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Show THE TIMES-NEW- EXCURSIONS IN CORRESPONDENCE King Tommy By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM Copyrlafct br Bebte-Marri- CHAPTER X n Cs. Continued 13 "For entering Germany with a false passport," said Von Stelnveldt. "you shall In prison forthwith en closed be." "Do try not to be quite so cock ure that yeu're always right," said Tommy. "As a matter of fact, my passport Isn't false, as you call it. In any single particular. My face Is oval, my nose Is of normal shape, nd my mouth Is more or less round when open, which Is Just what the passport says. If you don't believe nie and can't bear to look me In the face which I can understand you don't care to do after sticking me with your marks In the way you did Just take a glance at the photo on the passport." This apparently struck Von Stelnveldt as a thing which he ought to do. He took a long look at the pho tograph, which Indeed bore very little resemblance to Tommy. Then, Instead of comparing it with Tommy's face, he rapidly turned over "the pile of papers on the desk in front of him. From among them he drew out another photograph and looked carefully at it. He placed both photographs side by side and stared at them. Then, suddenly, be looked up at Tommy. "Of what height are you?" he asked. "Five foot, ten and a half inches, ee passport," said Tommy, "forehead broad, eyes blue, nose normal, face oval. Mouth round when opened. It's all there." For the first time" during the Interview Von Steinveldt smiled. It was a grim smile, with more than a suggestion of malice in it ; but Tommy was glad to see a smile of any kind. "I think," said Von Stelnveldt, "that there has a mistake been." "I've thought so all along," said Tommy. "That d d fool Count Casimlr has this time himself a mistake made." "I don't know that Casimlr is more of a fool than any one else," said Tom"You made the same mistake my. yourself. I don't even now profess to understand what It Is. But you made It. So did two of your police officers." "But I," said Von Steinveldt, "the mistake discovered have." "You can't take much credit for that," said Tommy. "You'd have discovered It long ago. In fact, you'd never have made It If you'd listened to me and believed what I said." "Soon." said Von Stelnveldt, "the d d Casimlr will the mistake also discover. Then you can say to him and your Lord Troyte, and to Herr Cable that another bridegroom for the fair Calypso arranged has been." He sat up straight in his chair, pulled his bristly white mustache and looked so pleased that Tommy began to think that he must himself be the "arranged" bridegroom. The thought of Calypso being married against her will Tommy felt certain It would be against her will to this bristly-headeGerman made Tommy seriously angry. "Do yo'i mean to tell me," he said, "that you have the nerve to think of marrying her yourself T" "So." said Von Stelnveldt. . "Her equal In birth I certainly am." "Well, Just listen to me for a minute," said Tommy. "You've swindled me with these beastly marks of yours In a way that a third-rat- e money-lende- r would have been ashamed of. You've set on nasty, slimy oollce officers to arrest me. You've dragged me about Berlin In a taxicab. You've kept me standing here for half an hour with nothing but your face to look at. Very well. I'm not going to ask for compensation, though I ought to get It. I'm not even going to demand an apology, though if you had as much decent feeling as a Hottentot you'd apologize without being asked. But I'll Just tell you one thing before I go. I mean to marry Calypso myself." Von Stelnveldt was genuinely astonished. He had been brought up to regard royal persons of all kinds and members of aristocracies as sacred. A pastor he now quite believed that Tommy wss a curate belongs to the rank of the bourgeoisie. Is burgerllch. for sucn a one to marry "But she Is a princess," he said. "I don't know anything about that," aid Tommy, "but whether she is or not, I mean to marry her if she will have me. And I may say that If It's a choice between you and me, I expect to have the better chance." "So, Herr Tastor," said Von Stelnveldt. He had sufficiently recovered from his first surprise to realize that Tommy's threat was absurd. No princess could possibly marry a cumte. Such a thing would be worse than a wave of Bolshevism. Central European society would be shaken to Its foundations. Wladlslaws, as Von Stelnveldt knew, was a disreputable wreck of a king. Calypso was highly unconventional In her manner of life. But even they could not contemplate an alliance with a curate. The sneer on Von Stelnveldt's face became quite unmistakable. "Ach so, tlerr English pastor," be d Kl. By THOMAS ARKXE CLARK mi Mmm, U.lr.r.ity f Illi.oU. D. Formal Note and Inritationa THERE J W. N. U. Snrrica "And even if she won't marry me," aid Tommy, "and I mean te have a pretty good try at persuading her, I feel pretty certain she won't marry Or you. No girl would. Good-by- . perhaps I ought to say, 'Ach so, Herr Bridegroom arranged.'" NEPHI, UTAH S. Is a certain dignity and for- mality about a wedding or a dinner party, like an affair of state, that