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DICKERSON, KELLY & ROBERTS Attorneys at Law Tanner-Dickerson Building, DOUGLAS, GA. W. C. Lankford. R. A. Moore. LANKFORD & MOORE Lawyers DOUGLAS GEORGIA. DR. WILL SIBBETT, Treatment of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat a Specialty. DOUGLAS, GA. W. C. BRYAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Lankford Building, DOUGLAS, GA. CHASTAIN & HENSON ATTORNEYS AT LAW Overstreet Building DOUGLAS GEORGIA. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PAPER. DR. GORDON BURNS Physician and Surgeon Office Union Bank Building DOUGLAS, GA. F. WILLIS DART ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Bank Building DOUGLAS. GA. , W. H. HUGHES, D. C. CHIROPRACTOR Union Bank Building, DOUGLAS, GA. DR. T. A. WEATHERS DENTIST AMBROSE, GA. DR. E. B. MOUNT VETERINARY SURGEON Douglas, Georgia Office: J. S. Lott’s Stable TURRENTINE & ALDERMAN DENTISTS Union Bank Building DOUGLAS. GA. • . J. W. QUINCEY ■ Attorney and Counselor at Law ■ Union Bank Building . DOUGLAS GEORGIA. >++♦++ + ♦ + + ♦ + McDonald & Willingham Attorneys at Law Third Floor Union Bank Bldg. DOUGLAS. . . . GEORGIA. + + + ♦ + + ♦♦ + *♦ DR. JAMES DeLAMAR Office in Langford Bldg. Hoars 11 a, m. to 1 p. m. Sunday 9 to 11 L m. DOUGLAS, GA. QUR TIME, knowledge and experience in the printing basinets. For Sale When you are b need al some thin g in th» iiw DON'T FORGET THU Euchred! Bd GEORGE MUNSON (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 . .. .'/vv ... ” *;> - t - - - * • ' * :<*.•: v : 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. * 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 y:; ! -I Vjii u :■ :|« . e FEET, 6 INCHES ' > 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. THE HIGH QUALITY SEWING MACHINE NEV*KQME NOT SOLD UNDER ANY OTHER NAME Write for free booklet‘‘Points to be considered before purchasing a Sewing Machine.” Learn the facts. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINECO..ORANGE,MASS. TEACHERS WANTED schools, 160 to 575. (2) Ladles combining music ana common Bcboo 1 , unprecedented demandT (3) Grade and high school. Can place all qualified teachers for any of the above. Write today Southern Teachers' A gVy, 17-21 Carolina Bash H’df .Columbia,S.Ce Start Your l ord From the Seat. Get a Titan Starter. Prevents backfire; guaranteed; fast seller; agents wanted: liberal commission. Chesley Vincent, I)I»., Talking Rock, (ia. 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! 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