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I 8Sa$S$$SStt633S$8SS39$88S$e$$ (Copyright, 191S, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) "For'heaven's sake," said Avis Ran some's-Aunt Martha caustically, "if Sei"ul* you're going to marry him-why mar- J he dies of old age and watchful wait ing." Perplexity was written large in and about the eyes of Avis Ransome. "But how do you know. Aunt Mar thahow do you know when you love a man and want to marry him?" &{1e/is Don't Know That I D Want to Marry Him." "How do you know when you're hungry?" napped that gdod lady. "Whywhy you feel it!" exclaimed her niece. "Exactly! You feel it," said Aunt Martha significantly. So after five minutes of serious con sideration the conscientious Avis reached for the telephone and called up Martin Garland. "Oh, Mart," she began hurriedly, "I think I've changed my mind. I don't think we'd better meet this afternoon nor any afternoonever any more. I've been talking to Aunt Martha andand I've come to the conclusion that it isn't fair to you. Mart. And I want to be fair." "But, Avis," came his quiet voice, "I understand all of that. You needn't worry your head about it at all. I can stand ItIt's better than nothing, you know." No," she said decisively, "it isn't right. And in all fairness toto both of us it should be ended right here." Garland's mind was quick on the trigger, and he immediately caught the idea that the thing which! he had feared had come. There was some one else. So long as there was no one dtse he had hoped. But Garland was -ii good loser and unconsciously there slipped into his voice a note of pleas ant friendliness that was almost im personal. "Perhaps you are right, Avis," he grimly. to herself. her right.' Three months of this -went by. The fourth month lagged dreadfully, and Avis Ransome was the most restless no didn't mention that she was curnnia. to know how things stood between Mart and Avis, but she was. And so It happened that Avis was one of the enthusiastic audience which applauded the young playwright who stood before the curtain after the third act, hand in hand with Neala Travers. the lovely star. And that night she went home with her friends, her heart in a tumultboth proud and fearful. But the next morning, late, she man aged to locate Martin Garland by tele phone. "And saltl oufQliked" THIHV tr you it?" he eme xiie Biuiufu miss ixuiisuiue IIUSUGU the telephone into which she had just ?*d wanted you to know Mart been talking back on the table and- little tired. You keep a perfectly nice But he didn't suggest seeing h^r, and young man dangling year after year Spiled that he xyas very busy and hoping against hope until some one had just signed a contract for the else comes along to whom you take a writing of a new playwit thata was al- sudden and inconsistent notion-and "^ady aske.d not sufficiently sur prised to hear her voice. "Yes," she said, "it was splendid howf-how much" your success mean* to me." "All my friends have been very kind,'" he said, "and I d.oT appreciateanit. gazed out ote the-window absently don't know that I do want to marry him," she answered ""7" ~s**~ X^Vi /i "Well, if you don't know now, you Avis, your being so inter^sted-aud never will know. You make me just a aU- way S baffled und the first thing Martin larland knows feeling of defeat Avis tried gallantly he's had a throw-down that will touch to enjojsh feer New all the rest of his life with just a shade of disappointment If not actual ins in Central Park with the fascinat bitterness. It isn't fairit isn't Yorktovisit. Onc happened see him rid- ing Miss Travers. Once she and her square. If you love himwhy, say so hostess were coming out of a shop on andlnarry him. If you don'tat least Fifth avenue and they met him face be frank about it and give him a to face. He was pleasant and friend- chance to love somebody else before ly, but Avis seemed not to be able to break down the barrier that had risen between them, and later that same af ternoon she saw him glide by in a fashionable town car with Neala Tra cers at his sideand that night Avis Kansome cried. The next afternoon a pale, dark eyed girl was ushered into Neala Travers' apartment. "MissMiss Travers," she began nervously,, "you are .soso splendid in AJartiu Garland's new play. I think it is wonderful for you to have worked with him and inspired him toward his success. But please," she said earnest ly, "please be good to him. He is so gentle and finehis ideals are sd high and full of dreams. He believes In women as few men do. The two of you have so much in commonand you are soso lovelyplease don't hurt him. It would mar his lifede Vgcoy his ideals and dwarf his work piease don't." And Neala Travers, who was a wom an first and a star afterward, under stood, and put her arm around Avis Ransome and petted her into a strange sense of security. But that night when Garland came to her dressing room at the theater, as was his custom of late, the heart of Neala Travers ached Just a little. "You never told me about the girl back homethe little girl with the tragic eyes," she accused him whim sically, yet half seriously. "She threw me down," he said frank ly, "so there was nothing to tell." "But she's wild about you and you're breaking her heart," she said gently. "you're quite mistaken," he answer ed. "She's visiting in New York, you know. I've talked to her once on the telephone" and even met her once on the street, but there was not a single sign that she cared." "Did you