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THE NASSAU POST. FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY,-JULY 19, 191S P » 1 “Et Tu Brute!” B y L illia n H a ll C r o w le y ; I H -IH I i m t-M > l > (C o p y r i g h t , M eCHiro N e w e p e p o r g y n d l e o t o .) To eiiy that Paul Ellaley waa a hap py yonng man le only patting It mildly. He had health, strength, good looke, and had been fairly successful In busi ness since graduating from college four years before. Besides all this, he had fallen In love with Arllne Maynard during the last year, and he now realised that life would mean nothing to him unless she shared It His Income was sufficiently secure to enable him to support a Wife, even the Independent and capable kind he knew Arllne to be. « The girl of his choice was an artist, and although only twenty-four, already had had enough success to make her sure of a secure place In the world of a rt. , Paul was very happy Indeed that pleasant summer evening as he went toward Arllne’s home, Intent on ask ing her to marry him. He found her father and mother on the veranda, and they told him Arllne was In her studio. He said he would announce himself. \Paul Is In love with Arllne,\ smiled Mrs. Mnynard at her husband. “I could not ask a better man for her,\ he replied. “He Is as serious and steady ns any manstwlce his age. The men downtown say there Is no nonsense about Paul Ellsley. I am sure Arllne likes him.\ Expectantly, Paul tapped at the stu dio door. \Come In,\ called the sweet and fa miliar voice. She was arranging some paintings and greeted him with n pleasant “Good evening I” Paul’s attention, after greeting Ar- line, was centered on the photograph of a remarkably handsome young man. It was placed In a conspicuous position on a table, and Paul’s heart sank with in him when he realized that he had never seen the picture. Arllne sat down bbslde him, and let her gaze wander to the handsome face and then to the canvases around the wall. Paul could not speak. To hlmselt he said : “He must be an artist, whom she met When she was painting In Provlncetown last summer, and he has won her away from me. So .talented a girl could not care for a business man. I was n fool to think she could be happy with me.\ Poor Paul was so wretched that the words he came to speak were left un spoken, and he went away very short ly, going out by another door so os not to meet her father and mother again. All he wanted now was to be alone with his poor wounded heart. The next night Sallle Edwards call ed him on the telephone to remind him that she was waiting for him to come to her house to make plans for an en tertainment In which they were both to take part. Needless to sny, Paul had lost Interest now, but as he could not give the reason why he went to meet Sallle as a matter of course. The- first thing tie saw as he entered the cozy living room of the Edwards house was a duplicate of the photo graph he had seen on Arllne’s table. If had been placed on the piano, against a rare Chinese vase. Paul was amazed, but as Sallle did not mention the picture, neither did he. Sallle had another engagement, so they hurried with their plans. In a short time, which seemed long to Paul, he found himself walking home In a daze. Did Arllne love a man who was evidently untrue to her —or why should Sallle have the same new photograph? What should he do? Tell Arllne. No, he couldn’t do that; there was not enough evidence ugiclust the villain. He had previously accepted an Invi tation to dine at the home of tils chum, Itoy Snndres, the following night. He would rather have stayed at home with his sorrow, hut he knew that Roy would fetch him bodily. Anyway, it might help to kill time. Killing time was all that life meant to him, now that had lost Arllne. Roy’s sister, Peggie, was the only one In the living room when he ar rived. She greeted him as u big broth er, and went on arranging some vases on the mantel. Then she turned to a table on which were seme books, and— oh, horrors! Was he seeing things! No, a lemonade was all he'had had to drink, and that wouldn’t make him see the same handsome face of'the photo graph tn Arllne’s studio and on Sal- lie’s piano. The third time. Why, the man was a gay Lothario! Something must be done. He must save Arllne from the clutch vs of a wretch who was obviously