ITHEGALLYFEUD By IZOLA FORRESTER. Brace Farraday had been away from home for ì>o long ihat he had ac tually underestimated the manners and customs of Halsey Qap. He hai been home from Rudemeir college about four days. The famlly had given llm to understand that fthey expectel ali thlngs of him, and (•«pedally that he should ran for rep- Tesentatlve the next autumn. There had been a Farraday In the state legislature from the Gap sectlon ever •Ince West Virginia had walked her Own path to statehood. Slnce the death of Brace's father flfteen yeara before, the Gally famlly had con trolied the seat. Bart Gally had gone up for two terms and Wallace had followed In hls footsteps. He rode down the mountain road to the little village after mail, loving pevery foot of the way. It had been jjears slnce he had T7alked that road to school. When he carne to the old Jfamiliar crossroads, with lts cairn jfcf rock supporti ng an old sign post, Aie drew rein. Many a tlme he had 10l- Wed there walting for Nance Gally to tome along on her way to school. What had they cared for feuds in jthose daysl She was slx, he bare ly ten. Restlng now In hls saddle, Iwhlle the Captain cropped the sweet jtìiover and sorrel by the roadside, he remembered the day of thelr great quarrel. He had called her redhead on jthe way home from school, because Ohe had walked with her cousin Wal lace instead of him. There had been a fight and Wallace, a strapping, black fcrowed youth of flfteen, had beaten film before her eyes. The sound of horses' hoofs canter |ng along the old timber road roused him from reverle. It was Nance. She rode her sorrel mare llke a boy, her ■hort curls flylng in the mornlng preeze. As she rode, she was slnging iDlxie at the top of her lungs, untll she jcaught sight of the silent horseman, fcrnd stopped short. Brace raised his cap In neighborly Eeeting, noting approvingly the vivid auty of her young face and spark ig eyes. "Good morning, Miss Nance," he teald. "It seems llke old times to be jwraitlng here for you. You're looking jnlghty welì." She tossed her head in qulck resent taent "I reckon you can keep yom compll knents to home, Bruce Farraday. We pln't askin* anythln' from any of you In the compllmentary line." She rode on, never looking behind. It was that afternoon that he gave ìdatt Grawford, locai boss of the Dem jpcratic caucus, permission to use his tiame for nomination at the comlng telections. "You've gotto step lively and look hoth ways at once," sald Slster Belle, [When the campalgn was in full swing. The next day there was a confer- Hsnce between Bruce and Matt Craw ford. Brlefly Brace outlined Bis pian ?f action. On the Farraday property here was a large old mica mine, un worked since the death of his father. Bver since his arrivai he had secretly *been problng its possiblllties, and felt ìfalrly sure of his ground. "Matt," he said, "I know a chap with Jc&pital, who went to Rudemeir with me. He'll back the old mica mines when I say so. Let's open them now land hire ali the avallable men. Get them on one-year contraete, with op tion of renewal." Matt grinned appreclatively. M I think I'm looklng at our next rep lesentative," he said. The mine was a success. Boys and jnen from ali distrlcts through the val ley and mountains flocked to work ln etead of remalning idle through the eummer and autunni, walting for the Oally mills to open. Blection day told the story. When the votes were counted In the little xoom back of the post office old Judge Pinkus stroked his Vandyke happlly. "I reckon you're beaten, Wally," he femarked through his little glass grat- at the stainp wlndow. Nance heard the words, too, as she stood by the window. With a muttered oath her cousin rushed past her out into the little square where men were cheering for a Farraday. Biind with fury, he «hot out his flst at Bruce, but fell aa Bruce caught him with a counter blow on the point of the chin. Bruce 16 vd to the old oak stump. "Fellow-c-i of the Gap, this is the end of the Gally feud. Right here Wallace and I have settled old scores, and I want to teli you it's time the Gap joined the march of progress and buried the feud forever. You shake hands with me, Gally ; if you don't ni beat you up until you do, for we're £oing to be friends from this day on." Wonderingly the Gap beheld the two shake hands as Bruce left the stump. A minute more, and he was beslde Nance, where she stood apart from the others. , "Can I help you on your horset" he aaked. "I'm going to see you home." Nance llfted her tear-wet face to his, capltulation in her eyes. 