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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1928)
TZH 10 “Well, what the deuce— lYou’re not doing this yourself, 'Miss Jennejr!" the young man cried, having the grace to be •hoeked at the discovery. He had easily accepted the eleva tion of the housemaid to the pom;ion of manager of Cherry i House, hut he didn’t quite consider Iter the actual hostess, nor had Adelaide for a moment made that concession. When the uniform had been replaced bv one of the straight frocks of white or blue denim which Jo Wore so successfully, Bradley “Where'a the lady with the brogue?" he inquired. “Not that I care—I /hope she’s no where around. Hut you ought not to he doing this." “Oughtn’t I? I think so myself, but I’d rather do it than keep Mrs. O’Grady up so late." “I.nto?" Bradley gave his Watch face a careless glance. “A quarter to 11! I suppose that’s considered almost dawn ‘tip here. Where I come from jthe night’s so young at inid biight it can’t stay out alone, it Bias to have lot’s of company." “It seems to ho having it up tier* tonight." “I say—you don’t like mak ing those sandwiches, do you, SMins Jenney?” The corner of her mouth took jon a hit of a curve, hut it could (hardly be called n smile. “Not •a hit, Mr. Sturgis.” “Then why do you do it!” . “Not to be too disagree able.” “Could you be disagree able?” “Very.” Bradley considered her. ;“No\v, I wouldn’t say disagree lable,” he argued, “Interost 'ing, stimulating, intriguing, [provoking, even—fascinating. •But hardly disagreeable. No, decidedly not.” The word fascinating had a connotation in Jo’s mind which [made her feel like smiling, hut she preserved her dignity. “Would you mind not sitting so close to the mayonnaise!” she suggested. Bradley seized upon the dish. “Couldn’t I help vou put it on!” “No indeed. If you won’t pet it on yourself, that will be 'ell T eaT ask.” “Well, anyhow, can’t I tnix the punch!” “I’ve no doubt you will— J.nter. At present I prefer to <lo it. Then I can at least, eon jtifine to feel innocent when the bowl leaves my hands.” He laughed. “I infer you don’t approve the oxtrn touch es of charm it’s likely to ac quire at, mine!” She shook her head. “Not in the proportions you are likely to use.” lie eyed her with increasing Interest. “I’ve been wanting to strike a spark from you.” lie asserted, “and now I’m getting A not ton nf (lift U' il ir in it T believe it would bp worth while to give you a real shook, just to see the sparks fly. All right, hero goes: Do you know you’re about the most gorgeous 1hing I’ve seen in a long timet That profile of yours—it’s sim ply exquisite. As for your full face—” She turned the full face upon him, amt the look of amused contempt in it hit him rather bard. Ho really hadn’t sup posed she would know how to give him just that look—the sort he fully approved even though it stung. She didn’t answer a word, but a slap upon the cheek or a glassful of wa- 1 ter in the face from the kind of g •! who might he found mak ing sandwiches in some kitchen H >t her own couldn’t have end- i ed his ime of such methods of a; nroach more quickly. “I beg your pardon,” he «»' 1, laughing with chagrin. ” f course 1 didn’t mean that — though it’s true enough as •n rvat on. Hut \ mi don’t A«« and ('un.tbUity. J^rcm the New York World. Srcniary of Labor Janna i. fJavu, told the empke,< » of a great ttuUniiKCturUig o.uuiuimr.tit that a Oiaii as a worker it at hta peak at 60 and bi loung and capable aa ever *t SO. Per ha pa It la well to make thl* pis.n. ntough the lirC'natty aeettu sbaiud it die Ugh: of he record A very large per ren: of the really IT eat m* n who »re dr i.g ‘he work at the world today are i«tl M It }iw always been true. It la truer V ay than ever be.tse twtauae ast r t.id tnprovU rondc on* of llv lir.