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BO George Trellond, the • fazisous
.at silently at hie dean, his
h,ead, a little aslant, his glissea:POised
:delicately on his finger tips. Opposite
to him etoed a young man, white and
tense with annieth, Visithig to hear
the verdict. - • '
"Well, doctor?" henmnaged to ask
hoarsely.
, "Well, Mr, --Mr, Cardew," retUrpecl
the- •nther„ glancim, at the cord oii..
his dew; 01 suppose you'd prefer that
should speak to youcniite ePiMbr
MI bluntly?"
, '"Oh, please!" begged the • ether,
with a tittle shiver or apprehension.
"Verywell,' Mr. Cardew. Let me
.
say at once that you'll have, to .,take
care -Very great care, indeed --of
kheSe eyes of yours."
"You --you don't 11104i1----" stem -
meted Cardew. "Surely net se
serios as all that?" -
"1 mean that if you wish to preserve
' yoar,sight, you •inut take six months'
holiday at least. You nAlSt have a
T.Core.plete rest, Otherwise, Mr Cat -
dew, I e4le.t answer for the conse-
quences," • .
' Understand," said Cardew
•
,• He' nbtkled his . head and: stared
round • the room as though be fOund
• the whole cledurusiance fantastic and
,incredible. • •
• .•. "You• mean Pin threatened with
Windnesa?" heasked sharply, Almost
• angrily. "Oh, hut-t-bnt You must be
niaking a mistake! Surely .you're
• Wrong, quite wrong? Oh, you must
forgive .mel" he exclaimed apologetic.,
ally, his face twisting lip •in a Wry,
pathetic little smile. "Your verdict
is a bit of a facer, you know. Blind-
ness!".
‘PCOme, come!'" urged the •sPecial-
ist. "It's not so bad as all that yet.
• - 'Six months .of laziness -that's all .I
enjoin. That's het such 0,, dreadful
request, is it? Go away Seinewhere
and do nothing; give your eyes as
complete a 'rest as you can for six
months, and I give you my word that
• you'll have nothing to fear. I suppose
you're not -not -financially Unable to
'affercl a holiday?"
"It isn't a oueStren of Money," Mut-
tered Cardew: "I can manage to keep
• myself going for six months longer,
• ,if necessary. But just • at this junc-
- ' ture my Worlv—,"•.• •
"You must put aside all thoughts Of
work;" -decreed •the specialist - -
"Easier said than done," returned
•Cardew ruefully. "You see, I. --I've
•• been working out an invention -mak-
ing the model for it, you know."
"Long hours of fiddling about by
artificial light with little -scraps of
metal," said Sir. George a trifle lin-
• patiently.. "Oh, I know! And then
you •wonder—"
"Air, but I've all but finished it
• new!" brake .in Cardew with enthu-
siasm. ",.rove, it's, a beauty! You
ought to see it, sir!, And I've as good
• .as sold it -I've only got to deliver
the model. There's only about three
more hours' 'work- to be done to it,
-4
' . "And yotiU have, to' get someone
. el se_to le th.ent for.71inte•trItPted
„. 7 8 -it George brusquely. "I absolutely -f
. 41orbid you .to touch that model! You
know the -risk you run." ,
darenit entrust the work
• to anyone 4ise," pleaded Cardew:
"It's a secret invention. I -daren't let
a soul see it till I've 7Parided it over
'to the purchasers."
' • ' •there's an easy way (int of
-that difficulty. Let them -.wait an-
- other 'six months for it, till you come
back from your holidayou-ean-fin-
iih the model then."
"NO, I can't do that, either. .You
See, I've got -An agreement with therm_
The model has to be finished by to-
, inortow morning. I have an appoint-
- went then with the purchasers. I must 11
get the thing finished to -night.
.1
•
•couldn't face it! It'aPlways been
the one thing I've dreaded' above all
others!" '
This, then, wan his mental condi-
tion when he . let hisoself into • WI
rooms, ,
INV a time be skulked. with hie
wretehednees in the darkness of his
rooms, and then, tee highly strung to
faec nnY nYinPatbotio eueriee from hie
hetiselieeper, he ,turned On -the- light
and to -oh his tea quietly enough.
, The homely glow of the lire, the air
of !donated inseparable trent the tea -
things; did much to -comfort
soothe him. He felt better, much bet-
ter, atter the meal, and steeled- him-
self into fecing the future with resig-
nation, if not with equanimity,
He rose and wandered into his
weric-room. Pot 'a moment he pansed
with' lihr-hand on- the switch' et the
-
electric „light, as though fearful that
the sight tof his beloved model Might
probe hie bruised mind too .deeply.
