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KING OF ITALY AT A Y. M. C. A. POST At ■ t sia ss st j 8-2 24s te • ha l* .osi under war legislation, that his appli cation for patents be expedited. This was done. • Main Advantage*. Some of the main advantages of I the Rogers system as developed so far, | according to experts, are almost negli gible cost of construction, the intensi- I fylng of signals by pointing the send- ! Ing apparatus toward the receiving sta tion and reduction of static interfer ence. Because of the latter advan tage, the navy's receiving station at New Orleans, where communication with ships In Southern waters swept by frequent electrical storms is main tained, uses the underground appa ratus with marked success. In war a great advantage 1* that submarines receive messages while submerged. This is being done by wires trailing in the water. The Rogers development aroused electrical experts of the government to new efforts to expand and improve radio transmission facilities. Out of the experimental work done with this and other ideas steady advance has been made under war pressure and Rogers' theories are interwoven with those of other men In the results that are being obtained. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy and Capt. Frederic Baugher inspecting the Y. M. C. A. post in the Casadel Soldato at Faenza. The king expressed his ENGLAND HONORS HEROINE 16 appreciation of the work done by the Y. M. C. A., which organization was Girl Grips Blazing Shell and Saves new to Italy. Factory From De struction. RADIO SIGNALS SENT UNDERSEA ------- *---------------------- - Device Made Communication Through Water and Beneath Ground Possible. SECRET HUNS DIDN’T KNOW Maryland Scientist Is Persuaded After Much Pressure to Accept Remun eration for Time Spent Work ing on Invention. high towers will be superseded except for limited special purposes. The theory most generally held un til Rogers demonstrated the correct ness of hfs views, was that impulses hurled into the air from a radio trans mitting station and deflected earth ward became dissipated, as does light- ning, when they struck the ground or water. The Maryland scientist, however, be- lfeved that the impulses flowed through the earth as through the air and that it was only necessary to trap and measure them in the ground. He had been at work on this theory before the United States entered the war and al ready had interested naval experts. He offered the results of his work to the navy without restriction, and when they were accepted after some dem onstrations at Hyattsville, officials say, he was with difficulty persuaded to ac cept even remuneration for actual time given to co-operation with the govern ment. One of the first steps taken was the request of the navy department. London.—The youngest member of the Order of the British Empire Is Mias D. G. Vickers, aged sixteen. She has won the distinction for an act of great bravery. A small shell she was han dling became alive owing to the fuse igniting, causing her to drop It, but realizing that there was a stick of un finished fuses close by filled with pow der. she coolly picked up the blazing shell, dashed to the door and threw it as far as possible. Both hands were badly burned and her injuries prevent ed her working for two months. The staff of the factory presented her with a gold bangle and the lord mayor of Birmingham presented her with a specially designed brooch. CARRIES UMBRELLA OVER TOP Doughboy From Massachusetts Said He Didn't Want HI» Tin Washington.—How underground and Hat to Get Rusty. through-water wireless was put into practical use during the war was dis Webster, Mass.—Folks here are closed by navy department officials, waiting to greet Private Stanley Kara- giving to the public another of its se bash, the doughboy who “went over crets, carefully guarded so long as It the top” carrying an umbrella. Kara- might be of value to the enemy. Gov bash. In a letter to his home from a ernment officials regard this develop base hospital, says the reason he car ment, originated In private research by ried the umbrella was to protect his James H. Rogers, a scientist of Hy “tin hat” from rain. He didn't want attsville, Md., as one of the war’s ma the headpiece to get rusty, he said. jor scientific advances of the kind. In practical use the new system so far Is employed only for receiving. Radio messages sent out from power ful stations in Europe are now being read at underground receiving sta tions in the United States and in some cases, better than when caught by the elaborate and expensive air sta tions. Got Signala Under Waves. *---------------------------------------------------------- In