was a boud of sympatny
aud interest uniting Mr. Vernou
and Pierre Rameau. Ha euspeoted,
although the suspicion scarcely
took full shape just then, that the two
men had been connected, m he and
liameau nut, in somo wild transao*
tions, and were still necessary to each
other, or would he at tho crisis mow
sj near. Indeed, Yassear knew more
of Mr. Vernon's past than tho latter
wonld linvo believed?more tlinn it
would have beeu safo for the little fellow
to acknowledge.
When Yasseur had taken his leave,
Itfr. Vernon walked tho lloor, to and
fro, his hands locked behind him, his
heavy head and shoulders drooping
and his eyes bent upon the carpet.
He looked ten years older than he had
looked throe days before. His lips
now and again moved silently, and
the muscles of his neck and fuce
twitched nervously.
Freseutly ho tool: his hat and his
great-coat, for a drizzling rain was
falling, and weut out. He felt that
he must see Loring onco more before
he left tho city. To this end he bent
his steps totvard the club-room of the
Chats-Huauts which was over the back
part of a low restaurant near the river.
Chats-Hncnts (screech-owls) was
the name of a mysterious organization
which fell to pioce3 when, some time
after the Wur of 1812, the robbers of
Honey Island were routod and their
power destroyed.
What seems most strange to one
who gains access to the records is the
fact that tho Chats-Huants, although
their proceedings were veiled, did not
pretend to evade the authorities of
New Orleans* It is well known
that they were in league with
smugglers, bo-cnlled "privateers;"
bnt it was understood as well
that thoy were "operated" outside
of Louisiauia, or, io other
words, that they were "importers" of
unlawful wares, and that all of their
gains wem 10 sweii me weaun oi me
State and the city.
Air. Vernon felt sure that, if Loring
had been deceiving him, and had been
all this time operating with the Honey
Island outlaws instead of being in
Alexico?if Colonel Loring and Pierra
Rameau were indeed identical as both
Fairfax and Vassenr had declaredthen
the riom of the Chats-Huants
would be the place in which to look
for him.
On the way, as the rain softly fell
over his slouch hat and high-collared
topcoat, Mr. VernoD kept repeating
the name, "Pierra Rameau," "Pierra
Eameau," not aloud, nol even by lipmovement,
but inwardly; and it rang
and echoed in his consciousness, as a
lonely voice sometimes wanders back
and forth and around in a wild moantain
hollow. He felt that ho was going
to solve within the next half-hour
a question involving one of those
climaxes of experience from whioh no
period of life is exempt?experiences
that shock the very centers of
Btreugth.and affect the deepest sources
of feeling.
The streets were slimy, the gutters
ran fall of muddy water, aud a wind
from the east had an edge of ice, albeit
the roses were abloom along the
walls. Mr. Vernon met few people,
be wee not aware of meeting any, until
a hand was laid on his arm, and a
well-remembored voice said:
iiir T 1 1 :iL a T\.
'.uay x nave a worn wnu your uo
pon know me?"
He stopped short and faced the
speaker. It was almost in front of
the entrance to the grimy building in
ivhich the Chats-Huihts had their
meeting-place. Not far away on one
laud rolled tho great yellow river
arith some vessels at anchor; on the
i>tkcr hand the uneven honses zigzagged
along, dripping and unsightly,
rwo or thveo reckless-looking fellows
)assed by and entered the restaurant.
Che Chats- Hnants were meeting.
CHAPTER XV.
'A SCENE ON A WOODLAND 8TAOS.
The reader will recollect the heavy
ain and the hurricane that came on
immediately after the shooting of
Burns by Pierre Rameau. But for
,hat cool deluge of water, the old man
tvould have bled to death, notwithstanding
the comparative slightness
)f the wound, which, owing to the
aullet's striking a large old silver
tvatch and glancing thence along a
rib, was but a jagged rip in the flesh
icross the left slope of the chest. As
it was, the rain stanched the bleed*
ing, and Barns regained consciousness
some time daring the following
sight.
His Scotch vitality was not yet ex*
iiausted. He raised himself to a sitting
posture; but the effort reminded
him of his hart and the blood broke
forth afresh, while a dall pain griped
his breast. A roaring sound oame into
his head as he sank back again and
relapsed into insensibility. It was bat
a swoon, however, followed presently
by a gradual recovery, during which
hi3 mind recalled, in a panoramic way,
the whole of his long and fruitless
straggle in search of Margaret. All
the terrible route from Scotland zizzaggiug
over almost half the earth, lay
under his eyes as if mapped out in the
glare of a calcium light. He realized
ltnro rhrr old he was. and the nature I
of his wound he well knew, having
thrust his fingers into the gapingrent.
