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TREE E HAND: | te Black, Black ernmen he 8 ed that Sh initiative; that their boat was' equip-| hat is more than I can. hy ped by private : tives ie. yA : 3 | of patriotism. Nor could any i A he Torn: erm in the ly incriminating" evid : ound ae. lead of ir of horses on deck, ' [Le the ship. Trust German Mamure-spreader, and "the c.mbina. Two men accosted him, but he, "thoroughness" for that. The men| tion makes a pretty rugged team. dodged around ghe deckhouse and ran. "C8 EE, Co Te HIS TION We make frequent trips to town with on till he came to the foot of the| "However, thanks to the inf tion! him, with wood, produce, etc. We forward funnel. . One of the men Be) uncovered by Mr. Crane, a. mE ¢ drawn one co 3 5 hardwood; at| to had passed was nyw following, artes 22 of similar character has been seiz- | # 10ad from here for : i The Capture of a German Pir CHAPTER IV. (Cont'd) For two tense hours he lay quietly, ' while the Cocos drove at full speed through the black night. Then he "climbed into the ventilator and 1 "out. A smother of misty rain had come up, and the wind was rising. A better 'night for this adventure could! hardly have been imagined. He felt _ the speeding ship make a sharp turn, as one feels a railway train take a curve, And off to the lee, almost abreast, hg caught sight of the battle- ship's searchlights playing like a goldr Br vor i aul het, matic pistol full across his forehead,' tion of the transports. They had and sank back without a sound. Crane taken no precautions to mask their dropped safely over into the steel' lights, so secure did they feel in these cylinder, while his pursuer began hast- 'water, ily to climb down. Th 1 , 3 The Cocos, now almost behind the 'soon £1 iy 3 ihe. ae Tain transport, had lost headway, and lay, jo» 1a single-handed, get their We have a herd of grade cows ed to cross the wake of the last trans- | VAIOWIng in the choppy seas. With ofits ot naught. Both England and Which We breed to this bull and raise port, at least two miles behind the Plinding flash, a searchlight fromfsy eralia owe a debt of deep grati- S11 the heifer calves. He has sired battleship. In this weather he could] the transport was brought into play,' tude to Mr. Crane for services that "°™¢ £00d ones. ~ About seventy per come to easy range without being dis-| enveloping the disabled vessel in .a' '1c for resource ability, and cool Sen of his calves are heifers. Before covered. Then he would hurl his| Prilliant glare of light; and the big! courage to avery ' extraordinary de- this bull was broken he was slow at torpedo, and race off at full speed SPiP swung round toward her, hardly| gree. We take pleasure in extending os ioc but now at five years he is as to the Tear. Some minutes must five hundred 'yards away. A hoarse | "roiiiioiion. » Quick and vigorous as a yearling, and elapse before the battleship could get! voice came across the water, asking in (The End.) A Sure geiter. . Ile has never shown 0 'What's the matter s any signs of being cross, and a twelve- her bearings and turn round; mean. | £00 English, i . : while His tremendous speed would Hawt fumbled he £ hi Utility. pn boy Snr in any hare Tone fumbled on the floor: of hish up, vor audience thidw. youlous With sid carry him well beyond the reach of her a sled 'on the fluo) rain-baffled searchlights, He might cage tll he found the lookous's mega- quets after your speech?' If farmers who make a practice of "No," replied the reckless orator, keeping a bull would only buy a pure- even lead her out of the way, then Phone; then he bellowed a 'reply: "they brought only useful gifts, such bred one and break him to work, then swing back and torpedo the remaining his I. a hostile German torpedo- © transports. at. Send Sfty armed men in yours, chs and other building material." keep him until he is seven or eight 'years or older, and raise all the best Swiftly and silently the gray wraith boats' First Class in English. (heifer calves, they would find it a hw he Todor Jus os Crome fasted ed on the coast of Borneo, where she a . the bull came home : another shock told him that a bullet! "°° trying to replenish her fuel sup. JS, a rs -- horse we had pierced his thigh Still he py; @nd was disabled by long-range EL MCE he is just as handy and nd say, Mis purser "Mr. Crane has entirely recovered much stronger, ih pi a up after him. As he oi the ng, from the wounds sustained in his We have a registered Percheron the lookout Jeaned over the edge esd Memorable adventure, and the Forbisn ot poi bull ied io Bo : Office has put in a request for his ' NE NUD The toute was. Ho xerl services, as he is too valuable aman Wake as good "a plow #88 May reba fo ware hin tme"ore dai. SoU sek for. The Tal vu dao board in the Navy Department. i " | "It is a source of great pleasure to He ean be Spiven with iu, but we realize that England still produces 5°° oP mosty, and drive as you men who are able to face the supreme hig an or or harness we turn efforts of Germany's much vaunted' orse collar and hames upside ; "millitary preparation and thorough-, Wh. : Quick Milking Increases Yield. "Quickness in milking is highly desirable. There is not only 'time, but "there is also an yield," says an English ex- The. Farmer