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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1916)
The RedMirage A Story of the French Legion in Algiers By I. A. R. WYLIE All right rrved. Tht 8YNOP8IS. 10 Bylvla Omnoy, nor lover, Richard Fnr quhur, finds, hu fullpn In love with Ciip tuln Arimud of tho Korean Legion. In Captain Sower's room Kurquhar force! Sower to hiive f region's I O. U's ro turned to him. Faniulmr Is helped to his rooms by Ouhrlclle Kmlth. Rowor demands an apology. Retimed, he forces Funiuhar to resign his commlHsliin In relurn for possesHion of Fannmr's father's writ ten confeuslon that he had murdered Sow er's futher. Gabrielle BuveB Fitniuhur from suicide. To shield Arnaud, Bylvlu'a fiance, Faruhar prolVsscH to have stolen war plans and tells the real culprit why he did so. As Richard NameleHs he Joins the Foreign Legion and sees Sylvia, now Mme. Arnaud, meet Colonel Destlnn. Farquhur meets Sylvia nnd Clahrlello, and learns from Corporal Uoetz of the col onel's cruelty. Arnaud becomes a drunk ard and opium smoker. Hyrvla becomes friendly with Colonel Destlnn. Arnaud becomes Jealous of Farquhar. Farquhar, on guard at a villa where a dance Is In IjfOKress, Is shot down by Arnaud. Ar naud Justllles his insanely Jealous action to Colonel Destlnn. Arnaud goes to a dan cing girl who loves him for comfort. ..t'.t..t.."....""i...t....t"t....t....t...4-f Opium Is a deadly drug, but It t makes men dream away their lives In a sort of artificial peace. Burdened with the grief of de sertion, racked by disease that Is fatal, buffeted by fate and thoroughly disheartened, a middle-aged man smokes opium to keep his senses deadened. Do you think his action Justified? CHAPTER X Continued. "I tried to kill him," he said quietly tut distinctly, "and I mean to kill him. That is the only change." "Is that any change? Has It taught your fair, pure young wife to love and honor you?" He ground his teeth to gether without answering, and she went on, her voice grown suddenly harsh and contemptuous. "You are a fool, Desire. You are a fool, like all men. What Is there in this one wom an that you should care? She Is pretty, but others are prettier. I have seen lier, for it amused me to have a glance at the wonder who could drive two men to the devil. And what is she? A charming doll with a child's eyes and a sparrow's brain. What else " The girl rose. She took one of the long-stemmed pipes from the table and lighted it at the brazier. The red em bers glowed up on to her face, where vvas written a somber Inscrutable bit terness. She came back aud placed ithe pipe in his Inert hand. "There!" she said simply. "That is what you have come for. Forgetful ness." He nodded. Silently he cowered back among the ragged cushions and with half-closed eyes began to smoke. In the hovel there was perfect silence. As the minutes passed the subtle magic perfume sleep'ng beneath the rank sweetness awoke, the lurking dreams "I Tried to Kill Him," He Said Quiet ly but Distinctly, "and I Mean to Kill Him." and fancies came out from among their shadows and moved lightly to and fro In the brightening circle of firelight Arnaud smiled wistfully at them. Little by little the terrible lines of pain drawn about his features passed, leaving them a white peace. A sigh broke from his loosely parted Hps. "Sylvia Sylvia my wife " His head dropped back the strange etemmed pipe slipped from his power less fingers and fell with a soft thud to the floor. The woman bent over him and kissed him. A single tear, drawn from a well of Bavage pity, had dropped on the untroubled brow. "God of our fathers," she whispered from between clenched teeth, "Thou knowest I am bad rotten to the heart but thou knowest also I am not so bad as. the woman who sent this man to me." She knelt down, and with her dark head against the sleeper's knee watched and waited. All was quiet But on the other side of the curtain an Arab crouching betid Hie brazier awoke, There iu Bobbt-MerriU Co.) a slight smile about bis Hps as though his dreams had brought him food for amused reflection, and with a quick glance at his motionless companion he got up and slipped out Into the street It was now toward evening and the great heat of the day was broken. At a wblte-walled villa on one of the broad avenues he glided through a Moorish doorway Into the passage. Be fore him lay the courtyard, where two women talked, their low voices min gling musically. At last he came out into the light. Ills manner was In imitable In Its suggested homage and a hundred unspoken flatteries. "Madame, It's Abou-Yakoud who ventures before you," he suid in bis soft Arab French. "Abou-Yakoud, who has seen Mecca and who reads Destiny as an open book. Give me your hand, madame. For a little franc, I will tell you good