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JKED VINCENT WHUAM5 gir rnOOYAY CO y4 rpr pzl HE battle was lost. Even ' tile most san guine of Mosby s dare •*- devils admitted that. t o/. So, after the manner of r their kind, they brokw the ^ring-line into a hundred pieces and bunched in twos and threes scattered broadcast over the sun-baked, cactus-clad hills-—soldiers of fortune, insurrectos of Mexico no longer; merely m°n. who had broken the laws of a land and were fleeing for their lives. w It had but one object in view—this lighting machine broken into bits, that had taken up the cause of a country other than its own—and that was to cross the American border and there seek the protection of the stars and stripes, under whose folds every mother's son of its^soidiery had been born My bunkie and I were on the left flank when the crash came. Some king hit jhat left flank and melted it, twisted and distorted it like so much steel put to the flame. 1 did not realize what It was at the time, but 1 do now. It was a battery, a living, breathing incarnation of hell in the shape of machine guns, handled by men who knew how to use them. Our wing of the army melted in its hot breath. Men who bad fought standing, kneeled. Men who kneeled, lay dowii, tried to bury myself in the bosom of Mother Earth and. Mother Earth being baked adobe in that par ticular spot, I took to my heels. It was the beginning of the end. Everybody was running, so what was the use of remaining? They were ten to one against us, this enemy, and artillery to boot. Besides, our oltl fashioued single-loading Spritigfields were being pitted against repeating rifles of the latest pattern. And the ammunition was running low . Sven thus 1 reasoned as I ran, pell mell, for the border, four long miles away. In my fancy there loomed be fore me the fate of our wounded at Tecate and the bloodletting of the Alamo. Somebody gripped the toe of my boot and I sprawled headlong into cactus and rocks. It was a wounded comrade, an American like myself, only a boy at that, whose ruddy face 1 had often seen at our troop mess or over some neighboring campfire of Baja California. His shoulder had been ,shot away. A leg was crushed below the knee. There was no hope for his life, but he wanted to be taken away. ‘‘Ear God's sake, don't leave me, pal!” ’ he cried. ‘‘They'll burn me, theyTI kill me slow.” he moaned. For a moment I was stunned by the fall, but the boy’s pathetic appeal brought me to my senses and burned into my brain where it will forever remain. I looked around me. There were wounded men. most of them boys, clutching at their fleeing comrades, beseeching them not to leave them to the mercy of the Mexican rurales. Yet these men whom I had seen cheerfully face death many times, men who had enlisted in a foreign cause unafraid to die in battle, but standing ever in mortal terror of the torture chambers on the battle fields of Mexico. The Death Rain. For a moment my manhood return ed and the massacre fear left me. I would shoulder this maimed bir of hu manity, stagger to the line with my burden; over those cruel, never ending hills which 1 must scale with my charge before w? reached safety. 1 staggered to my feet, but the zip zip of the “dum-dums,'' those satire dum-dums" that had crippled this bov brought ine back to a realization of my peril. An instant I faltered in hoisting him to my back, but the boy seemed to divine my change of heart. He gripped me again, this time wfith a dying man's clutch which I could not and would not shake off unless I broke his arm. So I shouldered the bleeding little figure and labored forward, the while he murmured, “Good boy. good boy," and the bullets of the Federals ever hissed and screeched in my ears. Something rose up in my path. It barred my progress. It was shattered by shot—a human form—scarce rec ognizable now for the blood that stain ed it from head to foot. But a voice husky with pain and terror begged me not to leave him. Fled as From an Enemy. I fled from this dying man as 1 fled from the enemy. Dodged him as he reached for me. As I passed him from his reach he tottered back on the » A.S ground with a cry of despair that left 1 with me another memory. My legs were growing numb from the exertion of it all. Ahead of me fled the army, or what was left of it. Behind me echoed the wail of the wounded, the vivas of the victorious Federal?, the hiss and scream of their bullets. Ever present was the mem ory of the Alamo and Tecate. where our wounded and those of our fellows taken prisoners had experienced liv ing hells before death relieved them of their torment. On and on I stumbled, falling now and then, but always my burden. It had ceased to urge me forward, this maimed bit of boyhood, but its lone arm still encircled my neck with a vise-like grip that at times made it al most impossible to breathe. Sounds of the battle left me now. 1 no longer saw men. 1 dayed not stop, however, for fear of not being able40 rise again, but at last I stum bled and fell with my burden for the last time. For a long time 1 remained on the ground, breathing heavily and resting. How sweet that rest was. 1 cared not for Federal soldado or rural L.et them cornel I would sleep. The weight slipped from my back and I breathed freer. 