The Stroud Democrat (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture)
HELPING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES TO MARKET
(Copyright by W. G. Chapman)
PAGET SINKS A GERMAN CRUISER AND IDA KENNEDY
ENTERS THE STORY.
Naval Lieutenant Donald I'uget, just given command of u sub-
marine, meets at Washington an old friend and distinguished though
somewhat eccentric scientist, Captain Mastertnan. Masterman hus just
returned from an exploring expedition, bringing with him a member of
the strange race, the existence of whose species, he asserts, menaces
the human family. At the club, the "March Hares," Masterman ex-
plains his theory to 1'aget. The recital is Interrupted by the arrival of
a lifelong enemy of Masterman, Ira MacBeard, and the former Is
seized with a fatal paralytic stroke. From Musterman's body Paget
secures documents bearing upon the discovery and proceeds to the
home of the scientist. I'aget proceeds to sea on his submarine, the
F55, and encounters a German cruiser.
CHAPTER IV—Continued.
At first the hum of the electric mo-
tors dominated all other sounds, hut
gradually It became blended with a
medley of noises. Placing his ear a
moment against the plating of the
;hull, Donald could hear a steady
though faint pounding, which came, not
from within, but from the bearings of
the distant warship, transmitted un-
der water. Somewhere, too, Donald
fancied that a destroyer was speed-
ing toward them, for there was a
faint and almost Imperceptible whir-
ling, as of high-speed machinery.
Mixed with the throb of the screws
there came the sound of their suctlou.
At times the seas, breaking over the
periscope, obscured his vision. Some-
times, too, the cruiser shifted outside
her arc; then the periscope motor
started anew, and slowly she would
■wing back, growing more discernible.
Below, the men, who understood
that an enemy ship was near, waited
In suppressed excitement.
"We'll have to try her at a mile.
Clouts," said Donald to the lookout.
He carried only three torpedoes. He
would have liked to close In and make
sure of his prey, but a shot at almost
the extreme range seemed preferable
to hazarding the vessel and the lives
of his crew.
"Aye, sir I" answered Sam Clouts.
Clouts was a man of about forty
years, hook-nosed, with bland, humor-
ous blue eyes, and a square Jaw under
a square, bristling beard. When off
duty he was perpetually playing n
mouth-organ, and Donald could not
help smiling to see his hand stealing
covetously toward his pocket even
now.
The German could hardly have been
Jnore than a mile away when she sud-
denly changed her course to westward.
Donald had been approaching her head
on, with the object of maneuvering,
when within striking distance, to send
a torpedo amidships. The new course
of the vessel was a bitter disappoint-
Vient to him.
Donald realized that she was near-
lng the Shetlands and endeavoring to
inake the passage between mainland
and Fair Island. That was the most
hazardous part of her Jomney. Once
beyond the straits, she would be free
In the open Atlantic.
He gave the order to rise. The
tanks were blown, the rudders and
'diving planes adjusted; the FS5 be-
Kan to mount upward. A green trans-
lucency appeared. The electric lights
went out. The hatches were opened.
A gust of fresh air drove the stale
atmosphere away. The petrol motors
took up the task of the electric ones.
Donald ordered full speed. The ves-
sel drove high through the waves,
achieving 12 knots.
A shadow edged the misty horizon.
It was Sumburgh head, the extreme
southerly point of the Shetlands. Here
the cruiser was due to turn.
t "Smoke to port, sir!" suld Clouts.
The German had evidently seen It
•t the same time, for her speed began
to diminish. This meant that she was
steering cautiously to gain the shelter
of Sumburgh, behind which she might
lie unobserved for observation.
If It was an English battle cruiser
that was approaching, the ship would
be hard put to it to escape. It
was not likely that the oncoming ship
had sighted her smoke through the in-
creasing haze.
j Donald drove hard for the main
channel. He knew that he could catch
the German now, and he was ready to
take chances of discovery. Meanwhile,
Inch by Inch, the strunger came up out
of the sen.
At first Donald believed she was a
British battle cruiser. This hope was
soon dispelled, however, when her fun-
nels .showed three black stacks, ringed
with white, the color of the Claude
line, and the heavy hull, built for
freight, not speed.