ask her?" "No." "Then do. Ask her tonight. You'll need a wife like her to tie towith all the girls on Broadway making eyes at you." She smiled frankly. And thirty minutes later Avis was clinging to Martin Garland murmuring pathetically, "I was afraid you didn't love me any moreand I do love you so, Mart." "How do you know you love me," he asked gravely. "How do I know when I'm hungry?" she smiled through her tears. While at that very moment, In the great third act of Garland's play, Neala Travers was saying, "No hap piness can survive that brings unhap piness to another." Most Inhuman Belief. There may be well-intentioned peo ple who say that virtue always leads to success and vice to misery. But it is an oBvious and monstrous falsehood in a world where we profit by the good deeds of our parents and where mil lions are suffering unutterable tortures because of the deeds of foreign poten tates. That those who suffer must have been wicked, and that those who But Avis Ransome arose from the triumph must have been virtuous, is iphone with a little uneasy feeling that one of the most inhuman beliefs in hls- he.had accepted the situation a little tory. As to the doctrine that the re- too readily. Ten days passed and this ward of virtue is to be found in a clear feeling grew into a certainty, for she conscience or high satisfactionthat had expected him to make some effort is an even more violent falsehood. to come back. But she hadn't heard The people who suffer most from their a wortl from him. Then some one told conscience are obviously the sensitive her that he had gone to New York, and high-minded, while self-approba- and all at once she felt like an aban- tion comes most easily to the com- doned child. She missed him she placent and fortune-favored Jack Hor- rolssed him more than she would ad- ners. The doctrine that the reward mit even to herself. And her aunt of moral life Is a feeling of satisfac- watched her and smiled to herself. tlon or happiness is not only contrary Serves her right," thought that lady to moral experience, but is Intellectu i ~i tt a--.<p>"Serves 'h OUTy itoriloTlp New Rennbllc. all sterile.The New Republic Japanese Pocket Stoves. youngwornan in Dayton. Then one day stove that you can carry round in your came a letter from a girl friend who pocket. It Is In the form of a small had married a rich young broker in brazier, shaped rather like a cigar New Yorka jolly, devil-may-care, case, and the fuel Is a sausage-like roll nice broker, who had never pursued that will burn for three hours without chorus girls along the Great White emitting smoke or fumes. One of these Wayand had always loved his own little contrivances carried inside the little wife from the very first time bosom of a kimono prevents a Journey he set eyes on her. And the letter in- in a railway train from being too eluded a press notice of Martin Gar- chilly. Delicate pupils keep one in land's new play which was soon to be their clothes while at school in winter, produced, starring the well-known i and so equipped sit comfortably in an Neala Traversalso the letter sug- unheated room. The aged and the gested eagerly that Avis come to New cold-footed sleep with the tore at York for a visit, incideotly they could their feet. It is also like a hot water nee Mart's new playshe and her bottle to soothe the pains of cramp sad husband were great first-nighters. She I colicScientific The Japanese have invented a little INJURY DONE BY RAT IS IMMENSE Far Greater Than That Wrought by All Larger and Other Mammals Together. IS. MENACE T8 HUMAN LIFE Rodents Are Almost Wholly Resporv sible for Perpetuation and Trans mission of Bubonic Plague Loss in Rural Districts. (Prepared by the United States Depart* ment of Agriculture.) A single rat does far less harm in a year than one of the larger mammals, igsuch as a linn, tiger, or wolf but the large mammals of prey are compara tively few in number, while rats are exceedingly abundant. North America or any othur continent has probably as many ra*- as peoplepossibly two or three times as many. The destruc tion wrought by this vast horde of rodents is far greater than that wrought by lions, tigers, wolves and all other noxious mammals together. Injurious insects are enormously de rtructive to crops. Probably their combined ravages inflict greater eco nomic losses than do those of rats but no one kind of Insects destroys as much. The harm done by any species of insect Is usually confined to certain geographic limits, rarely extending over large parts of a continent that done by the rat extends over the whole world. Oceans fail to limit Its ac tivities. Menaces Human Life. The rat's destructiveness is not con fined to crops and property it men aces human life as well. This rodent Is responsible for more deaths among human beings than all the wars of history. Not-all the fatal epidemics of the past were bubonic plague, but enough of them have been so Identified to show that almost every century of the Christian era has had at least one great pandemic of this scourge which destroyed millions of the world's pop ulation. The great plague of London, which killed more than half the In habitants that did not flee from the city, was by no means the worst out break recorded. The plague called "black death" devastated Europe for 50 years of the fourteenth century, destroying two-thirds to three-fourths of the population of large territories and one-fourth of all the people, or about 25,000,000 persons. Since 1806 plague has