'Tm mighty glad you won, Brace," was ali she said. (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspa per Syndlcate.) A Rea! Hardshlp. "Son, I refuse to pay any more of your poker debts." "That's rather tough, dad," said the gilded youth. • "My decision is final." "But, do you realize, dad, that there are practlcally no facllitics In thia Jpwn for aay other games of chance?" ]knlis|vnv| T\ L Dorale! [CKambr^. THE most delightful part of my life was that age when boys and girls freely mlngle with each other as friends, half boy and girl, half man and woman. There was one Thanksgiving when the head of our large famlly invited every member that could be reached ito spend a week in hls large country | house, including Thanksgiving day. Those of us of my generation went in for a good time together. The girls were of that age when a taste for mis chief predominates. One night when I was gettlng ready for bed I found the legs of my pajamas sewed up. When I had ripped the sewing, got them on and tumbled lnto bed I found the sheets scratched. I had turned off the light, so, springing out of bed, I tiptoed hastily to the door, opened it and was in time to grab the last of a bevy of girls who ran away in the darkness. Throwing my arms around my cap tive, I gave her a smack, she strug gling to be free, then let her go. Slipping back lnto my room, I turned on a light, and there, sticklng onto the breast of my pajamas, was an elongated pin of chased gold set in the center with a single aapphire. The problem was to identify the girl I had kissed by discovering the owner of the pin. I consulted with my men cousins, and it was decided that I should put the article up at auction at the Thanksgiving dlnner, bids to be accepted only from the men. Accordingly when the nuts and cof fee carne on I took the pin out of my vest pocket and, holding it up before the company, sald: "I found this ar "l Will Put It Up at Auction." ticle recently and would be happy to return lt to the owner if he wlll claim it and prove ownership." I swept the board with my glance, but saw no slght of a give-away on any girl's fac<\ Then I continued: i "Slnce tt«jre is no claimant for the 'article, I will put it up at auction, re servlng the right to bid to the men present of my own generation, the proceeds of the sale to go to charity." I called for blds, and one of my cousins, Jack Somers, bid 25 cents. There was an exclamation of disap probatlon for such an offer, and when another of my confederates bid 50 cents it was repeated. The gem alone could not ha ve been worth less than $25. When every man who was per mitted to bid had done so, $2.75 was the bighest offer received. I knocked the article down to the successful man, Jim Atwood, and he handed me the money. "What luck!" he exclaimed, holding the pin before him admiringly. "I've wanted some thing llke this for a gift to my fiancee, and now I nave found it." i The fact of another girl possessing Iher Jewelry was too much for its owner. Becky Aldrich showed by her expression that she was at least to be isusoected. I took the pin from Jim and tossed it to her. A telltale blush conflrmed my suspicion, and, the eyes of ali the company being concentrated on Becky, it deepened into scarlet. Then there was a burst of laughter, in which every one joined heartlly but ; Becky. i Becky pretended to be very much offended with me for the course I had taken. This caused me to feel uncom fortable, and I endeavored to* placate her. Becky for a long while refused to be appeased. To make a long story short, Becky played me as an angler would play a trout till I was madly in love with her. Havlng refused me, she seemed to be satisfled and thereafter treated me so considerately that I tried again and was successful. Naturally, the anniversary of Thanksgiving brings to me interesting memories. (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure New»pa per Syndlcate.) Message of Cheer. The hollday season is here and with comes a message of cheer and a quickenlng of the benevolent impulses of the heart. Thanksgiving day—a festival for giving thanks for the mer cies of the closing year—ls one of the oldest lnstitutions in Ameri.u. The Pilerim Fathers held their first bar* Ivest thanksgiving festival In 1621. Voice of the Early Church. Teli me, whence are you rich? From whom have you received? From your grandfather, did you say ; from your father? Are you able to show, ascend ing in the order of generation, that that possession is just throughout the whole series of preceding generations? Its beginning and root grew necessari ly out of injustice. Why? Because God did not make this man rich and that man poor from the beginning. Nor, when he created the world, did he allot much treasure to any one majn and forbid another to seek any. He gave the same earth to be cultivated by aIL Since, therefore, his bounty is common, how comes it that you have so many fields and your neighbor not even a clod of earth? . . . The idea we should have of the rich and covet ous—they are truly as robbers who, standing in the public highway, de spoti the passers.