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THE FARM ATIU
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THE HILLS ' MYSTERY ‘
BY FLORENCE WARDEN.
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Copyright, 1899, by Florence Warden.
CHAPTER XVIII.
IN THE LOFT WITH COCH TAL.
Masson stumbled into the kitchen,
■which was unite dark, lighted n eaudle
and sat down, not to sleep attain, hut
to think over the fresh developments
of the nlpbt.
Who were the perpetrators of the
outrage upon him? I lint question,
narrow as were tin* limits within
which it could be answered, was as
difficult to solve ns ever. He had heard
aud seen nothing to help him to any
further knowledge than tills, that more
than one person had been concerned
in it. The probabilities were, he
thought. In favor of the belief that the
attack upon him had been made by the
kid Ton and Coch Till, with the con
nivance if not the actual assistance of
the old woman.
That Tregaron had had a hand in it
he could scarcely lielleve. The farm
er’s conduct throughout had oeen
straightforward, while the manner of
the other three persons toward himself
had been uniformly suspicious and
bad.
That their object had been murder
he could not doubt. What plunder
would he be likely to yield worth such
a crime? That was the mystery. Sure
ly some other motive must bo sought,
aud this, he thought, could hardly be
other than jealousy on the part of
Coch Tal or fear lost Masson should
find out the truth concerning his broth
er’s fate.
Here again there was a mystery.
Granville hud not carried on his per
son either much money or much prop
erty of value, certainly but a poor
booty for which to run the risks at
tendant upon murder.
As for Gwyn, he could not think of
her without a softeuing of the heart,
a glow of gratitude and admiration.
That this girl had sacrificed her own
comfort, her own rest, during the past
few nights, he was now convinced be
yond a doubt. She had feared some
such outrage as that of which he had
been made a victim and had conceived
the Idea of protecting him by keeping
him within the range of her own
watchful eyes. To do this she had
feigned illness when she was on the
uiguroau to recovery.
It was she who had been the watch
er and he who had been the watched
duriug those nights when they had all
been puzzled by the Inconsistency be
tween her favorable symiitoms and
ber vehement complaints of pain and
weakness.
What could he do in gratitude to
the girl for her splendid conduct, her
unselfish care? Ills heart beat quick
ly, and his eyes grew moist as he
thought.of It.
And then he heard a heavy tread in
the room over his head and knew that
the farmer and his sou were getting
up.
It was S o’clock and still dark. B#t
before many minutes w r ere over the
door opened, and the old woman came
in with sticks and paper to light the
tire.
She stopped short and blinked for
the first time in ids recollection wheu
she saw the lighted candle and the
doctor sitting by the table. Ilut she
made uo comment as she went down
on her knees to her work and then pro
ceeded to prepare the table for break
fast.
In the meantime Masson had heard
the voices of Gwyn and of her father
in earnest conversation on the stairs,
md a little later he heard the farmer
and Tom go out by the back way to
their early work.
Presently the old Woman disappear
ed. And lie Was left alone until it was
nearly 7 o’clock.
Then Gwyn came in. She looked pale
and fragile, and she walked rather un
steadily, but it was plain that she was
much farther advanced on the road to
complete health than she had pretend
ed.
They stood silent, both deeply mov
ed, for some seconds until Gwyn, re
covering herself and reddening slight
ly, said in a whisper:
“I want to tell .you now—what you
vald you’d hear—the reason—the reason
'of—of what was done to you. It was
very wrong, wicked, unjustifiable, of
course, but they would not have done
you any real harm. It was only a
trick, a trick to frighten you, because
of—of jealousy.”
As she uttered the last word she
turned away and spoke slyly and.
quickly. Whatever he thought.he con
sidered it best to accept the suggestion
without open' skepticism, so he merely
Inclined his bead.
“Of course it was absurd, most ab
surd. But they do not understand. So
1 said—what I did. You heard me, did
you not?" Masson bowed his head in
assent. “1 said it to keep them quiet—
to—to get rid of them, in fact. 1 won’t
apologize, doctor, for you know why 1
did it. You are going to marry ine.
That is to be takeu for grauted as long
as you are here, but wheu you go away
—and I will find means of getting you
away—then 1 will tell them the truth,
and there will be an end of it all, of
everything."
lie came a little nearer to her and
tried to look into her face. And as he
did so the door into the washhouse
was burst open by a gust of wind
from the outer door, which opened
at that moment by the men coming in
to breakfast.