1 must have lain there for an hour. When I arose the little figure at my side did not speak. I bent ovei him. He had cheated the torture chambers. They could not get him now. From his pocket a worn and thumb-marked bit of paper ; protruded. In the hope of learning his name I read it. It was a message from a mother to her son. There was no post-mark. 1 No address. Nothing to lead to his identity. Just “Jim. come home. Mother needs you. Your little sister 1 and I pray for you every night. We ' . arc very lonely with you away. Come : home, dear boy." That was all. Just a good-by mes sage—the last he was ever to receive from that little mother somewhere in the states. If she could see her boy now! The Price of the Wanderlust. "And what did he die for?” 1 asked myself. What would 1 have died for? Just the battle-lust, that is all. The 1 something inside of us that makes us soldiers of fortune. The wanderlust: I buried him. in the night, on the I side of a hill where the soil was softer and a little grass grew. A nameless grave with not even a mark to show that a body rested there. Perhaps the mother may read these lines and recognize in the little soldier of fortune her boy. At least she may console herself with the thought that his flesh was not food for coyotes; his bones not bleaching white in the sun like two hundred others of his com rades who in five short months paid the penalty of the battle-lust in Mexi co As for myself. 1 stole like a thief in ! the night across the border and sur renderea to the United States author ities. Wjth ninety-three of my fellows i was penned up in Foft Rosecrans at San Diego for five days, while the government in Mexico we had sought to overthrow pleaded for our posses sion. Uncle Sam refused to give us tip. but he kept out general, daring young .lack Mosby. veteran of five wars, beloved of his men, who is now at the naval disciplinary barracks Pu get Sound, for taking French leave of the United States navy when the Mexican war cloud broke. Of the ninety-three who survived that bloody day which cost us so many men. some are now fighting in the Balkans under different flags, and. if the powers of teurope clash over the division of the spoils. 1 feel that 1 must join .them, even at the penalty of the cost! Ugliest Man the Most Married. Lupungu, chief of the Basongi. one of the wealthiest chiefs in the Congo, is a much-married man. for he is the proud possessor of 300 wives, for each of whom he pays a yearly tribute of two francs to the state. This, how ever. is not his sole claim to distinc tion, for he has also been dubbed by the officials of the province "the ug iiest man on earth." "With some rea son." says Vice-Consul CasteuB. who describes him as a villainous-looking native possessing but one eye, and a countenance horribly scarred by small pox. As a young child. Lupungu was de serted by his father, and afterwards adopted by a sub-chief. In later years, he persuaded the gullible natives that his one eye gave him certain occult powers; he then made friends with a band of Arab traders, and with their assistance made war upon his father whom he conquered and succeeded as chief of the Basongi. PIECED QUILTS COMING BACK. Old-fashioned women who know how to make pieced quilts are developing a useful industry, particularly in the south and New England, by making s'lk and cotton creations to supp’ the demand of fashionable women who an1 ready to pay big prices This picture shows a scene in the home of a j southern family. GRAND CARFET FOR ONE ONLY Is Gorgeous With Gold and Jewels and No One Has Sufficient Wealth to Buy It. The Gaekwar of Baroda has lent te the Victoria and Albert museum. South Kensington, one of the four magnificent panels which together constitute the celebrated "peart car pet of Baroda." These panels, with other intended gifts, including a can opy (the "Pearl Veil") and a set of gold carpet-weights encrusted with diamonds, were prepared in the reign of Khande Rao Gaekwar (1856-1870), probably at the instigation of his Mo hammedan wife, as an offering to the tomb of Mohammed at Madina. The panel, which is suggestive of the wonders of the whole carpet, con sists of an arabesque design embroid ered in pearls and colored glass beads with applied gold bosses and studs set with lasque (flat) diamonds and cabochon (convex form) rubies, emer alds and sapphires. In the center a conventional full-blown flower en closes a large bass of soft gold mount ed with a rosette of diamonds, the field filled With jeweled palmettes and flowers proceeding from leafy stems scrolling, encircling, and interlacing on a close ground of iridescent seed pearls. In the border are twenty-four diamond rosettes. Enormous Damage by Floods. The flood damage ill the United States is estimated at about $100,000, 000 annually. Flag of Tragedy Returned. Tragedy and a noble deed are wrapped up in a miniature flag which has just been presented to the Can terbury museum. New Zealand. It is a New Zealand ensign with the Pnion j Jack and the Southern Cross, and it i measures only two inches by three. Despite its size, it will prove a source of interest for many a year to come. Briefly, it has been to the south pole; a dead man kept his prom ise. When Doctor Wilson, one of Capt. Robert Scott's ill-fated Polar party, left Lyttelton, two years ago for the Antarctic regions, Miss Anne W. Hardy of Rakaia placed in his hands a miniature flag of New Zea land. with the request that if Doctor Wilson