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Show THE TIMES-NEW- riTiiiiittiifiiinnEiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiairiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuinn--Mi- S. r Seed Potato Mode in New Crepe Frocks; New Ideas in Spring Veils amseyiiIilholland the the big spotted effects having gene SPRING collections stress The new dotted vogue of crepe and georgette out of fashion. Copyright by Doubteday. Page S Company J for dinner and afternoon gowns. The strictly face veils show their of new inspiration is not In the through color. The correct aiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiMiiiii iiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiEiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiniiiiii mini; appeal fabric, but in the remarkable colorings. mode this spring Is to match the dots I because CHAPTER IX. Continued. he'd Jollied vou about this to was become roused arguHamsey It may not be good English to say to the color scheme of the hat, which 11 pacifist stuff, and then" mentative. "I don't see where you get that these colorings are "delicious," means that the tiny conventional dots Most not she "Not" astonished, Bald, sharnlv. "I'm uncomfortably the Idea. Colburn isn't that way; and but- somehow it conveys the Idea of the are to be copper colored, tomato Ramsey took his hands out of his pock- thinking of his having agreed with back at school there wasn't a single lovely tones and tints of these ex- red, apt orchid, bright blue and periwinkle, a bea me and fooling me about it. He Just boy that was ' ets, picked leaf from lilac bush like that." anything sand shade on a very Infrocks. quisite picture especially side tbe path, and put the stem of the wanted to make a pleasant impression "What!" She stopped, and turned of negligible to Naive background conspicuous these gives simplicity leaf seriously into a corner of his on a girl, and said anything he thought suddenly to face him. of exquisite coloring their dis- notice against the flesh. mouth, before finding anything to say. would please her. I don't care whether "What's the matter?" he said, stop- gowns There are a few fanciful mesh face "Well well, all right," he finally re- he does things like that or not. What ping, too. Something he said had tinction. The njodcln which milady of I "I'll if care tell It's anyyou about Is that tbe principle startled her, evidently. sponded. didn't reach him and that be mocked "How , can you say such a thing?" thing I know about." know "You about It," said Dora. It I don't care about a petty treach- she cried. "You love to fight t" i "That Is, you certainly do if you were ery to me, personally, but I " "Me?" at your 'frat' meeting last night "You do! You love fighting. You Fraternal loyalty could not quite - - . I - . start Itr "Oh, no!" she answered, vehemently. "Nobody ought to have started It! That's the trouble; don't you see? If nobody bad stnrteil it none of it might tiave happened. The rest mightn't have caught it. It mightn't have got Into their heads. A war thought Is the most contagious thought In the world; hut If It can be kept from starting. It can be kept from being contagious. It's Just when people have got Into an emotional state, or a slate of smouldering rage, that everybody ought te I so terribly careful not to think war or make war siieechcs or tlwxight end war telegrams! I thought oh, I was so sure I'd convinced Mr. of all this, the It :t time we talked of It I He seemed to understand, and I was sure lie agreed with in." f he bit her lip. "He was only pretending I see that now!" "I guess he Blunt 'a' been." said with admirable simplicity. Ramsey, -He didnt talk about aoythlog like that Im1 night, lie was as uixb for It as anybody." "Pre no rtimht !" Hainwr made bold to look at her oat of the side t tils eye, and as she was gazing tensely forward he continued tiiii nhscrvstlnfl for some time. She was ohvhmsly controlling agitation, almost Controlling tears, which seemed to tli real en her very wide-opeeyes; for those now folly grown and noticeable of hers were subject to fluctuations Indicating such a threat. She looked "hurt," and Ramsey wns touched. There was something human about her. then, after all. And If he had put hi feeling Into words at the moment, he would have an Id t tint he guessed nui) le Ite could stand this ole girl, for a few minutes sometime hetter than he'd always thought he could. , "Well." he said, "O.llmrrf probly wouldn't want to hurt your feeling 01 anything. Colburn " Ilo didn't! "l haven't the "He? faintest persons Interest n whnt he Col-ba- eye-wlnke- did" Oh !" runt Rsmney. 