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0 THE BELATED EXTRA By W. T. WATERS, JR. ( by Short Story Pub. Co.) NOTHING could have been more hideous than the series of mysterious murders down In Southend. The whole city was horrified to find the spotlight of the country turned unblinkingly on one of Its own suburbs. The fourth and last murder had been the most atrocious of all. A steady young bookkeeper, head of a happy little household, was on his way home Saturday evening, with his anus full of week-end packages. Searchers found him late that night. The bun dles were scattered about Just as they had fallen. A cabhage lay unrolled from the wrappings. Some oranges had rolled o,ut of a paper sack and lay scattered in the mud at the edge of the sidewalk. The bookkeeper himself well, there were no evidences of robbery. There was the same lack of apparent motive that had characterized all the other killings of the past three months. The same devilish hand seemed to show In all of them. The police were baffled. Such faint clews as they managed to unearth led them nowhere. The city was getting nervous. Men asked each other tim orously where this thing would Mop. Few were bold enougli to walk the streets of Southend or, for that mat ter, any other part of the city after nightfall. Haden, star man of the News, was on the story for his paper. For days he had not been seen about the office. Not a line of copy came from him. To his mates he himself had become a mystery. Early on thl particular afternoon he sat in whispering conference with Farnum, managing editor of the News, and Burke, the city editor, In the for mer's office. "It's the biggest story of my life," Haden was saying. "I've tied every thread together, and there's no doubt on earth that I've located the fiend. Whatever you think about my yarn now, before the day's over you'll have to believe It. He's the man, and no mistake. I've hardly lost slgljt of him for three days. At three o'clock I meet Roswell. He's the deputy, you know Then we go together and get the warrant, and after that there's nothing to do but serve It." Farnum laughed nervously. "Just be-careful. Haden." "Roswell doesn't know where he's going, and has no way of knowing till I tell him. Nobody knows but you and me. I've promised Roswell all the credit If he keeps his head shut. Every hole Is plugged. There just can't be a leak outside the office. If It's kept tight Inside here we'll wake them all up with the biggest story of the decade facts, solution, all. "I think It won't get out from here," Farnum opined, smiling with a show of satisfaction, and pointing to his locked desk. "In here's the type and the only proof that's been taken. The foreman of the composing room himself set It last night, nfter every body had gone. He wouldn't tell un der torture. If you've got it sewed up outside, Haden, It's In a bag here. We'll stand by till you 'phone to let 'er go. Then she goes." Haden stood up, looking at his watch. "Fair enough, then. I'll have to get along. We've got to be prompt to the dot. He doesn't vary a second. Ros well and I will get out there and wait, and then while the fit Is on him. while he's In his own trap with all the grue some stuff around him, we'll get him." "It's a ticklish business, and you don't want to get hurt," said Burke, shifting In his chair? "Oh, I'm not fooling myself about that part of It," Haden ansTcd, shaking his bead and smillna. "I warned Roswell to come prepared for trouble. And he knows I never Joke." He opened the door and stepped across the threshold, lowering his voice, though there was no one In sight In the corridor. "When yon hear Mot 'er go' from m- you can Just send that extra sizzling out, for I won't say It unless every thing Is all right. So long." Wllth a nod and a smile he closed the door ana was gone. The regular city edition of the sfter noon run was off the presses and gone. The big machines In the bowels of the building were thundering forth the out-of-town edition. One of them was not worklnjr. however. Its crew had been ordered to "stand by," and they waited without knowing or earlnc the reason. The boss pressman himself had slipped the casts on the cylinder, and nobody else below knew they were there waiting for flip press of n button that would snd them racing Into the extra which was to startle the country. Burke, on the top floor, held Ids whole force of reporters together. "Something's up, I'm thinking, and It's got the bosses scared, from the looks of things," said Hurdy, of the courthouse run, to Flsk, the city hall man, an thpy sat together with their feet elevnted upon a litter-strewn table. But no explanntlon