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The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07
CAREFUL SOIL PREPARATION
 WILL HELP GRAIN YIELD

Special care to place the soil in good condition in preparation for planting wheat and rye will go a long way, says the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, toward assuring the production of bumper crops of those grains which the Department hopes to see harvested next year.
 If winter grains are to be grown on land devoted to similar grains dur ing the preceding season, the land should be plowed as soon as the old crops are removed and occasionally surface cultivated to kill the weeds until planting time. The blowing should be to a depth of about 2 inches, Just before planting time the land should be narrowed if fairly moist and free from weeds; otherwise it should be disked and narrowed.
 Wheat and rye may follow pract:- cally any crop which may be got out of the way in time. Where choice is pos itle, however, it is better to lave these grains follow culti9a'ed crop, preferably a leguminous crop, such as soy or other beans, or COW peas. To have them follow corn is a common practice in parts of the corn belt. In the South they may follow cotton and in the southern Great Plains regions, the sorghums. In some sections farmers find it a good plan to follow potatoes with wheat or rye.
 If the wheat and rye follows cul- tivated crop which has been kept free from weeds, it is best not to blow the land. The land may simply be disked and narrowed, narrowing to be per formed again just before seeding.
 Under all conditions drilling is pre- ferable to broadcasting as method of planting, and if the farmer has no drill of his own, it will be worth while for him, in most cases, to rent one. When drill is used less seed is re- quired, the seed are covered better and may be planted with moist soil, and more even stand is obtained,
The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07
"A SPLENDID TONIC "
Says Hixson Lady Who, On Doc tors Advice, Took Cardui
 And Is Now We'll.

Hixson. Tenn.--"About 10 years ago | was. .." says Mrs. J. B. Gadd, of this place. "I suffered with pain in my left side, could not sleep at night with this pain. always In the left side...
 My doctor told me to use Cardui. I took one bottle, which helped me and after my baby came, was stronger and better, but the pain was still there :. I at first let 1t go, but began to get weak and in a rundown condition, 70 I decided to try some more Cardui. which I did. This last Cardui which took made me much better, in fact, cured me It has been number of years, still l have no return of this trouble.
 feel 1t was Cardui that cured me, and I recommend 1t as a splendid fe' male tonic"
 Don't allow yourself to become weak and rundown from womanly troubles. Take Cardui. It should sure iy help you, as 1t has so many thou. sands of other women in the past 40 years. Headache, backache, sideache nervousness, sleeplessness, tired-out feeling, are all signs of womanly trou' ble. Other women get relief by taking Cardui. Why not you? All druggists
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The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07

The illustration shows a dress de- signed for small women, in more fall-like materials, which is develop ed in a similar way. The front and back panels together with the smart ly draped pockets are of serge and the rest of the dress is of satin.
 Other combinations suitable for street and afternoon frocks arc broadcloth and satin, and jersey cloth and taffeta or rajah. A fash ionable color combination imported from Paris, is gray and black.
 The second illustration shown an evening dress of brocaded taffeta combined with Georgette crepe. The entire dress in this instance made of the taffeta except for straight piece of Georgette attached to an upper tunic of taffeta which reaches across the front and sides only. The Geor- gette softly veils the taffeta beneath.
 Gay plaids and figured silks are of- ten yelled with Georgette crepe in an alluring and fascinating manner. Sometimes the underdress is of plain material elaborately beaded or em- broidered and then shadowed by the overdress of sheer Georgette.
 Although woll embroidery contin- ues to be very fashionable, chenille is taking its place. It is much richer and more suitable for handsome silk or wool fabrics.
 Already hats of straw are being banished and hats of velvet, satin and velours are taking their place. These vary in style from small close fitting shapes to larger shapes with broad flat brims or brims which turn up either all the way round or
The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07
ARIZONA POTATO SITUATION.

