)S; SAVED TER 17 HOURS Is Long Night in Position in the mac River. -Sixteen men from tha avy yard rescued Her- thirty-one years old, ly from a tiny rock Potomac river rapids re he had been ma- ours. the night searchlights the solitary prisoner ock slab, 2 by 3 feet, ind a half above wa- 0 man could survive, ht the navy men put boat to one of three the Maryland shore , rock; to this island a rope, which they ley reached the second peated the process un- the third. tened ropes to two of ho picked their way to Lugenbeel's side. Water Helps. rater drop overnight reaching Lugerbeel, and exhausted, into 1 the slippery rock sat cramped for 17 inst the current, but pes, they carried Lu- earest i r Seventeen Hours. scuers th=n reversed 1 island to island to ugenbeel was recov- 0 smile and ask: at?” J. H. Angel, both water rescues, set o shoot the rapids he bodies of two one of whom had zed among rocks. g to Rock. )e capsized, as had vomen., Each man- ock and cling to it. was 200 fer: from en more hazardous. 1 by a special fire equipped with a made its way by cessive rocks and ff in breeche: buoy lised while being th women m, le struggle to. save dislodged the body ld by rocks in the were ree Thrilling . op Locomotive -While two groken earing up 1% road- Baltimore & Ohio to the top of the | the exhaust valves losion in case the ive left the rails. ress was traveling an hour when the the Plainfield sta- . Goodright applied they did not func- A bushing flung ‘uck the upright of shelter and caused ar Smith of Plain- ing in the shelter, ur Bien, fireman, of the locomotive id clouds of steam he boilers through mile from where train stopped. It ngers first learned , Cries Away Burglar -Mrs. PF. A. Fal ed as night watch- r entered the Fal- the night. The ly, awakening his r's screams fright uder, THE PATTON COURIER A BOARDER WHO CAME FOR: REST CURE § PEPROEOROOROOE® (© by D. J. W 1S. BASSETT was worried. Her best room, the front one with the tiny balcony, was vacant after having been oc- cupied three years by one person. Mr. Patten had gone away and she did not expect to find his like again. As for the room, it might stand empty a long time, and that would be serious at this juncture, for Mrs. Bassett needed every penny she could get now that her young son John was undergoing all that expensive treatment for curva- ture at the Crittenden hospital. Mrs. Bassett was small and gray and tired looking, yet she never ad- mitted feeling fatigue. How could she with all that she had to do? With seven boarders and nobody but Annie Wood to help her & day now and then, she could not stop to think whether her head or her heels ached. She must keep going, for expenses did, and she must keep smiling, for nobody would stay lady. Now, however, when the Kitchen door bell rang the smile into which she instantly adjusted her features was a mere shadow of joy. That ring might mean, and probably did, that somebody with a patent measuring cup or dusting cloth would pounce upon her with his woes. Yet she had to smile just the same, for one never knew, except that prospective board- ers always came to the front door. A young woman was waiting for her, quite a young woman, in a dark- blue dress and cape with a gray krim- mer collar and a small gre hat. A suitcase, presumably heavy, sat at her feet. Her face was tired and sad, but Mrs. Bassett thought instantly that it was the sweetest face she had ever seen. And her voice matched the face. “I saw the card in your window,” she said. “ ‘Room to let.’ I should like it, please.” “Come in,” said Mrs. Barrett. She thought: “Probably she won't want to pay so much, but that is my price.” The young woman looked around, up and down and smiled. long with a cross-looking land- <4 “It is very mice. I will take it, please. And may I have board as well.” She didn’t seem to mind about the price at all. In fact, she didn’t seem to mind anything except that she was 80 extremely glad to have a place to rest in At dinner she appeared and took her place quietly. Mrs. Bassett intro- duced her to the other boarders, who were all there except Mr, Thayer. He didn’t appear until after the roast was served. “I'm sorry, Mrs. Bassett,” he said in his charming way. “But there was a whole dime that had to be accounted for in order to make the books bal- ance, and we all had to stay.” Mr. Thayer sat next to Miss Jane Wells and spoke to her once or twice. Mrs. Bassett thought: “What a nice- looking couple they would made!” She was fond of Mr. Thayer, who had been with her for two years. She knew that he was just what he looked to be— honest and direct and clean-hearted, one of those healthy, blond fellows whose characters keep them out of temptation and whose ambition leads them to success. It was Miss Willows who tried to find out something about Jane Wells. Miss Willows always found out about everybody. She prided herself on be- ing able to size a person up after a half hour's acquaintance. But she could not size up Jane. Her questions were evaded so skillfully that she found herself in the predicament of a person swimming against a strong current—she made endless effort with- out getting