VOLUME 84,
SOUTH PARIS, MAINE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1917.
NUMBER 39.
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Imcomt off the Experiment Station.
SCPPOBTKD CHIKTLT BT FKDXBAL
APPROPRIATIONS.
Not long ago a Maine paper spoke
derisively of research work «4 the
Maine Experiment Station and referred
to a Station publication on "Breeding
Guinea Pi*· to Determine the Value of
a Dairy Cow" and aald that this probably
ooet the cow mMkere of the state thou
sand· of dollars. There are at least
fonr troubles with thla statement. The
9tation has not owned a guinea pig for
SO years, baa never attempted to deter
mine the value of a dairy cow by In
direct methods, has not published under
the title named and the principal part of
the appropriations for the Station
come from the Federal Government and
not the State.
Maine has bad an experiment station
since 1885. It baa been foremost In
e?ery agricultural advancement made
in the state. Hundreds of farmers are
following station methods which they
have gleaned from station bulletins.
Still larger numbers are following these
methods, not knowing they are station
method·, because they learned them by
watching what their suoceesful up-to
date neighbors were doing. But not
withstanding the long existenoe and the
prominent part of the station in Maine's
agriculture, there are many who do not
bave a clear Idea of the scope of the
station's work and the sources from
whiob the funds are derived that sup
port it.
Rather more than a generation ago the
Congre·· of the United State· passed an
act known as the Hatoh Aot (because it
was introduced by Repreeentative
Hatch of Missouri) looking toward the
eetablisbment of an experiment station
in eaoh state and territory of the United
State·. This provided an annual In
oome of 915,000 from the Federal
Treasury. A doaen years ago this
appropriation wa· supplemented by a
grant carrying a like amount of money
annually by an act of oongreee called
the Adams aot, so-called because it was
introduced by Repreeentative Adams
from Wisoonsin. It is this annual
appropriation of $80,000 from the federal
government that chiefly maintains the
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station.
The State of Maine has purohaaed two
far ma for the use of the station. One of
tbeee Is in the town of Monmouth, Ken
nebec County, and the other In Presque
Isle, Aroostook County. A few years
age the dairymen of the State obtained
an annual appropriation of 95.000 for
scientific Investigations in animal hus
bandry, and sinoe 1015 the state has
appropriated $5,000 a year for scientific
Investigation· bearing upon the agri
culture of Arooetook County. Also the
State, because it has no other labora
tories In which it can be done, makes it
part of the doty of the direotor of the
station to analyze the samplea collected
by the oommlseioner of agriculture in
the enforcement of the laws regulating
the sale of agricultural seeds, commercial
feeding stuffs, commercial fertilizers,
dairy products, drugs, foods, fungioides,
and inseottoidee. The expense of doinc
this work is met by appropriations and
fees made to the commissioner of agri
culture.
The total Income of the Maine Agri
cultural Experiment Station averagee
about $60,000 annually. About one
sixth of this Is borne by direct state
appropriations. This ooet la so slight
that a person who pays taxes on 950,000
contributes about one oent a year to the
support of the work of investigation at
thi· SUtlon. The Federal money ooae·
from the country aa a whole. A· the
State off New Tork oontalne about one
tenth of the wealth of the oountry It
beare about that proportion of the ooet
of maintaining the agricultural experi
ment station· of the whole country.—
Chas. D. Woods, Director.
Prizes Aggregate $50,000.
Measured bj the standard of prize·
offered, the Eastern State· exposition to
>e held at SpriogfleJd October 12 20,
itands well op toward the top of tbe
i mer loan fall sbowa. It may be said to
l>e In the 160,000 class, for the total
kmonnt of cash offered is exsctlj
149,464. In addition to thla money,
there are offered Tarions caps, medal·
•nd otber trophies of a value of con
siderably more than 92000, not to men
tion a few bnshele of banners.
The Iowa state fair at Dee Moines is
idmittedlj one of the leading fall abows
jf tbis country. It has just olosed its
1917 exposition with all records broken.
Its last annual report contains tbe
itatemeat that the average amount of
money paid in premiums for seven year·
bas been 161,125.
The division of the 160,000 offered at
Springfield is so liberal that H has at
traoted exhibits from almost sverj
state in the union. Pigs are coming
from California, vegetable· from the
ïame state and from Oregon and Canada,
cattle, boreee, swine and sheep from
every point of the oompase. The price
ilet shows theee allotment·: Hones
U 1,210, cattle $10,900, bogs $2900,
iheep $2344, boye and girls $4500»
vegetable· $3000, fruit· $8000, state ex
hibits and agriculture 92000, harness
horse raoing $10,000.
145-Lb. va. 414-Lb. Cow·.
In the first cow teeting association
organised in Mississippi, 319 oows last
year averaged to produce 145 lbs. of fat.
Sncb a production I· low. Svon at a low
feed coat It is queetionable whether
those 819 cows made their owner· a
profit.
If there were no better oows available
to these Mississippi dairymen than thoee
whioh records have shown with so poor
production, and If changed feed and
management wonld not bring greatly
Increased ret urne, the association figure·
would indeed be discouraging. There
are greater possibilities, and the earns
mean· which showed the low avenge
production of all the herds also dis
covered a 00w which made 414 lbs. of
fat daring the period in whioh th#
average was bat little over one-third as
muoh. How much an these men, eves
with 1461b. oowe, ahead of their neigb
bon who do not know whether theii
oows produce mon or less! They bavt
•sen the light of better dairying, ban
reorganised their teeting sseociatloa foi
another year's work, and an «tartina
toward a ooaditiou of dairying in wbiof
then will be ao 146 lb. oows and to
which then will be maay exceeding
414 lb·, to fat produced.
