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By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK
Author of "The Silver Blade,” "The Paternoster Riley,"
"The Time Lock," etc.
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CHAPTER XXIV.---(Cont'd). ' peal for us. Besides," he added
lie was a stockily - built chap • of shrewdly, "we made a pot o,' money
thirty or such a matter, smooth- at it." 9 i
shaved, with a serioa.- east of coup- 'He was in high good humor and
teni:nee. .h t now it was an injured,. continued to joke and make fun while.
bleeding countenance, as was • clear- Struber and Farlin got their heads
ly evidenced nced by ,the bloodstained together in a whispered consulta-
ha:alrit ;rhiez he was holding to one tion.
ilea. . I was too mach at sea, however,
'.Wing . y:su bat;?" asked trusser. ' events had come tumbling about my
"el stretch," was the indifferent'. ears in such a chaotic fashion, that
a:neerer. •"Reekei there's nothing in I was in no frame of mind to partici- ,
trying' to make. these yellow devils' pate in whatever Was engaging the
tall::" others. Apparently I was no nearer;
..:Rif:." Then Stiether turned to finding Lois than .Then I had started,'
n:;,.. and deh:y in the search, without
-Fora two 've been together quare manifest caue e, was intolerably irk-;
awhile to -night," he eaid, "but I some. I felt that I could not go on;
reagin yuh haven't' met yet. Mr. Fer- without sonic sort of immediate ex -t
s ie, ehalte hands with my partner, planation.
; Fr•Iin--tiau'ry Farlin" When I inatle known my de:.ire
"Oh. then you're a detective --a Struber wheeled round to me. t
inti1-, tet•!" 1 voiced my surprise as - "We're e're in a tremendous harry, Mr.;
we sheok hands. ''How -show does Ferris." i r. tics he, Met I'll tell yrh this
that 1.-�.ppen?" I added in bewilder much. I found Me. Strang right'
ment, where I went lot=kin' for him. On the.
Strut r pushed his derby for•waeti' way down to Sierra Madre we had a'
jeuntil;; and hooked a thumb in at: heart to heart talk, an' tts soon as I
armhole- of his 'gest. , could find a phone 1 etailed up the
"I'll tell yah. But first I want ! ehi f an' put flim wise. Ile told me
y'nh to meet another friend o' mint." what had Impelled gilled ie town, what he'd
He walked over to the seated string- drag up, how Farlin here--i,eeau::e he
c'r, Farlin and I following. When he cavvies Chink noiQes-•--•took I. hauffeur.
halted in front of the man he Iooke.; Dwight's place in a auto be know in-'
trp at RS with small dark eyes that stead n' 12a1Gton's machine which he
pee e_eed a peculiar penetrating meet' . 'I`h" C'herilie neve' not next
duality. that it was him waitin' in plane o' the
`.Mr. Ferris—Mr. Furlin," Strube.' gay they'd hired.
performed the ceremony of intra- "Dee; ht didn't come all the way
duetfun, waving a hand palm outward here with Miss Fox. She. an' the stall,
with exaggerated self-assurance, what led her into title, a sneak .ail -
"shake hands with Mr. Samuel Wil- ed Dave McGuire -1:c%. the Car -
lets, otherwise and mebbe better easel dame's sOn----got out bads on
known as James Strang, late o' Jo- the road, an' Dwight beats it leech t.*.
hove, Malay Peninsula, an' before that town with the machine to get you. The
a resident o' most all o' Chiney." old man nailed him fret, though.
I was not unprepared for the revel- "Se, yah see, we've got a hot trail.'
ation, and when ,panes Strang held up,. It€ii was
s Alba auto
Nth It:li ;aeteed yule me MIR
is
a hand—his left one was the unini:I
ed member ---I took it cor.lially ha' a-Ieokin' for catch ether, on the eh•; ;lee •
Wile. Said he, humorously: that he'd be headed this, way. 1 puts
"I'd get up if this baily Chink out my light• an' turns r Bund an'
wouldn't scoot like a lizard; but I'm 'trails yule. %;'hat get, us now i
•nose the less proud to meet Peter; come one a put the C'1.ieks wise to ue
Ferris's boy. You're a whole lot like etmin' along behind; they must have
your dad was when we used to ship' a phone. Farlin tells :ire this i.: the.
