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Evening star., 1915-12-01
Markets Alternating Action.

Following quiet opening. at a little
above Tuesdays closing, there was a
general advance in the industrials, fol-
lowed by loss of the better part of
the gain, and from the middle of the
second hour of the session it was slow,
with changes of importance only in
specialties.
be stated that Reading. one of the old
favorites, did not show on the ticker
during the early part of the session,
while other rails were decidedly dull.
Beet Sugar, Sugar. Porto Rico and
Cuban American Sugar all made gains
of l to points, Porto Rico sweetness
making the outside advance.
Diamond Match, Mercantile Marine
and Can were weaklings, the two for
mer of profit taking. and the last
named on failure of the directors to
take any action on payments of de-
ferred dividends on the preferred
shares.
Goodrich shares were firmer and
Crucible steel held fractional advance
well into the afternoon.
Baldwin Locomotive advanced to
116A, a IN point gain, but reacted u
point. Maxwell Motors scored " point
advance, Sloss-Sheffield gained a point
and Texas Oil 2h, while the minor oils
were rather soft.
New High and Dividends.
Industrial Alcohol made new high
at 129A. APPOINT betterment, but did
not hold it.
Union Pacific was ex-dividend points
and regained % of the dividend
New Haven was erratic, opening off
l point, recovering the decline and a
fraction more and then going off 12 net
American Tobacco Company, dividend
of y on the first preferred; American
Smelters. dividends " on A and b pre-
ferred, and Interboro dividend for the
quarter of per cent were announced.
George w. Helm Company declared an
extra per cent dividend on common
stock in addition to the regular 2h per
cent quarterly. and / y per cent on the
preferred stock
In the early hours of the afternoon
the market was decidedly slow and at
the same time trending toward lower
figures.
Reading did not show on the ticker
until 1890 pm, when It opened for
the day at 81A.
Up to o'clock the total sales of the
session were but $4,000 shares. The
market closed dull and easier.
Most of the gains of the day were
wholly or partially lost, but there were
no important declines other than as
noted above.
Evening star., 1915-12-01
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, December Wheat
snot No. Manitoba, lis 100: No. 2,
lis Sd; No 8, lis cd: No. hard winter,
new, lis Sd; No. 2 hard winter. old.
12s cd.
Corn-Spot, La Plata, ss Sd.
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By BEATRICE CRIMSHAW
.. illustration BY Harvey 7. Dunn

at is" said Red Bob. as that black
donkey of yours able to talk to them"
"Bo, can you talk along this fellow?'
I asked, pulling him away from what
looked like rather rough usage on the part
of the natives.
"'Fore God, Master, no savvy him
talk" declared Bo. the whites of his eyes
rolling with fear. Altogether no savvy
him; he no my people. This fellow man
he plenty bad man. Me too much fright
along him.
TT had grown quite dark by now. but the
= cooking fires that had been lit all over
the village showed the place clearly
yams and sweet potatoes under hot stones.
There We're great piles of bananas heaped
together here and there, and some kind
of mess was being concocted in wooden
bowls. The amount of food that had been
collected, the colored leaves, flowers, and
feathers worn in the heads of the men,
and especially the number of them gath
cred together, seemed to point to public
feast.
"Can we get away?' asked Isola of
Gore.
She kept her head and her courage
wonderfully; but | felt her hand-her
poor little roughened, sunburned hand
steal into mine and stay there.
Red Bob, as calm as if he had been on
the deck of the Empress Of Singapore in
Liverpool docks stood rolling cigarette
and looking about him.
"If they don't seem likely to show fight,
think we can" he said. "Corbet, have
you match left? Thanks. We can't at
tempt to fight our way out. Two revolt
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vers with four spare cartridges against
two hundred bows and spears is not i'm
possible odds in daylight with clear get
away. In the dark, surrounded by bush
you don't know, it's insanity. No, our
game for the present is peace. Keep
edging toward the entrance talking as
we GO"
We did as he directed. We were stand
ing some fifty yards from the rock STAIR
case that led up into the town. Step by
step we strolled toward it, stopping alto
gether now and then, talking as we went,
and looking at the preparations for the
feast and the dance with an interest that
l, at any rate, certainly did not feel. But,
before we had covered half the distance,
a party of young fighting-men, armed
with bows taller than themselves, had
strolled between us and the opening
MAY be a chance; keep going" said
Gore.