and evil what was and what Is to come." Sylvia Arnaud started slightly and turned. "You shall not come in here," she said Impatiently, and yet not without a childish touch of hesitation. "Beg ging is forbidden. Now be gone!" She tossed a handful of money on to the white stone flags. Each coin rang out like a note of Jangling laughter, which still echoed after her as she passed luto the shadows of the gate day. Abou-Yakoud bent and gathered the nickel pieces from the ground. When he looked up again he stood straight and erect, and the beard had vanished. "Gabrielle!" he said softly. She turned a little. The warm gold of evening was on her face and soft ened the stern lines to a mild and noble serenity. "I know," she said. "Your voice betrayed you. And then sooner or later I felt that you would come, though for what purpose God knows." "Let us hope he does not" he an swered sardonically. "I am here on my own business, and my own busi ness has no sanctity about it. I must keep control If I am to win through to the things I want." "The things you want!" she echoed with deep sadness. "What are they now, Stephen?" He knelt on the marble edge of the fountain and caught her hand. "Gabrielle!" he repeated hoarsely, "Gabrielle!" She looked down at him. Her free hand she laid quietly upon his. "You are cruel to yourself," she said, "Why h,ave you come, Stephen?" "God knows. I have lied so much In all these ghastly years, Gabrielle. I have lied most of all to my own con science. I have called you an episode a folly. I have heaped contempt on you, on my memory of you, aud al ways you have risen as now the one pure thing that I have loved, my one virtue, my own fidelity" "Hush, Stephen, we have buried our dead." "You have I cannot. I tried. At first It was remorse that would not let me the knowledge that I have ruined you dishonored you " "That is not true," she Interrupted proudly. "Xo woman no man has ever been dishonored by one action Honor Is not a possession to be lost or broken. It is ourselves what we are. If you had dishonored me I should be different; but I nm not different. have grown stronger that Is all. I see clearer. I am happy." "Happy? And your name your po sition your people all lost!" She smiled faintly. "Those griefs are old and healed, Stephen. I have a name and a posi tion. They are my own, and I am a little proud of them. I owe you my knowledge of myself and my own strength some hours' Illusion, a broad er outlook, a deeper understanding of other women's failures. Let that suf fice between us " "I cannot." He sprang up with a wild gesture of protest "It Is not re morse that haunts me. I am not the man to feel remorse. I half loved and half despised you. Then that night when I came back and found that you knew me for what I was a liar, a cheat, a common spy, to be bought and sold by every man and had left me on the very eve of my atonement to you then I knew my own madness. From that hour I wanted you." "It's too late, Stephen," she said, "too late. I have buried my dead, dear. I cannot call the dead to life. We are free and we stand alone. We must go our ways, Stephen." "I won't plead, Gabrielle. I know you better." Then suddenly he turned and stumbled blindly into the dark ness of the passageway. CHAPTER XI. Behind the Mosque. Colonel Destlnn rode through Sldi-bel-Abbes, and many of those he passed looked after him. One or two of his observers were soldiers wearing a red and blue uniform of the Legion. They saluted first and grimaced only after a cautious interval. "Nom d'un Petard! Will the devil never grow old?" Women looked after him Arab women from behind mysterious veils, aud Europeans all with the same fem inine Interest In what Is strong. For Colonel Destlnn sat his horse with grace and enso, and the slight erect figure carried the years lightly. Uow many the years were no one knew. Thus he rode slowly through the pleasant shaded avenues, skirting the nigger quarter, till be reached the plateau. There he drew rein, bis keen eyes sweeping the low girdle of olive trees and clustering native hovels to the far side, where the mosque rose up In stately purity against the turquoise sky. Through the graceful archway a double line of Arubs drifted backward and forward In a soft-flowing, un broken stream of worship, and sudden ly Colonel Destlnn set spurs and gal loped over the hard clay, scattering the stragglers to right and left "Madame Arnaud!" She turned with a little start of sur prise, and freeing herself from the cumbersome red slippers which en cased her Infidel feet she came to meet him, her hand outstretched In gracious welcome. "Why, Colonel Destlnn! You!" "There's no one here for whom It is "Those Griefs Are Old and Healed, Stephen." necessary to play comedy," he an swered with brutal directness. "You