. ptitr Tumbledown'· attention hat
been frequently called to the econoeafc
value of the silo, and tost spring be weal
so far as to send for oataloga. Jlnallj
he made up hi· mind that it la Ism
trouble le *ell hie oows to tbe toll thai
to bol Id and fill a alto. If then
is not money anougb loft to th<
urlar to boy others, Peter says that 1m
oaa give hi· note; bat be Ignores tb<
faoft that It bceo·— barder ever]
•pring to mto· tbe money to tbat way.
Com pond with weH rettod barayan
aaasnra, th«re$are 48.6 lbs. o# phoephork
add to ben manure, and 6 In barayan
asanon; 41 Ike. potash to 10 to ban
ynrd ssaaare, and 67 Ike. aitragen to 1.
to karayard manure. This analysis k
based oa a toe sach 0/ hen and ban
Ε·* New Cora.
DBY 15D OUXD AT HOMS AND KIOV
THK DSUdOCS FLA YOB Of HIV
0011 WAT.
Why Mt last year'· corn while har
vesting this yur'af Why lose the
7·*! bett there la in oorn by not using
it when it le fresh, clean and sweet?
These queries, by the United States De
pertinent of agriculture, are directed at
those who have always eaten old de
formed oorn, and have never known the
delicious nntllke flavor of new oorn
meal. In some States, says a oorn ex
pert of the department, this flavor Is
unknown oc Is merely a matter of
memory with the old settlers.
BB Α ΜΠ.Ι.ΒΒ AT HOMB.
For laaa than $5 a hand mill and
sieves capable of making excellent meal
een be bought, and for less than $25
may be purchased a mill large enough
for a community. It can be installed to
be run by water, wind, gasoline, or
other local power.
Instead of merely eating more oorn
•a a necessary war meaaure, it is urged
that Americana should appreciate and
exerciaejthe privilege of eating better
oorn. Instead of degerming oorn to
prevent Its spoilage, and instead of
bleaching and 'sooaring It to remove
odors and Impurities, it might better be
eaten while it is still freeh, pure, and
aweet. To have thia privilege the meal
moat be groond locally from new oorn.
Tet practically all of the commercial
meal of the Northern and Weatern States
daring the fall months when this new
oorn is readily available la the produot
of old degermed commercial corn. In
November aome of the crop ia dry
eooagh to leave the far ma and the meal
from the oorn doee not get back to the
farmers until December or later.
ABIMAL8 KNOW WHAT 18 BB8T.
Squirrels, ooona, doge, and other
animale relieb new oorn and even refuse
to eat old oorn uoleea oom pel led to by
hunger. Rata and mice ueually eat only
the germ—the rlobeet and beat part of
the kernel—and leave the rest. Thia
germ, higheat in flavor and food value,
ie not available to man in the ordinary
oorn meal of oommerce. In that form
one ia likely to get atale corn, from
which rata and mioe have previonaly
eaten the ohoiceat part, and degerming
machinee have removed the rest to pre
vent further apoiling. "Why/' aaka a
special let, "ahould we make our oorn
producta ao poor that they can not
spoil? Why pay the freight both ways,
and several commissions, only to get
corn meal with 3 per oent of Its oil re
moved, when home grinding would give
a more wholesome and palatable produot
at lees cost?"
The exeellenoe of this new corn meal
baa long been—but wrongly—ascribed
to waterpower and burr-atone grinding.
The method of grinding has nothing to do
with it. It merely bappena that in parte
of the South where the people know and
appreciate the good quality of thia freeh,
aweet meal, it la ground largely in the
water wheel mllla using the old-faahlon
ed mill atonee. Aa aoon aa tbe corn Is
ripe It la dried In tbe eun and then uaed
while It ia fresh and olean. In the com
mercial meals the germs have been re
moved because the oil they contain la
likely to become ranold after atorage,
and this tends to spoil tbe whole produot.
Amerioans it is urged, are under obli
gation to eat more oorn, because of
starving nations and a world soarolty of
wheat; yet Amerioans are eating less
corn than they ate years ago. Corn
producing oonntrlee are the onea that
should eat it, because it Is at its best
when It has not been transported long
distances. For all of these reaaona, tbe
United State· Department of Agricul
ture auggeeta that American familleo re
turn to tbe almple-llfe Ideal and make
their own oorn meal and hominy at
home during the fall and winter montha.
Seed Saving Campaign.
(Sub-committee on Food Production and Con
servation of Maine Committee on Public Safety.)
The preeent Med situation demanda
that farmer* ehould eave their own eeed
to far aa poaalble this fall. There wa« a
large demand for seed of all kind· laat
spring, and the replanting of many orope
oonaumed an additional amonnt. The
preaent seaaon baa not been a good one
to mature orope In good condition and
the proapecta are that aeed will not be
available in aufflolent quantltlea another
•pring nnleee some meaanree are taken
immediately to Inorease the mpply.
Any farmer who haa good teed of any
kind ahonld aave at leaat enough for bia
own use and alao aome for eale to other·.
Bspeoially I· there a need for good
yellow corn, bean· and wheat. Tellow
corn of the eight-rowed type I· to be
preferred. The late season last spring
end poor weather for growth early In
the seeson did not develop field· of oorn
in a very aatiafaotory manner with the
conaequenoe that good piece· whloh will
be fit for seed another year are aoaroe
and anyone having snob sbonld harvest
and oare for thi· oorn in the beet way
poaeible. In some localities It will be
possible to mature mammoth varieties
of yellow silage corn. As It was Im
possible to seoure enough of this kind of
aeed laet year it is advisable for each
man to mature enough for hie own use I
as far aa possible.
Beans are rusting badly and seed free
from the diseasee will be much In de
mand another spring. Oats, aa a gener
al rule are light In weight and, large
yields are not oommon. Anyone having
a good supply of heavy oats of a good 1
variety should oonsider saving a portion
of them for seed.
There waa a demand for buokwheat j
and hard spring wheat this spring whiob
bad to be filled from outaide the atate.
There ought to be a good amount of
thla another year If proper care la taken I
to aave a aufflolent portion of this for
VU·
Many small potatoes and potatoes of in
ferior quality were planted laat spring
wbieh praotioe ought not to be repeated
again.
