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Heaviest Gun in the World Made for Uncle Sam CUT MEAT COSTS BY MARKETING RABBITS torture him. She minced her way on her high heels out of the shop without even turning to bid him good-by and Dawson was left to gather together the array of high heeled white buck skin pumps be bad got out for ber In Family Table Supplied With Ex spection. cellent Cheap Food. About a half hour later #voung Daw son was hurrying nlong the avenue, bent on getting to his rooms to see By JA N IE OSBORN whether a letter had yet arrived from Dapartment of Agriculture Recently Issued Bulletin on Rabbit Raising Doris and back again within the hour ((£). 1920. by M c C lu r * N e w s p a p e r S y n d ic a te .) —Care and Feeding Is Fully allowed salesmen at Dawson's for Explained. If you had happened to be buying lunch. His Interview with Doris her shoes on a certain May morning In self hnd left him without the slightest Dawson's smart shoe shop you might appetite for that repast. If she had (P re p ared by the U nited S ta te s D e p a rt m ent o f A g ricu ltu re .) . have seen a prepossessing young shoe actually written a letter of acceptance One resident of Kansas City, Kan., | salesman with bis footstool drawn then this little difference might be close to a bewitching young customer, made up. He could hold her to her de raises every year 300 to 400 pounds of and you would have thought their con cision. send her five or six, ten dozen rabbit meat for his own table. It costs versation was more heated nnd more If necessary, American beauties, ten him only 8 to 10 cents a pound. There Intlmnte than the purchase of a pair pounds of the best candy and perhaps ire an increasing number of people in this country who, to a greater or less of shoes or so would usually warrant she might still he his. Because of his haste he wns espe er degree, are cutting the high cost of If you had overheard you would This gun Is the heaviest In the world and Is the first wire-wound 10-Inch rifle ever made in the United Stutes, and cially annoyed midway of a busy block. living in the same way. Besides fur the last modern rifle to be made on a disappearing carriage. It wus completed at Watervllet arsenal. It Is u navy type hnve got th is: and will lie used In const defense work. It cun hurl a 2,400-pound projectile 31 miles. Kach round requires a charge “Hut I think It wns extremely un A crowd had gathered that stretched to nishing the home table with plenty of the curb. Abstracted as he wns his cheap meat, the rabbit grower can of 8T>0 pounds of powder. It weighs 170 tons. Is 0« feet, 10 Inches long; greatest outside diameter, 04 Inches; muzzle derhanded of you,” from the girl velocity, 2,700 feet per so •ond. It cost about $200,(XX). "You told me you were learning your ears were not deaf to comments he make money by marketing the surplus animals. father’s business In every detail and heard. A hlgh-school boy In Iowa who breeds “ ’Smntter? Somebody hurt?” asked I knew be was In the shoe business child was often seen conversing with one of the crowd trying to push his registered rabbit stock raised and sold a private who hnd languished overlong but I never dreamed that you were way through for a better view. enough rabbits In 1918 to clear more In the guardhouse. The colonel went actually waiting on people, selling ’Naw,” came the rejoinder from women’s shoes. his way, serene and unruffled. After "I shouldn’t think you'd want to. some one In a more advantageous all, what Is one adoring feminine voice And you didn’t want me to know, I place. "Lndy stuck.” In the life of a colonel? "W hat you mean. stuc’<’ ” came from am sure, or you would have told me American Town Major. the first. so right out. If I Just hadn’t hap Life on the main street was always “High heel In a Iron grating." was full of Interest. There was, for In- j pened to walk right up to you before the reply. “ ’Swonder more don’t get I even recognized you I never would stance, the dally parade of the burgo caught that way.” master and the American town major. - have found It out. Of course, I didn’t Then came a suppressed chuckle ■ ; '¿ « s i " ■ $ ' * Here was one member of the army of know that your father was really at from the crowd. But young Dawson rocky fortress, follows the river for a the head of Dawson's.” Those in Towns Around Coblenz kilometer or two and then begins to occupation who hnd every right In the “I had nothing to bo ashamed of," had heard enough. Eager ns he was world to have his disposition perma mm* - Had No Part in Trouble in climb steadily to the northeast to the said young Dawson, with considerable to get to his rooms, he took time to nently soured with the nssurnnee that push up to the crou’d and, being of hill country, the heurt of the Ameri asperity—asperity that set very well no other wearer of the American uni Ruhr District. more than average height, he did not can brldgeheud. form could honestly put the