■y
sands—hundreds of thousand»—«nett Ing a pipe tn great apparent saflsfac
valuable crop for swine
ing, slipping through your fingers, lion.
“Bed time, Isu't It?” I grumbled,
i every hour, every hour.”
Hoge of All Agee Relish Cut Alfalfa
He sprang from his seat and started sniffing at his strong tobacco.
When Fed In Slop end Maks
his walk again- up and down, up and
"Oh. no," he said. "The fact Is. we
excellent Growth.
down, as we had first seen him.
are going to sit up all night.”
“Shall you be returning to l-ondon?”
I threw myself on a couch by ths
I have found that alfalfa makes one
At the question the manager halted window without reply. Perhaps I was
: of the most valuable crops for the
In his stride, staring sharply down In not in the best ot tempers; certainly
hog grower, whether It is pastured or
Our Grandmothers Knew Particularly
to the Inspector's bland countenance.
I did not feel so.
cut up finely and fed with ground
Well
How
It
Might
Be
Done
—
“No," he said; ”1 shall stay here,
“You Insisted on coming down with
feed, writes John II. Dun'ay In the
Mr. Addington Peace, until such time me." he suggested.
Some Recipes Presented That
Farm, Stock and Home. Last winter
as you have something definite to tell
“I know all about that,” I told him.
Are Worth Trying.
when middlings were selling around
me."
"I haven't complained, have I? If you
|30 per ton I cut alfalfa lu a cutting
“I have an inquiry to make which I want me to shut myself up for a week
The modern housekeeper Is likely box and fed with the warm slop to all NEW BLOWPIPE GLIDER TOY
would rather place tn the hands of I'll do It; but 1 should prefer to havw to buy a loaf of fresh bread every my hogs that did not have access to
some one who has personal knowledge some Idea of the reason why.”
day at tho baker's, but our grand blue grass or the rye fields. Hogs Whirling Wheel Describes Arc Over
"I don't wish to create mysteries, mothers made their bread at home of all ages relished the
of Mr. Ford. Neither Mr. Harbord nor
Person Blowing It *nto Air and
cut alfalfa
yourself desire to leave Meudon, is Mr. Phillipa," be said kindly; "but, be and used up every scrap of one bak when fed in tho slop and they made
Returns to His Feet.
lieve me, there Is nothing to be gained ing before baking day came around
there anyone else you can suggest?”
a fine growth.
I One of the new glider toys placed
"There Is Jackson—Ford's valet,” tn vague discussions ”
again.
The alfalfa was cut to about one-
I knew that settled it as far as he
said the manager, after a moment's
Here are some of the Ingenious half an Inch In length nnd then scald- upon the market this year Is n whirl-
thought. “He can go, if you think him was concerned, so I nodded my head ways In which one grandmother dis
ed before being mixed wlth the |lng-who«'l glider which describes an
and filled a pipe. At eleven he walked guised stale bread so that the most
bright enough. 1'11 send for him.”
ground feed. I usually put tho cut arc over 'he person blowing It Into
By B. Fletcher Robinson
While the footman who answered across the room and switched off the pernlckerty child she had- would not
alfalfa In a large gnlvanlted tank and the air and returns to Illa feet from
the bell was gone upon his errand, we light
know It from a brand new dish
pour boiling water over It. It Is then
waited in an ineasy silence. There
“if nothtug happens, you can take
Even though small economies are left to stand over night and if cov
was the shadow of an ugly mystery your turn tn four hours from now,” he seldom practiced in these days when
Co-Author with A. Conan Doyla of
ered will be warm the next morning.
upon us all. Jackson, as he entered, said. "In the meanwhile get to sleep. the high cost of living stalks abroad,
“The Hound of th« Baakarvillee," etc-
I want to purchase it feed grinder
was the only one who seemed at his I will keep the first watch.”
yet these old recipes will prove what that will grind alfalfa into a coarso
ease. He stood there—a tall figure of
I shut my eyes; but there was no used to be called "tasty” dishes for meal, and If 1 do this I think the hogs
W. G. Chapman)
all the respectabilities.
19
« rest tn me that night. I lay listening breakfast and luncheon.
will find It even more palatable. Al
“The Inspector here wishes you to to the silence of the old house with a
Cut squares of very hard bread two falfa contains about the sumo amount
go to London, Jackson," said the man dull speculation. Somewhere far down Inches thick; steam over boiling water
of protein as found In the bout mid
ager. "He will explain the details. in the lower floor a great gong-like 1
for twenty minutes and serve hot. dlings and at tho same time It seems
There Is a fast train from Cam don at clock chimed the hours and quarters
with butter and maple syrup.
to act as a tonic for all tho hogs that
eleven."