All seeds ahonld be well ou red and
stored In such a manner that they keep I
in good oondition. 1
Anyone who does not have the teed,
which they are going to want for another
spring*· planting, should seoure this
aeed or should make arrangements with
other farmara to save it for them as
early ae poeeible, la order to make sue
that it will not be fed ont to stook.
The coopération of everybody Interact
ed in farming la desired to help make
the seed situation another epring aa
aatiafactory aa possible and prevent a
repetition of laat spring's shortage. '
An artiole In a recent issue of tba
Saturday Evening Poet entitled, "War
Invisible," by Henry Ren tarda hi, oon
talns this statement: "Baron Forstner,
commanding one of the German snbs,
reoorda that the difference between real
air and that of a submerged aub la the
laathe difference between real butter
and margarine." Freeh air oontalna
vitalising proper! tas aadly lacking in
fool air ana totter oootains life-giving
ι whloh are not found in oleo
margarine. Tbia differ·noe between
aallk fat. Icaaa
milk flat, tanas wbieh butler la
and aalssal and vegetable fata from
wbieh oleomargralne la made, baa
been thouroughly demonstrated by
aeveml setcntteta.—Hoard's Dairyman.
Bobber oowe and bologna balls, If
they we to bring their full vaine aa
fresh osent, bad juat aa wall be sold to go
on the block. All tba talk aboat oon
aerviag live stock was not sseaat to
•btold them. Bali save tba mature
. breeding an'T·1· ara worth more
Ml
The Girl
κ i
Next Door !
A Sketch of Juvenile
Lore
By F. A. MTTCHEL
Spring is Che season of flower· amd
love, me has been remarked before. It
seems, to the present writer. He does
not claim originality for the remark.
But it is as true noto as it was when
first made, some centuries ago, and all
English and American poets from
Chaucer to the present poet laureate
have enlarged on the theme.
Why not use it, therefore, to intro
duce a little tale, or sketch, rather, of
a very young man and a very young
maid and flowers and flour?
Billy Atherton was η earing sixteen—
that is, he was at an age when two
things monopolized the limited space
there was in his undeveloped brain,
the first being his clothes, the second
a girl It may seem absurd to put
the clothes before the girl, but such is
the proper relation. There are a great
many girls, but only one wardrobe, for
a young man, and he require· that
wardrobe to be exactly in vogue.
The first sign Billy showed of ap
proaching manhood was when he was
fourteen. Then he displayed marked
concern about his neckwear. Later
a new complication developed; then
the period for long trousers came on.
The color of his neckwear must match
the color of his socks. Nothing would
Induce him to wear socks that were
not clocked. His favorite shade for
his scarf and socks was a brilliant
yellow, and woe betide the tailor who
produced a pair of trousers for him
that were not short enough to display
seven-eighths of his hosiery!
When Billy was invited to his first
formal dance he was confronted with
tlie most important question thus far
of his life. Should he wear a swallow
tall or a tuxedo? If a tuxedo, should
he wear a white or black vest, a white
or black tie? In Billy's time boys of
his age were supposed to pass upward
and onward to full dress through a
tuxedo. So, notwithstanding that he
was invited to a formal dance, he must
wear a tuxedo.
Consultation with half a dozen other
boys of his age soon cleared the way
through the vest and tie problems.
They were to be both blade. But Billy
struck a snag on the collar. There was
unfortunately a division of opinion.
Some of the boys ruled for a standing,
some for a turndown collar. During
the afternoon before the dance Billy
waa In a fever of suspense whether It
should be standing or turndown. Final
ly the matter was settled by a tele
*>ne message from his haberdasher,
o, after consulting a periodical giv
ing such fashions, assured Billy that if
he wore anything except a turndown
collar the bottom would drop out of
the universe. That settled the final
momentous question as to how Billy
should be arrayed on going to hi· first
formal dance.
Since Billy was to enter upon his
first love affair during the evening of
this dance one would suppose that the
apparel of the girl he was to fall in
love with should be also described.
Betty Hinsdale, aged fourteen and
ten months, was as much concerned
about her party get up as was Billy
about his appareL A dress had been
especially prepared for the occasion.
But if her costume were to be as mi
nutely described as Billy's has been it
would require a woman to do the job.
This would Involve two persons to
write the story. Hence I can only eay
that when Betty was paraded before
her father in her party dress he im
mediately ordered it lengthened at both
ends. This Is all the Information I
can give on the subject.
The apparel of these two young per
sons being the most important part of
this story has necessitated its being
introduced in the beginning. It is now
necessary to mention a certain spring
day when Billy had put on his base
ball suit and was in his back yard
sunning himself, occasionally throwing
a ball against the brick wall of his
home.
XJlUy WU Butuuuig niuuu α >ΙΠ
feet of the house examining a tear in
the ball he had been tossing when he
was surprised at a line powder settling
all over him. He brushed It off, but
more settled In Its place. He looked
up to see whence It came. All he saw
was that It had emanated from a win.
dow In the house next door.
Billy was puzzled Nevertheless be
suspected that some one was shower
ing him Bending his head over his
ball for awhile, he raised his eyes sud
denly and saw the laughing face of a
girl at a window. It was drawn In
with astonishing rapidity. Billy wait
ed and watched for some time, but
there was no reappearance of either
the girl or the flour that had whitened
him. «
Be it remembered that this was
springtime. One morning when Billy
was getting himself late for breakfast
by a painful indecision as to which
cravat out of more than twenty he
should wear be cast his eyes aside
from the mirror before him—it was
very close to * window—and saw a
girl planting seeds or roots in the yard
next door. He at once divined that
she was the maid who bad floured
Mm, and he wished for something
with which to return the compliment
In the window was a box of plants,
and the plants were budding. Billy
began to throw the buds at the girl,
who was pretty.
