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tuenrM*». ISIS. «Z B.M»JtorrUl CeJ U 6YN0PSIS. Th* *tory open* on Long Island. near Nsw York city. where Mis* Emily Wrench, a relative ot Ethan FTrench. manufacturer of the celebrated "Mer cury" automobile, loses her way. Th* car has stopped an.I her cousin. Dick Ffrench. 1s too muddled with drink to direct It aright. They meet another car which is run by a professional racer named Lestrange. Th* latter fixes up th* Ffrench car and directs Miss Ffreneh how to proceed homeward. Ethan Ffrench has disinherited hts son. who has disappeared He Informs Emily plainly that he would Ilk* to nave her marry Dick, who Is a good-natured but Irresponsible fellow. It appears that a partner of Ethan Ffrench »anting an ex pert to race with the "Mercury” at auto •vents, has engaged Ix-strange. and at th* FTrench factory Emily encounter* the young man They refer pleasantly to their meeting when Dick come* along and recognises th* young racer Dick likes the way I «-strange Ignore* their first meeting when he appeared to a disad vantage. Lestrange tells Emtly that h* will try to educate her Indifferent cousin as an automobile expert. Dick under takes his business schooling under the tutelage of Lestrange. Dick is sheer grit, and In making a test race meets with an accident. lestrange meets Emily In the moonlit garden of the Ffrench home Vnder an Imp Isa he cannot control he klases her ar.d she leaves him. confessing tn her wn heart that she return* hl* love. The uncle of Emily, learning of her attachment to I.es'rance. Informs her that the man ts his disbarred son. whom •he ha* never seen before being ad pted by him. He claims that his son ran away with a dissolute actress, refuses to ac knowledge him. and orders Emily to think of Dick as her future husband. A big race Is on In the south and Ethan French takes Emily to see it. The fame of the "Mercury" Is Involved In the suc cess of Lestrang* and Dick running the rac*. CHAPTER IX.—(Continued). The hour« passed. One more ear went out of the race under the grind ing test: there were the usual Inci dents of blown-out tires and tempo rary withdrawals for repairs. Twice Mr. Ffrench eent his partner and Em- Uy to the restaurant Delow, tolerating his seat. Perfectly composed, his ex presslon perfectly self-contained, he watched bls son The day grew unbearably hot to ward afternoon, a heat rather of July than June. After a visit to his camp Lestrange reappeared without the suf focating mask and cap. driving bare headed. with only the narrow goggles crossing bls face. The change left visible the drawn pallor of exhaus tion under stains of dust and oil. his rolled-back sleeves disclosed the crim son badge on his right arm and the fact that his left wrist was tightly wound with linen where swollen and strained muscles rebelled at the long trial. "He’s been driving for nineteen hours,” said Dick, climbing up to bls party through the excited crowd. "Two hours more to six o'clock. Listen to the mob when he passes!" The Injunction was unnecessary. As the sun slanted low the enthusiasm grew to fever. This was a crowd of connoisseurs—motorists, chauffeurs, automobile lovers and drivers—they knew what was being done before them. The word passed that Le strange was In his twentieth hour; people climbed on seats to cheer him as he passed by. When one of his tires blew out. In the opening of the first hour of bls driving and the twen ty-fourth of the race, the great shout of sympathy and encouragement that went up shook the grand stand to Its cement foundations Neither Lestrange nor Rupert left his seat while that tire was changed. “If we did I ain't sure we d get back," Rupert explained to Df<k, who hovered around them agitatedly. “If I’d thought Darling's mechanician would get In for this, I'd have taken In sewing for a living. How much longer?” “Half an hour.” "Well, watch us finish.” A renewed burst of applause greet ed the Mercury car's return to the track Men were standing watch In hand to count the last moments, their «yes on the bulletin board wl ere the reeled-off miles were being registered Two of the other machines were fight Ing desperately for second place, hope less of rivaling lestrange, and after them sped the rest. "The finish!” some one suddenly called. “The last lap!" Dick was hanging over the paddock fence when the car shot by amidst braying, klaxons, motor hoi ns, cheers and tl.e »lashing min'c of the bind Frantic, the people hailed Lestrange es the black and white checked flng dropped iefore him In proclamation of hii I'tiory and the ended race. Ri n raised his arms above his head n the signal of acknowledg ment, ut they flew across the line and swept on to complete the circle to their camp. lestrange slackened epecd to take the dangerous, deeply furrowed turn for the last time, his ear poised for the curving flight un I der his guidance then the watching hundreds saw the driver's hands slip from the steering wheel as h« reached for the brake Straight across the track the machine dashed. Instead of following the bend, crashed through the barrier, and rolled over on its side In the green meadow grass. "The steering-knuckle!