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Evening star., 1915-02-06

gun to think that we might not get
enough eggs to keep the incubator
going.
Though she had only indifferent sue
cess last year with her turkeys. Jane
is going to try it again and on a larger
scale. She thinks. with the experience
she gained, that she can raise larger
proportion Of them. We ate four tur
keys and she sold two, so We have left
three hens and Il tom. She plans to
set every egg the hen turkey lays this
spring, and may also send away for
setting or two of eggs in order to keep
fresh blood in the flock.
Ducks are TO be an addition 70 our
poultry list this year. though we shall
attempt to raise only about the num-
Der we will be able TO eat at home.
We haven't decided yet whether we
will buy baby ducklings or get eggs
and hatch them under hens. Which
ever plan we follow, we shall get the
large Picking ducks, as they make the
best table birds. and we haven't any
desire for duck eggs. couple of set
tings of guinea eggs also are on our
program. | never ate guinea, but
they are supposed TO be extra fine, and
as they are said to be very little trou-
bic we decided we might as well have
them.
We are looking forward to making.
this coming year, real reduction in
the cost of living. I am planning the
garden with view to growing every
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HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE
Bv Earl Godwin,

They speak of Louis Brownlo", our
new Commissioner, a former news
paper man." but they never tell no"
he happened to break into the game
This last quoted phrase is a favorite
one in the news gathering profession
and every star reporter has choice
story about how he came to be thrown
into the world of type and ink. No two
men ever came in by the same route,
and far as I can observe only about
one in a hundred knew he was about
to break in when he took the first step
toward journalistic fame.
Take Louis Brownlow, for instance.
He was cigar salesman in Nashville
He sold cigars to all the drug stores
an expert on the gossip and undercur-
rent of views and news that constantly
flow in and out of hotel corridors. One
of the newspapers in the town made
feature of a hotel column, containing
interviews with interesting guests, and
always u list of names of newly regis
tered people.
One day the hotel reporter fell ill.
and the city editor, who knew Louis
was an all-round compendium of hotel
knowledge, pressed him to the simple
task of copying the names of new ar
rivals ana PICKING up W NHdtefet SosS'p
he could find. Louis, with no prescience
of the brilliant future which was about
to settle upon him, copied the lists with
all the skill of a finished cigar sales
man. and happened to copy the name
of the managing editor of the paper
for which the list was intended. The
mana ging editor had a habit of going
into the hotel now and then when he
was too tired to go home, and Louis
did not know it.
The little laugh that rippled through
the newsroom at this error brought the
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ne Searchli6ht /
Scientific Coal Buying.

AS the result of scientific buying, Tn
Gle Sam saved 100000 during 1914 on
q coal bill of ss,o00.O00. The system
Of buying which made this saving pos
sible was evolved by the bureau of
mines, after a careful study of the fuel
value of all American Goals. The re-
suits of this study promise to be of
great value not only to the government,
but to all users of coal in large guam
tiIies and, to some extent, even to the
householder.
The data collected by the bureau of
mines In this study of fuel values has
been compiled into table which
shows the comparable analyses of Goals
in the different parts of the United
States. A number of industrial plants
this data and several cities in the
United States report savings of thou
sands of dollars as a result of using
the scientific system ofIbuying fuel
The fuel investigations of the bu-
reau have also served as a basis for
improving boilers such as are used for
heating public buildings, so that great
er heat value is obtained from the fuel
burned. And it has also had an erect
upon the development of new type
of power plant boiler.
In studying heating equipment best
adapted to the use of buildings. expert
ments have been carried on at various
army posts. naval stations and public
buildings under the Treasury Depart
ment. These experiments wiil in time
enable the bureau to publish instruc-
tions for the heating of many different
types of buildings.
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and that. he was being brought back
by one of the men.
Nora was outside Of the door like
flash. TT twas the wrong child
herself. T cud niyer endhure not to to
make sure mesilf first before the rist
av thin sees him Down the street
toward the trolley line she hurried
car a policeman carrying small child
asleep.
TITS me own wee one." said Nora
aloud, exultantly. I'd be KNOWN his
little blue suit wild the white collar
anywheres.'' She started on run
toward the pair. Then of a sudden she
stopped short. 1t was not at the baby
she was looking. The policeman who
was carving the child was none other
known him in any garb in any place
What between tears and laughter
they had almost awakened the baby
In broken sentences Tim told of his
sudden illness, of the long siege at
the hospital, of his frantic fears when
he came out of his delirium and
realized that she was alone in the
city. of the unavailing search aft
erward.
But for the wee one here" he said.
solemnly. II might never be findin
you. But the minute my eyes fell on
him I knowed I would find you, ma
yourneen. the saints saints be praised So
would be the one to take the lad to
his home
How was you KNOWN by the looks
of him that You would find me-" asked
Nora, uncomprehendingly.
Tim pointed to an object in the
child's hand, Nora gave a start, then
turned pale and crossed herself. OF
sudden her eyes flooded with happy
tears. for tightly grasped in the chub-
by fist. its silver crucifiX glinting in
the light, there was the rosary.
(THE END)
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THE EVENING STORY.
THE ROSARY.
Copyright. 1915, by W. wemerJ

