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The Game of Nations
mammy.
By DONNA, eleER,WOOD BOGERT,
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CHAPTER VI, • Even now, Teeing The fifty-five eent
elWeve a step ;le orotA.ks yeem be balance, ehe Wes tot-eorry,
Mated. Trevanion laughed, atd leer thoughs fleev eecidenly to Tree
shut the door behind exim end leisurely vanion'e sister. She lied been :teethe
helped himself to a seat upon Miss Mess Doretilea 'often ohm thee first
Herford's bed, the :nuzzle of the way- motor ride but had odd nothhtm of the
ering. pietol elrnost grazing Ihis temple. lose of her position. Now she refleete
-"Go aheact," he saietemelly. "I tried ed uneaffily that oho eould not keep
to do it myeelf hitt founti i hadn't the the secret mucifianger. Hee inerease
nerve and r don't believe you have blff shabbiness Was a sign that a more
either, Vehnt's the matter, boy? evoredly waman would have noticed
Starving, eh?" Trove:don% voice long ago. ,
amid be ye:iv gentle. A timid rap urn her beileoom door
The lad's Mini dropped and be began Startled her, an ishe wondered, a Let
to sob ;in such an misery breathlessly, if the landlledy had de..
as would haveanoved a eta:0 to pity, eidecl ts aemand her following .week'
"G.:lard—ant I jest! Three days rent in advance.
with nery a bite—and thet devil, Bev- "Miss Trevanion!"
erly, aeehasin'—obaeine----" Mies Dorothea entered with ea, re
"So you killed old man Schneideee proachful look in her washed-out, blue
eh v, His tone was quietly converse- eves.
tionel, "My dear child—and you never told
"He were a our," snarlee the boy
viciously. "He were—" The sound
of Voices in the eower rooms stopped
him. Dootstepe were ascending the
stairs. Trevanion :glanced once at the
boy's stricken face and Ma resolution
was taken,
"Get under the bed," he command.
ed. save you if I can."
The bed Was long and narrow. From
the doorway the lad eoukl easily be
seen. Trevanion dragged his trunk
before the bed; seated himself at the
foot and' pulled off his coat which he
allowed to dangle carelessly down be-
tween his knees. When Herford
entered he was greeted with a weary
nod,
"Reeting a bit before unpacking:
I'm MI in, Herford, •and thates a fact.
My nerves are in a rotten state. If it
wasn't for seeming a mollycoddle, I'd
be tempted to go to bed. I've been
putting in any number of wretched
nights lately." .
"Go ahead," exclaimed the other
man heartily. "You do look seedy,
but tide is just the olimate to brace a
body up. 'Want anything?"
"Thanks, no. I've taken enough of
your time as it is. And—Herford—on
the way from Calgary you mentioned
being willing to take a star boarder.
I'd lilee-to apply for the job. Terms
anything You choose to name. I mean
to take. your advice and look around
a bit?"
"We're always glad leta new face or
a new interest," 3.eturried his compan-
ion seriously. You're welcome to stay
as long as you like."
During the short winter afternoon,
Trevanion lay quietly upon Peggy
Hereord's bed. When night fell, one
of the cowboys appeared with a tray
of steaming food. Trevanion, who
had counted on this provision for his
eomfort locked the door upon the
enan's exit and lighted a candle. He
then set the tray on the floor e.side
the bed- and watched the clawlike
fingers snatch the food. It was cer-
tainly a queer siteation.
The clockstruck eleven before he
ventured to let the boy stir from -his
place of concealment. Awarth suit of
clothes, a sweater, fresh socks and a
pair of heavy shoes were sprea•cl out
upon the trunk.
"Get Ant° them—quick!" whispered
Trevanion. "They'll be miles too big,
but they're warm."
The lad lost no time in complying.
A trace of color glowed in his sunken
cheeks.
"Yer a :brick," he assured Trevanion
again and again). "Perhaps Beverly
won't get me, after all, They's a
plated know of—" he pau•sed, tongue
In his :cheek, as though
me out by h fearful he had
me! I called at the officte to see you
and found you had not beenaemployed
there for some time. •1 do hope you
have another position, shoukint
like to see you want for anything,"
"No?" queried Peggy. Her laugh-
ter had returned' weth Miss Dorotheeee
arrived' -and she dimpled adorably
under the older woman's gaze,
"Want? My dear Miss Dorothea, I
want simply—everything: gloves,
boots," checking the items off on her
sltrn fingeese "g.owne, hat, hosiery, my
next weekg' meal ticket ---""Gracious!" It was a very strong
expression for Miss Dorothea, and
was drawn from her by the thoughts
that Basil's future wife had perhaps
been in absolute need. "Graceous! I
don't- know what Basil will say to
mal"
"Bea?' You are very flattering,
leli•ss Trevanion, but why should your
brothel. have anything to say on the
subject?"
"I don't know what he will say to
me for not taking better care of you!
