[£ KERRY SQUARE 1I A NEIGHBOURLY NOVEL br QRAC'15 a. RICHMOND “That’s too kind of you, Mr. Vackay,” she said warmly. “Of course I shall be delighted to know you are at hand. This”—with a gesture of intro duction—“is our friend and phvsi ian. Dr. Richard Fiske, of New York. He too. is to he on gnnrd, but you will lm nearer 1>7. so I feel doubly rein forced.” Doctor Fiske gave his new volunteer in Sally’s service short shrift, though lie shook hands politely and said: “That's very good of you, Mr. Maekay.” Rut the next in stant he added: “Sorry, but we must he off,” and had the ear moving. A man of violent jealousies was Richard Fiske, especially where Sally Chase was concerned. But he was again to he halt ed. He hadn’t spirited Sally 100 yards down Brook street when he met another car, the low, high powered roadster driven by Rrady Sturgis, with Adelaide beside him. Fiske muttered something unintelligi ble, and reluctantly set. foot upon brake at Sally’s cry: “Oh, we’ll have to stop and explain to them!” “You can have just two min utes for it,” he growled. “Let Josephine explain.” “No, I must, since they’re She told them in two sen tences; Hallv had been well trained in brevity of statement by the demands of the city church. She got the reaction she expected and didn’t want. “"Why, we'll stnv. Sally, old dear.’’ exclaimed Bradley, and Adelaide nodded. They would like nothing better. Sally knew. They wouldn’t bother their brads much about the responsi bilities of the children’s care, but. they had been eager all along to make Cherry House the center of their social activ ity. < berry Hills was an easy run for the motors of their friends, Sally’s cook was excel lent. What a heaven-sent op portunity for the gayest of country parties! Sally could see this thought in Bradley’s sparkling eyes, in Adelaide’s roused smile of assent. There wns no time to argue with them, and it would he small use to forbid them. Such n course would make an open breach, anyway, and Sally Tviisn t willing to do that. One point, however, must he made incontestable. “I vc put Miss .Tenney in charge of the house and the children of everything,” she said, very clear!v. ‘‘Miss Jcn 7icy is” she forestalled the question—‘‘the maid you know as Josephine. She's very com petent she’s a teacher really, and has the social position of nriv others in a village like this. Al! orders to the servants are to go through her. Of course it will he very nice to have you 4 ii/ a t .. 1 ... . 4 l ♦ wiiij « u-n , nur* laid, lie considerate of Miss Jonnry. It’s n difficult posi tion to put her in at a moment’s notice.” ‘‘Let ’I,aide—” began Brad ley. Rut Sally shook her head. “Miss .Tenney is in charge, with Doctor Kiske’s approval. You’re not to change anything nho-it that, my dears. Now, good bye!” ‘‘Love to old Schuyler!” ■houted Bradley, and Ade laide’s voiee echoed this belat ed sentiment. Then Doctor Fiskc had once more irritatedly laid hand upon gear shift, and this time he would not have stopped the ear for any holdups on earth. As « matter of fact, what with all the plan-making, he would have to drive as fast as the law allowed to bring Sa’Tv to her ship. Bit he did if. saw her aboard, and had two minutes with her before he had to leave her. She looked to him very young and very unconcerned as When Mie l» ll.»mlirap. Pi rat i Slone and Webatcr Journal Quantity production causes one effect wtmli la frequently loal ught M. -hat la. the inability promptly Vo take care of InveuUona at they netur When a factory la fully •quipped with stainpn. dtp* jig*, a* aed a* the eilabllatied routine **U Jt goea wtth tliem, it t* a aertou* maiUr to aerap them and atari all tnrt on a new baau The larger tha production. the harder it ta to make the change, for beatde* the float of the new equipment come* the fatting off in output during the ueaod of readjustment Perhapa the brat iliuotrot ion of thta U the 9 I she stood with him near tiie gangway. He was fully aware of the anxious tension of the voyage before her—five days before she would set foot upon land, and a hot and crowded railway journey from South ampton to London. “I’ve cabled Caldwell you’re coming, and he’ll wireless you if he needs to. Xo doubt he’ll meet you at Southampton. Try not to let your imagination run i away with you between shore and shorp. Lois of worried wives have crossed the ocean, to find everything all right