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For the lady who lived at Hlllcrest,
mistress of that splendid estate, Al
bion Weare had always entertained
the highest respect —and something
more. She was thirty, the bloom on
her cheek a trifle faded, but his ideal
still. How he reverenced her!
He did not know it, in his blind
humility, but Miss Helen Tyrell re
spected him infinitely Whenever she
had a party of close friends at a so
cial function at the elaborate old
mansion, Albion was honored with an
invitation. He was master complete
of the violin, she a mistress of song
and piano Those hours of mutual
music bewitchment neither would
ever forget.
He was thinking of Miss Tyrell
now. and very seriously. She was
rich, he was poor. It was his humble
trend of mind —ever descanting his
real ability—that kept him back. As
chemist of the great drug factory lo
cated at the edge of the town he
was of value* but it was the policy of
the company to take advantage of
him.
Now he had made a discovery of
importance. He had come across it
quite by chance and in his own pri
vate laboratory at home. In it his
employers had no part or parcel. It
involved a new process for securing
from illuminating oils over 50 per
cent additional power.
“If I tell them up at the works
about It they will simply appropriate
it, just as they have other fruits of
my labor," soliloquized Albion. “No,
I feel certain my discovery is im
portant and valuable. I have written
to a broker in Chicago. He wants
two thousand dollars advance fees and
organization money. I have a thou
sand. If I could only borrow and addi
tional like amount —but Miss Tyrell—-
no! no! I cannot bring myself to ask
her for it."
How willingly, how gladly, would
she have accommodated him! And
he knew that this was so. He feared,
however, to disturb their cherished
harmonious relations. Business was
a harsh element; it might lead to
ithe impairment of their pure and ten
der friendship. So Albion put the sug
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Made a Discovery of Importance.
gestion of borrowing from Miss Tyrell
completely out of his mind.
There was a last resource, but Al
bion hesitated for a long time before
he was driven to employ it. This was
to mortgage the quaint old-fashioned
and not very valuable homestead in
the village that had been left to him
by his dead mother. He felt it almost
sacrilegious the day he affixed his
signature to a mortgage for one
thousand dollars, but there was no
way out of it if he expected to ex
ploit his formula.
Albion did not inform Miss Tyrell
of his plans. He secured a leave of
absence of a month from the works
and simply told her that he would
probably be absent most of that time
in the city. She missed him before he
had been gone a week. She wrote him
friendly letters showing that she es
teemed him. and they were sweet balm
to his anxious soul at the most try
ing period of his life.
For .Albion, inexperienced in the
ways of the professional promoter and
financier, was suddenly confronted
with worry and complication that
tested all his faith and nerve. The
broker had proceeded to develop his
formula by organizing a stock com
pany. This cost money. There was
expensive advertising, there were
large fees to pay to expert chemists
and engineers. The two thousand
dollars was soon used up.
“A thousand more and we shall see
daylight," promised the broker.
"Impossible!" groaned Albion ‘‘l
*have absolutely exhausted my last re
source."
“Too bad to fail now. when a few
weeks' further negotiations will place
us in a fully organized condition. Are
you willing to borrow the new thou
sand ?”
“But I have no security to give,"
declared Albion, gloomily.
“Oh, yes, you have,” insisted the
glib apd resourceful promoter—
“there’s the stock of the company.”
“It isn’t worth its face —’’ began Al
bion.
“No, not yet, but it will be some
time," declared the optimistic broker.
“If you are willing to put up a con
trolling block of the stock as collateral
I can get you the loan."
“Go ahead,” acceded Albion, though
not hopefully.
So, following devious ways, the
broker financed the proposition along
until one day the end came. The
people who had loaned the money de
manded its return, with exorbitant in
terest as due, and threatened to seize
and sell out the cherished life work of
Albion for a mere song.
“I’ve got to go back home!” de
clared Albion. “I'm half sick, totally
discouraged and almost hopeless of
’ raising any more capital. How long
have the creditors given us to pay the
amount?”
“Ten days.”
“I’ll try," said Albion, but weakly.
He started for home really ill and
arrived at the little quiet home town
prostrated with a dangerous fever.
Of what transpired during the next
three weeks Albion Weare knew little,
and that during brief lucid moments.
In one of these’he smiled faintly as
his nurse gently informed him that
she had been sent by Miss Tyrell.
Then within an hour Albion was back
in the grasp of the wasting fever,
raving over the lost investment, the
days of grace, the end of which would
see him bereft of his great discovery.