Perhaps I had hest not tell him. I
don't want 'him to worry. I had a
letter from him to -day and it sounded
so despondent. He is all I have, you
know."
"I am sorry.- I hadn't heard. Jim,
you know, very seldom yrites."
"Sometimes," continued Trevanion's
sister, edging her complaining rocker
nearer the bed on wh.ich Peggy was
seated, "sometimes I fear that all is
not well with him—that he is keeping
something from mei" Her eips quiv-
ered. "I wish I could go up there. I
want to aee him. want to be near
Basil. I'm sure that he needs me;
lee didn't even take Wilkes—his man
Mies Dorothea's plai•nt touched a
responsive obord la Peggy's heart.
"Why don't you go .to s.ee him?"
she asked. "There is nothing on earth
to prevent you. And he probably does
get lonely; the ranch isn't a very ex-
citing place."
"If I only could! But it's so far
away—and I'm not used to traveling;
it confuses me dreadfully, the chang-
ing and time -tables and all that.
"I come down alone two years ago
n
ad had no tiouble whatever."
"But you are so capable. I get
nerybus. I'm always afraid of some-
body snatching. my purseh--." She
paused and a peculiar expression crept
slowly over her downea.st featuree.
Then she sat bolt upright and a eatch
of color glowed in (each withered
cheek.
"I have an ideal" she exclaimed," a
perfectly wonderful idea! You have
no reason just now—therm is nothing
on earth, repeateig the girl's own
disclosed too much.
,words, "to prehett you—evilly not let
eel me take you with Me? 1 should not
the window," he sad hurriedly.
feel at all uneesy if you were with
come in thet way—up those curly
•me "
stairs—
"Just a moment," returned Trevem
ion curtly. He jerked th•e boy toward
him, forcing his reluctant gaze. "It's
up to you to tell me why you killed
Schneider. I don't make a practice,
you know, of ehesIding criminals."
For a long minute the boyliesitated,
then thrust a hand anside his shirt and
pulled o.ut a folded paper.
"Thet's the reason!" he said des-
perately, "thet! and 'cause he had me
eornered Igo a rat in a trap. -He'd
a kieled wie to keep thet paper. So I
killed 'im first.. He hadn't no right to
Trevanion carried the paper over
temthe bureau and spread it out he -
math the light. Itwas a carefully
drawn map of a section of thickly
wooded country between two rivers
whose names he had never heard, but
located, apparently, somewhere among "I—I searcely know what to say,"
the foot/sells of the Caeaclian Roeldes. shd fatereci. "It is very kind of you,
Miss Trevanion. To tell .the truth, I
havo been wondering how I was going
totnanage. Positions seem very hard
th get just now,."
Miss Dorothea ieft the plaintive
rocker and eagerly seated heeself 'be-
side the girl. There wa-s a subtle
teal in her usually colorless voice.
"When shale we start? Oh, let it be
just as soon as possible! Peg.gyl I
can scarcely wait for the first glimpse
of my brother's facet"
So the NV011 her ease and harvied
away ta get ready.
"The day after to -morrow," she re-
peated happily, "You muse; wire your
broths): but be sure lie does not tell
Basil."
. "Sure," echoed Peggy, cloaing the
dom and liatening in (lazed astonish-
ment to Miss Dorothea's footsteps
descending the staits. Then she walk-
ed ever to her clingy dresser and
deliberately emptied the contents of
her purse into a small trey, sighing
at the meager emelt.
"Beggars cannot be choosers," she
whispered to herself, "But --T weeder
What he will say when he sees me?"
(Tin be con tine ed.)
Peggy almost turned faint. Face
Trevanion with the nightmare of Miss
Dorothea% belief in their mutual pas-
sion weighing down het conscience—
the belief which she had not troubled
herself to refete? Never!
"My dear Mess Trevaniom the pres-
ent ideate of my finances wouldn't
carry me to the next town and I'm too
sensible a business woman to cry for
a vacation - under those conditione."
"But I would bake you," Miss Dor-
othea pleeded, hand IT pay you will-
ingly—glirdly—for your services as
companion. Miss Herford, you won't,
you can't refute -me?" The lonely
little soul mopped her ayes with path-
etic self-pity.
Could she? After all, what a won-
derful opportunity this was. If she
declined, what Was left for her when
the little parse wan squeezed dry?
Because of some secret hidden in those
sloping forests a man's life had been
taken.
A. swirl of icy air struck through
the room. He turned swiftey—the
window was open and the boy nowhere
in sight.
OHAPTER VII.
'Peggy Herford•, anaiously biting
the end of a stubby Ie'ad pencil, sur-
veyed with knitted brows, a row of
figures on a slip of paper:
June 10—Cash on hand ..........