when they landed.” “I know.” She smiled at him bravely, and he understood that she would keep herself well in hand—for Schuyler’s sake, lie bit his lip at that though. Everything with her was for Schuyler’s sake, he knew. “Hood bye, my dear—and may Hip God you're so devoted to keep vou,” he murmured, as the call came: “All ashore that's going ashore!” He pressed her hand in his so tight ly it Hurt her cruelly for mo ments after, looked closely in to her uplifted eyes, added un der his breath: “You’re the dearest thin" on earth!” and ran down the gangway. He waved his hat at her ns long as i lie could see her uplifted arm, *iiimi iiihiii- ms wnv nan minuiy back to his ear. ‘‘The tliincr •*’s damned bard to keen mvself remembering.” be said sternly to himself, “is that T’m the friend of them both.” At least, it must he eoneeded. Hr. Tlichar'1 Fiske was honest with himself. (From Josephine .Tenney’s ! Note-Book) Here I am, elevated in the ■ twinkling of an eye to the posi | tion of housekeeper, with Mrs. 1 Lawson, hands on hips, staring ; up at me, amazed and affront ed! Mary shares her resent ment, 1 know, though she ! doesn’t dare show it. to me. ! Norah grins, bless her heart!— | and stands l>y, ready 1o throw j herself into any breach that opens. Did my best to ascend ! to the new plane in an mi pro* ! vocative manner, with no ! “airs,” and with no assutnp i tion of aggravating authority. ! But who can come up from the ranks and suddenly acquire ; shoulder straps and a licit with out exciting the ire and envy of those who remain below to j fall under his discipline? Norah gives me sage advice. “Don't he kapin’ the gloves on all the time you’re handlin' the woman. Show her a glimpse of yer bare band. She’s a bul ly, that; she’ll shake her fist in yer face if she dares.” “When she does, Norah, it will be time enough to take off the gloves.” “I know well enough ve’ll never descend to a fight with her, lint 1 want her to know ye vp got n good reliable nun cio iu that pretty round arm.” So T have thanks to past ex perience. And T really think Mrs. Lawson sometimes sees the swelling of it under inv ! sleeve! VII Miss .Tenney, I’d like to give not ice. ” Miss .Tenney faeed Mrs. Law son with the serenity of one who has anticipated a coming crisis and prepared for it. “Very well, Mrs. Lawson, but for what reason!” ‘‘Plenty of reasons. T can’t, take orders from two people, i Miss Sturgis tells what she i wants done, day and night. The ; work's too much, with her having extra people here all the time. If l may say it, Miss •Tenney, you can’t run this house you ain't used to hand ling people like her, who’s hound to have their own way. j Kelt vou know slie’ll have vou out of the house yourself.” Jo looked steadily at the recent abandonment of the model T Ford automobile, and the devel opment of the new model • • • When the four-wheel brake idea, a French development wa* shown to be a tuteni It, took American manufacturer* a long time to adopt It, owing to the inertia of tlie plant - winch were equipped tor the pro duction of two-*heel brakes. Had our production been on a smaller I wale where the co*t of capital rlautge-over or where the mental inertia wa* lea*, the new Idea would have been adopted more urlrkiy For many year* the Belt telepttune receiver* were made with r*posed metal bmdmg-poau or terms at* woman, who, she knew, was de- ' lighting in making this insol ent speech, now that she thought she had nothing to lose bv it. “You realize that you are breaking your promise to Mrs. Chase ?” “I didn’t make her any promise. She laid down the law and I didn’t say different, yes or no.I can’t stand things as tiiey are, and I'm going.” “Can you arrange,” said Jo coolly, “to leave this evening? Jimmy can take you and your trunk to the 7 o’clock train.” Mrs. Lawson stared. “Just as you likp,” she answered af ter a minute. “I s’posed you’d , want a week’s notice.” “Not at all. It’s much bet ter to end an unsatisfactory re lation as quickly as possible, don’t you think.” Mrs. Lawson bad not thought so, nor bad intended to end the relation at all. She had expected to be coaxed and bribed to stay. What should they do without her, she would like to know that? Jo knew what they should do without her. Ten minutes after this brief interview Jo slipped away down the lane to Norah O’Gra dy’s little brown cottage. “We’re ready for you, Mrs. O’Grady,” she announced, with a smile. “The storrn has broken, the lightning’s struck, and no damage done. The air’s clear again—it was hardly dis turbed. Can you come tonight after the 7 o’clock’s gone?” “Sure, an’ I can,” Norah agreed. “I‘ve been packed an’ reaay since ye let me Know the clouds was gatherin’. I’m glad ve r rid of her, the tomb-faced old thing. 