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SHINER. TEXAS
SHINER
Our Part in Feeding the Nation
(Special Information Service, United States Departmentof Agriculture.)
FARM HOMES NEED GOOD WATER SYSTEMS.
A Romance of the American Army
Fighting on the Battlefields of France
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
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(Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)
quel: in Cuba. Mark remembered it
across the lapse of years, and into his
mind there began to filter, too, stray
stories about him.
Mark did not judge him by these,
but by the intuition which sent a cold
wave to his heart as he saw him with
Eleanor. It seemed to him that Keller-
man’s look, as he turned to the girl,
was one of intentional' conquest—in
another man it might have been called
infatuation; and the girl knew it and
was happy in it.
The bitterness of that moment was
like a sword thrust. Had he come
three thousand miles for this? But
what had been his thoughts for El-
eanor, liis vague wishes as to l>er fu-
ture?
He did not know. He had dreamed
—dreamed of her, and never pictured
her as she was.
There was an informal, stand-up
supper about eleven. Eleanor came, to
Mark and asked him to take her to
to which he was posted by Colonel
Howard, he found himself, much to his
surprise, often the center of a respect-
ful audience, eager, to hear of the work,
of the army in the forlorn outposts of
the West. He discovered, too, with
surprise, that he was by no means as
unknown as be had imagined himself
t« be.
Then there were invitations- that had
to be accepted, receptions and dinners;
yet through it all Mark waited for the
charmed day when the,house;in Massa-
chusetts circle was to be opened, dis-
playing the princess of his imagination,
the little child of the hillside, the
schoolgirl, grown into the image of his
dreams.
WALLACE MEETS KELLERMAN AND IMMEDIATELY REC-
OGNIZES HIM AS AN ANTAGONIST
Synopsis.—Lieut, Mark Wallace, U. S. A., is wounded at the
battle of /Santiago. While wandering alone in the jungle he comes
across a dead man in a hut outside of which a little girl is playing.
When he is rescued he takes the girl to the hospital and announces
bis intention of adopting her. His commanding officer. Major Howard,
tells him that the dead man was Hampton, a traitor-\vho sold depart-
ment' secrets to an international gang in Washington and was de-
tected by himself and Kellerman, an officer in the same office. How-
ard pleads to be allowed to send the child home to his wife and they
agree that she shall never know her father’s shame. Several years
later Wallace visits Eleanor at a young ladies’ boarding school. She
gives him a pleasant shock by declaring that when she is eighteen
she intends to marry him.
Illustrating Common but Unsafe Location of the Farm Well and Spring. Pos-
sible Source of Pure Water Also Is Indicated. A, Unsafe Well; B, Unsafe
Spring; C, Privy; D, Garden; E, Chicken Yard; F, Hog Yard; G, Culti-
vated Field; H, Pasture; J, Woodtot Fenced Off and Kept Clean; Here,
Beyond the Probable Channels of Impure Drainage, May Be Pure Water.
CHAPTER V.
When at last he alighted at the
door, and was shown into the recep-
tion room, he felt that he was almost
trembling with eagerness.
1-Ie looked uncertainly about him, at
the group of young officers, the ladies,
at Mrs. Howard, and then, at the styl-
ishly dressed young woman at her side.
And, forgetting his manners, he ap-
proached her in stupefaction, ignoring
his hostess for the moment.
“Eleanor!”
“Uncle Mark! It’s never you, Uncle
Mark!” cried the girl. “Why, I should
never, never have known you!”
But would he have known her, had
he not looked closely into the clear
eyes to discern the face of the little,
waif beneath the beauty of the woman?
He had often and often imagined her,
grown to womanhood, and dressed as
he would have dressed her, but some-
how she had always had the look and
aspect of the child, blended with the
schoolgirl. A sudden chill went through
his heart at her self-mastery, the well-
bred welcome that had in it little of
real eagernpss. And he realized that,
though he had always looked on her as
lost, at the bottom of his heart he
must have hoped to find her again. ,
He stood, a graying-haire.d, uncom-
fortable, almost middle-aged man, try-
ing to feel at home. BCe saw Kellar-
man looking at him across the rSom, Ls
if there was some message in his eyqs-
“I hope I haven’t changed so muii-h
as all that,” said Mark, trying tsr
smile. ^
’with a searching, direct gaze. “A<ot
really—only at first appearance. Wmy,
Uncle .Mark, your hair is turning gravy.