The he pressed down the switch, and
the big dark rooni Spreng.inte, vivid
' •
• Kb went ever. and stood by his
model, g,azing at it sadly, and thinking over. the months Which must now
elapse before he could complete it. A
tiny sdrew, only half driv,en •„home,
Caught his attention, and, almost with-
out noticipg what he• was about, he
tightened it down. There Was a Com-
panion screw to. be inserted on the
other side of the model, and this he
did, too, quite autbinatibally. •
ge Pulled hiinself up., sharply when
•.he 'found what, be had dOne. • But .the:
spell 'of Work was upon Itim
"Treilandmay have been making
mistake after all," he told hiniself:
"And, after all, a few' hours can't
make mueh difference."
His fingers were itching to continue
• their labors.
"It'll simplify Matters so if I can
get the thing done," he •muttered
weakly.
Heinserted another tiny screw, toy-
ed with some conponent part for a
few moments, and then fixed a bolt in
place.
• "I'll chance it!" he resolved. "My
eyes feel quite all right now: And to-
morrow -six months' holiday, whe,
ther it's necessary or not:"
He drew.up a chair and set to Work
eagerly... The • time slipped past, min-
ute after minute'half-hour after half-
hour. His eyes began to smart and
but.he noticed nothing, heeded
nothing, except the task which en-
grossed him.
At•last the model w'as finished7-fin-
ishe4! Cardew rose with a great sigh
of _relief and stretched.Wide•hie
He rubbed his sniarting eyes and stood
back to survey his completed handi-
work, _
And in that second darkness came
swiftly upon him.- The blackness ef
night enwrapped him about. • ,
had econ,e! The specialist
had been right. He had disregarded
Trelland's warning, he had faced the
risk, and now here was the penalty.
For a long; • long time, „ Cardew
stood inert, his brain a slow' -moving_
tangle of incredulity ,and . bewilder: -
Presently he began to feel, to real-
ize. He put out a hand and -groped
his way forward to the wok -table.•
His ,'fingers touched the model, and
he had almost the,mind to snatch 'the
thing up and fling-mit-dewn to -the
ground. '
But -17;a model? The model for
which, he pad unwiliingly learterecl•his
'sight'? No -that was all that was
left to him now. And his hand' slid
from the Metallic surfaces and fell
limply to his side. •
So this -was what_blindness• meant!
This utter darkness, this suffocating
blackness, this pitiful helpleSsness1
The land; the sky„the sun itself,_31tere.
blotted out to him .forever. Hence-
forth he. lived in a world apart ---A
world where everything was black
and hopeless!, ' He was. blind -blind!
'His fingers sought his chair, • and
e lowered himself into the blackness
vhich seemed to take dim shape be -
ore him and taunt -him --with his helP7
essness.
"1 'can't face it -I can't face it!"
he .groaned. _
Presently he heard fetitsteps draw-
ing near thedoor of his work -room.
He rose to liis feet and fumbled across
the floor. ,• He would have 'found in-
been -working very hard at it of -late,
• but my eyes' seemed to trouble me
- more and more, otherwise I- might
have: finished it .days ago.",
"I 'see," said ' Sir: George. • "And
- then you were rushing to get it finish-
• ed to -day, and your eyes smarted and
• kurnt, and -became blerr d more and
yhu came to me to -day to
. see. if I couldn't miraculously care
' them in a flash, so that you might
.Poniplete your work unhindered?'" A
"That's about the truth of it," con-
,fessed Cardew. ."You, see_hew
-•portant it is -how essential it is that..?
:X sheeld finish the affair to,day.".
• -"yes, 1 underitand," said . Mr
George. "But I. can do nothing for.
'you—nothi,ng, Time Mona -cee pat
*your e es- ri hts again Yeu
He could not discover the doer at
Ark, and"this accentuated his help-
lessness. He began to sob - the
readful tears of a man overwrought:
"Are you all right, Mr. Cardew?"
tilled his housekeeperra-, Voice- anxr
ously from the plasage. '
"Yes, quite all. right;'thank you,
Mrs. Dennington," he forced himself.
Al right,"
He was feeling his way round- the
sall,-Ectidi10w-lit had come to' 'the
doer. 'His grasp found' the and
he turned it sharply•in the lock:
."Maybe,youlra..husy-r".. suggested'
the housekeeper at that. "If so, 1
wonl disturb Yon." -
"Yes, I'm busy -very busy," ,
muttered hearsely. • '
• "Ah, I Wasn't elite whether you had
• any 'candles or not," she said. "I was
just bringing you sorne in case , you
hadn't any. ' A noosance, isn't it? I
rwork:inuat-You t� it-I...Disobey if SUPPOS it'sa fuse or,something. Any -
_ - g •
ought_le have' come to Jam ,days ago,
; first_they began to trouble YOU.
