The Brussels Post, 1916-1-27, Page 2tHICI
The Green Seal
13y CHARLES EDMONDS WALK
Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby,"
"The Time Lock," etc.
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CHAPTER KKIr.—(Cont'd).
The heering was assaulted by the
harsh, strident melody and crash of
brasses from a Chinese orchestra, us-
ually so disagreeable to the Cauca-
sian's musical ear, but at present in
nice harmony with their setting. The
very air was heavy with exotic per-
fumes and the incense from thous-
ands of smouldering joss -sticks. The
Affair, in good truth, was organized
and conducted upon a splendidly mag-
nificent scale, and for some minutes
the combined colorful whole was be-
wildering to the eye; detail was tem-
porarily eclipsed by the general effect,
and I wandered aimlessly about trying
to get my bearings, my attention free
quently diverted by the greetings of
friends and acquaintances.
I did not know what to expect.
Whatever else I had imagined as be-
ing likely to confront me here to-
night, it included a mental picture of
a Chinaman accosting me, drawing
me off mysteriously to a secluded cor-
ner, and after I had handed hint the
ring and box, whispering at my ear
the way to find Lois, The rest I left
in the air.
Mystery and secrecy were so alien
to this gay, glittering festival, how-
ever, and the bright faces of friends
were so constantly rising before me
upon every hand, that it was difficult
to keep my purpose in mind as a grim
reality and not as a sort of hideous
nightmare. I early began to grow
restless and impatient, responding to
salutations only in an absent fashion,
while I hurried up and down the broad
aisles between the rows of booths,
keenly scanning every dark foreign
face for some sign or token that my
quest was ended.
As time drew on and nothing hap-
pened my impatience grew beyond all
bounds. Nine—ten—ten-thirty—elev-
en o'clock carve and went. I devoted
0 moment to wondering what hack be-
come of Struber, and what he would
do when he returned to the city and
learned of Lois's disappearance. Al-
though I had no inkling of what had
carried him off to the mountains, I
could not but believe that he had been
led away purposely—on a wildgoose
chase, like my own here to -night.
After all, when the signal came I
was not looking for it; it caught me
wholly unawares. I was standing be-
fore a booth where were displayed in-
numerable specimens of carved ivory.
There were tiny images of Buddha
sitting cross-legged in his familiar at-
titude of meditative devotion; ele-
phants with howdas upon their backs;
hideous, grotesque gods and god-'
desees; chessmen, and countless other
fancies all exquisitely carved.
In the midst of this heterogeneous`
welter of fantastic images and figures
an old gray-haired Chinaman sat, his
position very inuch like that of the
diminutive Buddhas. In front of him
was a lots bench bearing tools ands
fragments of ivory—ivory chips and;
shavings—anti a nearly finished con-
ception upon which he manifestly had
been engaged.
The incident that brought me to a:
keen sense of my surroundings was'.
peculiar. 1 must have been standing
here watching him in a preoccupied
way for some minutes. People were
constantly passing and now and then
pausing to admire the ivory carver's
wares, whose merits were exploited by
a pretty girl in a fetching Chinese
eastern e.
All at once I became aware that:
the old Chinaman was staring in my
direction with a fixed intentness than
had something uncanny about it. It
was the sort of look that ane feels, the
sort that drags one up from the pro-
foundest of reveries, to swing com-
pass -like and meet the scrutinizing
eyes. But his eegard was not engag-
ed by mine. Following its direction,
my own dropped to my right hand—
to the death ring. It was the ring
that had, apparently, hypnotized him,
Ile seemed suddenly to divine that
I had detected his interest, for his
eyes raised to mine sent me a warn-
ing glance. Then deliberately he
picked up a small cube -shaped bit of
ivory and affected to work upon it
with 0110 of his tools.
With a start I recognised it as one
of the ivory boxes,
I could not afford to attract atten-
tion, so I turned away and strolled on
down the aisle, At the end I wheeled
and walked slowly back. Now, I noted
with satisfaction, nobody was linger-
ing about the booth. I was in time
to see the pretty girl, obviously hent
upon some errand, disappear through
the curtains at the rear.
I had received the signal at last. I
took a swift step or two forward and
leaned toward the old man,
"Well," I undertoned, "I am here;
I have been here all evening."
Without deigning so much as a look
at me or ceasing in his employment,
but with a swift glance toward the
rear curtains, he returned;
"Policemen here, too. You no mind
welly good."