'Well. t thought probly you were e-- m: i sire brook this. "Brother Colburn is a perfectly honor'ble man," said Ramsey, solemnly. "He Is one of tbe most honor'ble men to this " "Of course!" 6he cried. "Oh, can't I make you understand that I'm not condemning him for a little flattery to me? I don't care two straws for bis showing that I didn't influence bim. He doesn't interest me, please understand." Ramsey was altogether perplexed. "Well, I don't see what makes you go for him so bard, then." "I don't." "But you said he was treach " "I don't condemn biin for It," she Insisted, despairingly. "Don't you see the difference? I'm not condemning anybody; I'm only lamenting." "What about?" "About all of you that want war!" "My golly!" Ramsey exclaimed. "You don't think those Dutchmen were right to drown babies and " "No! I think they were ghastly murderers! I think they were detestable and fiendish and monstrous and " "Well, then, my goodness! What do you want?" "I don't want war!" "You don't?" "I want Christianity 1" she cried. "I can't think of the Germans without hating them, and so today, when all the world is hating them, I keep myself from thinking of them as much as I can. Already half the world is full of war; you want to go to war to make things right, but it won't ; it will only make more wnr!" "Well, "Don't you see what you've done, you boys?" she said. "Don't you see I" always have Idved fighting." He was dumfounded. "Why, I never had a fight In my life 1" She cried out In protest of such prevarication. "Well, I never did," he insisted, V mildly. "Why, you had a fight about me!" "No, I didn't." "With Wesley Bender!" Ramsey chuckled. "That wasn't a fight !" "It wasn't?" "Nothing like one. We were Just guyin' him about about gettin' slicked up, kind of, because he sat in front of you ; and he hit me with his book strap and I chased him off. Gracious, no; that wasn't a fight!" "But you fought Lluskl only last fall." Ramsey chuckled again. "That wasn't even as much like a fight as the one with Wesley.' I Just told this Llnskl I was goin' to give bim a punch in the sn I Just told him to look out because I was goin' to bit him, and then I did It, and waited to see If he wanted to do anything about it, and be didn't. That's all there was to It, and it wasn't any more like fighting than than feeding chickens Is." She laughed dolefully. "It seems to me rather more like It than that I" "Well, it wasn't." They had begun to walk on again, and Ramsey was aware that they had passed the "frat house," where his dinner was probably growing cold. He was aware of this, but not sharply or insistently. Curiously enough, he did not think about it. He had begun to find something pleasant in the odd interview, and in walking beside a girl, even though the girl was Dora Yocum. He made no attempt to account to himself for anything so peculiar. For a while they went slowly together, not speaking, and without destination, though Ramsey vaguely took it for granted that Dora was going somewhere. But she wasn't. They emerged from the part of the small town closely built about the university and cume .out upon a bit of parked land overlooking the river; and here Dora's steps slowed to on indeterminate halt near a bjmcn boneath a inn I J e tree. "I think I'll stay here a while," she said ; and ns he raude no response, she asked : "Hadn't you better be going back to your 'frat house' for your dinner? I didn't mean for you to come out of your way with me; t only wasted to get an answer to my question. You'd better be running back." iiiPi Ther Was Something Human About Her, Then, After All. what you've done with your absurd telegram? That started the rest: they thought they ull had to send telegrams like that." "Well, the faculty" "Rveu they mightn't have thought of It if It hadn't been for the first one. terrllJe Vengeance Is the most thought ; once you put It Into people's uiluds that they ought to l)ue it. It runs away with