hiaklng love to scores of other girls. It was mad dening I What was he to do? Peggie picked up the photograph, looked at It smilingly, and put It back carefully. Paul was as fond of Reggie as he was of Roy. It was bis duty to pro tect her us he would his own sister. She looked so winsome and sweet that be wanted to choke the ruacal who would bring sorrow to her cuuUdlng little beast KuH of chaotic thoughts he could hanHy manage to eat his dinner, mag’s his exewie* and leave early. Alena I d M s bachelor quarters, he lighted Ala pip# and plaaned Inn msec- able way* to foil (he villain. None of Id* scheme* wa* feasible; At lfl*t he decided to tell Aunt Margaret, hi* mother’* maiden *l*ter. She had nev er failed him. Ever alnce hie mother’* death, when he wn* fifteen, he had taken all his problem* to her. Ye*, he would tell Aunt Margaret. Perhaps It would he better for her to Inform thq three girl*—no one knew how mnny more there were—a.id mnke them un derstand that there was a deceiver abroad In the land. The comfort of thl* decision enabled him to sleep and to finish his work next day, so that he wa* able to go to hi# aunt on h is way to dinner. He had telephoned her that he had somethin* most Important about which he must consult her. She would not fall him, he knev W asn’t It one of the very good thing.- of hie life that he could alway* de pend on Aunt Murgnretl Bless her! With high hopes he leaped up the steps of her home. The door wa* soon opened. He rushed Into the library where she often eat She was there as usual, hut the smile of greeting he had for her froze to one of horror. For there on the mantel, facing him. was the handsome face he had grown to detest, smiling at him. He reached out to a chair for sup p o r t Steadying himself, then tragi cally pointing at the picture and look- Paul Could Not Speak. lug reproachfully at the sweet-faced, middle-aged woman who had come for- wnrd to kiss him, he exclaimed: “And you, too. Aunt Margaret!\ “Well, Caesar,’’ asked his surprised relative, “what do you mean? ‘Et tu, Brute 1’ Are you play-acting, my dear?\ “Oh, Aunt Margaret, I came to you for help and I find you In the tolls of the arch-villain of the age. See that man over there?\ pointing a scornful finger at the photograph. “He has won Arllne from me; Sorllle and Peg gie are his victims, too—and then you. Oh, Auntie, dear, how could you be so deceived ?” “Come,\ said his aunt, “sit beside me.\ She led him to a sofa. “Now tell me all about it.\ Paul told her of his love for Arllne, and that he had been sure his love was returned until he saw the picture on the table. He told of seeing the same likeness In the homes of Sallle and Peggie. “Then here, Aunt Margaret. I came to ask your aid In undeceiving these girls; to let them know to what kind of man they have given their hearts. This Is more than I can bear!\ Instead of being crushed with the torrent of words and their significance his aunt leaned her head back on the sofa and laughed until she cried. Poor Paul thought she was hysterical with grief ami mortification. At Inst she rose, walked to the man tel, took the picture from It, looked at It crltlcnll# and said: “He Is handsome, Isn’t he?\ “Yes; and you all fell for n lot ot wavy hair and a perfect profile,” de nounced Paul. “Come, dear,\ ns she put the picture back; “you have suffered enough. 1 will tell you who he Is. You know about the new Walton Stock companyi Well, he Is the leading man. The man agement gave bis photograph to every woman attending the Wednesday mat Inee. We liked his acting, hut he nev er heard of any of us. The photograph represents a courtesy from the man agement ; that Is all, dm r. Now run along to Arllne and ask her what you Intended asking her the other night I am sure you will be welcome.