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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 3, ig 18
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her inosf self-revealing mood, did not, SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
tell Ward, and that Is her doubts of
him. Never once did be dream that |
BUYING LIBERTY BONDS
she had suspected him and wrung her Arn)y Y . M. C. A. Is Assistino Men Ir !
heart because of her suspicions—and Carrylng 0 ut The Thrift Idea While
8erving Their Country.
In that I think she was wise and klm).
They found Seabeck and Floyd Car
son and another cowboy at the Cove,
Just preparing to leave. Marthy, It. <.
trnnsplred, had sent for them because Baving money,
she wanted to make her will, so that \ word from France. Many of them are
Nearly all our
fighting men are
the latest
Jllly Louise closed the door and'lier
tlf-bpen mouth and let- down her
’ted eyelids. Standing with her back
;alnst the wall, she turned that some-
Ing—an envelope—over twice, then
re oft the end and pulled out the
ntents. It was the note she and Mur-
y had signed no longer thnn an hour
o, and written large across the fuce
It were the words: “Paid, Samuel
tabeck.”
: “The—old—darling 1" sold Billy Lou-
? under her breuth and went straight
to show it to Marthy.
CHAPTER XVIII.
All Right and Comfy.
r IE next morning Billy Louise
rode up the creek ut a long lope,
and she pulled up at the stable
d slid off Blue. She went straight
Went Straight to the Hay Corral
and Stepped.
i corner of the hay corral and
ped with her handa clutching the
vire.
7ard Warren, for heaven's sake,
: are you doing 7" You couldn’t
told from her tone thnt she had
crying, a mile back, from sheer
jty, or that she “loved him to
•s.” She sounded as If she did not
him at all and was merely disgust
1th his actions.
•n trying to sink my loop on this
; ird-head of a horse,” Wnrd re-
} glumly. "I’ve been trying for
: an hour," he added, grinning u
at his own plight,
ell, It’s a lucky thing for you he
let you,” Billy Louise Informed
■ I sternly, stooping to crawl under
Dttom wire. "You’ve got about ns
\ sense us—" She did not say
•F. “Give ine that rope, and you
i. yourself and your crutches out
S ) corral, Mr. Smarty. I just had
* ch you couldn’t be trusted to be-
yourself."
ave Buckaroo got lonesome,”
f. said, looking at her with eyes
■ , as he hobbled slowly toward
> "You'll have to open the gate for
)• Mllfam. Battler’ll make a break
, 2 open If he sees a crack as wide
r- |ir little finger.”
>. theu he was near enough to
i 4. out an arm and pull her close to
S ’“Oh, William girl, I’m sure glad
i ‘ fi you once more. I got scared. I
* it maybe I Just dreamed you
ft lere; so I tackled—”
h t tackled more than you coftld
jj . You ought to know you mustn’t
js ride Rattler, Ward. What If he’d
,*lth you?”
thnt case. I’d pile up. I reckon.
UUum, a broken leg does take a
of a time to get well. But nil
ye. I’ll stop old Rattler, all right,
anything ruther than spend un
tight In thnt Jail.”
'll ride Blue," Billy Louise told
mly. “I’m going to ride Rattler
you are—not 1”
you mean to say I enn’t? Do
ak—"
I guess you can, all right, hut—”
, If I can. I'm going to. If you
can't handle a measly old skate
t—”
been running out for ueurly
aths, Wilhemlna—"
look at his ribs! If you’ll Just
to In the house while I end-
dndly stay right here, lady-
■u don't know Rattler—"
you don't know Billy Louise
aid.” She wrinkled her nose
and turned back to unsaddle
'I really didn’t Intend to go
bt now," she said, "hut seeing
your heart set on It. I sup-
i M. **U-" Then she
if
added: “We’re only going ns tar ns
the Cove, unyway; and I really ought
to hurry back to look after Marthy.
Charlie Fox and Peter pulled out and
left her there all solltury alone. I’ve
been staying with her overnight. I
told her we’d be down there, and stay
till—further notice."
