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1 THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Donald B. MtcMillu, who kx
■filitmj fam* a* aa explorer ia Ik*
Far Nortli end incidentally form ad
IW Arctic kakit, ia up ia tka aeigk
harkead of tka North Polo again tkia
iimmr, lookiag for BOW laaJi and
aaytking alto iatereatiag and expect
iag to rotara tkia fall. Tka party
M| ko called tka MacMillaa-Nary-
Geograpkic oxpaditioa, aiace tka U. S.
aavy dopartaiaat and tka Natioaa)
Caagrapkic aocioty arc cooperating.
Tkoagk I oat to *ia« tko party will ko
■rack ia trMoaca, aa apocial pais*
kaw kaoa takoa to maiataia radio
communication, tka Peary having
rogular a kip and tka Boor
doia a apocially-daaigaod ahort-ware
Arrested Eloquence
A recent suggestion In the British
boose of commons to Hmlt the time of
debaters In the houae recalls some past
drastic methods with long-winded
speakers. It has often been told how
tbe "good" Lord Bhaftesbury used to
poll down discursive orators by their
coat tails, bot Bishop Sam Wilberforce
was occasionally even more unkind,
is tbe days,when teeter ball was tbs
mat May meeting place aa ontar
traaamittar aad receiver. Tka air
plaaoa aro alao radio-equipped.
lacludad ia tko party aro fir* aei
ontiata, appoiatod ky tka Nati*aal
Goograpkic aocioty, wko will aaako
atadiaa of Arctic kiology, miaaralogy,
plant lifo aad polar aaagaotic effecta.
A motioa picture operator waa takoa
aloag, aad for tko firat time i* tka
kiatory of Arctic expleratiea, a color
pkotograpkar accompaaiod tko expe
ditioa. Tko navy peraoaaol coaaiata
of aiae man, comaaaadad ky Lioat.-
Coainaadar R E. Byrd, of tko Bu
reau of Aoroaaatica. Tk*ra are tkra*
ampkikiaa plaaoa witk wkick tko ex
ploratioa work will k* conducted
from aa advaaco kaaa oa Axel Hoik*rg
Load.
rather low do*n in the program who
had prepared a lengthy speech stld to
Wilberforce, aa 1m noticed that people
were beginning to leave, "It's bardlj
worth my speaking: they evidently
don't .expect me." "To be BUT® they
do," replied Sam. "don't yon aee they're
aU going T
Two Bttt of Hiatory
England's acquisition of Canada waa
largely doe to tbe advice given by
Benjamin FraakUa wbia Bngisart
Tko pkotograpka are aaggeative.
No. 1 akowa Arctic lead waa tea aa
tkey appear from tke air.
la No. X Commander MacMillaa
(rigkt) ia exchanging fare walla at
Wiacaaaet, Ma., witk Gov. Ralpk O.
Brewster of Maina (left) aad MaJ-
Gaa. A. W. Gr**ly, aeted Arctic ex
plorer.
No. 3 giro* laat-miauto portraita
of air pilota Mayaard Sckar aad E.
E. Riker.
No. * akowa tka MacMillaa veaaela,
Bowdoia (ackooaer) aad Peary.
No. I ia Kenneth L. Rawaoa of
Ckicago, IS, tk* *aly youagatar
akoard.
No. 7 ia Joka L. Reiaartx of 1 XAM,
witk kia apodal low-ware radio eel.
waa bartering with France to obtain,
Guadeloupe. The French declined
to grant Guadeloupe and offered Can
ada Instead, and Great Britain gave In
upon the suggestion of Franklin. An
other Interesting International trade
waa United State*' deal for Alaska
la 1887. then called by opponents
"Seward's Lamp at Ice" and "Sew
ard's Ice." The purchase for $7,200.-
000 waa then regarded aa a natlouai
scandal. In one year the caaaod-aal
men production Sf ll—lts exceeded
12M04000
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C.
THE
LIGHTED
LAMP
*
By MCCLURE SHOLL
by tfhori Story Pub. C«.)
7 HEN you're done cussin'
\ \ / uurl swearin' and sum-
VV nionin' all tlie powers of
h —II to come and take
the ctiuip, wili you foe so good as to
tell nit? what you go p\e r yonder for
every night?"
"It's mme of your business."
"Never said it was. You go into the
dark— Xi"i come buck lookin' plagued.
"Xlillt tip."
"I won't."
