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(Copyright, 1916. by W. Q. Chapman.)
When Dorothy Carteret, the only
child of Colonel Carteret, of South
Point, admitted that she was in love
with young Williams, of the Title In
surance company, her father was fu
rious. He glared speechlessly at Tom
for a few moments.
“My daughter is destined to marry a
man of her own station in life, sir!”
he stammered presently. “That’s all
I have to say to you. Dorothy, I for
bid you to speak to this young man
again. Take your hat off my desk,
sir!”
Tommy Williams threw back his
shoulders. “Whatever my position,
sir, my grandfather was a Stevens,”
he said proudly. “And the Stevens
were quite as highly esteemed as the
Carterets In South Point, even if
your grandfather did win all my grand
father’s money at poker.”
“You—you—you are telling an un
truth, sir!” shouted Colonel Carteret,
red in the face. “It is a hideous slan
der. It was euchre, sir. Good-morn
ing.”
Colonel Carteret owned almost the
whole village and the land for miles
around. He was “land poor.” Ev
eryone knew that the Carterets had
barely enough for the necessities of
life. Jim Bnnks, the Title Insurance
president, could have bought them out
many times over. But the colonel held
his head pretty high, and Tom was
simply an outsider when it came to
the matter of a husband for Dorothy.
Tom went away feeling pretty blue.
As he confided to his mother:
“If Carteret’s grandfather hadn’t
been a poker or euchre shark and
fleeced in.v grandfather, all this prop
erty would have been mine, and Dor
othy would have been working foi>
Banks, probably as his stenographer.”
“Tom, Colonel Carteret was the soul
of honor,” replied his mother. “I re-
9BKSn urj vßf /
Spent the Afternoon Rummaging
Through the Papers.
member seeing him when I was a lit
tle girl. Although there was naturally
a restraint between our families ufter
your grandfather’s unfortunate gam
bling experiment, old Mr. Williams
would never allow a word to be spoken
against his former friend.”
"Well, that honors grandfather, not
old Carteret,” said Tom, huffily.
A despairing note from Dorothy ar
rived the next morning at the hands
of a negro boy, sworn to secrecy. She
wrote that she dared not see Tom
again as long as her father was alive;
but she would always love him, and
some day perhaps, if he had been true
to her, he should have his reward.
The note was blotted with tears.
Tom squared his shoulders and went
on working for the insurance company.
Tom was Jim Banks’ secretary, and
earning a decent salary. Those who
got an inkling of the affair admitted
that the colonel had not acted fairly.
It was known that Dorothy was pale
and had lost interest In affairs. But
her father was as obstinate as she.
“I’m mighty sorry, Tom,” said ge
nial Jim Banks one afternoon, when
he felt in on expansive mood. “She’s
a gem, that girl is. And now I come
to think of it, I seem to remember
there was something funny about that
property of Carteret’s. Suppose you
look through those tin boxes of papers
that we got from the old land office af
ter the war.”
“The deeds, sir?”
“Deeds, I suppose, but they haven’t
legal force any more. You see, the
commissioners went through all land
titles in 1871 and drew up fresh deeds,
invalidating these. No, they’re just
curiosities. But there was something,
if my memory isn’t playing me a
trick.”
Tom spent the afternoon rummaging
through the faded yellow papers. It
was at the bottom of the last box that
he found the deed.
“Hum!” said Banks, running his eye
over it. “Yes, came to the Williams
family through the Chief Algonquinka.
Price a pound of beads—brass; one
hogshead of tobacco; a dozen rifles;
powder horns—yes, quite regular.
Here’s your grandfather’s transfer.
Hello! What’s this?”
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
Attached to the deed was a papei
written In faded Ink. Tom and Jim
Banks looked at It with Increasing as
tonishment.
“My dear old friend,” it read. “Of
course I am not going to take your
property. Keep it and let’s call the
affair over. Ever yours, Theophilus
Carteret.”
They looked at each other and Tom
drew in a deep breath.
“Then it’s mine!” he said. “All the
property.”
"I’m afraid not,” answered Banks.
“Your grandfather was evidently too
proud to accept it back. And a sim
ple offer has, of course, no validity in
law.”
“But it is mine morally!”
“Morally be hanged. No, you haven’t
even a moral right after all these
years!”
“Lend me that deed, Mr. Banks,”
said Tom, with war in liis eyes.
