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( \ \ 4 , ® uw Physical Preparedness 5, Army Lxercises Voxed by Pauline Furlong The Erening World Publishes These Exercises to Help All 4 On, (The New Tort Keeton Waray ae SO POSITION 4M POSITION STA POSITION BACK To 18T Position FIRST SET—Wand Exercise No. 3. O-DAY'S “setting up” exercise ts a little more strenuous than the 4% first two and should be practised as follows: Assume the position " shown In figure one, with the arms extended in front of the body and quickly raise the wand to the chest as shown in figure 2, and then con- tinue lifting it upward over the head as {Illustrated in the large centre pio- ture, throwing the head and stretching the arms and wand back as far as | Possible, without undue strain. Proceed by lowering the wand behind the back touching {t at the waist line, as shown in 4, and then swing arms back to starting position, figure 6. Do this set five times and then relax. This is purely an arm and shoulder exercise, and the legs and feet, heels together, must remain perfectly still during the entire movement. What to Do for Insomnia. LEEPLESSNESS {s not only @| great help, or tf milk does not agree very distressing condition tn it- pale tretyeesd a up of bouillon or self, but if continued for any| Some Uset soup with @ cracker or a . piece of toast. When sleeplessness is Jength of time leads to all sorts of Caused by Indigestion or poor eireula. Dodily ills. It {s not a disease, but tion a hot water bag at the feet or mther a symptom of some physical Placed across the stomach often ef- @isturbance or mental strain, It is, foots @ cure, A hot bath taken just as a famous physician calls it, “an before getting into bed is also ex- invaluable danger signal the prompt Men and Women Prepare for Any Call to Serviee. | Fvening World Daily Magazine ~ | oe etapa iy Re: fe era eas Papa Joffre and Uncle Sam tremely soothing, heeding of which will save us many By Maurice Ketten Thursday, April 26, 1917 ‘As Soldiers of the Soil’ Many City-Bred Women POR ALARA ALL OOP ALAOOD Attack 3 By Nixola Greeley-Smith, Tho soldiers of the soil are mo- bilizing at Farmingdale, L. 1. stu-| dents of the New York Women's Sec- | ‘ tion of the Navy! League encamped | on the grounds of the New York| State School of} Agriculture on| Long Island ad- vanced with fixed bayonets on tho} vegetable gar-| dens which they aro preparing to | Tow on 800 acres| |of the State school and routed the jenemy after a hart battle yes- terday afternoon. ‘The bayonets were, |of course, rakes and hoes, and the enemy was the ground in which they, sowed onion seed for two hours, Do not beileve for a moment that these American women who have en- Usted for farming were put to such gentle tasks as seed sowing. Thoy arrived at the school Monday. |On Tuesdey they were told to as- semble at the farm barns and were then ordered to drive a doren farm wagons to the railroad station and | bring back as many loads of fortil- ino “Oh, call 1t fertilizer, If you want & breakdown.” The average indi | vidual in good health requires about} @ight hours of sleep every night to) keep in condition, though constitu- | thons vary in this respect, some people Fequiring a Little less, while others need nine or ten hours, Children should have from ten to twelve hours. One of the most puzzling things about insomnia is the difficulty of discov- ering exactly how long the sufferer das slept, for it is easily possible to bear the clock strike every hour and Yet to have dozed between times, If you are troubled with sleepless- ees don't take drugs for !t—such things should never be taken except der the advice of your doctor—but Borcushly review your mode of life @nd try to discover what you are doing or leaving undone that could have caused the condition, Do you at indigestible suppers late at night? Do you get so tired every day that| ucan hardly drag one foot after other when you get into bed? BEST NOVELS PUBLIS ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE EVERY TWO WEEKS. (Copyright, George H, Doran Qo.) BYNOVSI8 OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Lx-pergoant Cameron of the Northwest Mount. ed Volley bas married aod wettied down, but ia Muaded (0 reeuter he service lecause of Piegan Re: an trou CHAPTER VI. (Continuad,) HH, Allan, I am 80 sorry.” Sorry? Sorry? Why?” “Our beautiful hous “House?” Are your hands and feet cold a good “And all our beautiful deal of the time, thus showing p things!" ciroulation, or do you suffer from)“ wrhingst* He laughed aloud. dyspepsia or Intestinal indigestion, or worse than all, have you let yousself get into the bad habit of worrying? AN these things will produco in- somnia. If you drive yourself day In and day out the brain becomes so full of fatigue toxins that sound, restful sleep becomes difficult, nearly Impos- “House and things! Why, Mandy, I have you safe, What else matters?” “Kut the house, Allan} “Oh, yes, by the way,” he sald, “the house. And who's the Johnny carrying water there?” “Oh, | quite forgot, That's Thatch- er’s new man,” . Tho remedy of course 1s to take things « litte easier in the day-|. "B her wobbly about the knees, time. But the sort of fatiguo that|tan't he?” erled Cameron. "By Jove, causes insomila is always mental,| Mandy! TI feared I should never seo fot physical. In fact, one of the| you again,” he sald in @ voice that Commonest reasons is lack of exercise} trembled and broke. “And what's the im the fresh ai 185 a short | chap's name?" he inquired, walk just befor Greven| “Smith, 1 think," sald Mandy. walk dwell wrapped up on tho piazza| “Dear Mre, Cameron,” cried the In- spector, taking he awfully hands tn his, glad there's nothing wro I'm cure Incipient cases will entirely . e885 ne bedroom window to) | geptrygeee 5 it the ant so that there} “Nothing wrong? Look at that be y alr. -" Whnotner, caus wpiessness is] “Ob, yes, awfully sorry, But we : i stomach too] Were afvaid—of that—eh—that 1s"— goin n four Yes, Mandy," satd her husband, ° ap ee making visible efforts to contro) his vol¢ we frankly were afraid that a|that old devil Copperhead had come this way and” He did!” cried Mandy, } “What? | “He did, Oh, Allan, When you j left I wanted to help. T was afraid | | ring ts oft | Toy Industry in Ameri | Grows Rapidly | of what all thoso Indiana might do to you, so I thought I would ride up the trail a bit. I got near to where It branches off toward the Reserve near statistics show fal ECE by those pine trees. There I saw a& that t th of the toymak-| man coming tearing aloni a pony. ine istry in the United|It was this Indian, I dre ide, He ‘ndfathers of the| Was just going past when he glanced melas i i: children hag|4t me. He stopped and came rus reeen Wh ne populas|at me, waving a pistol in his ha pao, ror ent, since|Oh, such @ face! I wonder I e fon has diture for| thought him fine-looking, He cau a tue. per cent,|Me by the arm. I thought his fingers sar The toy| would break the bone, Look!” She hav in numer) pulled up her sleeve, and upon the 2 40 in 1914—| firm brown flesh blue and red finger eturns—and | marks could be seen, “He caught me at ased in valne!and shook me and fairly led at pend) f Tn 1853| me, ‘You save my boy once, Mo save nea! toys wer m-| you to-day Next time me # your smestic inakea;|man me kill him, He dung me away twenty. » were making) from him and nearly off my horse twice aa many as we imported, In) such eyes! such a fac and went B 914 the output of American toys was| galloping off down the trail, I feared 1.6 times greater than the toy imports, I was going to be ill, so I came on homeward, When I reached the top of the hill IT saw the smoke and by the time I arrived the house was ‘and since the Europea began oportion of domest in the Oe eis steadily increased. blazing and Smith was carrying water to put out the fire where it had caught upon the smoke house and stables,” CHAPTER VII. HE sun had reached the peaks of the Rockies far in the west, touching their white with red, and all the lesser peaks and all the rounded hills between with great plashes of gold and blue and purple. Through this mystic world drove Cameron and