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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-03-17

believe my dossier makes 1t. 1t has
taken me fifteen years to bury my
youth. Let us talk of Mornac."
Eyes, we will talk of Mornac," she
said, gently.
So with infinite pains l went back
and traced for her the career Of Buck
hurst, sparing her nothing. She sat
motionless, her face like cold marble,
as l carefully gathered the threads of
the plot and gently twitched that one
which galvanized the mask of Mornac.
'fMornac!" she stammered, aghast.
l showed her why Buckhurst desired
to come to Paradise; l showed her
why Mornac had initiated her into the
mysteries Of my dossier, taking that
Internal precaution, although he had
every reason to believe he had me
practically in prison, with the keys in
his own pocket.
She told me that Buckhurst came
to her house here in Paradise early In
September; that while in Paris, pom
dering on what l had said, she had
determined to withdraw herself abso-
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SYNOPS

Scarlet, an American soldier OF for
tune In the employ OF the French I'm
perial Police at the outbreak OF the iran
Co-Prussian war, is ordered 10 arrest
munists and suspected of having stolen
the French crown Jewels. While search
inR for Buckhurst, Scarlet is ordered TO
arrest Countess de Vassart and her group
of socialists and escort them to the Bel
gian border. Scarlet finds Sylvia EiVen
OF the odeon disguised as peasant ana .a
carries her to La Trappe where the
countess and her friends are assembled.
All are arrested. The countess saves
Scarlet from a fatal fall from the roof
OF the house. He denounces Buckhurst
as the leader Of the Reds and the coun-
tess conducts him to where Buckhurst Is
secreted. German Uhlans descend on
the place and Buckhurst escapes during
the melee. Scarlet is wounded. He re-
covers consciousness In the countess
house at Morsbronn, where he is cared
for by the countess fierce battle is
and Prussian soldiers. Buckhurst pro-
fesses repentance and returns the crown
Jewels to Scarlet. He declares he will
give himself up to the authorities. Scar
lett doubts his sincerity. Buckhurst urges
the countess to go to Paradise Buck
hurst admits that he receives pay from
the Prussans for information which he
does not give. He secures passports 10
the French lines for Scarlet, the coun-
tess and himself Scarlet reports to
the secret service in Paris and finds Nor
mac, shadow OF the emperor, in charge.
He deposits the crown Jewels and later.
when making detailed report, finds that
pebbles have been substituted for the real
stones. Speed, q comrade in the service,
warns Scarlet that Mornac is dangerous.
He also informs him that all the govern
Enent treasure is being transported to the
coast for shipment out OF the country.
Scarlet and Speed escape to join cir
Gus. The circus arrives at Paradise. An
order is received by the mayor calling
the citizens to arms. Jacqueline, daugh-
ter OF the Lizard, offers to join the circus
10 give exhibitions In the character of a
mermaid. Scarlet makes friends with
the Lizard.
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WELCOME COMING OF LOCUST
Sudanese Consider Insects, Elsewhere
Regarded as Pests, as Most
PaIatabIe Food.

The latest advices from Khartum,
in the Sudan, state that the usual
bitches have been dug in all dlrec-
lions in anticipation Of the summer
rains, which, however, have as yet
not put in an appearance In the
meantime these bitches are having
their uses, for a plague of locusts
has set in. Immense swarms have
for days been passing over the city.
Locusts of course do vast amount
of damage to the fields. They null
tiply most rapidly and wherever they
settle they devour every vestige OF
green and leave the land bare. The
Sudanese are waging a vigorous cam
paign against them and their zeal is
whetted bys the fact that locusts con-
stitute for them a very palatable- dish.
These insects are usually caught by
the Cyprus system" which consists
in digging trenches and erecting on
their farther side tin screens against
which they dash end kill themselves.
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VALUE OF SKIM MILK.