\ Paul seized his aunt In his strong young anus, and after kissing her fu riously, he run out of the house, slam ming the door after him as he went on his way to Arllne. TXEAR LORD, I am but an old-fashioned reporter, very much JLz of a hack and unskilled in the ways of the literary fellows, albeit I do know the true meaning of several words of our com mon tongue. Away back in my Pennsylvania hills, in the valley where the bald eagle makes hia nest, was I reared, and there brought up in the stern ways of that faith which, by Thy grace, I still hold firm as to soundness. There also had I instilled into me a love of country and devotion to American ideals which are, thanka to Thee, a very large part of my being. True, true, I have frequently in the past slipped on slippery paths, know ingly. Even now in the grey years do I offend nor feel sufficient repentance for the offence. Yet dare I pray, and this my prayer: A w a k e or asleep, at work or play. l ^ E V E R let me a quitter bel m a y I never h a v e thoughti of Peace and ever be Impatient a n d even auspicious of t h o s e who talk of, pray for, or p r e a c h on anything co n t r a r y to a complete and lasting victory for the united arms of m y country and Its associates. Let me be always young of heart, cheery, hopeful with the hopefulness born o f national faith, constantly attu n e d to th e spirit of the Republic, so t h a t no throb of Ita great heart shall find m i n e unresponsive. Keep me alw a y s so primed for t h e fight t h a t he m a y know and understand the American father never expects t h e son to dare end to do for country w h a t the f a t h e r himself le n o t ready and eager to do and to dare. Lastly, Lord, no m a t t e r what m a y be m y personal th o u g h t s , however difficult of understanding som e th i n g s are, let me b e generotii enough to shove my hand Into t h a t of an Englishman and tell him I am glad to recognize as a truth of c u r rent history t h a t t h e English know how to die; how to die, dear Lord, In defense of their own and of an o t h e r man’s h o m e ; how to die f o r those sacred principles to maintain which my co u n t r y Jumped Into a uniform and pledged Its soul to fight side by side with the English and th e French, t h e Belgian and th e Italian, the A r a b and the Moor. ROAST BEEF APPETITES AND BEEFLESS MENUS If you make uv your mind that you would like roast beef or a steak for lunch, enter a restaurant and tipd that there are no beef dishes on the menu, don’t feel that you are abused. You will find other meat dishes just ns tasty and nourishing on the list. If you feel tempted to rebel. Just stop for a moment to consider the plight of It aly, one of America's comrades in the war, who Is doing such splendid Work driving back the Austrian invaders. So grave h as the food situation become in Italy that three meatless—not just beefless, or Just porkless, or Just mut tonless days, but all three—that Is, m-e<i-t-l-e-s-s days, have been In effect since May 15. While Italy is not such a heavy meat-eating nation as some of her Allies, nevertheless the three meat less days a week come particularly hard at thle time because the con sumption of grain has been also cut down. Bread and macaroni form two Of the principal foods of the Italian people, and the consumption In these foods Is now about one-quarter less than Inst year. While the sacrificejou make when you take some other meat dish In place of beef may not mean much to you, \it does mean u great deal to our Allies,/who arP depending upon us partly for their beef supply. FEEDING A SOLDIER IN YOUR HOME AND IN TRENCH meant to be a food, Into a confection by heaping sugar on it. Some sugar- lovers even put sugar on cantaloupe. This Is like sprinkling sugar on candy, for cantaloupes contain a high percent age of natural sweetening. Our Allies In the war need all the sugar wo can spare, and every spoonful YOU save helps to supply this need. P. S.—If you doubt that eating sugar in large quantities Is positively harm ful to your health, ASK YOUR FAM ILY PHYSICIAN. FOOD QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Concentrate at the Trape. You can give a man a gun. you may supply him with unlimited ammuni tion and targets, and let him bang away 'til the cows come home—but you’ll never make n trap ahot of him until you have taught him to eoncee- trate. nays Outing. Concentration le rather an Important habit to cultivate, whether you are managing a railroad, or shining ahoea—but to the man who would eucceed at the traps. It le vital. He must forget hla surroundings, bis score, hia neighbor on the platform, himself—everything, In short, except that the target will sail from the trap when he ceUe “pull I\ Let bla mln<l wander for w much as • second awl the chances ere that he will have e ■las le hie discredit. Onr hats off to* Texas, the largest state In the Union. Since April 15 