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Show ' IT IS BEYOND THE DOOR Brindic" Ak for Little In Rsturn for All Sh Give. n ( VTV, ,p4 ' An. JA Breakfast at the Usual Hour. tight manger and a gutter to receive the droppings are essential. Then by ' . all means fasten her with a chain tie ,or swinging stanchion, that she may have freedom to use her tongue. Plenty of clean bedding havings are best plenty of absorbents In the gutter, with some slaked dime occasionally as a deodorizer, complete the sanitary furnishings. For grounds, a cow needs but a small yard for exercise. Keep It filled with the leaves and raktngs from the lawn to prevent It from becoming muddy. These make good mulching frWUMR THAT IS NEVER CLOSEITm THE FOUNDLING ASYLUM. WHERE EVERY DAY HAS --t-- tV -t-ITS TRAGEDIES THE FAMILY COW. on smart country Many who 1H-places arc dpi erred from keeping a iow by the mistaken idea that she requires too ninth room or care llrlndle in eds no more space for her comfort, the and less of umr time, than-evesmall ismllry yard it In more Impor taut that the family should be supplied with clean, pure, wholesome milk than an other article of food. All that Is necessary la a dry, well lighted stall, five or six feet wide and a few feet longer than the animat. A 1 TI1E f OLD-STO- OF HUMAN FRAILTY l c.ci'c wc.i! quietly out of the door ew Yolk i l.u rice r. a.,ll tie tidiic tie sti eet. And she did not tfce ( lt bai s nn It is Iki you know whi-ivfiei do went out of sight, the 8ls-ii- " Do you think that Home time p of n,.e it. who sits In the little haps. In your life you have found H ' Can you shul jour eves to the pies cello . ii, u to the room with the cradle ent New York man or womn and ..tut iu and took the baby In her H was well dressed and about look hack to that day when von found .i' ms , week-old The sister touched bmi In silent the clown aoinc one ton loved morgue, and say yen you know the a be)! ami piesently a nurse came place well the saddest place In New ami took the babv away to ' the recep-- I That was all. It was a York? Or remember one corner In lion ward some green cemetery where all your cmimoic use Only one .more mother lovejjes buried, and ay, no, the plate who had deserted her Inchild; only one Greater JSew la here? Or look at some deserted more hahy foundling home, where ghosts of a lost faith j York The sister smoothed the coverlet walk always, and say, no, this 1h the saddest place of all, for here there la on the cradle, shook up the pillow, and leit It ready for the next one. no hope7 Hornet Imes we have several in a But It Is not so The saddest place And other daya, none In all New York Is not a sjMit deter- day, she said mined by the personal, individual lobs at all. Hut every year from a thouof mete life or love or faith If It sand to fifteen hundred are left with were, every giave would claim the ti- us We always leave the baby in the tle and every looked heart dispute radle for a few minutes, because Home of the mothers It. change their It la one little room In a large build minds. They will wait for houra, tryholding Ing up on Sixty eighth street. Two ing to decide, sometimes, sweeping rows of broad stone steps their bahies, nursing them, and crylead from the street to the wide doors ing over them. And at last they will These doors leave them, as this one did, and go of the main entrance are always locked ltut under the away Hut sometimes, before they I , e i j get as far as the corner they will come running back and catch the baby up out of the ciadle and hurry away with It. As long as the baby la atilt In the ciadle it is not too late. Too Late." Not too late as long as the baby is But afterward, still la the cradle! once the baby has been taken from the little room, has been received and recorded and perhaps In a few weeks Many a adopted, it Is too late. mother has come back by stealth to atone staircase, right In the center, opening directly on the street, is a little low door that Is always open, and it la the entrance to the saddest place in New York, It is framed In clinging Ivy vines, the little low door. Above It, on each side of the stone steps, droop weeping willow trees Higher still there stands In a niche the statue of a woman holding a child close to her breast. And every woman who seeks the little low door under the Ivy. vines holds - willing, we take them here for a month or three months We keep a lecurd of each foundling, and of the ium.lv it Is adopted by, but we do m" tell the mothers where they are, if they come back and aak. It would not iw fair to the adopted parents. Ami they find good homes, these little waifs There is one family, one of the wealthiest and best known socially whose oldest son and from the Foundlings. give the name. It la years ago. One winter night the family physician sent here for a baby. He only wanted the Loan of It for a few weeks, as the wife had given birth to her first child and it had Ted. 8he was dangerously 111 and delirious, and they were afraid unless she had a child to nurse and love the ahock would kill her. So we picked out the littleat baby of all, a pretty boy hardly a week old, and he was taken away In a carriage to one of the handsomest homes uptown. Even for a loaned baby It must have been a pleasant experience. For three or four weeks he was treated just exactly as the baby would have been that died, and the mother knew no difference. Then, when she was strong enough, they told her the truth Hut the borrowed baby never came back. In those weeks of suffering, when the clasp of its little hands and the touch of its yearning lips had been all that had held her from death, she had grown to love It as her own, and she kept It. He is a bov, at college now, and will never knovtf that he was a foundling waif. There was a step in the little room and i he sister glanced out. A plump, rosy cheeked girl of about 19 stood in New York, heir Is a waif No, I cannot Grazing is best in summer, if it can be had. and green crops cut and fed are a good substitute. Oats and field peas, planted to secure a succession, will serve the purpose. There are always roadsides and odd corners that a cow can graze down, and the lawn may be sparingly utilized. When the pasturage begins to fall, the grain ration must be started to maintain a full milk Bow. Feed what you can produce or buy to best advantage In your market. 