horses toiling and the dull gleam of
the guns, and the men straining and
swaying as they helped tu turn the
spokea in the deep, deep mud. A* we
stood there regiment after regiment
and brigade after brigade took |Hml-
How on the ridge, and ere the huh had
set we lay tn a line of over sixty thou
sand men, blocking Napoleon's way to
Brussels.
But the rain had come
swishing down again, and we of the
ILL WIND FOR MIL CAT mid up the pole he run and wan soon
Seventy first rushed off to our barn
Hitting on the wemhwrrock'a heed.
HOG-CHOLERA
LOSS
REDUCED
once more, where we had better quar
By the lime he hnd reached this
NE morning Mr. Tom (’nt was
ters than the greater part of our com-
running through the barnyard high place Mr. Tom ('nt hnd reached
Estimated
Saving
of
$6
000
to
Farm
Hides, who lay stretched in the mud.
when he happened to look on top of the (op of the burn, mid there he stood
ers of Alabama County Brought
with the storm beating upon them.
the barn, mid there ant Mr. M ouno looking up nt poor Mr. Mouse, who
About by County Agent.
until the first peep of day.
now miiHt stay where he wu* or come
looking down nt him.
Losses by hog cbcleni have been ma
"Oh. dear me, Mr. Mouse." Hiiid Mr. down for Tom to catch.
CHAPTER XII.
“You certainly are n good climber,”
terially reduced In Bullock county, Ala Tom, “how you frighten me
You
AUTHOR ^'THE ADVEHTUREJ
SHERLOCK HOLMES
bama, us n result of the work of the should not l»e up ho high. Come down, sold Tom. swinging his full buck mid
The Shadow on the Land.
forth. “Let me are If you run run
It was still drizzling tn the morning, county agent In training farmers lu or you may fall nnd be kilted."
down as fust na you went up.”
SV A. CONAN
various
centers
throughout
the
county
Mr.
Mouse
knew
full
well
that
Mr.
with brown, drifting clouds and a
OO>L£------
Poor Mr. Mouse knew lie wna In a
damp, chilly- wind. It was a queer to use the serum und upparatus devel Tom was only concerned about him
very
tight place, but he decided Im
oped
by
the
United
Suites
Department
because
he
was
out
of
his
reach,
ho
he
CHAPTER XI—Continued.
a rolling gray cloud before us, with a thing for me ns I opened my eyes to
Furty-nlne cars of replied: “I am a better climber than would better utiiy where he was mid
score of busbies br '¡iking through the think that 1 should be in a battle that of Agriculture.
you, my good fellow. You could not see If Mr. Tom would get tired of wult-
We were early risers at that time, shadow. Then we closed up again, day, though none of us ever thought
even climb to the top of the barn with Ing mid go away.
and the whole brigade was usually un while the growling ahead of us grew It would be such a one as it proved
Pretty soon the wind begun to
safety,
while I can easily reach the
der arms at the first flush of dawn. louder and deeper than ever.
to be. We were up nnd ready, how
One morning—It was the sixteenth of
top of the weathercock's head und swing the weathercock mid Mr. Mouse
“There’s three batteries there,” said ever, with the first light, nnd as we
clung on for dear life, while Mr. Tom
never be banned."
June—we had just formed up. and the sergeant,
“There's Bull's and threw open the doors of our barn we
General Adams had ridden up to give Webber Smith's, but the other is new. heard the most lovely music that 1
“Well, well, you may be right,” said Oat, with hl« head tilted backward,
looked steadily nt him, thinking every
some order to Colonel Reynell. within 1 here’s some more on ahead of us. ever listened to playing somewhere In
Tom, knowing he could not reach Mr.
minute
Mr. M ouho would be in hl*
a musket length of where I stood, for here’s the track of a nine-pounder, the distance. We all stood in clusters
Mouse, for by the time he reached the
paws. But the wind was changeable
when suddenly they both stood staring and the others were all twelves. Choose hearkening to it. ft was so sweet nnd
that day, and around swung the
along the Brussels road. None of us a twelve if you want to get hit. for Innocent and sad-llke. But our ser
weathercock *o fust that Tom (’at
dared move our heads, but every eye a nine mashes you up, but a twelve geant laughed when he saw how It
grew dizzy watching It. mid before he
In the regiment whisked round, and snaps you like a carrot”—and he went had pleased us all.
knew what hud hniqmned he lost Ilia
there we saw an officer, with the cock on to tell about the wonderful wounds
“Them are the French bands,” snld
balance nnd tumbled off the bum to
ade of a general's aide-de-camp, thun that he had seen until my blood ran he; “and If you come out here you’ll
the ground.
dering down the road as hard as a like iced water In my veins, and you see what some of you may not live to
Of course he landed on his feet,
great dapple-gray horse could carry might have rubbed all our faces in see again.”
