NECESSITY OF SHELTERING FARM ANIMALS PROPERLY ^*°°<*» " arm Q»mrierv Providing Sanitation and Ventila tion Are Right. Prevents Contracting of Various Kinds of Disease. P«.»! I »de/ such treatment, there is no Bonder that so mar* at our dairy •»* fall prej u cuC'lagknas d rsesaes -»r jhyepra! {asm have been m t - it e* that they cannot teslrt them • * -hey should under normal condi * s». attk greater freedom for nc rtrtty. The lUastrarfan ehoon beretrlta * »-• a good uititae at a gene-mi pur I-"' bam It has six single stalls and • ' u * stall tor bjr«r». three poi e-alls fat springers or cnises. cob a. is (or rt roar* and ac open stable f tr raT - le or * beep The ** *<- floor 1 sneberrart'd and is entered by tao Bts# driveoays A ■* <4 chirk* should he provided » -S Che he.l yartm pouwbh- The ' f “» dii-jll admit phaty a! lutviUie. j ■had he otad aster and teram l, J4. «hod he cuy aad dr? aad afc-vei’S akord »aay am mu u> aJI parti ■ im "itlti aad a* alter Kettle* out can easily C'S raedr say hark and ret far wa,*. "I 'he surface of tie gruuad u, m oars dry teas The coop pot > h- mhnmt yet tt should he sub ; a*. r-ttally t alii . «e coop shoot la the tQustratiap 1 * «B adapted to ths needs id the j auu.;. tucW aHh oaly a brood or ** U the largs poultry raiser h-s * ho raises a number of chick* a to head It la Oalil «o tb upes ; so bkrny Uow type piaa It H la •at oded Che taku free made s' '' a fe» * ask* old aao after they bs». >e* *ea».d from the old hea. • "•* Iroot of this compartment should h* made loose fitting, so the hen may get In and out. and so the compart ment may be cleaned. The fecund co^ipartmen* with a screened door In place, shows only a portion of tae screen, that the inside may be Illustrated Ewereise. Figs whose mothers have plenty of range are no' going to die from the tfeumsia. but they are going to be s*n«ig and vigorous growers It is natural fur the pigs to follow their mother and It la best She will not go too fast nor too far for their Utile, s'gwt leg* The pigs will acquire keen appetite* and build the foundation wi ~r«m to lay pork at a profit Feed ing heavily and running off flesh Use lewaly are not adrlsable wrlth any ani mal. bat some exercise is essential to health In a growing animal and an ab «*Bce of Health means an absence of prod. AMERICAN HEN IS PROFITABLE ■ norad Her PUm in AfrlMltan »»r ProdMUW Mill toon of DnlUn Ewer r Vmt LmU Ur>. <•' Mbl'tl. KBUJM i ( •** from «ui J bar* er** or i Mr* iaram (■wMrr tU care of poultry ~wi» » »ork.~ aad aoate of nut actually ailMKrl to be Meg tWir tltrt took after tbe i tket a Bi intake* |i u M a* a awing a awt u a Bias a, bo M eft* lavttvo* npoMie dur aad ctM ■ waiter aad tbe _ to aave feta aril* aay kit «d feard work poasibte la a |«a(ll |K*r apeeimen of a farmer If ttrM a* ooald didr tbe ncieaoe of pewit ry ml i *a< aad Cw to a* Mock a' -*ueP anaaj other branch of far* they would make more monay slid make It easier The American he» has made tier place In agriculture by producing alllion. of dollars every y»ar. and she has earned the respect of esery right-’.Linking farmer In the land. Varieties of Oats. Among the » best rarletiea of oats rrwwj at the Ohio experiment station ■Ibartan. glxty llay. Improved Amerl <«• llUAots German. Joanette. Green Mountain and Itlg Four led In produe tl»e eajwrily. The range In yield of grain ou the av-rage for the live years was U 24 bushels for the last men ttuned variety to 7«.«C bushels for the first mentioned Coat of Milk Product. How much does It coat to produce mbk? Don t know. That has always beam the truub e with the dairy bust neaa There ass too much guesswork about It. gome recent experiments show that It ceoti about «0 cents per *** pounds to produce milk, after pay Inc for feed and labor. This Is equal to IH cents par quart, counting tha feed and labor cost of production. &Kmauy ❖ ^ BOBCATS ^ nmZHAnT ULiamnoris by Vrxwaw ar IMM «!»«/<» T ' SYNOPSIS. Mlsa Inn.