—St. John Chrysoa tom, Greek Church, 347-407. Humoring Peopls Isn't Pleasant "Humoring a man" sounds like a pleasant and comfortable thing, but when one links humoring with the question of who makes the money, it does not seem very flattering to the humorer or the humoree, says a writer in the Woman's Home Companion. And what a lamentable sight is that of the humoree, what deep inequallty lt implies and what an absence of any real respect or understanding between two people in whose lives humoring Is a part of the daily routine! When the one to be humored is a woman it may mean that a man has been forced into the craven part of doing anything for the sake of peace. There are few concessions some men will not make to avoid a domestic storm. Some un fortunate men there are who even give up vital friendships, legitimate forms of recreation, and even their own individualities in this unworthy cause. Credit for Other Fellow. The amount of credit you allow the other fellow to take for his efforts is the index for your measure. The lit tle fellow can't stand seeing the other man praised. If he has worked in company with others he wants ali the glory. If there is any prominence to be lianded out be is a perpetuai candi date. The pigmy mind is ever trying to discount the other man's credit. There is so little to him that he needs ali the glory he can get, and gets it wherever he can. Not so with the big man. He rejoices in the success of his fellows. He's glad to see others rising to his class. In fact, the truly big man sees bigger when he pays trib ute to those not so big as himself. If you want to be in his class you must not dwarf your worth by being afraid you won't get ali that's coming to yoxL —Pennsylvania Grit. Survlval of the Fltteat Modem scientista do not entirely hold with the Darwinian theory of evo lution ; stili, there is 110 doubt that the "survival of the flttest" has a large modicum of truth, for we can ali see that those who are incapable of adapt ing theraselves to the uni versai prog ress must become more or less fossil ized. Every big business gives us striking examples; men who, having reached a certaih position, sit down and get rooted in their own little way. Then there comes a new spirit into authority, modera methods are intro duced, ali things are put in motion, the change has come and the fossil sits stili, an obstacle in the necessary prog ress untll he is elther thrown out of the way completely, or moved to a side where he can do no damage. First Said of Goldsmith. "He touched no subject that he did not adora" was first said in a Latin epitaph on Oliver Goldsmith. "Nil tetigit quod non oraavit." The Eng lish version of it was used in an epi taph on Matthew Hale Carpenter of Wisconsin by Jeremiah S. Black of Pennsylvania. Carpenter died in 1881 and Black, who was attorney general of the United States from 1857 to 1861, died in 1883. His epitaph on Carpen ter began as follows: "The most ac compllshed orator of his day and gen eration, he addressed no audience that he did not charm, and touched no sub ject that he did not adora." The Latin epitaph on Goldsmith was written by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Oyster Cheap Food. Only the sea herring can equal the oyster in cash value as a product of the sea. This is partly because they are so palatable and partly because they are so inexpensive. A pint can usually be purchased for 20 cents on the coasts and a nourishing stew for several persons can be made of a pint of oysters. The North Atlantic ocean produces more oysters than are to be fQund in the oyster beds of ali other countries, but oyster farming is a profitable industry in many 1* Jds. The mid-Atlantic coast is particularly noted for its oysters. When Amethysts Turn White. A man recently brought back to a Jewelry score three rings set with amethysts which had faded to a pale yellow within a few months after he had bought them. He then discovered that instead of amethysts the gems were topazes. The latter vary in color from pale yellow to deep violet and purple. Under high temperatures amethysts change color, becoming first yellow, then green and finally entirely colorless. Under ordinary tempera ture, however, genuine amethysts do not change color. TEUTON U-BOAT LuSS iS HEAVY One-Half of Fleet Sunk Silice War Started ENGLISHMEN QUIZ GEDDES As Many Submarine* Dcstroyed In Last Three Months A» Ali Last Year, He Tells House of Commons. Germany has lost as many subma rines in the past three months as she lost in the whole year of 1916, Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the admiral ty, declared in the house of commons. The admiralty head, who was mak ing his initial speech, declared that plans had been made to reorganize the admiralty along lines that would result in more efficient methods. He said that in the future Sir John Jellicoa, first sea lord, will devote his attention solely to navol and staff matters. "Between 40 and 50 per cent of the German submarines operating in the North sea, the Arctic and Atlantic since the beginning of the war have sunk," said Sir