Boaed and lodging ... 6.00
Carfare .50
Sundries .25
June 17—Balance ; .55
Fifty-five cents is a trifling sum to
stand between .one and hunger, and—
beg board was paid only until the
following clay! • Of course, she could
always wire Jiin, but Peggy was peoad
and deeply resented the fact that he
had lee her go eo easily,
Now, looking backward, Peggy was
a little ashained of that display of
temper. After all, Dave had only
kissed heel But something in the al-
most bentel .clasp of his arms had
peeled her to a white-hot :frenzy. She
lied effiettys known that he was in love
. with her; in a half-heareed fashion ;the
eel even encouraged his ablentions,
istsb smiles and the. gracious touch of
ex hand were the .only favors alo (111:.1t. 100,000 1.0113 a 1.10.11311 311 113-
badVellnitted uti1 Dave had proceed.' el. • ems mad: by the enmity in the
ed to ride rotagh .slicid ever her re- '
serves.
With a little .sigh , Peggy studied
the itemized slip. How herd, how
drettelfuely hard it wasmy to find wfeeork!
abe amuse one a seamho t owneee to mnintain their position, nor
noting with agelit
pang the shoe's eon- lles 11 Michell the seagolete Merit of
• gritish Shipping Loss.
Lord inclicepe, it recent meeting
of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-
ship Coes stockholders, recalled that
.- e Immear et i ci :ILO:m.000
tolts, eaSe a tendon despateli,
"But this," he salc17 "has not affect -
ea the determination of Teritish ship -
dowel coliebton; ebe held out hameled,
young arme to inepeet the inthicate
Oros on her eleevee.
For4 while luckelad bee: with •Iter,
'She esed. even .secured the poleitimi of
which she had epoken ee Mies Doro-
thea but her empleyem a. man of un-
bridled tamper, WaS Went to yebt hie . •
the British race. Given fair play .and
freedom teem goternment ,.interfer-
°nee eine control, GM nritIsh tomcat.
tile marine wili name • out on Imp
agem,"
• leleind of Sulphur. .
.spleten upon Rey of his offiee foece ahem le et Mend in. Now Zealand
'Who happened to be bendy, I1oggy, 110
etenograehme Was always bendy; elle
one day, initneeted With his ueinse
eriticierne, the donned het and mat
IOW lore
•
nearly theee belee 1 circumeerenee
thee b elmost eintrely competed of
ellithille Dibrell 1511 11 gelieern end 0 few
ether niteerele,
ee—ehee—e-hesheehheremmehememew-e-mma•ge—eaam-eme—ameeeeedem...a..•
A Joke of Three,Natiotts
There ere Only a fgw Ort2i4a1 eieic6
In the world; donee sae there are but
three, 'While Mere liberal authorieleo
allow :wen, But emery Beery has Re
vatwealnto0); Cilltoh3ttootchte Dalt of the world
inii
The Dec de Itequeleelle, Pleileinjer
haotethrough Lyons, weft Y
the Illehop of eliet Wage With a loud
'Ti!'Hile" The duke stopped, ,
"Whom have yeti come hem?" atilt -
ed the prelate, I
"Front Pagel,"
Brietonwmetpeas ere
"What is there fresh in Paris?" h
tee stlY14g
when you thee?"
"Vespers.'
"Goodness, man! Who are you?
What% your name?"
"ignorant people &all inc ICI R1;1
Gentlemen call me the DU0 de Roque.
This is how the story appears in
French. Horace Smith, In his "Tin'
Trumpet," gives an English form. The
hero this time Is "a well kpown civic'
wage" In treeeling Post he was obliged
to. otop at It, village to replace a thee
which his horse had loot, when the
Paul Pry of the place bustled up to
the carriage window.
"Good morning, sir! Horse cat a
shoe, I see. I unarm you are going
to—me"
Here lie paused, expecting the name
of the place to be Supplied, but the
gentleman ansWered;
"You are quite right. I generally go
there at this season."
"Aye--aheml—do you? And, no
doubt, you ere now coehe frout—"
"Bight again, sir. I live there."
'Nett, aye; I ieel ,You. «01 But I
perceive 11 13 a hh0114011:May, there
anything othring in London?"
"011, yoo! plenty of 'other cluilses
ane cerriageti of all eorton
"Aye, eye, oil iael But Whet ele
Vents say?"
("eileY Say their prayers °Very 000.:
4333",'
ten't Mean, X went.to
lelloW whether there e itetething new
Mid fresh,"
.
"Yee; bread ane herring:1," •
"All, you tere queer fellow! e. Prey,.
Pfister, May I ask rem name?"'
name?"' -
and. clowned" Paid the gentle-
r:me, "can me mietere but I AM In
reality onnt e of the cemeof Aeieto.
p1151105, and my.reahuarae.is Brekeke-
leex Koax!"
Scene time be the later nineteenth
century 1119 ettn'Y appeared translate:
teethed and Amerleanized as followo,
In a western paper:
strangerj, Yon_appear to be
traveling.,"
"Yes; I alwitys 'travel' when I am
on a journey,"
"I think 1 have seen you some.
where,"
"Very likely, I halts often been
therm"
"Mightn't youe name be Smith?"