His heart began to thump heavily.
For the Ueotla was one of the Claude
line's ships, and the approaching ves-
V' el looked very much like the overdue
Y"iii Boot la.
, And Ida was uboard her, and al-
ready well within range of the ene-
my's guns I The two ships had sighted
each other. Donald saw the Beotla
diminish to a thread line as she turned
®nd ran, prow on, toward the Orkneys.
I A spurt of name broke from the Uer-
O
man's how. A coll of cloud followed
it. A few seconds later the boom of
the discharge echoed across the water,
and a pillar ot spray shot up near the
Beotia's bow. The battleship turned
toward her prey.
And Donald's chance had come.
The Beotla had no Intention of sur-
rendering. The German, following
her, perceived the lurking danger, and
at once bis guns were trained on the
submarine.
The F55 dipped at the bow. A shell
hooted over her, and a second, falling
shorter, deluged the submersible with
wuter. But the F5S was stern down
and sinking. Her periscope shot
through the waves, the only target,
and in the conning tower Donald sat
with his eyes fast on the mirror.
Ten feet below the surface the F55
plunged on towurd the monarch of the
sea.
The sound of the guns was vastly
louder under the waves. A single shot,
sent home, would smash through the
thin plates as If they were of paper.
But Donald knew that It was the su-
preme moment when danger must be
Ignored. He seemed to sense the ship,
the crew, as a single entity, devoted
to a single purpose. He aimed his
how directly into his enemy's port
Hank. Se was less than a mile away.
At that distance It seemed a miracle
that her shells failed to strike home.
Down in the torpedo room three
men bore a torpedo from the rack and
placed It in the slings. They swung
It forward Into the breech of the tube.
One man at the pump rapidly tilled the
breech chamber with the compressed
air that was o send the missile upon
its course.
Donald, In the conning tower, still
held the cruiser within the mirror. He
saw the smoke coil frotn her guns, he
heard their dull reverberation, and
knew that at any moment the blinded
K55 might be sent staggering to her
death through the wake of her wash.
But he was animated by the single-
minded purpose which Inspired all and
made the steel and hutuuu mechanism
a bolt forged for death.
Clouts, at the wheel, did not allow
the little craft to deviate a hair's
breadth from her course.
"Stand by!"
The hiss of the oxygen apparatus
dominated all other sounds. At her
45-knot speed the missile left the
launching tube with a heavy thud, and
the ship quivered as she shook herself
free.
And Donald knew that his shot had
gone home.
The whir grew less, but all listened
until the end of the mile-long journey.
On board the enemy ship everyone
could see the air bubbles that came up
from the speeding missile and Its
white, foaming wake. There was no
time to maneuver the giant ship. They
prayed—they could do no more—that
the torpedo might not have been shot
true; that It might deviate from Its
Imminent path.
It came on Inexorably. The firing
became wilder. The gunners, ab-
sorbed as they were In their tusk,
seemed permeated with the contagious
terror caused by that white, rippling
pencil line that was extending toward
their ship.
The missile struck the battle cruiser
amidships, blowing out a section of
her hull, a single water-tight compart-
ment. The cruiser hardly staggered
from the blow.
The torpedo had struck glancing,
and missed the full force of Its deliv-
ery. The wound was In Itself too
small to sink or even badly cripple the
great ship; a triumph of shipbuilding,
and calculated to withstand just such
an Impact.
Unfortunately for her, the maximum
of the shock was received beneath the
powder room, adjacent to the ammu-
nition chamber, whose doors were
open at that moment for the removal
of the lli-lnch shells by the ammuni-
tion hoist.
The shock was followed by an Infi-
nite suspense. Perhaps it lasted for
two seconds. The cruiser drove
through the waves like some sea mon-
ster that had received a deadly thrust
unscathed.
Then, with a detonation that was
heard from Sumburgh to Sutherland,
she went sky-high in tumbling ruin,
Donald, within the conning tower, saw
a blur frost the mirror of the perl-
scope.