carried away nearly 9,000,- 000 of the population of India alone. The disease is still intrenched in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, and cases of it have occurred in Europe and North America. Through the fleas that infest them, rats are almost wholly responsible for the perpetuation and transmission of To Combat the Rat Successfully la Largely a Building Problem. bubonic plague, and it has been proved also that rats are active, although not exclusive, agents in spreading pneu monic plague. Only the prompt meas ures against thefe animals taken by the United States public health service prevented disastrous epidemics of plague in San Francisco, Seattle and Hawaii in 1909, in Porto Rico in 1912, and in New Orleans In 1914. Leases Due to Rata, The economic loss due to rats Is astounding. No "extensive or exact statistics on the subject are available, but surveys of conditions existing in a few of the older cities of the United States show that losses flue to rats are almost in exact ratio to the popu lations. In rural districts the losses are much greater In proportion to In habitants than In cities. Assuming that there are in the United Statet jnly as many rats as people, and that .Nich rat In a year destroys property valued at $2, the total yearly damage Is about $200,000,000. To this must be added the expense of fighting rate including the large sums paid for traps and poisons, the keep of dogs and cats, and the lahjfr involved. In addition the loss of roan efficiency due to diseases disseminated by the rat should be considered. Unclean and Unpatriotic The man who markets unclean aad filthy milk Is ssBirtolly unpatriotic, THE TOMAHAWK. WHITE EARTH. MINN. SOY BEANS HELP TO SOLVE FOOD PROBLEM Source of Home-Grown Protein Should Interest Stockmen. Several Varieties Have Been Adapted and Acclimated to Every Section of CountryImproves Fertility of the So'l. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Soy bean meal Is a source of home grown protein which should Interest every stockman, says the United States department of agriculture, par ticularly when concentrates rich in protein are high in price. Several varieties of soy beans have been adapt ed and'acclimated to every section of the country so that the crop can be profitably produced in every state now engaged in live stock husbandry. The soy bean is the one crop which pro vides a practical way for the farm pro duction of the grain protein which is needed for feed for dairy cows, beef animals, sheep, swine, and poultry. On impoverished lands in the South soy beans yield from 10 to 15 bushels pf grain to the acre and in so doing the Field of Soy Beans, a Valuable Crop for Home-Grown Protein Feeds. crop also improves the fertility of the soil, because of the leguminous nature of the plants. Tncre are a number of handpower end gasoline grinding mills of standard make now on the market which can be purchased at from $10 to $50 each and will reduce soy beans to a palatable meal form. A gasoline engine to operate one of these mills wiljt cost from $35 to $75 or more, de pendent on the make, size and quality. Due to the relatively high oil con tent of soy beans, it Is advisable to grind a mixture of three parts of corn to one part of soy beans, as in this way a practicnlly balascwd graio ra tion is supplied while difficulties duo to the gumming up of the mill are avoided. Soy-bean meal contains from 45 to 48 per cent of protein as com pared with 38 td 41 per cent of pro tein in the common varieties of cot tonseed meal. It is essential to feed smaller amounts of soy-bean meal on account of Its greater content of pro tein and this naturally lowers the cost of production, as during normal peri ods soy-bean meal sells at practically the same prices as the best grades of cottonseed meal. With a more exten sive production of the soy bean crop the price of the meal probably will decline. TO CONTROL INSECT DISEASE Gardeners Are Urged to Clean Up Plots and Burn All Dead Vegeta tion Soon as Possible. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The United States department of ag rlculture has Issued an appeal to gar deners in the New England states to clean up their plots and burn all the dead vegetation as soon as possible after killing frost this fall. Destruc tion by fire of infested stock, stubble, garden plants, and weeds after killing frost is the only known method of com bating the European corn borer, a dan gerous insect pest of corn new to this country, and which has been found liv ing in corn fields of eastern Massa chusetts. If strenuous methods are not made to check this Insect, according to the bureau of entomology of the depart ment, It will spread to the great field corn producing region* of the country, do Incalculable injury to the corn crop and materially reduce the prosperity as weU as the food stocks of the na tion. The pest Is not definitely known to occur outside of Massachusetts, but It Is possible that It may be present In the other New England states. The Insect done from .Europe, and is es pecially injurious to corn In Austria Hungary, where It has been known to destroy at least one-fourth of the en tire crop In a single year. Daring the cold months it lives within the dead and dried roots of corn, the larger grasses, weeds, and garden plants. Therefore the ease of destroying It at this time by burning garden trash of the kind mentioned. Discovery of the Insect should be re ported Immediately to the state agri cultural college