them." "Well. It Isn't mostly vengeance we're after, at all. Tltere's a !ot more to It than Just getting even with " She did not heed hlin. "You're all Mind ! Too doo't see what you're doing; yoo dot even see whnt you've done lo this peaceful place here. You've filled If full f thoughts of fury and killing and ansssscre " "Why, no." seld Ramsey. "It was those Injtch did That te ns; and. he. sides, Hiere's more te It than yon" "No. there Isn't." she Interrupted. "It's Just the old hmtat spirit that nations Inherit from the rime they were onJy triors; It's the trllie spirit, and an eye for an eye and s tooth for a tooth. It's those things and the love of fighting men have always loved to light. Civilization hasn't taken It out of them; men still have the brute In them that lores to fight!"' "I don't think so," said Rnmsey. "Amerlcnns d"ii'l love to flyht ; I don't kiiow about other countries, hut we don't. Of course, here iiml there, (here's some fellow (hat likes to hunt around for scrap, but I never saw more tl an three or four In my life that acted tlmf way. Of course s foot! mil on ltm often has a fjcrnpper or It, i:t that's differ nt." "No," she i'd. "I think ytnj all realty tore to 1hL" lo (TO UK i'ONTINt'KD.) Riglt End rirtt. course It la possible fot I'.Ugnrd--O- f man to acquire mm- - slid p'enty. MitMin All, but not In tUf wlel named.--Iui'l- oti Answers, Dr. H. L. Richards, Associate Botanist. Kxperiment StaUn, Utah Agricultural College Increased activity in seed potato production und certification in the clearer deflnW West together with tion of standards lios focused atten-- j Hon more definitely upon the potato' as a product free from disease anL upon, seed treatment aa an aid un clean seed production. In the process of sued treatment we are concern edJ primarily with three disasea of the potato plunt all of which are serlousj ;n Utah and throughout the Inter-- J mountain- - region : scab, stem cankerj Black leg. Thai (Rhlzoctonla) and organisms which cause these diseases! are ell tuber borne and as auch ar Introduced each year Into large area1 of clean land rendering them unfit' for potato production. . It is definite--! ly known that these organisms when,. planted with the seed result In dv creased yield and in the production of tubers Inferior libth-'fo;, the market and for seed' purposes.' Further be remembered that the saa and the stem canker organisms one Introduced into the soil may live and seriously damage ottv er and succeeding crops. The disease organisms as they appear on the surface of the tubers are very resistant to the action of chemicals and rather severe methods are necessary to destroy them. For treating seed potatoes two standi ard disinfectants have been used; formaldehyde, one pint to.thlrty gallons of water, and mersurlc chloride 4 ounces to thirty gallons of water. The formaldehyde, treatment is not effective against Rhisoctonla at ordln ury temperatures and is therefore not to be generally recommended. The mercuric chloride method on the othe hund when properly applied has given uniformully good results. A number of precautions are necessary, however, in the application of mercuric chloride to' the surface fot the potuto tuber. In the first placs) it must he recognized that the potato tuber Is a living structure and aa such is most resistant to the- - action" of mercuric chloride wlien la n dormant or resting state. With the earliest signs of sprouting the eyes of the tubes becomes very liable to Injury from this chemical and considerable damage may result in treatment at this particular stage. Early treatment is therefore advisable. Again it 1ms been determined that damage to the seed may result from the continued action of mercuric ehlnride if the tubers are allowed to remain wet for a considerable perlol alter treatment. Rapid drying of the tubers will eliminate this danger andl n ill further add to the effectiveness nf the treatment by , depositing a slight film of the poison on the sur' face of the potatoes. A further protective precaution must be t:il;en against a too rnpld reduction of strength of the treating so lution. The surface of the tubers rather rn;'dly absorbs the mercuric chloride in solution as do also the laels and any other crganic materijiJ that may be introduced with the seed. Where