A man would have been surprised at
seeing a flewer drop near him and
would have looked to see where It
came from. Not so this young lady.
She was conscious of the fact that a
young man lived next door. She re
membered to have dropped flour on his
shoulders and was on the lookout fer
a response. In fact, she bad seen Billy
at his window amid a rainbow of
cravats. Given a girl In a bade yard,
a young man at a window, and Ik la
to be supposed that the girt will ·*>
pect something.
Billy towed sprigs and flowers,
which Ml to the girl's right, to her
left before bar, behind her, but she
paid ao attention to titan. Then te
went to the bathroom, filled a tumbler
with water and, returning to his win·
dow, ant the contents In a spray on
the flower planter. There was Just
f-r-f*· of a sprinkling to cause her to
fur a douche. She arose frees her
work and marched Into the boose. On
her way ah· cast a glance up at Billy
and made a "facef at him. Billy la
retara threw her a kl» frea ttetfea
if Ml flam
lUitm fcMj . < J f*\ V* \
ι This time Billy saw enough of the
girl to he «tire that ahe wo pretty.
What else the was he did not know
and did not care to know. He had at
tracted her attention, though he had
hen obliged to sprinkle her to do so.
She had brought the sprinkling on
herself by giving him a stage snow
' storm, and as for the face she had
mifla at he did not mind that a
bit
I The next day when Billy was going
np the steps, getting out his latchkey,
j who should come oat of the front door
1 of the next house but the glrL She
ί p>f«A4 him with her nose In the sir,
! but she had scarcely reached the side
! walk when Billy heard a giggle. He
j turned and tried to get up his courage
to follow and Join her, but he had not
' been Introduced to her, and should she
1 «corn him he would never recover from
I the blow. She had floured him and he
had flowered her, but this did not con
atltute an Introduction. He would no
more dare speak to her without the
formal introduction required In social
life th*n be would return to his knick
erbockers.
Such was the condition between these
two next door neighbors when Billy
was Invited to his first formal dance.
He began to array himself at β o'clock
for a function that was supposed to
begin at half past 8. Much time was
required. He put three sets of studs
in his shirt before he was satisfied
with a set of tiny mosaics. He had
Inserted gold links in his cuffs, and
this necessitated a further change, for
had he worn mosaic studs with gold
sleeve buttons he would expect to be
ordered out of the house by the host
The tying of his neckwear was anoth
er delay requiring some twenty-five
minutes. He succeeded In placing It
above the collar button, but was in
terror lest It slip down.
He was Informed by his mother, who
stood by him nobly In this critical
period of his life, that he would surely
be late, and at last he put the finishing
touches to his makeup and, going
downstairs and out entered a limou
sine that had been summoned to trans
port him to the scene of hoped for con
quests. As he was driving away a
car stopped next door. He wondered
if the girl who lived there was going
anywhere.
Billy on reaching his destination
spent half an hour In the dressing
room. Whether It was- for further
arrangement of his apparel or a stage
fright at appearing at his first function
there is no record. Nevertheless he
held on to the banister on his way
down. He made his bow to the
hostess and was at once taken off by
a member of the family to be present
ed to some of the young ladles he did
not know.
Those Invited were all supposed to
be between fifteen and seventeen,
though some of the girls had barely
turned fourteen. Billy was introduced
to several girls in succession and was
landed for a similar purpose before
another when he stood stock still. She
was the girl next door.
"Miss Betty Hinsdale, this is Mr.
Atherton!"
Why all the retiring qualities are at
tributed to the softer sex It is difficult
to explain. BUly, as he expressed it
afterward, was taken "fiat aback.
Hinsdale was as cool as a cucum
ber. Billy stammered something like
"pleasure of a dance," whereupon she
threw back her head with all the air
of a society belle, at the same time
thrusting out a dance card with not a
vacancy on it But Billy soon caught
up with her. He erased several names
and boldly wrote his own name in
their place.
Minute accounts of love affairs may
be pleasingly realistic, but they re
quire much space. But It doesn't re
quire much time for a boy of sixteen
to fall in love. Billy did the falling
like a house painter from a scaffold
very suddenly. But he was a dead
man βο far as his heart was concern
ed, long before the evening was over.
He had not only been made acquaint
ed with the girl next door, but had
fallen madly in love with her.
The flouring, the flowering and the
sprinkling, and all that were over,
pj another phase of the affair was
begun.
Bat tùat paue nag oeen bo vueu por
trayed that we will leave these young
sters at the end of the beginning of
their affair by merely stating that the
love epats were so numerous (me would
suppose that they were bitter enemies
instead of lovers. Billy was at one
moment in the clouds, the next In the
slough of despair. This up and down
condition lasted till he went to college,
when he succeeded in getting admit
ted to the university baseball team,
and from this moment he forgot the
girl next door. But it is only fair to
her to say that before she married
she had been engaged six times.
Fall of the Bastille,
The famous French prison known as
the Bastille was originally the Castle of
Paris and was built by onler of Charles
V. between 1370 and 1883 as a defense
against the English. When it came to
be used as a state prison it was pro
vided with vast bulwarks and ditches.
The Bastille had four towers, of live
stories each, on each of its larger sides,
and it was partly in these towers and
partly in underground cellars that the
prisons were situated. It was capable
of containing from Seventy to eighty
persons, a number frequently reached
during the reigns of Louis XIV. and
Louis XV., the majority of them being
persons at the highest rank. The Bas
tille was destroyed by the mob on July
16, 1780, and the governor and a num
ber of his officers were killed. On its
site now stands the column of July,
erected in memory of the patriots of
1780 and 1880.
A Touch of Nature.
Just a dirty little yellow curl I call
ad him homeless until I heard a dirtier
little urchin yelling, "Aw, gowan
homer and pelting him with stones.