“Take it, my boy. What are you
going to do? Turn Carteret out in the
cold?”
Tom smiled, put on his hat, and went
over to the Carteret place. From her
window above Dorothy looked down
in wonder and awe. A minute later,
as he stood before the colonel, Tom
heard the faint 6wlsh of her skirts in
the passage outside.
“Well, sir?” demanded Colonel
Carteret.
“Read that,” said Tom, placing the
document beneath his nose.
The colonel read It and he turned
redder than before. He looked up, and
his voice had the growl of a savage—
such a growl as might have been
emitted by Algonquinka.
“It’s an Infamous forgery, sir. And,
even if it isn’t, where Is the proof that
your grandfather accepted my grand
father’s generous, manly offer?”
The door opened and Dorothy came
in. “Tom!” she cried. “You are not
quarreling with father?"
“No, dear,” said Tom. “Colonel
Carteret,” he went on, “I admit that
this document has no legal validity.
But It shows that if your grandfather
was generous, my own was no less
generous. You can no longer talk
about our different stations in life.
Morally, I am the owner of this place,
and you are —you are secretary to Mr.
Banks.”
The colonel was beyond speech. He
glared as if his eyes would pop out of
his head. And just then Dorothy's
feminine intuition struck the psy
chological moment. She ran to her
father and put her arms about his
neck. “We love each other, father,”
she whispered.
Slowly the frown faded off the col
onel’s face. He sighed. Then he got
up and held out his hand.
“You’ve won,” he said. “I guess
you’re the winner, in this game. My
grandfather always said your grand
father knew how to make the most
of his—”
“Poker hand, sir?" asked Tom with
a smile.
“Confound you, no! Euchre, sir!
Euchre!”
SNAKES THAT DIE TWICE
Reptiles Frozen Stiff Are Resuscitated
by Use of Hot Water by
Crafty Dealer.
A naturalist tells how, in the thicket
of a mountainside, he once saw a man
kill a rattlesnake. He beat the life
out of it with a club, and continued
the pounding until it was mangled be
yond recognition. When the naturalist
remonstrated, the man said: “You
can’t kill a rattlesnake too dead.”
On one oceusion a boat bound for
the United States from Rio de Janeiro
touched at Pernambuco, where the
mate drove a burgain with a snake
dealer for a half-dozen reptiles of vari
ous sizes.
The mate had them in a cage on
deck, and charged a sailor with the
duty of washing it out with sea water
every evening. All went well as long
as the weather was mild, but on the
night before the gulf stream was
crossed the sailor left a quantity of
water in the cage and, about thirty
hours from port, a biting gale struck
the ship.
All hands were busy with the storm,
and the snakes were forgotten. When
the mate thought of them and went
back to look after their condition he
found them frozen stiff, and apparently
as dead as the proverbial door-nail.
The dealer from whom the mate had
bought them came on board the fol
lowing day. He professed great dis
appointment over the loss of the in
tended purchase, but offered to take
the snakes away as a kindness to the
mate. He gathered them in his arms
like so much firewood and carried them
home. But a rival dealer afterward
told the officer that plenty of warm
water had resuscitated the snakes and
that they had been sold to various
museums not a bit worse for their
“death” by freezing.
Edison’s Health Rules.
I’m playing chess with nature. I
eat three meals a day. That’s habit,
and nothing else, but I eat a quarter
of what the average man does. I know
it, because I see it at my own table.
Man is not perfect yet, and you can’t
take alcohol away from him all at
once. Beer has 4 per cent alcohol. Cut
down the percentage to 2 or 1%. then
to 1 per cent. Cut out whisky and
strong drinks at once. The theory is
this: Every man’s stomach is übout
the same size. Beer with 2 per cent
alcohol will never make the average
man drunk, because he can’t get
enough into his stomach. Cut down
the alcohol until he can get merry, but
not ugly. Of tobacco, I would as soon
see a man with a revolver as a boy
with a cigarette. I’d have a law
against them for anyone under twenty
one.”
KEEPING HENS IN ORDINARY FARM FLOCK
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Ordinary, Mixed Farm Flock.
Experience has convinced many that
it pays in the ordinary farm flock to
keep hens for three years before turn
ing them off.
The greatest egg yield can be ex
pected during the pullet year, and
many poultrymen advocate keeping
them only for that length of time.
