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Show THE T ommy By George A. Birmingham Co. W. N. U. Service WHERE'S NORHEYS? Copyright by Bobbs-Merri- SYNOPSIS. In London the teller of the story of the adventures of "King Tommy," and known hereafter as "Uncle Bill," la Informed by Lord Norheys, eon of an old friend, that Lord ing all that happened during the war, that Berlin lg a place a clergyman ought to go to for a holiday, not a good clergyman. It seems to me a callous thing to do. scarcely what I Troyte, head of the British forshould call Christian. Anyhow, he eign office, Norheys' uncle, has a went there. At least he said be was scheme to make him (yorheys) king of Lystrla, In central Ca- going there, and I suppose he really did, through marriage to for that is where the postcard came 1 Wladisof Ubo, daughter King from. He left his address before he ws.Ndeposed monarch of that country. A financier, Procopiua started, In case anything went wrong in oil knows Is prothsre Cable, in the parish and we wanted him fusion In Lystrla, and with an back. Directly the poor canon broke English king on the throne the down Mrs. Pyke telegraphed to Beroutput could be secured for England. Norheys. in love with a lin, but no answer came. Then I telstage dancer, Viola Temple, is egraphed.. When I got no answer I not enthusiastic over the propotelegraphed again to the manager of sition. The patriarch, Menelaus. the hotel. I got a reply saying that highest ecclesiastical dignitary in Lystrla, Is heartily In favor of he had left two days after he arthe restoration of the monarchy, rived and not given any address. and Cable has generously financed "Now I know that with your Influthe sentiment. Calypso is makence and all your London friends ing a living dancing in the "Mas? Berlin cabaret. cotte," Norheys I am sure Lord Edmund Troyte could refuses to entertain the idea of do something to help us " giving up Viola Temple, to whom he Is secretly engaged. "Uncle Apparently I was to set our conBill's" sister Emily urges him to service to work to find a curate sular secure a passport from Lord who was rampaging about Central Troyte for a certain Janet Europe. I should look a nice fool if female Church, strongminded who wants to visit Lystrla in I went to the Foreign office with a the interests of a society for request like that. I was Inclined to world peace. Janet Church leaves agree with Emily. That curate of for Berlin. "Uncle Bill" is again hers should never have been a clergyappealed to by his sister to and a certain curate (name not givman. I sympathized with her, and who his has in left en) parish with Canon Pyke, and with the parIreland for a visit to Berlin, and ish. I even sympathized slightly with cannot be found. the curate. But I was not going to do anything. I slipped Emily's letters into the CHAPTER V Continued "Unanswered" basket on top of her "Viola threw his dirty money In earlier letter about Janet Church. But his face," said Norheys, "and you'd have thought that would have been enough for him. But It wasn't. When he saw she wasn't going to be bribed he took a high moral tone with her, talked about ruining the prospects of a bright young life mine, the beast meant, not hers. There'd have been some sense in talking about getting married ruining her prospects considering the way she dances. But what was the good of talking about ruin- ing me? All the same, that's what he did. He told her all about that Calypso girl and what a scoop It would be for me to marry her. Now, what do you think of that. Uncle Bill?" "Did she promise to give you up?" "Of course she didn't. And what the devil good would It have been If she bad? I wouldn't have given her up. What I always say Is' this: If a fellow won't give up a girl, there's no use the girl's trying to give up the fellow, especially If she happens to be fond of him. You see what I mean, don't you. Uncle Bill? Well, after making Viola cry, which is a thing no man would do unless he was an actual devil, that octopus took to threatening her. He said that, being Then My Servant Brought Me in Some a princess, the Calypso girl could Letters Which Had Just Arrived by marry me If she chose; only had to Post. say the word and there we were. Viola doesn't know much about prin- I was not allowed to dismiss the matcesses, but she didn't believe that. ter from my mind. I got another letAll the same, it made her more than ter the next day. a bit uncomfortable." "I'm afraid I forgot to mention," It seems, as I heard afterward, to she wrote, "that the address he gave have roused Miss Temple to simple us was the Adlon hotel. He said that but effective action. I do not know If anything went wrong In the parish whether she told Norheys what she he would come back at once." had done. If she did, he did not conShe had not forgotten to give me fide In me. that address. What Emily had for"So yon can tell Uncle Ned,'! he gotten to tell me was