HALSEY ENTERPRISE. HALSEY. OBERON. AVGCST 2. 1928 The Red Road A Romance of B raddock’s D efeat By Hugh Pendexter Illu stration s b y STORY FROM TH E START W e b s te r B ro n d is s e rv in g as a sco ut a nd spy fo r th e a r m y u n ­ d e r G e n e ra l B ra d d o c k p r e p a rin g f o r th e a d v a n c e on F o r t D u ­ quesne. l i e has Just re tu rn e d to A le x a n d r ia fro m a v is it to th s f o r t , w h e re , po sin g as a F r e n c h ­ m an , he has secured v a lu a b le i n ­ fo r m a tio n . B ra d d o c k , b re d to E u ­ ro p e a n w a r f a r e , f a ils to re a lis e th e im p o rta n c e o f th e new s. B ro n d is sen t b ack to F o r t D u ­ quesne, a ls o b e a rin g a m essage to G e o rg e C ro g h a n , E n g lis h e m is s a ry am ong th e In d ia n « . B ro n d Joins his fr ie n d a nd f e l­ lo w sco ut. B o u n d P a w , In d ia n c h ie f, a n d th e y set o u t. On the w a y th e y f a ll in w it h a ty p ic a l b a c k w o o d s m a n , B a ls a r G ro m it, w h o Joins th e m . T h e p a r ty e n ­ c o u n te rs a g ro u p o f s e ttle r s t h r e a te n in g a y o u n g g i r l , E ls ie D ln w o ld , w h o m th e y accuse o f w it c h c r a f t . B ro n d saves h e r fro m th e m . T h e g i r l d is a p p e a rs . W e b ­ s te r d e liv e rs h is m essage to C ro g h a n . Young C ol. G e o rg e W a s h in g to n rescues B ro n d fro m b u lly in g E n g lis h s o ld ie rs . Irwin Myers Copyright by Hugh Pendexter. WNU Service rel. I Ftepped back. Intending to re­ tire, and again the brown eyes met mine, and thia time tbelr pleading stirred me to Impulsive action even while belittling in ; estimation of the young fellow's manhood. 1 found myself pushing a path through the spectators and shoving the young man to one side while I In­ formed the man with the twisted face: “ This has gone fa r enough. You should take some one nearer your size.” For half a minute the fellow glared at me, his crooked Jaws working as If he were chewing a very tough morsel Then he cried: "Well, d—n my eyes I A half-Injun telling Peter Synies what’s gone fur 'nough. I’eter says It ain't gone far CHAPTER III— Continued “ Just as sure us you u n i 1 used to go to the bread-and-buttei dancing parties, Web. The French are brave. They cun’t defend the fort, but they’re well trained lu the Indian style ot fighting. If they evacuate Duquesne without making a tight, they’ll forever be discredited among the Indians. They risk but little In trying a sur prise attack. If we are not caught oil our guard, they w ill fall back with trillin g loss. Yes, they must try IL There's hut one tiling to prevent them I f we pass the head of Turtle creek and follow among the high ridge, they'll not attempt an umbush, as that stretch of country lacks good cover. They II tie too shrewd to march their Indians very fur from the fo rt They can get one light out of them It they ran light near Duquesne. It w ill come ou the Monongahela—und the Guards are not used to IL bidlun warfare Is dlffieult for a European strategist to understand. Fortunately we’ll have our own woodsmen out as scouts and flankers. They are the best men In the world for this sort ol work. Five hundred of them could make Duquesne before our artillery can cover a fourth of the distance, before the army can march a third of IL And once they were there they would shoot their way Inside. This wur may result In our being forced to shift more for our­ selves In border wars. It we have to do that, we shull be better off.” lie rose and genially said: "Webster, I'm glad to meet you again. I wish I could have been with you at Duquesne. I owe the place an other visit when the odds aren’t so heavy against me." Ills young face was grltu und I knew he was remem berlng his last visit to the Ohio. lie mounted nnd said: - I ’m glad you're with us. Webster. Hut how do you serve? I don’t see yon drilling.’’ “ 1 a in under orders from General Braddock to visit Duquesne again, col onel. and play the part of a Cana dlan." “ Ah I That w ill be line. I'll bring the mailer before General Braddock wo os to refresh his recollection. You wish Io start soon?" “ Any time. I'm keen to be off. An Piiondiigii woodsmnte of mine Is here lie w ill go with me. He Is Bound Raw ol the Woll clan." "He should be an excellent com putilon. I w ill tuke the mutter up with General Braddock very soon What our men want Is a tight, not parade work I'll see you again soon Web I heat Captain Itushy I t with us. I shall look him up. too.” He mis riding away with a friendly wave of the hand. I saw much ol him In later year*, after niioilier war had tried bis soul and hud given much gravity to his handsome features. But tills June day lie was hut little different from the youth from Mount Veruon. who would ride across two counties for the sake of a contre-dunse with some fair maid. I walked In the opposite direction toward (lie Indian camp, thinking