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Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26

men IN the doorway one SAW MIN.
door opened-a voice with crisp ring
10 it that sounded always younger than
his years. What they heard the but.
Ter say to him was disconcerting.
"You're terribly wet, sir!'
Frederick turned on her husband a
look of despair. Hes walked through
that rain. Do run down and send
him up to me. can imagine how he'll
look"
She was mistaken about that,
though. For once Frederick had over
estimated her powers. stimulated
though they were by the way she heard
her husband say:
praise heaven you can wear my
clothes. Run along upstairs and break
yourself gently to Freddy"
She heard him come squudging up
the stairs and along the hall, and
then In her doorway she saw him. His
baggy gray tweed suit was dark with
water and toned down by a liberal
stipple Of mud spatters. Both his side
pockets had been, apparently, strained
TO the utmost to accommodate what
looked like a bunch Of pasteboard-
bound notebooks, now far on the way
TO their original pulp. and Topped de-
spondently outward. A melancholy
pool had already begun forming about
his feet. His face, above the dis
NAL wreck. beamed good-humored, in
M
big-featured. strong. rosy face. and the
unmistakable intellectual power of il,
which became apparent the moment
he got his faculties into action, had
q trick Of hiding, at other times, behind
a mere robust simplicity.
Good gracious he said. II didn't
know you were going to have a party.
I thought 1t would just be the family.
So instead Of dressing. I thought I'd
walk. And then 1t came on to rain,
so took a street car-and got put
OF. And here I am"
Eyes, here you are" said Frederick.
Don't be impossible, Rod. Don't you
even know whose birthday party this
Isl"
He looked at her. frowned, then
laughed. He had q great, big laugh.
II thought 1t vas one Of the KIDS"
he said.
"well, II isn't" she told him. ITS
yours. And the people we're having
were asked to meet you. And you've
got Just about seven minutes to get
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26
CHAPTER %.
VIVA. Happened to Frederiea's Plan

What Happened to Frederiea's Plan.
At twenty-seven minutes after seven
that evening. Frederick Whitney was
about ten minutes before the hour ut
which she had invited guests TO dinner
not quite near enough dressed to
prevent a feeling that she had to
hurry. Ordinarily she didn't mind. To
Frederick at thirty, the job Of being
a radiantly delightful object Of regard
lacked the sporting interest Of un-
certainty-was almost too simple q
matter TO bother about.
But tonight she wished she'd started
half an hour earlier. Even her hus-
band discovered 1t. He brought in a
cigarette. and stood smiling down at
her with the complacent look that
characterizes q married man Of forty
when he finds himself dressed In eve
ming harness ten minutes before his
wife. She shot q glance Of rueful In
quiry at him, and asked him what time
II was.
"Seven twenty-five thirty-six," he
told her. She made no comment ex-
cept with her eyebrows. but he must
have been looking at her. for he want
ed to know. good-humoredly. what all
the excitement was about.
You could 60 down a. you are
and not q man here tonight would
know the difference. And as for the
women-well. II they have something
on you for once. they'll be all the
better pleased"
Don't try to be knowing and phiIo-
ssphIcal. and-Havelock Ellis, Martin
DEAR" she admonished him, pending
minute operation with an infnitesi-
NAL hairpin. 1T isn't your lay q BIT.
Just concentrate your mind on one
thing, and that's being nice to Her
mione Woodruff. and on seeing that
Roddy is"
He asked. why Rodney" in Q tone
that matched hers; looked ut her,
widened his eyes. said Huh I" to him
self and. inelly, shook his head.
Nothing to It" he pronounced.
She dispatched the maid with the
key to the wall safe In her husbands
room. why isn't theron she demand
ed. Rodney won't look at young girls.
They bore him to dseth. But Her
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26