addition, it was revealed art the department, through an adaptation I fire on him, riddling his machine and of the Rogers theory, submarines un British Airman Has One of Most shattering his left elbow so that the der water are intercepting radio sig arm hung useless. Remarkable Experiences nals sent from shore and with crude Again he was attacked by another of World War. apparatus. The scientist has succeed squadron. Smoke came from his ma ed In transmitting signals two miles chine and he believed himself on fire. from a submerged wire simulating a , He used all his strength to try for a submersible. Officials say it is pos collision once more, and was still able sible, though not yet an accomplished to fire feebly. His success was repeat- fact, that ground or water sending can ed. A Fokker went down In flames at be developed to a considerable extent. three yards range. They do not anticpate, however, that Destroys Four Hun Machines, Disables As he was now too dizzy to see, he Six, Suffers Three Crippling the present method of sending from dived to within a few thousand feet of Wounds and Brings Back the ground, just over the lines, his en Machine in Repairable gine going “full out,” so that it Is a GIANT DAM RIVALS NIAGARA miracle his machine stood the strain, Condition. and again he was attacked, this time Mammoth Structure in the Tenneeeeo American Press Headquarters, Brit by eight enemy scouts. The terrible descent seemed to brace Mountains Will Provide Horse ish Front.—The war over, a great power Estimated at 80,000. many accounts of Individual bravery him. British observers saw him go will be heard for the first time, but through the most amazing spins, spir Knoxville, Tenn.—Surpassed only by none will excel this extraordinary tale als, zooms and all the tricks of the the Roosevelt dam and Niagara falls, of a British flying major, now recover British scout fighter. In a 12-minute engagement he drove down two Ger and the largest dam east of the Roose ing in a hospital. velt dam, is the mammoth new dam The major, in a fast, single-seater mans out of control, broke free of the just completed at Cheoah, in the moun scout, was out over the lines on a lone others and came home skimming trees tains 47 miles south of Knoxville. hunt. Discovering an enemy two-seat and trenches. He probably will pull Twelve hundred men worked over er machine at 21,000 feet over the for through. two years on it. Two hundred thou est of Mormal, the major began climb WIFE OF ADMIRAL BEATTY sand cubic yards of concrete were ing sharply to overtake him. got under his tail, fired at point-blank range and | used. It is 210 feet high from surface of river to crest. It raises a mist 100 saw me two-seater break in pieces and feet high as Its water strikes the river fall, one occupant diving out in a para- | after flowing over the top. It is 350 chute. While watching the two-seater crash, feet long at the base, 725 feet long at the top, 175 feet thick at the base and the major suddenly heard bullets snap 12 feet thick at the top. Six days were ping and hissing about him. Under required to fill the lake behind it, him was a Fokker biplane. Before he which Is ten miles long ; engineers had could make a turn he was wounded in figured on 21 days, but a heavy rain the thigh, the shock stunning him for helped. It will produce 7,500 units a moment so that his machine fell In more of horsepower than the combined an aimless spin. consumption of Knoxville, Memphis, Surrounded by Foes. Chattanooga and Nashville, or over When he had recovered control he 20000 horsepower. It Is almost iden- found himself surrounded by 15 Fok teal with the Roosevelt dam tn the ker» in attack formation. He drove at West The cost was over 81,000,000. the nearest and the two were at once Another dam will also be built tn that jockeying for favorable positions in region. It was built by and for the terrific manuevers that carried them Nnoxville Power company, an ally of through ths other 14. Chance shots the Aluminum Company of America. during these evolutions sent down two of the major’s adversaries, and then at ten yards he “got on the tali" of the flrat Fokker, probably the squadron leader, and shot him down In flames. Uses Electrical Device Then the major was wounded a sec to Get Chicken Thief ond time, this bullet shattering the bone of his left thigh. In a dead faint, with his engine running at top speed. of an electrical invention of his the Britisher fell in wild sweeping FIGHTS 60 FOES WITHIN AN HOUR WAS OUT ON A LONE HUNT à . t tin. own Ingenuity, Ferdinand Bauer captured the thief who had been raiding his hencoop. The first electrical trap landed the