"Well, it might 11 11 wasn't some•
thing else.",
"Have you been long in these parts?"
"Never longer than atepresent—five'
feet nine."
"Do you calculate to remalt here
some time?"
"Well, I guests I'll stay here until I
am ready to leave."
NO RELIEF FROM
PRESENT H. C. L
NO PRICE DROP IN SIGHT,
SAYS BRITISH EXPERT.
^
Normal Production is First
Necessary Before Balance
Can be Reached.
The world can expect no relief from
the high cost of living and the short-
age of commodities until the wide-
spread social and indnstrial unrest
has disappeared and the,;war shatter-
ed economic maChinery. has been put
In order, according to.Charles A. Mc-
Curdy, parliamentary secretary to the
Ministry of Food, says a London des-
patch. Mr. MbOurdy expressed this
v,iew during an interview With a con.
-respondent of The Associatea Press,
and added that he was not particular-
ly optimistic over the chances of any
marked bettermentof the situation in
the near future.
"We have Bolshevism at one end of
the world and widespread strikes at
the other," said Mr, McCurdy, "and
not until society resumgg its normal
course can we right .econoreic eondi-
tions.
"It IS difficult to prophesy regarding
the food situation of tbe future, in
view of the fact that the whole ec.ono-
mic structure of the world has been •
so badly disloeated. There is hardly -
any factor of buseices that is stable,
and we do not know what wages are
to be, As 'a result of these conditions
the regular channels of distribution
are ailbrgunized, and until they aro
normal it will be impossible to tell
what effectii,e supplies there are as
compared with the world stocks,
"While it is true that America,
Great Britain and some other own-
tries,are suinciently supplied now. so
that'there is no distress among the
People, yet this comparative abun-
dance is in reality a fictitious one, and
may not last. Great sections of the
world are actually hungry because et
the impossibility of. distributing sup-
plies properly. tbe channels or dis-
tribution were open awl the economic
conditions wore such that foodstuffs
ceuld be pnrchased by theme countmes
which need them we probably would
Mut ourselves faced with a shortage in
many things.
"For example, if the "Naples of Cen-
tral Europe should be in a position
next year to purchase the meat they
need there would be a world shortage
of several million tons, It is improb-
able that they will be able to buy, but
_It is impossible to predict so . far in
advance. I believe that a year from
now things will have been bvought 10
a head, and that the world will be fac-
ing its most criticel time.
"There are those who tell me that I
am wrong in 103' outlook and that there,
will be no shortage, but X eau figure
It no other way. There -certainly are
many countries now which are seem-
iug far below what they need in the
way of foodstuffs, awl when the time
comes for them to buy it will be -Dm
poseible to refuse them their fair
share of what the world produces. We
cannot let bne part of the world starve
while another section has plenty,
Must Return to Normal,
'There is another factor to be con-
sidered 'also. Where production has
been etinudated during the war it
must ultimately revert to normal. It
is not natural as it stands. In the
United States, for Instance, the meat
production has been 'artlitchelly sthute
lated, 'and it 19 -hard to estimate when
this temporary condition will vanish.
America next year may be an importer
of meat instead oe 33 hig exporter. -See
whet that %you'd mean to the rest Of
the world.
"On the other hand, produetion has
been crippled in many menages. In
this case the process of getting back
to normal is hkely to be slower than
in the case of the war -stimulated Pro-
.
du,c,ItnionE.urape,as a vehaia.
there is an
actual shottage of 11 per cent. in sheap
and a larger shortage in pigs. 13e-
0110ee et tiles, Europe would have to
import 1,500.000 tons et meat this cowl-
ing year, if It were to return to its pre-
wal consumption.
"In regard to wheat, the exportable
surplus of Cao world is down com-
pared with filat before the war. Im-
port requirements at the name time are
up. The same Ong is tree of butter
and iu some countriee 1t3 consumption
hoe been increased by the lack of mar-
garine. There ip also a sugar short-
age, The beet eugar production has
(Mopped off 4,200,000 tons in Europe
since 1514. The cane sugar produc-
tion of the world meantime has in-
CreaSed only 1,800,000 tons.
"In discussing prices, we must con-
sider the meanieg of the phenomenon
in North America, -where there is no
food shortage, but an exportable sur-
plus. erhe food supply is above nor-
mal, and yet the prices have adyanced
almost proportionately with the in-
crease In Great Britain, which is large-
ly an importing country. This curious
situntlon makee one realize that in
estimating food prices the eadnotnic
effects peculiar to foodstuffs are not
Ch e determinatin4 factor, but clime -
mkt conditions es a whole,
"There :teems to be a tendency in
many cc:nitric:3 to expend war wages
and prate on consumption of goods—
toed, clething, etc., to a greater ma
tent than on the purchase of raw ma-
teriale for the extension at Intl:nary,
'a may be partly due to this consump-
tion that goods on the whole have
such an upward tread since the armis-
i.
ticeee_
He who blackens other does: not
wInten Innatelf.