| mw added much to the man gg i. nnaa life. Secretary I>jvta like it from me, and I don’t blame you. On my word, though. Miss Jenney, the aver age girl of these dava likes com pliments, the balder the better. She doesn’t resent ’em. As a matter of fact, she misses ’em if she doesn't get ’em. But you’re not the average girl—I can see that.” “You will see a number of tilings you haven’t seen before, Mr. Sturgis,” she said evenly, “if you stay here. You may take these sandwiches into the dining room now, please. I’ll have the puneh ready in a min ute. Your fripnds may come and get them there, or the rnen may take them out to the oth ers. You may leave everything on the table when you’re through, only I’ll ask you to put out the candles.” “Oh, see here. You’ll come out and meet our friends?” lie didn’t know how he came to ask it; certainly he knew that if lie could actually suc ceed in getting her to go out' with him there would he the devil to pay with Adelaide. Rut he hadn’t reckoned with Jo Jenney. “There’s no reason why I should meet your friends,” she sail! pleasantly, “if you’ll ex cuse me.” , ‘‘They’re an awfully jolly sort,” he persisted. ‘‘And you’d make a hit, you know Just as you arc. If you could see yourself you’d know that nobody they’ve got out there can touch you.” ‘‘I’m quite sure nobody can,” she replied, and this time there was a gleam in her eyes which he didn’t know whether to consider mischief or malice. Anyhow, he concluded, she wns’nt so easy to play with as he had expected. lie went re luctantly hack to the group outside, hut Jo Jenney re mained in his mind, a clear vis ion. He said to himself, as he glanced nppraisinglv from one to another of the three girls whom Adelaide had asked to offset the nine men, that there really wasn’t one there who could hold a rose colored can dle to Miss Jenney. They knew how to dress—he’d have to hand that to them. Hut let somebody dress and make up Joe as they were dressed and made up, and—well—they’d all turn green, his sister Adelaide greenest of all. His eyes sparkled as he thought about it. Rich, deep yellow—almost ornngc—that was the color he’d like to see her in, and a gold band across her marvelous dark hair! And instead, she was wearing a more or less rumpled white lin en, with a spot of raspberry juice on the sleeve. He sup posed she’d put that on to do this work in. for she’d been wearing a little thin blue frock at dinner, with a lovely line at neck and upper arm. Showed cliii Irnmir 1. om .1 w.\nn .. f „ . " » no, itm a all, at least for the country, if she could look such a duchess in a thing Adelaide would sniff at—Adelaide who, at the mo ment, was sheathed in jade green with a string of—Ade laide called them pearls! Brad ley happened to know they weren’t. -To stood at her unlighted window looking out upon the revellers and thinking not of them ‘hut of Mrs, Schuyler Chase. Tt was time that word was had from her. with news of her husband. She was hop ing with all her heart that it would he a good word, and that before long Mrs. Chase would he returning, with or without her husband. Just what Jo’s own position would then be come she had no idea, hut she knew it couldn't he asked of her to nut on the uniform again. She was very sure that she would he retained in some capacity, and that the house hold would resume its normal course—sinless the worst should cites EdUon and George p Baker as Illustration* of men past BO. who are achieving greatly. Dunn; the war an astonishing number wf the statesmen and generals a # far beyond M. Htndenbunr. I ’irtng to. u doing hi* greatest an | most ednuratte trsr* now, and .a was 'an oldman 14 wear* ago when Ute war began and with mm a the ft-Id at the head of a p earful aitny John tguinry Adam* hteved his greatest work after he t- .d left the presidency and ante? • I con* : great an old man. when it was written of him that WhUe aged he is sa Iran of umS have happened abroad, and that seemed impossible. She vividly remembered her one impression of Schuyler Chase, on that never-to-be-forgotten Sunday when she had beard him preach. He had seemed so vital, so powerful, so much a messenger from Heaven, it couldn’t be that the frame which housed such beauty and power could be as mortal as other flesh! Next morning, while Brad lev and Adelaide still slept, Jo took the wide awake baby Schuyler out to tumble upon the grass under the copper beech in the early coolness, for the day promised to be hot. She noted a change in the as pect of the house next door, whose windows looked out so closely upon the domain of Cherry House. The lower blinds of the front rooms had been thrown back, and not only that, the windows themselves were open. Could it possible be that Miss Lucinda—with whom by now Jo had a nodding acquaintance, supplemented by an occasional greeting when the two found themselves near by in the adjoining gardens— could he cleaning that long closed parlor, and had forgot ten to