Of course I was in no wise to blame
if the police had extended their activ-
ities to the bazaar; it gave me an
added feeling of confidence in their'
ability that this possible source had
occurred to them. But I experienced
a quick feeling of alarm at the idea
that I was to be held accountable for
their presence here.
"I told nobody about the message—
not a word," I uttered with fervent
earnestness. "If the police are here,
it's not at my instigation= -not be -i
cause I told them to come—under-
stand ? "
j The old man worked on in silence.
After a long, anxious pause, and still
1 without looking up, he said:
"Velly well. You wait, Shut up by
're by; I come for you."
At this moment the pretty girl re-
turned, her face wreathing in smiles;
I when she caught the admiring look'
I with which I was examining her ex- I
hibit, and before I could withdraw
gracefully from the vicinity, I was I
obliged to purchase, at a terribly ex-,
travagant price, an image of Confu-
cius.
Another tormenting period of wait-!
ing now ensued; but already the crowd
was beginning to thin perceptibly. I
W/18 informed at one of the booths
that midnight was closing -time, and
as it was some minutes past eleven I
curbed my impatience as best I could,
and, having secured my hat and coat,
kept a watchful eye upon the ivory'
carver's booth.
Of a sudden I heard my name pro-;
nounced in a voice unmistakably fain -
i Mar. I looked round but encountered
no face that I recognized. Then,
j right in front of me I espied a Chinese'
boy in a costume of dazzling yellow
and blue silk covered all over with
embroidered gilt storks and amazing
flowers. He was grinning at me, and
I identified him by a gap in his upper
front row of teeth. It was Stub.
"What are you doing here in this
masquerade?" I demanded.
In
"Gee! Isn't it great, boss?" he re-
turned cheerfully. "I'm just picking
up a little easy money on the side.
But, say, the kids wouldn't do a thing
to me if they caught me on the street
in the rags. Gaudy! Wow!"
"Do you mean to tell me you're paid
for making this spectacle of your-
self ?"
"Yep. I'm in the Chink village. I
serve tett, chop suey, shark's fins,
bird's-nest soup and all the delica-
cies othe season. Most of 'em's
real Chinks, but a bunch o' us kids
pulls down four bits a night for bei»'
part o' the scenery. Dead easy."
"And this is why you have been
wanting to sleep all day this past
week—I see. But don't forget that
I have first claim upon your valu-
able services, you imp. .. Wait a
minute." An idea had suddenly pop-
ped into my mind, and I had only a
short time to avail myself of this
opportunity.
You seem to have an extended ac-
quaintance among the police," I said:
"I want you to give someone of them
—preferably a plain -clothes man—a
note from roe, and tell him to get it to
the chief of police or to Struber as
quickly as he cam"
The sauciness was erased from the
boy's face by a look of frank curio-
sity.
"What's on, boss? The place's
iT Maras ROUGH
HANDS SMOOTH
There is no better remedy
for chapped hands and lips'
than
s n 1
Trudo
Cam phor ke
Keeps the skin smooth and soft.
sold in handy ,neral boxes oo t du tubae at
chemist, and mend stores everywbere.
Rol use Substitute,, Booklet on te•
CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO.
(Con,andatcd)
1880 Chabot Ave.. Montreal
been lousy with fly -cops all evening.
One's behind you right now, pipin' us."
"Let him pipe. I mustn't be seen
talking with him; and don't you go
directly from me to him either. Find
a way to slip him this without any-
body seeing you do it."
I had fished up from a pocket the
figurative invitation that had brought
me here to -night, and on the back I
scribbled:
Am obeying these directions liter-
ally. Just received first sign from
old Chinese ivory carver at ivory
booth, who doubtless is to conduct me
somewhere. Am waiting for him.
11.40 p,nt.—Ferris.
the lights of a swiftly approaching
automobile, For a second we were
bathed in the dazzling rays, and I
leaped breathless over the door, for
our turn aside had been so abrupt
that I feared a collision.
In a'Aash the machine was upon us.
It roared by like the wind, "Next M-
eta/it it had disappeared,
(To be continued,)
GREEN FEED' IN WINTER.
Green feeds' for poultry contain
only a small percentage of actual food
nutrients, but are important because
of their succulence and bulk, which
lighten the grain rations end assist in
keeping the birds in good condition,
The poultryman should secure a suffi-
cient supply of such feeds to hist
through the winter months in sections
where growing green feeds can not be
obtained, When chickens are fattened
without the use of milk, green feed
helps to keep them in good condition.
