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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
The Episode of the Bachelor Dinner!
BY EVERETT P CLARKE.
A LAWYER having been sent for to
call at the city Jail at 10 o'clrrS in
the morning to see a prisoner, found
B young man in evening dress ery-much
cast down.
"Here's a pretty how-de-do," exclaimed
the prisoner "locked up on a charge of
burglary, Insanity or both. For heaven's
sake, get me out of this before my fiancee
hears of it. - I would not hare it get into
the papers for a million!"
"What's the trouble?" asked the law
yer. "Well, you see, I'm to be married to
morrow, and last night I gave my bach
elor friends a supper. We broke up at
2 o'clock this morning, and I went home.
Nobody got full, and I was sober as a
judge. I live in a row of ten stone front
houses, ail alike as peas in a pod. My
house is the sixth one from the end of
the row and the fifth from the other end.
"The light was turned low in the
hall. I heard something moving in the
parlor. Remembering that the front door
hadn't been locked, it occurred to me that
a burglar might have come in. What I
heard sounded exactly like some one try
ing to tread softly. My fiancee lives on
one side of the city, and I live on the
other. Being used to walking home nights
after visiting her I have become used to
carrying a revolver in my hip pocket as
a protection against footpads. On hear
ing the sounds in the parlor I drew the
weapon and cocked it. Then I went into
the room.
"I couldn't see anything, hut I dis
tinctly heard somebody in Cue adjoining
room in the rear. I listened and heard
him go into the kitchen. Stepping out
into the hall. I went back to the kitchen
myself and listened at the door. All was
still for awhile; then I heard the fellow
scurry across the floor.
"Next I heard him in the dining-room
again. He evidently stumbled against
something, for I heard it drop on the
floor. By this time I had made up my
mind that either I must get the burglar
or he would get me.
I didn't know exactly what to do. My
mother is in poor health, and I feared
to give an alarm on her account. Be
sides, the telephone booth was upstairs
and if I went to It the burglar would prob
ably get away with the plunder. While I
was deliberating I heard a tin pan tumble
down in the kitchen. It made a big
racket, and I dreaded lest my mother
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, should be awakened, for if she learned
that there was a burglar in the house she
would go into hysterics.
"I opened the kitchen door softly and
looked In, but it was so dark that I
couldn't see anything. I heard a scratch
ing, however, that made me suspect the
noises might have been made by some
animal. But as we didn't have any dog
or cat I didn't take much stock in this
theory.
"Not hearing any further noise, 1 went
cautiously into the kitchen. After stand
ing in the middle of the floor awhile list
ening for new sound I made up my
mind to light a gas jet and take the con
sequences, whatever they might be.
"Every house in the block is built alike,
and there is a square opening in all be
tween the kitchen and the dintng-room
through which to pass dishes. I ap
proached this opening with dread, be
cause if the burglar was in the dining
room he could see me through it and
make short work of me.
"Gathering courage, I stood at the
aperture and looked into the dining-room.
There he was, sure enough. Both of us
raised our weapons. It was a matter of
life and death which fired first. I pulled
the trigger, and there was a loud report.
"I supposed I had killed my burglar,
for the range was very short, and I aimed
straight at him. There was nothing for
me to do but await the inevitable rousing
of the household. I heard footsteps
above and voices; then down came a
man in his nightshirt.
"Great Scott! I had never seen him be
fore! "I had got into the wrong house.
"The man, seeing me standing with a
smoking revolver in my hand, ran back
upstairs, and I heard him call for the
police.
"What should I do?
"I wanted to get out, but knew that
would be worse tor me in the end than
standing my ground. I heard nothing
from the burglar not even a moan.
While waiting for the police I determined
to go into the dining-room, light the
gas and learn the worst.
"What I learned was that there was
no living thing in the room except a cat
crouching in a corner. Directly opposite
the opening between the dining-room and
kitchen stood a sideboard topped by a
mirror. The mirror was shattered. I
had put a bullet through it trying to kill
uiy own image. ,,,
"When the police came the man np
stairs called down to them to run In any
one they might find there. 1 tried to ex
plain to the police what had happened,
showing them the opening through which
I had fired at the mirror. Some of them
thought me a housebreaker, who had
been caught redhanded; others took me
for a lunatic. Anyway they arrested me,
and here I am."
Happily the attorney secured bail and
succeeded in hushing the matter up. The
next evening his client was married with
out his bride knowing of the episode fol
lowing his bachelor dinner.
Work of Government Forest
Service During Past Year
SELLING some billion and a half board
feet ot timber and supervising the
c tting on several thousand different
areas, overseeing the grazing of more
than 1,500,000 cattle and 7,500,009 sheep
and building more than 600 miles of road,
2000 miles of trail, 3000 miles of tele
phone line and 700 miles ot fire line are
some of the things which the Govern
ment forest service did last year upon the
National forests, as disclosed in the re
port of the Chief Forester for 1811.
