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BUILDINi'i NEW FENCES
There ie it whole: lot to the ques-
tion of fencing, and every farmer
knows*it.. Onee upon le time an
eminent jut fou.nd something
that wags new te him when he was
queetityning A witness upon the
matter of feneee. "A, fence for a
. five uore lot will be the taaene size.
WS matter what the elope of the
Jut, will it, not ?" he inquired
the witneee. , But the witeees die -
agreed. To illustrate thepointe he
OW a Wee of String frozre hie
pocket, knotted the ter* pnele
to-
g.e.thei', and •pla6eds the estring upon
1413 'fingers, holding itup in a form
nearly,equare. "This etring,* your
honor, he. said, "is About eight
ineleee each* way, and therefoxe
about ,3g• inebee lenif, while it `-044
• .clone A • „
roe of ahotit ,04 square
ioeleees ut if you ethepe .it tLi
wtty-,(makingit ;About twelve Indies
• long .by , about four inelles• wide),
• it. Ny1.114411 be the game length,. but
it will only encletee 4 quare. _Melees
• °tame." - And for QUO Or the few
• Ones during a -leng e.tereer, the,
e judge had to admit that the laugh
was on him
, fencing. the' 00 Acre fe,raie .
g
PlanY Tt'Otti/Ohl; ; -944144°
• • farinsof the' hundred :acre sise . Pre- ,
-; dominate, aed: they vary from an
• outside ,dirtrensien of en rods by
• • 400 rods, to lin red4 by ren- rods,
Beldam approaching More nearly to
an equilater& Ont -side /gem •than
the • latter. In %telt a Shapes of
farm, however high the Outside nee
fences May -run,. considerahlc. eest
smay Still be e.itved by planning for
square _fielde insicle of th se line
.:Teneess Prefild'ecT that :these will
work out for convenienee in other-.
respects. farm planning is El# mat-
ter' for the eisereiseof considerable
• study. and each farm presonts vary--
ing aspects of, theasefor indivi-
dual consideration. • -
•
• About tlae stables, and barns,
' beaseet, Peognede, garden, 'and faren
Penniesgenerallys, thereeie piStasi
and re.aSon for intelligent arrange-
, meet'. clo'neenteneee - here ' Meana
, more by many 'times then in the
4e1,eueneg of the re3t' of the farm
;v1t_Sth, -,lanOe,,...eteLs.,•yory,
bit. :. of. ' 'odeled conventenee
• .-Meaneeete much labor avekleel, not
▪ fee (Mee, 1*. but for many. t..lings, and
• , „„
3t Wosits for einotethoy, ' not in one,
or s'swo, but. in 'many, ways, - and
throughont Years of tinea.
Aboutthe boate premises, fenees.
eare-Wanteele.-and
•° planned 'Wisely and well . If house
end orehard are adjoining; it is
lost to haVelences so placed. that
• live -stock insty . be Allowed in .the
orchasel. without at .t.413- eilsne thne
.`aPPrquihiting to -elose 'to the house
or, interfering wsth the flower 'gars
den: In 'regard • to a vegetable
• gardets, Many. prefer to have One
,of the permanent order, close .to
the house, whale others' are con-
tent to grow meet or all of the viege-;
Along.each eide of this vegetable
erdeu the right play,* toplant
raspberry, gooseberry, eurrant and,
other bushee. They Wien Ilt.LiP
shelter the motion without. at. the:
tsarist) time ading it too much.'
The flower Garden.
1Vhae flowere can do to brighten'
.up the lioene would till a big vel
limo. They are worth _cultivating,
groWing and peoteetings many times;
over, ssndthe. beat protection for
them SS ni good fenee.
Ornateenteli wire' or felliCeEt
eonerete,,are worththe trouble and
wortIi ithe eseet, . But 41t, the "SOW
tisus 4 pod wire fertee rookesean
effectent proteetion, and affords" an
eal, place for TM -1=g, 'climbing
vines and plants, „And ornamental
foliage and iteswerS, .the way
from. Sweet peas to clematis. Viten
grapes omen be. planted -and ieeered
for -with. euceese, Other `ildweeing
•ahrube May be planted. It is eines
evencierfid what suass be sden s
Wlth, a' geed erire- %n�,. asPokle,
rftice a,nd a besPs .441' geOci oedtailko00,
And • Wagon lontleof rooks and
retonee, It iseeeeenee of•Alittle bet of
taste, aSlit•tle. bit of labor,' And 'big
resultseepeoveded that the -atlegue0
Protection be afforded, in the .shaPe
of Sis geed, Wsill:-InadO 'fence,
About the Orebard.