the curate's said, "to keep that disgusting Semit- name. That rather tied my hands, ic toad of his chained up for the fu- or would have tied them If I had ture. If I catch him fooling round Vio- meant to do anything. la's flat again there'll be murder Next day I got a fourth letter from done." Emily. In it she enclosed twelve "I'm afraid," I said, 'that this will penny stamps. be a disappointment to your uncle. "Please get our ambassador In BerHe's rather set his heart on seeing lin to telegraph," she wrote, "as soon as he finds out where our curate is. you king of Lystrla." "I haven't the slightest objection to I don't know what it costs to send a telegram to Berlin, but I send twelve being king of Lystrla." "But you can't be If you won't mar- stamps which ought to be enough ry the princess." considering the present state of the "I'm not so sure about that," said exchange. Besides, an ambassador Norheys. "After all, If a thing can't probably gets his telegrams sent be done in one way It generally can cheap." in another. Just you try and make That letter Joined the others in the Nthat clear to Uncle Ned. Tell him basket. I'm an uncommonly dutiful nephew By the same post came one from and all Unit, as keen as nuts on buck- Canon Pyke himself written In pening up the family and pouring oil all cil from his bed. He began apoloover the good old empire; but there's getically. He would never have one thing I can't and won't do." dreamed of troubling me with his pri vate affairs had not his friend Mrs. "Marry the princess?" "No. I'll marry her If I have to, Chambers (my sister Emily) urged him to write to me on a subject very but I won't go back on Viola." I never made all that clear to near to his heart at the moment Troyte. Indeed, I never tried to. But the lost curate. "The dear fellow," he went on. "is Norheys succeeded In explaining himself, more or less, to his uncde, and not in all respects exactly what a I beard no more of the matter for clergyman ought to be. At the same some little time. time, he is a worthy young man, full and energy. What Another worry a small, even a ri- of heartiness diculous one fame to make my life makes us fear that he may have In uneasy. My sister Emily wrote to volved himself In some serious diffime that she lost a curate. She want- culty Is that he Is by natural dispoed me to set the whole machinery of sition both daring and adventurous, the British empire to work to find the more so perhaps tin a one of our creature for her. He was not, It ap- younger clergy oujjst to be. If you peared, a particularly valuable curate. can" He, too, eemd to think that I Kmily admitted that she did not like him. She went so fur as to say that ought to get the Foreign office to he was not the sort cf man who Ought send out a search party to Berlin or to have been in Holy Orders. But he perhaps to get the amhnxsndnr and was the only curate there was In the head of the Inter-AllieMission Emily's parish and they could not of Control to take the matter up. His letter joined Emily's in the get on without him because the rector, Canon Pyke, had fallen suddenly basket. 111. Then Emily took to telegraphing to me. She Is a frugal woman whose The curate bad gone off on a which, according to Kmlly. he spare money goes to missionary soAlmost Immediatedid not deserve. cieties, but she spent a lot on teleTyke grams. They kept getting longer and ly after his departure Canon had broken down. longer. There was no dnnbt that she "All we've heard from him since he was In earnest about finding that atft is one postcard which came from curat. I disposed of the fourth telegram Berlin and has picture of a M 11 I don't think, consider la tbs usual way. Tbs pile la tba Eu-ro- p, basket on my desk was becoming large. Then my servant brought me In some letters which had Just arrived by post. I glanced at the envelopes anxiously, fearing that either Emily or her'dear Canon Pyke had written again. I was relieved to find that the in only real letter was addressed Edmund Troyte's Along writing with It was postcard. 1 began with Edmund Troyte. He invited me to dine witn him that very evening. "You and I," he wrote, "nobody else. I want to talk to you about Norheys." I was gettmg a little tired of beI ading talked to about Norheys. mit that I am that young man's godfather, but thut does not make, me responsible for all his actions. Lord Edmund ought to be capable of looking aJter his own nephew. Then it occurred to me that If Kdmund Troyte went on worrying me I might as well have the satisfaction of worrying him. I would tell him the story of Emily's curate and see how he liked being consulted about business which Is none of his. I telephoned my acceptance of his Invitation and then went back to the postcard. It came from Janet Church and announced that she bud got as far as Berlin and meant to go farther. Janet was staying in the Adlon hotel. The address reminded me of Emily's curate