Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1910, Page 23

» Girls' Agricu represented ¢ made availab of the count the attention far rowing Inte ts, encoura, and the tice of sclence n the tak efforts in the 5 tudy and pra conomics, d them ops, girls in the household toehr cally epeaking mulate in big fall ¢ t Lineoln, th comparison, to b ment of a board awarded be of productior Agricultur order to st est In this work planned to of the season’s th was a ntest the capital oduce of the gathered tog passed of place a where were ympe ed prize lines and all toward the establishin wisdom popularity with public 1»- ng spirit that 7% and the corn cooking Kirl have all influenced to a ver form of organimation In the state and Girls' clubs, tributing funa sulted in movement the with the popular of Boys' Big State ™M clubs ed school the primary contributing nee. Contests are first held . orm of organization Tho prize In these exhibitions are made eligible to the township the carried forward to organization, club, the state State Corn ( January Ends in These are upon the public as influ under this winners contest winners the here are representatives Boys' and Girls the delegates to held with the assoclation exhibit, In ar and during the week of what ls known In Nebraska as “The Week of Organized Agriculture.' This occasion Is planned to be a big state meet of boys and girls engaged in the primary work of sclentific and practical agriculture. A banquet is served, and the annual meeting embraces not only a grand time soclally, but becomes one of the me- morable events In the life history of every boy and girl who attends. There are us- ually from 2,000 to 3,00 boy and giris pres- ent on these oceasions. f\t the present times there are twenty- Ight states that have taken hold of this or similar form of organizalon of junior agricultural clubs, under the auspices of whose winners are exhibition, owers' of each y now DOMESTIC GRETNA SCHOOL CHILDREN AT THE NATIONAL CORN some responsiblo state educational influ- college, states school superintendent, extension department university, State Farmers' Institute associa- tion, United States Department of Agricul- or other equally determined force that means success braska leads in number of organized, having fifty-nine and Is second to New York in membership, having 25,000, New York was the first state to introduce the Farm Boys' and Girls' clubs, which have an aggregate membership of The prize winning exhibits in the local and county contests of New York taken to the ‘state exhibit held each at the College of Agriculture. At the 1009 meeting there were 450 ten-ear exhibits of corn at their corn show, about one-third of which came from twenty-elght boys' and gIrls’ clubs, There were also exhibited about 160 drawings on corn on “How to Grow Corn,” and 200 letters on “How We Celebrated Corn Day In Our School.” New York made Its first effort in organization of boys' and girls’ clubs in 1898, under the auspices of the college of agriculture of Cornell university, New York has had marked success In the growth and development of its clubs, ence; argicultural now 000, school are year subjects, 150 essays boys' and girls' A New Feature, In the Nebraska boys' and girls' clubs SCIENCE (HE OMAHA VDAY BEE there has been introduced this year of be known as the home experi department. The plan is to provide number of boys and girls in each some definite work in which they receive instruction and on which to report progress month will form a substantial nucleus general county organization, which in addition thereto whatever of work the county superintendent of schools sees fit to introduce It Is designed to put the work upon an educational basis, which will be helpful alike the school and to the home In what can be accomplished by directed, continuous effort, The plan is to send a pamphlet each month to each member of this department. The in- structions, pamphlets and supplies are turnished free members. Each person on becoming a member must agree to carry fully the directions and make quired reports. a new department, a which will ment for a county to feature extension work they Their for the are each work can include phases showing carefuliy out the re- Classes and be arranged to the county, tional corn shows and the work done in this department work planned for follows: Acre corn contest, husking contest, acre potato contest, ing contest, in a liberal premium list will state and na- state fair for For 1910 tha this department is a® ntest, ear to row Judging contest, cookery contest, sew which all styles of textily SCHOOL EXHIBIT AT PAWNEE EXPOSITION. work will introduced as the demands require be s Short Course in January. For the annual state meeting of the Ne- braska