There Is need, says the Chief Forester,
to Increase the cut of timber from Nation
al forests wherever a fair price can be
obtained, because a great deal of it is ma
ture and ought to be taken out to make
room for young growth. Unfavorable
conditions In the lumber trade caused new
sales of National forest timber to fall off
somewhat during the year. There was,
however, a big Increase in small Umber
sales, these numbering 8298 in 1914,
against 6182 the previous year. All told,
the Government received $1,304,053.66
from the sale of timber on the forests in
1914.
After eight years of experience, stock
men are well satisfied, says the Chief
Forester, with the way the grazing of
livestock on the forests is regulated, and
have even nrged upon Congress the ap
plication of the same method of control
on the unreserved public range. Almost
29,000 permittees graze stock on the Na
tional forests, and these paid to the Gov
ernment in the fiscal year 1914 fees
amounting to over $1,000,000. . The pres
ent tendency to raise fewer sheep and
goats and more cattle and horses, is shown
in the fact that the number of cattle and
horse permittees on the Western forests
increased last year by 1S79, while the
number of sheep and goat permittees fell
off by a total of 268. The forester points
out that the Western stock business is be
coming attached to the soil, and the itin
erant sheep grower and the speculator In
cattle are giving place to the permanent
resident and owner of Improved ranch
property, - The latter Is always given the
preference in the use of National forest
range.
Since 1909, when systematic classifica
tion of the National forest lands was be
gun, more than 10,000,000 acres have
been eliminated. Scattered Interior tracts
which it is not practical to eliminate are
opened to settlement through listing,
which allows them to be taken up under
the forest homestead law. Anyone may
apply to have land within a forest ex
amined to determine whether it is best
suited for agriculture, and if found so, it
is opened to settlement under this law.
During the year 2690 tracts, totaling 282,
483 acres, applied for by individuals, were
opened tor entry. By elimination and
listing, the percentage of unpatented ag- .
ricultural laud withtu the National for
ests, never large, has been reduced to a
very small amount.
Small Lambs.
Lambs may be small yet healthy. The
heaviest lambs are not always the most
profitable feeders. The size to buy do
peudsvupon the time they are to be mar
keted. In feeding for an early market
a 60-pound Mexican lamb will perhaps
prove the most profitable. If they are to
be held over until Spring and shorn be
fore marketing, which method is prac
ticed quite extensively, a 45-pound lamb,
if healthy, will as a rule, yield the most
satisfactory returns.
, In the range country most sheep and
lambs are sold by the head, although of
later years the contracts call for weigh
ing at some, unloading point where they
have scales.
This method has its advantages as a
fellow then buys by weight and gets what
he buys besides the benefit of the shrink
and the saving of time and'expense of
chasing around over the range. No mat
ter where sheep are bought, however, the
first step toward a successful and proflt
, able feed is to get the right kind of stuff
and at the right price.
A Queer Region.
Nebraska's sandhill region offers one
of the most unusual fields for 'scientific
investigation in this country. In some
places the wind begins its work on the
Yery top ot a hill. Gradually while the
outline of theiill remains intact, the
hole goes down deeper until it reaches
hardpan or rock where water collects.
The top of the excavation may be only a
few yards across and then the pit has the
appearance of a great well. The air
seems to go down Into one of these holes
with a sort of suction, and the day is
never so calm but that some sand rises
from the pit. It alwuys piles out on the
northeast side. The excavations are not
confined to the hills. They may start on
level ground and then as in the other
case, the hole will go down to water.
The level land excavations may be of any
site from a pond of many acres to a
narrow pit three times as deep as it is
wide. They are called blow-outs.
Alberta Sets New Record.
The record sale of wheat in Alberta
was made in Major, Alberta, when Preston
Mills, a farmer in this district, sold a car
load of wheat, even 1000 bushels, to a
flour company for $1450 or at the rate
ot $1.45 per bushel. Officials of the Ca
nadian Pacific Railway predict that the
price will go much higher and many farm
ers are holding their wheat They also
say that the high prices are resulting in a
. great many inquiries from prospective set
tlers. "Oregon newspapers have been the
most potent force in spreading the doc
trines of progressive agriculture and they
are entitled to a big share of Its fruits,"
says the Oregon Agricultural press bulletins.
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From the Canadianracific
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doctivs soil rood climate ready
markets aoexoeued transporta
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only to settlers who arm aatiully occupy
and Improve tt,
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paid for itaoif.
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FartieaimnairaqoMt. Yon havoVToiri to par
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Tkiu Croat Qffwr Bm on OaW Lami.
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Stock brlngi good price aad can b ralaol
cfceapor tbaa anywhere eiM. Cattle dtseaaea
practically unknown no duty on live cock from
Canada, Ideal country for dairying-. Laat
year'i ertrar inllk prica paid by Carlyle Dairy
Company, Calgary, troa 1.U per rOO lbo. On
ttiii low prlcotfland with Ita nn grain oropa,
yon can mako big profits raising gram,
Owing to prevent condition! in Europe tht
continent mutt upply Korope with grain aad
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