“—0 Au»... Mm... M—a.._. .._.....-..... ._.._.. .-. . KNEW ENGLAND LIFE MAKING EXPORT CHEESE. lFOU UND IN A CAW. t It Is Most Delightfully Portrayed 113M ary E. Wilkins. One 01 the Most Popular 01 the Younger Set of American Authors— Fond 01 Dress and Enjoys the .Good Things of Life. Fifteen miles from Boston, in the old town of Randolph and in a typical New England village house, lives Mary E. Wilkins, one of the most popular of our younger American authors. Her stories of New England village and :rural life are unparalleled in their por—_ , ‘t-rayal of certain types of New England . character and her style is of the ut- . She 1 fJDOSt- simplicity and directness. has had a host of imitators. butit has mot. been possible for any of them to imitate the qualities that have made .her one of the foremost writers ofi the -day. ’ ' Her first ventures into the world 0! literature, says the Detroit- Free Press, iwere not particularly encouraging, and one of her most successful stories, “A Humble Romance," was refused by sevral editors before Miss Wilkins sent . it to Miss Booth, who was then the ed< dtor of Harper's Bazar. Miss Booth’s quickness of perception and literary insight. at once recognized in the story something out of the or; ‘dinary, and her story was'accepted and . its author was asked to send other , stories to the Bazar. Very soon Miss Wilkins’ stories began to appear in .both the Bazar and Harper's Monthly. where they attracted a. great. deal of attention. This was about 16 years ago, and to—day Miss Wilkins is one of the. most soughtafter and best. paid writers in America. She did not. for some time undertake an extended work. and some of her friends doubted if she could succeed with a long story or 1book. These doubts were dispelled when “Jane Field“ appeared, and her “Jerome" was one of the strongest stories brought out two year s one In- deed, it 11" as one of t‘: 3 strongest delin- r}--\ We MARY E. WILKINS. “"(Unexcelled Delineator of New England Character.) , cations of New England life and char- acter ever written, and it had a very large sale. It has long been Miss Wilkins‘ wish to write a successful play, and her “Giles Corey" has been dramatized and. was played in Boston, but. it failed to make much of an impression on the theater-going public. ‘Its author is not at all discouraged. however, and she is Still hopeful of success in t-hisdirection. In "her personal appearance Miss Wilkins is small and rather slight, with ,reddish browu hair and blue eyes. She is extremely dainty and trim in every detail of dress and evidently has all of a woman’s praiseworthy fondness for looking her best. On suitable occasions she dresses very richly and her taste is far bette1 than that of the usual “lit~ erary‘ woman. - Thus far Miss Wilkins has stteadil y refused tolappear in public as a reader rof her storiesalthough it is known that she was made several tempting offers to do so. Her refusal has been based on. her conviction that she would not be a success as a public reader. She is too shy and retiring for platform work of .any kind. _ Miss Wilkins is without father or mother. brother or sister. She was born in Randolph and was educated at Mount l-lo-lyoke seminary Her home was in Brattleboro, Vt., for a number of years. but for the past 16 years lives on the edge 01" the village in a large square white and green house the coun< it-erpart of which may be seen in any New England town. Here she lives her lquiet. busy life. going into Boston. oc‘ reasionally to accept some of the many invitations offered her by the social world. Her books are immensely pop- ular in London and Miss Wilkins would be sure of a real ovation if she should go abroad. When J. M. Barrie was in America he said he would rather see Mary E. Wilkins than any other Ameri~ \can writer, and when he reached Bos- -jton he went out to Randolph to visit her. There is a difference ofopiniou as .10 the permanency of her place in American literature and there are those who think that her workds not of lasting value. However this may be, it 'is WOI‘lll'l much to havevthe place Mary .E. Wilkins has in the hearts of the read- ing public of her own day and genera- tion. The \Veajth .of Siberia. Siberia is not the land buried in snow and peopled with exiles only that itis imagined to be. even by many Russians. In its southern parts it is as rich in 'natural productions as are the south- a'ern parts of Canada, and besides half «a million of natives it has a population. «of more than 4,000,000 as thoroughly illussian as that to the north of MOSCOW. 1 Prince of Wales’ ,Wuys. i It is well known that the prince of WVales thoroughly delights in patching 111p quarrels between his friends, but be 331110 occasionally delivers a hearty lec- [tute to a friend’ 3 youthful son or n- ,gues genially against follies. . ....