the saving of wheat in that state has amounted to nearly 15.000.000 pounds of flour, or enough to feed the Texas boys In the National Army, the regular Army, the Navy and Marine Corps for an entire year. Tills is the spirit which will win the war. Think of this, If you are one of the persons who some times feel a regret that the so-called War Bread has replaced the white bread since America entered the world struggle for democracy and freedom. Here’s another thought: Suppose you were dining In your home with a sol dier and there were two slices of War Bread ifnd two slices of white bread on the platter, which kind of bread would you want the soldier to have? Tlte white bread, of course! In fact, you would Insist that he take It and would feel Insulted If he refused. How glad ly, then, should you sacrifice white bread for the American soldier who Is 3,000 miles away In the trenches and the soldiers of the other Hberty loving nations with whom he Is fight ing shoulder to shoulder ’ EAT LESS SUGAR AND YOU’LL BE HEALTHIER Learn to wet lew sugar. Tbla means YOU I Too much sugar le Injurious to the health, and Americana eat more sugar than eny other nationality In the world. YOU can reduce your sugar consumption In many ways. Use lew In your tea and coffee end 8T1K IT MORE. Thousands of tone are waated annually In the bottom of the cup— sugar w^lch la w ear dissolved. Put law eager on year cereal In the nwm- has—moet cereals have their natural Dent tern a**, jrhMfc le Second Installment of a Popular Catechism of Food Doctrine. Why Is bread cheaper In England? Because the British government has subsidized the bread. How much does it cost the British government? $200,000,000 annually. Is not this money ultimately obtain ed by taxation? Yes. Is corn bread used In the army? Corn Is not acceptable as an army ra tion because It cannot be made Into a transportable loaf for trench use. Are other cereals just as nourishing as wheat? Generally speaking, yes. What 1s the advantage of ordering bread twenty-four hours in advance at the stores? The baker or grocer can then estimate correctly the amount of bread to have on hand and thus elim inate waste. What percentage of the b read baked In the United States Is baked at home? Sixty per cent. Is home baked. Why has the Food Administration standardized the size of the bakery loaf of bread? To reduce the cost of bak ing and distributing, to give the pub lic a square deal and to fix competi tion upon price. What percentage of wheat flour sub stitutes does the Food Admtnletration require bakers to use In bread and rolls? Twenty-live per cent. What are the standard weights of bread loaves? Three-fourths of a pound, 1 pound, pounds, 2 pounds and ether pound weights. Why does the Food Administration advocate the use of the three-quarter pound loaf? As a wheat conservation measure In the hope that th e three- quarter pound loaf may be made to do the work the one pound loaf did before. How many one pound loaves of bread' can he made from a barrel of flour? Tyo hundred and seventy loaves. Is graham bread a wheat bread? Yes, but It also contains 26 per cent, bran, shorts and middlings, which are included In the Hat of wheat flour sub- stltutek. What le whole wheat bread? Bread which contains varying Quantities of bran, shorts or middlings. To comply w ith tiie \Victory\ rule It mu»t contain a t least 26 per ceoL of those products. May graham bread and whole wheat bread be uaed on wheatlese days? Aa a general rule, no. Public eating places cannot well do without these apd Victory bread, but. In the home no wheat should be eaten on wheatlese days. \ Ecuador has a tree producing berries which caa be need as map. i-ifi w rHK,R ARR rbiw) JA .V J Vf TRAINED TO ATT> BLIND FRENCH SOLDIERS —Training of dog* to lend the blind ha* become an Important Institution where .thousand# of nnlmel# will eventually be pre pared to lead eighties* soldier#. The work I* being done nnder the direction of the military au- thorltle* by amateurs who owned kennel# of police and hunting dogs before the war. Several hundred poodle# are contlnuually trotting about the neighborhood and through the village, »ome of them \gradu ates\ of the big training school, leading \pollus\ who left their eight In the trenches or In the battlefield. Thl# real experi ence put# the finishing touch to the