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gentlemen!" inquired the presiding of
ficer of the court-martial.
I "Tee, sir," answered Major Lafleche.
"Yes, sir," repeated the other mem
bers, down to the Junior one, Lieuten
ant Leblanc, who repeated the words
In a dry voice and licked his Hps
nervously.
"It is the only verdict possible un
der the laws of war," said Colonel
Boileau. "Let the prisoner be brought
In."
Two noncommissioned officers led
the young fellow into the tent. He was
a fair-haired boy, not more than two
or three and twenty. He faced the
court Impassively, but the fear of
death was evident In his ashen face
and twining fingers.
"Jean Marchand," said the colonel,
"you have been found guilty of the
crime of sleeping on sentry duty,
There is only one punishment for that.
Have you anything to say before sen
tence is pronounced upon you?"
"Not much, sir," answered the hoy.
"I bad not slept for three nights,
owing to the forced marches. And the
ergeant put me on duty two nights in
succession, by error."
"Let Sergeant Lavergne be re
called," commanded the colonel, and
presently the sergeant appeared with
in the tent.
"Wae the prisoner placed on sentry
fluty on two successive nlghtB?" asked
Colonel Boileau.
"No, sir," replied the sergeant
quietly.
He was not sure, now that they ques
tioned him, but having given his evi
dence, he did not want to get into
trouble. BesldeB, he hated the young
American who had returned at the
outbreak of war to fight for his fa
ther's country.
Marchand, with his American Ideas,
bad been what is called a "lawyer." He
had made trouble with the commis
sariat, with the little thieving corporal
who eold the hay; altogether he was
what the sergeant regarded as a bad
Influence In the force that Is to say,
a man, not a machine.
War had been declared four days
before, and the company was moving
by forced marches toward the frontier.
A Llttl Old Lady Cam In.
In war time sleeping on sentry duty
baa, Justly enough, only one penalty
death. Marchand could bope for no
mercy, for his negligence might have
cost hundreds of lives.
He had been brought to America In
childhood, and had grown up an Amer
ican in every sense of the word. His
father, a silk importer, bad prospered
In the land of hie adoption, and two
months before, while on a business
trip to bis native land, had died sud
denly. The boy and his mother had
hurried to France to adjust his affairs.
Then Mrs. Marchand bad remembered
ome old friend in Nancy, and had
gone there tor a brief visit, while the
on settled the Paris business tangle.
Suddenly, like a bolt from tho blue,
war biased out. Mrs. Marchand, shut
up In Nancy, could get no news of her
on. And Jean, ablate with new love
for the land of his birth, bad enlisted
as a private soldier.
The tragedy of the affair was that
Nancy was not six miles distant, and
the mother, waiting there, did pot
know but that Jean was In Paris.
Colonel Boileau faced the prisoner.
"The sentence of thla court li that
you be shot at dawn," he said.
' The noncommissioned officers took
the young man to the guard tent The
Icourtmartlal dispersed. It was eve
ning, and the company had been
'ordered to advance no further till it
received orders.
I The firing squad which bad boon
told off to perform the execution at
dawn whispered together. It was a
melancholy duty, yet a necessity, If
discipline was to be maintained, for
;upon the vigilance of her soldiers the
safety of the motherland depended. In
bla tent Colonel Boileau scanned his
'war map, together with hie aide,
Jacquevel, the captain who bid en
deavored most strongly of all the
court to find extenuating circum
stances.
I When the business of the night was
idana Boileau turned to JacanavaL
i "It's a aad business," he said. "But
It's a necessity. And, to be frank,
Jacquevel, I suspected that young man
of more than the crime of which he
was accused. If it were only that I
should telegraph Joffre, asking for a
commutation of sentence."
"Of what do you suspect him, sir?'
Inquired Captain Jacquevel.
"Espionage," answered the colonel
briefly. "He is not a Frenchman. Did
you not detect his accent?"
"Alsatian," suggested Captain
Jacquevel.
"Never," replied Boileau. "I spent
three months in Alsace. They have
the heavy Teutonic guttural in their
throats, not that North German burr of
Marchand's. I think"
But what he thought wae never said,'
tor at that moment an orderly raised
the flap of the tent.
i'A lady wishes to see you, sir," be
said. "A Mme. Marchand of Nancy."