had my note?" "Yes " She crimsoned and faltered, and he swung himself to the ground, looping the bridle over his wrist. "We must get away from the crowd," he. said in the same curt, Imperative tone. "It Is fairly quiet behind the mosque. Take my arm. The rough ground is excuse enough." "If anyone saw us they would think" "Nothing that Is not true, madame." She hesitated, half resentful, half afraid. "I am beginning to ask myself what Is the truth, colonel." "That is what I have come to tell you." They walked on. Overhead, from the high towers of the mosque, an Arab chant drifted down to them through the quiet air "I extol the greatness of the Lord, of God the most high" They were quite alone now. On their right the white walls sheltered them; to the left the open suuscorched plateau. Colonel Destlnn stood still and faced his companion. "Well," he said, "have you nothing to say to me?" "I?" She lifted her lustrous brown eyes to his in simple Inquiry. "What should I have to say?" "Your husband is safe." "Oh, Desire! Yes, I had forgotten about it almost. It was an accident. He thought I was about to be attacked. He is so nervous and excitable, and the night was dark. He explained It all " "Yes, Captain Arnaud explained everything." There was a block of stone beside him and he set his foot upon It, leaning forward so that their faces were on a level. "Madame Ar naud! Do you really think I believe you or in you? My child, if your hus band bad acted as you say, he would have been cashiered for an Intoxicated Incapable; but he gave me bis expla nation. It was an explanation which men among themselves some men understand and accept madness on account of a woman. I let your hus band go free. Do you thank me?" She made no answer. The graceful knowl edge of her power was gone. Her eyes hung on his with the blankness of a will in abeyance. "You do not thank me," he went on deliberately. "Yon would like to. You would like to play the role of the faithful wronged wife. But I am the one person before whom you cannot act either to yourself or to others. I have seen through you, and your little shallow soul knows it. All artifice between us Is useless. Do not move stay there!" He caught her hands and held them In a grip of Iron. Will Sylvia be strong enough to resist the fierce fire of sen sual temptation which Colonel Destlnn holds to her scorching oulT Will she fall Into a moral abyss 1 (TO BE CONTINUED.) LAY OUT HOME GARDEN Field Methods Should Be Used in Preparing Land. Preliminary Work Done In Fall 8ave$ Much Time and Labor During 8prlng Rush Liberal Use of Manure Is Favored. (By J. W. LLOYD.) In planning the home garden, It Is well to arrange the vegetables In the order In which they are to be planted. This facilitates the preparation of the land for planting, and makes it possi ble to maintain the unplanted portion In a good friable condition with the least expenditure of labor. In order that the vegetables may be so arranged, It Is necessary to know the proper time for planting each crop. This depends primarily upon the temperature and moisture requirements of the particu lar crop In question. The arrangement of the garden as to length of rows and time of planting, Is not the only labor-saving feature that should characterize the typical Planker. farmer's garden. Field methods should be practiced In preparing the land for planting, and as much preliminary work done in the fall as is possible, for the sake of both securing an early garden and reducing the amount of la bor In spring. After the land is cleared of refuse from preceding crops It should be heavily manured and plowed In the fall. The amount of manure to be applied will depend somewhat upon the fertility of the land, but more largely upon the trueness of the farm er's conception of the plant food re quirements of garden crops. The best gardens are possible only where plant food Is supplied much more liberally than is considered ample for field crops. If the land has been manured and plowed in the fall, and Is worked at the proper time In spring, very little labor Is necessary In the preparation of a seed bed for the early planting. Soil containing sufficient humus to grow vegetable crops advantageously, can be fitted for planting without the use of hand tools, if the precaution is taken to work it at the exact time it Sled Marker. reaches the right degree of dryness. It will then crumble readily and a seed bed can be prepared by the use of a disk, harrow and planker. A sled marker is also very useful. The use of these tools saves an enormous amount of labor, and is a vast im provement over the old method of using only a hoe and a rake. EXACT MEASURES IN FEEDING Practical Way Is to Weigh Definitely What Each Vessel Will Hold Guess Work Unprofitable. It is always best