Oats
always do. Ami when hr hud
him. Ue bent his face over its mane, pipeclay and we should have been no
Out we went—the beautiful music
gathered bls »rnw« he looked up at
and flogged at its neck with the slack whiter. .“Aye, you’ll look sicklier yet still sounding in our ears, and stood
the weathercock, but .Mr. .Mouse hud
of the bridle, as though he rode for when you get a hatful of grape into on a rise Just outside the barn. Down
gone.
very life.
your tripes.” said he; and then, as 1 below, at the bottom of the slope,
Mr. Mouse was safe on the top of
“Hullo, Reynell,” says the general. saw some of the eld soldiers laughing. about half a musket shot from us. was
the burn nnd was Just running Into a
"This begins to look like business. I began to understand that this man a snug tiled farm with a hedge and a
hole In the roof, but he stopped to
What do you make of it?” They both was trying to frighten us, so I began bit of an apple orchard. All round It
/«A"
call to Mr. Tom Cat: "It I h an ill wind,
cantered their horses forward, and to laugh also, and the others ns well, a line of men in red coats and high
you know, that blow«, no one any
Adams tore open the dispatch which but it was not a very hearty laugh fur hats were working like bees,
the messenger handed to him. The en either.
g'MHl. am) I happened this lime to get
knocking holes in the wall and barring
top of the barn Mr. Mouse would be the good.”
velop had not touched the ground be
The sun was almost above us when up the doors.
somewhere else.
fore he turned, waving the letter over we stopped at a little place called Hal.
"You wait until 1 meet you on the
“Them's the light companies of the
“I know you are a very limber fel
his head as if it had been a saber.
ground,
ami It will matter very little
where there Is an old pump from Guards," said the sergeant. "They'll
low, Mr. Mouse, but I really do not
“Dismiss!” he cried. “General pa which I drew and drank a shako full hold that farm while one of them enn
which way the winy blow« that day,
think you can reach the top of the
rade and march In half an hour.”
I promise you,” replied Mr. Tom. lick
of water—and never did a mug of wag a finger. But look over yonder.
weathercock
even If you are so spry."
Vaccinating
a
Hog
for
Cholera
—
Don't
Then, in an Instant, all was buzz and Scotch ale taste as sweet. More guns and you’ll see the campfires of the
ing
Ids mouth at the thought of th»
“Watch me. then,” said Mr. Mouse
Run Risks or Warts Feed With Un-
bustle, and the news on every lip. Na- passed us here, and Vivian's hussars, French.”
dinner he had lost,
who
was
very
proud
of
his
spryness.
healthy Live Stock.
poleon had crossed the frontier the three regiments of them, smart men
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We looked across the valley at the
day before, had pushed the Prussians with bonny brown horses, a treat to low ridge upon the farther side. and hogs, 3,923 head, have
been marketed
before him. and was already deep in the eye. The noise of the cannons was saw a thousand little yellow points of
from the county through co-operative
the country to the east of us with a louder than ever now, and it tingled flame, with the dark smoke wreathing
work, with an estimated saving of $(!,-
hundred and fifty thousand men. through my nerves just as It had done up slowly in the heavy air. There was
HOW DO YOU SAY IT?
000. Ih Houston county the depart
Away we scuttled to gather our things years before when, with Edie by my another farmhouse on the farther side
ment’s representative taught 13 men
together and have our breakfast, and side, I had seen the merchant ship of the valley, and as we watched we
to vaccinate hogs. Six sets of instru
in an hour we had marched off and left fight with the pri ateers. It was so suddenly saw a little group of horse
Common Errors in English and
ments owned by the Dothan Rotary
By EDNA KENT FORBES
Ath and the Dender behind us forever. loud now that it seemed to me that men appear on a knoll beside ft nnd
How to Avoid Them
club were supplied to the demonstra
There was good need for haste, for the battle must be going on just be look across at us. There were a dozen
the Prussians had sent no news to yond the nearest wood, but my friend hussars behind, and In front five men, tors and a serum-distributing point
was established In charge of n reliable
BEALTV BATHS
“VERBAL" AND ‘ORAL."