Colonel Boileau looked triumphantly
at Jacquevel. "You see," he said. "A,
prearranged thing. No doubt another
spy, passing as a relative. Well, show
her In, Louis. And we'll keep ber
when she comes In," be added to
Jacquevel, "unless she can tell a plain
story."
The tent flap wae raised again and
a little old lady came in. Despite bis
angry suspicions Colonel Boileau rose
and offered ber a camp stool. For the
little old lady was so typically French.
"Well, madam?" he asked.
"My son has enlisted in your com
pany, colonel," said the little old lady
triumphantly.
' Yes, there was triumph in her voice
and all through the story she told him.
For Mme. Marchand had in secret
wished that her eon might not forfeit
his birthright, and, learning at Nancy,
by a friend who managed to reach her,
that Jean' had enlisted, nothing would
satisfy her but that she must go to
the place where he was and see him
in the uniform which his father had
worn.
"And, thank heaven, be is here," she'
continued. "I walked from Nancy,
starting at noon."
"You walked from Nancy, madam?"
Inquired the colonel incredulously.
"Six miles? Pooh! That is noth
ing. During the war of 1870, when my
Philippe was serving on the frontier,
I walked from Nancy to Paris. And
now I have come to see my Jean in
the mldet of his comrades. To think
that, with all his American citizenship
he preserved his French heart "
"Did you say he was an American,
madam?" demanded Colonel Boileau
gruffly.
"Assuredly. His father and I went
to America when he was a baby, and
he obtained citizenship at twenty-one.
But a Frenchman never forgets France.
Now take me to him, colonel 1"
Colonel Boileau sat staring into the
little old lady's face. She was typi
cally French, so smartly attired, de
spite ber widow's weeds. Captain
Jacquevel coughed In a melancholy
manner and looked down at the
ground.
"My son Is only a private now," con
tinued Mme. Marcband. "But soon
you will see him a corporal, and then
a sergeant He will be promoted for
gallantry upon the field and made lieu
tenant, then captain, major who
knows but that the end of the war
may see him a colonel?"
Colonel Boileau could find nothing
to say. For a long while be sat star
ing at the little old lady. At last he
arose.
"Captain Jacquevel, you will offer our
hospitality to Mme. Marchand until I
return," he said, and, leaving the tent,
went to the guard tent
Inside, between two corporals, sat
Jean Marchand. He was seated bolt
upright, staring out into the darkness.
The terror had not yet come upon
him, for It all seemed like a disordered
dream all the Incidents since bis en
listment Colonel Boileau led the prisoner
outside the tent. The corporals,
springing to their feet, saluted their
officer. It did not seem strange to
them that he should have coma for
Marchand nothing seemed strange in
times like these.
When they had gone a little way
Colonel Boileau shouted, "Haiti"
The prisoner faced him expectantly.
He did not know that the hour of ex
ecution bad not been advanced.
"Marchand," said the colonel, "your
mother Is here."
Jean Marchand's band went up to
his hat brim mechanically, in the man
ner he had learned.
"Marchand,ayou will die at sunrise,"
said Colonel Boileau. "But you will
appear before your mother and tell
her that you are a free man. She
will think that you have been killed
In action. Do you understand?"
The young man nodded, and Colonel
Boileau brought him to the tent door
and conducted his mother out to him.
Half an hour later a wagon, drawn by
four horses and escorted by a file of
soldiers, conveyed Mme. Marchand
back to Nancy. Her eyes were brim'
mtng with tears of happiness at the
thought of ber son's future.
Jean Marchand stood at the colonel'i
door. He was awaiting the soldiers
who were to conduct him back to the
guard tent
Colonel Boileau took him by the
shoulders and pointed southward.
"Yonder lies Hourvllle." be said.
"The Army of the East is recruiting
there. Your futtire lies there, Offl
dally, you die at dawn. But Jean
Marchand Is not a unique name, and
It Is possible that another Jean Mar
chand may win honors In war and
serve the army of his mother land."
(Copyright Uli. by W. O. ChapmaaJ
The Island on which Is situated the
Eddyatone lighthouse is the smallest
bit of all-the-rear-round Inhabited Iaa4
la the world.