Life shriveled under his gaze to tho
dimensionc of scorched leaf, and ho
saw his thousands of unanswered prayers
lying like dead insects thereon.
Some of the tense strings of his laith
were snapping under this strain.
Numbly, blindly, he groped about in
the darkness, the soaked earth under
him, the dripping, wind-stirred boughs
overhead. His long, gray hair foil
across his drawn and sunken face, and
his tumbled beard was separated into
clammy wisps. He thought he was
walking, but he was only wallowing
on the ground, reaching out his hands
and feet.
(to bb continued.)
New York lime ia four hours fiftynine
minutes and nine seconds later
than London time, and is nine hours
forty-five minutes and five seconds
earlier than Yokonama lima.
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Our. Budget j
of Humor.. |
Her Kzample In Arithmetic.
"Two and two. and two and two/
You know," I said, "make eight;
Now, how," I asked, "are you to write
This example on your slrte?"
"Oh! just easy," laughed Louise,
Her crayon quick in hand;
"Four the multiplier will b^.
And two the multiphcan.
"What next?" I gently prompted,
As she her figures drew.
"Eight." said she. "the product is;
Sly 'zample's four time two!"
?Washington Star.
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As It Sometimes Heeim.
"What's his business?"
"Well, as near as I can make out. he
is matrimonial agent for his two
daughters."?Chicago Post.
It's Up to Him.
"I'm going away to-morrow. Won't
you think of me sometimes while I'm
gone?"
"Hadn't you better ask papa if I
may?"?New York Journal.
Absolutely Necessary.
She?"Did the bride look pretty at
the wedding?"
He?"Of course. Wasn't she a
bride?'"?Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
Hoss and Hoss.
Nell?"He married her for her beauty
but she hasn't much left."
Belle?"And she married him for his
money. So they are in the same boat.'
?Philadelphia Record.
A Waste of Time.
Finnegan?"Don't be so lazy an' discouraged
about it. The best way to
foind out what ye can do is to try."
Flanagan?"Ay! But that's the worst
way to foind out what ye cau't do."?
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Itapid-Flre Thought.
"Always think twice before you
Bpeak," said little Tommy's mamma.
"Gee, maw." he answered, "if you do
that you must do some pretty fast
thlnkin' sometimes when you git to
goln' for paw."?Chicago Record-Herald.
Seeking Specifications.
"You are the light of my life!" he
protested.
"Candle, kerosene, gas or electric?"
asked the practical girl, for well she
knew that all lights are not held In
the same esteem at the present time.?
Chicago Post.
Hith and the Three Grace*.
"This hash," said the star boarder,
"reminds me of the three graces."
"Oh!" replied the delighted landlady.
"In what way?"
"One is foolish to tackle It without
faith, hope and charity."?Chicago
Record-Herald.
A Great Haul.
"Young Briefly had only been admitted
to the bar a week when he
made a fortune. He was caught in a
railroad wreck in which forty people
were injured."
"And he was one of those who got
damages?"
"He was all of them. He got al!
the victims to retain him."?Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Beaaonablc.
flt
'1 J
"I'll sell you them fish for ten dob
lars."
"Isn't that rather high?"
"Wal, a feller that buys two hundred
dollars wuth o' fisbiu' tackle to
ketch nuthln' with orter be willln' ter
pay somethin' fer fish."?New York
Journal.
A Discriminating: Dog:.
"Yes, the neighbors complain about
my dog."
"Does he bite?"
"No; he's too affectionate. He has
the reputation of being a Judge of
beauty, and every time a pretty woman
passes along the street he frisks about
extravagantly."
"I should think the women would
like that."
"Yes, but there are only two pretty
! -women on the street?and the others
?ompl?faed."~?level&Qd Plain Dealer*
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I SOUTHERN /
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' TOPICS OF III TERES T TO THE PLANT
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Bent Time For Cutting Forage.