What have you been doing witij your-
self?” • j
He felt that the unconscious shaft
had gone well home. He only (.answer-
ed vaguely. There was a little in-
formal dancing, and, as he felt befitted
his age, he waltzed a few ttnrns with
Eleanor and sat back with Mits. How-
ard, surveying the gay crowd, Sand re-
calling memories—about the mjost dis-
heartening thing that he could, have
done. ‘ \
“What do you think of Eleanor?!’
asked Mrs. Howard. “You didi/t ex-
pect to find the little schoolgirl grown
up like this, did you?” /
“Nor she me—like this.’j^ answered
Mark humbly. But the Colonel’s wife
missed the allusion. /
“She has been crazy." to see you,”
Mrs. Howard continued. “She gave
the Colonel po rest after he told us
that he was trying toVget you for the
war office. I believe sljve had always
had a sort of romantic rl^cqllebtion of
you, and looked upon you As a sort of
guardian, although, of coursle, it was a
fortunate thing for her anak us—and
you, too—that Colonel HowSard did
succeed in inducing you to let Vs take
her. She has been everything ko us.”
“Of course,” said Mark mechanic-
ally. /
“It would have been a terrible Site
for her out in the desert,” sighed Mfrs.
Howard. “I think that you were very!
wise, Captain Wallace. And what d
dreadful burden and responsibility yogi
you would have had!” Js
This time Mark did not attempt tfo
answer. J
“She has been a daughter to both of
us,” pursued his hostess. “And now
I’m afraid—we’re both afraid, Captain
Wallace, that we cannot hope to have
her for long. She was quite the rage
in New York last season.”
Wallace followed the girl with his,
eyeS. She had just been dancing with
a young officer; it had been a two-
step, and as the band of three pieces
broke into the wildest and merriest
part of the piece he saw her, with
flushed-face and laughing eyes, accept
Kellermari’s arm and surrender herself
to the dance. ■ '< , -,
Kellerjnan caught Mark’s eyes across
the room. He looked straight back
with a meaning challenge which was
unmistakable. Mar' knew at that
moment that his antipathy to Keller-
man had returned, although he was in-
clined to believe the ether was not
aware it had ever existed.
Kellerman was a splendid figure,
even in his civilian evening clothe?.
Fully six feet tall, with the chest and
limbs of an athlete, florid, with crisp
black hair and a sense of the posses-
sion of power, he looked at least five
years Mark’s junior, though theyjhadj
been born in the same year. “Hanju-
some Kellerman” had been his soK>ri-
of understudy, in fact, but with a good
deal of initiative as well. And if war
comes, as it is sure*to come, we’ll be
sent over on the first transport, to pre-
pare tilings for the troops. Ah, Kel-
lerman, here’s Wallace, newly arrived
to take over liis duties.”
Mark saw not the slightest change in
Kellerman since the days of the Cuban
war. Kellerman was just as florid as
ever, just as burly, with the same rath-
er sinister way of glancing ; his blaek
hair was unthinned and untouched
with gray. ' He had borne the years
much better than Mark.
If Kellerman reciprocated Mark’s
feelings? he showed no sign of it in his
cordial handgrip.
“We were glad to get you, Wallace,”
he said. “You’ll excuse me for a mo-
ment, I’m sure.”
He drew Colonel Howard aside in
conversation, while Mark twirled his
fingers and looked out of the window
into the busy hive of the capital, and
tried to make himself believe that it
was all true.
When Kellerman” had gone the Colo-
nel invited Mark to sit down, and
launched into business.
“I must tell you that it’s a pretty
stiff job that we’re tackling, Mark,”
he said. “To begin with, we’re a sort
of nucleus of the whole organization.
We’re in touch with every division.
We have to have the whole thing at
our fingers’ ends—and it’s mainly a
matter of ships, animals, and trans-
, - poi a.uo. u* cap the yon can
lurched • Ms suit- imagine what a nest of intrigue and
command to the espionage Washington has become in
took the train these days. And, as neutrals—osten-
sibly neutrals—we can do nothing to
put an end to it.”
He stretched oat his finger and
pointed toward the big safe between
the windows.
