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He declined, however, giving a receipt for it, as in such dangerous circumstances he could not be answer able for its being safely restored. The money and jewels, to the value of several sev-eral hundred thousand pounds, were conveyed to Frankfort; and just as the French entered the town, Mr. Rothschild had succeeded in burying the treasure in a corner of his garden. He made no attempt to conceal his own property, which amounted only to six thousand pounds. The French accordingly ac-cordingly took this, without suspecting suspect-ing that he had any larger sum in his possession. Had he, on the contrary, con-trary, pretended to have no money, they would have certainly searched, as they did in many other cases, and might have found and taken the whole. When they left the town, Mr. Rothschild dug up the prince's money, and began to make use of a small portion of it. He now thrived in his business.and soon gained much wealth of his own. A few years after, when peace came, the Prince of Hesse Cas-sel Cas-sel returned to his dominions. He was almost afraid to call on the Frankfort banker, for he readily reflected that, if the French had not got the money and jewels, Moses might pretend they had, and thus keep all to himself. To his great astonishment, Mr. Rothschild informed him that the whole of the property was safe, and now ready to be returned, with 5 per cent interest on the miMiey. The banker at the same time related by what means he had saved it, and apologized for breaking break-ing upon the money, by representing that, to save it, he had had to sacrifice all his own. The prince was so impressed im-pressed by the fidelity of Mr. Rothschild Roths-child under his great trust, that he allowed al-lowed the money to remain in his hands as a small rate of interest. To mark, also, his gratitude, he recommended recom-mended the Jew to various European sovereigns as a money-lender. Moses was consequently employed in several great transactions for raising loans, by which he realized a vast profit. In time he became immensely rich, and put his three sons into the same kind of business in the three chief capitals of Europe London, Paris and Vienna. All of them prospered. They became the wealthiest private men whom the world has ever known. . He who lived in London, left at his death $35,000,000. The other two were created barons, and died not less wealthy. Thus a family, whose purse has maintained war and brought about peace, owes all its greatness to one act of honesty under un-der trust. The Possibilities of Peace. Three powers stand out pre-eminently in the world as being strong at the present time, and as having great possibilities pos-sibilities of development before them England, with her dominion on the shores of every sea; Russia, with her vast empire in the old world; and America, with her magnificent union of states in the new. Each of these powers pow-ers is aiming at peace, though by different dif-ferent methods. Russia proposes a self-denying ordinance of disarmament, America proclaims the sufficiency of arbitration, but neither of these countries coun-tries has as yet abandoned the effort to secure exclusive advantage for industrial in-dustrial and commercial development, and the possible clash of national in terests still looms in the future for each; the thunderclouds have not dispersed. dis-persed. But there is a better method o pursuing the same end; if we can prevent strife from arising, we need not concp ourselves about methods for keeping it within bounds or allaying allay-ing It. England alone has entered upon up-on a line of policy by which the old occasions of hostility are laid aside; with all her national pride, she shows a genuine unwillingness to take offense. of-fense. Perhaps this -is the more excellent excel-lent way. William Cunningham in Atlantic At-lantic Monthly. Early Marriages of Royalty. Royal personages almost invariably marry young. The queen was not quite 21 when she married Prince Albert; the prince of Wales was not 22 when he wedded Princess Alexandra; the late czar of Russia was only 22 when he married Princess Dagmar, sister of the princess of Wales, who was 20; King Humbert of Italy was 24 when he married mar-ried the 17-year-old Margherita, and the emperor of Austria was 23 when he wedded the lovely Princess Elizabeth, who was only 16. The king of the Belgians Bel-gians was first married at the age of 18; the late king of Spain was married first at the age of 19, and had a second wife when he was 22, and the German emperor was only 22 when he married the Princess Augustus Victoria of Schleswig - Holstein - Augustenburg. Tft-Bits. A Black Deed. The future historian of the Chicago renaissance will record the black circumstance cir-cumstance that in August, 