j Night and!! | Si Dawning ijj |:; By H, M. EGBERT ji j gj - W^l^t«M>ng|lg|gaa|«|gt-^Sig5»5Ig^r-5JHliagrl (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) '• *lea t know wliai io do with my self evenings,” sigh •» Ronald Cray, leaning out of the back window of his bachelor apartment and survey ing the glooomy flats around him. Two months before he had been sum moned home from New Mexico, where his power dam had made him famous, to take charge of the engineering de partment of his company at head quarters. His salary was ample, he had wealth, he was only twenty-five; yet he had managed to make no ac quaintances in the big city. A free life in the West had made him different from the average city bred young man; he thought the me tropolis stiff and its people devoid of interest. Suddenly, as he leaned out. survey ing the huge buildings and speculating how many thousand lives ran on in them, a light sprang into being in the building opposite, on the fifth tioor, on a level with his. Behind a drawn shade he saw the silhouette of a man. He was stooping over a table and, as Cray watched, he saw the shadow of a woman behind him. Suddenly her hand plunged downward. The elon gated object in it looked like a poniard. It struck the man in the side of the neck and he rolled over. The woman stood looking at him for a moment; then, with a gesture of triumph, she flung the poniard out of the window, raising the shade a little. Cray heard a metallic tinkle in the court below. Then followed darkness. He leaned out. astounded at what he had seen and hardly believing it real. How long he waited he did not know. Suddenly his bell rang. He west out into the passage and saw. standing outside the door, one of the most beautiful women whom he had ever met. She was twenty-three or four. Her eyes gleamed with feverish intensity, her hair was disheveled and her hands were red. "Save me! Hide me! Help me!” she pleaded. Cray did net hesitate an instant. He pulled her through the doorway and led her to the bathroom. He filled the I .~==U—L’Uij-tl I! II i III II III I Saw the Shadow of a Woman Behind Him. basin and washed her hands, drying them on a towel afterward. Then he took her into his spare room. “You’re quite safe here,” he said in a low voice. "Nobody saw you come in. You can stay as long as you want to.” She crouched in a corner, glaring at him like a hunted beast. He hesi tated, then he closed and bolted the window and withdrew, leaving the door open. For half an hour he waited, fearing that he would hear the bolt snap, that she would try to plunge down into the court below. But hardly a sound came from the room. When at last he returned she was lying on the floor a*leep.‘ ' He placed her on the couch and she did not awaken.* Her sleep was of profound exhaustion. All night Cray sat up, waiting. Sometimes he stole in to look at her, but she never stirred. It was not till the sun was well up that he heard her moving. She came forward unsteadily and looked in at him as he sat by the window. “Where am I?” she cried. “Who are you?” Cray rose and took her by the hands. "I am a friend,” he answered. "You arc safe here-—safe to come or to eo.” She burst into hysterical sobbing. When at last he had quieted her the girl told Cray her story. She had met a man in her home in Virginia, three months before. He had asked her to be his wife. Her parents mistrusted him; she followed him stealthily, to learn too late that all that had been said about him was true. He was a gambler, a swindler. She remembered those three months with loathing. Her horror of him had grown. He had deceived her with a mock ceremony, lied to her—at last she had learned that he had a wife already. She had written home, but her let ters were returned unanswered. She had nowhere to turn, she was ignorant of any trade, and the man held her by his lying promises. He had almost got his divorce, he said; he loved her; for her sake he would reform, if only she would trust him. She had waited for him the evening before; then there was a dreadful blank in her mind, and she had re covered to find herself standing over the body. And she had fled wildly for shelter. Cray patted her hands. "You stay witl me until the trouble blows over,” he said. “I want a housekeeper. You will be quite safe here. 1 shall let it be known that you answered an ad vertisement. When all is ready 1 will help you to a new life. You trust me?” She looked at him helplessly. "I am so ignorant,” she wept. ”1 must trust you. I have nobody else.” “You will not regret it,” said Cray. And he knew the girl was safe there. Nobody came to call at his little apart ment. The murder occupied two columns of his morning paper, but the only clue war, that