in- ruder. Owners of coops la the Yenity have called on Bauer to circles, until he once again regained ' his senses and was able to pilot his scout. But the major was again set upon by another squadron of 15 Fokkers. He charged straight at the machine ahead of him, firing at the same time. The Fokker bunt Into smoke and fell. Then the other Germans now centered Lady Beatty is the daughter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago. Broken Links 2$9009559599997$9999$$$$99000000009% (Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Miss Copeland paused on her way down the dusky corridor and listened —there was no doubt tn her mind that her suspicions of the past week were well founded. Thirteen years of city life—most of It spent In the boarding bouse which had been her only home —had not hardened nor driven away the deep, maternal tenderness which had gone out to many a waif who had drifted Into the house. She knew that In that room a girl was crying—weeping In the low, sub dued, silent way that is ever signifi- ennt of a breaking or homesick heart. She went on to the door of her room, and then paused again. She remembered the shy, refined, girlish woman, who with her young husband had come to the room early In the week. Something was wrong, greatly wrong; and quietly Miss Copeland turned back, ready to meet the insol ent word, the dumb. Impassive face of one who welcomes no kindly interfer ence. She knocked softly, but heard no answer; then she opened the door. She saw the slight form of a girl stretched on the bed, her dark hair In disarray, her eyes covered with slim hands, her shoulders heaving. “My dear, may I help you In some way?” Miss Copeland asked gently. “I am Simply an old maid living in the house when I am not a business woman. I wish I could help you,” the older woman said, a bit eagerly, for the beauty of the girl, her evident re- finement, and her grief, appealed to her. “Thank you—but you cannot help me. I am afraid—and I must be brave.” The girl sat up suddenly, brushing her dark hair Into place. “But when Norman—he Is my hus- band—Is away, I have my blues out. He is trying so hard, and father has been so—so terribly unkind I” The tears seemed again to be coming. Miss Copeland spoke hastily. “Now suppose you tell me about It I am tn charge of a number of girls In a great office—almost a mother confes sor. See if I can’t help in some way, will you?” . The dark eyes were wistful. "I have no mother I can remember—and I have wanted one so much—to talk to!” “Then make believe I am your mother; you see, I am an old maid— but I love children. You see—I have suffered a little. I understand. So tell me. My name is Della Copeland.” The girl clasped her hands tensely for a moment, then the tight fingers relaxed. “It's simple—It seems so, anyway. You see Norman and I learned to—to love each other. Fa- ther was angry. You see Norman worked In one of father’s mills, He said I was too young—I know I am, but we loved each other, and the years don't count, do they?” “No, my dear, love knows no years,” Miss Copeland answered faintly. “I told father I would have more years io be happy with Norman. But be—he was stern, and harsh, and un kind. Then we learned he was plan ning to send Norman away—to South Africa. We—we simply couldn’t stand that. I wanted Norman to mar ry roe, right away; he wouldn't with out father's consent, but father wouldn’t even see him. Then he told rae he was going to send me away. I told hlm I would not go”—the dark eyes began to gleam, and the listener guessed that the father’s spirit was In his child—“that I would marry Nor- man. He told me I did net dare. I did.” The girl looked wearily toward the window. She went on, a bit more quietly : “We were married. Father had Norman discharged. He refused to see me. I did not beg, nor shall I, though I know he loves roe. The worst Is, everywhere Norman goes for work In his special line father's influ ence stops him from securing It Nor- man—oh, he has been so brave, so kind and so uncomplaining. He Is trained In one kind of work, but he's trying to do what he can, and It’s hard now.1 "Have you asked your father to forgive you F Miss Copeland asked hesitatingly. The girl’s slight form stiffened and the watcher saw the pride of race stern on her features. “Never I 1 shall never do that I He must ask us to return !" Miss Copeland pondered a minute, her hopes sinking as she thought. “Will you tell me your name” she queried. “Why, I should have told you. I'm proud of It, Miss Copeland—Mrs. Nor- man Barker. My own name Is Laurel Jeffery—father owns the Wellston milla." A long silence fell between them. It was broken by steps that, approach