The youngster swore, and I felt sorry
for tite dog. 1 wanted to wring the
urchin's neck and save the dog. Just
as I was about to put my thought Into
action a big black limousine came
swerving down the street The child
darted before It, grabbed the Uttle yel
low cur to his heart, and the two came
rolling from beneath the whirring
wheels. As I helped thsm from the
gutter the boy was moaning.
"Where are you hurt, boy?" I asked
excitedly, tuning him around on his
study hare leg·.
"Day didn't hurt me—but—dey den
near got-my dog!" walled the urchin
between dry sobs.—Columbus (O.) Dis
patch. .
The twenty members of the Lynn,
Mass., Shoe Manufacturers' associa
tion, whose factories have been closed
stnee April 18, voted that they will |
not again deal with the Lynn shoe I
I workers' unions, and will if necessary
keep their fsntnrlsa fitinrt thrwigft^ut
jMvtetar. ...... I
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uuTjuirLan.-.nj'Lrii ** ^ |
Making an
Acquaintance
Method Wom Breezy,
Bat Effectioe
I By F. A. MITCHEL I
g ι ■■■
yua· Atherton had gone to the» coun
try for the summer. She was a de
nted audbmobiliat and had Intended
to drive herself to the summer home
of the Athertons, but the machine
broke down the day before she was to
.tart, and so busy were the mechanics
that no one was available to make re
Mire. Miss Atherton therefore reluc
tantly decided to take a train, "d the
auto went to the shop to wait till some
one could find time to repair «·
Prom the moment Miss Atherton
reached her country home she missed
her auto. She busied herself In her
flower garden and returned temporari
ly to the bicycle which she bad ridden
as a little girl, but none of her de
vices for killing time sufficed.
A week passed and the auto did not
come. To one used to motoring the
perambulators provided thprton
seem very Inefficient Miss Atherton
fretted at having to walk or to re
main at home on a bright afternoon
when she would like to be spinning
along over smooth roads *n her c*r*
One morning she started for
The weather was balmy and rather
suggestive, of a siesta than trudging
Kacouetry road. Wm Igjj»
motions were languorous. Present^y
she passed a spick «nd span macWne
standing t«eslde the road. At the end
of a long walk was a house. Doubt
less the car belonged to some one> In
the house. The lady stopped and sur
veyed the machine covetousiy. It was
a car for two persons. Thenickelpla
of the wheel, the storting and illuminât
ing devices glistened In the sun.
Miss Atherton was tempted to open
the door and rest herself on the cush
ions Glancing at the house, no one
was in sight No one was comlng up
or down the road- There was a cltek
and Miss Atherton was in the car.
Another click denoted that she had
C,£^r.hont her »
0Dr " the electric ^
There was a bnr-r-r of wheel». Before
she realized what she was doing
^«mpietedtnrnlngcntte^wer.
and the machine moved. How HW
Hnw easy! How comfortable! How
^m atter walking! 8he wonld ran
op the road for a 8^ο«<ΐωω«.'
and bring the car back to the pla
where she had found it ..
As she moved off Jack Coounge.
the owner of the captured mac ,
came out of the house and from the
norch saw some one running away
!£ith his machine. Instead of foHow
lng on his legs, he ran around to a ga,
rage, got out another machine and gave
ClQulte likely steeling Is often at first
unintentional. The t^ *totres eome
thins nerhape covets It He taaee it
£ &Cd surprix b? ·®· ™
who enters without seeing his act, he
the object, intending to replace
Jtwhen he can do so unnoticed.
Miss Atherton was about to turn
with the auto when she heard
routter of a motor engine behind her.
What possessed her to act as s e
was a mystery to her. Hearing the
words "Stop thief!" It occurred to her
that If she obeyed the order she would
be taken to a police station, tried fο
larceny and sent to state Prison· Her
first Impulse was to put on speed; her
second was to put on more speed, and
Λβ third was to use all the power of
which the machine was capaMe
Then followed a mad race. Coolldge
got near enough to see that a woman
was at the wheel, but he could not see
what sbe was ιικβ. duc yrescuujf,
when she turned a short distance
ahead of him, he got a better view and
was astonished to see one who wore the
apparel of a lady. The mystery deep
ened. Women don't steal auto cars.
Such thefts are usually made by Δι en,
and very rough men at that He could
not conceive of a lady stealing his car.
She was speeding along at such break
neck speed that he began to fear she
would come to grief. What to do, he
could not decide. He followed on as he
had begun.
An auto coming from the opposite
direction met the fleeing girl, and the
driver saw by the expression and the
speed at which she was traveling that
■he was under some great excitement
Sbe flashed by him, and when in a
few moments her pursuer did the same
It was evident that a mad race was on
between a woman and a man. Was It
a real chase or material for a moving
picture show? The observer did not
know, but having an old fashioned ma
chine he decided not to Interfere and
passed on, wondering. Other machines
were met and the drivers of most of
them, seeing two cars coming like the
wind, drew up beside the road to give
them a safe passage.
Ooolidge was driving a machine not
capable of making the speed of the one
being run away with, but for a time he
gained on It since he dare use his pow
er to a greater extent The fugitive
for a time maintained some degree of
caution, but as her pursuer gained on
her she took risks without being fully
conscious of their magnitude. Coolidge,
having her before him, could see every
turn she made and the risks she took,
fearing that he was goading her to
take than, slackened speed himself,
hoping she would do the same.
Unfortunately for this purpose, the
lady had no eyes in the back of her
head and could not see whctber her
pursuer was gaining on her-or losing
ground. However, her ears told her
that the machine behind her was mak
ing leas noise, and bad she not lost her
head completely she would have re
duced her speed accordingly. Since she
showed no sign of doing so, Coolidge
pressed his accelerator and soon drew
up to within hailing distance. He
thought of calling, bat remembering
the result of his first effort, refrained.
Presently he saw the thief torn a
Sharp bend In the road. The auto skid
ded, followed s tortuous course for
Some distance and brought up against
a deserted shanty. Before it struck
the chauffeur had succeeded in reduo
Ing Its speed, and neither she nor the
machine was much injured, though
both were badly Jarred. But Miss Ath
erton was more rattled at being ever·
hauled than by the Jarring.