Billy Louise did not give Ward much
opportunity for argument. lie was too
awkward with his crutches to keep up
with her, and she managed to be on
the move most of the time.
When she hud helped Wnrd upon
Blue—nnd that was not easy, either,
considering thnt he only had one leg
fit to stnnd on—nnd hnd gone to the
cnhln for her bag of nuggets nnd
Ward's roll of money which he had for
gotten, nnd hnd exhausted every other
excuse for delay, she picked up Rat
tler’s reins and wound her fingers In
his mane, and took hold of the stirrup
ns nonchalantly as If she were mount
ing Blue.
"Now we’re all right and comfy,” she
announced breathlessly, when the first
fight was over and Rattler, like his
mnster, lind yielded to the Inevitable.
"And we know who’s boss, nnd we’re
all of us squlndlclously hnppy, because
we’re hended for home. Aren’t we,
buckaroo?”
“I suppose so," Wnrd mumbled!
douhtlngly, for a moment eyeing her!
sidelong.
"And say, buckaroo 1" Billy Louise;
reined close, ro thnt she could reach
out nnd pluch his arm a little bit.!
“Soon as your leg is all well, and you're'
every speck over the hookln'-cough,
why—yon can be the boss I"
“Can IF’
“Honest, you can. I’ve”—Billy Lou
ise had the grace to blush a little—
“I’ve always thought I'd love to have
somebody bully me and boas me and
buse me. And I—" Her Ups twitched
a little. “I think yon can qualify.”
They came to the gate, and Billy
Louise freed her hand from his clasp
and dismounted, since It waa a wire
gate and could not he opened on horse
back. 8he closed It after him, looked
to her cinch, tightened it a little, pat
ted Rattler on the neck, caught the
horn with one hand and the stirrup
with the other, and went up quite like
a man, while Ward watched her In
tently.
•In sooth, I know not why yon are
Ba-ad,’" murmured Billy Louise,
when she swung alongside In the trail.
Ward caught her hand again and did
not let go; so they rode hand In hand
down the narrow valley.
“I was wondering—" he hesitated,
drawing In a corner of his lip. biting
It, and letting It go. “WUhemlnn, If
old Lady Fortune takes a notion to
give me another kick or two, just when
life looks so good to me—”
“Why, we’ll kick back Just as hard
ns she does,” threatened BIHy Louise
courageously. “Don’t let happiness get
on your nerves, Ward."
“If I wasn’t crippled, It wouldn’t.
But when u mnn’s down and out, he—
thinks a lot. The last three dnys, I’ve
lived a whole lifetime, lady-girl. Every
thing seems to he coming my way, nil
nt once. And I’m nfrnld; what If I
can't make good? If I enn’t make you
happy"—he squeezed her fingers so
thnt Billy Louise hnd to grit her teeth
to keep from Interrupting him—“or If
anything should happen to you—Lord 1”
"You've got nerves, buckaroo. You've
been shut up there alone so long you
see things all distorted. We’re going
to he hnppy. beenuse we’ll be together,
and we've so much to do nnd so much
to think of. You must realize. Ward,
that we’ve got three places to tuke cure
of, and you and me and poor old Mar
thy. She hnsn’t anybody, Wnrd, hut
us. And she’s changed so—got so old
—Just In the last few dnys. I never
knew a person could change so much
In such a little while. She’s Just let go
nil holds and kind of sagged down
mentally nnd physically. We'll have to
take care of her, Wnrd, ns long as she
lives. Thnt’s why I’m taking you there
—so we can look after her. She d’on’t
leave the Cove. I—I was hoping, 1 ” She
added shyly, “thnt we could sit In
front of our own fireplace, Wnrd, nnd
nave nice cozy evenings; but—well,
there always seems to be something
for me to do for somebody, Ward."
“Oh, you Wilhemlna!" Ward slipped
his arm around her, to the disgust ol
Rattler and Blue, nnd made shift to
kiss her twice. “Long as you live,
you’ll always he doing something for
somebody; that's the way you’re made.
And nobody’s been doing things for
you ; but If the Lord lets me live, that's
going to be my Job from now on."