bates o' silk an' caddies o' tea an' San Felipe ranch--" ;
Crates o' lacquer out o' Canton, Shan-' "Fou don't f<ay!" I broke in. "Then .
ghai, Hankau, or wherever they I know where 1 ani.'
weren't watching us." i Ain't that lueky:" was the
He chuckled throatily while Strub-! drawling rejoinder. "Iiceause solace -i
er and Farlin stooped and seized thee' where inside a million or two acres -•-7,
prostrate Chinaman who, after he was: s "It's only eight thoue ntl," I con -
dragged to his feet, proved' to be no I rested hint. "I'm attorney • foe the A+•-'
other than my erstwhile guide, the guella Mrs." !
old ivory carver. I "Well, ell, then, eight thousand; if. that
Strang shook himself and con-' makes it any easier. Somewhere on
tinned, his keen eyes, from under: this ranch there's a Chink settlement,!
their thatch of grizzled brows, tak an if yuh think yuh can locate it this!
ing me in from head to toe, time o' night any quicker because'
"Yes, sir, you've got the same' yuh have only a small matter o' eight
height, same big chest and shoulders; : thousand acres to look around 'stead
you're Peter B. Ferris all over o' eight million, why, go ahead. It'.•'
again." i up to yuh." 1
"I'm certainly glad to meet an old ; At this moment, as if evoked by
friend of my father's," I honestly re- ; Struher's words to resolve aur dif-
joined, trying hard to forget that the faculties and uncertainties, in the dis
man was a brother to one of the i twice there rose a woman's scream. It
West's most notorious desperadoes • rang clear and high on the night—a
and bad men; for which, of course, he. us dumb, that froze the blood. prolonged, piercing cry that struck'
was in no wise to blame. ; ;
He chuckled again, with a sly side- i There was ane hideous, never -to -be -1
glance at Struber. , forgotten pause during which we:
"M,Iebbe you wouldn't be so- glad," stood petrified. With an eruption of i
he said, eyeing me whimsically, "if i blistering. profanity, Farlin savage-;
you knew what tucked away in the; 13' tore the two bound queues apart;
heart o' them bales o' silk an' caddies; and tossed their yelping owners into,
o' tea." • ' an arroyo that skirted this part of
"Hop," Struber laconically ex-' the road..
piained, at which I made a wry face.! In another second we were in the I
Strang laughed heartily and clap automobiles tearing madly toward
ped me upon the shoulder. The in-; the frantic; insistent call for help.
telligence made no particular impres- In our frenzied haste each turned
sion upon me; I wouldn't have mind-; mechanically to the car nearest him.
ed if the man had been a red-handed ;Thus it happened that Struber and I
buccaneer. ! were paired in one machine, and Far-;
"I suppose you mean opium and 1 lin and • Strang in the other. As
that you were smuggling it," I said.: quickly as Farlin had disposed of the
"But I dont care; I'll stick by my: two captive Chinese, the second or so;
word. 1 was never more pleased at, - of delay gave Struber and me fully a
meeting any man." • ! hundred yards start. Then some -i
-That's
the right spirit, boyoi e rofe qtht-retuedStan;—I much prefer to other motor, equickly u'
call hien that—his tone abruptly so -1 distanced it.
;tering. "I know what you mean, an, Fast as we went, I sat leaning for-,
RS soon as we have time we'll sit. ward with every muscle taut, uncon i4
down an' thresh out the whole thing.1 sciously urging the flying car to 1
Your father and I were young bloods . still greater speed. My heart was •
in thosedays, and anything that look-; pounding in my throat. Automatical-'
ed like adventure had a powerful ap-I ly my -brain rang and echoed and re-
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GERMANS NERVOUS NOW,
No Longer Jubilant Over Early Peace
With Victory.
Writing on conditions in Berlin, the
New York World's correspondent, who
recently visited. Gerinany, sayst
A great change has come. over Ber-
lin. Eight months ago you could
scarcely notice while on a visit to the
capital that Germany was engaged in
war and that she and her people were
fighting for their existence. True, you
noticed a lot of soldiers, many wound-
ed and some crippled for life, but the
city itself, and the people, appeared to
all outward indications as if nothing
unusual was transpiring. The eiti-
zeas looked•
What a difference to -day! The tier-
IM people seem to have changed com-
pletely. Last spring they appeared
a happy lot, with no cares to worry e
them, certainly not so far as outer
appearances were conc.rned. To -day
you liiid only a solemn people --a peo-
plc who appear•to, and who do, realize
what this war means to Germany and
her millions. They are no longer the
happy-go-lucky and care -free crowd.
