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point of the dagger and drove It in to
ward his diaphragm.
When Patria appeared in the door
way the nurse rose and with a friendly
and reassuring- smile slipped out of the
room. .
Donald Parr lay moveless on his cot.
asleep. The girl sat down on the chair
by his side and gently dropped her
hand upon one of his that lay outside
the sheet, a dark, strong hand that
seemed, in her sight, to dwarf and ren
der altogether puny and insignificant
the slender white grace of her own.
Still Donald did not stir. She was
content with that. Sleep was what he
needed, the best of all medicines for
his hurts. She asked for herself, no
more than this, that she be permitted
to rest a little by his side, to touch his
hand, to know that, though his wounds
were grievous, he would live, and in a
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day to come be whole and sound once
more and hers.
She was very weary. The need of
rest oppressed her Itke a heavy burden.
Vet she did not dream of closing her
eves in sleep. She had too much to
think a'hout, the victory of the day to
contemplate. Its cost to reckon. Her
brain seemed to burn with thoughts,
doubts, fears, regrets, memories: the
screen of its vision reflected in endless
succession flashing scenes from the
splendid, awful pageant of that day
and night of fighting.
It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
The last shot at the routed and fleeing
armies of Invasion had been fired hours
before. The last fucitive had long
since disappeared. The last stricken
horse had been killed, the last wounded
man had been found and cared for. the
last dead man buried. Remained only
the stricken field, bloodied and defiled
and trampled and furrowed almost be
yond recognition. the consciousness
that the day was won. the invader dis
astrously def-.al3d. the country soved
In spite of itself; the bitterness of vic
tory. Sitting there In that close little room
that reeked of iodoform, with her hand
fCopyricht, 1017, by the Star Company.)
EPISODE XV.
Dark Hours.
IT WAS shortly after sunrise when
the first shot signaled the attempt
of Patria Channing's little handful
of patriotic adventjrers to stem the In
vasion of American soil by the allied
force of invaders commanded by Baron
Huroki.
Within an hour the field batteries,
shelling with shrapnel the advanced
trenches which commanded the interna
tional boundary line, had rendered them
untenable, and the enemy's Infantry
warmed over them in pursuit of the
retreating defenders.
The latter had meanwhile occupied
their main entrenchments, a far
stronger position furrowing the ridge
pole of a range of low hills lying back
of the hacienda and something slightly
less than a mile north of the border
line.
Hera they took root stubbornly.
Despite the disparity between their
numbers and those of the invaders they
threw back charge after charge of the
Invaders infantry, withering and blast
ing them with the machine gun fire
which sprayed the terrain with death
as a. garden hose sprays a lawn with
life; while their batteries, cunningly
secreted back of the hills and directed
In masterly fashion, kept the guns of
the invaders too busily on the move to
permit their doing much damage to
the trenches.
But if the defenders fought with un
shakable determination and fearlessly,
they fought with despair in their
hearts. For their commanding eleva
tion permitted them to overlook all
the land between them and the boun
dary, and they could hardly help being
appalled by the flood of allied troops
which was sweeping across the border
and arraying against them.
Failing to take the main line trenches
tiy assault. Baron Huroki ordered his
forces to fall back and dig themselves
In which they did with trained ex
pedition . and efficiency, throwing up
a line of entrenchments roughly par
alleling those on the hillcrest.
And . their batteries, presently find
ing shelter, rained shells upon the
Americans to keep down their fire,
until Patria's guns again searched
them out, when the battle passed into
a temporary phase of big gun duelling
and the infantry had a little time to
breathe and take account of its losses.
Toward midmorning a Becond series
of most violent assaults was launched
against the mainline trenches, and
though each in turn was thrown back
severely punished,, each took its toll of
American lives and by so much less
ened the ability to present Impregnable
resistance.
But by noon Huroki seemed to have
made up his mind that further efforts
to take the trenches by storm were
futile. There fell a lull in the fury
of the combat between the infantry
forces, while a flanking movement on
the part of the Mexican Cavalry was
met and confounded by a cloud of
rough-riding plainsmen under the
leadership of Rodman Plllsbury.
