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would shade the trees too much, SO
corn is not to be considered. Onions
would answer, for they can be grown
on the same land year after year, but
this Is not good onion land. About the
best thing I can think of is bush beans,
and am going to make inquiries about
the market possibilities for two acres
OF beans.
I told last week Of the complications
which had arisen because Lady and
Lassie, our two cows, locked horns in
mortal combat whenever they were to-
gether and Lady's calf was a third
member of the party. When the calf
was not about, while apparently not on
friendly terms, the cows ignored each
others existence. The thing that wor
ried me was that l could not divide
the pasture into two parts, one for each
COW, in any way that would give rum
ming water in both pastures. While I
was fretting and stewing over the mat
ter Jane solved the problem in a man
ner so simple that I have been kick
ing myself ever since because I had
not thought of it. The solution con-
sisted in building about twenty five
feet of fence across one corner of the
garden Enclosure, on the side Of the
barn opposite the COW pasture. The
calf is to be kept in the pen thus
formed, out of sight of its mother,
until the maternal jealousy or anxiety
or whatever it is that prompts Lady
to make war on Lassie has been out
grown. In a month or two, probably,
Lady will care no more about her calf
than she would about a poor relation.
These surely be busy days for Jane.
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They kept their enterprise secret unt11
last night when they proudly tn
formed mo that they had placed their
ne-hundredth fish in the pond
The boys had been going fishing
every chance they got, and, though
Jane and 1 leased them about never
bringing any fish home. they refused
to be discouraged. "Just you wait"
was all We could get out Of them when
we demanded after each expedition
that they exhibit their fish. What they
were doing was to put their hsh in Tie
pond as fast as they caught them, and
then cheerfully endure ridioule on
"fisherman's luck" something even q
veteran fisherman DOESN'T enjoy,
Most of the fish they put IN the
pond, tho boys said. were sun perch,
but there was q considerable number
Of catfish and a few other kinds, In
Guiding what they believed to be haH
dozen small brook trout. All the
fish were small, the boys admitted, but
the pond and have babies by the thou
sand Returning from several Of their
trips. the boys brought to tho house
two or three fish. and after the secret
was revealed 1 inquired II that had
been merely as a blind Nothing of
the kind, l was Informed. The FISH
they brought to the house had been so
badly hurt in getting them of the
hook the boys couldn't keep them
alive. Inquiry developed that instead
of stringing the fish they caught. the
boys had carried a big pail and had
been as gentle with their fish as a
mother with a newborn BABY
E. S. M
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for ordinary farm activities; but farm
activities, just the same. must go 1or-
ward. Following the badly needed rain
which came Sunday, all the garden and
such of the corn as had not been
worked finally required cultivation.
and. for the first time this summer,
have been getting up and doing farm
work before breakfast. This probably
is the last rush period we shall have
this year, and I felt it was really nee
essary that l help Lee Gusts out with
the work.
1 have been cultivating the garden,
corn and potatoes with the horse, part
ly because 1 would rather do that than
milk the cows and do the other chores
which I have unloaded on to Lee, and
partly because / want to get as much
experience in different kinds of work
as possible. Every cultivation of
i, crop offers a different problem. For
instance, the final cultivation of corn
must be much shallower than the first
one, because the roots by the time OF
final cultivation have spread out until
they reach entirely across the rows
and it is injurious to the crop to cut
them. knew from reading that this
was true, but it takes actual expert
ence to learn just how the thing should
be done.
Still another reason why I have been
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to get away with II. Whether the fault
lay in the number OF eggs or with the
eggs themselves, we don't know. But
when Matching day came the hen
brought off one solitary chick.
1 wanted Jane to let me wiring its
little neck. rather than have the bother
of looking after a hen with a lone
broodling. but she Indignantly refused
to give her assent. So the hen and her
one chick have been trailing around the
yard with more numerous families.
Whether it Is jealousy of hens which
have done more to perpetuate the spe-
cies or the fussy solicitude most moth
ers have when there is but a single
child in the family. this particular hen
is the most Quarrelsome and ill-tem
fight the other hens at the drop of the
hat, or even when the hat doesn't drop.
and the other day she not only at
tackled but she routed Jane, for no
other reason than that Jane had tried
to pet her chicken.
Boys Stock Fish Pond.
Ever since We built the damn fact.
long before we started work on 1t
we have planned to stock the pond
with fish. but for some reason or
another I never got around to doing
it. had planned to stock It with
plymouth bass. which breed and do
we'll in ponds, and once l did write a
letter to the fish commission. but 1t
was at the wrong time of year The
boys, tired of waiting on me to act,
took the matter into their own hands.
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Victim Of Strychnine Poisoning.