_ . _
e
Moho! May Be Fd of the hture •
The fuel of the °future seems likely
to be alcohol, And the very near
future at that.
As Prof. .1exancier Graham. Bell
Bala the other,. day, "No amine has
King Alcohol gone out of the back
door as a beverage than he enters the
trout -door in triumph as a fuel,"
Tmportant bee:midge in this dime.
hot beve aleeady been made. Ex-
perimental alcohol engines have been
built, and have provecl highly satistitc-
toeye Automobiles can be run by-alco-
1101 perfectly well, withmelight modifi-
cations of their macemery.
Ale01101 l 8.11 ideal Diet Its colt-
beet:Ion-is porfece, met 11 is thet•efore
sinolmiess. In burning, it resolves it -
Reif luto watee and carbonic acid, ex,
actly as it does when chemically con -
sinned in the human body.
'Before long al our, warships will be
cirtvee by alcohol, which will take the
eleee of Wel Oil, it.vt as the latter has
replaced coal. Already experimental
elcohol engines have been construct.
ed for naval vessels,
.1.1 is equally ceetain that ell mer-
chant steamships will be propelled by
%Moho] The convenience thus to be
gaitecl is obvione, as well as the
economy. Foe naval end common:fa
tree Mal statione mai seattered all
ov0i. the world, Thole sepplies of nal
or all are tetehed utimily from great
distatees, mid at such expense that
the prices charged are eetreinely high.
How different, it will be when. 110e-
11 01 told the pleee of, oil and deal, It
Oen be made on the epot, from raw Ina -
emcee eight at hand, *be can at least
be manufactured somewhere not very
far away. , At every port it be
etered in liege tanks, and au arriving
ship, wanting fuel, will need only a
pipe connection to fill um
Alcoltol will go steadily down in .price
a$ methods of making it are improved.
Already it is sold In Cuba at eight
cents a gallon. In tropical couhtries
it can be proeuced with special cheep -
'MSS because Of their luxuriant yap.
0,11111. Anything of d vegetable nature
eau bo rnadato yield aleohol. .
In am own couutry alooluel will be-
come one of the meet Important farm
precinces, A still with- a cal:ex:Re of
hundreds of gallons n. day can be built
for e500, the' apparattis being so simple
that alcohol can be turned out as
easily as cider from to. cider press.
One sech plant will consume ral the
famn wade within a minim of e couple
of wince— cornstalke and corncobs,
frost:Melee potatoes, raise apples,
etc. It May even haadle`all tbe neigh-
berhood garbase. Laws Nr•111. require
tboadmixture of a eartain percentage
ef a "denaturing" agent.
Professor tiell says: "The world's
NiALARIA AFTER..
MATH OF WAR
SOLDIERS I3RING DISEASE
• • HOME. .
But Malady . 16 An Army.
Bleelt)' One and Will Soon'
Disappear,
Two 'Very intereeting Euglieh goy -
element) reports loaned by the Local
Government Board oie the oubjeet of
Maleria heve Not arrivea in this coun-
try, apd furnish a funa ot information
.whicthnot only is 01 50101111110 entlue in
'Ethowing the lines of distribution
usuelly tollowed by thio.ditsease ite
traVels, but it indieutee unnlietale-
ably that thiseeistribution has follow-
ed in the walee of armies,. therebY nee
holding its reputation as ati army bora
tulasoulO. -.
It beppees this partleular 111.
stence that "Binglatal hao been relm
tciaecieelys utineetelifilio911116.,nemalaanryl a 4fooars oinnaonypadsse:
lug without a Muffle case being. report-
ed throughout the country. The n-
ewel ot soldiers froin Eatstern lande
where fighting was progress relm-
poeted it, and during the last summer
several hundred caeca were tabulated,
each outMhaviug received the info&
tolf,..nindfrioreenotiay.retmined ooldier, directly
Tee Lincolnshire Fens and peels of
Kent were known to he infested and
assumable' there had been a certain
immunity established among' the na-
tives, as a fen man ie exhorted not
to take a wife "out -foreign" because
she was sure to die of ague; the
speaker, a Fen man (and a fictitious
'character) having had this ill luck
three times. In some sections, as in
Kent, south of the lower Thames, ma -
hula was prevalent up to 1809-1870 at
intervals. From this time until the be-
ginning of the great war England -was
comparatively or entirely free from it.
The curious fact which has been un-
noted in tine other portion of the
world is that for decades, at intervals
only, England has been free from it.
There were large importatioes of
.fected men in 1857, 1858 and 1859 from
the Crimea. These summers at the
same time were exceptionally hot and
moist, favorable to rapid propagation
et the mosquito, The result was that
malaria existed in regular epidemic
form.
1-ias a Tendency to Die Out.