makes It fitting that an invitation to auch a function should take on a somewhat formal exterior in keeping with the character of the event. Marriages, and births, and dinner parties, have In them much that makes for Joy and happiness, but not any one of them Is a picnic, nor should It be treated so. There have come to me within the last year or two, from certain Bohemian centers, poster-lik- e Invitations to weddings, or announcements of them, gotten up like the advertisements of a fire sale, or an auction of household goods. Possibly these sheets are funny, but marriage lis so sacred a thing that we are wise, whenever we can dignify it by formality, to do so. If you are Inviting friends to a formal function such as a dinner party, or a wedding, or a muslcale, the invitations may be written, if the number to be Invited is small; otherwise, they should be engraved. The formal invitation, like the formal announcement Is written In the third person, and words and figures are usually spelled out, and no abbreviations are used, excepting, "Mr." and "Mrs." Even the year may be spelled out. These invitations may be written or engraved upon a correspondence card, though a double sheet Is more Commonly used. The printed invitation Is not used by people who are careful to follow custom, and to respect conventional form. Invitations to any formal function should be sent out ten days, or two weeks before the event takes place, Jn order that those invited may have a chance to adjust their engagements to fix up their wardrobes, or to do su'i-things as are necessary to permit oae to look his best. Many people, women especially, like to have a gown for a wedding, or an Important dinner party, and even a mere man sometimes wants to have a white vest for the occasion. The reply to a formal invitation should be sent immediately. It Is a discourtesy to the hostess to do otherwise. She must know as soon as possible who her guests are to be, and how many. If some of those first invited do not find it possible to accept her invitation, she may wish a definite number at her party, and so should be given time to invite others. If It is a dinner party she is giving, she must arrange the order of their seating at table, and decide as to the amount of refreshments to be prepared. All this takes time. No social blunder Is cruder than delay In replying to a formal invitation. The reply in each case should follow the form of the Invitation, und should also be in the third person throughout. The exact choice of words may lie left to you. You may be "delighted" or "pleased" or "chnnned" to avent. as you wish, and you may decline with any qualification of "regret" that occurs to you, but the conventional form should be followed In any case. In making such a reply, correspondence cards may be used or folded double sheets. The more simple, and elegant the stationery, tle better, and If possible, it should he white. In these notes the names should be written out In full, and all titles may be omitted. We say "Mr. John Lloyd Jones," not "Mr. J. L. Jones." A written invitation to a wedding reads : "Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Noble Knyart request the honor of Mr. James Brown Scott's presence at the marriage of their daughter Jane Emily to Mr. Robert Edward Mclntyre on Saturday evening the twentieth of November at eight o'clock, Central Presbyterian church, Jacksonville, Illinois." If the invitation Is engraved, however, as is usually the case, the pronoun "your" will need to take the place of the name of the person Invited. In England a blank space Is left for writing in the full name of every Individual invited. The reply to such an invitation would read: "Mr. Henry Duane Gordon accepts with pleasure the Invitation of Mr. and Mrs. John Noble Knyart to the marriage of their daughter Jane Emily, on Saturday evening tlie twentieth of November." If all the persons concerned In these formal Invitations live In the Bume town, then only the street number need he given in the notes, and in case of intimacy, even that may be omitted; otherwise the street number, city, and state should be Indicated. If you want to gain a renututlon for social courtesy you will acknowledge every formal note you receive on the day In which you receive It. even though you may be uncertain whether an answer Is absolute!? nr not, and you will do It In long hand. ven If the stenographer Is Idle at the Gisborne I should make her poorer. But If I take her name, that la to say, the passport of the gracious frauleln, I do her no harm, for she gets another one at once another passport, yoa understand, not another name. Whereas I make you rich In what you want With the passport of Miss Gisborne yau can travel anywhere," CHAPTER XI I do not know whether that line of It was at half past ten that Casimlr reasoning quieted Janet's scruples, or entered the Adlon hotel the morning whether the Joy of being able to go after the party at the Mascotte, He to Lystria smothered the cries of her did not find Tommy, who by that time conscience. She ceased to object to had gone off to the police office. He the stealing of the passport, and became exceedingly curious to know bow