Many people have an idea that skim
milk is not of any value as a food.
which proves that we do not study
food values enough. Skim milk has
all the valuable properties of milk
minus the cream, which are many
The casein is left, which is the pro-
teidN food of milk, and is most Valua-
BILE as a builder of tissue.
If you can spare il from the pigs,
let the little people have it to drink
instead of water. If it must be, bought,
you can buy two or three quarts OF
the skim milk for the price of one
quart of whole milk, and many most
desirable dishes may be made with 1t
which can not be told from that made
of whole milk.
For example, the much-liked Indian
pudding, which is made Of corn meal,
two quarts Of milk, cup of suet, SUI
gar and few raisins and an egg or
two. The skim milk may be used ex-
actly as we'll, as the fat is all supplied
by the suet Mothers of large fam
lilies would do we'll to study the value
of skim milk and buy much Of it, in
stead of SO much Of the whole milk.
A pitcher of milk on the table will
expensive foods.
Skim milk alone, of course, would
be an unbalanced ration, but combined
with other foods which supply its fat,
it makes a most acceptable addition
to the diet.
All the various creamy soups when
are made from milk can be just as
we'll made from the skim milk, and no
one need know the difference. For
those who use milk in bread 1t is also
valuable. For white sauces, for cakes,
mullins, griddle cakes, biscuit and In
fact anywhere the whole milk Is used
skinned milk may be substituted.
Rice and tapioca can be cooked with
skim milk, and it will be found good.
When baking ham or chicken in
milk, which is a favorite dish with
many, the skim milk may be used at
much less expense.
Goldfish Chowder. - Take a half
pound of Goldfish, a quarter Of a pound
of salt pork, a half dozen potatoes,
three onions all sliced two quarts OF
skim milk, salt and pepper. Cut
the pork into dice and put into large
kettle; try out until brown, add the
onions and stir until yellow, add the
potatoes sliced and sufficient water to
cover. Have the Goldfish soaked and
shredded add when the potatoes are
nearly done, then add the scalding
milk, seasonings, a half dozen crack
ers. Serve hot.
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CHAPTER xiii.-contInued.

With mallet, hammer. saw, and
Bcrew-driver / worked until noon, ma
turing my plans all the while. These
plans would take the last penny In
the treasury and leave US In debt sew
eral thousand francs. But 1t was win
or go to smash now, and personally l
have always preferred a tremendous
smash to a slow and oozy flzzle.
A big pot of fragrant soup was
served to the company at luncheon;
and 1t amused me to see Jacqueline
troop into the tent with the others and
sit down with her bit Of bread and her
bowl of broth.
How is she getting on?" 1 called
across to Speed"
"The child is simply startling" he
said, in English. "She is not afraid of
anything. She and Miss Crystal have
been doing that hair-raising flying
swing without rehearsal"
Byram's buoyancy had returned in
a measure. He sat in his shirt sleeves
at the head of the table, vigorously
sopping his tartine In his soup, and,
mouth full, leaned forward, chewing
and listening to the conversation
around him.
"I'll say one thing" observed By
ram, with dignity; "if ever l git out of
this darn continong with my circus, I'll
recooperate in the undulatin' medders
an j'yful wales of the United States.
Hereafter that country will continue
to remain good enough for me-"
Now that had stirred up this bee
hive and set it swarming again, l had
no inclination to turn drone. Yet re-
membered my note to the Countess de
Vassart and her reply. So about four
o'clock | made the best toilet I could
in my only other suit of clothes, and
walked out of the bustling camp into
the square, where the messy fountain
splashed under the oaks and the chill
dren OF Paradise were playing.
One thing l noticed as l crossed the
unused moat of the Chateau de Ire
court on permanent bridge. There
was a man. lying belly down in the
bracken, watching me, and as /
walked into the court l tried to re-
member where had seen his face be-
fore.
There was a soft whirring in the air
like the sound Of humming bird close
by; it came from a spinning wheel, and
grew louder as a servant admitted me
into the house and guided me to a sun
ny room facing the fruit garden.
Suddenly the melody ceased, and a
young Bretonne girl appeared in the
doorway, courtesying to me and saying
in perfect English: How do you do
Mr.. Scarlett?'
The girl was Mademoiselle Sylvia
Elven, the marvelously clever actress
from the Odeon, the same young WON
en- who had played the Alsacienne at
La Trappe, as perfectly in voice and
costume as she now played the BE
tonne.
Il only came to renew an old and
deeply valued friendship. am going
back to my flax now. And, by-the-way,'
she said, languidly, lis there in your
intellectual circus company a young
gentleman whose name Is Eyre?"
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w. N. u, MILWAUKEE, NO. 11-1st4
Notes and Beams.

