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AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE
BY WEATHERBY Ci -111 SNEY
CHAPTER
I slowly, stretch himself, and take his
Horace Scarborough was sitting in share of the work,
front of the siphon -recorder in the "What a phienaatie beggar you. are,"
Instrument Room of the cable station said Scarborough, "Enormous issues
at Ribereira Grande. The faint whis- are being decided, and the news n ay
per of electrical apparatus was round come at any minute, and I don't l e -
him, and the afternoon mist of the Az lieve you're even interested!"
ores had crept into the room and chill -1 "Right. I'm not,"" Scott asiswt'red
ed the air. He had been on duty for cheerfully. "Don't care for politics.
nearly eight hours, but though he was Don't turderstand 'emLon
, you see. 't
tried,'he was barely conscious of the fathom what there is to wrr_y about."
fact; for the strain of watching for a "A European war is generally court -
message, expected but long delayed, ed a pretty important thing,' raid
had braced his nerves and driven away Scarborough dryly.
all thought of fatigue. 1 "Oh, yes, if it comes off`! But it
The message for which Scarborough won't Let's talk of something inter -
was
watching meant peace or war esting. Going to the circus?"
amongst the nations of the world. 1 "What circus?' he asked.
For international politics had I "There you are!" said Scott triump- I
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There a something coning aver, isn't
there?"
Scarborough went to the instrument
and read the message aloud:
"courier arrived in London this
morning with important despatches.
front Berlin. It is offieially announced
that His Imperial Majesty will be pre-
sent in the Hohenzollern during Cowes
Week and that the Meteor will be
entered for the: principal race,"
"Rather cryptic!" said Scott,
";What does it mean in plain Eng-
lish?"
"It means," said Scarborough. "that
his Imperial Majesty has thought it
prudent to climb down, and that there
is not going to be a European war
after all."
He sat down at the table andsent
on to its destination this ' message
which seemed" to speak only of sport,
but which would cause many an anx-
ious diplomat to' sleep more easily
that night than he had slept for a
lweek,
Then he turned to Scott.
"Our watch is over," he said. "I
can hear Mason and Devitt coming to
relieve us. You are going to the cir-
cus?"
:`Yes. Let me book a seat for you?"
"Yes, please; afternoon perform -
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Kil
Raising the Dairy Cow
anti "You're Aust as Ignorant as I once to -morrow, two seats.I especially when being raised for dairy
reached a crisis A certain diplomatic Y 1
nate y My ignorance record showed an irregular, wavy Ina ,`T t 1" • h d S tt "Por A profitable cow cannot be raised in purposes•
had, been presented and the am, In your own way
wo sea s. CC oe co
answer was expected hourly. If the embraces European politics—an ad- now, and he read off the message in yourself and --"•
issue was peace, the public would mitedly unsavory =Idle; yours con- the hills and valleys of the Morse code "Miss Page," said Scarborough, and
probably never know that there had cents the things that axe taking place as the instrument passed it through.
Scott laughed slloxtly,
been a crisis at all. But the servants under your nose. What circus? Val, "Page, Chinelas, Ribeira Grande. (To be continued•)
of the great cable companies neces- B Montague's American Circus Cone.' Danger—circus." _ _-.-
sarily have greater and earlier ]mow- belabor), of course. The whole island! That was all. It was obviously not • NEW PERILS OF "44AR,
ledge than the rest of mankind; and it of San Miguel is placarded with it—; the message for which be was waiting
is by no means the feet, as many sup- pictures of beautiful ladies on barenor was it, at first sight either inter_ Wounds and Resultant Tetanus Cause
pose, that the most important news backed steeds, balancing at extraordi-esting or intelligible, unless one hap Most Casualties,
always passes through their hands in nary angles. It's the most exciting pened to know the code by which those
unintelligible el' her. Diplomacy is a thing that has been in the Azores for two words "danger=-eireus" were to `.elle ratio betwen deaths by dis- •
shy monster, hunting by tortuous; a year. I went across to Ponta Del -i be interpreted. Scarborough did not ease and deaths by wounds is revers -
paths, and loves to shroud its tracks` gada to see it yesterday." ? know the code; and yet, bemuse of ,ed hi the present war as compared
in obscurity; but sometimes even; "Oh? God show?" asked Scarbor-' the person to whom it was addressed, with the Boer War. In South Africa
diplomats speak out, and when they ough carelessly, keeping his gaze fixed the cablegram interested him pro- i disease was responsible for a large
do, their words are apt to be momen-; on the ribbon of paper which came: foundly. Had he been able to foresee percentage of the casualties, whereas
tous. I from the siphon -recorder. 1 -the difference which its arrival would in the trenches in France disease has
n every Chancellary oe wor"Pretty fair," said Scott whose no presently make to him, his interest been reduced to a negligible minimum.
