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THR HALF MOON.

of the sixty-ton, round-prowed Dutch
vessel the Half Moon as she Lay off thei
Highlands. The picture selected for
enlargement is from an authentic old
wood cut, of which the picture here
presented is a true copy! Hudson,
sailed in the Half Moon from Amsterg,
dam, Holland, on April 4, 1909. He
was under commission by the East In
dies Company, and his mission was TO-
wrest from Spain the Eldorado OF the
unknown New World, to destroy,
Spain's power to do harm, and to find,
if possible, more direct route to the
Indies. This was what brought Henry
Hudson to the shores Of the New
World. On the evening of September
8, 1909, he anchored inside of Sandy,
Hook; and the Worlds Fair Commis-
sioner will endesvor next winter TO
secure an act making September 9
legal holiday in this State to commem-
crate the discovery Of the territory Of
New York State. On September 4
Hudson took his little vessel through
the Narrows and into New York Bsy,I
and entered the 'tRiver Of the Noun.
tains," as the Hudson was called BY.
the Manhattan Monatou Indians. The
roquois, however, called it Cahohata-
tea; the Delawares, the Mahican-ittick
(place of Mahicans), and the Mahicans,;
the Shatemuc.
On September 10 the Half Moon
reached place opposite Albany and
anchored here for four days. OF the
Indians Hudson wrote: 'I landed IN
one of their boats in company OF an old
man, who was chief there Of forty men
and seventeen women. We went to q
house of oak bark" On September %
the return trip was begun, and the
round-nosed Dutch vessel passed out
into the sea again on October and
reached Dartmouth November Z.
The following year Hudson discov-
cred the great bay which bears his
name, and in 1910 his crew thrust him
into small boat with his son and five
sailors sick with scurvy and cut him
adrift to perish in the great waters
which bear his name.-New York
Trihune
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BERENICE ST. CYRl
[ro BE CONTINUED
A Deer Story.

Last fall Mr.. Walling, whose farm
adioins the village of Halliburton, had
two acres and half Of Swede turnips.
Of these he gathered two acres, putting
them in heaps and covering them with
about six inches of straw. The half
acre WAS not harvested. Mr.. Wallings
intention was to draw the turnips which
we're in heaps as soon as the first snow
came, but the intention was not carried
out and the snow covered the heaps and
preserved the turnips.-
Last week Mr.. Walling decided to
commence feeding the turnips and took
O sleigh to the turnip field. The heaps
were all gone. Every turnip had been
eaten by the deer. More than that,
the half acre had been carefully gone
over by the herd of deer and every tur-
nip had been grubbed out of the ground
and eaten, 1000 barrels in all being
eaten. The marks of the deer were
seen in every direction, and there must
have been nine or ten. The field where
the turnips we're consumed is not more
than three-quarters of mfle from the
village Postoffice as the crow fiies.- -
Bobcaygeon (Canada) Independent.
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Water Purified by Iron.