Then again the artillery duel was
resumed; but there was in ihis some
thing strangely perfunctory, as far at
least as the work of the allied gunners
were concerned. The suspicion was
warranted, and by subsequent events
was borne out, that Huroki was spar
ring for time.
He was awaiting the arrival of
heavier artillery; whatever those cir
cumstances -vfere which ' delayed its
coming within effective range till dusk
of evening, they alone saved Patria's
forces from annihilation though much
credit is due the scouts of Patria's fly
ing corps for the willingness and skill
with which they engaged the hostile
aviators, and drove them from the sky
above the American positions, prevent
ing their locating the hidden batteries.
The last traces of light were dying
from the sky when Huroki's heaviest
metal came into action.
Simultaneously new and extraordin
ary vicious assaults were made upon
the trenches.
Throughout a night of hopeless hor
ror the battle raged. From the moment
when Huroki's great guns entered into
the contest there was scarcely a single
perceptible break in the succession of
assaults upon the trenches till dawn
broke upon their desperately thinned
ranks.
And with the dawn came the final
effort, a charge In force that taxed
to the utmost the courage, resources
and ingenuity of the Americans. That
It broke and was swept back can be
counted as nothing short of miracu
lous. As it did so, Donald Parr fell, his
shoulder shattered by shrapnel.
When he had recovered consciousness
In her arms, and she knew that his
hurt was not mortal, Patria took into
her own hands the command which
she had resigned to his. Conferring
by telephone or in person with her
staff, she ordered the effort of the
last resort, the forlorn hope which had
been reserved for the moment when
some great sacrifice of . self alone
might stem the tide of defeat.
All defensive tactics were abandoned.
The men were ordered from the
trenches, to advance, to charge and
keep on charging till the last man fell.
To give them heart a fleet of
"tanks" armored caterpillar tractors
carrying machine gun crews were
loosed upon the enemy.
Looming through the gray, formless
light of the new-born day like mon
strous armadilloes vomiting fire and
death, they crossed their own trenches
and met and broke a charge of the
hostile infantry, scattering it like
chaff.
As the enemy turned and fled these
terrors, the Americans forsook the
shelter pf their trenches and pursued.
At the same time the masked bat
teries came out of hiding and moved
forward to closer positions in the open.
A daring raid of cavalry captured a
42-centimeter howitzer and turned it
upon its own people.
Where the tanks were not, there was
hand-to-hand fighting, characterized
by the grimmest determination on both
Channlng hacienda and laid it in flam
ing, smoking ruins about the ears of
Huroki and his staff.
Thirty minutes after the tanks had
'naugurated the offensive the invasion
had been turned into a rout. The rorids
beyond the border were choked with
fugitives. Huroki and his personal
Tides forced their armored motorcar
through the milling mob upon the
bridge at the border and resrained Mex
ican soil a bare minute before another
howitzer shell destroyed the brldjpe ut
terly and with it hundreds of flying
soldiers of the enemy's army.
The last action of the battle was an
engagement between American rough
riders and Mexican cavalry. In which
the latter, attempting to cover the rear
of the defeated army, were vanquished,
dissipated, sent scurrying into the south
in disorder as great as that of their
comrades and allies, whom they had
sought to save.
But In this engagement Rodman Pills
bury fell, killed Instantly in action.
Ordering her batteries up to the boun
dary line. Patria instructed them to
shell the fugitives mercilessly. Further
than this line she would not permit
them to move. Nor would she permit
one of her decimated little army to
carry the war into Mexico.
In defending her own property
against aggression she had acted with
Ing her rights as a private citizen. If
reprisals were to be visited upon the
aggressor, that was the prerogative of
the Government of t her country not
her prerogative.
Thus the Invading army of Baron Hu
roki and his dupes and allies melted
away Into those sun-baked plains and
arid hills of Mexico and was no more
like the army of a dream.