-But, the remarkable fact about all
these' incursions of malarial patients
is that in the absence of impeirtation
on a large scale malaria bas a distinct
tendency to die out ia England and
that,this occurs in spite al the eact
that the anopheles mosquito in parts
is very prevalent. How can this be
rt?he factors necessary for
acocoblvinioteudslyfo
the conveyance of malaria nre:—(1)
Men infective to the anopheles mos-
cdp:oes, (2) Active anopheles of suf.
ficient ntunhers to serve as vectors,
(3) Hemperature• euitable for the full
development ot tho parasite in the
gastro-intestinal tract of the mos-
cmito, (4) Men accessible to the in-
fective moscinitoes.
The unknown "thiTh factor" (in arle
d)tion to anopheles and infected men)
predicated as necessary for the con-
veyance of malaria and which Is ap-
parently absent in England, may have
been in Teeny eases a temperature for
much of the time so low that the full
development of the parasite• in the
mosquito took place either not at all
or SO slowly as to materially reduce
tbe efficiency of the insect as a. vec-
tor.
In 1916, 1917 and 1918 a large nine
ber of men sufferiug from malaela
were brought to England from the Bra -
kens, Gallipoli, Palestine and Egypt.
In a report made by Rose in March,
1918, 2,460 cases wore reported as un-
dergoing daring the previous ‘yeam a
epecially devised therepy to prevent
relapses, A conservative estimate
would be that from 20,000 to 30,000
men infected with malaria were
brought back to England in (.916 and
1917.Theywere scattered through-
out the island, in the villages and
cities without special effort to segre-
gate therm Atter the epidemic started
twenty-nine fOct of. infection were es-
tablished, all eases being of the ter -
Min variety.
Expect Disease to Disappear,
Then the curious fact stands out,
'With the impo-rtation of not loss than
20,000 men infected with malarici dur-
ing three Years, the total number of
casee reported as contracted in Eng-
land In two years wao only 326, some
of which were centracted from pre -
°Meting eindigenous) infection. The
English • medical authoekeps have
thotefore concluded . that ellie the bio -
1941001 conditions of tbe insect host
are such that malaria, once prevalent,
spontaneously disruppeare, that while
the introduction of the carriers, .. uo
matter in what number, may cause an
• outbreak of malaria, this outbreak will
be temporary only and nutlaria will
decrease and spontaneously disappear
if them) conditions of the insect host
romaie the SO 1110,,..
In other words, Engh. has little
to fear from chrothe malaria even if
eo many carriers were brought in MS
an afterinath of tlie war. •
To Chase Hurricanes
by Boat.
Weather reporteng is generally ;iee
gaetled as the mildest of occupations,
but it will become one of the mast ad-
venturesome mid romantic the idea
cff a Weather Bureau official l5. put in-
to effect: The plan calls for a number
of swift, staunch vessels to pursue
treplcal 111.011113 through Atlantic and
by within:1 foe the leroloietion of the
Mexican Clelf watere aud roport thimi
c.,1110. Then storm ermine:hey cen•
annual consumption of coal and oil is tee fete out nt ema, without a ffeetiug
0 enormoes that we ere now whittle la" bamMtler" until ft is tr lo 10.
measurable Signet) of the end of the
Lufe of mon Tail at, a job, not be -
melee they can't do it, but because
i hey won't.
M.' 10 etteeer and cheaper to pick out
loafing event laying hens thatt it la to
pay their With the Innen high
pica ot feecL
supply."
• As for its utilization tor power, it is
eimply it matter of deft:they modifying
machinery. 011 will Meanly advance
hi piece, 03 well as 'coal, and thus fie
evitably must aeon arrive the dawn-
ing of Lao ago ohalcehol.
,017C,a46
ta19.626a'
meheem
‘hmooti tee Nettling, 'tellotild he tined with Elebeltes Or .In.
Yee leen are freatiently taxed with
!Ming hopelosely extrevagent in Mat-
ters of ClreSS, }At 1 think many .me•ii
elee:ffielltillY culpable; mid rtly ;brother
Jim is doe of them, I readily admit
that his twee: in ties Mid Soehe and
seirts is perdiece, ane it es a lopg time
a/nee I gave, 01.) haying enythinge even
in the 'way of a preemie foe him, bee
cailschee le so difficult to pleaee..There
ie One thing wieleh 1 have often envied
him, eed that is the dainty cohnengs
•and sett material 9f his shirts,
"Mab," he remarked the other
Morriing at ebreakrest, "tem colored
shirts of mine must have Mimetic in
the washing, Or I have put on flesh
whieet I've been in the Army, fur
tried to put on three this morning and
failed. You had bettor bestow there
on one of your many proteges, or -give
thefee away to the rag -mallet
"It clew: seern a pity to waste them,
they are so pretty," I replied.
"Why not make blouttes out of
them?" he cynically suggested, know-
ing my weakness for a big stoek of
that form of garitent.
"Good idea, brother mine," said I.