to find Bound I’uw. but puused where the wagoners were cooking their salt meat fot supper. The kettles were abandoned quickly enough when a voice off one able begun bawling: “ A wring I A wring I” Nothing will collect men more quick I) than the opportunity to see two men In a rough and tumble tight; and I Joined the circle and beheld a man with a twisted face trying to come to g rim with a slim youth, who was brandishing » heavy cart pin 'Drop iliat hunk of Iron, you young murderer I” cried an enthusiastic stHttator But the young man gripped the pin the llghtei and made a notion ns If Io hurl It Ilia adversary, twice Ms bulk dodged and shielded his heai with tils arms The young man leaped nimbly har of the house on days w lieu It Is In session, briuging the mace In when the body convenea, and when It adjourns, carrying It back to the otfiee of the sergeantat- arms with the same deliberate step. The only time during a day of busi­ ness when the mace .» removed be fore adjournment It when the house goes Into committee of the whole to consider some piece of specific legit latlon When It Is officially In legls tutlve session again the mace I* re turned. S q u irrel’s Wisdom Most of us are Just a few steps ahead of starvation Very few mea have as much sense as the squirrels —E. W Uo» t ' l Monthly. 1JÏT ÇKTM MILK FOR TWO PROVEN SIRES * HENS IS FAVORED LOST TO FARMERS Skim milk Is great pig feed, but the man who feeds the milk to his hens and tukes Ids profit In the form of In­ creased egg yields is the one who makes the most money from his milk, according to Iowa State college poul­ try men. Seven years of continuous experi­ mentation at the college has proved that milk, when fed to poultry, w ill return from three to six times as much profit as when fed to pigs- It has also been found that, when eggs are selling for not less than 30 cents a dozen, skim milk is worth around $2 a hundredweight as feed for good pullets. There Is pructlcally no differ­ ence between the value of skim milk and buttermilk for poultry, repeated testa Have revealed. When hens fed tankage or meat meals as their main source of pro­ tein were compared with .those that also had milk, it was found that the milk-fed birds outlayed the tankage- fed birds by 25 to 40 per cent during cold weather. M ilk should always be fed sour because birds w ill consume more of It In this condition, It has n slightly laxutive effect and the lactic acid combats many disease germs. From October 1 to May 1 It Is profit­ able to give the hens nothing but milk to drink und from May 1 io Oc­ tober 1 they may be allowed to choose between milk and wuter. When birds are given all of the milk they w ill drink, the amount of tankage or other packing house by-products may be reduced one-half, for milk furnishes one-half the protein necessary for lay­ ing hens. The Iowa poultry special­ ists advise the keeping of only as many birds as can be supplied with milk. Laying Hens Need Moist Mash in Warm Weather Summer feeding of farm poultry can be carried on economically and to good advantage, says Cora Cooke, extension poultry specialist at the university of Minnesota. The amount of feed required on the average farm Is less than in winter, a higher pro­ duction can be counted upon, and prices of eggs are usually ascending after the low period caused by the spring surplus. The specialist points out that the cost of the ration can be reduced by cutting down the meat scrap one-half and omitting It alto­ gether If plenty of milk Is available, and also by reducing the amount of corn and, in the case of dual purpose flocks, omitting It entirely. “ The prin­ cipal thing to look out for Is that plenty of mash Is used,” he says. “ As warm weather comes on a moist mash once a day w ill do wonders In keeping up egg production. Hens that molt early should be disposed of before poultry prices drop In the early fa ll.’’ Reports of storage conditions presage a favorable season, says Miss Cooke. A recent report said that 13 per cent fewer eggs nnd 39 per cent less dresced poultry are In storage than a year ago. When are dairymen going to use proven sires Instead of untried bull calves? asks D. L. Font, field dairy­ man with the University of Idaho ag­ ricultural extension division. When, also, w ill dairymen keep a promising young bull until testing records have either proved Ills worth or Indicated him worthless? Then he relates bow dairymen proved two sires In Idaho without knowing It and turned them to butchers Just as they were near­ ing the age of greatest usefulness. Association records from Canyon county show that seven daughters of one Jersey bull produced 3,080 pounds of milk and 121 pounds of butterfat each more than their dams. This bull was butchered before the daughters freshened and was not given an oppor­ tunity to prove his worth. The owner stated that every daughter of this bull later excelled her dam. I’ tTause he wgntgek