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Show 0 THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH -- J v I imiiin) MOIST RATION FOR HENS RECOMMENDED OopyHjrhrt, Channinff Pollock By CHANNING POLLOCK Use Less Grain, Encpurage WNU Service dont. My reply to room to a great desk, Go ahead! that And, an hour and got a revolver. Now, beat it he is: 13 be began, still standing, after you do, youll be arrested for yelled, and damned quick I . Pat AH right I said, but I wont file robbing the mails! on something." stumbled Ive stood each other. decision. They that facing So I gathered, she observed And That letter you opened before WilI walked Into the hall, and Kelly I assume that it has do with your pet letts the letter with the hundred dol- stood, leaning against the door, with murder. bill lar that wasnt addressed to the pistol In his hand, so furious that It has to do with your father. Barry Gilbert, was it? I half expected him to shoot before She smiled. No. I could get my hat. You think you I suppose youve discovered that crossed the room. Pat scare me, he shouted. You and can he killed Kelly. sorry, she said, but you asked The Globe. You think you got someIve discovered that he called on for Im it. on me. Witnesses. Squealers. Kelly that night. I did, but I cant take your an- thing I know how to take care of Well, Who mocked. Wonderful!" Pat swer. I cant because God help me, them, by God! Beat it! And, If that told you that? In CHAPTER VI Continued en to tell it if we . who drove him down The town. Barry related his adventure with the taxi-ma- n errant medico. Pat listened almost Indifferently. It was sheer chance, Barry con- Pat Pm love with you. She gave no sign of hearing. Im an adventurer, he went on, and youre a lady. The realest I ever met Thats why you cant do this. No answer. I couldnt, Barry continued, and Im a fake gentleman. I wanted to. I wanted to drop the whole business. I told Willetts that after youd warned me last Friday. And Willetts said, That isnt done. A gentlemans got certain responsibilities. He has. Thats a tradition stronger than we are. Pat turned, at last This is funny, she said. You It Is funny, he cut her short. Td like to behave like a loafer, and I cant Im willing to go to jail to save this boy and Im the scum of the earth. Youre a lady. How about you? If It were only me she broke. Your fathers a gentleman. How about him? Before she could reply, the double doors opened. Judge Hambidge was standing there ' erect and soldier-like- . Mr. Gilberts right, Pat, he said. I release you from your promise to me. I cant go through with It Im too tired, and full of He turned squarely to Barry. Youre right about everything. About my going to Kelly that night and the reason I went He let me in himself. We quarreled violently. So violently that he took a revolver out of his desk drawer and kept it in his hand. Then I walked out of the house. But you were wrong about just one thing, Mr. Gilbert. I left the house at two oclock, but, when I left it Kelly wasnt alive." - cluded. I hadnt any Idea of Implicating your father. But now he is implicated. You must see that." I dont unless you Insist on dragging him Into it I Insist on nothing, Pat except clearing an innocent man. "At the expense of one equally Innocent?" What does your father stand to lose by telling the truth? We know now that Kelly was alive when Rogers left the house. Im just as sure that he was alive when the Judge left. But he must have been killed soon afterward. Weve got to find out who killed him. Why? Because now weve two men to clear." If my father saw Kelly after the boy left That clears Rogers. And puts it up to my father. Your father didnt kill Kelly, Barry said. I know that, and I know why he went to that house. Really?" He went to protest against filing that Jefferson street decision." And then filed He had to. The pressure was too strong for him. Hed been struggling against it for weeks. In politics, even honest men have to listen to reason sometimes. Your father had to. How Interesting ! In spite of the hullabaloo, he wrote the decision. And, that day, came CHAPTER VII . the bitterest onslaught of all. The Globe made a direct accusation. Your They were a curiously inert little father was frantic. Just before midgroup for a minute or two after the night, he telephoned Kelly from the revelation. . tobacconists shop, and went straight was a like It Barry play, thought; to Sixteenth street. down on a climax, and the acHe told Kelly this verdict would curtain ruin him. Might ruin everybody. .For tors relaxing until it