That there are no potatoes being plowed under by farmers in any part of California or Arizona because of alleged inability of growers to find a good market for them and that all Arizona tubers are in brisk demand at good prices, not only in Arizona, but also in many other states further east, is the declaration today of the State Council of Defense. The an. nouncement is made in refutation of widely disseminated reports that hun- dreds of acres of potatoes are being plowed under or are rotting in the ground in the west because of alleg- ed inability of growers to sell them at price equal to the cost of pro. duction.
 Regarding the present demand fol
 Regarding the present demand foi tubers and reports that they were P. Taylor, of the University of Ari. zona, today issued the following statement:
 "Our investigation, covering prac. tically the entire Southwest, fail tc show single instance where farmers have or are blowing under their DO. tatoes. Some weeks ago farmers ir
The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07
TREATMENT OF SEED
 FOR FALL PLANTING

Treatment of wheat against stink ing smut is fairly easy, not expens- i've, and fully 95 per cent effective. The efficiency of the treatment is, in fact, practically 100 per cent in most of the wheat-growing regions. The percentage of efficiency for the coun- try as whole, however, is reduced by the fact that in large regions in the Pacific Northwest the soil is pol luted with smut germs to such an ex- tent that the effects of seed treat ment are negative. Seed treatment costs not to exceed five cents an acre for materials and labor. To this cost, however, must be added the cost of grain, the germinating power of which may be destroyed by the treat. ment. This amounts at the most to 20 per cent. In every case the value of the wheat saved by treatment would amount to several times the cost of treatment.
 Statistics show that the average annual loss of rye from smut is about 1 per cent-considerably less than the loss of wheat. It is well worth while, however, to treat rye seed also. METHOD OF TREATING SEED.
 Several methods of treating seed for the destruction of smut spores are in use, but the best, it is believed is the formaldehyde treatment. The grain should first be cleaned thor oughly with a flaming mill so tha. smut balls, shriveled grain, chaff, etc., will be removed. After the grain is clean it may be spread on floor or a tarpaulin in layer or pile several inches thick and sprinkled with so- lution of formaldehyde made by mix ing 1 pound of commercial formalde- hyde with 15 gallons of water. An ordinary sprinkling can or a spray ing machine is used and the grain is shoveled over and over until every kernal is wet. The grain is then placed in a pile and covered with sacks, blankets, or tarpaulin for hours or over night. It is then dried sufficiently to be run through tho drill, after which it may be sown If the grain is not passed through g flaming mill it should be placed ir vat or tank of the formaldehydt solution instead of being sprinkled The smut balls will rise to the sur face and may be skinned off.
 If the grain is not to be planted immediately it must be dried suffi ciently to prevent spelling wher placed in bins. If planted while damp and swollen, more grain by measure must be used to allow fol the expansion.
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FABRIC AND COLOR
 COMBINATIONS
Gay Plaids and Bright Colors Yelled
 With Sheer Georgette.

New, York, Sept. 6, 1917.
 Int fact that we are at war is no longer a novelty. We have pass ed the panicky period when every one decided to economize, regardless of common sense. The only differ ence it seems to have made 'n our daily life is that we have become more thoughtful. We no longer pur chase carelessly but give attention to each individual outlay; the abnormal economy has disappeared and given place to a normal, unextravagant ex- penditure.
 As yet the war has only influenced our clothes in certain styles, such as in trench coats, military capes and in the use of khaki-colored materials for suits. In England, however, it has made a radical difference in the ma terials used for suits for both men and women. Since the mills are weaving cloths for military uniforms, the same type of cloth in a looser weave is being made for the civilian population. Naturally, the colors differ; and brown, navy blue and mixtures seem to predominate. No doubt, these will influence the kind of fabrics used here, since we have long looked to England for materials suitable for tailored suits.
 The gaiety of plaids and checks, which have endeared themselves to us in the ginghams so popular this sum- mer, is to be seen among silks and in modified degree among wool ma terials for early fall dresses and sep arate skirts. Plaid skirts pleated are very fashionable for sports and gen. eral utility wear.
 The combining of materials is fash ionable as we'll as very practicable. recently saw a very pretty and styl ish frock, suitable for the late sum mer or early fall, of sand-colored tus sah silk and polka-dotted blue foG lard. The waist of this dress wal made extremely plain and semi-fit ted with straight tunic, opened ul each side to the waist-line, over ; skirt of polka-dotted foulard. Th' waist had a collar of dotted silk, anc tussah silk buttons with a marrow blue rim were used down the iron and down one side of each slit in tn tunic, while on the other side wer' buttonholes bound with blue silk.
The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07
A Prompt Decision.

