THE
PRODIGAL
JUDGE
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SYNOPSIS
TS* - at i» . opening if rhe •tory la
»» «*- llb arr ~f aa .Id worn-out
**"Nhera plantation «nowa aa tba Bnr
P* Tl» ta to tw wM. and tta
■“*»! aw that <if the owner*. «“
Widmamte M tic .object at <«* uawm toy
I rnotaa a IxaiMW ™»“- *
Karato known aa Bladen, and Bob
“*». a farmer when Hannibal Wayne
■nrd a rayourb-ua child of tho old
•nor family, mlm bia appearance
i»“*"r lets, how he adapted the too* N»
»*•*■ el Kern* bay. tho Baron*, tout the
VdMarp deny any knowledge of the
ty fancy t*. keep llentubel < ’apian
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lean and a*i y mtiaw ibart the Mar
wn> T bh ,i Wtatil. IP wfieri Han
*»o> t. hide.jied by Hate B.ooBf. ■ ep
Jam Starr. 1! ■ upon! Taney overtake.
BBtatni *lira ntm « t hrad.u.< and aerurra
The b-r Tawcy .Mean befor# Suuire
>- Mpf .. Mr ..it I *-". d»*
ii. i*. ■ ft B-tty Malroy a frt—d «f
tta r. mn. ton* an encounter with Cap
tatn Morrell woo force# ft. a aWnflnnd «»■
key and i# ea-ucd toy' Hru«*r Carrington.
Jtetiy oto ml for her Tenraeooe* bum*,
r'atamptaa liko the name stage. Taney
wat II.> into, dmappeor. with Murrell on
■ heir trail Hannibal arrive* ml the hrm*
ait J.-d*. Kb. .m Price Tie- Judge teoog
warn t* lb hey the grandson of an
na» friend Murrell arrive* at Judge*
Sun <'steadier family on raft reocua
Nancy. Who I. apparent 1* dead Mrsce
•weak. Sail Betty and Carrington arrive
wt bell, plain Hannibal a nfc
a-one atari bag thing* to the Judge Han
autml end Hetty mi.4 again Burrell *r
«... la lieti— Plain I. piay.ng for big
a«ah** Taney awake, from long urear 11
gem ateep up hoard the rafr J jig* Price
aiartlug danrowried m looking up
Jut til ha Charter Norton, a J oeng
adnata*. who aaosata the Judge la Biya
(erswaady aaaa .11.4 Norton Inform* car
aWflaa ibal Becy ha* promloed to nwrrv
•dan h- «tot ia a.ii.twoly atiot More
tlgM aa. Murrell* plota Ite plana upria
lag of o(i o
{CHAPTER XVII—(Continued •
“I lair never atr regarded It. Siolo
Swa* amid tke jitdge mlidi) “I bare
rend a dsBnctat meaning to tbe toeel
w*.d gtmr and |u*t ttuwa rbe a (eC Site
J rsjorl it tbe 'rutb BBaid tie kuoau
... a* ft- ta aut.tl.nK in tbe Bslddi
orf her grief ik) I MMreo •. called. but
.mu apprectatr tba con aid crate del
teat) cl a gehUtmao I »ieb u were
yaw1 hi- u> gei cut Bo»era in Uus
-a wilder Bead'"
The J-dge had been occupied *Ua
m rtmi 1» hot ingenious toilet tie
had trimmed the frayed >uru of hi*
oeai. then, by lurtucg tu cuff* in
side tsf serf op**de duau a Imt sur
face made Ms first public appear.nee
Next U> shoe* had engaged his *1
t*«t<« They might hate eel. die
• ou raged a tee* resolute and r*ao ;ie
fut character, but with the coe’ents
of tis tak-well he artfully colored hi*
whM* yara aoch* where they slewed
through the rift, tat the leather This
(he Judge did gai.r. how t>utnu..ug a
•match of song now listening cully
te MahjOTr now replying wun uudU
turhed cheerfulness Last of hi te
• tapped hi* dingy bearer on bla bead,
git leg tt aa indescribably jaunty
alaat. and stepped to I be door.
