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H f DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. n v ( fi ------ nr ... FREDERICK PALMER i i ! - I Mmni wwiiniiiiuuuMiiimniiimi phiiji, n iihii (Copyright. 1914, by SYNOPSIS. At their home on the frontier between thu Browns and Grays Marta aallnnd and hor mother, entertaining Colonel Wester Hni? of the Qrnys, see Captain Uinutron, atari Intelligence olllcei of the Urowns, lnjurdd by a fall In his aeroplane. Ten years later. Wcsterllng, nominal vice but real chief of stair, reinforces South La Tlr, meditates on war, und speculutcB on the comparative ages of hlmBelf and Mar ta. who Is visiting In the Gray capital. Westcrllng calls on Marta. She tells him of her teaching children the follies of war and martial patriotism, begs him to pre vent war, while ho Is chief of staff, and predicts that If ho makes wnr against the Urowns he will not win. On the march with tho D3d of the Urowns 1'rlvute Htran fiky, anarchist, decries war und played out patriotism and Is plared under arrest. Colonel Lanstron overhearing, begs him pfr. Lanstron calls on Mnrta at her homo. Ho talks with Feller, tho gardener Martu tells Lnnstron that she believes Kcllor to be a spy. Lanstron confesses It Is tru Lanstron nitons .Martu a telephone which I'eller has concealed In a secret passago under tho lower for use to benefit the Urowns In war emergencies. Lr.nstron de clares his love for Mnrta. Wcsterllng and the Gray premier plan to uso a trivial In ternational affair to foment warlike pa triotism In army and peoplo and strike be fore declaring war. I'artow, JJrown chief of staff, and Lnnstron, mndo vice, discuss the trouble, and the Brown defenses. Par tow reveals his plans to Lanstron. The Gray army crosses the border lino and at tacks. The Urowns check them. Artil lery, Infantry, aeroplanes and dirigibles engage. Stransky, rising to mako tho anarchist nnnopli nt lila life flrnw the Gray artillery fire. Nicked by a shrapnel splinter he goes Berserk nnd fights "all a man." Mnrta has her first glimpse of war In Its modern, cold, scientific, mur derous brutality. CHAPTER X Continued. This was the very thing to whip her thoughts back from tho knoll. He was tliundorBtruck at tho transforma tion: hot color In her checks, eyes aflame, lips curving around a whirl wind of words. "You naino tho very reason why I wish to stay. Why do you want to savo tho women? Why shouldn't thoy bear their shard? Why don't you want them to see men mowed down? Is it because you aro ashamed of your profession? Why, I nsk?" Tho problem of dealing with an angry woman breaking a shell flro of questions over his head had not been ready solved In tho captain's curricu lum like other professional probloms, nor was It mentioned in tho official instructions about the defenses of tho Galland house. Ho aimed to Bmllo soothingly in tho helplessness of man in presonco of fomlnlno fury. "It Is an old custom." ho woe say ing, but sho had turned away. "Lanny's plan mow them down I mow them downl mow them down!" ahe went on, more to horsolf than to him, Was there nothing for her to do? Could sho only look on in a fovor of restlessness whllo action roared around her? Tho sight of sovoral au tomobllo artibulnnces in tho road at the foot of tho gardon stilled tho throbs of distraction in her temples with an answer. Tho wounded I They woro already coming in from tho field. Sho hurried down the terrace steps. Tho major surgeon in chargo, sur prised to find any woman in tho vi cinity, was about to toll her so auto matically; then, in view of her inten sity, ho waited Tor hor to speak. "You will let us do something for them?" Marta asked, "Wo will muko them somo'ltot soup." Ho was immediately businesslike. No less than Dellnrmo or Pracasao or Lanstron or Westorllng, ho had been preparing throughout his professional caroer for this hour. Tho detail of caring for the men who were down had been worked out no loss system atlcally than that of wounding them. "Thank you, no I Wo don't want to waste time," ho replied. "Wo must get thora away with ail speed so that tho ambulanceB may return promptly. It'B only a fifteen-minute, run to tho hospital, where ovory comfort and ap pliance are ready and whero thoy vlll be given tho right things to oat." "Then wo will give them some wlnol" Marta persisted. "Not If wo can provent it! Not to Btart hemorrhages! Tho field doctors havo brandy for uso when advisable and thoro is brandy