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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.
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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.
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Dairy Notes
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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
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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Consolation.
Scientists have discovered that aft
er all the honey ben loafs a good Share:
of Its timo, electing to hang around
tho hive, gossiping wllh its cronies.
This assurance will be a relief to
mere human beings, to w, om the sup
posedly 100 per cent industry of the
bee was a reproach.
Famous Executioner.
Jack Ketch, who died in 1C8C, was
famous in Kngland as an executioner.
When Punch and Judy was introduced
In Kngland, shortly before Jack's
death, his name was quickly asso
ciated witli tho execution of tho puppets.
Boy and Man.
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.
You Want a Good Position
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