"Well, then, I was cryln". cryin' be
r-ause 1 was hlumed .tired, cryin' like
H kid because I'd been tifteen hours on
my legs—■"
The speaker glowered into the fire.
The nature of his confession accorded
111 with his appearance. A creature
dark with the sun and tormented by
the winds, his powerful muScies knot
ted and strained by agonies »f labor,
his black hair banging over- bis som
ber eyes, his suit of khaki as weather
plained as his complexion—he seemed
il.e incarnation of man's struggle with
a howling, hostile' wilderness, a dry,
litm'.ini;. cactus-covered, tarantula-fn
fested eternity of desert.
Mis fellow engineer, a handsome boy
from the Kast, still unexhausted by
the country, refused to accept the ex
jtlnnpiion »f fatigue from the embodied
dynamo opposite to him. Letter had
la-ought something to the camp, Shel
don conjectured, that jumped out of
,'0- dark snd clutched his throat In
those leisure moments toward mld-
when the two fellow workers,
having dined on canned salmon and
stale bread, sat shivering together by
their fire, too tired to sleep, to quarrel,
to ai'true,- tc read, to do anything but
wonder what inadvertence of deity had
.•rented that country. Each was
plagued by It to the limit of his en
durance, hut young Sheldon had no In
terior inferno to deal with Into the
bargain. I.eiter, he suspected, had.
"Crying—that does you good! I bel
low night after night when I've turned
in I bellow for my mummie—fur
broiled steak —one night I even bel
lowed for the subway, I was so lone
some. • My idea of heaven that night
was just to be packed in a subway
train !n the five-thirty crush and smell
.that subway air! But you—you're
cry In" for something different."
I.eiter drew in his breath with a
shuddering sigh.
And then Sheldon risked being shot.
"Tell me about her."
He expected to hear the click of
Leber's rifle, but the dark image by
the fire sat motionless. Then he spoke
as if every word tore him.
"tiod. 1 will! I've got to. I've been
nione with it for a year now."
"Tell It, I.eiter, Just tell It," Sheldon
urged.
"Was you ever married?" Leiter
i.sli(-d in a queer, humble voice, utter
ly unlike that In which he thundered
at ills men.
"N'fvor! I've wanted to be," Shel
.l«n answered hopefully, that the note
of sympathy might not be lost.
"There's 11 Kirl In Brooklyn—"
I-eit'or v.ent on as If he had not
heard.
"I was livln' in the East for a spell
when I met quiet little woman
■ifnil one of those steady men they
11reed there, was courtin' her. She
"light to have married him; he hadn't
any wild blood, nor rovin' blood. He
couldn't have rove beyond the corner
grocery, hut he probably would have
matle tier a good husband. Anyways,
he was after her when I come along.
I sailed In an' took her. She was the
first woman I'd ever wanted to marry
und I kind o" frightened her into it,
bullied tier, held her up! That's where
I nmde my mistake. Vou can't lasso
y.itir \\ife. likr she was cattle.
"She was always sort o' timid with
ne. She didn't say much and I used
to think she took It out In cookln'. She
was an awful good cook. But some
how. she didn't seem happy, and then
that other man used to drop In, Just
to show her, I guess, what ahe'd
missed.
"I gave her all the rope she wanted,
(•nugh 1 was burnln' up with Jealousy
some days, and restless, too, wantln'
to go back West. Seemed like I hadn't
elbow room In that little town.
"I'm Renin* lo the point—l came
home one night late. There wag a nup
lier k-«»pln' hot for ine In the kitchen,
the table set for one. the lamp lighted
•>n It. and under the lamp a note. It
*ald:
- 'l'm not the wife for you, Jim.
Don't look'fhr me—'
"1 don't know what I did for a while.
Next thine I knew I was strldln' down
the road to the depot, talking to my
self. I talked to myself all the way
\\e*t. I piles*, for t nearly got locked
'M«. What they did to the house, I
don't know to this day. I left It Just
UK It »»«, with the Bupper In the oven
and the lamp lighted. I tore up her
note —tl.at was all—to keep their
ungues from wnggla'."
Slu ld«;n gazed Into the (Ire. He plc
'urel (he Utile wife, young and silra
ml frosh-cheeked, shrinking from her
tornado of a husband. Leiter was
•noiigh to frlgliten any woman, yet
Hhelilon knew that he could be as
.•entie as a girl.
"I've cot a theorv, Leiter."
-WellT*
"She never wrnt away with that
naa.~
"What makes TOO think SQT*
"A woman married to yon might rur
away witb a man like you but not
with—"
"Iteuben Joy." Leiter supplied.
