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i . j - THE TWO GREAT MATTERS THAT THE CONGRESS Wl LL TAKE 'V UP IN EXTRA SESSION. BOTH QUESTIONS ARE URGENT Agreement is Unanimous Against Any Attempt Towards the Enactment cf Any Stop-Gap Tariff Bill. Washington. Anti-dumping leglsla rion to protect American industries from EuroDean competition will be rushed through at the special session of congress under a decision reached at a conference of republican mem; bers of, the senate finance and the house ways and means committees with Secretary of the Treasury Mel Ion. Whether tariff or internal tax re vision shall be accorded second place on the fiscal program was left for final determination at a conference which Chairman Penrose of the senate com mittee and Chairman Fordney of the house committee plan to hold with President Harding. Agreement, it was said, was unan imous against attempting to enact any temporary stop-gap tariff bill, the feel ing being that any tariff legislation enacted should be of a permanent na ture. - Harvey Nomination Protested. Washington. Protests against ap pointment of Colonel George Harvey as American 'ambassador to Great Britain have been pouring into the White House as well as to folks in congress who are presumed to have Influence with President Harding. 5,000 Given Promotions. Washington. Approximately 5,000 army promotion nominations, Includ ' ing the rank of captain, submitted by President Wilson before the change in administrations, were confirmed by the senate after considerable debate. Special Session on April 11. Washington. Congress will be call ed into special session Monday, April 11, Senator Lodge announced at the White House after a conference with President Harding. Germany Lodges Protest. Berlin. The ; government has ad dressed a note to the secretaryiat of the League of Nations protesting agaist the penalties being enforced by the entente for Germany's non-fulfillment of her reparations obliga tions. , Six Hanged in Dublin. Dublin. Six prisoners, convicted of complicity in the killing of British intelligence officers and members of the crown, forces in Ireland, were ex ecuted in Mount Joy prison, this city. .Royalty May Visit U. S. Athens. Queen Marie of Rumania, intends to visit America soon and she declared she believed King Ferdinand would accompany her at least as far as New York city. Disolution is Voted. , Berlin. The federal council adopt ed the government's draft law provid ing for Jthe definite disolution of all German civilian guards and self-defense organizations. Not to Ask Withdrawal. Managua, Nic The senate reject ed a motion to request the United States to withdraw the American troops stationed in Managua. Assistant Secretary of War. Washington. J. Mayhew Waln wright, a New York lawyer, was nom inated by President Harding to be as sistant Secretary of War. Virginia Tax Law Upheld. Washington. The merchants li cense tax law of -Virginia was in ef fect declared valid by the su:eme court. Camp Merritt Barracks Burned. Camp Merritt, N. J. Six wooden barracks were destroyed on the army reservation here by a fire which broke out simultaneously in all six buildings and was apparently of in cendiary orgin. Strangled and Beaten to Death. Perth, Amboy. N. J Attacked by an unknown man late during a heavy fog, Mrs. Edith Wilson,,. 26, was strangled and beaten to death with a black-jack in an open lot within a short distance of her home here. Death by Fire in Richmond. Richmond, Va Five are known to be dead,. two are missing and over a score injured, six of whom are in hos pitals, as the result of one of the most destructive fires in this city in years, the loss being imense. Lynching Bee In Kentucky.- ;. Versailles, Ky. Richard James, ne gro, charged with the murder of Ben T. Rogers and Homer Nave at Mid. way, on October 8 last,' was taken from the county jail by a mob and tanged. - - ' ,:- - Never Thought is. ? of That n R. RAY BAKER i.. . T (,1831, by McClure tfewpaper Syndicate. ..Agatha Woods put down the ;Week ly Gazette," and when she resumed her knitting, her fingera trembled. Harriet, her sharp-eyed sister, gaunt and sunburned from working in the fields with the men, regarded her from drooping ,llds. , i 4 "Any particular news, Aggie?" she asked, bending over to mend a basket handle. "I ain't had time to read the paper this week." Agatha shook her head. "Nothing very much," she returned slowly, then she added swiftly as if afraid her natural reticence would withhold it, "Nathan Storm's home again." Harriet picked up her mended bas ket and a painful blush stained her comely face. "I know It the men told me. I'm going now. We want to get the hay in before it rains." "What