Cabbage, mangel wurzels; clover,
alfalfa, and sprouted oats are the
green feeds commonly used during the
winter. Cabbages do not keep as well
in ordinary cellars as mange! wurzels,
so where both of these feeds are avail-
able the cabbages are fed first. They
are often suspended, while the mangel
•
wurzels are split and stuck on a nail
on the wall of the pen. Clover and
alfalfa may be fed as hay, cut into
one-half to 1 inch lengths, or may be
bought in the form of meal. Alfalfa
meal has a feeding analysis equal to
bran, but is not as digestible on ac-
count of its larger percentage of fibre.
Clover and alfalfa should be cut while
slightly immature, if they are to be
cured and fed to poultry, The leaves
and chaff from such hay are especially
adapted for poultry feeding.
Sprouted oats make a very good
green feed and are used quite exten-
sively 10 this country. The oats eau
be soaked for 12 hours in warm water
arul then spread out in a layer of from
one-half to lee inches deep on a floor,
or in a tray or tier of flats, which
have openings or holes or a three -
sixteenths (3-16) inch mesh wire bot-
tom, so that the water drains freely.
They may be stirred daily and sprink-
led, or allowed to sprout without stir-
ring, until ready for feeding. They
are usually fed when the sprouts are
from 1 to 11A inches long, although
some poultrymen prefer to allow the
sprouts to grow to 2 or 3 inches Iong.'
Oats need a moist and warm atmos-
phere in which to sprout quickly, so
that it is necessary to tarnish heat or
to keep them in a warm room during
the winter, while they may be sprout-
ed out of doors during the rest of the
year. It takes from 6 to 10 days to
sprout oats, depending on the tem-
perature of the room. Oats frequent-;
ly become mouldy while sprouting, To
prevent this, they may be treated with
I handed it to Stub. "Do you un
•
derstand what you are to do?" I
wanted to make sure.
"I get you, boss," he replied, a final
wistful look betraying his eagerness
to learn what this mysterious pro-
ceeding portended.
Ile darted away just as the pretty
girl emerged from the ivory booth,
her fantastic costume concealed by a
motoring coat and veil. She bade the
old artist a cheery good -night and
joined a pleased-Iookcing young ellap
who was waiting for her. The two
went away, smiling happily into each
other's eyes. I felt a queer wrench at
my heart as I watched them disap-
pear.
Then shortly came the Chinaman.
He advanced with such a pointed ig-
noring of my presence that I on my
part appeared to pay no attention to
him.
As he passed he flung a short com-
mand from a corner of his mouth:
"You follow me," and pursued his
way without further pause.
I fell into his wake, anti in a min-
ute or such a matter we issued
through a side door into an alley -way.
A light above the door relieved the
'
darkness of this restricted passage.
My guide turned toward the rear of
the auditorium, and we presently
came out upon a street densely shad -1
ed by pepper -trees. Here a touring -
car was waiting with a dim blur of a f
figure sitting motionless at the wheel,.
and the old man motioned me to en-
ter.
I held back. "Where are you tak-
ing me?" I demanded sternly.
1Ie climbed deliberately in beside
the silent chauffeur before vouchsaf-
ing a reply.
I no can tell. I show you. You
savvy?"
Still I hesitated. Was I deliberate-
ly, with eyes open, being led into an-
other trap?
My guide stirred me.
"What's the matte- you? You
'Raid?" he asked in a perfectly indif-
ferent tone. "You no conte, I say
good -by."
Trap or no trap, I was in for it. I
must take the risk. I opened the ton.
neau door and stepped in. The old
rogue knew that I would come.
The silent chauffeur instantly came
to life. The electro: headlights sud-
denly blossomed, there was a click of
the starter switch, and the machine
gathered speed and went rushing'
away through the night.
Was it taking me to Lois?
I was filled 'with a miserable sense
of being carried farther and farther
away from her with every mile that
unrolled so swiftly behind us.
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The automobile was a large seven -
passenger touring -car, and I was a
solitary figure on the back seat. We
were well into the northern outskirts
of the city before 1 became awaee
that I was net the tonneau's sole oc-
cupant—though
c-
cupant though possibly the only
animate one. I had entered it ie dark-
ness; the top was up; the street lights
we sped past did not go far toward
illuminating the portions of the in-
terior that, were in shadow. It was
not until my foot touched something
soft and yielding that my attention
was drawn with a start to a shap-
less mass upon the floor.