“Any one of some two hundred pa-
pers there, Mark, would give a valu-
able clue,” he said. “Every night, when
work is finished, your task will b6 to
open the safe, take out the inner case
containing these documents, add those
on which you have been working, in-
cluding every waste sheet and every
scrap of the day’s blotting-paper, and
have the day porter convey them,
under your personal supervision, to
the strong room, where you and either
the General, myself, or Kellerman,
will place them in the safety vault. In
the morning the same procedure is re-
versed. And that is why I insisted
on our getting you, Mark. I knew you.
and I don’t know the hundred of other
officers of impeccable character whom
we could have secured. We can’t run
risks—we simply can’t. That’s why,
it has to be just you and Kellerman
and I. We had our lesson in the old
days, , you know.”
He frowned at the remembrance,
and then answered Mark’s unspoken
question with another.
“Where are you staying, Wallace?”
“At the Congressional.”
“Well, I want you to come and stay
with us as soon as we’re settled. We,’ve
routed a house in Massachusetts circle,
and move in on the first of the month.
Eleanor and Mrs. Howard are still in
New York, but they’re coming here in
about ten days’’ time—just as soon as
I can get the house ready for them.
Eleanor is dying to see you, and Mrs.
Howard lias the pleasantest remem-
brances, of course. And now I’m going
to take you to the Brigadier?’
The short interview with the head
of the department confirmed Mai/k’s
impressions as to the businesslike na-
ture of the plans of the war office.
Mark went home. He was resolved, al-
though he had not told the Colonel,
not to become his guest—at least not
unless he found that he could take up
his life again where he had dropped it,
years before. And then—but what
was the use of speculating? He went
home to his hotel.
He was surprised to find how easily
he seemed to fit int6 his environment
when he donned his long-neglected
evening clothes and went down to the
dining room of the Congressional. Al-
most the first face he saw was that of
a man of his class; within a few min-
utes Mark Wallace was seated at the
dinner table with a merry party of old
friends and new acquaintances. And
the years had slipped away from him.
On the next morning, when he took ;
up his duties, it was with the sense :
that he was no longer a stranger.
Washington was ready to extend her j
welcome to him* At the Army club,
CHAPTER IV.—Continued,
It came in the form of a letter from
Colonel Bfoward, the first in two years.
Howard had, in the past, repeatedly
tried to induce Mark to take advantage
of opportunities that he had put before
him, but Mark had refused stubbornly,
until the Major had given him up in
disgust. Howard did not know, and
Mark did not himself understand, the
underlying idea in his own mind, the
sense of subdued rancor against the
jnnn tvho had robbed him of Eleanor,
coupled with the sense of sacrifice,
that he might withdraw all his claims
on the child.
Now, however, Howard made one
more attempt.
“I want you to think this proposi-
frtion over ns .quickly as possible,” he
■.Wove, -“mot for my sake dr yours, but
because your duty is to take the job.
With war with Germany in plain view
to the initiated, there are great things
doing in Washington, and I’ve been
offered my old post at the mobilization
-department, which has been enlarged
beyond all knowledge. Your work in
Ihe West is better known than you
think, Wallace, and we want you here.
Wire if you can, and come by the first
train. This is official, so don’t wait
for divisional notification, which may
•take days.”
The letter reached Mark in one of
bt» periods helpless despondency,
ircff ’; 'dy back,. accepting^
>y»irret|e.d‘' tuJtheejiitS” nuu
^k<pat‘cEetl, b.
-case, turned over ti
senior lieutenant, I
for Washington.
As he went East the years seemed
to fall from him like a dream. It was
a frozen labyrinth in which he seemed
to have been wandering; he seemed to
•come to himself with a consciousness
of years wasted, bnt of years of action
:aheud.
Colonel Howard gazed curiously at
3iim as he rose from his desk in the
war office and grasped his hands.
“I should never have known you,
Wallace,” he said.
What he was thinking was, “Good,
Lord, how the years have eaten into
frith r:
“Don’t think that your work has
sheen unrecognized,” he said, after a
few minutes of desultory chatting. “It
/has been, and I know that recognition
•gases, low forms of animal life, min-
ute plant growths often productive of
bright-colored, fibrous masses and
scums, and especially when water is
of peaty or swampy origin, impregna-
tion with iron. In short, investigations
indicate that only a small minority of
farm water supplies can be classed as
unqualifiedly safe and desirable.