I heaid them every one from twelve
Or cut the bread In one-inch have access to It.
"Certainly, sir. Do I return tonight?" to one, from one to two. Peace had squares, put in a colander, and dash
It Is not too late to sow alfalfa and
“No, Jackson," said Peace. “It will stopped smoklDg. He eat as sileut as
cold water over them Then fry the It will pay you to sow at least a small
take a day or two.”
a
cat
at
a
mousehole.
(Continued.)
squares in butter until they are a deli patch even if you only feed tbo hogs
The man took a couple of steps to
It must have been some fifteen min cate brown.
1 woke with a start that left me sit
Break two eggs over tho cured hay during the winter
ting up in bed, with my heart thump wards the door, hesitated, and then re- utes after two that 1 heard the faint, them, cook three minutes, and serve months, when they do not get green
turned
to
his
former
place.
faint
creak
of
a
board
in
the
corridor
i immediately.
ing in my ribs like a piston-rod. I am
This is particularly feed. When there is a good supply
"1 beg your pardon, sir." he began, outside. I sat up, every nerve strung
not generally a light sleeper, but that
I of alfalfa, It makes the best -of forage
good for breakfast.
“But I would to a tense alertness. And then there
night, even while 1 snored, my nerves addressing Ransom.
Another way Is to make our old crops for hogs of all ages. Alfalfa,
were active. Some one had tapped at rather remain at Meudon under pres came a sound I knew well, the soft friend. French or Spanish toast, which when pastured, should be allowed to
ent circumstances."
drawing touch of a hand groping In Is good for breakfast or luncheon. Cut
my door—that was my impression.
gat a good start and should not be
“What on earth do you mean?" thun the darkness as some one felt bis way
I listened with the uncertain fear
rather thick slices of bread, dip In pastured the first season. In this way
dered
the
manager.
along the panelled walls, it passed
that comes to the newly waked. Then
"Well, sir. I was the last to see Mr. us and was gone. Yet Peace never mtlk. then In beaten egg. and fry a It gets a good start and in able to
I heard it again—on the wall near my
delicate brown. Serve this very hot. stand pasturing bettor the next year
head this time. A board creaked. Ford. There Is. at it were, a suspicion moved. Could he have falleu asleep? and. if posslblo. with maple syrup.
It is well to ring the hogs or tako
Boomerang Gilder.
upon
me.
I
should
like
to
be
present
I whispered his name.
Some one was groping his way down
If yon happen to have a whole stale them from the alfalfa field if tbo
"Hush!"
the dark corridor without. Presently while the search continues, both for
the roar, says the Popular Mechanics.
loaf left over here Is a fascinating ground gets wet or muddy.
The answer came to me like a gen
he stopped, and a faint line of illu his sake—and my own."
The glider Is In the form of an elon
way to use It. Cut off all the emit,
“
Very
kind
of
you.
I'm
sure.
”
tie sigh.
mination sprang out under my door. It
gated plate with ends turned down
put
It
on
a
tin,
and
set
In
the
oven
to
CHEAP ROOST FOR CHICKENS and Is somewhat similar to a pin
One minute, two minutes more and
winked, and then grew still. He had growled Ransom. “But you either do
what 1 tell you, Jackson, or you pack the room sprang Into sight under the dry and brown. When It is a light
lit a candle.
wheel. It Is set upon pegs at the out
golden brown lay It on the molding
Assurance came with the streak of your boxes and clear out. So be quick glow of an electric hand lamp. The In board and crush fine. Tnen cut the Discarded Cart Wheel Msy Be Made er end of u blowpipe, and when air
to Serve Purpoee—No Trouble In
light. What was he doing, groping in and make up your mind.”
spector rose from his seat and •!!d
is puffed through tbo latter It rises
'I think you are treating me most through the door, with me upon bis “rustless loaf into pieces one inch
Cleaning House.
the dark, if he had a candle with him?
Into the air.
thick
and
two
or
three
Inches
long;
I crept over to the door, opened IL and unfairly, sir. But I cannot be per- heels. The light he carried searched
suaded out of wbat I know to be mj the clustered shadows; but the corri beat two eggs very light, add two
(By Q. DOVER.)
stared cautiously out.
cups of sweet milk and a pinch of
Take a cart wheel and stab the axle COMMON WORDS IN ENGLAND
. About a score feet away a man was duty.”
dor was empty, nor was there any
salt, dip the pieces of bread in the Into tbo ground, or cut the axle lu two,
standing—a striking figure against the
"You Impertinent rascal !
began place where a man might hide,
mixture, roll in the fine bread crumbs, bolt it to a post and set the post in First Thing an Englishman Notices
light he carried. His back was to the furious manager, But Peace was
“You waited too long,” I whispered
and
drop them into hot lar<). When the ground. When the thicken house
wards me, but I could see that his already on his feet with a band out- impatiently.
