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Befóte the Ball I love— eet ees unselfish. I cannot take you front your people!” • • • • • • • “ Dorlutul, why aren’t you getting enguged to Alleen Vickery these days?” Stafford F ife asked lightly some weeks later. “ It’s very appar ent she’s only waiting fo r you to speak.” By S. B. HACKLEY “ Perhaps— ” Dorland hesitated, “ but I— I'd be depriving myself of the P H W W W W % * W H »% H W »V W right to love the girl who refused to (Copyright, 1919 , by the McClure .N e»»- marry m e!” paper Syndicate.) "And who's she? The French Hon All the way home Dorlnnd, newly tamer o f the circus?” F ife hazarded made junior partner of the Lasley Jokingly. Dorland nodded. Vickery company, thought of his “ God— man— you hardly know her, mother’s lust letter. “ Alleeh's been going out with W ill and she— she— why, she doesn’t even Carey ever since you’ve been away,” speak good English!” F ife stammered. Mrs. Dorland overheard in a kind of the letter said. "W ith W ill’s being so handsome, and Alleen a bit fickle, horror. When F ife was gone she re and Arabella Avery encouraging the monstrated with tears o f rage. “ I wisii the creature w tre dead!” tnateh, the Avery ball may mean the climax of things, lteally, son, I think she fumed, almost beside herself. ” 1 wish the wild beasts might kill her— I you ought to hurry home.” H U mother was so keen for his do, indeed, then you— ’’ Dorland rose. “ Do not trouble your marriage to his rich partner's daugh ter. And Alleen— Alleen was charm self further, mother,” he said. “ She’ll not marry me unless you go to her ing— he believed that he loved her. At Corbin Junction Stafford Fife and ask her to bless you in that way.” The next week Dorland went to the greeted him. city again. Mademoiselle Cheronnet “ Train's two hours late, Frank.” Borland's pleasant dark face cloud was at the animal quarters by a sick She was thinner, he ed a bit. F ife laughed. ‘‘Take off lion’s cage. that frown, Frank ; you’ll see her to thought, and weary looking. “ I cannot bear It,” she told him night, anyway. L et’s go to the cir tremulously, "that you come to see cus.” Twice daily for four years Mile. me. Thees must be the last time— the Jeannette Cheronnet had entered the very last tim e!” Presently a keeper brought a young cage o f the performing lions, and Dor- land had neither known nor cared. cockerel to tempt the sick beast. But today when he watched her mov When he loosed it, it flew to a cage ing fearlessly among the fierce beasts o f panthers near, and Dorland thought that at the end o f the act began to lessly sprang forward to seize it. growl and lunge, his face paled like With a cry Jeannette flung herself in one who sees his beloved in danger front of him. H e slipped to the ground with her desperate push, but she fell and is powerless yto help. “ Buck up, old man!” F ife laugjied. against the cnge. Two keepers sprnng “ The lions are used to her. They to her assistance with forks and wouldn’t hurt her If she were to fall 1” clubs, else she would have been dragged into the cage. In nn anguish “ Much you know about lions, m an!” Dorland knelt beside her. a man next them excjylmed. “ That “ Oh, love, why did you try to save girl takes her life in her hands every me?” time she goes in that ca ge!” She opened her eyes. “ Mon ami— Another half moment and made mon cher a m i!” she whispered, “ I am moiselle was turning to bow her ac happy, so happy eet—.was— not— you. knowledgments to the applause. Ile r Kiss me once— for good-by.” brown eyes, clear and innocent, met Three hours later Dorland’s mother Dorland's. she caught her breath and came to the circus quarters. She had hurried out o f the tent. The sawdust received a telegram : “ It >is as you under her feet had turned to .shining wished, mother, only she’s given her gems, the shabby eanvns had become life to Save mine.” spun g o ld ! “ It was him or her, ma'am,” the “ She’s got to have her rest after the keeper told her. “ She took death to nervous strain o f her act,” the mana save him.” ger o f the show Impatiently explained But at the hospital they told his to Dorlnnd. “ She’s got to sleep until mother there was a ehande that Mile. the evening performance. And she Cheronnet would live— to bear terri don’t like hangers-ton!” ble scars on her arms and body. “ But I ’m not a ‘hanger-on,’ ” object At the end of the week, when the ed Dorlnnd. “ I want to be properly- little lion trainer was able to speak to introduced to Mile. Cheronnet.” | her, Dorland’s mother bent over her, “ A reporter, eh? Well, maybe she’ll i her eyes overflowing. “ My dear—my give you five minutes.” dear,” she besought her. “ let me bring Still in her spangled chiffon stage the minister— the priest, If you will— and let him make you my daughter costume, mademoiselle appeared. “ I am afraid o f