**. spinster and guardian of 1 Gertrude and Ilalsey. established summer 1 headquarters at Sunnyslde. Amidst nu merous difficulties the servants deserted. As Miss Innes locked up for the night. ; she was startled by a dark figure on the ! veranda. She passed a terrible night. , which was filled with unseemly noises. In the morning Miss Innes found a strange link cuff button in a clothes hamper. Gertrude and Halsey arrived with Jack Ballev. The house was awak eij«-d by a resolver shot. A strange man was found shot to death in the hall. It proved to be the t»ody of Arnold Arm strong. whose banker father owned the country house. Miss Innes found Hal sey * revolver on the lawn. He and Jack • Ha up and tell me the whole thing.” Rosie sat up then, and sniffled. ”1 was coming up the drive—” she began. “You must start with when you went down the drive, with my dishes and my silver,” I interrupted, but, seeing more signs of hysteria, I gave in. "Very well. You were coming up the drive—” “I had a basket of—of silver and dishes on my arm, and I was carrying . the plate, because—because I was afraid I'd break It. Part-way up the ; road a man stepped out of the bushes, and held his arm like this, spread out, so I couldn't get past. He said—he said—'Not so fast, young lady; I want you to let me see what’s In that basket.’ ” She got up in her excitement and took hold of my arm. "It was like this. Miss Innes,” she said, "and say you was the man. \\ hen he said that, I screamed and ducked under his arm like this. He caught at the basket and I dropped it. I ran as fast as 1 could, and he came after as far as the trees. Then he stopped. Oh. Miss Innes. It must have been the man that killed that Mr. Armstrong!” “Don’t be foolish,” I said. "Who ever killed Mr. Armstrong would put as much space between himself and this house as he could. Go up to bed now; and mind, if I hear of this story being repeated to the other maids, I shall deduct from your wages for every broken dish 1 find in the drive.” I could fancy Liddy's face when she missed the extra pieces of china—she had opposed Kosie from the start. If Liddy once finds a prophecy fulfilled, especially an unpleasant one, she never allows me to forget it. It seemed to me that it was absurd to leave that china dotted along the road for her to spy the next morning; so with a sudden resolution. I opened the door again and stepped out into the darkness. As the door closed behind me I half regretted my impulse; then I shut my teeth and went on. Warner in an ulster and a pair of slippers, over heaven knows what. Jack Hailey was not there. I got in, and we went slowly and painfully up to the house. We did not talk. What we had to say was too Important to commence there, and. besides, it took all kinds of coaxing from both men to get the Dragon Fly up the last grade. Only when we had closed the front door and stood facing each other in the hall did Halsey say anything. He slipped his strong young arm around my shoulders and turned me so I faced the light. "Poor Aunt Ray!" he said gently. And I nearly wept again. "I—I must see Gertrude, too; we will have a three-cornered talk.” And then Gertrude herself came down the stairs. She had not been to bed evidently; she still wore the white negligee she had worn earlier in the evening, and she limped somewhat. During her slow progress down the stairs I had time to notice one thing: Mr. Jamieson had said the woman who escaped from the cellar had worn no shoe on her right foot. Ger trude s right ankle was the one she had sprained! The meeting between brother and sister was tense, but without tears. Halsey kissed her tenderly, and I no ticed evidences of strain and anxiety in both young faces. “Is everything—right?” she asked. “Right as can be,” with forced cheerfulness. I Was Conscious That Some One Was Running Up the Drive. I have never been a nervous wom an. as I said before. Moreover, a min ute or two in the darkness enabled me to see things fairly well. Heulab Brave me rather a start by rubbing un exjiectedly against tny feet; then we two, side by side, went down the drive. There were no fragments of cbina. but where the grove began I picked up a sliver spoon. So far Rosie's story was borne out; I began to won der If it were not indiscreet, to say the least, this midnight prowling in i neighborhood with such a deserved ly bad reputation. Then I saw some thing gleaming, which proved to be the handle of a cup. and a step or two farther on I found a V-shaped bit >f plate. But the most surprising thing of all was to find the basket sit ting comfortably beside the road, with the rest of the broken crockery pfled icatly within, and a handful of small silver, 6poons, forks and the like, on op! I could only stand and stare, rhen Rosie’s story was true. But there had Rosie carried her basket? \nd why