passport? Look here, Troyte. let's
compromise. I'll say no more about
MI m Temple and the morgnnutlc mar
riage If you'll let Janet Church go
to Lyatrie. She'll worry the life out
of me If you don't.”
"I'll tell you what I'll do," mild
Troyte. "I'll let her have a passport
to Germany, but not an Inch farther.
She cun go to Berlin If she likes und
stay there."
"That's something."
I
replied.
She’ll be out of Loudon anyhow.
"I’m sorry for the Germans,” said
"SIMPLY ROTTEN"
SYNOPSIS. — la London th«
taller of the story of the adven
tures of "King Tommy." und
known hereafter as "Vncle Bitt,"
Is Informed by Lord Norheys. son
of an old friend, chat lord
Troyte. head of the British for
eign office. Norheys uncle, has a
scheme to make him (Norheys)
king of Lystria. in central Eu
rope. through marriage to Ca
lypso. daughter of King Wladia-
laws. deposed monarch of that
country
A financier. Procopius
Cable, knows there is oil In pro
fusion in Lystria. and with an
English king on the throne the
output could be secured for Eng
land.
Norheys. fn love with a
stage dancer. Viola Temple. Is
not enthusiastic over the propo
sition. The patriarch. Menelaus,
highest ecclesiastical dignitary
In Lystria. Is heartily tn favor of
the restoration of the monarchy,
and Cable has generously financed
the sentiment. Calypso Is mak
ing a living dancing in the "Mas-
cotte," Berlin cabaret.
Norheys
refuses to entertain the Idea of
giving up Viola Temple, to whom
he is secretly engaged. "Uncle
Bill’s” sister Emily urges him to
secure a passport from Lord
Troyte for a certain Janet
Church,
strongmlnded
female
who wants to visit Lystria in
the interests of a society for
world peace.
CHAPTER IV
I found a letter from my sister Em
ily waiting for me when I got home.
“I want you." she wrote “to use
your influence with Edmund Troyte
to get a passport to Megalia for Janet
Church. You remember Janet, I’m
sure.”
I remembered Janet Church per-
fecUy well. She is a bony lowland
Scot, and when I met her at Emily’s
house she was touring Ireland on be
half of a temperance society. I re
member her saying at dinner that she
would rather put a red-hot poker in
to her mouth than a glass of wine.
That. I am sure, was not true. How
ever much she might dislike wine she
could always spit it out again. She
could not spit out a red-hot poker.
"Janet Church." Emily went on, “is
going to Megalia as the representa
tive of the Society for the Establish
ment of World Peace through the in
fluence
of
the
Union Christian
churches. There seems to be a won
derful opening in Lystria, which is
now part of the Republic of Megalia.
The present patriarch—”
According to Emily, the present
patriarch Is a man of singularly plas
tic mind, willing to unite his church
w ith any other in the Interests of
world peace.
I put Emily’s letter Into a nice, flat
varnished basket which stands on my
writing table and is meant to contain
unanswered letters. Emily gave me
that basket last year as a Christmas
present. I was glad to be able to use
it;for a letter ef hers.
I had of
course no intention whatever of ask
ing Troyte to get a passport for Janet
Church.
But I did not get rid of the busi
ness so easily as that.
Next day
Janet Church called on me. In ap
pearance she was just as I remem
bered her, in determination rather
worse. The passport to Megalia had
been refused. She attributed that to
the hatred which the Foreign office
felt to the idea of a world peace and
to Lord Edmund Troyte’s dread of the
Influence of a union of the Christian
churches.
I dare say she was right in blam
ing Troyte. Knowing wl at he did
about the condition of Lystria, he can
not possibly have wanted to add to
the confusion of the coming revolu
tion by letting loose an earnest
Scotchwoman in the country. Also
he probably thought that the Patri
arch Menelaus would be too much oc
cupied preparing for a royal marriage
and coronation to have any time to
spare for planning a world union of
Christian churches.