should rise again more than an hour, he plead and ar- for the next scene. After a time, Barry crossed the gued.' No use. Kelly was adamant. room to the pair. Your father gave Up at two oclock, Pat turned bn him. left Kelly alive and filed his de-- . she said. Well, now you know, cision next morning, before anyone You know about us, but remember knew that Kelly was no longer alive. we know about you, too. Thats, the truth, isnt it?" She was herself again ; hard and deSo plausible that telling it publicfiant. ; would end my fathers ly probably Ignoring her, for the moment, Barry career. asked the Judge, Do you want to tell And so? And so I think wed better forget me what happened? I wrote my opinion in the Jefferit You mean that, to continue your son street proceedings, and then, again fathers career, youd let this boy go as you say, I couldnt go through with IL Id never done a crooked thing to the gallows? in my life. I dont know how I ever Of course, I dont. She turned to him, the hardness made that speech at the Astor. The instant it was finished, I telephoned gone out of her voice. Theres no chance of that, and Kelly. Youd better come down and talk It over, he said. you know it. Of course, it would have been fatal Theres always a chance." Well face that when we come to for anyone to learn of that meeting. Thats why I got out of the taxi at it street. As I told you, Twenty-thir- d Weve got to face it now, Pat And Why? she plead. then, pas- Kelly admitted me himself. He was sionately: What right have you to drunk, and in a bad temper. Whats demand that we do anything? You the matter with you? he asked, when wed gone into the drawing room. dont even know this boy. ? I do. Here; take a drink, and forget it. Since last And you know him. Hes the real Tbpre was a bottle on the table, John Clarke Ridder. t and two glasses. Both of em had That gave her pause. been used, but he them, Whoever he is, hes got a wife and and gave me one. I needed It, but I a baby. I cant risk his life to save cant drink Scotch never could. I you, or myself. told Kelly so, and he blazed out at If hes convicted Pat began. me. Youre too good to drink with me I wont have him go through that Is that it? If the Judge doesnt tell the truth No, I answered: thats not It now, I will. But I cant hand down that decision. Pats mouth became a straight, hard I simply cant Mr. Kelly. Its rotten, .. . line. and everyone knows it Ive got the And wholl believe you? she asked. cursed thing in my pocket and I can prove And Ive got something in my Wholl take the word of a bribed pocket, he shouted and a branded' advenFather! Pat intervened. . turer? For over an hour, I plead and arListen, Pat gued. And Kelly kept drinking, and You listen. Ive warned you to stop getting uglier. He was a big man, prying into our affairs. You went right with a bull neck, and huge hand?. At on. And now you the scum of the last he said, Shut your . damned earth mouth, and get out of here! She was losing her head. I said, Im not going. Now you come into my house with No? he sneered, and got np from 9 Mory vilifying my father and threat- - his chair. He stumbled across the decision Ill aint filed by noon today, ." it ) half-fille- d , taxi-driv- er r ... may gone into the dining room, Barry said. Whoever killed Kelly came out of the dining room ; Im certain of that." Why? Because the drink Kelly offered you was Scotch whiskey. Was there anything else in the room? If there had been, Idve asked for it. Exactly. - And the weapon that crushed Kellys skull was a cutglass decanter containing rye whiskey. ' In the five minutes you were standing on the pavement, Barry reasoned, someone came out of that dining room, with that decanter, and struck Kelly. There was no time for a quarrel. That man or that woman knew what he or she was going to do." Why do you say she? Pat asked. This wasnt a womans crime. Its not a criminals crime, either, A criminal would Barry answered. have brought the weapon, and it wouldntve been a decanter. A criminal might have worn gloves, to prevent leaving But, since this wasnt a criminal, the fact that there were no finger prints suggests that the murderer just happened to be wearing gloves. And?" Pat inquired, tensely. And men dont often wear gloves on a warm night. Women do. It was a warm night It was very warm, the Judge said. You are a shrewd young man, the girl gibed at him. But your assumptions are ridiculous. Gloves! Anyone might have worn em. Anyone might remember the risk of leaving fingerprints, and wipe them off a bottle with and, without the higher protein content