can I do?" called Agatha, fron the doorstep. "Have supper ready when the storm breaks," was Harriet's reply. "That's so easy," sighed Agatha. "Harriet always gives me the easy load. I wonder if she sent Nathan away because her duty was to stay by me?" She busied herself about the eve ning meal while distant thunder growled along the horizon. She made a huge strawberry shortcake, prepared ie cold tea, cut slices of delicious pink ham, baked biscuits and brought out a great plate of ginger cookies. When the table was ready with Its snowy cloth and lavender sprigged china she sat down and resumed her knitting, and with knitting came thoughts of Na than Storm. He and Harriet had loved, and be cause young Agatha had flirted with Nathan, Harriet had' felt it her duty to give up Nathan to her little sister. But Nathan refused to vbe given up. nor did he want any one but Harriet herself, then a beautiful, brown, Hebe- He Did Bring Something Back!" like young woman. Harriet was firm in duty to Agatha, stern in upholding her trust to her dead parents, and so Nathan went away. Twenty years had passed away. Agatha was a delicate woman, work ing about the house in happy content ment J Harriet took the man's part and managed the farm. They were now, well-to-do and had never missed the happiness that marriage brings in its wake. "I must make them happy this time," Agatha mused, and a worried frown came over her placid face. "Harriet's got to marry him now ! I will miss her, though it will be lone some enough in the old place maybe they would like to live here and I could go to the old ladies', horne Amanda Petty is there and she would be real good company for me." The storm broke just as the last load of hay rolled into the great barn like a triumphal chariot, and Agatha flew to put the last touches to the evening meal. Soon the hay-makers would come in, hot and tired, to dash themselves with cool water in the shed room, dry themselves on the fresh towels and then eat like hungry wolves. This supper was to celebrate the last of the hay making. Harriet's eyebrows went up at sight of the daintily spread table, but as the workers were all neighbors and friends she was glad that Agatha had made a little feast of It. All the time she was eating one thought was droning through Harriet's busy brain. "Next hay making time I'll be in the old ladies' home and Nathan will be man aging the farm while Agatha waits for him I'll miss not having her wait ing for me she iwon't miss me, she'll have Nathan," The two sisters did not eat much they talked about the hay and about the storm, which was very severe. Harriet got up and lighted the swing ing lamp over the table and pulled down the window shades. "I expect Nathan will put in electric lights," she thought as she sat down again. One of the men was speaking and a fa miliar name caught her attention. "Nathan Storm's home again," he in formed them, i "Yesr said Agatha politely, and Harriet nodded in her brisk way. "Is ne going to stay bom now?" "I guess so he's going to work at the shipyard. Says be n settle aown ad soon as he can find a nouse toUiye in. Nathan asked : after you, . folks, he nodded at Agatha. " - "We went to school with him," said Harriet stiffly. . ' ' ' " I "Slngin school?" chuckled Adam Smith ' ' ' ' '" r V',.' 'Little red schoolhouse," choked Airatna. ieeunz sorry iur uw bi&lc. , "He didn't seem to make any great success out of life," went on Adam, hnintncr ViJmecif to another .cookie. "Hasn't much money, but he did bring something back r "What , was that?" asked Harriet, feeling sorry for Agatha. "A wife and seven children keep him hustlin' for their bread and but terwell, good-night, Harriet and Agathathis has been a grand supper, the best I have ever eaten!" V "Wnit till nert vear we'll have the biggest harvest supper and ask all the folks around," declared Harriet as.sne and her sister stood in the doorway and watched the workers wending their wnv down the road. The storm was over and the smell of the wet earth was pleasant. Then they turned and faced each other with guilty eyes. "Nathan here with a wife," breathed Asathn simDlv. W - "And seven children," added Har riet. ."We'll have to see them every day, Harriet" "Expect they'll overrun the neigh borhood, but we haven't got to worry about 'em. except to hand them flowers over the fence." said the stern .Har riet with a wonderful smile lighting her strong features. "And amoles." added Agatha, then with a little burst of affection she put her arms around her stronger sis ter. "I'm so glad. Harry I" "Glad? When I was worried be cause I thought you'd be -marrying Votrion onH nAfnrr nff and 1 Ofl r n r mp!M "And I thoucht the