1899, the bathtub nymphs of Fra Lorado Taft and his pupils were chopped up with hatchets and dumped into Lake Michigan. Michi-gan. "Chicago doesn't know yet whether It liked them or not," remarks the Journal of thit town. Art is eternal, eter-nal, even if these particular nymphs, being composed not of bronze or marble, mar-ble, but of plaster and sawdust, were extremely perishable. The principle ef porkly sculpture remains, and Fra Lorado Lo-rado is yet alive to carry on the movement. move-ment. New York Sun. In the Slam. Mrs. Dothetown "Poor, dear child! Are your parents dead?" Tenement Tommy "I fink pap is. Him an mar wuz a fightin' when I left, an' gee, she ruzn't doin' a t'lng t' him." OMo State Journal. It is a poor sort of virtue that con-tists con-tists in abstaining from sins that are not cared for. CHEATING THE BOOKMAKERS. New Fm of Swindle That la la Vogu at the Race Tracks. Th race track bookmaker has trou-hUvt trou-hUvt of his own. The outside public that abends the races casually and pro-Tides pro-Tides the money that keeps the racing ball rolling is apt, in the philosophical mood which generally characterizes the journey home, to conclude that the men who lay the odds have a "snap." But it's not so. Many are the contrivances contriv-ances by which the really knowing ones among the followers of the raej. manage to secure for themselves a very large slice of the money gathered in by the bookmakers. Innumerable are the conspiracies concocted by hors owners, jockeys and professional "punters" "pun-ters" to outwit the "ring," and not a ftw of them are successful. Moreover, such is the nature of their business that the, bookmakers are to a great extent ex-tent at the mercy of their own employes. em-ployes. New means of fraud are springing spring-ing up every day that keep them thinking think-ing to circumvent and which seriously deplete their treasury. One of the latest lat-est swindles seems not to have received from its victims the attention it deserves. de-serves. When a bet is made with a bookmaker the fact is recorded on his sheet with the number of the better's admission badge. After the race has been run the maker of a winning wager has only to show his badge in order to receive his winnings. In the hurry and excitement that precede a race it is almost al-most impossible for the man who takes the bets to keep an accurate mental record of them all; he manages to retain re-tain a rough idea of the amount of money he risks on each horse, but of the individual bets, especially the smaller ones, he cannot possibly keep track, and it is just here the opportunity opportun-ity arises for this new swindle. For weeks persons wearing admission badges have been frequently approached approach-ed toward the end of the day by men who ask for the badges, managing to give the impression that they are enthusiasts en-thusiasts of the kind that collect postage post-age stamps or theater programmes. They are generally successful in their quest, for there are many who go to the tracks who have no use for the badge after they enter the gates, or at most, after they have tried their luck in the ring on one or two races. The numbered num-bered badge secured, the swindler, for such he is, makes for the betting ring, and while the race is being run sidles up to the particular sheet writer with whom he is in collusion. He keeps his eye on the finish, and the moment the winner has passed under the wire he whispers the horse's name to his confederate con-federate and the sheet writer records a bet of as large an amount as he thinks safe on that horse, ac the same time taking down the number of the admission admis-sion badge the other has just managed man-aged to beg from an unwitting out sider. A moment later, when the makers mak-ers of winning bets line up in front of the bookmaker's stand to secure their cash the chap with the outsider's badge is sure to be found occupying a prominent promi-nent place in the line. By this ruse, which is being worked with great industry in-dustry just at present, a single bookmaker book-maker might be cheated out of anything any-thing from $5 to $50 a day if his em ployes are disloyal to their trust. New- York Sun. THE CHILDS MANSION SOLD. Famous Men Who Have Keen Entertained Entertain-ed Within Its Walls. Paris Letter: Lately at an "At Home" given in his studio by the painter, Jerome, Sarah Bernhardt and Emma Calve met. The former asked the prima donna a few details about her monument. "Yes, yes," answered Calve, in a tone of banter, "I have done better than you, though you are supposed sup-posed to have been the greatest puffist of the century, and your coffin, in black and velvet and white satin, adorned with nails of gold, is a very small affair indeed compared with my monument, of which I will show the design, if you