•
• Fences about the orchard should
be high enough, And close enough
and should be provided with atee
plaoed with an eye to 'the baullng.
away of dead trees and bra neliese-of-
the workof geteng light all the
weley_ancesseeed_ every. tree ,with the
sprayer, ono aloo with the -
for the work Of .rescuing the apples.
Such a planning • of the tenet)
would provide for cultivation and
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'GERMAN PRISONER8,0FAVAR
• ATTEND COMRADE'S VIJNERAL
The picture shows the funeral of a priiionersolswar who died
at one ofs the detention camp* near the moutb of the Thames, and
was buried with full militarybonors, His comrades were persuitted,
:LQ follow the body to the pave and act as pall Wenn.•
47-- -4-
kttOWasor -understood : Our, pasture
fields are-ne.Oonger gnisad by the
sight of the colts wearing "Pokes,'"
cattle with their...heads tied down,
others' with d
boa
s
over their eye
would prove 'a protectioil to the
to prevent them "lumping" as th
•
roots under the Sod, as:m011.'as.,01° '• ,Piereaoliy" Ones used to- do' •
renting' the'Beenyard.
Tc'-daw, wire fencing ,hae reashe
In planning- for better Pea it; -,EiWtSi- ';61 high ifheeteney,
about the stables and barns, One of, fence that is. generally. adopted -the 'firs standard one 'that Is- "abotit
tion.' of, tlie dangers and waste of Moires in height, and a little- bi
the old syStern of dumping the sass- more is still -hatter. For ordinary
um* from the stable right in trout .field fencing "a feness _Shalt hog
.of the-sfale- ..s1;00res-s There- issa tigire-and liiiliSProlSt TS one of 'Ole
better " plan than thiss:-that of in- to ten strands, of ibeut %-ineh
a'litter caerier--.4nd some .wires. The firsis_wire naybe*lose
day you will' adopt it. This nittaseS "to ;the ground,' the next ene three
"IneheriTig'," the Fence. ,
. • • .
4
0-
it possi e- . 1/40 Yarcl ln inches OboVe theetleetd. one three
front .of the stables. elesassand;clear itsohei ,Itigher,- the See*Viiire four
of obstacles of all kinds, and pro- inches high,eis' the next five inches
Metes' Olitmlineas theeOtable. next Six inches, and the remaining
as well as - out. • With; ablee-Tlitrks. four. ranging': seven Chee, .eight
Carrier the Manure may. be taken inehes and nine ineheis apart. A
further afield, 'and deposited upset gond. fenee Way be 'WM by drop
a solid battem, that will conserve- ping one wire and: bringieg the
the. linVid manure; and Iseets filth fend() only th4e, inches- lower.
Fences that and'atill more open are
often built, and are Servieeable,
but it is a fictrin tone construc-
tion that -the gond fenoe remains
when the little bit extra, cost is
forgOtten. „:
•
bee when it is desired to drive them St ,,
efencee-thton-theirbeingewell -placed
away front \ the stablee. ,Thae
'should.._ be, wide and roomy, but
should come in close enough to the
Stables at the aides. to make it Prac-
tical to close is. with gates ,aad
thus prevent animals from simply
-running round. and round theprem Co• rner posts are well:named the
, anehor posts the "-modern
NOP
POTTED USES
SHOW HOLE As,
lr pious) SC,
tags - zot woe
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trAter, *A AT TO
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Sq MAT GROUND TO
iv. EVAct •
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BOARDS': ,
SHOULO
St. SAWN '
WICATH or;
/it.* issriit..7„.7.19.1.;
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The Corner -Post is well'ntinied the '‘Anehor"
of 'th0 moiler is Wire fence."
. branetl depends .4 greats'
deal of. the efaeieasey sand
dirabil-
ity of the fehoe. 'Thee° should
either be of -good, solid cedar, of
heavy reinforced conorete, or a
well -made and efaci.ent metal post.
