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The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

in convict garb, coming toward her.
1t was her sweetheart.
What a pitirui object he was, ema-
ciated, ragged and torn, but all the
love of her faithful heart went out to
him. She pleaded with him to return,
serve out his sentence and then re-
form. They would go away where
they were unknown and live happily.
back into that hell of bleak walls and
common fare. with nothing but iron
doors to bid him welcome and a
guards key to bid him good night He
would die first.
The girl beseeched him persistent
ly, but to no avail. Suddenly she had
a stirring thought. She had heard OF
the terrors- of the Devils theatre at
night and she resolved that even il it
killed her she would force him to
promise to go back. She knew it was
mot far from where they were sitting
and asked him to walk with her.
She climbed and climbed and he fol-
lowed as best he could in his weaken
ed condition, glancing furtively and
wild-eyed about for fear of detection.
Finally at dusk they reached the
Theatre of the Devil. They were both
exhausted and we're glad of an op-
portunity to rest. AS the shadows of
the twilight were slowly shronded by
the mantle of night the dark recesses
were swallowed up and 1t seemed
that all was the battling ground of
every despicable thing of Gods green
earth. Blood-curdling cries and hide
GUS peals of laughter rang throughout
the place. The fugitive sank against
the girl in terrible fright. but she re-
manned resolute and determined be-
cause her will power was pitted against
the horrors she knew she would en-
sweetheart as the reward if she won.
Hour after hour she fought against the
fear that knocked for admittance. Her
lover was almost mad with the grue-
oOhht iiOAStSg ohiy iti taibihtso htCp
ing his mind from giving away.
At last she felt his stubborn spirit
pliable to her command and she spoke
to him. She told him that he must go
back to the penitentiary. pay of the
debt he owed the world and come
forth a free man by lawful means or
else she would leave him there to that
unspeakable fate. She spoke slowly
and distinctly. although it grieved her
deeply to- do so at all. She gripped
his hand with all her strength and
pulled him close to her that he might
feel the force OF her words. Il was
another battle for her remarkable will
power. because despite all the awful
chickering's and screechings the
thought Of pen life were still strong
enough to make a shuddering and
counteracting impression upon the ha-
rassed youth.
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Fletcher Henstep has been right
sick for some time and is not expect,
ed to be able to pay the doctor.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14
Hogwallow News
DUNK BoTT, Regular Correspondent.
George Bingham)

His mule is to blame for the. acci-
dent, as it has been observed standing
around the Hog Ford still house for
some time.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

For Sale Windfall apples. The
Round Crest Fruit Co. Phone Canon
113.-adv. 2O7trd.t1w
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Monday morning He was about ready
to come down anyway.
meeting of prominent citizens and
oldest inhabitants is scheduled to
take place at the postoffice next Tues
day morning, at which time the wea-
tiler for the ensuing fall and winter
will be arranged.
Yam Sims has come to the con-
clusion that after a man has his hair
cut he has not got as much sense as
he had before, as his head is not as
large.
During hard rain it looks like there
never will be any more dust.
The fleas of the neighborhood are
gathering at the Dog Hill church,
making ready for the big protracted
meeting which begins there next
week.
Miss Hostetter Hooks says a lot of
young girls think all they have to do
to catch nice young man is to put
lot of high-power talcum on them
and prance around and look sideways
at the boys. That is all right so far
as it goes, she thinks, but a girl in
these days of strong competition has
got to accompany her other attractive
pess with few fetching ways, and a
right smart tact.
Raj Barlow, who always has been
in the habit of taking his time, has
noticed that watch is always in a
big hurry, but never gets any further
along than the old reliable clock.
The moon passed over this section
last night, going in westerly direc'
ton.
Sidney Hooks went down in his cis-
'ern yesterday to see how his pet frogs
were getting along.
-
Washington Hooks, who has been
quite sick for some time has taken a
setback, and his wife is thinking OF
selling his hat.
| Slim Pickens has a new pair OF
tight pants, and is rehearsing on how
to sit down without making noise.
Sim Flinders has decided to give Ut
| the art of raising bees. and is dispos
| ing of them one at a time among his
friends.
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Tobe Moseley has got home from
trip thru the Calf Ribs neighborhood.
He says the lightning bugs over there
are all about worn out. as they are
getting awfuIly dim.
Cricket Hicks stood for a photo
graph of himself the last time he was
in Tickville. 1t is not yet known
whether anybody else will stand for
it or not.
Fit Smith says since his wife scrub
bed the floor he can't hardly touch
the ceiling.
Sidney Hooks has a pair of striped
sox he would like to swap to some en-
terprising young man for a good grub
bing hoe.
Washington Hooks postponed his
birthday on account of inclement
weather.
There are two good. though not sub
stantial-looking reasons why Miss
Flute Belcher will not abide by the
rules of fashion this season and wear
short skirts.
Sim Flinders will be sorry when
the snake season is over as he will
then have no good excuse to carry his
Jug around with him.
The mail carrier has received n set
os stnIn curtains which he will put up
in case the country should ever get
into a war.
The Rye Straw Storekeeper has
moved his chair to the front porch to
make room for his big fall stock.
Dock Hooks had a good run with his
barber chair at the blacksmith shoI
iast Saturday, ever rg. Doc snys II
- 81 eat relief on Monday morning
TO get back on 4 old job of g. eiIe
mules@ifter shaving Ellick Hellwang
er.
Sim Flinders brought into our office
| two very large feet for our inspec
| tion this week We guess he brought
them to us. as we found them on oui
desk when we arrived.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Yam Sims went to the Blacksmith
shop Saturday abd had Dock Hooks
cut his hair up as far as his hat.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Columbus Allsop fell from his mule
at the forks of the road Saturday ey
ening and sustained slight injuries
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