8lmplylated. th Ualaivced ration meant ttitr proper ratter between the and ing elements of the feed stuffs. The amount and proportion of grains and - roughage depend on the cow, and must be determined by. experience. The winter feed should consist of about ten or IS pounds of mixed grain ' and 10 to SO pounds of hay and rough-ag- e. Mixed timothy and clover hay is better for cows than clear timothy. Alfalfa hay is better than either, aa it furnishes more of the muscle-forminelements so hard to get In the winter season. Roots are fine to aupplement ' the dry winter feed. so much not . )a necessary Grooming 'for the cows welfare aa for the good of the milk. The amount of dirt that will find Its way from the ungroomed Ciwe body to the milk pall la almply aatoniahlng. A vigorous uae of the curry comb and bruah each morning, followed by a wet sponge or damp doth before milking, will effectually prevent the dirty aedlment so often found In the bottom of the milk "pitcher. Grooming Is doubly necessary in winter, when the cow ia Stabled. -- i' - - - DAIRY NOTES. Nothing but pressed tin la enough to hold milk and cream. Tenacity in milking is the moat essential element of profit in the dairy cow. The flavor of butter la affected by feed nod cleanliness, not by the breed of cows. The pasteurising of milk sold for consumption extends its keeping qualities about 12 hours. - The corn crop can be made most useful and valuable to the dairyman .by putting it Into a well built silo. Pasteurizatioa will not remove dirt .from milk or cream. The best way la jto keep the dirt out In the first place. Succulent feed for winter for ml Ich cows, fattening cattle, aheep swine or other stock, is best furnished by the gov-ernm- tration; Of the 41,000,000 pesetas paid by the state to the church, about $6,000,000 devoted to the payment of Income; $750,000 to building, maintenance, and repair of churches; $225,000 Is deIs Monsignor Sancha, Cardinal of Spain. Primate of stined for religious seminaries; and some $25,000 is allotted to religious congregations, cloistered nuns, and others. The sum of a little over is divided among the higher clergy, leaving less than $1,000,000 for the ordinary priesthood. As the latter must number considerably over 20,000, the average Income of the secular priest cannot be niore than $50. Nor does there seem to be much more margin for economy In the salaries paid to the superior clergy. There are nine archbishops, whose Incomes range from $8,000 to $5,500; there are 51 bishops who recelvp from $5,500 to $2,000; there are 50 deans and 500 canons, whose average yearly Income is less than $1,500. But even out of this poverty the Spanish church contrived to donate to the government last year $750,000. Meanwhile, the native orders and their French guests barely make a living; the village curate starves; the towers of Cuenta Cathedral crumble and fall for the want of timely repairs; and the country, which has so long' regarded such matters with Indifference, is beginning, especially the liberal, progressive part of It, to be disgusted with the whole question of religious domi" " nance. A Wonderful Tunnel BORE UNDER YORK g Wetting Silage a Success. Two years ago I filled my alio In the ordinary way and about seven laches of the surface spoiled. On the sides and corners at least twice aa much The past year only three rotted. Inchea on the top and five at the sides and corners spoiled. The silage Immediately under the spoiled portion wss a better Quality than any I had evr put up. In fact, about perfect. Th.s smaller loss, says the Illinois correspondent of Orange Judd Farmer, waa due to wetting the silage aa it came from the cutter. I attached a hose to the water tank and arranged it so that the water would fall upon the cut corn juat as It came from the silage cutter. Sufficient was applied to thoroughly wet all the fodder. Thla method la much easier than raising the water In p&lla and distributing' It in that way. I believe that this wetting of the corn ia an important factor tn the making of silage. the country at large of the thousands cf monks and friars who have established themselves after being driven out of France, and founded schools and colleges for both sexes; and the immense amount of treasure which the Vatican annually takes out of the country however high may be the exchange from patter money into gold, tn gold the Vatican is paid, and the tithes which it gathers from all sources In Spain are said to represent annually some $9,000,000. The state spends annually for the church some 41,000,000 pesetas, or $8,200,000. According to the latest statistics, the total number of religious communities throughout the country Is 3,115, containing 50,933 members. Of these, 2,586 communities are for women, with 40,188 members, and 529 for men, with 10,745 members. The number of those which sought and obthe tained by registration Unless Reduction In Clerical Budget le Obtained from Vatican Rupture le Likely to Take Place. The struggle