“ Halley groaned, as the place burst into up roar around them. "The wheel—I aaw it turn uselessly In his hands!" "They're up!" cried a doxen voices "No. one's up and one's under." "Who's caught in the wreck—Le strange or his man?" But before the people who surged over the track, breaking all restraint, before the electric ambulance. Dick Ffrench reviched the marred thing that had been the Mercury car. It was Lestrange who had painfully struggled to one knee beside the tua chine, fighting bard for breath to speak "Take the car off Rupert." he pant ed. at Dick's cry of relief on seeing him "I'm all right take the car off Rupert.” The next Instant they were sur rounded. overwhelmed with eager aid The ambulance came up and a sur geon precipitated himself toward le strange. "Stand back.” the surgeon com manded generally "Are you trying to smother him? Stand back “ But It was he who halted before a gesture from Lestrange. who leaned on Dick and a comrade from the camp. "Go over there, to Rupert." "You first—" “No.” There was nothing to do except yield. Shrugging his shoulders, the surgeon paused the necessary mo ment. A moment only; there was a no protests, but he himself never left scattering of ths bushed workers, a metallic crash. From the space the car had cov ered a small figure uncoiled, llxard like, and itaggered unsteadily erect. "Where's Darling Lestrange?" was hurled viciously across the silence “Gee. you’re a slow bunch of work ers! Where's lestrange?" The tumult that broke loose swept all to confusion. And after all It was Lestrange who was put in the sur geon's care, while Rupert rode back to the camp on the driver's seat of the ambulance "Tell Emily 111 come over to her as soon as I'm fit to look at." was the message Lestrange gave Dick. "And when you go back to the factory, have your steering-knuckles strength ened." Dick exceeded his commission by transmitting the speech entire; re peating the first part to Emily with all affectionate solicitude, and flinging the second cuttingly at his uncle and Bailey "The doctors 6ay he ought to be in Rupert ana i u»»e got to nnd a hotel and we're not very active." Emily would have slipped away from th* clasp, scarlet with returning recollection, but Lestrange detained her tv meet his shlniug eyes. "The race is over.” he reminded, for her ears alone "I'm going to keep you. If you'll stay." lie turned to take a limping step, offering his hand cordially to the speechless Bailey, and faced for the first time the other man present "I think." said Ethan Ffreneh, "that there need bo no questlou of hotels We have not understood each other, but you have the right to Ffrench- wood's hospitality. It you can travel we will go there." "No," answered David Ffrench, as quietly. "Never. You owe me noth- Ing. str. If I have worked In your factory, I took the workman's wages tor It; If I have won honors for your car, I also won the prlxe money given to the driver. I never meant so to establish any claim upon Ffrench- wood or you I believe we stand even. Dick has taken my place, happily; Emily and I will go on our own road." They looked at each other, the like LIVE POULTRY ESSENTIAL FOR DRAFT HORSE HARM IN CROWDING THE HEN ' » Important That Animal Should Walk Four Miles an Hour With Load and Without Tiring. A draft horse does most of his hard work at the walking gait. It Is there fore Important that he should be able to walk fast without tiring. Ila should bo able to walk four miles an hour with a load. It his feet are deformed In any way, whether It ba by disease or hereditary, ho cannot do his best work. The soles of the feet should turn up and show the shoes plainly as the horse moves away from the observer. of Draft Horses. Hoof showing prominent •frog.” unmutilated "bars,” strong walls and cupped sole. No. 2. Distortion of hoof caused by acute founder. The feet should bo lifted quickly and evenly, and be set