his wife on their way to the town of Calgary, three days after the ruthless burning of thelr home. As the sun dipped behind the western peaks they reached the cross- ing of the Elbow and entered the wide Bow Valley, upon whose level plain was situated the busy, ambi- tvus and would-be wicked pioneer town, “What a picture tt makes!” cried Mandy. “How wonderful this great plain n its encircling rivers, tuuse hills w the great peaks beyond What a site for a town!" There is no finer,” replied her hus- band, "anywhere in the world that I know, unless it be that of ‘Auld Reekie’.” "Meaning?" “Meaning!” he echoed indignantly “What else but the fines} of au we cupitais of Europ London!” inquired Mandy, “London echoed her husband con- temptuously. “You ignorant Colon- ial! Edinburgh, of course, But this is splendid. Whoa, there! Ste. Per he cried to the bronco which owed its name to the speckled appearance of its hide, and which at the last moment was’ plunging and kicking at @ dog that had rushed out from an Indian encampment close by the trail, “Did you bever an Indian dog before?” "Oh, Allan,” cried Mandy with @ shuduer, “do you know | can't bear to look at an Indian since last week, nd i used to ike them,” “Hardly fair, though, to blame the whole race for the deviltry of one pectmen, This is @ Sarces camp, L fancy, ‘They are a cunning lot and not the most relable of the Indians. Let me s#ee—-three—four teepess. Ought to be Afteen or twenty in that camp. Only squawe about. The braves apparently are in town paint- ing things up @ bit.” A quarter of @ mile past the Indian encampment the trail made a sharp turn into what appeared to be the beginning of the main street of the town, “By Jove!" cried Cameron. “Here they come, Sit tight, Mandy.” Ho pointed with his whip down the trail to what seemed to be a rolling cloud of dust, vocal with wild whoops, and animated with plunging figures of men and ponless The next moment the dust cloud enveloped them and the thundering cavalcade, parting, surged b Ti} ther side. Cameron was wild with rage Infernal cheeky brutes!" he cried “For two shillings I'd go back ond break some of their necks.” {Let them go," said Mandy. “They didn't hurt us, after all.” “Didn't? No thanks to them, They into his wife's face, “I must go, might have killed you. Well, I dear shall see about this late He gave —“Yos, yea, I know, Allan, You must his excited broncos their head and go. Hut—do you know—it's foolish to sailed into town, drawing up in mag- say it, but as those Indians passed us Dificent style at the Royal Hotel. 1 fanoled L saw the face of Copper- An attendant in cowboy garb came head.” lounging up “Hardly, I fancy,” #aid her husband “Hello, Billy!” erled Cameron, with @ laugh, “He'd know better “Still blooming?” than run into this town in open day “Sure! And jebuds ain't In it Just now, Aji Indians will look to you Nke old Copperhead for @ while.” with you, Colon Billy was from the lund of colonela, “You've got a “It may be so. I fancy I'm a ittle wh garden with you this trip, eh?” Rervous, But come back soon, “My ‘wife, Billy,” replied Cameron, ou may be sure of that, sweet- heart. Mean time, sleep well.” tt . nting her, mc. Me Stetson. “Lroud to meet you, madam, Hope T see you well and happy. “Yes, indeed, well and happy!" Billy pulled off his d Superintendant Strong fuming with impatience, which 106 controlled with difficulty while Cam- eron presented his friend In a few minutes Cameron had his es, every post brings newa of Ife settled rowsy je elgh Wite wottled in @ frowsy little eleht: seditious meetings up north along the by-ten bedroom, the best the hote Rede seo rt aparted te Attend ta Saskatchewan and of indifference on his team, make arrangements for th® part of the Government, And, tupper and inquire about the tacoma. further, I have conclusive eviden dey our Indians are being tampered with, J nd successfully too. But The train he found to be three you have hours late, His team he found tn the 8°@ news to give, I understand capable hands of Billy, who was un kaon @ you would give me