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lag madly when seemed to leave e aware of a specHe glanced sldi- : Ida standing be- , Gouts r Whispered

t. leaving the.Beecad *(♦ jprd [and tfae secretary atartEC^at* each other. «e was at the bottom of the stairway before ifaey bad recovered their seifpoasesston. Then the Sea lord &at<

up fats telephone.

▲ carious haze was creeping up from the Thames, spreading perceptibly from corner tp corner. It blotted out the redness of-tbe evening clouds and hung overhead Uke a great, smoky pall. A newsboy rushed past, shorning. Donald saw the contents of the placard that swung before him. It mentioned a aeries of .local explosions which hod been occurring along the east coost of England. . Donald was .trying to locate a hold. He' grOped his way from corner to corner, dinging to the railings of areas

and pillars of bouse*.

He had reached some open space, which he Imagined to be Trafalgar square, but It was impossible to cross. Carta, carriages, omnibuses, stalled by the fog, loomed up on every side.' Horses stood snorting invisibly, a few inches away. Drivers struck but with' their whips promiscuously. Men were shouting, women aercumlng. Panic bad begun. All knew that this was not one of those rare blade fogs that do-

taztded upon the abocec of Uncolndd.-r and Norfolk, bad crossed the Wash, which became drst a swamp, then an inundation, and was moving along the riv«r beds toward Cambridge, stripping the land of vegetation By nightfall all communication between London and the eastern coon tie*' bad ceaaed. The telegraph imles were washed out of Hie aodden ground. The approach of the herd was racasurad by the hasa. Already poultry and domestic animals were being devoured. There ware reports that children had been seized from riverside bouse*. The docks, the shores of Essex ana the Thames estuary were abandoned. The flats were a level stretch of water, abov e which it copies of the churches stood out aa isolated landmarks. Everywhere the war had been halted by a short armistice. The govern meat* of the dviUzed world devoted thejr whole attention to the conzldenition and solution of this new and stunning problem. In the meantime there had been a good deal of activity on Fair Island. The tidal surge created by the departure of the herd soon subsided, break-

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" he answered. “But, J was Just aerolite, when I met her., d of mine. marm. in's," be added, with

• my arm. mann, nils and ask the captain If I can’t do no mere." he i audible aside Tve I Smew how for the cap'll have to make his d I can’t leave a lady e alone, with all them ' a with the water later the Utile middy, saw Gouts and Ida. n from the dead, apBetween them he gossamer form that sunlight. t» of only a hundred n and the boat when ocean appeared con1 of water bore down i of Fair island. It e submarine, fifty ieet 1 Davies. c race between the > sea. They gained a hardly tes. seconds • drew them aboard i hatches down. Next a lifted bodily from n round like a top. ER XIV. d Warning. ; of the same day vd by n sensation n the Interest in the war. The evening lord. Is fuH. Donald's > approaching ruin of « lord, receiving Donie to the conclusion that t pressing moment it the unknown young

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I shook hands with him t down. Mr. Paget." he Then he noticed that s nondescript d that hi* looks were de- ; down and • plunged inic story of the world I not lose its dramatic e manner of its telling. 1 stop the war at once.' -mite all nations of lat la the only way race. It is a matter ps. Even now these <e speeding southward." a.lord had been unable J by reason of Ibe rsvh that ■ lips. At first he meot at vliat he cemhoex; then In r n brief glance at h absolute passivity, ir. !*aget." lie sold. H hud ended. “You work, and England And tun,, sir. you to the prime tnlnB| you tmiy apprise Bag events." (Wll, nnd his seerolittle man. a I once me moment. s<-a lord to

prehenalv* r forward.

a megaphone, to be the police catnmlsr. ordered all to remain still until star bombs could be art otf. Nobody heeded him. and his efforts to stay the panic were unavailing. The mob bad begun to flow in one direction, sweep-

ing all before it.