In all tho ambu lances," Clearly, volunteor eervlco was not wanted. There was no roohi nt tho immediate front for Floronco Nightin gales in the modern machine of war, "Then water?" Tho major surgeon aimed to bo pa Uont to an earnest, attractive young woman, "Wo have Bterillzcd water wo havo everything," ho explained, "If we hadn't at this early stage I ought to be Bervlng an apprenticeship in a vil lage apothecary ahop. Anything that means' confusion, delay, unnecessary excitement la bad and unmerciful." Marta was not yet at tho end of her resources. The recollection of tho dy ing private who had asked hor mother for a rose in tho last war flashed Into mind. "You haven't any flowers! They won't do any harm, oven if thoy aren't sterilized, The wounded like flowers, don't thoy? Don't you ltko floworsT Look! We'vo millions!" "Yes, I do. Thoy do. A good idea. Bring all tho flowora you want to." Tho major surgeon's smile to Marta was not altogether on account of her suggestion. "It ought to help anybody who was over wounded anywhero In the world to havo you glvo him a flower!" ho was thinking. She rau for an armful of blossoms and was back beforo tho arrival of tho first wounded man who preceded tho stretchers on foot, Ho was holding up a hand bound in a white first-aid bandage which had a red. spot In tho center. Those hit In hand or arm, it the surgeon's glance Justified it, were sent on up the road to a point a mile distant, whero transportation In requi sitioned vehicle!! was provided, Thoso men were triumphant in their cheer fuloiia. They were alive; they had Charles Scribncfs Sons) dono their duty, and they had tho proof of It In tho coming souvenirs of scars. Somo of the forms on Btrotchcrs had peaceful faces In unconsciousness of their condition. Others had a look of wonder, of pnln, of npprehenelon In their consciousness that death might bo near. Tho slnglo word "Shrapnel!" by a hospital-corps corporal told tho story of crushed or lacerated features, In explanation of a whlto cloth cover ing a head with body uninjured. Many of tho wounded looked at Marta even more than nt tho flowers. It wns good to see tho face of a wom an, her eyes limpid with sympathy, and It was not what sho said but tho way bIio spoke that brought smiles In response to hers. For sho was no solemn ministering angel, but high spirited, cheery, of tho sort that the major surgeon would have chosen to dlstrlbuto flowers to tho men. Every remark of tho victims of war mado its distinct and indcllblo Impression on tho gelatin of her mind. "I llko my blue aster better than that yellow weed of yours, Tom!" "You didn't know Ed Schmidt got it? Yes, ho was right next to mo In the line." "Say, did you notlco Dcllarme'fl smile? It was wonderful." "And old Bert Stransky! I heard him whistling tho wedding march as ho fired." "Miss, I'll keep this flower forever!" "Thoy say Billy Lister will llvo his chock was shot nway!" "Onco we got going I didn't mind. It seemed llko nB if I'd been fighting for years!" "Hole no bigger than a lead-pencil. I'll bo back In a week!" "Yes; don't those little bullets mako neat little holes?" "We certainly gave them a surprise when thoy came up tho hill! I won dor if wo missed the fellow that Jumped Into tho shell crater!" "Our company got it worst!" "Not nny worso than ours, I'll wa gorl" "Oh oh can't you go easier? Oh-h-h " tho groan ending in a clench-. lng of tho tooth. "Hollo, Jakol You hero, too, nnd going In my automobllo? And we've both got, lower borthsl" "Sh-h! That poor chap's dying!" Worst of nil to Marta was the caso of a shrapnel frncturo of tho cranium, "Why You Want to Women?" with the resulting delirium, In which tho sufferor's Incohoronco Included motnorlos of childhood scones, mo ments on tho flring-llno, calls for his mother, nnd prayers to bo put out of inlsory. A prod of tho hypodonnlc from tho major Burgeon, and "On tho operating table In fifteen minutes" was tho answer to Marta'B question if tho poor follow would llvo. Until dark, In groups, nt Intervals. and again singly, the wounded woro ' coming in from a brigade front in the region whero tho rifles woro crackling nnd tho. shrapnel clouds woro hanging prettily over tho hills; and stretchers were being slipped Into plnco in the ambulances, while Marta kept at hor post. "Wo shan't have much moro to do at thlB stutlon," said tho major surgeon when a plodding section of infautry in retreat arrived. CHAPTER XI. At the Galland