“With the peace of Europe hang
ing In the balance," Jan t said, “and
the prospect of another war within
ten years, It is of vital importance
that the Influence of Hie Christian
churches, of all of them —”
“All,” I murmured sympathetically,
“all, all."
“Should be brought to bear on our
statesmen. And how Is that to be
done?”
"Only,” I said, “by means of a union
of Christian churches.”
“Especially the Church of Lystria,"
said Janet.
I could not Bee why the Lystrian
church, which must be quite a small
body, should be so very Important.
But Janet Church evidently thought
It was. So, dare say, did Emily,
"Couldn't you," I said, “write to
the patriarch Insteud of going to see
him?” His name Is Menelaus. A
letter addressed to Ill» Beatitude
PO
CHECK BLACKHEAD
IN TURKEY FLOCK
PRINCESS PEARL
YN THE olden time, long before you
x or I were born, there lived Under
the sea a beautiful mermaid named
Pearl. She had long silky hair ax fine
as spun gold ami a beautiful tall us
glistening und glinting as I er hair.
Wherever she swam, sho carried
In her hand a long handled mirror
made of pink ami white coral, und
many times a day she would alt down
on the ocean floor of white sand und
comb her shining locks.
Princess Pearl hud many sisters but
she was not content to swim uhout
under tlie water us her sisters were
and often swam far away from the
palace of her father. King Neptune,
without telling anyone about It.
Mermaids never grow tired swim
ming but they sometimes are afraid
und that was what happened one day
to I'rlnceM Pearl when she wus swim
mlng about alone.
Suddenly she came upon something
on the ocean floor very big und black
and still. It was not beautiful us wus
Every year blackhead In turkey
flocks becomes a little more common
Oh. they deserve It. After all.
what's the use of our having wop the dread disease are ■ little larger. And
war If we cun t do anything afterward while no posPhe treatment has ever
to make them feel uncomfortable?" been discovered, a remedy Is being
1 called on Janet Church in her ho used by hundreds of successful turkey
tel and told her my news. I was growers that proves very satlsfactori
afraid she would be furious with If used before the fowls are In the
Troyte for limiting her wanderings. last stages of the disease, says a
WNU Servie«.
To my surprise she took It very well.
writer In Successful Farming.
"if 1 gel as far as Germany," she
' the Patriarch Menelaus.
Lystria,
A alight lameness Is usually discern
said, ''I’ll manage to go on somehow."
would be sure to find him,”
tide In a turkey coming down with
“Well,” I said, "good by ami good
“A personal interview is tndlspens-
blackhead. The bird gradually grows
luck. If you find yourself languish
! able.”
weaker, refuses to eat. but drinks nn
ing in a Siberian dungeon, semi a line
unusual amount. Diarrhea 1« usually
If the patriarch is the least like
to the nearest British consul."
present, nnd when the disease Is in nn
Troyte In character, or like me. Janet
"I'm not going anywhere near SI-
Church may have one personal Inter
advanced stage, the droppings lire
berla." said Janet.
view with him but will certainly not
usually a bright yellow. The wings
said,
"You may not mean to,” I
have another. I suppose she realised
and tall are not held up. The bead Is
that she was not likely to get Into "but you never know where you’ll drawn close to the body.
my flat again, for she refused to leave fetch up when you start traveling In
Sometimes tlx* flesh parts of the
until I had promised to do what 1 the Near East.”
head turn a bluish black. If yon are
could with Troyte about the passport.
not sure whether It Is blackhead or
CHAPTER V
I kept the promise and made an ap
some other ailment that Is affecting
peal to Troyte.
the bird. It will be wise to make a post
Janet Church left London next day mortem examination.
“I know all about that woman." he
If the liver Is
said. “She makes trouble wherever and I congratulated myself that I covered with black or gangrene spots
she goes. I can’t have letters com had escaped one worry. I actually It will not be necessary to look further
ing to me by every courier from all enjoyed several peaceful days. Then for the trouble.