"Wdi. wtah me inch. Solomon. 1 in
ud earn*. Hannibal!” ha said
At heart he cherlahed email hope ct
•mdeg Hetty, advaatageou* aa fie felt
aa Interview might prove How. tar.
ua »»•*< king Belle Plain, he and line
■tibei were shown into the cool parlor
try little Steve It wna more tear*
than the Judge cared to remember
wince he had pat hi* foot tnatdv -uefi
a house but with tr»s grandeur ot
»tai he rase to the occasion. a
oataimaird dignity shone from etery
•metered feature, while be axed i'.tfle
SKete uith so fierce a glance the! tfie
grti troae aa hla Mpa
tom are to say that Judge Kite im
frit* presents hla rompUmeot* and
condolences to Mia* Malroy—have
;<h got that straight, you ptc< b of
amut*" he concladed affably, l.ittle
Steve. Impressed alike by the Judge*
adt of eoadeacenstoa and fils easy
Mow of wards, signified that he bad.
r Toe may also any that Judge Price’s
ward )uung Master HaurJ. preseat*
HU r umpUment* and coadotexue*—
What acre the judge might bate said
•we* Sfc-terrupted by me entrance of
itetty. ter self
~My dear young lady—- the fudge
turned, then he advanced toward Her
with the aatemntfy or carriage and
nounu-aanr-e he deemed suitable to
the neraaian, and her extended band
wna (dgutfed between hta two plump
palms It# rolled his eyes beaten
u*r< “ft • the laird s to deal * 'n u*
as hi* o»s MUM-ratable wisdom die
tales" he murmured with pious r***tg
halloo "Me are all poorer, ma'am
that he has died -just as se were
fit he* while he li*ed,~ The run
cadence of the Judges speech f«ti
waaaroesly m the silence, and ’fiat
took «f horror which had never quite
left Betty's eyes since they taw
flhaliey Sort us tall, rose out of tfielr
dear depths sgaia The Judge. In
•tantly stricken with a sense of the
Inadequacy of bla words, doubled on
bis spiritual tracks. "In a round
about way. ma'am, we're bound to be-1
lieve in tbe omnipresence of Provi
dence—we must think It—though a
body might be disposed to hold that
Tennessee had got out of the
; line of divine supervision recently.
! I-et me lead you to a chair, ma'am!"
Hannibal bad slipped to Betty's
-Me and placed his band In hers. The
Judge regarded the pair with great
benevolence of expression.
' He would come, and I hadn't the
heart to forbid It. If I can be of any
cervice to you. ma'am either in the
capacity of a friend—or professional
I l>—I irust you will not hesitate to
"nuind me—” The judge backed
| toward the door
Bui you walk out. Judge Price?"
asked Betty kindly.
Nothing more than a healthful ex
ercine but we will not detain you.
:na am the pleasure of seeing you is
-' mething we had not reckoned on!"
I he judge's speech was thick and
unctuous with good feeling. He wished
that Mataffy might have been there
.0 note the reserve and dignity of
his deportment.
But you must let me order lunch
eon for you." said Betty. At least
'his questionable old man was good
to Hannibal. v
I couldn't think or it. ma'am—"
You H have a glass of wine, then."
urged Betty hospitably. For the mo
t-> *-nt she bad lost sight of what was 1
clearly the judge’s besetting sin.
The judge paused abruptly. He en
d .-cd a moment of agonizing irreso
lution.
'V 'he advice of my physician i
hare r r touch wine—gout, ma'am,
and liver— but this restriction does1
not apply to corn whisky—in modera- '
f. and as a tonic—either bet ore 1
mea.i. immediately alter meals or at j
scy time between meals—always
keei r.g In mind the Idea of Its tonic!
properties—" The judge seemed to
c How and ripen. This was much!
ctter tfcan having the dogs sicked on
you' His manner toward Betty be-;
t >.me almost fatherly. Poor young
’hlng. so lonely and desolate In the i
n i*t of al! this splendor—he surrep-I
•i* ouaiy wiped away a fear, and when j
■ •tie Steve presented himself and'
i ' - a. ■ 1 1 . ■ —— -'
was told to bring wnlsky, audibly
smacked his lips—a whole lot better,
surely!
"I am sorry you think you must
hurry away. Judge Price," said Betty.
She still retained the small brown
hand Hannibal had thrust into hers.
