Show a a The Algerian Swordsman By Fred Gilbert Blakeslee 1909 (Copyright by J is pretty but it ia not A man does many things with a buttoned foil that he would scarce dare attempt with an uncovered point” M Beaupre of chasseurs sat in the salle d’armes of hia friend Roget Rouleau watching an assault with foils between two puplla of that celebrated master "Who for instance" continued M Beaupre “would risk making such complicated movements as counterparries doubles and ripostes with the duel? disengagement in an actual Elaborate are well combinations enough in the salle d’armes where one risks nothing but a touch on a padded Jacket but they have no place in the play of a man who is fighting for his life” “There is truth in what you say Pierre” responded M Rouleau “but do you not think that a knowledge of this nature serves to develop to the highest degree that fencer’s Judgment which is of the greatest importance to a man who engages in actual instead of mimic combat?” “Undoubtedly my friend the training of which you speak is excellent so far as it goes but it is not varied enough The fencer is usually taught to defend himself with but one type of weapon and in a certain rigidly precomscribed manner a thoroughly petent swordsman however should be able to fight with all weapons and to withstand attacks no matter how irregular they may be What chance for instance do you think one of your pupils would have if called upon to defend himself a Algerian violates whose method of fighting every principle of the fencer’s code sword-pla- My Savage Adversary Awaited Me but whose utter unconventionality makes him all the more dangerous an But you shall hear and opponent? draw your own conclusions “While I was serving with my regiment in Algeria we were stationed at Wargla a dreary post lying on the outskirts of the great desert where there was little to do except eat and sleep We had been there for some months without anything occurring to break the monotony of our existence when to our great delight we were one day ordered upon active service “Reports had reached headquarters that a certain Mohammed el Hadid had declared himself to be a prophet and was Inciting the desert tribes to join him in a holy war We were ordered to take the field at once find the reputed prophet and stamp out the rebellion before it had a chance to spread further — orders which you us the may well believe afforded keenest pleasure “After a five days’ march through the desert we discovered Mohammed encamped at Hassa Insokki on the We found however Moussa river that the prophet with a military skill for which we had not given him credit entrenched was strongly among the foothills with which the country at that’ point abounded and it was at him once evident that dislodging would be a task of considerable difficulty "We accordingly encamped in front of his lines and having thrown up hasty entrenchments and established suitable outposts to guard against surprise we settled down to study the hard problem before us “It was evident that Mohammed was the mainstay of the revolt and that if he could be either killed or B Lippincott Co) captured the tribes that had joined him could lacking a leader be easily crushed But it did not seem possible to get at the prophet In any way except by a general assault and our colonel had about decided upon that course when quite unexpectedly a way out of our difficulties was opened for us and an opportunity presented to show the fanatical Mohammedans that their belief in the reputed powers of their prophet was in vain ' “Mohammed was noted for his great skill in swordsmanship and possessed a blade which was said to be able to cut through the sword of any infidel Judging that a victory over a Frenchman would enormously Increase his reputation as well as his influence over his followers he sent a message into our camp saying that ’he defied and cursed us and daring us to send a chief to fight him with the sword between the two armies “Our commander received the messenger told him that we would accept the challenge and Bend an officer to meet the prophet and that we would show his followers how little they could rely upon their leader's promises ’After the messenger had gone the colonel called the officers together to All select a champion for our cause of us were anxious to volunteer but as our chief pointed out it was absolutely necessary for us to send our best man for a defeat at the hands of the fanatical prophet would immensely lower the prestige of our arms while victory might break the backAs I bone of the rebellion at once was even then universally acknowledged to be the best swordsman in the regiment the selection naturally fell upon me and I was formally assigned to uphold the honor of the French arms— a decision my dear Roget which you may well believe afforded me the greatest pleasure “It was Just before sundown when I stepped out from behind the shelter of our guns and advanced towards the enemy’s lines to meet their redoubtI was clad in the uniable champion form of my rank and carried my drawn sword in my hand having discarded my scabbard so as to avoid the risk of accidentally tripping over it in the coming encounter My weapon the regulation cavalry sabre was a good one and I knew that it would not play me false “Midway between the two forces my savage adversary awaited me and as I advanced towards him his tall spare figure standing outlined against the red disk of the setting sun was truly an spectacle He was robed entirely Jn white and held in his right hand his famous scimeter while hs left gripped a small circular buckler of hippopotamus hide A great silence had fallen over both forces and as I walked briskly over the heated sands of the desert it seemed to me that I had never known the air to be so still “Within a dozen paces of my adverThen for a few mosary I halted ments neither of us moved but each to the keenest other the subjected ' scrutiny seeking to discover some weak point of which he might take advantage “I saw at once that the possession of the buckler gave the Algerian an enormous advantage over me since it enabled him to both cut and parry at the same time while I had to rely upon the sword itself for both attack and defense “For what seemed minutes we stood and gating intently at each other then with a wild cry of ‘Allah!’ the blade Algerian raised his glittering HANDY GATE FOR DAIRY FARM aloft and rushed upon me “With my sword in tierce I stood One That Is Useful at Any Time of my ground and let him come the Year and Can Be Built “Down came his blade with a Cheaply vicious cut for my right shoulder up sprang my sword and met the blow A gate that can be made easily back went my point for his breast and cheaply- and operated easily is a only to be put aside by his buckler convenient thing on any farm Instrucwhile he cut again this time for my tions are given below for the conhead I successfully parried his head struction of one by a writer In FarmBEST OF MILK MAKING FEEDS er’s cut and seeing that it had failed he Review The gate is a common sprang quickly back in time to avoid panel hinged to a post eight feet above Protein and Carbohydrates Are Two the my riposte For a few seconds neither ground The' lower hinge is a strap Which of us moved except that I shifted my Into General Divisions of iron bent around the post and beFood Is Divided ground a bit so as to get the sun on tween this the panel is bolted The my left instead of in front of me as upper hinge is made of heavy wire is no Then first at is a Because with feed been had proof woven between the boards of the panel it watery shout he charged me again that it is a good feed for the making and run up to a chain one foot in “And so the fight went on until our of milk length which goes around the upper The blood refuses to be fooled and breath came in hoarse quick gasps and the perspiration streamed down will accept for its making only certain proportions of water and solids our faces blinding us “The red sun had by this time sunk asserts H A Ritchie in Farm Life The old idea that a wet feed makes below the horizon but still we continued to struggle sometimes out of lots of milk is exploded The best milk producing feed is that locked so distance and sometimes that which is the most perfectly blanched close together in Protein and as to its constituents each could feel the other’s hot breath carbohyrates are the two general diXL on his cheek visions into which the food can be di“However it is evident that such a vided and the amount of each combat could not go on forever and must be fed proper A Handy Gate: A— Chain One Foot at last I determined to risk a ruse— B— Wire D— C— Post Eight Feet There is no possibility of getting was sometimes ema trick which Lower Hinge and every successfully by the rapier-me- away from the above fact ployed to the comes new feed that dairy end of the post and is fastened on one of the sixteenth century front must prove its value because of “Being at the time somewhat out of its intrinsic worth on the above basis side so that in opening the gate the chain will wind around the upper end distance with Mohammed watching one of the best Clover is of the post and lift the gate about me as a cat does a mouse I advanced foods we will ever have because two feet from the ground and over my right leg more than I had previousof its richness in protein and its great the snow The gate works very easily ly done pretending at the same time cut at tfie when proper and any child can open it The prophet digestibility to overbalance myself stage was quick to see the opening and to come into has The this feed way COW TESTING ASSOCIATION take advantage of it With a tri1 favor during the past 20 and popular umphant cry he shows something of its merit The First One Launched In Australia delivered a terrific cut against the In- years for these 20 years have comprised a and Principle Probably Will side of my exposed leg more than any other in which As he cut I period Spread “It was a fatal error t the intrinsic value of dairy feeds has slipped the leg back out of danger been challenged The first cow testing association and at the same time bending my Is even better than clover has been launched Alfalfa in successfully body forward I ran him through the as a milk when it is fed in Australia and apparently it has come heart with a straight thrust over his the form ofproducerWhen fed green it is to stay which means the spread of hay arm men some of the but valuable equally “There is little more to tell Just that buy milk for bottling and con- the principle as farmers are prone to follow one another says Hoard's as the colonel had prophesied Mohamdensing purposes say that it gives a Dairyman The headquarters of the med’s death broke the backbone of strong flavor to the milk and they new institution are on the south coast and we had little diffithe rebellion discourage its use as a green forage of New South Wales close to Sydney culty in dislodging and dispersing his which is the oldest milk center in the ' followers commonwealth GOOD TYPE OF DAIRY BREED “I was warmly congratulated upon Thirty-onentries were received my victory by my brother ofljeers and when it was decided to close for the1 this Ida Marigold Was Champion and received from the government year although others were offering Sweepstakes Cow at the Chicago cross of the Legion of Honor” The testers go to work at once The! World’s Fair morning and evening’s milk of each This picture of Ida Marigold Is an cow is weighed and sampled and then Japan Beautiful In the Spring To a person contemplating a trip to excellent type of the dairy breed She the two mixed to find out the butter1 will be visited once Japan I would advise that he come was champion and sweepstakes cow value Each barn The in the spring About the first of April at the Chicago world's fair and her a month to get these results test is multiplied by the days of that the cherry blossom season is on folonly son Stoke Pogis of Prospect Is the sire of 45 tested daughters If you month to ascertain the total and arlowed by the flowering of the azalea rive at the value of the cow’s milk and wisteria and theparks and forand butter during her milking period ests are beautiful but 'in the winter This will enable the farmer to asthere is little to be seen in the way certain which are the robbers of the of color herd The Babcock tester is used The cities and towns are an almost by the officers who also carry scales continuous aggregation of unpainted brands necessary acids