shut, the unscreened win dows? "Why, the flies would come in, and Miss Lucinda would suffer acutely! Jo was thinking that she ought to hail ♦ fncti/limio hnneAwifo mid ac. quaint her with her error, when a most unwonted sound sud denly came from beyond those open windows—the light run of skilled fingers over piano keys, and then a man’s voice sing ing. The piano notes were tink ling ones—as she heard them Jo could visualize the old fash ioned square piano from which they indubitably proceeded. But the voice rose softly then mountingly above them, and hearing that, one could not re member them at all. It, was a perfect male voice, a rich ten or, singing something very un usual—or so it seemed. Per haps it was because the spu>n did tones proceeded from a place so unlikely to harbor such a voice, the austere habi tation of two spinsters with drawn by circumstances from almost all contact with the world outside, even the tiny world of the small town in which they lived. Jo listened intently. The song ended, the singer strolled to the window, lighting a cigaret, and flung the match away upon the grass, male fashion. The next in stant his careless glance fell up on the pair outside, less than 20 feet distant. Jo’s eyes were upon him, her gaze trans fixed by his apparition. For a handsome young man, clothed in white flannels, smoking a cigaret at the open window of Miss Lucinda Hunt’s tomb-like best parlor—it seemed to Jo that it must be tomb-like, though she had never seen it— was an apparition that might hold any guze until it became a stare. “Good morning!” said the stranger lightly, with a smile, as he noted the elder of the two upon the grass. “Good morning!” responded .To, returning the smile, as one must return anything so at tractive. • *1 “I suppose you're Mrs. Chase’s sister,” went on the agreeable voice. “So, as I’m the Misses Hunt’s nephew, we’re already properly intro duced, comme ca!” “Not quite properly, since I’m not Mrs. Chase’s sister.” “Her guest, then, 1 presume. No! It doesn’t matter, so that we tell each other what a glor ious day this is, before the sun reduces it to servitude. Did you agree with my invocation to it!” “The day! Yes indeed—if that was what it was. I could n’t get all the words.” “Couldn’t you, indeed!” The young man threw back his head and laughed. “There’s a i blister for mv pride. I thought ; I possessed an enunciation | equal to that of the best itue I tionerr in Cher-y Hills, and None of the youth can cope with him It U manifestly absurd for an em ployer to determine hu attitude to 1 ward his men by their sir Their work alone should determine and It la determining more and more. me——— - »» —i - A rhue of U« FTom the Detroit News Joarpti Chapman plead**', guilty to a killing in llltnou and after ex amination by the Judge was sen tenced to the penitentiary Hi* lawyer, examining the record, dn eorered that It fatted to say that Chapman ha* ‘ persisted in hi* plea. Fto that re***«e tha .»*)« could knock down the morning to any chance listener. As a matter of fact, the listener wasn't a chance one, for I spied you before I began, and was singing especially with the idea of making you a custom er.” “Dallas Hunt!” exclaimed a sharp voice behind him in the room, its horrified intonation easily reaching Jo’s ears. “Don’t you know you’re let ting all the flies in this win dow 1” “Why, no, I don’t know it, Aunt Lucy. I haven’t seen a fly,” replied her nephew. He reached back an arm and pulled Miss Lucinda Hunt into Jo’s view. With his arm about her spare, gingham-clad waist, he added: “I’ve been telling this charming person outside that I’m your nephew. Will you vouch for it!” “Do you mean to say you’ve been speaking to her before you’re introduced?” inquired Miss Lucinda, with, however, as Jo could see, less of an air of shock than of apology to Jo herself. “Not at all. I was speaking to a fellow-worshipper of the dawn. Ringing to her, as a matter of fact. And now she merely responds with a criti cism of my voice. Just the same. Aunt Lucy, T\1 like to know her properly, if only as a propitiation to the goddesses— which you and Aunt Olar are while I stay. Will 3*011 pre sent. me?" Miss Lucinda presented him, after an embarrassed fashion. She wasn’t used to making in troductions while a firm male arm held her from falling off the window sill, cigaret smoke rose bluely from forgetful fingers into