afforded by a negro janitor, who had seen a woman ascending the sups fsw minutes before the trag . And he stated tl”,* her hair was fair. The unknown woman’s was ebony dark. Cray felt safe. The poniard was found, but gave uo clue. And gradually the interest waned. Nobody knew the murdered man, who hat' very good reasons for disguising his identity. As the days passed Helen Ware came to trust Cray absolutely. She cooked for him, mended his clothes, resolutely refused to take the money that he pressed upon her. “I can never forget what I owe you,” she would say. Bur sometimes there would be spells of weeping. “I did not mean to kill him,” the girl would moan. ”1 do not remember anything, except sit ting at home waiting for him with bitterness of heart; then I heard him come in and went to him—and I was standing over him with the dagger in my hands.” “You don't recall the dagger?” “Yes. It was a curio of his; some friend from a savage country had given it to him. I must have snatched it from the wall and stabbed him.” As the weeks turned into months, Cray found himself torn between two impulses. He wanted to let the girl go to some scene where she would be able to take up her life anew. And yet—he knew that he loved her. Her helplessness, her charm, the bond between them had created an intimacy that was infinite ly sweet. He had been offered a new position in the West. One night he took his courage in his hands and asked her to be his wife and go with him where all memory of the past could be forgotten. He knew by her looks that she loved him. But she would not. “It is your pity for me, Ronald, no* love,” she said, sighing. ”1 love you, but I can never be your wife so long as this curse of blood lies on me.” ’’You acted rightly,” he cried hot ly "No jury would have cunvicted you. Helen, dearest, forget it and come with me.” “I cannot,” she answered sadly. “I must leave you, and you must for get.” But on the next day something hap pened which drove all thoughts of parting from their heads. The wife of the murdered man was arrested charged with the crime. It was known that she had been In the city that day. She had threat ened him: the negro janitor identified her as the woman he had seen near the apartment house. And Ronald and Helen watched the unfolding of the grim trial with dismay. ~ On the evening before the last day Helen spoke to Ronald about what lay uppermost in her mind. “I cannot let that woman be con victed," she said. “I must go down to the court and offer my confes sion.” Ronald could not dissuade :ier. He knew that it was the only possible thing. And all day they sat In the dreary courtroom listening to the intolerably long summing up. The jury had at last retired. Ronald had persuaded Helen not to speak unless the verdict was "guilty.” It was hours before the jury re turned. A murmur spread through the courtroom. The face of the foreman was deadly white. He trembled and looked away from the prisoner's straining eyes. There could be no doubt what the verdict was. Suddenly Helen sprang to her feet. Ronald rose and kept his arm about her. Sne faced the prisoner and stretched out her hand. But before a word could leave her lips the woman in the dock uttered a shriek and recoiled, clutching at the air. "Yes, I am guilty,” she criod “He lied to me, deceived me. I learned that he was supporting another wom an, who was passing as his wife. I dogged him to his home. I entered after him. I saw him in the hallway, and over his head a dagger hung. It seemed placed there for me. I struck him—and then the other woman came out—and she stands there!” And she collapsed unconscious upon the floor. Helen fell into Ronald’s arms. “It is true! It is true!” she cried. "I remember everything!” The verdict of "manslaughter” was further eased by a mercifully light sentence, and, with the obstacle to their marriage removed, Ronald and Helen went West, where they started upon their new life together. Plants Must Have Light. The blossoms of many plants open or close with the coming or the de parture of daylight, and all vegetable growths quickly lose their color. If not their lives, if deprived of light. The sensitive plant is a popular exam ple of “nerves.” A tap on its stem is sufficient to cause it instantly to wilt, the leaves falling limp as if with ered. Concerning the remarkable sensitiveness of plants to light Profes sor Ganong says: “Evidently some such structures advance pretty far in the direction of the special sense or gans of animals, such as eyes.” Statistics as to Twins. Take 900 average babies. There will be ten pairs of twins among them. This proportion holds true in the Unit ed States and England. In Italy or Brazil the proportion would be much