to be exact in feed ing. Too much "guess work" is done on the farm. That is one reason why some of us find farming no more prof itable. In computing rations and feeding, the various feeds should be weighed. It is not always necessary to weigh every feed, as this may take consider able time. It is not always practical to weigh every feed, as feeding is sometimes done after dark or before dawn. The practical way Is to weigh a definite quantity as the amount a measure will hold and eotimate each feed. A quart measure is a convenient vessel In which to estimate grain and other concentrated feeds. A quart of the following common feeds weighs: Cottonseed meal, 1.5 pounds; wheat bran (coarse), .5 pounds; wheat mid dling, coarse (shorts), .8 pounds; wheat middling, fine, 1.1 pounds; corn meal, 1.5 pounds; oats, 1.2 pounds; gluten meal, 1.7 pounds; gluten seed, 1.2 pounds. FEEDING MILK TO CHICKENS Has Most Favorable Influence on Growth of Young Fowls Abun dant Exercise Is Urged. The feeding of milk to young chicks has a most favorable Influence on the growth, and on lessening the mortal ity average. Sweet and sour milk are of equal value In chick feeding. The degree of Bourness does not affect the nutritive value. Chicks fed milk freely should have abundant exercise. This applies par ticularly to earlier hatches or brooder chicks. In no way Is milk injurious, but whether you feed sweet or sour milk, the same should be fed continually until the end of the milk feeding pe riod, whichever is most sonvenlent, adhere to consistently. BREEDING PLACES FOR FLIES Treatment Recommended by United States Department of Agriculture to Control Insects. Manure piles are flies' favorite breeding places. It farmers will keep manure and stable sprinkled with a solution that will kill the larva, files need not become numerous. The fol lowing treatment, recommended In United States department of agricul ture bulletin 118, will control files and will make a noticeable reduction In the number around a given place: Dis solve three-fourths of a pound of borax I two or three gallons of water. Spray Of sprinkle manure piles and stables with the solution about twice a week. This will kill the larva which hatch from eggs laid In manure The danger to human health from flics 1b sufficient to make the wise farmer take these precautions, but If he looks for further Justification It can be found in thi pro tection of live stock. Human diseases are spread by flies and live stock are worried by them. The danger to hu man welfare must be conceded, but the loss to live stock Is not so easily soen. Animals which are pestered by files will lose flesh, aud stable flies rob them of blood. NEW PATENT ON CULTIVATOR Extra Blades Travel In Advance, Cut ting Sod, Weeds or Crust That May Have Formed. John S. Smith, a Racine county (Wisconsin) Inventor, sendB In a de scription of his new patent cultivator to the Farming Business. This culti vator has extra bladeB that travel In advance and parallel to the cultivator blades for the cutting of sod, roots, weeds and any crust that may have formed, leaving the cultivator blades to do their work of stirring the soil. One lever manipulates both knives aud cultivators. This relieves draft, as It Improved Cultivator. Is not necessary to tear Into the soil so deeply to do both the breaking of the sod and crust and the cultivation with one set of blades. Any one of the four beams used to carry the knives and cultivators cun be adjusted inde pendently so as to meet all kinds of conditions of soil and vegetation. MANURE LOSES BY LEACHING When Rains Fall Much of Soluble Plant Food Is Carried Away Moisture Holds Plant Food. Farmers have been so accustomed to throw the manure from the stable in a pile in the barnyard, and leave It until it is convenient to haul it to the fields, that they do not give the mat ter of loss by washing and leaching any consideration. Usually but little of the value of the solids of the ma nure is lost in the stable, but great losses occur after it is thrown in a pile. The manure In the stable, sat urated by the urine, contains more than 50 per cent water. The moisture In the manure holds In solution the greater part of the plant foods which the manure contains. When the rains fall upon the manure the leaching process carries awaj much of tho soluble plant foods and it is lost beyond recovery, for it is either carried away in the water as it flows on the surface to the streams, or sinks Into the ground where, for all practi cal purposes, it is wasted. TESTING FERTILITY OF EGGS If Trouble Is With Male Fowl Replace Him Make Sure Feeding Ration Is Not Responsible. Those who make a specialty of sell ing hatching eggs from selected mat lngs should keep a careful test on the fertility of eggs produced, so that poorly