1t was the day for Tim to sail for
America. Nora. who was to become
Tins bride as soon as he could earn
her passage money over. stood Sob
bing by the fireplace. Tim was the
one bright spot in her dreary nfe, and
a dreadful fear assailed her now that
she might never seen him again. Sup
pose an accident should happen to him?
AT the bare supposition of such
calamity her sobs redoubled. 1t was
bad enough living with an aunt and
cousins who made her do the lions
share of the drudgery. ii it were not
for Tim it would long ago have been
uncomfortable. a future without Tim
was too terrible to contemplate.
"Whisht. now. darlint, do not be
mournin yer heart out afther I'm
gone" said Tim, who had entered the
little cabin unnoticed. See what l
bringed you. / was feared of some
thing or other that might come to you
whilst had the four seas betwiXt
us. So ! went to Father O'Brien and
he gave Inc this rosary, which has
been blessed by the Pope. And he says
no harm can be coming to you whatiVir
whilst you are kapinS 1t with you ana
saying your beads on it regular. He
smiled at her reassuringly and hung
it about her neck.
Nora dried her eyes and felt an un-
wonted sense of comfort. Surely with
this omen of good fortune which Tim
had SO thoughtfully provided her all
would be we'll. She said goodbye to
him, bravely smiling.
Through the hard months of wait
ing that followed she would feel a
warm glow of reinsurance whenever
she looked at her talisman lying there
around her neck securely.
In due time the ticket arrived and
Nora radiantly made ready her de
parture. She was not sorry to leave
Donegal. The future was glorious be-
fore her as she said goodbye to the
friends assembled to see her off. One
of them at the last moment thrust into
her hand Il package of dulse to keep oft
seasickness, but Nora did not set much
store by it. Had she not her rosary?
On the journey over she felt of her
talisman every few momen,s-if it
were safe then SO was she. The weather
was beautiful and the passage more
than ordinarily smooth. The few cases
of sea sickness on board did not num-
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As a Test of Success.

