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fisrge of the stafion for "He used to 'bonst--and | could identify the halt a dozen ticks over tle | familiarity with the i't the |ticks, they 'are all the lain as\ the alphabet," Kd=on say. "Hut every operator has | essentially his own. It's ks Sn In 'speech. It takes an 0. detect h 1 call myself one. ays knnwiwhe is talking." had beard "talking" up to gn fous; little sontches of greets { rp. valllery, to greet re 'efef words that made Bdson § was not indifferent to ihe 'dainty little ofjgstor nt AVolf . when Marle is olf the wire, the ok. of the call sends a thrill me. 'It's just as If our fingers Edsoit had told his sister opce., it must mean true love, hey, Mage find Maggie had encouraged 'his itloft Sith n'siling god, and we 8 cofitent. all-alone, and it was ner t. He had slipped. gown i his 'into & comfort soekfng popition, CFoutine stulf was ont of (h¢ way, {lisre was nothing due on' train under, an' hour, unless geclal ¢ame outs Usnally Edsop read or Lo ked fo keep awnke/ HIS Afarie; however. lulled Wifzy; plensant thohll, and moibly "be glided tute soninolency. us Gulity of a fatal Inck of If "No. 27 én phe North eh was reported fn time, he was telesvaph the Bridge station at ile to bold 84 on the ijn uo a. by bi friin had. elenred thd and beyond it Bd- 'stunbored. He awoke with a } start. Such a thing bad never hap- Sk pened before, His first glance was at jf the elovk.,: He sprang to his feet, a i white horror In Lis face, his body In i a cold perspiration, Train 84 had if passed élghty minutes agone, and he 4 yod not Beard it, and-- 1 '~met on. the bridge, Both trains it: cre late ahd must have disregarded gignale, Casualties heavy and two fi coaches In the river, completely sub? i merged." ff A hand of ice seemed to seize his i heart in a crushing grip, his brain Bi reeled. Before his mental vision there il passed fa rightful picture of carpage i and destrittion. For the moment and for hours Inter Edson Worth was an frsane; irresponsible creature of frané fic, whFeason and impulse. i F115 first action wus to close his ears to the monntopous drofie of what he reconized as a fragment of a press dis- i patch. He dashed from the station like a being pursued by dreadful phan- fl forms, That noon he bad received his 'monthly safary and it was still intact lin. his pocket. He passed the cottage Lin which Tis sister lived, but only in- creased his reckless rate of epced. Is I srelcoming lights bad no influence to flure him to shelter, to compassion, to safety! Yason tore along the dark country irond until, breathless, exhausted, he nk to the platform of a railroad depot oh a line going north. A train ¢ along within the hour. 'Edson en- # pd ts dimly liglited smoking car nd oi Stored 1 the corner of its dark- rd to?" challenged the condue/ erminus," sounded. Hoursely in the | It all. Close your eyes | face to ming, were Horgaged, and they are bringing { the pressure of collection to bear. cin't send enough to run the house and release the debt." "WILL that help?" asked mason, hang ing over his pay envel "Yes, But iis "Money 1s no usé to me." I have no ; home, no friends to send it to," murs | mused Edsoti in a broken voice, "Yol | are welcome to it, mate." "It will be repaid, believe me that!" | cried 'Walters, overcome with relief nnd joy. One 'month later Edson Worth was faked down with a two-weeks' spell of fever. Walters nursed him constantly: 'When Edson: recovered, Walters: in- formed him that a relative of his wife! shad 'come to the rescue of the family! and had secured am opening for work | "for him back'in his home city. "You will receive back (hat mone¥ | Jou so generously loshed me Just | goon as 1 get my bearings," promiSed 'Walters, | It was pretty lonesome for Edson nfter. this chance friend left him, | | I'hen one day he made a discovery that | unsettled him greatly. On a strip of | paper lying under the bed he observed | penefled notutiond, his own pame, that | | of the station he had deserted and the name of Marie Duntley. | Kdson tried. to figure out. the medn- ng of this. The handwriting wis that of Walters. Suddenly his mind was fllumined: In his fevered delirium he had bared ail the story of the past, and Walters had it in mind to investi- gate, it when he returned to civiliza- tion. "No mutter what kindly motive might impel him, there was danger of bis setting the emissaries of 'the law upon his f ack; Dow amp, Th first alodge over: to Ware renton, the nearest post, Edson 'as a passenger. There was no train for twenty-four hours. The little station was free to all. He slept upon one of its benches that night, got his break- fast outside and then sat down In the station again to wait for the train. Edson had dozed. Only himself and the depot agent were in evidence. He aroused at the sound of the ticking of the' telegraph instrument. Then he sat bolt upright like one turmed. to stone, for the message came over the wires: "At any expense learn at once if « man calling himself Mark Lane is still at the logging camp," And the sender of the message--oh! he could not mis- take that peculinr telegraph touch-- was Marie Duntley | His senses reeled, he doubted the evidence . of retsoh. What could it mean? Ske, his Jove, the fond spirit of all his dreams way up here at land's end, and seeking bim! Only love, loyal lové, could bring about this situation. ' Edson staggered to the window of the little office, "That wire," he spoke in an unsteady tone-="'from Bassville?" "Yes; What's the matter, friend?" "I am the person inquired about. Wire back that I will be at Bassville on the next train" 'What, was he rushing jnte? Upon what vague menacing fate? What wad he to meet? Marle, only Marfa! And, Joy and'taptute