Wellington of what was doing, and the sergeant knew better.
three with helmets, one with a long, veterinarian. More than 9.000 head of
though he had rushed from Brussels
“It's twelve to fifteen miles off,” said straight, red feather In his hat, and hogs were treated. In many cases ft
HENK two words, "verbal” and
NE bright man divided baths Into
at the first whisper of it. like a good he. “you may be sure that the general the last with t^low cap.
found that sickness, other than
"oral" are misused frequently
two kinds—baths of necessity
old mastiff from its kennel. It was hard knows that we are not wanted, or we
“By God!” cried the sergeant. cholera, was due to some Incidental
to see how he could come up in time should not be resting here at Hal.”
“That's him! That's Boney, the one cause, such as bad peanut meal, and and baths of pleasure. The Saturday even by persons who are careful tn
to help the Prussians.
Wbat he said proved to be true, for with the gray horse, Aye, I’ll lay a balanced rations were advised. The night ceremonials when clean clothe« their choice of words. We hear dia
It was a bright warm morning, and a minute later down came the colonel month's pay on it.”
are donned for church and clean logues such as the following: “Did
county agent’s work resulted 1n 32
as the brigade tramped down the broad with orders that we should stack arms
I strained my eyes to see him. this fanners establishing pastures to keep shrets put on the beds while the you send him a letter accepting his
Belgian road the dust rolled up from and bivouac where we were, and there man who had cnst that great shadow
soiled ones are soaked for Monday's term«!" 1 No, I gave him a verbal
It like the smoke nf a battery. I tell we stayed all day, while horse and over Europe which darkened the na- their hogs off the open range, the land washing—these, I suppose, are the reply.”
For the word “verbal,” in the Hen-
you that we blessed the man that plant foot and guns, English, Dutch imd tions for five-and-twenty years, and thus pastured being freed from many baths of necessity.
But the daily
ed the poplars along the sides, for Hanoverians, were streaming through. which had even fallen across our out- noxious weeds by the rooting of the bath—what a pleasure It can lie. Given fence Just quoted, the word “oral.”
their shadow was better than drink to The devil's music went on till evening, of-the-world little sheep farm, nnd animals, nnd prepared for future culti a tub with plenty of running water. shduld be substituted, -since “verbal”
Forty-four farmers In the a shower, a cake of bath soap, and mennä “consisting of words," and
us. Over across the fields, both to the sometimes rising Into a roar, some had dragged us all—myself. Edie and vation.
county
were
Interested In stump n-- a soft brush, with
right and the left, were other roads, times sinking Into a grumble, until Jim—out of the lives that our folk had
a brisk rub on the "oral" means "by word of mouth." A
one quite close and the other a mile about eight o’clock In the evening It lived before us. As far as I could see movlng, and about 2,000 acres of land rough towel and a dusting off of the verbal message may, therefore, be
or more from us. A column of Infan stopped altogether. We were eating he was a dumpy, square-shouldered was cleared In this movement. About entire body with scented bn th powder given either In writing or in speech,
try was marching down the near one. our hearts out, as you may think, to kind of man. and he held his double five tons of dynamite was bought for —wouldn’t such a bath be a pleasure? an oral message only In speech, It
and it was a fair race between us. for know what it all meant, but we knew glasses to his eyes with his elbows the purpose largely on the co-operative
To be sure, this special pleasure is should be said, however, that while
we were each walking for all we were that what the Duke did would be for spread very wide out on each side. plan.
mostly reserved for those who have grammarians generally make tills dis
worth. There was such a wreath of the best, so we just waited in patience. I was still staring when I heard the
a bathroom and running water In- tinction, and express a desire for Its
dust round them that we could only
No house should tie built general adoption, tliey nny also that
Next day the brigade remained at catch of a man’s breath by my side, FEEDING GARBAGE TO SWINE stalled.
see the gun barrels and the bearskins Hal In the morning, but about midday and there was Jim. his eyes glowing
nowadays without such sanitary ar- the word “verbal” has been employed
breaking out here and there, with the came an order from the Duke, and we like two coals and his face thrust over Practical Means of Producing Pork,
so long nnd so gem-rally ns a synonym
head and shoulders of a mounted o Al pushed on once more until we came to my shoulder.
for "oral" that It Is probably hope
According to Department of Agri
cer coming out above the cloud, and a village called Braine something, and
less to try to establish the distinc
“That's he, Jock,” he whispered.
culture Bulletin.
the flutter of the colors. It was a bri- there we stopped, and time, too, for a
tion in common usage.
“Yes, that's Boney.” said I.