formed one of the Polar party he would take the little flag with him. This Dr. Wilson did, and the flag was found on his dead body when discov ered. It was brought back by the relief party and returned to Miss Hardy by Mrs. Wilson, the late explor er's wife, and by Miss Hardy pre sented to the museum. A Catastrophe. A man had occasion to ship a mule by rail to another county. He sent the animal to the station in the care of a darky. When the freight was put on the car the darky looked through the bars and saw that the mule was eating the tag upon which his destina tion was marked. The darky at once ran home and shouted: • Massa: massa! dat mule, he done gone and et up de place where he’e gwine to:"—Harpers Magazine. _ GOOD ROADS DISTRIBUTE COST OF ROADS Let Money Spent I3e Levied Upon As sessed Valuation of State—New York Plan Favored. Country roads should be built, and maintained from the funds of the gen eral public. No public road is of pure ly local importance; no community nor industry but is in some degree dependent upon the efficiency of all highways. Since the development of automobiles, more than half the traf fic on the average country read is purely city traffic. Why should town ships, for instance, be made to bear their equal share for road expense re gardless of wealth and resources, when the roads to be built benefit neighboring communities and even dis tant cities as much, and sometimes more, than the immediate locality. Reads are the arteries and veins of New York Cementatious Gravel Road. commerce. Because some of them are remote from the heart of trade does not lessen tneir significance to the whole. Let money spent for;roads be levied upon the assessed valuation of the state, says the Farm and Home. In Illinois, tor instance, 67 per cent, of the total taxable property is located in incorporated cities and towns. Should the 33 per cent, comprising country property bear all the burden for build ing and maintaining the highways? By means of state and county appro priations, or state and county bonds, or both, equitably divided, the road burden would he more fairly distrib uted. The New York plan “Of divid ing the cost between state, county and town works very well and is prob ably as fair and just as any that could be devised. TO TAX TOBACCO FOR ROADS Representative Warburton of Wash ington Has Novel Plan to Raise $80,000,000 Yearly. The constructing of a comprehen sive system of national highways out of a tax imposed upon the consumers of tobacco is a proposition which Rep resentative Warburton of Washington has embodied in the form of a bill introduced in the house. He proposes that a tax shall he imposed so light as not to he felt by the users of tobacco, but. every puff of smoke from burning tobacco will represent a part of a system of highways. The plan contemplates trunk lines connecting the capitals of the different states with the national capital at Washington and with each other and running to the different national parks. The cost of construction is to be paid out of a tax similar to that of 1879 on tobacco. It is calculated that the tax will raise $80,000,000 a year, or more than twice the amount of in ternal revenue now collected. UNITED STATES GOOD ROADS Estimated That Percentage of Im proved Thoroughfares Gone Well Beyond Mine Per Cent. In the past three years it is roughly estimated that the percentage of im proved roads in the United States has gone well beyond 9 per cent and possi bly close to 10 per cent. It is esti mated that if 20 per cent, of,the public highways were improved—egch high way being selected and improved with a view to the proportionate traffic up on it—a high degree of efficiency in highway transportation would be reached. It is figured that millions of dollars would be saved annually in the transportation of crops, the wear and tear on horses and vehicles, and in the minimizing of the waste in truck farming. Where roads are bad, the. farmers frequently find it impossible to get their products to the shipping points and thus perishable products are wasted, perceptibly increasing the cost of living. Eradication of Dandelion. The best way to get rid of the dan delion pest is to devise some use for them. The moment they become valu able that moment it is going to re quire a lot of trouble to produce them. Crossing Is Harmful. No flock owner can achieve success in the breeding of sheep, either for market or breeding purposes, if he resorts to constant crossing of two different breeds to improve hiB flock. Why Hen Don’t Fall. When the leg is bent the bird can not open Its feet. That is the reason the hen does not fall off the perch at night when asleep. When a hen is walking it closes Its toes as U raises the foot and opens them as it touches the ground. Comfort for Cows. When wooden or concrete floors are used sufficient bedding should be supplied so that the cows may rest In comfort and that surface dampness will be absorbed 1 v- • PRACTICAL AND TIMELY HOG LOT NOTES Device for Feeding Pigs to Prevent Crowding, and Allow a Fair Start for All—The Vertical Door Prevents Pigs From Obtaining the Food Until It Is All Poured in the Trough. The possibilities of the hog is a mat- ; ter almost entirely in the hands of the feeder. Red clover in bloom is not good for hogs, but when young it makes a fine pasture. The growing pig requires protein and not much