and sampling shanties with picturesque roofs of tile and testing bottles According to thej or thatch while the fields beyond are the tester leaves the regulations generally covered with water as a farmer each day the test for each for the next planting of preparation cow while copies are registered with ' rice The picture is odd and interestithe association's secretary The herds ng but not beautiful are represented by a number so that Travel through the country is cheap each herd’s result is secretive from and fairly comfortable the passenger any other person excepting the sec-cars are small and arranged in comretary partments like those used in Europe Fraud in Mixed Feeds Good hotels conducted like our hotels Ida Marigold Mixed feeds have always been the’ on the “American plan” are to be her medium through which the most flafound in every place you will care to study this cow and remember busl- visit but outside the cities their lack lines when buying dairy cattle you grant frauds in the will make no mistake Note the large ness have been perpetrated says the of heating facilities will be noticeable station bulletin and in the winter will result in sufroomy frame the small intelligent Kansas experiment fering — Kobe Letter to the Denver head the heavy milk veins and also Oat hulls rice bran ground corncobs that her bag is hung exactly in the and other waste products of little or Post no feeding value have been systematright place ically incorporated in such feeds The' Water at a Cent a Pitcher Feed for Full Flow of Milk value of mixed feeds cannot be estl-The spectacle of water being reCottonseed meal flaxseed meal mated by a purchaser with much astailed in the pubH streets can be shoots bran or other feeds rich in pro- surance of satisfactory results In the seen almost any weekday at St Day tein are necessary for a full flow of case of pure feeds the consumer can1 in Cornwall In all probability there milk Clover or alfalfa hay are rough to a degree judge for himself not is no other case of the kind in Engfeeds rich in protein Corn rich In withstanding the considerable varialand The charge for the water is starch produces heat energy and fat tions to which even they are subject a cent per pitcher The water is ob- but little milk Silage and green in respect to composition and conse-tained from what is known as Nogue oots furnish water and are good quently feeding value Mixed feeds Shoot about half a mile from the viland promoters of general health have therefore always come under where there is an abundant ’or winter feeding Bran and flaxseed lage laws and have Indeed’ supply of pure water received special attention meal are good bowel regulators z: Z z Played Trick on President Wily Politician Banked Grover Cleveland His Bet on Courtesy and Won of There is or was a few years ago a neatly framed letter hanging in the consulting room of a young Brooklyn doctor which he found In his mail one winter morning It ran as follows: “Princeton January 12 1898 — Dear Sir: I cheerfully accede to your re quest and acknowledge the compliment paid to my wife and daughter by bestowing their names upon your own twin daughters and I hope these children may be spared to be of constant comfort of their parents Sincerely yours — Grover Cleveland" The young doctor’s brain whirled Being a bachelor and having no acquaintance with the former president he could not understand it at all The mystery was solved when a friend of the doctor’s a mighty politician among Brooklyn Democrats met The politician had made a bet a cynical acquaintance that any American statesman would personally reply to a courteous letter from the humblest of his countrymen The cynic took him up and named Grover Cleveland The terms of the bet were that the answer to a letter mailed on January 3 must be received before January 25 Signing the young doctor’s name the politician wrote of how his marriage had been blessed by twin daughters Would it be asking too much for an autograph letter to frame which the sweet twins could look upon and read when they grew up and cherish ever afterward? The fell Into the trap and the wily politician won his bet— The Sunday Magazine him with Amity Needed to Bind The amity that wisShakespeare: dom knits not folly may easily untie ' Adjuncts to the Dairy Farm Those who make the highest success in dairying turn to either direct cr indirect money account — butter-fa- t All 3kim milk calves and manure of these are valuable and the manure is of more real value than most dairymen make out of it By some calves are considered of no value This is a Where great mistake stock U used nearly all of the calves can either be used or sold for breeding purposes The demand for promising heifers of even grade stock is very great In all cases a good profit can be made from calves by feeding them skim milk and selling them for veal The extra weight put on them In finishing them for veal represents as much or more gain as can be secured by feeding the skim milk to pigs To Prevent Collisions at Sea An arrangement of a ship’s lights in a definite triangle on a known plan is urged as a safeguard against collision The lights would then show an observer on another ship the vessel’s course her distance from the observer and her approximate speed Use Hand Separator for Good Butter By the use of the hand separator it' possible to make the highest grade butter at home providing the cream is properly handled and churned By the use of the separator! not to are able a make highonly you er grade of butter and will sell it for a higher price but you will be able to extract more cream from the milk and hence make more butter Also' the warm sweet milk will have a high-- ' er food value either for human use' If you keep or for animal feeding more than three or four cows by all It will soon means buy a separator pay for itself f T ia of t Dairy Cows Need Salt Salt is a very necessary condiment for dairy cows It costs about half a cent a pound and has a feeding value of from two to five times that much Always keep a barrel of it on hand Handle Feeds Intelligently Handle feeds so that ypu may know tolerably definitely how much it costa to feed each cow Determine what the cow produces and find whether she ll kept at a profit or loss t -- u T |