same of you!' The sisters whom romance had passed by kissed each other joyfully and a jrreat peace and happiness set tled down over the old house where two women had just learned that an nid flame had burned out, and that the haying storm had blown even the ashes away. , u ; CREATURES OF; PAST AGES Remarkable Prehistoric Monsters That Can Be Identified Only by Their Fossilized Bones. What geologists term the Oligocene formations contain the fossil bones of a great variety of strange extinct ani mals. These strata are among the most widespread and most regularly distributed of the Tertiary sediment ary rock formations of the Great plains and cover a vast area In Ne braska and Wyoming. The lower Oligocene beds, which are believed to be over a million years old. are often called TltanotheriUm beds because they contain great Quantities of the bones of extinct mammals of, that name. They were clumsy brutes of elephantine siee, according to the United States geological survey, De partment of the Interior, having on the front of the skull a pair of great bony protuberances which, although hornlike in form, were probably not sheathed in horn. The head was long and large and of fantastic shape. In Its thick, heavy body and short, mas sive legs the tltanothere resembled the modern rhinoceros. It was doubtless a sluggish, stupid beast, for its brain was small in comparison with the size of Its body. The brain cavity was only a few inches In diameter and was surrounded by thick bone, as if to withstand shocks in battle. , The ti tanotheres were the most formidable animals of the time, and though, so far as known, there were then no carnivores capable of doing them se rious harm, yet they seem to have disappeared suddenly from North America. The animals of Oligocene time seem to have been abundant as well as varied in kind. Among the character istic animals of this epoch were primi tive forms of rhinoceroses, peccaries. ruminants, camels, insectivores and opossums. Some of the flesh eaters of the preceding Eocene epoch had de veloped Into true carnivores, including many forms of both doglike and cat like animals. The saber-toothed tiger, one of the most formidable enemies of primitive man, first appeared in the Oligocene epoch. The horses whose' historv with the diminutive four-toed Eohip- pus continued in the Olteocene in which they were represented by many three-toed forms that were abont ns large as sheep. Hoglike animals were rather numerous, and although many oi tnem were smaller than the modern swine, some 1 of them were very large. One of these was a formidable beast with curious protuberances on its head, the use of which la Rhinoceroses similar to those now round in Africaand India lived, in western America, and other rhinoceros- use animais were abundant. Took a Lashind. - Tardy Had a wordy battle with mend wife when I sneaked In thif morning. - Hardy (smiling) Take the rmmt? Tardy Think rm a ' lightning eaJ cuiaiurr ijui onnana I should say she was entitled to the decision by about ,yyy woras. Openinas.v "If a boy has never told a lie, slate mm Tor tresiaent. "And If .otherwise ?" ' ' "Well there's the diplomatic serv ice." . . i , . , Live Stock Facts GREAT AID TO CITIZENSHIP Intelligent Conttct With Farm An imals Always Will insure uai , Ity in the Farmer.. V (Prepared by the United States Pepart- . m m 1 1 mnt or Asncunurig.i In i message to the directors and members or tne Wisconsin Lave oiock Breeders' association, Andrew. .W. Hopkins, until recently its secretary, makes the following statement : . ; "It truly is a noteworthy fact that where live stock, fanning has attained a high, standard of perfection there also has citizenship ' attained an equally high standard. An Intelligent contact with farm animals j always has and f always will insure, quality in the men; and a closer kinship with the better types surely brings forth fruits not yet 'com passed. General education, honesty of purpose, righteous living, culture, Cattle and Corn A Good Combina. tion in Profitable Farm in a. and religion have made the most progress in those communities in which intelligent stock farming has been most generally pursued." The United i States Department of Agriculture has received a copy of Mr. Hopkins' recommendations for the future development of the live stock Industry In Wisconsin. These recom mendations point out that stockmen may well seek to Increase their re turns from live stock: (1) by discard ing inferior animals, (2) by strength ening their organizations, (3) by co operating when necessary in buying and selling, (4) by combating disease, (5) by supporting boys and cirls' club; work, (6) by studying live stock and milk marketing, (7) by insisting upon more stabilized markets, and. (8) working for the proper relation be tween t,he price paid the producer and that paid by the consumer. IMPROVEMENT OF PUREBREDS Virginia Farmer Gradually Helps Quality of Stock by Using Those of Superior Type.