They ,Should have a solid plaits=
At the _bottom, big eeenough
broad lexiough.ss:The 401e. yuglie. :for
them .should he dug four feet long
and ecroeswlee of the, rune of etthe
knee:. They shisidel be- four feet
deep and about two feet *dth
Thi e hole should indicate the glee
of .blie .ciciespieepe that are • to be
spiked . to, theebettom of tint Corner
p4st and Of the platforin to be
p a Upon them, The crosspieces
sh.0 e of 2" .1-6' ,'and four feet
long, .1 orbited into .and Spiked to
tables in rows beside the root crops
, on the fields As a general thing,
..14, is quite possible, to groW, many of
•ye ss able's in thesfield,--butsit-is• ,
. equally true-that-nasinysothers; and
- -s-sespecially Lthose- requiring -earlier
planting; cannet be grown in this
The Vegetable darden.
.01cise to the house, close enough
- to-beevery convenient at all -times;
should be plaCed The Vegetable gar-
Of- *aurae, a, southern -expos
, Sure and a southern "sloPe,_ With
• good proteetion-upon-the7north side-
•• -IS the beet;itit rein -foe ripened -Wee
- If, at-ethe- eanie-tim%-•-iteseposicilile
to hive it close to the Stable, but
protncted front ItoUltry,-, as well as
fresIt north-scsindo;766 Innen the ,bet:',
ter. Like the fields where economy,
of labor is developed' tesi high de-
gree, the shape of the vegeta le
garden thould Ise long And harrow.
• fonfiation permits of the use..
Of horse -power for plowing instead
• ef digging, of harrowirig and disc.
hag,. instead. of pniverizing the
hysitends:to eity nOthing hanling
iffenurd- SPreaddie in eat 'dfies'end
astd out at the -other -all 'of which
Meana the saving of a world of la-
bter, and of time. To faeilitate all
pf 't -is lieste&Tehave.sempre-
on-mide_ifis_theinatistatio
the fence. ' 'each end of the
IONS, narrow,: vegetable garden
-----theithle-she---plaied -swinging
gates, and.if the garden is to be a
large one it is best to have the' gates
double, so to Oen 11P nid.I.6
enough to pertilit horses to go right
lheeuglie plowing from end to eed
eldnd turning , oateide. Up -to -dale
*ire iron . gates will make ideal
• revision fore„this. It is one of tile
iota tets poSsible. Convenience in
Iv matter of planning the fencing
lir the tares.. • .
• ,Aking the aides .of the 'Vegetable
setlen shouldbe•plateel femme that
icpe strong and good and tight at
the bottom. They eltould 66 three
Ugh to keep poultry out. There
ie timed when, li*Oultry are very
aasful in gas garden, and them are
1.0tes„ "wlum their nebni lt; WOrtir
nee MOO than their company.
isle of the largerhreeds, ,if wdll
WM nob do muels•hassit in a
arden1 but it- le not Always the
• Se with mustillor poultry, ttna
are the hereto* to keele.ent
Auto. the stable. There should also the Pest, Theoll :them ohould he
be ample rosins at the 'rear Of the. Pra404:1 alsOrt ,boarda; And the Wass&
barn to maks rocas for teams; was set in .sund ticitded with "stones and
gonssf_and,other impleinents-.-not to_ filledsup-With-earth;,ne-
'DETECT
AHEAD .OF InciSE le0NDON
NEW YORK-• •
niderer Traced Through a 'llfaich."
.- Another by, a Blade
P
of GrasS. ' •
In s
the. scientific aspects detecs
tive-Work -Germany- leads- the veil
. The key ,to success in this: kind of
work, of course, in an inexhaust-
ible patience in. dealing -with details.
Indeed, this is the Secret_ of the Ger-
man national genius for orgaziiiiitIon;
taifil?eaPlidt,twairlitce°r Raymond witho cBa 8.eri;
•
• .0n a might in .May; an un-
knowu man ,was shot down in Pots-
dammerstrasse, Eerily.- Apparently
nobody. saw the, affray or heard the
shots.. A patrolman his- beat at 4
o'cleris in the morning -'stumbled
across the dead body. Similar cir-
cumstanc4S in a city in America
would have- resulted in the following
procedure: The patrolman - would
Wave notified lead -quartets; headquar-
ters would have -notified the coroner's
office:. the!eorener weuldslaveissued
orders to have the body removed ,to•
'the morgue; autopsy would have
been- performed; the coroner's. jury
would have declared the man mur7
dere& by a person or - person's un-
known; and, finally, either at the end
of these proceedings or concurrently
.with them, the _police detectives
would have Set out to establish the
identity the :guiltir- Petty; armed
only with the knowledge that the mur-
der had been eminnitted on ascertain
night in a certain ,streetss," :
Now, what happened 13erlin
When the patrolman Caine upon the
deed.hOdyin the street? Oaf YOth-
out in any way touching the body, he
rapped with his sttrord-hilt for the
patrolman' on the neighboring beat.
