Show c£ DRY-LAN- SPURNED Important By NELLIE CRAVEY GILLMORE s— (Copyright by Dally The woman paused breathless at office the entrance of the familiar building Three years? It seemed either yesterday— or an eternity! she Poising herself determinedly passed on through the lobby and touched the elevator bell Her face was very white now' in contrast to its accustomed warm pink and the set expression about the lips imparted to It the look rather of 39 than 29 In less than two minutes she found herself seated in the little anteroom to wait her turn Nothing was changed except perhaps a trifle or so in the furnishings — new things duplicating as far as possible the old Finally the doormat her left opened He man emerged and a haggard-facepicked up his hat from the table In the center of the room and passed out The doctor glanced the toward woman and nodded the next Instant their eyes locked He pronounced her in tone rose name a formal and she automatically and went Into his private office Dr Drury pulled up a chair and motioned her to be seated Without a word she sank down pulling nervously at her “And what can I do for you His inflection was Mrs Pelham?” courteous professional to a degree “It’s the same old thing — Jack” sho said with a little lncaught breath Her eyes evaded his keen gaze The doctor’s brows went up the barest trifle He looked at her with a me “Pardon puzzled interrogation but with hundreds of patients coming and going continually — ” “You— have — forgotten!” The tone breathed subtle reproach Dr Drury cleared his throat to hide He his annoyance turned away ! In the Tragic Abandon of Despair drew down the dark green the open window “Neuhe questioned meditative- briefly and shade over rasthenia?” 1 ly The woman gave a little sigh and laid her hand over her heart with an expressive gesture “Too much coffee eh?” “I never touch It" She bit her lip hard an Incipient frown drawing her black brow's closer logether "Go west — away from this enervating climate” ‘Tve been west— east — north— everywhere only to come back again I — can’t stay away — that and again She dashed the mist Is the thing” from her eyes with a furtive forefinger Dr Drury regarded his patient with "I’m afraid Mrs quizzical gaze he remarked “that presently you have allowed yourself to become you tried — occupamorbid Have tion?” "There’s nothShe laughed softly I— I’m ing I haven’t tried nothing starving!” she broke out In sudden passion “can’t you look at me and see that?” She covered her face with her bands and drew long spasmodic breaths "Doubtless you need a tonic my dehr madam” and he began scribbling hastily across a prescription blank The woman watched him in silence her face depicting a variety of strange Her next words panoramic emotions were calculated to precipitate a crisis i r si i i Story Pub FARMING Problem Is toTCon-servMoisture in the Soil e are fast replacing the common varieties Alfalfa is destined to produce a wonderful change in the west both in its effect upon the soil and as a forage crop Rotations often give aB great increase in yield as tillage or varieties All these factors should be given equal attention in a comprehensive system of crop production WAS ON TO HIM To Land ReProperly Summer-Til- l quires as Much or More Labor and Attention Than Raising Crop — Other Essentials Co) “There’s no use beating about the bush any longer Jack You already know what’s the matter with me — don’t you? And notwithstanding your simulated indifference I can see you — remember You—can you look Into my eyes John Drury and deny that you She had risen and still love me?” was standing very close to him her pink palpitant cheek just grazing the rough black of his coatsleeve Very paintaklngly and without a word Dr Drury laid aside his tablet and pencil and — shrugged “Don’t-ba fool Dolly” His tone was admirably modulated but the barely perceptible twitching of his upper lip revealed a transient weakness —to his companion She laid a trembling row of fingertips on his arm He remained immovable and she caught his hand In her hot palms crushing it convulsively “Jack!” The word was He shook off her fingers brutally “I thought we had settled all this years ago Didn’t I say enough then? or are we to repeat the scene?” Hi eyes searched her shrinking face mer cilessly Presently she began to speak again in a low- broken vplce "I too jhought that it was over-thshe said “but — it could’t be I’ve found that out “1 cannol dear God alone will ever'' know forget what those three years were to me Hell itself can hold no greater tor tures — ” “Stop!” He turned blazing eyes up on the pleading woman his fact flamed with dull crimson But even as she looked up a softer light made its transient passage across his fea tures and his eyes fell away from hers Her hands dropped listlessly to her sides and her slender body shook from head to foot The clock on the mantel ticked