mione can understand fully half thu
things he talks about. She's got lou
Of tact and skill. she's gOod-lOokint
and no older than and I'm two year,
younger than Roddy. She'll appreci
ate a real husband. after having beef
married five years to John Woodruff
And she's rich enough, now. so thai
his wild-eyed way Of practicing Law
won't matter"
"All very nice and reasonable" he
conceded. but somehow the notion Of
Rodney Aldrich trying to marry Q
rich widow is one I'm not equal to-
He looked at his watch again. by tn,
way. didn't you say he was coming
early?"
She nodded. They heard. just then
faint and far away. the ring of thu
doorbell.
wait a second" he said. "Let's
see if it's Roddy."
There was no mistaking the voice
they heard speaking the moment the
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26

begged his pardon. and assured him
she'd try to do better.
Another girl who had been waiting
TO speak to the professor. perceiving
that their conversation was at an end.
came and stood beside her at the desk
"a scrawny girl with an eager voice,
and question she wanted to ask about
Robespierre and for some reason
or other. Rosalind STATIONS valedic-
tory smile seemed TO include a con-
sciousness of this other girl-a con-
sciousness of a contrast. 1t might not
have been any more than that. but
somehow il left the professor feeling
that he had given himself away.
There is nothing cloistral about the
University Of Chicago except its
architecture. As she went out Rose
felt that the presence of fat abbot
or a lady prioress in the corridor
outside the recitation-room would have
fitted in admirably with the look Of
the warm gray walls and the carven
pointed arches of the window and
door easements, the blackened oak OF
the doors themselves.
She wasn't fully conscious OF K on
this March morning. but something
had happened that made a difference.
II she'd been ascending an impercep-
tible gradient for the past months,
today she had come TO a recognizable
step up and taken It. Oddly enough,
the thing had happened back there in
the classroom as she stood before the
professors desk and caught his eye
wavering between herself and the
scrawny girl who wanted TO ask a
question about Robespierre. There
had been more than blank. helpless
evaporation in that look Of his, and
II had taught her something. She
couldn't have explained what.
She went swinging along alone, her
shoulders back. confronting the warm
March wind. drawing long breaths into
her good deep chest. She had just
had, psychically speaking. birthday.
She played a wonderful game Of
basketball that afternoon, and IL was
after five o'clock when, at the con-
clusion OF the game and cold shower,
n rub. and somewhat casual re-
sumption Of her clothes, she emerged
from the gymnasium. High time that
she took the quickest way Of getting
home. unless she wanted TO be late for
dinner.
But the exhilaration OF the day per-
sisted. She felt like doing something
out Of the regular routine. Even a
preliminary walk Of mile or so before
she should cross over and take the
elevated. would serve to satisfy her
mild hunger for adventure.
So. with her notebooks under her
arm and her swea'er-iacket unfastea-
ed. at a good four-mile swing she
started north. In the purlieus OF the
university she was frequently hailed
by friends Of her own sex or the other.
But though she waved cheerful re-
sponses to their greetings. she made
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26
THE BIG STEP

Most romantic fiction ends
with the hero and heroine about
to marry and ''liye happy ever
after" The author Of this I'M
usual serial begins his story
with marriage and carries the
romance for a period Of several
years into the realm Of double
harness. Taking a couple from
the well-to-do scale Of the
Middle West social scheme. Mr..
Webster uses them to bring out
some Of the important problems
confronting a great many young
men and women who enter the
bonds Of matrimony In these
days Of equal suffrage. of wom-
en- who'd rather work down
town than stay at home. and Of
new complications in the bust
ness Of raising family. The
Real Adventure" Is thoroughly
alive with action. You will en-
Joy the story not caly for its ro-
nance but for the element In IL
that Will make you think-and
ponder the intimate happenings
In your own family and In the
families Of your neighbors.
THE EDITOR.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26
CHAPTER !.
Beginning an Adventure.