or to the bureau of o omology, UUted States department jf agriculture, Washington, D. a mm LZ IK^MHHI ALL LUMBERMEN KNOW HIM There Is one man who Is known to every lumberman In the country. He Is George W. Hotchklss of Evanston, 111. The lumbermen ought to know him by this time, inasmuch as he Is the oldest living lumberman in point of years in the business. He was born In 1831 In New Haven, Conn. Therefore he Is eighty-seven years oldand proud of it. He is the first man in America to publish a lumber journalthe Lumberman's Gazette, somewhere In Michigan. In 1877 he came to Chicago and has been In busi ness here ever since. He is now sec retary emeritus of the Illinois Lum ber and Material Dealers' association. He goes to his work every day. Mr. Hotchklss has other holds on fame. He Is one of the last of the Forty-niners. He started for California at seventeen. He went by sea and he was 154 days on the way. Then he has an abundant mop of gray hair, the envy of many a younger man. Wash your hair daily in cold water, he says, and you may have one like it at eighty-seven. His bodily activity Is another thing. Water is the secret of this, tooe bath following 15 minutes of exercise every morning on arising. Mr. Hotchklss is, among other things, a reminder of the marvelous growth of the city in which he has done business for more than 40 years. When he was born Chicago had a hundred or so inhabitants. Thus in the lifetime of one manstill hearty and vigorousthe frontier village around Fort Dearborn has grown to be the fourth city of the worldprobably it's the third. EDUCATION OF THE SOLDIER SSSjfe^K^v -k$ki ^B m^P^m mm 1 Will Plaajjy John Ersklne, professor of English at Columbia university, has been in trusted by the Y. M. C. A. with the tnsk of establishing an educational war project of tremendous size and of far-reaching Importance to the United States. The purpose of this project Is primarily to offer opportunities of education to our soldiers during over seas service In order that they may return home even better citizens than they were when 'they left. Many thousands of our soldiers will presum ably do overseas duty for some time, no matter whether peace or war con ditions prevail in Europe. The Y. M. C. A. sent Anson Phelps Stokes abroad to make a survey of the educational need of American sol diers. The present plan was then evolved to meet the conditions shown by his report. Tho Y. M. O. A. will undertake the actual operation of the plnn and will nlso finance it. The American Library association will provide the text books. One million stu- dents, four million text books and several thousands of administrative teach- ers are items that Indicate the size and scope of this vnst project. Training schools for trades and afso professional schools will be established as the need for them is made known to the administrators abroad. Teachers and Instructors will be chosen from the ranks of the specialized men in the army. From newsboy of the lower East side of New York city to governor elect of the Empire state is the record of the onward march on the political road of Alfred E. Smith. And it has taken him only 45 years to do it. "The only genuine Tammany man who can get the anti-Tammany vote." That was the opinion expressed In Democratic circles In New York when the Saratoga convention unanimously chose him as its candidate against Governor Whitman. Apparently the opinion was correct He has always been a Tammany man and owes It everything lie has had In the way of political preferment. And he beat Whitman. Mr. Smith has been prominent in Democratic politics In New York for about 15 years. He was "discovered" In the old Fourth ward by "Big Tom" Foley. He entered politics In 1003, when he wns first elected to tHe as sembly. After serving several terms he was chosen minority leader. He be- came speaker, and in his last term was majority leader. Following his service at Albany, Mr. Smith was elected sheriff of New York county by a plurality of 47,000. As sheriff he abolished useless positions. He was the last Incumbent of that office on a fee basis of compensation. In tho Inst municipal election Mr. Smith was chosen president of the board of aldermen, which position makes him acting mayor when Mr. Hylan is absent from the city and which gives him three votes In the board of estimate. ^MM WHEN THE BOYS COME BACK Mrs. Mary Hatch WUlard, chair man of the executive committee of America's allied co-operative commit tee, has returned from Europe. She visited the French and Italian fronts. Mrs. WUlard, who was decorated by the French government with the Medallle d'Honneur for her relief work among the troops, speaks In enthusi astic terms of the morale among the American soldiers rfbroad. She quoted a French officer who had led some of the Americans In the Cha teai-Thlerry engagement and who In speaking of them said to her: "The Americans are fine soldiers, fearless and brave, and every one of them seems to be a hero.** "We must prepare now," Mrs. WUlard says, "to receive our young heroes. They will want something he sides brass hands and great parade*. They will want to be welcomed with the same spirit of Americanism which they hsve acquired while fighting for their country. A new race of men, as It were, Is coming back to America and they will want to be wel*n by* nnderstandlng on our part of the seriousness of the business In which they have been engaged and an appredatkm of the sacrifices they have mad* the country they lova so wen.**