• Then I might' have.been able to help
yntr:--Il at now- - -
."Then I -I suppose lf,.mitn,a's wel
go back again,"' said -Garde*, iii a
• dull, strained voice., "I may as well
go . back again." • ,• ' .,. • ;
. "Net to that model of yours!" ex-
• clairned . Sir- George... "You • under-
- •':stand ine? I definitely and absolute-
ly 'forbid it! .Net another minutes
you like, but you know • the
, blindnessl• It'll come upon you swift-•
ly„ like the turning Pf a key in a lock.• .
thleierl"Ve. &included' renisuring,.
Patting' CiirditiOSSIMitriler; "Ihnow
• weta 'lie:116.foolisltacteignere,
my advice."• ,
ntry not to," 'said' :Cardew
• shaking 'hands, ."But ---64,: 7.YOu
understand. • It's hard -hard!". •
t ?Os, egreed Sir Georg sympath-
'etleally., ""It hard 1" •
• Out inthe opeivair dirdew's
'emotions began to comb' theMselVeS
iminb, paralysing Serprise
arid- .terrer Which lied held his • very
soul gradually Merged into less noig-
narlt feelings: The'himefulness. 'of
'youth began tb •eome to his. aid,' sus-
taining him; and, presenting to him. the
less-- clerk lispects of theposition. .
: ",ltiter all," be.told '"Itlare
• say: I ean arrange with them to defer
• . Matters for Mk imnithi. It's only
• juat a ease Of exploitation.. And. Six,
; 'Months *pass aWaY , may
' be able to think out sOM0 new idett-
• bite never knows. taught to be jolly:,
thankful I was Warted in time!"
-Arid than suddenly his sentiments
veered'imund•again to horror. •
"Blditess!" he. whiSpered, •
tor life..,•oh, I Ceultitt't faee
,
how, I've sent post-haste' for someone
to come and see to it.
"A fuse?" extlaiined •Cardew, and
'reneated -in. louder.; moke' eager 'tones:
:"Anfusel." '
"That's what I suppose' it she
ifiSviated7 'Either -that, Pitthiifi-
Wrong at 'the 'werkS., It must be one
-Or the -Othel When the electrinlighti
goes out all over the house withoutmement's warning, Mustn't it?
Gave me •quite a 'shock, it
couldn't think whatever bad la:mile:li-
ed: first." -London Answets.„
:Making Misteki, ,
., He was an urchin of the streets;
but did not lack Wits.
One day.he.SEtiV .well-dressed wp-
maw with a benevolent face coining
along. At once he dropped in a Mis-
erable hecip ah the curbstone and be-
gan to sob pathetically. .
• The ,kind lady paused 'beside hint.
, "What are: you crying' fer,
boy?" she asked gently. "
•, Stifling his sobs with: the
youngster looked up ,and replied: .
"Dunne. What have yob. gat?" '
• • ..••••••••.•alt,
There are it Chinese in the
ritish Empire; .
°UNSOLVED
.MYSTERIES
•C.F/111;8 WHICH HATE' NEY,Eit
* BEEN ,SOLVED,
•••
Casio of 'Peer Ylree Maggie Nally Re -
galls criates Never Brought
„
Home'
• '0•Willei murder against some per-
son or persons unknown"is the ver-
dict of the jury, and another great
crime is put into that Vast pigeon-
hole. whitch bolds lift -many of theiLuP.-
solved mysteries" of life, says Loll -
don answers.
The latest crime to be put into that
category is the sensational Murder of
the poor little girl Maggie Nally„ in
a waiting -ream at Aldersgate Street
Station. All the help of the Press,
all, the following-up of 'clues, all the
publieetion of photographs proved
futile, and the Spry had no alterna-
tive' but to fall back UPen the stereo-
typed ve.rdiet.• '
.-This ease hi 'almost an exact. Parellel
of another which equallykept.th.e pub,
lie upointhe tiptoa of excitement OMI
expectation for manic weeks. It was
•known ,cts the Starchfield ease, and
:again coficernecl the 'brutal matrder of
an 'Innocent • .childLis lioy-whose
hodY was dband in a traiu pn the
North Lendbri ,RalIWay. '
• •
Many Points -in Common. ,
• Altheiigh many clues Were followed;
no result- was ever. secured. The znan
who was accused of the crime, stood
his trial, and was acquitted by • the
jury, was the father of the boy. To-
day that murder remains an abso-
lutely unsolved problem.