In the heat of that breathless after
noon the armored motor car drew up
sharply, as if checked by some invisi
ble but Immovable barrier, before the
adobe building dedicated to the uses of
the commander-in-chief and his staff.
Half a dozen men, worn, haggard,
silent, in uniforms stiff with sweat and
dust, alighted from the car and wearily
threw themselves, rather than walked,
up the steps to the veranda in front of
the headquarters building.
Deepest disconsolation was the key
note of their common demeanor. In the
lines that furrowed their dust-masked
faces, in those red-rimmed eyes which
stared out of them, despair of gamblers
who have staked all on a single throw
and have lost.
Foremost In their number was Baron
Huroki, a presence of commanding dis
tinction even in the shadow of defeat,
disgrace and death.
At his heels moved his shadow, that
one whose devotion and loyalty to his
master passed even the devotion and
loyalty which was the due of his Em
peror Huroki's aide-de-camp of today,
his body servant of yesterday, his fa
miliar spirit of all days, that man who
answered to the name of Kato.
As Huroki .moved toward the door of
the adobe building a young orderly
came out, paused, saluted stiffly with a
countenance expressionless, and prof
it
sides. But wherever the tanks moved rered a folded paper.
and nothing served to swerve one of Huroi. recognized the form on which
these from whatsoever course It chose incoming telegraphic dispatches were
to take the ranks of the enemy melted transcribed: He could have hazarded a
Into a disorderly rabble of panic-strlck- shrewd guess at the nature of this
en fugitives. communication if put to It. could have
A shell from the howitzer found the foretold it almost word for word.
touching the hand of her beloved Jhe
girl abandoned herself to reverie. htV
dark eyes fathoming immeasurable
depths of thought.
Vnconsciously she "began to con tha
toll of victory: Donald wounded nigh,
unto death. Hodman Plllsbury and Bud
Morgan dead and these but the be
ginning, names that headed the hun
dreds upon the lists of casualties
merely because they were most inti
mate to Patria: the hacienda wrecked
beyond repair, the fair countryside that
surrounded it turned into a stinking;
shambles, a great treasure expended in
ammunition and the business of war.
And all to what end?
She foresaw quite clearly what would
happen within the next few days and
weeks: The storm of popular indigna
tion: the massing of troops alontc the
border; the interchange of diplomatic
amenities; the studiously polite dis
avowal of Huroki and all his alleged
attempted invasion:, the Administra
tion's gruding acceptance of both; de
mands for measures of "preparedness"
voiced In Congress: the shrill clamor of
the pacifists, contending at once that
to prepare to resist aggression was to
invite aggression, and that the de
feated invasion had been merely a
minor skirmish between cowpunchera
and Mexican raiders, an affair exag
gerated beyond reason; the simmering
down of popular interest; the return
of the common apathy: the renewed
reign of lethargic indifference to the
need for "preparedness."
And so she began to understand that
the victory of that day was hut a bar
ren one: that she had fought and en
dured and sacrirtced lives and happi
ness and treasure to no end whatever,
but only to be a beginning; that her
battle, the battle of her country, the
battle of common sense patriotism, was.
merelv beginning: that he who would
save his country In spite of itself un
dertakes a labor unending as it is
thankless.
Nevertheless, to this plough she had
set her hands, and there could be no
turning hack.
sshe must fight on and on. shoulder
to Donald s shoulder, his hand in hers.
Bendf.ii it forward. Patria tenderly set
her lip) to the lips of Donald Parr.
dedlcaUdg anew her life and his, that
was hers to do with as she willed, to
the service of their country, that it
might be saved.
THE END.
None the less he extended a steady
hand to accept it, unfolded the paper,
read it without permitting the slight
est phase of his emotions to be re
flected in his face, and strode on Into
the adobe building.
For an hour he sat in the office of
the commander- in-chief, industriously,
methodically putting in order all his af
fairs, offficial as well as personal.
When there was no more to do he rose
without hesitation and entered the ad
Joining room. which ' had been his
sleeping quarters.