You may be sore
the legations in Europe asking me to Norlieys came to me again.
tdackhend Is the trouble, and begin
“Did you tell Uncle Ned.” he said. treatment accordingly.
keep that woman at home."
“If you set any value on your own "that I'm going to marry Viola and
Powdered Ipecac may be used either
peace and mine," I said, "you’ll give no one else?"
as s remedy for blackhead or ns a
"No, I didn't. I said.
him preventive. We prefer to use It ns a
her a passport to Lystria and then
exactly what you said I was to tell preventive, as any disease Is
keep her there."
“I wish," said Troyte. "that all re him; that you were determined
prevented than cured.
When black
marry Miss Temple, but were quit« head enters our flock It usually causes
ligious women were in Heaven."
“If you let her go to Lystria." I ready to marry anybody else as well." the greatest losses before the poults
Norlieys grinned.
said, "she probably will be In Heav
are six weeks of nge.
For tills ren
"How did lie take that?" be asked. son we begin feeding tin* Ipecae to the
en soon. I don’t know the patriarch
"He said Just what I
personally, but he'll execute her be
poults ns soon as we begin feeding
fore she's been a week there if tie’s to say, that he'd never agree to your mash. It Is fed tn a wet mash one
em^mlttlng bigamy."
half as savage as Norheys says."
tenapoonful of powdered Ipecac to
"If that's so." said
Troyte asked what Norheys had
enough mnsh for 2H turkeys twice a
been saying about the patriarch. I puts tlie lid on the* whole black prln- week. The snme amount Is given to
could only reply that I was mistaken cess scheme. What I always say Is the young birds nnd the mature fowls
this: a fellow ought to knuckle un This treatment will
black-
der his family—uncles and aunts and head entering your flock, though the
all that lot—so long as they’re ask youngsters are allowed to range with
ing him f> do the things which don't the older birds, and on Infected
annoy him much; but ns soon as they ground.
begin chipping In In really offensive
If blackhead hns entered your flock
ways then he oughtn’t to. That's my before treatment Is begun, the sick
idea of a fellow's duty, anyhow. I birds should be fed half a tena|MH>nfnl
don't know If It's yours."
of powdered Ipecae In wot mash (for
I said that n great deal depended each bird) for three successive days
on his definition of the word offen If the disease Is not in the advanced
sive, and that so far us I could see, stage It will not be difficult to remedy,
Calypso was anything but that.
but If the fowls are nearly dead when
“Anyhow," said Norlieys, "whether the treatment Is begun, you cannot ex
you agree w Ith me or not. you can pect a large percentage of cures.
tell Uncle Ned what I say."
Heretofore, the only cure for black
I did; und Troyte told Procopius head has been to move to new. unin
Cable. Norheys was bm-k with me fected land, and this Is usually only
two days later and this time be wus effective for the first season.
in a really bad temper.
"Look here, Uncle Bill," he said,
"I'm getting a bit fed up with this
sort of thing, I don't say it s your
fault, hut there it Is, and I'm d—d if
Tti« following questions which
I stand any more of it.”
nre put to the record flock keep
"What's happened to you now?”
ers of Iowa by tlie Iowa State
"This way of going on is simply
college are pertinent suggestions
rotten." said Norlieys. "As long as
to all poultry keepers. "Do You
it was merely a matter of Uncle Ned
Remember?” they say:
persecuting me day and night and I
When milk ever spoiled the
pelting me with oil paintings of Indian I
fertility or batcliabllity of an
But it's a ,
“If I Get as Far as Germany," She squaws, I didn't mind.
egg?
Said, “I’ll Manage to Go on Some bit too thick when he sets on a slimy j
When a chick didn't make
Jewish money-lender to try bribing
how.”
good growth when It has milk
Viola to give me up. I didn’t think
In Its ration?
in saying that he thought about the Unde Ned would have played it as
What a time you used to have
patriarch at all. The person be called low as that."
getting a lot of early chicks
savage was the princess.