Illf thld I
anxious men were waiting for the an -;vel had bored him, and made him want would perhaps have Leen even great -1 The wounds in the South African
saver, which an Imperial courier was Leven though he failed to in-; er,
! ' 1 war were usually neat bullet holes,
Th 1'tt1 1 h which looked r as •f made with ith brad -
bearing post haste to the cat of St.terest. ere's a nice I e grr w o;
nto talk,
"Anything?" asked Scott listlessly.
James's. e , calls herself Mademoiselle Monde de j "Private message, in code," said awls, while in the present struggle
la War'and does the barebackbusiness Scarborough, and Scott returned to not only have shells and bombs
Scarborough gCaneed for the fiftieth' not like the pictures, but decentlybrought new. and terrible kinds of
time at the ribbon of paper which g there's his novel with a grunt.
came from the siphon -recorder, and enough; and there s a veryEnglish-;Scarborough sent -the message wounds, but a highly cultivated soil
saw that it registered a plain suright iand
looking cowboy who shoots glass balls through to the Post Office for delivery full of micro-organisms, such as te-
line. Nothing was passing over the Tisn% a bad d things t show though h very on c the 1 and then rose and• went to the window
bums, most rivi 1 kinds efhave added `flesh�vound s dangers to the
cable just now. ! whole, and Val B Montagu is beauti-! Through a break in the mist he, couldThe difference between sources of
He dropped his chin on his hand,' fu1." : see about a mile away a white -washed casualties in the two wars was the
and stared at the instrument as; "What does he do?" Scarborough, masses oft in grey shelter volcanicf two great stone that
subject of a lecture before the Royal
though by news fromstaring he 1±.., There could
norce hinttof' asked next. But he runs ! projected curiously from the sldeiof a Celle e govhof uarttended tlleeons b Sir Anthony
"Nothing in the ring. u , green hill. The two rocks were •celled Bowlby, King
impatience in the attitude or move -'the whole show none -the -less and, pre- ; in Portugese, As Chinelas,—the slip- ing his recent accident in France. He
meet, rather of a strong patience that vents breaches of the peace amongst i pees, from a resemblance, not tow- laid the destructiveness of modern
would be likely -to win its way in life his troupe. No easy job that, I gath-ever very striking, which they were warfare to close -range fighting and
by meeting adversity with a square i ered. They've been touring the Atlan- supposed to bear to a pair of rather the use of high explosives. Shells
front, and then calmly wearing it tic Islands and the West Coast of Af have such varied effects that there'.
down -at -the -heel slippers. The whi'te-
down. He was about twenty-five. The l rice for a year and a half in a two- washed house took its name from 'are no typical shell wounds. Even !
lines on his face were deep for a man 1 hundred -ton schooner, and the clown ; o rifle bullets tear the tissues badly,
of his years; but theywere lines gravethem.