lag slowly, quickened as they neared the door. In came a tall, good-look ing young man, whose gray eyes could not brighten the shadows beneath them. He was introduced to Mtss Copeland by a proud wife. Taking advantage of her first opportunity. Misa Cope land slipped out and hurried to her own room. There she stood In its silence and dusk, thinking. Finally she reached a decision. "It is very foolish, very, very; but I shall go and see her father. Those brave, courageous young hearts must not suffer.” With her decision made, she sat In the dusk near the window of her room, dreaming—dreaming of a lost girlhood, an empty womanhood, and brooding on the gray and quiet years Harvest Beans, Peas and Cow that lay before her—lonely paths for the walking of lonely feet. peas Promptly After Maturity The maid at the door softened her to Prevent Damage. voice. “Mr. Jeffrey says that you must give your name and state your errand, please.” Miss Copeland smiled. “Tell hlm 1 have come over two hundred miles for five minutes of his time.” The maid hesitated, but went In. A moment later she returned smiling. Kill Insects Before They Can Increase In Numbers and Carry on Destruc “He is in the library, where you may tive Work—Growers Have Be see him.” Through the great hall she walked come Discouraged. to the door where the maid stood and (Prepared by the United States Depart quietly entered the room. ment of Agriculture.) A man of powerful build rose heav The serious losses caused by bean ily from a chair, laid down his paper and lifted a strong, stern face. With and pea weevils—which amounts to lips parted he stood as If hypnotized, millions of dollars annually—Is large his gray eyes staring; then the harsh ly preventable, and by putting a stop Unes seemed swept from his face, a to It a valuable and much-needed sudden overwhelming wonder and Joy source of the nation's food supply can No satisfactory artificial took their place. He stepped forward be saved. remedies can be applied to kill weevil with outstretched hands. “Dell ! Della I It Is you—It Is you grubs In beans, peas or cowpeas grow ing In the field, but they can be easily “Yes, Stephen, It Is I—but you must and effectively controlled afterward not hold my hand," she said, smiling If the necessary care is given. The crop should be harvested as soon as faintly. “I shall hold It until I am sure 1 possible after maturity, and the seeds have you here I Della, where have thrashed or shelled and treated by you been ? Why have you come? Do fumigation, heat or cold storage. In order to kill the weevils In them be you remember—" “Stephen, are you so glad to see fore they can Increase tn numbers and carry on their destructive work. me?” Weevils not only cause serious dam "Glad to see you I 1 have been hun gry for the sight of your face for fif age to peas, beans and cowpeas in teen years! Why didn't you answer storage but also In the field, and nre my letters? Why—" He stopped, responsible for a curtailment in the acreage planted in these crops. In making an effort to calm himself. "Let's sit down," she suggested some sections, particularly the coastal quietly, “Ah, Stephen, why bring regions of the middle Atlantic states, back the old years and the old re this pest has carried on its work of grets? I was willing to marry you, destruction so successfully that grow you remember, but you didn't have ers have become discouraged and have the courage to go against your fa discontinued to produce on a commer ther's will. You remember, he would cial scale these valuable food crops. Badly infested seeds are worthless have nothing to do with me, you—” His voice was hoarse. “My God! for planting. In one experiment on If I only had had the courage! These record only 50 per cent of Infested years, Della, these years—years—of beans germinated, and of these 30 per memories—” His head dropped. “I cent were so badly injured that they was a coward—but It'» not too late. could not develop into normal plants. Harvest All Seed. Della. You—why, the years have been kind to you—are you—*’ In gathering the crop, exercise care, "Married? No!” She shook her the bulletin urges to leave no portion head sadly. "I couldn't—with my of it In the field, as seeds scattered on memories." the ground or left-in shattered pods "Della I" on the dried vines, may carry the pest "Walt, Stephen. I came to see you. over winter, and furnish a supply of You say you wish you had opposed weevils the following summer. The your father, Let me tell you some- crop should be harvested as soon as thing—” possible after reaching maturity and She leaned over, and tenderly she the seed thrashed or shelled soon after told him of the young couple In the wards. Storing in the pod does not dingy boarding-house room, of the confine the weevils. Immediately on slight, brave young girl, of the young placing the seed In storage, fumigate husband covering a dread uf the fu- with carbon disulphid or carbon te- ture with a present smile, Then she trachlorid. These chemicals when ex told him their names. posed to the air vaporize into a heavy My little poisonous gas which Immediately kills He started to his feet. girl—there I I wanted to teach them the weevil. Carbon disulphid is the a lesson—I forgot my—lesson. 