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IOWA 8TATX PBJKB. William Patterson's Money. "Well, who would a' thought that your father would a' left such a queer will as that!" "That's Just what he did. It said: 'I give and. bequeath to my only son, Joel Patterson, my entire estate, and ten thousand dollars in money, when he finds it' Then here is the letter that he wrote to me." Joel Patterson passed to his friend a folded paper the last message from his father.

"My Dear Son: "I am getting to be an old man and by the ache in my bones I feel that I have not long to stay upon earth. 1 have been a hard worker in my time, as you know, and have a farm and ten thousand dollars put away. It has always been a sorrow to me, Joel, that you never took to farming, nor to anything else much, except your wife and baby. She's dead and you can't bring her back, so make the best of life and work for Tim's future. It has always been my pride to have the best paying farm in the county.

Keep it up, Joel; it is in good order now and needs only energy on your part to keep it at the head. Nothing was ever gained except by work. I always had the finest cows, the fattest pigs, and never failed to win the prize at the county fairs for tiie largest punk- kins. Raise punkins, Joel, it pays. 1 have saved the seed of the finest ones you will find in a paper in my old desk.

Keep up the family pride and teach your to do the same. The ten thousand dollars which I have saved is yours, if you will work for 'it. Don't think I want to keep it from you, Joel--but I want you to run the farm in as good order as I have, and if you do that, you'll find the money I have saved and make more besides. But it means work. You can't sit down and fold your hands and think--you must keep a-going; then when you come to die, you'll have something to leave to Tim.

May God bless you both is the earnest prayer of Your affectionate Patterson." "Well, that is queer!" said Sam Baker as he returned the letter to Joel, "he meant that you should work to find it." And Joel did work, but not in the way his father meant. He took up ell the carpets in the house to see if it was hidden under them; he ripped up the floors and beneath, expecting to find a pot of gold. He sounded the walls of a secret Cupboard where it might be stowed away, and he thoroughly examined the old desk for some unknown drawer or cubby-hole that might contain it. Then he pried up the bricks upon the hearth, he dug up the cellar, with no result, and then he went outside. People said that Joel Patterson never worked so steady in all his life, but still he did not find the money.

Some days he would spend the time with his head buried in his hands, thinking, thinking, where could the money be. He would go to bed at night and with that one thought in his mind would dream that it was buried under the old apple tree at the end of the orchard. Morning would find him there digging with feverish haste but with no result. One night he dreamed it was in the garden under the punkin vines, and he pulled them up and ploughed and spaded and worked as he never had before. Time went on and the farm ran down.

Weeds grew in the garden, the corn needed hoeing, and bugs ate up the potato vines. The cattle looked poor and ill-fed, the farm implements were out of repair, the fences were rickety and the house needed a coat of paint. Neighbors shook their heads when they saw things going to ruin, and thought Joel Patterson was crazy. But he sat and dreamed of the hidden money and then took spells of searching. He hired men in season, and things went on in slip-shod fashion, so they had a living and that was all.

Joel dreamed his time away, and then hunted again. His son, Timothy, grew to be a big boy and did chores nights and mornings, for he went to school. He had heard of the money ever since his grandfather's death, and every day when he came home he asked if his father had found it. "No! an' he never will!" said Elvira Hopkins, their housekeeper, and a distant cousin of Joel's "That ain't what Uncle Billy meant--for him to go dreamin' an' diggin' an' dreamin' agin an' lettin' things go teetotally to ruination. He wanted him to run the farm as 't oughter be, an' he'd find it.

Fur pity's sake, Tim Patterson, I hope you agoin, to be seen a fool as to go an' do as your father does! "When you git old enough I hope you'll have some o' the spunk your grandfather had, an' take hold an' run things as they oughter be! Jest think what a feather it would be in your cap, to have this place lookin' as it uster an' makin' the money it uster. Then it wouldn't matter so much if you didn't find the other money. But I believe if JoePd foller the advice given in the letter he'd a found it long ago. Tim, you're more like your grandfather anyway, an' you're not lazy, that's certain. Go out like a good boy now, an, fill my wood-box for me!" Tim went after such a compiment as that and the wood was piled high for Elvira.