1 never did see how .Mrs. Chase come to get her, who likes things cheerful round her.” “It won’t be easy, you know. Miss Sturgis does have many callers, and likes always to have them served with some thing very nice before they go.” Xorah nodded. “We'll get along with that. I ran make the things tasty—it’ll he you that. 11 have to show me how to have ’em look pretty. I never e ud get a sprig o’ parsley to look like anything hut a pine tree. I can't make pitaties lie in a fancy hedge around a beef steak, the way I’ve seen that woman do. Hut the pitaties’ll taste as good as hers, that I know.” “That’s all that’s neces sary, ” .To assured her. “And it will be such a comfort to see your nice jolly face in the kitchen, 1 II he glad enough to come out and make the “fancy hedges,’ when it’s really im portant. Mostly, it won’t he.” “Tell me, before I do he see in’ for myself,” begged Xorah, “as one friend to another, if I may he so hold. How do ye get along with the cousin, r’al ly!” “Very well indeed.” Jo as serted. “People don’t need to think alike, you know, Mrs. O Grady, in order to live with each other. Shall Jimmy bring your things on his way back from taking Mrs. Lawson to the train!” She s quality, all right.” thought the Irishwoman ap provingly. “She won’t talk to me about thim. though she knows I know she’s having a divil of a time with that Miss Adelaide, that won’t lift her finger to help hersilf. Faith, if l can make things ’asier for Miss .Tenney I’m glad to go, an' her with all the responsibil ity.” All the responsibility was in deed something for .To to shoul der. She herself thought it would be a far simpler matter with Mrs. Lawson gone, even though Norah knew few of the finer devices of accomplished cookery. Adelaide’s breakfast trays, taken up by Mary at 10 or IT o’clock in the morning; her demands for special dishes at luncheon, because of the lan guid nppetite induced by the late breakfast: her afternoon tea service j her orders for travs of rich filled sandwiches and icy beverages at any hour of the evening, and for ant which occasionally far* * hooka to telephone inert. Smaller Independ ent telephone companies were able to adopt a new receiver within cloeed terminal* almost a* soon a* invented nut the btg Bell organ nation could not iiutal! them until It had sbeorbed the coat of the million* of phones In u*e that had lo be wrapped Here wa* a rate where quantity production held up progree* Similarly, the new French type of desk aet la beuia demand ed but the telephone company ran not afford to aukatltut# It for the present type tf offered at the prtre of the old one. every one would demand It. yet the tactortr* number of people—all these were items which were likely j to make iven the generous Nor ah rebel. But she would take care of them, for the sake of Miss Jenney. Jo was just be ginning to understand bow de voted to her Norah was. She would be au ally worth hav ing. On the second evening of Norah’s incumbency Jo sent her off duty early after dinner, for the day had been a trying one. Adelaide had found Nor nh's style of sending in her un deniably well cooked dishes quite unbearable, and had fret fully said so. “Who ever saw a mixture like that!” she complained. “There’s everything on earth in it. I detest carrots and on ions anywhere, and they’re all through this!” “It may not look pretty,” declared her brother Bradley, eating of the despised dish with gusto, “but it’s tbe best tasting stuff I ever tried. Me for more, please, Miss Jenney.” “This is one of Mrs. 0’Gra dy’s specialties,” Jo said good humoredty, “and it’s so good for the children I told her tn make it, today. I thought you’d quite enjoy it, too.” “Please don’t model your meals for us on the children’s health,” Adelaide murmured. “I wish very much to gain weight while I’m here, an!! I can’t do it on this sort of un appetizing diet.” Jo said nothing, because she couldn’t say what she wanted to, and anything less scathing wouldn’t be satisfying. All dav Adelaide had been peculiarly trying, almost as