— l placed on curd rack and strainer cloth 1 ' 1f gas holes form in curd the pieces can trained 1 after it is cut too much moisture would ‘ ' ‘ be lost‘and cheese would perhaps be How to Produce a. Uniformly leh and Profitable Quality That 'Wm Stand], Shipping. . l l . ____. i In an address to California dairy- ‘ i men, E. H. Hogeman said: Cheese for export that will stand shipping can. be i made in the following way: Take good, i sweet milk and heat it to 86 'degrees ‘ Fahrenheit, have the rennet. test; at 60 , seconds before adding the rennet. ' Then add rennet enough to coagulate the milk in about 30 minutes, using i from two to- three ounces according to l strength of rennet, and cutting when firm; stir the val; gently at first until the curd firms up. Cook to 100 degrees, . ' then stir vat eve1y 15 minutes to keep . ' curd in granular shape, till curd hasl ' developed one—eighth inch acid, when they should be run off, which usually! takes from one to one and one-hall hours. The card is then ready to be and when matted down cut in. square blocks and turn over every 15 minutes. be piled two or three deep; this wi‘i press out- the gas and will flatten ou the gas holes in the curd. When an inch of acid- has developed and ‘thecurd shows a meaty texture it is ready to mill. When the curd is milled let, it fall onto the bot-tom of vat. If kept on racks dry. Keep the curd stirred till ready to salt, and salt the curd about one-half to three-quarters of an hour after mill— ing, using two and a half pounds of salt per thousand pounds of milk. Give the salt a chance to dissolve well, which also takes from one-half to three-quar- ters of an hour. then put to press about 80 degrees. A point of vast importance is to have the cheese well pressedtand all of the same size. If tainted milk is used it should be treated somewhat differently from theiabove, but remem- ber that. the best cheese cannot be made from sour or- tainted milk. A soft, mild cheese, of which a. great deal is used in this market, requires absolute- ly sweet. milk without taint. Heat to 88 degrees. Rennet test. should be 120 seconds. Set, the milk at 88 degrees, using the usual amount of rennet. Cook to 106 to 108 degrees. ’Cut, when firm and run Whey off at one-eighth inch acid. Use about two pounds of salt per 1,000 pounds of milk. This curd can either be worked in the granular form or with curd mill and put to press at 85 degrees. If pure, sweet milk is not used and is tainted, gas hOIes will form and the cheese will likely swell up and roll off the shelves. " SERVICEABLE DEVICE. It Helps» to Absorb Moisture in the Dressing and Should Find a. Place in Every Dairy. A lot of dry loam or sawdust, ought to be put into the barn to absorb mois- ture in the dressing. Have bins at. the rear of the cows, if there is space, and have covers that can be- raised to alevel, and held- so by inside'cleats, as shown. This serves as a shelf on which milk- pails can be set. This matter of absorbents' is not. fully appreciated or we should see agreater efiort in the fall of the year to get in a supply for winter. Where there are I USEFUL DAIRY DEVICE. her i home has been in Randolph, where she g neither manure cellars beneath the cattle nor tight. manure. gutters behind them near by, nearly or quite half of the value of the stable dressing will be lost. With a. good supply of absorbents all the liquid manure will be saved, the stable will be kept neater and the air purer. If dry loam or sawdust/is not at hand, it will pay to go to thewocds and secure a supply of dry leaves. Not only will these make a good bed for the cows and prove a good absorbent for the liquids. but the decay of the leaves also will add not a little fertility to the manure pile. and eventually to the soil. ——-.\'. Y. Tribune. Cure for a. Bad Habit. I have read in the Jersey Bulletin quite a. discussion of, and many differ- ent remedies to“ prevent, cows sucking themselves. While I have never had any trouble of that kind, I have in my mind the most humane thing I think could be done for a. cow with such a habit, and I know it would be. a sure preventive. That is to simply enCircle the udder in a. duck or drilling sack, strapped on over the rump and back. Such a. sack could be made to but-ton up and unbutton when. milking, with- out taking it Ofli, and could also be fas- tened on by a cow cover to keep ofl flies' 1n summer and keep the cow warm' in winter, and the cow would always be. clean for milkings . This is easy to try and I have no patent. on it.—-S. P. Hawkins, in Prairie Farmer. Heifers and. Milk Flow. If there'is any carelesvmess in: milk- ing clean, it is most aptto occur when heifers are milked after their first calf. . Their teats are small, and it is slow, hard work to draw the last drops from the udder, as should. always be done. Besides, the heifer that. calved last spring probably gives" only a small mess at- the best, and there is great. temptation to dry her off, as the milk she gives scarcely pays the trouble Of' milking. But that, is not the main- point. Keeping the heifer up to her 'usual flow of milk is all important, for her own future value as a cow. When. a heifer is allowed to go dry two, three or four months, the cow is afterv'vards extremely liable to stop further- milk productions at about the same time. —- l l \merican Cultivator l - / 'Gloucester, which had 'attacked and commands must'be created, as the old way of recognizing bravery and stimu- have originated from a detective flue Hungry ‘ right. Remains of Captain Villalon of the Pluton Discovered. HAVANA PREPARING TO PAY TROOPS. tomez Explains the Surprising Fact of 16,000 Officers In the Cuban Army of 30,000 Men—Empty Honors For Bravery. SANTIAGO, Cuba, March 11.