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New-York tribune., 1905-09-24

I
him. Simpson, with bowed head,
and tears trick1ng down his furrowed
cheek, had probably heard little
since the mention of his own name.
Mrs. Warren had laid a motherly
hand on Edith's shoulder; but the
young girl, who suddenly found
herself the inheritor of wealth in
deed beyond the dreams of
avarice, " sat with blanched cheeks
and startled eyes, her lips quivering
with the emotion that tried vainly
to find expression in words.
Come, come. my dear Miss
Holt, >" began the lawyer soothingly,
you must not break down! After
all
You don't understand" she
gasped 1T is all a terrible mis-
take! He did not mean me to
have it"
"Oh, yes, indeed he did" retorted
Angler with decision. But pray
calm yourself. There is, l regret
to say, a codici1, added by Lord
Arnc1iffe a month ago, which l have
yet to read"
"Ah!" exclaimed Edith. The
truant color had not returned to
her cheek, but she smiled bravely
at her old friend. He smiled back
reassuringly.
"A moment and l shall have
finished" he said. Then he bent
over the paper again:
This is a codici1 to the will of me,
William Bradshaw, Baron Arncliffe, of
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To nv attached friend and faithful servant, David
Simpson Ga strangled sob from the old vaeD the sum
of one hundred pounds, all my wearing apparel ana
cottage on my be selected by my trusteess
further direct that of pound weekly shall be
paid to said David Simpson during his lifetime IL
my wish that all the aforementioned egac1es be Pad
free of duty.
leave the entire residue of my estate real and per-
sona1 to nv secretary and amanuensis, Edith Holt,
whom l have long regarded a beloved daughter
make this bequest being convinced that she VIII make
good use of nv money; RETAIN far practicable,
nv present establishment take loving of the artistic
treasures accumulated at ArncItfe and carry out by
personal and endowment, the Investigations
which have occupied the concluding years OF my lie
Nv personal advice to her is marry. Should she
however elect the married state, l trust she
will be guided in the choice of husband by qualities OF
mind rather body by attainment rather than nher-
tied rank.
I appoint the aforesaid Thomas Aingier and Edith
Holt sole and of this my will, and
revoke all former wills and Codicils.
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nv firm enjoyed his entire con-
fdence, it was his lordship's plea
sure to draw up his will without
legal assistance. 1t is, therefore,
a holograph will, but while 1t IS
not, perhaps, set out as l could
wish" (that was to say, Lord
Arncliffe had condensed into one
page what might very well have
been said in twenty, lit is, l
think, sufficiently clear. The
terms are as follows:
This is the last will and testament
of me, William Bradshaw, Baron
Arncliffe, of Arnc1ifTe Hall in the
County of Northumberland l give
and devise to my legal adviser and
esteemed friend, Thomas Aingier,
(aheml ahemD solicitor, of Grey-st.,
Newcastle-on-Tvne, the sum of one
thousand pounds and the entire
contents of my wine-cellars. To my
housekeeper, Adelaide Warren, the
sum of one thousand pounds and
my house in Arnclitfe village known
as Briar Lodge. with the grounds
appertaining thereto. And, in further
recognition of her services, | direct
my trustees and executors, their
heirs and assigns, to pay to the SAID
Adelaide Warren the sum of one
hundred pounds per anHnm during
her lifetime.
Angler paused for a moment,
and Mrs. Warren put a tremulous
hand to her eyes, but recovered
herself Immediately. None, in
deed, who had served Lord Arm
chffe had cause to think Of him
but with gratitude and affection.
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Arnc1iffe Hail in the County Of Northumberland
will bearing date 23rd OF July 100 have rel-
1eve that poison has been administered % and
shall owe nv death that / hereby direct
trustees and executors aforesaid TO pay the
thousand pounds the person persons who
their opinion. be mainly instrumental ii discover
person tv whonlsuch poison may have been admins
and this without regard to the question wheta.-
poison has been given to wlfully or otherHl=e
further direct that as shall be convene.
my death Post-nortern examination Of ny
shall be made by some specialist Of standing pr
the expert employed by the Home Once
During this recital the valet Simpson had .-
listening with rapt attention, and now Ee
to his feet with an exclamation that startled ....
Mrs, Warren out of her habltual calm. u -
it, he cried. BY Heaven, l knew it. Ny
old master was murdered"
''Win you kindly be quiet, Simpson, I
Angler sternly.
The man hestated. but the habit Of subort-a- p
was strong, and he reapsed into silence, only l..-
ing suenly around him as though he expect. g.,
find the murderer within his reach.
4 need hardly say" continued the zoI.- re-
''that do not believe there IS the smallest -.-..-
ton for this unfortunate notion of Lord A-r....
People who 90 in for gruesone studies such a- -..-
co1ogv are likely to harbor morbid ideas, just --e
who are always dipping into medical workz Imagine
themselves to be afflicted with all sorts of Diseases
However Lord Arncfe's wishes must be carried
out; and l have already communicated visit. Sir
Henry Mathieson, the Home Office analEs-. --.-l
whom, no doubt 1 shall hear in the course .t -te
dav Meanwhile, it IS desirable that scandal s.. IL
be avoided if possible, and hope that one ..u
hear me- Sirnpson2-nO one will discuss anything
that has passed between us
Very good, SIR replied the man civilly. Ba-.
and there a note of peasant obstirac- n
his voice, g l know my master was poisoned He
told me so hinself-tod almost to the day ..n
he expected to die. And if it costs me every penny
owe to his bounty, III never rest until I've h- -
his murderer to the gallowsi"
New-York tribune., 1905-09-24