Both Qwyn and the doctor started,
and as the farmer and Tom and Coch
Tal tiled In and after the morning’s
greetings took their places at the ta
bles it was plain enough by the ex
pression of the three faces that the
little scene they had witnessed had
conveyed a very distinct impression to
their several mlruls.
Coch Tal looked ferocious, gloomy
and savage. He kept his eyes away
from the doctor, and when Gvvyn wish
ed Idm good morning he answered her
only by a curt word without looking at
her or offering any congratulation on
her reappearance down stairs.
Tom, who looked more sheepish than
ever and who betrayed, to Masson’s
The old woman came in to light the fire.
eyes, by his demeanor that he had been
one of the assailants of the night be
fore, grinned and pinched his sister’s
arm with an ugly, knowing leer.
Tregaron himself shook Masson’s
hand in a strong grip and said in a low
voice in his ear:
“I’ve heard. 1 wish you joy. My
loss w r ill be your gain, sir, gentleman
though you are, ami though It’s not for
me to say so perhaps.”
And Gwyn bit her lip as her father
kissed her and sat down in her place
with a grave face and without so
much as a glance at anybody.
The farmer, indeed, was the only
person who seemed to be quite at his
ease with the doctor. He was pleased
and proud of the engagement between
Masson and Gwyn, and he spoke free
ly of the comfort It gave him to think
of Ids little girl being settled In life,
with a “real gentleman, and one who
had saved her life," to take care of her.
He said how much he should miss her
himself and how sorry he was that she
would go so far away.
“But, then,” he added, w ith a shrewd
shake of the head, “maybe it’s as well.
After all, though, you're too much of a
gentleman to tie ashamed of us, still
we’re not grand enough folks for you,
sir, when all is said and done. It’s only
our Gwyn that’s fit for you, and there’s
the truth.”
Masson found these remarks rather
hard to reply to, but he listened and
made such feeble comments as he
could. Lie noted, while he spoke, the
piercing eyes of Coeh Tul fixed upon
him with a penetrating shrewdness
which seemed to suggest that the huge,
red bearded sou of the mountains
guessed more than Tregaron himself
did.
Or was it that lie knew more?
It was not until supper time that he
had a chance of speaking again to
Gwyn alone. He had been working
hard out of doors all day, and she had
kept out of his way when lie entered
the house at mealtimes. But he hap
pened to enter the kitchen before the
other men, and as he did so he met
Gwyn coming down stairs.
“Where will you sleep tonight?” she
asked abruptly, in a tone which be
trayed that this question had been
troubling her. ,
Masson hesitated. Then a thought
struck him.
“In the loft with Merrick, if he’ll let
me,” he answered at last.
But Gwyn was startled by the pro
posal.
“No, no,” said she. “you must not.
Let me think!’’
“You will never think of anything
better than that.” said he gently.
“Give me an acknowledged enemy
rather than a treacherous friend.”
“What do you mean? Whom do you
mean by ‘a treacherous'friend ?’”
“I mean no one in particular," an
swered Masson. “But Merrick is the
'' Wake up! I don't tmrnt to kill a sleeping
man!"
only person who has shown me open
antagonism, ami at the same time be
is the sort of man to whom I couid
trust myself.”
She seemed much struck by these
words, and she looked Into his face
attentively after he had uttered them.
"Perhaps you are right,” she said at
last In a hesitating voice. "You are
wiser than I am, of course, sir."
He opeued the door of the kitchen,
where they now heard the voices of
the others, and followed her in.
Coen Tal, who had begun bis sup
per, scowled at them both.
Massou sat down beside him and at
once opeued the matter to him by re
questing permission to sleep in a cor
ner of his loft. The peasant stared at
him in undisguised surprise.
“With me, mister!" cried he in rough,
jeering toues. “Why, sure you wouldn’t
find any feather beds there, nor yet no
pillows soft enough for your likiug!”
“I think a board and a brick would
be soft enough for me tonight," re
turned the young doctor good bumor
edly. “Aud the roof overhead is all
the luxury I want.”
The farmer had begun to protest
and to offer his owu room. But Mas
son would not hear of it. In the midst
of the dispute between them Coch
Tal’s deep voice bawled out as he
glanced first at Gwyn and then at Mas
son:
“All right, sir. You can share my
loft if you like.”
And in spite of the farmer’s angry
aud offended objections the matter was
settled thus.
Before Coch Tal reached t£e loft in
his turn Masson was fast asleep.
He was roused ten minutes later by a
rough, fierce shake, and, starting up,
he found Coch Tal bending over him,
with a savage scowl upon his face.