George AIDE, over cup of afternoon
tea with a group of cynical bachelors
at the Chicago Athletic club, said:
Married men declare that their
wives can't keep a secret, but these
men themselves are just as bad.
"a married man buttonholed me In
the billiard room an hour ago and told
me a frightful scandal.
Don't let this go any further,
George, he ended.
"'No, certainly not said l. But how
did you happen to hear it?'
"'Oh, the wife, Of course he an
swered. She's just like all women
can't keep a secret"
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the complete rose, he grasps it with
larger tongs, heats and hammers it
again, and finally puts the red-hot,
glowing mass in a wise.
"All the different parts Of the flower
he forges separately. He makes the
veins, or radical ribs of the leaves,
with the peen Of the hammer The
same tool, when it is slightly tilted,
and its blows directed to the outside
Of the leaf, makes the serrated edges
of the leaves. He first holds the piece
from which the leaf is made in the
tongs and heats and f1attens it on the
anvil. He forms the center rib in the
leaf by letting that part lap over the
edge of the anvil while he fattens the
rest Of the leaf.
Mr.. Gran works entirely from mem
DRY, and uses no model His skill in
metal working is said to be greater
than that of Van Boeckel himself"
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AGED Hare.

About 500 years ago there lived il
Agshelin, a little town in Asia Minor,
an imam, or village parson, the Khoja
Nasr-ed-Din Effendi. Harry Charles
Lukach says that one day camel
passed along the street in which the
Khoja lived, and one of the Khoja's
neighbors who had never seen camel
before ran TO ask him what this
strange beast might be.
Don't you know what this Isl" said
the Khoja, who also had never seen
a camel, but would not betray his igno
rance. THAT Is hare thousand
years old"
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FASHIONS R0SEBUDS OF IRON
New Jersey Blacksmith Probably the
Most SkiIlfuI Metal Worker in
the World.

Louis Van Boeckel, the blacksmith
of a small Belgian hamlet, has won
more than local fame by his skill in
fashioning flowers from metal by
means of the tools Of his trade. He
has an American rival, however, in the
person of James Gran, a blacksmith
whose smithy is in Plainfield, n. J.
1T is interesting to watch this
smith make rose," says writer in
the New York Sun. "He first fashions
the core, and then FORCES the smaller
petals. hammering the ends out fat.
Next, he takes a continuance shaped
like screw-driver and opens the out
er petals first. After hollow
ing out the petals, he grasps the iron
rosebud in pair of tongs, thrusts it
into the fire, and heats the stems of
the petals. He takes 1t out of the fire,
and hammers the stems into solid
mass
He forms the larger petals in the
same manner. and having thus made
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me without the slightest provocation
or warming
Fortunately l had training-chair in
my hand, on which Timour had just
been sitting, and l had time to thrust
it into his face. Down, Timour Melek!
Down! down! down." l said, steadily,
accompanying each word with blow
OF the whip across the nose.
The brute had only hurt himself
when he struck the chair, and now,
under the blows raining on his sensi-
tive nose, he doubtless remembered
similar episodes in his early training,
and shrank back, nearly deafening me
with his roars. | followed, Furnishing
him, and he fed towards the low iron
grating which separated the training
cage from the night quarters.
was not in perfect trim that morn
ing. Not that l felt nervous in the
least, nor had l any lack of self-con-
fidence, but l was not myself. The
lions had been aware Of It as soon as
set foot in their cage; and l knew it.
AS l emerged from the cage Speed
asked me whether l was hurt, and /
gasped out that l was not.
What went wrong?" he persisted.
Speed, it was one of those seconds
that come to us, when the faintest
shadow of indecision settles matters.
Engineers are subject to it at the
throttle, pilots at the helm. captains
in battle"
Men in love-" added Speed.
looked him over in establishment.
Whats the matter with your" he
asked, amused
Whats the matter with your" l de-
manded. eff you mean to intimate
that have fallen in love you are GER
tainly an astonishing asst"
Don't talk that way" he said, good
humoredly. II didn't dream Of such a
thing, or Of offending you, Scarlet"
l had an appointment to meet Rob,
eTt the Lizard at noon, and | was
rather curious to find out how much
his promises were worth when the
novelty Of his new gun had grown
stale.
The poacher was summing himself on
his doorsill when l came into view
over the black basalt rocks. To my
surprise, he touched his cap as | ep-
preached, and rose civilly, replying to
my greeting with brief, Salute,
m'sieu!"
You are prompt to the minute" l
said, pleasantly.
Come to the point, m'sieu," he said,
dryly. eve have struck palms"
Lizard" I said, give me your con-
fidence as l give you mine. Yester-
day, on a visit to Point Paradise, l
saw a man lying belly down in the
bracken but I didn't let him know /
saw him. have served in the police;
I think l recognize that man. He is
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incubation for Pneumonia