which the Vatican haa been carrying on with France has resulted in many of the exiled order taking refuge In Spain and this has created a condition of affair there that has brought the question of the relations of the Vatican to the church In Spain to a climax, so that there aeemB to be no doubt that, unless the present government of Spain can succeed In inducing the Vatican to accept a reduction of some $200,000 in the clerical budget and acknowledge the regularity of the civil marriage, a rupture will take place between Madrid and Rome which may even lead to the denunciation of the Concordat of 1851. was 2,611, the registraIn the meantime, the cardinal primate tion and being of a permanent definite character In the case of kind 1,201, and of a provisional for 1,410. Registration was temporarily withheld In the case of 150, pending further examination of their titles and description. Of the 354 which remain, the greater part are orders of the Concordat and exempt from regis- Toledo, is doing his best to effect an understanding by reminding tlje government of the obligations for moral suppoit both monarchy and dynasty are under and seeking, to impress upon the Roman curia the necessity of making certain concessions toward the liberal movement in Spain. The problem to be solved la really more 'of a financial and a social than a rellglouB one. The financial side is aggravated from three sources. The money which the government pays outright to tbo clergy. the expense to ; 1 TROUBLE SAID TO CREWING BETWEEN THE TWO. of Spain, Mgr. Sancha. archbishop later. v The Pope and Spain RIVER AT NEW MARVEL OF 8KILL. Successful Completion of Gigantic Task That Haa Taxed the Ingenuity of the Beat Engineers. child close to her breast, but when walk along the street and steal a look there staring happily around her. She bill. he cornea away her arms are empty. at the low doorway under the stone held oat a I would to get. my baby out, she For this Is the New York Foundling steps when it was too late, and the g flve-doll- Asylum. Anyone may enter through the doorway. There la no one to atop you or question you as to why you have come. You stand In a small, square room. There is no carpet on the floor, no pictures on the walla. Two settees stand, one on each side of the room. And between them la a little white cradle. It la very dainty and Inviting, that cradle. The tiny blanket and coverlet are soft and spotless, the tittle baby pillow has a case, and there la a pretty muslin canopy draped above It in baslace-edge- sinet d faahlon. But the room Is not empty. Pacing up and down the floor la a woman, hardly past girlhood. She does not look very strong. Her long brown chiffon veil is thrown back from her face. It Is a sweet face, the features well cut and refined, but white and wet with tears. Close In her arms, o close that the little face la pressed next her cheek, she holda a baby, hushing tt to sleep Last Look at Her Child. After awhile she lays it down gently in the little white cradle and stops to listen, but there la no sound, and the door still stands open. She may come or go as ahe pleases. And, standing a minute over the sleeping baby, ahe looks into lta face for the last time. It la her baby. She has given it birth and nurtured tt. tt little body la healthy and flushed with the rose tint of palpitant life. It ia not as though death had given her no choice In the matter. She haa absolute choice. Either she may take the baby again to her breast and face the world with it. or else the may go through the little low door, and leave It forever behind her. Standing in tha corridor beyond the little room. 1 watched this mother. She stood rocking tha cradle for about fiva minutes. Her sobbing ceased. Once ahe stooped and kissed the little face on the pillow. Then, suddenly, he let the brown chiffon veil fall over her face and, tarnlng front the cradle was as empty as her arm, writes ,lzola Forrester, in the New York World. But most of them never come back, it la not cruelty nor hardness of heart It ia bitter necessity and the way Of the world that lead most of them to that door. Sometimes It Is cowardice, When tho baby wears dainty, costly garments, when the name pinned on lta breast is written In a hand showing education and breeding, and a roll of bills ia found also in the cradle, then the woman who left her child as a foundling Is a cow aid It Is not the cry of the wolf that drove her there. It Is oaly the cry of the world she feared. Now ami then a strange figure comes to the little room, a inae, troubled figure. Out of place and Incongruous. the figure wtn not tiother over the apeal of the cradle, i,m go straight to the sister in ne office and hand over the buidu it raniei to her. These are the fathers And the most helpless object in the world la a man wtth a week-olbabv In hit arms, trying to find out wha- it wants They rarely want to give iq all elalB to the babies, the fathers it Is only because tho mother is dead or h run away from home, that they ootne to the Foundllns at all Ml they want Is for some one to take the weg) fumbling, crying blind kitten himfil out of their-arand care frr M they can go io work But moat of the mothers are of that other great class, the un wedded," the sister ow.ll them. woman walks Into h When room and lays a child in the cradle without a tear or the least he ltancy and goe hurriedly away the sister smiles and shakes her head. That waa not the mother. 