corn. It is all right to give a little corn, but too much is ' harmful. In purchasing a boar it is well to ■ bear in mind that one with heavy i bones is more to be desired than one of slight build. Neither rape nor clover alone will do for growing, fattening hogs. They must have some grain twice a day-; for best results. To make fall pigs do well, they must be provided with warm slepping quar ters at night, and filled with sunshine during the day. Don't select a heavy, lazy sow for a breeder. She should be mild in dis position. but possessed of sufficient en ergy to take exercise. The practical remedy for little pigs j that are liable to be troubled with ' thumps is to provide them plenty of exercise and large range. The pure bred hog will mature and i come into money more quickly than a scrub, and bring more money for the ! same weight, at that. The farmer who marketed his corn in the hog yard, and who is now mar keting the hogs, can look any man In the face and tell him to go to any old place. One acre of alfalfa will furnish more ! forage for hogs than two acres of clo-1 ver. as it grows faster and keeps on | growing as fast as the hogs eat it i down. Pigs will live and grow on rape without a supplement of grain, but a small addition of the latter is profit- j able. Dry sows will, however, do well | on rape alone. Never feed more than hogs will eat j up freely. Many farmers do not prac- \ tice this, but keep a quantity of un-, eaten food lying about the lot at all - times. A few coals from the wood fire of the kitchen put into the houses now and then, where the hogs can grind them up to charcoal, help to keep the ; hogs healthy. Steaming food for hogs is an easy j matter. All that is required is a large box connected with a small boiler by a' one-inch pipe. The pipe should con nect the box at the bottom. If you are in doubt, kill the higger hog, for it makes better meat, and the ham of a light hog is hardly worth curing, if you are fond of the meat, for it dwindles far too rapidly. Southern farmers have learned that feeding cottonseed meal in large quan tities is a bad business, as it often leads to fatalities. Fed in small quan tities. however, with corn and alfalfa, it is beneficial. We need pasteurized swill barrels, as well as pasteurized milk. Before any animal can transmit bet ter quarters it must have those qual ities. During summer when on grass, our hogs are provided with salt and wood ashes at least once a week, and they relish them. Exercise is of prime importance in several ways. It keeps the pigs nim ble and in a healthy condition. Shade costs practically nothing. It means much in the profit derived from hogs. A hog suffering from the heat can grow little. It is a very poor hog-lot wherein shade is not provided. AH authorities on the economic production of pork emphasize the im portance of the soiling crops for hogs. A stingy feeder is never a profitable pork producer. The pigs need exercise if they are to do their best. If a sow raises but three pigs, says Professor Smith of Purdue univer sity, Lafayette, Ind.. it means that they are costing five dollars each. If instead of three she raises five, the initial cost is reduced to three dol lars per head. If she is a very pro lific sow she may raise ten, in which case the debt represented by each pig is only a dollar and a half. When the breeder heartlessly culls out his sow's that produce stock that never attains good size; when he promptly sends to the block the sow with small litters; when he gets out of his herd the peevish hogs and the hogs of low vitality, then he will hear less about the relative advantage of the cross-bred hog. DESTROY CANADA THISTLES IN YEAR Pestiferous Weed Reproduces It self in Various Ways—How to Eradicate. (By G. II. DACT.) These thistles reproduce themselves by rootB and seeds—the seeds being disseminated by the water, wind, snow, in poorly graded grain, leaky grain cars, etc. Although the seeds are rapid repro ducers the roots also are very effec tive in propagating the pests as they spread quickly in all directions and are readily transplanted by the plow, drag and cultivator in various parts of the farm. The most, effective measure in er adicating Canada thistles is to bare fallow the infested field for the sea son. The land should be plowed deep ly four or five times and efficiently cul tivated with a spring tooth harrow be tween the plowings throughout the season. This system of control effectively practiced will absolutely eradicate the thistles in one year. In exceptional cases where weather or soil conditions have been especially unfavorable it has been necessary to plow once more the following spring and then to culti vate frequently until time to plant ; corn when a crop of this grain should be sown—check row method—so that intensive cultivation can be continued. Fall plowing followed by careful cul tivation and early spring plowing should effectually prepare the seed bed for Hungnrian millet or Silver Hull buckwheat. These crops grow rapidly and are shading the ground be fore the weakened weeds get stalled. After the crop is harvested, fall plow and several cultivations will spell sure 'death to the few surviving this tles and the field should be weed-free the following spring. Good stands of alfalfa maintained for three or four years are very effi cient in eradicating Canada thistles. The