WE edged along till we We're close to the
band of warriors, who looked very ugly
when you came near them, and must
say it-smelt, like Kiplings camel "most
awful VILE" Quietly and politely, we
tried to press through their ranks. At
least, Gore and did, keeping Isola behind
us. | could feel her trembling, but she
did not say word.
The warriors did not move. At first
they seemed unaware that we were trying
to get through; they shifted and shuffled
about in such way as to block us, and
yet it all seemed to be done by accident.
Then Gore took ono IF tham LIGHTLY nv
the arm, and tried to press him aside. In
stantly. as if that had been signal, the
whole body of them-some forty or fifty
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Too young to go to the night court" He
released her.
She pulled back, holding her wrists.
She seemed dazed. Her painting breath
sounded animal-like in the semi-darkness.
She began to back toward the door.
Don't go like that, he said. Straight
en- up. I'm not going to have you ar
rested. What's the matter? What are you
crying about? Did hurt your wrists?"
"Yep. Yer did," Her voice was gruff.
wait minute. I'll bandage them.
Wait-you poor little devil" His voice
was humane. He reached out and
snapped on the electric light.
The girl stood hunched down on one
hip. Her unkempt hair hung dankly
about her face. Her eyes were down and
her mouth was sullenly contorted. She
shot an underhand glance about the COM
Portable room.
YOUNG Wilkins stepped into his labo-
ratory for lint and healing lotion. He
as he came back to her. and kicked it out
of his way.
Head hanging, she held out her wrists.
They were red and blue.
"Great Scott" he said. "Did 1 do
that? Wait; I'll get some warm water"
She kept her arms out, like brute
thing capable only of sensing obedience.
He brought warm water and absorbent
cotton, washed the wrists, and laid cool,
lotion-soaked cloths over them, then
bound them tight with strips of lint.
"There, he said, Strengthening. "Does
that help any?"' He looked down at her.
She nodded, and-between the matted
brown locks, over one ear, protruded
wisp of bright yellow hair. 1t bobbed as
she kept on nodding. --.--.
Young Wilkins swallowed. 4You-
may-go," he said slowly.
She gave cultural sound in her throat
and swooped on her dirty felt hat. At
the door she turned
. She yanked off the brown wig, and
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The Girl of the Nutmeg Isle

TINCE they did not seem to be doing
- any harm to our carrier beyond
pinching him to see how much fat
~ he had, left him to himself for the
present, and joined Red Bob and Isola,
who were standing together in the middle
of the village.
"Can we get quietly away, do you
think" l asked Red Bob.
"We'll try" he said, with cheerful
countenance.
looked round the open space, dotted
with huts, that seemed to constitute the
village. 1t was small enough, in all con-
SCIENCE do not think there We're twenty
houses scattered about the clearing: but
l saw, at rough guess, that there must
be nearly two hundred men present, with
thirty or forty women. Plainly, we had
intruded on some sort of gathering: a
savage "at home, including all the "peo-
pie who belonged in the immediate
neighborhood.
Ugly black women, shockingly dirty.
and clothed only in ragged fringe of
leaves, were walking about. with babies
like monkeys held in their arms or slung
on their backs in net Men, short, hairy
and sturdy, with eyes sunk under deep
caves of heavy brow. and strange, half
fierce expression which was to know as
the typical look of the cannibal, stood in
herded groups like wild animals, and
stared ceaselessly.
A few in the crowd about us fingered
their long ironwood spears and kept their
hands set tight on their great bows
weapons such as those the English fought
with at Crecy and Agincourt, and to the
full as deadly.
"Don't you mind them" said to
Isola, taking my place at her side. "You
need never be uneasy about natives as
long as their women are kept in sight.
That's so, isn't it?"
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, drew deep sigh. His mouth quirked,
and he smiled.
"There you are!" said the old doctor
triumphantly. "Rot, with your pessi-
mistic glooming! Take your heart out
and give it dose of fresh air. Dress it
in its best and send it accounting! Let the
Wilkins tone down the Madden, and
the Madden tone up the Wilkins. No
better combination than red blood and
blue"
The old doctor caught young Wilkins
by the shoulders and looked at him affec-
tionately.
Young Wilkins Strengthened, and the
glow slowly spread over his face.