‘The eastern mail gets In today,
ma’am, and 1 have reason to think
my' share of It will be especially
heavy, for It brings the bulk of my
professional correspondence." • In ten
years the judge had received just
one communication by mall—a bill
which had followed him through four
states and seven counties. “1 ex
pect my secretary—” boldly fixing
Solomon Mahaffy's status, "Is already
dipping into it; an excellent assist
ant, ma'am, but literary rather than
legal."
Little Steve reappeared bearing a
silver tray on whlca was a decanter
and glass.
"Sluce you insist, ma'am," the judge
poured himself a drink, "my best re
spects—” he bowed profoundly.
“If you are quite willing. Judge, 1
think I will keep Hannibal. Miss
Bowen, who has been here—since—"
her voite broke suddenly.
“I understand, ma'am," said the
judge soothingly. He gave her a
glance of great concern and turned
to Hannibal. "Hear lad, you'll be very
quiet and obedient, and do exactly
as Miss Malroy says? When shall 1
come for him, ma'am?"
“I'll send him to you when he Is
ready to go home. I am thinking of
visiting my friends In North Caro
lina, and l should like to have him
spend as much time as possible with
me before I start for the east."
It had occurred to Betty that she
had done little or nothing for the
child; probably this would be her last
opportunity.
The state of the Judge's reelings
was such that with elaborate ab
sence of mind he poured himself a
second drink of whisky; and that
there should be no doubt the act was
one of Inadvertence, said again, "My
best respects, ma'am,” and bowed as
before. Putting down the glass, be
backed toward the door.
“I trust you will not hesitate to
call upon me If I can be of any use
to you. ma'am—a message will bring
me here without a moment's delay.”
He was rather disappointed that no
allusion had been made to his recent
activities. He reasoned correctly that
Betty was as yet in ignorance of the
somewhat dangerous eminence he
had achieved as the champion of law
and order. However, he reflected
with satisfaction that Hannibal, in re
maining. w’ould admirably serve his
ends.
Betty insisted that he should be
driven home, and after faintly protest
ing. the judge gracefully yielded the
point, and a few moments lafer rolled :
away from Belle Plain behind a pair 1
of sleek-coated bays, with a negro In j
livery on the box. He was conscious :
of a great sense of exaltation. He !
felt that he should paralyze Mahaffy.
He even temporarily forgot the blow
his hopes had sustained when Betty
spoke of returning to North Carolina.
This was life—broad acres and nig
“Since You Insist, Ma'am—My Best Respects."
I
gers—principally to trot after yon
toting liquor—and such liquor!—he
lolled back luxuriantly with half
closed eyes.
“Twenty years in the wood If an
hour!" he muttered. “I'd like to have
just such a taste in my mouth when
I come to die and probably she has
barrels of it!" he sighed deeply, and
searched his soul for words w’ith
which adequately to describe that
whisky to Mahaffy.
But why not do more than paralyze
Solomon—that would be pleasant but
not especially profitable. The judge
came back quickly to the vexed prob
lem of his future. He desired to
make some striking display of Miss
Malroy's courtesy. He knew’ that his
credit was experiencing the pangs of
an early mortality: he was not sensi
tive. yet for some days he had been
sensible of the fact that what he
called the commercial class was view
ing him with open disfavor; but he
must hang on In Raleigh a little long
er—for him it had become the abode
of hope. The judge considered the
matter. At least he could let people
see something of that decent respect
with which Miss Malroy treated him.
They were entering Raleigh now.
and he ordered the coachman to pull
his horses down to a walk. He had
decided to make use of the Belle
Plain turnout in creating an atmos
phere of confidence and trust—espe
cially trust. To this end he spent
the best part of an hour interviewing
his creditors. It amounted almost to
a mass-meeting of the adult male pop
ulation. for he had no favorites.
When he invaded virgin territory he
believed in starting the largest pos
sible number of accounts without de
lay. The advantage of his system, as
he explained its workings to Mahaffy,
was that it bred a noble spirit of emu
lation.
.He let it be known In a general way
that things were looking up with him;
just In what quarter he did not
specify, but there he was, seated in
the Belle Plain carriage, and the in
ference was unavoidable that Miss
Malroy was to recognize his activities
in a substantial manner.