fumillnr on his well-molded, forceful features. have to push very far before he saw There are no Isolated farm houses "In my letters I did not go Into de question, “How do you get that way?" the center of thnt good-natured gath or dwellings of uny description In this He was responsible for the good be- tails because I didn’t know you would ering of lunch hour pedestrians. It part of the world—such u thing Is un be Interested. I told you what I hnvior of Germans nnd Americans wns Doris, the dainty blue-eyed girl dreamed of. Nor has the average lit alike— the restriction of liquor sides thought would be of most Interest to of his dreams and stuck she was with tle town the unsightly fringe of strag you. I told you that I would soon Belgian Hare. American Forces In Germany Consist gling outposts with which the Ameri to the men (which meant that he promoted to the post of vice presi one high buttoned boot within the schnapps was verboten); the closing of bars of a basement grating. A fat than $1,200. An Ohio farm er sends of 769 Officers and 18,219 Men— can village announces a transition the Gasthoffe at an early hour and the dent of the concern with n quarter In hut obliging man was down on hands 400 pounds of rabbit meat a week to Coblenz Is Headquarters from rurul beauty to urban complexi terest In the business. I told you enforcement of the rule ngainst fra and knees trying to pry the shoe loose city restaurants, yet Is unable to meet ties. Our rood, well mended by Ger of Yankee Army. ternizing (In public). He administered what my Income would be within a with a flat key. Some one was sug the demand. man labor under American supervl few months. I fold you bemuse I the system of tines for dirty streets Rabbit raising, either to supply the New York.—There are still Ameri slon, running through rich fields and nnd yards. It was a hard life, but who thought It only fair for you to know gesting thnt they hnd better let him can troops In Germany, We hud nl velvety forest patches groomed to a can say that he wns not well repaid these things In considering m.v pro cut the hetel off with his pocket knife home table or the* market, Is steadily most forgotten thiH fact until Doctor faultless beauty, plunges us Into the by the sight of the local banker’s wife posal.” Then followed an awkward nnd others were suggesting that the increasing In the United States. In the Indy unbutton her shoe ond walk out older countries rabbits have long been pause. Kapp strode Into the duy's news and very heart of a ltaiuulmch, VIelhach, pnlnstaktngly brushing away the vanished. Strikes, bloodshed and re Dernbach or Nentershausen with dun- street refuse from before her house Poor little Doris seemed to be blush of It, when It could he twisted about a valued source of cheap meat. The bellion followed In rapid succession. gerous precipitancy; so dangerous. In ing with Intense embarrassment and and loosened from the grating, but as bureau of biological survey, United each day at the end of n stormy siege German government troops entered fact, that were It not for the watchful of weepings, protestntlons nnd small there wns nothing for her round blue the lady had no button hook that sug States department of agriculture, has the Ruhr district and Koch moved mounted policemen who hold up a fines? I wns never privileged to ac eyes to do but to glance down at the gestion did not meet the favor of the recently issued a bulletin on rabbit crowd. raising In which the various breeds forward across the neutral zone. We warning hand as we approach, the fa company the little gray burgoraelster white buckskin pumps that young I have a button hook,” Interrupt and their care and feeding are dis talities among the children of our one Dawson hnd showed her before she read that the American forces In Ger nnd the lnnky young town major, a cit ed Dawson’s clear voice as he pushed cussed. Recipes for the use of rabbit many, like the British, will hold to time enemy would he beyond ull com izen from Alnbnmu, on their dally tour realized that he wns young Dawson at puting. meat are also given. This Fanners’ nil. For Doris, in fact, hnd been too his way boldly Into the crowd. their brldgeheud. of Inspection. "Salesman from a shoe store,” Bulletin, No. 1090, may be had free These little towns, so compact and preoccupied thinking of the letter of With Its center at Coblenz the This vlllnge of approximately 1,000 snickered nn observer. “They always from the division of publications. Amerlcun bridgehead forms the mili circumspect In nppearance, house the souls had lost something over 50 of Its proposal that hnd come that very carry button hooks In their pockets.” farming population of the Rhineland. morning from young Dawson to notice tary occupation district along the men In the war, yet whnt resentment . . . . . . By this time Dawson’s muscular , . .. the young shoe snlesmnn who waited course of the Rhine, between the Ilrlt- They are a survival of feudal days. there