House. Every unit engrossed in his own wo.'kl Every man taught how a weak link may break a chain nnd realizing himself ne a link and only a link! Tho captain of engineers forgot Marta'a ox. lstenco as an error of his subordinates caught IiIb oyo, and ho wont to caution tho nxmen to cut closer to tho ground, bb stumps gave cover for rifloraon. For tho tlmo being ho had no moro Interest in tho knoll than in tho wreckage of tho dirigibles which woro down and out of tho fight. After all, tho knoll was only a single point on tho vast staff mup only one of many points of a struggle whoao progress was bulletined through the slftlnga of reglmontal, brigado, divi sion and corps headtjuartora In not re sults to" tho ataff. Partow and Lan stroh overlooked all. Their knowledgo mado tho vast map live undor their eyes. But our concern Is with tha Jf--5 Savo tho story of two regiments, nnd particu larly of two companies, and that Is etory enough. If you would grasp tho wholo, multiply tho conflict on tho knoll by ten thousand. There had been tho engrossment of transcendent emotion in repelling tho charge. What followed was llko somo grim nnd passionless trance with triggers ticking off tho slow-passing mlnutos. Dellnrmo aimed to keep down tho fusillade from FracaBso's trench and yot not to neglect the fair targets of tho reserves ndvanclng by rushes to tho support of tho 128th. Kojnforced, tho gray streak at tho bot tom of tho slopo poured In a heavier flro, Abovo tho steady cracklo of bul lotB sent nnd tho whistle of'bullets re ceived roso tho cry of "Doctor! Doc tor!" which meant each tlmo that an other Brown rifle had been silenced. Tho litter bearers, hard pressed to re move tho wounded, left tho dead. Al ready death was a familiar sight an artlclo of exchango In which Del larmo's men dealt freely. Tho man at Stransky's sldo had been killed out right. Ho lay faco down on his rlflo stock. His cap had fallen off. Stran sky put it back on tho man's head, and tho example was followed in other cases. It was a good idea to keep up a show of a full lino of caps to tho enemy. Suddonly, as by command, tho flro from tho baso of tho knoll ceased nlto gothor. Dcllarmo understood at once what this meant tho next stop In tho courso of a systematic, Irresistible ap proach by superior numbers. It was to allow tho ground scouts to advance. Individual gray spots detaching them selves from tho gray streak began to crawl upward in search of dead spaces whero the contour of tho ground would furnish some protection from the blaze of bullets from tho crest. "Over their heads! Don't try to hit them!" Dellarmo passed tho word. "That's it! Spare one to got a dozen 1" said Stransky, grinning In ready comprehension. Ho seemed to bo grinning ovory tlmo that Dellarme looked in that direction. Ho waB plainly enjoying himself. His restless naturo had found sport to Its tnsto. Tho creeping scouts must havo sig naled back good news, for groups be gan crawling slowly after them. "Over their headB! Encourage them!" Dellarmo commanded. After they had advanced two or three hundred yards they stopped, shoulders and hands exposed In silhou ette, and began to work foverishly with their spades. "Oh. beautiful!" cried Stransky. "That baby captain of ours has somo brains, after all! We'll get them now and we'll got them when they run!" But they did not run. Unfalteringly thoy took their punlf hment while they turned over tho protecting sod In the midst of their own doad and wounded. In a few minuted thoy had dropped spades for rifles, and othor sections either crawlod or ran forward pre cipitately and foil to tho task of Join ing tho Isolated beginnings Into a slnglo trench. Again Dollnrmo looked townrd regl montal headquarters, his flxod,' cheery Bmllo not wholly masking the appeal In his eyes. Tho Grays had only two or throo hundred yards to go when thoy should mako their next chargo In order to reach tho crest. But hia men had fifteen hundred to go In tho val ley beforo thoy wero out of rango. Aftor their bravo resistance facing tho onomy they would receive n hall of bullots In their backs. This was tho tlmo to withdraw if there woro to bo assurance of a safe rotreat. But thore was no signal. Until there was, ho must romaln. Tho trench grow; the day woro on. Two rifles to ono wore now playing against his dovoted company, which had had neither food nor drink since early morning. As ho "scanned his thinning lino ho saw a look of hlood lessness and