fertilized eggs will not be sent out to customers, necessitating replac ing the eggs later and causing delay in getting young chicks started toward the showrooms. If the fertility Is not good replace the male bird with another or make sure that the feeding ration Is not re sponsible for the trouble. TO STORE PERISHABLE FOODS Every Farm Should Be Provided With Cellar, Storehouse and Refrig erator for Crops. Farmers lose much every year be cause their facilities for storing per ishable, foods are poor. Every farm home should have a cel lar, storehouse and refrigerator so the surplus foods may be saved till such time as they may be consumed. The fact that producers have Inade quate facilities tor saving perishable products gives speculators advan tages ovar them. MDDY'S EVENING AM ME 0 MARY GRAHAM MAN IN THE MOON'8 PARTY. "Once upon a time," began daddy, and Nick and Nancy burst out laugh ing. "Why, daddy," they shouted, "you never begin stories that way." "Well, I did this time to surprise you, and now that I have I might Just as well start right In with the story." "It had been the first hot day. Even the sun felt tired. That may sound very strange to think of the sun feel ing tired. But still, can't you imagine that on the first hot day that comes, when the sun has boen shining with all his might and main, that he gets a. little bit tired and is glad when It is time to go to bed? Many strong peo ple may get tired at night. "As the sun went to bed, the moon began to peep up and laugh. He grinned from ear to ear, for he said to hlmsolf : "'Tonight I really will be appre ciated, for the sun has overworked to day and no one over gets any thanks "They Did Have the Very Best Time." for overworking. It Is as bad as not working enough.' "Of course, the moon was the very sort to talk that way. For, can you imagine that Jolly old man whom you see grinning at you so often ever real ly working very hard? "Just then the moon began sending out his invitations for a party. "He sent them in this way: He whispered to the tall pines that he wanted to have a party and to Invite all the little fairies. Also he added that they muBt wear their very best clothes, for when he gave a party he liked to see folks in their party clothes. "The fairies lost no time about ac cepting this invitation. And you should have seen how absolutely gorgeous they looked when they were all ready. The fairy queen was dressed in glit toring gold. She wore a gold crown on her head and carried a gold wand with gold stars glittering from It. "All the other fairies were dressed in silvery costumes. For the man In the moon Is very fond of silver. You still sometimes notice that he puts on a silver robe himself, and he is very friendly with the Bllver clouds that float in the sky at night. "They did have the very best time and they all enjoyed the party bo, so much. The man in the moon laughed his head off at leaBt the fairies were afraid he would as he Bald he had never before seen the pine trees be have so like silly little trees, Instead of like big, dignified trees they had al ways prided themselves on being. "But tho pine trees didn't care, for they were having a beautiful time wav ing and singing. They sang for lots of the lovely dances the fairies did. As for the fairies, thoy had the best time in the world. "They felt it was a very groat honor for them to be givf i a party by the wonderful old man In the moon, who had such splendid guests as the pine trees!" SOUND ADVICE FROM FARMER He Had Rescued Mctorlst and Balloon ist Same Day Would Find Life Easier at Home. Mr. Jephtha Wade, a well-known Cleveland man, has a winter home at Thomasville, Ga. One of his sons is an amateur balloonist and occasionally makes an ascent from Thomasville. If the family fail to hear promptly from him they set forth in a motor car and search until they find htm, the Youth's Companion states. One day, when the roads were slip pery with mud, the automobile skid ded and slid part way down a bank. It brought up without damage against a large tree. Mr. Wade could not get It back on tho road and appealed for help to a farmer plowing In the field below. Tho farmer hitched his team to the front axle and soon pulled the car out cf trouble. Mr. Wade looked back and said: "That tree saved us from a bad acci dent; If it had not been there we should have turned over and been bad ly hurt." "Yes, suh," drawled the farmer, "that cert'nly is a useful tree! This mornln' a young feller in a balloon got. stuck in it and 1 had to h'ist him out." "Why, that was our son!" exclaimed both Mr. and Mrs. Wade, excitedly. The farmer looked at them for a mo ment with a puzzled expression; then his face lighted up with a smile, and he said: "I reckon you folks would find life easier if you was to stay home more."