might hnve been ngainst the n „ / _ " o v A n t h m i p h . . . h . arms were moving definitely from GOOD WHITEWASH FOR BARNS h i» r ns n her, even though he w was as s n ob lsh to the north and the French to the The farmer goes out boldly enough to Yankee conqueror wns too well con n on viously good to look upon as was side to side with a definite aim to dis south. The town of Frankfort, re his fields In broad daylight, but with cealed to command respect. perse the crowd. And the loiterers Not Difficult to Apply Where Liquid Dawson. cently occupied l»y the French, lies In miiiiuracturlng towns ulso lie along the Is Carefully Made—Govern knew from the expression on his face Soldiers Become Socialists. way, with nil Industrial population of “Well, I suppose I might ns well Gemían territory Just beyond the neu- that he meant business. ment Recipe Given. All the soldiers who really got to the get the shoos anyway,” she said lame trul zone which rims the French a few hundred souls or less, employees front came home Socialists. “Our ly. “Yes, I think that those will do.” “Stand back,” he commanded, “the bridgehead, and Is only NO kilometers of the local sawmill, pottery or tile girls are cruzy. They believe the Whitewashing should form n regular Indy will faint If yon don’t give her south of American divisional head fabrlk. “Not If I have anything to say about Americans will marry us. That Is not nny air. Haven't you men anything part of the care of all buildings where Happy Children. quarters. It,” came from Dawson, nnd he wns It was iu such u town that 1 lived for so, Is It? In Germany everyone laughed surprised at his own temerity. Per better to do than to stnnd laughing at nnlmals are kept and should be done Since tho recent "red” uprisings, twice a year at least. If whitewash during the war when they heard how haps he had n sort of caveman desire a lady In a predicament like this?” Katherine Gny, formerly attached to nearly live months of the spring of 11)11), many little German babies were born “Serves her right for wearing those Is carefully made and strained, and to subject the little blue-eyed girl to an artillery division, tells the New und though my muln business lay applied with a spray, It Is not a diffi In France. Perhaps there will he lit York Post, American-occupied terri wlM> the American unuy, I had an even more embarrassment than she high heels,” threw back one of the last cult Job, and is a necessary, sanitary tle American babies In this town.” I alrondy felt, to punish her In pnrt for to leave Doris and young Dawson. It tory has been surrounded by disorder, opportunity to get ut least u surface measure. This recipe has been pub hastened to protest that she had an was a simple matter unbuttoning the impression of the life of tho vllluge. the opinion she hnd expressed con hut the American chief of stalT at lished by the government: entirely wrong Idea of the American high shoe, and once Doris had stepped 1 shall think of our little town al cerning his present humble calling. Coblenz has kept strictly to Ids state Slake half a bushel of unslaked lime soldier. She shrugged her shoulders out of It Dawson enslly worked the ment that he luis no concern with af ways as It appeurod In the dazzling “If I am going to have nnythlng to with boiling water, covering it during with a cynical laugh. “Who knows, heel loose from the Iron grating. But fairs outside Ills Jurisdiction. Atten sunshine of the first spring days. The Ray about whnt you do nnd don’t do, fraulelnchen? It Is too soon to tell.' he did not wait to button It back on. the process to keep In the steam. tion may be focused at any moment, ugly, modern houses were In the main, I am never going to let you wear Not far up the road wus the main He hailed a passing taxi cab and bun Strain the liquid through a fine sieve gardenless and built plumb to the however, on the district held by Amer shoes like that—I guess I know from dled the poor, speechless Doris therein, or strainer. Add to It a peck of salt spring of the village, u good-sized pot ican forces If German communists street, but despite the luck of crocus my experience here ns salesman. tery works presided over by three pros and, stepping In beside her, ordered previously dissolved in warm water, senk refuge and Internment In Ameri and swelling hud, spring was there In ITeels like that Just ruin the shape of the taxi cab to go to the uptown home three pints of ground rice boiled to a perous, rotund and well-groomed broth can-occupied territory us they have tho tremendous bustle of mopplngs women’s fe e t Oh, perhnps they are of his married sister. thin paste. Stir In these ingredients ers In tho neighborhood of 50. Chil recently done In British territory and sweepings mid drubbings that all right for dnnees and parties, but while the liquid Is hot. Add five gal I can’t take yon to my own place, dren worked In their fuctory, not you want these shoes to walk In. I after the failure