if she had made a point of it on arising in the morning. As she left the table she said distinctly and with an air of command, but without looking at .To: “We’re expecting a dozen or so people up tonight. About IT o’clock I shall want plenty of particularly delicious sand wiches, and A big bowl of punch.” •To didn’t answer. She provided, hut she didn’t intend provided, but she didn’t intend to keep Norah and Mary up to do it. After they had gone to bed she hefself prepared both sandwiches and punch—the lat ter a mixture of fruit juices and ice, which she knew would ►be given its special ingredient and appeal by the Sturgises themselves. Their friends ar rived with the fall of dusk, and the lights from the windows fell upon gay frocks and white flannels, and there was the sound of lively voices, and now and then the twang of a guitar, had been able to see still more clearly than before that she was well worth looking at and talking to. He had done plenty of the looking, hut neither Ad elaide nor do herself had en couraged him in the talking Now, however, observing the supple figure in the lamplight, arid the grace and skill of every motion of the capable, beautiful bands, Bradley promptly forgot bis errand and his guests. He sat down upon the edge of the scoured kitchen table, prepared to make the most of this inter esting opportunity. * il. i *i ■ eu'T*> »• mi v i nr n)i i m ii with a message from Adelaide for the cook. Bradley Sturgis eame upon -Toe .Tenney work ing alone at the task set for Norah, her hare arms rosy in the lamplight, for the old house had never been equipped with a modern lighting sys tem. Oil lamps in the kitchen and candles elsewhere had de lighted Sally Chase, and she had laid in large stores of long dipped eandles in all shades, for lavish use about the house. (TO BK CONTINUED) A Start. Prom the Christian Science Monitor The daughter was In the middle of her singing lesson when the mother came Into the room. She listened for a moment or two, and then broke in: "How la T.f.ibeth getting on? Do you thing she'll make a good sing er’” The teacher seemed at a loss for reniv. "It's hard to determine Just now." he answered. "But surely she possesses some of the qualifications?” "Well—er—madam, she's got a mouth certainly.” could not promptly supply the de mand. So the company Is meeting the problem br supplying the new iype at an additional coat. Uni* dackenmg the demand and allowing 'be factories time to catch up with i ha requirements. These Illustrations are not given to disparage quantity production hut simply to Indicate one of the hurdle* which taree production ha* to himn to keep its product up to dale It i« reported that soma Am erican In yen tor* have even been tired to take their Invention* to England or to Prance, where the quantity production handicap U not so great, in ruder to fet them need « | OF INTEREST TO FARMERS MACHINERY STORAGE The ideal place for farm ma chinery during the winter months, as everyone will agree, is a machine shed that can be kept dry. The American farmer is not noted for the care he bestows upon his ma chinery and for that reason he wears it out in much less time than if more sheds were built for hous ing it. One authority states that the average farm machine would last twice as long as it does‘if it were properly housed when not in use. So far as we know there are no reliable figures available on this subject, but good machine sheds are economical in these days when so much and such valuable machinery is in use on almost every farm. But even if a man does not have a machine shed he can do much toward preserving his implements in good condition. Plowshares and cultivator shovels should receive a heavy coat of axle grease as soon as they are no longer to be used for the season. Tongues and other wooden parts should receive a coat of paint and a dry place found for them. While putting away the ma chinery it should be given a care ful examination and a list be made out showing needed repairs, which can be made during the winter or shortly before spring opens. Trust ing to memory concerning repair parts is a poor plan for one is cer tain to forget some of them and rush orders will then have to be made Just when t£e parts are most needed. “Don’t put off till tomor row what you can do today,” is an old saying that applies very well to our farm implement and machinery repairs of today. -— IT MIGHT HAPPEN Agriculturists should accustom their minds to the idea that farm ing methods are capable of extraor dinary changes and may in coming years be quite unlike what is now the accepted thing. Who cap imagine, without a kind of mental wrench, an agriculture where no grain but wheat is ever raised to maturity, except for seed? Yet that is the kind of agriculture suggested recently to a meeting of agricultural engineers. Why should we spend months growing rye and harvesting the grain, producing 113 pounds of pro tein and 850 pounds of total nu trients to the acre, when we can cut the young plant. 