Indeed, continued the professor.
glancing down al his notes, III one
were the editor Of column of-er-
advice to young girls. one might crys-
tallize the remarks have been making
this morning into a warning-never
marry a man with a passion for prin-
ciples."
II got laugh. Of course. Professor
ial jokes always do. But the girl
didn't laugh. She came 10 with a start
she had been staring out the window
and wrote, apparently. the fool thing
down in her notebook. II was the
only note she had made in thirty-hve
minutes.
All OF this brilliant exposition Of
the paradox Of Rousseau and Robes
pierre Che was giving a course on the
French revoiutlon), the strange and
vet inevitable fact that the softest,
most sentimental. rose-scented religion
ever invented, should have produced,
through its most thoroughly infatuated
disciple. the ghastliest reign Of terror
that ever shocked the world his mas
terly character study Of the sea green
incorruptible," too humane 10 swat a
fly. yet capable Of sending half OF
France to the guillotine In order that
the half that was left might believe
unanimously in the rights Of man
all this the girl had let so by unheard.
In favor. apparently. Of the drone OF
a street piano. which came In through
A. he xx-n NJ
prematurely warm March wind. OF
all his philosophIzing, there WAS not
pen-track TO mar the virginity Of the
page she had opened her notebook TO
when the lecture began.
And then. with a perfectly serious
face. she had written down his silly
little Joke about advice to young girls.
There was no reason In the world
for his paying any special attention TO
her: 1t annoyed him frightfully that
he did.
She was good-looking. Of course
a rather boyishly splendid young crea-
ture OF somewhere about twenty. with
a heap Of chestnut hair that had
a sort OF electric vitality about 1t. She
had q strong chin. with slight forward
thrust, good traight-looking, express
80 .v.s and a hie wide really bean.
.',.,, - ter s,uara wbi,s teeth
8. :. mh,o, n.h.n She smiIaS OF.
-, =, hrnnn,,c enec, On
80. An ,h., howavsr ,e,, uner.
a,a,,.a ~. oua,,,v she had NJ making
p r",, ,rh.,svsr che a,d ,rres,,hlv aware
"a conrarss,v unaware ~
- 49, 49,, hsr
H. nome wss RosaI,nd Stanton but
80. ,,a...-,on w.. ,h,t ,hev called her
Ws.a
~. ALI -.,. ort q, IN. corridor
~ d,.m,..ed The class and began
-,o.S;n- nm nj. note. Theo .Miss
S,an,on- he said
shs detsched herself from the
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26

her stride purposeful enough to dis
courage offers Of company. They all
seemed young to her today. All her
student activities seemed young. As
II. somehow, she had outgrown them.
The feeling was none the less real
after she had laughed at herself for
entertaining IL.
She noticed presently that 1t was O
good deal darker than Il had any
right to be at this hour, and the sudden
fall Of the breeze and a persistent
simmer Of lightning supplied her with
the explanation. When she reached
Forty-seventh street, the break Of the
storm was obviously o matter Of
minutes. so she decided to ride across
to the elevated-it was another mile,
perhaps-rather than to walk across
as she had meant to do.
She found quite a group Of people
waiting O the corner Tor q car, and
the car itself, when II came along,
was crowded. So she handed heg
nicke! TO the conductor over so0e-
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26

This bluff young man sur
prises his scheming sister with
the smart way in which he
e:udes her trap TO marry him
off-read IL In the next INSTALL
ment.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-26

Go Be CoNTINUED.l
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
california Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup OF
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and 1t thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish. or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and In a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out Of the bow
els, and you have q well, playful child
again. When it's little system is full
If cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache.
diarrhoea, indigestion, colic--remem
Der, good Inside cleaning" should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup Of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for so
cent bottle OF California Syrup Of
Figs" which han directions for babies,
children OF all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. ADV.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22
POWER FROM THE SUMS HEAT
Scientific Records Show That Efforts
to Utilize Old Soils Rays Date
Back to 1915.