In America Is That Nobody Says
they are fried a nice brown put them needs cleaning, all you need to do la
hand was shading the candle from his stretched.
“Thank You.”
'The man la no fool, Mr. Phillips
eyes while he stared into the shad
“Perhaps, after all, I can make oth- Do you Imagine that be was not listen on a hot dish and sprinkle thickly
ows that clung about the further end er arrangements. Mr
The most used words in England are
Ransom.“ he ing and staring like a hunted beast with sugar and a little fine connamon.
A really delicious, pudding can be
of the corridor.
"Thank you,” nays th« New York Sun.
said. “It is natural that Jackson A noisy board, a stumble, or a flash of
Presently he began to move forward. should consider his own reputation in light, and w« should have wasted a tir made tn the following manner: Take
It means anything from “yes" and "uo”
rather thick slices of bread from
The picture gallery and the body of this affair. That is all, Jackson; you ing day.”
to "please get off my hat." When In
which
the
crust
Is
trimmed,
Butter
the house lay behind me. The corri may go now.”
doubt al .ays say "Thank you."
"Nevertheless be has got clear
these slices on both sides, Heat a
dor in which be stood terminated in a
When you give a servant anything
It was half an hour afterwards, away."
can of rather tart red C” purple
window, set deep into the stone of the when the end of breakfast had dis
ho says "Thunk you," and when lie
“I think not."
old walls. The man walked slowly, persed the party, that I spoke to Peace
gives you something ho says "Thank
As we rept forward I saw that a plums, put a layer of fruit In the bot-
tom of a pudding dish, then a layer
throwing the light to right and left
you." Tho first thing an Englishman
of bread and butter, and continue un
His attitude was of nervous expecta
noticos when he comes to America Is
Roost
for
Chickens.
til the dish is filled. Bet it in the
tion—that of a man who looked for
that nobody BMys "Thank you.”
oven *or five minutes to get heated to lift the wheel off and it Is out ot
something that he feared to see.
Ho gives the taxi driver “thripponce*'
through. Then remove It from tha^ the way. Then. too. if there is a and thuu misses his favorite “Thank
At the window he stopped, staring
oven, cover with a plate, put a weight chicken on the other aide from you you.” At least what tho taxi drivel
about him and listening. He examined
on It. and set where ft will become that you wish to catch. Just turn the says doesn't sound like "Thauk you.”
the fastenings, and then tried a door
thoroughly cold. Eat It with cream wheel around.
on his right It was locked against
When you roach Franco, however,
and sugar. Tart cherries may be used
him. As he did so I caught his pro
you may relapse Into all your lltti«
In place of plums, or blackberries;
file against the light. It was Harbord,
home comforts. You may pick youi
the secretary. From where I stood he
and there should be plenty of Juice, SUMMER RATION FOR HORSES teeth and manicure your nails In s
was not more than forty feet away.
so that the bread may be saturated.
Good Combination Is Corn, Bran and restaurant, and you can eat anything
There was no possibility of a mistake.
you like with your ting .rs. You may
Little Oilmeal—More Carbohy
As he turned to come back I retreat
Apple Desserts.
omit your dally tub and patronise th«
drates and Less Protein.
ed Into my room, closed the door. The
Make a very thin apple sauce; half
"parfumerie."
fellow was in a state of great agita
a kettle full. When soft add sugar,
But If you wish to be a gentleman
If corn must be fed to the horses,
tion, and I could hear him mattering
butter and cinnamon to taste. While grinding it will not pay, unless the you must wear smart clothes, smart
to himself as he walked. When he had
still cooking, lay upon the top small
horses have poor teeth, in which case clothes consisting chiefly of gayly col
passed by I peeped out to see him and
dumplings made of reliable flour and
orod waistcoats, socks and ties.
It might be advisable. Feeding the
bls light dwindle, reach the corner by
milk, cover and cook gently about 20
ear or shelled corn would be the more
the picture gallery, and fade Into a re
Do You Know That—
minutes. Sometimes I serve a hard
desirable method of feeding.
flection—a darkness.
Only one man In 203 Is over fl feet
sauce with this. Berries, canned or
Crushed corn and cobmeal is not as
I took care to turn the key before I
In height.
fresh, are fine this way.
good because of the cost of crushing,
got back into bed.