hopelessness gathering on tho sot faces of which he had grown bo fond during this ordeal. Somo of tho men wero crouching too much for effective aim. "Soo that you flro low! Keep your headB up!" ho callod. "For your homes, your country and your God! Pass tho word along I" Parched throat after parched throat repeated tho message hoarsely and leaden shouldors raised a trlflo and dust-matted eyolashos narrowed sharp ly on tho sights. "For the man In us!" growled Stran sky. "For tho favor of nature at birth that gavo ua tho right to wear trou sers Instead of skirts! For the Joy of hell, glvo thorn hell!" "For our homos! For tho man In us!" thoy ropoatod, swallowing tho words as if thoy bad tho taste of a stimulant. But Dellarmo know that It would not take much to preclpltato a break. Ho himself felt that ho had beep on Procuring Rest for Brain English Physician Gives Advice to Those Who Suffer From Lack of Sound Sleep. Many men and women, especially tboao past their first youth, And diffi culty In procuring tho sound, restful sloop so necessary to keep mind and body lit. Mthough physically tho body Is tired out, tho brain Is as alert as ever, aud perfect oblivion Is Im possible. An English physician gives somo Interesting advlco on tho mattor. "In somnia," ho states, "la one of tho pen alties of tho Increasing strain modern lifo throws upon our brains. Tho man who works with his muscles and lives In tho open air is raroly a vic tim of sleeplessness. "Tho essentials for a good night's rest aro montal repose, n requlalto amount of muscular fatlguo, comfort able body heat, and plenty of ven tilation. "The most difficult to secure Is lessened brain aotlvlty. An excellont that knoll half a lifetime Ho looked at his watch and It was five o'clock For seven hours they had held on. The Grays' tronch wns completo tho breadth of tho slope; moro reserves wero coming up. The brigade com mandor of tho Grays was going to mako sure that tho r.oxt chargo suc ceeded. At Inst Dollarmo's glnnco townrd reglmentnl hendquartors showed tho flag that was tho signal for with drawal. Could ho accomplish lt7 Tho first lieutenant, with a shattered arm, had gono on a litter. Tho old ser geant was dead, a victim of tho colo nial wars. Used to fighting savage en emies, ho had been too eager In ex posing himself to a civilized foe: Ho had been shot through tho throat "Men of tho first section," Dellarmo called, "you will slip out of lino with tho greatest care not to let tho enemy know that you aro going!" "Going going I Careful! Men of tho first section going!" tho parched throats repeated in a thrilling whisper. "Those who remain keep Increasing their flro!" called Dellarmo again. "Cover tho wholo breadth of the trench!" Every fourth man wormed himself backward on his stomach until ho wns below tho sky-line, when his stiffened limbs brought him to his feet and ho started on a dead run down into tho valley and toward a cut behind an other knoll across tho road from tho Galland house. Tho others followed at Intervals. Once across a road and up three se ries of steps of tho other garden ter race, behind a breastwork of sand bags, the company rested. Most of them had fallen asleep on tho ground after finishing their rations, logs of men In animal exhaustion. Some of thoso awako wero too weary to glvo to each other moro than a nod and smile. Thoy had witnessed too much horror that day to talk about It. But Stransky foraged. Marta, coming out on tho veranda, saw him. "You aro tired! You nro hungry!" sho said with urgent gentleness. "Come in!," He followed her Into tho house and dropped on a leather chair before a shining table In a room paneled with oak, wondering at hor and at hlmBelf. No woman of Marta'a world had over spoken In that way to him. But It was good to sit down. Then a maid with a sad, winsome faco and tender eyes brought him wlno and bread and cold meat and Jam. Ho guljKJd down n glassful of wlno; ho ate with great mouthfuls In tho ravenouB call of healthy, exhausted tissues, while the maid stood by to cut moro bread. "When It comes to eating after fight ing" He looked up when tho flrst pangs of hunger woro assuaged. Enormous, broadhouldered, physical, his cheekB flushed with wlno, his eyes opened wldo and brilliant with tho flro that was In his naturo eyes that spoke the red business of anarchy and war. "Say, but you're pretty!" Springing up, ho caught hor hand and mado to kiss her In tho brashness of Impulse. Minna struck