Mahaffy, loafing away the after
noon in the county clerk's office',
heard of the judge's return. He heard
that Charley Norton had left a will;
that Thicket Point went to Miss Mal
roy: that the Norton cousins in mid
dle Tennessee were going to put up
a fight; that Judge Price had been
retained as counsel by Miss Malroy;
that he was authorized to begin an
independent search for Charley Nor
ton's murderer, and was to spare no
expense; that Judge Price was going
to pay his debts. Mahaffy grinned at
this and hurried home. He could be
lieve all but the last; that was the
crowning touch of unreality.
The judge explained the situation.
"I wouldn't withhold hope from any
man. Solomon; it's the cheapest thing
in the world and the one thing we
are most miserly about extending to
our fellows. These people ail feel
better—and what did It cost me?—
just a little decent consideration; just
the knowledge of what the unavoid
able associations of ideas in their
own minds would do for them!”
What had seemed the corpse of cred
it breathed again, and the judge and
MahafTy immediately embarked upon
a characteristic celebration. Early
candle-light tound them making a be
ginning; midnight came—the gray
and purple of dawn—and they were
still at it, back of closed doors and
shuttered windows.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Betty Leaves Belle Plain.
Hannibal had devoted himself loy
ally to the judge's glorification, and
Betty heard all about the letter, the
snuffing of the candles and the re
ward of five thousand dollars. It vast
ly increased the child's sense of im
portance and satisfaction when he
discovered she had know»i nothing of
these matters until he told her of
them.
“Why, where would Judge Price
get so much money. Hannibal?” she
asked, greatly astonished.
"He won't have to get it. Miss Bet
ty; Mr. MahafTy says he don't reckon
no one will ever tell who wrote the
letter—he ’lows the man who done
that will keep pretty mum—he just
acssent tell!” the boy explained.
"No. 1 suppose not—” and Betty
saw that perhaps, after all. the judge
had not assumed any very great finan
cial responsibility.
"He can't be a coward, though, Han
nibal!” she added, for she under
stood that the risk or personal vio
lence which he ran was genuine. She
had formed her own unsympathetic
estimate of him that day at Boggs'
race-track;- MahafTy in his blackest
hour could have added nothing to it.
Twice since then she had met him in
Raleigh, which had only served to fix
that first impression.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Royalty Sacred In Austria.
A woman in Vienna has been sent
to prison for three months for speak
ing disrespectfully of Marla Theresa,
who has been dead for 131 years. In
Austrian law royalty is protected from
criticism, written or spoken, for 200
years after death.
Knew Him and Loved Him
_____ 7
Dr Ccsnt'tf. Mutilated Vnci- of
the Ccrftdtrtlt Army, m Ho Was
ir Tpp*h
Dr Coartesay catered the Coefeder
Itt m it • surgeon ul aft#' the
a«rreader found himself without home,
family. or fort .or Hia right coat
aJecvr dangled empty: the hand 'hat
bad sated ae many Urea could not
aave Itself It had beea amputated
after Gettysburg, sod the story goes
that Lee himself the name is always
ptubuou ed slowly and reverently in
Tippah— and said. 1 wish 1 could give
my hand to as*# yours, doctor- As
Mher Mas, equally grave, but lose
rearplraei c was that of hla left lung.
It *u this trouble that had brought
him to Tippah's mild climate, for near
ly 2* years he bad U*ad there atone in
bw three roam cottage riding out ev
ery day to hi* 11'tie larm. five miles
flam town, and rending and amokiag
far lain the night His library was
*bn w under nf Tippah. Books In fire
lat .-uages lined the walla of his house
—all in tbe cheapest bindings, for the
:o -.«r was poor; but. as he used to
*ay :t was the meat in the nut he
«.-ed for. not the shell outside He
' eter practiced medicine, except oc
cas: i.ally among persons too poor to
Pay for medical advice, or. more fre
quently. in serous cases when called
In consultation. It was known that
e had never taken a fee in Tippah.
I-tfry one believed Implicitly In his
s : 1 it was a common thing to hear
' said, after a death. "Nothing could
tare saved him; Dr. Courtenay said
s® '—Lilian Kirk Hammond in the
Atlantic.
Napoleon on Shakespeare.
It Is a fact that the great emperor
of the French had a very poor opinion
of Shakespeare’s plays. According to
Tbthaudeau. in hls "Bonaparte and the
Consulate." Napoleon said one day:
’ Shaaespeare was forgotten even by
i uu English for two hundred years, un
til Voltaire took it into his head to
write him up, to please his English
friends; and ever since people have
gone about repeating that Shake
speare was the greatest author that
ever lived. I have read him. and there
is nothing in him that approaches
Corneille or Racine. His plays are
not worth reading."