The Experiment Station Division of
the Department ot Agriculture has
been gathering some information regarding
the berft time to cut forage
crops, including oats, field peas, field
corn, millet, sorghum, Kaffir corn and
cow peas. A description of experiments
is given where analyses were
made of these crops at two different
stages in the growth cf each. In the
oats ami peas grown together the first
analysis was made when the pea pods
were beginning to form, the second
when the pods had all filled out and
similar stages of growth for the other
crops. The following table will Indicate
the stages of the crops at the
different analyses:
Peas, first analysis, pods beginning
to form; second analysis, pods tilled
out. Oats (1), beginning to bend; (2).
h. full bloom. Field corn (1). tassels
showing: (2). corn full grown, ear forming.
Mi !et (I), beginning to head: (2).
headed, seeds nearly ripe. Sorghum
ill. beginning to head: (2t. headed,
seeds forming. Kaffir corn (It. beginning
to head; (2?. headed, seeds forming.
Cow peas (1). vines sixteen indies
high, no blossoms: t2), well dcveloiwd.
some pols formed.
In reaching a conclusion various fnc
tors were taken into account heroin I
the mere amount of nutrition found,
such as wbolesomeness. digestibility,
pnlatnbility, etc. It was developed
that the mixed crop of oats and pens
Improves in composition as it grows
older and should probably he allowed
to stand so long as the pea vines remain
fairly erect. The proportion of
flesh-forming to fat-forming constituents
in fodder obtained from oats and
peas is very nearly the correct one for
a well-balanced ration for most classes
I of animals, and it would probably be
found unnecessary to supplement this
fodder with grain or other foods.
Field corn, millet, sorghum and Kaffir
corn decrease rapidly in protein content
while heading out. In order to
obtain a fodder from these having as
narrow a ratio of flesh-forming to fatforming
footle as possible, the crop
should be cut at as early a stage as it
can be well cured. For "roughage," to
be fed in connection with highly nitrogenous
foods it may well be allowed to
grow until the seed forms. After that,
however, the stulks rapidly become
woody, and the proportion of waste is
greatly increased. No very significant
change was found In the cow peas,
but this fodder is highly recommended
on account of its large proportion of
nitrogenous, strength-producing mate
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rial and small percentage 01 nmigt-mi- i
ble fiber.?Guy E. Mitchell, in the Progressive
Farmer.
The Profit!*** Cow,
Much has been said and written on
the subject of scrub stock, and the
scrub cow has come iu for her full
share of condemnation. The Live
Stock Farmer has the following to say
on the subject:
"A cow census would show that, so
far as the farmer is concerned, half
of the cows could be sent to the
butcher without loss to their owner. |
The public would, of course, be the
loser, for a definite amount of milk
would be taken out of trade, and the
remainder would be in such demand
that the price would be enhanced.
On the farmer's side, however, the result
would mean profit. Ultimately
the general public might get its milk
as cheap as at first, for the poor cows
vrould no longer produce poor cows,
but the entire supply of calves Would
come from profitable milkers. Now.
year after year; the farmer puts a certain
sum of money in the way of food
into his cow nnd frets back the same
sum. He throws in his work. Most
of the men that are doing this do not
know it. for they hare never kept an
account of what they are doing. Thev
have no idea as to the results from
milking operations. They take it for
granted that the hart! work they are
putting in is profitable. Little by Utile
the poor cows are being weeded out of
the herds, but progress is slow. Wo
need to use more universally the milk:
scales, the Bnbcock test and the lead
pencil."
Thinned Fruit ! Better.
Bulletin No. 82 of the Maryland Experiment
Station summarizes the benefits
of thinning fruit as follows:
First?Thinning preserves the vitality
of the tree by lessening the production
of seed.
Tlilnnlnff {f V
ortuuu?luiiiunig, ? ?
and persistently done, will cause tbo
tree to bear crops more regularly. Off
years are in most cases due to the fact
that the trees are allowed to overbear
one year, and during that year few, if
any, fruit buds can be formed. Most
kinds of fruit trees cannot produce a
large crop and mature fruit buds at
the same time.
Third?Thinning lessens the loss occasioned
by rot and other fungous diseases
of the fruit by eliminating the
danger of infection by contact. It also
In a measure urevents the appearance
and the spread of diseases by permfV
ting better ventilation and drying of
the fruit inside of the trees.
Fourth?Thinning will produce larger
fruit.
Fifth?Thinning will produce a better
colored fruit by admitting more
sunlight into the trees.
Siith?Thinning tends to ripen the
fruit more uniformly.
Seventh?Thinning will produce a
more saleable and higher-priced fruit,
by reason of the increase in sise, higher
color and general appearance.
Eighths-Thinning will preserve the
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ER, STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK CROWER.