him a' sting ing blow In the fnce. He received It as a mastiff would receive a bite from a pup, and sho stood hor ground, her eyes challenging his fearlessly. "So you nro like that!" he said thoughtfully. "It was a good ono, and you meant It, too." "Decidedly!" sho answered. "There's moro whero that camo from!" Then little Clarissa Eileen entered and pressed against her mother's skirts, subjecting Stransky to child hood's scrutiny. He waved a finger at her and grinned and drow his eyes together in a squint at the bridge of his noso, making a funny faco" that brought a laugh. "Your child?" Stransky asked Minna. "Yes." "Whoro's her fathor? Away fight ing?" "I don't know whero he la!" "Oh!" he mused. "Was that blow for him at the same tlmo as for me?" ho pursuod thoughtfully. "Yes, for" all of your kind." "M-m-m!" camo from between his lips as ho roso. "Would you mind hold ing out your hand?" ho asked with a gentleness singularly out of keeping with his rough nspect. "Why?" sho demanded. "I'vo never studied any books of oti quetto of pollto society, and I am a poor sort at making speeches, anyhow. But I want to kiss a good woman's hand by way of apology. I never kissed ono In my life, but I'm getting a lot of new oxperlencea today. Will you?" Sho held out her hand at arm's length and flushed slightly as ho pressed his lips to it "You certainly do cut thick slices," ho said Bmlllng. "And you certainly - Plan la. to tako a bnlsk half-hour's walk Just beforo bodtlmo, followed by a hot bath and n rubdowu, and then a cup of warm milk and a biscuit or two as ono gets Into bod. "If in nddltlon, tho mind bo fo cussod on somo pleasant but not ex citing topic, a night's rest is nssurod to all but the most chronic sufferor. "Tho type in which tho sleeper sud denly awakoB an hour or so aftor hav ing fallen asloop usually means that moro outdoor muscular exercise Is required." Coming Into Her Own. Woman Is certainly coming Into her own. Even In tender romance sho is exerting an influence. The young man bad Just been ac cepted. In his rapturo ho exclaimed; "But do you think, my lovo, I am good enough for you?" His strong-minded fiancee looked stornly at hlm for a moment and re plied: "Good enough for mo? You'vo got to bel" Judge, , aro pretty," ho added, passing out of tho door as Jauntily as If ho wero ready for another fight and Just In tlmo to seo tho colonol of tho regiment como around the house. Ho stood at tho salute, half proudly, half defiantly, but In nowlso humbly. "Well, Major Dollarmol" was tho colonel's greotlng of tho company com mander. "Major?" exclaimed Dellarmo. "Yes. Partow has the power. Four of the aviators havo iron crosses al ready and promotion, too; nnd you nro a major. Company G got Into-a mess and tho wholo reglmont would havo been In ono unless you held on. So I let you stay, It all camo out right, as Lanstron planned right so far. But your losses have boon heavy and hero you uro In tho thick of It again. Your company may change places with Company E, which haa had a relatively easy time." "No, sir; wo would, prefer to stay," Dellarmo answered quietly. "Good! Thou you will tako this battalion and I'll transfer Qroller to Alvery's. Bad loss, Alvery shrapnel. Tho artillery has been doing ugly work, but that Is all In favor pf tho defensive. If wo can hold them on this lino till tomorrow noon, It's all wo want for tho present," ho con cluded. "We'll hold them! Don't worry!" put In Stransky. If a private had spoken to a colonel In this fashion at drill, without being spoken to, It would havo been a glar ing breach of military etiquette. Now that they wero at war It was differ ent. Real comradeship between officer and man begins with war. "Wo shall, eh?" chuckled the colonel. "You look big enough to hold any thing, young man! Here! Isn't this tho fellow that Lanstron got off?" "Yes, sir," answered Dellarme. "Well, was Lanstron right?" "Yes, sir." "Wonderful man, Lanstron!" "He knows just a little too much!" Stransky growled. As Fracasse's men rose from their trench for the final chargo and found that the enemy had gone, nn officer "I Want to Kiss a Good Woman's Hand by Way of Apoiefly." of tho brigade staff brought Instruc tions to tho colonel. "Tho batteries aro going to omplaco hero for your support In the morning. You will move as soon as your men havo eaten and occupy positions B-31 to B-35. That gives you a narrow front for ono battalion, with two bat talions in reserve to drive