Here Kato was awaiting him Kato
translated from the trim and soldierly
aide in the field uniform of his nation's
army into, a figure that might have
been conjured from some curious old
print, a servile, fawning, obsequious
figure in the robes of his race and hum
ble caste.
Assisted deftly by Kato, Baron Huro
ki divested himself of his soldier's
clothing, bathed and dressed in the
robes of nobility.
Then in silence Huroki turned and
entered the room beyond, leaving his
footwear at the threshold. Paper
screens masked the earthen walls and
the thatched roof. The floor was cov
ered with a clean white cloth. In the
middle of it rested a small rug of glow
ing, sanguinary scarlet. At the edge of
this small rug was a low stand on
which rested a jeweled dagger in a
jeweled sheath.
Kneeling on the rug. Baron Huroki
swiftly denuded his body to the waist,
then took up the dagger and drew it
from its sheath.
He had had his chance and had
failed.
What must be, must.
With a sudden, swift turn of his hand
i this unhappy gentleman reversed the
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So far as quantity Is concerned,
moat of na feed liberally enough; in
fact, some feed too liberally. There
is seldom any serious objection raised
on quality. But how about variety?
How about the accessories to the bill
of fare the greens, ajrits and grubs?
These are the elements which are too
often neglected, and without which
fowls suffer.
BT ROBERT ARMSTRONG,
Expert Poultry man and Writer.
THERE is a difference between
feeding chickens, and simply sup
plying them with food. To feed
intelligently means to cater to bodily
requirements in the most economical
manner. To give the flock food usual
ly means to throw out grain and other
products regardless of the character
of the food and its relation to the de
mands of the fowls.
No single grain or form of food is a
complete ration for man or beast. An
animal may subsist for a time on one,
but sooner or later It will cease to
thrive, and eventually It will perish
by disease or starvation induced by
malnutrition. The bodies of all crea
tures positively demand certain ele
ments, and without them they cannot
survive. When a diet or ration Is made
up in such a manner as to supply a
sufficient amount of each group of nu
trients, it Is called a balanced ration.
In the limits of a single article it Is
Impossible to discuss at any length the
principles of nutrition and feeding.
Most poultry raisers feed sufficient
grains, therefore they provide enough
carbonaceous matter, since most grains
are rich in this element; it is also like
ly that they feed considerable protein,
which is another term for nitrogeneous
matter; but their rations are probably
deficient in mineral substances, which
we have termed the accessories to the
regular bill of fare.
KurnlMh Fowls With Grindstones.
Most animals are provided with teeth
to enable them to masticate their food
and thus prepare it for the action of
organic secretions, and its ultimate
assimilation. Hens' teeth are proverbi
ally scarce, though they have been
endowed with an equally good substi
tute in the form of a gizzard. This is
quite a remarkable organ; it is tough
and muscular, capable of strong rotary
action, and so situated that all food
passing from the crop must enter the
gizzard, where It is ground up previous
to entering the intestines for the final
digestive processes.
In chickens the food is first received
in the crop, where it remains for a
time, and Is acted upon by a secretion
similar to the saliva In the mouth of
an animal, which softens it to a great
extent. When the food has absorbed
a sufficient amount of this secretion,
it gradually passes Into the gizzard,
thence to the intestinal section, where
the available nutrients are separated
from the waste, and assimilated by the
blood.
If supplied with the necessary grind
ing material the gizzard will perform
its work thoroughly, and the fowl will
be maintained in a healthy condition.
But, if this grinding material is not
available, or if it is of improper char
acter, husks and the harder portions
of the food will defy the action of the
gizzard, accumulate, cause a stoppage,
and as a result the fowl becomes crop
bound, which is a form of indigestion.
Lack of sharp grit will also cause
sour crop, diarrhea and liver troubles;
and sometimes the gall sack will over
flow, or burst, and result in the bird's
death.