field should be heavily manured and plowed, thoroughly cultivated un til the late fall and repeat the process [ in the early spring, seeding the alfalfa late in May. The weeds will be weakened by the intensive cultivation and the rapidly growing alfalfa will accomplish their complete downfall. Where live stock are pastured in thistle-infested fields the weeds can be advantageously cut below the surface of the ground, a handful of rock salt thrown on the bloom and the stock will do the rest in destroying the thiBtle. On small areas gasoline can be sub stituted for the salt in treating weeds or they can be smothered out by cov ering them with tarred paper, weight ed down with earth or stones. The main thing is to practice some method of control and to decrease as far as possible the growth of these uoxious weeds. PROPER CARE OF TOOLS IS BEST Any Implement of Steel Will Rust if Not Given the Very Best of Attention. I (By H. F. GRINSTEAD.) I Any 6teel tool will rust if exposed . to damp air, yet I have found that 1 tools subjected to the following treat ment every three months will not rust unless actually thrown on the ground, or exposed to hard rain. Take two parts each of graphite and j tallow, and one part gum camphor; inelt together, and if not soft enough i to form a stiff paste add more tallow or lard. Remove all rust from the : steel surface, wipe dry, and apply the paste. Let it remain on for 21 hours then rub dry.' I-nless the tool is needed, even long ! er than one day will be still better for the tool to be covered with the preparation. The above preparation has the effect of a coating of oil, though every vestige has apparently : been removed for months. . "" Profit In Goats. Goats may be raised profitably on I land which is unsuited for any kind of cultivation. New Fruit Discovered. A California horticulturist has sue-1 needed in grafting a hybrid between the blackberry and the raspberry upon a climbing rose trine. He believes he will be able to raise remarkable fruit from this graft. German Animal Census. German’s animal census shows that the number of beef cattle, calves and sheep has decreased since 1907, the decrease in sheep amounting to 25 per' cent. Keep Milk Flow Steady. Darkened stalls and screen doors and windows in the dairy barn will help to keep the milk flow steady. Horses and Mules. The I nited States is officially esti mated to have 20,567,000 horses and 4,386,000 mules. Ancient Irrigation. Irrigation has been practiced in Spain nearly a century, the first canal having been beeun in 1814. COCA COLA HABIT, A GHOST. We have all heard of ghosts, but none of us have ever seen one. It's the same way with coca cola "fiends:'' you can hear about them but you might search for them until doom’s day and you would never find one. Physicians who have treated hundreds of thousands of .■ drug-habit cases, including opium, mor phine. cocaine, alcohol, etc., say that they have never seen a case where the use of Coca-Cola ha* so fastened itself upon the individual as to constitute a habit in the true sense of the word. Al though millions of glasses of Coca-Cola are drunk every year, no Coca-Cola fiends have ever made themselves vis ible at the doors of the sanitariums for the treatment of drug habits. The Coca-Cola habit is analogous to the beefsteak habit and to the straw berry habit and the ice. cream habit. People drink Coca-Cola first because they see it advertised and thereafter because it tastes good and refreshes their minds and bodies. They drink it when they can get it and contentedly do without it when they can't get it. If you had ever witnessed the ravings of a real drug fiend when deprived of his drug, if you had ever observed the agony he suffers, you would never again be so unfair as to mention Coca Cola in the same breath -with the “habit-forming" drugs.—Adv. Wanted to Be a Puppy. Margaret, as usual, wanted to leave the table with her hands full of bread and jam. “Margaret,” said her mother, "can't you remember that your grandfather said that you reminded him of a little puppy taking his bone out to chew?" Margaret slipped from the table with her bread. Pansy watched her sister silently, and then fixed herself a small piece of bread and jam. then turning to her mother her big brown eyes she said meekly: “Mamma, may 1 be a little puppy too?"—Judge. _ _ » Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottls of CASTOKIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria New vs. More. “Why are you in such a hurry for the new currency?” “The little supply that I had of the old is almost exhausted.”—Buffalo Express. Thinks Well of New Studies. Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, superin tendent of schools in Colorado, says that she is very mudh interested in the new studies of agriculture and domestic science. — Declares Women Drink More. A. S. Shoemaker, attorney for the Anti-Saloon league, whose home is in Washington, says the women of the present day drink more intoxicating drinks each year. Quite the Contrary. “Is Mrs. Oldboy despairing of ter " rich old husband’s recovery?" “No; she is afraid of it.” Red Cross Ball Blue will wash double a j many clothes as any other blue. Don’t I put your money into any other. Adv. Blessed be the man who is in a i hurry; he never stops to tell his trou ' bles. 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