He worked with a will and was always thinking what he would do for the old farm when he became a man. Elvira praised and encouraged him, and really instilled in the boy's heart a desire to restore It to Its former prosperity. An the years went on Joel Patterson became morose and ugly. He WM so irritable and unhappy that he neglected i the farm more than ever. Finally It ran so behind that he had to put a mortgage on it.

As Tim grew older, inspired by Elvira's constant suggestions, he took an interest in things and did all that he could to keep it up. He mended the fences, painted the house, repaired the barn and fed the stock; but he got no encouragement from his father. Joel only growled and felt that life was not worth living without that ten thousand dollars! At last Tim fell in love with Sarah Grant. They had known each other since childhood and the courting had been going on at singing school, church sociables, and husking bees. Joel Patterson had been too much wrapped up in his own discontent to know what his son was doing, and when -Timothy told Mm that he and Sarah were going to be married, he woke from his indifference for once, and sturdily opposed it.

"What are you going to live on?" said he. I'll bring her right here. Elviry ain't very well, she'll help her with the work." "Not ef I know it! You ain't agoin' to bring her here! I'vegot enough trouble with one woman bossin' aroun' an' I ain't agoin' to have another. Besides, we ain't makin' any money. I've got to borrow more to agoin' an' now you talk o' gittin' married an' makin' more expense!" "I won't be any more expense, father; Sarah's a good manager an' could take the heft of the work off of Elviry!" "An' do you think she'd let her? Why, boy, you must be crazy! You don't know Elviry." "Ef you'd let me manage the farm, I could make it pay, I know I could.

Grandpa did, and I could, too, ef you'd only let me do as I want to about things." "Oh, yes," 'growled Joel, you think you know it all, don't ye? You're stickin' yer fingers in the pie an tryin' to tell me I don't know how to run this farm. Like all the rest of 'em--med- dlin' in what doesn't consarn ye! I know my business an' I ain't agoin' to let no young feller like you run me. I've wore myself out workin' now, and, "But, father, you weren't workin' the farm, you was huntin' for the "An' don't it take money to run the farm? Ef I could only find it, I'd show folks what I'd do!" "Sarah's a nice, handy girl an' it would make it easier all aroun'. She has a good disposition--not one o' the fussy kind," pleaded Tim. "Much you know about it!" sneered his father.

"You have to summer an' winter with a woman to find out what her temper is. No, you can't bring no wife here. I won't have it, an' that settles Timothy bit his lip to keep from giving an angry reply, and went off to see the object of his affection. They talked it over, and Tim was inclined to leave his father's place and work elsewhere, but Sarah advised prudence. He might get angry and disinherit him.

"What difference if he does said Tim. "The farm is mortgaged now, an' at the rate it's runnin' down, will soon be worth no more than what's borrowed on it. What will be left for me? Ef he'd let me manage it, I could make it pay, but he won't and that's the trouble. He'll sit still an' fold his hands, an' before long it'll be taken away from Mm." Still Sarah advised patience and perhaps something would turn in their favor. Tim was discontented but took her advice, and it was not long before he was rewarded.

Elvira became very ill and was confined to her bed. There was nobody to do the work. Joel and Tim took turns at it, but soon became disgusted. Then Joel's rheumatism came on, and Tim scoured the country for a housekeeper, but there was none to be found. Joel in his heart then wished that he had consented to Tim's marriage to Sarah Grant.

One day he was in great pain and timidly ventured to hint about her. "Tim do you tMnk that Sarah would "No, I don't" said Tim. "Do you suppose she would come where she wasn't wanted? I wouldn't ef I was her. It wouldn't look right for her to come here anyway unless we was married." Another twinge caused Joel to say: "Do you think she would marry you, Tim?" "I don't know whether she would or not," said wily Tim, "after the way you talked a short time ago. She has some pride and may refuse me now.

She'll think you only consent because you need her." "We do need her, Tim, an' we'll need her more if Elviry don't get well. I'm sorry I spoke as I did. Tell her so, Tim, an' mebbe she'll forgive me. Tell her I'm a poor, sick old man an' would like to have a darter." Pain had weakened Joel Patterson's resolution, and he was very meek and humble. He felt the need of a woman's care and it softened his heart.