homo your attack. Tho chief of staff himself do sires that wo tako the Galland house before noon. The enemy must not havo tho encouragement of any suc cesses." "So easy for Westorllng to say," thought the colonel; while aloud he acknowledged tho message with proper spirit. Beforo tho ordor to move was given tho news of it passed from lip to Up among tho men In tired whispers. Slnco dawn thoy had lived through tho Impressions of a whole war, and they had won. With victory they had not thought of tho future, only of their hunger. After tho nightmare of tho chargo, after hearing death whisper ing for hours Intlmatoly In tholr ears, thoy were too weary and too far thrown out of the adjustments of any natural habits of thought and feeling to realize tho horror of eating their dinners in the company of tho dead. Now they wero to go through another hell, but many of them In their ex haustion woro chiefly concorned ns to whether or not thoy should get any sleep that night. Tho satire of war makes tho valet's son a hero; tho chance of war klllo the manufacturer's son and Jets the day-laborer's son llvo; the sport of war gives tho latent forces of a Stran sky full play; tho glory of war brings Dellnrmo quick promotion; tho glam our and tho spectacular folly of wnr turn tho bolts of tho lightnings which man .has mastered against man. Per haps tho savago who learned that he could start a flame by rubbing two dry sticks together may havo sot flro to tho virgin forest nnd wild grass in order to destroy an enemy and natu rally with disastrous results to him self It ho mistook the direction of tho wind. Mnrta Galland's thoughts at dusk when sho returned up tho stops to tho house wore of tho wreckage tho hot whirlwind of war left Sho was see ing fathers staring and mothers woop lng. Hor experience with tho wound ed drawing deep on the wells of sym pathy, heightened her loathing of war and of all who planned and ordered It and led its legions. Sho had been en gaged slnco dark In completing the work of moving valuable articles from the front to tho rear rooms of tho houBO, which had been begun early In tho day by Minna and the coachman. tTO BE CONTINUED.) HOW FARMER MAY HARVEST THE ICE CR0p W jdSSvbwts S 2M'ccnes3t?a of T& G. bourtj, :J TXS yj r ZlQutr injutotmo paper 2. ply between. W i' TVOOCCv f. ' "vVfy"" "uuhtino paper btfmen boonts. 1 1 rvvvCvv (""Wee. ' ;j VVV i ' ' -Zr""""""'1r,"y ceoi efoikriess pihh. W SSS. M - ZT;:.'t,Q- ""' l!cntl. VVXV JItVa " -" Cy filliny. OOoX if" T.&G. boards iY'ctVjJJ. ' iSSSS i)i Htary Coot af o&rteJ p,ich ' W ","j yC& S. boortj I rA'c(?r. M XXV K jr.t'&'3quart jtietrr'nOm I NW f Xftiearycootor ularlijs pihth. 'W ke tiause Insulation SHcH tVoAs- y HrTttmptraturea cf from ov'toto'rT I 1 j Fig. 1. Diagram Showing the Insulation of an Ice House for Storing Ice Without Sawdust or Shavings. Fig. 2. An Ice Plow (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) In harvesting ice, very different methods aro required for that which is not over four inches thick and Ico from six to fifteen inches In thick ness. The thin lco generally will be broken into fairly regular cakes, which will be loaded as best they may into sleds or wagons and hauled to the storehouse. Horo they should bo arranged in layers and adjusted as closely as possible. The spaces be tween tho cakes should be filled with crushed lco or snow to cause tho whole mass to freeze Into a block of ice as solid as it is possible to mako. It is La ore difficult to store and keep lco of tjils character than that har vested in regular cakes. Thin Ice is characteristic of tho southern limits of the storage of nat ural ice. The .supply is more or less uncertain and tho storage period is long. Tho irregular form of tho cakes makes it difficult to pack the ico so as to prevent air spaces, which may form air passages and cause rapid loss. Irregular blocks and cakes aro loss easily insulated than cakes of uniform size and thickness. If the mass Is stored in a building without packing material about it, Insulation must be provided In the construction of tho houso. The walls must bo thick; well packed with mill shavings or dry sawdust, and tightly boarded on both sides of the packl g material. A space of 15 inches between tho walls, tlghtlr packed with good In sulating material, is none too much. An added safeguard would bo to double both the outside and insldo walls. Tho type of wall construction suggested in Fig. 1 would bo suit ablo