I guessed 1t then. and after describ-
ing his symptoms to those who have
had more experience with dogs. I was
assured that he had been poisoned
with strychnine. He must have gotten
the dose near home. they told me. for
dog cannot travel far when he has
swallowed enough strychnine to cause
his death. j am reluctant to think that
any of our neighbors, all of whom have
expressed liking and admiration for
Laddie. deliberately poisoned him. 1
wouldn't like to think any one we
knew, any one we had received in our
home, had heart SO like a buzzard's.
Yet it is difficult to reach any other
conclusion. l have inquired, I think, of
every one who lives within a mile of
US. and wherever / have inquired sor-
row and indignation have been pro-
fessed. If the person who put out the
poison did not intend it for Laddie he
ought to be man enough to come for
ward and say so. 1t would at least
clear away the suspicion that now nee
essarily hangs over an entire neighbour
hood, and it would be some satisfac-
ton to be assured that no one with
whom we perhaps come into daily con-
tact is willfully guilty of so cowardly
and cruel a murder.
would not like to have been the
p foLsa of Laddie and have been
when 1 went in and told her the doe
was dead. 1 took her in my arms and
told her as gently and CONSIDERABLY az
l. could, but it is hard to comfort a
little child that is hurt so grievously.
Something told me it would be vain
to try to heal the wound with promise
OF another pet, so 1 simply held her
close until the first violence of her
grlef mad spent itself in sobbing.
The news of Laddies death spread
rapidly that morning and children who
had known and loved the dog came
focking to the barn, like mourners
into house of death, to pay the trib-
ute of their respect. Bud" Brown.
so much the boy that he always pro.
fesses scorn for anything that smacks
of sentiment, brought a big bunch of
flowers and stayed to help Jim and Ned
dig grave, which they lined and gar
landed with blossoms. Little Bettina
Lewis, about Margery's age, and the
earliest of her friends in the country,
also brought flowers, and with their
arms about each other the two chill
dren mingled their tears in a common
sorrow.
We buried Laddie that evening. Jim
and Ned and Bud Brown and I, and
I didn't feel at all that I was engaged
in business too childish for a man
when 1 helped sod the grave and plant
the flowers which Jane and Margery
are to keep blooming. The children
thought there should be a headstone.
SO / fashioned one from a piece of
smooth board. We enameled it white
and with what skill 1 had lettered the
inscription:
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and between her sobs called him en-
dearing names. and begged that he
would tell her what was wrong. Jane
and Ned were crying. too, and Jim was
struggling to keep back the tears.
know there was a lump in my own
throat that made it difficult to talk.
/ told Jane to get Margery away, and
she was carried wailing to the house.
I think the child knew the minute she
saw her playfellow that he was beyond
aid. Children sometimes have under
standing that is not vouchsafed their
elders, and the love she had for Lad
die was a spur to her intuition. The
dog, too, ] think, knew it was the final
parting. A world of affection and devo-
ton was expressed in the way he laid
his head in her lap.
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of limas. but Of green pods and yellow
WAKES, is simply enormous. It has been
a favorable season, and used fertilizer
literally, but the chief reason for the
tremendous yield, am convinced, Is
the crimson clover which I plowed un-
der this spring. All the beans I grow
are of the bush variety. except that I
planted two dozen hills OF a pole bean
known as the Kentucky Wonder. And
I want to say that 1t fully deserves the
name. The pods grow from six to eight
inches long and the vines are so heav-
lily loaded that It looks as II the poles
would break down under their weight.
My purpose in planting the Kentucky
Wonders was to have them for shell
beans, to be eaten when about half
ripe, but the rest Of the crop is SO
heavy that an abundance of the bush
beans are bound to reach the SHELF
stage, so TIL let the Kentucky Wonders
ripen and we'll have them for baking
next winter. We are very fond Of baked
beans and eat lot of them. but it
never had seemed that it would pay to
grow them in my own garden. The
Kentucky Wonders make me wonder II
Battles for Lone Chick.
The case Of Lady is not the only
one of maternal pugnacity we have at
Sunny Knoll. Jane set hen. a whop-
ping great big hen, on eighteen eggs.
That Is pretty large contract to give
a biddy, but this, you must remember.
was an unusually large hen, and in
warm weather it seemed that she ought
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There hasn't been much heart for ordi-
nary farm activities.
giving Lee before-breakfast help is
that 1 want him to have as much time
as possible to work at clearing out our
new land. I am anxious to have two
acres cleared and ready to be plowed
by the first of October, the two acres
having been selected as the site of our
future orchard
Plans Commercial Orchard"
I am going to put one acre in ap-
pies and the other in pears, peaches,
siderable fruit on the place when we
bought it, and last year I put out 4
few trees near the house. besides grapes
and other small fruits. These will give
us all the fruit. probably, we will need
for our own use, the new planting be-
ing intended as Commercial orchard"
II, when the trees coma to bearing
Jane is still in the jelly making and
preserving business, she will use what
ever of the fruit she needs for that
purpose, and the surplus will be sold
The new orchard is to be inclosed
with f1ve-foot woven-wire poultry
fence. and beginning next spring it is
to be used as a range for growing
chickens. I can't get rid of some UNI
edSlHeSS over the prospect OF having
the chickens so far from the house. but
it has been five years or more since
there has been any wholesale chicken
stealing in this neighborhood, and I
suppose we have got to take some
chances. The chickens, I reckon, would
be in no more danger than the fruit.
which we expect to grow in the or
chard.
While we are waiting for the or
chard to come into bearing, the space
between the trees will have to be
utilized for growing crops, and ! am
seeking information now as to what
will be the best crop to grow. keeping
in mind the fact that the orchard is to
be also a chicken run. The crop will
have to be one which the chickens will
not destroy. Small fruits, strawber-
rfes and raspberries are very frequent
ly grown between the rows of trees in
young orchards, but they would not
answer our purposes, for we would
want chickens in the orchard at the
time the fruit was ripening.
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TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being the Experiences Of Gov
eminent Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost Of
Living.