He said a grent deni more, ol
course. They had nearly fifteen miles
to go, nnd they rode at a walk; and a
man nnd a maid can say a good deal
at such n time. But I don’t think they
would like to have it all repeated
Their thoughts ranged far back over
the past and far Into the future, and
clung close to the miracle of love that
had brought them together. There U
»na thing which Billy Louise, even In
Billy Louise would have the Cove when
Marthy was done with It. Billy Louise
cried a little and argued a good deal,
hut Marthy hnd not lost all her stub
bornness, and the will stood un
changed.
Billy Louise nnd Wnrd were married
Just as soon as Ward was able to mnke
the trip to the county-seat, which was
Just as soon ns he could walk comfort
ably with a cane.
They stayed the winter In the Cove,
and a pnrt of the spring. Then they
burled grim, gray old Marthy up on the
side hill near Jnse, where she hnd
asked them to lay her work-worn body
when she was gone.
They were very busy and very hnppy
nnd pretty prosperous with their three
ranches. They never heard of Chnrlie
Fox again, or of Buck Olney—and they
never wanted to.
If you should some time ride through
n certain portion of Idaho, you may
find the tiny valley of the Wolverine
nnd the decaying cabins which prove
how Impossible It Is for a couple to
live In three places at once. If you
should be so fortunate ns to meet Billy
Louise, she might tuke you through
tlio canon and point out to you her
cave. It Is possible that she might also
show you the wnshout which always
made her and Ward laugh when they
passed #t. And If you ride up over the
hill and along the upland and down,
another hill, you cannot fall to find the
entrance to the Cove; and perhaps you
will like to ride down the gorge and
see the little Eden hidden away there.
And If you should meet them, give my,
regnrds to Billy Louise and Ward—
who never culls himself a football
these days.
(THE END.)
FOOD CONTROL
MEANSVICTORY,
European Shortage Places Prob
lem Before American Govern
ment-Farsighted Policy
Adopted.
NEED 75,000,000 BU. WHEAT.
Food Administration Aaka Aid
S vary American In Gigantic
.Tack of Feeding Million*.
“paying for the privilege of fighting
for Uncle Sam” by buying Liberty
Bonds anil saving war stamps enough
to make the folks who aren’t fighting
ashamed of themselves. Almost all
American soldiers send money home
on pay-day.
E. A. Hungerford, one of the Young
Men’s Christian Association men at
the front who is in a good position to
know their finances, writes, ‘The
American soldier Is the thriftiest
American alive. ‘I have Liberty
Bonds, War Saving Stamps, Military
Insurance, and have alloted fifteen
dollars a month to the folks back
home,” said an artillery man who was
In the hut last evening. There are
thousands of Uncle Sam’s soldiers in
France who can truthfully say the
same thing.
I want want to send some money
heme’ is heard constantly by the
Young Men’s Christian Association
worker in France. The ‘Y’ has pur
posely made it easy for the soldier to
send money home. All he has to do
is to leave his money with the men
in the hut, get a receipt for It, and in
dicate the name and address of the
person to whom he desires the money
sent. The Young Men's Christian As
sociation has arrangements with
banking institutions which makes
possible the rapid and inexpensive
transfer of any amount of money to
any bank or person In the states.
“Our soldiers are thinking straight
about money matters. They are not
misers, by any means, and they are
willing to spend a small amount on
things that go to make life more en
joyable, but their chief thought is to
insure their economic independence
when the war is over and they return
to civilian life.
“The average sale to the soldiers
who come Into our Young Men’s Chris
tian Assoclati/cn center, and they are
artillery men, engineers and dough
boys, is almost exactly a franc a day,
thirty francs, or about six dollars a
month. But the soldiers could gamble
and they could, at times, spend money
perhaps even more foolishly. They
Just don't do It. The percentage that
could be accused of such an unwise |
expenditure of money is negligible, j
mueh Smaller than In civilian life.
Thrift Demands Mileage
' The "pleasure car” is no more. War has
made the automobile an essential part of the
transportation system.
Buy tires on the basis of service and economy.