her nostrils, and a ga\* whisper prompted her: “Make it impressive, Aunt Lu! Remember I’m 3*our dearest nephew." “You’re certainly my most impudent one,” declared Miss • Lucinda, rallying. “Now if 3*011 must tnlk to Miss .Tenney, 3*ou shut this window and go round outside." “I feel that I must talk to her," agreed Dallas Hunt. “Therefore, as you suggest, I’ll go round outside. Wait for me, Miss Jennev?" “Of course, Mr. Hunt, since this itptlie shadiest spot for the balyv." “You see," said Dallas Hunt, arriving upon the lawn to stoop and pat the baby’s head, and to look beyond apprecia tively at the exquisite texture of the cheek of the baby’s at tendant, “I’m doing my best to ‘look well to this Day!’" And he sang a phrase of the song again, softly, effectively, and almost in Jo’s ear . . . It was at this moment that Adelaide Sturgis, rising late as usual, looked sleepily out of her windows and saw the group on the lawn. The sleepiness van ished as she stared hard. Who was the handsome man in flannels, sitting so intimately upon the rug with Miss Jen ney and the baby? As she looked he threw back his head a M . 1 1 A «1 Aah A . 1 AAV A 4 M M _A _ _ —_A 1_ JUU^UVVI " uu ( m ijt the greatest enjoyment. . . . Never had this young woman made quicker time in dressing, her bath was omitted; her face and hair received her only real care. Stockings and shoes fairly jumped into place. A straight silk frock of burnt orange which needed no fasten ing was slipped over her head. A dash of faint perfume from an atomizer—a gay handker chief tucked into a breast pocket—Adelaide ran down the stairs. Then, after a little (more reconnoitering, she saun tered out upon the lawn, a book in hand, which she read j as she went, without noting whither her slow footsteps were taking her. Tier course, wandering, finnllv brought her near the man, the maid, and the baby. She looked up—aston ished. (TO B»1 CONTINUKD) Q Why Is the Calcutta Sweep stakes so-called? K. O. A. It Is so called because It was organized by the Calcutta club. , applied tor a wr ar.d Chapman was release.!. This t* the sort of thing that ' makes the lavman tired, no matter what impression It make* on lawyers j * * The freeing of Chapman Is not the fault of tite court that ts i sued the writ. The court had no j choice. But It Is doubtful If in any other country In the civilized world j a eon.'weed criminal would hare been freed for »uch a reason. • • -mm Me kavyy. 4.1111 Don't you think the rlottn* lets obligato Is very beautiful* Jim Can t tell Watt Ull she turw | VNU. | OF INTEREST TO FARMERS | PASTURING CALVES A dairyman once said to the writer that he believed in letting his heifer calves “run," by which i he meant that they should be paa- | tured as soon as they cared to eat grass and then be kept out doors as much as passible. His idea was that such outdoor life would In crease hardiness of constitution which, he thought, was at supreme importance. We thoroughly agree with him that constitution is of ; vital Importance, but there are two | sides to the pasturing practice as concerns dairy-type heifer calves, and they should be kept in mind by the practice man. Never shall we forget the woeful appearance presented by a lot of fine young Holstein heifer calves that had been on grass from the time they were a few weeks old. It was In the hot. dry weather of August that we were asked to ex amine these heifers. Some of them died; the ones we saw were pot bellied, scrawny, thin, harsh-coated and weak. When they were made to run they immediately began coughing. The cough was of croupy character, painful, and was contin ued until the animal evidently raised phlegm. No wonder they coughed in that way, for they were infested with lung worms. We opened a calf that had died an hour or two before our arrival and found the windpipe literally packed with threadlike worms iStrcnglyous mic rurus.) Asked if he had suspected the presence of these worms, the owner said he had never heard of such a thing and that, perhaps, was tne reason ne naa noi iearea 10 let the calves "run.” Had he suspected worm he might have found the eggs or even some of the worms, by examining the discharged mucus from the nostrils or mouth with a low power microscope. It is well to make such an examination whenever pastured calves have such a discharge and especially when they cough. It Is almost absolutely certain