anywhere, Still, it was not in her nature to give up. Jane Wells, it appeared, must be taken or left as they found her. She had nothing to say for herself. She was there and that was all there was about it. Where she came from or where she was going and when—no- body could know. And how she could afford to occupy Mrs. Bassett’s best room was perhaps the greatest mys- tery of all for she did nothing with | her time except read and walk and | eat and sleep. Each day she grew fairer to behold and each day Roland Thayer looked at her with growing love and admiration. Two weeks had passed when one day Miss Willows found the clew she had been looking for. Jane Wells was going out with a letter to post and she dropped the letter. Instantly Miss Willows, who was just behind her, snatched it up and before she relin- quished it she had seen the address— “Mr. Felix Marvel,” with the street number and town, a town not a mil- lion miles away. So the fair Jane had an admirer! Well, she must tell Ro- land Thayer, and she did. Indeed, she went even farther. She went to Mrs. Bassett and filled that good woman's mind full of doubt and perplexity. “1 am sure,” Miss Willows said, “that Jane Wells isn’t her name ¢ that she isn't what she pretends to be. I am sure she is in hiding. Else why doesn’t she get any mail? Every- body else in this house gets mail ex- cept Jane Wells. Why, she hasn't even | had an answer to her letter.” “Oh, dear, Miss Williows, I don’t believe any wrong of her,” Mrs. Bas- sett sighed. And then she was afraid to say more lest she offend her old boarder, After all, that was the one ind | young | thing she must do of all others—keep on the right side of all the people un- der her roof, Miss Willows whispered in every ear. Roland laughed at her. Mrs, Marcey shook her head, Julia Lanning stared, astonished. It didn’t seem pos- sible, but Miss Willows must know what she was talking about. Gradually there came a change to- ward Jane Wells, A glance, a word, an act revealed it to her. She with- drew into herself and from everybody except Roland Thayer. To him she seemed to turn as if for protection at breakfast, at lunch. But when din- nertime came she didn't appear. She had gone, Mrs. Bassett said— paid her bill and gone. She had left no word. She had simply stepped back into the oblivion from which she had emerged. Not a single trace was left behind her, That evening Roland Thayer sought Mrs. Bassett where she sat in her tiny private “den” looking over accounts. “Do you think Miss Willows had anything to do with Miss Wells’ go- ing?’ he demanded. He looked gray and haggard and Mrs. Bassett pitied him. The dear boy! “No, 1 don’t,” she answered. “I think she was ready to go anyway. She said two or three weeks when she came.” “What is your idea’ of it all?” pleaded Roland, gazing upon his land- lady with agonized eyes. “Why—I think she came for a cure,” Mrs. Bassett replied. Roland knotted and unknotted his hands. “I love her,” he said. “I don’t know where she came from or why. I only know I am going to follow her and find her and win her if she is to be found, unless she is already married.” Sweat broke out on his temples. “That man whom she wrote to—" He sprang up. “You Bassett, “Now—to find him. of his bed. I'll—" Mrs. Bassett gently. “I know, knowing her, that you will find everything all right,” said. rest going? are exclaimed Mrs. I'll rout him out looked up at him she Hard to Escape From Indian Thief Tracker In India the great enemy of thieves is the Kkhoji, whese name signifies “searcher” or “tracker” and whose business is to track criminals by their footprints, These trackers are trained to their calling from youth and be- come exceedingly expert. They are an especial terror to the cattle steal- ers, who, in the parts of the Punjab adjoining the Indus and other large rivers, where much grazing is carried on, are very plentiful. These match their cunning against that of the tracker but they have to be very clev- er to throw him c& the scent, One of their tricks is to buffalo, drive it into the clinging to its tail, guide it in the | way they desire to go. By this means | they are quickly carried down the cur- | rent and telltale But the ruse is not always successfu for the reason that the tracker thinks nothing of distance and is likely to come upon the tracks farther on, where the thief was forced to leave the streani, A good tracker, it will follow a yard by yard, for a hundred miles and come up with him in the end. In one instance a burglar was once | tracked until the searcher reached the | lock-up of a village 80 miles from the starting point. Inside the building was the man he had set out to find. The police of that place had observed character walk- | ing about carrying a small bundle and | had promptly locked him up. An ex- | amination of the bundle brought to light jewelry worth several hundred rupees, In one instance the tracker’s skill al- most condemned an innocent man, Two sheep belonging to a government official had been stolen and the foot- prints were found to be those of a | man employed to look after the pub- | lic gardens. The man was arrested, but when the