In one hand he held a wood chopper,
and with the other he was still clutch
ing the doctor’s arm.
“Wake up!” cried he roughly. “Wake
up! I’ve got guilt enough on my soul!
I don’t want to kill a sleeping man!
Wake up! Get up! And help me to
keep the devil down!”
And even as he spoke he raised the
ax above his head and clinched his
teeth In a look of fierce, burning
hatred.
In the flickering, misty light of the
smoking tallow candle be looked like
a demon, Masson thought as be stag
gered to his feet.
\ [to be contonced,] A3
Our Industrial Progress-
In a recent issue of The Annals
of the American Academy Senator
Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Is
land has a paper entitled “The In
dustrial Ascendency of the United
States,” which presents an inter
esting study of the economic con
ditions ot this country and Europe.
Mr. Aldridh is a profound believer
in the continued supremacy of the
United States in the commerce and
industry of the world, and his opin
ions on the subject will command
the thoughtful attention of intelli
gent readers.
Senator Aldrich’s confidence in
the permanency of our industrial
supremacy is not based upon senti
mental grounds, but upon accom
plished results and existing condi
tions. He points out that during
the ten years from 1890 to 1900 in
clusive we have made unparalleled
gains over our principal rivals,
Great Britain and Germany, in ev
ery branch of industry. Our pro
duction of pig iron, for instance,
during that period has increased
48 per cent while England’s has
increased only 17.7 per rent. Ger
many’s output shows the large in
crease of 72.3 per cent, but this is
due to the fact that her product up
to IS9O had been relatively small.
The actual gain was greatest in
this country, our increase having
been 4.400,000 gross tons as against
an increase of 3,400,000 metric
tons in Germany.
In other industries, he points
out, our gains were still more pro
nounced. The increase in cotton
spindles was 25.6 per cent, in the
United States and 4.9 per cent, in
Great Britain, the figures for Ger
many not being available. The
consumption of cotton increased
56.2 per cent, here and 9 per cent.
111 Great Britain. Our output of
coal increased 52.1 per cent. Ger
many’s increased 46.6 per cent,
and Great Britain’s increased 11.2
per cent. Our imports of raw silk
increased 52.9 per cent. Great Bri
tain’s increased 15.8 per cent, and
Germany’s increased 35.3 per cent.
The value of our manufactured
products increased 69.31 percent,
and the number of persons employ
ed in the industries represented in
creased 65.77 P er cent. During
the 14 years ending with 1899 the
domestic exports of Great Britain
increased $99,000,000, those of Ger
many increased $212,000,000, and
those of the United States increas
ed $4 78,000.000.
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BEEF, BUTTER AND MILK
ITS PRODUCTION IS OK VAST IM
PORTANCE TO SOUTH
ERN FARMERS.
A VERY INTERESTING TOPIC.
The Agricultural Department Gives
Further Information on the
Feeding of Cattle.
A. B. C., Dear Sir—This subject of
beef, butter and milk production out of
the seed, hulls and meal of the cotton
plant is of such vast moment and impor
tance to the southern farmer, to the en
richment, aggrandizement and financial
independence of this whole section that
I am not going to leave it yet at the risk
of wearying your patience. As cotton
seed meal and hulls are uot always read
ily procurable by farmer, aud as it
may, under certain conditions, pay him
better to use cottonseed instead of hulls
and meal, as for instance where he has
a long haul, and when the mills, owing
to poor trade and demand tor oil, may
not be paying as good a price for seed
as thtifr feeding value to the farmer calls
for, I will give you some rations for
feeding, using seed, instead of hulls and
meal for feeding, and recite some inter
esting experiments of the Mississippi
Experiment Station in regard thereto.
Two lots of four cows each were ta
ken, and lot No. 1 was fed this ration
for each cow: Peavine hay, 5 pounds;
silage, 20 pounds; wheat bran, 4 pounds;
oottonseed meal, 3 pounds. Lot No. 2
received as a ration for each cow, pea
vine hay, 5 pounds; silage, 20 pounds;
wheat bran, 4 pounds and cottonseed, 16
pounds. The experiment lasted for four
weeks and at the end of that period lot
No. 1 had produced 1,237 pounds of
milk, aud lot No. 2 had produced 1,834
pounds of milk, also lot No. 1 had lost
20 pounds each in weight and lot No. 2
had gained 12 pounds each in weight.
Asa result of this experiment we see
that 6 pounds of whole cottonseed are
superior to 3 pounds of cottonseed meal
both as milk and flesh producers.