\ lever choose a wife by
N candle-light, at a distance
or under a parasol," is
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A ] A p A n Z S Z w Z ID ID Il @
Nrr2s %s~a%Sy Clara Whitney ali

is the month when the spin
the departed make their ann
visit to their old homcs
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To 6e continued He-rt Sunday
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters

DR GEORGE LESTER. eminent young E---.
- icoogSt, trespassing the fishing p~e-er-. -
British peer, when ne rendered slight service 1
Edith descendant of a famous French faIiy
secretary Lord ArnClife, OF the estate te
encountered Harry Warren dOmiueeriug irGtvI1ua
ArnCliffe'S agent.
Lester subsequently called the castle. the
physician being absent, and found ArnC,ife dead
nounced that the Earl had poisoned with arsenic
Lester learned Edith that ArnClife had
ers) patron. and made a hobby coilec-r-
studying poisOns Ainger. ArnCfes solicitor,
Hail. and announced that the Earl had feared he
poisoned and left thousand pounds to the
chiefly responsible for the conviction of his murderer.
was credited trijny with ..
village girls notably named May Mann
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

ordinary years, with an average yield,
they can produce wheat at a net cost
t. them of 25 cents per bushel owing
to the extreme care that is used in the
selection of seed, and the large scale
upon which the operations are carried
on, of which some idea may be formed
by the fact that in harvest time more
than four hundred men are engaged,
together with fifty reapers and binders
and four to six threshing machines, all
working in the same field. This with
the illustration, will also give some
faint idea of the vastness of the field.
Another cereal product of Importance
is corn, of which this year there are
about 1000 acres the same careful at
tention being given to this as to the
wheat raising, so that large quantity
OF this product is sold all over the
southwest for seeding purposes, show
ing handsome premium over other
corn by reason of its fine quality. In
addition to these, five hundred acres
are planted to oats, and the rest of
the cultivated land is divided between
potatoes, melons and other crops.
Besides raising grain and other pro-
ducts, the proprletors have large peach.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

comparison seem to be as a postage
stamp to Central park, which we'll
known pleasure ground as large as it
seems to be, covers only $40 acres, or
less than one-hundredth of the acreage
of the Oklahoma farm to be described,
which is almost twice as long as Man
haitian island.
Somewhere about fifteen years ago
the original owner, George Miller, a
ranch and cattle man, residing at Win=
field, Kas., commenced leasing from the
Indians lands in the Cherokee strip"
which had not at that time been opened
to settlement, his friendly. relations
with the Indians making this compara-
lively easy Originally the leased lands
were used only for the grazing of cat
tie, but in more recent years most of
the land has been found so much more
valuable for other purposes that large
percentage of its has been paced under
cultivation, the soil being a rich red
loan that will grow anything.
Since the death of the elder Miller,
his sons, j. G. Miller, q. It. Miller and
G. L. Miller, have operated the farm.
j. C. Miller, generally known as
Joe" is the oldest of the brothers, and
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