Diseases From Poor Water. ,
Among the ailments caused eff in-
fluenced by contaminated water are
typhoid fever, tuberculosis, liankworm
disease, cholera, dysentei;^ and diar-
rhea, and certain ..eferscure maladies
that may be traced eventually to the
poisonous- effects of drainage from hu-
man, vvastes. Figure 2 shows in a
striking manner how increased use of
pure water in Massachusetts has been
followed by decline in the typhoid-
fever death rate. Frequently a home
or village supplied with water from a
mountain spring or canyon is a center
of goiter, although the possible rela-
tionship of such water to this disease
has not been proved conclusively.
Ainoug ailments of live stock, hog
cholera, anthrax, and. foot-and-mouth
disease are spread by moving water.
Hence sick animals should not have
access to streams, and ..dead animals
should not be left exposed in fields or
buried where drainage may carr,^^-
l'ection i" streams and water suj^^A
Onei|^M^to himself .
—-
Good Water Is One of Prime
Essentials for Safe and
Comfortable Living.
Surface and Underground Drainage
Should Be Considered in Locating
Wells to Avoid Contamination
—Wood Lot. Desirable.
heating and lighting systems consti-
tute the four prime utilities of the
farm home, the' foundations' of safe,
comfortable living. To secure these
ends in greatest measure, -thought and
planning are necessary. If the proce-
dure is haphazard, if the parts are not
correlated, there is neither economy
in the construction nor satisfaction in
the operation of the plant/
• When ’ -~gjnrcn|-u
tion of surface draS®
age should be considered, to the end
that the water supply may not be con-
taminated by the sink drain, cesspool,
or other sources of filth. . The unused
water from a spring or flowing well,
may be made valuable if brought to a
watering trough, cooling tank, fish
pond, or swimming pool, or harvested
as ice,. A saving may be effected by
laying two lines of pipe in one trench.
The engine which drives the pump
may operate other useful appliances,
such as a dynamo, saw, washing ma-
chine, cream separator, or churn.
A notable example of home-planned
utilities is found upon a farm in north-
ern Utah. By personal planning and
hard work, the owner of this farm
gradually has equipped his house with
a pressure water system, a laundry
containing a power washing machine,
wringer, mangle, and drying machine,
a heating plant, electric lights, electric
range, electric heaters for emergency
use in chambers, and a vacuum clean-
ing system.
Sanitary Farm Water Supply.
Observation indicates that on the
average three out of four farm wells
are located within 75 feet of the back
door of the house and in the direction
of the barn. That convenience and
first cost—not safety—have been the
deciding factors in thousands of such
locations is a fact made evident by the
proximity of barnyards, pig pens, pas-
tures, fertilized fields, sink drains,
privies, cesspools and house yards ren-
dered insanitary by chickens, slops,
garbage, and other filth. Too fre-
quently the leach'from these or other
sources of filth, after joining the
ground water, moves with greater or
less directness to wells and springs,
seriously impairing the water supply
by organic impurity or grossly poison-
ing it Vith human sewage.
Among other ways by which surface
waters and open or poorly covered
wells and springs are contaminated or
receive noxious substances are: Sur-
face wash from roads, ranges, or the
other sources of filth above .mentioned ;
bodily entry of stock and poultry or
their droppings; filth from the shoes
of careless farm hands and children;
drippings from the dipper or bucket
handled by carriers of disease; dust
and leaves from the air; and entry of
worms, bugs, spiders, toads, frogs,
mice, snakes, cats, or other animal
life, which through death and decom-
position may impart to the water dis-
agreeable odor and taste and perhaps
more serious characteristics.
Deterioration of water may be due
to still other causes that make it un-
wholesdme but not, so far as known,
destructive of health. Among such are
unusual dissolving of mineral salts
from the earth, washings from clay
that produce a milky appearance, dis-
coloration from mineral or vegetable
matter, admixture of mineral or vege-
table oils, absorption of offensive
“Now I Know You Are My Real Ut?§^
Mark.”
animals un^*nirntne
dead ones or bury them de^P^P
spots remote from streams, wells and
springs, and urge his neighbor to do
the same.
The vital things to remember are
that ground water is not stagnant but
moves usually, though not always,
with the “lay” or slope of the land;
that its character determines largely
the character of wells and springs;
that it is not an inexhaustible reser-
voir, but that a given well yields only*
as it receives; and that continued
pumping will not improve the water !n
a well if the sources from which it is
fed are permanently at fault. In
short, ground water is natural draiuMJ
age variously modified iu its movep
ment and character by subterranean™
conditions.
Safe Location of Wells.