Donald had been swept along with It, and then left, stranded and Jammed by the human torrent, into a sms!' ~ •sk. In front of him he felt a parapet He tore fmseit away and was In the crowd. Donald hoisted himself the parapet, scrambled to the outer coping, and dung there. The shrieking mob rushed past and never touched him. Then there came the sound of c mighty explosion, a long volume of rest ending thunder. It went rolling down the river like the discharge of a

thousand cannon.

And then, ns a flood from a hosepipe, n burst of water from the skies deluged the city. It boiled through the air with hissing lashes, as if the portals of the firmament were bn open. The grinning face of the moon broke through the smoky poll. Suddenly the stars appeared. And it was

calm, clear weather.

A ronr of relief seemed to go up from the throats of the multitude. And very s'owly the traffic began to res

its course again.

What had happened, as scientists afterword surmised, was this: The hydrogen. Increasing until it attained a certain chemical relationship to the oxygen of the atmosphere, had exploded where It was densest, on contact with fire, ns in a laboratory. But the explosion Instantly generated water ns the two gasea met. Hence followed

the deluge.

But as yet the government was only dimly beginning to understand that this wax some unhpown natural force mid not a contrivance of the enerav. They did not know until Donald presented himself in the office of the and sea lord at nine o’clock. The second sea lord grasped him by

the hands.

“There isn’t time to say more than that I apologize." he sold. “The government has been searching for you

“You Must Stop This War at < sins* daylight. We’ve cabled Washington. and they have placed you at ©nr disposal You are the only man who can advise us. and—the prime minister wants you Immediately. And (hat’s

no Joke this time!" CHAPTER XV.

—he Battle of the Dogger. Within the next three days n series of phenomena occurred which left no doubt as to the dangers which were menacing the human race. Before coon message* began tr. pour In from all parts of the country and frori the fleet. The admiral in command of the home squadron win'd that n torpedo IkkiT destroyer hod approached him under a flag of iruee. with ’be singular statement that the ocean had ro-oded all along the Baltic

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urary armistice.

r.porti» were telegraphed -. of the mousuaa had,

Saw the F55 Start In Their Wake. Ing Into a choppy, turbulent sea. The F55, tossed and battered aa ahe wae by tbu waves, overtheles* held tight. The locked rudder prevented her from

Within the mesaroom the queen at the awann was houaed securely. She v.aa almost invisible, and not at all viaible by daylight. A silent. figure, she created fear and awe la each of them. They did not knew what her concretion with the swarm might be. They knew she had not human intelligence. FYan his position upon the highest point of Fair island. MacBeard saw the ewarm vanish at sea. He sew the F65 start In their wake, and threw up bis hands and raved. Coward aa hiwas, be could not let hla last hope slip from him like that. He was the loneliest man In the wortd, aa be had always been. But he had not known it or cared. He had rebelled against the human race. He wu* the modern Cain; he bau plotted the ruin of the world, over which he was to rule, godlike. But that was before he had set eye* npon Ida Ken-

nedy.

The thought of her rent ed Liz courage. lie found hi* motorboat upon ifae shore, uninjured by the inundation, since the point of rock had acted as a breakwater and protected it. Wltbln a few minutes he had filled his great gasoline reservoir with a supply suflicicnt for several days and set out in pursuit of the herd. He knew that he could easily outdistance the subma-

rine.

Presently he came npon the monsters. Their first wild <li.*h bad taken them In all direction*, so that little vapor bad formed, but now they were beginning to congregate, and a sail of blade cloud, rialiig In the distance, indicated their direction. Tiie monsters made no effort (o molest him. but they would not. A first, heed bis tuning fork. Later, however, he managed to assemble a amall bodyguard about him. MacBeard purmyd them down the east coast of England. Hie boat, bidden in the cloud, remained undetected by the patrol vessels. It was not nntll the second morning that hr guessed where the herd would make Us main rendezvous. It was a simple deductive procea*. though nobody else had thought of It. It was the Dogger bank, ewamilnr with fish, which would provide tb« monster* with food. He believed that, once the first doth of the monsters was over, they would obey bla call again. And bis firet summon* proved *uccrt*fol beyond hla ex pectatious. Exhausted by their daab southward, numbers of the herd congregated nboU the motorboat to the G sound. Which was ixwceptible to them for a much greater distance thm. the tone rn tried to the human ear. From within a radius of twenty mile* n rioud rolled in upon the motorboat until MacBeard. invisible In the heart of its blackness, like some nrcb-drvll, controlled his devil crew. This cloud was quickly seen by th<-i-Mr-admlRil'*'patrol vessels, while It had this disadvantage—It prevented M.t M'-urd from discovering the FIm us she Upped past on her way south