Another second passed. Then the
F55 went reeling under the terrific
force of the explosion. She spun
round under the waves and thrilled as
If she herself faced disruption.
The bilge-pumps cleared her diving
tanks. She rose, nose upward, scent-
ing the air; her stern followed, and
she lay awash In the water once more.
The hatches were removed.
Not a vestige of the cruiser was to
be seen. She had sunk in less than
three minutes.
But hard by, not three-quarters of j
a mile to port, a pillar of smoke, lit j
up by flame, curled out of the Beotia's j
hatches. Deeming her the submarine's ]
decoy, the cruiser's gunners had rid- j
died her with shells from the two 12- I
inch guns at the bow.
She seemed to stagger through the !
smoke that wreathed her. She was j
dying by fire and water, too, and the [
twin elements, In their eternal conflict, |
recked nothing of her human freight, j
And Ida was there—Ida, doomed to J
perish, If she were not already dead, j
unless help speedily came!
Donald took the helm. The F55
rushed through the waves In the dl- |
ruction of the Claude liner, which list- j
ed hard to sturboard. Two boats had
already been launched, and bobbed j
ridiculously beside her; others re- !
malned high up In the air, Impotent,
because the list prevented their being j
lowered, and dashed themselves to J
pieces against the hull as they swung
from the shuttered davits.
As the F55 drew near the ocean j
seemed to open. Silently, softly, the j
convexity of the hull slipped down and
was lost to view as the sun's edge j
goes into the horizon. A swirl and
eddy In the sea, and nothing remained
except the two boats and some tiny,
doll-like figures that bobbed in the
water.
A gasp of horror went up from the J
throats of the seamen, clustered upon
the deck of the F55, as the swirl
sucked down the boat that was the
nearer to the maelstrom of the wreck.
m
The Bureau of Markets Uses Leased Wires to Gather Market Informatic
Which Goes to More Than 50,000 Individuals In 32 States.
To drive a tank, handle the guns, and
•weep over the enemy trenches, takes
strong nerves, good rich blood, a good
stomach, liver and kidneys. When the
time comes, the man with red blood In
his veins "is up and at it." He has iron
nerves for hardships—an Interest In his
work grips him. That's the way you
feel when you have taken a blood and
nerve tonic, made up of Blood root.
Golden Seal root, Stone root, Cherry
bark, and rolled Into a sugar-coated
tablet and sold In sixty-cent vials by al-
most all druggists for past fifty years
as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
ery. This tonic, in liquid or tablet form.
Is Just what you need this spring to
give you vim, vigor and vitality. At the
fag end of a hard winter, no wonder
you feel "run-down," blue, out of sorts.
Try this "Medical Discovery" of Dr.
Pierce's. Don't wait! To-day is the
day to begin! A little "pep," and yon
laugh and live.
The best means to oil the machinery
of the body, put tone into the liver,
kidneys and circulatory system, is to
first practice a good house-cleaning.
I know of nothing better as a laxative
than a vegetable pill made up of May-
apple, leaves of aloe and Jalap. This
is commonly sold by all druggists as
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and
should be taken at least once a week to
clear the twenty-five feet of intestines.
You will thus clean the system—expel
the poisons and keep tcell. Now Is
the time to clean house. Give yourself
a spring house cleaning.—Adv.
GLUTS PREVENTED
IN FRUIT MARKET
Service by Department of Agri-
culture Aids Shippers, Deal-
ers and Growers.
agents should apply to the Bureau of
Markets, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
HELPING OUR UNCLE HENRYS
|'H+++H++++'HMH+++++++|
t BETTER TO DfWLL THAN J
CHECK WEAK SEED CORN i
There Was a Woman Aboard and k.
Man Pulling Wildly at One Oar.
It sucked down with all Its living
freight, and spewed it forth Into the
air again, end on—empty.
The engines stopped. The subma-
rine glided in. The single boat
seemed empty. No! There was a
woman aboard, and a man pulling
wildly upon one oar.
Donald took In the situation Instant-
ly. He turned to his aid, Davies, a
little, keen-faced middy who was mak-
ing his first voyage In command of
men.
"Tow us, or run for Fair island!"
he cried. Then, flinging off his coat,
he leaped.