Eric. "The out put of merchant shipping in the first nir.f: months of this year, he said, was i-;;'pv-r cent higher than in the corre spoiidir.g period last year. The ad miralty had decided that four new na tional slrpbuilding yards would be necessary. "We must liy plans for a long war," said Sir Eric. "I see no signs of its being a short one." Sir Eric said he regretted it had not been found posslble to arrive at a basis for publication of British ton nare losses by submarine action with out giving information to the enemy. The losses of merchantmen in Oc tober, he said were very slightly worse than in September. Enemy subma rines were being sunk to an increas ing extent, but the Germans were building them faster than they had done hitherto. In September, Sir Eric continued, there was afloat on the high seas, an increase of 20 per cent in numbers and 30 per cent in tonnage of British ships as compared with Aprii. Standard ships aggregating 1,000,000 tons had been arranged for, he said, and more than half of them were un der construction. The total net reduction of British tonnage since the beginning of the war was given by Sir Eric as 2,500,000 tons. Replying to the criticism that the fleet had not been sent to assist Rus sia, he pointed out that such an opera tion would occupy considerable time and that there were extensive mine fields. Responsible naval opinion was unanimous that the step was not one which should have been taken. At the present time, Sir Eric in formed the house, there are 225 dry docks which can be devoted to repairs of merchant shipping, exclusive of those used for warships. A reduction of 50 per cent in Ger man merchant shipping, Sir Eric con tinued, had been caused by the sink ing of ships or by their passing into the hands of Germany's enemies. LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN Pittsburgh. Cattle —Prime, $12.75 @13.50; good, $11.50@12.50; tidy butehers, $10.50® 11.50; fair, sß@9; common, $6.50@ 7.50; heifers, s6@lo; commonto good fat bulls, ss@9; commonto good fat cows, $4 @8.50; fresh cows and spring ers, $40@90. Sheep and Lamba—Prime wethers, $11@11.50; good mixed, $10@10.50 fair mixed, $8.50@9.50; culls and com mon, $5 @7; heavy ewes, $7 @10; spring lambs, sl2 @16.75; veal calves, $14.50@15; heavy and thin calves, $6 @ll. Hogs—Prime heavy and heavy mix ed, $18@18.15; mediums, $18.15@18.35; heavy yorkers, $17.75@18.15; light yorkers, $17@17.25; pigs, $16@16.50; roughs, $16@17.25; stags, $14.50@15. Cleveland. Hogs—Heavies, $17.50; mixed, $17.25; mediums, $17.50; yorkers, sl7; pigs, $15.50; roughs, $15.25; stags, $14.25. Sheep and Lambs—Choice to good spring lambs, $15.75@16.25; fair to good, $13.75@14.75; common, $7.75@ 13.25; choice sheep, $8.75@10.75; culls and common, $4.75@8.75. Calves —Choice, sl4 @ls; fair to good, $13@14; heavy and common, $9 @l2. Cattle —Prime shipping steers, $10.50@11; good to choice, $9.50@ 10.50; good to choice butehers, $8.50 @9.50; fair to good, $6@7.50; com monto light steers, ss@6; good to choice heifers, $7.50 @8.50; choice fat butehers, s7@B; bologna bulls, ss@ 6.50; choice fat cows, $6.75@7.75; fair to good, $6@6.75; canners and cutters, $4@5.50; milch cows and springers, $60@90. Chicago. Hogs—Bulk, $16.40@17.10; light, $15.50@17.05; mixed, $15.90@17.25; heavy, $15.90@17.25; rough, $15.90@ 16.20; pigs, $11.75@15.25. Cattle —Native steers, $6.70@17.35; western steers, $6.20@13.50; stockers and feeders, $6@11.60; cows and heif ers, $4.90@12; calves, $7.25@14. Sheep—Wethers, $8.70@12.85; lambs, ?12.25@16.75. Chicago Grain Close. Wheat Corn Oats December 1.17*4 58% May 59% WARFARE TO BE DIFFERENT Armies of Future Will Have Strong Ar tillery and Few Infantrymen, Each Heavily Armed. The army of the future will have an Immense equipment in artillery; the infantry will he few in number, btit heavily armed, each man with a ma chine gun, capable of holding a width of front that otherwise would need a company armed with rifles. Trench warfare, at any rate on the scale that has been witnessed in France, will dls appear, for the airplane will overleap the trenches and substitute a war of movement for a war of fixed poai tions, says H. Sidelbotham in the At lantic. The airplane will be used, not only as at present for reconnaissance work. signaling ranges to the artillery, for raids on Communications, and for bombing a retreating army, but also for the transport, on a large scale, of infantry. One can easily imagine air planes sufficlently large to carry 50 or even 100 infantrymen. A hundred such planes could transport an army of 10,000 with incredible rapldity to any point behind the hostile line de sired by the general in command. Such movements will make trench lines ob solete. The whole art of war will have to be rewritten from its elements. The development of the uses of the air plane will change the strategical and tactical direction of the war, from a game comparatively elementary, like