down squarely and firmly. The hoofs should bo ample In also, sound, smooth and symmetrical In shape. The hoof is a continuation of the skin of the parts above. The color of the skin decides the color of the hoof. Color counts for little, how ever, If the hoofs are of poor shape and texture. The horn should bo slightly cupped, not flat or bulging: the frog large, elastic, healthy and without a deep cleft; the bars prornl- nent. Poor fore feet are one Of tln> commonest and most serious faults In draft horses. ness between them most apparent, tn the similar determination of mood which wiped laughter and warmth from the younger man's face How ever coldly phrased and dictatortally I spoken, it was an apology which Mr. Ffrench had offered and which had been declined. But—he had watched Lestrange all day; he did not lift the I gauntlet. “You are perfectly free," he con PURE BREDS VERSUS SCRUBS ceded. "which gives you the opportun ity of being generous." Mongrel Is Excellent Hustler, but Will His son moved, flushing through Not and Cannot Make Money hts pallor. for Its Owner. ”1 wish you would not put It that way. sir," he objected, The pure-bred animal Is not one "There is no other way I bav« that will make good on poor feed and been wrong and I have no control care. The scrub will beat the pure | over you; will you come home?' bred every time when It comes i to There was no other argument but "rustling" Its own way. But the scrub that that could have succeeded, and will not and cannot make money for the three who knew Lestrange knew its owner. And right here is where that could not fall. the pure bred excels Itself. "You want me because I am a He has the capacity which the Ffrench." David rebelled In the final scrub has not. Give the pure-bred anl- protest. "You have a substitute.” mal good feed and care, and ho wllf "Perhaps I want you otherwise. And make money, and do It quickly, At we will not speak In passion; there least three crops of pure-bred beef can be no substitute for you." animals can be turned out ready for "Ffrench and Ffrench.” murmured market to every two crops of scrubs Dick coaxlngly. "We can run that or grades. factory. Lestrange!” Grades make money for their own "There’s more than steering- ers sometimes, but the amount and knuckles needing your eye on them. the quickness with which results are And you love the place. Mr. David,' obtained are in direct proportion to said Bailey from his corner. the infusion of pure blood, which From one to the other David's makes the grades and better than glance went, to rest on Emily’s dell scrubs. cate, earnest face in Its setting of yellow-bronze curls. Full and straight her dark eyes answered his, the con ROOT CUTTER IS ESSENTIAL vent-bred Emlly'B answer to his pride Shown In Illustration and old resentment and new reluc Implement Found Satisfactory In Preparing tance to yield, bis liberty. Food for Live 8tock. "After all. you were born a Reappeared Without the Suffocating Ffrench." she reminded, her soft ac Having several tons of carrots and Mask and Cap. cents fust audible. "If that ts your beets to fed to stock, I found It quite work?" bed. but he won't go.” he concluded Very slowly David turned to his a job to cut them with a knife, so I “No, you can’t see him until they get made a root cutter as Illustrated, father through patching him up at the hos which has given much satisfaction. I "I never learned to do things by pital tent; they put every one out ex made a box, with three sides, of Inch halves," he said "If you want me. cept Rupert. He hasn’t a scratch, aft boards, three feet long. The bottom er having a ninety Mercury on top of sir—” board, a, is eight inches wide and tho And Ethan Ffrench understood, and him. You're to come over to our side boards, b, which rest on It. are camp. Emily, and wait for Lestrange first offered his hand. four Inches wide. The top boards, c. Rupert was discovered asleep In a I suppose everybody had better camp-chair outside the tent, a few come." minutes later, when Dick went in It was a curious and an elevating search of him. thing to see Dickie assume command '*TI. e limousine's waiting.” h't of his family, but no one demurred awakener informed him. "You don't An official. recognizing in him L* feel had. do you?” strange's manager, cleared a way for The mechanician rose cautiously the party through the noisy press of wincing. departing people and automobiles "Well, if every joint in my chassis The sunset had long faded, night wasn't sore. I’d feel better." he ad had settled over