feel. today as If I wanted to issue
an edict that never again shall their
be a pet animal-nor an animal petted
at Sunny Knoll. The pleasure and
happiness they bring is not sufficient
to compensate for the sorrow when
disaster overtakes them.
This mournful state of mind is due
to the fact that some one poisoned
Margery's collie dog. I was at break
fast Wednesday morning when Ned
came bursting into the house.
Come quick" he exclaimed. Some
things the matter with Laddie. He's
lying round back of the barn and acts
like he was dying"
The breakfast table was deserted at
once and we all went to see, though 1
didn't more than half believe it was
anything serious. We had reared him
from a puppy to a full grown dog and
1 had never known him to be sick.
Dogs as a rule, are not subject to
sudden severe illnesses and he had
seemed all right the night before. 1t
never had occurred to me that he had
been poisoned.
Mute Appeal for Help.
We found him, as Ned had said. back
of the barn. He was lying on his
side and his legs were stretched out
and seemed to be stiffened. Every
minute or so there would come over
him a spell of shivering, as if he had
commissions. He partly raised his head
and looked at us with appealing eyes,
and tried to get up, but the effort was
I patted his head he licked my hand
and tied to get up, but the effort was
too much. He fell back and, plainly
a dogs can speak. asked if /
could not do something to relieve his
suffering.
Margery threw herself down beside
Laddie, put her arms about his neck,
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Other Crop Possibilities.