This officer he despatehecfio the near-
est telephone to notify headquarters.
• Hearquarters immediately, summoned
from their beds the members of the
ginder-Commissie .
COMMits1011 is a small group .of spe-
eially pieked men-understheschargief
a ranking officer : to the detective de-
partment. Consists of three or
four officials the° detective force, a
police surgeon, and a photographer,
assisted by as many plain -clothes -Men
as are necessary for the case.
' Photograph Everything.
VS* arriving at the scene of the
:erimesthe4eteetives-wentsznethcidical-s
lite *irks _First stbeKSIreSs a chalk
line in a groat circle on -the pavement
and -sidewalk thirty feet around s the-
cerpses-_ Then -placing a _hoard in th
circle to step •on, so as not to disturb
any footprints that might have been
left hir the merderer; they made ., a
superficial examination to deterniine
t e met od of &Ia. The body -how-
ever, was not touched. :or disturbed,
After ascertaining that the man had
been. Shotstwice.in the head, and
the motive was, apparently robbery,
iniennueh as his speeltetts, liad :sheep
pulled -Sent 'theirs
prain-clothes men all through , the;
neighborhood to apprehend any, suss'
lieleuselooking persons Ale could
not -give --essatisfactory aecountof-
egan a
minute- search of every inch of the
area Within the circle. Nothing was
apParently too small of trivial to es-
cape observation. • The corpse Was
photographed from every angle. And
what did this exhaustive search bring
to light? Apparently nothing. A
tingle burnt math, had been
torn from a paper block of matches,
was the only tangible thing Tonna:
Tho footprints were .hlurred end
confusing. Armed with their meas..
uretneitts and their photographs, " tile
detectives withdrew to headquarters,
taking the body with. them. They
also took with thent the burnt stub
of the Match, carefully wrapped • In
Oath!
The autopsy Which inimediatelY
followed merely' verified their earl*
mpreSsions. The men had host shot
Wide in the head With a 88 -calibre
oVeliter. He Wad unknown, with
nothing Ori hint to.identifyhim dis
redly. isidireetlys
Did the deteetivee atop work? Not
t all. loirst they measured the soles
f flits ineft'S ittees Then they photos t
,be left out for 'weeks at a tisaess, to. this -should be a good soLfd-Post, •
but to be put, when neeesaary,
where live stock cannot get entan-
gled:amengst them.
• That Usteful PIddeek.
, •
• sileat shOiricl -come the; question -of
'a number of pa;ddoeks. Theee.khould.
be adjacent to 'the stable • yards,
'should lier of good size, and fenoed.
set-notmoreShaw- 10 -or VI 'feet
awaY, and with its.braoe from a066
to, the ground at the second post,
and , extending to point Close to
the top of the Cornet port. •This
should be crone-brew:4 in the Op
'Stites -Way front"; botibothe of the
corner post to close to. :the tali of
the second pest with a. Strong Wire
so well that neither- -Stallion, -beam. Ieees hetteresteeesepeende
Wirtder getting a coiner pcs
riAtrikithO-first-Phiiiessblan to have
trouble with it Afterward,
_
"(teller- fence PoSts_s__Maysine-mades-
of 76-ediii; reraoreedetinerele, :or
of hien. Many inaniefactipers n•iake
iron posts) carefully made and de-
signed, to, give doted service, and
Isestisssi to withstand the action o
, the elements. These haire many
features to recoinmend. them They
noinor_e_t_shan geed cedar posts;
Name to 13.e bought. They
nor •boardsseitar-make- -thessiliglitok
dint. 001. --They- Calle for
strong posts, heast'y Wire, at least
We.. 9, „whieli_isteapis eet
Statiling -atratirrof•
tbs. per strand, and there should
be at, least :height of. 11 'hats,
with stays at least 1,2 to every red.
saatessanci-pestehesild-bessexce
tionally solid. There are few
things that prove of more constant
and Permanent convenience about
tins ferns tharstwostst three bsis more
of -those paddoehsts......,......._ stss • stsisysho...doing.n. too.