18 inches tall, and secure 902 pounds of protein and 3.188 pounds of total nutrients from the same acre? Why should we grow oats to ma turity, getting 269 pounds of protein from a 35-bushel crop, when we can cut the plant when only a month old and get 351 pounds of protein? Even wheat, the aristocrat, yields from 18 bushels of grain 134 pounds of protein, and that from an acre of young plants cut twice in April, 1,004 pounds—more than seven times as much. If the purpose of growing field crops is to produce food for. animals, principally, these are things to ponder over. Are we wasting the land's time? Is the idea of one year, one crop, about to go into the discard. -♦ ♦ - SANITATION AT FARROWING While sanitation proves highly satisfactory at all times, perhaps it Is most important at farrowing time. Therefore, the preparation of the farrowing pens and the sows for farrowing are two very important matters that should receive your close attention. In the first place, the pens should be thoroughly cleaned in order to eliminate all disease germs, especially the worm eggs. Just scraping out the pens with a scoop or shovel will not suffice. The real method to use is to first clean fAllt. ftll tVlA roftlCA r\r rlirf frnm floors and walls with either a shovel or a hoe. Then thoroughly scrub both the floors and walls of the pens with a solution of boiling lye water. Allow the pens to dry thor oughly before putting in the bed ding. Now. with the farrowing pens clean, the sows are ready for their quarters. Three or four days prior to farrowing, the sows should be thoroughly washed with soap and water. Particular attention should be paid to their udders. Then the sow3 should be put into the far rowing pens before farrowing day. If these precautions are taken. It will eliminate, or at least minimize, the chance of the little pigs getting various disease germs, and particu larly the worm eggs. Into their svs tem. Otherwise, with the first few mouthfuls of milk the new born pigs may swallow thousands of worm eggs and germs of disease THE BOY AND THE Pf, Making your bov a partner bv financing his purchase of a pure bred pig. Is, we think, a better meth od of making him a pal than teach him how to shoot an air rifle, the method a sporting goods company advises. If he shows an interest In votir hogs, how much more Interest he will allow In some of his own He will probably need help In purchas ing his pig. Loan him the money, ( HKAfEHT DAIRY PEED Tlie owner of a cow which pro duced 10.584 pounds of milk and 543 8 pounds of butter fat last year waa asked "what Is the cheapest and best form of food for dairy cows’’* "Pure water." he replied "Only be rare that the water ta pul In the cow and not In the mtlk can." Milk ti approximately 87 per cent, water and If the cow does not have aeeeaa to an unlimited supple of freah. clean palatable water, her j mtlk flow ti bound to suffer hoavtly A high producing row will consume from 39 to M fallens of water net ! but don’t give it to him. Let nun have feed from your granaries, also, but have him keep a strict account of the cost of feeding. And then when the pig as sold at a 4-H sale or student's sale, let him start his own bank account with the profits. The advantages to the boy are many. He is busy doing something constructive; he is guided by an older and experienced hand, and costly mistakes are averted; his in terest is quickened because it Is his property that he is working with; he learns the rudiments of business and the value of a dollar; he is intro duced into a fascinating business, and, most important, his Dad be comes both his partner and his pal. Daughter does not need to be ex empted from this plan, just because she Is a girl. The prize winning pig has more than a few times been