less. For some reason that nobody knows, infants in duplicate are not nearly so common in warm latitudes as in cold countries. Relatively to population, twins come into the world in Russia three times as often as in Spain. ATTENTION TO SOW BEFORE FARROWING Healthy, Vigorous Sow and Litter. (By H. M. COTTRELL.) While pregnant, the bow should be given muscle and bone-making feeds that will develop in the unborn pigs size and strong vital organs. When the sow has good alfalfa pasture, only a small quantity of grain is needed. The sow should be kept in good flesh, but not fat. A heavy condition of flesh is favorable if it is put on with muscle-making feeds and the sow has been given ample exercise. Under feeding is extremely detrimental. The pigs from a half-starved sow are weak and undersized at birth, and are stunt ed while suckling from lack of suffi cient milk. Sows fed much corn while pregnant make poor mothers, do not give a full supply of milk, are likely to be clumsy and the pigs are often small and weak. Peas, shorts, tankage, skim milk, and alfalfa, clover, cow peas or peanut hay or pasture are the feeds to give the sow for developing strong pigs at birth. Corn is deficient in the bone, mus cle-making and blood-making mate rials necessary to develop the unborn pig. If the sow does not have these materials in abundance, the pigs are small and weak and the supply of milk is poor. A sow fed corn with out enough bone and muscle-making feeds to supply the demands of her unborn is often so feverish and un satisfied that she eats her pigs when they are born. All the alfalfa hay j she can eat daily or a goodly supply of skim milk, are cheap feeds, and ; unequaled as a balance to corn. Constipation in the sow while she is pregnant or suckling must be avoid- i ed. Pig-eating is often caused by constipation. Laxative and bulky feeds, j such as pasture hay, will prevent this ; trouble, and should form part of the daily ration. Exercise is necessary to keep the bowels in good condition. Small feeds of roots are good. Heavy feeding of roots is often the cause of weak or dead pigs at birth. Feed ing frozen roots is likely to cause abor tion. The pregnant sow should be fed, sheltered, exercised and handled in such a way as to kq,ep her iu good flesh and health. Everything that fa cilitates this condition tends to secure pigs with greater vigor and more profitable as feeders. A blow or a strain of any kind to the belly of the pregnant sow is like ly to result In pigs dead at biith, or pigs born the wrong way, or her death. Sows had to step over a six inch board in passing through an opening between their yard and pas ture. There were many dead pigs at farrowing, and some of the rows died from trouble while giving birth. The ground next to a hog pen was eight inches lower than the floor, and the brood sow had to climb over this step —dead pigs and dead sow at farrow ing time were the consequence. Pota toes were dug with a plow and the land left in ridges. Pregnant sows had to travel over these to get to a field. At farrowing time there were many dead pigs, and two sows died. A boar allowed to run with sows that are bred will frequently knock them around and bring the same trouble. Horses or cattle running in a lot with brood sows will often injure the sows the same way. Not over five or ten bred sows should be allowed to sleep together, as crowding in cold weather many result in losses at far rowing time. Pregnant sows should not be allowed to run with fattening hogs. VACCINATION CURE FOR CHICKEN POX Interesting Report Made by Ex pert of California Agricul tural College Station. The report of the agricultural ex periment station at Berkeley gives the particulars of a series of experiments of vaccination as a remedy for chicken pox made by J. R. Beach, assistant in veterinary science. It will be of in terest to poultrymen to learn that he has made a successful application of the method of vaccination against chicken pox devised at the Wisconsin agricultural experiment station. In one flock badly infected at the time of vaccination a total of 1,177 fowls were treated and only 9 per cent subsequently develojjed chicken pox lesions. In the same pens 121 fowls were left unvaccinated for con trols, and 87 y2 per cent of these sub sequently developed chicken pox. The vaccination appears to have a curative as well as a preventive value. Vaccine was given to 113 diseased fowls in addition to local treatment and 113 diseased fowls with lesions of the same degree of severity were giv en local treatment of the lesions only. The mortality percentage of the vac cinated lot was 25 per cent, of the un vaccinated lot 54 per cent. The av erage length of time required for re covery