At times, however, his delirious
mood grew into soft and tender ap
peals to the woman to whom he had
never told his love. And in the ad
joining room Helen Tyrell hid her
blushing face in her hands, and her
breath came quicker, and the swift
tears told of the deep, heartfelt inter
est she felt in this lonely man, buf
fetted so cruelly by the adverse tides
of fate.
One evening Miss Tyrell was visited
by a stranger. He was the bpyker
who had vainly awaited the promised
return of his client to the city. It
was natural that he should tell the
story disclosing the negotiations of
Albion. In the wealthy heiress he
found a willing and sympathetic aud
itor.
The nurse attending Albion hastened
into the sick room one beautiful June
morning at the unexpected call of her
patient. Her face brightened, for in
one glance at the bed she had read
the first tokens of a past crisis and
the promise of convalescence in the
wasted face.
He was straining his eyes towards
a calendar upon the opposite wall.
He motioned to the nurse weakly.
“Tell me,” he spoke hoarsely— “the
—the day of the month.”
Innocently she named it. A deep
groan burst from the lips of the sick
man and he fell back prostrated, with
the words:
“Six days too late! I have lost
everything.” Then he was awake and
sensible for the rest of the day, but
there was a set, hopeless expression
to his face that the experienced nurse
did not like to see there. When Miss
Tyrell came she told her of the in
cident. In a moment Helen read the
situation —and its remedy.
“Mr. Weare,” she spoke gently, al
most tenderly, as she approached the
bedside of the patient.
His eager soul in his wasted face,
Albion took her hand in a fervent
clasp.
“Are you strong enough to hear a
little, a very little, about business?”
she interrogated.
‘‘l have little business left," he
sighed, but gave a weak assent to ner
proposition.
And then she told of the broker
coming to her, of redeeming the stock
Just in time, of her supplying new
capital—and the company was a suc
cess!
“You did this all for me,” he choked
out, because—”
“Because you are my dearest
friend,” she said, and her eyes were
fond and loving. “Oh! why did you
not tell me of your need for money?
Alas! I can help you no further, for
your discovery has made you very
rich.”
What came of it all? Greater wealth
for faithful, patient Albion Weare—
the added riches of the love of a true
woman.
(Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.)
Guawoona Javelin Throwers.
My experience with the Guawoonas
occurred some years ago, wffien they
were in the height of their indepen
dence. narrates Capt. S. A. Risley, an
American Civil war veteran, to Guy
Elliott Mitchell of the United States
geological survey, in the Wide World.
They owed no allegiance to anyone,
save a slight regard for their elective
chiefs, and they feared neither man,
beast nor devil. I have heard of Gua
woona hunters fighting and slaying
jaguars with machete or javelin, single
handed. For their Indian neighbors—
sturdy fighters, too —they had only con
tempt. It was their boast that they
never retreated from the foe Defore ac
counting for a number equal to their
own. and many times they cut their
way through greatly superior num
bers of both Indian and Spanish-Vene
zuelan enemies. They were the Zulus
of Venezuela.
A-weary.
“Don’t you get tired of having noth
ing to do?”
Nothing to do!” echoed Mr. Cum
rox “I haven't had a real rest since
I was doin' regular work. What I
want is an eight-hour law to regulate
this round of pleasure mother and the
girls have got me into.”
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGIfAS, GEORGIA.
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After working and experimenting
with heated houses and then with
glass front houses and various other
kinds, many poultrymen and investiga
tors came to the conclusion that they
had not yet discovered the right way
to build their poultry houses. Then
came a radical change. It was from
the closed warm house to the curtain
front house. These houses were con
structed with two windows in front,
one at each end, and in the center a
long opening. The bottom of this open
window was high enough from the
floor so there was no direct draft on
the birds. The walls of the house
were built absolutely tight so there
were no drafts. The opening was cov
ered only by a light cotton curtain.
Thorough trials of this style of house
developed the fact that the fowls kept'
in such buildings were more healthy
and vigorous and produced more
eggs than under other systems. So
that now the curtain-front house has
come to be generally accepted as the
most desirable poultry house to build.
The free circulation of air through the
house removes all dampness, the litter
is kept dry, and the birds scratch free
ly in it.