He pitied himself until his eyes filled with tears. "Go tell her, Tim," he said with a childish whine. Tim went with apparent reluctance, but with alacrity in his heart. Sarah was not so hard-hearted as he had represented her, and the young people were only too glad to get married without incurring the displeasure of the father. Mrs.

Timothy Patterson was a young woman of energy and spirit and took the reins of the household with the hand of a veteran. It was not long before things were running smoothly and comfortably the tiro sick ODM were improving under her care, trhlln Sarah and Tim were as happy as they were spending their honeymoon under more favorable conditions. As soon as Joel began to get better, his irritability asserted itself, and he became cranky again. In fact, lie disliked to admit that Tim was right, and that it was better to have Sarah there. He liked her, and liked the way she managed things, which left him no excuse to say "I told you so." Then he fretted constantly about that Elvira got better, Tim was beaming, and Sarah sang about her work and ministered unto her father-in-law, but drew from him no expression of thanks or approval.

One day Tim spoke to him about it. "Father, things are runnin' in fine now, an' yet you are not happy. Now what's the matter? If you don't want my wife here, I'll take her away, for you're not treatin' her right. She came in time of need, and has done all that could be done, an' yet you are sour an' never give her a pleasant word." "I know.it, Tim," admitted Joel. "I'm a crank; I've fretted for fifteen years about that money, an" now I'm old before my time.

Sary's all right, I like her--but nothing can suit me until I find it. Ef that would only come to light, I'd feel easy an' be willin' to take a back seat an' let you run the farm as you want to. I made a mistake, Tim. I oughter done as my father wanted me to, an" I'd be a prosperous and happy man today. You've got the right stuff in you, my boy, you are more like the old man.

I'm no good any more. Take the farm an' run it, an' jest give me a home here an' I'll be satisfied. I'm tired of it all," and poor Joel broke down and wept. Tim told Sarah about the conversation with his father. "Let me see you grandfather's letter," she said.

Tim took it from-the desk and she read it carefully. "Did your father ever raise any punkins, Tim?" "No, I don't believe he ever did." "Did you?" "No." "Well, why didn't you?" "Because my father never would let me do as I wanted to, an' thought I was tryin' to boss the farm." "Where is the paper o' punkin seed?" "Here in the desk." "Let me have it." "Oh, there's no money in that; I've had it in my hand a dozen times an' so's father, an' we've shook it an' it's as light 'as can "An' didn't you ever open it?" "No." "Give it to me." Tim laughed and handed her the paper, tied with a string just as old man Patterson had left it years before. Sarah untied it and found the seed and a small folded paper. Tim drew closer and looked over her shoulder as she opened it, and they read: $10,000 Chicago, 111., June 10, 1880. On demand pay to the order of Joel Patterson or his heirs, ten thousand dollars with 6 per cent interest.

Wm. Patterson. To the Home" Savings Bank, Chicago, 111. Tim looked at the paper spellbound for as much as a minute, then he said slowly: "Well--of all the darned fools on the face of the earth, father an' me's the darndest." They took the valuable find to Joel, who wept in his joy. it, Tim, pay off the mortgage run the farm, an' may the Lord prosper And he did.

Within a few years the place was up to the standard of its palmiest days and Joel and Elvira sat back and took things easy, "while the neighbors nodded approval and said, that the sensiblest thing Joel Patterson had done for fifteen years was when he let Tim and Sarah run the Hunter, in American Farmer Magazine. BASE BALL TOPICS CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OP THE GAME. Chicago Is Able to Support Western League Team The Retirement of Ewliis from the Management of the Sympathy for Bergen. Care of the Complexion. If you begin early enough in the year you may prevent freckles by using the following lotion two or three times a day instead of washing the face, says an exchange: Get one ounce of simple tincture of benzoin and add to it, drop by drop, a quart of elderflower or rose water, stirring all the time.

The addition of fifteen drops of tincture of myrrh and a few drops of glycerin is an improvement. Another good wash to be used in the same manner is made of equal parts of fresh lemon juice, rose water and rectified spirits. Mix thoroughly and leave until the next day, then strain through muslin, when it will be ready for use. Once the little brown spots have made their appearance the following is excellent for driving them away: Powdered borax, two drachms; chlorate of potash, one drachm; rectified spirits, three drachms; glycerin, one-half ounce; rose water, six ounces. Apply with a soft sponge several times a day.