of their revolt In the overflowed through doors njar and open windows. ¡Stilts became fash many, It Is true, but enough to ban wouldn't tnlk to nny ordinary custom obviously, and Just ns obviously you lons of hot water to the mixture, stir Ruhr valley. can’t go all the way out to your coun well and let stand for a few days, ionable with the more adventurous ish preconceived notions of Germany's er that «-ay, hut I’ve got to talk to At Coblenz. try place. And I know you’ll want to covered as nearly alr-tlght as pos elaborate care for her common people. The children you straight from the shoulder. I The American forces In Germany to small “squareheads." In this pottery works were designed never Imagined women tortured their rest up n bit after that ordeal. It sible. day consists of 701) officers anil 18,211) swarmed on the main street (from and manufactured hundreds of souve feet the wny they do, and It's some will at least be perfectly proper to men, Inclusive of ID officers and 173 which they had been expressly ban nir plates for the American and finally thing that every shoe manufacturer take you to my sister’s nnd we can do men stationed at the port of Antwerp, ished by the “Amerlkauer” for their SUN BEST OF DISINFECTANTS also for the British army. The plates and retailor ought to know. That’s your shoe up there. own safety), pluylag games Involving Ilclglum. They occupy, nil told, 88 "B u t I don't like to take your were circled with a gold luurcl wreath why I ’m glad I am spending these towns. A year ago there were some much singing und a sort of chant, time,” came weakly from Doris, who Even on Brightest Daye It la Impos and In the center api>cured In formal weeks selling shoes.” "Kin, zwel, drel, vler." Occasionally, sible to Apply It to All Por six divisions holding tills same terri was making a very plucky efTort to design tho Imllvldunl purchaser» “B ut I think I have a right to buy fight off the faintness thnt she felt as tion« of Stable. tory. and every little town In the they broke Into a weird and fearful nnme, his regiment, division emblem bridgehead carried Its quota of Amer English, overheard at the horse line and the luslgnlu of the army of occu the sort of shoes I wish. Besides you a result of her plvotnl position In the don’t know how I am answering your icans. Indeed, It often seemed ns If during g,morning hours, or chorused Direct sunlight Is one of the most pation, tho date of tho division’s en letter." As a matter of fnct the let street crowd. “You oughtn’t to take there were more American soldiers strictly phonetic renderings of "K-K- so much time for me. Weren't you important disinfectants known, nnd try Into the war, Its victorious en ter wns on Its way containing nn an than German elvlllnns In the hill coun K-Kat." One little girl of 0 or 7, cher should be taken advantage of where- gagements and November 11. 1918. swer unequlvoeably In the affirmative. going somewhere Important?” try. Even Coblenz, city of Rhine ishing a deep admiration for our colo Yes, I was,” snld Dawson. “I wns ever possible. The disadvantages of The tale of Germany's humiliation was Doris had planned to get these delect relying upon It solely for practical wines and gnyety, appeared for the nel, waylaid him each morning on his I thus voluntarily served out to her ene- able shoes for a spring house party to going home to see If you lmd sent an disinfection are, however, thnt Its sup moment Americanized. (“oldens today way to mess, to call out shyly and In j inti's with no thought, apparently, be which they were both Invited the next answer to the letter I sent yon, but garrisons less than 4(X) American offi her most winning tone, “Hello, chick maybe you will tell me if you had ply Is beyond control, and that, even yond the harvest of marks reaped. week-end. lllgh-heeled white buck cers and about 7,30u men. Andernueh, en I" and then rush, overcome, to shel In the brightest days, It Is hardly pos Visitors were always cordially wel skin pumps were essentlnl to produc written one and whnt the letter snld.” former headquarters of the third di ter, History does not reveal the Iden “I said yes, of course,” said Doris sible to apply It to nil parts of a comed to the warehouse where long ing the picture that she contemplated. stable or other building. vision, has the next largest garrison, tity of the sponsor for this pretty com j lofts were lined with shelves full of “Look at the shoes you’ve got on with a little perplexed smile ns she KH officers mid 4,04(1 men. pliment, but it Is rumored that the Disinfectants In a liquid state are j steins nnd simple potteries. "These," now,” ruthlessly went on young Daw looked tip at young Dawson beside her Most of us on tills side of the wa most effectively used on the inside of In the taxi. "A id , honestly, I’m never ! th eh err smilingly explained In French, son, holding up a dainty high-but ter have a loizy mental picture of buildings In the form of spray and going to wear those silty heels In the f “will go to America when the peace toned boot with exaggeratedly long- HULL OF SHAMROCK IV. Coblenz and have, perhaps, seen a tn*nty Is signed. We si'll a great deal pointed vamp nnd the extrema of high street again. I knew I wasn’t going to applied by means of a force pump. photograph or two of Audcninch. But nny wny, after what you snld.” Disinfectants that will not destroy of our goods In America." heel. “That’s ridiculous. It’ll ruin of the villages along the neutral zone, But Dawson wasn’t thinking about germs are useless.