Potatoes would answer all right. but
potatoes cannot be grown successfully
on the same ground year after year, SO
there would have to be something to
alternate with them. Even potatoes,
where 1t is necessary to use poison to
kill bugs. are rather risky in a chicken
run. The height to which corn grows
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-18
Margery's Constant Playmate.

Ever since the day 'Laddie came to
Sunny Knoll. more than year ago. he
and Margery had been inseparable
playmates and companions. Her affec-
tion for other animals on the place has
blown hot and cold, but Laddie never
had rival worthy of the name. AL
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ways he was waiting for her when she
got up in the morning, and whenever
he coull get in the house of an evening
he would curl up beside her bed and
want to sleep there. When Margery
was out at play Jane never felt I'M
easy as to her whereab bouts, because she
knew Laddie was always with her,
and she had supreme confidence in his
courage and ability to protect the child
from harm.
Laddie never offered to modest stran-
gers who came to the house, but If
they put hands on Margery to caress
her or were too near her when no
other members of the family were
about. he would show his anxiety by
walking around and half whining his
protest. He had intelligence enough
to know there was no real danger. but
had real danger appeared / am con-
WINGED that, like the noble animal he
was. he would have laid down his life
in her defense.
Not knowing what was the matter
with the dog I knew of nothing l
could do to relieve him. I gathered
him up in my arms, heavy as he was,
and carried him to the barn, where we
made him a bed of clean straw. When
1 picked him up he was seized with a
more violent CONFUSION than he had
yet had and his legs had become SO
stiff they struck straight out. 1 realized.
then. for the first time, that the poor
fellow was desperately sick. We made
him as comfortable as we could and
warm milk, not knowing what else to
offer him. But before Jim returned
Laddie gave one long, weary sigh and
died
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Ask anyone who knows motors

Ask anyone who knows motors
what type of motor delivers the most power
and he will Immediately say The Valve-in-
head type Ask him what Independent motor
is the best built, and the most dependable, and
he will ay-*'Continental." Ask him what
point and he will very likely say-'Pathfnder. Ask
him how many cylinders motor should possess to insure
the utmost smoothness, power and reliability, and he
will not hesitate cylinders will be his verdict
always
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05
DU POINT INCORPORATES
$24O,0OO,0OO COMPANY
Big Powder and Munition Manufac-
turing Concern Expands Its
Capital Stock.

WILMINGTON. Del. September A.
Application for a charter for the pro-
posed reorganization of the du Point
Powder Company was filed today at
Dover. The capitalization of the new
concern is $24o.OoO.0o0, and its name is
the E. I. du Pont De Nemours & Co.
The purposes assigned in the incor-
poration papers are to deal in and with
powder, dynamite and other explosives
OF high nature; also to manufacture
munitions of war and to erect factories
mills, ETC., for the production of DOW
der.
The incorporators include Pierre s.
du Pont. John ]. Raskob and John p
Laffey. all Of Delaware.
The capital stock Is to be divided
Into 100000 shares at a par value OF
500 each. OF the stock, 1.500, 900 are to
be non-voting, and 100000 shares vot-
Ing debenture stock. Eight hundred
thousand shares are to be common
stock.
Other Interpretations.
Other charters filed here today in
cluded the following: American Arms
Corporation. Brooklyn, N. Y, capital
0.000.000; war munitions; incorpora-
tors, Tracy s. Buckingham. Allen E
Moore and John ]. Janson, all of Brook
lyn.
Union Arms and Ordnance Corpora
ton of Wilmington: capital $5,00O.000;
munitions; incorporators, J. H Nixon
Clarence J. Jacobs and Harry w. Davis
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THANKS To- CITY P. o. FORCE.
Retiring Postmaster Grateful for
Support During His Official Term.