"Now fliat I know his name, I'm
quite certain she didn't run away with
him. Did you look for her that night?"
"Look'for her! What do you mean?"
"Why, go through the house, of
course, go upstairs and see whether
her bat was there and the hatpins on
the cushion, and the little bag she took
marketing?"
Leiter .stared as If he'd been struck.
"How did you know about that bag?"
"I didn't. But every woman bas
one."
"I believe you've been married,"
Leiter said, suspiciously.
"No, but there's a girl in Brook
lyn—"
Leiter interrupted. "Look for her!
Why didn't I look for her? —but she
said, 'Don't look for me.' "
"That's what, she wrote," Sheldon
said, "but only God knows what she
meant. Now, see here, you old gov
ernment mule of a tormented Idiot,
you get leave from headquarters to
morrow and start East, and I'll wager
jou a hundred dollars to a box of sar
dines that you'll find her where you
left her and longing for you to come
in and track her best carpet witb your
boots, like you used to do!"
Leiter heaved a long, reminiscent
sigh. His lean, brown hand grasped
Sheldon's for a moment.
"If she's there," he said, contritely,
"I'll leave my boots at the door. I
used to make her a lot o' work forget
tin" to wipe my boots."
• ••••••
Four days later, Leiter rode away
from the desolate camp toward civili
zation and his hopes were about
equally balanced with his fears. Shel
don watched him until horse and rider
were a mere speck on the horizon and
then turned back, strangely lonely and
homesick, to the society of the Chi
nese cook and the half-breed laborers.
A fortnight passed, and one day the
half-breed who acted as postmaster to
fhe camp came riding In with a budget
of mail from the teast. Sheldon sifted
the letters hurriedly for one from
I.eiter, and found It It bore the post
mark of a little town In Massachusetts.
He tore it open and read:
"I'm home! Got here about dark,
'fhe lamp was lighted, and she bad a
hot supper like she was expectin' me
—said she'd been) expectin' me for a
year. She'd gotten down in the mouth,
before It all liappened—thought I
didn't care for her —thought she wasn't
makin' me the right kind of a wife.
"She never got far that night She
came runnln' home, cryin' home, after
she gf>t started a little ways. She said
that though she still thought I didn't
love her she knew once she got on the
run that she loved me. She was up
stairs gettin' off her things when I
came in and found her note —gettin'
off her things and cryin'. You was
right.
"I'm bringin' her West —she's never
been West —says she wants to see the
camp. You can flre the Chinese
heathen; and. Kid, when we hit the
camp, Mary and I, I'll get you leave of
absence to look up that girl in Brook
lyn."
Scenes of Beauty
in Siamese Swamps
If you ride out from Bangkok, Siam,
on the state railway toward the north
to Ayutlila, for Instance, where the
rare visitor may go to see tlje ruini
of ancient wonders, yon pass through
blue and silver swamps, says Atlantic
Monthly.
The landscape looks very often as
if a flood were JuSt subsiding. In full
ditches along the track float huge pin
lotus flowers. The paddy birds, all
grace and pearly whiteness, fly In the
yellow sunshine. Clumps of tiny
thatched dwellings are lifted out of
water on stilts. Under tliem in the
ditches and In the flooded rice fields
themselves bulking everywhere,' are
the clumsy, gray-black buffaloes, do
mestic slaves and best friends of Si
amese farmers.
Banana trees grow around the huts
or anywhere they caii catch hold, and
their flat dark leaves, springing stem
lean from the ground, are like weeda
in a fantastic dream. Thickets of
bamboo and tall sugar palms make
a pleasant edge of green for the glis
tening wetness of the field*.
In such entraclng scenes the peas
ants live amid lotus flowers and
thoughts of Buddha, water, buffaloes
and muddy toil, malaria, mosquitoes
and the hookworm.
Youth's Predicament
Frankly Explained
They had been discussing embar
rassing experiences, and It was Joseph
Brown's turn. "Well." he said. "I've
never forgotten an Incident that hap
pened when 1 was twelve yea-a old.
Tea of us boys were visiting the home
of a neighbor, and though I wore the
best psnts I hai. they were thread
bare. They looked all right, but lacked
resistance.
"During playtime 1 forgot all about
them until. In climbing a fence, they
aoddenly parted. Mother was not at
home, so I took a chance and stayed
where I was.