For winter freckles, or those which are inclined to remain all the year round, a more powerful remedy is needed, and the following will be found delightfully effective: Take of the aoove lotion 100 parts. Add to that sixty parts of glycerin, ten parts of hydrochloric acid and eight parts of chlyro-hydrate of ammonia. Your druggist can easily mix it for yon in these proportions. Apply night and morning with a small paint brush. Dr.

Felix Brunet, a surgeon of the French navy, has perfected a means of removing tatto marks. Many who bear these marks grow tired of them, and, with advancing years, desim their removal, but heretofore they have found it expensive and difficult to do so, and in some cases ordinary methods fail altogether. Westerners Want Concessions. The Western league magnates want important concessions from the National league. They wish to add Cleveland and probably Louisville to their circuit, and are desirous of locating a club in South Chicago.

The officials of the Chicago club, it is stated, will not consent to the presence of a rival club even in an inferior organization unless they are mtorvsted iu its ership. President Hart and his associates are within their rights under baseball law, and it is to be hoped that the parties interested can reach an understanding. Chicago is capable of supporting two clubs and it would be an easy matter to avoid a clash in schedule dates. There is no better baseball city in the country than Chicago, and the at-home Sunday patronage of the Western League club would more than pay its operating expenses for the season. The only way for the Western league to get a footing in Chicago without bringing on a baseball war is through an arrangement with those in control of the territory under baseball law.

President Vanderbeck would not permit a Michigan league club to be located within five miles of Detroit, nor would President Franklin assent to the operation of a New York State league club within the prescribed distance of Buffalo. The Western league magnates are accorded the same territorial rights that they are asked to respeci. If they should come to the conclusion that they can do business more satisfactorily and profitably by breaking away from the National agreement, and locating an opposition club iir Chicago, there is nothing in their way. But men of the ability and experience of Messrs. Manning.

Comiskey, Loftus and other owners of clubs in the Western league want to live at peace with each other and their neighbors. Their interests are too large to be sacrificed even in a fight for principle, unless it is forced upon them. War would depreciate their property and might wreck the savings of a lifetime. The Western league has grown in strength and importance in spite of handicaps by the major league magnates. Year after year its teams have had to contend for championship honors with a team composed, in the main, of National league talent, forcing the less favored clubs to increase their salary lts beyond the limit set by prudence.

The Indianapolis club is of late run in a far less objectionable manner. Mr. Brut 1 the most powerful personage in sought to confiscate the plants six clubs of the Western league in 1896, but was checkmated for the first time in his baseball experience. The Western league asked for an amendment to the National agreement, permitting its clubs to retain a player for two years. The National league was willing to make this concession provided it was given the right of trying out a drafted player before his purchase.

This brought about friction and there was no change in the reserve rule. Hank O'Day Umpire. Henry O'Day, one of the best umpires of the National league, is a Chicagoan by birth. Honest, fearless and intelligent in the discharge of the trying duties of his onerous position, he gives the plays as he sees them regardless of consequences and influences. Before beginning his career with the indicator, O'Day was one of the most prominent pitchers of the game, and this experience has made him an expert in judging balls and strikes.

His retirement as a player was not due to trouble with his arm, but the hardships of training down to weight. In addition to long and honorable service on the National league staff of umpires, O'Day made a creditable record in the Western league. Partisan patrons and players do not always agree with the decisions given by Umpire O'Day, but they unite in paying tribute to his in- UMPIRE O'DAY. tegrity and impartiality. He insists on the players conducting themselves becomingly, and while tolerant to a degree, when the zeal of the players inspires them to protest, he rules the kickers with a firm hand and removes them from the game when their actions justify it.

Ted Sullivan, who managed the Washington club of which team O'Day was a member, declares that he had the best "break" ball ever pitched. His record as a pitcher entitled him to class as a top-notcher among the twirlers. Bergen Without Sympathy. Those who protest against the treatment of Amos Rusie by the New York club, have no sympathy for Martin Bergen, the erratic catcher of the Boston club, who has deserted that club annually since his connection with it and always at a time when his services were most needed. His grievances are fanciful.