COMBINED ICE HOUSE
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(Prepared by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.)
Even where for convenience-and
economy It is desirable to have the
dairy under the same roof as the ice
house it Is not satisfactory to attempt
to combine the Ice storage with a cold
store. When It is necessary to use
ice for chilling milk and other dairy
products it is better to remove the ice
from the ice house or compartment and
place it in a specially constructed ice
box or refrigerator, rather than to at
tempt to maintain a cold room by stor
ing the Ice about and in contact with
it. The chief argument against the
combined arrangement is that it pre
vents the storage of ice in a solid
mass. As a result the waste Is much
greater. Again, the requirements of
the storage room and the refrigerator
vary from time to time. Advantage
can be taken of these fluctuations to
husband the Ice supply when the two
are separate. There are decided ad-
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vantages In having the Ice supply
convenient to the dairy bouse or re
frigerator, but It is poor economy to
build the refrigerator or cold store In
side the ice storage. The arrange
ment suggested in figures 1 and 2 is
to be preferred.
Where an abundant supply of
natural Ice can be harvested annual
ly It will be a simple matter to main
tain high-class refrigeration by in
stalling a brine-circulating system.
The principle on which this patented
system works is the same as mechan
ical refrigeration, except that the cold
is secured through a freezing mixture
of ice and salt in a tank in which the
primary colls are located, as shown at
B in figure 3. As the brine In theBe
colls becomes chilled It passes out
through the bottom of the coils and
slowly flows through the colls marked
C, which are located In the cooling
room. The heat of this room is ab
sorbed by these chilled pipes, and as
the brine warms up It passes out and
Fig. 3 Diagram Showing a Combined
up Into the primary coils, and in this
way a continuous circulation is main
tained between the two pipe systems.
For convenience, the Ice house can
be made a part of the structure, so
that the Ice can be elevated above the
storage chamber and directly into the
crusher, which can be located In the
attlo above the primary colls indi
cated at B. As the drawing shows, the
space above the cooling room might
be utilized as a farm shop or tor a
cooperage. If one were to be Installed
in connection with an apple orchard.
It would not be advisable to attempt
to Install this system without having
an experienced engineer calculate the
piping necessary for any given storage
room as well as the cooling tank. The
question of Installation is also a very
Important one, and should be carefully
specified.
This construction Is adapted to
small or to very extensive plants. The
department of agriculture used this
system In a plant which baa been In
stalled at the Arlington experimental
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farm. The cooling room in this case
is 28 by 30 feet with eight-foot ceil
ings. Suffclent space is thereby pro
vided to store 800 barrels of apples.
Detailed Information regarding the
storage of butter and cheese may be
had by those Interested in two bulle
tins of the United States department
of agriculture. Bulletin 83, bureau of
animal industry, gives Information on
cheese, and Bulletin 84, bureau of ani
mal Industry, on butter. These pamph
lets will be sent free of charge as long
as the supply lasts, after which they
may be purchased for a small price
of the superintendent of documents.
GOOD QUALITIES OF MANURE
All Growing Plants Require Certain
Food Elements Which Must Be Se
cured From the Soil.
Some farmers used to have the no
tion that the only reason they had for
hauling manure onto the fields was
to get it out of their way. This class
of men would have thrown the fer
tilizer into a hole had one been handy.
Of late it is difficult to find a farmer
who does not believe in the fertilizing
qualities of manure. Manure is the
cheapest and most efficient fertilizer
which the farmer can use upon his
land,
Growing plants require certain food
elements which must be secured from
the soil. All plants require the same
Ingredients; but the amounts vary in
different plants. The farmer who puts
his land in good shape during the fall
and winter by fertilizing it with ma
nure will raise the big grain crops the
following summer.
Live stock manure contains about
80 per cent of the plant food elements
contained In the food eaten by the
stock. This food was taken from the
soil; so it is only reasonable that if it
is not returned In some form the soil
will become depleted. Barnyard ma
nure is mixed with bedding, which
contains the plant food elements taken
from the ground that produced Its
growth. Naturally this combination Is
not as strong in fertilizing elements
as pure manure; but it has Immense
value as a fertilizer. The bedding ab
sorbs the liquids, which would other
wise be a loss. The organic portion of
a load of manure is Just as valuable
for fertilizing purposes as the nitro
gen, potash, acid, etc., contained in
the manure. Before the organic por
tion is of value as a fertilizer it must
pass through a process of rotting.