—Dr. W. II. Dal- Spring has come round ngnln. It your health nnd I’ll bet It’s fiendishly the tiny towns that to most of our re heels at that ntemornhle moment when rymple. smiles upon a distraught Germany. uncomfortable.” turned soldiers mean “Germany," wo It was revealed to him flint this most Perhaps the fears of the burgomelster Doris did not relish this frankness. were «ell grounded when ho groaned “I think I’ve stood all I am going to charming of girls In the world had WATCH FOR CURRANT WORMS over the bolshevistic niuttcrings of hi* stand from you." she said. “You are actunlly accepted his heart and hand. people nnd prayed that the American taking a very unfnlr advantage of me Mixture of Paris Green and Airalaked But He Won. soldiers might never he mill'll nwny. to get down and say things about my Lime Is Effective— Arsenate of The town crier, m l of none nnd shoes nnd my feet.” She was trying I nro engnged In a work which gives Lead Alto Good. wan*eil as to teeth, still rings Ills hell, desperately to tuck a little silk-covered me great pleasure, ami the trnclng of perhaps to announce nothing more se foot under nn abbreviated skirt. language through more thin 20 differ Watch for currant worms on cur rious than that "Children have been “Please put my shoe back on nnd let ent dialects has opened a new and be rants nnd gooseberries. When they ap throwing stones at the horses of Amer me go." fore unexplored field. I have within pear mix enough parts green with ican officers. This must he stopped ill The shoe was eventnnlly buttoned two years past made discoveries which. fine, air-slaked lime to give It a green once or the parents Will be severely up nnd IV»rls rose. "Forgive me." If ever published, must Interest the ish tint, nnd then when the follnge Is punished. By onler of the hurgonicls- whispered the shoe snlesmnn looking literati of all Europe, nnd render It moist, dust It over the plants. Arsen ter." up pleadingly from his »tool. “I only necessary to revise nil the lexicon»— ate of lead sprayed on the same as said It for your own good. I wanted Hebrew. Greek and Latin—now used for potato bugs Is also effective. Pupils Will Build a Barn. to show von some of the sort of shoes ns classical books. But what can I do? Berlin Heights, Ohio.—J . C. Whit I think a girl like you would like bet My own resources are almost ex ney. Instructor In agriculture In the ter. They’re lots niftier than these. hausted. and In a few days I shall »41 DOLLARS IN STABLE MANURE high school, hell eves there Is nothing With yonr little foot they’d look won my house to get bread for my children. quite like the actual experience when derful. and they’d t.e so much better —Noah Webster. That Which Hat Accumulated In It comes to Imparting knowledge. for jam" Barnyard Should Be Spread at Within Amsrlcsr^H Insuring * Welcome. Whitney has taught his pupils how to But Doris was ohdnrnte. She was Earliest Moment. R attling eastward ac re s. plant nnd rare for crops by taking miserable but she wns taking a "Are you going to deliver many pontoon bridge which •.punii them Into tho fields and putting them strange youthful feminine delight In campaign addresses?“ Dollars In farm manure represent directly in front o f the An to work. The school needs n ham In torturing the man she knew well “I dunno^" replied Senator Sorghum. money Just ns much as dollars In the headquarters at Çoblen* . IV, on the ways at the which to keep agricultural Implements enough she loved to distinction. She "Maybe Pit try s new plan. Every hank. The manure which has accumu Ford swings again m tin- >- yards, City Island, N. Y , Whitney announced recently he wns knew she would be filled with tearful body Is making speeches out my way lated In the barnyard should he the shadow of KhrenhreC - is been ovi 'thauliM. This making arrangements to give his pu remorse ns soe.n as she was home and and I might make myself more popu spread on the fields at the earliest the darkness he seeks the shows the iHi-ullar shape pil* more setual experience by letting had time to think of It. hut now It lar by sending wor I on ahead that possible moment Warm rains reduce i>f t l vf tho cup challenger. the vlllnge s tre e t A goodly them build one. gave her a strange sort of pleasure to I'U be the audience." IU fertilizer value rapidly. LAURA’S YANK TROOPS , NEAR SCENE OF FIGHTING HEEL 4 i«?.#' 1Í5?; occupy 38 TOWNS IN ALL I