"I'm perfectly certain.” I said, "that
hatched with hens?
"He seems quite sure," I said, "that he never did any such thing."
When you had a mongrel flock
she's black.”
Lord Edmund was extremely unx
and wished some one would
“He knows perfectly well that she's ious to rescue the head of his fa m
come along and get you started
nothing of the sort," said Troyte. ily from tin undesirable entangle
with a good breed?
That's merely an excuse to get out ment nnd he wanted to see Norlieys
Tlie time you had raising
of marrying her.”
established ns a European sovereign.
chicks on the old ground that
"I suppose you know," I said, “that But he would not hire a Jew to offer
had been used for 2.‘ years wlth-
he’s formally engaged to Miss Tem bribes to Miss Temple.
out a change?
ple and means to marry her.”
"Anyhow," said Norheys, “the brute
How your chicks acted when
"We must get him out of the en came, a fat flabby animal, and tried
they were affected by worms
tanglement,” said Troyte. "And the to persuade Viola to take a check for
and coccidiosls?
best way of doing it is to push on the ten thousand pounds. If Uncle
Ned
How you tried to fight Internal
marriage with tlie Princess Calypso." didn't send him, who did?"
parasites without new ground?
“Until you've convinced him that
"Did you hear Ids name?"
she isn't black—”
“Yes, I did. He sent In bls card
"Don’t talk nonsense,” said Troy to Viola and she kept It. Here It Is.”
te. “She's an extremely good look
He handed me a visiting card. I
ing and attractive girl, far too good half expected the name I saw on it
for him. I've given him her photo —Procopius Cable.
graph."
“That's the same swine,” said Nor
"Photos are often faked,” I said. heys, "who's doing the deal wit h t’n-
Milk In some form should be kept
“Couldn't you get a colored portrait cle Ned about the oil.”
so that he could see for himself that
"Exactly. But I’m sure your un before chicks during the first month.
she Isn't black. If you had her paint cle didn't send him to bribe Miss Tem-
ed In an evening dress it would go pie."
One of the tilings that our culling
tiie persist-
some way to relieve his mind about
Procopius Cable, eager to get at the should
the tattooing. He'd know that her Lystrian oil, had tired of Troyte’s ent sitters. The heavy layers do not
arms and neck were clear, anyhow.” cautious diplomacy and begun to act waste time In broodiness.
"I wish you wouldn't be flippant,” for himself. He had made a mess of
Many chicks are not getting enough
said Troyte. "Tills Is rather a serious it, a far worse mess than I knew or
green feed. If they are not on range
business
There's the question of guessed then.
carry sod to them or tlx up a feeder
oil—a matter of Imperial Interest,
and give them cut alfalfa or clover
and Cable says he's pushed things on
You’ll be surprised how they
hay.
so far that Lystria Is on the verge of
It do?s look as if Procopius
will eat It
a revolution. I really don't know wtiat
Cabie had made
mess of
would happen if the patriarch and
things.
And the result?
Wheat treated with copper car
Count Casimir were to bring off their
bonate to prevent stinking smut Is
coup d’etat and there was no king to
not harmful to chickens, at least If
put on the throne.”
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
fed for only a short time. Neither Is
"I wonder," I said, "if anything In
It harmful to hogs, when fed In small
Queen Lover of Cherriea
the way of a morganatic marriage
could be arranged?"
The rich and ruddy cherries for amounts.