The filthy water of the River Nethe
is purified for use in Antwerp by being
passed through revolving cylinders con-
tanning small pieces Of iron. Fifteen
pounds of metallic iron will purify
10000 gallons OF water. The water
thus treated is said 70 be completely
freed from germs, bacteria and other
Objectionable matters. English and
French chemists find that the contact
with iron reduces the organic matter
by forty-five to eighty-fve per cent.
and albuminold ammonia by from fifty
to sixty per cent. and all free ammonia
is removed. The process has been ap-
piled with success to the water Of the
Delaware River in Pennsylvania. 1t is
simple and cheap. From all of which
it may be inferred that the passage of
drinking water through iron pipes does
not iniuro it. t.--,Baltimore American.
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Aside from the few bull calves that
are sold from time to time, the sole
market product of the herd is butter,
and butter-making at Ellerslie is
most important department and
most interesting site. Between sew
enty-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 large clubs. 10
witness its manufacture under the ex-
perienced eye and scientific direction
of Mr.. Robson is to have ones ideas
on the subject completely revolution
lied.
The milk, as soon as it is taken from
the COWS, is carried to the dairy. Cold
air, taken from outdoors SO as to be
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the cream from the cooler and handle
it in the usual way. Some OF our Dut-I
ter is sold unsalted, some has hait an
ounce of salt to one pound OF butter,
and some one and quarter ounces on
salt to one pound of butter. We make
lust what our customers demand.
This manufacture of butter froml
sweet cream has caused q good deal OF
controversial writing in the dairy
papers, as might be expected. ana tne
Ellerslie people have been called upon,
to defend and explain their methods.11
They are ready to do so at all times.'
The main trouble, Mr.. Robson ssys,|
that people have in churning cream
sweet is that they put the cream into
the churn, like they would do with ripe
cream, and do not pay any more atten-
ton to it; second, one needs to have q
thermometer for guide.
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was made with machine to produce
butter directly from the neg milk.
The butter made in this way had q
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
churned Is. The buttermilk from this
churning was analyzed and showed
about per cent. butter---as much asls
found in ordinary city milk. We tried
again, cooling the cream to 30 degrees,
and the buttermilk showed consider
ably less loss in butter. We were on
the right track. We kept reducing
the temperature, every reduction
showing o corresponding reduction in
amount of butter lost in the butter
milk until temperature of 38 degrees
was reached, when the buttermilk
showed only 2 faint trace of butter,
usually less than 1-20 of l per cent.
Throughout the summer we churned at
So to 40 degrees. After the cattle
we're put in the stable 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 tNe but
ter in the milk that comes from the
COWS in the morning is ready for the
table at noon, and We have had butter
on table in the evening in New York
ninety miles awsy-made from milk
given by our COWS on the same day.
For suoh of our customers as prefer
butter made by the old process we take
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cow, and the champion milk yielde1
this year, giving 10,S pounds lover
five tons), of milk during the last
twelve months, and 12s83 pounds (more
than her own weight) in thirty days,
She was imported by J. w. Fuller.
An offer of $500 for her was refused
The picture of Diss Sd, 1864, appears.
She is q fine cow with model udder.
She has given 1881 pounds of milk il
year. =,
Chamoinesse I'd, 1861, whose picture
is also given, is another Of the lot i'm
ported by Mr.. Morton. She is lemor
fawn and white in color, with o ricf
yellow skin, and has, as will be per
ceived, almost an ideal dairy form,
wedge-shaped, with large space for di
gestion, a capacious udder, and plenty
of room to make it comfortable. She
gives from 700 to 800 pounds of mill
per month on her regular herd ration.
The record of the sixty-two COWS and
heifers that have completed the sea-
sons work has just been compiled. L
is an interesting exhibit. The average
yield as stated is 611s4 pounds of milE
in q year, the highest being Passagere,
1886 pounds. Eight COWS produced
over 5000 pounds, fifteen over 1000
pounds, thirty-three over 5000 pounds
The yearly average of butter is one
pound from 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 proftably to turn into butter.
A composite sample of the mixed milk
of the whole herd for eight milEngs,
just analysed by Professor Cooke, OF
the Vermont Experiment Station,
shows 5.37 per cent. fat, 800 per cent.
casein and Is. 18 per cent. total solids.
Forty-two per cent. of the milk is
from COWS that have calved within the
last three months.
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of box ventilators Fastened above to
the walls 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 manure is
thrown into this from the trench, and
rolled out to the rear, where it is
dumped into q 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 hole in the wall back OF
each COW is apparent. The tracks in
front of the COWS carry cars from the
zilos and grain bins. The hay is stored
directly over the COWS. By means OF
slings and hay forks it can be unloaded
and moved by steam power.
For Guernsey stock Mr.. Cottrell
shares Mr.. Morton's enthusiastic ad-
miration. 1t is the dairy stock Of the
future, he believes, and he looks for
ward with confidence to asignal triumph
for his favorites in the stock contest
which has been undertaken at the
Worlds Fair. Five of Mr.. Morton's
herd have been selected for this pur-
pose, and are now in Chicago. The
Guernsey, Mr.. Cottrell insists, is simply
An improved Jersey. 1.-THE two breeds
differ chiefly" he added, Gin 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
mixers, and their milk may have a
little hig CHER 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 disposition. They are not
nervous and high-strung like the Jer-
seys. 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 ca
pacity for turning food into milk when
fed in q barn.
CT the stock in the barn Midas,
2OO3, the king of the herd, attracts
mcst attention. He is five-year-old.
and is pronounced by many experts to
be the finest Guernsey bull i'll the
world. His large, well rounded body,
straight back, broad loins, fns head,
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Hudson and the Halt Moon.