4 mother always linger. Sometime too long and the strut, when they gle 1 a hard one we talk with them. The great- trouble to an unmarried girl with a child la that she rnT10t obtain employment, and the baby t too young to be left. So, If they are - fit-ti- e ty - Two mont I leave him get money and pay for him, and get him back. Could Bring Him Back. Gently and tenderly the sister told her it waa too late to get her boy back, that she had left it for good, and no money could bring him back to her. Tha big, round, childish eyes brimmed with tears; she sank down on one of the settees, and poured out in broken, stumbling English her story on the sister's shoulder. She was a young Hungarian girl, who had been betrothed In the old country when ahe was 14. She had come to America alone. He was to follow soon, and they would work hard and ava and be married, sut;e, he promised they would be married before the But he never baby should come. came. And after the baby was born, she must go to work right away quiclL.ao a girl told her, another girl, who had left her baby In the handy little white cradle, too, of the big building on Sixty eighth street, where yon could leave a baby, and she had brought her baby boy and left It. But now Julius waa good again, and he bid come over and married her, and aba wanted back her baby. And sobbing hyaterically, she went out of tlm low door, carrying back to Julius tha news that it waa too late. explained. by you. Now I afterward, Sometime, year mother will return, seeking trace of the child whom ahe deserted. She an may have married happily, and be honored, loved wife and mother, but In spite of all thera will ring in her ears the last err of the baby ahe for ,00k, and the memory of the little, trail hands that clung to her, and aha hack to tha little door under the ivy to seek her nameless foundling. But tha answer is always tha same. 'Tttak-is woman has too late. , Some other en the waif to her hungry breast, and mothered it and named 1L and tha little white cradle is aa barren of aa though it hope to the real mother nnmarkad grave. narrow, littie a Vere The railroad tunnel which has just been completed under the North river from New York city to Weehawken, N J., is a marvel of ingenuity and skill, for It was found when the two bores made from opposite ends approached within 125 feet of each other that they were only of an inch out of alignment and only of an Inch out of grade, which, considering the size and the length of the tunnel, ia something never before heard of. The completion of thla seventy-fivmllllon-dolla- r tunnel now makes it possible for one to walk from Nlw York city Into New Jersey, and It will not be long before trains will be speeding It Is now five years through them since the first announcement was made of the project of building the tunnels, and It was only after a strenuous campaign of criticism and opposition that work was begun. The route of the tunnel is from the Jersey Meadows, beyond Bergen Hill (Weehawken), to Thompson avenue. Long Island City. According to the plans as announced, every safety appliance and mechanical protection against accidents known to railroad science ia to be installed, in the tunnels. Electricity will be the only motive power. The current for lights will be entirely separate, as In the New York Subway. The city police will have jurisdiction, and the city health department will have sanitary supervision. The newest ventilating apparatus will be provided. The railroad company has already ordered steel cars, to replace the wooden ones now In use. The new Pullmans, too, will be fireproof. A special safety feature will be the concrete walkways, or sidewalks, built Inside the tubes on a level with the car windows. If there is an accident or a long delay, the passenger will he able to reach these walkways from the car windows or doors. The cable for power, water pipes for protection gainst fire, and part of tha signal wires will be bedded in the concrete beneath these sidewalk The construction of the tubes ha been designed with a view to safety. Instead of resting upon the river soli, they are supported by iron foundations known as screw pile, each a In the re used for llghthouse pro-one-eigh- th three-quarte- e w. case of the trolley tunnels built further south, the tubps rest in the soil, for they will not have to bear trains of great weight. The Pennsylvania tunnels, on the other hand, must support 100-toelectric and locomotives, hence It was necessary to provide Iron foundations extending all the way down to bedrock. The method of construction has been the same as In the trolley tunnels, and in the East river section of the Subway. As the shields are pushed forward through the soil, or through an occasional uprising ledge of rock, cast Iron rings are knitted together, forming the links of the tubes. The lining inside the cast iron is to be of concrete, a part of which will be the walkways already described. Much has been told of the Manhattan terminal. It has been decided that this Is to be a railroad station from top to bottom, with only such subsidiary department? as are necessary n Interior of Tunnel, Showing 8afety Walkways of Concrete. to the comfort of railroad passenger. There will be restaurants and arcades of small shops near the waiting room. 30(1 feet long, but there, will be no theater or hotel or beer garden despite frequently published tumors. To the various train platforms, below will descend ground, the passenger In elevators, and at the top of each elevator shaft will be electric signs showing what trains are due or waiting. In short, there is to be no convenience lacking, and the plans seem to provide for roominess and comfort enough to supply the demands of the future New York, however fast the population increases. Quit Important Bid Issue. The British government gets aa in- come of $25,000,000 from the railways, river boat and forests of India. |