(Copyrlsht)
gade of the Guards, but we could not sudden thunderstorm came on and a
“No, no; It’s he. This De Lapp or
When properly managed, the feed
tell which, for we had two of them plump of rain that turned all the roads De Lissac, or whatever his devil's ing of garbage to swine Is a practical
with us in the campaign. On the far and the fields Into bog and mire. We name is. It Is he.”
means of pork production, according
road there was also dust and to spare, got into the barns at this village for
A LINE 0’ CHEER
Then I saw him nt once. It was the to Farmers’ Bulletin 1133 issued by
but through It there flashed every now shelter, and there we found two strag
horseman with the high red feather In the United States Department of Agri
and then a long twinkle of brightness, glers, one from a kilted regiment and his hat. Even at that distance I could culture.
By John Kendrick Bang*.
like a hundred silver beads threaded the other a man of the German legion,
have sworn to the slope of his shoul
In addition ft helps to settle n prob
In a line, and the breeze brought down who had a tale to tell that was as
ders and the way he carried hfs head. lem which confronts many cities and
such a snarling, clanging, clashing dreary as the weather.
RESOLVE.
I clapped my hand upon Jim's sleeve, towns—that of effective and economi
kind of music its I had never listened
Boney had thrashed the Prussians for I could see that his blood was cal garbage disposal. The wholesome
to. If I had been left to m.vself It the day before, and our fellows had
The Brooklet with Its Ice Is ehlll
boiling at the sight of the man, and ness of garbage depends greatly on
would have been long before I knew been sore put to it to hold their own
Yet holds Its courses with a will
that he was ready for any madness. the care it receives In households. Tin (
To reach the distant
what It was, but our corporals and against Ney, but had beaten him off at
cans,
glass,
paper
oyster
shells,
saw
But at that moment Bonaparte seemed
Nor lets the woe
sergeants were all old soldiers, and I last. It seems an old, stale story to
to lean over and say something to dust, soap, and other foreign mate- !
Of drift and snow
had one trudging along with his hal you now, but you cannot think how we
Enchain Ils purpose fro«.
De Lissac, and the party wheeled and rials when mixed with garbage may
bert at my elbow, who was full of scrambled around those two men In
dashed
away,
while
there
came
the
cause
numerous
losses
of
hogs.
But
It
And so when clouded Is my sky.
precept and advice.
the barn, and pushed and fought Just bang of a gun nnd a white spray of hns been found that this evil can be
And obstacles are mounting high.
“That’s heavy horse," said he. “You to catch a word of what they said, and smoke from a battery along the ridge.
Tormenting to my soul,
minimized by proper precaution nnd
see that double twinkle. That means how those who had heard were in turn At the same Instant the assembly was
Whute’er Impede
published requests to householders to ,
I too shall speed
they have helmet as well as cuirass. mobbed by those who had not. We blown In our village, and we rushed be careful.
On to my chosen goal.
It's the Royals or the Enniskillens or laughed and cheered and groaned all for our arms and fell In. There was a |
Immunizing of hogs Is necessary to
(Copyright )
the Household. You can hear their in turn, as we were told how the Forty burst of firing all along the line, and
cymbals and kettles. The French heav fourth had received cavalry in Une. we thought that the battle had begun, prevent hog cholera and frequent col
lection Is urged to keep the*feed frosh.
ies are too good for us. They have ten how the Dutch-Belgians had fled, and but it came really from our fellows
Copies of the bulletin may be hnd free
to our one, and good men. too. You’ve how the Black Watch had taken the cleaning their pieces, for their prim- 1
got to shoot at their faces, or else lancers Into their square, and then hnd Ing was in some danger of being wet by applying to the United States De
partment of Agriculture.
at their horses. Mind you that when killed them at their leisure. But the from the damp nig’t.
you see them coming, or else you’ll lancers had had the laugh on their
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
find a four-foot sword stuck through side when they crumpled up the Sixty
SEGREGATE ALL NEW ANIMALS
your liver to teach you better. Hark! ninth and carried off one of the colors.
Early Irish JGstory,
hark! hark I there's the old music To wind It all up, the Duke was In re
In the earliest time of which there Wise Plan to Place Recent Purchases
again!”
Never Omit the Dally Bath—If You
treat, In order to keep In touch with Is any record, Ireland was Inhabited
PENKNIVES.
In Quarantine for at Least
And as he spoke there came the the Prussians, and It was rumored that by tribes of the great Celtic family,
Want to Be Healthy and Beauti
Twenty One Days.
low grumbling of a cannonade away he would take up his ground and fight to which belonged the ancient Brit
ful.