Mrs. Will Irwin said at Wash ington Square tea:
 "The more immodest fashions would disappear if men would resolutely op- pose them.
 q know woman whose dressmak- CT sent home the other day a skirt that was, really, too short altogether The woman put it on. It was becom ing enough, dear knows, but it made her feel ashamed. She entered the library, and her husband looked up from his work with a dark frown.
 CT wonder she said, with an en- barrassed laugh, if these ultra short skirts will ever go out?'
 "They1l never go out with me" he answered in decided tones" Washington Star.
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California were unable to dispose of their potatoes and considerable loss was threatened. Publicity given to the situation and an appeal to the public to eat more potatoes and on- ions, however, remedied the situation almost over night. Since then the price of potatoes received by the growers has gone up more than cent pound and there is ready market for all good potatoes that are avail able.
 "Only one isolated case came to our attention where a farmer threaten. l ed co plow under his potatoes. He afterward sold his entire crop for ap- proximately two cents a pound.
 There is good market and a very good price for all the potatoes that the Southwest can raise, and the demand for winter potatoes, now be. ing planned, will be even greater than it is for the present crop of early tubers, because of their better keeping qualities"
The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07

are shown now on frames which are much more practical than the bags which opened and closed with draw string. The beaded bags are all the rage, from the very expensive ones of velvet and silk beaded with some simple design. The buckskin or chamois bags, beaded in designs which are distinctly Indian in their origin, are among the latest and therefore smartest of these bags. They go particularly we'll with the tailored suit.
 Since every one is knitting, every one is interested in an all-important knitting bag. These large and roomy bags are also being used for shop ping. Some are made with ten to twelve-inch sticks across the tor with ribbons attached through which the arm is passed. Others are made with oval embroidery hoops for han dies, and all are made of the gayest of cretonnes, tapestries, and silks. Ii one is very particular, there can be several to go with different frocks The thing to be remembered being that in this case a contrast is most effective.
The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07
The Perfect Lady.

The Perfect Lady.
 First Neighbor-An, wot did you s'y? Second Ditto-I kep' me dig nity, Mrs. 'Arris. "Pig!" I ser, and swept out.-Chicago News.
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His Life Cycle.

She-Why does that author go off on a tear and get drunk?
 He-So he can write stories about his experiences.
 She-But why does he want to write about his experiences
 He-So as to get some money.
 She-But why does he want money ? He-So he can go off on another tear and get drunk again.
The Coconino sun., 1917-09-07
Watched Her Chance.

"Mr. Shepherd, your daughter has promised to marry me-"
 "Humph! She said she'd get even with me when I refused to get her a Pekinese pup"
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