1T was after midnight when the young
doctor left the old one. He ran buoy
antly down the steps and walked in
whistling mood toward his bachelor apart
ment on Park Avenue. AS his key clicked
in the door, he sang to himself He closed
the door and felt along the wall for the
electric button, punched it, and-looked
into the muzzle of revolver.
A drawer of the center table in young
Wilkins living-room was open; the desk
drawers were pulled out. Heaped up in
the middle of black silk handkerchief
spread on the floor were his cuff-buttons,
scarf-pins, rings, and watches
The revolver covering young Wilkins
was in small grimy hand The taut
wrist and arm protruded from ragged
black cloth sleeve-a livid scar scared
the forearm. The body belonging to the
arm was rat like draSSad in rustv hIool
The face, girls, was CHASTITY, ferocious,
distorted; ravenous mouth lowering
dark brows, yellowish skin; the hair, I'M
der mans felt hat, showed in murky
knot.
Young Wilkins finger was still on the
electric button. He punched again, and
in the dark room shot down behind
high-backed chair.
The revolver switched to the chair.
The criminal intruder was a black blotch
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bright fluff fell to her shoulders, framing
her smudged, wonderfully made-up face
in pure gold. Elsie Madderns childish
laughter echoed through his rooms. Il
told them you had hearth" she trilled.
"Oh!" She Rugged herself. 4I've found
out" Her eyes, blackened and Swallowed
by grease-paint, became clearly her own.
She made a sublime gesture.
ACROSS the table, piled with lint and
healing paraphernalia, young Will
kins looked deep at the Madden fiirt, at
the black rusty rags, the angelic top-knot,
the pure mouth, the spoiled chin-the
eyes.
"Little tike!' said young Wilkins bro
kenly.
Elsie jumped. Il must 20 home now,
she said, twisting her hair up under her
hat. any mother will be missing me-"
all take you home," he said.
@Like this?" she inquired, pointing two
fingers at her rags.
"Yes,' said young Wilkins.
"Oh!" she gurgled. @But you won't
have to, because my coat is out on your
fire-escape, and Jimmie is waiting around
the corner with my car"
"Did you honestly climb up?" he asked,
opening window.
"Uh-huh. l was crook. I thought
up the test myself. was going to let
you send me to the station house-but l
knew you Wouldn't"
He brought her coat and she slipped
into it, her shining face lifted to his.
IF her eyes had not already convinced
him of her integrity, her lips would
have routed the last doubt-her kiss was
SO simple. She slipped her hand in his.
Lets 60 home and tell Lonesome
Lassie, she suggested.
Young Wilkins kissed Elsie again.
They went from his apartment and down
the long corridor to the elevator. They
waited for it hand in hand, like happy
children. -"+ .-
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for September 26, 1918

in the gloom. Young Wilkins measured
the distance between. He saw her free
hand grope down for the black handker-
chief containing her spoils. She taloned
the four corners and drew them together.
With the black silk lump in one hand and
the other holding at bay the man behind
the high-backed chair, the girl crook be-
gan to move stealthily forward. Around
the center table, between the Morris chair
and the smoking-stand, across the rug,
the creeping figure came. The high
backed chair stood between the thief and
the door. With each step, the crouching
body turned, keeping young Wilkins
covered.
AS the hand carrying the loot fumbled
for the door knob, young Wilkins, within
reach of her now, caught simultaneously
her ankle and wrist. 1t was childs play
to wrench the weapon from her stiffened
hand.
The girl dropped the jewelry and strug-
gled madly for the door.
Young Wilkins, hand like circlet of
steel about her ankle, skidded the revolt
yer across the floor. "I've got you'll" he
said.
She strained again to reach the door,
and to get her foot out of the trap.
you're caught he said grimly.
She smothered squeak with her free
hand. "Don't cop mel" she painted
hoarsely. "Lemme go!'
"How did you get in here?" he de-
manded.
"Up de fire-escape, huskily. "Lemme
go!"
what will you do if l let you go?
Steal the rest of the night?"
"Lemme go!"
Young Wilkins got hold of her wrists
and handcuffed them with one of his
hands. He stood up. The telephone was
within reach of his free arm.
She bit at his hand-she struggled.
The felt hat dropped off.
"Don't do that he said, "you pitiful
little thing! You're young, aren't you?
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-massed themselves in front of the open-
ing, thumped the ends of their great bows
on the ground, and sent forth one loud
shout.
We were prisoners.