"Take me to J all Γ she cried. "Take
me to JalL I'm a thief."
Now, there was everything in Idas
▲tbertoQ's appearance to beUe her eon.
ι ;
feaslon. Coolldge saw at once
what appeared an th» surface wui Dot
the truth.
"Are ytra hurt?" he *·>Η1
oualy.
Hie tone waa reaaaurlng. mi— Ath
erton looked ap and saw a gentleman
J regarding her not only kindly, bat ad·
mlringly.
Mies Atherton, though she had re·
gained her equanimity and satisfied
herself that she was In no danger of I
being dragged to jail, was still not her·
self. Nevertheless, she waa still a wo
man. She began to throw the blame
on to Mr. Coolldge. j
"What were you trying to ran me
down for?" she asked In no friendly
tone.
"I could not see that a lady was
j driving my machine, so I naturally
, supposed some one was trying to get
away with It" j
Miss Atherton looked as If she were
abont to burst Into tears.
"You were quite welcome to use my
machine, I assure you," faltered Cool
ldge, fearing a collapse. 1
"Then why didn't you say so?'
"How could I say so when I waa not
on hand?" <
"But you cried out, 'Stop thief!' " I
"I supposed some one was stealing
my machine. I did not know that a
young lady had merely borrowed It."
Miss Atherton was recovering her
self slowly. She made no rejoinder to
Mr. Coolldge's last remark. He con
cluded to make an effort to get her
either to her home or his, anywhere
but where she was. There were two
vehicles to be taken care of, but now
that she had ceased to be buoyed up I
by excitement he did not have to trust
her to drive either of them. Besides, I
be did not know whether the one she
had been driving would be available '
after the collision. Opening the door
of the car In which he had made the '
pursuit, he begged her to enter.
"Where are you going to take me?"
she asked.
"To your home."
"What will you do with the one I
have Injured?"
"Leave it where It Is for the present"
She walked lamblike to the door he
was holding open and entered the car.
He entered at the wheel side and,
turning into the road, drove back
over the course they had been radng.
But the return speed was very differ
ent from the outgoing. Mr. Coolldge
was quite delighted with the adven
ture. He was pleased that his car had
not been stolen and still more pleased
to have a pretty girl beside him who
had given him an opportunity to show
his gallantry by borrowing his car
without leave.
She begged him to permit her to send
a man to take his machine to a shop
and repair it, but he declared that it
had not been damaged. Then began
an explanation as to how she had come
to run away with his car, but it was
not exactly the one already given with
this story. Up to the point where
Coolldge had cried "Stop thief I" it was
a succession of excuses. From that
point onward it was a lamentation that
he had made her think that she was
flying from a long Imprisonment. Coo
lldge declared that hanging would be
too good for him, but he did not sug
gest anything else that he could have
done under the circumstances. By the
time he got her home he had implored
► her forgiveness, but what for did not
matter. There was a sort of reconcilia
tion between them, and everybody
knows that making up between a
young man and a young woman is lia
ble to stir the emotions. At any rate,
when they parted Coolldge had re
ceived permission to call in the even
ing to learn if the shock Miss Ather
ton had received had been fraught
with serious consequences.
Coolldge availed himself of the privi
lege accorded him, and Miss Atherton
bad scarcely finished dinner before he
was announced. He seemed very anx
ious lest some sign of physical or men
tal shock had appeared during the in
terval since he had last seen her and 1
gave vent to an expression of Joy when
she assured him that sbe had suffered
no Injury whatever, except that she
should have placed herself In such an
embarrassing position. Coolldge as-1
BUiCU il Cl mat uy uuucadvww ^ ,
the Innocence of the motive that ac- '
tuated her In temporarily borrowing
his car and assumed all the blame for
causing her to take to flight These
self accusations and his efforts to ren
der them nugatory took up the evening
until near midnight, when the gentle
man bade the young lady good night
and went home. j
A few days later Miss Atherton's car
arrived, and she did penance for ap
propriating Mr. Coolldge's machine by
Inviting him to drive with her.
During the summer the couple took '
many auto rides together, with the
usual consequences. The nuptial fes
tivities were celebrated in the autumn. ;
The State of Wsstsylvsnla. j
The "province and government of
Weetsylvania" was a proposal made by j
the settlers In the southwest of Penn*
sylvanla and the adjacent territory for
the creation of a new state. It origi
nated in connection with the troubles
between Virginia and Pennsylvania, '
and the scheme was brought forward
early in July, 1776. A description of
the proposed government defines the
bounds as "beginning at the eastern
branch of the Ohio opposite the mouth
of the Scioto and running thence in a
direct line to the Owasloto pass, thence
to the top of the Allegheny mountains, !
thence with the top of the said moun- ;
tains to the northern limits of the pur
chase made from the Indians in 1768 at
the treaty of Fort Stanwix, thence ,
with the said limits to the Allegheny or
Ohio river and thai down the said
river as purchased from the said In- j
dlans at the aforesaid treaty of Fort
Stanwix at the beginning." A call for
a convention to organize the govern
ment was Issued, but a memorial of
the Virginia committee of West Au
gusta county to the lower house of as
sembly led to the abandonment of the
plan.—Philadelphia Pre··.
London's Crystal Palaee. I
Crystal palace was originally built !