A few strokes carried him to the
whirling boat. And now he realized
that he had known all along that the
girl in it was Ida, miraculously saved
out of the great company of those who
had died. His heart beat a pean of
joy; at the sight of her his love awak-
ned, and he knew that this was no
transient passion, but an enduring one.
But just as he reached the boat he
saw the sailor at the oar stagger blind-
ly toward the edge. It seemed as if he
were being dragged overboard against
his will! He whirled his arms and
plunged Into the deep with a hoarse
cry that rang out far abov-j the waters.
Paget, attempting to rescue his
sweetheart, encounters a horde
of noisome creatures and finds
himself in desperate plight.
fl'O UK CONTINUED.)
Triumph of Justice.
When we attack only Injustice, soon-
er or later we must triumph. In order
to Insure triumph, then, wish nothing
but what Is just. Ilespect the rights
even of those who have trampled your
rights under foot. Let the safety of
liberty, the property of all, without ex-
ception be sacred In your eyes, for
duty extends equally to «01.— Lamea-
nals.
Bureau of Markets Shows Daily Plo-
ture of Conditions Throughout
Country—Guesswork in Ship-
ping Is Eliminated.
The station agent at Highland wired
his division superintendent "four cars
strawberries to Chicago." The super-
intendent added these four cars to fig-
ures received from other station
agents, and wired the total to the de-
partment of agriculture at Washing-
ton.
The agent at Highland wondered
why anyone should want to know
about cars of strawberries moving to
Chicago. A few years ago his Uncle
Henry had "gone broke" raising
strawberries because he couldn't sell
them for enough to pay his expenses.
While he was wondering about this,
messages were coming to Washington
from all railroads and soon word was
flashed back to points In producing sec-
tions showing that a total of 40 cars of
strawberries were on the way to Chi-
cago, and that comparatively few ship-
ments were going to other important
markets.
Shipment Diverted.
"Forty cars will swamp the Chicago
market tomorrow," said a strawberry
man, who received the wire from
Washington, and he reached for the
telephone. Messages went to railroad
officials to divert certain cars headed
for Chicago to other cities where
strawberries were not abundant.
Next dny Chicago received only 20
cars of strawberries instead of the
40 that would have gone there except
for the market news service of the
bureau of markets. Chicago could
use 20 cars but not 40, and because
the other 20 cars went to different
markets many growers received checks
that gave them a profit on their ship-
ments.
Helping the Uncle Henrys.
Guesswork In marketing of fruits
and vegetables has gone. The market
news service Is working for many
"Uncle Henrys" and also for dealers
and consumers. No one profits when
a city receives more of any fruit or
vegetable than It can consume, and
as a means of correcting such a condi-
tion it is necessary to know how much
produce is en route to that city.
The market news service for fruits
and vegetables, with its many agents
and with assistance from railroad offi-
cials, gives dally a picture of market
nnndltlons throughout the country for
both shipper and dealer and places
this picture in the form of a typed re-
port In the hands of all persons Inter-
ested. The bureau of markets uses
leased wires to gather this informa-
tion and furnishes market news, In-
cluding prices and supplies, to more
limn 80,000 Individuals in 312 states.
The reports, which nre Issued simul-
taneously in many cities and In pro-
ducing sections, covered In 1917, 21
commodities, Including strawberries,
tomatoes, peaches, cataloupes, onions,
potatoes, apples, grapes, watermelons,
and asparagus. Each report carries
market information from most of the
large cities as well as giving shipping
point Information.
Farmers or others wishing to re-
vive any of these reports from field
Where necessary to plant 1
weak seed corn, checking is not T
as satisfactory as drilling, ac- $
cording to specialists of the T
United States department of ag- +
riculture. Plant right at first— T
plant the extra amount of seed
at first, for replanting means ad-
ditional work, late planting, and
uneven and late maturity. Drill-
ed corn Is enslly thinned. Har-
rows or cultivators can be used
In thinning by driving across
the corn rows. Without the loss
of time, the thinning can proceed
for several weeks while the corn
is being cultivated and is grow-
ing, but replanting is altogether
unsatisfactory and usually un-
profitable.