Of a moody disposition he imagines that his fellow players are leagued against him and are intent on bringing about his downfall. The contrary is the case. Manager Selee and his players have treated the great backstop with unusual consideration. This has given him an undue appreciation of his importance and encouraged him to make an exhibition of himself with almost a certainty that his offense would be condoned. His eccentricities were known to Manager Selee before he bought his release from the Kansas City club.

It will be remembered that he deserted Manning's Western League club, while that team was in Indianapolis and returned home. At the close of that season, his release was purchased by Boston. Sus- pen'ion for ISPS would bring him to his senses. It is gratifying to know that his brother, who is making such a good record as a catcher with the Fort Wayne club of the Interstate league, is without any of the bad traits of his relative, who is the hardest man in the National league to manage. Brooklyn's RijtUt Fielder.

William H. Heeler, the clever right fielder of the Brooklyn club, who has for two successive seasons been the National league's champion batter, began his professional career with the Troy Eastern league team in 1892. Before the season was over his fine fielding and groat at caught the eye WILLIAM KEELER. of Manager Pat Powers, of the New York club, and he finished the season in that city. He was utility man for the Giants for several months, and was then sold to Brooklyn for $800.

Owing to his being handicapped by his left- handed throwing, he was farmed out, and he closed that season with Binghampton in the Eastern league. Manager Hanlon traded Shindle and Treadway for Keeler and Dan Brouthers. Keeler developed into one of the most artistic and valuable players in the profession, and his grekt fielding, superior base running, and. fine stickwork were of great value to the Orioles and contributed largely to the success of the Brooklyn Superbas. He is earnest, but well behaved on the and during his career with the scrappy Orioles, has never been accused of dirty ball playing.

Retirement of Ewlng The retirement of Buck Ewing from the management of the Reds is positively settled. In all probability, he will not be displaced before the close of the season, but it is reasonably sure that his successor will begin the reorganization of the Reds for the 1900 campaign. His opposition to young blood and his inability to control the older players have brought about his undoing. He lacks the initiative faculty and is content to follow theories that have long been out of date. His one great failing as a manager is utter helplessness when his team gets in the rut of defeat.

Instead of enthusing his men, he resorts to charges of robbery against the umpires and seeks refuge behind threadbare hard luck stories. His policy of playing favorites creates trouble in the ranks and handicaps his team. He has had all the cordial support of that great quartet of baseball writers, Messrs. Grillo, Mulford, Zuber and Weldon, until his mal- administration of the management became so palpable that the three former deserted his standard and demanded his retirement. They have shown to the satisfaction of patrons that he is incompetent ami the indications are that Brush and Lloyd have reached the same conclusion.

W. H. Vv'atkins will, it is said, be entrusted with the control of the players, but neither Mr. Brush or Mr. ronfirm or this R.

tiif? manager of the Indianapolis i Walter H. Wilmot, the rrunagr Minneapolis club, have bc tioned as Swing's surrcs-or is little ground for belief ter has been seriously con 0 el. Cincinnati is not the only National league club that could advance its interests by changing its manager. aud tiie i-Hill ero lat- Kast ami West. The western clubs won 21 and lost 34 of the games played on their last eastern trip, leaving a balance of 13 games to the credit of sectional rivals.

St. Louis made the creditable record of five victories and four defeats, but the Louisvilles did even better, as the Colonels captured five and lost only two games. Cincinnati came next with an even break in eight games. Chicago made a capital start at Boston, but down badly at Brooklyn and New York and dropped six of the nine games. Pittsburg did even worse, the Pirates' record being seven defeats and two victories.

Cleveland had 13 chances to win, but only took advantage of twi of them. Brooklyn and Philadelphia did the best of the eastern clubs, eaci winning seven and losing two games Boston, Washington and New Yort each put five in their win and four in their lost column' respectively and thi Baltimores made a standoff with theil western visitors in 10 games. Pasteurized Skim Milk. From Farmers' Review: There is a rapidly growing demand amons creamery patrons as well as butter- makers that skim milk shall be heated to 150 degrees F. or higher before it is returned to the farmers.