In Hyde park for the great exhibition
of 1861, being afterward removed to I
Its present site and re-erected. At
the first state opening of the palace by I
Queen Victoria It was urged that the
usual artillery salute should not be
' fired, the reason given being that the
ι concussion would shiver the glass roof
j and the company assembled below, In
i eluding her majesty, would be cut Into
ι mincemeat Dire were the predictions
1 of the scaremonger· when the design
■ for the palace was made public. The
first gale, they said, would inevitably
, wreck It, while the heat engendered by
: the sun pouring its rays open the
1 domed glass roof would be so terrific
, that no human being could withstand
it Consequently if they escaped , an
avalanche of glass Ihey would be roost
ed to death Instils the eaao
ι -l "ic. 'l *.».>' .·. .. Y
An
I Heirloom 1
It Once Served at
a Hiding Place
I By SADIE OLCOTT |
"Flora, here is a letter from Cheeley,
your Uncle William's lawyer, and he
has inclosed a copy of the will" ·
"To whom has uncle left his proper
ty?" asked Flora.
'Ί can only speak for thst enormous
mahogany bedstead by which be set
so much store—the gargoyle bedstead."
"Did he leave it to me?"
"Of course he did. Don't be foolish,
my dear. Listen:
"I. William Gray, being of sound mind,
etc., do give and bequeath to ray grand·
niece, Isabel Gray, her heirs and assign)·
forever, my Shoraton sideboard and the
sum of (.',000; to my grandnlece, Flora
Gray Winchester, her heirs and assigne,
the mahogany bedstead which stands in
my own chamber and which is known as
tho gargoyle bedstead, together with the
sum of 11,000.'*
"Where shall we put it, Harry?"
interrupted Mrs. Winchester breath·
lessly.
"Put it? You don't expect to get it
into this flat?"
"We must have it here. I wouldn't
examine it there with Isabel looking
on. And, besides, it is such a Journey
down to Richmond. Anyway, you can
not spare the time to go down now,
and we must examine it together. I
want to get it here as soon as possi
ble. Who knows but Isabel or some
of the others might find the diary of
Nancy Gray and learn the secret? My
inheritance would be worthless!" Mrs.
Winchester's voice trembled.
"Oh, all right!" said Winchester trac
tably. "But how the deuce you expect
to get it in here I don't quite see. If s a
very large piece of furniture, isn't it?"
"Now, Harry, dear," she cried, with
one plump hand upon his lips, "that
bed must be got into this flat some
how I First I will finish my letter to
Mr. Cheeley aud let Nora post it at
once. I can hardly wait to see the bed
stead, Harry, and I don't dare dream
of what will be ours when the secret
of the bedstead is disclosed. Do you
think, dear, I wus wroug not to tell
Uncle William about the diary of Nan
cy Gray I found in the garret?"
"Well, truthfully speaking, I'm afraid
it wasn't treating the old gentleman
quite on tbe square."
Two weeks afterward, while Mr.
Winchester was engaged in a most
Important business transaction, he was
summoned to the telephone.
"Yes, this is Winchester. What?
Oh, the bedstead there! I can't pos
sibly leave at present. I can't help it
Tell them to send it up tomorrow. 1
know it's Important—the bedstead!
No, I didn't speak. Yes, I will come
home early. Goodby."
When he reached the Etruscan apart
ments that evening Winchester was
fortified with a box of candy and a
huge bunch of violets. He stepped to
the elevator and pressed the button.
A faint tinkle responded from some
depth below.
Presently the Janitor emerged from
an obscure doorway and surveyed him
with an unpleasant eye.
"It ain't a-runnin'," he said gruffly.
"Poor management," commented Win
chester as be prepared to conquer tbe
eight flights that barred him from
home and dinner.
"Huh!" exploded the man. "What
with the freight elevator out er order,
and people breakin' windows movin' in
big stuff, and them chumps a-trjin' to
put the feet board in my passenger
car and a-tearin' a lady's dress, and
her the landlord's sister-in-law"— He
glared wrathfully at the vanishing
form of Winchester.
Opening the door of his apartment,
rampant disorder met his eye. A huge,
dark form almost covered the floor of
the tiny parlor, which in its chaotic
disturbance looked strangely unfamil
iar to the master of the house.
In the library Flora reclined on a
couch before the bright gas log, while
sympathetic Nora applied wet clothe
to her mistress' aching head. Wreck
age from tbe parlor impeded progress
ui everjr dic^>
"My dear girl!" he uttered.
She turned a woebegone face to hit.
"Such a time as they bad trying to
get It In the window! They were
saucy because the window was too
small, and one of them pulled It In
with a jerk, and It struck the chande
lier. The pieces of glass fell on my
Wedgwood vase, and that Is broken!
I—I am quite discouraged!"
With a restless glance toward the
parlor, where the gigantic bedstead lay
like some dark shadow on his Uttle
home, and with au unpleasant refl
ection of the snorting janitor below
stairs and of the generous tip It would
require to reduce him to his customary
state of patronizing familiarity, Win
chester endeavored to soothe his wife's
shattered nerves, and together they
obeyed Nora's summons to a belated
dinner.
At table Mrs. Winchester drew a fold
ed paper from her Kown.
"This Is the i«ge I copied from the
diary of Nancy Gray. Hnrry," she
said, spreading it open before her. "I
thought I would refresh my memory
as to the exact location of the secret
spring.
••Richmond, Va., April 21, 1804,'"
read Mrs. Winchester in solemn ac
cents. M Ί am greatly alarmed for the
Mfety of Grandmother Bin pah's dia
monds, and have vainly tried to And s
biding place for them. The Yankees
are digging up every Inch of ground
on the adjacent plantations searching
for buried treasure, and 1 am quite at
a loss to find a safe place for our
lieirlooms.
"'April 22.—Such an excellent idea!
I have just recollected that there Is a
secret hiding place In Grandmother
Binpah's mahogany bedstead. 1 will
conceal the jewels there and will de
scribe their hiding place so that in
case anything happens to me one of
our family may be able to recover
them, even if the bedstead should be
carried away.