This process turns It into humus one
of the elements in which many soils
are most lacking.
Safest Kind of Farming.
The safest kind of farming Is that
which makes It possible for the farm
er and bis family to live well. Even
If large crops which must be turned
Ice House and Cold-Storage Plant
into cash are produced, unless a large
portion of the food and feed be also
grown most of the cash must be used
to buy the necessaries which doubt
less could have been raised cheaper
than the cash crops. It is not the
amount of cash we handle that gives
us profit, but the amount above the
cost of production and marketing. We
enjoy that which gives us the great
est comfort and convenience.
Clean Field for Ducks.
Those who keep ducks should often
place them In a new run, and the one
Just vacated should be sown to rye.
Rye is an excellent crop for disinfect
ing the runs and, besides, it furnishes
considerable green feed.
Get Rid of Roosters.
It Is a good plan to get rid of the
roosters, old and young, as soon as pos
sible. The old ones are eating their
heads off and the young ones should
not be kept long after they reach mar
ketable sit.
good doctors were scarce
Amusing and Extraordinary Letter
From Western Mining Prospector
Who Had Set Up as "Doctor."
In the days when the West was
really "wild" and "woolly," good doc
tors were scarcer than women out in
the mining camps.
Sometimes a man who had failed
at prospecting would set up an "of
fice" in a shack and become a law
yer," or "dentist," or "doctor." There
is a young physician in Chicago whose
father was one of the few competent
physicians in a wide stretch of coun
try; it was not unusual for him to
ride 50 or 100 miles to visit a patient.
He once got the following extraor
dinary letter from one of the mining
failures who had set up as a "doctor."
"Dear Dick I have a pashunt whose
trubbles I dirgnose as bavin his wind
pipe ulserated off and his lungs
dropped down in his stummlk. I have
given hym everythink you could
think of but with no effeck his father
is a rich and wellthy man with buBh-
els of monney and inflooenshul and
the land nose I don't want to loss
hym he is too good a pashunt what
shal I do for hym plees ans a reply
by return male at once. Yours frat
turnally Doc Hendirsum." Youth's
Companion.
A Comparison.
"How are things going in this neck
of the woods?" inquired the recently
arrived washing machine agent, who
visited Polkvllle sufficiently often to
be' mildly interested in the affairs of
the hamlet
"Well, to state the fact," replied
the landlord of the tavern, "things
are nearly as dull here Just now as
I should Judge, from reading the pa
pers, things always are in the best
society up to the city." Puck.
MY, MYI
"Wot's the matter, Edwin, tooth
ache?" "Naw, preacher ter dinner, an' only
one chicken!"
The Autocrat.
"Do you think," said the man who
talks all kinds of socialism, "that af
fairs should be permitted to go on in a
way that may tend to leave some one
man in a position to govern the food
supply?"
"No," answered the unimaginative
person, "but I don't see bow you are
going to compel the hotel to get rid
of the head waiter."
Modern Efficiency.
"You think a president Bhould have
only one term?"
"I'm kind o' leanln' to that idea," re
plied Farmer Corntossel.
"But it used to be customary to give
a president two terms."
"Yes. But in those days It took two
terms for a man to do as much work
as be now lays out for himself in
one."
Weak Excuse.
"The burglar when tried made a
plea that he could not support bis
family."
"That's nonsense on the face of it
A burglar is used to holding people
up."
A Growing Thing.
"Mrs. Smith has telephoned six
times about that leak," offered the of
fice boy.
"Give it a chance, son," said the
plumber. "In a couple of days that
leak'll be worth twice as much."
At the Front
"What's our war correspondent do
ing? Nothing, It seems to me."
"Why, bow you talk. He sends back
some vivid word pictures of the Hotel
Cecil In war time.' Puck.
Leveling Process.
Chatty Gentleman What's you!
opinion of the war? Are you an op
timist or a pessimist?
The Other One Well, really, I'm a
bricklayer's laborer by trade.
A Legal Paradox.
"A queer thing happened In court
this morning."
"What was It?"