track was followed up it was found to | end opposite the police station, where the skins of the sheep were discovered. | As it seemed unlikely that a thief | would deposit his booty under the very eyes of the police, a further in- vestigation was made, and it was even- tually proved that the sheep had been taken by the police, who, to throw the trackers off the scent, had stolen and worn the gardener’s shoes. catch a river, and, | leave no footprints. | is asserted, thief, a suspicious-looking Birth of a Tree All mature trees and nearly all plants bear flowers for the purpose of reproduction through the formation of accomplish this there are organs, the pistil and the stamen. The flower includes the seed case, and tbe stamen bears the pollen, a fine dust, commonly yellow. In contact with the stigmatic surface of the pistil this fertilizes the flower, or, in the gardener’s language, sets the geed. These two parts, the essentials of a perfect flower, we usually find in each blossom In the garden, but trees, especially those in the woods, more often have a separate flower for each, a pollen-pearing flower and a seed-pro- ducing one.—Washington Star, seed. To two essential Sure Film Actor—1 rode a very footed horse in my last film, Friend—How do you know he was surefooted? Film Actor—Well, he kicked me in exactly the same place three times.— Tid Bits sure- | CHILD STUDY GROUPS HELD FOR MOTHERS "Entertaining the Children With Stories. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Extension workers among farm wom- en in Illinois have combined with their child study groups for mothers an ex- cellent arrangement whereby children who are brought to the meetings are separately cared for while the mothers are discussing their own problems. Most of these women are not situated so that they can leave the little ones at home, as the trip may be a long one, keeping them away for a whole morning or afternoon, Many of the questions brought up in a meeting devoted to child care and training should not be talked over when the children are present, In the case illus- trated the children play together out of doors under the direction of an assistant during good weather, or in | winter time, in a second room provided for them in the house where the meet- ing is held. A regular plan is followed with the children, so that their time is well spent, In the group in the pie- ture, which was taken by the United States Department of Agriculture, the children are telling stories. The little girl sitting next to the leader is keep- ing the others spell bound with her earnestness, Meantime, within doors, the range of discussion may include proper diet for children, habit training, care of teeth, dealing with unusual or difficult children, or any of the points that confront the observant and conscien- tious mother. Exchange of viewpoint and literature on children's welfare, and many other advantages result from these meetings. NEW FLAVORS FOR FRENCH DRESSING | Tang and Zest Is Sure to Be Very Much Appreciated. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) If one finds the family getting tired of ordinary French dressing on salad, there are a great many flavors and combinations of seasonings by which it may be varied, says the bureau of home economics, For instance, a little chopped pickle, or crumbled Roquefort cheese, or horseradish, added the last minute to a dressing, give it a tang and zest that will be much appreci- ated, Make a foundation dressing by the following recipe, and then try ad- ding some of these seasonings singly or in combination: 1 tablespoonful crumbled Roquefort cheese, 1 table- spoonful minced green pepper, 2 table- spoonfuls finely chopped stuffed olives, 1 tablespoonful chopped pimiento, 1; teaspoonful celery seed, 1 teaspoon- ful horseradish, 15; teaspoonful onion juice. Vinegar need not always be used in making a French dressing, Orange Making a Raw Vegetable Salad. or lemon juice, grapefruit juice, tar- ragon vinegar, and the spiced vinegar left from pickles or fruits, are all good variations of the acid called for | in the recipe. Here are some good salad combina- | tions on which French dressing in dif- ferent forms may be served: Lettuce | and watercress with chopped olives in the dressing, lettuce and dandelion with tarragon or spiced vinegar in the dressing, lettuce and curly endive with horseradish dressing, Romaine and cress with Roquefort cheese dress- ing, lettuce and cabbage with celery seed dressing, head lettuce, either with Roquefort cheese, onion, celery seed, pimiento, or green pepper in the dress- ing. 3 tbe, oil 1; tsp. salt 1 or 2 tbs, vinegar, 31% tsp. sugar depending on Paprika acidity Have the oil cold and beat the in- gredients with a dover egg beater un- til well blended, or place in a wide- mouthed bottle, cork tightly, and shake well before serving. Effective Control of Many Poultry Diseases The most effective control of poul- try disease must come through poul- try raisers themselves who will em- ploy veterinarians skilled in poultry diseases. Governmental and state ac- tion in case of diseases of poultry should aim at the protection of