did find Janet Church, whom he rather wished to avoid. She at once at- It was to be done. tached herself to Casimlr and remind"That" aald Casimlr, "Is easy. The ed him of his promise to arrange for English seldom lock up anything. In her visit to Lystria. England, I suppose, it Is not necessary Casimlr was quite civil to her. He to lock things up. No doubt all the is the kind of man who is civil to any English are so rich that they do not woman anywhere and at any time. He want to take what is not thelra. Why had a reason for treating Janet with should they when they have all they special politeness. He believed her want? So here In Berlin Colonel to be Tommy's or rather Norhey's, Heard does not lock up hla own passaunt. port or Miss Glsborne's. If sometimes, by chance, he does lock them up, he "Certainly," he said. "Everything will be settled about your Journey. always leaves the key in the pocket There will be no difficulty at all. I of the trousers he wore the day beshall get you a passport." fore, for the English are a truly great In talking to Janet he spoke Ger- nation, and the English gentleman is man and was therefore able to express so noble he suspects no one. He would himself without quoting Shakespeare. not himself steal anything, ever. "I don't see how you can get me a Therefore he leaves his keys In the passport," said Janet "The consul pockets of his yesterday'a trousers. "All the same," said Janet, "he'll here, and the passport officer, and the people at the embassy refuse to al- lock the door of his bedroom. We all low me to have one. If I travel at all, do that" it must be without a passport That's "That," said Casimlr, "Is nothing." what I expect you to manage for me." Then he went on to explain to Janet "You shall have an excellent pass- bow the theft was to be effected, and port," said Casimlr, "a British pass- the explanation left her gasping. port, which no one will question." The Countess Olga, Caslmlr's only "You can't get me that," said Janet sister, was a: that time a housemaid "It's impossible." In the Adlon hotel. As a housemaid Casimlr smiled Indulgently. she had, of course, a master key which They were sitting together near the opened all the doors on the floor on door of the halt A lady, middle-agewhich she served. The room occupied by Colonel and Mrs. Heard and that of Miss Gisborne were under her care. She could enter them at any tine she chose, stay in them as long as she chose and not excite the smallest suspicion. She was familiar with Colonel Heard's habit of leaving his keys in his trousers pockets. The first feeling which this frank confession aroused In Janet's mind was pity for the counters. It must be a dreadful thing for a highborn lady, no doubt a delicately nurtured lady, to be reduced to ear: ling her llv- ing as a housemaid In a ftotet. Casl- mir explained that he pity was wasted. "It is not for the sake o3 wages that Olga is a housemaid," he. isaid. "She has money enough to llvi otherwise, and If she had not I woultl give it to I her. We Lystrian nobles aire not rich, but we would not allow oar sisters to earn wages as servants. ro. Olga Is a patriot. She is a housemtild Just as I was a soldier In the war f lr the sake of our beloved land, ours 'or fifteen hundred years, now taken bm us. I fought hut it was no use. Olga col- Iects Information, letters, locuments. telegrams " "From people who leave Lelr keys said Janet about," "No," Said Casimlr, "I Shall Steal It" Ana, lr necessary, passport. said Casimlr, smiling. very neatly dressed, unmistakably Janet is not I suppose, an English, passed them, going toward unscrupulous- woman. Then the swinging door. things she would not do, thoug "That," said Casimlr, "Is Miss Miss May Gisborne. She is few, for the sake of a cause si the secretary of Colonel Heard, who at heart Sne made no furth test against the theft of Ml Is the head of the British Graves borne's passport; but she d I commission." Janet looked without particular In- want to go on talking about It terest at Miss May Gisborne. changed the subject. "In seeking for British graves," said "By the way," she said, "talk passports. That young friend of Casimlr, "Colonel Heard, who is sometimes accompanied by his wife, goes who was with you last night through various parts of Germany, Mascotte " "Your nephew," said Casimlr. and beyond Germany Into all the Janet recollected herself. countries of eastern Europe. Miss Gisborne often goes with him. In or"My nephew, yes. I am afrali he der, I suppose, to register the graves Is likely to get into trouble with I his which Are found. Colonel Heard has passport." "But how?" said Casimlr. "Sut-ela diplomatic passport. So has Miss Gisborne. I propose that you should In London they gave hint a cor ect use Miss Glsborne's passport." passport." I do not suppose that Janet Church "O.i hla passport he la described as has any particular scruples about the Reverend Thomas A. NorreVs. traveling with a false passport. For Now, he's not that." "He Is certainly not that" said rO. the sake of a noble excuse and what could be nobler than world peace? lmlr. she would willingly do far worse "I thought not." "It was foolish," said Casimlr, "to