In -many ways one crime seems- to
parallel another, and the incidents, o
both these child murders are remark,'
able in their resemblance'not the
least of which is that a railway was
used as the place for hiding the body.
When ono gees back over other un-
solved mysteries which Scotland Yard
had failed to penetrate there are many
'which come to the mind ef the stu-
dent of criminology, •. ,
Perhaps no greater sensation•
was
ever. caused • than by the series of
what were known a "Jack -the -Riper"
crimes in the neighborhood of White-
chapel, and the newspapers were con-
stantly -coming. out ;with placards • •of
"Another Ripper Murder.". Thede
crimes took their name from the hor-
rible -way in --which the bodies' -of the
victims were' mutilated, an& many as-
serted-, that they were the work of a
Smithfield butcher. It is said also
that the clue to the Man was 'Once
in the possession of the authorities,
and • that they just Missed getting
him. The generally accepted' theory
of 'these unsolved mysteries wad that
the man was an escaped lunatic with
homicidal mania. -
• Guilty or Innocent? •
This seemed to be borne out to
some extent by the fact tliat there
was a long..series of these murders --
indeed, two happened in one evening-,
thea they ceased,-ardi after an
al there was another outbreak.. Then
they eeased altogether, and the crim-
inal was never cagght.
- It seems very probable that they
were the. Work of an escaped luna-
tic,. 4Perhaps front a private .asyluin,
who was rearrested, and then escaped
again, and was then either secured
for good,or, as some say, committed
suicide.•
.What was known aa,the_.Clapham
Common murder remains in the minds
of the public -and indeed a great
'many who were present, like the
-Writer, at the trial at the .01d, Bailey
=as an unsolved mystery.
It was a case where a. man -named
?Stinie Morrison was, accused of the
Murder of -an- old mair,- with whom he
Was acquainted,' by striking, him. ?ver
the head with a bar of iron. The
V•••
•
•
, -
defence was _sensational and clever,
asking for acquittal on, the grounds
of ptitelyieireumetancial evidence; 'but
the jury held a different view, and
brought in a vercliet of guilty, with
the result that the prisoner wini sen-
tenced to death. '
The'4ere Not Satiated,
The au 04*s, however, must have
had somin-dep0 in their minds as to
the exact proving of the ease, for, al.
thee0h they did not release the- Man,
the sentence was cenorinited to penal
Servitude Or life. .,
"It is argued that this moat he an
unsolved mystery, because, had the
Ilethe Office. beca sa,tisOect,as to the
OM of the man, then, no one would
have More deserved hanging. One
of these days this 'mystery may be
solved, as May the other one in _the,
same district of London, where at man
was found SliOt on the steps : leading
tlik to. his own flat and there appeared
to be no realmn for the committal Of
the crime, and there was certainly no
trace' of the aseallant, 2, , •
Among other remarkable unsolved
mysteries was the murder of the poor
girl -Miss Camp, again iu a railway -
train, whose head was battered, in, it
was alleged', with a. heavy 'stone
pestle; but no trace of 'the murderer
was ever discovered. •
But perhaps the greatest of all
sendations in connection with Murder
faystetied is •what is ltn,own '''as!' the
Peasenhall cringe, which resulted in a
Mon '1;)eilli twice tried fer.his life at
the -ttssizei. In each case the trial
lasted a numberof, days; and neither
jury could -make up its mind'to ir Ver..
(,*
After Two * -
The min, who was the 'master of
the. servant -girl who 'wad. found mur-
dered in the house, With her clothing
deliberately set on fire by paraffin,
wile'kept in prison -for softie little
time longer, and there was talk of a
third...trial, But the Crown, deciding
that its evidence against him- was not
ufficient, dropped the case, and the
man was liberated:
- To -day that mystery is as great as
it was then. •
In the Births Marriage's, and
Deaths column of the newspapers
there appears every year an "In Me-
moriam" notice, referring to the
death of a young man who was 'feund
merdered in some weeds in Scotland.
It was a complete mystery who had
brought him to his untimely dem,
and, although strong suspicion point-
-ed in one direction, no conviction was
ever secured. That memoriam notice
ends with the quotation: ."'Veligeance
is Min; I will repay, saith the Lord.'!
The curious thing which is almost
an unsolved m-ystery-nr itself,' is the
peculiar aberration Of mind which as-
sails certain individuals in connection
'with crime, and _particularly enutders.
_ ,
What is' Their Motive?