like." And she took out of her cardcase a small square piece of paper on wrhich Puech, the sculptor who was to execute the commission, had sketched his first idea for the work, which promises to be a marvel, stones and marble being worked up to resemble the richest guipure lace. "My dear Calve," said Bernhardt, after having looked carelessly at the project and with evident "mauvaise humeur, "believe me, if you live to 50 you will then have your temple turned into a temple of Cupid, just as I have replaced re-placed the black velvet on my coffin by pink brocade, to use it as a lounge, with a pillow of Brussels poise at the head." By the bye, it may be interesting interest-ing to know that the two fashionable women wore for this artistic gathering gather-ing costumes exactly copied from those of the time of the Restoration. Bern-hardt's Bern-hardt's bonnet, made of golden colored straw interlaced with guipure, was very large and trimmed under the brim with roses of many shades and "choux" of fine point. Round the crown was tied a long veil of lace thrown on the side. Calve's bonnet was, perhaps, even more striking. It was In pink gauze, tightly gathered and tucked with a huge bunch of horse chestnut blossoms, pink and white, standing up between the brim and the crown. A large scarf of illusion net, emerging from the flowers, was tied under her chin and framed to perfection her fresh and bewitching face. SPANISH QUEEN'S Necklace and Tiara Now the Proptey of Two American Women. New York Herald: Jewels once worn by the queen regent of Spain are now the prized property of two American Amer-ican women. David Moffat, a Colorado millionaire, while abroad recently purchased pur-chased a diamond necklace for $60,000 and a diamond tiara for $40,000. Both had been given to the Spanish treasury by the queen regent during the war with the United States, and Mr. Moffat, after much trouble, succeeded in obtaining ob-taining them. He kept them as a surprise sur-prise for his wife and niece, and presented pre-sented them on Tuesday night. A few friends -were invited to dine with him at the Fifth Avenue hotel and after dinner the presentation was made. The purchaser of the jewels made most of his great fortune in silver mines. He has often figured before the public. Once he gave $21,000 to a robber who entered his bank with a supposed bottle bot-tle of dynamite. The bottle was filled with castor oil. He made himself popular pop-ular with New York waiters last year when he took Thomas Gay, the head waiter of the Fifth Avenue hotel, to Europe, making a traveling companion of him. Boll in a; Milk for Coffee. Boiling milk should be sent to table to serve with coffee; cold milk entirely spoils the flavor of coffee. A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman Is a treasure, Sanide. HEIR TO MILLIONS. BUT TAKES UP A LIFE OF SELF-SACRIFICE. SELF-SACRIFICE. Sister In London Slams She Has Ministered Min-istered to the City's Needy and Is Now an Angel to the City's Fallen Women. q The Salvation Army has played sad havoc in the life of Millionaire Warner van Norden, president of the Bank of North America. Within a few years it has won over his two beautiful beauti-ful daughters, removed them out of their natural sphere of hie, defeated his ambitious projects, and laughed scornfully at all his plans. Nine years ago it got his oldest daughter, Emma, in its grasp and sent her acioss the sea and out of her father's life. She is now in London, an angel among the fallen women of the slums. And last week his second daughter, Cora, fell under the spell he dreaded, renounced re-nounced society, gave up all her associations, asso-ciations, and, like her sister, joined the Salvation Army. She is now a worker in the ranks, ready to obey commands that may send her to the other side of the earth. Duty, she says, has ordered her to spend her life in sacrifice. Cora Van Norden is a stately girl whose beauty and accomplishments made her popular with her set. She was a belle in the exclusive society of New York and Newport a society that gave quick recognition to her charms of mind and person. Yet social so-cial conquest yielded her no real satisfaction. satis-faction. She quickly realized the emptiness of the life. She often said to her intimates that she should be out among the poor doing good rather than attending social functions. No doubt her sister's example influenced her. Frequently, at the most unexpected unex-pected times, she would interrupt conversation con-versation by saying: "I wonder what Emma is doing now? Nine years before, be-fore, Emma had deserted home and society for life in the Salvation Army. In 1893 she had been sent to London, and there she had labored ever since. She had fed the hungry, succored the ill, and given medicine and flowers to the sick. Perhaps, too, the