another bull, and thought he needed one, the herd sire proven hut not recognized as such was sold to the butcher. This dairyman has been sor­ ry ever since, writes O. A. Fitzgerald of Utah, In the Dairy Farmer. The Gooding county (Idaho) tester Is encouraging dairymen to be cau­ tious In any move to dispose of a the­ oretically good bull that has not been given a full chance. The tester re­ ports the story of a Holstein sire whose daughters produce 1,095 pounds of milk and 05.5 pounds of butterfat more than their dams but which was turned to nn Inglorious end before his value was known. Cow testing associations records so far tabulated show that about one- third of the pure bred sires are low­ ering production of their daughters In comparison with their dams, about one-third are holding their own or In­ creasing slightly, and the great In­ crease Is coming from the last third. The higher the herd production the more difficult It Is to bring Increases, hence the greater need for a bull of proved ability, reasons Mr. Fourt. The cow testing association record shows without guesswork which bulls should be kept and which should go to the butcher. " I f these proven sires are to be of value to the dairy Indus­ try they must be alive and In service nnd not butchered,’’ insists the Idaho dairy leader. _X Aspirin 1« — i f M onoacetic.cldester of B alteyllcastg To Cool a Burn Use Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh Money back fo r first b o ttle I f n o t aultod. A lld e a le m ■ Contamination of Milk Is Blamed on Consumer Successful as Breeders Whey contains milk sugar, fat, min­ erals. and proteins of very high qual­ ity. It Is therefore an excellent feed for poultry. However, It contains only about O.fl per cent of dry matter, therefore It Is difficult for a hen, with her limited capacity, to consume enough to supply her want*. Keep the usual feeds before the hen, so that she w ill be sure to get enough to eaL Since the whey contains so much water. It would be well to take away other sources of water. _____________ th© trad« mark ©f Rarer M xnufactnrt The consumer Is sometimes respon­ sible fo r the contamination of the milk. Milk bottles should not be taken Into a sick room, because Infectious diseases can be spread by carrying In­ fected bottles back to the dairy farm. I f hotties are left where there are con­ tagious diseases, they should not be collected by the milkman until they have been properly disinfected by the bonrd of health. In the case of ty ­ phoid fever or other serious diseases which may be carried In the milk, It Is better for the consumer to put out a covered dish for the milk or have It delivered to some member of the household. U ntil official permission has been granted, no milk bottles should be removed from a home In Marking Broody Hens to which there Is or has recently been a Cull From Laying Flock ease of communicable disease. The There is a wide variation In the consumer should not use milk bottles amount of broodiness In hens In the for holding vinegar, kerosene, or liq ­ same flock. Some lay a comparatively uids other than milk. few eggs between spells of broodiness. Others go broody rarely If at all. An excellent practice Is to mark through Hold Milk Flow During some method or other the number of Summer by Good Feeding times the hens become broody during Summer losses In milk production the season. are probably the heaviest of the year, A simple and yet effective method and that Is so mainly because cows are Is to use celluloid rings to slip on asked to live too much on their Imag­ their legs. A bunch of rings of one ination. I f the cattle do not seem con color can be used, thus leaving other tented and satisfied on coming from colors for other marks If desired. pasture, supplemental feeds should be Each time a hen Is placed In the supplied. Grain alone at this time Is broody coop or set. If the chicks are not sufficient as the cows actually hatched and raised with hens, a ring need more roughage. I f silage Is not can be placed on her leg. Any hen available It may be possible to mow that accumulates more than two be­ some grass crop for a time. If no fore midsummer could be culled from special provision has been made for the flock. Frequently a lien w ill go soiling crops. I f neither Is available. broody every two or three weeks, even It Is well to use hay to supplement when she Is placed In the broody coop the pasture. at the flirt sign of broodiness. Such should be sold or eaten at the third Twin Bull Calves Found attack. Proteins in Whey i . / L NURSES know, and doctors have declared there’s nothing quite like Bayer Aspirin fo r a ll sorts o f aches and pains, but be sure it w genuine Bayer; that name must be on the package, and on every tablet. Bayer is genuine, and the word genuine—in red—is on every box. You can't go wrong if you w ill just look at the box t The twin bull calves are Just as like­ ly to become successful mature breed­ ing animals as any single bull calf would be. Likewise twin heifer calves are Just as likely to be successful as breeding cows as single heifer calves. It Is only when a bull calf Is born as « »win with a heifer calf that nsual- ly the heifer calf does not prove a successful breeding cow and usually w ill not produce calves at all. Even In that case, the bull calf is Just as like­ ly to become a successful breeding bull as bull calves produced singly. 