Boys' and Girls' clubs, to be held at Lincoln, January 16 to 20, 1911, there will be arranged a short course of one week {n cooking, sewing and home nursing at the University of Nebraska, in the department of home economics. Arrangements will be made by which girls may be sent as dele- gates from each county, according to the plan arranged by the county superintend- ent. The delegates from each county will be permitted to enter the short course and receive free instruction during the week. It is expected that a caoking contest will be held in each county and that a cooking team of two girls will be sent to the state meeting, where they will compete with the teams from the varfous counties, for which trophies or premiums will be arranged R Y Clubs in Fifty For the boys, short courses in agriculture will be offered, and judging contests con- ducted, in which the boys' teams from Counties. CHIBIT OF the various counties will statements of plans will nouncements for the state There are now approximately ties In braska that have under the home experiment Boys' and « ' clubs. This new depart- ment in agricultural education, in which the agricultural college and experiment sta tlons are taken to the home and farm by means of a system of correspondence In struction, is one of the most practical ef- forts in agricultural training yet intro- duced. The organizing of this department of the work in Nebraska has beer placed in the hands of A. E. Nelson and Miss Ger trude Rowan of the Agricultural college, who are reporting the encouraging support throughout the state in organizing the public schools of the counties into Boys' and elubs, under the home experiment department. At Omaha, in Douglas county, on April 27, compete. be given meeting fifty coun organized department of Full in an- most SCHOOL GARDEN CLUB YORK COUNTY there was a large convention of children gathered by request of the county school superintendent representing the majority of the district schools of the county, and a club was organized with about 300 mem- bers fied the greatest interest taking up this plan of study of agriculture and household economics. This organization of boys' and girls’ agri- cultural clubs offers a splendid ppor tunity for the county fair, in state where this plan of organization being carried out, to make this a department of the fair, and arrange the classitication in the premium list to cover just such fea- tures of exhibit as are provided for in the course of study, listed In {he several exhi- bition contests of state and other exhibitions to which this class of exhibitors may be cligible. If this is a good thing, and we have every evidence that it is, and that it i going to develop into much greater proportions, then why not incorporate it into who sl in every T CRETE, NEB. BOYS AND GIRLS IN LOCAL CORN CONTEST. our local agricultural fafrs and boost it along when it most needs our support and assistance? Managers of county fairs should take up this matter at once and put & littls money and spirit into the boy and girl, even if it must done at tho sacrifice of the fast h and the airship. The county fair cannot be engaged in better work bullding and women for tho higher ideals of life Do not it said, in this relation, of the managers of county fairs, that the material was abund ant, but the laborers were few We have the boys and girls and they will be men and women, just as we give them oppor tunities. The county fair, in this work now so well begun, may be a great stimulus to activity and energy. Get an outline of the general classification for prizes from the state organizers or state school superin tendent and arrahge your county fair pre mium lists accordingly, be se a than men have our (Copyright, 1910, by Bobbs-Merrill Co.) CHAPTER XX1il—Continued, il (40 8 two arms to sald before, life holds for me, the government an indifferent employe." When he found I was was rather hurt, but 1 his protests. I swung my feet over the sill and dropped. I made a clutch at the window frame with my good hand when I found floor under my feet, but I too late. I dropped probably ter landed with a crash that seemed my ear-drums. 1 was thoroughly but in some miraculous way the arm had escaped injury For heaven's sake,” Hotchkiss w m he one, trap,” whispered, I and, besides, much for you. would merely have as 1 As lose going fir did not walt he for no was feet and to split shaken, bandag s call above, “have you broken your returned as 1 as ateadily could, up through my skull 1'm coming up to open driven T un 5 18 & staires window 1 s € tinally, discovering tillea trean a e window open work, but 1 accomplished it without mishap, more tables than 1 tables that seemed me, When 1 had Hotehkiss crawled We W at last under shel & room with a of, Ike at , i L The had that and By tabouret found a half one showed us we st a gl tha vevealed electrieity, oper labor Ugation AR Sikhte s i house W plant accident 1 stumbled acr with smoking dozen maiches. the magnitude of and revealed als open firep feet high, & ¢ colossal kiss wha discovered Uy Nghted, He adeat it over | 1at the was not iy ation materials, and The first the 1 a m od 11 candlestick by ick he car almost ndle of pport 2 ¢ oportions. 