religious home life of the Van Nordens influenced influ-enced the second daughter of the house to take up the burden of the weak. Her father is a man of deep religious convictions, an active member mem-ber of the Madison Avenue Reformed church, and the superintendent of the Sunday school. He is in thorough accord ac-cord with the religious spirit of his daughters, but objects strongly to the mode of its expression. It breaks his heart, he says, to have his daughters leave him. One of Miss Van Norden's intimates in her Salvation Army work is Lieut-Col. Aace Tucker. She has also charge of the Young Soldier, a Salvation Army publication. Speaking of the new recruit Miss Lewis said: "Miss Van Norden is not an officer; in fact, she cannot be called much more than a recruit. She is most enthusiastic en-thusiastic about the work the army is engaged in, and we are very happy to think that she is going to labor with us." Miss Van Norden is at present pres-ent acting as assistant editor of the young Soldier. She spends five days of each week at the headquarters of the Salvation Army on Fourtenth street. As yet she does not wear the .uniform of the army, but dresses instead in-stead in tailor-made gowns of the latest lat-est mode. Miss Van Norden is living at present with her father at the Neth-erland Neth-erland hotel, but those who know her best say that she will soon take up her abode in the army headquarters. GOTHAM'S BIG AQUARIUM. Some of the Many Strange Finny Creatures Creat-ures It Contains Cute Molly Miller The finest stocked aquarium is perhaps per-haps the one in New York city, and it contains specimens of many strange creatures, none, however, more queer than the trunk fish. Imagine four triangles tri-angles put together to form a box, and you have the shape of it. It is rather small, the largest specimens rarely being be-ing over eight inches in length. Then there is the four-eyed fish, as thin as the confection called pineapple wafer and just about as big. A black band runs through the real eye, making it almost invisible, so that the black spot near the tail looks really more like an eye, and the fish appears to be swimming around tail end foremost. The squirrel fish is another beautiful tropical fish. Its body is bright red, the upper portion of the head being a darker shade. The eye is very large and conspicuous, its size being made seemingly larger by a dark-brown band around it. There is a softness about the expression also which is usually us-ually lacking in fish. The cutest thing in the whole collection, next to the harbor seals, is a little fish that was labelled "Molly Miller." It is not over six inches long, and its eyes fairly sparkle as it flirts around through the tank. It catches its food just as a cat catches a mouse. It hides behind a small stone or branch of seaweed, holding itself almost motionless, with hardly the flicker of a fin, and then, with a dart like lightning, picks up a small pebble on which some Insect has probably settled and swims off. Outwitted the Lunatic The Lancet: Whilst residing at Rome I paid a visit to the lunatic asylum there, and among the more remarkable re-markable patients one was pointed out to me who had been saved with much difficulty from inflicting death upon himself by voluntary starvation in bed, under the Impression that he was defunct, de-funct, declaring that dead people never eat. It was soon obvious to all that the Issue must be fatal, when the humane hu-mane doctor bethought of the following follow-ing stratagem: Half a dozen of the attendants, dressed in white shrouds, and their faces and hands covered with chalk, were marched in single file, with dead silence, into a room adjoining ad-joining that of the patient, where he observed them, through a door purposely pur-posely left open, sit-down and eat a hearty meal. "Hallo!" said the would-be would-be corpse to an attendant, "who be they?" "Dead men," was the reply. "What!" rejoined the defunct, "do dead men eat?" "To be sure they do, as you see," answered the attendant. "If that's the case," exclaimed the dead maa, "I'll join them, for I'm famished." Nine Policies. Chicago News: Insurance Clerk "Here is a woman that wishes her pet cat insured." Manager "All right, but tell her she'll have to tske out a policy on each one of the cat's lives." Quite Attached to It Philadelphia Record: Dedbroke-"! hear you called on the lady's father let night How did he like your suitT Harduppe "Very much, I think. He kt half the collar when I left," GETTING ABOUT PARIS. The Street Cars and Omnibuses of the City and the Rates of Fares. The means of passenger transit In Paris is something that will interest a great many people the coming year, in view of the throngs that will visit the exposition. It is effected by electricity, electri-city, steam, compressed