was forth coming, so they talked of other things. Burke sat at hit dek. apparently busy. His thoughts, however, were swirling through doubt and conjecture. Farnum. nervously pacing the floor of the local room, caught Burke eye once In passing, but neither changed expression' of spoke. Tlie' terepfione rang time and again. At each ring Fiirnum and Burke thought their nerves would snap till the call was answered. One of the rings came from Carson, the man on police. He wearily report ed an ambulance call from "some where down south." He was told to rush what he could for the night edi tion, If the story turned up anything. The wait went on and on. The blank, meaningless strain began to worry the men. They tried to busy themselves at their desks with dub stories for the next day. The endless clatter of the telegraph keys at their gossip and the sporadic ringing of the telephones upon a flat silence grew Irritating. A shrill cry came up from the street below. Burke leaped to his feet and rushed to a window, with Farnum beside him. A faint clamor of treble voices, grow ing In volume every second, was to be heard 'from the street below. Burke slammed the window open. "Extra a a ! Allerbout de " Carson burst Into the room behind them. "It's Haden," he groaned. "Oh, my Lord, he's gone ! Here It Is." He thrust a flaring extra of the Sentinel .under Burke's eyes. "It was that am bulance call. I had Just landed "the story when the boys caught me with this down on the street." Every man in the office was stand ing alert. Without a word they gath ered around Carson and Burke, listen ing silently and tensely to what Burke read aloud : MURDER FIEND IN SOUTHEND GETS TWO MORE. Deputy Sheriff and Newspaper Man Latest Victims Albert Haden of the News and Deputy Sheriff Roswell found dy ing and dead behind "haunted" shack In fury-ridden district. Mys tery piles on mystery. Police sum moned by call from unknown source and respond with reserves and bloodhounds, finding Haden and Roswell in weeds behind aban doned house on Allen road where son killed parents thirty years ago. Shack surrounded by offi cers. Besiegers under Are of mur der fiend within walls. He can not escape. Then Burke's eyes skipped to other lines of big type below these.. Haden, In delirium on hospital table, mutters "Let 'er go! Let 'er go!" Farnum burst out of the group and disappeared through the door. "Quick, the lust mother's son of us !" commanded Burke. "Curson and Hur dy to the shack. Flsk to the hospital. Brady" He shot orders right and left, while the telephones ran-g madly and men vanished like magic. The presses were already rumbling and roaring an grily In their pit. , They were still hot and fuming from their mad race through extra after extra when, about midnight, Haden became aware that Farnnm was standing beside his cot In the hospital. He regarded him steadily for several moments, to be sure that he was not seeing another of the phantasms that hud been bothering him in bis fevered dreams. Farnum was smiling. "Did we make It?" Hadon strained to make his question audible. Farnum nodded. "They got him," he added. Whereupon Haden closed his eyes again, and without further adrr went back to sleep. Bird Songsters Not of the Same Family William Lyon I'helps, in a pleasant article In Scribner's Mnfazlne, ex presses gome surprise that the English blackbird sings so beautifully, while our own blackbirds produce so poor a quality of music. After hearing our blackbirds, grackles and redwings, when Professor I'helps heard in Eu rope "a strain of the loveliest music in the world" he could hardly believe it when they told him it was a black bird singing. The English or Euro pean blackbird Is not a blackbird at all, according to the American under standing of. that designation. The English blackbird belongs to the thrush family, of which our hermit thrush, wood thrush and robin are prominent members. They all sing well. In fact, musical ability runs In the thrush family wherever Its rep resentatives are found. The English blackbird Is really our robin, except that he differs somewhat In appear ance, the variations being due perhaps to climatic conditions. No wonder he can sing! The bird known In England ns the robin Is really a warbler, not related at all to our robin except tint both are birds. Ohio State Journal. Musical Change One musician explains that the term "blues," now glvn to combinations of major and minor chords with lapses Into sevenths, was applied by troup Ing musicians to unintentional dis cordant sounds. A musician who played too many blue notes was dis charged. Nowadays, the more notes of this kind, suggestive of cat, do-.', cow