Just as a person with poor teeth de
rives little enjoyment, and less nour
ishment, from his food, and is fre
quently troubled with indigestion, so
will a fowl be unable to properly digest
Its food unless the gizzard is provided
with "molars" sharp grit at all times.
Grit Mnst Be Sharp Aacular.
Don't assume that because fowls are
given freedom to roam about a field
that they will pick up sufficient grit.
Unless the hen yard is adjacent to a
quarry, the pebbles picked up on the
average farm are of little value as grit.
They are not sharp enough. A smooth.
round pebble in a fowl's gizzard is of
no more use than an axe handle would
be for splitting wood. To be effective
grits must have sharp, angular corners;
like grindstones, they must have bit
ing edges.
Oyster shells are fed In addition to
grit, for the lime and other mineral
substances that they contain. It is
astonishing how much of these shells
are consumed by a flock of hens during
the laying season, and how little dur
ing the unproductive months, which is
the strongest kind of testimony as to
their usefulness.
Animal Food Is Required.
Grit to grind the food, charcoal to
keep it sweet, and oyster shells to sup
ply lime in abundance this is a trilogy
never to be overlooked. Some poultry
men prefer to mix the charcoal in the
dry mash, which is a good idea, but the
grit and shells should be placed before
the birds in convenient, sanitary hop
pers or boxes by themselves.
If fowls are allowed to range at will
over a large area, and there are not
too many birds in the flock, they will
There Is a growing demand for
the goose as a table bird. Its
flesh Is sweet and tender. Its
liver Is considered a great deli
cacy, the fat Is used for various
purposes, the feathers are a valu
able byproduct, and the young
are easy to raise. Some claim
geese are the easiest to raise of
all poultry. Next week's article
is devoted to these profitable
fowls.
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THIS is an old and popular variety
of geese with the American farm
ers who use it exfvisively for
crossing with Toulouse, Embden and
African varieties for the production of
"green" geese for the holiday trade.
The American standard of perffction
recognizes two varieties of China
geese, the brown and the white, but the
latter are probable the mom popular.
White China geese originated from
"sports" or albinos from the brown
variety and are identical In every re
spect except color of the plumage and
of the ey.e, which should be, as In all
other white geese, blue. It should be
pure white In plumage, with yellow
bill, knob and legs. The neck is long
and swanllke.
Although males weigh 14 pounds and
females 12 pounds, these are known as
the bantams among geese. The meat is
of excellent flavor and the fowls are
easy to raise and fatten. The goose
will lay from 60 to 70 eggs between
the first of January and the end of
June. She is a good sitter and mother,
and when the goslings are hatched she
will usually rear all of them.
China geese are great foragers, and
unless the mother goose is confined for
a. few weeks until the goslings have
gained size and strength, she is apt to
tire her brood in her extensive wander
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pick up a large amount of animal mat
ter in the form of insects, worms and
other low forms of animal life. The
same holds true of green food. If the
poultry-keeper confines the flock, or
If there are a great many birds to the
acre of pasturage, in which case there
would be Insufficient Insect food to go
round, it is necessary to furnish a sub
stitute for this food, especially during
the Winter months. It ij the animal
food which furnishes the high per
centage of protein or nitrogenous mat
ter, so essential to the production of
eggs, and which is the most expensive
part of the diet.
A controversy has existed for some
years over the relative merits of ani
mal protein and vegetable protein.
Chemically, they are practically iden
tical, though in feeding tests the vege
table protein does not seem to give
the results of the animal protein. This
fact, together with the natural .eager
ness with which chickens crave animal
food, have convinced most feeders that
no ration is complete without some
kind of animal food.
Green cut bone will stimulate egg
production better, perhaps, than any
other food, but it should be fed judi
ciously. Being highly concentrated.
too liberal feeding will cause diarrhea,
liver troubles and worms. By all means
feed It sweet, which is often difficult
to manage, especially In warm weath
er, since It heats and turns bad very
quickly.
