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Show ti and given over to th gentla fin- frs of decay. Those two buildings tell h story of changing times la their mute way they tell th growth of ths American eitv. In other day this township maris cheese. Today they "driv all the milk to tn depot. Eeh morning finds a big refrigerator car, built in th fash loa of passenger equipmaat, so that it may b handled oa passenger trains, at the milk atation. The fanner boys are prompt with their milk, it is checked and weighed aad placed in th ear, in cans and in bottle. Hardly haa th last big ten-gallon can goat clattering in before th whistl of th warning local is heard up tha lin. just beyond th eurvs at th water tank. While the tratnis at the station, in all the hnwtle of th comings and tfiiag at a country coun-try station, tb angina make quirk drill movement and picks np the milk esr. Farther dowa ths lin that asm trsin picks up more milk cars. By th time it reaches tb junction where it intersects th msia lin it i a coaiiderable traia for a branch line. Indeed, at the junction junc-tion ther ar mor milk cars, frnm other branches that ramble off into th real back country. Ther ara enough of them now te make a train throng i to tb city. Th trainmaster haa a good angina rady for every afternoon, and th milk goea ecurrying into town with passenger rights and on paRsen- Eer acbediile. Yoa eannot hurry ths shies' milk through to town any too qmchlv. Harper's WcHy. CITT'B MILK SUPPLY 1 j At early daws the muddy brown roads that lead to the little depot there ' at the flour mills sre aliv. The farmer farm-er bovs are bringing th milk to the railroad. Down the track, a few hundred hun-dred yards beyond the depot. Is the clean new milk station. Over across the brook is the cheese factory, desert- |