ELLIS COUNTY CAPITAL ARNETT OKLAHOMA
Oar Part inFcodlng the Ration
(Special Informatloa Imicib Uni tad State Department of Agriculture)
MANY COMMON BIRDS U3EFUL'T0 FARMERS'
II
The Mttle Girt Doesn't Think the Bluebird Could Ever Do Anybody Any Harm
MANY BIRDS ARE
USEFUL Oil FARM
What It Eats Decides Whether
Feathered Songster Is Bene-
‘ ficial or Infurious
MANY FRIENDS OF FARMERS
Department of Agriculture Offers to
Tell Agriculturist Whether Inhabi-
tants of Fields Are Doing
More Good Than Harm
Whether a bird Is beneficial or In-
jurious to growing crops depends al-
most entirely upon what It eats If
It consumes harmful Insects the bird
is an ally of the farmer If It feeds
largely on growing crops It may be
an enemy Not all birds are bene-
ficial but the useful kinds- far out-
number the Injurious and so great Is
their value as Insect destroyers in the
United States that to them the United
States department of agriculture gives
credit of being one of the greatest con-
trolling factors In limiting the devel-
opment of Insect pests and In prevent-
ing many disastrous outbreaks
In the case of species which are
abundant or which feed to some extent
on crops the question of thetr aver-
' age diet becomes one of supreme Ira--portance
and only by stomach exami-
nations can It be satisfactorily solved
Field observations have proved to be
inconclusive Birds are often accused
of eating this or that product of cul-
tivation when an examination of the
Stomachs shows thq accusation to be
false
Aid Offered to Farmers
The biological survey of ths United
States department of agriculture has
conducted In the past few years a sys-
tematic Investigation of the food of
the species most common about farms
and gardens and offers to supply Infor-
mation to any farmer In doubt as to
whether his birds are an asset or a
liability
Within certain limits birds eat the
kind of food that Is most accessible
especially when their natural food Is
scarce or wanting Thus they some-
times injure the crops of the farmer
who has unintentionally destroyed
tbelr natural food in his Improvement
of swamp or pasture Much of the
damage done by birds and complained
of by farmers and fruit growers arises
from this very cause ‘The berry-bearing
shrubs and seed-bearing weeds
have been cleared away and the birds
have no recourse but to attack the cul-
tivated grain or fruit whlcb has re-
placed their natural food supply
Destroy Many Insects
The great majority of land birds
subsist upon Insects during the period
of nesting and molting and also feed
their young upon them during the first
few weeks Many species live almost
entirely upon insects taking vegetable
food only when other subsistence falls
It Is thus evident that in the course of
a year birds destroy an incalculable
number of Insects and It Is difficult to
overestimate the value of their serv-
ices in restraining the great tide of In-
sect life
Id winter In the northern part of
the country Insects become scarce or
entirely disappear Many species of
ThsDash Lamp
If your dash lamp Is not well shad-
ed you will find It helpful to substitute
a blue bulb for a clear one The blue
(light sufficiently illuminates the Instru-
ments but eliminates glare— trouble-
some to the driver— Milestones
Use Diamonds on Autos
Few people associate diamond with
the manufacture of motorcars yet
thousands of these precious stones are
consumed each year to true up emery
wheels nothing else being bard enough
birds however remain during the cold
season and are eble to malntala Ufa
by eating vegetable food as the seeds
of weeds Here again Is another use-
ful function of birds - in destroying
these weed seeds and thereby lessen-
ing the growth of the next year
Farms Way to Success
On farm demonstration work and
the careful study and practice of the
best farm methods is what a former
store clerk in Texas bases his claim to
success This man tlrtng of Indoor
life got in touch with the statu exten-
sion service and started In to farm All
the money he had was $150 but there
was no lack of energy and ambition in
his makeup — and that goes a long way
In farming
That $150 bard-earned money too
was the first payment on 100 acres
and a very poor horse and one cow
comprised the initial live stock 1
Nerve and integrity though an-