the lions for you,” today 1” “ You want me?” The girl's brown Dorland found himself saying. A eyes widened; joy shook her bandaged warm color suffused the girl’s face. “ It ees for me, monsieur, you fear? form. “ You want me? Oh, Francis, It ees kind, most kind, monsieur— but tell them to lift me that my dear* they love m e ! The creatures have mothaire I may kiss. And bid the known me thees long tim e; they love, father com e!” m e !” “ And so do I !” echoed Dorland’s SACRED TOOTH OF BUDDHA heart, “ even I who have known you but an hour!” Relic Held in Such Veneration That It “ I wish you worked In a store or Is Exhibited Only Once in some other safe place!” he murmured. Five Years. “ But, monsieur,” she objected, “ I must have more than a clerk’s To make full confession. I had not m oney!” even known that the festival would fall When her parents had died, she ex in the year o f our visit, not to speak O f course, every plained. the great-aunt who had lands of the very week. and money had taken her in, but not lover of the East has learned that the Luclle, the sister wh<f had married be Scored Tooth Is exhibited every five neath her family. • And now Luclle years for the adoration of the faithful, was dead, and her crippled husband and in the Interval neither prince nor and her little children were, oh, so millionaire can obtain n glimpse of its venerable form. Both the official head poor! "M y aunt and my cousins cast me of Buddhism in Ceylon nnd the Brit off when I took the trnining o f the ish representative would have to agree lions— but it meant money, and I could to any departure from this usage, sc not let poor Gaston and the mother the rule Is strictly observed. One In stinctively asks why the relic Is sc less ones starve, monsieur!” sacred. The history of this solicitously Could she see him again soon? n or guarded treasure, ns narrated by the land nsked when he arose to leave. Singhalese priests, may be summarized She hesitated. There was little time as follow s: When Buddha’s body had on the road, but if monsieur were been burned, an Arahnt took an un ever to be in the city In which the consumed fragment from the ashes of circus went into winter quarters, it the funeral pyre. This was the left might be possible. The managers cm lne tooth, destined to become the paid her to stay there and teach the most celebrated of the many wondrous lions. relics of the founder of the faith. After At the ball. Alleen Vickery, looking n rather peaceful existence o f about like a lily in n blue vuse, beckoned eight centuries, in the southern peninsu to him. “ I want you to show me the la, It became so famous, and created fish in the lake.” such disturbance in the Brnhmntic Along the sanded path she clung to community thnt It was surreptitiously his arm, screaming at a leaf's rustle. carried to the Buddhist center in Cey “ I’ve been wanting to see the fish lon, concealed in the tresses o f the playing by moonlight so long, but Princess Kalinga. Naturally, such a Nora and I were afraid to come over priceless possession proved the cause here alone 1” of International strife. Once, at least, Dorland listened with strange intol it was carried back to tfce mainland of erance. A fraid in that flower-filled India, but was recovered by Prakrama garden, by the broad light o f the Kalin III, to become once more the moon! And at that moment that oth source o f untold blessings.— From er girl, as delicately tender, was ex “ The Festival of the Tooth,” by posing her delicate body In a den of F. B. R. Heliums, in Asia Magazine. Hons that others might have daily bread! Stuck on Them, Anyhow. A fortnight later and Dorlnnd stood J. Ogden Armour, t defending the in the little parlor o f Mile. Cheron- meat packers, said at a dinner in net's boarding house. Washington: •I want you to quit showing the “ Our opponents wouldn’t say such lions,” he told her. “ I am afraid for hard things nbout us If they rend out you. I* love you— let me take your j statements correctly. Our opponent* borilens on my shoulders, Jeannette." misread and misunderstand. They She grew white. “ You mean— ” she are like the little child. “ A Sunday-school teacher asked a breathed, “ you mean, monsieur— ?" " I want you to marry me, Jean little child: “ ’What do you know about Solo nette.” Her color came back but she drew mon?* ‘He was very fond o f animals,’ th« back from his outstretched arms. “ I cannot — your relatives — they child replied. “ ‘Yes? Why do you think so?