Advice From Kindly Busy Body.
"Oh, my! Your bouse has an odor
of burning milk. Don’t you know how
to avoid that?" asked the K. B. B.
“I didn't think it was so terrible.
I’m sure. Everybody has accidents of
that kind.” said the woman she was
visiting rather irritably.
"Now it’s all right, of course, I don’t
mind it, my dear, but next time Just
sprinkle some salt on the stove at
I once after the milk Is spilled and you
1 will avoid that unpleasant odor.”
To Be Pardoned Mistakes.
Every honest man does what he
! does because he thinks at the time it
• Is the best thing to do. Therefore.
| honest men should be forgiven mis
> takes.—The Macey Monthly.
Knew It Wa* an Idle Threat.
"Then.” he cried tragically, “then
rou reject me? And for my hated
rival ?”
"Yep,” she answered, coldly, but col
loquially. “Yep to both questions."
"Ha! Then I owe the fellow a
grudge. I have long owed him $10.
And now I will pay both debts at once
and he will fall dead!'’
%
Lighting his cigarette at the hall gas
let, he departed with a mocking laugh.
But the beautiful girl was not alarm
ed. She knew he could never carry
out his devilish scheme. For she
knew that he never had $10 at once in
his whole life.
Somebody Loves a Fat Man.
“And how did you manage to escape
from the cannibals?”
“Why, when they came whooping
down the hill my friend ran one way
and I ran th£ other.”
“Yea”
“And they all turned and chased my
friend.”
“Couldn't they have caught you just
as easily?”
“Yea. bat 1m was fattorl*
♦
CHARACTERISTICS OF IDEAL FEEDER STEER 1
I —
A Profitable Bunch.
One of the first things I look for In
a stegr bought for a feeder is a loose,
pliable, mellow skin, with a thick
cover of thrifty looking hair. If the
other points of the steer are satis
factory. these indicate an animal that
can turn corn into good beef at a
relatively small cost.
In buying feeders in stock pens or
at auction sales, look for the short
neck, short legs, deep body and
straight back, says a writer in the
Farm Progress. Of course. I do not
expect smoothness in a feeder steer,
but neither do I want high thigh
bones and a general appearance of
coarseness.
Try to imagine how the steer will
look when fat and ready for the mar
ket. If his neck is thin, will it become
thicker? If the back is thin, is there
still thickness enough to carry the
load of fat that you hope to put
there?
It does not matter much whether
the feeder steer is an animal in which
Angus or Galloway, Hereford or
Shorthorn blood predominates. They
are all breeds in which the same pur
pose has been kept in mind. They
are all well fleshed, early maturing
stock, with a capacity of turn
ing large amounts of feed into good
red beef at a low cost.
When I buy a feeder steer I look for
an animal with a short, broad head,
large muzzle, heavy, strong jaw;
smooth, strong shoulders, and a wide,
deep chest. I want no disturbers in a
herd that I am feeding, so I keep
away from the wild and quarrelsome
sort as near as I can. Of course, when
buying in car load or half car load
[ lots you have to take the disposition
for granted.
The chest should be wide, especially
at the bottom, and the body big
enough to give storage room to the
corn and the roughage that you are
going to put in this machine that it is
to turn it into beef. The more nearly
the feeder steer approaches the gen
eral type of the fat beef steer, the
more he is worth to the man who
buys and the man who sells him.
For a good many years I have been
buying feeder steers shipped into a
stockyard, shipping them about
eighty miles and finishing them on
corn and roughage. Most of them are
western cattle. They are a little slow
in starting to take on weight, but fat
ten very rapidly a little later in their
feeding. It is better to buv them by
carload lots, in order to save money
on the yardage, the commission and
the freight. A carload of such steers
will run from eighteen to twenty-two
head.
The change in the steer during the
finishing period is remarkable.
Where the heavy muscles are notice
able fat layers wiU appear, giving
smoothness to form. The rump, the
back, the neck and the shoulder
points will broaden and round out
The feeder steer is valuable to the
man with ready money for his pur
chase. and the feed necessary for his
finishing up into a fat steer. If you
are able to turn him into an animal
that will yield a minimum of waste
and a maximum of carcass, you have
an animal that will make the feeding
of corn that costs as high as 80 cents
a bushel profitable.