Our motto for the coming year is
Not a dollar for food that can be pro-
duced at home and when the year is
over we are going to test our success
by the smallness of our cash outlay.
Owing to climatic conditions over
which we have no control. we cannot
grow coffee and tea and spices at home,
and the production of sugar and SAT-
doesn't seem practical. Also we snail
have to continue buying fiour-else quit
using it, if the price of wheat keeps on
soaring. But aside from those Things
home production of which is out OF tne
question there has got to be some com
nelline reason before O. dollar is spent
for food. Hence the turkeys and ducks
and euineas. We are going to eat a
lot of poultry, and they VIII serve 70
give us a rest from just chicken me
COW is to come fresh in May, and Win
plenty of milk and butter, eggs ana
irving chicken, we figure we can MAJ ke
out until hog-killing time next 1aii
without contributing very largely 10
the profits of the beef trust we nave
agreed to take quarter OF veai no"
and then from a group of nelghnors
who plan to butcher calf OCCASION
ally, but that is about the only meat
h. hIlV
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raj At least she had work to occupy
her mind.
She no longer wore the rosary around
her neck. For one thing. her three
lightful plaything created for his espe-
cia1 amusement; for another thing.
Nora, in the growing apathy of despair
that was coming over her, asked her
If harm had befallen Tim. The rosary
seemed an Indifferent thing to her now.
One evening, when Bridget. the cook.
had gone to moving picture show,
story, trembling with a bitterness that
she had never known before. Was
Tim dead? She took out the rosary
from her bureau drawer and regarded
it long and earnestly: "1f he is alive.
will ye no bring him to me?" she cried.
with a passionate intensity, and burst
into tempest of sobs.
After the storm the calm. Nora
went to bed with an unusual sense of
peace. In her dreams Tim was stand
ing by her side, and around his neck
the rosary which he told her tenderly
had brought him to her at last. Her
sense of well-being continued the next
day She looked with an almost happy
expression at the rosary lying there
on her bureau. She would not let the
baby enter her room that morning. so
fearful was she of some harm coming
to her taliSman.
<hiiu tHSiI d 1dHSS tiiifS OCCuIIeu
In the afternoon. when Nora had
hastened from her belated dinner in
the kitchen to get her wraps for the
daily walk with baby. she found the
rosary was gone. She stared incred-
ulously with sinking heart. 1t
seemed impossible. She, hunted fever
ishly in hooks where she might have
mislaid it. all to no purpose. Her
mouth drooped pitifully. We're the
fates making sport of her? She de-
layed a long time in her room. When
she came downstairs she found the
nursery was empty. The baby had
tired of waiting and was perhaps in
the kitchen. But Bridget had not seen
him. In the parlor, maybe. Mrs Van
Rensselaer, was entertaining caller
and she gazed stonily when Nora ap-
peared rs the child here, ma am? ."
said Nora. tremblingly. HE amt in
his nursery, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, S
expression changed. Nora" she cried,
horror struck. isis my baby lost?''
All that afternoon the househ old
searched for the missing child. At 6
o'clock. as spent and grief-stricken.
they read what they feared to think
in each others eyes. telephone mes
sage came that the little runaway
had wandered to police headquarters
Evening star., 1915-02-06
jEAT LESS MEAT
IF BACK HURTS
Take a glass of Salts to flush
Kidneys if Bladder bothers
you-Drink lots of water.