particulars,” harnessing and rubbing them down While ordering his eupper a hand Thereupon Cameron briefly related cripped his shoulder and a volce the incidents in connection with tho in his ear: attompted urrest of the Stoux Chief, “Hello, old sport! How goes it?” closed with @ brief account uf ning of A long con “Martin, my sultation followed in which all phases eron in reply. y!" shouted Cam- ‘3 awfully good to see you.” of the matter were discusse “Well, what are you on to now?" ‘Tho Superintendent and a Sergeant inquired Martin accompanied Cameron and bis friend “Ordering our supper. We've just to the door and bade them goodby, come in from @ hundred and fifty The night was 60 black that the miles’ drive.” trail which in the daylight was worn “Supper?. Your wife here too? smooth and plu Visible was quite Glory! It's up to mo, old boy! Look blotted out, ‘Tho Nght from the In- here, Connolly,” he turned to the dian camp fire, blazing brightly a@ Proprietor behind the bar: “A bang- hundred yards away, helped them to ral direction, 6 trail a bit, [ think,” keep thelr ge! You are off up supper for three. All the season's delicacies and all the courses in or der. As you love me, Connolly, do sald the doct us your prettiest. And soon, awfully . “You know, Tarn hitting toward soon, A hundred and fifty iniles, re- the fire. The Nght makes it better member!" going that way.’ “Come along, then,” erled Cameron. say, that chap appears to be “I have much to tell you, and my some, Qui nd dance wife will be glad to see you. My giving t he doctor, ter comes in by No, 1, do you know ng to ar w the fu es oy ie j nt WOOUgAt your sar laiming to the others, who, or squatting about the fire, “Yes, by No, 1." attention. The g him r A jolly hour they had together at r x supper, exchanging news and retall- aro and outatretc! ed arm ar. the latest joke ‘ameron, F Bienaton tnt Bis oat larity floated across his Cameron told his friend the story of Old Copperhead and of the task laid upon h.m by Superjntendent Strong. When they reach thelr room Cameron turned and took his wife in his arins. “Mandy! you must go to bed, I have a little business to attend to,” “Thuasiness?” inquired his wife, t's go nearer,” he sald, “and extreme caution they made rds of the distance when an Indian dog revealed At once the speaker, A standing in the fire- With about two-th 4 how! from their presen who had “Yes. Oh, I won't try to hide it Heht, sank crouching to the ground, from you Mandy, It's ‘The Big Busi- Instantly Cameron ran forward a tow nessa’ We are—Dr, Martin and I— swift steps ke a hound upon going up to the Barracks, Superin- deer, leaped across the fire and fair upon the crouching Ind! With a loud ery of * a. tendent Strong has coma down for a vi Noe! consultation.” He paused and looked Poltoe! A SOLDIER OF MANHATTAN The Story of a Patriot in the Stirring Days of America’s Youth wil Begin on This Page May 7 r | Le Ilelp here!" Martin sprang into the middle of an excited group of Indians Two of them threw themselves upon him, but with a hard right and left he laid them low and, seizing a stick of wood, sprang toward two others who were seeking to batter the life out of Cameron as he lay gripping his my by the throat with one hand and with the other by the wrist to check @ knife thrust. Swinging his stick and repeating hi ery for help, Martin made Cameron’ assailants give back @ space and bo- fore they could renew the attack Sergt. Crisp burst open the door of the pa racks, and followed by @ constable and the superintendent, came rushing upon the scene, Immediately the Indians ceased the fight and all that could faded out of the light into the black night around them, while the In- dian who continued to struggle with incredible fury to free himself from Cameron's grip suddenly became limp motionless. ow, what's all this?” demandod tho Sergeant. “Why, It's you, doc- tor, and where—? You dou't mean that's Cameron there? Hello, Cam- ron!” he said, leaning over him: Let go!" He's safe enough, Wo've got him all right. Let go! By Jove! Ara they both dead?’ “IT can't get this fellow free,” sald the Sergeant, who was working hard to release the Indian's thrvat from the gripping fingers. He turned Cameron over on his back. Tho lat- tor was Insonsible, Blood was pour- ing from hia mouth and nose, but his fingers like steel clamps were gripping the wrist and throat of his foe. ‘Tha Indian tay Ika dead. Gradually ay water was splashed upon his face Cameron came back to Nfe and relaxing his fingers stretched himself with a sigh. “Here, take that!" orled the Sor- jeant, dashing the rest of the water nto the face of the Indian, lying rigid and motionless on the ground, A long shudder ran throueh the In- dian’s limbs. Clutching at his throat with both handa, ho raised himself to @ nitting posture, his breath coming in raucous gasps, glared wildly upon «roup, then sank back upon the ground, rolled over upon hia side and ay twitching and breathing heavily, unheeded by the doctor and Police who were working hard over Cam- eron “No bones broken, I think,” eald the doctor, feeling the battered head Hero's where the blow fell that knocked him out,” pointing to a ridge that ran along the aide of Cameron's head Cameron opened his eyes and man- aged to say “Don't"- “All right, old chap," said the doc tor, "We won't move you yet. Just le still @ bit.” But as once mora Cameron opened his eyes the agony of the appeal In them aroused tho doctor's attention, "Somothing wrong, en?” he said, “Are you in pain, old boy?" v appealing eyes closed, then, ww Again turned toward the ‘opperbead,” he whispered What do you say?" said the Super ntendent kneeling do’ Once more with pain eron managed to “Copperhead.” | effort Cam- utter the word “Copperhead!” ejaculated the Su- perintendent in @ low tense voice, springing to his feet and turning toward the unconsctous Indian, “EH kone! He's gone! Sergt. Crisp! Call out the whole force! Surround this np and hold every Indian, Search every teepes for this fellow who was lying here, Quick! Quick!” Leaving Cameron to the doctor, he Joined in the search with flerce energy. But of the Sioux Chief there was no sign, ‘The black prairie had engulfed him. CHAPTER VIII. ¥ tho time they had reached the Hotel, Cameron was glad enough to go to his bed. Doctor, 4s Allan all right? Tef me,” was the eager re- quest of Mandy when she bad heard their story. “Right enough, but he must bave a long sleep. You must not let him stir at five.” “Then,” said Mandy, “I shall go to meet the train, Allan.” And thus it was arranged, Under the influence of a powder left by Dr. Martin, Cameron, after an hour's tos- sing, fell Into @ heavy sleep. J am so glad you are here,” said Mandy to the doctor, a# he looked tn upon her, “You are sure there is no injury “No, nothing sertous. Shock, that’s all, A day's quiet will fix him up." “lam nkful,” sald Mandy, heaving « ih of relief, “and I am 80 gl uare here. And it ts fo nico that you know Motra "You are not going to the train?’ said the doctor. AAA DAARRRADDLE RADDA 00-Acre I miss A FRAZON AT THE Plow to,” exctaimed an college diagustediy, when he related tho incident, “but tf you were # farmer you'd say manure.” The girls, new recruits of the # didn’t kick at all, Most of them h not received their khaki uniforms some even had on white silk blouses and white akirts, but they were game. ONE OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE SOIL 18 A 60-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Later I met the twenty girl volun- teers of the Navy Lengue and waa able to verify this indorsement, The twenty will be forty very soon, One of the girls expected to take the cours later in the season fs Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the ex-President Tho present squad of twenty girle— one of the girls, by the way, is in the Aiftiea—sleeps in an unheated dormi- tory, rise af and consider themselves lucky to call it a day after eight hours of hosing, weeding, milking cows and instructions tn acientifio farming and poultry work. The course of instruction for the Navy League women I met yesterday will be three montha, but the State School