swered as security for another horse
and careful management and good
financial judgment produced results
sufficient to enable this hard-working
demonstrator to make the second pay-
ment on his place ln the fall This
was largely from receipts from butter
chickens and eggs
This is the account of the rest of
the achievements told by the county
agent: v
“The second year he bought a better
team and was enabled to cultivate his
crop In the ‘better way’ as he ex-
pressed It The second year he met
his third payment and bad some sur-
plus funds left and was in a position
to go on a cash basis the next' year
The fourth payment on his farm was
met promptly and with 'a larger sur-
plus of money than before Besides he
had a number of good cows hogs and
horses and a flock of chickens and
turkeys From this year’s work he had
sold fl650 worth of cotton and seed
marketed $720 worth of feed besides
havlngyenough on hand for fbrm use
next year sold $40 ’worth of poultry
and now ‘has over 100 bens on the
farm He has sufficient hogs for bis
meat and will offer for sale about $200
worth besides
“He has on tl farm $500 worth of
horse stock has some good milch cows
and has $1250 on deposit to his credit
In the local bank Ho Is erecting a lit-
tle house and says that the farm and
its happy associations are good enough
for him The vital point of thla story
of this farmer's operations during the
past four years Is that he has paid
for his farm is freo from debt and
has placed himself upon a cash basis
and has accumulated a surplus while
a neighbor on an adjoining farm of
640 acres 1 barely making a living
Bull Associations
The first bull association In the Uni-
ted States was organised In 1908 by
the Michigan Agricultural college It
was a co-operative venture similar to
those which have existed In Europe for
a long time On July 1 1917 there
were In this country 36 active associa-
tions In 17 states with a total mem-
bership of 1158 owning 189 pure-bred
bulls These co-operative organiza-
tions enable the owners of small herds
to unite in the purchase of one good
bull so that each may own a share in
a registered sire of high s quality
Though still In its Infancy the co-
operative bull association movement
promises to become eventually a very
great factor la the Improvement of
dairy cattle In the United States '
To safeguard yourself when buying
seed oats buy from reliable seedsmen
Protect Spark Plugs
Spark plugs spares are frequently
lnjbred while being carried In the tool
box An excellent method of guard-
ing against this is to slip each plug
Into a section of rubber hose dosing
each end np with a bit of wasta to
prevent the plugs working oat
Hydraulic Braks Invented
' An Englishman Is the Inventor of a
hydraulic brake for automobiles that
acts upon all four wheels of a car
at once
CHAPTER XVII— Continued
m Slteat sin GenttafliSO” be eon-
ttatMii addroeslhg Mark sod the Colo-
nel “yon are Interested In knowing
what happened to this man Hampton
He could not rid himself of the belief
that justice though slow Is pretty
tore He had faith In God Unfortu-
nately be had leas faith la himself Am
I wronging you 'Hampton I" ha eon-
tinned addressing Hartley
“No df1 muttered the man on the
stretcher- feebly ' ’
"He wishes me to ’ tell the whole
story He went to Cuba and flung In
his lot - with ths rebel He became
disgusted with their means and meth-
ods obtained a pardon from General
Weyler and took np bis residence In
Santiago The outbreak of the war
surprised him there He knew that
Santiago would fall and he bad been
warned that he wonld receive short
shrift at the hands of our people
MHe longed tot death hut he had two
things that kept alive the desire for
life One was his child the other the
desire for vindication which had be-
come a monomania He tried to-escape
Into the jungle He saw that it was
hopeless '
"He was hiding In a little hut when
be heard footsteps An American sol-
dier who had strayed from his com-
pany was coming Into the clearing At
that moment a stray bullet caught blm
In the head killing him Instantly
Hampton saw his chance He took off
the dead man’s clothing and put It on
be dressed the body In his own He
knew that by this means he could pass
through the lines In the guise of a
wounded man until be had a chance to
get rid of his uniform In the cabin of