QUIETLY, without any appearance of
hurry, Red Bob drew us back toward
the center of the square. kept tight hold
of Isola. She put her head close to mine
for a moment, and whispered to me:
Paul, will you shoot me before you die
yourself? Will you promise?"
Il promise, answered. "But it won't
be necessary; mono of us are going to die. y
She was silent.
Bluff it out till daylight; that's our
best plan," said Gore cheerily. @See me
get some supper out of those fellows.
Now, don't you worry, little girl; know
the brutes, and they've no mischief in
their heads at this minute. Look at the
women and children. They're keeping
us for some reason of their own. Blessed
if know what it is at this minute, but I'll
find out know enough sign language
to do that. Here, you Paul, kick that
beggar till he stops howling,-it isn't
healthy for any of us,-and look after
your girl till see the chief. That's the
fellow over there, / reckon"
He strobe across the square, and walked
in among the biggest group of savages,
crowd Of men more highly painted and
decorated than the rest, who had massed
themselves about one tallish, elderly man.
Cores air of confidence seemed to impress
them, and they drew aside to let him pass
] saw him take the handkerchief from his
neck-a dirty rag enough, but red in
color, and color goes long way with
these matters-and present it to the chief
with the air of one offering noble gift.
The elderly man took it, smelt it, touched
it with his tongue, and then twisted it
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NINCE they did not seem to be doing
- any harm to our carrier beyond
pinching him to see how much fat
~ he had, left him to himself for the
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I'd Too young to 60 to the night court" He /
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-12-31
Live at Home.

The prosperity of community is
reflected in its farms. In general the
thrift of its people is indexed in its
grocery stores. 1t does not take a
man with strong imagination to pic
ture the rural scene reflected by the
corner store, because the store res
ponds to the community's demands.
Shelves upon shelves of canned goods
indicate slip-shod rural life. One
can see the run down farms, the de-
lapidated buildings and weedy fence
rows.
Except in rare cases where the ma
terials for home consumption cannot
he raised. the farmer should apollo
gize when he buys can of food prod
ucts. His purchase Is reflection up
on him and his community. If more
farm products were preserved for
home consumption there would be less
reason to fear misbranded, impure or
spoiled goods. When the farmer pre-
serves his own products he knows
what he has. There can be no uncer-
tainty as to purity, quality or age.
These factors alone are sufficient to
induce the practice, without the addi-
tional saving of money.
The University of Florida Exten-
sion Division is urging home produc-
ton for the foregoing reasons. There
is hardly a week, in this favored
state, when some farm product cannot
be preserved for future consumption:
News Service.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-12-31
Prepare For Lining Acid Soils.

There are a great many Florida
soils which need lime. The general
farmer will have no pressing work to
do during the winter and he could pre-
pare to apply lime on such of his
fields as need it. 1t is important to
apply the lime before the crop is
planted. 1t may be spread on the
land before spring plowing is done and
| it will become thoroughly incorporat~
ed in the soil during preparation.
According to F. M. Rast, in charge
of the soils department of the Univer-
sity of Florida College of Agriculture,
it is not wise to apply lime to soils in
discriminatory. Determine first wheth-
er they need it. Lime is known to
hasten the destruction of organic mat
ter. This is especially true of Flori-
da where the winters are scarcely cold
enough to stop the action of soil bac-
terra. Ground limestone is the safest
form and is more lasting than others.
There is no satisfactory method of
determining in the field the amount
of acidity. The litmus test will give
some idea if the soil is badly in need
of lime. Procure from drug store
blue litmus paper. There are two
kinds. red and blue. The blue is used
to indicate acid. Mr.. Rast describes
the method as follows; Put the paper
in small bottle so that it will not
come in contact with water or sweat
from the hands. 1t is best to handle
the paper with tongs or tweezers.