and love in her radiant. fade, she greetéd him twelve hours later. "My: poor dead! my suffering, deso- late love!" she sobbed. "Your friend, Mr, Walters, came to me, and I left everything to bear to you the tidings of wonderful happiness." "The wreck at the bri "Not Merrivale bridge, on our Mn but one hundred miles away. Hol vu rued he Once Ruled Most of World, * For more than six centuries Arab domination was sipreme in western Asta, northern Africa from the Upper Nile to the Black sen, over niost of Spain and, for a time, a large part of France, as well as much of the Mediter- ranean coast, and. from the Persian' As Sidney Low ly fear o ressed thie Jorlars: Breeds of dairy ¢att eonfornation! and' general clinrictents ties: Bach has been developed for eer: 'tain ends. To make 'thé greatest suc cess a Cairyman in selecting' a breed ionld take local .coadislons and mars keting requirements Inte otsidera- tion In epnnection with the les of the various: breeds. "He should not allow, personal preferenge. to influ: ence lis election {f his favorite breed is unsnited 'to: locdl conditions)' hut should give careful considerntion fo the breed of breeds alteady estily Hghed In His 'community. Ta such a ser lection he is benefited (n mony ways. Jersey Cow In Pasture, For Instance, a market is established; surplus stock may be disposed of to better advantage, co-operative adver. tising may be used and bulls may be bought co-operatively 'or exchanged readily among breeders. Jersey cattle, the most numerous breeds in the United States, origins er in, the island of Jersey, Jerseys a Guéfnseys probably kad the same ingle stock, "but hav fend des ooped toward diferent Teas so thi the breeds now differ in = suthber of particulars. Jerseys vary. conridorably - color. Shades of fawn, squirrel gray, mouse color and very dark brown are com: mon. Jerseys have a highly organized nervous system and are usualy some- what excitable, responding quickly to good treatment and good feed. Cows average fihout 900 pounds and. bulls 1,600 pounds in welght.. The Jersey cow gives rich, yellow-colored milk and is an excellent butterfat producer. In the Jersey breed, the average of 5,244 cows that had completed yearly records for the register of merit was 7,702 pounds of milk, testing 5.35 per cent, making 417 pounds of butterfat. The ten highest milk producers ranged from 10,6048 to 16,0: average, for these ten, pounds of milk. The ten highest. but- terfat producers range from 999.1 to 875.2 pounds, an average, for these ten, of 943.1 pounds of butterfat. HINTS CN MILK PRODUCTION Cows Should Be Kept GClezn znd Mitked in Clean Surreundings Into Covered Pali. After 'any foodstuff is produced one of the important things is to see that it is put on the market in good shape so that it will keep for a reasonable length of time without loss: through spoilage. Io this tlme of need for food every effort should be made to prevent milk from spoiling. Cows should be kept clean and should be milked In clean surroundings into a smill-top or covered pail: All utensils which' come into contact: with the milk should be theroughly sterilized with steam for at least five. winntes, and milk should be are tile imei To this time of terrible. struction of hugsan life it 18 particu larly necessary that milk be produced under such eondltfons as to insare a safe ford Lye bibles, This must be done by a decrcaxing Number of men trained to do it. A great task and > great opportunity for Gulrymie involved. nrg eterie- if many ie do te beon d health by this famous remedy, Lyd Pinkham's Vegetatie 8 Compoun an Pperation : sotnan who will pa; wie Fe: such alien en tomer wh of fore submitting to sucha Uricle "Petey" Gave ths ' Cltizens' Bloomfield Something to Think | About When He, Bought His: Frugal Sund Dinner. hs i bo § Libnoce the folks back aine , manpage to get a living In spite of (he high cost: of 1?" said the dwelleriin the eity to bis boyhood: friend, Sparrow, who bad % ad Bloomfield that morning. "Wy yee! JE Ke Lo. 0 same old way. mn sealing down. Extravagnnt J tightening up a hit, and the close Of are a little mite closer.» vi "Take the Longleys for exampl Know How they always used nigh es Would get his pay Saturday FE then oud begin to . (ohthe fat of: the lan Abo ursday;, ile would: give, At Bi then it would pudding asd milk, or whitever could pick up, for the rest.of the. Well, they do just that same Way | First of the week there's nothing good: for them, and price is no abject, Only difference is that. tow rd times begin with them; Tong abou Tuesday instegd of Thursday. ' Seg "ition there is Eben Titus: Ho goes on altogethef a different'; principles; Khen gays that it doesn't cost him so: very much more to live than it did Bea yefirs ago. He was always: figurer, you know. He's get what o b fair price on each of the som Ot courae he &in't control 'the price, but he can regulate the quant | ty. So when sugar, for example. Jue 4 Jimp of tén per cent. he mn the'anionut ta He used ji Just ¢ proportion. and so kee even with: the, game, ou might suppose that Phe fitmily' womld he on scant Fatlons thistime. hut Eben says pot. At ing to his tell, pot one of drelgh nd they never were hesithier happier, He says the generality of folks éat too much and too expensively Aid that we tever can know how Hirfle is enonhgh until we have put the quest tion to the test, PR, "But most of onr Bloomfield apla 0 thelr fighting of the high cost bf ing simply by word. of mouth. Tha me Aoi 1 fot of Wi stopped in vision 'store #fieokher night weren't giving the monster Stand ond They alV ngread d COMFORT FOR YOUNG CALVES Give | Them Sun-Lighted Quarters, i. , "Milk, Sound Grain and Bright Hay--Wstch Carefu am two weeks, ing 'to ak thersafter sound graln and