dog'# education. The training Is divided Into two pe riods, during the first of which * the dog learn# what 1# called “carriage,\ or road behavior, ab- etlnence from quarrels and re sistance to temptations to play ing with other dogs, neglect of garbage boxes and butcher shops. - Next he 1# taught to avoid obstacles and how to pick bla way aero*# the etreet w ith regard to vehlclus. Then he Is turned over to a eighties# hero of the war and kept under observation for a few days to make sure that hi# training Is complete. The bllndf man, too, requires a little training with the dog, for he finds It an entirely differ ent matter to follow the string after having been led by th e arm. Guided by a person, he abandons himself to his conduc to r and loses all notion of self- reliance, feeling that he Is domi nated by another will than his own. Consequently he Insuffi ciently develops his remaining senses to make up for the one that Is lacking. Led hy a dog' which must he ordered, no m a t te r how efficient his training, he develops the sense of touch and hearing with remarkable rapid ity through the necessity of r e maining constantly attentive. &<rtr£ztrb-frir(iirttfr'tttiirtrtrtr£rtr(rCrCr(i Why the Cultivation of Artichoke# Is Being Encouraged by the French Authorities. Jerusalem artichokes, the sort grown In Michigan, are being boomed In France ns on Ideal war crop, for the reason that they grow quickly and abundantly In any kind of ground ex cept that which Is wet and marshy. They derive most of their sustenance from the air and not from the earth, but the richer the earth the larger will be the tubers. Henri Blin in La Nature gives some Instructions about their cultivation. The tubers should be planted as soon as the frost Is out of the ground, at a depth of from two to three inches, In rows about 12 Inches apart and about nine Inches between tubers. A# soon as the shoots appear they are to be harrowed; In May they are to be earthed up and ngnln In June. The cultivation Is like that of potatoes. They may be harvested by the end of October and the harvest will last until the end of M a|ch, for frost does not Injure the tubers at all, so they may be left In the ground all winter. Jerusalem artichokes will yield from 22 to 24 tons to the acre and lO to 12 tons of excellent forage, which should be cut In September. How Soldier Sacrificed Hisieelf. Cbrp. Homer Wheaton, the first Sy racuse (N. Y.) boy to be killed In ac tion In France, lost his life by throw ing his body over a grenade knowing that It meant Instant death to him, but In doing so saved the lives of four comrades near by. This Information was given by Scrgt. Edward Creed of the 101st regiment, who has Just re turned from the trenches. Sergeant Creed says the five w ere In a dugout preparing for n raid In No j Man’s Land and were heavily armed ; with grenades. One fell to the floor, j the pin dropping out. and It would i explode In five seconds. Corporal Wheaton without any hesitancy leaped ! forward and dropped on the bomb to I save his comrades. He made no ef fort to grab It, but deliberately sac- j rlfiCed his life to protect th’e others. It exploded, instantly killing him. How Olrl Found Loet Watch. As the result of a dream, Miss Bes sie Burns, an employee of the Eaton Rapid# woolen mills, Charlotte, Mich., has found a gold watch she lost sev eral weeks ago. Miss Burns had advertised the loss and had given th e , timepiece up for lost when she had a dream one night that the watch waa secreted among a bunch of papers in a filing cabinet at tbe'mlll. She told thle to h er par ents the next morning, but they laughed at her. However, the dream was so vivid that she looked In the filing cabinet and found her time piece Just a# It appeared In her dream. —Exchange. Hew Wound# Are New Treated. A. Wlldt uses an ointment of borecic add. to which he adds oae, two or three d-ops of a 1 :1000 adrenalin so lution to each Eve grammes of oint ment. The rest \te obtained were • decrease la prolifers ties of gronula- tloe Eases, narrow cicatrice and » rtlishietlw of the wound eecretioma.