I made out the vague outlines of
what appeared to bo a bundle of rugs,
or carpet. 1 leant forward and felt
over the heap with my hands, even
going so far as to lift the top folds.
Rugs, I concluded, puzzled --or car -
pot.
Satisfied that my surmise was cor-
rect, I dismissed the matter from my
mind; but for the moment I was
struck with the incongruity of com-
bining so ordinary an errand as this
of hauling a bundle of rugs with ono
as momentous aa mine was.
In a very few mihutes we were
speeding along Huntington Drive,
which would soon fetch us to South
Pasadena and Alhambra, or if oto' des-
tination lay beyond these towns, t0
Arcadia or Monrovia, or even Sierra
Madre, where Struber had gone that
nfternoen.-
We went between the two first -
named towns with scarcely diminish-
ed speed, and were rounding a bend
in the highway when our machine
swerved sharply to the right.
There was a blinding glare from
psect in Millions o! Tea Pots
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Every infusion is alike delicious
Back, Greer,
or Mixed
Bulled .Packets .only0
1ONOyyRS WON IN
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InimOlfllll AND MOTION OF
IileeTISII SOLDIERS,
Deeds .of Daring at Criticol Moment
That Won the Victoria
11 Cross,
in the big advance on 'Loos that be
E 155 gan on September 25 the Victoria
Cross was won by seventeen officers
and men of the British armv.
The wonderful stories of their
amazing heroism, coolness and devo-
tion to duty are told in the official
phrases of the Lopdon Gazette. Sonne
of them are here reproduced
Killed in Final Rally,
Major (temp. Lieut. -Col.) A. F.
Douglas -Hamilton, commending 6th
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders:
When commanding his battalion
during aperetimis on Hill 70 ne Sept..
26, when the battalions on his right
and left had retired, he rallied his
own battalion again and afraid, and
led his men forward four bines. The
last time, he led all that remained,
consisting of about fifty men, in a
most gallant manner, and was killed
et their head.
It was mainly due to his bravery,
untiring energy and splendid leader -
'ship that the line at this point was
enabled to check the enemy'e ad-
vance.
Regardless of Danger.
Capt. Anketell Montrny Read, let
Northamptonshire Regiment:
During the first attack near FIuI
Iuch on the miming of Sept. 25, al-
though partially gassed, Capt. Read
went out several times in order to
rally parties of different unite which
Iwere disorganized and retiring. He
led them back into the firing line,
and, utterly regardless of danger,
moved freely about encouraging„ them
under a withering fire. He wee mor-
tally wounded while carrying out this
gallant work,
held Huns an Hour.
Corp. J. D. Pollock, 5th Ruceu's
Own Cameron Highlanders: '
1 Near the Hohenzollern redoubt on
Sept. 27, at about 12 noon, when the
enemy's bombers in superior num-
bers were successfully winking up
the "Little Willie" trench to -wares Ho-
henzollern redoubt, Corporal Pollock,
after obtaining permission, got out of
the trench alone, walked along the
top edge with the utmost coolness
and disregard of danger, and compel-
led the enemy's bombers to retire by
bombing them from above. lie was
under heavy machine gun fire the
whole time,
An Inspiring Example.
Temp, Second Lieut. A. J. T. FMenm-
ing-Sandes, end Last Surrey Regi -
I meat:
At Hohenzollern redoubt on Sept.
199 Second Lieut. Fleming Similes was
sent to command n company which at
the time was in a very critical posi-
tion. The troops on his right were
retiring, and his own men, who were
much shaken by continual bombi)ig
and machine gun fire, were also be-
ginning to retire owing to shortage
of bombs. Taking in the situation at
'a glanee, he collected a few bombe,
jumped on the parapet in full view
of the Germans, who were only 20
• yards away. and threw them.
I Although very severely wounded al-
most at once by a bomb, he+ struggled
to lois feet' and continued t advance
and throw bombs until he wee again
Iseverely wounded.
Saved the Situation.
Temp. Sec, Lieut. F. H. Johnson,.
73rd Field Company, R.E.:
In the attack on Hill 70 on Sept.
1 25 Sec. Lieut, Johnson was with a
!section of his company of the Royal
Engineers. Although wounded in the
leg, he stuck to itis duty throughout
the attack, led several charges on
the German redoubt, and at a very
critical time, under very heavy fire,
repeatedly rallied, the men who were
near him. By his splendid example
and cool courage he was mainly in-
strumental in saving the situation.
Saved 'Hundreds of Men.