things than that. But she was startled at the cool way In which Casimlr put that on his passport, and quite un assumed that Miss Glsborne's pass- necessary." "If the police suspect anything) port would be at her disposal. . "But she Isn't In the least likely to wrong " tend It to me," said Janet. "The police will not see that pass "No," said Casimlr. "I shall steal port" It." (TO ItS CONTtMT'ED ) ' Even Janet shied a little at that. The word "steal" used In that way Early Adding Machine $ has a very pasty sound, and I supThat the ancient Inra civilization In time. pose, as a worker In the cause of Peru possessed an adding and calcu0 1925, by Western Newapnpnr Unlo) Christian unlly, Janet felt herself lating machine has been revealed In more or less committed to the Ten the recent discovery by excavators of Commandments. a knotred cord, or "quipl," In the . Nece$$ary Delay "Steall" said Janet. "But I couldn't ruins of a prehistoric tooib. The cord A workman had been suffering seIs sixteen yards long ann contains 100 agree" re pains for several days and his 'Even Shakespeare," sale Casimlr, knots. Divided Into ten unequal secife finally persuaded him to see a You recol "Is occasionally wrong. tions these knots represent the odd xtor, who diagnosed his case as lect?" He gave his quotation In Eng- numbers from one to nineteen. The ireatened The man appendicitis. lish, "'who steals my purse steals sections are of different colors. Includnt home and called to his wife, who trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas ing red, brown, yellow, blue and s at work about the house, to tell mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to green, and are separated by silver r the result. "I'm nound to have numwhich even be filches me but from that the beads, represent thousands, anV appendicitis," he said. "Yer not." two name me from to robs of that which bers my good twenty. By nslng ws the stern not enriches him and makes me poor this simple way of counting, based ooti.Jng till reply, "yer bound to have Ivs got my turn hat" Indeed.' There Shakespeare was mis on the decimal system, rapid calca'v tlona can be aaad. MuatraaJ State taken. If I took the purs e d d. ; Gls-bom- e. Keg-Istratl- 1 DA IRY AMERICAN OlJiCiONO 1 PROTEIN REQUIRED TO PRODUCE MILK (Cap? tor This Department Supplied kr tfc American Legion Newe Service.) Cowa will not drink rank or stale water, and the milk pall will show the results. Care should also be exercised HEADS COMMITTEE to see that the water supply does not ON WORLD PEACE become contaminated by sewuge, wastes, and the like, since infectious Thomas Amory Lee of Topeka, Kan., diseases, such as typhoid fever, may was one of the many be on to the milk consumer Americans of mature age who served by passed cows drinking such contaminated with the French army In the early water. war until the United stages of the The butterfat of milk is considered States threw down the gauntlet in the most valuable component " It la April, 1917. the content of this material that upon In the fall and winter of 1917 he cream and, to a extent milk served with the Foyer du Soldat on are bought and sold.largeThe percentage the Champagne front and saw strenuof fat In milk varies with the breed of ous service In that sanguinary conflict. cows and with the Individuals of the Shortly thereafter he enlisted as a various breeds. The Babcock test enprivate In the Thirty-secon- d regiment ables us to find this percentage. A of French artillery and remained with cow must obtain an excess of carbothat unit until he decided that service hydrates and fat above that required with his own countrymen was needfor maintenance In order to make milk. ful. Thereupon he enlisted In the It is questionable whether the percentTwenty-sixtAmerican regiment, a age of fat In milk can be changed part of the famous First division, and by the animal's feed, but at least the remained with thut outfit until after lack of sufficient amount of feed Is a the armistice. Injured at Cantlgny early factor In the milk and fat In 1918, he still found the strength to limiting production. In his outfit to time rejoin participate The casein and albumen of milk toIn the battle of Solssons. where he was form Its protein content They gether wounded. are the essentluls In making cheese. Proteins are specific tn the work they will do. For example, feathers are 87 per cent protein but they wouldn't make milk. It is this fact that teaches us that a cow requires protelus of certain kinds for milk production. These proteins are found In linseed meal, gluten feed, cottonseed meal and The proteins of other feeds alfalfa. can be utilized for maintenance and milk production In the presence of oroteins from the above feeds. Milk sugar is manufactured by tbt cow from the carbohydrates and tin fat obtained In the feed. This com I jtff t ponent will rarely be a limiting factor l mlllr nmitnntlnn The ash content of milk Indicates that a large quantity of minerals must be at hand to supply the demand. In case of insufficiency of minerals In the ration, the cow will draw upon her skeleton and show the result In a condition and tn falling off tn milk. Sait calcium or lime, and