that young calves allowed to graze old grass. In a permanent pasture or one long used by cows, will con tract lung worm of that. Inevitably, means stunting and, perhaps, death. It is therefore advisable to keep growing calves off permanent pas ture, not to let any calf that Is less than two or four months old graze grass of any kind and always to supplement pasture by feeding skim milk and providing a concen trated ration. It Is the thriftless calf that i3 surest to become in fested with worms and most quickly suffer ill elects or succumb to the ravages of the parasities. Knowing the danger of worm in festation in old pastures, the wise dairyman keeps his calves off grass during the first year of life, lets them live In a clean, airy roomy pen, and feeds them a complete ration that insures maximum growth and development during the first year. That is good practice, but It is unwise to prevent calves from receiving the beneficial effects of direct sunlight, out-doors, on all fine days. They need the good effect of the ultra-violet or "tan ning" ray of indirect sunlight and tit t ray cannot penetrate window gll *s. Its effect is to cause lime to deposit in the bones and phos phorus to form in the blood. It Is, th>refare a preventive of rickets anfl to a certain degree, is a remedy for that disease. Exercise and sun light are necessary and should be allowed: but injudicious pasturing may do harm. WHITE VS. YELLOW CORN A corn belt experiment station re ports the results of an experimental feeding trial comparing white and yellow corn for growing and fatten ing hogs and for brood sows. A sum mary of the work follows: It was found that sows raised on normal rations could be carried through two gestation and suckling periods on a ration of white corn, white corn bran, and tankage with out evident effect on the number of pigs farrowed or weaned or upon the growth of the pigs during the suck ling period. The continued feeding of this ration, however, resulted in serious impairment of the reproduc tive powers of one sow, her third and fourth litters being farrowed dead. With the addition of 1 per cent, of cod liver oil to the ration during the fifth gestaCan. this sow farrowed a litter of normal pigs. Normal weanling pigs which were farrowed by sows carried through their gestation periods on white corn rations were continued on a ration of white corn and tankage. They failed to thrive and ultimately de veloped pathological symptoms and died. Pigs farrowed bv sows not on experiment and raised on normal rations to 60 or 70 pounds, were eventually handicapped by white com feeding although they made normal gains for several weeks. At weights of 173 to 200 pounds they developed characteristic symp toms of white corn feeding and fin ished poorly. Small amounts of alfalfa meal fa little more than an ounce a head daily), proved entirely effective In correcting the deficiencies of a ra tion of white corn and tankage fed HOW sil l II DIO YOt GET? In muutMM to many Inquiries as to how tog corn borer apjwooriatlon of SIO.OOKVW will be expended, the United States Department of Agri culture states that about half of this sum will be paid to individual farmers to reimburse them in part or entirely for extra work which they may have done to comply with the clean-up regulations GIVE PIJINTY WUIR Water Is Important, since It con stitutes M par cent of the bird snd m par cent of the egg Clear freeh, reasonably warm water will ball] conatdecable In the production of egg* during the wu»»*r. pigs while growing and fattening from weights of 60 to 227 pounds. Apparently It was lack of vitamin that caused the unfortunate result* when sows and pigs were continued on the white corn ration for too long a time, for when that factor was supplied by adding small amount* of alfalfa meal or cod liver oil, the pigs developed normally and the sows farrowed normal litters, wntla white corn may be deficient m vita min D as well as vitamin A. it i* considered improbable that such m deficiency could have affected th* results, since sunshine apparently removes the necessity for that vita min in the feed and all the pigs in these experiments were confined to open dry lots, allowing as great ex posure to direct Sunlight as the weather would pwmit. -♦ » ...... ■■ KEEPING UP FERTILITY With vegetables in full growth the main object of a gardener should be to keep them