Don’t be satisfied with a 3500-mile adjustment.
QUAKER TIRES
Guarantee 5000 Miles
The 43% higher adjustment on Quaker Tires
is a dividend on the money you invest in Quakers.
Car owners tell us that their mileage costs the
least when they use Quakers. Reduce your mile
age cost, too.
Distributor
A.W. TISDALE
Milledgevflle, Ga.
MURDERER
Of Womanhood — Humanity —
Youth — Civilization —
Freedom —
rid r««
'M
All choked by tha tkrot-
tinf clutch*, of this mad
demon—this world re
nowned murderer -
luat-maddened wolf-Ij
of Pottdam — thii *
fiend of humanity — thia
crual beait who sneeri at
life — who despite*
everyone and everything
that is not German. See
what this vile fiend does
in that indescribable
photo dramatic master-
Play.
If
It t> the food problem over there
that makes a food problem over here.
If we wished to be supremely selfish—
and supremely shortsighted—we could
go on eating as much as we like and
whatever we like, without much diffi
culty or Interruption—at least, until
the Germans camel
But we are not doing things In that
•elfish and suicidal way. We are try
ing to make a great common pool of
all of our food, and all of the food of
the allies, and all of the food we can
get from South American and other
neutrals, and dividing It up fairly
among America, England, France, Bel
gium nnd Italy.
This does not meon that all of the
people In the great pool are going to
have the same ration, but meuns that
we are trying to arrange to have
enough for everybody, so that the sol
diers—our soldiers nnd their soldiers—
will be well fed, ns they have to be
to fight hard nnd continuously, and
thnt the munlthms workers and the
workers In all the other necessary In
dustries, and the men and women at
home will all hnve enough to keep
alive and well. It is absolutely neces
sary to do this If the war Is to he won,
and we are going to do It, but It means
planning, working, arranging, co-oper-
ntlng, being careful, not wasting, sav
ing.
And It means thnt each and every
one of us has got to help.
Now, we have enough and more than
enough food for ourselves, and the
Government te going to see to it that
we keep here at home a sufficient sup
ply of every essential kind of. food to
support our people. But over there
they elmply have not enough. Lord
Rhondda, the English food controller,
recently'cabled the American food ad
ministrator, that unlesa we can send
the alllee before the next uropean
harvest 75,000,000 bushels of wheat In
addition to what had been sent up to
January 1 of this year he could not
assure the people of the allies that
they would have a sufficient supply of
food to carry on the war. '
He did not say anything In this cable
about the other food necessary, but
he has told of these needs In other
voyage necessary to bring food from
Australia and other remote markets. J
The food must, come chiefly from I
America. In specific figures It Is nee- <
essary for us to send to the allies
1.100,000 tons of foodstuffs a month.
This la a great responsibility and a
great problem. The food must he
found, and also the ships to carry It
It Is being done, but can only continue
to he done by the help and full co
operation of all of us over our broad
land. We must produce and save
more.
To supply the wheat necessnry until
the next harvest, we must reduce our I
consumption by from one-fourth to'
one-third; we must cut down our usual I
average consumption of meats and
fats by from 10 to 15 per cent and
dairy products by about 10 per cent.
Over there they are tightening thulr
belts nnd doing everything they can.
They are eating war bread; they are
cutting down their sugnr In England
to two pounds per person per month,
and In France and Italy to one pound—
how much nre you eating?—nnd they
are using ration cards for most of the ,
staples. We must meet sacrifice with !
sacrifice. If we don’t, we ore helping j
to lose the war Instead of helping to i
win IL •
The Beast of Berlin
\ you’ll learn what Americaend the World are fight
ing for. You will learn why YOU should hoop watch
for enemy alien* within ear gate*. It’s the most a max
ing axpoae of tho world’s history.
AT THE COLONIAL SOON
Face the Facts With Intelligence and Courage.
CHARLES A. SABIN,
In American Industries.
Abnormal conditions created by war
can he met only with abnormal means.