M'First, one must observe the row
of hideously grinning faces—"gar
goyles," grandfather called them—that
outline the top of the headboard; there
are twenty-five of these gargoyles in
all, and one must press the right eye
of the thirteenth gargoyle from either
j end, when the face will swing out
ward, disclosing a cavity. Into this
! cavity I have dropped the leather bag
! containing the unset gems—they are
worth many thousands of dollars—and
i .; *7 Λ i:..· ...Si
f hope to recover them when the war
le over.' " _
Armed with hammer and screw
driver, husband end wife repaired to
the parlor and locked themselvee with
in, greatly to the disgust of the in
terested Nora, who availed herself of
the keyhole as the only salve to her
wounded self respect
"My dear girl, how do you think I m
going to handle this thing alone? It
weighs a ton! Why wasn t It pot
the guest room?"
«The Instant I saw'It In the wagon
I knew it would never lit into that
room, so I told them to put It In here.
We can remove it to the ceHar afte»- ·,
ward—or store It"
"It fits In here," remarked Win
chester.
"Let us rip off the covering—I be
lieve 1 know Just where to place my
finger on the spring! This is the head
board, of course, and here are the gar
goyles !" cried Flora excitedly.
Winchester took out his knife and
leisurely opened the blade. He lifted
one corner of the bedstead, groaned
and dropped It heavily.
There was a straining and snapping
of cords as he applied his knife to the
wrappings.
"Oh, Oh! J am Just as nervous as l
can be!" cried Flora, regardless of her
husband's groan as h^ drugged aside
the covering and disclosed the round
ed, polished top outlined by a semi
circle of hideously carved faces.
"Jove, what a beauty!" ejaculated
Winchester, yet with a note of re
spect in his tone. "What a night
mare! Fancy wishing a guest 'pleas
ant dreams* and then introducing him
to that couch! Whew! Now, which
face, Flora, love?"
Mrs. Winchester triumphantly pro
duced the paper from her laces and
read solemnly: "The thirteenth gar
goyle from either end.' " f
"The one in the middle, of course,
announced Winchester.
44 Trees the right eye,' " quoted Mrs.
Winchester breathlessly. "I shall have
them set In a glorious pendant, Harryr
They hung expectantly over the bed.
"Now press," she whispered sibi
lantly.
Winchester pressed.
"Nothing doing," he announced Mtly·
"Press harder," urged his wife. "The
secret spring has probably rusted.
They do rust sometimes, don't they Γ
"I never heard of one doing so. They
always yield easily, and the door rolls
noiselessly aside and leaves an aper
ture," said Winchester grimly.
"We must get it open!" cried his wire
tearfully. "Try some of the other eyes,
Harry." . . .
"But why try the others, my dear?
It says the middle one."
"There Is—there must be a spring Γ
retorted Mrs. Winchester. "Why should
Nancy have put it in her diary If there
was not?"
"I give it up when you ask me to
explain the vagaries of the female
mind"- began Winchester as he vi
ciously Jnbbed the eyes of all the gar
goyles in turn without resu?t
Flora burst Into tears. ^
"Don't cry, my darling," comforted
her husband tenderly. "I'll Aud out
the truth if I have to chop the con
founded thing into kindlings!
«I wish 1 understood the meaning of
it nnvway," said Winchester presently
when his wife had reached a degree of
tranquillity where she could nibble a
bonbon appreciatively.
Again the tears flowed. "I might
just as well have had another thou
sand dollars!" walled Flora.
Winchester's elbow knocked a small
package from the table to the
"What is this?" he asked, picking
« ,ι
afternoon. I haven't had time to look
at It"
He ripped off the covers and looked
stupidly at a small leather volume In
his hand.
"The Diary of Nancy Gray!" he ex
claimed. A letter fell from the book,
and he opened it eagerly.
"Read It!" commanded Flora Impa
tiently. And he re«d as follows:
My Dear Mrs. Winchester—Your uncle,
the late Mr. William Gray, has placed
this little volume in my hands with in
structions to turn it over to you after
his death. Of course you are aware that
your uncle wrote this fantastical little
tale for his own amusement many years
ago, but it was never published. Tou
are probably in a position to recognise
that your uncle's clever wit enabled him
to take great liberties with your family
history. As the preset t owner of the
Gargoyle bedstead, this little book will
prove to be of especial Interest to you.
Congratulating you on the possession of
such a valuable antique, and with kind
regards, I am, very sincerely yours,
JEPEMIAH CHESLET.
The long silence was broken at last
by a suppressed chuckle from Mr. Win
chester.
His wife burled her face In the sofa
pillows. "Brute!" she sobbed bitterly.
And Winchester Is still wondering
whom she meant
Military Digits.
Men with long, tapering "piano" fin
gers are apt to desert after short serv
ice, while those having stubby digits,
denoting stability of character and ut
ter lack of the artistic temperament
usually stand by their boats and make
the best marines.
Although desertions from the marine
corps are light at times, It has been
said that actors, sign writers and.
strange to say, waiters furnish the
largest number of deserters.
Records, including finger prints, of
all men enlisted in the corps are kept
at headquarters for purposes of identi
fication, and there are cases on record
where bodies, with finger tips Intact
have been positively Identified through
the finger print medium.—Philadelphia
Press.
Faoe Value.
Escarolle—She said : "I want 70a to
take me at my face value. Don't judge
me by my father's wealth." Chiffon
ade—And what did y ο" sar? Eeca rolle
Why, I told her that the present price
of dyes, paints and cosmetics was so
high that I couldn't afford to be as
sociated with her.—Life.
Muet Be.
"I'm really worried about my wife."
"What's the matter?"
"I don't know. There must be some
thing radically wrong with her be
cause she says she Isn't taking the
slightest Interest In the new style·."—
Detroit Free Press.
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While He Waited In the Parlor.
Mr. Sooper (to her kid brother)-*
May I hope to see yoor sister pretty
soon? Kid Brother—YonU see her
pretty, all right She's been flzin* op
to beat the band.—ETchange,
January Wheat Crepe.
Only two countries, Chile and New
Zealand, usually harvest their wheat
crops in January.
life doesn't consist ta playing a good
. heed, but In playing a poor hand well