After several years of experiment
ing the Maine agricultural experiment
station has adopted the following plan
as the most economical in construc
tion:
Each pen 20x20 feet will house 100
birds; a house may be made up of as
many or as few sections or pens as
the owner desires. A door in each
partition will make it easy to do the
work. In long houses one end section
may be left for a feed room.
Three 6x6-ineh sills run the length
of the house, the center one supports
the floor timbers in the middle of the
house, while the outside ones rest on
a rough stone wall, high enough from
the ground for dogs and cats to go
under the building to look after rats,
etc., that may harbor there. The
stone wall rests on the surface of the
ground, with large openings in it ev
ery 20 feet to allow the circulation of
air. This keeps the ground and tim
bers dry during the summer. The
floor timbers are 2x6 inches and rest
on top of the sills. The front studs
are eight feet, six inches high. The
two sides of the roof are unequal in
width, the ridge being eight feet from
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the front wall. The height of the
ridge from the sill to the extreme top
of rafters is 12 feet 4 inches. All
studding is 2x4 inches. The building
is covered with one inch rough lum
ber, then papered and covered with
rustic siding. The roof is covered with
one-inch boards and thin building pa
per, and then shingled. The cost of
the building may be lessened by using
shiplap for the sides and by covering
with a high grade roofing paper.
The front of the bujlding or of each
section has storm windows, 2 feet
11 inches by 4 feet 6 inches. These
glass windows are screwed on up
rights 2 feet 8 inches from each end
of the room. They are three feet above
the floor. The distance between the
windows is 8 feet 10 inches, and the
top part of it, to a depth of 3 feet 6
inches from the plate, is not boarded
up. but is left open to be covered by a
cloth curtain when necessary. This
leaves a tight wall 3 feet 10 inches
high, extending from the bottom of the
opening down to the floor, which pre
vents the wind from blowing on the
birds when they are on the floor. A
door, 2 feet' 10 inches wide, for en
trance to the yard, is made in the front
wall. The lower half is boarded, the
upper covered by the curtain. Another
door, 15x15 inches, is placed six inches
from the floor under one of the win
dows for the birds to pass through the
front yard. A similar door in the cen
ter of back wall admits them to the
rear yard. A light frame, made of Ix -
inch strips and lx6-inch cross tees, is
covered with ten-ounce white duck or
unbleached sheeting and hinged at the
top of the frent opening, which it cov
ers when closed down. This curtain
is easily turneu up into the room and
held in place by hooks in the ceiling.
The roost platform should be made
tight. It extends the full length of the
room against the back wall, and is
4 feet 10 inches wide and three feet
above the floor. It is then high
enough for a person to get under when
necessary to handle the birds or clean
out the house. There are three roosts,
framed together in two 10-foot sec
tions. The top is one foot above the
platform and hinged to the back wall,
so they may be turned up out of the
way when the platform is being
cleaned. The back roost is 12 inches
from the wall, and the spaces between
the next two are 16 inches. They are
made of 2x3-inch lumber placed on
edge, with the upper corners rounded
off. The roosting closet is shut off
from the rest of the room by curtains
similar to the one described for the
front of the house. For convenience
in handling there are two of these
curtains, each 9 feet 8 inches long and
three feet wide, hinged at the top so
as to be turned out and hooked up.
This leaves a space of 2 feet 6 inches
between the curtain and the roof. This
space is ceiled, and in it are two open
ings, each three feet long and six
inches wide, provided with a slide
door for ventilating the roosting closet
when necessary. The nests are placed
on framework under the roosting
board. This frame should extend at
least three inches beyond the back of
the nests, add should be so arranged
that they may be easily removed for
cleaning.
If several of these houses are Joined
together to make one long laying
house, a door should be placed in ev
ery compartment five inches out from
the edge of the roosting platform.
These doors are three feet wide and
seven feet high, divided in the middle
lengthwise, and each half is hung with
double-acting spring hinges, allowing
it to swing both ways and to be kept
closed without attention.
Extending across the building and
through the center of the doorways a
track of wood or iron may be placed
for the ready movement of a suspend
ed car. The platform of this car should
be 2xß feet and elevated about one
foot above the floor. Attached to each
end of the platform is an iron guard
which projects one foot beyond. As
the car passes through the building
this guard strikes the doors and
pushes them open easily. All food and
water can be carried through the
house on this car, and it will prove a
great labor saver in a long laying
house. The droppings from the roost
ing boards may also be removed on
it, being gathered in pails or boxes,
loaded on the car and pushed to the
manure shed.
