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