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Hereford Steers.
TRAINING TREE FOR
ANY SHAPE DESIRED
Care Should Be Exercised to Keep
Top Open to Admit Rays
of Sun.
It Is much better to train a tree the
shape it is wanted than allow it to
grow wild, then chop and saw it into
the desired shape, says the Mirror
and Farmer.
If sprouts starting from the body
of the tree or along the main branches
! are pinched when they are three or
; four inches long they will ordinarily
| form fruit spurs. Aim to get more
; fruit buds near the body of the tree
; and along the larger limbs instead of
the branches.
As color is an important factor,
j care should be exercised to keep the
1 top open so that the rays of the sun
! can reach to every parts at some por
tion of the day. To accomplish this
it may be well to do some pruning
when the tree is in full leaf; cutting
10 or even 15 per cent of the top
away when the tree is in full leaf
will cause no serious injury.
If the trees are carefully looked
over about three times during the
growing season, and the ends of
those spots that are growing too long
1 are pinched off, the tree may be kept
to the desired shape. But where a
shoot has been overlooked it is bet
i ter to cut it out when found than
| wait until winter. Negligence during
the growing season is about the only
I logical reason for severe winter prun
I ing.
Severe pruning wnile tne tree is in
a dormant state stimulates more
rapid and abundant wood growth,
about four-fifths of which will grow
where it is not wanted, necessitating
yet more cutting the following sea
son. Pinching the summer pruning
stimulates the production of fruit
buds, and tends toward better ma
turity of both buds and fruit. Plan
to grow an abundance of fruit spurs
well distributed over the whole tree.
Eggs and Meat.
Eggs do not differ greatly in com
position from meat. The average egg.
as purchased, consists of about eleven
per cent, waste material or shell. The
edible portion consists of about 74
per cent, water. 13 per cent, protein
or muscle-building material. 10.5 per
cent, fat, and 1 per cent, mineral mat
ter.
Theory of Mulching.
Here is the theory of mulching. A
bunch of big weeds growing vigorously
beside n tree rob it of moisture. These
same weeds cut off and put on top of
the ground no longer rob but save
water.
Disease Preventive.
The man who keeps everything neat
and clezn about bis bog yards is not
very apt to have any trouble from
cholera or any other disease, provided,
of course, that be feeds good clean
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PROPER FEEDING OF
MOULTING CHICKENS
_
Hens Require Extra Amount of Care
and Attention During
Period.
(By PROF. U SWINEY.)
During moulting the hens require an
extra amount of care and in fact all
the attention which can be given
| them. In too many instances moult
; ing is considered just a natural se
i quence of poultry keeping. The fowls
| at this time are just as bad as a child
cutting his teeth. It is not the mere
fact of losing feathers or pushing a
tooth through as much as the consti
tutional disturbance that is set up.
One symptom of moulting is lethargy.
The birds, instead of being early risers,
mope about on their perches and will j
not venture out In search of food that
is so essential to them at this trying .
period. Dainty food should be pre- i
pared. Warm meal with a>. dash of 1
spice In it in the morning and contin- j
ual change.
In regard to grain: Corn, wheat,
bhrley, oats and mashed potatoes with
j meal—anything to tempt the appetite
[ —two or three rusty nails or a bit of
sulphur in the drinking water are j
great helps. In confined runs meat
must be added, and. in fact, scraps of
meat may well be given on any run.
Two things are essential: (11 That
fairly early each morning the hen
house should be cleared of belated
risers: (21 the floor should be swept
at the same time, as a lot of vermin
come off with the shed feathers. These
sweepings should be taken right away ;
and not put on the nearest manure
heap. After moulting is over give
morning mash of shorts and bran in
a crumbly condition and feed plenty
of oats.
Benefits of Fall Plowing.
Fall plowing has many advantages.
Perhaps the greatest one among them
all is the fact that it does a great
oeal of helping to avoid the usual
rush of spring work. In these days
of labor scarcity, this means a great
deal. Fall plowing Is also very ef
ficient in conserving the moisture sup- :
ply owing to the creation of a mulch
at the surface during the winter and
spring months. The practice of fall
plowing is not adapted to a section
where the soil blows badly, but there
are really few such sections in the
middle west
Poultry Yard Essentials.