(- Of 151 head of live stock on a farm In Shenandoah county, Va., all but five are of pure breeding, the United States Department of i Agriculture 4s advised. Cattle and swine are the principal classes of animals kept. In participating in the "Better Sires Better Stock" campaign, the owner of these animals states that he cas trates afl inferior and surplus hojrs. keeping none for breeding that can npt be registered. "I castrated 26 in one day," he adds. ; "Three of these were good enough yearling boars to head most herds-" By keeping onlv those animals fori breeding which are of su perior type, this farmer is gradually improving the quality of stock on his farm. CONSIDERING OATS FOR HOGS Not Worth While Unless Selling for Less Than One-Half as Much Per Bushel as Corn. As a general rule it is not worth while to consider oats as a feed for hogs unless they are selling for less than one-half as much per bushel as corn. In case the hogs are beine car- ned along rather slowly, however, or the tankage Is extremely high-priced, it may he worth while to feed as much as a pound of oats per pig daily. In any case continue to depend chieflv on corn and tankage, feeding at least two or . three parts of corn for en oh part of oats and at least one-fourth of a pound of tankage per pig daily. EWES NEED AMPLE EXERCISE Excellent Plan to Scatter Rough Feed Away From Sheds and Let Them Pick It Over. No matter how well thev flrA fnvktl for, If they do not have ample exercise tne ewes are likely to have very un thrifty lambs. I An IIHJ IU exercise the flock is to scatter ont some rough feed away from the sheds every day, and permit them to niMr it over. FEEDING ROUGHAGE TO SOWS Care Shouid Be Taken by Farmer That it Is Bright, Nutritious and Free From Mold. . Under no condition khonld bow De iea upon any roughage which Is not bright, nutritious and free f mm , smut or mold. She does not relish or tnnve on such inferior feed. It is verv apt to cause severe dleestlve trmihio- and, may lead to the. loss of her Utter. 56066 . . . j BOY DETECTIVE REAL SHERLOCK , , f . ";, . : ...:. ..-- - .. . .. Mike Grady. Does Sensational Work in Helping to Check . . Chicago's Crime Wave.: HE'S REAL "GO-GETTER" t Mike Grady Has Broken Up Murder Gangs and Arrested Slngle-Handed Mftny Murderers Is Modest About His Exploits. Chicago5. Mike Grady. Chicago's sensational "boy detective, has scored another victory. The youthful sleuth, whose daring exploits have brought him a small fortune in rewards for the capture of criminals, is being show ered with congratulations for his lat est detective work. He is being herald ed as a real Sherlock Holmes. But Grady who Is only thirty-two years old, and who has broken up murder gangs, arrested single-handed many murderers and who has helped to check the wave of crime in Chicago more than any other Individual mem ber of the police department, is again on the trail," and is too modest to speak of his exploits. Grady's Latest Exploit. The "boy detective's" latest exploit was the capture of Eddie Morris. Three young, giggling Chicago girls, accompanied by three men. one of whom was Morris, went to a dance hall. One of the girls laughed at Mor ris. This angered him. "I'll show you how to laugh at me" he. said, and drew a revolver. The girls screamed and the proprietor called the police. Patrolman John Mul len answered the call. Mullen hurried In the door.; and looked around for trouble. He didn't have ft chance for his life. A revolver vas pressed against his back, fired, and two quarts of blood, which a brother patrolman gave him In a transfusion operation, couldn't save him. It was the most brutal murder Chicago had known In years. . , Worked as Waiter. Grady was put on the case. The 'boy detective" didn't say that 200 do- llcemen had been chasing Morris for a week. Several times the fugitive was sighted and running gun fights en sued. Grady joined In the man hunt. For three days he worked as a waiter and learned that the fugitive was a taxlcab - fiend. He became pne, too. For days Grady was just a jump be- Captured. Eddie Morris. hind Morris. Finally at dawn he cor nered mm in a cornfield on the rmt. skirts of the, city and captured him. or this piece of work Gradv given Chief Fitzmorrls' nersonnl rWt for $250. Grady only smiled. He al ready had collected eight or ten re wards; approximating $11,000. But the rounding up of Eddie Mnr. ris Is .only one of the famous Grady has solved. He captured, single handed, 11 bandits "caught holding up a store. , Grady eot the tin th was going to pull the job, and he was tnere waiung for them. He got three of the bandits at the tim down the other eight in 48 hours. The Mboy detective" broke up the notorious Capalanza and Cardinella murder bands, several momha which were hanged. Find Gauze in Old Wnimri Frederlcton. N. B. Harrv a t .