or train that he makes, the more valu able he Is to a musical organization. Norway's Capital According o tradition King Harold founded In 1048 a town on the eastern part of the present city of f'hrlstlanla to which he gave the name of Oslo, a name never explained satisfactorily. In 1026 It was burned, hut although In corporated with the city of Clirlsllnnta, the old Oslo had never been altogether given up, the citizens retaining their undent privileges and their ancient i oat of arm. A M the V I 11 BLUE GRASS LISTED AS PAYING PASTURE Kentucky blue grass Is the Ideal grass for pastures, says J. W. White, soils research specialist of the Penn sylvania State College experiment sta tion, it Is high in nutritive value and also In Its ability to Improve the fer tility of the soil. According to White, approximately four million acres, or one-third of the total Improved farm land In Pennsyl vania Is In pasture. A large percent age of this Is either located on rough mountainous land unsulted for tilluge, or on land that has been depleted of fertility by continuous cropping with out return of sufficient plant food. This so-called pasture land is of little eco nomic value In this state, he says, and It requires many acres of such pasture to maintain a grazing animal, such as a dairy cow. "Farmers too often utilize all their best land for cultivation ; thus making It necessary to use the poorer land for pasture," states White. "This In herited practice should be overcome by the dairy farmer, because by following it he is not getting the best returns from his land." Most of trg? pasture studies conduct ed by eastern experiment stations have dealt largely with an attempt to re juvenate old pastures of exteuslve acreages rather than to attempt to de velop highly productive pastures on farm land similar to that used for general farm crops. White has been using high-grade soils for permanent "liasture experiments. Experiments conducted at the ex periment station on the same soils and with the same treatment show the value of blue grass pasture compnred to a grain rotation. In one of these where complete fertilizers were used the pasture, which contained four acres, on the average produced 1.980 pounds of crude digestible proteins as cbmpared with 033 pounds produced on the same number of acres lu a four year rotation. Dysentery or Scours in Calves Is Preventable Dysentery or scours In new-born calves Is commonly called "white scours" or "calf cholera" and Is caused by germs born In the calf or contracted by way of the navel or mouth Just after birth. There Is no specific medi cinal remedy, but the disease can be prevented with a fair degree of suc cess in the following way : Provide a new, sanitary calving pen and calf pen. At birth, saturate the stump of the navel with tincture of Iodine and then dust It with powdered starch or finely sifted slacked lime. Cleanse and dis infect the cow's udder and teats before the calf Is allowed to nurse. As soon as possible after birth have a 'veter inarian Immunize each calf with poly valent calf dysenteric serum, or white scours baetertn. The serum has also some remedial effect. When the disease Is prevalent In a herd it Is best not to let calves nurse their dams but to feed milk from n cow that has been "fresh" for some time. Certain Feeds Tend to Give Undesirable Odors The fact that certuln feeds fed under certain conditions tend to produce un desirable flavors atid odors In milk has caused the United States dairy bureau to conduct feeding trials and determine results with a view to making sugges tions helpful to fanners In overcom ing the difficulty. Department bulletins entitled as fol lows "have been Issued by the United States Department of Agriculture: Bulletin No. 1097, "The Effect of Si lage on the Flavor and Odor of Milk"; No. 1190. "Effect of Feeding Oreen Al falfa and Green Corn on the Flavor and Odor of Milk"; No. 1208, "Effect of Feeding Turnips on the Flavor and Odor of Milk"; and No. 1297, "Effect of Feeding Cabbage and Potatoes on Flavor and Odor of Milk." These bulletins may be secured by writing to the United States Depart1 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. cxxxxxxxxxxxxxococooocooo Dairy Notes ocxxxxxxcoccooooocooocxxx; Watch calves fed alfalfa for any tendency toward scouring. The scrub bull in a herd Is fur more destructive than the proverbial "bull In a china shop." The value and Importance of using good bulls Is essential to the econom ical development of the dairy Industry. More and more dairy fanners are selling their "star boarders" for beef as the work of the cow-testing associ ations spreads. Ground oats are especially