had the thief, if he were a hief, picked up the broken china out >f the road and left It, with bis >ooty? It was with my nearest approach to i nervous collapse that 1 beard the fa niliar throbbing of an automobile en line. As it came closer I recognized he outline of the Dragon Fly, and tnew that Halsey had come back. Strange enough it must have seemed to Halsey, too, to come across ne in the middle of the night, with he skirt of my gray silk gown over nv shoulders to keep off the dew, loldlng a red and green basket under >ne arm and a black cat under the >ther. What with relief and joy, 1 be ;an to cry, right there, and very near y wiped my eyes on Beulah in the ‘idtemenL CHAPTER IX. Just Lika a Girl. “Aant Ray!” Halsey said from the ;loom behind the lamps. “What in die world are you doing here?” "Taking a walk,” I said, trying to >e composed. I don't think the an iwer struck either of us as being ri itculous at the time. “Oh, Halsey, where have you been?” “Let me take you up to the house.” de was in the road, and had Beulah ind the basket out of my arms in a noment I could see the car plainly low, and Warner was at the wheel— I lighted the living room and we went in there. Only a half-hour be fore I had sat with Mr. Jamieson In that very room, listening while he overtly accused both Gertrude and Halsey of at least a knowledge of the death of Arnold Armstrong. Now Hal sey was here to speak for himself: 1 should learn everything that had puz zled me. "I saw it in the paper to-night for the first time," he was raying. "It knocked me dumb. When I think of this houseful of women, and a thing like that occurring!” Gertrude's face was still set and white. "That isn't all. Halsey," she said. "You and—and Jack left almost at the time it happened. The detective here thinks that you—that we—know something about it." "The devil be does!" Halsey's eyes were fairly starting from his head. “I beg your pardon. Aunt Ray. but—the fellow's a lunatic." "Tell me everything, won't you. Hal sey?" 1 begged. "Tell me where you went that night, or rather morning, and why you went as you did. This has been a terrible 4S hours for all of us." He stood staring at me. and I could see the horror of the situation dawn ing in his face. “I can't tell you where 1 went. Aunt Ray," he said after a moment “As to why, you will learn that soon enough. But Gertrude knows that Jack and I left the house before this thing—this horrible murder—occurred." "Mr. Jamieson does not believe," Gertrude said drearily. "Halsey, if the worst comes. If they should arrest you, you must—tell." "I shall tell nothing." he said with a new sternness In his voice. "Aunt Ray. It was necessary for Jack and me to leave that night. 1 cannot tell you why—just yet. As to where we went, if I have to depend on that as an alibi. I shall not tell. The whole thing is an absurdity, a trumped-up charge that cannot possibly be seri ous." “Has Mr. Bailey gone back to the city," I demanded, "or to the club?” Neither, defiantly; "at the present moment I do not know where he is." "Halsey." I asked gravely, leaning forward, “have you the slightest sus plclon who killed Arnold Armstrong? The police think he was admitted from within, and that he was shot down from above, by some one on the circular staircase.” “I know nothing of It." h« main tained; but 1 fancied 1 caught a sud den glance at Gertrude, a flash of something that died as it came. As quietly, as calmly as 1 could. 1 went over the whole story, from the night Llddy and I had been alone up to the strange experience of Rosie and her pursuer. The basket still stood on the table, a mute witness to this last mysterious occurrence. “There is something else," I said hesitatingly, at the last. “Halsey, I have never told this even to Gertrude, but the morning after the crime I found, in a tulip bed. a revolver. It — it was yours, Halsey." For an appreciable moment Halsey stared at me. Then he turned to Ger trude. “My revolver, Trude!" he exclaimed. “Why, Jack took my revolver with him. didn't he?" “Oh. for heaven's sake don't say j that." I implored. "The detective i thinks possibly Jack Bailey came back. 1 and—and the thing happened then." “He didn't come back." Halsey said sternly. “Gertrude, when you brought down a revolver that night for Jack to take with him. what one did you | bring? Mine?" Gertrude was defiant now. ' No. Yours was loaded, and