Wells cannot be located in all cases
so that there may not be some pollu-
tion, but the great safeguards are
clean ground and as wide separation
as possible from .,tho- chan-
nels of any impfire drainage. It is not
enough that a well or spring is
100, or 150 feet from a source of filth
or that it is merely upon higher
ground, although even moderate *e-
moteness and elevation of fbe source
of supply are of service. Given porous
or gravelly ground, seamy- ledge, or
long-continued, pollution of one plof of
land, the zone of contamination is like-
ly to extend long distances, particu-
larly in downhill directions and at
such times as water supplies are low-
ered by drought or heavy pumping.
Only when the surface of the water in
a well or spring is actually at a high-
er leved at all times than any nearbfr
source of filth is there positive assmB
ance of safety.
Upon any farm a wood lot, grifll
or windbreak is highly desirable, IH?
only to supply fuel and small timlnH;
but for its beauty and the protectii^B
it affords.
the buffet. Mark was conscious of a
coldness, or hurt resentment in the
girl’s manner, as if he had neglected
her.
He.brought her a plate and sat be-
side her,in an alcove. They were alone,
measurably, for the first time that eve-
ning.
“Uncle Mark, you are disappointing
me,” said Eleanor*.
“I know it, and I’m sorry for it,”
said Mark. “I suppose it’»—because
I am not a bit like what you expected
me to be.”
“You are not the least bit like what
I expected, or remembered, Captain
Mark,” she answered.
In his jealousy he was conscious of
the altered prefix. And, as Eleanor
looked at him with hurt in her eyes
she broke off to smile at a young officer
across the room, who returned an ar-
dent gaze across the rubicund shoul-
ders of a vpi/y homely, but most im-
portant danfe whom he was helping to
champagne.
“Most of us experience disappoint-
ments in people whom we have ideal-
ized,” said Mark lamely.
“You mean—Oh, I’m sure I thank
you, Captain Wallace,” answered the
girl acidly. “Shall we go hack?”
But Mark had a moment of inspira-
tion.
“Before we go, Eleanor,” he said,
“don’t you think we might get to un-
derstand each other 'a little? I sup-
pose I have been rude—but, you see, I
have been conscious of your disap-
pointment all the evening, and—”
V He stopped in bewilderment, for El-
eitJior was—laughing.
“Hut I seem at least to have the
facislty of amusing you,” he continued.
“Dear Uncle Mark!” said Eleanor,
laughing with tears in her eyes. She
laid Nier hand on his shoulder. “Now
I knmw you are my real Uncle Mark
after all,” she said.
“Why?” he asked, in astonishment.'
“Trhat’s just like you, Uncle Mark.
It’s /you—it’s the real ‘you’ I’ve always
rein embered.”
“^011 seem to remember my charac-
ter/very well, Eleanor,
WATER CHARACTERISTICS
# Water for domestic use should
be clear, lustrous, odorless,
J? colorless, wholesome, soft,
er strongly acid nor alkaffl^
2?~and its temperature for general
4^ farm purposes should be about
^ 50 degrees F. These character-
istics, however, must never be'
deemed proof of purity, for a
glass of water may possess them
^ all and yet contain millions of
disease-producing genus. Any
4^ suspicious water should be re-
jected until both the water and
4? the surroundings where it is ob-
tained are passed upon by com-
4f petent sanitation authority; gen-
J|? erally the state hoard of health.
said Mark,
tving au un-
comfortable feeling that she was an
ade M at hoodwinking.
yWell, you know, you paid me a fair-
ly (long visit at the Misses Harpers’
scnool, Uncle Mark.”
“Vou were nothing hut a schoolgirl
them.”
Hf’You’!! Excuse Me For a Moment.”
^Leomir.g to you in the fullest meas-
You are to work under me here;
big scheme that we are prepar-
boy, and only Kellerman and I,
^^B^crrself. will be acquainted with
.■■•:v^Pe details, outside of the depart-
HPPffral head. You remember Keller-
V Jn&n ?”
^ Mark nodded, trying to piece to-
L gether the pictures of the past.
& “We are working out the mobiliza-
A lion plans for the first contingent, af-
^«er it reaches France,” Howard con-
Btinued. “It’s a bigger scheme than
|^^nything we knew in the past. You’ll
as my subordinate and have an in-
ilyate knowledge of the details—a sort
1 Wallace comes upon the ma»
who he believes is haunting El-
eanor's footsteps. He follows"
him to a house where he is sur-
prised to come face to face with
Kellerman. You will not want
to miss the next installment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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