HE handy little knife you carry In
somewhere to the.east of us, deep and a big battle Just at the very place ons of the larger island, and the Gauls
The proper nnd only safe thing to rangemente. Even with labor and ma
your pocket waa evolved of neces
hoarse, like a roar of some blood- where we had been halted.
of the country now known as France. 1 do with the recently purchased anlmnl terials nt their present prices the cost sity In the days when people wrote
duubed beast that thrives on the lives
And soon we saw that this rumor Each tribe had Its chief, and after a is to place It In quarantine upon Its Of putting a tank above the house nnd with quill pens Instead of steel. The
of men. At the same Instant there was true, for the weather cleared time a supreme monarch came to the arrival. Better keep It there not less
quills wore down or broke, and It was
was shouting of “Heh ! heh ! lieh I” from toward evening, and we were all out front. One of the most famous of than 21 days at least. This enables ti pump to force up water, of running necessary to reshape them. Scriven-
pipes
and
putting
In
some
sort
of
bath
behind, and somebody roared, “Let the on the ridge to see what we could see. these was Brian, who overthrew the you to keep a careful watch over the
era found ft unhandy to have a
guns get through!” Looking bnck, 1 It was such a bonny stretch of corn invading Danes In the battle of Clon anlmnl nt nil times, nnd to determine room, is but a small addition to the straight knife always with them, so
cost
of
the
house,
and
more
than
pays
saw the rear companies split suddenly and grazing land, with the crops just tarf, fought In the year 1014 near Dub flint the nnfmal Is healthy, nnd In cnse
the present folding article was Invent
In two and hurl Ihemselves down on half green and half yellow, nnd fine lin. He was slain in bls tent at the there should be nny disease, It would for its investment in the increased ed to fill the want. The mime survives
value
it
gives
the
house,
as
well
as
in
either side into the ditch, while six rye as high as a man's shoulder. A close of the fight.
After his death n°t
carried to those animal« al- its comfort and cleanliness.
though the use Ims gone.
cream-colored horses, galloping two scene more full of peace you could not the stipjeme monarchy was often In ready on the farm.
(Copyright.)
Arrangements
for
heating
plenty of
and two, with their bellies to the think of, and look where you would complete abeyance, misrule and an
hot
water
can
be
secured
cheaply.
ground, came thundering through the over the low, curving, corn-covered archy widely prevailed and the ancient
gap with a fine twelve-pound gun hills, you could see the little village form of society was largely broken up. SUPPLY PIGS PLENTY WATER And there Is nothing else that will
make one feel fresh and fit as the
whirling and creaking behind them. •steeples pricking up their spires among It is said that Roderick O’Connor, son
Following were another nnd another, the poplars. But slashed right across of Turlough, was the last of the mon Young Porkers Drink Often and In morning tub. It takes nil the tired-
ness nnd listlessness from the body,
four-and-twenty in nil. flying past us this pretty picture was a long trail archs of Celtic Ireland. From that
Small Quantities—Non-Freezer
wakens the brain and whets the appe-
with such a din and clatter, the blue- of marching men, some red, some time the influence of Anglo-Normans
Is Very Useful.
tlte for business. It stirs the blood
coated men clinging on to the guns green, some blue, some black, zigzag increased.
and the tumbrils, the drivers cursing ging over the plain and choking the
A pig likes to drink water often nnd and rests the muscles.
(Copyright.)
and cracking their whips, the manes roads, one end so close that we could
In small quantities. It drinks water
Real Estate Note.
flying, the mops and buckets clanking, shout to them as they stacked their
Father (mockingly to young suitor) the same as It eats feed—a little at a
Home Illustration.
and the whole air filled with the heavy muskets on the ridge at our left, and —Well, the nerve of you to ask my time and often. That Is why n non-
PERFECTION
Teacher—Who can give me an illua-
rumble and the Jingling of chains. the other end lost among the woods daughter to share your lot when you freezing wnterer and a self-feeder for
"I
suppose
your Idea of a perfect
Therg was a roar from the ditches and as far as we could see.- And then on haven’t a single foot of real estate grain are so very valuable In the hog tration of “persistence?”
woman Is one who has no faults.”
Bright
Boy
—
Mother
talking
for
a
a shout from the gunners, and we saw other roads we saw the teams of In your name.
"No, merely one who acknowlsdgsi
lot
new hat.—Boston Transcript
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