"It was Just my luck when we filed
across the porch for dinner, that I was
last In the procession and In the door
way were a bunch of girls, i man
aged to aqueese In front of one of the
other boys and everything would have
been all right If one of the girts hadn't
remarked that I must be awfully hun
gry to be In such a hurry.
*"Naw. he ain't hungry.' piped tip
the lad behind me. 'He's Just tryUl' to
na awsy from the hole in kta
breeches.'"—Lee Angeles TUeaa,
Two "New Breeds"
Are Investigated
Believed That "Turken" Is
Nothing Else Than Tran
sylvania Naked-Neck.
There Is no lure like that of tbe
cross of widely separated species of
animals and birds. That nature
frowns on such crosses is evidenced by
the failure of repeated and persistent
experiments under favorable condi
tions. Where progeny has followed vio
lent crossings, It Is sterile as a rule.
The Department of Agriculture hag is
sued a press release in this connection,
which Is as follows:
"The United States Department of
Agriculture has received many re
quests from ail parts of the country
for information concerning two so
called new "breeds" of poultry, the
'Turken' and the 'Kiwi.' The depart
ment has been aware of advertisements
concerning these new and novel
'breeds,' for which some rather re
markable claims have been made. The
advertisements and literature describ
ing the origin and qualities of these
'breeds' seem to have aroused much
interest on the part of the public, since
tbe department has recelvd several
urgent requests for an explanation re
garding the reliability of the claims
made.
How "Turken" Was Produced.
"The statements In the advertise
ments and literature claim that the
'turken' was originally produced by
crossing a male turkey with a female
chicken, and that the 'Kiwi' was pro
duced by crossing a male ostrich with a
female chicken.
"Successful crosses have been made
between the pheasant and the chicken,
and in practically every case the prog
eny has been of the male sex and
sterile. Also, successful crosses have
been made between the guinea and the
chicken, and here again the sex of the
progeny has almost Invariably been
male and the hybrids have been sterile.
Both of these crosses have been made
with great difficulty and, so far as
known, no cross giving any progeny
has ever been reported between the
turkey and the chicken. Yurthermore,
it is highly improbable that the prog
eny, if any have ever been secured
would breed at all, and certainly not
readily. In such wide or violent
crosses the progeny Is always sterile,
and the claim for the 'Turken,' which
Is reported to be the hybrid progeny
of a cross between the turkey and the
chicken. Is In all probability not found
ed on fact
la Naked-Necked Chicken.
"One other point must be made con
cerning the so-called 'Turken.' The
Illustrations acedfopanylng the adver
tisements and literature are In all prob
ability photographs of the Transyl
vania Naked-neck chickens. Accord
ing Jo the best Information obtainable
this odd-looking breed originated in
West India, and the characteristic
naked neck has bred true for many
years. It Is a distinct character of the
breed. The department believes that
the 'Turken' la nothing else
than the Transylvania Naked-neck
chicken, which apparently possesses
no qualities superior to'the more Im
portant standard breeds and varieties,
and has not been shown to be par
ticularly well adapted to conditions In
many parts of our country.
"As far as the reported cross giv
ing rise to the 'Kiwi' la concerned, there
la much less evidence to support such
a cross than In the case of the
Turken.' This Is too violent a cross
to produce any results whatever.
"The burden of proof that such
crosses as those giving rise to the
'Turken' and the 'Kiwi' must remain
with the sponsors of such novel produc
tions. In the meantime, the Interests
of the public should be safeguarded."
Feed to Maintain Cows
-♦ ' of Different Weights
Extensive detailed experiments have
been made to determine the average
amount of protein and other food nu
triments needed to maintain cows of
different weights. Also, the different
feeds have been tested to determine
the average amounts of digestible pro
tein and other nutriments. This data
has been arranged in table form and
may be found In various books, ex
periment station bulletins, etc.. but is
too extensive to reproduce here. These
experiments also show the amounts of
food nutriments required to produce
different amounts of milk. By taking
the data from these tables, showing
bow much Is required, the balanced
ration Is worked out by grouping to
gether the necessary amounts of the
different feeds to give the correct total
and proportion of nutriments. Rations
as worked out by this process can only
serve as a guide because of the great
variation In Individual cows, but they
are very valuable In actually obtain
ing the best rations.
Exercise Mare and Foal
in Cool of the Evening
11l tbe evening when It la cool and
the flies are Inactive, turn the mare
and foal ont on pasture. This will
allow the colt to get plenty of ex
ercise. graaa, and fresh air with the
least possible Interference from flies.