some Cuban who would be only too
well pleased to give him some rags'ln
exchange for It And leaving bis
money and papers on the dead man he
knew that he left h!a Identity behind
for the bullet bad destroyed the fea-
tures "There was the child — but Hampton
knew that he could take 'her no fur-
ther With the Americans she would
receive food — which he had not — and
shelter and protection Afterward he
would regain her He lurked In the
bushes until he saw Captain Wallace
appear watched him trusted him and
went away' ’ f
"He learned of the child’s adoption
and for years he haunted her borne
her school all places that were her
residence ever craving her ever re-
strained by the realization that till his
name was cleared he had no Mght to
her His Idea of vindication had be-
come as I said a monomania
"Now gentlemen I have little time
to spare but I must carry this story
to the end I said that he bad less
faith In himself than he bad In God
Once for three years Hampton lost
his child She had gone to San Fran-
cisco In his despair he went to Wash-
"You Are Under ArreeL”
Ington be sought out Hilda Morahelm
who was still plying her trade and
begged as be bad never begged any-
one that she would vindicate bis
Dame"
There was a stillness as of utter
death Inside the little cave
"She saw In him one of those nseful
spies such as her organisation used
broken men with Inside knowledge of
conditions She used him held ont
promises broke them In his despair
he made himself a stave to her and— -and
her confederate forgetting bis
manhood and what he had been Time
and again they broke faith with him
He had just realized that he had noth-
ing to hope for from them when Cap-
tain Wallace appended on the scene"
"To a he was a rut ten dog sir" said
KellermaA with the ghost of a smile
"is la on such evidence that yon nre-
r
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"No sir It Is notl" thundered ths
General "it Is on ths evidence of ths
woman Hilda Morahelm alias Keason
secured ' by : Hampton usdtr Circum-
stances which-—"
Kellsrman uttered a low cry he was
trembling now and all his bravado
seemed to have oozed away
"This woman strangely enough
loved her confederate” went on the
General remorselessly fixing his eyes
full on Kellerman’s now while Keller-
man blinked Uke a but In daylight and
turned his head wedkiy from side to
side as If under the Intolerable glare
of a searchlight "Her claims on blm
were strong enough God knows I She
wanted blm to marry her to take her
away from the old scenes that they
might have chance to redeeul their
wretched lives together He had prom-
ised her that so many times — and the
worst of women Is as wax In the bands
of the man she loves
"But he had become Infatuated with
another with a girl as much above him
With a cry that seemed hardly hu-
man Colonel Howard sprang toward
Kellerman his fingers twitching as If
he sought to fasten them about his
throat Mark caught him and held him
while the old man swayed to and fro
his outstretched arm extended toward
Kellerman as If In Imprecation
Eleanor at Hartley's side did not
even look toward them
“This woman Morahelm — Kenson —
whatever you call her come to France
upon receipt of a message which had
cat her to the heart shown her the
hopelessness of her dreams and tanght
her that the one man In whom she had
believed Was worthless clay To do
her justice let us suppose that even
in her worst sets she had been sus-
tained by a sense of duty to her coun-
try "She met her confederate In an Inn
at a village not far distant Frantic
at her appearance he Induced her to
let him drive her back through the
lines and on the way renewed hls lying
promises This time she doubted him
- "Two men had overheard their conversation'-
One was Captain Wallace
whom the pair had broken as they
broke poor Hampton Him the traitor
had seen and he devised a scheme to
send him to the trenches and contrive
to have him sent on a false and fatal
errand 'With that point I shall not
now deal The other man was Hamp-
ton who had enlisted under an alias
In the belief that he would obtain a
clue that would unmask the traitor He
contrived to go back through the lines
found the woman and somehow — per-
haps by God’s wonderful mercy— ob-
tained her signed confession — which I
have here In full!”