necessiry to use sacks a few should be previously treated for 'A hours in n solution of mercuric chloride and then used repeatedly with successive lots of potatoes. Details for treatment are as fol- j . , . . . Two Pretty Models In Crepe Frocks. fashion has accepted as Ideal, are of one color throughout, and while there s may be floating panels, side and flowing sleeves, as to trimming, it Is conspicuous by Its absence, cave perhaps roses of self fabric, hemstitching or tucks which are very plentiful Just now. Georgette, und again roinaine, with crepe de chine and some murocain, are the chosen fabrics. These are in such entrancing shades as orchid, larkspur blue, amberglow. periwinkle, copper tones, tomato red, gray, and an endless number of sand and tans. , Color symphony Is sometimes effected through a girdle of two tones of broad satin ribbon, such as, for Instance, citron green with larkspur blue skirt-drupe- hand-draw- n veils, and the latest In these show Interwenvlngs of two colors such its gray and white, sand and white and particularly black and white. It Is, however, the veil of trimming mood which Is holding sway this season. Here elubonitely fanciful design enters, and this is particularly true of the bright dyed veils. At this moment, every one Is tuking to wearing smart un trimmed felt shapes over which are thrown gayest of gay dyed chnntilly lace veils, caught with a rhinestone dagger pin at the front. Newest of all are the long flowing.' veils of georgette In a chosen solid color. These fall from the crown to the buck, extending below the waist Shetland white veils are modish nnd "Well" He stood Irresolute, not sure that he wanted his dinner Just then. It would have amazed him to face the fact deliberately that ierhapa be preferred being with Iora Yocum to eating. However, he faced no such fact, nor any fact, hut lingered. "Well " he snld again. "You'd better go." "I guess I can get my dinner pretty near any time. I don't " He nnd a thought. "Did you " "Did I what?" "Did you liave your dinner before I met you?" "No." "Well, aren't you She shook tier head. "I don't want any." "Why not?" "I don't think peoile have very much appetite today and yesterday," she said, with tlte hint f a sad laugh, "all over America." "No; I guess that's so." "It's too terrible!" she said. "1 can't sit and eat when I thWik of the Lusitanla of all those poor, poor people strangling In the water" "No; I guess oolx,dy can eat much, if they think about that." "And of what It's going to bring. If we let It." she went on. "As If this killing weren't enough, we want to add our killing! Oh, Unit's the most terrible thing of all the thing It makes within us! Don't you understand?" She turned to hlin appeallngly. and he felt queerer than ever. Dusk had fallen. Where they stood, under the young-leavemaple Iree, there was but fuint lingering of afterglow, and In this mystery her fnce glimmered wnn and sweet J so that Ramsey, Just then, was like one who discovers n it old pun. used In the kitchen, to be uiiide of i hatted silver. "Well, I don't feel much like dinner rlk'hl ii'tw," he snid. "We we could sit here awhile on this bench, prob'ly." TreatnikrpA i5y By BOOTH flfARKINGTON Were you?" "Yes, I was there," Ramsey answered,- wondering what In the world she wanted to know, though he supposed vaguely that It must be something about Colburn, whom he had several times seen walking with her. "Of course I couldn't tell you much," be added, with an afterthought. "You see, a good deal that goes on at a 'frat' meeting isn't supposed to be talked about." "Yes," she said, smiling faintly, though with a satire that missed him. "I've been a member of a sorority since September, and I think I have an Idea of what could be told or not told. Suppose we walk on. If you don't mind. My question needn't embarrass you." Nevertheless, as tbey slowly went on together, Ramsey was embarrassed. He felt "queer." They had known each other so long; in a way had shared so much, sitting doily for years near each other and undergoing the same outward experiences; they had almost "grown up together,", yet this was the first time they had ever talked together or walked together. "Well" be said. "If you want to ask anything It's ail right for me to tell you well, I just as soon, I guess." "It