incest girls of the land for half as
m any years. And with thoughts burn
ing, passionate, and words embarraSs-
ingly torrential at hand to give them
utterance, they only spoke common
places!
'tHow is the bridge getting along?'
asked the girl, repeating her fathers
words Of few minutes before, as
these two fell behind the others march
ing down the long pl atform, while the
maid standing by the private car with
the porter looked curiously after the
moving group and wondered If that
gray-green, long-legged young man was
the reason for the New York gpwnl
'It's doing splendidly," was tie an
swer, and even with his heart full Of
the girl by his side whom ha longed
to clasp in his arms but did not even
dare touch the hem Of her garment,
some little enthusiasm came into his
voice. 'It is the greatest bridge that
was ever erected" he said.
"How you love It," said the girl.
Did Meade love the bridge? All,
there could be no doubt as to that.
He had studied it's growth hour by
hour. AS the great steel web rose, his
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"I have heard so much about It,"
said the girl, standing by the door.
'I want to see it when the workmen
are all off and it is all quiet, In the
moonlight"
every well. You had better change
your dress, Helen, before you CO." said
the colonel, turning to Abbott and en-
gaging him in conversation on techni-
cal matters.
''Tll wait for you at the front door
of the car" said the engineer, his heart
beating like a pneumatic riveter and
sounding almost as loud in his ears.
'I won't be long," she whispered as
she left him.
Helen did not want to waste time
any more than Meade did. So, instead
Of taking her fathers advice, all she
did was to cover her beautiful shoul-
ders with light wrap and hasten to
the car door in the shortest possible
time. Every moment they were apart,
since the sum-total in which they could
be together was so small, was mo-
ment lost.
"Now," she said, coming out of the
door Of the car and descending the
steps toward him, eagerly expectant,
II want prize for my swiftness."
"a prize!" returned the man, "why,
you've been gone years, and you
haven't even changed your gown. You
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heart expanded with it. He took pride
| in it even more when they began to
push the suspended span across the
river on the outer end of the completed
cantilever, toward it's fellow rising on
the other side. He fingered about it
when the rest of the wOrkaday world
which was concerned with it had with
drawn to rest. Frequently late in the
night he had arisen and had left the
sheet-iron shack he occupied near the
work (for the topography of the land
and the course of the river had deter
mined the loc alton Of the bridge far
from any town., and in the moonlight
he had gazed bewitched by the great
web of steel, all it's mighty tracery deli
cately silvered, family outlined, lace
like, lofty, lifted high into the heavens.
He fell into little reverie for a
him.
"We1l?" she asked.
"Yes, naturally" he found himself
saying in conventional tone Of voice,
cit means q great deal to me. My
father
ooh, your father" she began indif-
ferently, although she knew and liked
the great engineer.
'It Is his crowning work and"
'sYour beginning"
'It is not in me, or in any engineer,
to begin where my father left off," he
said. "But this will count great
deal, because through fathers kindness
I had some hand"
"I believe you did it ALL" interrupt
ed the girl.
He broke into sudden laughter, and
his merriment had that boyish ring
she liked. He seemed to think that
was a sufficient answer to that state
ment, for he went on quickly.
''How long shall you stay?"
And in spite of himself he could not
keep his anxiety out of his voice.
''I think fathers going on to the city
sometime tomorrow-probably in the
morning."
Meade's face fell.
$50 soon as that?'
81 will try to persuade him to stay
longer. I've seen lots of bridges built
but never one like the international,
and I should enjoy standing by and
watching you work"
81 don't do the work. Abbott does
that, and the men, of course"
'Your work is the work tn at makes
possible and profitable the labor Of the
Others" she answered. "You plan, you
lead, the rest only follow. By the
way, father told me to ask you and
Mr.. Abbott to dine with us tonight in
the car"
Meade's mood changed into positive
gloom.
ST can't" he said desectedly. II
haven't any clothes, neither has Alb
bott. We left our dress suits behind
us when we came into the wilderness
to work."
"Oh," she laughed. "What difference
does that make? Come just as you are.
It will be relief. I like you that way.
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can't go out on a bridge in that gown
and those slippers, tramping over dirty
tracks, piles Of steel, rough wooden
planks, paint and"
"Can't I?' she said; "you just see."
81 hate to see you spoil your Dress"
he said uncertainty as she stopped.
Really what gown on earth was
worth half an hour of her society? At
least that is the way he felt about it.
and evidently she felt the same way.
"It is settled, then," she said, slip
ping her arm through his as they
form near the siding. At the end Of
the platform, as they turned about the
temporary station and storehouse, be-
fore them rose the bridge. The moon
was rising over the high hills that
sprang up from the steep clifflike bank
Of the other side Of the vast river.
They saw her round, red, full face
through an interlacing tracery of steel
The lower part Of the bridge was still
in deep shadow. Indeed, the moon had
just cleared the hills of the opposite
bank of the great gorge cut by the
broad river flowing swiftly in it's dark
ness far below. At the farther end Of
the suspended arm extending far over
the water the top of the traveller glis-
tened. The cantilever on the opposite
shore, incomplete and sunk under a
high rise of sand, was still in shadow
and not yet discernible.
Unwittingly the woman drew q little
near the man. He became more con-
scious than before Of the light touch
Of her hand upon his arm. 1t was very
still where they stood. The shackS
of the worl1men had been erected be-
low the bridge about q quarter Of a
mile to the right along the banks Of
the little aff1uent Of the main stream.
They could hear faint but indistin-
guishable noises that yet indicated hui
manity coming from that direction.
The fires in the machine house and in
the engines were banked. Lazy curls
Of smoke rose to be blown away in the
limitless areas Of the upper air. In the
darkness all the unsightly evidences of
construction work were hidden.
"Oh," said the woman, drawing a
long breath, "I don't wonder that you
love 1t. Isn't it beautiful, flung up in
the air that way? One would think it
wasn't steel but silver and gold and"
"Time was," said the man, "when
loved a thing like that above every
thing except my father, but now"
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CHAPTER II.
Tho Witness for the Defense.