"It Is the Most some:tie thing you have
said for a king &Ile,"
No sooner had he left the home,
than I went upstalles to his room,
where he had lett the shirts lying
a 'heap on theoloor. One was a pal„s
rose color, the ether an /1001,e blue,
and the third a faint, fanciful stripe in
blues and green, my favorite shades.
I unpicked the neckband the sleeyee
and the side seams, and, with the all
*I a .good shirt; pattern, experienced
no difficulty in cutting the blouse out.
The fronts were a fah' width, but a
fewepie-tucks put that right; the box -
pleat, ehe buttons, and the buttonholes
answered the same 'purpose as origin-
ally; the back, -with its saddle, requir-
ed to be cut rather smallee, and so
had the sleeves. 1 quickly ran up the
50/1111S on the machine, fitted the shill
on, and made a few trifling alterations.
The original cuffs and the pearl but-
tons were requisitioned, and saved -all
but the work of stitching them on.
A cutting of the material was utilized "Lost Provinces" of France
Lor the collar, which fastened at the Express Loyalty.
back; another scrap served for the
slot at the back for the drawstring,
and my blouse, of which /"was very
proud, looked quite .elnart,
I fell heir to his under -vests for the
same reasonh and, elated by the sue-
cesseof my former experiment, I be-
thought me of turning them to account
for winter slip -bodices. They were
little the worse for wear, and were
made of fine white flannel. I unpicked
an old bodice vehich fitted well, also
the flannels, and cut the different
parts quite easily.
Few men wear white shirts nowa-
days, and there were a dozen or more
taking space up in my brother's ward-
fobe, and Jim's suggestion of blouses
occurred again. Whe not make my-
self a few new ones, and trim them
differently and according to' fashion
and fancy? I had a well -fitting pat-
tern by ine, and it was .the simplest
thing in the world to cutethe garment
out from the body, and the sleeves
only required reducing. I applied a
sprawly design of marguerites to the
front, f,or I had cut et with a back
fastening, and I worked the pattern
in White,. with a touch of yellow silk
for the centres. I tueleocl the cuffs,
and an uncommon blouse was the re-
melt. '
The idea, in my estimation, was too
good to keep to myseete so I confided
it to my cousin, who confessed that
she had made some time -before several
dainty camisoles from old white shirts,
also two .loveey iiittle elevate, which
find fever with careful housewives
when they are wearing a nice frock
and mast undertake a little work. She
trimmed them, either with a tiny frill
of the linen or else with lace.
A. married friend of hers used her
hueband's shirts for babies' dresses
and pinafores, and also for pillow
. '
when a levet/song lamp 15 (Med her heat .
ing the beg, If an electric light is
used, the 11111114:wile not be nemessa
A sixteen candle-power light win heat
salieffebnxiglnitlai%p 4is f'91711:olei d41111nd itrill9e49-1)Gollt"-;
tem of tbe box, and a 'shallow ,pan of: •
water es placed on the lower ehelf so
that the air in the 10x will be kept'
inc'ett door is hinged and fastened
with a thumb latch oe hoole and staple.
Nuts in' the Children's Diet.
Concerning mite as food, dodoes,
disagziee, Vegetarians vale there amyl
high—too high, some physiciaps
Int:Meeting exp.erlenees with. reds as
food for children were repcateel at a
gateming of phygiciares by Dr, Scott;
of New York,City,
Nuts contain water, protein, fat,
sugar, starch, crede fibre and ash in
l ear401iol! .Bakn nut,
has
-ars
very high in nutritive value and come
Cain more eat than ape: vegetielele sub-,
steno known. In nutritive ealue, hek
add, nut butters tme far above ordem
azy ereAM butter. Dr. Scott has given
nuts to children as• a substitute :for
meat because of lihe tutrItive ethic in
intestinal fermentation.
The diecornforb of eaeing mite is due
eto faulty mastification and to the me
roneous habit of giving them to chile
dren after a hearty meal/ betweee
meals, or late at night, whereat they
shouldeform an integral port oe the
meal. Probably nut protein is pot at
easily.digested as meet protein on am
count of the -water contett 01 three.to
five pee cent. in meats. It is there-
fore, fah. to assume that the finer nuts
were divided, chopped and mashed'
the more rapid would be theimaigesti•
bility. Salt doee not make nut food
more digestible. Mothers should under..
stand the food value of nuts better,
giving a vaalety of nuts to suit the
indivedual biid, but it must be under-
stood that they are given as en ackle
lion to the diet.
Spon.ge Box or Bread Raiser.
In Making bread in cold weather the
hotteekeeper often finds it difficult to
hold her sponge or dough at the right
temperature SO that At will nee in
the required length of time. She will Aerial Freight Line for
fend a sponge box or .bread relish a Mexico.
great help iii' keeping the proper Down in. Sinaloa, Mexico, it is proa
ternsijilratabo
ure.
x'han be made from an
ordinary dry goods packing box. A.
cotivenient size is 26x20x20 inches.