do- mestic fowls from foreign contagion, to prevent the spread of poultry dis- eases from state to state, and to eradi- cate communicable diseases within a state when they appear. Co-operation among states would be advisable, and each state in which poultry raising is important should establish® a compe- tent veterinary poultry service which should include poultry research lab- ovatories and competent workers, Refreshing Lemon Ices During the Hot Season Lemons are obtainable the year around almost everywhere. If one can also get ice and has an ice cream freezer it is possible to enjoy refresh- ing lemon ices through the hot weath- er. This is especially good served in muskmelons, The following propor- tions are suggested by the bureau of home economics: 3, cup lemon juice EA (from 5 to 6 lemons) more if desired 215 cups water 14 tsp. salt 1 egg white cup sugar er Prepare a sirup of the water and sugar and boil for 2 minutes. When cold add the strained lemon juice and salt, and freeze with a mixture of 1 part of salt to 4 to 6 parts of ice. Turn the crank slowly until the mix- ture is partly frozen, then quickly add the beaten white of egg, and continue to turn the crank until the ice is firm. temove the dasher, press the con- tents solidly into the can, cover with waxed paper and replace the top on the can. Pack with more ice and salt and allow to stand an hour or more to ripen before serving. Orange and Honey Good for Summer Afternoons For summer afternoons, to serve with iced tea or fruit drinks, a sand- wich that is slightly sweet is very ac- ceptable. For this purpose the bread | should be preferably twenty-four hours old so that it can be sliced very thin, without breaking. Here is a combina tion suggested by the bureau of home | economics: 4 tbs. grated orange 1 tsp. salt rind Butter 4 tbs. thick honey Wash the oranges and grate the yel low portion. Mix with the honey and add the salt. Cut the bread into thin slices, remove the crusts, and cover the bread with softened butter. Spread the filling on one side and press the slices together. Accurate Culling Is of Great Importance Accurate culling requires that each hen be examined. To facilitate han- dling the birds they should be shut up the night before. A great conven- ience is a coop into which the birds may be driven and from which they may be easily removed. Another method is to seize the birds by use of a strip of wire netting about fifteen feet long. Catching hooks made of stiff wire may be used to advantage in picking up the strays while landing nets used in fishing may be used for this purpose. Regardless of the meth- od used, it is desirable to handle the flock without undue excitement. Too hot an iron will yellow silk and make it stiff, - * . Do not use formaldehyde as a spray or fumigant against moths. * . * Fruits and simple desserts are the | | seratch grain, only sweets necessary for small chil- dren, . . - | again The best way to cook potatoes is to | bake them, because then they keep all their minerals. * » » The refrigerator is cooled when ice melts, therefore, ice should never be covered with paper. ¥ * LJ Vinegar and lemon added to the wa- ter in which salad greens are being crisped draws out insects. . » * Paint brushes which have become hard and dry may be softened by soaking up to the leugth of the bristle in hot vinegar. | plied to COCCIDIOSIS CAN BE CONTROLLED Drugs, no matter how impressive their labels, are of no value in con- trolling coccidiosis, chick disease that is fully as bad as it sounds. The poultrymen who regularly svery spring lose chicks from this dis- ease might better put their faith in inexpensive sanitation methods and the feeding of milk to control coccidio- sis, according to extension poultry specialists at the Ohio State univer- sity. Scientists at the University of Cali- fornia tried these medicines to control coccidiosis: Hydrochloric acid, cate- chy, a mixture of bichloride of mer- cury and sulpho-carbolates, potassium dichromate, powdered ipecac and bis- muth subnitrate, None of the drugs was effective, “The disease can be controlled,” the | Ohio specialists say, “by sanitation and by liberal feeding of milk. The milk helps by producing acidity in the ceca and by stimulating rapid growth. The mash recommended by the University of California is this: Forty pounds of dry skim milk, 10 pounds of wheat bran, 30 pounds of yellow corn meal, 20 pounds of ground { oats or barley. “Start feeding this mash as soon No Phone Service ‘oa for Channel Isles It Is impossible to telephone from { England to the Channel islands—Jer- | sey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. as the presence of the disease is deter- | mined. fore the chicks in hoppers. The es- sential thing is to get sufficient milk into the chick and to keep the house and surroundings absolutely clean. “Sick chicks should immediately be from healthy Burn separated ones, the dead ones.” More Than One Culling Is Essential in Year Culling hens is the of re- moving from the flock the undesirable, the object being to increase the aver- process i age egg production of the flock and to [retain for breeding purposes