-What Hind sit Pence; is.-elesigessCrtssisitvirig• the lAbee.of
With the: passing of ihe. ;14 'kik digging post holes'. They /Ste cen•
feece, the etristect of rephteing them venient,, as thiy •usuagy have some
tee the Loeb advantage haee veisse. eonyestiont jislan for attitshing wires,
Tor-albt of experiment Asia staay, in an'effeotiVe•Way.-.1tanutisottirere,
_ sar,ssusstroopulasssfencesof4 _-usuallyseeeonimend`theinsas 'Mier
is the were fence. if At be made
strong enough . it most- ‘011.
ciente. beat Anneisteteti, But
it is a miataketo use light,wire, or.
wireof infer* intiterial, • The wire
that • ' : least 'one-eighth-. of an
ineh, in thickness. goost,oteel„ •and.
geed for twelve years or so, a per-
iod very often equal to the life of
a wooden post: ------ -
Cotierete posts: are ell the
most endittingl,',..When properly re.
infoeoeci with iron in the centre
they are very 'strong, and if peo-
well galvaanzed, :Well braced with Per es placed thsSy can be.Madeto
stays, strung Ivan 'good poets, Welt remain .firmly ' place ein. the
Ott, OSISI Witak Anchor posts at ground.
the eerie's% partakesof the endur- ' Iron 'tests, on ar0 other hand,
Ing eolidity aed etrength an iron Mato NOS inore or lees Pontahle,
Walt. If the *free art strung oloise They rillOr be PuiRed up 'Atha 'the
enough it the ground, arid high knees moved ottr to peewit of' mil.
enough at tite top, it will afford a
protostion such ate the old-tinie rall
fetuses stover eould. takei
eldstinte ftirder it, bell 'Of rthOe wet,
windy night, the fentiss hlown
&wit, the cattle and horsos in the
fields of growing grain, the hogs
that found the holes could mit be
kept out, end the trioky old pow Or
()X that could life "the rails off the
top, one at Unit, end Make tie* a
for Itself and 'the re# to fol ow.
With' the *ire loaded
today astsh exporiencee are little
•tivating the 101100 bettenS, at the.
00e.t eef .comparative hilsers
only !the resetting of the -.corner s
polite' . •ViS611 hos.
advantages, tea*. the mete
toes for the .etensetteeation of every
Ittutier-:Sittestierts that lie .stinsf; 1
.solve for•iihnselfs. • ' •
-themselves:, ekt dawn they
. •
iter Little Yoke, •
Cot* The theese htis ;out,
illitink. ,
Mis ree Why didn't io ehaselt1
1
graphed • thins. Then
air outsider might seem the most al;)•;
sued thing of all; they photographeil
the buret stub of 'the match Which
they had So mysteriously taken with
them
• Meanwhile. the plain -00%4 men
had brought into headquarters three
or 'four suspicious 1 °king Slaaracters
from the neighborhood . of Totedem-
lnerstrasse.• These men .were search-
ed, but nothing of value was found_
,no weapons of eany .kind. • But there .
was one thing,found,en the pocket ofs,
one of the prisoners Which to the sle=,
ectives'aeemed:of'elstraerclinary ints-
Portancera paper block Of matches!
Apparently, they had been._ leaking • for
it, .and they did to it what they do tO
almost everything at stlie Berlin Po-
licelietidiatirtert--their-photograpTied
it! ' •'
.• Getting_a CIues —
• Drag the Roads-.
often the toile* ef aPPe
Drag the road.;
When the eummer tune is here,
Drag the reeds;
When the corn is in the ear,
Iii t114 winter -cold. and area's..
Every season of the year, 'ffi
Dreg the roads.
MbOU YO3eVe.ROtbingr 43° to, dos -
Drag 410 roads; • • .
If but for an houvor :two,
Drag the medal., ,
It Neill keep there geed aa new;
With a purpose firm, and Ube. '
Fall in line; lea up to
Dreg the roads.
, Caring for the Little Calves.
• Everybody has 'a. WO' or 40133C
things and this is, my way of taking
caro of the calves.