of the vaccinated lot was four teen days. The technique of this vaccination method is so simple that it is believed that poultry raisers will be able to prepare the vaccine and administer the treatment themselves. ONLY KIND OF COW THAT PAYS FARMER Animal Must Produce 200 Pounds of Butterfat or 5,600 Pounds of Milk Yearly. (By FRANCIS W. PECK. University Farm, St. Paul, Minn.) From several years’ records of milk production and cost of maintenance it has been found that a cow must pro duce at least 200 pounds of butterfat or about 5,600 pounds of milk annually is she is to pay her way. This means 19 pounds of milk daily for 300 days. The annual cost of maintaining a cow is close to $65, if a man values bis labor at 15 cents an hour. If a man wants more than a market price for feed and this bare wage, he must put his time on cows giving more than 200 pounds of fat. The larger the increase over this amount the larger bis pay will be. Try Fruit Thinning. Do some of your apple trees refuse to bear every other year? Try thin ning them down to a scant crop the year they are too full. Good apple men say this will correct the resting habit. Composition of Tankage. Tankage is all that part of the meat not fit for human use, handled by the largo packing houses It Is thoroughly cooked and dried and can be fed dry mixed with middlings and chop, and •1 ir, the urm of slop. DISEASE OF STOCK INDUCED BY ERGOT Farmer Should Avoid Grazing An finals on Infested Areas—No Effective Remedy. « (By W. W. ROBINS, Colorado Experi ment Station.) Ergot is a name applied to one stage of a fungus that works in the heads of a number of grasses. It causes one of the oldest known stock diseases, the so-called "ergotism.” Ergot forms purple-black, straight or hornlike, hard structures about one fourth to one-half inch long. These structures occupy the position of the grain in the head of grass. This hard mass is not a degenerate kernel of grass, however. The black ergot masses vary in size and shape, de pending upon the plant attached. They are largest in rye. Ergot de velops upon a number of grasses, chief of which are cultivated rye, wild rye, wheat-grass, meadow grass, timothy and redtop. There is no effective remedy for ergotism. Hence, one should become familiar with the appearance of ergot, and always avoid grazing stock on badly infested areas and also avoid cutting infested areas of grasses for hay. LAYING HENS NEED MORNING DUST BATH By Its Use Fowls Are Enabled to Rid Themselves of Pestifer ous Little Mites. (By C. S. ANDERSON, Colorado Agricul tural College, Fort Collins. Colo.) Laying hens must have their morn ing dust bath if they are to lay the maximum number of eggs through the winter. It is a necessary luxury for them. By its use they are enabled to rid themselves of mite3 and to re move all scales and dirt from the skin. Lice and mites do their greatest in jury to the fowls at night while on the roost. Instinctively they look for a place to dust in the morning. Do not force your hens to dust in the dropping or feed litter. During the summer they will usually And their own dusting place such as the road or in the shade of trees and shrubbery, but in the winter it must be provided for them. Nail an old grocery box in one corner of the house. Elevate it above the floor so that it will not get filled with straw or litter and put in six or eight inches of dusting ma terial. During moderate weathei their box may be placed out in thf pen. Orchard Locations. As a rule, it is doubtless safe to as sume that a site having a moderate ! slope in some direction is to be pre ferred for orchard purposes, other things being equal, to one that is level. One having a slope will usu ally have better soil and atmospheric drainage than a level area. Proper Feeding. Keep your horse feeling good by proper food and care, and be will more than repay you for the little extra time you give him. EXTRA LINEN SUPPLY MATTER THAT IS THE DESIRE OF EVERY HOUSEWIFE. Monograms Should Be Embroidered on Every Piece—Fancy Work That Can Be Done in Mo ments of Leisure. No housekeeper can ever have enough attractive linen for her table and her bedrooms. She may have enough for actual service, but it is wise to keep just a little ahead of the actual need in extra towels for guest room and bathroom. It is also advis able to keep just a little ahead in the supply of linen for the table. Every set of napkins and each table cloth should have the housewife's sur name initial or her monogram em broidered upon it. There is a question as to the proper place to put the initial or monogram, but the majority prefer the letter on tablecloths to be In the coiner, where they will come just off the rounded edge of the