air and horsepower. horse-power. There are three tramway lines serving Paris and the suburbs, ani omnibuses om-nibuses are generally used throughout the city. One of the above-mentioned tram lines belongs to the Compagnie Generale des Omnibus, and the other two are practically controlled by the same company; so that it can be said to have a monopoly of the entire passenger pas-senger transit, exclusive of cabs and carriages. It is a stock company, organized or-ganized in 1855, having obtained from the city the exclusive right to transport passengers from one point to another in the city of Paris. The concession expires on the 31st of May, 1910. The omnibuses are of two sizes, and drawn by two or three horses, respectively. The smaller model is arranged for 28 to 30 places (14 outside, 14 inside and two on the platform). The larger model affords accommodations for 20 on top and 20 inside, including four on platform. The fare on the top is 15 centimes (near 3 cents); inside and on platform, 30 centimes (nearly 6 cents). The payment of the last-mentioned fare entitles the passenger to a "correspondence" "cor-respondence" or transfer ticket to another an-other connecting or intersecting line. No passengers are taken on when the places are filled, either at a station or en route. At the starting points numbered num-bered tickets are handed to the passengers, pas-sengers, and when there are more than enough to fill one conveyance the precedence pre-cedence is given to those holding the first numbers. The next omnibus or car starting begins with the number last uncalled on the previous vehicle. The same system prevails at the fixed stations en route for vacant places. No standing in the aisle is allowed. The statistics for 1896 show the number of passengers carried as follows: 33 lines of omnibuses (26 to 30 places), 50,030,-034; 50,030,-034; 14 lines of omnibuses (40 places), 79,349,631; 3 lines of steam tramways, 12,862,990; 23 lines of horse tramways, 87,092,926; 4 lines of compressed air and electricity, 10,705,340; total, 240,-040,291. 240,-040,291. The distances traversed by the divers lines vary from about two miles to a little over four miles. HE SAID GOLF WAS SHINNEY. Justice, Who Doesn't Know "Put" from "Call" Sits on the Game. Without regarding the feelings of devotees of golf, Justice Potts of Jersey Jer-sey City has brought the aristocratic game which cannot be played without cleeks, mashies, lofters, and drivers down to the level of "shinney," a game that only requires a crooked stick, any old thing that will serve as a ball, tough shins, and an opponent whom the player does not like. Mrs. Pauline Scharff lives near the links of the Jersey Jer-sey City Golf club, and has filed objections objec-tions to having her children swatted on the head by golf balls driven in an eccentric ec-centric manner by beginners at the game. Despite the heat, Mrs. Scharff also objects to having the windows of her home suddenly fall to pieces in a most disquieting way. It was to stop these annoyances that Mrs. Scharff caused Albert L. Drayton, president of the club, to explain to J istice Potts not only how it happened, but also how he would stop it in the future. The elite of Jersey City crowded the courtroom yesterday, and listened to Mr. Drayton explain that the organization, organi-zation, through late recruits, had made some of the most wonderful strokes on recoru. He added that in a few days a new course would be arranged, and the beginners quarantined nine miles from any sign of civilization. Mrs. Scharff was willing to compromise, and even went so far as to express her admiration admira-tion of the game when played in another an-other state, and everything was settled. set-tled. "But the game is 'shinney, just the same," was the decision given by Justice Potts, and which caused the elite to loft their noses and foozle their glances as they left the putting green bound for the next tee. New York Press. SIX-YEAR-OLD. Girl Swims a Mile in Remarkably Fast Time. Chicago Chronicle: Little six-year-old May Huhn proved herself one of the greatest juvenile swimmers in the world at the north side natatorium. She swam a mile in 1:07:17 3-5. The girl made a world's record, for no child has ever accomplished the feat before in such a short time. The child is not large for her age, nor does she seem to have muscles developed to a much greater extent than other girls as young as she, but it is the opinion of all that if she keeps at the game she will in time be one of the greatest female fe-male swimmers in the world. George Gaidzik lowered another world's mark for boys under 16 years old when he swam two miles in 1:12:15. The record was formerly held by Ralph Uhlendorf, who made the same distance dis-tance in 1:14:29 3-5. Other good performances per-formances by juveniles were as follows: Walter Horn, 12 years old, two miles inl:25:54; Lottie Mayer. 