Be wheeled upon Kellerman "Ma-
jor Kellerman" he said In a deep voice
that vibrated almost with pity so
chrrgea wltb significance that Its
meaning could not escape either How'
ard or Mark "you are unjjer arrest
Yob will go toward your quarters first
removing your belt and arms”
Kellerman saluted weakly and stum-
bled out of the cave" The General
looked at Mark
"The soldier Weston receives a free
and full pardon for hls valor In the
field this day" be sold "He Is also
discharged honorably from the service
of the United States government"
Mark looked at the general In as-
tonishment this was the last thing
that he desired ' -The
General approached and clapped
him on the shoulder "Cnptnla Wal-
lace” he said "your written resigna-
tion from tte United States army can-
not be accepted owing to the state of
war After the war If will receive con-
sideration In the meantime you will
resume your duties on the headquar-
ters staff”
Tears rushed to Mark's eyes He
tried to speak he was conscious that
the General and Howard were shaking
him by the hand and then k quick
glance from Eleanor drew him to where
she kneeled by Hartley
A single look showed him that the
man was dying
Mark kneeled on one side of him
with Eleanor facing him over the
stretcher The bearers who had fallen
back stood still as Images behind And
behind them Mark had the dim con-
sciousness In the background of bis
mind of Kellerman broken as he had
broken so many and fumbling always
fumbling now with hls tunic now
with the belt that be was trying to
detach wltb shaking fingers
"Hartley I” whispered Mark hold-
ing the dying man’s hand in hls "That
was you today — I missed you but I
believed In you You saved me"
There was a fluttering pressure of
Mark’s hand In turn Hampton was
speaking be was asking for the Colo-
neL "I am here Hampton” said Colonel
Howard In a choked vote as be
leaned over him - '
"Yon believe In ins now slrt" mut-
tered the dying man rolling bis bead
uneasily In tbs effort to see
"May - God forgive me Hampton 1
May she — your wife— forgive me Tell
her that and tell her her words cams
true I betrayed my best friend and
I’ve suffered for It and I shall naffer
to the last d ay of my life”
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"She forgives you Howard” said
Hampton speaking now wltb such sol-
emnity that bis words seemed to bis
listeners to bo Inspired "There’s— only
—one thing— I want Howard old
"Yea my dear boy— yea Hampton"
"Put my name — back on tbs mess
list" whispered Hampton
Through bis tears Mark was con-
scious that the Interminable fumbling
outside the cave had cessed As
Hampton fell back there came the sud-
den crack of a revolver shot
The General’s form blocked the en-
trance as tbey raised tbelr beads Mark
placed bis bands across Eleanor’s eyes
and drew her sway '
CHAPTER XVIII
Perhaps It was because they had
seen so many hdrrors during the past
four-and-twenty hours that these
seemed all to have fallen away that
night at staff headquarters There
was a brief hour of rest after Inter-
minable labors the lines had been held
and the great assault repelled In con-
fusion for that hour every man seemed
bent upon forgetting the Incidents of
war and something Uke gaiety ruled
In the messroom
All the past seemed very far away to
Captain Mark Wallace as he stood
with Eleanor In the Uttle cottage gar-
den "When the auto comes to take you
back to the hospital I shall feel that
my new life has lost the best part of
Its promise" said Mark
It was a long and extraordinarily
Imaginative speech for him and be
stood shamefaced after he had said It
like a boy who has deUvered a grown
man’s aphorism
"Captain Mark" said Eleanor "yon
knew who I was and you could not—
you could not have believed my father
Innocent and yet you had faith in me
You must have suffered when I used to
talk about my dreams of blm and you
hid your suffering and your knowledge
because of me"
"That was nothing Eleanor”
"Captain Mark” she whispered bend-
ing toward him "I — I kissed you to-
day" "That was nothing Eleanor”
"Captain Mark! What do you meant
How dare you 1"
Mark looked utterly disconcerted "I
mean — I mean Eleanor I'm just your
old guardian — a sort of old friend you
know and you were glad I had come
back safe”
"O Captain Mark I" said Eleanor
shaking with helpless laughter which
disconcerted him still more and yet
he thought her lashes were wet with
tears "Captain Mark arjrou really
going to mnke-me say It?"