and a really brilliant idea occurred to me. I would give her a little In return. I wrote her a long letter in which I explained that a really valuable curate had disappeared, having been last heard of at the Adlon hotel In Berlin. I said that foul play was suspected, which I am sure was true. that the Emily evidently thought young man had gone off on a disreputable spree, which would have been foul play on bis part. Canon Pyke feared that he had been decoyed into a den of Infamy and there robbed foul play on the part of someone else. I asked Janet to stay a few days longer In Berlin to go into the matter thoroughly. It was just the sort of thing she ought to do. "The curate's name," I wrote, "has unfortunately not been told me. But that won't be any real obstacle. be There cannot many English curates at large In Berlin. If you find one at all, hell probably be tbs one we want. He has a hearty manner, is full of energy and good spirits. In all probability bis face Is round and plump. My sister Emily is most anxious about him, so I'm sure you'll do your best." Then I wrote to Emily. "I'm delighted to help In any way I can in the good work of finding your lost curate. I am dining with Edmund Troyte this evening and Intend to put the whole case before him. You can confidently count on everything possible being done. I have also written to Janet Church, who is In Berlin. She is just the kind of woman who will find a curate however carefully he la hidden or, if your suspicion is Justified, however carefully he has hidden himself. It would be a thousand pities If he were permanently lost. But we need not anticipate that. Give my kind regards to the canon." CHAPTER VI Troyte and I dined very comfortably and, being wise men, talked about nothing unpleasant until th business of eating was over. When I had finished my second glass of port we went Into the library for our coffee. A servant put a small t table before us, coffee, cognac and cigarettes on It and then went s-- away. I was just about to begin the tale of Emily's lost curate when Troyte asked me an abrupt question. "Do you know where Norheys Is?" "At this hour," I said, "he's generally in the Belvedere." The Belvedere Is the theater In which Miss Temple dances. Norheys, unless he has some Important en gagetnent elsewhere, hangs about her dressing room until her turn Is over. Thn he drives her home. to"He's not at the Belvedere night," said Troyte. "In fact, he's not in town at all." "He didn't say anything to me about going away," I said, "but then 1 haven't seen Mm for the last two days." "Nobody has sen him for the last two days," said Troyte. "I wanted to speak to him today and I teleHis man told phoned to his rooms. me that he went away the day before yesterday. He left no address, so his letters aren't bolng forwarded. I mnde Inquiries st his clubs, but he left no address at any of them. All his man could tell tne was that he went off with two suitcases and the taxi man was ordered to take him to Charing Cross." d hoi-iria- y, mo-Hu- ts It Wall, In the circumstance does seem a bit Important to know where Is Norheys. Has he skipped out or eloped 7 (TO t CONTINUED.! Silk Long Known in China Old records NEPIII. UTAH TIMES-NEW- Indicate that silk was produced in Cuius vr 0,000 years s DAIRY FACTS III hH-eR0SS-HW- ! 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On many farms tbs a 44fax so as bull is required to stay most of the Eaf" m ' s time during the winter months in a HS sj e S3 JX1 sufficient stall without '' dark, damp Ti 3 T5 space for proper exercise, and is fed I Mfatai largely on cottonseed meal and M roughage. Such treatment not only reduces the vigor of the bulL but LTu,yi 73 J-5often results in either temporary or permanent sterility. 7- Z7S I 79 7. 7 7 la The secoud factor which Is partly ' " ' mml aa 37 oa responsible for the poor care which the bull receives is his nervous temI I I I I perament This makes it necessary to L handle him with care to avoid The press frequently carries (Copyright, 1925.) reports of persons being injured or 29 Open apace 27 A volcano Horlzonta killed by bulls. 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However, this is not 89 76 with fonr handles Cup 41 A maiden advisable If this mixture contains a 40 Wool fabric man 77 43 The tongrue 45 Gratuity 78 The entire One who has extreme political high percentage of cottonseed meal, 40 A plant views (slang) as many breeders think that it has a 48 Expressing; pleasure BS Comntfiil mush Dilatory The solution will appear In next lariu. tendency to cause lmpotency. A grain M To fortify 59 Colored glass mixture composed of 800 pounds corn 67 SI 62 Melodies meal, 200 pounds wheat bran, 200 8 Fidelity Invest with a fee 65 Tramp Solution of Last Week's Puzzle. 