This is the season of the year whep
the grit boxes must be refilled often !
Nests kept clean and free from ver- 1
mtn. Plenty of fresh water kept be
fore the chicks at all times. Dust
boxes refilled and all the little de
tails daily attended to. Then with
whitewash, lice paint add all the Im
plements of war, watch out for tha
army of lice and mites that are ready
to seek and devour. They always
have their armor on and are read;
for business. Do not let them get
the first Inning.
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AUTOMOBILE HAS A WING
French Motor Q^r Is Driven in the
Same Manner as an
Aeroplane.
A successful trial rub was made re
cently from Paris to London, about
320 miles, by a motor car driven by a
revolving wing, the Paris Figaro
states.
The vehicle, which was designed by
M. Bertrand de Lesseps, and is called
the “winged car,” has the appearance
of an ordinary motor car, save that
in front it is shaped like the prow of
a ship. From the extremity of the
prow extends a shaft to which is at
tached the propeller—or revolving
wing—invented by M. Filippi.
The wing is small, strong and thick
and revolves with a protecting cage.
The engine is of 40 horse power and
rotates the wing by shaft and chain
transmission.
There- is no other mechanism, the
wheels of the car being free, except
for footbrakes. By the side of the
driver is a single lever which con
trols the clutch and the forward and
reverse movement cf the wing. The
wing can be reversed at a moment’s
notice, thereby forming an additional
brake. In the trial runs a speed of
62 miles an hour was obtained with
2,100 revolutions of the wing a min
ute. One curious feature was that
the car made no dust.
HANDS CRACKED AND BLED
St Ciair, Mo.—“My trouble began
about fifteen years ago. It was what
some claimed eczema. The form the
disease worked under was a breaking
out with watery blisters on my hands
which would then dry and scale, and
then would follow the trouble of
cracking and bleeding, also itching
and hurting. My hands were disfig
ured at the time, and sore. The trou
ble was very annoying, and disturbed
my sleep. This last February it was
ever so much worse than before. I
did not do all my work on account of
the condition of my hands. I could
not put them in water without mak
ing them worse. I tried a lot of home
remedies, also salves and liniments
that claimed to be a cure for the
trouble, but I did not obtain a cure.
“At last I saw the advertisement for
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent
for a sample. I thought they would
cure, so I sent for a fifty-cent box of
Cuticura Ointment and some Cuti
cura Soap. A doctor advised me to
keep ahead with the Cuticura Soap
and Ointment and they cured me com
pletely. No trace of the trouble re
mains." (Signed) Mrs. Mary Taylor,
Mar. 29, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card “Cuticura, Dept. Boston.’
Sparrow Sets House Ablaze.
An English sparrow was the cause
of three houses catching fire at law
renceburg, Ind., recently, and had it
not been for the prompt work of the
neighbors and friends all would have
been destroyed. The sparrow was
building a nest under the eaves of the
home of Mrs. Mary Webbei, and it
picked up a long cotton string from a
pile of rubbish that had Just been
burned. With the burning string in
its beak, the sparrow flew to the roof
of Mrs. Sophia Shafer’s house, then
to Otto McCright’s house and then to
the roof of Emanuel Wuest’s home,
where it dropped the burning string.
A fire started in the shingles of each
building. Each was extinguished by
neighbors before much damage was
done.
Polar Exploration.
North polar exploration had attract
ed the attention of adventurous and
ambitious men for nearly 400 years
before Peary reached the top of the
world. Search for the south pole has
always proved less attractive, and
only during the last 140 years have
explorers turned their attention to
ward the goal recently reached by
Amundsen.
Opening Up Lhasa.
Lhasa, which Is the capital of
Tibet, for generations was known as
the Forbidden City, because of its
political and religious exclusiveness.
In 1904 a British armed expedition
opened the mysterious old city. Pre
vious to that time practically every
European traveler had been stopped
in his efforts to reach the place.
The population of Lhasa is about 35.
000.
After Dark.
"Honest as the day is long, eh?"
"Absolutely. But you'd better keep
your chicken coop focked.”
The average man can make a fool
of himself almost as easily as a wom
an can make a fool of him.
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