See, Lieut. A. B. Turner, 3rd Prin.
cess Charlotte of Wales' (Royal Berk-
shire) Regiment:
At Posse 8, near Vormelles, on
Sept. 28, when the regimental bombs
ere could make no headway in Slag
Alley, Sec. Lieut, Turner volunteered
to lead a new bombing attack, 130
pressed down the communication
trench praetically alone, throwing
bombs incessantly with such dash
and determination that he drove back
the Germans about 150 yards without
a check, His action enabled the re-
serves to advance with very little
loss, and subsequently covered the
flank of his regiment in its retirement
thus probably averting a loss of some
hundreds of mea, '1'llis most gallant
officer has since died.
Method.
Brown—le ,)ores Aridly neutral?
Mrs, Jenks --Yes, ho sides with who-
ever hes talking with,
Cate solemn lie with their feet to
the fire, L'sually they lie on the left
l.ide,
near
the tale With thin they oil their
outer feathers, and so make them
t r I
waterproof.
The Cream Can.
A writer signing herself "Farmer's
ar•mer's
Wife" in the Ohio Farmer recently
gave an account of the value of the
cream eau, which is worth reproduc-
ing here. Here itis:
I The cream can is an important
factor in many farm homes. No uten-
sil has become popular more rapidly
than it. It es the cream check that
pays the grocer and dressmaker,
builds houses and barns, buys the
piano, sends the children to college
' and buys oil and gasoline. And what
could do more than the cream can?
I "Get another cow," was the slogan
'of the owner of the cream can; but
the 1916' slogan is "Get a better cow."
Than weigh your milk and use the
Babcock tester. Scales are a neces-
sity on every farm and the testing
outfit is not expensive, neither is it
so complex that it takes an educated
•
person to use it as many suppose.
.With scales and Babcock test no one
need keep cows, the cows will keep
him. Don't guess; it pays to know.
Weigh your cream—then if you ship
36 pounds when the check comes you
will not be positive it was 38.
A man may pay 26 cents to guess
on the number of beans in a can and
consider himself a sport. But he is
not in it with the man who loses from
one to two per cent. to as high as 30
per cent. of the butterfat for the
privilege of guessing twice a day on
the speed of his separator. Why not
buy a speed recorder, made especially
to attach to any make of cream sepa-
rator, and quit guessing? The com-
mon error is turning the separator too
slow. The result of one or two turns
per minute is the bowl running 600
to 700 revolutions too slow. This is
losing money by turning the cream
into skim -milk.
Besides timing to give the cream
can a square deal, wash the separator
every time it is used. If you do not
do this, run some clean water through
the separator after it has stood over
night; then taste the water from the
cream spout and you will know why it
should be washed. The machine rusts
after a time when not washed. Any
one can afford to care properly for as
high-priced a machine as the separa-
tor.
Have all er•eain the same tempera-
ture—as cold as possible when mixed.
Keep the cream stirred as a smooth,
velvety cream is more accurately
sampled; hence; it gives a better test
than the hard, lumpy cream. Cover
cream with cheese cloth to avoid dust
and insects and to give the cream air,
Don't bring your cream in the kitch-
en to sour it, thinking you will get a
better test for sweet cream tests the
same as sour. The amount of butter-
fat in cream is not affected by sour-
ing. Don't 'ship a thin cream, for you
simply donate the skim -milk to the
creamery, make transportation high-
er and besides a heavy or•eam keeps
in better condition,
The owner of the cream can has en-
dorsed and adopted a system by which
the old-time burdens have been re-
moved, and the net results are great-
er than before. When you sell butter-
fat you are selling sunshine. Whet
you sell grain you are selling' the fer-
tility of your farm. Can the farmer
make a better investment than the
cream call?
Backyard Environment.
A great part of the 'home life of
families on farms is associated with
the backyard, which, of all places
around the farm home, le usually the
most neglected. The front yard may
he fairly well attended fox• the occa-
sional paescr•-by to see, int flowers
formalin, using 1 pint of formalin to
30 gallons of water, which is sprink-,
led over and thoroughly mixed with 30
bushels of oats. Cover the oats with
a blanket for 24 hours; then stir until
they are dry. Keep them in a sack
which has also been soaked in forma-
lin. Oats thus treated and dried may
be held for a long time for sprouting. i
Where the double -yard system of
confining poultry is used, one of the'
yards is kept in green feed, into!
which the hens are turned when the!
crop attains a height of 4 or 6 inches.