Now that it has been definitely set.
tied that Henry Hudson, the English
commander sailing under the Dutch
flag, who discovered the Hudson River,
is to be New York's patron saint at the
Worlds Fair, special pains will be taken
by the Worlds Fair managers from TINS
State to get up the most creditable
show possible to commemorate the
works and deeds of the intrepid nav
igator. A contract has already been
entered into for clay model OF Hud-
son. This will be the model for bronze
cast. The walls of the New York State
building will be embellished with Large
pictures painted thereon, representing
notable scenes in the life Of the nav
igator who met such miserable fate
after his great discoveries and noble
acts One of the scenes selected Is that
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veins, and well-sprung ribs, appears to
be what ahe is, an enormous mixer.
She was exhibited in 1883, at the
Buffalo international, New York State,
Dutchess County and Bay State Fairs,
where, Notwithstanding the fact that
she had been in milk since February
10 previous, she was awarded tirst
prize in every instance. She has
given 10674 pounds Of milk in month
and 6464a pounds in ten months, and
o. pounds Of butter in day on regular
rstions. Like Midas, she traces to the
famous show bull and stockgetter,
Squire of Les Vsu1belets. She was
selected for the Worlds Fair, but did
not calve at the right time to enable her
to be sent. ....
Passagere I'd, 1923, is a fine large
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But how
Never mind, now. The present 10 our
opportunity! While they are consulting
below, we will make our escape"
Cole turned the gas higher and sp-
preached tho window.
He found it carefully secured, screw
having been put above the lower sash to
prevent it's being pushed up.
With pocket knife, which with many
other conYeniences he had found In his
pocket, Cole soon removed this, and
threw up the window.
Then, lowering the gas again, he opened
the outside blinds and looked out.
The window was on the side OF the
house and at least twenty feet from the
ground.
Having ascertained that the coast was
clear, he few to the bed and seized
sheet which he proceeded to tear into
strips.
This occupied no longer time than is
required to tell of it, and in minute or
twohe held in his hands AN improvised rope
strong enough to support the weight OF
his fair COMPANION or himself, and OF q
length sufficient to reach the ground
.Nov!" said Cole. Don't be afraid!
You'll soon be out Of this house and be-
yond the reach of your enemies
As he spoke he passed the rope around
hsr form and knotted it together under
her arms.
Then he assisted her to the ledge OF the
open window.
With infinite care he pushed her for.
ward, and, having braced himself for the
task, he began lowering her toward the
ground. .
This proved quite laborious but con-
sumed only little time.
Soon the strain ceased, and looking
forth Cole saw, to his great JOY, that
Berenice had reached the ground in
safety and was removing the improvised
rope.
BE lost no time in tying It securely to
q steam heater which stood ne1f the
window, and in Q moment was ready to
make the descent.
1t that instant . cry caused him to look
downward.
III his utter conformation he saw In
the iather indistinct light that the young
lady was struggling in the grasp OF .
powerful man.
At that instant An exclamation Of
mingled rage and triumph caused him to
look upward =.
At the window, an open knife IN his
hand, stood his enemy, Almon Sears.
The next instant the blade described q
circle in the air and descended.
Then our hero felt himself falling rap
idly downward.
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Hudson, says:
An interesting fact regarding the
management of the farm is that it is
vested in q college man, d. NJ. Cott-
rell, graduate of the Kansas Agricul-
tural College. He is the superintend-
ent, and Mr.. Morton holds him re-
sponsible for everything done about
the place. he is q young man OF
unusual ability, and thoroughly prof
cient 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 the abandonment OF
all other stock. This was done. An
other Improvement was the erection of
q mammoth barn in place of the one
that WAS destroyed by Lightning Last
July. This barn is believed to be the
most costly and complete ever built in
the United States. The main building
is about 800 feet long, or, to speak
more precisely, o97 feet by 66 feet in
width and 80 feet in height, with an L
SO by 80 feet. The structure includes
besides three 500-ton silos, each AZ feet
in depth, tool and engine rooms, grain
bins, laboratory, bsthing-room and
ample Railways, no less than 120 ordi-
nary 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 de-
pressed area that can be protected by
q series of trapdoorb from the incoming
of snow and rain. The bays above the
stalls can accommodate 400 tons of hay,
without coming over the middle hall
way; and the grain-rooms Will hold
twenty carloads. The south door, look
ing up through the centre of the build
ing, is much larger than would be
necessary to admit a freight train and
the cars and engine would have more
than ample room inside, the passage
being 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 accommo-
date $50 head of stock, or 400 with
crowding, and also house all the hay,
grain and ensilsge needed for this regi.
ment of COWS. The grain bin alone
will hold twenty carloads, while three
silos hold 500 tons each. The COWS
stand in two hong rows in the basement
and on the first floor. They are placed
head to head with wide feeding alley
between. Back of them are the rows
of large, roomy box stalls for calves,
bulls and lying-in cows.
:, In laying out the plans, Mr.. Cottrens
work, no point of hygiene, comfort OF
convenience seems to have been over
looked. The basement, which is made
light and airy by system of double
walls, is really cellar, but along the
sides is trench reaching to the bottom
and securely walled on the other side.
Windows run to the bottom of this
trench, and thus let in Light in abund'
ance. The air is kept pure by means
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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-si1 to forty-eight
hours at high temperature until 9
certain degree of acidity was developed
when it was cooled to sixty degrees and
churned. This is the ordinary way Of
making butter. Early in 1892 trial
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MATER poLu
bY XII coURTLANp,

Ger the tops Of purple mountains
Where tho Roman twilight falls,
Boftly smiles the Mater Dolci
On the gray old church's walls.
Many years have bloomed and faded,
Many years will bloom again,
Etm she listens mid the stiffness
Tothe cries Of human pain.
Mater Dolci thou hndst tasted
Every glief and every III, :
When thou watched beside the crosses
Meath the stars on Calvary Hill.
Mater Dolci in the cleaning,
When the Roman twilight falls,
stoop and gather up the teardrops
Strewn within the church's walls.
PENDLFToN, s. G.
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Uncle Sans Biz Guns at the Fair.