shown by a girl Girls frequently take as keen an interest in this sido of farm industry as their brothers. Did you ever hear a parent com plain because he did not have any thing in common with his son? I have, often, says one "Dad” who has a son as his “partner,” and I know those complainers never tried a plan like this, because its success has been frequently demonstrated. ROTATION IDEA ANCIENT It has taken 3,000 years to develop the principle of modern crop rota tion, and the beginnings of that de velopment can be traced clear back to Biblical times, according to a study recently made by W. W. Weir of the bureau of soils. United States department of agricultui'e. Three thousand years ago cereals were the chief source of food, and It was natural to grow these crops on the same fields, year after year.1 But the farmers of that period finally noticed that the land was suffering. Resting the land and allowing the weeds to grow up, they found, seemed to help. The oldest record of such prac tice. Mr. Weir finds, is in the Mo saic laws (about 1400 B. C.>, com manding the people, “And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the fruits thereof; but the sev enth thou shalt let it rest and be still." This first stage in a crop rota tion gave away about 29 B. C. to “bare fallow.-' Farmers then, for Instance, sowed a winter grain like wheat, then a spring grain like barley, then allowed the field to lie in “bare fallow.” More than 1,000 years elapsed be fore the third stage in rotation ar rived. Then, about 1600 A. TV. Flem ish farmers abolished “bare fallow" in favor of clover, grown in rota tion with hemp, turnips and smallj grains. This was a big step for ward because it permitted keeping more livestock and renewed as well as rested the land. The fourth stage, adopted in the fields by English farmers during the 18th century, was the introduc tion of intcrtillage. Nowadays it is customary for farmers' to use a ro tation of an intertilled crop, a small grain crop and a grass leguminous crcp. - — ♦ ♦ --- GOOD CARE PAYS Let the chickens on the farm rough it and rustle for themselves and they will give little in return. The truth of this was demonstrated last year in Iowa county, where a group of farmers in co-operation with the agricultural economists at Iowa State college kept cost ac counts on their farms. On one farm the hens averaged 39 eggs each: on another, with good care, they laid 153 eggs each—near ly five times as many as where they got poor care. The income per hen was $1.77 on the former place and $6.77 on the latter. The profits from poultry on the various farms keening accounts varied widelv. One farm had a net profit of $290 while another lost $196. after deductions had been made for feed intpresf on iie In vestment, labor and a charge for tho use of buildings and equinment. Tho poultry enterprises on these farm* returned an average of 6 per cent, of the total farm income, varying from 2 to 14 per cent, on the ln div dual farms. The average egg yield was 90 egg* per hen. which could be increased materially bv culling out the low producing hens snd by attention to better feeding and care of th* flocks. IMPROVING MILK FT.AVOR Experiments just reported by tho United States department < agri culture show that feeding green soy beans to dairy cows just beforo milking them tends to Improve tho flavor of the milk. The soybean* were fed in quantities up to 30 nounds per cow. The soybeans wero first fed when the plants began to form pods and were continued un til the beans had reached full sizw, hut were not hard While soybean* improve the milk flavor, rape fed green Just before milking had th* opposite effect, tmoartlne an obl*c tlonable flavor to the milk. SITPPI.KMF.NT4L PSSTI'RK Sheen can find good pasture in a stubbie field after threshing Ran* sown with small grain in the soring furnishes the best pasture until 'ho late, hard freezes In the fall. dav Cow teatera have found In nu merous cases that the milk orodiie Uon of a herd was increased 7 to * per rent when automatic drinking rupa were Installed In the stalls, of fering the row unlimited supnlv of water whenever desired. A rejlahlo automatic water supplv system haa proved *o be one of the most valu able Items at a dairy farm's equip ment. • • PLANT ONI.V RI 4T High priced seeds that produe* high yields are cheaper than low prtc«d seeds that produce low vlelda,