— MedlaUzlscbe Woehenertft DAN CUPID’S WORK By LOUISE OLIVER. CONSIDERED IDEAL WAR CROP (C o p y right, inf. by th e McClure N-vrwp e per S y n d icate.) They any love laugh# nt locksmith*. It doe*. And It ha* been proved th a t It also laugh* at ga* bomb and ahrap- nel, bayonet and trench knife; tlM depth of the son and the topn of the highest mountain*, the Icy terror* of the frozen North and bitter agony of the desert. But there I* one thing left. We shall learn how love conquered that. Betty Baratow wn* a very pretty girl, but spoiled. Perhaps that wae why she merely Innghed at Jeroma Gilbert, « young- superintendent In her father’# mill, when he fell foolishly, desperately, pitifully In love with her. \Betty he plead, \no one ever love* a* I do. You see If# the only thing I live for. Other people have been Is love, or thought they were, bat It wae nothing to thin. Can't you feel Itt Don’t you see It, that I can’t live with out you? YonU find It out some day, why can’t you give me a little hopeY* Betty laughed. ‘'Eventually, not now?\ *he quoted from an ad tlsement. Jerome colored. “You’re cruel, ty. You don’t mean It, I know, but hurts awfully. I can’t stand It longer. I—I’m going to enlist and hope I get killed.\ But Betty had heard that be# and It worried her not. , He did enlist In the aviation That was the next thing Betty h of him, and he was gone without #a Ing good-by. Then she grew thoughtful. Perha she had been # little unkind. Sh really hadn’t Intended to go so f S&e had only meant to tease him little and make It up the next tl he came. “He doesn’t deserve any credit t going,’* she said to her father on morning. “He went because—becan he was cross abotlt something, I lleve.” “I don’t think sn” returned her pa ent. “He confided to me a couple months ago that as soon ns we ha certain Important work done In mill he thought he would go.\ “Oh!\ Betty’s eyes filled with t of humiliation and she left the bre fast table hurriedly. For the first time in her life B had a rebuff, and with character! wilfulness, fell In love with the una tnlnahle. And then she discovered t she had really been In love with Je all along. Then* her mind being serious for first time in her life, she began think earnestly of the war and of w she could do to help. She went In f Red Cross work for a while, and wo ed tirelessly in the Woman’s Mo corps. But there were others who could her work and she wasn’t satisfied, wanted something distinctive. Then one day she read how carri pigeons were needed in France, a how difficult it was to get people train them. And instantly she ded that th a t was her work. She went out to their house In country, with only the caretaker his wife for company, and started o with twelve birds. It was Interesting work and kept busy. She would take the birds short distance away from the farm first, In her motor car, and let them back. Then gradually she incre the distance, letting the birds fly al At last It got impossible for her take them herself, as the distance greater, and she would ship them friends In different cities to relea They came back unfailingly, al with their little brass tubes contalnl a friendly note. White Wing was swiftest of them all. Betty was V proud of him. One day she sent a message to self, or rather to Jerry. She had so lonely all week, and the solltud the country gave her plenty of tlm think. “Oh, Jerry, Jerry, If you would come back,\ she cried nightly on pillow. “I’d never let you go a again.\ The next time she went to the her father was shocked at her ap anee. “You’re working too hard those birds,’’ he said. “Pack up we’ll both go»to the seashore f week. They can get along for a w without you.” So Betty went, but she took birds to test them In a five b mile flight home, the longest they ever made. < And that was when she sent message to herself, or rather to J for on the little slip o f paper sh ed Into the tube on W hite Wing's was w ritten; \Oh Jerry dear, ti&me. I do love yon. Betty.\ Now arctic Ice, and burning gas bomb# and trench knlvee not Ing baffled love, euch a thing ae a hundred feet In the a ir was not to get the beet of the wily little Jerry wae oat on‘e trip, flying when suddenly something hit the breast. There wae a white, a n d behold, e pigeon lay st by the Impact, In hie lap. Here romance! Jerry, keen for edf epled the tube and extracted the and thu# received by Dan Oupld'g dal delivery Betty's heartbroken ■age. Jerry's leave of absence came when Betty arrived bemeu There ae negAUalaary. He Juwt ge In u s arms sad kissed Ear- “Bow dfe yes know, deer,\ ed cwrioasly. “A little Mid told see.\ /