those hens which possess superior qualities. While the term culling is usually ap- hens during their laying period, successful poultrymen are con- stantly employing a system of culling, including the eggs selected for incu- bation, the young stock at broiler size. the pullets just before they go into their winter laying quarters, and the males used as breeders, The greatest emphasis in the past has been placed on the laying flock on the basis that the best producers in the past will naturally be the best producers in the future, The first requirement for successful culling is the treatment of the flock prior to the culling process. Obvicus- ly good hens will appear as culls if they have not received proper rations or care, The most expert will be help- less in determining the relative value of various hens unless the hens have been fed satisfactory laying rations in adequate amounts, Egg-Laying Difficulty Is Very Easily Cured It often happens that a hen has dif- ficulty in laying an egg—probably a particularly large double-yolked one. Such a bird is easily detected. Not only is she to be seen visiting the nest and again without effect, but she is visibly ill at ease, Keep the mash constantly be- | crouching | about with tail down and a generally | woe-begone appearance. The quickest way to relieve her is to give her two teaspoonfuls of castor oil (by means of a clean fountain-pen filler), and immediately after to pour into the vent two teaspoenfuls of olive oil. This will inevitably result in the egg being passed within an hour or so. Like Old Roosts Pullets learn to like their roosts in the colony houses and fruit After they have been housed for sev- eral weeks the weather may be warm and sunshiny, and there is a great temptation to turn out the flock for a trees. few more days of exercise on the range. If this is done, and the pul- lets have any way of returning to their old roosts, they are apt to leave the laying house some evening, and it is a most discouraging job picking them from the trees Corn Is Important Good yellow corn is very important Difliculties in mash and scratch feed. experienced with coarsely cracked grains have caused some people to not use it as much as would other- wise be the case. When corn is cracked, it should be sifted and the finer parts put into the mash. The remainder should then be used as If fine parts of cracked fed in the mash, it will and will mold on the other damp places, grain are not not be eaten floors and Sun Saps Pep Exposure to the sun turns white plumage yellow, bleaches yellow and buff plumage, robs black feathers of their luster and turns them brown. The sun which puts life into chickens. if given in continuous doses saps their pep and stunts their growth. Ducks suffer even more. Poults wilt. Wheth- er it be a shelter of branches or bur- lap. ~r the living shade of bushes and trees, give the poultry a hiding place frem the hot sun during the summer season. They have always been in a state of splendid telephonic isolation in spite of the fact that telephone conversa- tions between that country and the United States and other distant coun- tries are going on every day. This “discovery” was made by a re- porter who had an urgent message to convey to Jersey. “We have no tele- phonic communication at all with the Channel islands, and we never have had,” explained a post office official. “It is possible that lines to Jersey and other places may be a development of the future, but we have none at pres- ent,” Jersey has a population of 49,- 494 and Guernsey 40,120, Planting in Memory The memorial tree idea that has been taken up throughout the coun- try under the leadership of the Amer- fcan Tree association lends itself ad- mirably to the Road of Remembrance plan, This should be kept in mind by every tree planter, for if the tree is a memorial tree or the road is a Road of Remembrance, the planting must be of such character that those for whom the trees are planted would be proud of the new beauty given to the world, Man-Made Seas If the Boulder dam of the Colorado river is ever completed as designed it will have a capacity of 26,000,000 acre feet of water, Some of the other great constructions of this character created follows: Gatun dam, 4,410,000; Assouan dam, $1,865.- 000; Elephant Butte dam, 2,368,000, dam, 4,410,000; Assouan dam, 1,865, and Almanor dam, 1,318,000. storage as Beneficent Silence “And you wedding, away?’ “Oh, nobody said a word!” were present at Jean's dear. 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Just as effective in any season with bottled juices or unsweetened canned fruits. Get Pexel at your grocet’s. Only 30c. Recipe booklet with easy-to-follow directions in every package. The Pexel Company, Chicago, III. : “WW Here are a few examples of how much jelly Pexel makes: 42 cups strawberry juice, Pexel, 8 cups sugar male 11 glasses of jelly. 42 cups raspberry juice, Pexel, 8 cups sugar make 11 glasses of jelly. 6 cups currant juice, Pexel, 10 cups sugar make 14 glasses of jelly. 4%2 cups grape juice, Pexel, 7 cups sugar make 10 glasses of jelly,
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