gr hasn't murdered the ring -master ye. 1 !It had been in th �gesian, for tire, owing to their Lerrj#ic velocity at
en by character, not by experience—'though Val B. seems to be very much! ' short range. In Africa the bullets '
last two years of an nglishman, who,
??tea grave habit of thought, rather inclined to offer odds that he will very; having come to the Azores as an in_ traveled a half mile or more and lost
than' hu any knowledge of suffering soon, Fine fellow, Val B! Took my� valid seeking for health, had not foirrrd their force. Bombs and hand gre-'
in the past. He Iooked like a man who whisky and soda with the air of con- j that for which he sought, but had nades throw up large quantities of
might take life hardly, because he ferring a favor on me, and was gra-'stayed, because the place had suited trench dirt, which enters the wounds '
would shrink none of its responsibili- ciously pleased to say that he would him. His daughter kept house for him and infects them, o rnuwhen wound -1
ties; who would fight, if he had to come over here on Tuesday to have at the Chinelas;and in this fact was ed, usually fall into mud and water l
fight, bravely and victoriously; but dinner with me, if his children—that's , in Flanders, or into the dust, if it is !
the ex>,lanation- of Scarborough s in-;
summer. 1
Sir Anthony said the building of 1
communicating trenches had, however,
considerably lessened the danger of'
who, as yet had not been called upon what he calls the troupe — did not
to show the grit that was in him. need him. I fancy he's nervous about terest in the message which had just
When he smiled which was often — the clown and the ring -master." • passed through his bands.
the lines vanished,and showed the' g Scott. broke suddenly into his medi-
•"What's the trouble between them ?" tati ns
a year. It dates back to the ancestors 1
and if they were unprofitable • the;
chances are that their progeny wi
be unprofitable, and vice versa. Hav-
ing bred right, the dairyman must
start his feeding - when the calf is
the embryo stage, by properly car-
ing for the Mother, and then be pre-
pared to care for and feed the young
calf from the time it is dropped, the
proper rations required to produce
strong, Iuety animal. It is well known
that a neglected heifer calf never
makes the Most profitable dairy cow.
The value of the calf at birth depends
largely on its breeding, but the ,feed
and care it' receives while young. is an
important factor in decicl•ing its -fut-
ure usefulness.
Whether or not the calf is allotvecl
to run with the cow the first t'
three days is a natter of cust.rm, but
it should receive whole milk for the
first two weeks at least and then grad-
ually be made accustomed to skim-
milk._ The change may be made at the
rate of one pound per day, and in-
creased until the calf is getting about
fifteen pounds of skim -milk per day.
Many feeders fail to have their calves
do well when fed on skim -milk, and
immediately decide that skim -milk is
of little value as a feed for calves.
Other feeders will point with pride to
a thrifty, sleek -looking calf, and be
particular to mention that it was
raised en skim -milk. Why the differ-
ence? The one has neglected to pay
attention to keeping the pen clean
and dry;'the milk warmed to blood
temperature; the pails clean, or the
same amount of milk fed at regular
intervals. These things are import-
ant, and attending to them or not at-
tending to them is the difference be-
tween success and failure.
Skim milk contains all the nutri-
ment found in whole milk for the
building of bone and muscle. It
merely lacks the fat content, which
goes to supply heat and energy in the
body. This can be supplied by the
cereal grains or linseed meal, at a
[lower cost than by feeding the fat of
milk. Neither whole nor skim -milk
is sufficient in itself for the growing
calf. The calf should be taught to
eat concentrates, as ground or whole
oats, linseed meal or bran, also al-
falfa or clover hay. By putting ' a
little meal in the bottom of the pail
after the milk is finished and keeping
fresh meal and hay before the calf,
it ,will soon learn to eat. After it has
If the calf is dropped in the fall it
will be able to go on pasture in the
1 spring and look after itself, If it is.
a spring calf, it will be best to keep
it in the stable or paddock all sum -
I mer in order that it may receive at -
I tention. As a yearling, the best win-
ter quarters will be to run a number
of them loose in a large box stall or
sheltered shed. It need not be too
i tvarnl, as nature will supply them
with a coat of hair sufficient to keep
ithem warm. Silage, roots and good
clover hay, with a little salt and
plenty of water, will bring them
• through the winter in prime condition.