good for bulla. Cottonseed meal Is generally looked upon with disfavor, since It may cause impotency. In order to get a profit from milt ing cows It Is necessary to keep good animals and to give them good care. This means a comfortable barn, a silo and plenty of hay and forage. . When they fall to respond to In creases In the size of the ration, feed dairy cows according to production If you would profit according to feeding mm PORTI ANH OFFERS A MARKET 1 VIlLiiniy FOR YOUR PRODUCE COMMERCIAL GRADES FOR MARKET EGGS Portland, Oregon. VAUDEVILLE PHOTO-PLAYS Complete Change Saturday Adults, Week day Matinee 20c; Evenings, 35c. Contindus 1 to 11 p. m. Children 10 cents all times William H. Lapp, of the Iowa Agrl tultural college, In a circular gives the following description of the ordinury commercial egg grades: Extras These are eggs weighing from 24 to 28 ounces to the dozen and are uniform in size and fairly uniform in shape and color. They must be free from heat or germ development. The air cell must not be larger than the size of a dime. Firsts These are eggs weighing from 22 to 24 ounces to the dozen, uniform In size, and fairly uniform In shape and color. They must be free from heat, with an air cell not much larger than that of an extra. The shell must be sound and clean. Seconds These are made up of light stains and dirties, heated and stale eggs, also small eggs or any others not classified above but edible. Checks These are slightly broken eggs. Cracks These are generally classed with checks. Leakers Leakers are broken eggs where the liquid Is escaping. Rejects These are the eggs unfit for food. In securing eggs that will class as "extras" or "firsts," Professor Lapp suggests that the following points be kept In mind : L Take pride In the eggs you sell. 2. Keep a flock of good standard bred stock. Hatch only large, select eggs. 8. Keep nests clean and plenty of them. 4. Do not keep eggs In a place above 00 degrees temperature. 5. Keep litter In house cleun. 6. Separate males from flock as soon as hatching season Is over. 7. Do not market small, Inferior eggs. Use them at home. 8. Do not wash dirty eggs If they are Intended for market. 9. Keep eggs covered when taking them to market. 10. An egg Is generally good qual ity when it is produced. Don't help to deteriorate the quality. Market eggs often. One difficulty In the way of the Iowa farmer In working for higher grades on eggs is that In a great many cases higher grades are not rewarded by pro portionately higher prices, due to the Un discriminating attitude of some local buyers. The co-operative egg selling associations of Minnesota and Mis souri have found that the quality of the eggs handled go CI up very prompt ly after the returns for the first lots have been received. As soon as fann ers are sure that they are going to get premiums, for their high quality, their percentage of "extras" and "firsts" goes up markedly. IMallory Select Residential & Transient 16th n d Yamhill. Portland, Oroion. Modern Fireproof American Plan RATES MODERATK SHIP TODAY-A Check Tomorrow MUTUAL CREAMERY CO., Portland. Better Franklin Service Storage and General Repairing ANDERSON & RICE, URoadway; 5709 404 ffoyt Street.at Ninth Portland, Ore 'Instructing Her Doll. Little Annette had overheard the people next door quarreling. Shortly afterwards as slio was sitting on the piazza with her doll, she said very im pressively: "Now, Dorris, when you know I am right, you must never, never talk backward to me." Mythological Goddess. In mythology, "Bellona" was the wife of Mars and the goddess of war. Her parents were called Bellonaril. On tho 24th of March, Hellona's day, her votaries hacked themselves with knives and drank the blood of their sacrifices. Necessary to Have Eggs Clean in Fowls' Nests It is necessary to have the eggs clean In the nests, because washing eggs takes time and also removes the natural bloom. One common cause of dirty eggs is the habit of pullets roost ing in the nests. This can soon be broken up by going through the houses Just after roosting time and removing such birds to the roosts. Spending a few minutes In the houses Just at sun down tofr!ghten the pullets from the nests will touch them to select Mother roosting place themselves. Then they are most apt to go back to the regu lar 'roosts each night. Walking on dirty dropping boards Is another cause of dirty eggs. Some poultrymcn nail strips of two-Inch mesh wire under each roosting sec tion. This permits the droppings to fall through to the boards but keeps the hens from walking on the boards. They have to hop from perch to percli and then down into the litter and will have cleaner