acres, and that he has found that leav-
ing them out from under shelter does
not shorten their lives or impair their
usefulness: consequently he figures the
interest on the money invested in the
building as wasted. This theory, how
ever, will probably not hold true on an
ordinary farm, where the strain on ma
chainery is less severe.
The ranch house, where reside the
proprietors, is revelation to the visit
or, as many comforts hardly to be
expected so far from the centers of
civilization are TO be found there. The
house has hardwood floors and finish,
electric lights. besides hot and cold
water being supplied to each room by
means of an elaborate system of water
works. A music room, billiard room
and many large bedrooms are here, as
well as many other comfortable ar
rangements found only as rule in the
average city home.
The visitor to this. easily the largest
diversified and perhaps the most in
teresting farm in the world. departs
mentally commenting upon the vast
ness of the enterprise and the hospi-
tality of the owners OF the acres and
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

this, it was discovered. may be rendered
innocuous by the microbe of the fer
ment which causes milk to sour.
A search in Europe discovered the
healthiest microbe of this variety in
habitlng the kefr milk of the Bulga-
rian mountaineers, who are the longest
lived people of the continent. With
this corroboration of their theory, Pro-
fessor Metchnikoff and his co-workers
imported quantities of the kefir milk,
and established cultures in their lab
oratories. They are experimenting upon
themselves by drinking generously
every day of milk fermented by this
microbe, and are able to chronicle en-
couraging results. Whether or not a
continuance of the diet will bring the
professor to the hundred and forty
years" which Button set down as the
natural span of mans life. time only
can tell.
How to hold the insurgent macro-
phages to their normal function is the
unsolved problem for the scientists. but
other roads have been opened which
approach the subject from different
directions and with great success.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
OLD AGE A DISEASE
THAT CAN BE CURED

Professor Metchnikoff, chief of re-
search at the Pasteur institute of Paris
and one of the most eminent biologists
of the day. has reached the astonishing
conclusion that the span Of human life
may be largely increased.
In the September MoClure's A. e.
McFarfane describes in paper which
is the outcome of series of interviews
with Professor Metchnikoff the dis
coveries and Investigations which give
warrant for the scientists belief.
Professor Metchnikoff's latest investi-
cations have shown that old age as we
know it is practically a disease, just as
tangible and conquerable as any other
human ill, and one against which the
body should be able to arm itself with
weapons as effective as those which
science raises against bubonic plague or
diphtheria.
The discovery of the pathological
nature of old age is the outcome of
Metchnikoff's discovery, some years
ago, of the function of the Phagocytes
(white corpuscles of the blood) whose
activity in attacking and devouring
the hostile microbes that enter the sys-
tenn is the measure of our immunity
from disease. In observing these mi
croscopic "watch-dogs of the blood"
the astonishing discovery was made
that certain diseases, notably the ''atro-
phies," not only were not combated
by the phagocytes, but were actually
caused by them.
1t was seen that certain physical
conditions cause a perversion of the
activities of the macrophages "a va
riety of phagocyte) which then turn
their attacks upon the body itself and
devour its cells as voraciously as un-
der normal conditions they destroy for
eign microbes. From this discovery it
was but step to recognize the anal
ogy between these phenomena and the
state called 'old age' which is nothing
more than compound atrophy.
So far, the most positive results OBJ
tanned have been reached along lines
of prevention rather than Of cure. One
of the causes of the pernicious activities
of the macrophages is the microbe of
putrefaction in the digestive tube. and
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
4.