1 1 " - i English Justice Does A w a y W ith Precedents There was a time when In the chan­ cery courts w ritten evidence In the form of affidavits was considered by the practitioners who drafted and settled these statements to suit their clients’ contentions, ns having su­ perior value to the oral testimony of our common law tribunals. Mr. Jus­ tice Mathew abolished this heresy In a phrase when he said, with con­ temptuous Irony, "T ru th w ill leak out even In an affidavit." The same learned Judge, too, gave _ w itty reproof to a learned counsel famous for prolixity who applied to him fo r an order that the other side should file “ further and better partic­ ulars." “ H'm I” said Mathew. “ Further and better particulars I ‘Further,’ I sup­ pose, because they are fu rth e r from the point than the former ones, and ‘better’ because they cost more. Cer­ tainly net."—London Tit-Bits. Spain Yields W a r Trophies Spain has demonstrated Its effusive friendship for its emancipated former dominions by voluntarily surrender­ ing to Cuba flags, banners, pistols, swords and other war trophies cap­ tured by the Spanish troops from the Cuban rebels. Prominent among these emblems is the banner of Independ­ ence raised by Carlos Maria Ces- pedes, the great patriot, during tha ten years’ war In 1868. The trophies figured fo r many years In the A rtil­ lery museum at Madrid. Senor Garcia Kholy, Cuban ambnssador, gnve nn en­ tertainment nt which these emblems were exhibited before being sent to Cuba. Spanish pride is certainly mak­ ing concessions In order to secure the good w ill of Cuba. N ew Y o rk Jews M ove Manhattan has had to yield to Brooklyn ns the chief center of the Jewish population of the metropolis. A survey Just completed under the auspices of the Bureau of Jewish So­ cial Research shows Brooklyn now has 45.6 per cent of the 1,720,000 Jews In the entire city. The Brooklyn movement has all been Into one-family, two-fnmlly and apart­ ment house sections, the survey showed. Coney Island, w ith 96.7 per cent, comes nearest to being all Jew­ ish of any section. H a ir and E le c tric ity While the use of the electric cur­ rent Is recommended and being exten­ sively used In this country and In Eu­ rope for the removal of superfluous hair, the barbers o f Latin America are recommending Its use for the purpose of growing hair on beardless faces. B urden “ Life murt be strenuous In like Noo Yawk.” a town “ Yeh, tw o teams to w o rry about." ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE Stops the pain ot Corns and bunions and you can walk all day In ease and comlort. Nothing give* isuch relief to bot. tired, aching. Inflamed or swol­ len feet, blisters or cal- luse«. • A little ALLIS'® foot - ease sprinkled In ea, h shoe In the morning will make you forget about tight shoes. It takes the friction from the shoe. Al­ ways use it for Dancing and to Break In New Shoes. For F r e e •amp s snd a E-ot-Fass Walking Doll, addreee Poultry Prospects Developing a Herd Says the Massachusetts Agricultural college: "The outlook for egg, broiler nnd poultry prices Is slightly better than in 1927. Feed costs on the other hand are expected to continue high, at least during the first half of fhe year." We've covered nine sheets of paper trying to figure out whether that's Intended as encouraging or dis­ couraging. says the Farm Life. Our own opinion Is that poultry looks bet­ ter this year than last, and we re go­ ing right ahead for a better flock. One good cow well fed and cared for w ill make more money than three or four poor ones. It la, therefore, a better practice to add a few good cows and take a little time to develop a herd through the use of good hulls. R I C H M A X 'S C O R K H A R V F S T F -R F » r man ■ price Only ti!> w ith bundle tying ©»- tachment »old In «eery «tat«. Free catalo* »bowing ______ picture of barrette r P n < r r M Co., ftai.na »©«*©• i - ' M but ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, L e B o y . N . Y . l a a P la c b . lla e A lic e '» F o o t-E a a a I also they must be well fed If good re- turns are to be secured. They will S C H O O L F O R M EN peed some grain in a d d itio n to p a stu re OR EGO N IN S T IT U T E T . H . L . A . llld g . every cow In the herd should he mens ured l b , weighing and testing the milk. Tra*M,lw BUSINESS, TRAPES •, M0FT5SI0SS Enroll any tim e. Send forltteraturc. 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