“Certainly not."
which England Is famous, were In-
"It’s sometimes done," I said. "I’m troduced Into that country from Flan
Sunllght and cod liver oil are said
sure I’ve heard of cases."
ders In the year IMO, The establish to prevent leg weakness. So will get-
"Certainly not. The last king, ment of their popularity was duo In ting the chicks onto ihe ground, either
Wladlslaws, was far too fond of that no small measure to Queen Elisabeth outside the brooder house or on
sort of thing. His life wus a scan who hud a great liking for cherries chunks of sod placed on the brooder
dal, and the patriarch was on the ripe. Whereby hangs the tale of Sir floor.
verge of excommunicating him sev Francis Carew, who delayed the ripen
eral times, The patriarch holds very ing of his cherry tree until a month
Remember that heavy, sudden rains
strong views on the sanctity of mar after the end of the season In order
riage and—and—all cognate
sub that the cherries might attain matur and floods do great damage to young
jects.”
ity when her majesty stayed with poultry which are not given brooder
"If the patriarch Is the gort of a him. This he accomplished by erect housing under the right conditions. A
man who would tackle a king," I said, ing a tent over the tree, and on the house set low and open to rats and
“hell probably be able to deal with queen's arrival the fruit wus at per vermin Is a menace to the profits of
the flock.
Janet Church. Why not give her a fection.
Do You Remember?
Poultry Facts
Princess Pearl Began to Comb Out
Her Long, Bright Hair.
everything else In her father's king
dom. '
That night she asked her father
what It could be that she bad seen
and he replied that once It bhd been
u mighty thing culled a ship and be
longed to Mun.
"He lives above us." said King Nep
tune. "and If be had stayed on the
land ns he should have done and left
to me the waters tie would not have
come to grief
Never speak of It
again, my child, for Man's ways are i
not the same as ours."
But Instead of being satisfied with i
this reply Princess Pearl was now all j
tho more curious. She wanted to?
know what this Mun her father had j
told her of was like nnd she resolved ।
to swim to the surface of the sea und ,
find out for herself.
Finding u nice sunny rock by the 1
side of the ocean. Princess Pearl sat
down upon It and began to comb her 1
long, bright hair, singing us she
worked.
"Oli, beautiful maiden," said a voice 1
close beside her. “never lune I beheld
such beauty us yours. Bo my wife
What’s in a Name?"
und live with me In my pslm-s nnd
you shall never want for anything Hint
will make you happy."
Princess I'earl dropped her comb,
but not her coral mirror that she still
held In her hand, while she stared at
the stranger who had come upon her
so suddenly.
He was very handsome, much hand
somer Hum her father. King Neptune,
tho Prime»« thought. Ills hair and
eyes were dark und bright and when
ho smiled lie won the ticurt of the
little mermaid completely.
"Are you a msn?" she said, "I
think I shall like you and I will marry
you und go with you to your palace.”
AU tills time the Prlliceaa had been
looking nt the stranger's feet und won
dering how he could swim without u
long lull, for she thought tho only
way to get about on hind or In ths
water must be to swim.
Prim ess Pearl snt so close to the
w liter (hut her beautiful glistening lull
wus still In the waler und quite hidden
from tin- stranger's eyes, so when he
readied out bls hand to help her to
rise he no sooner grasped It than lie
dropped It and stood looking “• her 1,1
astonishment.
"Have you no feet?” he asked.
"How do you get about without feet
like mine?”
"Feet?" questioned the Princess,
"lire those feet?" site asked, pointing
to tho feet of ttie stranger. "I think
my tall much handsomer Hum your
feet mid I mu sure I can swim much
faster with it than you cun with those
queer tilings you cull f et."
But It wus too lute to save her tieiiu-
tlful glistening tall, for the stranger,
who was n Prince, hud been given a
gift from u fairy at bls birth, the
power to have all he wished come
(rue. und he win so In love with the
beautiful Princess Him be wished she
bud feet instead of her beautiful tall.
"(Hi." she cried looking at two
pretty pink feet In place of her tall.
“Oh. 1 like these queer things. I cun
Jump nnd run."
The Prince caught her In his arms
nnd kissed her. telling her she whs
the most beautiful creature In the
world und they would be married mid
have a big merry making nt bls palace.