auditwo — three bly A minute passed At last the woman lifted her eyes The doctor stood with' folded arms his gaze on the floor Without look "Several patients are lng up he said waiting for me We do no good by prolonging this interview Good afternoon” He started toward tne door but the woman Interrupted him with a little low cry of pain “Jack— Jack!” the word broke hoarsely from her white lips “you can not mean that this is — the end? that — that— 0 my God!” she crumpled down on the flooi' and flung her arms about his knees in the tragic abandon of despair An instant the man stood like stone then suddenly his powerful frame shook under a torrent of emotion and he lifted her in his arms staining her to him in a passionate embrace' When their eyes met finally all the old slavish devotion had come back to the man’s “We can’t stay on here” he said huskily “I — I’m married now you know In a week I can get my affairs into shape and we can go away — anywhere you say” The woman contemplated him a second in baffled silence Then swiftly like a fork of lightning rage and disappointment flashed athwart her quivering face “You fool!” she shrieked “when was so near it to be defeated at last I hate — hate — hate you do you understand? Do you think after that day three years ago I could ever think of you again except to despise? “Shall I tell you why I came here she hurried on gaspingly “it was because I heard that you had grown famous grown to be a great That you had married a beauman tiful girl and were happy — your name in everybody’s mouth your opinion valued above all others’ perhaps you have heard of Lynnette famous on two continents as one of the leading woman sculptors? And I want to be I had I succeeded in my quest would have been ‘Spurned’ has been offered a place in the great Incontest ternational the figures are complete— just one little expression lacking in the man’s face elud1 came a ing me persistently thousand miles to get it and you have — failed me!” The woman paused her breath all gone Her face was lined and pallid and she beat her hands together in the passion of her defeat The man stood watching her D stup- His tongue moved but made no idly He put out his hand blindly sound it fell limp at his side “Dolly!” His lips framed the word at length in a dull monotone his eyes sought mutely to kindle soma answering spark in hers But with an ejaculation of disgust the woman wheeled and swept past him to the door The most important problem In dryland farming is to conserve themois-turin it the soil —distributing throughout the season of growth The total annual precipitation is usually sufficient to grow a large crop but tome of it comes when not needed and Ip larger quantities than can be used and often fails to come when most needed by the crop The soil may be used as a vast reservoir for storing the water until it is used by the plant By keeping the soil loose on top we stop evaporation from the soil so that all the water may be used by the plant In this way we save the water in the soil until it is needed by the crop Surface tillage Is a means of tapThe surface soil is ping the rainfall made loose and the capillary connection between the loose surface and the- - moister soil below is broken making it more difficult for the water In the soil to reach the surface where It is lost by evaporation The depth of cultivation desirable in the formation of the soil mulch will depend on the of and the cultivation frequency amount of rainfall During a long dry period a mulch three or four Inches thick is not too much If a crust forms on the surface water is lost rapidly by evaporation If a crust forms under the mulch it prevents the circulation of air in the soil and also favors the escape of thq water This crust must be broken by deeper cultivation Land is summer-tilleto store the moisture of one season in order that a crop may be grown the next The more thorough the tillage the better this moisture is conserved When a small grain crop is being harvested the disk Bhould follow the binder The ground may be plowed later in the fall and packed with a harrow and soil packer As soon as the frost is gone in the spring the ground should be made loose on top It should be kept in this condition all summer or until the next crop is seeded The disk and harrow should be used as 'often as necessary to keep the surface loose When the ground is not plowed in the fall it will be necessary to disk early in the spring and plow before July 15 Deep plowing increases the capacity of the toil to hold water If weeds are to grow the effects of summer tilling are lost The surface should never be allowed to become hard for this gives the same conditions as leaving a hole in the bottom of a water tank — it permits the escape of the water To properly summer-til- l land requires as much or more labor and attention than raising a crop packing is the firming