for a houso Intended for tho stor ago of lco of this character. Harvesting lco from six to fifteen Inches in thickness permits tho uso of tools and' implements that And no placo in harvesting thin ico. Tho field may be laid off so as to cut the cakos to Btandnrd dimensions of 22 by 22 inches or 22 by 32 Inches. Ob long cakes havo some advantages over square ones, ns thoy can bo lapped to break joints as thoy are stored thus reducing the possibility of tho formation of air passages In the lco heap. , In order to obtain cakes square or rectangular In form, a square mado from light strips of boards with straight edges may bo used. A square with sides twolvo to six teen feet long will servo tho purpose niceiy. Draw a lino ucross the ice field parallol with each sldo of tho squaro and with a hand marker or with a saw accurately follow this lino. By tho uso of a plow with a suage attached, such as Is shown In Fig. 2, tho field can bo cut Into parallol bands or ribbons. If tho harvest Is nn ox tenslvo ono and tho water is of con siderable depth, after tho flold Is plowed at right angles to the flrst plowing the lco may bo barred off in largo masses or strips and floated to tho shore or loading plnco, whore it can easily bo broken by an lco apud or bar Into cakos of tho dimensions outlined by tho plow. Tho uso of a plow Is not confined to largo flolds or to lco that will bear tho woltht of a horse. On thin lco floltls a plow can bo used by attac .lng it to a light wire cablo or ropo pulled by a horso on tho bank. Floe Ice. Undor certain conditions the only practicable way of obtaining a supply of natural ice is to catch It aa It is With a Guide Gauge Going out in the spring. When the snow melts and tho spring rains come, tho ico at tho hcadwators of streams breaks up and Is carried down in largo masses, which can be caught at considerable distances from the lo calities whore it was formed. In this, way ice can be obtained at small cost. In the early days many plantations along the Potomac harvested an an nual supply of Ice of this character and stored It for the most part In pits. Thoso fortunate enough to live near largo streams may often obtain their ice supply In this way. FARMER MUST KNOW HIS COW Feeding and Caring for Animal Is Not All That Is Necessary for Profit able Dairy Returns. Tho man with the hoe Is a failure unless he knows how to use It. Tho man with a cow Is a failure unless ho knows how to feed and care for her. Feeding and caring for a cow, how over, is not nil that is necessary to success In dairying; tho farmer must also know whether tho cow Is actually profitable to him. Tho business man would laugh at such a statement, woudn't he? Of courso, ho would. He would consider It a foregono con clusion that tho farmer knows that or he would not keep tho cow, and yet thousands of cows are fed year In and year out without their owner's know ing whether or not they pay. Are you sure you aro not boarding a few of that kind. If not, investigate and mako a few records of milk and butter yields. MOST PROFIT FROM POULTRY Many People Making Comfortable Living Raising Chickens and Pro ducing Eggs for Market. Is there progress In poultry-keeping? Road tho market reports. Look at the amount of poultry advertising dono today compared with five years ago. How did tho winter prices of eggs in tho last five years compare with othor years? Thousands of peoplo aro today mak ing a comfortable living und many havo becomo Independent by rniBing: poultry and producing eggs for tho market. It has been proved by ex perience that it costs no moro to produce a pound of poultry than It does to produce a pound of pork or beef, yet poultry Is always wort'i moro per pound than any othor meat and sells Just as readily. FEEDING ROUGHAGE TO HOGS Where Field Roots Grow Readily and In Good Form They Will Be Found Better Than Alfalfa. Attention has been called tlmo and again to the advisability of tho feed ing of roughage to swlno during tho winter. Somo claim that alfalfa Is tho best for this purpose In alfalfa areas it may bo truo that such rough ago ia cheaper than that obtained from any othor Bourco, but in areas whero flold roots grow readily and in good form, thoy will bo found moro suitablo for foedlng swine than the hay referred to. Both aro good, and the Important question In deciding which shall bo fed is the cost Oat Straw as Roughage. Oat straw is a pretty good rougbag when fed with plenty of raln. jfir i y J