the motordrome and mltted grimly. "But I’m still running the electric lamps had been lit in the What did you kiss me awake for. ’ents. before there came a stir and when I need my sleeps?” murmur in t) e Mercury camp. "Did you suppose wo could get Le "Don't skid, the ground's wet." cau strange home without you. Jack Ru tinned a voice outside the door pert ?” “Steady!" "1 ain't supposing you could I'm six inches wide, are fastened at an Emily started up, Dick sprang to ready-." angle to the side boards, writes Anton open the canvas, an-1 Lestrange cro-.i The re t of the party were already Mlcklsh of Union county. Ore., in the ed ti e tl r<-r,!.ol.I. Lestrange. color in the big car. with one exception Farm and Homo. Three logs, d, are css, his .right arm In a sling, his lef- "Take a la“t look. Rupert," bad* fastened to the box. The knife, e, is wound with linen from wrist to elbow David, as ne stood In tho dark pad fastened with a screw, f, to the mid and bearing a heavy purple bruise dock. "We're retired; <ome help me dle of the side board and a triangular bove Ms temple, but with the bright get used to it.” piece of board, g, is fastened even ¡.e-s of victory flashing above all Rupert passed a glance over the de with end of one side board so that weariness like a dencing flame. serted track. the knife can be raised high when "Sweetheart!" he laughed, as "I g'n-ss my sentiment tank has giv cutting largo beets. Emily ran to meet him, heedless of en out." he Bweetly acknowledged all thing- except that he stood within "The Mercury factory sounds pretty Prime Bacon. ’ouch once more. "My dear, 1 told good to me. Darling. And I guess we Prime bacon Is really more credit ft-em not to frighten you. Why. can make a joy ride out of living, on to the producer than is lard alope. It Emily—” any track, if we enter for It.” Is also true that tho best bacon brings For as he put hl3 one available arm "I guess we can,” laughed David good prices, costs less to bring to fit ■ bout her. she hid her wet eyes on Ffrench. "Get In opposite Emily. ness, and can bo made a great staple I.is shoulder. We’re going home to try.” If we work for It. "I am so happy,” she explained THE END. breathlessly. "It is only that.'.’ Cost of Foundation. "You should not have been here at Fitted. It costs more to procure the founda- all, my dear But it Is good to see "Miss Pinkie Pry has such an elas •ion stock of ; uro bred animals, but you. Who brought you? Bailey?" tic step." “Yes, and a disposition to t conte no more after that to raise catching sight of the man beside Dick. match." "What do you mean?" "Bbe thon. "Good, 1 wanted so tv* on« to help me; rubber a." AGAIN. “TO WHAT BASE USES" Results Given of Interesting Experi ments Made at Maine Station— Hsrs Is Story That Will Shock Admlr- Must Have Room. srs of Two Rscognlxsd Mon of Qsnlus. Tho Maine experiment station re. cently finished u teat to ascertain tho The ladles st a watering place In number of hens most profitable to Bohomla recently organised a dress keep In pons. All tho pens were 10 by making exhibition A certain prin 16 feet, giving 160 square feet. The cess agreed to open It At the last hens were Brahmas and Plymouth moment some one noticed that tho Rocks, and these tests continued six moat Important models, two very gor months. geous lace blouses, were nut displayed The hens wore fifteen, twenty, to proper advantage The caretaker twenty five and thirty to a pen. The was called and instructed to beg bor row or steal two dressmaker’s dum mies and to drape th" blouses upon them before the princess arrived After the opening ceremony It was noticed that the exhibits wore excit ing a great deal more attention than tho committee had counted on and the princess insisted on seeing the two objects which wore tho center of attraction. Her surprise was very great when she caught eight of two llfeslxo busts of Bchlller and Goethe, both decked out in laco blouses Tho caretaker, not being able to so ouru dummies, had borrowed the fig ures of th* poets from tho reading room, and as they wore somewhat flat cheated hnd carefully stuffed them with dust'— ' "" blouses Barred Plymouth Rocks. conditions nnd hens were as much ullko as possible to make tho teat a conclusive one. The pen with fifteen hens mad» a profit of 60 cents per hen, and the eggs laid numbered U76. The pen with twenty hens made a showing of 1.206 eggs for the pen nnd j a profit of 71 cents per hen. The pen with twenty five hens made ' a laying record of 1,328 eggs and » I profit of 35 cents per hen Tho