Small
Small
Small Price
Carter's
ITTLE
PILLS
FOR
CONSTIPATION
hive stood the test of time.
Purely vegetable. Wonderfully
quick to banish biliousness,
headache, indigestion and Co
clear up a bad complexion.
Genuine bears signature
PALE FACES
Generally Indicate a lack
of Iron in the Blood
Carter's Iron Pills
Will help thia condition
5EES GROUCH AS DETRIMENT
Make Sweet Potato Flour.
Sweet potatoes, dried and ground Bosi"esa Executive Points Out How
into a flour in an ordinary kitchen ! Man of Morose Disposition
coffee grinder, can be used in a variety j Can Hurt Business.
of ways In cooking. Specialists of the I
United States department of agricul- ' discount the ability of the grouch
ture believe that in mnny localities by a percentage running up to 75 for
whera sweet potatoes are abundant lhe chronic case," writes a big busl-
the making of sweet potato flour in nesa executive in System. "I give low-
the home may furnish a practical way er. discounts to the men who are cranky
to save the sweet potatoes from spoil- ln the mornings, and so on through the
Ing. The flour will keep well In dry whole grouch list. I do not wittingly
containers. j employ a man who cannot meet otlier
To make the flour the potatoes men an(l make friends of them In the
should first be cut Into small length- , meeting.
wise pieces and thoroughly dried. A ' "I cnn find no place for the grouch
small drier that fits on top of the ,n business; furthermore, I see no
oven or warming closet of a range or excuse for the young man wllh a bad
gas stove can be used. If an electric disposition and precious little excuse
fan is available It will serve admir- for the older man. This Includes
nbly. The nut knife of a meat grinder lhe young executive who feels
also can be used for this purpose his own Importance and Is 'cocky,' as
Flour made by such process can be well as the older executive who Is so
kept for some time if put into a dry austere that he is Inhuman.
container, or the flour may be made "I know of one large business where
from the dry potatoes as It Is needed, the recently elected president Is a
A quart of the dry potatoes makes a grouch, and already I see the same
cup of flour. | disposition making Itself evident
The use of sweet potato flour it ; through the plant and the sales force,
cake or bread making will materially ; The whole organization is beginning to
reduce the amount of other flour used, i act as though lhe public had to take its
The proportions may be half and half, goods whether or no—and the moment
When used ln cakes the sugar could any company Imagines the public has
also be reduced a little. Sweet potato to buy from it, that company Is on the
flour Is useful as a thickening agent, [ way to bankruptcy."
having the same value in this respect I
as cornstarch. Recipes for the use | Voice of Vanity.
of sweet potato flour have been tested < "Are you sure the baby resembles
and found to be excellent by food spe- me?" asked the proud father.
cialists of the United States depart-
ment of agriculture.
Absolutely. Aren't you pleased?"
"Yes, I'm pleased. The only thing
Is that the youngster will get over be-
ing rather red faced and bald-headed
and I probably won't."
(QO&&U
says- O
When Canning for Market.
Housewives and canning club mem-
bers who wish to sell their canned
products are urged by the bureau of One on Hubby.
markets. United States department of ' "What Is meant by a 'melting pot,'
agriculture, to study their markets at ma?" "A Jack pot, my son, ln which
the beginning of the season and pack men burn their money."
according to local demands for differ- ^
ent products. Secure orders for canned
goods beforfe putting them up, Is the
advice of the specialists. Small lots
of nonstanddrdized products are diffi-
cult t6 sell except among locnl buyers
and are not purchased by the army,
navy, commercial dealers, or any de-
partment of the government.
Home-canned food cun be kept over
from one senson to the next, and those
who have not sold their goods have
reserves to draw from for their homo
table. It Is good policy, say the spe-
cialists, for the housewife to provide a
reasonable surplus beyond the prob-
able home consumption for the next
crop year. While the bureau of mar-
kets Is giving aid to producers on mar-
keting problems, It says that It Is diffi-
cult to place producers of small quan-
tities of different kinds of products In
touch with buyers.
To get the best of all
Corn Foods, order
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