1t was that It had been held the mateh s glasses announced Im re to It pressiv Look at soft. Perhaps it's the damp weather,” tured, moving a little x of light. A gust of wind then, and the flame turned side and threatened demise. something almost ridiculous with which we put down the nursed the flicker to life The pecullarly ghost-like appearance of the room added to the uncanniness of the situation. The furniture swathed in covers for the winter the pic tures wove shrouds. And in a be- tween two windows a bust on a pedestal, milarly wrapped, one arm exténded under its winding sheet, made a most lifelike ghost, It any ghost can be lifclike In the light of the candle we surveyed each other, and we were objects for mirth Hotchkiss was taking off his sodden shoes and preparing make himself ble, while I hung my muddy the ghost in the corner presented a rakish but comfortable appearance “When sald, the tain It Hotel more like fifty teet It was ng, and a room, *“this the candle has been wax! And the burning. wick! Both I ven- arer (o the circle in on There was In the haste window and came just over its was whit even niche to comforta- raincoat over Thus hablted, distinetly he more these people bullt,” surveylng the hug they must have and bulit all over it emed to be the Kiss din ot nsions room, hought a mo! What a living room, that 1t one. 1t twenty room"" although remarked was dead long and very high gallory. van fifteen feet The candle light did not the dim outlines of th. fancled the there pletures. Hotchkiys had Adiscovered a the enormous fireplace utes we were blaze. Within heat, we were the brightness gloom of the u subdued tones, Russlay clgarettes much was probably five feet wide with & domed cel around th above the penetrat lery ratl ung with a 100, entire tloor beyona but 1 smaller about wall fire laid in and in a few m steaming before a cheerful the radius of its light and o al But mete phasized the ghostly We talked and T smoked & box of which I found in o Hotchkiss' table drawer. We had decided to stay all night, there being nothing else to do. I suggested a game of double dummy bridge, but did not urge it when my companion asked me if it resembled euchre. Grad- ually, as the ecclesiastical candle paled in the fivelight, we grew drowsy. I drew a _divan iuto the cheerful and stretched myself out for Hotchkiss, who said the pain in made him wakeful, sat wide-eyed tire, smok- ing a plpe. I have passed area, sleep. his leg by the no when lently or idea something how much time itself sed had threw vio my chest Ir with a leaped ny feet, and a large Argora cat fell with a thump to the floor The fire was still bright, and an odor of scorched leather room, from Hotehkiss' detective was sound in his fingers. The haunches and The bellied again opened thrust to start and to there through The his dead back was the little plpe its shoes. asleep, cat sat on walled curtain at the slowly The its at door into the the louked mouth for it with my move. Hotchkiss his pipe clattered The cat ing behind Ing With its eyes that benind me. The waved threateni 1 saw noihing I took 4 candle room. Behind the the door Jows wei the followed vked ny hallway and fell toward it and another howl. 1 ot, but it refused red uneasily, and to the f standing at v out cat nto room st was feel, star me. Apparently it was follow an object unseen to up of when 1 moved gly, but wheeled and made & curtain that Ircult of the had moyed The . win and eve . stooped persisted in ot was securely it sliencs sl and locked where was absolute me majesically. | s its head, but it nea watching of the corners the room. o When 1 went back to my divan putting & fresh log on the fire, 1 was re- assured. 1 k the precaution, and smiled at myself for doing it, to put the fire tongs within reach of my hand But the cat would pot les we sleep After & time 1 decided that it wanted water, and § starteqd after out in search of some, carrying the candle without the stand. 