* said would not receive me, mniMeur!” “ But you love me?” persisted Dor the teocher. “ ‘Because the Bible tells us,’ said land. “ Mats on l!” she confessed. “But the child, ‘that he had a hundred wives 1 ot ° thin .s not o f Itself! The true and nine hundred porcupines.' ” * POULTRY TOBACCO R ESISTA N T TO ROOT-ROT FOUND ♦ n e r a • Trouble Is Caused By a Fungus Which Lives as Parasite. PROPER CARE OF INCUBATOR Eggs Should Be Even-Shaped and Me dium-Sized— Best Results Secured If Turned Paily. (Prepared by the United States Depart- Poultry raisers place great depend . ment o f Agriculture.) ence upon the early-hatched chicken on I f two varieties o f tobacco, Con account o f its greater vitality, making necticut Havana und White Burley, fot a more vigorous growth, escaping the instance, are planted side by side on ravages o f disease anil inserts, develop ground which has Just grown two or ing into early maturity, and the pullets three crops of Burley, the llavauu from this hatch becoming profitable seed in most instances w ill produce luyers in the early winter senson fo l from two times to one hundred times lowing. As a rule it is also true that as much ns the Burley. If, however, eggs produced in the early part o f the these two varieties are planted where season will show a higher percentage tobacco has not been grown fo r sev eral years and on soil which is not “ tobacco sick,” the Burley w ill produce as large a crop, acre fo r acre, as the Connecticut Havana. The cuuse of the low yield in the first case is root- rot, a disease the Connecticut Havana is able to resist, but to which the Bur ley is susceptible. For several years specialists o f tile United States De partment o f Agriculture have been working to develop by selection a type o f Burley as resistant as some o f the cigar varieties, but which w ill still possess the yield and quality o f Bur ley. During the pust three years these strains have been tested In Kentucky. In these tests the resistant strains have made average normal growth A Good Incubator Hatch. each year, while ordinary Burley pro duced practically nothing. o f fertility than those produced later The Importance o f this disease Is ip. the season. Care should be taken in saving eggs for the incubator. Se shown by the fact that recent careful lect even-shupe, medium-sized eggs, observations over a _ considerable part and keep them in a cool place. Bet ter results w ill be secured if these eggs are turned carefully every day. Do not keep them over ten days or two weeks before putting them In the In cubator. Before setting up the Incubator give it a thorough cleaning inside and out. Remove all the trays and scrub them with hot soapsuds. A fter they have dried brush the entire inside o f the in cubator and all the trays with wood alcohol. Clean out all the lamp flues to see that there are no cobwebs or carbon deposit ; also, that these spaces have not been used for mice nests in the winter time. Clean the oil cham ber o f the lamp with hot soapsuds and remove the old wick from the burner and boil the burner in a soda solution fo r 15 or 20 minutes. Run the incu bator for 48 hours to get the thermo stat properly adjusted. A fter running the incubator five days, test the eggs and remove those that are infertile. Now is a good time also to clean the brooder. Give it a thorough coating with some good disinfectant, fix a clean, dry place fo r the young chicks when they are hatched, and, if possi ble, keep them removed from the main ' o f the tobacco-growing section o f the flock until they are half grown.* United States have shown an annual damage o f millions o f dollars. The loss in Kentucky along Is believed to HIGHER PRICES FOR CAPONS exceed easily an average o f $2,000,000 annually. Fowls Grow Larger Than Cockerels, Root-rot Is caused by a fungus which Are Easily Handled and Flesh lives as a parasite on the roots o f the Is of Better Quality. plant. This fungus can grow into the The principal advantages o f capon- roots and feed on their tissues which izing nre thnt the capons grow larger results in decay. It can live on dead than cockerels, make more economical organic matter in the soil, but In the growth, are more easily handled, sell absence o f tobacco plants it gradually fo r higher prices, nnd nre more eco dies out, though this may require from nomical for the consumer on account five to ten years or more. The disease o f less wnste In dressing nnd cooking. spreads much in the same w ay us Tn addition the flesh is o f better qual other diseases o f plants and animals. The most characteristic symptom ity. A statement from the Ohio College o f root-rot is a decay o f the root sys o f Agriculture says: “ Do not sell late- tem resulting in a stunting o f the Curiously enough, root-rot hatched cockerels as broilers unless o f plants. the Leghorn or other light-weight rarely kills the plant In the field. Aside breeds. Cnponize them nnd market from becoming stunted and yellow the after the holidays nt weights o f six to diseased plants may show w-llting even ten pounds each. Increase the supply in very moist soils on days when to o f poultry meat and make n larger bacco In healthy soil, and other crops, show no wilting. The