Eating meat regularly eventual
ly produces kidney trouble III
some form or other, says a well
known authority, because the uric
acid in meat cNcites the kidneys,
they become overworked; get slug
gish; clog up and cause all sorts
of distress, particularly hackachc
and misery in the kidney region;
rheumatic twinges. severe head
aches, acid stomach, constipation.
torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder
and urinary irritation. -,
The moment your back hurts or
kidneys aren't acting right, or II,
bladder bothers you, get about
four ounces of Jad Salts from any
good pharmacy; take a table.
spoonful in a glass OF water be-
fore breakfast for few days and
your kidneys will then act flne.
This famous salts is made from
the acid OF grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and
has been used for generations to
flush clogged kidneys and stimu-
late them to normal activity: also
to neutralize the acids in the
urine SO it no longer irritates.
thus ending bladder disorders.
lad Salts cannot iniure any one;
makes a delightful! ettervescent
lithia- water drink which millions
of men and women take now and
then to keep the kidneys and
urinary organs clean, thus avoid
ing serious kidney disease. ..
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anxious. The crowd was thinning out
Sur'il she would find him now. Gradu-
ally dumb horror grew upon her, so
that the remaining incidents of the
day were jumbled in her memory. The
frantic search; the kind lady who had
become interested. drawn by the white
misery revealed in her face and who
offered her lodging till she could find a
place to work. All these seemed like
parts of horrible nightmare that
must come to- an end sooner or later.
Why had not Tim been there to NEE.
her? She read his letter again. Yes.
he had the date and the place correct
Was it possible that harm had come
to Tim: Her lips quivered. He had
been careful to provide her with a.
talisman against harm. Why, oh. why,
had she not seen to it that he was thus
protected"
When she had secured a position as
nursemaid things became more natu-
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Well. he does once in a while Tn,
fact is the very smartest people some
times make mistakes. and mistakes -are
very apt to lead to trouble. Reddy a.
smart and sly and all that, but he has
one great failing. Yes. sir. he has one
great failing. He thinks he knows it
all. He wont listen TO anybody. So.
of course. ne sometimes makes n.ss-
takes.
One of the very first things that wisc
old Granny Fox tried to Ak in HeddyS
mind when he was = very little fclio',
is that he should always looi> hetorr
he leaps. For long time he did. r~
took the greatest pains to make sure or
just what he was going to do before
he did II. But when he reached the age
where he thought he knew all that
there was to know he grew careless.
and more than once he leapcd first and
looked afterward. and WAS sorry for IL
1t happened that Reddv Fox rad
heard nothing of the new conner to the
Green Meadows, Whitley the Snowy
Owl In fact. Reddy didn't know that
there was such a person. and II he had
been told he wouldn't have believed il.
But he did know that Peter Rabbit had
been sticking unusually close to yhe
dear Old Brier Patch. and that Danny
and Nanny Meadow Mouse almost never
came out OF their little tunnels uudcr
the snow. They didn't give him =
chance to even try TO catch them, which
was very unusual. and he wondered
at il.
/ Presently he gave Up looking Tor
! them and started over toward the Big
River. There was certain place in
the Big River which had not frozen.
and he thought there was just
chance that he might find Dusky the
Black Duck or some of his relatives
there. If they were there it might hap
pen that one of them would come
ashore, and If this did happen-well
Reddy just tingled all over at the very
| thought of a dinner of duck. As. b.
drew near the bank OF the Big River
Reddy began to creep on his stomach
| so as to be able to peek over the edge
of the bank without being seen by tlse
ducks If there were any there. II took
him a long time to get to the edge of
| the bank, but at last he was there. aud
with his heart heating eNcitedly he
slowly and carefully lifted his head
until he could see the Big River and
| the open place in il. -,
| Just imagine how disappointed Reddy
was when he found not duck in sight.
He stood up and had just opened his
mouth to give a little yelp of disar-
pointment when he noticed some blaci>
feathers around what looked for all
the world like a short, snow-coVercd
post on the edge of the shore. Reddy
knew what those feathers meant. SoR..
one had been there before him and had
had that duck dinner he had been
counting on. II made him angry. He
felt that that he had been cheated OF
course he hadn't, but that was the way
he felt.
| Il wonder what thief has stolen my
dinner" he muttered. It'll go down
there and find out lH
| Muttering to himself he trotted down
toward those black feathers, and he
was so interested in them that he didn't
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IL was too thin. Then came the thaw,
and there hasn't since been even re-
spectacle thin ice. 1t will be d great
disappointment if the icehousc has to
remain empty. but as there isn't any
thing I can do about it l am trying
not to fret l was much interested the
other day in an advertisement of an
ice-making machine for home use Il
they ever get to the point where the
cost is within reach of the everyday
pocketbool5 they will be great boon
:o, dweIlerS in the country, and i'll the
city as well.
The 1915 chicken program IS already
under way. a Plymouth Rock pullet
that started laying early in the fall
and had been consistent performer
claimed the privilege of Matching and
rearing a family, so Jane gave her a
nest full of eggs and told her to go as
Tar as she liked. Margery Immediately
claimed this particular biddie for her
own, and has been going out several
times daily since the frs day to see
- any of the eggs have .iatched. She
can't understand why a hen wants to
spend three weeks Matching out chick =
ems when, to her mind, II might as well
tie done over night
Egg Output Increases.
We have set February 10 as the date
tor starting the incubator, and early
next week will begin saving eggs for
II During the past week the flock
has picked up considerably in its egg
output, and We are beginning to fee
a little more encouraged. We had be-
Evening star., 1915-02-06