1 was more generally used, though carbon te- a coward and—my God! I have paid trachlorid has the advantage of not be for It.” He turned to her. “I am go ing inflammable. Seed to be fumigat ing to put a call straight to your ed should be placed In an alr-tlght con house—where Is It?” tainer, such as a tin can or barrel. Her heart throbbed at his words. The chemicals, used at the rate of “Stephen, they will be wild with Joy !” from 2 to 4 pounds to each 500 cubic She gave him the call as she Imagined feet of space to be fumigated, should the scene to be enacted tn that far be poured over the top of the seed, away room of despair. and fumigation should continue for He shouted the call into the tele- from 24 to 48 hours. phone, brushing aside some remon Killed by Heating. strance with an abrupt word. He When there Is only a small quantity clung to the receiver while he waited of seed, the weevil may be killed by —a picture of eagerness. heating the seed In the oven for sev Then—“Hello I Laurel”—“Father”— eral hours. The oven should not be “Yes, father”—“I want you to come hotter than 120 to 145 degrees Fahr home Ip Y ou and—and Norman !”— enheit. Dipping seed In boiling water “There—there—there—little girl !”— for one minute Is also an effective “Yes, pack up, and come”—“I've been remedy. Weevils will not feed or a pig-headed ass”—“Yes, you bet we cause damage at low temperature», and will”—“Come right away!” If seed can be kept Ln cold storage at He turned from the telephone. His a temperature of 32 to 43 degrees eyes were quiet, his face calm. She Fahrenheit, no trouble from this pest thought as she watched him that the will result. years had been kind, Indeed, to him. She rose, feeling as if into her heart had entered again the silence and the URGES FISH MEAL FOR HOGS emptiness, while soon for him the last shadows would pass. “Now, I must Tests Conducted by Agricultural De partment Show It Is Equal to Tankage In Feed Value. He sprang up and laid his hands WEEVILS CAUSE SERIOUS LOSSES TREAT SEED n FUMIGATION gently yet firmly upon her shoulders. His voice was vibrant, yet tender. “You are never going—never, Della, if I can keep you. Now that chance has brought you, no one Ilves who can take you from me. 1 was too-much of a coward once to take you, and you bad too much pride to come to me; but, my dear, we simply must save something out of the years—they must not all be lost years. Don't you love me even a little?” Her head sank, “Stephen, ! have always loved you and always shall; but"—very softly and very quietly— “youth is past—snd the dreams of youth.” Putting his arm about her, he drew her to him. ”1 know, oh, I know, my dear, but youth Is not all.” His voice was shaking, “The springtime and summer have gone—but the Indiai summer—let’s enjoy It together I” She looked up with tears In her forgot—there Is Indian summer—Stephen—Stephen (Prepared by the United States Depart- msnt of Agriculture.) To stimulate greater interest in the production of fish meal, which Is a good substitute for tankage In the feeding of hogs, a representative of the United States department of agri culture recently visited a number of fisheries along the gulf coast as well Hogs Feeding at Self-Feeder. as a number of marketing centers In the South. Testa conducted by the de partment show that fish meal is equal m feeding value to tankage. It con tains about 57 per cent protein. It is made by drying nonedible fish and grinding fine. This meal is being used at the government farm at Beltsville, Md., to replace tankage. The men- i haden fisheries on the Atlantic coast can produce annually 10,000 tone of Civilian Suffering. I fish meal. Fisheries along the gulf Didn’t that wild demonstration up- I states and Mississippi river have been I wasting or manufacturing as fertilizer “Completely. I'm suffering from I large quantities of nonedible fish. yell shock." Signs of a Good Time. Mrs. Flatbush—"Did your children enjoy themselves at the neighbor’s party yesterday?" Mr». Bensonhurst —“They must have. We've bad ■ doctor twice to Beatrice and three times to Bobby today." — Yonkers Statesman.