feet when going on the nests In the morning. The mesh of the wire may be fine enough to atch any eggs laid during the night and save them from breaking. Poultry Facts Provide plenty of oyster shell In ad dition to grit. Sunshine keeps chicks growing rap idly. (Jive them plenty. ' A chicken doesn't drink very much at a time, but that's no sign that It doesn't need any water. Tuberculosis In poultry causes an unthrifty condition, especially In the older birds. They get pOOf and thin, lose flesh rapidly In most cases, and many of them get lame. If one Is not rnreful on mash feed ing, there Is danger of getting the chicks off feed by giving too mm h. The first six weeks of a chick's life Is the most critical period. The I a rgc I per cent of losses occurs during tills time. I'lenty of shade should be provided for growing chicks. When allowed to range In an on-hard or eornlield, they will not only find ample shade and green feed, but will benefit the trees or corn by destroying bui-a ami norma Beautiful Thought. As the sparks falling on tho river, so shall the glories of our strength go out. Hut tho graces of the. holy soul shall be us the brightness of the t'irmn ment, and as tho stars for ever and 6Ver.- John Martineau. CUT FLOWERS & FLORAL DESIGNS Clarke Bros., Florists, 287 Morrison St. Removing Paint Spots. Paints spots on glazed tiles are re moved by soaking the paint with a few drops of strong ammonia uni scrap ing off with a wooden stick. Tor re moving paint from unglazed tiles, am monia, soap and hot water, scouring powder and sharp sand may bo used. Joys of Spring. More than 100,000 people Joined In ceremonies colebrating tho Setsubun, or advent of spring. Buddist fam ilies revived the ceremony of driving out the devil, which consists of throw ing roasted peas in their homes and shouting, "Out with tho devil." Played Heavy Part at Ninety. Charles Macklln, English actor and dramatist of the Eighteenth century, who lived to bo one hundred years old, created, when he was ninety, tho strenuous part of Macsycoplmnt in his own play, "Tho Man of tho World." Not Worth While. "There is no tax on brains," remarks an exchange. The rovenuo would bo too small, brother, the Boston Tran script replies. Hand Lever Lifeboat. A lifeboat made in England Is op erated with hand levers Instead of oars, which are apt to bo lost or damaged. Slow In Development. The upright piano was Invented in 1S(I7, although It was many years bo foro it even approached its present perfection, Control of Breathing. The nerves that control our breath ing are controlled In their turn by tho concentration of carbon dioxide ill tho blood. Science Service. 71 witii pbk pneta poing up ft M Queen Hatchery Pulleti will :irn Ijillrk, I euiilsiinif Proftta. Write today for HMiviul nrlcee mi white l.t'tttioriiH, It. I. Itetls nutl Rocka. 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Tho boy who used to spend about fifteen years wishing he could put on long pants has grown to bo a golf worshiping man who spends tho whole winter awaiting an opportunity to put on short ones. Fort Wayno News-Sentinel. Perils of Boston. Two lioston citizens required tho services of a policeman to protect thatfl from (lie fury of a gigantic rat that attacked thorn on tho Street. Si body must huvo left tho lid oft the bean pot. Rochester Herald. London's Parks. There are many more than a dozen parka In and around Loudon. An American, voicing tho usual surpriso of his countrymen, OHM described London as "a series of parks wilb some houses between." Rights and Duties. No human being Is entitled to any "right," any privilege that Is not cor related wllli the obligation to perform duty.- Koosovelt. Dragon Fly's Antiquity. Tho dragon fly Is tho most ancient Insect known to scientists and has the least complex anatomy. On His Dignity. Marylehone Wife "My husband obeys ma In everything, but when then; is a stranger about ho disobeys me to show that ho is not obliged to be obedient." London Tlt-Ults. All, All Alone. "Hut a raw onion every day and you'll be happy and healthy," advises a doctor. And you'll find there'll bo more room for you In tho trains and basses, too. London opinion. Similar Experiences. A bulldog at Macon, (iu lias been given two baby tigers to raise, and some day that bulldog Is going lo feel just like most American parents do now. American Lumberman. About as Hard. Renewing one's notes sometimes re minds one of tho difficulties met In trying to renew ono's youth. Milwau kee Journal. Punishment. Teacher (to sleeping pupil) - You're not fit to sit by ui yono with sense. Come up and sit by nie. 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