1 wandered through several rooms, all closed and dismantled, before I found a small lavatory opening off a billlard room. The cat lapped stead- ily, and I filled a glass to take back with me. The candle flickered In a sickly fash- fon that threatened to leave me there lost in the wanderings of the many hallways, and from somewhere there came a vio- lent puff of wind. The cat stuck by my feet, with the halr on its back ralsed menacingly. I don't like cats; there is something psychic ubout them. Hotchkiss was still asleep when I sot back to the big room. 1 moved his boots back from the fire and trimmed the candle. Then, with sleep gone from me, I lay back on my divan and reflected on many things: on my Idiocy in coming; Allson West and the fact that only a week before she had been a guest in this very house; Richey and the constraint that had com between From that I drifted back to Alison, and to the barrier my comparative poverty would be. The emptiness, the stillness were oppres- sive. Once 1 heard fotsteps coming, rhythmical that neither hurried nor dragged, and seemed to mount endless stalrcases without coming any closer. I realized finaMy that 1 had not quite turned off the tap, and that the lavatory, which I had circled to\ reach, must be quite close. The cap lay by the fire, its its folded paws, content in the and companiorship. 1 watched Now and then the green wood hissed the tire, but the cat hatted Through an unshuttered window ning flashed; Suddenly the cat It lifted its and the gallery Then it blinked, and stared again. 1 was Not until it had got om its feet, eves riveted on the balcony, tafll waving at the tip, the hair on its back a bristling brush, did 1 glance casually my head From the shadows u face that seemed a fitting ghostly room below. I ax 1 might my While 1 /stared the apparition vail was there, the Bokhar from it, but the gallery The cat threw\back it CHAPTER XXIV, HIS WIFE'S FATHER I jumped up end the fh The cat's wail had Hotehkiss awake at He ook in attitude tongs, the di and nothing ) the candle aud d followed him. on steps nose on warmth it fdly in an eye the light looked up divectly at head stared above. amused over among down at me, a tenant of the plainly in & mirror horrified face gazed P own fa at it with taded it rug stll swung was empty head and it as see wa wetzed ong roused wio was wid or the needed offensive W my g As he pick inte nall, 1 A for t up turned etjon more ted out He part through o gallery itselt gleamed cheerfully, the There was eign but ws we stood without warning, tell the floor [t ctly he made and right the wircase off (o the We were | fire ot In sight ghostly visitant the Bokhura rug. the railing and way the there slid balow Man or wost pver 0 Hote tor woman? prote kisa inquired In " slonal “Neither—that is, I don't know. I didn’t notice anything but the eyes,” I muttered. here were looking a hole in me. If you'd seen that cat yqu would realize my state of mind. That was a traditional graveyard yowl." “I don't think you saw anything at all,” he lied cheerfully. “You dozed off, and the rest is the natural result of & meal on @ buffet car.” Neverthelegs, carefully when 1 ftinally went the only book In he examined the we went down, and when to sleep he was reading sight—"Elwell on Bridge.” The first rays of daylight were coming mistily into the room when he roused me, He had his finger on his lips, and he whis- pered sibilantly while I tried to draw on my distorted boots. I think have him,” he said trium- phantly. “I've been looking around some, and I can tell you this much. Just before we came in through the wirdow last night, another man came. Only aid not drop, as you did. He swung over to the stair ralling, and then down. The rail s scratched. He was long cnough ahead of us to go into the dining room and get a decanter out of the sidebourd. He poured out the liquor Into a glass, ieft the canter there, and took the whisky into the library across the hall. Then—he broke into a desk, using a paper knife for a Jimmy Good “why, it Confound your ther away every “It was Sullivan,” Hotchklss returned im- perturably. “And he His boots are by the library He probably he could get them, you and 1 to that sof(ly, as 1 not Bokhara we he lord, may Hotchkiss,” 1 exclaimed; have been Sullivan himself! theorles—he's getting far- migute." has fire, not gone. by had a dozen pairs where I scoffed. And while sat and slept, the very get hands leercd railing." softly, my friend stamped into my was gone fatal want our on at us over Hotehkiss other Don't ald, 1 aia he gt conclusions. It As a matter of fuct, he didn't relish a night on the mountains any did Atter he had unintentionally frigntened you almost into paralysis would an gentleman naturally out in tne orm again it 1 know Alice-s the-fire He it upstair vear th eked himse to bed Aud is He W say jump is to reasoning more than we what Ly type ip oof vent now 18 had no radit Hote had a » hed u carvied Weapons. \ aware the onal hero ays armed, and that Kiss as i ymediun should have A fact Kis the ot clincd All versation humor-was to polier