table. Napkins should have the initials in the corner or in the middle on one side, where they will be on top when the napkins are folded. Tea napkins are the only ones on which a wreath can appropriately be placed. It is quite permissible to place an initial within the wreath or other decorative motif. Tea napkins can also be fin ished with hemstitched or scalloped edges. Some women may argue that they haven't time to put fancy work on household linen. This is a poor ar gument. for almost every woman has a few moments during the day when she sits down to chat with a neigh bor or when she is waiting for the homecoming of her husband to his evening meal. It is during these odd moments that a great deal can be accomplished, especially in the way of fancy work. Pick-up work is good for the nerves. Mexican Meat Loaf. Mix thoroughly a pound and a hall of chopped beef, half a pound of finely chopped veal and a quarter of a pound of chopped salt pork, a tablespoonful of finely minced parsley, half a chopped onion and a tablespoonful of minced green pepper, also a teaspoon ful of salt and a saltspoonful of pep per. Cut a long, narrow strip from a canned pimento and arrange a layer of the meat mixture firmly in the bot tom of a dish previously wet with cold water. Then lay the pimento strip lengthwise on the meat and cover with the remainder of the meat. Pack In well and bake three-quarters of an hour in a quick oven. Make a gravy of the drippings, adding a little tomato juice and chopped green pepper. Pennsylvania Plum Pudding. One cupful milk, two eggs, one cup ful molasses, one-half teaspoonful nut meg, one-half teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one cup ful bread crumbs, one-half cupful corn meal, one cupful chopped beef suet one-quarter cupful finely minced cit ron, one cupful seeded raisins, one half cupful currants; flour to make a stiff batter. Steam fully three hours, turn from the mold and strew chopped almonds over top. Serve pudding hot with sauce made thus: Cream to gether one cupful of pulverized sugar scant one-half cupful of butter, beat whites of two eggs in, one at a time, and one teaspoonful of lemon flavor ing; stand on ice a short time before serving. Serve sauce very cold. To Beat an Egg Quickly. Break the egg into an ordinary glass tumbler. Place a piece of clean tissue paper on the top. Hold it firmly down all around to keep out the air. Place the other hand on the top of the paper and shake the tumbler vigorously two or three times. The egg is then ready to use without any further effort, and is as well-beaten as if whipped for ten minutes. Oatmeal Muffins. Put ttvo cupfuls of uncooked oat meal in bowl, pour over one and one half cupfuls sour milk, cover and let stand over night. In the morning add one-third cupful sugar, one-fourth cup ful melted butter, one egg. well beat en, one teaspoonful salt and one cupful flour. Beat thoroughly, place in but tered hot iron gem pans; bake in a hot oven 20 minutes. Creamed Chicken—Celery. Melt 2% tablespoonfuls of butter, add three tablespoonfuls of flour and pour on gradually one cupful of milk; season with half teaspoonful of salt, one-eighth teaspoonful of celery salt and a few grains of pepper; then add 1>4 cupfuls cold cooked chicken cut in cubes and one-third cupful celery cut in small pieces. Value of Ga'nishing. Garnishing is a feature of cookery not to be despised, as under its gentle Influence a family *111 yield to ecou omy when curtain lectures and a flat purse fail to convince. Fresh parsley, celery leaves, sliced lemon and tri angles of golden-brown toast are de pendable garnishes. To Serve Potatoes. Potatoes should always be served In an uncovered dish. If it is necessary for them to stand for a few minutes before being served, cover them with a cloth, not a lid. in order that the steam as it condenses may be ab sorbed by the cloth and not returned to the potatoes to make them soggy. Anna Potatoes. Wash and pare medium-sized pota toes, cut lengthwise in one-quarter inch slices, fasten with skewers (toothpicks), parboil ten minutes, place in dripping pan and bake about twenty minutes in a hot oven, basting often with butter or some other fat. To Fasten Strainer. Use clothespins to pin the cloth over the dish in which you are strain ing. It is much more convenient than trying to hold it Must Have Protein. We can live indefinitely and do the hardest kind of work, provided we get enough proteid, but we cannot work satisfactorily on a diet which is rich only in calories. Indeed, a very large proportion of people would be infinite ly better in health if they cut down their heat-producing food and relied more on proteid. 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