BY George einaham.)
Slim Pickens fell out of peach tree
Monday morning. He was about ready
to come down anyway.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Tobe Moseley has got home from
trip thru the Calf Ribs neighborhood
He says the lightning bugs over there
are all about worn out, as they are
getting awfully dim.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Sim Flinders brought into our office
two very large feet. for our inspec-
tion this week. We guess he brought
them to us. as we found them on our
desk when we arrived.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Sim Flinders has decided to give VI
the art of raising bees. and is dispos
ing of them one at time among hi:
friends.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Slim Pickens has a new pair OF
tight pants, and is rehearsing on how
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

A meeting of prominent citizens and
oldest inhabitants is scheduled to
take place at the postoffice next Tues
day morning, at which time the wea-
tiIer for the ensuing fall and winter
will be arranged.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Yam Sims has come to the con
clusion that after man has his haiI
cut he has not got as much sense as
he had before, as his head is not as
large.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Washington Hooks, who has beer
quite sick for some time has taken 8
setback, and his wife is thinking oi
selling his hat.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

During hard rain it looks like there
never will be any more dust.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-09-14

Sim Flinders will be sorry wher
the snake season is over as he will
then have no good excuse to carry his
Jug around with him.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-10

M 5ScFd
~ L1
moo york-yestiddy my pa brought
home the funnyest dorg you ever
saw, he wuz not like a dorg a tall he
looked like a litteI pig only skinnyer
than littel pig. but he did not have
no hare a tall just like a Httel pig
has not got no hare a tall. this dorg
pa said to me is a very fashunable
dorg just now. he liz a mexican
hareless dOrg witch maiks him very
fashinable becaUz everybody and
everybOdys barber izZ talking about
mexico Just now. but ma says WHARF
did you leave the dorg's hare? and
pa he says well this dOrg never had
no hare because all the hare the mex
lean dorg ought to have liz on mr..
CaTranzas chin.
thare amt enough left in mexico to
go around. somebody had to go
without so the dorgs got skinned out
of THAR share. 1t is funny about
theze mexican dorgs pa says a man
will pay $11.5O for a wig that does
not fool nobody so he will have
some hare on his he'd, and then he
will pay $26.80 cents for a hareless.
dorg because the dorg has not got no
hare a tall. the haTelesser a meXi-
can hareless dOrg is the more money
you got to pay for one. Mr.. Car
rama keeps 8 BARRIERS, IA fOTesters
and 5 gardeners busy taking care of
his grove of hare but a mexican
hareless dorg wood have a fit if any
body showed him a bottle of hare re-
stOrer because if he used it he would
get unfashinable and wood not be
worth a cent.
How much did you pay for the
hareless dorg? ma asked pa.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-10

Well, Pete, put down that pickle
sandwich and give "a listen. We've
got one Of the greatest industries
of the age to squawk about on to-
days menu-and that are the Fliv-
yer.
thought you gave a sermon about
the jumping bean the other day, Ed
gar?
Have q care, Thor, don't knock the
fiivver; its cylinders do enough of
that stuff. A cat only has nine lives,
but fiivver dies so much, Euclid
himself, the Ty Cobb of arithmetic,
couldn't keep track of its lives.
An ordinary automobile is only
good for riding around in, but there's
no limit to the things a fiivver can
do.
Fliwers make dainty watch
charms. They can be used as alarm
clocks or as pacifiers for babies.
Even when a fiivver is played out,
if any members Of the family lives
that long, it can be made into htch-
en- utensils to supply seven and a
half families. There will still be-
enough left over to make a good va
CUM sweeper.
Some people are such brutes with
their aivveTs they load them down
with all kinds of brightly polished &C
cessOries trying to make them look
like automobiles. It's a wonder the
humane society doesn't get after
them.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-10