of the mash, egg formation would be hampered, though not stopped, according to an authority in the Rural Hens do not like the ground mixed mash as well as the whole grains and, if given all they want of the latter, will neglect the mash. To encourage the eating of the latter, the whole grains are usually fed in limited quantity, or not at all, In the morning, while a dry mash is always available to them in guarded troughs or hoppers. At night, however, a full ration of whole grain is given, that it may give a full crop for nights nourishment. There is no fixed rule with regard to this. Some poultrymen give a little grain in the morning and perhaps some in the litter at noon but the idea is to encourage mash consumption by refusing the fowls enough whole grain to fully satisfy them through the day. cut-gla- ss finger-print- s s. Anyone mightve an unlatched door any time after my father left. But,Barry objected, Kelly was dead thep." How do you know that? How do' we know my father wasnt right when he thought Kelly was keeping him out? All your conjectures lead nowhere, Mr. Gilbert. The only discovery youve made is that father saw Kelly after young Ridder did. And, as I told you, thats merely Implicating one innocent man instead of another. And you Naturally, its the second Innocent man I care about Especially since his Innocence of murder wouldnt keep your disclosures from disgracing him." (TO BE CONTINUED Its Not a Criminals ther, ) Creation of Petroleum Antedates Animal Life Ei- Crime, Barry Answered. i The glass doors to the drawing room were closed, but I could see the light through them. When I put my hand on the knob, the lights went out I turned the knob, and . pushed, but the door wouldnt open. Not latched it was as if someone was holding it. He wont let me Kelly, I thought. Alin. Ive got to act quick now. most in a daze, I wandered up to the avenue. At nine oclock, I gave the decision to my clerk, and told him to file it immediately. A few hours later, I learned that Kelly was dead. The papers said his body was found stretched across that door to the hall. I knew then it was there when I left the house, and that was why I couldnt open the door." Pat said, Are you satisfied? Or would Are you? Barry asked. you rather that I tried to find who killed Kelly? What does it matter Pat began, hotly. I think Mr. Gilberts answered that the Judge question, interrupted. Weve got to clear young Ridder. At any cost, Pat, weve got to clear him. Mr. Gilberts our friend, her father went on. He says so, and I believe - him. Oil Is of inorganic origin, having been made by the interaction of cer- tain, elements inside the earths crust while that body was aging into its present condition. Another theory Is that it is of organic origin. This latter is the most generally accepted and It has the bulk of evidence to support it even though most of It is circumstantial. According to this theory oil was formed through an unusual and gradual breaking up of vast amounts of organic matter. Some of this organic matter was plant life but most of it was animal life and microscopic animal life at that Knowing the countless billions of gallons of petroleum that have been taken from the earth and knowing of the billions of gallons that still remain in the mighty subterranean reservoirs this might seem a bit incredible. But that is because we are unable to realize the extent of a million years or the number of animals that can live and die during that time. The process which eventually led to the creation of petroleum started hundreds of millions of years before the first blade of grass grew or before the first bit of animal life moved about on dry land. Pathfinder Magazine. What do you want to know, Mr. ' Gilbert? Care in Little Things How long did you stand at the foot He that has a spirit of detail will of the steps before that door swung do better in life than many who figopen?" ured beyond him in the university. Five minutes. Maybe,- a little Such a one Is minute and particular. more. . He adjusts trifles; and these trifles Do you think someone opened It? compose most of the business and Someone who, then, went in to Kelly? happiness of life Great events happen You mean, the murderer? ; seldom, and affect few; trifles happen Barry nodded. every moment to- everybody; and No. Thats the last thing he would though one occurrence of them adds have done. Tbe door probably didnt little to the happiness or misery of . latch when I closed It. life; yet the sum total of their con While yon were in the house, did tlnual repetition is ot the highest coo ' sequence. " you see anyone but Kelly?