of Agriculture will offer = shorter course of twenty days Iaser on. Already inquiries from would-be @tudents are coming in at the rate of 500 a day. Yesterday afternoon tha harassed young men and woraen whe conatit the school's office force, ui der Miss Kathleen Walsh, were af- forded a moment of pure joy by a woman who telephoned from her home on Riverside Drive: “I am com- ing out to take your course, and 5 wish to engage three rooms and & bath for myself, my baby and my matd.” Miss Frances Forrest of Virginia te at present the dean of students of the Navy League. Miss Forrest has ale had her own vexetable and warden, but ehe decided this y to learn how to grow things ecientifically, “I have fifteen nephews and I've beaten them all to the khaki,” thig lady from Virginia told me proudly» Mrs. Graham Smith, who took the second year course of the Navp League in California, ts the bg | director and chaperone of the Ne York students, She ite paying the tuition of two students, by the way. Twenty-five dollars a month for room and board at the school, cet | the Students’ Co-operative Society which runs the dining room, sets aa excellent and abundant tabi I had ructor of the luncheon with the students yesterday, at a cost of 30 cents, We had sou! roast lamb, mashed potatoes, butte deans, chocolate, blanc mange ant tea—-enough of everything, Some of the students of the Na’ League at the college are Miss Lilian Lange, Rebecca Cushman, Frances Walsh, Nettle Albert, Maring L, Mansell of Virginia, Katherine Le Strauss, Luctile Johnson, H. C. Oram May Bell Morgan and Mrs. Margar B. Walker, Mra. Francis Forreat, Mra KE, P. Stephenson and Mrs. J. Daxter, The regular students of the State School, which has been open about @ year, teke a four-year course. They learn about soils from H, F, Button, soll expert; about poultry from David i, Greenber Jearn nglish, farm Accountin 1 other academio Jects from Ubaldo Marra, and about erything from A, A, Johnson, dir FUTURE OF THE SCHOOL I8 AS« SURED. t ube a “No, no, there ts no need, and I don't like to leave him. Besides you don't need me." 5 no, not at all—certeini n naid t foctor with growin confidence Good nigh 1 shall show her to her room." "Oh," erled Mandy shan not mect you when you come” And when the train 4 1 in there the doctor wandering up and , got your lady? Not nh? Take a look tn » D said Billy, ring near to t behind you?” | : 1 sharply and saw ung lady whose long clinging | eas made her seam t was, She wore a little black hat with a single feather on one sid Which gave tt @ sort of tam o! ahante of @ es ® forward with hand { know you, Mr. Martin,” she sald In a volce t Indicated immense re- | Nef. i} You?" he cried. “Is tt you? And think T didn't know u And to 4 should rem rome” | r! Well namber L have f t 1 8 \used In at ® said “Where br He was to me 5 gar—ry, le it n ‘It'e Calgary all right," answered the dAotor (To Be Continued.) | had Just re When I saw Johnson yesterday } ed from Albany, where he received & promise of $19,000 for much needed butlding improvements was corresponding jubllan Also Mra, W, K. Vanderbilt had given th tractors to the school and had btalned four her tractors frou trl with two ned by the loge, makes 1 can be placed at the f Long Island farmere by the college, Then, too, W. K. Dick 1 Just offered Mr, Johnson the use £ 300 acres near Islip and E. D. Mor kan had volunteered 100 acres for a Coming back to New York from Farmingdale L journeyed several ata- tlons with A. R. Button, specialist In farm crops and soll fertility What do you think of the women farmers from New Y City? Mr, | Button asked me Why, I believe they are in earn. est,” L anawered. “Most of them are studying either to apply thelr knowl. to fanms they own’ or to teagh joulture to other women mext bt “Lagree with you” Mr, Button eatd, Somehow | thought tt nt be just a ta with them and that when IT lectured to them on soils they would back With remarks abbut the beauty of the purple shadows on the ploughed fields, But they. haven't done It, ey're going to be regulag farmers!" ‘ a ye seme SAS