Open the soil with long kitchen
knife, insert the strip of paper, and
pack the earth around it tightly. At
ter few minutes take the paper out
and examine it. If the litmus paper
has turned red the land is acid, the
greater the reddening the greater the
acidity. -
If the soil is not moist little may
be moistened with distilled or neu-
trail water and the test made with that
The litmus may be placed on glass
and the soil plastered over it. This
will enable one to watch the progress
of the change. 1t might be well to
test the water with the paper because
if it is acid there is no use in using
it to wet the soil. Test the field in
several places. Then apply lime in
accordance with the redness of the pa
per. Be careful not to apply too
much. More lime can be added but
wears are required to incorporate or
ganic matter. = Agricultural News
Service.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-12-31

We do not know of any woman bu
that cussed portrait is always sitting
there. And | do believe the thins
lives"
Hastings laughed little. "It il
purely fanciful," he said, mot really
portrait. And, of course, it is alb
surd to think of woman in the mat
! ter. l suppose that / have not beer
quite well. Let us have drink, be.
cause it's New Year"
I'll be hanged if / will, Hastings
/ believe you have been drinking toe
much. have got to go now. l just
turned in for minute. But do not
forget what have said"
81 will not forget, Stanton; and
thanks for your interest. We cannot
sometimes explain ourselves to our
selves"
After Stanton had gone he took out
his watch. 1t was five o'clock, and
she was to be married at nine.
would sit in the rocker and go to sleep.
He would waken probably about
twelve and know that it was all over.
He would have sandwich first and
put the decanter Of claret beside him.
Claret always had tendency to make
him sleep, particularly if he put lit
tie sugar in it. He did these things,
but it took him hours to browse off,
and only after he had turned the por-
trait on the easel.
It seemed but a minute had passed
when he awoke. Of course he knew
that he was not awake, that he was
dreaming. Someone was weeping
softly on his shoulder, caressing his
hair. Only one woman on earth had
that aroma of person. If anywhere
in the world he found one of her hairs
and touched his cheek with it he would
have known to whom it belonged.
Then her eyes, penitent and wet with
tears, came around, slowly meeting
his. With start he realized that he
was awake. He held her, looking at
her as something to marvel at. She
explained it all in a whispered
breath. 81 could not do it, Paul." she
said. "I ran away from them, from
them all. Will you-will you marry
ine now, dear-tonight,"
He looked and saw that she wore
wedding gown.
"There never was minute when |
would not" he replied.-San Francis
co Argonaut.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-12-31
AN ESSAY ON
moo YEARS.
Little Eddie Gives His Rea-
sons for the Annual
Holiday and It's Gel
ebratiOn.

Moo Yeers is the time when a man
takes off enuff time ter thipk what a
fine feller he mite be if he was only
littul different. Then he makes a
lot of resolusuns and stands in front
of the mirror to see if there is halo
arownd his he'd. The resolushuns
peepul make are like the toys you buy
in the ten sent stoar; they don't last
long.
Another objekt of Moo Years il to
Civ the wine sellers and the cellars
a chanct ter celebrate. On Moo
Yeer's eve everybuddy goes down.
town, where the lites are britest, and
sit arownd tabuls to waite for the
|yeer to brake in. When the clscks
get to the rite place and al the wait
ers have been pade, the yeer comes
in, and then everybuddy stands up
and hollers or else blows horns. Why
peepul should do this / don't kno, un-
less it is that they don't want the
year to think it has slipped in with
owt ennybuddy knowing it. The feel
ing on the moarning aftur Moo Years
is responsible for menny of the reso-
lushuns. Pa sez that if evvury Moo
Yeer's resolushun was kept, we wud-
dent halter worry abowt wet and dry
eleckshuns, but as the mattur stands
nobuddy heers abowt eny bartenders
being lade off the furst weke in Jan
youary.
Last Moo Yeer's pa sed he would
make resolution and kepe it if ma
would do the same, and that each
could suggest the resolushun fer the
othur, and ma sed all rite. Then you
can resolve, sed pa, not to ask me
WHARF l hav been when l come home
late at mite. l guess that is good
one, isn't it, Eddie, he sed to me.
Then ma told him what to resolve,
which was this-you resolve not to
go owt at mites for a year. Pa got
pritty sore you bet, and went and got
a loryer friend to get up an argument
to prove that he didn't have to live NJ
to the agreement, being as his resolu-
shun ottymatically nullifed hers, or
sumthing likt that. There was a
strained atmosphere in owr howse for
sum time, and now if there are eny
Moo Yeer's resolushun, they are vol
untary affares.
The wurst thing abowt Moo Yeer's
for boy is that it is the last day Of
Christmas vakashun, and for a man,
that it is the day that the bills come
in. ! am too young to go to restaw-
runts to welcum in the year, but am
old enuf to know that the best reso-
lushuns to make are to resolve not to
do things wuddent do ennyway.