The sooner we face these facts frank
ly the greater our ability will he to
prosecute the war to a successful con
clusion. To meet the great financial
strain which war has placed upon us,
there are three available means at
hand;
First, thrift;
Second, increased production.
Third, credit expansion.
It seems reasonably certain that we
must resort to all three methods In
some degree and wo should both in
dividually and nationally adjust our
affairs to meet the conditions they
impose.
A better understanding of what
these measures of relief imply cer
tainly must develop clarity of thought
regarding the whole situation. Con
cerning thrift there has been much
hysterical agitation and somewhat un
balanced enthusiasm, which has serv
ed to create a counter-current of re
flected on all sides—In the investment
mnrket, savings banks, life insurance
companies, etc. To carry a thrift pro
gram beyond the point of this rational
increase in saving could serve only to
depress business, destroy valued and
create unemployment.
Of course, Is follows that tho Gov
ernment should have right-of-way in
the production of materials for war,
hut beyend that required for the Gov
ernment’s present use there is a tre
mendous productive capacity which
certainly should not be dried up by
arbitrary rulings or false economic
theories. It is certain that the spirit
of optimism must be kept alive in our
people and that good cheer is an Im
portant factor In financing our way
to victory which must not be over
looked. It is out of such soli that Gov
ernment loans and taxes must spring.
Business men and wage earners can
not lend money to the Government un
less they can make money. And bus
iness must earn more money this year
sentment an dopposltlon that Is not than last year. The Government is
In the publiq interest. No right-mind- B° ln £ to need more money, and in-
ed man will challenge the basic need creaslngly more money, before this
for rational thrift, but such thrift does war Is won.
Buy Local Food-
Never can tell when you’ll mash a
finger or suffer a cut, bruise, burn or
scald. Be prepared. Thousands rely
cnhles—and by hia actions In England. I on Ur. Thomas’ Electlc Oil. Your
For example, his latest regulation | druggiBt sells it. 30c and 60c.—Adv..3
compels a reduction of meat eating In
the United Kingdom to a maximum of
one pound per week per person, thia
pound Including the bone and other
waste parts In the meat as bought In
the shop.
The allleagmust have more wheat,
more meat, more fata, more dairy prod
Whenever You Need • General Tonic
Take Grove’s.
The Old Standard Grove’a Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable *s a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
, ^ ^ and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
ucts, more sugar. Their harvests were ^ ut .. ®5f*f***f ** ie an< ^
not mean parsimony, nor does it mean
the unsettling or destruction of legiti
mate business The apprehensions
which have been created by some of
the extreme thrift propaganda are un
fortunate and not based upou sound
economic or patriotic grounds.
The normal savings of the people
of the United States at the outbreak
of the European War were estimated
at $5,000,000,000 or $6,O0O.OOO,OOO a
year; in 1917 they were estimated at
$14,000,000,000 or $16,000,000,000 and
In increasing measure of thrift Is re-
There must be discrimination, of
course, between that which Is essen
tial and that which is non-essential.
But no legitimate business which can
make money without competing with
the Government is non-essential. In
fact, it is very essential because money
Is one of the most Important muni
tions of war. And, it should be re
membered, the people who earn the
money In such businesses are among
those who invest largely In the Gov
ernment war loans, and who pay large-
taxes.
very short—France, had less than half
her normal crop of wheat—and the
available shipping Is small In amount
and constantly being lessened by sub
marine*. so that It^la dov practically
Builds up tha Whole System. 60 cents.
To Curo • Cold la One Day.
Takt LAX ATIVH BROMO Oulaia*. It slope the
Cough and Headache and work* oS the Cold.
impossible to use any ships for thejong £'oi©viz^^w.
“What makes that hen of yours
cackle so loudly?” Inquired Jenkins of
his neighbor.
"Why, they've just laid a corner
stone for the bow workingmen's club
across the road, and she’s trying to
make the neighbor! think ah* did it."
One dollar and a half la a mighty
little to any Individual theso pros
perous times, but whan an army of
people send In their subscriptions to
tha county paper tha aggregate ma*e«
things hum and gives encouragement
toward making tno paper better ln»
every way w.. Let your come ot*
right new.