I have•ten good CQW.S Which T raised
lueraelf,' end I found outthatto raise
good news you enlist begin'at the hes
&Ming,' No good: results will came
,from ashaifsstarved, stsinted oalf.
let --the, calf Suck ‘the Co* the first
two days. It JS better; for him seed,
the ?libeler, toe, end the, calf Is More
apt to get all the milk than I would,
be, thus getting it. out of the cow's
bag and into the calf's ;stomach where.
it should be, with. less trouble and
hotter 'results. ,
At the end of this time I mills the
cow and feed the calf;. tie the calf
"evhere it eatiot-ede iteeitiother, and
if the weather IS ,cold I wrap SOMS-
• thing excundeherewhenethe-harnetleers
are open. Never allowea calf to shiver
, you want it to keep well,
, For the first two ,weelts• l• feed new
milk as Poen 43 milked' and then .1
begin to mix in -separated , isY
degrees, adding ,at first a third, theme
half and when a , month old I give all
Separated and take,' Care to have .it
... • .-..
Buckwheat shorts and bran. aro
good, but never put them in the milk.
i nave a smell box nailed in A eonvenie
ea place en the manger or' Ale et
the wall and fill with dry feed. The
'calf will soon learn to help itself.
When six weeks old put viewer hay,
withie reach; this will :aid the digs -
tion and increase groWth.
If eggs are plenty' ..._ break ono-or—
SWo in the milk, and you Will be mire,
prised ett .its eieeknesa. • ,
41ollea'are the worst things to stunt
the, grewth of calves as they take so
much blood, and the young animals
!should be 'protected. from the poets. •
I tried spraying last Ammer with
fair results, but I did net depend ene
tirely einen this. I put SOY calves in
the barn every afternoon during the
evarmeet weather and gave thein hay,
Another ..thing- that Aunts the ,
growing heifseiseeloherning., I avoid
this by': rubbing on casiette potash' •
when the lierna first eterts first clip-
ping away _tlie heir. It will smart
for a while that is all and!no horn
will ever grow', 7 •
heifer's usually come in 'evinazie'
2',. pr three year old and eiCs
vellent "ceWS and this is .4°14' I rise
ernes- .neee.. • •••
• Sten and Think First.
Before 'buying peve machinery, it is
well to Consider the fcliowing (PPS*
Will the Use of the 'new -machine ,
glee Inc a larger iiet, return from, the
crops on which it is used?
•--Willethe-enew-enachineereducesetluer---
demand for Men labor?
' Where a .machine is required only
few days each year, can it not be
rented More cheaply than purchased?.
Will the money to be invested re-
tIsrir more in some 6tHer way?
Has the maehine, been thoroughly
tried by ethers and :found satisfacs
*tory. s -
MY TRA1
IN ENGLAND
MORE _SHOT 'AND SHELL FIRED
-TIAN AT THE 'FRONT:
'
This photographed' they greatlyene Burn More powder and 'Wear Out
larged. Then. they enlarged the 1Slore Guns Than British
photograph of the burnt stub until • , ,
the end of the nuteCh looked as if it Forces in Flanders.
wereabout eight inches, broad; Then
Keee shet.and"shell are being red
with fine and ' delicate instruments
they measured the lacerations in the In England at thc. present tinte than
front in .Flanders.
block of matelies arid the ragged- endS, from the British
of the burnt stab; But this latter Millions of dollars' 'worth of pow -
step Was hardly necessary, for by -ne der is being constinfed, .millions of
glance at the enlarged photographs a rifles are being used up, and thou,
leynraneconideirave told that the burnt sands of guns; bigand little, are be -
stub found at the scene of the crime ing worn out by Kitchener's armies
had been torn • the block: of in the course- of their training, writes
,matches discovered An the pock -et of J. Herbert-Duckwyrth.1,
one of the suspects.. These statements, extravagant as
:Rids practically ended the case as they May -seem, were made to me in
far as. the deteetives, were concerned.
confessed his guilt" and was "'del:teed States that
man aLfonthdeouwbgygethe Vice -President of one
:Under adroit questioning- the , sistecomnaerinl inatmhine aUnitititoend
to a long teem by the court, for the allies. They help to, explain
itioted- of trim -der under the following•TtlielnY$.44°11S:-clisaPPeal:44' ce-a: 4'4'1)
er an my o icer was con-
Thdifierre!1:::-Xeatis-gls:15, ehaniiitT6'a-ste,i'ensseriorls'esit
sonsewhat'on. the principle of then mu- ,
tricity nrkis Lt.:7°0111f e' clockwork bitial '• eltPh%7
motive power. The ' appears:freer
above the parapetsevery, five sesondSs
remaining in yievi for not more than
two seconds.: -They make excellent •
Practice.. And the men 7theroughly
enjoy the spert, (if holding them.