- a World war veteran, failed to recover uis surengxn alter he had been operat ed upon at Portland. Ore ' for appendicitis so he entered the Sol- uiers uivu Ke-establlshment hospital here. A few days ago surgeons again operated ; and discovered JU in surgical gauze in his abdomen.. He Merchant Routs Bandit With Bologna -Newark, N. J. Commanded by an armed bandit to throw' nr. w John . Dorsak, a deUcatessen . stbre- eyer, sipppea . slicing bologna and rapped the gunman over the head with a long piece of the ment t, kI. dropped his, revolver- and fled. . v. JKbrticultUiai runts SPRAYING SMALLER 0RCH ei i m. t 'Hi wn,P'wi rump That Can It Most Satisfactory i V Avoid i-au , Enk An orchard of 25 on the average farm shorn I tention just as much as th JTeU 25. acres; It will not ,Uar equipment or as exDensL . ment for the smaller orc-hn ?m is no need for a big Investment ' i-peneuee snows that when ig a pumn the simDlPst nnn ... be found Is the most saiisfactll the end. Since the limo,,,., u ture is what is used more than other this is important. out most anything except brass x.a.u uc uscu iu a yump with n o, 1 uui we Kiiiau scales ies auu it uyea nor pay to I other M 14- - l' Ik. .uutucir puxut la io get a ni,mn r io iww, uuc umi uues not stick n the barrel over, eight inches. This der the trees. A high pump-and t necessary high handle will catch bother a great deal. There is no J sun way me air cnamDer and most In the barrel and out of the wav A pump should be made to come o: oi xne Darrei easily as anv of tt,t ought to be thoroughly cleaned aft, using. A long hose Is worth while fm farmer's pump. The usual length comes on an outfit Is around fifJ feet. That seems quite a lot but if- can be twice that or even fifty fej you will always be glad you have Many trees around the average frj are exceedingly hard to reach in i tops because they are left high nm posely for shade or looks or both. Wig a long hose the sprayer can cet a long ladder and carry the hose nozzles up in the tree as far as k wishes without any particular bothc These trees that are wanted for shad are mighty valuable' and unless tip are reached in the top they are au to become infected with scale and to be cut. To save time In making a ' separati rack for this spraying work just use a - regular wagon box with two top boxes. Across the top of this place! Desirable Types of Hand Sprayen, With Extension Rods Permitting Thorough Underspraying of the Foli age. a small nlatform. nerhaDS 4 by 5 feet to stand on. The driver stands on the! bottom of the box and does the pumjH 4ng. It pays to use a strafner in putting! the lime-sulDhur mixture in the spray pump barrel. If the stuff Is homemade there will be some lumps of lime that are not slacked which will be apt to j bother about clogging up the strainer on the bottom of the suction pipe oi the pump. FORMUU FOR GRAFTING WW Melt Together Until Thoroughly Mixed Resin, Tallow and Beeswax , Pull It Like Candy. An excellent formula for making grafting wax is as follows: - Melt together until thoroughly, mix91 four pounds of resin, -two pounds of beeswax and one pound of tallow, ai then pour it into a vessel of cold wa ter. When the wax has cooled W It like taffy candy until it become light and smooth. The hands should be greased with tallow for handling the wax. After the wax has hwn worked un til it is thoroughly mixed and smooth it should be shaped into balls ana sticks and kept In a Dlace that is al ways cool. Paraflta may be used! place of beeswax, as it is just ns good and much cheaper. PROFIT IN CHESTNUT TREES Illinois Farmer Makes Money by Utiii Jng Piece of Land U nsuitable ; f for Cultivation. 'Fifteen years ago an Illinois far selected a piece of steep hillside lani unsuitable for regular cultivation, ana set out a grove of young chestnut tree The trees are now giving him as gJ an income as some farming land, aD(1 practically without, Attention. Chestnut blight, whlch has destroyed most the native chestnut trees in the East has not yet done material damage w chestnut 1 1 and plantings west of natural distribution of the American chestnut Blight resistant variety are, now being developed by the ted States Department ctf Agriculta1 tnd by associations, of nut grower
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