EXPERIMENT NO. 2.
The same cows were fed the following
rations: Lot No. 1, to each cow pea
vine hay 5 pounds, silage 20 pounds,
wheat bran 4 pounds, cottonseed meal
3% pounds, and to lot No. 2 exactly the
same ration except that .in place of the
meal 6 pounds of whole seed were
substituted. At the end of four weeks
lot No. 1 had produced 1.403 pounds ol
milk, and lot No. 2, 1,395 pounds. The
result of this experiment indicated thal
3)4 pounds of meal are just about equal
to six pounds of seed.
EXPERIMENT NO. 3.
The same cows were f(kl the follow
ing rations: Lot No. 1 received for each
cow peavine hay 10 pounds, silage 13
pounds, wheat bran 2 pounds, corn and
cob meal 6 pounds, and cottonseed 6
pounds. Lot No. 2 received for each
cow precisely the same ration except
that 4 pounds of cottonseed meal were
given in place of the cottonseed. At the
end of the period kit No. 1 had produced
1,802 pounds of milk, aud lot No. 2 1,586
pounds, showing the 4 pounds of Aareal
to be decidedly superior to the 0 pound?
of seed. Summing up the following
(inclusions may be drawn concerning
the rations: First, that 6 pounds of seed
are superior to 3 pounds of meal; second,
that 6 pounds of seed are about equal to
3)4 pounds of meal; third, that 6 pounds
of seed are not equal to 4 pounds of meal;
fourth, that one pound of meal would
therefore be equal to 1.71 pounds of cot
ton seed.
The Mississippi station then continued
its valuable experiments comparing cot
tonseed and cottonseed meal with corn
and cob meal as milk producers. The
same quantities of peavine hay, silage
and wheat bran were fed as before, ex
cept that in these experiments cotton
seed was compared with com and cot
meal in the first set of experiments and
in the second set cottonseed meal was
compared with corn and cob meal. With
out going into the minute details of tha
experiments as before I will content my
self with giving the conclusions reached
by the station as a result of their work,
First, that the lot receiving the 6 pounds
of cottonseed gave a better yield of milk
than the one receiving 6 pounds of corn
and cob meal. Second, the lot fed 6
pounds of ootfconseed gave better results
than the one fed 8 pounds of com and
cob meal, and also that 6 pounds of corn
and cob meal gave just as much
milk as did Bof the same meal. In
the second set of experiments compar
ing cottonseed meal with corn and
00b meal the following conclusions
were reached: First, that 3 pounds ol
cottonseed meal are equal to 6 pounds ol
com and 00b meal; second, that 3 pounds
of cottonseed meal gave as satisfactory
yields of milk as 8 pounds of com and
eob meal, bat the latter caused the oows
to fatten; third, 2% pounds of ootton
seed meal are better than either 6 or 8
pounds of corn and cob meal in the dairy
rations weed; fourth, that ifi a well bal
anced dairy ration 2 pounds of corn and
eob meal are about equal to 1 pound of
cottonseed meal. Summarizing, the fol
lowing eonehiMous were drawn :
First, that 1 pound f cottonseed is
equal to 1.17 pounds of corn and cob meal
or to 0.58 of a pound of cottonseed meal.
_ Second, that 1 pound of cottonseed
meal is equal to 1.71 pounds of cotton
seed, or to 3 pounds of corn and cob
meal.
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Third, that 1 pound of corn and cob
meal is equal to one-half pound of cotton
seed meal, or to 0.85 of a pound of cotton
ovvvl.
The Mississippi station officer then
concludes as follows: “According to
these results, if com is worth 40
cents per bushel or #14.28 a ton,
cotton"ed should be worth 27.8 cents a
bushel, or $16.70, and cottonseed meal
$28.56 a ton. If cottonseed are worth
10 cents a bushel or $6.00 a ton, corn
should be worth 9.1 cents a bushel or
$5 .10 a ton, and cottonseed meal should
be worth $10.26 a ton. When cottonseed
meal is worth $16.00 a ton cottonseed
should be worth 15.4 cents a bushel or
$9.28 a ton, and com meal should be
worth 14.3 cents a bushel or SB.OO a ton.
Thus you see that the three conclusions
above are valuable to you beoause they
enable you to calculate for yourself
whether you oan afford to feed com at
all to your cattle, and from the above
figures it appears that you cannot afford
to do so at all at any price per bushel
lhat com ever sells at in this section of
the country, because its feeding value is
so far below its money value when com
pared with the feeding value and money
value of cottonseed and cottonseed meal.