12 years old, two miles in 1:40; Charles Arens, 11 years old, one and a half miles in 1:13:54; Arthur Gaidzik, 12 years old, one and a half miles in 1:15, and Robert Rob-ert Arens, 9 years old, one and a half miles in 1:35. Ingenious Expedient. A local correspondent says that the other day a friend of his brought him a chunk of ice which he threw into his jar. But here was a difficult problem prob-lem for him. The quantity of water was too great to be sufficiently cooled by that piece, which was melting as fast as our correspondent was himself doing in tears. At last a highly valued val-ued friend of his who had spent the best portion of his life in scientific researches re-searches on the most original lines came to his rescue and, after mature reflection, was of opinion that the best way out of the difficulty would be to evaporate the greater portion of aqua br heating while the ice would surely cool the remaining quantity. Lahore Tribune. A Kruger Story. President Kruger recently refused an interview to a celebrated Englishman, who thereupon sent back word that he must see him; that he was no ordinary ordi-nary person; that, in fact, he was a member of the house of lords. The servant went away and returned with the message: "The president says he cannot see you, and adds that he Is a cattle herder." Saw the Elephant Jinks "I want to get a warrant for that circus manager." Magistrate "On what grounds?" Jinks "On tbV circus grounds. There's where th trouble began.' DAIRY AND POULTEY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Bow Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Dalrv Notes. Herewith we illustrate a sanitary milk pail in use by the Kansas Agricultural Agri-cultural College. The idea Is not new, and such pails have been used here and there for a long time. We do not know of any firm that has them for sale, but presume they can be easily manufactured by any tinner. The advantages ad-vantages of this kind of a pail must be obvious to any dairyman. It will certainly prevent from getting into the WW 4 i n&Tf vff en if- if ft EN fit MUM SANITARY MTLK P&U, milk much of the matter that no"W gets in. The constant falling of dust from the cow into the milk is in a measure checked. If the cow lifts her foot she is not likely to get it into the fluid that is to be used as food for the family. Of course, this must be kept clean, or the strainer on 'op will become be-come an element of danger rather than safety. The time Is at hand and In some counties is now here when the pastures pas-tures will fail and the cows will either have to fall off in milk, receive green crops that have been planted for them before this time, or will be turned into the meadows. This latter is not a wise thing to do in most cases, but is done to a great extent. The amount of damage depends a good deal on both the condition of the sod and of the moisture in the soil. If there Is a good sod, if the land has been well treated, the grass will be so thickly matted that there will be little damage, unless the ground is so soft that the tramping tramp-ing of the cattle will break the sod. If the sod is thin and the herbage light the cropping will do much damage dam-age to the crop next year; but in such cases it would be better to turn the meadow under late in the fall and put it into a cultivated crop for a few years. Where fields are to be turned under either this fall or in the early spring, the cropping now will be so much gain. Where it is expected to keep a meadow permanently it is certainly cer-tainly not a good policy to turn the cattle into it after a heavy rain, when the ground is soft. Millet as a Feed in the Dairy. Millet, says a bulletin of the agricultural agricul-tural department just published, is fed principally as a hay and soiling crop. The forage ranks well with that of other grasses in the nutritive content, and its palatability is about that of the average for the coarser sorts. For digestibility, millet forage compares favorably with that from other coarse grasses. Already widely grown as a hay crop, millets deserve more general use for soiling. They are particularly valuable for feeding to dairy cattle, young stock, and sheep. There are many sections of the country where this crop can be made to supplement the pastures in such a way as to allow a material increase in the number of stock that can- be kept on the farm. On account of the heavy yield of forage for-age and the good quality of the product, prod-uct, millets are excellent grasses for use In the silo. Frequently a good crop of millet can be raised under conditions con-ditions which would not admit of growing corn for ensiling, and in such instances It becomes of especial value. One