They are stern, severely so. They are
no longer a smiling crowd.. They are
echoed with the hysteria of despair, very, very solemn, indeed. -
rcpeating over and over again --"God: They have come to look upon the
help her! . . . 041 help her!" For' entire ..sitz=ration in the most serious ,
Lois had called across the distance to planner imaginable. They know that•
me, all I was found wanting,
the longer the war lasts the more
I reflected bitterly that from the' lives must be sacrificed. They realize,
vert beginning I had presented only; too, that many industries must suffer,
a s pentacle of blndering, .stupid in- rand that fortunes will be swept away
competency. I had been remiss in if
every emergency, while the man be-; this war should Inst for many more
side me, erhose inelegance of speech, t years to come. They are no longer of
manner andattire had constantly jar-' the opinion that peace is to come to
reel upon ine, whose blatant self -con.' , them in the near future.
frtic'nce I had secretly disparaged and; ...
despised, had surmounted every ab-!
stacte,-prevailed over every Handicap,; Nrpotun U. a Fly
and shown himself to he capable and; •
eff€tient. With all his limitations and'
natural disadvantages—and he made!
no pretensions to attributes that he
did not possess ---not once had he fail-
ed me or my interests; which last, in
the performance of his duty, for the
time being happened to accord with
his own. Even now without him I
world be helpless.
I was sensible of a deep feeling of
shame and mortification, despite my
gnawing anxiety.. My pride was
(quietened and bumbled, and I was
earnestly desirous of making some
fitting reparation—as if the wronge
and injustices committed by that ele-
mental jungle -man, the inner self,
could he erased, or even balanced or
a,ileGivately compensated for by any
material means!
The comparatieiely barren stretch
we had so far been traversing, that
had afforded the stage for our spirit -1
ed fight, abruptly ended when we shot'
through an open gateway into a tract•'
of irrigated ground.•
Here the road was bordered upon
one side by an imdiense
ditch, from from which, 'every few rods,!
lateral ditches extended at right;
angles. On our right was an olive;
orchard, presently a vineyard; on'
our left acres of truck -garden.
Here and there I recognized a land-
mark.. We had entered Rancho San
Felipe by the back door, as it were,;
for the antiquated adobe homestead,
or hacienda, and the original ranch'
buildings were accessible from a
highway that lay some three or four ;
miles to the southeast.
I fancied that I was calm and self-;
possessed.
"I know where we are now," I in-
formed Struber in a hoarse shout.
"We should encounter another gate;
presently. A lane turns to the left,
this side of it. A Chinese company
leases this truck -patch; the lane leads
to the coolies' shacks. For God's
sake hurry!"
Struber made no reply; the motor
went no faster, because it was al-
eeady tearing along and careening,
over the level roadway at the limit of
its speed, the open muffler shattering
the night silence with a volcanic roar.
No sooner had I mentioned gate and
lane than both seemed to be hurling
themselves at us. Instinctively I
shrank back, but a jamming of the
brakes shot me against the wind
shield, and the car went sluing to the
left on two wheels.
We skidded back into the straight
way. I heard the dirt crash against
the fence and rattle among the trees
like birdshot. There was a smashing
jar when a rear tire blew out; but we
sped on, may be a tritile less smooth-
ly, but without in the least checking
our splendidly reckless flight.
In that Wild, foolhardy dash per-
haps thirty seconds were consumed
between the time we heard the cry
and the moment Lois loomed suddenly
in the glare of the headlights, run-
ning toward us. Her wonderful hair
Was flying, her face as white as death,
her eyes were wide and staring.
Again the brakes were jammed on.
We came to a sliding, slithering stop
crosswise in the road that noisily
eliminated another the.
I was on the ground before the ma-
chine stopped, running to meet her.
She came straight into my outstretch-
ed arms, and with a little sound that
was half sigh and half sob, fainted.
I swept her up and strained her to
me, imploring her with frantic inco-
herencies to open her eyes and re-
cognize that it was I who was hold-
ing her; to look atme; to make. any
sign that she was not the dead woman
she seemed to be. Her head fell back
upon ray supporting arm and the pal-
lor of her lovely face loomed ghostily
in the gloom. I pressed kiss after
kiss upon the parted lips, as if her,
salvation depended upon the fire of
my love and the agony of my appre-
hension penetrating to the sleeping
spark of 'consciousness.