Thomas Watts Gregory entered the
Wilson cabinet as Attorney General,
Jim Smiser. writing from his law office
in Columbia, Tenn, asked Tom if he
didn't want to appoint his old school
mate to the office of United States mar
shall for. middle Tennessee.
Thomas Watts Gregory was the At
torney General of the United States
desk. but as he read it, the years rolled
away, and he was nothing but a little
boy in a Tennessee small-town school,
very lonesome and very hungry. As
he looked back, he saw Jim Smiser
coming around the corner of the school:
Hey, Tom. want to come down to my
home over Sunday"
Tom had been particularly hungry
that day. He said he'd fix old Jim
Smiser with a good job if it cost him
a leg.
However, there is tradition in
American politics that gives senator
considerable to say about appoint
ments in his own state. Senator Luke
Lea had in mind for the middle Ten
nessee marshalship a patriot named
ory said he wanted that job for old Jim
Smiser. who fed him when he was hum
cry, but Luke Lea had political debts
to pay. and it caused Attorney Cen
era1 Gregory to hop around the Senate
and the Department of Justice with
considera Bile fretfulness.
He succeeded in temporarily holding
up the appointment of Patriot Anis.
He fixed 1t SO that no one could get
the middle Tennessee marshalship until
he had found a place for old Jim
Smiser.
And he did get one at last. 1t took a
lot of scrambling, but old Jim Smiser.
late of Webb's School for Young Men
and Boys. has been made United States
attorney for the first district of Alaska.
Any one is at liberty to say that Alaska
is long way from Tennessee, but it
involves a pleasant trip by steamer at
government expense, and only four
months work a year. SO that Columbia.
Tenn, won't miss Jim a whole lot. and
it shows what a lot may grow out of a
square meal when you're kid.
A Senate page strolled into the office
of the secretary of the Senate wearing
a fine carnation.
Did the Botanic Garden send that
over to you along with the senator's
flowers?" asked a sarcastic clerk.
NO. said the page. Il had to go get
it myself, but they didn't give me any
fern to wear with it, SO I bought my
self a cents worth of parsley for 4
background
And, sure enough, he had.
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Der Nora among their victims. Gayly
on the last day of the trip she threw
the package of dulse overheard. Then
she felt of her rosary and smoothed it
with loving fingers.
At Ellis Island she experienced trem-
ors of anxiety. remembering the warn
inES contained in Tins last letter. But
thanks to the rosary, as she said TO
herself. she emerged triumphant from
the examination. Her eyes gloWed
Was that Tim she saw in the crowd OF
waiting friends and relatives"
A nearer view she saw it was nOt
Tim. She grew slightly anxious. Stnl
she could not see him. Then she grew
Evening star., 1915-02-06

possible thing we will want, and not
anything we will not want. Selling
stuff is to be wholly secondary to the
home table, whether applied to the
garden. the chickens or the cow-to
everything. in fact, except James jel-
lies and preserves. the sale of which is
already contracted for We have de-
cided that farming as I am, on eight
acres and with only my spare time for
work, the home table is the best Gus
toner we could have, and we are going
to cater to the wants of that customer
to the exclusion of everything else.
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A Financial Failure

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
County Justice-I'll have to fine ye
Il dollar. Jeff.
Jeff-Tll have to borry it of ye, Judge.
Country Justice-Great snakes. 1t was
only to git a dollar I was fining ye.
Git out! Ye amt guilty, anyway.
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TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being the Experiences OF q Gov
erument Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost OF
Living.

During January and this first week OF
February We have had more brands of
weather. it seems, than ever before
came forth from whatever cauldron
the weather is brewed in. and each
brand has seemed just a little worse
than the other. 1t has brought the
disconforts of country life up to the
maximum. but it has put water in the
ground" and to a farmer that is the
equivalent of what Iago meant when
he advised to put money in your
purse"
The past three winters had been dry
ones with the result that when the in
evita BILE summer droughts came crops
burnt up and wells went dry. With as
much rainfall as there has been the
past winter the farmer who loses his
crops this year will have only his own
lInintelligent and unprogressive meth
DDS to blame.
1t takes good deal of a philosopher
though, to think OF next summers
crops when lie is plugging around in
February rain and slush and snow.
getting cold and wet and generally eX-
tending an invitation for pneumonia
70 come and claim him for its own.
never was much of 4 philosopher. but
have endured it. though not without
Srumbling, simply because there was
nothing else to do.
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even glance at that white post y hun
CRY, eager CLEAN came into his eyes as
he saw that there was still somev.of
that duck left. 1t wasn't much, but IT
was a bite anyway. and that was bet
ter than nothing. With a little gro~i
of eagerness he sprang on it and then
well, right then things happened fast
and furious Yes. sir. they certainly
did. Something clutched him by the
back and tore his red coat. Greal
wings pounded him black and blue, and
q savage, hooked beall tore at him. 20
You would steal my dinner, would
you hissed an angry voice. "TRk he
that and that and that, -rt7
Poor Reddy. He was as much fright
ened as he was hurt. That white post
had suddenly come TO life: II was
Whitley the Snowy owl
II beg your pardon. l didn't know
it was yours" gasped Reddy as he
struggled to get away from those grsa
cruel claws and savage bcaE-
when at last he did escape he half
sobbed TO himself Next time IN look
before | leap.