Nearly a dozen -miles of :trenches
must have 'been ,excavatel at Bisley
-icfeilichlbelleerTssraltninirs.sin-ttte0-initil :v.
here
here had riserehed over theshills froin -
Aldershot,ien railes'aWaY; that mern-
ing. They 'were firing aWay from
every ...Conceivable kind. of.. trench
from the nastily thrown no Shallow.
ditch With 'the loosened dirt' Plied up
in front, .to the eight -foot deep
reefed -hi and equipped, with cunning-
ly hidden loopholes. It didn't require
a sestina's consideration to realize
that this kindof-Shooting Was very,
meas.•:1'1•_0m real .
. Ready, for, War. '
A majority of tlie recruits in the
IRer°yYalhs11;ersbee :nn dgelitt7n4ig the"'Fe 1 dAitil-
. ‘.
of their- Profession at Woolwich. One
day last February I counted no less
-:ilitni-Afteen-batteries of /f..7 field guns
in firing- practice on Woolwich Cern-
num, up on the overlooktng the
Arsenal., Of course actual firing was
not being done liereses Woolwich is
densely crowded borough , of London.'
But the`men" were going lhrough all .
the neeesiarY movements of. firing. I
After, some weeki of this 'drill the
artillery Men are taken Out to, say,
Salisbury Plant, where, they 'fire real"
shells., -Here What:looks_like waste'', •
of work and material is colossal:
Corps, of engineers first spend many -
days throwing. up huge breastworks,..
protected ',by complicated barbed
wire entanglements -all for practice'
-and then•;the artillery comes -aloe .
with 'high explosive shell's- arid, de- -3
naolishes everything -also for prac-
tice.
was not, permitted to visit •Shoce
burYnesks.Lydd, •or `Cosham, where. -
.the heavy ertillery. and some of the _
newest siege guns were being. tried
out, but I was lucky enough to be •
able to get as hear to the ranges at
Cosham-tesheablestosseesand hears-
tratige were being -fired, •
that guns Of treMendofiss TPhoSse erexpainod.
:slims would -shake- the very sground
• : - - - . - , tp 9,4 , -war.;11 Orla
.eireunrataiw.-ai:-LL- ' - ---e-esthat for Many weeks now have going
A citizen Was cut down in the gar- from
of a, sabre. At the rosined America to England.. They ac-
-den of a ',Cafe, evidently by :the blow count, too, to a large- extent, for the
lice all the Sabres' of the dragoOns ing made by Field Marshal' Sir John
of Pos seething lack of, progress- that is be -
who •had,leavefrora barracks at ' the' Feench's army .after ten months of
time of the murder were C011eeted-And getting ready.
.
submitted to microscopic exeiiiiiiation.
initscutting edge in-Witieli Ivaa a Nieuport to theSwisstreater, iSite
- g ft, extending m
a battle along the Ns_
' •'
No trace of blood was found Ilion - „The -dill
any of. them, but one had. a. tiny, notch
fragment of a blade of grass, visible ro Mere whisper compared to the in -
only under the microscope'. As. ,the .fernal.racket that is being kicked. up
blade Of grass in the notch had been at the numberless. rifle ranges • and
had preserved its froshnees, The dra-
sp 13,:aeliderilstyi_tfhtonish aeartyh, s Britain.artiiler y
men" that compose the great citizen
practice grounds in Great
'ofilifiejle41"r°ttlie sabre protected
Hundreds of thousands of
ing,..its.lwas-.7possiblo to it-sz.041
sere s have been euts_npi:with trenches
could not have been sticking to the s. (T ,
x which clerks). factory hands;
sabre for any length et time, since it n workers, lawyers, and "gentle -
goon to whom :the sabre belonged army have been and are Stilt carry -
musts _have,- as indeed he afterwards-- oh*:•PI an incessant niimic war_ in
confessed, cleaned -his blade upon el.--° ee°me to ' take the 14°.
wet grass after having delivered the • Fox, some menthe now _ countless
blow. He had then wiped it with a legions • of soldiers have been spend -
Cloth, but the 'fragment of grass res ing the Whole of the working day in
mainedsinsthe-notels-lletilmingswith--reastrenehes-in-th -0---Avsznnte-intel-
i9--weave a chain abOut the Offieerr:
make-believe dummy heads that bob -
ting Pastime, of Petting away et
this eyietence,ethe police were . able es
ting
ultimately brought him to j- up, by means of An -electrical- device,
the. _ . .._• . . s ' • out Of eisneaite• trentlit-S; . Ponlistshota.