l was afraid of what Jack—might do. I gave him one I have had for a year or two. It was empty." Halsey threw up both hands de spairingly. "If that isn't like a girl!" he said. “Why didn't you do what I asked you to. Gertrude? You send Bailey off with an empty gun. and throw mine in a tulip bed. of all places on earth? | Mine was a 3S caliber. The inquest will show, of course, that the bullet that killed Armstrong was a 38. Then where shall I be?" "You forget,” I broke in. "that I have the revolver, and that no one knows about it." But Gertrude had risen angrily. “I cannot stand it; it is always with me," she cried. "Halsey, I did not throw- your revolver into the tulip bed. I—think—you — did—it—vour self!” (TO BE CONTINUED.) OREGON HAS KINDEST MAN Panjab River Hermit Refuses to Kill Wild Animals That Destroy His Crops. If you lived In the woods where bear, deer and cougars actually inter fered with your farming operations and devoured your crops, would you have any hesitation about killing the offending varmint9? Prank Lotcon, a German hermit living alone on the Panjab river in the Blue mountains, in Oregon, thinks it wrong to kill wild animals and they bully him un mercifully. Although for years he has lived in a district where all sorts of wild ani mals are numerous, he has never killed one yet. "They frequently cause me much trouble." he says, "but It Is wrong to kill them." Recently he awoke in the morning to see two large cougars glaring at hif through the w indows of his cabin, j The mountaineer could easily have killed both of them, but he said he had no objection to have them inspect the Interior of his house. After watch- | ing him for several minutes, the wild cats slunk away into the Umber. A field of corn planted and cultlvat 1 ed by Lotcon with great care, was de stroyed by a herd of deer. Several acres of the corn was eaten to the ground. Mr. Lotcon could easily have killed the deer the morning after the animals devoured the corn, but he did not molest them A big deer recently created havoc with the irrigation scheme Mr. Lotcon has carried out on his farm. Wallowing in the spring ' irom which the water is drawn, the deer squeezed mud into the ouUet pipe, stopping it up, and the crops ’ suffered before the cause of the trou ble was discovered. Taking all these things into account. Oregon may claim to have j the kindest man. A Burglar's Text Book. The police of New York found upon a burglar, arrested by them, a treatise on safe-cracking that is said to be the most remarkable document that has ' ever fallen into their hands. The con i tents are so well complied that the ! police unhesitatingly declare the au thor a past grand master in his pro- ’ fession. and. according to Popular ! Mechanics, are somewhat anxious to ! ' find out just how many copies are in j circulation throughout the country. Por the most part the manuscript » 1 is in the yegg code, a lingo freely used by thieves the country over. It de- | I scribes the two kinds of safes recog- f nized by the profession, namely, the fireproof and the burglar-proof, assert ing, however, that there Is no genuine burglar-proof safe, and that kind that are drill-proof are only called so by courtesy. Minute directions for cracking a safe are given, together with diagrams to illustrate the treat ise. I - I His Favorite Seng. There is a young optician In Den- 1 ter. Col., who sings very well. The ather night he was making a call on a couple of sisters up on Corona street when he was asked to sing. "What shall it be?” he asked as he j 1 went to the piano. "Your favorite song." said one of ! the girls. “All right.” he replied. And then ' the optician sat down and sang "The Night Hath a Thousand Eyes." Guilt Revealed. "Johnny, do you smoke cigarettes?" "I d-d-do a 1-1-little, sir,” stammered lohnny. paling beneath the tan of the baseball field. The boss fixed him with his eagle :ye. "Then gimme me one." he said. eft mine on the bureau." THE COUNTRY FOR HIM. r orffwi «*♦ \. i "Golly! If I was cddlcated I*d cer tainly find out where de country la where de chickens lay sich big eggs, an’ I’d certainly go dere." — Every great man Is always being helped by everybody, for his gift Is to get good out of all things and all per sons.—Ruskln. Lewis' Single Binder gives s man what he wanta, a rich, meUow-tasting cigar. 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