British medical journals contain es-
pecially interesting accounts of i'm
portant research work Sir Almroth
Wright, writing In the Lancet, dis
cusses the treatment of pneumonia by
incubation, and describes the remark
able reduction of mortality produced
by this means among the native
miners Of South Africa, who are par
ticularly susceptible. The death rate
among the inoculated was only half
that amongst the unfnoculated. He
suggests that prophylactic incubation
be repeated every four months.
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Couldn't Think.

There had been slight earthquake
which had been plainly felt by the in
habitants. Pat and Mike met the fol-
lowing morning.
"Pat," said Mike, solemnly, what
did ye think whin first tn ground be-
gan to trimble?"
Think" cried Mike, scornfully.
What mon that had tn use of his
legs to run and his loongs to roar
would waste his tonne thinkin'? Tell
he thot!"-Illustrated Sunday Maya
zine.
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Couldn't Helm IL.

A little girl had just been dressed
in clean clothes, and went out to play.
In a short time she came back COW
cred with dirt Her mother was much
put out, and asked her how she came
to be so dirty
We'll, mother" she said, ISN'T l
made of dirt?"
Yes, dear, but what has that to do
with it?"
well you know, mother, it will
keep working out"
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It is not thought that this invasion
will reach Egypt. The last time that
country was visited by locusts was
in 1904, when no fewer than 1,000,-
The work was carried out by over
100000 men and cost the government
close on $4,000, which was in all
conscience cheap radiance of the
plague seeing that 1t might quite cas-
lily have ruined the entire cotton crop,
not to mention crops Of other SUM
mer products.
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known in Belleville as Tric-Trac. He
came here, l believe, to see a man
called Buckhurst Can you find this
Tric-Trac for me? Do you, perhaps,
know him."
YES" said the Lizard, Il knew him
in prison"
How long has he been here in Para
dise?'
For two months"
HE is a filou-a town rat. He came
here to meet a man named Buckhurst."
Il have seen that man Buckhurst,
too. What is he doing here?" asked
the Lizard.
THAT is what l want you to find out
and help me to find Quit" l said. "Voi-
la! Now you know what l want Of
you. Think out plan which will per-
nit me to observe this Monsieur Trio
Trac at my leisure, without l myself
being observed"
THAT is easy he said. 81 take him
food today
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Unfair Examination.

Two suburban mothers met on the
train one day, and the topic of their
conversation was their daughters.
How did your daughter pass her ex-
animation for a position as teacheT?"
asked one. PASS" was the answer.
she didn't pass at all Maybe you
wouldn't believe it, but they asked
that girl about things that happened
long before she was born. '-Ltppin'
colts Magazine.
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en- in proportion to old men, and with
every decade above seventy the pro-
portion increases astonishingly. In
Berlin the number Of men between
seventy and eighty is 1888, while
the number of women is 25,204. For
Greater Berlin the figures are 20,049
and 1880 respectively. Of persons
between eighty and ninety women are
in an enormous majority. For Berlin
the figures are 2,036 men and 5,371
women and for Greater Berlin 1853
men and 1910 women. Berlin has a
large number of nonagenarians, and of
these three out Of every four are wom-
en-. In Greater Berlin there are 364
women who have passed their nineti-
eth birthday, but only III men.
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Tima-Savinu Barber,