draughts, into an elaborate and com plicated game like chess, with greater variety of moves and endless possibill ties of fresh combinations. Such a game will be too difflcult to be fought with millions. With proper use of me chanical invention a company of men will be able to do the work of a divi sion in this war. We shall go back to the days of small professional armles of long training and high technlcal equipment; the great general of the future will be he who is able to divine best ali the possibilities of this new war movement, and military power will no longer depend on numbers, but on the genius of the direction and the technical accomplishments of a com paratively few human Instruments. A Novel Dinner Bell. A camp cook whose only means of I calling the members of his party was pounding on a pan with a knife han dle was unable to make them hear when they were fishing or hunting at any considerable distance from the | camp. One of the party to whom he complained thereupon made what he called a "klepalo." The "klepalo" was merely a piece of well-seasoned oak plank two incheft thick, six inches Wide and four feet long. Through the center he bored a hole, passed a rope through lt and suspended the plank from the branch of a tree. The cook "rang" the ln strument by strlking it with a mallet, first on one side and then on the other. The man who made the "klepalo" had seen slmilar contrivances in small Bulgarian villages, where they are used instead of church bells to cali the people to worship. A test of the lnstrument used by the campers showed that in ordinary weather con ditlons it could be heard two mlles. The Zodiac. The earliest astronomers, who were probably the shepherds and herdsmen of the old Sumerian civilization, noted that the sun appeared to make the circult of the heavens in one year. This is merely an appearance, due to the revolution of the earth around the sun every 12 months. So they divided the belt of sky through which he appeared to travel into 12 dlvisions. One for each division or constellation was named for something which they fancied its shape lndicated, as, Aries, the ram; Taurus, the bull, and so on. This belt of 12 constellations is called the zodiac, from the Greek word zoon, an animai. Various superstitions grad ually grew up; among them, that each part of the body was under the influ ence of a certain constellation, it in fluenced that part of the body. No sensible person believes any of this old-time superstition that the posltion of the heavenly bodies in these constel lations affect elther the body or plant Ufe. Exeunt Scarecrows. One of the many improvements re sulting from permittlng women to run the farm instead of to waste out their lives cooking for the thresher crew is said to be the substitution, on Long Island sound at least, of tallors' mod els for scarecrows. It is not llkely that erows can distlnguish a well dressed man from an ill-kempt one, but no matter how the dear girls slump around when they are by them selves, they do like a man who dresses up well. Besides, the models undoubt edly improve the appearance of the place more than the scarecrows do. For one thing, a man with good clothes is not expected to engagé ac tively in the farm work ; one in his oid clothes is out of place tdling until the evening chores are done. —Buffalo Ex press. Baving Food. M Drink to me only with thine eyes* —so said the poet." "Well?" "What did the poet mean by that?" "An early example of food conser va tion." The Practical Girl. He —You are the prettiest girl I ever saw. She—That sounds ali right, but I don't know how much the compii raent is worth until you teli me how many pretty girls you have seen. DAN CHINA BE INDEPENDENT? Entrane* Into Great World War ts Viewed From Different Angles by Editors. Much division of opinion exists in Japun regarding China'» declaration of war against Gernian.v. says the East and West News. Jap&n took the final step for two reasons: First, the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and, second, a deep-founded belief in the necesslty for solidarity of the far eastern pow er». The Osaka Asahi is strongly op posed to China's participation in the world's war. It says : "China decided Jto take the step, on the arrivai of Ylce-President Feng Kuo-chang at Pe kin. Nothlng could be more regret table than for an independent natlon to be forced by others to do anything lt doesn't want to do. The national existence of any nation that yields to coercion or undue persuasion is im periled I Some people regarded Japan's declaration of war against Germany merely from the viewpoint of the alli ance with England, but we favored Japan's dominance in this part of the Pacific." The editor of the Asahi wants to know what Feng Kuo-chang meant when he favored a declaration of war by China against Germany, but ob jected strenuously to joining the en tente powers. "Does he mean that, llke the Unite