of the best methods of preserving this crop is by the use of the silo. Those who have tried this method have obtained excellent results. A fine quality ensilage may be made by using barnyard millet and a leguminous legum-inous crop like soy beans or clover. The seed of the foxtail millets is widely wide-ly used as .food for fowls and birds but is seldom fed to stock. It has, however, been used in feeding young stock, such as calves, with a fair degree de-gree of success. The seed is an excellent ex-cellent food for laying hens. Vaccination for Blackleg. The Virginia Experiment Station has issued a bulletin for the purpose of instructing stock owners how to obtain ob-tain and use blackleg vaccine for the purpose of preventing the disease among their cattle. The vaccine is prepared pre-pared by drying pieces of muscle Liken from the swelling of an affected animal. After being finely ground It is heated at a temperature of 92 to 93 degrees certigrade for a period of six hours. It is then pulverized to a fine powder and if kept perfectly dry will keep for a year or more. This dried muscle contains the spores of the germ of blackleg, which spores are so weakened by the heat process that their injection into the animal does not cause a virulent form of the disease, but at the same time protects the animal ani-mal from any future attack of it. The immunity so produced ts said to be lasting in animals over bIz months of age. In the Year Book of the United States department of agriculture for 1898 the statement is made that from results gotten from the use of vaccine, the loss has been reduced from 10 to 20 per cent to less than 1 per cent. Up to the present time the Virginia station has been supplied with a limited lim-ited amount of vaccine by the Bureau of Animal Industry, in all, about four thousand doses, of which about 3,800 doses have been distributed to the farmers of that state. Although no eall has yet been made for reports of results the station has heard of but two deaths occurring after vaccination, amounting to a very small fraction of 1 per cent, while several have reported their loss as high as 25 per cent before vaccination. Vaccination has now become be-come so general in Virginia that the station has decided to manufacture its own vaccine for free distribution in the state. The only expense to the stock owner In vaccinating his herd is the vaccinating outfit, which consists of a graduated hypodermic syringe, mortar and pestle, glass funnel, cotton lor filtering and a small measuring glass. C Our Live Stock H. i doubtful Just what position the American stock interests will hold at the Paris exposition next year, as there is t a manifest desire - among Americans to fcn their high-priced breeding stock at home. They are In favor of sending fat cattle that may be killed at the end of their time of exhibition, but they are too fearful of contagious diseases to risk animals that must be returned to this country. It is said to be a fact that stock diseases dis-eases are far more prevalent in Europe than in this country. America has, at great expense and after years of warfare, war-fare, exterminated some of the worst diseases, and It is not probable that either the Secretary of Agriculture or the leading stockmen of the country want to give the said diseases a chance to re-establish themselves on our soil. The possibility of contagion at Pari3 is very great. Animals will be brought from all parts of Europe, and it is possible pos-sible that more or less disease will be brought with them. The government is making slow but sure progress in its investigations of hog cholera and swine plague. Since 1891 this work has been going steadily forward. Progress has been impeded by the fact that one serum could not be produced that would be equally efficacious effi-cacious as against hog cholera and swine plague. Nevertheless it wa3 found that by injecting r fmals with both kinds of serums or tlie products of hog cholera and swine plague, a very large percentage of the animals was saved. A report on the tests made in Page County, Iowa, says: "To give the general results with the work carried car-ried out under the direction of Dr. Dorset, it may be stated that out of 196 animals treated with the mixed serums 161 were saved, or about 82 per cent. The disease existed on all of the farms where treatment was carried out, a number of animals had already died and about 50 per cent of the animals treated were ill at the time of injection with the serum. In the checV; herds there were originally 429 animals, and the disease had begun both in these check herds and in the treated herds about the same time. In the herds which were not treated, only about 15 per cent of the animals recovered. Comparing these two sets it would appear ap-pear that the serum had