Conclusion No. 1 also enables you to
tell when you aero getting a fair value for
your cottonseed. For instance, in today’s
Constitution cottonseed meal is quoted at
$22 a ton in Atlanta. If cottonseed meal
is worth $22 tlum cottonseed should bring
21.2 cents per bushel at 60 bushels to the
ton, for its feeding value as compared
with the feeding value of meal.
In the light of these important facts it
strikes me as being astonishing that no
experiments appear to have been made to
see whether horses and mules will not eat
cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls, one
or both, and if not voluntarily, whether
they could be gradually trained to do so
by mixing them gradually , and by slowly
increasing degrees with corn and oats and
hay.
I have been unable to find a record of
any such experiments if ever made, and
I am going to send a copy of this letter
to the Director of our Georgia Station
and beg him to make a test of the mat
ter at the Georgia Station. If it could
be done, even in part, it would have a
far-reaching effect in reducing our bill
to the west for corn and oats, and sub
stituting a far more efficient feed in its
nutritive value at a less cost. I will be
glad if you will write me if you have
ever tried to feed cottonseed meal or
hulls to your horses or mules.
Yours truly,
John M. McCandless,
State Chemist.
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THE CENTAUR COMPANY, Nf.WYCRK CITY.
City Government.
F M. Ford, Mayor.
H. E. Cary, Treasurer.
G.W WaldruD, Clerk.
Finance—T. R. Jonts, Chairman, J.C.
Wofford. W.T. Burton
Streets—G. S. Cobb, Chairman, J. E
Zachary. T R. Jones.
Cemetery—J. A. Monfort, Chairman,
J C. Wofford, J. P, Anderson.
Lights—W. T. Burton, Chirman, J.C,
Wofford. G. S. Cobb.
Water—W. H. Milner, Chairman, J.
A Monfort, J. E. Zaehery.
Ordinance.—J. R. Anderson, Chair
man. G. S. Cobb, J. Zachary.
Relief.—J, E. Zachary, Chairman, J.
C. Wofford. W H. Milner
Rubric Building.—J. P Anderaon,
Chairman, T. R. Jones, J. A. Monfort.
Fire Department.—W. H. Milner,
Chairman, Zachary, Burton.
Sanitary.—J, A. Monfort, ChairmaD,
Cobb, Anderson.
E.&W. R.R.OFALA
Taking Effect Oct. , 1895.
No 1 Passenger—W No 2 1> absengbii—Easy
DAILY. DAILY.
Lv Carters ville 10.00 am. Lv Pell City 7.12 am
“ Stilesboro,.lo.33 “ “ Coal City 7.40”
“ Tayl’rsv’le.lo.4B “ “ Ragland 9.20 ”
*• Rockmart .11.22 “ " Duke’s 10.40”
“Grady 11.50 “ Piedmont....l2.3B pm
“ Cedartown..l2,3s pm “ Warner's 1.30"
“Warner's ...I.llpm “ Cedartown.. 2,25 "
“ Piedmont,.. 2.10 “ “ Grady 2.44 “
“ Dnke’s .. 4.05 “ “ Rockmart... 3.08 “
“ Ragland.... 5.30 “ “ Tavl’rsv’le.. 3.36“
“ Coal City.... 8,10 “ “ Stilesboro... 3.51 "
Ar Pell CltY... 3.35 “ Ar.Cartersville.. 4.18"
No 3 Passenger—West No 4 Passenger-Eam
DAILY EX. SUNDAY. DAILY EX. SUNDAY
Lv CartersvlUe.. 8 45 pm Ly Cedartown..6.ls am
“ Stilesboro... 7.12 “ “ Grady 6.33“
" Taylorsville 7.24 “ “ Rockmart 6.56 “
“ Rockmart... 7.49 “ " Taylorsville..7.2l “
Grady 8.12 “ “ Stilesboro 7.33“
Ar Cedartown... 8,30 “ |Ar atCartersvilleß.oo '
No. 35 Passenoek—W No. 34 Passungeb-E
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“ 5ti1e5b0r0....1.37 “ “ Grady B-® ,
“ Taylorsville 1.47 “ “ R0ckmart....11.53
" R0ckmart....2.07 “ “ Taylorsville 12.13 r.m
•• Grady ...2.27 “ “ 5ti1e5b0r0....12.23
Ar Cedartown...2.4o “ Ar Cartersvllle..l2.4s'
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