That night when the Palace was
still mid everyone slept, the Princess
with her mirror crept out of the door
nnd found her wny to the Ocean
nguln; It was a long way. hut Just us
the sun showed Its head over the tip
of ttie hills Princess I’eurl slipped Into
Hie Ocean with a splush and a cry of
Joy. for her feet had disappeared nnd
again she wore a beautiful shining
(all.
Never again would she leave her
beautiful Ocean home, where mermaids
never grew old or Vrllikled.
Ttie |Hiwrr to have tils wishes grant
ed could not reach her In the kingdom
of her father. King Neptune, and
though the Prince wished many times
for the return of Ids beautiful wife,
he never naw tier iignln
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By MILDRED MARSHALL
CTHE WHY of
Pacts about your narre. Ita history,
meaning. Whence It was dartvad, sig-
nlAonc«. your lucky day, lucky )awal
By H. I R V I N Q K I N Q
BECKY
BRIARS
rjl HE saucily piquant name of Becky
x is too generally In use to pawn over
as a mere contraction of lb becca,
Becky Is given in baptism quite as
frequently ns Rebecca, and It Is not
usually regard's! ns n Jewish mime.
It comes, however, from the old He
brew word Kabak which means "to
bind.”
The Bible tells us that Isaac's wife.
who Is supposed to represent the Ideal
of noble wifehood, was named from
this word with the Idea of signifying
the firmness of the marriage bond, but
Rebecca was by no means confined to
biblical history. She has named the
heroines of literature down through
the ages.
Sir Walter Scott in his "Ivanhoe"
calls the real heroine of Ids story the
gentle and lovable Jewess, Rebecca.
But Thackeray In bls never to be-for-
gotten “Vanity Fair" gives us the
equally memorable Becky Sharp. It
Is probably safe to assume that all
Beckys dated from this period. Their
number Is legend and qualntness of
ttie name, aside from Its literary dis
tinction, Insures Its perpetuation.
Becky has a curious tallsmanlc gem.
It Is the loadstone which is said to
bring her great happiness and many
friends. Saturday la her lucky day
and fl her lucky number.
TE A young woman, unmarried. In
X walking through the fields or along
a country road has u briar stick to Iler
dress. It Is a common thing for anyone
SUPERSTITIONS
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WHAT’S THE USE?
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TIFIIATS ths uso of moping.
W When by cheery hoping
You can clear the shadowy
:k To another brighter day?
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A man Isn’t necessarily a high liver
because he occupies the attic room In
a boarding house.
"Oli, you've got a beau." And the
common superstition Is that the briar
should be mimed by the young lady
after the young man whom she de-
sires for her sweetheart. Then If th«
briar remains attached the young
lady’s affections are returned, If It
drops off they are not.
Here again we have our old frlend
sympathetic magic, and also that
magic which, by the ancients, was
supposed to reside In a name. This
hitter Idea pops In the magic of peo
ples who are today living In a primi
tive state. The mime Is supposed to
partake so Intimately of the person
to whom It belongs that In some sav
age tribes the real name of a man la
never spoken lest some conjurer might,
by getting possession of It. work him
mischief. He Is given another name
for everyday use or else spoken of tn
n symbolic or roundabout manner.
So the young Indy In naming the
briar endues It with the personality of
the young man whose name she ut
ters. If the briar sticks to her dress
after that It Is ns If It had been
fastened by a knot or by being sewed
there, bringing In the “doctrine of
knots" which doctrine has been elucl-
dated already In thia aeries,
The
briar Is endued by being named with
the personality of the lover; the brtnr
la attached to the girl’s dress and
therefore to her. The physical union
suggests a spiritual union, accom-
pllshed by sympathetic magic. If the
briar falls off then the charm Is bro-
ken, the sympathetlc current de-
stroyed.
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Substitute
"No, I never allow anyone to em
brace me.”
"You don’t? Let’s dance then."
"All right.”