"Say what my deart”
"That It ought to have been you”
"But you mustn’t let that worry you
Eleanor It’s often done In such cases
— I just thought you were too old to
kiss You know I wanted to — ”
“O thank you thank you” said Elea-
nor wearily "Captain Mark you dear
absurd guardian of mine I see you
aren’t going to spare me So listen
love you and have loved you only and
nobody but you all through my Ufa
from the time I got your first letters to
the time you came to see me at the
Misses Harpers school and from then
to now”
Mark looked at her In Incredulous
joy be was no longer capable of feel-
ing astonishment but It all seemed like
a happy dream unreliable but while It
lasted dear beyond all Imagining
"The Colonel knew It And — other
Everybody did but you And do you
know why I have told you what I’ve
often pinched myself to keep from tell-
ing you? Because you loved me with-
out exactly knowing It—”
"Bat I did know it my dear”
"Without exactly knowing It and
when you admitted a little bit of It to
yourself you were prompted to commit
those foolish acts to be so rude to me
and hurt me so much' But a woman Is
never deceived She always knows I
knew”
"My dear” said Mark solemnly “you
have been everything In the world to
me since that very first dqy outside
Santiago”
“Of course I have As you have been
to me And that Is why I told you so
that we two should not be unhappy all
our lives You see dear Captain Mark
It isn’t as If you didn’t care for me If
I had cared and you hadn’t I should
have bidden my feelings and never let
you dream of them and you never
would have So It’s really you who
have told me all this and I've just
been Interpreting yonr thought be-
cause all I did just now was to tell
you what you wanted to tell me with-
out knowing that you wanted to tell
me what you did want all the time
Isn’t that so Captain Mark?”
"Ye” answered Mark feeling com-
pletely at sea but incapable of contra-
dicting anything that Eleanor chose to
y -
"Isn’t that so Mark dear!”
"Of course It 1” said Mark
"So you have actually told mo that
you care for me and you want mo to
give you my answer Is that what you
want me - to understand Captain
Mark!"
"Ye my deer of course It 1” aiJ
swered Mark
Eleanor looked down thoughtfully)
"Well I’m not sure” she said In a
meditative manner "You know youi
have been terribly abominably rude to
me so often"
Mark bad a great horror of losing
her
"And you’ve broken your solemn
promise and yon can’t Imagine wbat e
shock that gavo me because I Idealised
you In a childish way sad 1 never
dreamed that you were capable of not
keeping your word Captain Mark”
"I Eleanor!” asked Mark In bewil-
derment "Eleanor surely I never
promised anything that I didn’t do"
"Do yon remember that evening In
Washington the evening when you
came to oee a and we didn’t get on
well together at all at first T
"And suddenly yon became the little
girl that I bad adopted Eleanor”
"And suddenly you became my dear
Uncle Mark again! Well do you re
"I Lovo You and Havo Loved Yea
Only"
member promising me that you would
never give me up any more no matter
who might seem to have a better claim
on me! Do you remember that Cap-
tain Mark— Mark!”
"Of course I do dear but you were
speaking of guardians”
“I Captain Mark! Guardians!” she
asked "I was speaking of — "
“Of Colonel Howard and me”
“Of you dear Just of you” an-
swered Eleanor "So won’t you pleas
please not make me bumble myself
again and take me Into your arms and
— and— kiss me?”
(THE END)
SURELY SOME CRAP SHOOTER
Dusky Stevedore In Franee Was Rap
Idly Getting Rich at Expense of
Hls' Comrade
They need to shoot some crape la
stevedore company No — but tbey
don’t any more This as a conse-
quence pf a stern company order la
sued after a prolonged argument with
the dice which followed the first pay-
day on this side
There was a game at every oppor-
tunity for about a week and then
came a lull Simultaneously with the
lull the men began to turn up shy of
apparel and equipment Investigation
disclosed that one dnsky private wltb -a
pair of dice that behaved particu-
larly well had made a sensational
clean-un
He bad gathered most of the
francs In the company in the first
three days and then started on per-
sonal effects At the conclusion of
the series he bad nearly enough
francs to finance a war of hls own
and more clothes than the supply
sergeant not to speak of 86 Identlfl
cation tags seven boxes of CXI
pills a bottle of castor oil 11 tow-
els most of the soap In the com-
pany and a packing case full of other
articles At the suggestion of tha
captain he returned all of the belong-
ings and most ’ of the franc
"Ah learned dat game In Je old
Tenth cavalry" he exclaimed "nnd Ah
just wanted to show dese new soldiers
dat dey didn’t know nuffin about It1
— Stars and Stripe
Self-Saorlfle
"Has the war made any change to
SpongelelghT r
"I should say so t” 1
- in what respect!”
"Spongelelgh says that In view a
the fact that bis friends are buying
Liberty bonds and contributing to wai
phllanthrople be considers it bis pa
trlotlc duty not to borrow more thag
$5 at a time from any of thenO
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