08 Force pounds ground oats, and 100 pounds 85 A tapering-- mandrel 8 70 Electrical unit soy bean meal is recommended when 71 Singleextinct bird SlAiBLEH P I iNlgjRjujgiAjLjej.D fed with a legume bay. Enough grain 73 An Point of the compnsa should be fed to keep the bull in a 74 Goddeaa of dawn vigorous physical condition, but not 75 That which Is recent aMjTcHSiE E0R I B EwRa1p 79 Of the Tartar race too fat, which tends to make him slugh'o dHs p A'RITl ax" u saAjnE NO What every woman adda gish. O T E HSE 81 A vessel LnsjiujiHEjsli to 83 Still The roughage part of the ration 82 In reg-ara r'dJJF r; eIQy e UToJw sew 85 A color should be made up of legume hays 84 An American llsard o0ag!oHaiP.Ma sEfv i 1a3e and a small allowance of silage. 2Efir'V;E Vertical. tHn A.Gja Legume bays axe. rich in protein and 1 Deransrea mineral matter and are valuable in 4 Divides The leading lady S A scoundrel S Serpent keeping heavily used bulls In condi7 Sheltered side 8 Many times tion. S Mildew on plants nJQd.o R e lO Excite oVh'pISlI i eJh,a N T'ElREjrTO'Gftl. 12 An ancient pussier Heavy feeding of silage has a tenkQe NIya 13 Chronicle of a year gpgTTElAIR aoQENASIIalE. dency to distend the paunch and make 18 19 Calcium DAinSYWSIAf ElbflMERl T the bull less active on his feet. From 20 Commission . .. 21 An Aalallc shrub Depart A 10 to 15 pounds per day can be fed with safety. I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I 1 I I I I I I I ! l I ! H I II I I l l The dally bull should have plenty of good pure water. He should be waHOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORPUZZLE tered at least once per day In the winter and twice per day during the Whcu the correct letters are placed In the white spaces this pusala summer. will apell words both vertically and horlaontally. The Srnt letter in each The main things to be considered in word la Indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the paasle. Tans No. 1 under the columa headed "horizontal" defines a housing the bull are safety In handword which will fill the white spaces up to the first black, square to the ling, comfort and provision for exerdefines a word which will fill the right, and a number under -- vertical" cise. His stall should contain an white squsres to the next black one below. No letters go In the black All are words abundance of light end be connected used spacea. dlctlonnry words, except proper names. Abbreviations, slang. Initials, technical terms and obsolete forma are with a paddock if possible so be can ladlcnted In the definitions. exercise at will. When the bull has I I I I I I I I a tendency to be sluggish it Is advis I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 4 I' I I able to place an empty barrel or tree stump in the paddock with which he can exercise. Where a paddock cannot be erected, a good method of giving blm exercise is to have a heavy wire stretched between two stout posts. The lead rope from his ring PUZ-ZL-E can be tied to a ring on the wire, which will make it possible for him to exercise along the wire. By proper methods of feeding snd management, the potency of the dairy bull or his ability to sire good calves can he greatly conserved snd the danger of being Injured by him Is prac tically eliminated. J. A. Arey, In charge Office of Dairy Extension, North Carolina Agricultural College. ' ' iT - l" d tf lo low-gra- ,, ,, ?r w acci-dents- nTTl 5TTT1 FT 3 d l FtHlCR!aIt ieilHtJeInIe 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 URSERY RHYME Substituting Skim Milk for Whole to the Calf A calf ought to have whole milk for three weeks. After that skim milk may be substituted, but the substitution should be made gradually, at the rate of about a pint a day, that Is, re duclng the whole milk by one pint and Increase the skim milk by the same amount. la that way a complete change will be made In about two weeks. The calf will then he from five to six weeks old. It should be tsught to eat Just as soon as possible. It will usually begin to nibble at hay at the age of two weeks and It may also be tsught to eat grain very soon thereafter. Whole oats Is perhaps the best grain to start with, although cracked corn is also a splendid feed snd especially so If clover hay is avail-ablor mixed clover and timothy. Some farmers feed alfalfa to young calves and get splendid results, but to other cases It does not work so well. Grades of Butter In recent years, thanks to a bettei understanding of the relation of qnal. Ity In cresm to quality In butter, farm ers are not only willing to sell their cream on a grading basis, but In sections where grading has Dot been es tablished they are demanding that their cream be paid for on a quality basis. Not long ago patrons of sn Iowa creamery boycotted their old creamery man snd built a creamery, for no other reason than that the creamery maa refused to pay according to grade. damsels are churning For curds and for whey, jHE In picturesque Holland, A land far away. Find tttreeothrr Hollanders. Left tide down, on aresi; lower left drs; u)pt side down, ilonf back. Aown, on coma |