Stockbreed- Recent investigations carried out at the Garforth Farm of Leeds Univ- ersity have shown that the increase] may be as much as 10 per cent. in the yield and' from 80 to 40 per cent: gp : in the butter fat. Slow milking re- tric fur sults in a smaller yield, and the eows the frequently get restless. There is no tive or de hk of ln Shab Yo curt i posts 31 alvial gre or to dry her quickly than by slow : D milking, which does not remove all along Sie hunks and beneath the the milk in the udder. S It is probable that the average NI : number of cows milked per hour is THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. about seven; but there are many milk- me : : ers who will milk ten cows per hour,! Ambition breaks the ties 'of blood and" there are probably others that and forgets the obligations of man- could do so if they tried. © The time hood--Sir Walter Scott. © taken to milk any one cow will, of It is often necessary and kind rath- course, vary with the quantity of milk er to write letters that amount to no- and the ease with which the cow can Hing than not to write at all-- . e. i be milked. : os Commercial relations between *t a : an alloy of rhodium a two other metals of family, instead of own manufacturers eM nani bore down on the placid ship, with her| They were shooting at him now. score of hundreds .of unsuspecting hus Bullets rapped sharply on the steel .man lives. Doubtlecs the troopers, were frolicking in the saloons, wait- | ing for the bugle-call of taps, little! dreaming that the sinister death-angel 50 near at hand was preparing their call to death. Crane saw the bright spot in the haze grow rapidly bright- er; the outline of the ship, now a scant half-mile away, became distinct. He dropped back into his pit, fumbled for His switch, and fixed eager eyes on the torpedo-crew. They stood still and ready at their stations, one at the porthole-cover, one at the tube lanyard. There was a low command; the cover slid back; the tube swung into position. With a hiss of escaping atir, the slim black shape darted out. A moment passed; it was safely buried in the water, but harmless. Crane's hands bridged ~ his switeh, and he dropped back flat on his face. There was a blinding flash and aroar that beat on his ear- drums; the air was full of flying splinters. A box rolled upon him, but he struggled free and leaped to the floor. The forward end of the deck "was gone, the hull at the bows split and twisted. The hatchwayladder was torn away at the floor, but still hung suspended. He leaped and caught iti, drew himself up, carrying a heavy box in his free" hand, and serambled out on deck. Men were running and calling out in the dark- y e swung close to the lee rail and raced to the stern, Asdie drew near he saw that a gun was also mounted here, the crew standing stif- fly at attention. He dodged behind a steel ventilatér funnel, seized one of the bombs from his box, and strucka 1 h. The officer of the gun-crew 'came toward him, asking what he; wanted. . He cooly applied the match, the fuse, held the sputtering thing moment, then hurled it toward the in and stepped back. It burst al-| os , and when he stepped: t only the officer was on his feet. | h , had drawn a pistol and] firi Crane felt a shock; shoulder, 4 reeled back: 'recovered, laid his Leuger funnel, and empticd three man's body. | up 'the Red Sea, to Suez, and stack. Then one tore through his forearm, and he almost lost his mega- phone. He dropped lower in his cage. Men were swarming around the boats on the transport's decks. The davits swung out, boats dropped to the water, and men tumbled into them. Two boatloads pushed off and started for/the Cocos. "More men," shouted Crane. "There are thirty Germans here who will fight to the death." He was getting very weak now from loss of blood, and he leaned back exhausted in the shelter of the stack. But when a fusillade of shots broke out below--as the Ger- mans, with desperate courage, open- . ed fire on the boats with rifles--he| Cobwigger--"He's the fellow who slipped a fresh clip of cartridges-into doesn't know what's coming to him." his revolver, leaned over the edge, and| br \ commenced shooting down upon them. A volley of shots answered, and a red flame seemed to sear his brain. He crumpled down on the body of the Ger- man lookout, and knew no more. He recovered consciousness with the sensation of lying on something cold and hard. Some one was talking. He opened his eyes cautiously, and saw a ship's surgeon in white, facing sev- eral officers in the uniforms of both everything that happens, there are the British army and navy. some others who tell them a great "I think he will do very nicely now, many things that never did happen. gentlemen," the surgeon was saying. "He was most extraordinarily lucky. I! : A Tal have removed the bullet from his 'quaintances when . Flint inquired-- shoulder, and those in his leg and 'Saunders and Harris are close arm passed through cleanly. The friends, aren't they?" "Yes; neither wound on his head barely touches the can borrow a penny from the other, skull, and I think there i§ no. con- came the reply. cussion." . ; "There'll be some cussin' soon," Questionable Guest--'Waiter, Iam spoke up Crane weakly, "if you don't in a great hurry, and would like to get: me off this tly cold table." know what there is that you would re- He convalesced rapidly on board quire the least time to bring me." the Dauntless, where he occupied a Waiter--"Well,-I dunno, sir, unless it cabin eagerly wacated by one of the might be your bill, sir." junior officers. Durifig the voyage] : Tonio x YaLe| "I told him there were dozens of he people right here in town who had heard in detail how the German crew, never heard of him). "I guess that had fought like caged rats till the last took him down a peg." "I guess it man 'was down. Only ten had been didnt. , He started right out to find taken alive, overpowered in ahand- them and 'borrow money. : Teacher--"Compose a which will contain these three words, 'Boys, bees; and bear," " . Jimmy Burns--"Boys bees bare when they go in swinimin'," A -- Paradox. "There is only one way. that can live happily--that's. "Yes, and there is only on that people 'can live at peace--an that's apart." beople ig way d When Ignorance is Bliss. Freddie -- "What's an optimist, dad?" His Belief. "What is his religion?" "Get the money." No girl who is able to bring a man to the point cares for leap year privi- leges. While some men tell their wives They were discussing certain \ac- through the sunny Mediterranean, sentence! 12. profitable investment. A bull, | farmer who 'is a little bit wine will not , worked either as a stag or with an ox for a mate, will do nearly as much work on a farm as a pair of horses The time has dome' when we must raise "more heifer calves; and any raise one from a scrub bull. Teach the bull to earn his keep in the yoke, and make him doubly profitable. How Old Should a Heifer be When She Freshens? With the prevailing high price of milk and its products, there is a strong temptation to start the heifer work- ing at as early an age as possible. Some dairymen make a practice of breeding the heifers when 15 to 18 months old, while others prefer to allow the young animals to obtain growth before they are bred. ~ It is claimed that heifers bred too young| will never develop into the big-framed cows that they would if allowed to Obtain their growth before being forc-| ed into the producing ranks. A stable was recently visited where the cows appeared undersized for 'the breed. These cows had been bred to freshen when about twenty-six months old, but it is not known whether or not this was the cause of the cows being un- dersized. Lack of proper' feed and attention during calf-hood™ will have a tendency to prevent the proper de- velpoment of the animal, so it would not be just to blame the early breed- ing for having been 'the entire. cause of - the' undersized: cows. However, there is a danger of checking develop- ment by too early breeding. In cer- tain herds the heifers were not bred until they were twenty-four or twenty- six months old, and they turned out to be big, strong-framed cows, while hei- fers of the same breed in the same herds, freshening at the age the form-| er heifers were bred, never g to the proper size. Twenty-eight to thirty-two months is Jbelieved to bea tunity for attaining the highest fection and development when roots are covered with a thick mat of leaves, hay or other suitable material. Mulching. There is far too little mulching done. | Small fruits, trees and garden crops are given a most favorable ~oppor- thelr A good mulch keeps down weeds, and renders the soil loose; moist and porous at all times, and that, too, with little labor of cultivation. refs - His Advice, "Would you advise a young man to marry before he has sown his wild oats?" "I'd go further than that; I'd ad- vise him to die before sowing them." Move to Incorporate. She--"I will have to be a little firm with you." 1 He--"Fine. = Let us make it a'par- nership!" tani Don't worry"if 'your sins find Fou out; they'll be sure to call again. AFTER MEALS products of ) loss of tone, climatic changes, or errars of diet, nothing so soon restores tone and healthy system as the root and h Mother Seigel's Syrup. AEE countries of the world are p the most powerful factors for the pre- servation of peace--Mr, W. T. Stubbs. Dante saw devils where I see none. I see good only. I have nevér known a very bad man who had 'not some~ thing very good about him.--Wm. Blake. i Life is but a light dream, which soon vanishes. To live is to suffer. The sincere-man struggles incessant- ly to gain the victory over himself.-- Napoleon. ! Men's destiny is towards progress, He cannot progress if he (does not cultivate his mind. That to be watered and cared for just as a plant. ~--Peter Keary. . f Boys may be governed a great dea] by kindness and by appealing to their better feelings, - But deeds must second words when needful or words will be laughed at, --Dr. Arnold. : It is the aggressors who ought ta make the first proposals for peads. Why should we make overtures toa country which has broken every con- vention and committed every atrocity? --Mr. Walsh, British Labor M. : LZ When digestion fails, whether from overwork, y to the digestive ty to the digestivo It tones and system of the decayed TAKE THE DIGESTIVE TONIC bags ood nourish you, and thus MOTHER esis 1.00 size co acidity, heartburn, fatulence, brain fag, and biliousness, It builds health on good digestion. SEIGEL'S ntle methods, and - 7