depleted root profit on the chickens you raise.” system is not able to take up water as fast as the leaves use it. WATER SIPHONED TO GARDEN Ample Supply Obtained During Dry Summer Spell by Using Reserve Stock in Cistern. be over The best food for young ducklings is stale bread nnd skimmed sweet milk. • • * Overfeeding the young chicks is like ly to be Indulged in by many, especial ly the beginners. • • • Feed chicks lightly until they are eight or ten weeks o f age. A fte r that they can be forced. During the dry months last summer we assured a rich return from our home garden by Irrigating our vege tables from the house cistern which was on land higher than the gnrden. A hose was employed to siphon the water to a main ditch, from which ex tended lateral ditches between the rows o f growing plnnts. By carefully conserving our supply we had water • • • Good healthy chicks s’an be raised | by properly taking care o f the hen and chicks or o f the brooder. • * « It is in warn? weather that lice and mites thrive on the chickens; they will cause little chickens to die. • • • A t the present prices o f fertilizer it pays every farmer and poultryman to save the poultry manure. • • • Always have your coops and brood ers perfectly dry. A good litter for chicks to scratch In Is cut clover or alfalfa or the chaff from the barn floor. • • • I f the chicks are kept free o f vermin and are kept out o f the rain and dew, they will grow fast and will be but little trouble as the weather wUl be warm most o f the time. _____ A MYSTERY The river hemmed vrith living trees Wound through it» meadows green; A luw blue line of mountains showed The open pines between. One sharp, tall peak above them all Clear Into sunlight sprang: I saw the river of my dreams The mountains that I sang! Most Characteristic Symptom of Dis ease Is Decay of Root System Re No clue of memory led me on But well the ways I knew; sulting in Stunting of Plants A feeling of familiar things — Tests Being Made. With every footstep grew. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The brooder should not crowded with chicks. • • * 1 1 FOR SPORTS WEIR fs m m m ■¿WXÍÍÍZ Siphoning Water With a Hose From a Cistern to a Garden Occupying Near- By Low Land. enough to last all summer. By cork ing the hose at the downward end, and filling It with water before placing the other end In the cistern, the siphon la started by the flow o f water caused by removing the cork.— K. M. Kog- geshall, Webster Grove, M o„ In Popu- lai Mechanics Magazine. Not otherwise above Its crag Could lean the blasted pine: Not otherwise the maple hold Aloft its red ensign. So up the long and shorn foothills The mountain road should creep: So, green and low, the meadow fold Its red-haired kine asleep. The river wound as It should wind, Their place the mountains took; The white torn fringes of their clouds Wore no unwonted look. Yet ne’er before that river’s rim Was pressed by feet o f mine, f^ v e r before mine eyes had crossed That broken mountain line. A presence, strange at once and known, Walked with me as my guide; The skirts o f some forgotten life Trailed noiseless at my side. Was It a dim remembered dream? Or glimpse through aeons old? The secret which the mountains kept The river never told. But from the vision ere It passed A tender hope I drew, And, pleasant as a dawn o f spring. The thought within me grew. That love would temper every change, And soften all surprise, And, misty with the dreams of earth, The hills of beaven arise. —Whittier. Waist, Formerly a Smock, Is a Prime Favorite Now. New Sweaters Placed In Blouse Class and the Masquerade Proves a Success. The return o f our victorious war riors brings renewed interest in all outdoor sports. G olf courses are aUve with players, many o f whom have been absent during these war years. Tennis courts are gay with pretty girls in bright-colored sweat ers und young lads Just back from France. There is a revival, too, notes a cor respondent, o f some old-fashioned sports. People have even tuken to bicycle rldiug again. But most Inter esting o f all Is the coming buck o f archery, the sport that flourished In the days o f “ Merrle England.” Every body Is learning to “ string a bow.” Ail this has given nn impetus to spor| clothes, and in them there Is if wel come departure from the conservative tailor-made things o f past seasons. The sport waist, which form erly was a silk or linen skirt, and always tailor-made, has passed through many incarnations. Once it was born a smock, another lime a batiste affair with fluffy frills to flutter nround the neck and down the front o f a tuxedo- cut sweater o f bright-colored silk. I saw a Frenchy little overblouse o f sheer white net* masquerading as 8 M others’ Cook Book The poppy blazes In the sunshine, the grain fields are ripening Into golden splen dor, and the butterflies