It must be some inflated idea of
shining in the limelight of notoriety
for a few brief moments that maks
men give themselves up, self-con-
feesed of spme of these diabolical
crimes, when it is 'clearly proved that
it was utterly impossible for them to
have been anywhere in the neighbor-
hood.' •
' Such happened in -t e very last mys-
tery of the, Akleragafe Street inUrdet_
Were ii- Soldier gavehtinself up to
the police authorities in the province.
'
Hurt HisFeelings
Lytway,the butcher; had been very
busy for a few moments with a well-
known dictionary. Suddenly ° he
closed it with a Snap, and glowered at
hjs wife in the cash desk.
"That Mrs.. Smarte is getting- too
clever," he growled. •
- "What's thamatter?"- -asked- ;the -
good lady,• surprised at this criticism
-of a good customer. -
"When she crime in just now she
told me I ought to renamemy scales
thp Ambuscade brand."
"Well; why—"•
"I've just looked up the word,"
went on .the: infaicited
the dictionary says that ambuscade '
means 'to lie in weight!"
MARVELOUS
MOUNTAIN CRABS
THEY ARE POtl.ND ON' THE
ISLAND- OF JAMAICA,'
Mahe
an Annu•al rilgrimage
$trOng Prom: the Mille to
. • the Sea• •
Bryan pchvarcis, the Iiietoriati of tit
Weal; -Indies, pronounces the Moi;
tain crab of Jamaica, One b
the Choieeskeatables that natUre
licsoyhiiSt D101_±.Ter.Wterms_then.
supply of manna in thewilde
nese, equalled only by'the mitacalou
iteMity :of PrOVitielnee to the childre
of Israel when wandering in the d
sort," They are a reeetirce,- he' een
Unties, to . which the natives of th
island belie at all times resortedn fe
when all other previsions are scare
this never fails them. . '•
The;mountain or hutch, grab Sur
viles in the larger of the West In
din Islands.' Its history is 30 won
derful that it cannot fail to interes
These animals live not only in thei
retreats in ' the mountains but regit
larly once a year March down.to -th
. .
seaside in a body of some Milliond, a
a tin* , As they 'multiply in grea
numbers,- they..choose the Months :o
April Or May to, begin their expect'
tions to the •watera‘pr the: ,cleen; an
sally out 'en • the stUnipe- holro
trees, ,
From the Clefts of Rocks,
and from the'. holes where they exca
vete for themselves undeinthe surfae
of the earth. At that time the whol
ground is covered with these hand
of adventurers. The sea is their des
tination and to that -they direct thei
march with ' right -lined precision
•Th.eY tarn neither to the right' no
to the left Whatever obstacles inter
vene, and even if they come across a
house their' will attempt to sale th
walls to keep the unbroken tenor o
their way, The procession sets for
ward from the mounthiris with the
regularity of an ariny -ender the guid
ance of aii experienced comniandbi•
The night is their chief tinie Of WO
ceeding; but if it rains by day they
nof fail to profit by the • occasion
and they continue to move forward in
a slow .uniforrn manner. When the
sun shines and it is hot upon the
surfaet of the -groued,• theY
til the coollof the evening. If some,
thing happens to terrify theini they
Inarcli.' back in- a canfitsed disorder-
ly manner,. holding Up their nippers,
with :Which they sometimes tear off
pieces of Skin. • , : • .
•When, atter a fatiguing marth, and
escaping a thoUsand •.rangers -for
they are soinetimes three. months in
reaching ' the sea shote -and they
have, arrived at • their destined port,
they. prepare to east their spawn. For
this purpose the crab , has fie 'sooner
reached -the shore than it eagerly -goes
to. the edge of the water and lets the
waves wash over its body two, or
three times to. wash off the spawii.
The eggs'are hatched under the sand;
illut-some--,-days-after; '
- Millions at a Time
•
of the new-born crabs are seen quit-
ting the sea 'and cloWly trnvtliing uj
the niountains...; The old Crabs' hay'
hig disburdened. theinseked; as relat
ed above, -• generally regain their
mountain fortresses by the latter end
of June. In .August they begin to.
fatten and prepare for moulting, fill-
ing up -their 'burrows with dry grass
and. leav.es. ;When- the proper- period -
genies each retires; to his .or her -hole,
shuts up • the eatranee,,mid remains,
inactive until it • ,gets • rid of its -old
shell and is fully provided with a new
one.