' The heifers should be bred to drop
I their first calf at about thirty- months
I,
of age, and then milked as near the
!full year as possible, it being claim -
led that a heifer that is only milked
seven or eight months the first lact-
ation period' will have a tendency to
go dry in succeeding years after
milking about that length- of time.
1 It is. a good plan • to frequently
handle the heifer before she freshens'
the first . time. .. Less trouble will
l then be experienced in getting her ac-
customed to being milked. As the
dairy animal is more or less of a nerv-
' ous disposition, kindness at all times
is essential if the highest returns are
' to be secured. The cow will also give
a larger flow of milk throughout the
year if fed and mrlked at regular rn
tervals.—Farmer's Advocate.
face of a strong, good-humored boy. ; asked Scarborough, more for the sake ==you haven't said whether you'll go infection. In the early clays of the
But though his nerves were tense' of continuing the conversatiqn than with me to the circus to -night," he re- war, before this means of passing un -
with excitement now, he had not been because he cared. "Is it Mademoiselle marked. He did not believe in leaving der cover to the rear was tried,
able to infectwithhis own eagerness Mona?" wounded men had to be kept in the I
advanced trenches until ni ht afford -
the mawho was on duty with him. matters of real importance unsettled.
,"No," said Scott, "I understood that Scarborough started. The caber g
A luxuriously elaborate yawn from a ' it was merely a cast of professional gram had coupled the word circus and ed some protection to the stretcher i
wicker chair behind him, echoed round jealousy. They've been boxed up to- danger. A coincidence of course. It bearers, for any attempt to collect
the wall's of the Instrument Room, and gether on that schooner for eighteen was surely impossible that it should the wounded in daytime drew tire'
caused the quick smile to show itself months, you see, with nothing to do at be anything else and yet Scarborough
enemy's fire. One man he treated i
on Scarborough's face. Scott, the man sea except quarrel, and nothing to in -felt a sudden misgiving Vtras danger lay for 10 days before he could be .
in the chair, was supposed to be shar-'terest them in the show they give coming to Elsa Page? Oh nonsense! rescued and consequently lost both
ing his watch; but he was one of those when they're ashore. Come over with code messages often combine words feet as the result of gangrene. Now
who take life easily, and his method me to -night, and make Val B Monts- 'curious! •. It was nothingbut a rather the men are carried out of the trench-,
was to read a French novel in a big gue's acquaintance." y es by means of chair stretchers,'
' queer coincidence.
chair until Scarborough should give 1 Scarborough did not answer. A mes-. ==Can't," he said. "I've promised to which get around' the corners. But
him the word that the instruments' sage was coming through at last. The . play chess with Mr. Page to -night'' men falling in front of trenches have
were talking. Then he would rise ;ribbon of paper from the siphon- : Scott pursed up his lips, and looked to be rescued at night as formerly.
at his friend doubtfully. Not only the time elapsing before
' "Oh, ah! um! At the Chinelas!" he aid' is received but the physical con-
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remarked slowly. "Do you care much . r yon a men c ue ac o o ,
for chess?"drink or sleep must also be taken in -
i to acount in estimating their chances
I "Loathe it!" admitted Scarborough,.
I with a Iaugh.
"So I thought. And yet you play at I
of surviving.
the Chinelas every second night or so, I
1 But risky, isn't it?"
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing. You know your own bus- many German statesmen that owe
iness best, of course. Miss Page is a
nice girl; pretty too, but—" he broke much to the personal favor of the
Kaiser. His friendship with the War
off`But what?" demanded Scar-
.
� Lord began when .they were fellow -
borough„ with a quick flash of anger: students ,at Bonn, where they were
both members of the famous Borussie
"Da you criticize her?"
"No," said Scott. "I believe she's' students -corps of the University. Be-
ss nice a girl as you think she is• fore his elevation to the Chancellor -
And that's giving her high, praise, you l
know " ( weg had had little or no experience ship in 1909, Dr. Von Bethmann-Holl-
erience of
. p
Scarborough waited a moment, and
then said:
"Well? Go on."