ward.

(TO UK CONTI a OKI).)

HANDLE SHEEP WITH PACTICUUfi CARE | P0|[JTT •Mm

WINTER QUARTERS FOR HENS

Fowls Should Not Be Given Sam*

No flock of chickens should go into winter quarters on the some old ground they have been running over all summer. Sprinkle the runs with lime water and then turn it under either with a spade, fork or plow. Bake it smooth after the surface has been turned and the fowls will soon make it firm by their tramping. Where fowls are confined in limited runs, this rule Is Imperative for complete sanitation. On larger runs it should bo done if possible. The chicken house should be gone over with a hose or with a good pump

Open Front Poultry House, spray to remove the accumulations of summer germ-laden dust. All the trash should be cleaned out and spread on some distant field or orchard, and the floors slu. ild be cleaned and sprayed. Clean, dry Utter must be had for the exercising rooms. If the doth cur tains ore dusty and dingy, take them down, spread them on the dothes line, and spray them with mean water until white and clean. The germ* of contagious diseases ore very apt to Unger In the doth imnging*. The droppings board* should be spread out on the ground and verubbed dean with waUr and allowed to dry thoroughly in the sun. Lime water run over them at the last helps to moke them ready for a long winter’s use.

DRAGGING A SHEEP—WRONG WAY. (Pnpared br Um Uaitad Slaus Dcpanmtni of Aericultnr*.) These two photographs rbow the wrong way and the right way to more a Aeep—especially fst sheep. The sheep has a delicate frame and its skin is sensitive. Bough handling, therefore, particularly in caring for breeding animals, may do serious harm.

DRY-PACKED FOWLS Packing Chicken in Ice Causes It to Lose Its Value.

CONSUMER IS LOSING MONEY

Many Can Her. Will you t<li me 'list wny 1 can g«t rid of mj i lmracur.—Lad;- Orcgno

Bird Should Never Be Wet Until It Gets Final Quick Rinsing Off In Housewife’s Kitchen—Soaking in Water la HarmfuL Prepared by the United Sutra Department of Agriculture.) Wet-pack Ing a broiler and sending t to market In Ice cause* It to loae 18 per cent of Its value while fowl* viao about ten per cent according to mvcstlgntions by the United States iepertment of agriculture. If dry-oack.-d broiler* are worth 40 cent*, wet-packed brollers are not worth More thnii 35 cents; and If dry-pocked fowis cost 80 cents, wet-jiacked ones should not coat tpore than 27 cent*. The deportment specialists point out that consumer* who pay the same oriee for dry-pecked ones, are losing money. Chicken Absorb* Water. A chicken thrown into ice-water to remove animal heat and sent to market In n barrel In direct contact with crocked Ice. It 1* iiointed out. absorb* water for which the consumer has to pey chicken prices. The water nlso dissolve* out from the chicken valuable flavoring and nutritive substances. These go Into the water at the bottom of the barrel along with filth Unit is washed from dirty feet and bloody head* and trickles downward over the poultry. Dry Packed Chicken. With o dry-packed chicken the animal beat Is remov.-d by hanging the bird In tin artlflcUlly cooled room malrtttine-! at nearly freezing temperature. The chicken •* then packed into a box containing 12 bird* and sent to market. The 1«>X I* hauled In refrigerator cars and is kept by good retailers In .rood Ire boxes until sold. Ifae bird 1* never wet; has no cbnnee to absorb water or hecume washed -*ut. A bird should never be wet until It gets a filial quick rinsing off In the bau.'-cwlfe’s kitchen. The practice of •ame housewives of aonking n chicken after It I* «1r-**ed. in a pan of water even for an hour or two helps to leach out valuable qualities.