The thanks Of the former city post
master, Otto Praeger. to the force of the
Washington city post office for their con-
scientious support is contained In a fare
we'll printed in Postol Information, the
weekly information sheet published for
the officers and other employees Of the
Washington post Office.
I'm severing competition with the city
post Office service" says the statement,
II desire to express my sincerest thanks
to the personnel of the office for its con-
scientious support at all times. especially
during the successive periods Of reorgani-
cation Of the Office on a rational business
basis. Particularly do l want to extend
my thanks to the supervising officials
without whose loyal and intelligent sup
port the results accomplished in the last
seventeen months in this Office would
have been impossible.
Il take leave from you with the pleasant
feeling that the same faithful endeavor
given by all the officials and employees
under my administration will be accorded
to my SUCCESSOR"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05
NAVY TO BE PAJAMALESS.
Bluejackets Did Not Appreciate Ell
fort to Supply Sleeping Garments.

Patamas have been rejected by Uncle
Sans bluejackets. About two years
ago orders were issued that pa3amas
should be provided for the enlisted
men of the navy and it was assumed
that article of wearing apparel would
become very popular among the blue
Jackets Something like 100000 pairs
were purchased.
Recent Investigation shows, however;
that between 10000 and 10000 suits of
pajamas are on hand. with little pros
pect of their being drawn by the
sailors 1t Is stated that most Of the
sailors who drew patamas used them
as underwear and to work in while
coaling. AS a result an order has been
issued to strike pajamas from the list
Of the enlisted mans wearing apparel.
and the stock on hand. between 10000
and 10000 units. VIII be offered for
sale to the highest bidder.
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ACCUSED OF Staying WIFE.
Harry Frosch Placed Behind Prison
Bars at Covington, La.

Harry Frosch was placed in the parish
prison here today charged with the
murder at Vaudeville of his wife,
twenty years old. and mother of a
four-week-old baby. Frosch's arrest
followed the verdict of the coroner's
jury at Vaudeville that the woman's
death last Thursday was due to peri .
tonitis from wounds inflicted by the
husband.
At the inquest testimony was given
that a few days before the woman
died Frosch beat her and kicked her
in the stomach and back. A physi-
clan testified these alleged injuries
caused her death.
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READY FOR HOMESTEAD ENTRY
Farms on Uncompahgre Valley 1rri
cation Project May Be Taken Up.

The Interior Department announced
today that water is now available and
homestead entry may be made. under
the reclamation law, on 1877 farms of
eighty irrigable acres on the Uncom-
pahgre valley irrigation project in
Colorado. The entire project comprises
100000 acres.
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New Craft Heavily Armored
and Travels at Slow
Speed.
ALLIES PLAN PLANES
TO MEET AIR MONSTER
Great Battle in the Clouds Now
Looked Upon as a Strong Prob
ability by Experts.
BY HERBERT COREY.
Copyright, 1851

Nppyfisbt, I"ho-'
PARIS. August s-The dreadnaught
of the upper ether is In being. The
dreams of kipling and Wells and other
unregarded prophets are being proven
true. Long before the soldiers stop
killing one another in the ironical
Christmas truce of 1915 fleets of arm
ored monsters may be fighting for the
supremacy of the air. There are mill
tary experts who hold that the mastery
of the earth may be thus decided. 1t
is worth remembering that most mill
tary experts are pessimists They like
to cry wolf in journalistic barrel.
"The Germans have built an arm
ored plane that can drive any other
plane now in existence out of the air.
said one such expert.
If that is the case, such a plane can
lombard railroads, cut off lines of COM
munication. tear magazines, supply
depots and headquarters to pieces and
wake towns near the war zone quite
Shinha bita BILE for civilians. The army
S1provided with such machines would
York in utter blindness of its enemy's
.Sfovements. The enemy would know
~Ach least movement it made.
The new German plane, said a French
officer. SIS very large and is so heavily
hrmored as to be able to defy the
shrapnel tossing anti-aircraft gun of
today. 1t will carry from three to five
then and at least one if not two ma
chine guns. 1t will take on board fuel
enough to permit it to keep the air for
twenty hours, and cargo of the big
T. N T bombs sufficient to blow a
small town to pieces. Its weakness will
BE in its low speed. On the other hand,
It will be absolutely stable and as safe
IS a freight lorry to ride in. A fleet
ofmachines of this sort might decide
campaign"