11 iim/t
shape of the tree and prevents the
breaking of overloaded branches.
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Young Ducks.
The large markets give price# that
are profitable to the grower for ducks
that are eight to ten weeks old. Ducks
of that age are fine eating and will be
relished on the farm, fiood management
is necessary to* produce ducks
of good weight In eight to ton weeks,
but it is not difficult. Fckin ducks are
noted for their early maturity: and
for this reason are preferred to produce
good food in a short'time. It is useless
to seloet small breeds for tbia end.
They do not weigh much when mature,
and they do not grow fast enough during
the first few weeks to make big,
plump carcasses quickly.
Many things favor duck raising. Inexpensive
sheds will do for shelter.
Since the Pekins cannot fly to amount
to anything, a fence eighteen inches
or two feet high will keep them codlined
if it is desired. The more profitable
management on the farm is to let
them run at large most of the time.
This will enable them to pick up much
of t'ue r food and give them needed
exercise.
I.?ck of Grir.
Although not an article of food, grit
Is necessary to a bird's welfare and
must be thought of as a possible caus$
I .J i T~ In A/llfSoltlW
| Ot ITOUUIl', 111 Uiy wuia JU uuuomjy
In poultiy troubles I have opened dozens
of brooder eliieks that had both
crop and gizzard filled with grit. Grit
and nothing else. It is not safe to
place clear grit and nothing else before
little chicks. They are hungry
and will fill up on grit alone if that
Is all within reach. It forms a solid
impaction that is hard to break down
and many chicks die as the result
of it.
Adult birds, shut in during tbe winter
months away from the soil, need
grit and it must be supplied to have
the birds keep healthy and lay eggs.If
kept before them they will help
themselves and not be obliged to
scratch over tbe droppings to got lilthy
grit that has been through tbe fowl.
Filth In any form is dangerous to
health and being introduced 011 grit
does not lesson tba risk.?roultry
Keeper.
Food and Production.
Each breed has certain advantages.
In experiments made with several
breeds It was found that results vary
according to tbe size and age. Tbe
Dorkings laid 100 eggs each year, the
average weight of the eggs being two
ounces, or eight to the pound. The
food eaten each day was live ounces,
or about 113 pounds for the year. This
was heavy feeding and consisted of a
variety of grain and grass, being over !
one pound of food, for each egg; but
it must be considered that a large portion
of the food was directed to growth,
as the record was kept from the first
six months of age to eighteen months.
The birds were also kept over winter,
when a large amount of food was di-^
rected to heat. The production of eggs
was good, but as the birds were forced
the cost was excessive, though tbe
cooks had made eight pounds growth
when six months old. The Dorkings
pay better as superior table fowls than
as layers.?Farm and Fireside.
Prevent Orub in the Head.
It is said that mixing a tablespoonfnl
of turpentine with a quart of salt
liven to sheep will prevent grub In the
head. The salt is placed in troughs
so that the sheep can help themselves
whenever they like. About every day
eaeh sheep will be at the trough, will
get turpentine on its nose, and the gadfly
will be kept away. If sheep will
eat salt that has been treated with
turpentine in this way, it seenis that
the remedy would be as good as its
advocates claim.
A Threshing Hint.
When threshing the wheat and oat
crops see that the straw and chaff are
carefully saved, and have the straw
pot up into stacks or a convenient size
for being put into the barn?a stack at
a time?when needed. With good,
sweet straw, roots and cow peas or
soy-bean hay. young 'cattle can be
kept growing and improving all winter.
and will make a large heap of
manure for the improvement of the
land.
There are In Montana some of the
finest glaciers in the world.
The Bachelor Born.
"There was never yet a bachelor ol
forty whose heart has not been at
some woman's feet to take or leave,
as she would," says a well-known
writer, and this, generally speaking,
Is absolutely true. However, there ia
one type of man, a very rare one fortunately,
who from a mixture of cold
love of self and miserliness rigidly
eschews matrimony.
Of such a one the story is told that,
being on one occasion somewhat impressed
by the bright eyes and red
lips of a certain damsel, he gave some
thought to the married state and pon
dered over the advisability of entering
it. Racked "with doubt, he ordered a
meat pie to be prepared, and on Its
appearance divided it in half. There
was ample! Then the reflection
crossed his mind that in course of
time a subdivision might be necessary.
The portions were divided by
a tremulous hand ints two. He looked,
hesitated and scraped them all
on to his own plate. The damsel had
to find another lover.