This method of alternately yarding
poultry furnishes green feed for the
birds and at the same time freshens
the yard. Rape, wheat, rye, oats and
barley are usually sown for this pur-
pose. Rye is good for late fall and'
early spring feeding, as it will live
through the winter in most sections.
Oats, wheat and barley are used i
throw:,tout the spring, summer and
early full. Several of these grains
may he sown together to secure a
greater variety of green feed, and any
quick -growing grains may be used for
this purpose.—Canadian Farin.
Up or Down.
First senior—I'm going to marry a
poor girl and settle down.
Second senior—Better marry a
rich girl and settle up.
Mean Cat.
"Algernon called on me yesterday
afternoon."
"Yes; he told me he had some time
to kill."
Clear Profit.
"If 1 could get someone to invest
a thousand dollars in that scheme of
Mine i could make some money,"
"How much could you make?"
"Why, a thousand dollars,"
A linen shirt is much colder than a
cotton one, linen drawing away more
of the body's heat,
Ice contains latent heat. It will ab-
sorb 140 degrees of beat when melted
over a fire or by the sun.
Snow is white because its minute
crystals and prisms reflect the rays of
which white light consists.
h all 1% rain which, in its descent,
has passed through a cold layer of air
and been frozen.
When a grizzly bear cannot finish a
meal lie buries what is left twee in the
earth until he requires it again:
Stories are told of grizzly bears bury-
ing injured hunters in tide way,
thinking thein to be dead.
When you move, to stop your tet
from running away immediately from
the new house, rub butter well over its
feet and legs, By the time it has fin-
ished licking off the butter, all idea
of flight will have tiisnppcared,
and shrubs should be placed where
they will do the most good—where
they will be seen and enjoyed by the
occupants of the house. Children and
young people especially are often in-
fluenced
bytheir u environment more
titan they know, or are willing to ad-
roit, and the unattractiveness of their
home surroundings has driven many
•boys to the city.
The backyard, seen and traversed
many times daily, should receive espe-
eial attention. If it is a bare place
! with
pools antt unsrgutty ac-
cumulations, it should undergo a
radical change. Such change costs
little, but, when made, should be
carried out with care and a view to
permanency. Take time to plan the
planting and decide once and for all
where the shrubs will be most effect-
ive and attractive,
The yeomen usually have to take the
initiative 111 work of this kind, and
should be given every assistance pos-
Bible by the men. During the winter
the subject should be discussed at
Farmers' Clubs and plans made for an
;active campaign in the spring. Sever-
al clubs in Quebec have organized
competitions in this line of work with
excellent results. These improve-
• ments involve little or no expense and
may be accomplished in the time that
the busiest farmer and his family can
I easily find if they appreciate the im-
•portance of the work and are dispos-
ed to undertake it. The farmer owes
to his wife and to himself, but chief-
ile to his children, the best that he can
do towards increasing the attractive-
ness of his home. The improvement
often need not cost a cent. The first
item, greater neatness, costs only an
effort. The second item of improve-
ment, the plan, costs nothing but
study. The third item - of improve-
ment, the plants, can often be wholly
secured, from the wild.—P.C.N. in
Conservation.
It Pays to Paint.
It pays to paint all permanent.
buildings that are made of planed
lumber and properly finished. If
tastily colored with paint properly ap-
plied, it adds greatly to the appear-
ance of the place. This is a source of
delight to the owner and helps make
the family contented. A building that
is kept well painted will last inde-
finitely, A good, grade of paint well
applied keeps moisture from reaching
the nails, the lack of which allows
buildings to become weatherworn,
and its parts become.loose, weak, rot-
ten and misshapen. A well painted
place is not only more desirable to
keep, but is more readily sold, as buy-
ers prefer a well kept place and will
pay more for such. It pays to paint
machinery because of the better ap-
pearance, and because it will keep the
bolts and other parts from rusting or
rotting, causing expensive break-
downs and making it difficult to re-
pair. It is especially profitable to
keep waggans and buggies well paint-
ed, for it keeps the wood from check-
ing and the wheels front shrinking.
Every time a tire is set it puts more
dish into the wheel, which weakens it.
For 50 cents a year a vehicle can be
kept tight and be made to last almost
as long as one will keep up the paint-
ing.
So for as is known the greatest age
attained by 00 insect is that reached
by a queen ant which was nearly fif-
teen years old when it died.
A rhinoceros rolls in the mud be-
cause little insects get between the
folds of its skit and worry it, If it
gets its body covered with muck, they
ale linable to reach the shin.
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