Scientific records show that at
tempts to utilize the heat of the sun
date back to De CauX, who in 1915
undertook some solar work. and includ-
ed the experiment of Button, who in
1747 succeeded In setting fire to a
tarred plank by solar rays reflected
from a combination of fiat mirrors at
a distance of $50 feet. He did this to
show the possibility of the legend that
Archmedes thus set fire to the fleet
Of Marcellus at Syracuse in 212 b. Q.
One handicap, so far, has been the
fact that the efficiency of solar en-
gines has not been over 4.32 per cent
Of the heat value received. while that
or the ordinary steam engine Is about
11.5 per cent, and the gas engine as
high as 25.5 per cent. 1t appears,
nevertheless, that with experiments
lasting over number of years
through which the coal-fed steam boil
ers have been improved sun boilers
will be brought to far better state
Of efficiency. This view is said to be
supported by recent experiments con-
Quoted at Meadi on the Nile river, sew
en- miles south of Cairo, during two
years work The plant was composed
Of five 205-foot boilers placed on edge
and in the focus of five channel-shaped
mirror retlectors of parabolic cross
section, totaling an area of 1920 feet.
The maximum quantity of steam
produced was II pounds per 100
square feet of mirror surface ex-
posed to the sun, and the maximum
thermal efficiency of the mirrors was
40.1 per cent. The maximum output
for an hour was $50 brake horse
power, II result about ten times as
large as anything previously attained
and equal to 63 brake horsepower per
acre of land occupied by the plant.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22

The size of farm business is not
necessarily measured or limited by the
number of acres In farm. One of
the field men of the department of
agriculture engaged In farm survey
work, reports the case of a Wiscon-
sin farmer, so situated as to make
1t impossible for him to buy or rent
more land, who solved the problem of
small acreage by speeding up. the
so acres that he had.
This farmers first move was to dis
pose of his scrub cows and to replace
them with grades and purebreds; next
without great expense, he improved
the sanitary condition of his barns.
He established a cropping system
based on corn and alfalfa, choosing
the latter rather than clover because
on his farm 1t produces OF least 80
per cent more feed per acre than does
clover, and is much more dependable.
Pastures Disappear.
Pastures have now entirely disap-
peared from this farm, because its
owner has demonstrated that one acre
of corn and one of alfalfa together fur
nish him with more feed than do five
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22
ASPARAGUS is EASY
VEGETABLE TO GROW
Necessary to Exercise Greatest
Care in Preparation of Seed
bed at Beginning.
(By L. NJ. BENNINGToN.)

Asparagus is not hard to grow, and l
know of no other vegetable that will
give more satisfactory results if well
cared for.
AS an asparagus bed has to be set
out only once, it is therefore very nee
essary to use the greatest care in CIV
ing the plants start.
Pillow the ground deeply as early as
possible in the spring and mix with 1t
an abundance of well-rotted manure.
This should be done three or four
days before planting and a strong fer
tillzer should never be put next the
plants because 1t often destroys them.
The rows should be about six feet
apart and the plants should be set ten
Inches deep. Set out only strong, one
year-old roots.
Press the soil about them and as the
plants begin to come up throw little
dirt into the burrows to smother the
weeds and keep the soil loose around
the plants. Gradually fill the rows
until the ground is level.
The weeds must be kept from the
plants for two years; then not much
further care is necessary, but the bed
should be kept clear.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22
Died of Premature
Old Age!
lBY V. NJ. PIERCE. NJ. d.

How many times we hear of compare
lively young persons passing away
when they should have lived to be 10 or
so years of age. This fatal work is usu-
ally attributed to the kidneys, as, when
the kidneys degenerate, 1t causes auto
intoxication. The more injurious the
poisons passing thru the kidneys, the
quicker will those noble organs be de-
generated, and the sooner they decay.
To prevent premature old age and
promote long life, tighten the work OF
the kidneys by drinking plenty of pure
water all day long, and occasionally TAX
ing Anurlc double strength) before
meals. This can be obtained at drug
stores. Anuric viii overcome such con-
ditions as rheumatism, dropsical swell
ings, cold extremties, scalding and
burning urine and sleeplessness due to
constant arising.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22
FEEDING DAIRY COWS
FOR BIG PRODUCTION
Successful Dairyman Must Study
Each Individual Animal
Water Is important.