They pay about as good returns for
the work and expense given them dur
ing the succeeding two years in the
average farm flock.
One of the big outlays of both time
and capital in the poultry business is
the raising of chicks. If the hens drop
off laying in September or October
and get busy once more early in the
year, they can be carried through the
period of rest much cheaper than pul
lets can be raised. So, since poultry
is only a very profitable side line with
us, many believe the keeping of hens
reduces the work of chicken raising
without materially reducing the in
come, says a writer in an exchange.
Most hens generally consider their
year’s work completed in September
or early October. They are as care
fully and generously fed during the
molting season as when they are lay
ing. An occasional bird begins laying
in November, a few more during the
next month, and by the first of Feb
CAUSE OF SOFT-SHELL EGGS
Lack of Lime May Be Aided by Feed
ing Oyster Shells—Another Help
Is Green Stuff.
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The laying of soft-shelled eggs may
be caused by the lack of shell-forming
material in the food they get; for ex
ample, the lack of lime. This can be
aided in a measure by the feeding
of oyster shells, that is, the ground
prepared shells. These contain so
much lime that they help out in a
great measure. Another help is the
feeding of a little slaked lime in the
soft feed, say a tablespoonful of lime
to 15 to 20 hens. This lime will aid
in the production of eggs very mate
rially if fed regularly for some weeks.
Another cause of soft-shelled eggs be
ing produced by a good healthy flock
is the lack of green stuff. This fur
nishes the shell-forming material in
the best possible form and should not
be neglected. This is one reason
why hens so often lay them in the win
ter time.
Another fruitful source of the trou
ble is the feeding stimulants and con
diments of various kinds. Poultry
keepers so often get the habit of feed
ing stimulating foods in order to get
their hens to laying in cold weather,
forgetting that such a course, while
they may obtain the desired results,
yet is at the sacrifice of the health of
their hens. Such a course may be all
right where one has a bunch of layers
that he does not care for further than
to get all the eggs from them that he
possibly can. If he does not expect to
keep such hens but the one laying
HOW TO MAKE A RATPROOF CHICKEN COOP
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Ratproof Coop for Chicks.
The accompanying illustration
shows one of the best coops for either
incubator chicks or hen with chicks
that we have ever used, says a writer
in Farm Progress. The coop is com
posed of brood chamber and run, being
In total length 6 feet 6 inches and 3
feet wide. The brood chamber is 2
feet by 3 feet, inside measurement, by
20 inches high in the rear and 24
inches high in front.
The run is 10 inches high, being con
structed of planed boards 10 inches
wide, which extend in one piece the
full length of the coop. Pine lumber
is used throughout.
For handling the chicks and clean
ing out the brood chamber this com
partment is provided in front with a
hinged door. From a center board
running across the middle of the run
at the top two cover doors for the run
are hinged. These doors are simply
light, wooden frames covered with
small-meshed poultry netting to let in
sun and air and to keep out poultry
enemies. They are easily raised and
ruary you can depend upon a generous
basketful. With the Leghorns there
seems to be no tendency toward over
fatness. The few that become broody
as spring advances are “broken up”
in a humane manner and are back on
the nest with a “red face” in a few
days.
They are given a free range and
all the care vouchsafed the pullets.
Last year our hens made an average
of ten dozen per head. Many of these
were laid during the months of cheap
cgRS, but not all by any means. Dur
ing August they laid as heavily as
in April, and August prices are not to
be scorned. At that time they picked
much of their living about the fields
and grain stacks. It was very dry,
so we supplied them with all the green
food in the way of early cabbage and
sprouted oats that they would con
sume. Abundance of food postponed
the molt and kept them “on their job.”
At the end of their third laying
year they are sold at once. After that
age hens seem more susceptible to
disease, and we consider it a risk to
keep them longer. The secret of get
ting old hens to lay seems to rest in
keeping them busy, giving them free
range, plenty of good food, an abun
dance of green stuff.
s4hson, and does not want to use any
of their eggs for hatching, It may be
all right. But all such stimulation
by the feeding of so-called egg pro
ducers, cayenne pepper and the like,
over-stimulates the organs of repro
duction until they become weakened
and unable to hold the eggs as formed
until they are shelled over, and for
that reason they are voided while in
that soft state.
TREATMENT FOR BROODY HEN
Practical and Humane Way Is to lso«
late Her in Open, Airy Coop
in Sight of Others.