Uncle Sam has his big guns in po-
sition at the Government building.
Some of them were formidable weapons
when General Scott was having things
his own way in Mexico, but they look
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ION, late VICE.
President of tn e
United States, is the
owner of the largest
Guernsey herd OF
cattle in the world.
The New York Tri-
bune, in an account
of Mr.. Morton's e
country place Of
1000 acres on the
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rather harmless when compared with
the monster riaed cannon of the present
day. .
A dozen men in uniform placed the
huge machines of war in position
alongside of the twelve.inch terror in
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The census reports 5000 artesian
wells in California.
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steel. In the collection of antique and
modern ordnance are three huge NOR
tars mounted upon carriages. Chicago
Herald.
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GUERNSEY CATTLE
Ex-VICE-PRESIDENT MORTON'S
MAGNIFICENT HERD.
Most Costly Barn Ever Built In the
United States-Butter-M Making
on Scientific Principles
"A New Process.

IN NR. LEVI P. NOR
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-07-24
Guardians Sale of Real
and Personal Property

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
IN pursuance of an order OF the District
Court of the State OF Nevada in and for
Humboldt County, made on the Goth day of
June, 1898, in the matter of the estate and
guardianship of Pauline Meth and Paul
Meth, minors, the undersigned, the guardian
of the persons and estates OF said minors,
will sell at private sale, and subject To con-
frmation by said District Court, on Friday,
the LIST day of September, 1895, at Z o'clock
NJ, at the store known as Neths Hardware
Store in Winnemucca, Humboldt County
Nevada, all the right, title, interest," and
estate of said minors of, in and to the follow
ing described lots and parcels Of property.
viz:
First-Personal Property:
All the stock of goods, wares, merchandise,
hardware and the complete outfit of tim
smith and plumbing tools and implements
in the store building known as Neths Hard
ware Store in Winnemucca, Humboldt
County, Nevada; also one light wagon, one
horse and harness, now used in carrying on
the business of said store.
Second-Reai Estate:
Lot number one in Block \ in the town
of Winnemucca, Humboldt County. Nevada,
with improvements thereon, consisting of
store building and tinsmithing shop, dwell
ing house, stable and outbuildings.
The interest and esate of said minors in
said property being an undivided one
half thereof
Offers or bids for the interest and estate of
said minors in either, or both, of said par
GELS of property will be received by the un-
dersigned up to II o'clock M, of said 1st day
of september, 1898. Terms Of sale: Cash,
lawful money of the United States, ten per
cent Of purchase money to be paid on day of
sale, balance on confirmation of sale by said
District Court.
Guardian of the persons and estates of
Pauline Meth aud Paul Meth minors.
Dated July 18th, 1898.
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Why Judas Hanged Himself.

Children" said the good Sunday
school teacher, ''let me tell you a
story
when Judas, who had betrayed
our Savior, saw that He was con-
demned, he returned to the chief
priests and elders and brought to
them the thirty pieces of silver for
which he betrayed Jesus. Judas
demonstrated with the priests, but
they said. what is that to US? See
thou to that And Judas cast down
the pieces of silver in the temple and
departed, and went and hanged him
self"
Now, children, do you know why
Judas returned to plead with the
chief priests and elders?''
Various replies were offered, but
still the teacher waited.
At length a bright little fellow, who
had heard his father discuss the
silver question at home, spoke up.
II know" he chirped, ''it was
because silver had been demone-
tized. Coin.
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NEWS NOTES.
Miscellaneous Items Gathered From vari-
Gus Sources.

GUS SOURCES.
The Heath jury disagreed, stand
II for conviction of murder in the
first degree to one for acquital.
Three men in France competed to
see who could drink the most water.
One swallowed twelve quarts, the
second nine and the third seven. All
three died from the effects.
George b. Jefferis, on trial at Sac
remento for bigamy, was discharged
on account of non jurisdiction of
the court. His trial on charge of
numbering Olga Ayres has be set for
October 2lst
A curious superstition prevails in
Norway. When people are in quest
of a drowned body they row to and
fro with rooster in the boat, fully
expecting that the bird will crow
when the boat reaches the spot where
the corpse lies.