—It was reported here yesterday afternoon that the body of Captain Villalon, who com- manded the Spanish torpedo boat de- stroyer Pluton, which was sunk in the destruction of Admiral Cervera’ s squadron, has been discovered in a sit- ting position in an armchair in a cave about a. mile from El Morro to the westward. Those who bring the news suggest that his sailors propped him in the chair when wounded and then left him to his fate. For many days a care- ful search was' made for Captain Vil- lalon’s remains, but nothing was ever found to indicate where or how he died. Captain of the Port Scott will go by tug today to ascertain whether there is any truth in the story, and if the body is found it will be brought here for burial, subject to instructions later from the Spanish government. The contents of the foregoing dis- patch are radically at variance 'with occurrences which immediately follow- ed the destruction of the Pluton. Three officers and six sailors of the destroyer took refuge on the dispatch boat VVan— da. The correspondent who had charge of the W'anda, finding the nine Span- iards too much of aburden, went on board the Converted American yacht driven the Pluton and Furor ashore, and asked Lieutenant Commander Wainwright what he should do with them. Commander Wainwright replied that he had both Captain Villalon of the Pluton and the captain of the Furor on the Gloucester as prisOners and then introduced the correspondent to‘Cap- tain Villalon. The correspondent told Captain Vil- la'lon that he would either haVe to land the Spaniards from the Wanda on Cue ban soil or throw them overboard. Ac- cordingly Captain Villalon gave the correspondent a written order address- ed to the Spaniards on the Wanda .in- st1ucting them to come on board the Gloucester and surrender. This they did. ‘ GETTING READY TO PAY TROOPS Many Rosters of the Connnnnds Are Missing or Defective. HAVANA, March 11.—The only ob- stacle now in the way of paying off the Cuban troops is the completion of the rolls, a. work which is being hastened by Inspector General Roloff. He says that in some cases the rosters of the rosters 'a‘re ei’ther missing or too defec- tive to be useful. He points out that the insurgents Often have no paper, pens or ink. General Gomez explains that 6,000 commissioned officers and 10,000,non-. commissioned Officers are relatively large numbers in an army of 30,000 pri-_ vates, but that these officers in many cases received their appointments be- cause the Cubans have had no other lating enthusiasm. “It may seem," he says, 3.5a cheap sort of promotion, but it meant a good deal to the Cubans.” Gen- eral Gomez continues to produce an ex-s‘_ cellent impression upon the American‘ military authorities. To Keep Things Cool at Manila. , CHICAGO, March 11.—Chief Quarter-v master Lee of the department of the. lakes will open bids March 30 for the erection of a large refrigerating 'plant and i'cemaking machine at Manila. un- der the plans and specifications recent- ly revised by experts. The revised plans call for a. refrigerating plant with a capacity for 1,200 tons of beef, 200 tons of mutton, 50 tons of butter, 50 tons of canned goods, 100 tons of pota- toes and 100 tons of bacon. The ice- making plant will be capable of turn- ing out 40 tons of ice daily. The bid- ders will be expected to ship their ma.- terial to Manila to be put together. The refrigerating house will be divided into 12 rooms, separate rooms being provided for each class of provisions. The estimated cost of the plant is $150, - 000. The Gomez Letter Again. SANJUAN, Porto Rico, March .11.— The letter said to have been written early last month by General Maximo Gomez to Senor Eugenie Hostes of this island and published in La Discusion at Havana, as w e11 as many American pa- pers, in which the writer sand he would aid the Porto Ricans in every way pos- sible and, if neCessary, even by the swo1d has been republished here/and is having, a bad effect on certain classes of Porto Ricans. Sunnner Residence Burned. SOUTH NORVVALK,’ Conn, March 11. —Thc summer residence of Theophile Euphrate of New York, located in Brookside, a suburb of this place, was- destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, causing a loss estimated at $12,000, cav-‘ erecl by insurance. It is supposed t: —~——,D————‘ Methodists in Gilba. ' . The Methodist. Episcopal Church South has a church of 50 members in Cuba with a native pastor. During the war the pastor sold his furniture and books to save his family from starva- thin. 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