I stumbled back toward the ma-
chine with her just as Farlin and
Strang; roared up. ' -
"Look at her!" , I gobbed, ray voice
shrill. "She's dead!" •.
1 have a slim recollection of sway-
ing unsteadily, of Strang and Perlin
and Struber leapingdawn and run-
ning toward me. Ten I, too, fainted.
(To be continued.)
Fresh and Refreshing
1376
composed of clean, whole young
leaves. Picked right, blended right and
packed right. It brings the fragra.nce
of an Eater; garden to your table.
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The Feeding of Heelers. •
I have at various times dealt with
the feeding of heifer calves during
their first year, and have always;
placed the emphasis on growth,: writes i
glerdanian" in Farm and hairy. 1'
believe in feeding calves liberal:.
quantities of whole milk, then skim;
' milk, and then finally good liberal
feeding with grain and the best hay
that the farm produces. This same,
feeding system dining. the yearling
stage of growth would develop a fat„
pudgy animal of inferior dairy qual-;
ity. During the yearling stage, 1.
am to develop capacity. Good pasture!
is an excellent place for the yearling
heifer. During the winter months
the very best roughage should be fed,
such as alfalfa or well cured clover,
'it Y.`�.. •�t.r .l
,corn ensilage, and roots, but I woulr
: .. , strictly adv; against
se much
r ' s ,. ie.. wr . grain during this period of the heli- i
! • ^: c . ANnot4 er's life. For the small quantities
kr.Wri
eeRe that are fed, I prefer ground oats.;
y ` The soiling system of feeding yearl-
in
5 y�,. .t.�. g heifers is no good. If the dairy-'
�*e: man has no pasture, I would advise!
4� ,a;�,t; frim to rent pasture land.
e - During the two-year-old stage, I
{ = would feed more liberally. Our heif-
i ers are timed to freshen at 30 months
I r `' ` } and the drain on the heifer's system
DR. ALBERT C. PERa 1.IL,
Brooklyn physician, who is slowly
dying of "sleeping sickness." Ile
was bitten by the tsetse fly Ave
years ago while in the Belgian
Congo, and has been a helpless In-
valid ever since. Seldom does a
victim last more than two years. 1
SEX WARFARE IS PREDICTED.
When the Great European Conflict Is
Ended.
Warfare between the sexes such as
has been unknown since the days of
the mythological Amazons is predict-
ed for England after the war by Prof.
Marion Philips, D.Sc. Prof. Phillips
bases this gloomy prediction upon the
great mass of women who will be de-
pendent. A mighty commercial war
is expected to follow the conflict in
arms, in which unprecedented com-
petition will be the chief factor.
The war has already opened num-
berless positions in the working
world to women, and the contention
is that they will fight against giving
them up when peace is declared.
The prediction is made that suffra-
gette militantism on an enormous
scale will follow, and there will br
bloodshed if attempts are made to
force women back into the niche they
formerly occupied.
The remey suggested by Prof
Phillips is absolute equality; the same
work and the same wages for men
and women; the same responsibilities
Mid the. same competitions.
"The scene which confronts us is
a gloomy one," says Prof. Phillips.
"A horde of men and women, many
wasted by the hard • work of these
years of trial, trade depression and
a wave of poverty and exhaustion
are all held by the future years. Men
will return from the war to find their
places taken by ,women, and women
will be displaced becausethe war.l
work has ceased and peace work is
not for therm.
"The very ,efficiency and adaptabil-
ity of the women is in itself a danger,
so long as it is riot combined with the
industrial pride which demands a
fair return for the amount of labor
given. In this scene are all the, ele-
ments of sex warfare of. a very ter-
rible nature --sex' warfare in which
the male workers and the women de-
pendent upon them are ranked against'
women who must work or die."
from the 24t1i month to the 30th
month is great. I would avoid get-
ting the heifers overfat; at the same
Lima I like to have them freshen in
right good condition. During the
Inst month or so I Iike to feed a hand-
ful of ground flax seed in a very thin
gruel of bran mash once a day. And
right here I want to make a confes-
ston. •
Every dairy cattle man with whom
1 have talked and who has had long
experience, has confessed that he has
had more trouble with heifers during
their first calving period than with
mature cows. A large percentage of
the calves come weak and not a few;
are born dead. I have not had more:
trouble than most good dairymen, but;
this is a condition that has always!
puzzled me. May it be that certain
feeds are more desirable than others'
at this period? In a recent issue of
Hoard's Dairyman, the results of ex-
periments at the Wisconsin Experi-i
ment Station are summarized, and I
would like to have their summary re-:
produced:
Effect of Feed Parturition.