growing at top speed. There are two ways u> do it fertilizing and cultivation. Cul tivation from the start makes the work easy. It is when the garden is left until the weeds get a good start all over it that cultivation be comes a real task. The methodical gardener will di vide the graden into sections and take them one at a time and stir the soil. In this manner it is a light daily task and the vegetables re spond quickly. The balanced fertilizers sold by seed houses are a real boon to the garderner because they are so easy to handle. It is a simple matter to sprinkle the powder along the row* of plants and tnen genuy noe or water It in. Nitrate of soda is a garden stand by as a stimulant of growth. This should be watered In. Sprinkle the nitrate thinly and then turn on the sprinkler. Many of the bal anced fertilizers contain chemicals that need to be watered in for best results. A good sprinkler that will give a wide distribution of water sufficient to start the fertilizer in to the soil is a very useful garden adjunct and much simpler than holding the hose. Light dressings of commercial fertilizer two or three weeks apart, will be much more effective than heavy ones. The plant can take only a limited amount of the food providede for it, and if too heavy dressings are given it is a waste of fertilizer. These fertilizers are devised to add to the food already in the soil and to make it more readily available for the plant. After the commercial fertilizer has been applied and wet ini^ the soil, the garden should be gone over with a hoe or cultivator to stir the soil again. Hoeing is best done aft er heavy downpours, which leave the surface caked and crusted. The powdering of the soil retains the moisture. IIOG NATURALLY HEALTHY A hog that has been properly raised and has come from vigorous stock is not more predisposed to disease than is any other animal on the farm. It is a fact, however, the hog suffers more from disease than any other farm animals. Generally speaking, this is due to the indif ferent care whioh this useful animal receives on the majority of farms. On most farms hogs are improperly fed, especially in the com belt. For some reason or other many farmers seem to think that so long as a hog is given “plenty of good corn and pure water,” nothing else is needed. Few people think of feeding a dairy cow in that manner. She is given one or two kinds of roughage and, generally at least a mixture of two kinds of grain. against in this manner is rather strange, unless it is the result of an early day when the hog found much of his own living in the woods and was given what corn he would eat a few weeks before preparing him for market. A hog that is brought up on corn, which is lacking in muscle forming element and vi tamins. becomes weak and incap able of warding off attacks of disease germs. Such Improperly i fed hogs are more susceptible ta I disease than other farm animals. —-» ■ ■ ■ BREAKING THE COLT A common method of training of breaking young homes to work is to harness the young horse beside an I older steady home. This is the most satisfactory way to give the young horse the preliminary training and experience that will accustom him to work so he can take his place In a team. This training should be started several weeks before regu lar field work starts in order to have the young horse accustomed to his duties and his muscles somewlia! ! hardened. _»» THE EARLY PASTURES A mixture of oats ai»d rape for early spring hog pasture Is excellent. If not pastured too closely. this mixture will furnish pasture until midsummer or until dry weather I stops the growth of the rape. HIGH QUALITY. HIGH PRICE The main reason for the varia tions in the prices of eggs and dressed poultry, taking the country over, is the variation in their qual ity CLOVERS SOIL BUILDERS AU varteiiM of biennial sweea 1 clover seem essentially equal for soli improvement. The yellow makes less tiay the first fall, and less hay the second year, but contrary to the usual opinion, its root growth la fully equal to tire white. Because of j its early maturity, the yellow is not * desirable for pasture. It dies lust when pasture is most needed, in lata July and early August The yellow is much surer than tha white when sown in the summer and Is recom mended especially (or soaring In corn or any other tumater seeding I for a*I Ur* **e «■■»■>«*>i.