"A man faced a charge In refusing
to countenance It"
Woman's Ways.
"Quick, quick! A doctor! I have
Just swallowed a penny!"
"What! Spend $4 to save a penny!
That's the way with you women."
Paris PeleMele.
The Bore.
"He's one of those cheerful Idiots
who always say they find nothing
blue about Monday."
"Yes, he helped give the day Its reputation."
JO MAKE GOOD SOUPS
MATTER THAT IS WORTHY OP
CAREFUL ATTENTION.
Important Article of Food, and Really
No More Trouble to Prepare Than
Other Things Directions
for Two Stocks.
Someone has said that soup is to
the dinner what the overture is to the
opera, and most assuredly a good hot
plate of soup is not only grateful but
appetizing, putting us in good humor
for the rest of the dinner.
Souo is not really a troublesome
food to prepare and Is certainly an
economy, as it makes a profitable use
of bits and scraps that might other
wise find their way to the garbage can.
There are five or six hundred varie
ties of soup which can be classified as
purees, thick soups, broths and clear
soups; the foundation of all being
either fish or meat stock.
For the making of stock we should
regularly set aside bones of meat, poul
try, game or fish, but this latter must
be put in a separate dish; bits of gris
tle, sinew, raw or cooked meat necks,
hearts and gizzards of game or poul
try; rinds and trimmings of salt meat
and the liquor in which meat or fowl
has been boiled. We must, however,
be careful not to put in fat, potatoes
or cabbage.
This stock is used for purees.
broths and thick soups, but for con
somme you must use fresh, uncooked
Juicy meat and fresh vegetables in
making the stock.
For a quart of consomme or clear
soup you will require: Beef, fresh
shin, two pounds; onion, one medium
Improvised Strainer.
size; carrot, one medium size; turnip,
one small; water, three pints; celery,
half stick; parsnip, one slice; herbs-
(parsley, thyme and bay leaf) ; pepper
corns, one dozen; Bait, one teaspoon
ful. Cut up the meat Into small pieces,.
add the salt and cold water and allow
to stand for at least half an hour to
draw out the Juices of the meat.
Bring slowly to the boll, and when
the scum begins to rise add a table
spoonful of cold water; skim carefully
and allow to boll gently for five min
utes. Cut the onions, carrot and turnip In.
halves and add them to the liquid, first
drawing the saucepan to one Bide, so
as to keep the contents simmering, not
boiling. After simmering for five-
hours strain off and allow to get cold.
Tamale Pie.
Take one pound of hamburg steak,.
or left-over meat cut fine and add one
level cupful of seeded raisins, one doz
en stoned olives, salt pepper and red
pepper to taste. Stew until tender and
thicken with one tablespoonful of
cornmeal. Then stir one and one-halt
cupfuls ot cornmeal Into boiling water.
add one tablespoonful of shortening:
and cook until the consistency of
mush. Line a buttered baking dish
with about two-thirds ot this mixture,
pour in the meat and cover with the
remaining mixture, and bake for one
half hour. This makes a fine meat pie,
and Is even better next day warmed
over.
Rice Waffles.
Sift together one quart flour, half a
teaspoonful of salt one teaspoonful of
sugar and two teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder. Add next a cup of hot
boiled rice. If it has been boiled the
day before and is cold, warm It in a
cupful of milk. Add also a pint of cold
sweet milk, a heaping tablespoonful
of butter melted and the well beaten
whites and yolks of two eggs. Bake
carefully In a hot waffle Iron as these
waffles are especially delicate.
Banana Trifle.
Arrange In a glass dish alternate
layers of sliced bananas and cubes of
stale sponge cake. Sprinkle In half a
cupful of fruit Juice. Make a custard
as directed above, flavor with lemon
and pour over the bananas and cake.
Cover with a meringue and decorate
with bananas. Serve very cold.
To Remove a Gasoline Ring.
I used gasoline to remove a stain on
a serge dress and it left a ring
around the part that was cleaned. To
remove this I held the mark over
steaming kettle and It disappeared.
New York Press.
Consomme Royal.
Boll briskly for an hour the head
and feet ot four fowls, one pound ot
lean beet cut Into small pieces, to
two quarts of water and add an onion,
turnip and strain off and place oa ths
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