phosphorus are the minerals usually It Is common practice to lacking. Thomas Amory Lee. fo..H culturhlla .nlcliim nnrt nhofl-be supplied by certain can phortia After his discharge at' Camp Devens. cottonseed meal, wheat he returned to Topeka to resume his feeds such as or ' .' any legume. bran, alfalfa, was but of drafted the law, by practice of his stnte to represent them at the St. Louis caucus of the Air Ta ATncf Tmnnrtntit American Legion, not then named or nr for Farm Stock organized. Air Is one of the most important He organized Capital post of Topeka, factors influencing the health of farm continued In Legion service until electa,liiolo nml It la llin.afnra ADack,! n ed department commander of Kansas that udequute means of ventllutlon Since then he has been should be provided for buildings In for lOl'O-lttiappointed one of the directors of the which animals are kept during the American Legion Weekly, the official sinter. publication of the Legion. In 1024. at l nere ore two tnings wnicn a ventithe national convention at St. Paul, he lation system must do,' according' to was selected by reason of bis wide Dr. C. D. Rice of the veterinary patlii studies along International lines, to ology department, Iowa State college. head a committee on world peace. It These are to supply an abundance of Is bis duty to select the most outfresh nlr and remove foul air without standing and meritorious world peace Interfering with the health of the aniplans presented for judgment either mals through the creation of drafts or here or abroad, study them carefully excessive cold. as to their feasibility and report at the The average cow actually breathes Omaha convention with his recommenabout 1,180 gallons of air per hour, dations as to the best one for the but In order to keep the air fairly Legion to endorse. fresh, new air must be supplied at A scholar, a writer of profound artithe rate of amout fjlK) gallons per mln-te- . cles, and a successful lawyer, Thomas The hog breathes 345 gallons of Amory Lee has devoted much of his air per hour and should have a supply time to developing the Legion along the of 172 gallons per minute, while the Ideals of service enunciated In Paris hen breathes about 9 gallons per hour and at St. Louis. and should have 4V& gallons supplied He was born in Topeka In 1SS0, per minute. which makes bltn forty-siyears old. The economical advantages of a After graduation from the Kemper proper ventilating system ate evident he Kansas university, Military school, from the results of one experiment studied nt Harvard Law school and In which milk production In a herd of then returned to Topeka to practice. 80 cows was Increased by 100 gallons He has traveled extensively abroad per cow per year on similar rutlons, and In 10'JI represented the American merely through the Installation of a Legion us a delegate to the Interallied ventilation system. Farmers seeking War Veterans' association congress In information on the construction or InLondon. He is also a member of the stallation of systems can get help from Legion's Permanent Commission on county agents, veterinarians, agriculForeign Relations. tural engineers or their state experihlgb-splrlte- d h run-dow- n Frf 1 1 x ment To Photograph Graves of Hero Dead in France To satisfy the demands of the relatives of boys who are buried on the battlefields of Frnnce, Frederick J. Church, senior vice comma nder of Charles W. Heiser post of the Amerl ran Legion. Brooklyn, N. Y sailed for France recently to photograph the grnves of the (lend. Mr. Church and his wife expect to spend three months at the task. They received thousands of requests for photographs of graves. Besides taking photographs, Mr. and Mrs. Church will place flowers on the graves that relatives request. Mr. Church said: "A photograph, at least, of the grave of the soldier who lies In Flanders fields should not be denied anyone." stations. CXXXXXXXXXXXXXXDOOOOOOOOG Dairy Hints OCOOCOCXXX)OOOOOCOCOOOOOOG Cows do not enjoy moldy siluge, and It makes horses sick. I'se a good, pure-bredon't Just propagate." d sire. "I'.reed, One minute after garlic la eaten by cow, the disagreeable flavor and odor of this pungent plant may be detected In the milk. Just as on outline, good cows must . fed suitable dairy rations balanced rations made of a goodly mixture thut will encourage the cow te eal heartily. be herd should number at least IS before a milking machine Is a Investment says oue authority. The only practical way to prevent 'he appearance of garlic flavor and odor in milk In regions where ths weed Infests pastures Is to keep ths cows from eating the plant. A fo Extend Activitiet Extension of the activities of the veterans' mountain camp of the American Legion at Topper Lake, N. Y., Is being contempla.'ed so that It can be made to accomtniwate victims of many types of illness In addition to ths tuberculosis patients being thrented there now. Patients suffering from other than tuberculosis will be treated at Paradise Point, some dl tsnce frotu the main gtoup of cowa time-savin- Milk scales are "feedotneters" which every dairyman should have to tell how far his cows go In production oa the feed oosumed |