want Is & with little p. * 1 demurred first and Aud, finger aceahle con w with while 1 the pls 1 think weak, If he wouldn't run & hundred through fire and water t get away from us, then he 18 not the man wanl, ) him, brain ¥ afterward m converse can't Wy your thedry s we Hotchkiss, however, was certain. e had found the room and listened outsidc the door to the sleeper's heavy breathing, and we climbed past luxurious suites, revealed in the deepening daylight, past long vistas of hall and boudoir. And we were both badly winded when we got there. It was a tower room, reached by narrow stairs, and well above the roof level Hotchkiss was glowing. “It was partly good luck, but not all,” he punted In & whisper f we had per- sisted in the search last night, he would have taken alarm and fled. Now—we have him. Are your ready?" He gave a mighty rap at the door the fire tongs and stood expectant talnly he was right; some within, =4fello! Hello there!” “You might hurt you “Tell prompted you Know But at that moment a bullet came squarely through the door and flattened it- self with a sharp pst against the wall of the tower stalrcase. We ducked unani- mously, dropped back out of range, and Hotchkiss retaliated with a spirited bang at tho door with the tongs. This brought another bullet. It was a ridiculous situa tion. Under the circumstances, no doubt, we should have retired, at least until we had armed ourselves, but Hotchkiss had no end of fighting spirit, and as for me, my blood was up. “Break the lock,’ Hotchkixs, standing range, retaliated tor smashing blow with after half s0 with Cer- one moved Hotchkiss bawled. as well come out. We won't if you'll come peaceably.” him present the law [ the customary thing we r I'hat's and at out of by a the bullet tongs. The dozen, and the was glving, slowly. One of us on each side of the door, we were ready for kind of desperate resistance, Hotchkiss polsed th forward drawn ceased a door almost As it swung open bent tongs; I back my arm for a blow othing happened. There was risk of peered sound. Finally justly not a losing around and at th eve 1 value, 1 There only a fresh-faced an into was no desperado there trembling cdge of the rvom. pped servant with a cmpt her bed quilt and e ey vietorion r beat ) the towe living sprawied spasm of Hotehk pacing hand, hs Finaliy he compelled alsg I i may D uppe attertion When sald with L position, il n b itation roon: ed front of and you have finished wish ou think put a dry cackling,” | to Justity u the—er woman upstairs boots palr the of Ihrar nk she poured th decanter " elght night? to in last you i whisky at have been known to do it T put In, but his eye silenced me. “Moreover, it she had been the person who peered at you over the gallery ralling last night, don’t you suvwpose, With he —belligerent disposition, she could have filled you as full of lead as a window weight?" “I do." 1 assented by-the-fire. 1 grant you that was 1t?" . Hotchkiss felt certein that it had been Sulltvan, but I was not so sure. Why would he have crawled like a thief Into his own house? If he had crossed the park, as seemed probable, when we did, he had not made any attempt to use the knocker, 1 gave it up finally, and made an effort to conciliate the young ‘Woman in the tower. We had heard no sound since our specta- cular entrance into her room. I was dis- tinetly uncomfortable alone this time, I climbed to the tower staircase. Reason- ing from before, she would probably throw o chalr at me. I stopped at the foot of the staircase and called “Hello up there,” I sald a manger as I could morning. Wie geht o reply. “Bon jour, mademoiselle,” 1 trled again. This time there was a movement of some sort from above, but nothing fell on me. ‘I-we want to apologize for rousing you so—er—unexpectedly this morning, I went on. ““The fact is, we wanted to talk to you, and you—you were hard to waken. We are travelers, lost in your mountain and breakfast and an audience She that head u’ from voio: No. We down and | perfectly harmle departed us “They “It wasn't Alice-sit- Then who in as debonnair summon. “Good es bel fhnen?" we crave a came to the door then, I the top of ‘Is Mr. Sullivan It was the first she was not of could feel my with word her she was investigating from he her, above asked and sure 1f you will come will find us twe whose horse— las are k at us you curses on hin without night and left She relaxed down a step or killed somebody, Jert leave at your gate somewhat then two. 1w m and us afraid 1 had The house malds came he said ikeep. esterday, and the other When she saw t comparatively thy elleved. Sh young and lacked earmurks of highwayman, she we a fight as Inclined to Hotchkxs, he ud replag s man was the famil Leen only the two, and led as well