"1 don't like her father," said Scott,
with decision. -
"Confound you, did she ever ask you
to?"
"She will ask you to, if he becomes
your father-in-law," was the retort,
"And you won't be able to do it grace-
fully. The man's a wroung-un, and
you know it as well as I do."
"I know nothing against hire" said
Scarborough hotly "nor do you."
Seott nodded calmly. "That's true"
he admitted "nothing definite that is.
But like you I've spent odd half hours
in his company; not as Many as you
have but enough to make me back
my opinion with perfect confidence.
A man who shakes hands in the way
he does for one thing can't possibly
be straight. But don't lose your tem.
Per, old man. The daughter isn't the
father, and I'll admit that it's none
of my business in any case, To change
Germany's Chancellor.
The German Chancellor, Dr. Von
Bethmann-Hollweg, is one of the
foreign - affairs or diplomacy—a fact
taken at the time to signify the Kais-
ers intention to have ' a puppet rather
than a pilot at the helm.
True to the Last.
"Yes," said the traveller, "my
wife's mother was the most admir-
able housekeeper that ever lived,
Poor soul, she was eaten by canni-
bals in. Africa."
"You don't meati it."
"Alas! it's true..,Why, when the
savages had thrust her into the caul-
dron and she was beginning to cook,
elle cried • out faintly with her last
breath, 'Don't forget .the salt and
pepper,' "
Mamma. -•"Oh, George, poor little
d'ohnny has jammed his finger in the
doom" Napa—"Indeed? Which
door?" Johnny (sobbing)—"It was
the- -the•-•-lea-pa-n-try d -door!" Papa
(grimly)—"Ah, I thought soI He
didn't get the sort of jam he was look -
the subjeet—look at the - retiorder, ing for that thrte."
bete
ttomed to eating, only
as much as it will clean up, should be
fed. A calf six weeks old will usuaI-
ly eat from one-half to one pound of
concentrates per day. An important
point is to keep the feed box, pen and
pails perfectly clean. With proper
attention along with suitable grains
and roughage, a thrifty calf should
gain from one -and -one-half. to two
pounds per day. The aim should not
be to fatten the calf,• but to keep it
in a vigorous, growing condition,
Good Stable Arrangement.
Owing to the scarcity of efficient
farm help and also to lessen the cost
of winter milk production, we have
found it necessary to have the stable
equipped as_ conveniently as possible.
in our _stable the cows stand in two
' rows, running lengthwise of the
I stable, both rows being fed from the
same alley, which I think reduces the
work of feeding a great deal. 'We
have a silo at each end of the feed al-
ley, 'the silage being thrown directly
from the silo into a feed truck and
from this is pitched into the man-
gers.
f The different grains are mixed in
• the granary overhead, coming down
a chute into another feed truck,
which can be wheeled to wherever re-
quired, thus doing this part of the
feeding with as few unnecessary
steps as possible. The cattle are wa-
tered from individual basins, which
are supplied from a tank in the barn,
i um ed to this with d
the water be ng p p
small gasoline engine.
The stable being reasonably wide
gives ample room behind each row of
• cows to drivet hrough with the ma-
nure spreader, and•in this way the
manure is hauled directly to the field
and spread with very littleextra
labor.
By using these few conveniences,
an abundance of light, good ventila-
tion, and punctuality, winter dairy-
ing becomes more of a pleasure than
a drudge. --Gordon Harrison in Farm
and Dairy.
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RUSSIA CERTAIN
TO COM ACK
NEWSPAPER MAN SA1 l3 li11E
'WILL WIN OVER GERMANY.
Popple. Reidy to .Make Any Sacrifice
For puce and Religion.
Stanley Washburn, the 11nt' i to
newspaper eorresporicicu4, who h ii
extraordinary opportuniticb to :obt i -;
the Russian. armed in action, hagq,t.s•t
returnecl home, convinced that Rus-
sian ideals and fohce of character
will win over German ruaterialism.