The nightingale's song can be hoard*
Another similar dessert, but pre
I woke again at seven, and, hurry-
and the amount of food value secured
at a distance of a mile.
pared a little differently, is made by
Ing on my clothes, set off to tell Peace
from the cob is so small that it does
One pound of cork will support a
filling cups nearly to the top with ap
all about it. I took him to the place,
not make up for the energy required
man of ordinary slxe In the water.
ple sauce. Put a thin dumpling made
gnd together we examined the corri-
to digest so much crude fiber.
Three thousand marriages are per
as above on the top. Cook in a steam
dor. There were only two rooms be
A combination of corn, bran and a
formed every day all over the world.
cooker.
8erve
with
any
sweet
hot
yond mine. The one on the left was
little oilmeal make a good summer
An ordinary rallwny engine is
Banco. I use one cup sugar, one table
an unoccupied bedroom; that on the
ration for horses. Feeding a 1,000- equivalent In strength to about 900
spoon
flour,
one
tablespoon
butter
right was a large storeroom, the door
pound horse about ten pounds of corn horses.
(cream two last), add one cup boiling
of which was locked. The housekeep
and three pounds of bran per day
The modern kid glove goes through
water, nutmeg. Let come to a boil.
er kept the key, we learnt upon In
would be equivalent to fourteen the hands of 235 workmen before it
quiry. Whom had Harbord followed?
pounds of oats, although it contain Is finished.
Ice Cream Trifles.
The problem was beyond me. As for
HIS ATTITUDE WAS OF
a little more carbohydrates and less
Over 11,000.000 worth of diamond*
Work
one
egg
and
a
tablespoonful
of
Inspector Peace, he did not Indulge In
thus making a little wider are stolen every year from the South
NEJ7VOV5 EXPECTATION
sugar Into as much flour as will make protein,
verbal speculations.
A small amount of oilmeal African diamond mines.
a stiff paste. Roll out thin and cut In ration,
It was in the central hall that we
would offset this, however.
In males, the average weight of the
to
the
shape
of
the
petals
of
a
rose.
encountered the secretary on his way
full grown human brain is about forty-
Cut two sections, one a little larger I
to the breakfast room. The man
nine or fifty ounces; in females, forty-
than the other. Place one on top of
looked nervous and depressed; he nod
four ounces.
ded to us, and was passing on, when about It, offering to go to London my strip of the oak flooring along the the other and press firmly together
self and do my best to carry out his walls was gray with dust If it had In the point. Drop into hot fat; when
Peace stopped him.
been in such a neglected state in the they rise to the surface and curl up.
“Good morning, Mr. Harbord,” he instructions.
“I had bad luck In my call for vol afternoon I should surely have noticed they are done. Take out with a skim
said. "Can I have a word with you?”
It. In some curiosity I stooped to ex mer and lay on sieve to drain, Put a
"Certainly, inspector. What Is It?” unteers," he said.
spoonful of ice cream In the center,
Rotate your garden crop.
“I should have thought they would amine the phenomenon.
"I have a favor to ask. My assist
Give the radishes Just a little shade.
"Flour,” whispered the little man, and perch a butterfly, made In the
ant and myself have our hands full have been glad enough to get the
same manner, beside each rose. The
Plant early smooth peas. Alaska Is
here. If necessary could you help us chance of work. They can find no touching my shoulder.
Why has tho shoemaker wonderful
particular amusement In loafing about
"Flour T’
butterfly Is iced with white frosting a good early variety.
powers of endurance?
by running up to London, and—”
Because ho holds on to the last,
the place all day.”
“Yes. I sprinkled It myself, Ixxik-
and chocolate.—Harper's Bazar.
The farmer Is known by the amount
~For the day?” he Interrupted.
"Doubtless they all had excellent there Is the first result.”
Why Is tho nose in the middle of
of clover seed he sows.
"No. It may be an affair of three or
reasons,” he said with a smile, “But
8pider Corn Cake.
four days.”
He steadied hfs light as he spoke,
A set of steel drills will soon pay the face?
“Then I must refuse. I am sorry, anyway, you cannot be spared, Mr. pointing with bls other band, On the
Take one cup of cornmeal, one-half many times their small cost.
Becauso it Is the center (scenter).
Phillips.”
but—”
powdery surface was the hglf foot teaspoon salt, mix with new butter
What is a put-up Job?
One way to increase the profits of
"You flatter me.”
print of a man.
milk till it can be poured from the your farm Is to build a silo.
The paper on the wall.