and humming birds seemed to have gathered the gorgeous ness of nature's loveliest hues and Im prisoned them within their folded wings. Some Summer Sandwiches. Sandwiches are a most popular form o f food which will be served freely during the warm wenther. The fol lowing may be suggestive: Picnic Sandwiches. Take French rolls, cut off the top o f each and then with a spoop scoop out all the crumb, leaving the shell with a small opening at the top. Mix together four chopped olives, one pickle, a tenspoouful o f capers and one lurge green pepper, chopped fine. Add three tablespoonfuls o f finely chopped boiled tongue and mix with the white meat of a chicken chopped fine. Moisten with mayonnaise dress ing and fill the r o ll; replace the top nnd arrange in a sandwich basket, serving at once. The filling may be added the Inst minute' so that the shells w ill not become soaked. Potato Sandwiches. Mash four good-sized boiled pota toes, add a teaspoonful o f salt, four tablespoonful» o f thick cream and the yolks o f four hurd-cooked eggs rubbed to a paste, n dash o f cayenne and two tablespoonfuls o f olive, oil; mix well, and when a smooth ppste is formed spread on slices o f brown bread. Gar Coat of Old Blue Silk Is Quilted In nish the top with cress or lettuce. White. Chicken Salad Sandwiches. These may be propnred ns the pic nic sandwiches nnd filled with chicken salad, or the chicken salad may be finely minced and spread on buttered bread. sport smock. You would never have known it ns net at first glance beenuse the material wns so well camouflaged. A running stitch o f bright green wor sted was used to mnrk off Its entire surface In Inch squnres, then about every third square wns darned in Sardine Sandwiches. solid with the green yarn. Around Cut slices o f bread a half-inch thick, the waist went u nnrrow strip knitted butter after toasting nnd trim off the o f wool. crust. Remove the skin nnd bones from snrdlnes, lay them carefully over BLEND WITH SUMMER’S TINTS the toast and sprinkle with chopped olives and capers mixed. Add a tea Trlcolette Popular for Various Gar spoonful o f lemon Juice and serve cut ments for Seasonable W ear In in any desired form. the Country. Lettuce and Cucumber Sandwich. Butter thin siloes o f white bread, then cover with a slice o f cucumber nnd a bit o f lettuce with salad dress ing. Fruit and Nut Sandwiches. Put through the ment chopper a quarter o f a pound o f almonds with half a pound o f chopped figs with a cupful o f pecan meats, mixing them while grinding so that they w ill be well blended. Pack the mixture Into round baking powder cans, pressing It In firmly. When wanted dip In hot water to loosen and cut In very thin slices with a sharp knife. Place be tween rounds o f buttered bread. "H u j U c ")v u *w ti£ . Concerning Tax Returns. Trlcolette Is used fo r many o f this summer’s country clothes. Straight- gathered skirts o f this material have overblouses to match, either with or without sashes. These are embroid ered In angora or ribbozlne, which Is a narrow silky braid. From the house o f Callot comes n suit In which two different colors o f trlcolette are cleverly used. The up per portion o f the dress Is champagne color featuring the lines o f the smock or overblouse, while n slate-colored skirt Is girdled low on the hips with a sash nlso o f slate. One o f the new long scarf collnrs matching the sash Is stitched across the back o f the neck and allowed to fall loosely, or It may be worn wrapped around tho neck like a sweater scarf. Callot also hns made a remarkable sports cape o f rose-colored tweed with a lining o f pink and white pep permint striped silk. The long cloak has a shoulder cape like those worn by tho West Point cadets, and from Ihe back of this Is swung a large hood lined with silk nnd draped to reveul this lining In an effective way. Nonresidents, Including returning loldlers will have 00 days a fter the proclamation of peace fo r filing tax re turns. The extension wns announced by Internal Revenue Commissioner Itoper. The Internal revenue bureau's Headgear for Little Girls. ruling thnt salaries o f state officials Elaborate little bonnets or hats aro nnd employees o f counties, cities, and other subdivisions o f a state, are not shown this senson fo r the wee girl. subject to federal Income taxes, was Sheerest orgsndle, combined with very flne Valenciennes lace and Insertion, upheld by Attorney General Palmer. and trimmed with silk flowers and pink or blue ribbon rosettes and streamers, The Duty of All. form a bonnet which will suit the most exacting mother. Some o f the more When the world blames and slanders simple styles mny be made at home, ns our duty 1^ not to be vexed with it, but the more ornate ones require the but rather to consider whether there U skillful touch o f the experleuced mil any foundation for 1L liner.