Befóte the Ball
I love— eet ees unselfish. I cannot take
you front your people!”
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“ 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.' ”
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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.
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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
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Good healthy chicks s’an be raised |
by properly taking care o f the hen and
chicks or o f the brooder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.