HOW long they remain- in this state',
is uncertain, but the shell is first �b7
..vedtto-burst at the 'haeirdTSid'O
to give ,a passage to ' the, body,. and
the animals extract: their' limbs froth
11 other parts of their old shells grad-
ually afterwards. At this time the
flesh is inthe richest state, and. cover-,
ed only by a inembraneOus skin, dish
c lo ed v iilt,,thisjuitdenalg •
dually, and Soon becomes a perfect
shell, like the, one •recently cast.
It is,.hoWever, remarkable that during
this change, there are Stony -secretions
always found in the bag, which waste
nd,..diasolve ,e.S -the--create •fOrma
and perfects its new shell.-• • '
. •
..." A Graceful Hostesg. • ,
There akre- iiiitracfoit4 Persons, ,.
vhom a certain Mrs, .Gomer onet
enemy has, the effect of Axing
many of his men to the sk_i and of
kedping•-therii- eaitariely • mit'Or threat •
of an attack. if sucli--'attatk take's;
place, it can only be crowned •• With
complete success after making
breeches, by the ,destruction . of ' the
accessory defences, and the silencing
of thc. flanking fire. These .results
may be ,aehieved. by heavy' artillery.
fire, and even by .the prolonged use
of machine guns; it has 'beeri found
thet With 1:0,000, cartridges a .gap of
some twenty. yards- can be made.•But
these methods' Ate. noisy, and nitIA,
to remain effective, inimediately pre-
:reder•-the---attack. Hence -their use,
warns the -enemy -that iitls-Voillet-O
take place. He is then .0n his guard,
alytake: flying positions, the.
breaches made are'immediately swept
by a linking -fire, Slid the suceess of
the attack is all a matter of chance. '
• Listeners at Work.
The prehlem was hew to find. the
IlleStS of making 'o breaeh , in • the
enemy lines and abruptly destroying
his flanking dispositions at the very
moment the troops leave for the at-
tack. The solution has,. been, solved
'by mine wiirfare. Mine chambers,
placed..under the accessory defences
or under the machine guns of the en-
emy ;take the broaches,. The difficulty
is to place the chambers tilt vital
points.
The enmity knows their iMpottande
and' protects their' by a systein of
emihter-kititi cliarged as soot, as
the ur,§All,§ l'te attackers indicate, e
resort to n locate • these,
listen it fire plo,ced the .end of 'tich
branc e of the , counter -mine, Wbon
the Arid noises 'are repotted, sui ble
meitinies are taken. Mine warfare
thell beg* * catilePtt Qoaittigt
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Prevent Soil 'Brosion, ,
One Of the gravvet Problems et the
frMera Of t0414i who are living on
y ands is how to prevent soil ero-
PiPM kWh Of the Washing of farm
Jadertetipa, seoransbetpormevaekneteda sbuybteprrIp4winvieang
reservoir for the storage ef precipita-
tion. l'he water- penetrates readilY
•through the loose soil and_its_move
en t througi; the underlying soil is
very. much slower than over the sur-
face.. ,Frequent props 6f• Clover Or
grasa which are Awed under make
the Surface •801 spongy with hurnus
aawndayr.etard the washing of the sell. Ali
of the careless .farmer from washing
hilly lands liable to wash shOuld have
warranty deed will not- keep the soil
a 'cover ere') during the winter. ,
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. • Oat Hay:
If, for any reas6a,"yoa will be short
of hay. this season or a wind has
osamtattshae7d1 the, oats dOWIt SQ :Nrgli -can', t
bind them, why not make them into
'Cut who in the -early Milk stake,
of thetgrain Ind, cure aa. you ,;1!rould
flhAerttohnhoyf coraotph. ay contains 86 pounds
of digestible protein and a ton of red
favor of the clover, so you see this
clover 133 pounds -only .50 pounds, in
makes a very good hay for growing
ether *1/, Barley ilia, rye, can 156'
used in. the sante wity't$ heli out ' a'
stock or flaky cows.. . • .....,,,„.
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Feeding Geese. • •
Geese require plenty of green food,
which they pluck from the • growing
plants and plenty of water as a swim-
ming pool during the summer. When
they, have this, the . old geese and
ducklings, that are ,past four weeks
old, will not need to be fed 'during the
summer. A feed of •moistendd meal
once a -day, hastens -their growth, 'but
where there' is plenty of herbage_
green 'and fresh, from- which theYean
pluck their food, it will .not be neces-
sary to feed them, providing there is
plenty -of water for them to Swim in.
OUT. Bird Friends: '
Nothing has a more potent u.ttrae-,ly on insects and worms. .
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tion. for birds. 'during weather
i• than firinhin.g 'and. bathing plum.' The.