pen with thirty hens had an eg« I production of 1,200 and a profit of 30 cents for ecah hen. Tho ex|M>riment shows distinctly that hens can be so crowded as to ro duce tho profit of an egg farm. The difference of twenty five eggs per hen for six months Is great On the basts of fift<»en to the pen tho profits of tho total ninety hens wore 872; on a basis of thirty to tho i»'n tho profits worn *36. In each case the actual cost of feed was deducted. FOR FUMIGATION OF FOWLS I New York Man Designs Coop Especial ly Adapted for Removing All Injurious Vermin on Bird. For tho fumigating of fowls, to re- movo tho vermin which nr» so Injuri ous. a New York man has designed an effective apparatus In a coop, speci ally made ar» guide rails and between theso rails tho chicken Is placed, with Its wings spread out over bars that | O hm Rail all blti« I“-’ blu nir vnltt# tn th« wtwk World, tiiakra th« lautulrtwa »mil«. Much Like Human Life. A tre* dues not die of old ugn It accumulates Infirmities with th« years end has many diseases It may starve or die of thirst; caterpillars may eat Its foliage, sen)» bug* suck Its Juices, beetles tunnel under th» bark, scab, rust, molds, rot. blight, may prey upon it. Tho wind la also an enemy. Peeling tho bark of th» birch doos not kill It. Tho lumbering season ts ovor when tho sap begins to stream up ward, as wood cut "In the sap" is lia ble to decay. A sugar maple In thra* weeks yields of Its life's blood to the extent of 25 gallons (70 drops falling every minute), which bolls dowu to * little less than five pounds of sugar. The tr*ea are not injured if properly treated, nor exhausted by bring bored too much or at the wrong time Velvet From the Arabs. In tho mlddlo ages Venice and Genoa learned the art of velvet mak- Ing frurn the Arabs Toward the year 1516 Lyon inherited tho business. Europe, notably France, followed th« lend of tho courtiers of Franco« I., Ixxila XIV. and I-a Pompadour. The courts of the world wore silk, satin and velvet stiff with gold and silver embroidery Velvet was used by ths rich for bangings and for furniture cover. In Lyon, In limo. 20.000 looms were weavlne • • Harper's Wook- Fitted for the Part. When a new member of tho Irish house of commons made hie first speech, Blr William Osborne asked who be was, and, being told, ho re plied: "Well, I think he will do. If tho opposition have enlisted him they are perfectly In tho right, for hu seems to have the finest face for a griev ance of any man I ever behold."— No tional Monthlv What's In a Nam«? "Wve, the eldest, was called Evs on purpose that she might feel human, and not compelled to wear a halo, like the people called Marie.”—Eve, by Maarten Mnnrt<-> 75 YEARS OF PUBLIC APPROVAL Fowl Fumlgator. run alongside. Near tho top of tho I coop la a holo for tho fowl’s head, ho that she need not breath» the poison ous atmosphere. A key Is turned and tho fumes rush into tho coop nnd penetrate the bird's feathers, killing off all lice and other insects. Little chicks can nlso bo fumigated In tills device by being placed in a basket that hangs above the place designed for the old fowl. Keeping Eggs Freeh. Tn Germany eggs ar» kept frosh for any length of time by simply Im mersing them In a ten per cent, solu tion of silicate of soda, commonly called “liquid glass.” This produces the formation of a coating which ren ders the eggs perfectly air tight. The eggs so treated retain their fresh taste for many months. Tho best proof of tho efficacy of this treatment has been furnished by tho fact that such eggs, after having been kept for a whole yenr, were hatched and the chickens were strong nnd healthy. Tho preserving solution Is best prepared by dissolving one pound of liquid glass In four quarts of cold water. Tho egga aro then Immersed in this solution, which should bo kept In a glazed earthenware vessel, nnd tho eggs are kept In the solution for a short time. If ono of theso preserved eggs is to he boiled, the shell must be first per forated to prevert cracking. FOR CONSTIPATION «nd all form« of DIGESTIVE DISORDERS “DIDN’T HURT A BIT” is what they all Bay of our Painless Methods of Extracting Teeth. SL «. X. Witt fam mi M m W i Ou t-of> town pao- r»l* ran hava that» plat« and bride» work flnithrd Inona day if neceaaary. An abaolutr ruar* anta/, backed by year« in I’ortlanc Wise Dental Co. orricr hours : • A. M. tn 0 P. M, Sunday« 9 (• 1 Phonrat A 2029; Main 2029. failinc Bide., Third and WaaMnfton, Portland ë •/> n—t Cr pph Byrup. Tarte« Good. Isa in time. Bold by DraafMa* iCnWHirilDEIE