"Sixteen young heifers, all of ap-
parent equal vigor, were selected.;
Group No. 1 was fed the products of
wheat; group No. 2, the products of
oats; group No. 3, the products of
mixed grains, wheat, oats, and corn;
group No. 4 was fed on the products
of corn. Mark well that each group
was 'supplied with the same amount
of protein and other feed constituents.
It was not long before the effect of
the feeding was clearly seen in the
physical:condition of the heifers. The
wheat group showed the least thrift,
the oat group next, the group fed on
mixed grains next.. The corn fed
group was greatly superior to the
others in this respect.
°When it comes to calf bearing,
this disparity of results was shown
in a very marked manner. The
wheat group and oat group lost all
of their calves, the mixed grain group
did a little better, while the corn fed
group produced four well-developed
and vigorous calves. There seemed
to be something in the corn that aid-
ed greatly in. the pre -natal nourish-
ment of the fdetus, as well as an im-
proved condition of the mothers them-
selves."
This looks to me like a careful, in-
telligent experiment. I have never
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been ve, yr favorable to corn feeding,
sticking close to my oats and bran
with a little flax seed and oil cake.
This experiment would make it ap-
pear that it would he worth while to
mix considerable corn or corn pro-
ducts- along with the oats. Let's try
it,
Cement Ice House.
The following hints for a small,
concrete lee houee are from farmers'
Bulletin 023, united States Depart-
ment of ,Agriculture:
The building may be constructed of
solid concrete or of concrete blocks.
The foundation trenches should be
dug 10 inches wide and 21f feet deep,
arid filled with concrete proportioned
one part cement, .2% parts sand and
5 parts broken stone. Above the
ground level the walls may be made
either of concrete hlocics, Wel up in
a one -to -two cement -sand mortar or
of solid concrete. For the send walls
above the ground level the concrete
should be proportioned one bag of
Portland cement to three cubic feet
of sand and five cubic feet of crushed
rock, or one part cement to rix parts
back -run gravel.
In building up the concrete walls,
movable forms are used for holding
the wet concrete in place until it
hardens. These forms should be three
feet high and extend entirely around
the building. After filling the forme
with concrete it should be allowed to
stand for a day in order to harden,
when the forms may be loosened,
moved up, and again filled.
During the construction of the walls
e -inch reinforcing rods 'sttaiiit' be
used, spaced 18 inches apart, running
in both directions. Stagger the rods
by placing half of them three inches
from the outside edge, and the other
half three inches from the side edge
of wall. Embed two rode, or an old
wagon tire cut in two and straight-
ened, in the concrete two inches above
the door opening.
For holding the plates on top of the
walls sink a 36 -inch bolt 10 inches
long, head down, six inches into the
concrete.
Lay a 4 -inch concrete floor on the
natural ground, and on top of this lay
three inches of cork -board insulators
embedded in hot asphalt, followed by
two inches of concrete sloped one inch
in four feet to trash drain. The floor
should be finished with Ifs -inch Port-
land cement plaster.
The cork -board insulation should be
erected on the walls and ceiling in a
3 -inch bed of Portland cement mor-
tar, mixed in the proportion of one
part of Portland cement to two parts
of clean, sharp sand. All vertical
joints should be broken, and all
joints made tight. A -inch Port-
land cement finish to be applied to
the walls and ceiling as well as to
the floor.
In many cases it will be cheaper to
crib the walls to their full height in-
stead of using sectional forms, as a
part of the form lumber can be used
in the roof and ceiling, and the re-
mainder can generally be used to ad-
vantage on the farm.
Social Aspirations.
"She likes publicity, eh?"
"Does she? Why, she thinks the
society column 'ought te make an
item of it when she gives a little.
breakfast to a tramp."
Water always freezes on the sur-
face first,' because that comes into
contact 'with the air, and its heat is
carried away.
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