• • .0,
. ..s water supply 511011M -1w a- pool
not more than ,a, few inches 'deep, tho -
'hattom sloping graduallY tOWard the
Both .botteM and edge .sliou14
be rough, so AS, to afford A safe foot., •
ing, A .giant pottery nonce; is
Omelet* device or the poel. MaY be
made_ of concrete =wen
.
surface13 roug. ended, •
-The bird bath may be elevated or
an . .
eti7hee ground if 1: et nienit tin voineanoispale7.
preach too near. . A water :suPPlit
.,,zeprr,epiated in winte.r a.a 71! AS Stitt
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A -Good Side Line,
, A profitable side line of farMingie.
to raise a few nice sheep,„every year '
for men *Ito are willing to pay a bit
extra for the salm'of improving their
stock,. To- do. this one, should have
good stock and, go'od :-..pastures and
good barns, as well as a good man to
care for them. • • •
In -disposing otsuo stock, he fair
about It. A reh'sena,hle profit is 'an:•
right. If you try -to (wade the matter
you will'break down,, and .bet, driven
out of 'the business.
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Cause of Bad Habits.
Feather eating and feather pulling
are caused by confining the fowls and
leaving them idle. To prevent their
getting titexice or to cure thein When
-they have acquired the habit, give
them plenty of 'great:10d Ineineat
Seraps' and. give them plenty of exer- •
else by making them work, for their ..
food. ICeep them busy. Rub the fowls, ,
that have:been plucked with carboiated
vaserine.
. • Protect the Birds.
The birds eat millions of 'Insects
that, if left, aleneiyoidd_ destrey
liens of dollars' worth of fruits and .
grain, Of -course,•sinne kinds of birds
are pests, lint you need not -have niany
Of those kinds on ,your farni.if yoh
will. spend a little time studying birdStudy their habits ef feeding and
nesting. Prepare homes f9r:only,t10
kindk. the ones that feed chief -
MINE WARF E
NEW PROB
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WHEN THE .T,REI4tHES COME
• CLOSE TOGETHER.
"'Listeners" Guard Against Explasion
• Oft the Enemy by •
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Countermining_
Trench 'warfare .has gractuliy and
-by •force of circumstances •led to
/rune warfare. The firs ine of
trenches in the: fighting zone consti:-
tutes tin advance& defence of points
of support ivillages, woods, chateaux,
farms, deep roads, etc.); and serves to
establish communication between
them. So long as the two adversaries
are net in 'complete touch with one
another and remain separated by dis,
twice Of -.POO to 690 yards, this ad-
vancedeline is not tontinuous, being
simply occupied by sentries :and pick=
ets Wh b I p and.
then by sapping; the advanced lines
are brought sufficiently close to
make all progres'S impossible without
heavy_losSes.__ from -bombs- and. --gren-
ades mine-;wartare commences. -
In this new phase the distance be
tween the French and German
.trenches varies from about 25 to 50
yards. By. a rapid'. and Unexpected
rush it would seem easy to throw one-
self into the enemy positions.
riving laps,
' But while. the works of the. attack-
ing party. advance, the enemy in his
turn has linked up the elementsof his
advanced line, flanked. them with nu-
merous machine gans,eqnipped theta
with bomb -throwers, 'arid Minenwer-
• fer, and thrown front of the
parapets network of iron Wire, acces-
sory defences ef all kinds, '
• Thus the Simple fact- of -driving -
Is
saps and parallels clese`up to. the
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1:T1 ..:VtrAntik451:
DRITISli ARMORED eRUISEP. f ESSEK oFt. suFroLK CLASS.
AS seen Por -r
.1'Ht SAME; WARSI-hP SEIti-FOO
BRITISH Cli.i.TISEB DOES'
m STA OPD SIDE,.
LIGHTNING CHANGE ACT
• The British armored cruised of the
Suffolk and Essex elms which follow-
ed .the America's Cup yachts appeared
off Ambrose Channel, Light Vessel
recently and it was noticed that she
iss 'equipped to do lightning chenge
on the high sena, .
Her port side is the same as it
was originally, painted a (hill, dark
gray. , But on her starboard side her
tmv has been painted out with sfl,
vet* white color that is not discern-
ible at a distance. .
This todd Paint is &tried in a line
along her 'topside and down around
her start,. making her appea6itce
Mall, and at the bow the painting•it
carkied out in a 'curve giving :her
the appearance of having an old clip-
per stern.