A great many successful creamery operators spoke i'uvorably and enthusiastically regarding this practice at the last convention of the National Creamery But- termakers' Association. The principal advantage claimed for hot skim milk was its improved keeping quality. It -emains sweet considerably longer than skim milk which has not been heated and on this account is especial- Iv prized by farmers raipine calves. This is so well understood in some places that farmers prefer to send their whole milk to a creamery where skim milk is pasteurized. In regard to the imnroved keeping quality of hot skim the writer has already published in Bulletin 69.

Wisconsin Experiment Station, some results obtained by using a continuous pasteurizer which heated the whole to 1GO degrees F. before it entered the separator. The skim milk from this separator kent sweet, even in hot summer weather, at least twenty-four hours longer than that from whole milk which had not been heated above 80 or So degrees F. before PC-pa ration. If hot skim rnillc can be cooled Immediately it will not sour so quickly as when this cooling is omitted, but even if allowed to cool slowly it remains sweet much longer than unpas- teurized skim milk.

Another advan- taee a has been claimed for hot skim milk is the improvement it makes in the cleanliness of the cans used for delivering whole milk to the creamery. Farmers usually take their skim milk home in the same cans that brought the whole milk to the factory and the skim milk often sours before the cans are emptied at the farm. This sour milk leaves in the cans a taint which is not always removed by the washing they receive and the whole milk Is thus contaminated with the taint of the sour skim milk. All this trouble may be avoided if the skim milk remains sweet until the cans are emptied and cleaned at the farm. If farmers wish to receive the benefits obtained from pasteurized skim milk their whole milk must receive the very best of care as even faintly sour milk is curdled by a pasteurizing heat.

The advisability of requiring all creameries to heat the skim milk to a temperature of 185 degrees F. has been discussed in some sections of Europe where tuberculosis is common among dairy cows, it being claimed that unless the germs of this and other diseases were destroyed by heat they might be distributed from one farm to another by the creamery skim milk. A few years ago the German minister of agriculture issued an order requiring all creameries to heat the skim milk to a temperature of 185 degrees 1 and to burn all separator bowl slime. The opinions of a number of creameries regarding the enforcement of this regulation are printed in the Molkerei Zeitung 12 No. 16.

Some objections to this practice were mentioned in a few of these reports and among them was the one of expense of any new fittings that it may be necessary to buy in order to arrange for heating the skim milk. Some of the farmers also objected to the hot skim milk because they could not make cheese of it for their family use, the heating also removed the agreeable taste from buttermilk so that they were unable to use that as food for themselves, but none of them claimed that the stock feeding value of these products was injured by the heating they received. It was also claimed that the natural acidity of buttermilk made it improbable that disease germs could grow therein and consequently they were not transported or spread by the buttermilk. One report stated that even if tuberculosis bacteria were spread by raw skim milk the danger from it waa slight, as experiments with guinea pigs hart shown that only 40 to 50 per cent of them caught the disease when they were fed with tuberculous milk. This, taken in connection with the fact that only about 20 per cent of the dairy cows in that country were tuber- culous and that it was spread by other means than creamery skim milk, showed thai the disease would not be entirely out by pasteurizing the milk.

None of these reports described the mfthofl used by the creameries for pasff uming the skim milk, but one of suggests that steam may be ferried from the creamery boiler by rrtfans of an iron pipe to the place whore farmers fill their cans with skim milk and those who deliver whola rnilk which Is too nearly sour to be heated to 185 degrees F. without curdling can heat their skim milk by turning steam from this pipe directly into it. This arrangement would prevent any clogging of the pasteurizing apparatus which is used only for perfectly sweet skim milk. Some creameries found it necessary to have these two methods of heating the skim milk because a certain portion of their milk supply is brought such a long distance that it is not always delivered in a per- fectlv sweet condition. Excepting these few objections the German creamery reports seemed favorably disposed towards adopting the practice of heating the skim milk and they advised new creameries to include in their equipment the necessary appliances for doing it.

E. FARRINGTON. Wisconsin Dairy School, Madison, Wisconsin. A. caterpillar In the course of month will devour 600 times owa weight la food.

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