CHICKENS' RELISH A VARIETY
Fowls Need Something Bulky and
Succulent to Take Place of Grass
and Green Vegetation.
When digging potatoes, artichokes
or other crops, store some in a place
easily accessible and do not forget to
give your fowls the benefit of them.
The poultry needs something bulky
and succulent to take the place of the
tender grass and other green vegeta
tion on which they have been feeding
for months.
Remember, an exclusive grain ration
is to concentrated.
Give them something “filling" for a
change and see how they will enjoy
it. Variety is spice for hens as well
as humans, and healthy fowls are the
result if this truth is kept in mind,
and incidentally we might say, healthy
fowls fill the egg basket.
Don’t Use Diseased Fowl.
No fowl should ever be used in the
breeding pen that at one time in its
life had a contagious disease. But no
harm can come from using birds that
had been afflicted with slight colds or
frozen combs.
Easily Settled.
"What’s the trouble about the pro
gram?"
“This prima donna insists that her
name be in larger letters than that of
the trained chimpanzee.”
“Let her have it that way,” direct
ed the vaudeville manager. “The monk
is intelligent, but he hasn’t arrived at
the point where he is going to kick
about the way we print his name.”
Don’t Poison Baby.
FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have
PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce
sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY wiil produce the SLEEP
FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who
have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda
num and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggis’-a
are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or
to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of “narcotic
is : “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison
ous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death." The taste and
smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names
of “ Drops,” “ Cordials,” “ Soothing Syrups,” etc. You should not permit any
medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know
of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT
CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature
of Chas. H. Fletcher. /I? ,
Henuiue Castoria always bears the signatare of /'CctcJute
City’s Location.
A woman from the South visiting
New York for the first time was much
agitated when, after being conveyed
through the Hudson tube, she found
herself in another subway. Rushing
up to a knowing-looking individual,
she asked, in an agitated tone:
“Sir, do please tell me where is
New York?”
“Lady,” said he, with the utmost
gravity, ”it’s right at the top of those
stairs." —Harper’s Magazine.
DO NOT HESITATE
To Use Cuticura on Skin-Tortured
Babies. Trial Free.
A hot bath with Cuticura Soap and
gentle application of Cuticura Oint
ment at once relieve, permit rest and
sleep and point to speedy healment
of eczemas, rashe3, itchings and irri
tations of infants and children even
in severe cases.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
European News.
“Got the paper, my dear?”
“Yes."
“Well, what’s the Russian news
from Timbuctoo and the German news
from Tokyo?”—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Hanford’s Balsam. Economy in
large sizes. Adv.
Pennsylvania divorce laws are more
lax than those of most eastern states,
approaching even those of some of the
western states in this respect.
10c Worth of (SD P0Nl)%?.
Will Clear SI.OO Worth of Land
Get rid of the stumps and grow
crops on cleared land. Now
is Bme to clean up your farm
while products bring high prices. Blasting is
jiv Yd quickest, cheapest and easiest with Low Freez
-1 VK\l . * ng > ° nt They work in cold
/ y ■ Writ* for Free Handbook of Explosives No. 69F,
d, -7 M \\ and name of nearest dealer.
St DU PONT POWDER COMPANY
WILMINGTON DELAWARE
A Coffee Pot almost as tall
as the Statue of Libertv F )
To brew all the Arbuckles’Coffee (L
used every week would require a M /' \ -•
coffee pot almost as tall as the ISST J \ J
Statue of Liberty 305 feet high. “
mo9t popular coffee in America. Arbuckle
signatures are good for premiums. Save iy V r
Keen Financiering.
Lady—What will you charge me for
the use of a horse and buggy for a few
hours?
Liveryman—lt will cost you two dol
lars for the first hour and one dollar
for each additional hour.
Lady—Well, I’ll use the two addi
tional hours. I’ve got some shopping
to do and will not require it for the
first hour.
The Summing Up.
”W T hich nations do you think are
going to win in the war?”
“Well, as to that, I think they all
have a fighting chance.”
Comparative Fun.
"That fellow had the nerve to tell
me to bant.”
“Oh, that was only his banter.”
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Sliced Dried Beef
Both contain less heat producing
properties than heavy meats.
Try them for summer luncheons
and picnic tidbits.
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Chicago
B Insist on Libby’s at
your grocer'.
Send for Fall Catalogue
and bulbs. Singer the Florist, K. 1, Harrodsburg.Ky.