About ten. etches from the 1)011001 of
the box a shelf made of slate •or strips
of we -debate on cleats fattened to the
sides of the box. A second ehelf iz
placed •foue finches above the lower
one. The shelves can be removed
when cleaning the box, On the under
side of the lower shelf, a shah of gal-
vanized' iron slightly wider that the
shelf is inserted. This piece of metal
is curved, in order to make it 'slip in
and stay in place securely. This pre-
vents scerching of the lower shelf
'when the lamp Is Pieced' below, and
also .helps to clietribute the heat more
evsenlye
ev.r
a.1 small holes are bored in the
lower avid upper parts of the siclee
and in the top of the bo.xto promote
cieculation of air. A cork whish has
been bored through the centre to ad-
mit a etemiget, thermetneter is inserted
lie one of, the holes in the top. Any Ile:teatime and due 1:o thr eimenee of
Fahrenheitchentle•al.themornetee that roach) the mining commode:, taper!.
registers AS high as one bundeed de- once much difficulty in trateportatiote
greee can be lewd. Such a tiennum A problem 101111
oietin
eldedardoisttediillog.
meter may be 11010114091?11010114091? front almost eating and illgi
any haildevare dealer. fields for th•e aircraft, 1)131)131(05(1tmaltnost
be kept, as neer eighty-six clegreett 17.
/11 po.ssible if }and is being made in levanol
The t em p ee a titre of the pox should baliiiiyof
osf.Per)st;t4itlagleri:g"littT
It Co 1110 ur
the..quick wily. Bowel:me, 11 1110 s•peuge '1.-•
ie r,t ovenight, si•kry-iive' to eeventy gars ere ecaree.
kgress Is the Letter temperature un-
til the dough itienade In the morning,
atm. \Oka tee temperature may be
Mereeeed to eighty-six elegrets, The berme the neW .Legialator,
tereperatime in the box 1151111' ha varied. "We're got 111000 411510 kun ,4) Mehl
by priming ee loweeing tee flame -02 Ititot nOW 11811 wo really each," item -
tee lamp, or by ueing WO1.111 et •eele tiziten env:0.41101 ahnis t1111-e)aw,3.0erte,,
tenter in the shellow pail, 01311? 10
To avoid all dnegee of km the bog awhile'
Another chapter in the stirring his
tory of Alsace and Lorraine was writ
ten In the French Chamber of Depu-
ties recently, when an Alsatian De -
piety; speaking In the name of Ills
twenty-three colleagues, solemnly re-
affirmed the decaa.ation of Mr. Gam-
betta in the Chamber on March 1,
1871, to remain loyal to the mother-
land. When .Mr. Gambetta made this
declaration, Germany had just torn
Alsace and Lorraine, from France.
Therefore, the long tragedy cet the se-
Delehiell has ended, and there was joy
In the heart of every Frenchman when
the Deputies from Alsace and Lorraine
took their seats. Many residents .0
the province:: came all the way to
Paris to attend the seesiop,
Among the Alsatians was Abbe WM-
terle, NY110 WaS the principal speakee.
He declared that the people of the,.
"lost provinces" had livoa tor more
than forty years -with the YiSi011 of
that day ahead of them.
"If none of you, geetlemen, have
never before seen a perfectly happy
man, you see one now," he said. "For
forty-eight years my countrymen and
I endured all, in the knowleelge that
we would live this moment.
"You'know, gentlemen, that nothing
else matters, now that we again. are
free. You, who cannot realize the
intense brutality of our German mas-
ters; cannot realize the intense joy
we feel at this moment. 'We had firm
faith in the destiny or France; our
faith has bac justified. Our people
in Alsace and Lorraine reel glad that
we are to contribute to the prosperity
and well being of our mother France.
We are resolved to work for her and
we feel quite confident that whatever
happens, the world will come to under.
stand that not only has Frence found
Aleace and Lorraine provieces 01
great material richness, for we aro
imbued with a full consciousness of
duty, and above all things with a patre
MM feeling, openly affirmed under the
most odious condltious tor over eorly
years."
paged by a British tiompeny to use
aeroplanes in the transpettation of
milling supplies and ores, The aircraft
would bo used to carry machinery and
supplies te the numerous gold and
silver mines in the State of Sinaloa
and to return with bullion Eor the mar.
kat. me particular Won is 11037, al.
though flying machines already have
been.a,dopted for certain forms of coin.
mercial usage,
Inquiries already have been made
to the British Vice Coteul at Mane
lam as to the feasibility ot the plan.
Snch au air service would operate bc.
tween the mines and the railway eta.
hons, ancl Mazatlan would be emde the
distributing point for machinery and
supplies and the c.oncentvatton point
for local milling products deetincel tot
shipment to the 'United States by *di
and weter. The planes could not be
eapected to earry but a tow tons each,
Nearly all of the mina aro located
in the mountains from thirty to more
that ono hundred and fifty miles from
01100 In Awhile.
nee great question now before ne,"
e