HERE ARE SOME “CANS” You can avoid using milk or | cream can* for wrong parposes. ; Sometimes people put gasoline | In them and ruin them almost i immediately. You can refrain from batter- ! Ing the can* needlessly. You can return other people's 1 cans. If you happen to get them ! by mistake. The owner needs ; them. You can ace that your own I can does not lie about the railway station, even though you may not be going to use i once, take It away and care for L You can remind the railway agent that he may help by glv- , Ing cans os much protection as l possible. You ean rinse the vessel before URing. It may hove been thoroughly denned at the factory; but It needs a fresh rinse liefore using. You -an keep the vessel dean Inside. Use a little aal sc cnsionally In washing the tins I out. If necessary. You can see that a tin does not stand In a damp place < with moisture Imdde. Espe- < dally at the end of the season, when the cans are being put < away, dry each carefully and J slore under cover In n dry i

START WITH LITTLE CAPITAL Small Shack in Back Yard, Few Good Fowls and Business Is Begun— Attend to Detail*. Whnt most always attracts people to the poultry business Is the fact that one can start with little capital. A little shack in the back yarn, a feu- good fowls, and the business is begun. Such a start bos t a the beginning of many a man's success In the poultry line, and wime of the greatest |H»ultry successes In the country have bad their start In this way. Of course, they supplemented their start with Intelligent effort, attention to all the details, and sound business Judgment. You can do the

PROPER FEEDING IN WINTER Practice of Confining Fowls to Housa During Cold Weather Necessitates Extra Care. The general practice of confining the bij'ng stork to the house during the winter necessitates extra care ami attention if good results are to he laid. The houses must be kept clean and the birds supplied with the important feeds they find on the range. Plenty of minerals. in the form of grit and shell, and a libel al supply of green feed must be provided in addition to the regular feed*. Exercise is best supplied by fi-edlng the whole grains lu a deep litter of straw.

MERITS OF WINTER PLOWING Greatest Advantage I* from Economic Standpoint—Permit* Better Util-

ization of Labor.

The merits of foil and winter plowing have been discussed pro and con by many writers. It Is evident that the advisability of plowing land In the fall depends upon se.-eral factors. It 1* not advisable, a* a rule, to break land not In seed of some kind, if U Is In need of organic matter, and a cover crop cun be grown on It to plow under In the spring. Stiff mid* cun be plowed In the fall, and In most cases ought to be. if possible. The greatest, and iM-rhap* the only di-cided advantage In fall plowing. I* from an economic standiMitnt. It permit* a In-t-ter utilization of the farm lalmr and !h null* part of the hardest work on the farm to be done bt a time when other work is nut presalus.

WATER SUPPLY HELPS EGGS Automatic Fount-;.' la 'dost Baniury Way of Giving Hen* Water During Winter t

Plenty of pure fr.-sh water should be supplied dally. An automatic drinking fountain is the most Miioiar) way of supplying water, la cold veather, when Uie water may freeze quickly, I the difficulty may be overcome by beating the water. The fountain being nlr ' tight, except the *i>aca from which tha j In-ns get the supply, the water re- ! main* v.tfm. sufficiently long fur them to get all they wish. The can. however. should be emptied every day. to keep lb from being injured by frost. DUST BATH VERY IMPORTANT Common Road Du*t Will Answer Pur. pose—Place in Hen Houcs Where

Sun Can Reach It.

l>u not forgi-l tbal the hen* need s .lust pat!. Common road dust will suffice • ir tills purpose. At your 3nst opportunity gather a barrel of dry dust from the road and place It In the tea hourc lu a well-made dust box where the sun's ray* ret: retch It

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