The sensible way to treat a broody
hen is to treat her as a laying hen.
She has temporarily stopped laying,
and with proper treatment can soon
be brought to laying again. The prac
tical and humane way is to confine
her in an open, airy coop in sight of
the outside hens, and provide roost
for her at night. While confined, give
the same, or better, care in the way
of food, drink and comfort as the hens
outside receive.
Confining a broody hen for a day or
longer in a tub of water where she
must stand up continuously, or hang
ing her up in a suck for three duys
without food or water are methods
that are neither humane nor econom
ical.
Compel Hens to Exercise.
If hens are confined, a good way to
feed corn is to feed it on the ear, thus
compelling the hpns to exercise in
getting it off the cob.
lowered in feeding and caring for the
chicks.
The roof of the brood chamber and
the floor of the same are of matched
pine flooring, very heavily painted with
the best white lead and oil paint. The
underside of the floor and all wooden
parts resting on the ground are heavily
painted for preservation. The entire
coop is heavily painted inside and out
side to seal small cracks against dis
ease and insects.
The floor is on two-inch crosspieces
two inches above the ground to insure
dryness of brooder floor. Heavy wood
en strips are nailed vertically in all
corners for added strength. About 50
feet of lumber was used in the con
struction, which costs $1.25. The cost
of the paint was 75 cents, or a total
of $2 for the finished coop for ma
terial. I did the work myself.
The special value of a coop of this
kind is that it is a good protection
against cold spring winds, while being
well ventilated and sunny inside. It is
easily moved about, safe and durable.
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The Limit.
“We Kiris had hardships when we
camped out. Only one drinking glass
among five girls.”
“Horrors!"
“And only one mirror.”
“Good night.”
Tennessee Druggists Praise
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root
We have been handling Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root for twenty-six years and it
always gives entire satisfaction to my
customers who use it and they speak in
the highest terms of the good results
obtained from the remedy. We believe
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is a fine kid
ney and liver medicine.
Very truly yours,
SIMONS & ROWELL,
Winchester, Tenn.
November 11th, 1915.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bot
tle. It will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor
mation, telling about the kidneys and blad
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.—Adv.
Refuted.
“I’ve been told that every cent Dub
vvaite makes goes on Mrs. Dubwalte’s
back.”
“That isn’t so.”
“I’m glad to hear it.”
“Don’t I see Dubwaite smoking
stogies every day that he buys him
self?”
If your boss is dissatisfied, just men
tion the fact to him find perhaps he
will permit you to resign.
THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by
using “La Creole” Hair Dressing. —Adv.
Painted in Seventy-Two Hours.
There is a picture in tins year’s show
at the Royal academy which has a
singular history. It was painted by
an artist who is notv a captain on ac
tive service, but the picture is not the
one which he showed to his friends
at this year’s contribution. The original
was of a sunset over a plowed field, a
fine landscape in a style which has dis
tinguished the artist. Five monthsago
the painter was home on leaveT and he
spent it working over his picture. To
day the canvas shows the plowed field
and the sunset; but it also shows six
soldiers fallen about a cannon, into
the breech of which one gunner is
placing the last shell. It Is a fine pic
ture, and by no means a pot-boiler.
The captain witnessed the Incident he
depicts. The fortunate thing was that
the landscape was ready for the figures
—for no academy picture could be
painted during 72 hours’ leave.
A Gratification.
“You go to church more frequently
than you used to.”
“Yes. And apart from the instruc
tion I derive a great deal of satisfac
tion from my attendance. It’s a great
comfort to be where people sing and
play fine music without anybody’s
spoiling it by putting in ragtime words
or wanting to dance.”
Chilly, in Fact.
Singleton—Didn’t you find it pretty
hot last night out your way?
Wedleigh—No! I arrived home late
and got a very cool reception.
ifeS! Gr “p* Nuts itm
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Everybody needs it —
stored for emergency in a
well-developed, well-pre
served, well - nourished
body and brain.
Grape-Nuts food stands
preeminent as a builder of
this kind of energy. It is
made of the entire .nutri
ment of whole wheat and
barley, two of the richest
sources of food strength.
Grape-Nuts also includes
the vital mineral elements of
the grain, so much emphasized
in these days of investigation
of real food values.
Crisp, ready to eat, easy to
digest, wonderfully nourishing
and delicious.
“There’s a Reason”
for Grape-Nuts