Mr. Washburn has lived with I:he huge
Russian troop body for a. 3.cttr •rind
a half; has during that time been
with every active Russian anew stave
one, including two-thirds; of the ' at-'
ious'army corpe and has Dome present
at over forty battles, . Ile lived close
to Grand. Duke Nicholas while the lat-
ter was cornman:der, in chief and talk-
ed to the Czar after he assumed first
command. Russia started in to do what was
cut out for her to do," said Mr. Wash-
burn, "but she didn't know what she - •
was going to get. Her industrial
system was not prepared for the long
hammering.
"In five or six months she was out
of everything she needed. She is tee
now pulling up; in the spring she
will have the hest equipped army she
has ever had. -
Character Praised.
"I've been with the Russians in any
numberof retreats and evaeuations.
Those are the circumstances under
which you test the real character of
men, not under victorious circum-
stances. I watched the troops. They
lacked ammunition; supplies failed;
losses were tremendous. But never
was there any demand for peace
without victory, never any thought
of it. There are two fundamentals
in - the character of the Russians,
loyalty to their religion and loyalty
to their race, the Slay. They fight
for Russia and then they fight for
the Czar."
Grand Duke's Leaving.
Mr Washburn was asked what
brought about the reorganization of ,
the Russian army. -
"You mean the Grand Duke's leav- sr
in?" he asked. "That was a cul-
mination of - a - lot of things. One,$
that the Czar is sentimental. I,
wanted to go to the front himself.
He wanted to do that at first, but it
didn't seem advisable. After the army -
was beaten back and back he felt
that his place was at the , army's
head.
"Then cane a definite reason. Af-
ter Warsaw fell there came an in-
sidious propaganda for a separate
peace for Russia; perhaps it was
fostered by Germans. Anyway the
rumor spread. It was getting dan-
gerous because it might get back to
the army, where, of course, it would
be demoralizing to the troops. So
the Czar went to the front and took
his little boy to show the people that
he staked his dynasty on Russian
success.
"The Czar is an intelligent man,"
he said. "You hear many strange
things about hint over here, deroga-
tory things. But he is an intelligent
man and a sincere man, He is more
intelligent than the Grand Duke, but
he hasn't the `punch' that the Grand ei
Duke has."
Born Diplomat.
"Harry, I am beginning to believe
the baby looks like you."
"Are you, dear?"
"Yes, I notice it more and more
every day. I'm so glad!"
"Do you really want him to look
like me?"
"Of course I do. I've been sorry
ever since we had him christened that
we didn't give him your narne."
"Sweetheart, you don't know how
happy you make me by saying that."
"And, Harry dear, I found the love-
Best hat to -day. 1 don't believe 1
ever saw anything that was so be-
coming to me. It's $25. Do you
think I ought to pay that much for a
hat?"
The grip of war has no interest for
the fellow who is in the grip of la
grippe.
One of the richest actresses in Eng-
land is Miss Lillah M'Carthy, the wife . e
of Mr. Granville Barker, Under her.,,;
father's will she.,came into a fortune
some time ago of £50,000. ,
Sir Oliver Lodge, who has declared
the present war to be "the holiest war
we have ever engaged in," is famous
for his plain speaking, and many?
youthful scientists can testify to this
characteristic of the great ratan. Sir
Oliver detests elaboration, or "side." -
Once he was passing through a phys-
ics laboratory when he came on a
youth performing an experiment, in
which he had to make the water in
a basin rise up through a tube. "How
are you going to manage that 9,"
asked Sir Oliver. The young man,
seeing a chance of displaying' his
knowledge, embarked on a Tong -wind-
ed discourse in which he employed
every complicated technical phrase
he could call to mind. When he had
done, Sir - Oliver gazed at 'him grimly.
"I•i'mt" - said the great man drily.
"Well, if I were you, I should just
suck itl"