has nothing to do with the secret proceedings of your 'frat,' " said Dora, primly. "What I want to ask about has been talked of all over the place today. Everyone has been saylug It was your 'trat' that sent the first telegram to members of the government offering support in case of war with 3ermany. They say you didn't even wait nntil today, but sent off a message last night. What I wanted to sk you was whether this story is true or not?" "Why, yes," said Ramsey, mildly. "That's what we did." She uttered an exclamation, a sound of grief and of suspicion confirmed. "An! I was afraid so!" "Afraid sor What's tbe matter?" he asked, and because she seemed excited and troubled, he found himself not quite so embarrassed as he had been at first; for some reason her agitation made hlra feul easier. "What was wrong about that?" "Oh, It's all so shocking and wicked and mistaken 1" she cried. "Even the faculty has been doing It, and half the other 'frat a' and sororities! And It was yours that started It." "Yes, we did." he said, thoroughly puzzled. "We're the oldest 'frat here, and of course" he chuckled modestly "of course we think we're the best. Do you mean you le!ieve we ought to've sat back and let somebody else J NEPHI. UTAH lows r : r only those tubers for treat mcnt which are free from Ciuriscs, demyed spots and internal browning. TREAT UNCUT SEED as early as :obs:Ii1o in tie spring, at least ten Jays or two weeks before planting. Avoid the use of s.ieks In treating. Coop seed in a clean place and in jterile sacks after treat'ng and drying. PROPER STRENGTH, Mercurlo Chloride, 4 ounces to 'JO gallons of .vnte. (1: l(KKi). TIME OF TREATMENT. Dormant seiil 1 14 hours. If tubers have started to s:roat nnd show but little disease reduce tlte time, but In oil cases sonic tl o seed for t least 4 hour. Sonk-in- .for 24 hours In cold water before treatment will greatly aid In destroy-n- tho disease germs. DRY FOTATOES as rapidly as possible after treatment For early crop. where convenient "green" tbe tubers In (he sun for a few days tie for plantiSKI-EC- n Jh j. if. . ' . a iVJJ1 "w ' . Jt it ng- KEEP UP STRENGTH OF SOLU- TION by adding 3.8 ounce of mercuric ih'orlde after Picturesque Trimming In Vsils. an orchid gown. The Inst word that lends to the subject of white, this stressing of color and crepe la which Is quite the hit of the season to trim the hat with a streamer scarf for veils. of the gown fabric. The eyebrow veil which Is really a The simple crepe frock to the left. Is curtain of inn line or thin lace, co Indicative of the new monotone crepe qiiettiKhly screening the eyes. Is very afternoon costume. popular ngnln this sensoti. A new veil on In Classic draping, as is shown to the right In the navy crepe frock, Is also a decided feature of the senio!i's modes. In th dr." when veils were veils, wt wore them over the fine; now we wear them over the lint, the shoulders, or trailing to Wnistlinc ninl below, according to the whims of their l rimming mood. There are toils, however. Unit sre true to nriginiil 'rtenlion, but they are limited, for the most piirt, lo chenllle-dotteyardage. By the way, these dot ar liiifwruli') small this season. with tucKh like tih net Is expressive!) called "the witch." Throe dlstlnrf veil types are shown r In the Illustration. The large veil fdiows tine w hite chenille patterned on black. Brown Spanish luce l drn"cd ss n strenmer on center hnt ve,- - the flower totpie Is thrown a natr blue .icroll patterned veil. treating each four iistiels ol Hitutocs treated for one' and n i half hours and restore tti4 volume of water to Its original 30 gallons. DISCARD SOLUTON after the third ir fourth treatment where no chemical is added. It Is also neces-sir- y when chemical Is not added U increase 11 a time of treatment 15 m notes for each lot treatron-ecutl- ed. MERCURIC CHLORIDE A DEADLY POISON. If taken Ititurnall;'. 'son. Mercuric ( hloiMo Is a deadly Keep from nil Tnrm animals nnd from children. Verenri' chloride h::s neither taste, odor or color and its solu-t- b n may ei ei;y be mistaken for pure wnte.". CORMERCURiC CHL03IDE RODES ALL UNPROTECTED MET- LS. I s w.nl or icrntnt ci.n'alners stioli no !tlvni;i,.eit e's or t nks. used if protected nn t n may l 'i i s ; it :;i p. int. !,r d CtrrHONt rr vuiiu mivvivu which . |