When the mar* la not working, tbe
pasture la tbe best place for both
mare and foal, bat they should be pro-
Tided with shade of aome sort. When
natural shade la not available, a cheap
structure should be built to meet the
needs. Hang a few sacks under the
treaa or la the shed so that tbe mare
and foal can use them to cfease off
Prepare Early for
Filling the Silo
Arrange for Help, Power
and Cutting Equipment
Plan early'for the important work
of filling the silo. Arrange fur your
help, power and cutting equipment.
Make measurements for placing cut
ter and power. Plan to have a clear
road to the cutter and also one leav
ing, BO that the loads of fodder can
easily be brought to the machine and
leave without requiring backing or
difficulties In getting away. Select a
good foundation for the cutter and set
up blower pipe as nearly vertical as
possible so as to avoid friction and
unnecessary length of pipe. The ma
chine should be set level and securely
fastened by stakes and by sinking
grooves for wheels. In putting up
blower pipe or carrier, care should be
taken to securely fasten top at en
trance to roof. In building your silo
It Is well to construct a ladder reach
ing from top door to outside opening
at roof so that it will be easy for a
man to gq to the top of an empty silo
and open the roof door to lower rope
or pulley for' elevating pipe or car
rier.
Corn should be fairly well matured,
for at this time the plant contains Its
greatest amount of food material.
This stage may be determined by ob
serving the denting of the corn, the
drying of-the bottom leaves or some
of the outside husks.
The early dent stage Is that period
when the corn Is best matured for
putting In shocks. If the corn be
sowed thick in drills or broadcast. Its
maturity can be determined by tassel
and silk. With cane, kaffir corn or
mllo maize the same rule will hold
true as ■to maturity. If the cprn Is
overmatured- It will be necessary to
add water which can best be done by
using a hose and putting the water In
at the blower, using from one-half to
one barrel per load according to the
dryness' of the fodder. Where the
silage Is to be used for fattening,
rather than milk production. It Is im
portant that the corn be mature, and
for this purpose It Is best to plant an
early variety In those sections where
a later one will not mature
Renovating Strawberry
Bed Soon After Harvest
The strawberry patch which has
borne one crop should be renovated
soon after harvest. This Is done by
plowing out the plants on either one
or both sides of the row, leaving a
strip only about four inches wide.
The soil of the plowed land la thor
oughly cultivated and If a spike
toothed harrow Is used, cross-cultiva
tion may be practiced so that a good
bed Is made for the new runner
plants. tJnder good soil conditions
these will start to row within a short
time and will make a row of new
plants 12 to 16 Inches wide by early
fall. The new plants are confined
to the proper width by continuing
cultivation until they cease to grow.
Usually It does not pay to renovate
a commercial strawberry patch that
has already produced two crops, al
though a home patch, under very
favorable conditions, may be allowed
to yield three and sometimes four
crops.
"Hard Luck" With Pigs
Result of Wrong Feeds
A great deal of so-called "hard luck"
with young pigs soon after farrowing
can be traced directly to Improper
feeding and In most cases to over
feeding of the sows. Just because a
sow seems hungry Just after farrow
ing Is no Index that she should re
ceive feed.
A liberal supply of water should al
ways be available. This will usually
satisfy and quiet the sow. She should
receive very little feed for at least
24 hours after farrowing. The first
few feeds of grain should be light
and fed In the form of thick slop.
She should not be on full feed for
from six to ten days after farrowing.
RPMRCTSfc
few things give more and coat less
than a woodlot
• • •
Watch the garden for unwelcome
Insect visitors. A bug tn time saves
nine—and the garden sass.
Alfalfa la not only a soil enrlcber
of outstanding merit; it la the best of
all forage crops for dairy cattle.
• • •
Lots of loose talk about the poor
claaa of help on the farms made one
farmer Inquire if better living quar
ters wouldn't attract a better grade
of men.
• • •
During hot weather it Is very nec
essary that the backets from which
calves are fed be kept clean and ster
ilised; since dirty buckets are a com
mon cause of calf scours. Bacteria
develop rapidly at this time of year
and an unwashed bucket soon becomes
very unsanitary.
• • •
Window glass filters out certain
valuable son ray*. On a test at the
New Jersey experiment station 1,000
chicks kept behind glass averaged
ooe-fourth pound each at the end of
12 weeks. Two hundred chicks of the
same ag* and fed the same ration,
bat kapt outdoors, weighed 1%
nnmult