did not pay nothing for him pa
says a barber gived him to me be-
cauz he wuz afrade a dorg like that
around his shop wood be bad luck
Evening star., 1916-09-24

length of time it takes potatoes of uni
form size, shape and variety to cook
when the oven is too hot, or too cold,
or just right. You would also be sur
prised at the difference in the amount
OF waste when cooked in a very slow
oven as compared with normal or
with one too hot"
An apparatus for boiling, or more
correctly speaking. for steaming the
potatoes fills a window space iIi the
laboratory. In this test, also, the fem
perature is perfectly controlled,s so
so that each potato has an equal chance.
There is nothing hit or miss here any
more than in the oven. While il
steams each potato holds its thermom :
eter which projects through a cork in
the lid of. the steamer so that the
temperature can be read without re-
moving the lid.
we steam the potatoes in prefer
ence to boiling them directly in water,
said Miss connor. THE favor is bet
ter preserved by steaming: a mealy po-
tato will cook thoroughly without fall
ing to pieces and 1t issin every way the
better method. We also leave their
jackets on. Much Of the valuable pro-
TEN and mineral matter lie directly
under the skin and when the potato is
pared this nUtriment is lost"
potato peeler. siicer and iron fry
the equipment for the potato chip
tests. and samples of the work looked
temptingly golden and crisp.
Evening star., 1916-09-24

That place, it may be stated very gem
orally, is most desirable which offers a
good supply of labor. or raw material,
fuel and easy transportation to the
coast where it is to be used.
with the present activity among
steel manufacturers it will not be easy
for the government, even with the at
fractions of its short hours good pay.
sick leave and vacations. to draw to it
a sufficient number of skilled men.
The great steel plants. which are main
tanning armor plants as an incident.
have men who have been raised there
from their boyhood and know exactly
what is expected of them. Many of
them receive base pay with bonus or
a premium for extra work, and every
man knows that if he effects any
economy or makes any Improvement in
method of work he will be rewarded
substantially.
There is no doubt that the govern
ment can secure all the unframed en-
ployes it needs. and that there will be
vociferous clamoring for appointments
in the armor shops, but the quality of
those men will be another question. If
they are first-rate workmen, it is be-
cause they were trained in the big
mills, and if they are not working there
Evening star., 1916-09-24

GN1OR a number of years past the
IN United States Department Of
Il potato and scientifically selecting
and breeding new varieties that will bring
1t Up to the highest standard of efficiency
in Its duty to mankind. In it's later ef-
forts toward the improvement of the use
full tuber. it has called in the assistance
OF woman that she may bring her
{. wonans knowledge of home economics
to bear upon the study of the vegetable
II is the province of Miss Margaret Con-
nor. scientific assistant in pomology, the
youngest woman scientist in the govern
n.eat employ, to put the potatoes through
tier PAGES from the standpoint Of the
home economist.
Potato growing on a large scale in the
United States has been centralized in
half dozen localities, corresponding
icCs4iy to the various geographical di-
VISIONS OF the country. This specializa-
f1n has created a demand for varieties
sda9tsd 70 conditions in particular To-
,-'!it:es, Or for varieties possessing GER
TIA desirable qualities. such as heat and
a"oGSnt resistance. resistance to para
!: tic fungi. early or late maturity, high
1 srch content etc
The office of horticulture and ponlology
q the Department of Agriculture has car
llsd o. ouch investiga tionS for a number
"f years. under the direct supervision of
-l'rof. William Stuart. who has succeeded
n developing large number Of Seeding
potatoes. These seedlings are crosses be-
tween known varieties whose character
Evening star., 1916-09-24
$50, 100000 Armor Plant Is Sought by Many Cite