“Don’t apologise, Mr. Harbord,” said
“I want you to stay In your bed
The flour did not extend more than dUh, then dissolve one-half teaspoon
the little man, cheerfully. “I shall have
Why Is a pleasure trip to Egypt fit
. Fine cabbages follow beans but do
room. Write, read, do what you like. a couple of feet from the walls, so that lot soda in one tablespoon cold water not grow well after potatoes.
only for very old men?
to find some one else—that Is all?
Because it's a see-Nile thing to do?
We walked Into the breakfast room, but keep your door ajar. If anyono it was only here and there that we and add to the batter, also one egg not
Alfalfa pasture and hogs make a
When Is a butcher like a thorough
and a few minutes later Ransom ap passes down the corridor, see where caught up the trail. We had passed beaten. Beat all well and turn into combination that Is hard to beat.
peared with a great bundle of letters Le goes, only don't let him know 'hat the bedroom on the left—yet the foot hot spider which has been well but
Sweet peas should be planted as thiet?
you are watching him If you can help prints still went on; we were at the tered. Put in rot oven and bake till soon as the ground can be worked.
When he steals a knife and cuts
and telegrams In his band.
Ransom said r..-i a word to any of it I will take my turn at half-past store-room door, yet they still were Just cooked. It does not get brown on
Do not plr.nt your potatoes In the away with it.
visible before us. There was no other top and is about one inch thick when same old place and Invite the scab.
Why does a young Indy prefer her
us, but dropped Into a chair, tearing one. I don't mean to starve you.”
I obeyed. After all, it was, In a egress from the corridor. The tall cooked. Serve hot with butter or mo
open the envelopes and glancing at
Save muscle and time when cutting mother's fortune to her father's?
their contents. His face grew darker manner, promotion that the Inspector window at the end was, as I knew, a lasses. Cut It In wedges like a pie.
Because, though she likes patri
bands by having a keen-edged knife.
as he read, and once he thumped his had given me; yet it was a tedious, good twenty feet from the ground. Had I
Plant radishes remote from the mony, the better likes matrimony.
hand upon the table with a crash that anxious time. No one came my way, this man also vanished off the earth J
Jelly Hint.
When was Napoleon I. most shab
track Infested by the wire-worm last
barring a sour-looklng housemaid. I like Silas Ford?
set the china Jingling.
bily dressed?
When I make Jelly I melt the paraffin year.
tried to argue out the case, but the
"Well, Inspector?” he said at last
Suddenly the inspector stopped, In an old coffee pot. I find this to be
When he was out at Elba (elbow),
When short of room, train squash
The little detective’s head shook out deeper I got the more conflicting grew grasping my arm. The light he held a very easy way to pour the wax over vines on trellises or wire fence; they
Why do girls kiss each other, and
my theories. I was never more glad fell upon two footprints net close to , the top of the Jelly without spilling It
a negative.
men not?
are good sllmbers.
“Perhaps you require an Incentive,” to see a friendly face than when the gether. They were at right angles to on the table or tray.—Indianapolis
Becauso girls have nothing better
Plant cucumbers In level rows; In
the passage. Apparently the nan had Star.
he sneered
“Is it a matter of a re little man came In upon me.
dry seasons they do better than when to kiss and men have.
The short winter’s afternoon crept passed Into the solid wall!
ward ?”
When Is a fish kettle like a city
grown In elevated b»ds.
“Peace, what does this mean?"
"No, Mr. Ransom; but it Is becom- on, the Inspector and I taking turn and
When Washing Collars.
Onions, beets, spnlach, radishes and omnibus?
turn about In our sentry duty. Dinner (CHRONICLER TO BE CONTINUED.)
Ing one of my personal reputation.”
When it’s blocked-tln (blocked In),
Before washing lace collars, I baste lettuce may be sown as soon as the
“Then, by thunder! you are in dan time came and went. I had been off
When is a young lady not a young
them closely on a piece of white cloth ground can be worked easily.
Prehistoric Monster.
ger of losing it. Why don’t you and duty from nine, but at ten-thirty I
to keep them from being stretched or
Lettuce
should not be where the lady?
Eighty feet long and thirty feet torn. If no starch is put In them, they
your friend hustle, instead of loitering poured out a whisky and soda and
When she Is a sweet tart (sweet-
soil Is too dry or light. Parsley will
around as If you were paid by the went back to Join him. He was sit high, the atlantosaurus was one ot will look like new.—Washington Star.
heart).
stand
such
soil
a
little
better.
day? 1 tell you, man, there are thou- ting in the middle of the room amok our prehistoric animals.
.Ç seria T^
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STORY
J
USE FOR STALE BREAD
Fta-the
Will
Chronicles
if
Addington
Peace
THE VANISHED
MILLIONAIRE
RIDDLES