A good grade of meat scrap or pre
pared animal meal is probably the most
convenient form of animal protein for
poultry. It is thoroughly cured by a
cooking process, and If stored In a cool,
dry place It will keep practically in
definitely. Fish scrap is still another
kind of animal food that comes highly
recommended.
Bone meal or granulated bone may
be added to the dry mash as substi
tutes for beef scrap. ' They are high
in protein and mineral matter, conse
quently excellent egg-producing and
feather-making material. Whole milk,
skimmed milk and buttermilk are
greatly relished by fowls and may be
fed in unlimited quantities.
Don't underestimate the importance
of green food. It contains many es
sentials to health and productiveness.
Moreover, the fowl's appetite craves it.
Fresh clover, alfalfa, rye or rape will
be relished by birds of all ages. Cab
bages, turnips, mangels, undersized
white and sweet potatoes are also
good, and may be fed cooked or raw.
If fed raw It is a good plan to chop
them into small bits. If none of these
roots are available, and there Is no
pasture, we would use sprouted oats.
submerged in a barrel of water for 15
minutes and' taken out to all appear
ances dead. Floyd Nolen. a 2-year-old
boy. was brought to life here the other
day by artificial respiratory treatment.
Dr. G. O. Hammerly. of Campbell. Mo.,
here on a visit, assisted in the resusci
tation work. City Commissioner G. J.
Frlfk, a local undertaker, having
worked for some time and caused the
child to breathe. '
Undertaker Saved Dead Child.
' MARION. 111., May 4 After being
WAR HELPING STUDIOS
Soldiers Called Away Want to Leave
Pictures With Friends.
ST. LOUIS. May i. The photograph
studios are getting their share of the
war business these days. In addition
to sentimental reasons which prompt
youthful enlisted men to have their
likeness photographed as departing
gifts to friends, the passport regula
tions have increased the revenue of
the photographers.
All of the members of the St. Louis
Base Hospital Unit of the American
Red Cross, which has been completely
mobilized, have had 15 copies of their
pictures made to be used on passports
and other Identification documents
which must be taken along
L. A. Edwards, connected with the
Strauss studio, said that St. Louis pho
tographers were receiving more orders
for sittings than they could till. Many
of the applicants are National Guards
men, members of the officers' reserve
corps or persons in other branches -f
the service who are expecting to be
called away in the near future. Con
versely, the number of women who
call for sitting dates at the studiois
has increased.
cal farming experience and aiding in
the National campaign for more food.
When the rush in the beet fields Is over
the pupils will be allow&J half a day to
work in their home gardens, tens of
thousands of which are being planted In
Southern California in response to th
President's appeal.
SOUTH DAKOTA WANTS AID
Students Plow Athletic Field.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. May 2. Students
in the Van Nuys High School here took
literally President Wilson's appeal to
raise more food and have plowed up
their athletic field of four acres to
plant beans. Seed was-purchased from
the athletic fund that had been care
fully conserved to buy baseball para
phernalia. In addition to sacrificing
outdoor sports at the altar of patriot
ism the boys of this schol and the sev
eral other high schools of Los Angeles
took their places in the sugar-beet
fields to do the thinning that must be
done at this season to save the crop.
The acreage this year Is so large that
the usual farm labor was inadequate.
The boys go to school from 7:30 until
10:30 o'clock, when they are dismissed
for the day to go Into the fields. The
girls of the school serve them a sub
stantial lunch before they start work.
They are paid 15 an acre for thinning
and the larger ones are able to earn S3
a day. in addition to obtaining practi- I,
JFarmerse Ak St. Paul to Send Some
Agricultural Knthusiasts.
ST. PAUL. May 2. South Dakota is
anxious to have St- Paul send some of
its agricultural enthusiasts up that
way. They must be more than mere
ly enthusiastic, however, for the farm
ers of that state need help In planting
and harvesting their crops.
In a letter from the State Department
of Labor at Pierce to Mayor Irvin it is
stated that there are Jobs for several
hundred men at once.
Mayor Irvin replied, promising the
co-operation of the local committee,
now organizing, to help supply the demand.
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