Painted revolving • screws • also
have !seen, placed, Above two of her
three funnels, the fore and aft ones,
The SereCil8 have. the disappearing
paint on one side only. •
• To identify. hereelf to a friendly
flag she has only to show her • port
side. If in doubt of a vessel she falls
in with or of she. wishes to disguise
'herself she need only 'show her star-
board Side. Then she can.' appear as
elipper 'hulled vessel with either one,
two or three funnels; •
'ale-. cannot,. de Anitthing for them -1
-selves or „anyone else without magni-
rig_•the.difficultfeb of• the task.
If IVO: Gamer,. baked a cake „or pre-
"Pared-ra &Pedal- --tlish"see',AiUraYe
marked at the table; "Land sakes., it
ought to be good! It was a tiirrible
job! I neatly roasted myself overthe
stove baking it!" ' •..
If she sat up' with a sick: neighbor
she Spent .the :evening telling Wyo.%
what ii, "turrible mess"..she •had left
• her house in, and how difficult* was
.,tor her -to- get AwaY, and hew hard 'she
:wont& have, to- Work. the next :day to
Make up 'for It One afternoon while
Mrs, Curtis, her next -doer neighbor,
was .away, het 'sister unexbdotddly ar
ved-frem-anether-city. .
•Genier; 'N-Isitur and
her grips oii the. Curtis front patch,
ittt/rltnOwitrilw r-fittIS 7' WPTIS-6---Z WS' U their
locked, invited her to come over to her
boost. and utdit. for her sister's retUre.
That evening, when both families
Vete on their front, P 0 tell eS, Mrs ..Cur.
OS called actoss,: :•
Mrs: Goiter, 1 intiSt thank'yon
for taking iny slstek She says. you
on•tertained her all. the' afternoon."
."Yes,"-replled Mrs. (lamor; "and. it
Was a 'terrible job; too." • .
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Lisps. • •
Father -What did yeti and JOhn talk
'aboilt last might dear? . •
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Daughter -Oh, we talked about our
-kith and kin:
, Small .Brother-Yetli, imp, heard
'em -he seth, `Mit I hey a kith? an:
she Sets) A"Yith tau' kin!"
Easy Money.'
Stnde (trying to pick : her up) -
The fellows: het me a dollar I didn't
dare to speak to you.% You don't
mind, do you'?
Beautiful Girl -Not at all Bun
along IIOW and get your dollar.
by listening. is established. Some -
Hines the entangleinent of .galleries
and branches is stick that An enerflY
gallery isarrivedat Or even a chain-,
ber discovered; ;thereupon the feses_,,...
are iininediately cit. ' -
• Don't Suffer Themselves.
Mr. Andrew ,Carnegle, apropes-of the
“rePrisale, Which Make ,tlie wprId-war
more horrible, said ht a. leneheou:-.
"Has- it occurred tO . you that the
Gernia,ns who ordered thege cruel
prisals are old, fait, Oft fellows, seated • -
on• leather , cushions In luxurious
offloes?_ They-__xlituft...sufferAhaniselveS•-•7
so much .as a Ma prick_ They rather
remind me of the mother who broight .
hevlittle boy le sph_ool and said, 'This
little boy of minteachsr,__is_mer
cate.• So we:mustn't whip him. if he.
, does anYthing,bad-and I knew he •will
-just whip the boy nSxt.to him. That
will give him a good spare. and bring
him round, maybe,'" •
Fickle Youth.
Al Ge ge came to our houie-
every evening for 'three•months.
• •• •
don't knovi. whether he got •
tired of my company or just wanted
to hear all our ' inusic Machine re-
cor s.
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Men are Brave; and all that, put,
when one of them, is sick he grunts _
twice as much as a sick woman.
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OVERBLOUSES .4,',AXID BOLEROS ,
THE VOGUE POit C30.t.LS.
There is nothing, perhaps, that har-
monizes better .with the young girl's
figure than overblouses. And boleros,
Those have been exceedingly popular
this' season, due in no small measure,.
not alone to their good looks'but to
their practicability. - A very delight-
ful dress with an overblouse is Ladies'
Home Journal Pattern No. SOO,
shown above. The underwiiist opens '
in front and has a roll collar, Ipli :
length plaits at the hipe.„, The etilli. 1
Mouse slips on over the lead iind is I
held in place by a belt. Thelattern I
cuts in sizes 14; 16, 17 an, la years, I
reTirpi i',..eize Ajv yiv,r40 of,
Sq. ocA, 9ria Ith UV yaXcli. 0 ,
ma dial o thhiletili tA;.-... ,, l'.14`•
Pattern 1t coits 00,N, ArAti oo.... I
chased at In4 lodal Ladies' HOMO. '''
1
otirnal. Pattern, dealer, or from The
flonto Pattern, '. CompanA 14-A0*
George §toet,lotonto Outololi,
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