s10,000.000 depending somewhat upon
its location. to construct.
Such a plant will occupy at least
thirty acres of ground, and should have
an office building for the administra-
tive and drafting force. 1t must include
drafting. blue print and Photographic
rooms. A separate building should be
devoted to laboratories for chemical and
physical work, includig a microphoto-
graphic equipment. There will also be
separate buildings for the storage of
tools and of refractory brick. which are
kept on hand to repair the open hearth
furnaces.
There will be a carpenter shop.
blacksmith shop. storehouse for gen.
eral stock and house for the locomo-
tives required to move the many tons
OF steel as it passes through the va
rious stages from ingots to armor. Tho
plant VIII maintain its own electric
plant for lighting and power. and
boiler house for the twenty boilers re-
Quired to produce the required power.
Over the boilers will be the coal bunk
ers, and underground will be the ma
chinery for handling the ash.
The steel to be converted into armor
will be made in the open hearth plant
from pig iron. scrap, nickel and other
moving cranes and will contain at least
f1ve open hearth furnaces and double
that number of gas producers, besides
two casting pits, In which the steel in
gots will be cast. Here the ingots, some
weighing over $4,000 pounds. are cast.
In the forging and bending shop will
be located three or more fourte en- thou
sand-ton presses. which can forge and
bend the heaviest plates. A cementing
and tempering room will be erected,
where the armor plate will be carbon
fzed, heat-treated and water-hardened.
1t will bear notices that no visitors
will be admitted. and no descriptions
are allowed. machine shop will con-
tain the machinery for finishing the
plates and with travelling cranes to
make their handling possible.
The weight of each plate, the size of
the ingots and many operations to be
conducted make necessary machinery
and appliances of power and strength,
bearing about the same relation to IA
miliar light machinery that tons do to
pounds, but 1t must be remembered that
the product is to protect fighting ships
from projectiles weighing ton apiece
and charged with high explosives
enough to blow the side out of a noun
tain.
The grounds will be piped for gas and
water, and severed; they will contain
four or four miles of railroad track,
and the plant will have fire service of
its own.
Owing to the great activities, caused
by the European war, of the munition
and steel plants throughout the coun-
try and the consequent advance in the
pay of their employees, the estimates
made nearly two years ago of the pay
roll for the plant are probably lower
than they would be if made at the pres
Evening star., 1916-09-24

is;ics IL has been deemed worth while
- perpefuate. or TO combine with The
desired characteristics of other varieties
As a result OF the years OF selection and
breeding literally thousand of Seeding
potatoes have been secured. These are
grown in all parts OF the United States
where the office of horticulture and
ponoioG! has experimental grounds
Gaire, Virginia. North Carolina, Colorado
and idaho-and complete records kept
OF every phase OF their development.
Tae undesirable seedlings are discarded
and those showing good characteristics
are saKed for further testing before being
distributed among the different state ex-
pertinent stations ard eventually reaching
seedsinan and consumer One Of these
tests has been undertaken to show their
culinary value
No matter how disease or drought
resistant potato vine may be. the
Seeding viii prove Of little practical
importance If the potatoes nave 4 dis
agreeable favor or odor. IL their flesh
turns black after cooking. or If tney
do not prove suited to the demands OF
the housewife said Miss connor in
talking of her work. The tubers from
each Seeding. which is thought worthy
OF saving are subjected to a cooking
test and IL this is unfavorabie the
Evening star., 1916-09-24

in testing and grading the potatoes
for their cooking qualities has given
Miss Connor knowledge of the tuber
which is of value in the field, and she is
engaged for a time each year in taking
crop notes.
There are a vast number of notes to
be made in the field she said. from
the time the seed is planted in the
early spring until the crop is harvested
late in the fall. Cur office is conduct
ing a great many different experiments
With potatoes. besides the breeding
work. such rs the value for seed of ma
tule and immature potatoes: of differ
ent size seed pieces. of whole seed, or
seed cut in halves, quarters, or accord
ing to ordinary field practice of seed
grown in different localities. of the
value of different cultural practice, etc.
All of these experiments entail much
note-taking, descriptions of plants and
-tubers, records of weights and yields"
Miss Connor is graduate of Cornell
University. from which she gained the
degree of b. A. few years ago,
Evening star., 1916-09-24

it is because for some reason they are
not satisfactory. or they themselves are
not satisfied.
Therefore the contestants for the
prize must show that the location they
represent is the right one to meet the
requirements for safety in time of war.
and then that they can offer 1900
workmcn, skilled to meet the require
ments of making armor of the best
quality, 10 operate with care the ex-
pensive and powerful machinery and to
make no blunders which will spoil the
daily melts of steel.
Fifteen hundred such men canqot be
secured In any small place or sparsely
settled country, for there must be such
number in the vicinity that 1T will
be easy to fill vacancies; nor should
the selected place be one where living
expenses or other reasons make the
prevailing pay for similar labor un-
duly high. Living conditions for the
men and their families a matter of
consideration. Are there good schools.
churches and other institutions? Is
there comfortable housing for the peo-
Pile who work? Is the climate severe
or depressing? Is the place healthy :?
Such questions must be answered IA
vora ply.
another factor that should count for
the prize winner is that of fuel and