| The Witness for the Defense.
One Of the pleasant evidences Of the
possession Of riches is in the luxury
Of a private car. Although Colonel
Illingworth was personally man Of
simple tastes as became an old cam
paigner, there was no appointment
that wit could devise or that money
could buy which was lacking to make
his private car either more comfortable
or more luxurious in it's napery, glass,
china and silver, the dining table need
ed not to apologize to any other any,
where. The colonel was most punc-
tilious in dressing his part and Meade
and Abbott were both scrubbed to
within an inch Of their lives, but,
climbing about the bridge, their hands
were scratched, roughened, stained and
torn. Aside from that, Meade was GER
tainly most presentable, and old Abb
bott, in spite of his Indifference to
such matters, looked the able and pow
erful man he was.
The conversation at dinner was at
first light and frivolous.
"Pm lost" began Abbott, "overpow-
cred with all this silver and gleas and
china"
EYES," laughed Meade, 1--WE should
have brought along our granite ware
and tincups, then we would be free
from the dreadful fear that we are 60
ing to drop something or break some
thing"
"You can break anything you like"
said the colonel with heavy pleasan-
try, $50 long as the bridge stands"
"And that is going to be forever, isn't
it, Mr.. Meade?" asked Helen quickly.
II don't think anything built by man
will survive quite that long," he an
swered as much to her father and the
others as to her, ''but this gives every
promise Of lasting it's time"
"You know" observed Curtiss, "there
was some question in my mind about
these big compression members. When
I first studied your fathers drawings,
wondered If he had made the lacing
strong enough to hold the webs"
''That matter was very thoroughly
gone into," said Meade quickly. '1t
was the very point which I myself h ad
questioned, but father is absolutely
confident. that we provided latticing
enough to take up all the stresses.
looked into that matter myself" he
went on with much emphasis.
II guess it's all right" said Curtiss
lightly. 81 examined the webs and lac
ings carefully this afternoon. They
seem to be as right as possible"
"Those trusses," said Abbott emphat-
ically, twill stand forever. You need
not worry about that"
care you going to finish this job on
timer" asked Severence, the vice presi-
dent. "You know the financial end Of
it is mine, and much depends upon the
date Of completion"
"That depends upon you people at
the shop, doctor. If you get the stuff
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here to me I'll get it in place in short
ORDER" answered Abbott.
'We aren't worrying about anything
with you and Meade on the job, Abb
bOtt," said the colonel genially.
eyes, you are, father" said the girl.
Ever since the international has been
started you have scarcely been able to
give a thought even to me. I'm tired
of it. I hope the old thing will soon
be finished, so that we can all go back
to normal life again."
81 hope so, too," assented the colonel,
"and guess you are right. The fact
is the bridge is an obsession with US
all. 1t is the biggest job the Martlet
has ever handled. Indeed, it is the
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care, constantly reporting the prog
ress to his father, every step taken
under the superintendent Of Abbott,
a man Of great practical ability as an
erector, but Of much less capacity as
a scientific designer or Office engineer.
Meade had watched it's daily growth
with the closest attention. Like every
other man in similar case, the work
had got into his blood. It had become
a part of his life. He loved the bridge !;
yet more he loved Helen nlingworth.