Different cows have different capac-
tiles for converting feed into milk.
No man who has not a full apprecia-
ton of the wide variation in individual
cows will be fully successful as a
feeder. Some cows may have natural
capacity for producing large quantities
of milk, and may not receive feed
enough for maximum production. BY
Increasing the feed of the highest
producing cows and carefully consult
Ing the milk sheets on which each
cows daily production is recorded, the
skillful feeder will soon find that
some cows in the herd will respond
to the increased allowance and return
q good profit on the additional feed
given. On the other hand, there are
cows that have limited capacity for
milk production and are very liable
to be overfed. BY carefully studying
each individual COW the feeder will
soon ascertain the point beyond which
any addition to the grain ration be-
comes Improbable.
All animals require plenty Of good,
pure water. This is especially true Of
the milking COW, as water constitutes
more than three-fourths of the total
volume of milk. The water supply,
therefore, demands the dairyman's
most careful attention. Stale or i'm
pure water is distasteful to the COW
and she will not drink enough for
maximum milk production. Such
water may also carry disease germs
which might make the milk unsafe for
human consumption or be dangerous
to the cow herself,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22
SUFFICIENT REASON
FOR TESTING SEEDS
There Are Times When Farmer
Gets Seeds of Poor Germina-
ton Without Knowing It.
(By W. r. GILBERT.l

This is a subject which has received
a great deal of attention from thought
full persons but is still very little con-
sidered by the majority. It's impor-
lance cannot be overestimated for the
quality of the seed has great infiu-
ence on the yield of the crop.
Everyone likes to get bargains; and
many think that bargains AMI low
priced articles are one and the same
thing, while in the matter of seed low
prices and bargains cannot go together.
Take for instance turnips. When we
see one man charging twice the price
quoted by another of course the higher
priced is usually for new and improved
varieties, but we often find difference
of price for one variety. One man may
charge for seed which terminates
only 30 per cent while another charges
half as much again for seed germinat-
ing GO per cent, while another charges
half as much again for a seed germl-
mating 95 per cent.
From this calculation can easily be
made as to the amount of seed re-
quired, for 1t Is the low termination
that makes thick sowing a necessity.
The high-priced seed is economical,
inasmuch as so many more seed ger
inmate. When the farmer knows that
termination is poor, he tries to insure
n crop by thick sowing, but there are
times when he gets seeds of poor ger
minatlon without knowing it, probably
paying the full price for good seed.
This should be sufficient reason for
testing seed. Considering the number
Of purchases of seeds each year, there
are ridlculously small number of
tests made. / know Of one instance
where samples tested comprised all the
various crops grown on the farm. In
some crops the average of samples
was reasonably good, but there were
miserably poor samples In practically
every crop.
This Is a matter well worth the at
tention Of the tillage farmer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-03-22
Concrete Chimney Stack.

A concrete chimney, 800 feet high.
built recently at the plant of a Texas
smelling company, and embodying IN
its construction number of new ideas,
is described in the Popular Mechanics
Magazine. The shell. or walls, form
ing true circle and tapering from
POS inches thick Mt the bottom TO 5
inches at the top, was built up with
the aid of patent collapsible, or adjust
able, steel forms. used In sections.
These made II easier to secure the eX-
act amount of taperlng required as the
chimney rose in height, the concrete
being mixed and tamped in the forms.
The upper part of the chimney was
built with n patent top including n
number of 4-inch pipe inlets, regularly
spaced around the stack for the admis-
sion of air from the outside. This re-
suits in arresting many of the prod
ucts of combustion carried up with
the smoke-which then fall down the
chimney into hopper provided near
the base.