reduced the mortality about 67 per cent. It is understood, un-derstood, of course, that all of the animals ani-mals were under the same conditions after treatment as before. As a rule, the animals appeared to begin to improve im-prove very shortly after the injection of the serum. One herd was treated with a culture alone without serum. Only 40 per cent of the herd so treated was saved. In another case a herd which was in very poor condition at the time of inoculation was treated with a mixed swine plague serum and a dead culture. Eighty per cent of these animals was saved, while in a third similar case where the condition of the animals was very poor, only 30 per cent was saved." Airing Incubator Kggs. J. E. Stevenson, writing in Rural New Yorker, says: One who advised that ' ..ing was unnecessary probity makes a machine with a great amount of ventilation. There are very few machines now with automatic egg-turning egg-turning devices for turning eggs without with-out removing from the egg chamber, and nearly all authorities prefer taking tak-ing them out, for turning, when they are sure to get a slight airing twice each day. If the change from 103 degrees de-grees to 60 degrees or less for the few minutes required for turning is too great, what about the setting hen that must come off occasionally for food and water, even though the temperature tempera-ture is 20 degrees or less? She will stay off in zero weather much longer than the time required to turn the eggs from an incubator. In my opinion opin-ion the change, if not long enough to chill the eggs, will give stronger chicks than the continually closed machine ma-chine or the hen that sits more closely. close-ly. It is much easier to get the desired de-sired air space in the eggs when the incubator room is at 50 degrees than when at 80 degrees, and J find it much easier to get out good hatches of strong chicks in the early spring than In hot weather. The Farm Horse. Strength Is not the sole requisite in a farm horse. The true farmer's horse is one equally serviceable ser-viceable in dragging the plow and trotting trot-ting to market with a light wagon, says the Rural World. The farm horse should thus be a cross between the draft and road horse. Courage, determination and quickness in taking hold of loads are very important qualities qual-ities in this kind of a horse. An animal ani-mal weighing 1,100 pounds with these good qualities will often be more serviceable ser-viceable than the team that weighs hundreds of pounds more. A quick, steady walker, is very essential. Did you ever stop to compute how many days' work you could save in plowing a field with a quick walking horse? The animal that gets over the ground rapidly saves time and money to the owner. A slow walker is poorer for farm work than a slw trotter, and the time lost thereby is much greater. Economical Feeding. An economical economi-cal food is early-cut hay, silage from mature corn, oats and peas. An uneconomical un-economical way is to give the herd late cut hay, silage from immature corn, roots, new and untried crops. The reason for the early cutting of hay is because you get more digestible protein pro-tein or milk forming food than in a late cut. Mature corn only should go into the silo; otherwise it causes an expensive watering of stock. Corn has proven to be more digestible when it is cut just as the kernel begins to glaze. Experiments have proven that the silage of everything Is the most economical way of h-,iiling the grain crop, owing to the amount of milk 'given and the amount of butter produced pro-duced being more on the food from the eilo than in other ways of harvesting it. Prof. J- L- Hifi. Sheep Fecundity. Two of the most remarkable cases of sheep fecundity ever heard of have just occurred in England. At Chesterlestreet, Durham-shire, Durham-shire, a cross-bred ewe dropped 7 lambs, all dead. The ewe is doing well. John Davis, Penlan, Wales, had a mountain ewe drop 3 lambs on November No-vember 12, of which two lived and were sold for $15. She had 5 more on May 12, of which 4 are alive. Perhaps there is no reliable record of such fertility fer-tility In any other country, Ex. American manufacturers are pushing push-ing their goods in all directions. The Turkish government is organizing an agricultural exhibition In Constantinople Constanti-nople and a tribute is paid to American Ameri-can goods and skill in the statement that agricultural implements of the latr est American style will be exhibited and that the use of such machinery and Implements will be taught to Turkish Turk-ish farmers by Americans. Do not aerate the milk in the stable or in the lee of the stable. The air in which the milk Is aerated must be pure, else the milk in being aerated will suffer more harm than the aeration aera-tion will do good. |