The large number of men on this
ranch are well and comfortably housed.
In ordinary seasons they are kept in
several camps, one of which is at the
home ranch, the men sleeping in a
bunkhouse, the others being housed at
| convenient points elsewhere. They are
| fed in large dining hall, with plenty
of good, wholesome food and no matter
when man applies for work at the
ranch house he, gets food and shelter
until he cares to seek further, no one
ever being turned away even If there
is no immediate work for him to do.
A regular blacksmith. shop is kept
busy, with the immense amount of re-
rair work necessary to keep in order
the large amount of machinery, ETC.,
necessary for use. The machinery is
housed in a large barn which Mr.. Mil
Ter had built just to yplease visitors,
who, noting that the binders, reapers,
etc, were left out in the fields, would
question why he did not protect them;
therefore, to satisfy them large barn
was built. -
This idea, Mr.. Miller claims. is a
hobby. with everybody who writes or
talks on farming. He asserts. how
ever that experience has taught him
that the life of machine. of this char
acter is only about three years, and
owing to severe usage on the ranch.
good for only about a certin number of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

apple and other fruit orchards, COM
prising many thousands of trees, and
during the last twelve months there
have been planted $4,000 locust and
other hardwood trees with an idea of
increasing the property's future value
as timber land.
Aside from the, agricultural branch
of the business the next in Importance
is the raising of cattle, thousands of
which are marketed each year. At the
present time 10000 head are quartered
on the ranch, roaming over the uncul-
tlvated portions, besides which about
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.ls - =
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
REAPENG AND BINDING oAT9 "1o7 7eANcK"


5000 hogs will this year be raised. the
same careful attention to detail max
ing this branch extremely profitable.
poultry raising too adds considerable
each year to the income of the owners.
An entirely novel and most interesting
feature is the raising of buffaloes, into
which the Miller brothers have this
year entered
Last April Mr.. Miller set out for Mon
t2na to purchase as many buffaloes as
he could find, amounting in all to
thirty-three, thirty-two of which We're
safely landed at the ranch, the other
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

one escaping from the car. This one
noticed that the car had an opposite
side, and after being forced through
the door continued right on, and is
probably still going.
In buffalo raising, however, there
seems to be great possibilities, as $4,000
has already been offered for pair
broken to harness and, owing to their
scarcity a skin is worth from $500 to
$500, and a good head about the same
price They have already succeeded in
raising one calf, of which picture is
shown.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
SPAN Of LONG EORN6D :,
STEERS zo1. B4RCFN

1-O those who travel occasionally
through the country directly east
of the Ohio valley comes the op-
portunity of seeing broad acred farms
which entirely surpass in size those
lying still further east, but as those
of the Ohio valley surpass in magni-
tude the eastern FARMS they in turn
are overshadowed in dimensions by
those in the far west or, more correct
ly speaking, the southwest.
There are as many large farms in the
southwest territory as there are in the
Dakotas and in Minnesota, some of
which comprise five thousand acres, and
occasionally one which reaches some
where near double this amount of acre
age, but nearly all these are entirely
given over to the growing of either
wheat or corn, diversity of crops not
reaching much magnitude or import
ance. The average city dweller, doubt
less, has little or no conception of a
five thousand acre farm, but when 1T is
understood that the New York Pro-
duce, Exchange building, which is about
the largest in area in New York, covers
only about one acre and a quarter of
ground space some general idea of the
immensity of even one of these farms
may be formed ."
In the Dakotas there are farms of six
and ten thousand acres, but, as pre-
viously stated, they are planted al
most entirely to wheat. Southern llli-
Is nois, too, has its large farms. but their
owners, as well, are interested princi-
pally in the raising of cereals. Kansas
has it's wheat farms, which in many
instances reached almost beyond the
limit of vision and spread themselves
from a point slightly west OF Kansas
City almost across the state to Dodge
City. which marks the westernmost
limit of wheat culture in the south
west.
The farm which with apparent good
reason is claimed by its owners to be
the largest diversified farm in the
world is located near Bliss, Okla. a
small station on the Santa Fe railroad.
This farm, owned by Miller brothers,
is known as Ranch 101," and comprises
$1,000 acres, extending twenty-five
miles in one direction and varying from
three to five miles in the other, and
compared to this the others fade al
most into insignificance and by the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