of the soil beneath the mulch This Is not done to hold the moisture but to allow the moisture to come up within reach of the plant roots — to make a road for the water to climb up for water cannot go upward without a connected line along which to travel When the soil is very loose and full of air spaces the line is unjointed but when the soil has been packed the air spaces are squeezed out ®he soil grains brought together and a fine roadbed Js made for the upward movement of the water However the tilling of the soil is not the sum total of farming rotations varieties and fertility are also very important factors The durum varieties of wheat are the common spring wheat by many bushels per acre and the best varieties of winter wheat are in turn the durum Kherson and other early varieties of oats SCIENTIFIC CULTURE OF SOIL Interesting Paragraphs Taken from Prof Tinsley’s Article on “Soil Moisture” — Different Terms That the philosophy of scientific soil culture may be thoroughly understood the following paragraphs are from an article written by Prof J D Tlnslqy of the New Mexico experiment station “Water in the soil may take the form of ‘free water’ ‘capillary water’ or ‘hygroscopic water’ ‘Free water’ is water under the influence of gravity percolating through the spaces in the soil and seeking a lower and lower level ultimately it forms films around the soil particles and fills in the minute spaces between them In this condition it no longer tends to sink it is no deeper into the ground longer Influenced by gravity it has in fact ceased to be ‘free water’ but has become ‘capillary water’ "When every soil grain has been covered with a film of ‘capillary water’ and all the spaces are filled the soil is said to be saturated it will hold no more and any excess is ‘free water’ sinking deeper into the soil and saturating it to still greater depth “The ‘capillary water’ is held to the surface of each minute grain of soil by the force of adhesion Its tendency is to move toward the place where the SQil is dryest — whether that be up down or horizontally This movement along the soil particles is similar to the movement of oil along a lamp wick and is what is meant when the term ‘capillary attraction’ or If one end of a ‘capillarity’ is used small tube be Immersed in water it will be noticed that the' liquid will rise higher in the tube than in the vessel in which the water is contained This also is due to capillarity Experiment shows that the smaller the tube the higher the water win rise but the larger the tube the faster the movement Now the soil may be imagined as filled with multitudes of these x tiny tubes through which capillary water rises to the surface when the surface becomes dry enough to attract 1L This force of capillarity is the one thing upon which the farmer must depend 4o bring the water in the soil close enough to the surface to be reached by the roots of crop plants At the same time his greatest care must be to prevent the moisture from being lost by evaporation which proceeds with extraordinary rapidity in the excessively dry atmosphere of America From the capillary water the plant roots derive their supply of water and with it they take up the soil elements necessary to their growth “The third form of soil moisture is ‘hygroscopic water’ This is water that cannot be ‘dried out’ or removed from the soil by natural evaporation It is a wholly negligible quantity” OF BELT The Main Question This story is current in the Arkansas hills A woman was telling some friends what a delicate childhood was hers “When I was born I weighed only four pounds They put me in a cigar box for a cradle” “Goodness gracious!” exclaimed one of the listening women leaning for"and did ward with great interest you live?” — Kansas 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addition to my female trouble ana advised an opera- - it tion Lydia E inkham’a Vegetable Compound made me a well woman and I have no more backache I hope I can helpothers by Paying Crops Raised telling them what Lydia E Pinkham’a Experiments in has done for farming have proven incontestibly Vegetable Compound that paying crops can be raised with me”— Mrs EmmaImse 833 First St Milwaukee Wis far less rainfall than was thought The above is only one of the thounecessary sands of grateful letters which are The principle which underlies this constantly being received by the s system is one that has been practical- Plnkham Medicine Company of which prove beyond a doubt that ly proven and accepted by the farmers inthe west namely that water Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Comand herbs roots made from pound enough falls on the land but not al- actually does cure these obstinate disways at the right time for the growth eases of women after all other means and maturing of a crop hence the wa- have 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