- - ' - " ! - ! While this Is formation of the eggs. It was about half an hour not wholly true, for both ground and after we went into the drawing room, whole grains take place in both egg and I looked out, but there wasnt and nourishment and growth production anyone. the of fowls, it is true in a measure He or she have the hall? come in through . White-livered- has for Its purpose the supplying of more protein in the ration than would be afforded by the whole grains alone. It Is looked upon as the part of the ration particularly concerned in the a 'handkerchief. 4 The dry or moist mash given hens We were shut In together. Did you hear anyone? Since you mention it, once I did think I heard the front door close. I may have imagined it, but now I remember Kelly asked, Whos that In No. , Again, Pat said, Father! I know, Hambidge Interrupted himself. Pats admonition had come just in time, Barry thought. The Judge had risen, tense, and so excited that he seemed on the verge of collapse. And that was that, Barry calmed him. Not quite," Judge Hambidge conWhen tinued, but in a lower tone. I got to the bottom of the steps the stone steps, I mean I stood thinking. If I left that way, there was no telling what Kelly might do. Ive got to go through, I thought Its ruin either way, but, if I obey orders, ruin I only for me. Id better give In. couldnt make up my mind, though. I kept looking back, half decided. And, suddenly, a queer thing happened. The front door swung open. The Judge mopped his hands again. Id shut it carefully, he resumed, but there it was, wide, almost like an invitation. I walked into the hall. Mash Consumption. . New-Yorke- r. j Three Broods of Chicks Give Supply of Layers Keeping the house filled to capacity, with layers is suggested as a solution of the laying flock mortality problem.' This can be done by having three broods of chicks each year, according, to D. C. Henderson, poultry extension' specialist of the Pennsylvania State college. ' If three broods of chicks are reared annually, the first brood may be placedi in their quarters in January or Febru-- ; ary. The brooder house and equipment! is used again in April and October for, the second and third lots of chicks. Poultrymen who have developed a' good retail egg business, as well as' those who sell their eggs wholesale,' find the practice of hatching three) broods of chicks each highly desirable.; October-hatche-d pullets lay small eggs! when prices are normally low for all; eggs. January-hatche- d pullets come, into production in July and the size ofi their eggs increases with the rise In! price. They, therefore, provide more and larger eggs during the fall. pullets come into production in the fall when egg prices are at and small eggs are sold at a greater . differential in price than in April. April--hatch-ed their-highes- t Producing Broilers Under ordinary conditions it will1 take between seven and seven and one- half pounds of feed per bird to bring d broilers to the weight, says an authority at the North Carolina State college. This will vary some-- ! what according to the vigor and vitality of the birds in reference to their ability to utilize feeds. The management of the birds during the fattening period will affect the feed requirements. An intensive fattening period will also make a difference in the amount of feed necessary. The figures given will, however, bring the average bird to the weight under ordinary farm conditions. two-poun- , two-poun- d Culling for Breeding Birds The cockerels and pullets to be used as breeders should be selected when the birds are from eight to twelve Select only those birds weeks old. that show good health and high vital-- . Ity. A broad, deep, head,' prominent, bright eyes, full breast, and, strong straight legs set squarely beneath the body Indicate health and vigor. Watch the birds selected all through the growing season and those that lack vigor or are slow in developing should be discarded, advises a poultrymau at the North Carolina well-balanc- , State college. Feeding Goslings! Do not feed goslings until they are a day and a half to two days' old, or 36 to 48 hours from the time of hatching, at which time they should be fed a mush of. stale bread soaked either in water or milk, advises a writer in the Los Angeles Times. Cracked corn, scalded, is also good, as is a mash of four parts cornmeal and one part middlings. But never lose sight of the fact that geese, even In their young stages, are primarily grazers, and that most of their feed should be grass. - i 1 1 |