Kubelik. the famous violinist, is not
the sort of person one would have ex-
pected to take to racing, and one is
surprised to read in a continental
newspaper that he intends to start
stables of his own next year. He has
made enough money to be able to do
that now. His charge for the ordinary
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
Kubenk, the. Famous Vionnist Takes to Racing

ways happen, just before his sons sue
eessful debut, and therefore saw none
of the fruit of his. labor. Young Kube-
1ik received about e5 as his first con-
cert fee, and all but ten shillings of
that he, spent on wreath for his
fathers grave. Kubelik has made a
really happy marriage.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

concert is never less than two hundred
guineas, and often he makes more than
that: yet his father. who was of gypsy
origin had to toll and toll as market
gardener, and, in fact to kill himself
by oyerwork in order to provide his
son with proper musical education.
The poor man died, as such things al
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

is recognized as the head of the outfit
The next younger brother, u. T. Miller
usually known as Zach" takes entire
charge of the live stock portion of the
business, while. George L. Miller looks
after other important parts of the work
necessary in the operation of such an
enormous enterprise. t
By degrees under their management
much of, the land has been bought out
right, and more will be, as the oppor-
tunity affords, so that in this manne-
they have up to this time. come into r
actual ownership of about $4,000 to 49,
GOO acres. From the Ponca and Otoe,
Indians principally is leased the re-
mainder of the $1,000 acres, for which
is paid an annual rental of 81 per year :
per acre, which arrangement is profit
able and satisfactory alike to the whitet
and the red man. +.
The agricultural product of the great
est Importance on this vast farm is E.
wheat, with which this season more
than 5000 acres have been sown, this b
one field being nearly one hundred
times larger than the average New :
York state farm. Two. varieties are
grown; namely, hard and soft winter
wheat, the two being kept distinctly
apart to prevent the tendency of mix
ing.
The Miller brothers claim that in
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
DITEAL0 HERD
~'7O7 RANCN"

acres of land rolling away In all di-
rections almost as far as the eye can
see.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-10-12
1t Pays to Raise Good Calves,

Many milk producers that sell their
milk whole to the bottling plants or
to the city milk dealers say that it
does not pay to raise their own calves.
They will therefore not scruple to
send to the butcher the calves from
their best COWS. Some milk producers
do, however, raise their own calves,
even though they have to sacrifice
something for that purpose. They
manage it by not selling all of their
milk, but skim part Of it, make but
ter out Of the req or sell the cream
and feed the skim-milk to the calves.
After all, they do not lose so much as
one might think and are enabled to
raise some of their best calves. These
are the men that have set their stand
ard high. They do not feel satisfied
to milk COWS giving five or even sly
thousand pounds of milk a year. They
know of COWS like the Holstein COW
Aggie that give $4,000 pounds of milk
a year and that is the kind of cow
they are working to get. They have
to raise that kind of a COW if they get
her at all, for after she is raised and
developed it costs too much to buy
her.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-10-12
Liver Complaint Of Fowls.

This is a disease that we read about
put that very few raisers of poultry
think their fowls have. l am, satisfied
tina 1t is more prevalent than most
people imagine. I had an experience
with it myself once that convinced me
tina 1t may exist without being sus-
pected. l never should have discov-
I e it myself had I not been of an
investigating turn of mind. One win
ter ! had kept my flock in a place
nat, was rather dark and damp. This
is said to be the condition that favors
the development of the germ that
causes liver disease. The birds all
mad a healthy appearance, and yet one
day was surprised to find n of them
lying dead in the poultry yard. 1
picked up the bird and found that it
was still warm. It's comb was red and
there was not a sign of any trouble
about it. The next day l found an
other under the roosts dead, having
apparently dropped dead without any
cause. The third day l saw a white
rooster running about the yard, and a
little while after noted that he, too,
was lying quite still in one corner. 1
went to him and found that he was
dead. I determined to investigate, and
got a sharp knife and began an au-
topsy. l found all the organs in per-
feet condition with the exception OF
the liver and the heart. The heart
had not a drop Of blood in it, while
the liver was swollen with blood. 1t
looked to me al If every drop of blood
a run out of the heart into the
liver, but a friend of mine, a physician,
told me that l was mistaken. The
liver, instead of taking blood from
the heart, had caught all the blood as
it came from the veins and had pre-
vented it from getting to the heart,
The heart had emptied itself in it's
effort to keep up circulation. I then
got hold Of a poultry book on poultry
diseases, and found that the fowls l
had lost and died of liver disease
Sylvanus Banks, Champaign Co., ILL.,,
in Farmers Review.