: - .si s........ . are not wanted •in this war.
To See" Submarines BeloW.: ',The fresh artillery units, too; are
using new -guns with real shell and
ft
An. instrument delicate enough to
haterged-submarinesstbree get to the -front they., will know kiss -
high eicplosives, So that Whs:sbey
to five Miles away, is predicted by, ewhat their guns do and will not
11 Greensback in anseditorial in the. be 'disponcerted, therefore, by sur-•
citrreat number of the. Electrical .4x- prises in'the field; I remember Watch-
Perimeaer. says:. "The modern ins' lest October . a number of re
-
submarine is -dangerous only bans e eruiti that had joined 4shoissitzes bri-
ef its invisibility,- °If we lindsis MOM%
f
tee matfett vieible the subinarine win • a wooden dummy oe Woolwieh Corn -
become obsolete. The problem dew mon, • •
not present insurineuntable d_ifficul:5: . The „isletv Targets, - - -,
jets., A ' stibitarine sendsont a con- s ssa „- I•' :.• 111 *I •
-pr'--" ' . • . - ..
means of detection Hes in the' itSe of portunities to study the great army
• -many. •
iderable inagite- 0 e
some form .of etherie Wii'Veit."` '
. of volunteers, xeceiVing their finish-
ing touches -the infantry at such
Oh Eudge 1 Ohms its Aldershot, Bisley, Salis-
bui-A• and Exeter, and the artillery at
" "1 se that the English how be- Shdeburyness., at tbe. Mouth, of the
Hove- that the Gerinans aro - colors
blind." . .
"Why so?" " - :
"Betause, ' -they thought , Crey
green."
"
Pith& is the langtiage Of
the Channel "Island& .
New Zesiland'a tornitial isatenSte la
equal to AO' per.ltead of her p6paltis
Oen; China's •antitital tett-0MA ill denial
0 20. per head, 7 • •
_•
She knew.
"I am collecting for the suffering
poor." ,
"But are you sane they really Buts
for?"
"Ole yes indeed, it go to their
horigie and' talk to them tor heats at
a time:"
Thames, at LydcT,. and at Cosham,near Portsmouth. • e
I had an excellent Aimee to see
these "German hokos," as TornmY
Atkins calls the new targets, one day
down at Itisley Camp, Brookwood,
Surrey., Bisley is the home of the
National Rifle Assodiation and the
note in times .of peace, of the annual
international rifle competitions, at
which, ineideetally, Americana more
than Once have • captured prizes.
These ingerkious• targets have nuttle
great 'hit with the men. Every time
a hit'is Made 'at 4 bead the men feel
as thoueit they had disposed of one,
mote Oeiltsan. •
• The tar•are niaelte of stout
caiboar4 ti in the tu se outline a
a tinnikiit Painted
ditty 00 00,441ortilithiate,
intt phis complexion
ao1dle ,vhet acOvely •catispatoin
•e,
. .
upon which-l-stired; theugh-theguns,
were five miles aWaysand after every'
explosion huge 'clouds:of smoke ised '
debris would be throvin hundreds of
feet into the air. was told at Porte!
month that • these big mortark or
whatever'they were, were being test-
ed againstbeavily armored reioforced
toncrete and steel dummy forts. •
Most of the material now - being
tarried -out in .the United States for
Butelerid will We '!fsi: The 'quiet '
'countryside at home.- Some of it will
go into the, reserve, and the: rest to
the front. • .
- As a eiritter-of:fact thereis'ino;real
reason to believe that England's sups,
ply, or Vs° rate at which it is dehys,
ered, unsatisfaetorY. •
„.
•
. Her Mistake. ' °
The small girl •svalked thoughtfully
into the house from ,the tregetable.
'garden. • '
"Mettler," said • she, "have 'green
gooseberries legs?" • • •
. Mother laughed,
"Of eentait Alley haven't, darling.
What made you think se?"
The child lotted More solennethan -
ever as eliettpliedt .r .
"We% then, rye beeti eating eatere • .
pillars I", , e • • •.
Itiasonaide,
"I believe," said the beautitiii het*
OSSI "that the happleat
ihnde 'by opposites."• •
(quo thilalChOW Pool: I •
n11114 Ursks'
ed ilto young n1 •
Atm 41116 Victerfn Witt;
briiiiSon for the Army and dal:
ters the Atv.t.tYt. . ,