"You wanta da hair cut?" asked the
barber in the rush shop. Den l Gala
my brother Petro."
is Petro batter at haircutting than
you?'' asked the new patron.
"Petro mucha better. He tella da
wonderful ghosta story an maka da
hair rise, an he no losa da time hold
in it up wild da comba."
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Easiest WaV.

Mrs. Newlywed-That table seems
awfully rickety. Why, it creaks If you
put your hand on it.
Shopkeeper-Well, that's all the
style, ma'am. It's built that way on
purpose You can't read an account
of fashionable dinner parties without
noticing how the tables groaned under
the weight of the delicacies. Better
take this one, ma'am.
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Lost Her Temper,

An old woman came over here to
my window the other day" said d
young man in an information bureau,
"and asked me what was good for an
aching tooth
Some wag must have put her up to
it"
Yes, and when I snapped: Have it
out, madam she proceeded to have it
out with me-"
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Many Old People In Berlin.

According to statistics just pub
lished Berlin appears to be an extraor-
dinarily healthfui place for the aged,
who live there in remarkably large
numbers. A feature of the figures is
the much greater number of old WON
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Path of the Lizard.

The Path Of the Lizard.
About nine o'clock the next morning
an incident occurred which might have
terminated my career in one way, and
did, ultimately, end it in another
l had been exercising my lions and
putting them through their PAGES, and
had noticed no unusual insubordina-
ton among them, when suddenly, Tim
our Melek, a big Algerian lion, flew at
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InsurmountabIe Barrier.

Friend-"We've come to see If we
can't persuade you and Bob to mako
it up even at this late hour" Fair
Prospective Simply i'm
possible-why, I've got the very
Quickest gown for the occasion"
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If [ should be asked to name the quality
most necessary to the best type of man,
1 should unhesitatingly choose optimism,
for with it are sure to be associated am
bition, enthusiasm and self-confidence.
LLOYD.
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Prudent Denial.

He-Let's have a tete-a-tete, dear.
She-Oh, I'm afraid Of these new
drinks.
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lowed Home.

Redd-Do you use a motor car or a
horse-drawn vehicle?
Greene-Some days / use both.
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Mean

How do you like my suit?"
Great Looks like 1t was made foI
You"
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HEMNHN
CGAlBINET

~ Z WISE, be cheerful bright
A% and gay. leave to the fool
his folly,
And let your motto be Cheer up YOU
rule of life, BE jolly
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-11-25

The authorities we're quite as bad as
the poems. They stole everything
they could get hold Of We furnished
the milk to the whole of Tuxpan and
they stole our cattle. 1t wasn't bit
of use to complain because the feel
ing was intense.
But we held on while the fight
waged. Today it would be Villa, to-
morrow it would be Carranza, but l
believe myself that Villa is the whit
est of the two of them.
Then suddenly we were told to get
out. Things had collected in differ
ent parts of Europe had to be left
behind. l was fortunate to get away
with one trunk. We took the boat to
Tampico and we reached Chicago
two weeks ago, stranded"
l suppose she saw how very sorry
l felt for her, because she smiled at
me bravely.
Things are bound to come all
right" she said. 81 have trusted in
God all of my life and 1 have found
He never fails. Somebody will give
me something to do until things are
Strengthened out for us. It is my son
that worry over most and he is
worrying over me. That is funny,
isn't it?'':.
A"Don't lose your courage said
to her you are surely not asking
much in asking home in return for
sewing. The barter is very fair one
and am positive there are plenty of
big-hearted women in Chicago who
will be more than glad to make that
exchange with you for the little while |
you may need it. - -
am positive there are. Apart
from the work she is able to do, she
is a little bit of sunbeam in. her won
derfuI optimism, in her splendid
courage.
And though have suppressed her
would ho 49,,